He was hit. New overnight, police in texas shot and killed two robbery suspected. They wounded two others outside a Houston Furniture store. When the men walked out, officers were waiting on them. The group that was being monitored by a Tactical PoliceTeam Investigating other robberies in the day. Five Police Officers fired their weapons. Two guns belonging to the suspects were recovered but it is not clear if the suspects fired any shots. One did pose as a store employee and tried to hide in a truck parked in front of the business. No officers were hurt. A tip leads police to an arrest in a nearly 15yearold murder case. Marcos democrat la cruz is in the wake county jail. He is charged in the death of isabelle lopez. Lopez was reported missing intown. Her remains were found two a tip to police last year helped authorities connect the two. Cruz was already in prison on an unrelated case. Today, the largest animal acongress in aspca history begins. The group hopes to find new homes for close to 650 rescued dogs and cats. What i great day this will be. Tara lynn, one of our biggest period of time pet lovers we have here, this has to be an exciting day for you. Reporter it certainly is. We have more than 600 animals in sanford. You might be asking why are they here . They needed a facility that would be large enough to house all of these animals to give them the care that they need and also host such a large adoption event. Joining me now is the a Field Operations manager, tim and tell us about who you have here terrier mix and he is one of almost 600 animals we have available for adoption this weekend. We have dogs and cats and you can see he just likes to snuggle. I hope that everybody comes out and supports these animals. Theyve really been through enough. Little time to get them into a home. This is also a wonderful opportunity. These animals have all been ccat. Eyve been spayed or neutered, theyve had medical care. They are healthy, happy and ready for a home. Reporter he cover a lot of these stories where they have a god heart, they want to help the animal and they just keep taking them in and things get overwhelming. The animals were in some Bad Health Conditions youll still amazed that only one dog, one cat had to be euthanize out of 650. Tell us about the medical conditions. This whole weekend is in the animals and the situation they were in and where they are today. Partners have worked incredibly hard to get the animals healthy. We have ahad so many medical issues, i cant even begin to count but some really Major Medical issues but our commitment was to the animals from the beginning to get them to this point. Weve done that and today and saturday and sunday, we hope to see lines of people out here wanting to come in because there is an animal here for everybody. Reporter thats right. About 650 dogs and cats. Make sure you have proof of your identification and have a carrier to take home with you. You will have to answer some questions to make sure this is the right pet for you and you are the right person for the pet. Dog and cats being pretty vocal saying please adopt me. Good work by all involved. Thank you. Republican lawmakers are trying to decide whether to return for a special session to consider outlawing a charlotte nondiscrimination ordinance t tax effect april 1st. A Group Opposed to the ordinance will speak out today in charlotte. That come a day after supporters of ordinance came to raleigh to it tell lawmakers to leave it alone. The ordinance allows transend are people to use the rest room of the gender with which they identify. Similar ordinances are already in effect in 200 plus cities around the nation including in myrtle beach and columbia, South Carolina. There have not been any Public Safety issues in those other communities and i do not see the South Carolina legislature racing to waste 42,000 a day to fix a problem that poses no actual problem. Leaders and community leaders. They are urging the governor and the General Assembly to take immediate action to overturn this measure. Seize the day. I think well seize it one more time. Our beautiful weather is expiring, i guess. Just for a few days. Tomorrow and sunday are going to be on the wet and chilly side. Well have some cold mornings at the beginning of next week. By the time we get to wednesday and thursday of next week, were right back into the 70s with plenty of sunshine. Lets take a look at our apex skycam. It is pretty out there. Early this morning before the sun came out, we had overcast conditions. Skies are clearing from west to east and we are seeing plenty of sunshine in apex right now n cary, it is 49. 48 in wake forest. A little on the cool side but the sunshine makes it feel nice. Wide range in our temperatures from 41 in roxboro and south 54 in goldsboro. The cooler air filtering in from the north. At lunchtime, mid60s. Well see a high of 71 this afternoon compared to yesterdays high of 77. And highs over the snow will be in the 40s and 50s. Some rain. Well tell you whether the rain is likely to roll in and how long it stick around coming up in just a few minutes. Bryan mims in for Brian Schrader this morning. What is your biggest backup out there . A good question. There are quite a few accidents and no big backups. That is good. We dont like to talk about bumpertobumper traffic on friday morning certainly or any morning. There are a number of accident around the triangle. The one just the latest one is here at new bern avenue and 440t doesnt look like, according to the sensors, that it is causing many delays at that interchange but just outer lanes of 440 over the last 45 minutes to an hour have been slow going but, in the last couple of minutes, things have markedly improved. The speeds of traffic here on 440 westbound were around 45 Miles Per Hour but it looks like the traffic is speeding up through there now and not seeing much of a slowdown. Lets take a look at the traffic camera. Looking good there. Traffic moving at posted speeds. Lets take a look at i40 and rock quarry road around the fortify construction zone. Not seeing any issues there. Just a beautiful friday morning. Sun is shining. No problems whatsoever on 40 coming in from johnston county. 42 to i440, just a nine manhunt drive there. You do see a little bit of a showdown from 440 to u. S. 1. The dump Trump Movement may be gaining some steam this more thanking. What we are learning about a well take you out to the pnc arena where carolina fans celebrated their first win of season. Recall. Could put your health at risk. Donald trumps emergence as a tine yankee pool of president ial candidates left has spured a scramble by political power brokers to try to shut down his campaign. As tracie potts tells us, republicans against trump are looking at two options. How to beat him or to you ho give him some competition. Reporter this closed door meeting organized by conservative republicans looking for a strategy to beat donald trump. It is not clear that that is ted cruz. They are looking at backing a Third Party Candidate in november. Hopefully, there is time to still prevent a trump nomination. Reporter at a late rally last night of course Bernie Sanders called on democrats to unite. That trump is avenue day dividing us up. Reporter an l. A. Times editorial warns trump to knock off the rabble rousing about riots if he is not nominated describing him as a tantrum. To even address or hint to violence is unacceptable. Reporter any scathing speech, the senates top democrat argues republicans cannot have it both ways condemning trump and supporting him. They should put on make America Great again hats and stand behind trump at his next press conference. Reporter trumps response in he is ignoring it all tweeting overnight that Hillary Clinton is corrupt and focusing on tuesdays primary in arizona. Tracie potts, nbc news, washington. Michigans governor is on the hot seat before congress. What he told u. S. Lawmakers about the water crisis in flint. Plus a study of racial bias in traffic stops focuses on the disturbing trend. Look at all that sunshine there. What you walked in, our skies were cloudy. The clouds have been shifting eastward. All that sunshine should be continuing your way. 48 is on you are current temperature. You know, you might want to step outside and feel rs what does 48 feel like in that is as warm as it will get on sunday. The air mass is fairly dry right now. Our cool spot, 41 in south mill. Our warm spot is 56 in clinton. Across the area. We should see temperatures warming up into the mid60s by lunchtime and a high of about 71. It is just that the weekend will be so much different than the weather weve had for the last two weeks. You know it had to happen at some point. The temperatures come crashing down. Well see a High Temperature of 56 after starting off at 46 in the morning. Our morning low on sunday will be 39. The high of 48 with rain in the forecast saturday and sunday. Just be prepared for this cloudy, school, wetter weekend. Here is how all of that is going to happen. We have our cluck shifting off the coast. We have our cloud cover shifting off the coast. We have a low pressure system that has form ad long the low and that will ride along the front out here into the atlantic where it will gain some moisture. That moisture will lift northward and as the low moves up the coast, it will spread the moisture into the area. Well cut back to these. So cute. Mom and dad just threw out of the nest. It is coming out of its shell. Look. There is mom saying come on out, come on out. That is neat. And she is going to cover him up just like a mom. Oh, that is really need. Kiel continue to check in with the eagle later in our newscast and this evening and into the weekend too. Neat, neat stuff. Back to our weather today. It will be beautiful today. There is 9 00 all the way through the afternoon and into the evening. And then overnight, our skies cloud up a little bit and by just after lunchtime, the rain starts to roll into our area. Well see rain overnight and into sunday morning. There is 7 00 a. M. Even in the afternoon, we may see some lingering drizzle. It may not completely move out on sunday. Plan some indoor things over the wound. 71 for today. They are trying again for the world record kilt run on glenwood avenue saturday morning at 9 30. I think it will be pretty dry for that. Saturday afternoon, then sunday morning will be fairly wet. It will just be a miserable day sunday. 33 on monday morning t will be a cold start to the workweek and even Tuesday Morning remains cold at 29. After that, temperatures warm up nice hi. Our normal low just for reference, 41 degrees. Wednesday and thursday, temperatures finally climb back up into the 70s. It is a fairly briefling stretch with temperatures below normal. It is going to be a huge change compared to what weve been seeing. Two triangle teams are still dancing but they had their moments yesterday when they werent looking too good. A career high 23 points for marshall plumly and duke duke pulled away at the end and won by eight. 9385. March madness has set in in the triangle. Carolina won their game. We are getting to it right now. Unc fans were feeling the basketball fever at pnc arena. Lynda loveland talked to the tarheel faithful during yesterday appear nail biter part of the game. Yesterdays nail biter part of the game. For carolina fans. Just a short drive down the road and they get to see their the ncaa tournament. Family. I love t we keep advancing but we could go somewhere else. I love it being in raleigh. When you are a busy mom and have lots of responsibilities, you know to get the opportunity to do a girls weekend to come down and see some basketball, that is pretty awesome. And maybe lucky in scratch offs. James mcneil felt he needed to try. Im feeling lucky because we are playing 16 seed so therefore, why not . Reporter maybe there is Something Special about this night. We even found this duke fan helping a carolina fan pick out a tshirt. Something special indeed. It is not the wearing of the green on this st. Patricks day. It is about the making of the green. For us, it is an economic engine not just for us but for the community. You get a lot of visitors from out of town. These are really, really special events and wear honored to get them. And the final score unc83, florida gulf coast, 67. Tomorrow, duke will play yale at 2 40 and unc will play providence at 9 40 p. M. Wral is your hoops headquarters keeping you up to date with the latest scores, player house lawmakers took turns grilling michigans governor Administrator Gina Mccarthy over the Police Department water crisis. Some called for their resignations. Republican governor repeatedly apologized for his role in the crisis. Snide he placed the blame on all levels of government and says he is committed to finding a permanent longterm solution. The water was contaminated with lead. Two recalls to tell you about this morning and in one of them, the consequences could be lifethreatening. Bumblebee is recalling thousands of cans of chuck light tune in a. In oil an watt we are best by dates in february of 2019. The five ounce cans may have been contaminated during a sesms. And chicken of the sea tuna the fda has all of the im renee chou with your top stories. In me county, a deputys cruiser collided with an all Terrain Vehicle killing the atv driver. The deputy was on routine patrol. The deputy was taken to the hospital with nonlife threatening injuries. Hundreds of dogs and cats are up to adoption today in sanford for free. About 650 animals need loving homes. They were rescued in january from the haven which was an operated in rayford. Drrs need photo i. D. , prove of understood rest and a crate adopter need photo id, proof of address and a crate to transport the animal in. Lets take a look at our durham skycam. Looking beautiful. The sun is coming up behind the dbap there. They are about two weeks away from the home opener there. Spring is coming. Well just have a little setback with the temperatures. Highs over the weekend, upper 40s to upper up are 50s with some showers. The main area of concern is the beltline. We are seeing significant slow downs there on westbound i440 as you approach glenwood avenue. Speeds about 20 to 25 miles per lets show you what it looks like there. Lassiter mill road, can you see a backup on the westbound lanes of i440. Once you get to six forks road, this is the traffic as it backs up to six forks road. Once you get past that on lake boone trail looking pretty good. Well have more news coming stay with us. South a new study takes a look at racial bias in traffic stops in durham. According to report, black pulled over in traffic stops by Durham Police from january of 2010 to october of 2015. The study shows the odds of a black man being pulled over was 44 higher during the day when you can see easily inside a car than at night when it is dark. The study looked at sick gyres of data and six years of data and over 151,000 traffic stops. There was no racial profiling found among female drivers. There is a Court Appearance for a man who left one man dead and another injured. David souls is accused of shooting a fort and son in argue argument on monday. The son is still recovering from his wounds. Souls was released on 25,000 bond. Degree murder and assault with a deadly weapon. Johnston county authorities arrested two people in connection with the double homicide. Mag use jones and Jessica Pyatte were found dead in a home actually toddler was found in the home uncharged. Gerald paul is charged with murder. Tara will on is charged with accessory after the fact governor pat mccrory has shut down the coal ash management commission. The group was set up by state lawmakers to oversee the clean up of unlined coal ash pits across the state. That work will shift to the division of environmental quality. That agency is overseep by governor mccrory. Mccrory challenged the creation of the Coal Ash Commission in court and won his case after he argued that it was an intrusion on his executive authority. Workers will begin repairing an emergency room a man suffered a medical mrnl and crashed into the lobbery. The accident killed horace bachelor and injured two of his relatives. Bachelor was waiting to be seen at the er when the crash happened. The driver survived and was treated at vident. The public got a chance to learn about and comment on a plan to extend pullen road. The city wants to stretch that road across western boulevard all the way to accept tenial parkway. This project would connect nc states main campus to its centennial campus t would also ease congestion on roads like abend ferry that connect the two streets. I think it would help the traffic especially around 4 00 to 5 00 in the evening. You have to learn how to be patient with it. It can be pretty bad. The city has talked about this idea for decades. It surfaced again because of construction of that new the diocese of raleigh and nc state will split the 3 million cost with the city. Work will start next spring. The road is expected to open at the end of next year. A former Camp Lejeune Marine receives a high losty decoration today. Sergeant Matthew Parker will be awarded the silver star this afternoon. It is for parkers courageous actions during a fire fight in afghanistan in 2011. Park anterior assumed command two of squads and mounted a counterattack against the enemy. Jordan lakes annual spring cleanup is this weekend. Park rangers say the situation is worse than usual. The lake rose to very high levels in january because of heavy rains and that pushes trash onto two popular camping areas and National Woods near heavily used hiking trails. The cleanup is tomorrow from 9 00 a. M. To 1 00 p. M. At the new hope overlook access to jordan state recreation area. That is off pea ridge road in new hill. That will be tolerable will be in the morning tomorrow. Thats right. We could see rain tomorrow. Thats right. In the afternoon, probably afte