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He is so pretty, we will show him to coming up. Gorgeous dog. A pretty morning, too. Finally shaping up. We started up the morning with a few with a few patches showers. Nothing like yesterday, it was Severe Weather and wind and heavy rain. The day before that, he wintry mess, today looking certainly better. Lets look at the radar to start off with. For the most part, it is over. You can see a little bit of blue or green showing up on the radar toward wilson and southern part of edgecombe county. But, sometimes, especially the way things are shaping up right now, some of this right here is just probably some false echoes. Expect increasing sunshine for the rest of the day today. Heres a look at the radar picture. About 2 00 a. M. , we started to see rain rolling through the region. This is a disturbance ruling by. By the time we got into the 6 00 our it rapidly began dissipating. Edgecombe county. Other than that we are going to be done with that. Look at that, person county, sunshine coming up behind roxboro over the buildings. We have to approach still in many places. It is not below freezing so were not seeing frozen spots or slick conditions based on the weather. 41, the current temperature at the airport. Temps in the mid30s up in roxboro and buses are running, no delays for schools in terms of whether. Its 34. Temperature to drop a little bit, still not expecting conditions that are slick on the roads. 40 erwin, 37 in south hill, 39 in goldsboro, Southern Pines at 38 and in fayettville. It is chilly out there, colder than this time yesterday. We had a springlike pattern yesterday but not temperatures are much closer to normal. 15 to 20 degrees court than this time yesterday. There goes our band of precipitation, still some cloud that system slips offshore. We have a front i am tracking back to the west. This drops in on us tomorrow bringing chilly air but no precipitation with it. We continue to see skies clearing, into the midmorning lunchtime period. And, through the evening, lots of sunshine. We see clear skies tonight and temperatures dropping down to freezing. A cold start tomorrow morning, thursday remains dry with singlea sunny skies but it will be cooler with highs in the 40s. Today, 52. 48 degrees thursday behind that front. It will be a little cooler and stays on the cooler side on friday, too. It will just take time to warm up. High pressure builds in, starts to knows down into North Carolina bringing sunshine but cooler weather. We get into the weekend and the change coming. Temps warm up into the mid60s. We get a nice southwesterly flow, bumping us up about 10 degrees above normal. Temperatures above freezing in the morning and mostly sunny skies saturday. Increasing clouds sunday and monday and tuesday, a couple of disturbances swing through maybe bringing us showers. There is an indication of a asofcoair that may come into thursday. We will have our eye out for of next week. Is way too early to make any call about that but we will be watching that. Cant wait for that weekend, though. I am going to wear shorts this weekend. Take a picture. Dont put the flash on. Exactly. Im just kidding. 7 20. I own that. Lets take a look at the life commute map. Traffic moving along fairly well. We dont have any accidents to report at the moment. Our congestion that we are seeing, pretty much in the typical spots. Coming out of gartner, were coming through, i should say, on 40 westbound near the clayton bypass, some slowdowns to their. If in traffic is pretty thin heading up toward raleigh. Dennis close down again hitting 440 hitting rock quarry road, fortify work zone related slow down as the traffic from 440 eastbound merges into 440 westbound. That overall trick takin trip taking 14 minutes. Significant and unusual delays leaving 401, leaving fuquay heading up into garner, that area near fuquay on 70 business taking about 45 minutes. Not sure whats causing these big backups but certainly they are significant, especially between ten ten road and allstate road. Lets head over to durham were traffic is looking pretty good. Freeways clear in both directions between downtown and rtp. 40 eastbound looks good, no sun glare delays for sure. Take a look at the beltline out at six forks road, looking good heading toward glenwood avenue. Still getting busy but not very congested. 13 minutes to make the trip from 40 over to wait on 440 westbound. Back to you. President obama says refuse to vote on a Supreme Court nominee to replace the late justice anonin scalia. The president challenged his political foes in the senate to rise above, cold, the venom and rancor that has paralyzed judicial nominations. Senate judiciary chairman Charles Grassley says he might be open to president obamas yet to be named nominee. Residents heard from the president about the ongoing crisis in flint, michigan. Doctors listened as they shared stories of lead contamination in their water. He said help is on the way the he admits it is not nearly enough. Meanwhile, the governor revealed that the state Health Department will be investigated for failing to warm the public about the engineers disease outbreak in flint. New overnight, u. S. Is making a show of force against north korea. Stealth jets flew over south korea this morning. Those jets capable of slipping in seoul. The fight came the day after the south korean president warned of the norths collapse if it continues nuclear ambitions. There is a new deal to begin commercial flights between the u. S. And cuba. Readers from both countries signed the deal in havana. It allows flights which have not happened in five decades. American carriers can bid on routes for as many as 110 u. S. To cuba site today. A florida senator is urging the national Highway Safety administration to recall all takata insulators and cars after a South Carolina man died due to an airbag inflator that was not under recall. The concern is that tens of americans tens of millions of americans could be at risk of injury from protected airbags. Automakers have recall 24 million vehicles to replace insulators which could rupture in a crash sending shrapnel at the driver and passengers. Million takata insulators in cars that have yet to be called back for repairs. A committee to make sure new downtown Outdoor Dining rules do not interfere with raleighs appearance meets for the last time today. Their task is to review the use of signs, furniture, and those velvet rope barriers called stanchions. The committee could list recommendations at the end of the meeting which starts at 3 00. The rules on Outdoor Dining were reduced for noise. Congressional district it is 7 26. Im renee chou. The jury that convicted Travion Smith of firstdegree murder will be back in court to hear should live or die. He was found guilty in the death of Melissa Hugginsjones in her north hills apartment. He faces life in prison without parole or the Death Penalty. Prosecutors dropped charges against one of the suspects in the death of a 1yearold in chapel hill. The da says he dropped the attempted murder and Assault Charges against Shaquille Davis because of conflicting evidence. He was one of three suspects accused in the Christmas Day driveby that killed mealeah williams. Davis is serving a 90 day sentence for a probation violation. After the way we started this workweek weatherwise, its nice to have a somewhat quiet day, elizabeth. It absolutely is. We have a few showers out there we are watching this morning as we take a look at whats going on and show you whats happening. Theres a look at the raleigh sky cam, a little bit of sunshine trying to peek through. It is nice to see a little bit of that definitely. We had a few showers overnight last night. Those have moved on out for the most part as skies continue to be clearing as we get toward lunchtime. Dirty six in south hill and down to freezing overnight. 21 in rocky mount and wilson, 38 in fayetteville, 42 degrees in clinton. Our high this afternoon, 52 degrees was partly cloudy skies. Yesterdays high was 60. We drop below freezing for tonight and friday morning and temperatures will be cool but a touch below normal for 48 thursday, 51 friday. Certainly a much more normal weekend now for the next several days and we saw last week. We are looking at a beautiful weekend with mid60s and sunshine. A nice stretch of quiet weather coming. Brian . 7 28. I dont have much to tell you that for the roads this morning. No accident showing up on the life commute map. We have a couple of spots where you need to look out for some unusual congestion. One of those areas is on 401 northbound leaving fuquay heading into garner. Sensors indicating heavy traffic from ten ten road toward old stage road. Have not heard about anything specifically causing the delays that we are up to 44 minutes business. Also looking at a 50 minute drive through 40 westbound and garner. Is one of the biggest rivalries in college sports. Brace yourself for battle of the blues. I love that music. Thats right, around one. Huge triangle rivalry tonight in chapel hill, thats where Mikaya Thurmond joins us live. You have already seen evidence the teams there in chapel hill. Reporter i have. I have. Things are pretty intense here, i want to tell you, if you wear the wrong shade of blue in chapel hill, you might get in trouble. Now, this rivalry is one of the biggest rivalries in sports. Of North Carolina and duke going head to head tonight. Now, this basketball rivalry will heat up dean dome as the 20th test 20thranked duke takes on fifthranked carolina. Tonight marks the 241st meeting of the blue devils and tar heels. The intensity of this storied ruffle cuts both ways. Watch tonight at 9 00 on wral and stay tuned to channel 5 for extended coverage of the game during the 11 00 news. Well have to and celebrations as well as interviews with the coach and analysis. All of this happening on wral. Bill and renee, i know that you guys have picked your sides. Watching this evening. Let me be clear, im neutral. But we know where bill stands. She covers light blue on the last assignment. It wasnt on assignment, bill. He still hates me for that. [ laughter ] just may be slightly. No, no. Its all in fun, folks. Republican lawmakers say when they redraw the state congressional districts they were not based lines on race at all. A federal ruling ordered the state winds unconstitutional because they rely too heavily on race. Gop leaders said the ruling did not say they had to take race into account and also did not say how much of a role they should play in the maps. Democrats say not considering race at all violates the Voting Rights act and constitution. They won the judges will likely reject the map and simply draw a new one themselves. The chief senate met neighbor, maker, bob rucho will go ahead, he said every other state that looked at the map said it was constitutional. There was one judge on the federal level the decided it is not and disrupt the election process. And thats really hard on people of North Carolina as far as disenfranchising voters. Thats not what was intended to be done on our part. If chief Justice John Roberts does not agree to stay the ruling, lawmakers have to submit a new congressional map by friday of this week. Were learning more about a robeson woman who was found murdered, the body of 23year old evelina dial was found. Timothy locklear has been charged in her murder and first degree attempted rape. This comes weeks after her toddler son accidentally shot and killed himself in the fathers convenience store. The childs father tells us losing his son was hard enough, remaining three children that their mother is not coming back. I told imani, thats her name, you know i said, i told her, i said, baby, your mommy is with god. Timothy locklear is also charged with burning personal property and altering and destroying evidence. Hes in the Robeson County jail without bond. For once, a tame weather day. We will take it after the last two days. It has been a while. At the end of last week, temperatures crash. We had highs in the 30s through the weekend, wintry weather monday, Severe Weather yesterday. Its like we have been living in three different states or something. Yes. We had a few sprinkles and white patchy rain showers, take a look at the picture. We will show you what happened overnight last night. Theres a look at the radar much of that is out of here, gradual clearing, rdu showing some cloud cover hanging over the area but for the most part skies continue to clear and its going to be beautiful. Temperature right now, 33 in carthage, 41 holly springs, 40 in wilmington, 41 in smithfield. This morning cloudy in places, most of the sprinkles are over. Temperatures ranging from upper 30s to mid40s. Reader this afternoon, 52 degrees and not quite as warm as yesterday. Yesterdays high, 60, but plenty of sunshine like we did yesterday. Temperatures will take us on a roller coaster ride through the end of the weekend into the weekend, but it is mostly going the other direction instead of the cold like we saw this morning, over the weekend and monday morning. Brian . 7 35 now, elizabeth, as we take a look at traffic. It has been pretty quiet this morning. 40 westbound coming out of Johnson County heading through garner has been the only significant backup we have seen you can see westbound traffic were sometimes it is just going along, its heavy but at least bypass interchange. Still looking at a 50 minute trip overall from 42 to the beltline split. Its pretty clear as soon as you get beyond the clayton bypass want to get beyond the 440 interchange, there is a slow down as at 440 eastbound traffic merges onto 40 westbound. Rock quarry road. So far no big delays through the fortify work zone just yet. Well keep an eye on drive times as we get Traffic Volume increasing over the next half hour. We likely will see travel times increasing but so far not so bad. 540 westbound pretty slow as you leave capital boulevard heading toward six forks road. By the time you get to create more road and beyond, smooth trip to the park. Speaking of the park, no delays heading that way on 40 westbound out of east raleigh. 40 eastbound looking good cleared in both directions. There is utility work going on in clayton this morning into the day that will cut off one of the popular countries to get from 70 40 eastbound looking good durham and the durham freeway cleared in both directions. There is utility work going on in clayton this morning into the day that will cut off one of the popular countries to get from 7240 through as you get into downtown. Regency park drive will be closed. Youre not going to be able to use that. Best thing to do is take that barbour street exit off of 70 and that one block detour around 242 and continue on your way out that way. Also seeing some slowdowns on 401 northbound as you leave fuquay heading up toward gardner. Looks like its congestion between ten ten road and old stage road but that trip from 55 up to 70 business in garner taking 40 minutes. Back to you. Brian, thank you very much. Giving students the best opportunity at going to college is what our teacher of the week is all about. Wrals Lynda Loveland takes us to a middle school in hillsboro to meet the man with a plan. Reporter you are wrals teacher of the week [ applause ] this former history teacher wants nothing more than to make a difference in his students lives. Help kids develop the skills college. Its not about getting a good test score but working and focusing on those principles of, you know, motivation and curiosity and that kind of stuff, and then the other stuff takes care of itself. Reporter peter has a reputation for encouraging students to push their limits, to dream big. He will take a group of kids that without that push may not get there and give them what they need to do they are moving beyond where they could. Im going to make some recommendations on the types of jobs you might be interested in. Reporter peter is more than just a teacher, he also considers himself a bit of a coach, a life coach, with this advice for his students at the end of eighth grade. Never give up. Learn from your mistakes, move on from them, but never quit. Sometimes, they are blessings to make you better. Reporter with our teacher Lynda Loveland, North Carolina. Tdc he was wearing a North Carolina blue tie . To see all the teachers of the wee