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WRAZ WRALs 7AM News On Fox50 March 10, 2016

Day with temperatures much like yesterday. Tomorrow, well see more cloud cover and the weekend may bring us a few scattered showers. Rain is not likely to be heavy but well talk more about details regarding the weekend. Youve had a couple of incidents pop up in the last couple of minutes that are pretty impactful. Yes, we had an incident on 440 offer on the east side of raleigh. There is at least one accident in that area. Now it hooks like there is another a little bit further along. If we take a look at the first incident, this on the beltline at new bern avenue. It looks like it is very close to being cleared. There was an overturned vehicle in the left lanes and at one point we were down to only one lane of traffic being able to move through the area. You also have the traffic merging onto 440 west. Point is blocked. It look like they are in the process of righting that overturned car. About a mile further on i440 west, there is another little fender bender there. That one not adding a lot of extra delays in that area. We are starting to see things clear here at nc42 in Johnston County near the i40 interchange. Still waiting to get that van moved out of the way and towed out of the middle of that intersection but traffic is able to move through that area. Starting to he so the typical delays at the clayton bypass in onston county. It is taking a the bit of extra time but should take you about 15 minutes to make your way from nc40 up to the 440 split. Take a look at durham and things are all clear. Back to you. Thank you. Breaking news in raleigh all morning where police found two people dead inside a vehicle in a parking lot. This is at the panera bread on blend wood avenue just across from the Pleasant Valley promenade shopping center. Mikaya thurman joins us live from the scene. What have police been telling you . Reporter at this point, this is being investigated as a suspicious death which has escalated since when we were first here around 4 00 this morning. Investigators are here focusing their investigation to the back part of this park parking lot of panera bread. Theyve been out here since around 12 30 this morning. Once they arrived, they found the two deceased men inside of a car. They have not released the name they are asking for anyone that has information on this case to please reach out to Raleigh Police or crimestoppers. Thank you. We are also tracking breaking news in pittsburgh, pennsylvania. That is where police say five people have been killed in a shooting and at least two gunmen are at large. Police say they killed four women and a man last night during a backyard party. At least three others are in the propose, two with critical injuries. Police say the gunmen barged into the party and opened fire in an ambush style attack. It look like they were fleeing towards the back door of the residence when the second gunman fired from the side of the yard and they all seemed to get caught on the back porch. Police arent saying yet what led to this attack. Well provide updates on the morning. President ial candidates have descended on florida. The republicans debate in miami tonight. The democrat faced off there last night. Tracie potts reports that senator marco rubio is now talking about what happens if he does not win in his home state. Reporter Hillary Clinton campaigned in tampa today facing new questions about her emails, the Republican Party suing for more and about whether she will be indicted. That is not going to happen. Im not even answering that question. Reporter immigration a big topic in last nights miami debate. Undocumented children pouring into the u. S. Without their parents. I said welcome those children into this country. Secretary clinton said send them back. That is a difference. That is not fair about what i did say we needed to be very concerned about little children coming to this country. Reporter marco rubio is now publicly acknowledging. It will come down to florida for me. We need to win here. Against floridas 99 delegates, we have a very different conversation about the state of the republican race. Florida is my place. Reporter meantime, frontrunner donald trump so far ahead in florida he is campaigning in North Carolina folk youing on isis. We got to knock them out. Got to knock them out. Reporter something he is also hoping to do in florida tuesday. Tracie potts, nbc news, washington. As we mentioned, republican another debate tonight in florida this. Comes after Donald Trumps rally last night in fayetteville. A large crowd packed in crown coliseum to see the gop frontrunner. Trump spoke for about an hour hitting on familiar themes and touting the fact that his campaign is selffunded. He talked about getting tough with isis, taking care of veterans an immigration reform. Were going to have a real wall and who is going to pay for the wall . Several time during his speech, demonstrators interrupted trump and Law Enforcement quickly escorted the protesters out of the building. At times, our wral cameras caught physical confrontations between demonstrators and some trump supporters. North carolinas primary is coming up on tuesday. Count on wral to bring you up to the minute results throughout the night. Well have Live Team Coverage from the biggest races on our this is a big day for the Catholic Diocese of raleigh. The 160ton dome is expected to raised and placed atop the New Cathedral that is under construction off accept tenial parkway. Off centennial parkway. Circumstances permitting, the crepe will start lifting that dome around 9 00 a. M. You can watch it live on wral. Com t should take about five hours, they say. El chapo not enjoying his time in prison and he wants the world to know it. What his lawyers are trying to do to try to ease his living conditions. The former head of the World Antidoping Agency is responding to the controversy surrounding Maria Sharapova. I aflorida woman shot in south creighs military says that north korea fired two shortrange Ballistic Missiles into the sea of japan. The missile firing took place as the u. S. And south korea were conducting some large korean border. A u. S. Artillery brigade launched a barrage of rockets seven miles from the heavily fortified border. Defense attorneys for El Chapo Guzman are seeking International Support for its protest over the miss prison conditions of their client. He is reportedly being held in isolation in the maximum security prison he broke out of a lawyer said the defense team is staking support from organizations Like Amnesty International and the International Red cross. The Attorney Says he fears for guzmans life saying he is incoherent at times. The president and the first lady are greeting the canadian Prime Minister and his wife. It will be the second meeting between the two leaders. On the business side, they hope to discuss big topic like energy, Climate Change and the economy. Public viewings continue today for nancy reagan. The former first ladys body is lying in repose at the Ronald Reagan president ial library in california. A private Funeral Service is scheduled for tomorrow. Mrs. Reagan will be buried next to her husband at the library on sunday. Reagan was 94 jurors old. Years away from the tennis courts. What the World Doping Agency is saying about the drug the tennis star is accused of using. Plus are some important communities can introducing longhorns big, bold, steaks. The only way to make em better was to make em bigger. Our new center cut 10 ounce filet. Our perfectly seasoned 16 ounce tbone. And our fire grilled 18 ounce outlaw ribeye. Big, bold, steaks. Only at longhorn steakhouse. You cant fake steak. For lunch, try our steakhouse burger certainly applicable today. You two got it right. Beautiful shot there of downtown raleigh. They are going to be having reptile and amphibian day. Renee will hold a snake. Absolutely n this kind of weather, the reptiles like they are starting to come out. They do want to watch out for them but they certainly fill a gap and do their part in keeping the world straight. So theyre useful. We do need them. Our solar farm 5 looking pretty this morning. A little mix of sun and cloud cover out there. Maybe not quite as bright as it was overall yesterday. We continue to have the southwesterly wind at seven Miles Per Hour bringing us some conditions and moise ping things up a little more. It is 54 in roxboro. And moistening things up a little more. 59 in southern pines. 58 in fayetteville. Another very mild morning. Maces now. Well see variably cloudy skies and into the afternoon, we should have more sunshine. The precipitation back to our west is inching ever so slowly closer to us. This front is not move very quickly. This High Pressure system has been blocking it all to the west. But trying to see a little more moisture into the region. Around the high, we have winds that rotate clockwise. More humidity. All along the stationary front is heavy rain especially down south. A lot of flooding happening in louisiana and in texas, really feeling for those folks. Instead of this whole thin picking up and shifting east wards, it will fold over in half and the top half falls into North Carolina tomorrow. We take it out to 9 00 tomorrow morning. That is the top half of the front. It just goes down into North Carolina. We are not going to see the untense moisture that is happening back to the west but during the day on friday and then again saturday. There is 7 00 a. M. Saturday. Just an isolated shower or two possible on saturday. Same story sunday. We really dont get into this deep moisture, this heavy stuff but we do have a chance of some showers friday, saturday, sunday and monday. That chance goes up a little bit as we get through the weekend. Ill show you our chance of rain coming up in about 30 minutes. Nice and mild this afternoon and tomorrow. Variably cloudy. Highs near 80 degrees. On saturday, 68 degrees. We were talking about the fact that they are having reptile and am fib nan day at the museum of Natural Sciences on saturday. About a 30 chance of rain during the day saturday. Mid 106 at noon. Notice that saturday will be cooler. Mid60s at noon. Sunday, a chance of showers and monday, we may have an isolated shower or thunderstorm. Daylight saving time so set your clocks ahead one Hour Saturday night. Wednesday, once the system clears out, temperatures jump up again. 83 on wednesday. The record was 86. Our normal is 63. If we hit 83 wednesday, that is a god 20 degrees above normal. When we get back to normal and below normal, it will feel like a shock but it doesnt look line it will happen any time in the next eight or 10 disas. All i know is we will be switching the clocks forward and have more daylight into the evening so this is the happy of the time of the year for me. Not so happy for our drivers. Lets look at some of the trouble spots along i40 west. The good news is that accident you see there on the beltline just cleared. We are waiting for our map to update but we are still seeing the slow drive times for people in in area. This is the westbound lanes of i440 at new bern avenue. Here and they were just able to tow that vehicle away that was involved in an accident. Traffic will be able to move more smoothly through that area. We were tracking an accident at nc42 near i40 and that is now cleared. They have moved the camera back to take a look the i40. Traffic moving smoothly in both directions. Capital boulevard at u. S. 401, not sewing any major delays in that area. Not seeing any major delays in that area. As we check in with durham being traffic is moving smoothly here along the durham free at cornwallis road and your drive times to downtown durham, i pretty easy ride whether you are traveling along the former head of the World Antidoping Agency says Maria Sharapova is guilty of willful sentence and could face a fouryear ban o monday, she admitted she tested positive for a drug called meldonium at the Australian Open back in january. Meldonium is a drug that is designed to treat heart conditions. It is not approved by the fda and was add to the world anti doping agencys banned list on january 1st. She could face a ban of up to to four years unless she can prove mitigating circumstances. The Tennis Association issued several warnings, none of whh she apparently read. You are running a 30 million a year sole enterprise, you better make sure the base is for that commercial success, if nothing else, remains unassailable. He said he did not understand why sharapova was taking the drug for 10 years. The drug manufacturer says the normal course of treatment is four to six weeks. International Tennis Federation will hold hearings to decide any long term ban. A study published yesterday in the british journal of Sports Medicine found up to 490 athletes may have been taking meldonium during last years inaugural european games. A florida woman is in the hospital after her 4yearold son accidentally shot her while she was driving. Police say the boy got the gun off the floor of the pickup. The bullet went through the drivers seat hitting the 31 yearold gun rights advocate in the back. Hours before this happened, she wrote on social media that her son gets jacked up to target shoot. She was an outspoken gun advocate. She is recovering from surgery. It will be week before we know for sure whether a knife found at o. J. Simpsons former estate is connected to the killings of his exwife and her friend. There are doubts that it was some say it is a common knife among gardeners. O. J. Simpson was aquitted of the murderers in 1995. The murder weapon never has been found. Hundreds of home owners told to avoid drinking their water are getting an important update today. Why the state of North Carolina is now telling them that the water is safe to drink. Plus, the recommendations that one if youre doing everything right but find it harder and harder to get by, youre not alone. Almost all new income goes to the top 1 . My plan make wall street banks and the ultrarich pay their fair share of taxes, provide living wages for working people, ensure equal pay for women. Im bernie sanders. 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The 160ton dome will be placed on the new holy name of jesus cathedral under construction off centennial parkway. There is a live picture from our tower cam. It is all supposed to begin at 9 00 this morning. You know they are counting on good weather for that. It is looking good. Know wind is an issue. It cant be too windy with the dome flowing around t look fairly calm in terms of our winds, probably five to 10 miles out of the southwest. That is keeping our temperatures warm. 55 in roxboro. 58 in rocky mount. Partly cloudy skies by the afternoon with a High Temperature of 79. A little bit cloudier for friday with a high of 79. Then on saturday, temperatures drop a bit to 68 for the High Temperature. We have a chance of rain taking a look at our live commute map, we have a couple of accident have cleared but some new ones that have popped up. Lets start taking a look at one accident that is down in fuquayvarina at this point in the morning. This is going to be on judd parkway as well as 401 so starting to see some delays for those who are moving northbound at this point in the morning. As we head to Holly Springs, there is an accident on Holly Springs road at the intersection of sunset lakewood so do be prepared for delays in that area. We are starting to see the a Tech Initiative is coming Public Meetings start today about classifying Duke Energy Coal Ash ponds in North Carolina. The state department of Environmental Quality came one the draft proposal. This is important because the classification will determine when each pond must be closed. The agency will present the draft to the public in 14 meetings throughout the state all this month. The meetings tonight are at robeson, Central Carolina and Wayne Community colleges. They all begin at 6 00. The meeting are happening as at state does a major aboutface on the safety of hundreds of wel

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