Wanted in connection with a double murder on glenwood avenue in raleigh last week has now been arrested. 20 year old daekwon ragland is charged with two counts of murder. Hes accused of killing Pedro Reyes Diaz and allan rodriguez. They were found shot to death in a car. The other suspect denzel dancy is still on the run. If you know where he is call 911. New tonight. Governor mccrory declaring victory in his battle with legislative leaders in the fight over coal ash cleanup. The governor telling the state panel in charge of overseeing the closure of duke energys coal ash ponds. Their services were no longer needed. Joel brown joins us from the Raleigh Eyewitness News Center with more. Heres the letter from governor mccrorys office. Sent to the Coal Ash Management Commission basically telling commission members, thanks for your service. But the mccrory administration. Will handle coal ash management from here on out. North carolinas Coal Ash Management Commission was formed out of the outrage over duke energys massive coal ash Republican Leaders in the General Assembly openly doubted the department of environmental quality, led by governor mccrory appointees. To police duke and oversee the closure of the companys 32 coal ash ponds. To provide oversight for deq, to help make sure all the coal ash near our communities gets cleaned up properly. But governor mccrory sued. Accusing the legislature of overstepping its Constitutional Authority arguing before the state Supreme Court. That the job of appointing the commission was his alone. Mccrory won support from former governors on both sides of the aisle. I hope very much the court will rule in the governors favor all the governors whove served would be on this side. In late january the Supreme Court sided with mccrory. Now word tonight, the states Coal Ash Commission is no more. The governors letter to the commission effectively put the panel out of business. In a statement to Eyewitness News. A mccrory adminstration official says the North CarolinaSupreme Court made it clear that the commission is an body that cannot take any action. However, there will be absolutely no change in the department of environmental qualitys implementation of the coal ash management act. The Supreme Court decided that the legislative appointments to the Coal Ash Commission were unconstitutional not the body itself. So, its unclear on what basis the governor thinks he has the authority to dismantle a commission created by the legislature. It is still unclear tonight whether governor mccrory intends to appoint his own picks for a brand new Coal Ash Commission. Or whether hell leave the task of coal ash oversight, completely to staffers at the department of environmental quality. Turning now to vote 2016. Hillary Clinton picking up more delegates tonight. Shes been declared the winner in tuesdays primary in missouri. Her opponent senator Bernie Sanders announcing today he wont ask for a recount. And he conceded the race. Clinton finished 15 hundred votes ahead on tuesday margin was close enough sanders couldve gotten a recount under state law. Clinton also won in the other four states that had primaries on tuesday. Including here in North Carolina. Former president ial candidate Lindsey Graham says hell help ted cruz with fundraising. Graham has been outspoken against cruz in the past but says his announcement today is part of an effort to stop frontrunner donald trump. House Speaker Paul Ryan is trying to squash suggestions he might emerge from a contested convention as the partys nominee. Telling commentators to knock it off Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland had his first meeting with a senator today. He met with the top democrat on the judiciary committee, vermont senator patrick leahy. And Senate Minority leader harry reid. President obama the seat left open by the death of justice antonin scalia. Even before todays Meetings Senate republicans made it clear that they wont consider a new justice until the next president takes office in january. proof of racial bias behind the wheel. Now out in numbers for the Durham Police department. The department. Pledging to enter a wave of transparency. Opening its files to have an independent Company Review years of traffic stops. Angelica alvarez. breaking down the numbers for us tonight from the Durham Police department. The interim police chief says they heard what the public was saying. And believe this study. Now out in the open. Is a sign that they are working to do better. Cautiously optimistic. Fred foster. With durhams naacp. Treading lightly with new numbers of Racial Disparity in traffic stops. Two hours before interim police chief larry smith. Presented the findings to us in this news conference. He shared them with foster. And other advocacy groups. Figures, we had presented to them before. For foster. It was a bit redundant when this study by research group. Rti. Showed that out of more than 150 thousand traffic stops from 2010 to 2015. The odds of black men getting pulled over. Were 20percent higher. And the Group Bringing that number up. Was the high enforcement abatement team. Or heat. Which focuses on drug and gang violence. Our heat teams have been asked over the years to go out in our highest crime communities, which unfortunately are often mostly minority communities, to try to help us deal with the crime problem in durham, and if youre not careful when you do that, you can feed into that implicit bias. Which is something chief smith says theyre working on. And with the last two years of the study showing that pull over rate going down. He hopes its a sign new initiatives are working. Such as cameras in cars. And investigating officers with high numbers of traffic stops. With the majority being minorities. And despite any hopeful. In the communitys future with police. Weve got to find a way to bring us back together. And rti is also developing an online tool to help dpd with traffic studies. Its something the Department Plans to use. And it will also be open to the public. new restrictions. As the state releases the newest numbers on flu deaths. duke has new rules in place to protect patients. Well break down what visitors need to know. Plus, finding a forever home. hundreds of rescued animals are ready for adoption. how you can make one part of your family. But first. A live look outside of the raleigh Eyewitness News instead, for just three dollars at subway, you can get a delicious sixinch sub, made fresh in front of you. Its the threedollar sub of the day one of our best 6inch subs, a different sub every day of the week, for just three dollars. The sweet onion chicken teriyaki, the juicy oven roasted chicken, the tender turkey breast, theres an irresistible sub for every day of the week. A High School Student accused of firing a shot at a man he was trying to rob in a parking deck. Hes being held on several charges related to that incident. Hospital Officials Say cooper and another person went to the hospital parking deck to do a drug deal but cooper then tried to rob him. Class president and trying to get into college now this man is now charged in a murder more than 15 years ago. Lopez was reported missing in may of 2001 and dna was used to identify remains found in 2002 as his the governor announcing a reward today in two separate murder cases in johnston county. A 5,000 reward in the murder of richard longmyer plus in vincent the murder of james smith, a reward of 5,000 is being offered. If you have information about either case, call ben son police or the fbi another person in North Carolina has died from the flu. So far for a total of ten this season. Flu season typically ends in may years total of 218. Duke is joining the list of hospitals imposing restrictions on visitors because of the flu. The restrictions apply to all duke hospital and surgery centers. Patients are only allowed two adult visitors at a time. No children allowed to visit who are under 18 except in special circumstances. Highlighting community needs. Hundreds of dogs and cats are ready for a new home. Weve been following their journey. They were found living in fillth during a raid at an animal shelter. Theyre now ready for a forever home. The adoption fair begins tomorrow and runs through sunday at a temporary shelter in nash. Bring a photo id, proof of address and a pet crate if possible. There is no fee for adoption its time for the must see lets begin in the u. K. With a fire ball streaking through the sky. You can see it here. People reporting it in several locations across england. Astronomers are now looking at the data trying to figure out what it is. Many people are quick to link it to st. Patricks day. Now to colorado. A store clerk saved a baby from getting hurt. The clerk says a young woman seems a little dazed. You can see the clerk reach out and grab the baby just as her mom starts having a seizure. Mom and baby are okay now. The clerk says she wishes she could have kept the mom from falling there to the floor. Thats what the fox says. At least this arctic fox. Thats archer. Hes 4 years old and has been living with his human family you can actually hear that happy sound. Archer is laughing right there along with his owners. They say its typical behavior or archer and that he does that when hes sleepy. Are you sure thats a happy sound . I dont know. He sounds miserable. Sounds like a cry. It does. They claim its a laugh though. But i think youre right, maybe hungry or sleepy. Needs a nap right now. Thats right. Hes out. Hes done. Really cute. Lets circle back here. You said things are going to be falling apart. Compared to what weve had. Warm, dry weather the last few days. Turning chilly. Getting rainy. And then it gets better heading towards next week. Its been a nice ride so far. Temperatures aso far this month in march have been running almost 10 degrees above average. Remember last december the warmest december on record, that was 12 above average so were getting close to that. Its mild out there right now at temperatures in the 60s in north hills. Falling into the upper 40s. Thats mild for this time of year. 59 at 11 00 oclock at rdu. Humidity 42 . High clouds overhead. The airport down to 54. Lewisburg at 59. 59 at the rdu airport. 63 in fayetteville. About a 10degree spread across the region. High clouds coming in after another gorgeous day across the region. Temperatures about 10 degrees cooler than yesterday but still 14, 15 above average. Northwest florida to the south of new orleans, large hail across the gulf states again today. Doesnt look like much but those are showers moving through new york with isolated thunderstorms. Nothing severe but as that flight approached new york city, around that build around there. Then they were struck by lightening and diverted to jfk. Fortunately no injuries. It doesnt take a lot with that one lightening strike as you heard doesnt cause many problems on a flight. Planes get struck fairly often, at least once a year. But different story tonight. Mostly clear. Couple of high clouds around tonight. Temperatures by morning upper 40s to low 50s. Should be a nice, bright start to your friday. Could be a few high clouds around. 47 at 7 00 a. M. 66 by the noon hour. Low 70s tomorrow. Around 70 anyway. Mostly sunny skies. Running above average. These fronts come through and gradually cool us down. 71 raleigh tomorrow. 70 in durham. Sunshine tomorrow. Light westerly wind. Hopefully the fire danger is a bit lower. 68 in rocksborough. Great day to kick off the weekend. D. Saturday wont start off too badly. Just after midnight into saturday morning notice we start with sun but this is midday. Clouding up and rain down to the south. The timing still needs to be resolved exactly when the rain moves in. Late in the day into saturday night. The rain spreads in. Our model has it coming in through the evening hours but certainly evening into overnight into sunday morning rain and by afternoon the rain beginning to shift to the north and northeast but it doesnt clear up too quickly. Even though we may dry out were not going to dry up completely. Remains to be seen just how were going to be just rain but certainly a chilly rain. 45 tomorrow night. 58 saturday. Much cooler with clouds increasing. Rain by evening. Rain overnight. Ending sunday. Probably the first half of the day. Remaining over cast and chilly. 49. Thats the average high in the middle of january. And a little bit warmer after a cold start monday. Monday and or Tuesday Morning we could see a light frost or a freeze. Because its been so warm of late, were about two or three weeks ahead of schedule with our Spring Development of flowers and buds coming, that frost and freeze warnings will probably have to be issued. Theyre going to go into shock. I think we are too. Yes. Thank you, chris people all over the country celebrating all things irish today. St. Patricks day commemorates st. Patrick and the ireland. There were some big parades today. The first taste of freedom. Do you remember how it felt to ride your first back . Car length coming vo shop all makes, models and colors in your neighborhood. All with worryfree ownership. Head to your neighborhood enterprise car sales and let the people who buy more vehicles than anyone. Its a contest that can make a difference for some kids in the triangle. Seven kids in our area are in the running for this contest to win this adaptive bike. You can vote for all seven kids in in our area and donate money to the kids because if enough money is raised, all the kids could win a bike. We want to remind you that you have a chance to save a life this weekend. Its match madness. The annual bone marrow registration drive. All it takes to register is a swab inside your cheek with a qtip. Youll find everything you need to know at abc11. Com well be there. We hope to see everyone there were looking forward to that. The tar heels went into the locker room at the half in the pnc arena tonight. Mark armstrong, tell us all about it. Reporter we saw the good and the bad tar heels tonight and in the process roy williams eclipsing dean smith on one front. Plus the story from providence where duke also needed to turn it up in the second half to get stick around for sports. All right. Welcome back, everybody. The first half with the tar heels tonight was maybe their worst of the season. They were up by just one point by 16 seed florida gulf coast. The second half a completely different story. Roy wins his 16th tournament game passing dean smith. The story was Bryce Johnson and his human helicopter act in the second act. Rebounds. Joel barry with 14 points. Tarheels showing the team that could go out early in this tournament and the team that could potentially win it all. All the coaches were getting on us. Davis was just so mad. He didnt even say anything. We just had to go out there and play better. We know were a better team. Playing with more effort and being the aggressor. We were back on our heels the whole first half but in the second half we were the aggressor. I hit a shot right out of the gate and it was a quick 50 blitz. Coach gets on me because he knows what i can do. Took a while for me to realize but i finally realized what i can do. Isaiah knows it now. 26 ncaa tournaments now. From the seahawks at uncw today. A couple of uncw players said they would not be intimidated intimidated when they squared up against duke. Their play backed it up with a seven point lead at one point. But then duke got to business. The mask had to come off. Broken nose he made a physical statement, then a verbal one with his team trailing at halftime. I just wasnt myself and theres no excuse for my play. There was some locker room that ill keep in the locker room. Im really proud of the way my teammates rallied. It could have been theirs. Any kind of timidness we had went away. The defense intensity was turned in their favor for good. In the second half we were very good. Really good. We have to be. Obviously it wasnt our plan to come out all sluggish like we did but it happened and we cant have that happen again. I think whats hard in the second half was marshall coming over getting those two blocks like he did and allowing us to get the rebounds and push the transition. I felt like that got our groove going. Coach will be happy with who theyll face next. Yale upsetting baylor so theyll face another higher seeded team on saturday. Yale versus duke, a lot of people having fun with that one. Canes at pittsburgh tonight. What a start. Scoring opened less than a minute into the game. Canes with the lead. Said sid crosby with his 30th goal of the season. The all right. Thank you. Thats going to the for us tonight. Thanks for watching. Its the song that signals the brides grand arrival. But everybody has a seat, because this wedding is about to take a drastic turn. What the deejay did that is downright dirty. A video making the rounds this st. Paddys day shows a bartenders big mistake. The alcohol is what is burning. Find out how the woman who raccoons leave a surprise open the porch. Mama decided to have the babies in the cooler. And meet the mom of five, living her dream. She is a real life barbie doll. Before you run out and copy her, wait until you hear what its going to cost. What . A wedding, the thing a lot of women look forward to from the time theyre little girls. Until now. Without further ado, let us all rise and receive the bride. There she is, bouquet in hand. About to walk down the aisle with her father. The song you hear playing is the wedding march. Everybody have a seat. Because this wedding is about to take a drastic turn. [ bleep ] the deej