one more i-40 and harrison lots of taillights and lights coming at us. otherwise fine. john: the final frenzy in iowa as the presidential contenders work to close the deal before the caucuses. barbara: it is the first maim test for the white house. a recent approximately shows republican front-runner donald trump five points ahead of ted porters could be vital. the gloves are off. >> ted cruz is liar. i'm so against obama care. >> donald engages in insults because he can't defend his record. barbara: the same poll showed hillary clinton with a three-point lead over bernie sanders but if o'malley supporters can't get 15% the other camps will fight for the votes. john: today pretrial motions in a mother killed in her home in raleigh. transferon smith is charged in the death of melissa huggins jones. he could get death if found guilty. anthony anthony has the latest on the case. anthony: he and one codefendant actually already entered a guilty plea to stay off death ray. smith is one of three who were charged in the death of jones who had just moved to raleigh from tennessee for a job in may of 2013 when her 8-year-old daughter found her betten to death -- beaten to death. one codefendant pleaded guilty avoid death. no indication smith might be willing to make a similar deal for life in preserve without parole -- prisonn without protocol. opening statements could begin tomorrow. and abc11.com and mobile apps. barbara: now to developing story police in blacksburg say a student charged with killing a girl knew the victim and used that to his advantage. david eisenhauer is held on one count of murder and abduction in the death of nicole lovell. a second virginia tech student 19-year-old natalie keepers is held without bond khrafrpbled with accessory after the fact and improper disposal of a body. lovell disappeared from her home tuesday or early wednesday when she climb out of the bedroom window. her body was found in north carolina on saturday. john: one man is in jail after a shooting at a shot house in fayetteville. it started as an argument in the business that was selling alcohol illegally. investigators say william warren another man was shot several times. police arrived and found guns and drugs. warren is charged with attempted murder and assault. right now a second unknown suspect is on the run. barbara: it is 48 degrees and 6:04. a community comes together to support a local woman in need feel john: abc11 highlighting the fund-raiser to help a community leader who is badly beaten and how you can help. sheriff department humor going viral. we will tell you about the that left one person dead. don: as you head out we have dry conditions across the region. tonight a different don: welcome back. looking out the windowle see cloud cover working through, we will warm quickly. right now 51 and by lunchtime 50 roanoke rapids, roxboro, oxford. 52 chapel hill. 43 smithfield, 49 sanford, 50 southern pines and 47 in fayetteville. looking at the day ahead. 51 right now and partly cloudy. lunch 64 partly sunny. late day 67 degrees and more clouds working in. we will talk more about that in the complete forecast with cooler temperatures by the weekend. barbara: support for woman attacked this week. you know about annie nice and the mugging that left her in a neck brace. she is the former owner of tir na nog in joined raleigh. last week she was mug and beaten by three men. no longer with the business and with medic bills piling up the community she entertained for years is coming to her rescue. a fund-raiser raked in nearly $600 yesterday and that we are when you add that to the more than $16,000 on a go fund me page you see how people help. the knights of columbus will have a barbecue next week an donate there. >> you can find information and a link on the abc11.com mobile appment >> to the must is he videos we begin with two men filming a thunderstorm and getting the scare of their lives. >> oh, my god. reporter: that was a very close call after they were nearly struck by lightning. this was while they were in a boat shed in australia. they were not hurt but shaken,. el paso, texas and sheriff deputies showing the funny side. a deputy gets in the elevator he breaks into the nene. the deputy is later joined by another officer and she also breaks out in her best dance moves. until the chief deputy gets in and they are right back at it as soon as he gets off. later joined by another colleague. they straighten up and puts on the serious face when the sheriff walked in but he joins in showing off his skills. this was created to honor deputy tony sheriff in the org shirt who retitid after 29 years of service. it is viewed three million times since it was posted. john: this eight-month-old girl gets real giggles from her pug. knocking her over. she doesn't care. her mom said they are best of barbara: that is sweet. 6:10 and 51 degrees. fatal fire kills five. john: what we are learning about the victims. prison break in california unleash the power of dough. give it a pop. that sound. like nails on a chalkboard. but listen to this: (family talking) that's a different kind of sound. the sound of the weekend. unleash the power of dough. give it a pop. john: good morning. here is a look at the headlines. today iowa voters will begin the formal process of choosing a new president. ahead of the caucuses the presidential candidates appeared throughout the state sunday. they spent the day campaigning. it is tight for both parties. two virginia tech students are charmed with the death of a 13-year-old girl who disappeared from her blacksburg home last week. with -- charged with murder and being a introduction and natalie keepers with helping dispose of the body and abscessry after the fact. the body was found saturday in north carolina. an investigator is expected to release evidence why an amtrak train streaked into a curve at double the speed limit last year in philadelphia. it will be the first major development since the national transportation safety board pinpointed excessive speed as a key factor within days the crash may 12. eight were killed. barbara: to the dramatic to be armed and dangerous. in san f and falling over a partition. barbara: an investigation is under way in a detroit suburb after five were killed in a house fire. the victims were all in their late 20's and early 30's and restaurant. they were in the basement when the fire started. an investigation is under way to determine the cause. california turning dead traffic for miles. anyway. don: always a mess there. the good news is they made a dent in the drought. i don't think it will help the drought that much. they need two or three years of that but they are seeing water good for them. around here we have good news if you need rain. we have rain chances. tonight there's about a 20% chance of a shower in the evening. tomorrow back to zero but by wednesday we will see rain and could see thunderstorms. they could linger into thursday morning. that is why i left the 30% chance. by friday and saturday we have a great weekend although it will be cooler this weekend. live look this morning into downtown raleigh and temperature 51 and dewpoint 44, 77% humidity. southwest wind 10. sunrise 7:16 fplt. we will begin with a live look into fayetteville and 49 right now, winds calm and not much going on into the all-american city. north hills 52, 71% humidity. west wind if you are miles an hour. on time, no big weather makers. trouble spot could be denver with heavier snow in the foothills foothills. but most flights. that is the moon showing up or a bright star. 49 right now roxboro, 52 chapel hill. 49 sanford, 43 smithfield. 47 in fayetteville and 48 in goldsboro. satellite and radar composite not showing any rainfall. we are dry and we see clouds working through. by 9:00 tonight we will see a rain shower passing through and shuts off. tomorrow will 10 degrees cooler under cloud cover. through tomorrow into wednesday it is this line working through. right now it is timing out in our area about 4:00 in the afternoon and it is a significant change in weather. when this arrives i wouldn't be surprised to see strong thunderstorms into the region on the rest of today raleigh by lunch 64, partly sunny, warming quickly. through the afternoon more cloud cover, mild temperatures in the upper 60's. the rest of the area partly sunny and high of 69 durham, 69 siler city, 71 smithfield and 68 wendell. sand hills 71 pinehurst and 70 sanford, 71 goldsboro. fayetteville and fort bragg 70's today. northern counties south hill going to 66. 67 roxboro, 67 rocky mount. 71 tarboro and partly sunny skies. tonight temperatures back into the 40's and 50's for overnight lows. 49 raleigh. 50 sanford and 52 in lumberton. first alert seven-day forecast powered by accuweather showing temperatures tomorrow about 10 degrees kaorlg under the cloud -- cooler. high of 60. wednesday 68, showers and strong thunderstorms possible. showers mainly east as the system moves out. friday 45 and dry for the weekend with typical temperatures in the 50's. could see snow in the middle of the country. for more on that and new york city we will go live to rob standing by with more from g.m.a. rob: great to be with you. there is a big storm heading toward the midsection slammed california yesterday and last night with heavy rains and trees down on the amtrak track this and trees taking out cars. one fatality. powerful system that will traverse the rockies but not quite to iowa until tonight and that is good because the caucus is here today and race for the white house is on. first vote finally set to be cast for the presidential race. we hear from some decades. bernie sanders, marco rubio as they get ready for the final push. george and robin are live in iowa and i will be here in new york following that weather situation. by the way, voter turn outout affected by about 1% with rain or snow so we look for an horse. back to you -- coming hours. don: thanks, donrob. we are not seeing any accidents in the region. we have all green on the maps. that is a pretty picture if you are heading out on this monday morning. we can slide south into the sand hills and a couple of slowdowns there but that is now green and it is dry in cumberland county. as far as the real-time travel times we are seeing u.s. 40 and eastbound 64 to 70 at 5eu67 miles an hour. fplt. durham freeway that is seven mile ride. kabul capital to 70. slow northbound on north 70 from 440 to 540 eight miles and 12 minutes. barbara: 6:21 and 51 degrees. twitter jumping into vote 2016. the social media new politics related emoji. panthers arrive in california. this is connor like so many kids, he was missing things in school - distracted - disengaged - just not getting it. we tried tutors but they didn't connect. then we heard about sylvan's new teaching system, sylvansync. personal lessons, taught by sylvan certified 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phone service allowing users to use a symphony number for all -- single phone number for all devices. twitter is officially kicking off election season. >> users who tweet the hash tag i voted or caucused will have a emoji with a blue or red check mark. it is the first one connected to >> a trump' magic next? barbara: it is 6:26 barbara: body of a missing 13-year-old virginia girl pound -- fond in north carolina. john: world health leaders will discuss the hraertalert posed by the zika virus. barbara: panthers have arrived in california. we follow them all the way to the west coast to bring exclusive coverage of super bowl 50. good morning, carolina, welcome on monday february 1. 51 degrees and almost 6:30. i'm barbara gibbs. john: i'm john clark. glad you are with us. we will get to the stores but first we have weather and traffic with don schwenneker. don: we led become on a -- head back on a monday put everybody in a good mood yesterday. today the temperatures climbing lunchtime mid 60's. could be a great day it be out on lunch. looking at temperatures across the region you are almost 50 degrees in roxboro. and 51 a. 48 roanoke rapids and 52 chapel hill. 49 sanford, 51 smithfield. 47 in fayetteville. looking at the day ahead. 51 now and partly cloudy. by lunchtime 64, clouds and sunshine. more clouds later. 69 degrees. today not the warmest of the week. it will be warmer midweek. we will talk about that and thunderstorms in the forecast. now we have traffic. amber rupinta is off so i like to fill in on days like today. not one accident. some slow downs but volume picking up. same in fayetteville. we had a slowdown on the all american freeway that is gone. as far as real-time cameras we are seeing slowdowns in 15 and 50 501. that is volume slowdown. we will go from there into the lights inbound on the freeway and 147 and alston avenue. we will go to u.s. 70 and cheek road and again volume not too heavy but folks heading in on a monday morning. john: authorities are searching the virginia tech campus for clues in the murder of a 13-year-old girl. her bid was found in north carolina. police confirm a search and recovery team is on the scene at a popped in virginia tech in connection to the nicole lovell case. her body was found in surry county, north carolina, over the weekend three days after she disappeared from her home. david eisenhauer was arrest and charged with first degree murder. student 19-year-oldelationship to his advantage to be a duct and kill her. barbara: world health leaders are gathering for an emergency meeting pws of the zika virus. it is spreading rapidly in south and central america and some cases are popping up in the u.s. north carolina health officials have taken notice. gloria rodriguez is live with more on the developing story. gloria: here at department of health and human services they are keeping a close eye on the virus. nobody here in north carolina has tested positive for the disease but local hospitals are screening pregnant women for zika. nearly 40 kiss of the virus have been reported in the u.s. and that is concerning many pregnant kind of know how fast they can spread. gloria: the w.d.o. is meeting to consider it a international health emergency. with the ebola outbreak. iticenter after an alarming number of babies were born with abnormally small heads and brain danger. c.d.c. and health ex thinking of getting pregnant not to travel to areas where the virus. >> i think for the average healthy individual this is not going to be a problem for them. i think what has led to increased and appropriately concern for zika is the pregnancy outcomes. gloria: for toes that must travel there there are tips. >> we recommend they try to take long sleeve apparel and use mosquito repellent with deet. gloria: there is no cure for zika. there are talks of a vaccine but live are raleigh, gloria rodriguez rodriguez, abc 11 eyewitness news. barbara: the presidential candidates 10 republicans and three democrats are making their final campaign pitches in iowa. john: the caucuses will take place today and the outcome could make or break some combines. we have a preview. >> it sounds like you want to make a political revolution. >> i'm a better candidate and thanks to you i will be a better president and i want you to know that. reporter: this is it. time is up for the three democrats and 11 republicans running for president. >> i think a lot of people will make the decision when they are listening to neighbors. reporter: on both the republican and democratic sides the last poll found five points or less separating first and second place. with about a third of voters still wavering in support result up to the last second. ted cruz attended church. >> do you promise you will run the country like a tkpwtd fearing christian man? reporter: he said he prayed for donald trump and marco rubio. i >> if i'm the president, when i'm the president we will confront the challenges of our time. reporter: rubio fighting for an upset second place finish or better. >> get out of bed and caucus. john: donald trump gave his wife the mic to close the deal in iowa. >> he will be unbelievable. john: republicans expect to see the results pretty soon after 7:00. support the democrats it can take longer since often those caucuses unfold like a game with campaigns trying to sway the voters from non competitivecompetitive candidates. his first campaign headquarters in north carolina. he announced the office in charlotte. he says north carolina is key to capturing the democratic nomination. north carolina's primaries are march 15. barbara: closing argument in a trial challenging the north carolina voter i.d. law. starting with the march 15 primary voters are required to show appear approved i.d. before they can vote. the naacp says it will harm black and latino voters. john: 6:36. shots outside a durham mall. what we are learning about it. a wreck covers a section of i-95 with cabbage. what played a role. don: as you head out we have dry conditions and temperatures up a little bit. don: welcome back. looking at the bus stop forecast. kids heading out a warmer day. both this morning and this afternoon. today will be one of the days where the jacket in the backpack. they won't wear it home. may need it going. currently 50 roxboro, 52 chapel hill. 48 roanoke rapids, 50 louisburg and 49 sanford, 47 fayetteville. 50 southern pines and 47 clinton. today partly cloudy right now and 51. by lunchtime 64 and partly sunny. this afternoon 67 degrees and more clouds on the way. we will talk about the clouds and we have the seven-day forecast k078ingcoming up. barbara: the driver of a truck that crashed near rocky mount is charged with driving while impaired. according to investigators the tkraoeufrdriver kevin ellis was under the influence when crashed on 95 john: john: firefighters working to determine the cause of a fire that killed deaf man and left others homeless. eight lived in there home on fifth street in smithfield when it went,in flames saturday morning. everyone made it out except michael davis. police looking for suspects involved in a shooting outside the northgate mall. it was in the parking lot saturday night. one was shot in the ample and several cars damaged by bullets. police say it started with a fight. anyone with information is urged to call crimestoppers. barbara: residents near seymour johnson air force base will hear more noise. they are conducting a two-day exercise starting this morning and lasting until tuesday night. raepbtsdz can expect increased noise and potential traffic congestion on and near the base. it is john: the situation that left barbara: three prison escapees back behind bars in california as authorities track down the john: than ers (vo) if you have type 2 diabetes, you may know what it's like to deal with high... and low blood sugar. januvia (sitagliptin) is a once-daily pill that, along with diet and exercise, 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not occupied. strong winds in southern california downed dozens of off rooftops. barbara: fans line the streets of charlotte to give the panthers a proper sendoff. this is how it looked for the team buses. john: this morning they are going to be waking up in hotel rooms before the spectacle known as media day. barbara: we followed them to california and we can bring you reports. mark armstrong has more. mark: i'm just outside levi stadium and they are ready for super bowl 50. it is amazing no matter where you go here the signage is everywhere everywhere. they are ready for the biggest party of the year and sunday the two reasons for that showed up. cam newton let out a primal scream as he exited the plane. the sound of a man ready to conquer the world and broncos. can to match their passion and intensity. we have an opportunity it and we pretty much have our destiny in our hands. depends on how we go about doing it. mark: he then hit the ground and clowned a trio of teammates. his $850 versace pants were the talk of the day. for my money mario addison was best with his combo and thomas davis was all business. >> i remember coming down that tarmac and knowing that are hear for the super bowl and you have an opportunity to get this ultimate goal. mark: tonight the panthers are expected to get our questions beginning at 10:00 p.m. eastern. john: "eyewitness news" is with the panthers through super bowl 50. all the behind scenes action. tissueha powell will have reports friday. barbara: we have a lot of stories out of california but one is the fashion statements made by cam newton with his style with srerversace pants and shoes and then peyton manning with a more classic style suit and tie. who wore it better. in our poll krafpl is on top with 53% compared to 47% for peyton. you can follow us on twitter and we have put up a link on abc11.com. $850 perversace pants. john: don you would be big in those pants. don: no one would want to see them. there would be a big gut hanging over them. we have warm temperatures. it is a gorgeous weekend. it was. nice and dry so cooler. let's talk about what you are seeing right now. we will be near 70 today. mixture of a cloud and sunshine. we will have a shower tonight degrees. we will look at what is raleigh. you see clouds lighting up in the sky. 77% humidity. southwest wind 10. sunrise officially 7:16. nice sunrise in fayetteville. you can see the cloud cover being lit up. 49 right now. southwest wind five miles an hour. looking at temperatures in the area 49 roxboro, 52 chapel hill. 43 smithfield. 48 sanford, 47 fayetteville, clinton. 48 roanoke rapids. more clouds coming through. no rain with them but we will see showers working in. first alert predictor forecast model, by 9:00 tonight we will could see a interim late afternoon into early evening. it is early evening and then shuts off. tomorrow cloudy and relatively dry. wednesday the showers coming in. part afof a frontal boundary that will bring colder temperatures and rough day. we have a front north and warm. next 24 hours it sags and we will be in a cool sector so it will be cooler tomorrow and we warm up ahead of it wednesday and there's the front wednesday that brings chance of thunderstorms. the rest of today raleigh lunchtime up to 64 degrees. through the afternoon partly sunny and temperatures had the 60's. more cloud cover working in. today across the rest of region partly sunny, 69 cary, 69 durham, 71 smithfield feel sand hills pinehurst 71. and tarboro 71 and 67 henderson and 66 south hill. tonight temperatures back into the 40's for overnight lows. 49 raleigh and 50 forward. 51 fayetteville. first alert seven-day forecast powered by accuweather, tomorrow temperatures back into the 60's. 60 for ground hog day. wednesday 68. thursday 54 and cooler. "big weather" pic of the day these are from holy ridge middle school. i was lucky enough to attend the wake county all county middle school choir performance saturday. one of those girls is my daughter. so, it was a great weekend. they really sounded fantastic. let's show what you is going on as far as the traffic is concerned. weather and traffic together. we have an incident that just popped up. valley with rescue crew there. you will want to avoid that. another r e is durham on u.s. 501 and roxboro street and i-85, that area an accident and police this. beg big slowdowns on 40 and done to 37 miles apbdnd joins 70 there. we are seeing slowdowns on standards i-40 south saunders inbound slowing down. as we go inbound into raleigh we have red. things down to 10 miles an hour or less in downtown raleigh. i-440 and capital lots of red lights with people heading out and volume picking up. numbers from across the region eastbound 40 u.s. 64 to 70 it is 66. durham freeway seven-mile ride barbara: 6:52 and 51 degrees. we are following beg stories. john: the news you will be hearing throughout the day including the arrest of two dunkin' donuts' unbelievable selection of breakfast sandwiches freshly made all day -- and now you can enjoy two english muffin egg and cheese breakfast sandwiches for $4. the new caramel macchiato from dunkin' donuts. let hand-crafted layers of espresso, milk, and a caramel-flavored swirl uplift your mood. indulge in a hot or iced macchiato today. john: we are following several developing stories in the morning rush. >> an emergency meeting of the zika virus and start of iowa caucuses. two virginia tech students are charged in connection with the murder of a 13-year-old girl. david eisenhauer and natalie keepers are accused with the abduction and murder of nicole madison lovell who disappeared from her home wednesday. her body was found in north carolina on saturday. authorities are searching a pond on the virginia tech campus for evidence. john: today iowa's caucuses mark the official kickoff of the 2016 presidential nominating contest. we will show you a live picture from the capitol in des moines where some campaigns could be made or broken depending on the results. on both the republican and democrat sides anyone can win. five points or less separate first and second. wavering. lived to thousands of birth defects. john: the death penalty of a raleigh man is expected to begin this week. opening statements are expected tomorrow with pretrial motions today. traveon smith is one of three charged in the death of melissa huggins jonesment she had just moved to raleigh here for a job in may of 2013 when her daughter apartment. one co-defendant pleaded guilty last year. barbara: the panthers will wake up in california this morning after arriving in san jose yesterday. today is media day so look for team coverage this afternoon. john: over to you, don. don: warm temperatures and out-the-door forecast with 60 and 70 this " good morning, america. and they're off. the first votes finally here in the race for president. >> it's going be big. history. >> bernie sanders says