Transcripts For WTVD ABC 11 Eyewitness News At 600 AM 201603

WTVD ABC 11 Eyewitness News At 600 AM March 9, 2016

Showers saturday into sunday. We will talk more about that in the forecast but now we talk weather and traffic with amber rupinta. Amber we are looking at some d. O. T. Cameras and we have a great start. Nothing in the way there might be some lingering construction with you it is usually picked up by 6 00. 6 bypass and 540 there live and sun is coming up and it looks very nice. Light volume and accident free there. Durham freeway shoulder closed right at exit 2 davis drive northbound side due to a stoudamire vehicle. Other than that we are looking very nice. I was checking the drive times. Durham troy seven means 40 to 15. R. Tkfplt ufplt r. D. U. The departures a couple of delays to new york but overall moving on time there. 540 westbound for minutes capital to 70 and that road also moving fine on this wednesday. Barbara we are following several breaking stories. For a genetic driver just before 3 00 this morning the person hit and killed at raeford road and 71st school road. It was so violent the body was thrown about 350 feet. We have this new information. Police looking for a typhoon 9 green ford range are with North Carolina bjt 1906. Also breaking a double shooting in durham now a Murder Investigation. Two were shot in a driveby shooting on maplewood drive. Within died. John a wild chase through durham has a bizarre ending. They began chasing a car on miami boulevard then it went to the durham freeway and down city streets before the driver stopped in the parking lot of the do you recall police headquarters. He allegedly was throwing things out the window along the way. Barbara now to the shakeup in vote quick. John Bernie Sanders keeping his donald trump widening his lead. Stephanie ramos has more. Reporter the hunt is on for delegates feel in the last week we have won three caucuses and two of them were record breaking turn out. Reporter Bernie Sanders adds a page victory in michigan a state both democrats and republicans courted. It has been a fantastic night in michigan. Reporter he already looks ahead to super tuesday part three with contests in florida, illinois ohio and missouri. I want to be the president for the struggling and striving. She walked away a winner earning more delegates than sanders. On the g. O. P. Side donald trump defeating his rivals in michigan and mississippi. Thanksgiving you. This was an amazeing evening. One property in florida flanked by trump water, wine an attacks. Pointing to attempts by opponents to stop momentum. 38 million of horrible lies but that ok. It shows you how brilliant the public is. Because they knew they were lies and it was just really amazing to watch. Reporter his main rival ted cruz battling for second in michigan with john kasich and marco rubio falling short. On the democratic side Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders both will tackle issues on stats tonight in florida at their eighth debate. John North Carolinas primary is less than a week away and candidates are making it a priority. Republican frontrunner donald trump will return to North Carolina today and have an event the crown coliseum in fayetteville. Here are the details tonight. Is expected on stage at 7 00 and we will have Live Streaming coverage. Barbara Hillary Clinton will be making two stops in the triangle tomorrow. She begins at hillside high in durham in the afternoon and then go to raleigh for a rally at broughton and we will have coverage. John officerinvolved shooting in raleigh last week put the spotlight on the issue of police body cameras. State laurels will tack up the discussion. Anthony wilson joins us with more. Anthony good morning. They must be aware that less than an hour after a scheduled appearance by the Raleigh Police chief at city hall it talk about use body cameras word came down there was one that involved a rail officer, shooting that is. The investigation of that shooting under way just minutes before the mayor ended the scheduled meeting. To talk to councilmembers about the pros, cons be a costs of cameras. The mayors alleyreft appear went to a city worker and showed tweet. This is what she said when reporters asked about the coincidence of planned presentation and if a body cam on the officer involved cover helped. I dont know it would have made difference but i guess you could say there is some irony in it. The primary thing is we dont want these to happen in the first place cameras or not. Anthony Durham Police also want body cams on every officer there by next year. A vote was postponed we lawmakers learned the video wouldnt be paid public. That said the meeting here is scheduled for 1 00 this we will upcaught you throughout the day. Watch for it on abc11. Com, mobile apps and abc11 eyewitness news. John 6 07 and the weather this week is beautiful but things can change quickly. Skr what is being done today to prepare for what could come down the road. State Health Officials have an update on the zika virus. Don good morning to you. As you head out today we have dry conditions on the first alert Doppler Network and we toward the don we will be in the 50s at 7 00 and mild temps the current numbers a couple of 40s. 49 in rocks wroe and south hill 46 Roanoke Rapids and 51 rocky mount and louisburg. 52 siler city and raleigh. Cary 46 sanford, 54 pinehurst, 50 lillington and 51 goldsboro. Mainly clear now and 52. By lunchtime we will see the temperatures going mid 70s mostly sunny and through the late day 77 degrees and mostly sunny. Nice day today and tomorrow looks as nice. Then we will have a little more clouds and cooler. We will talk about that in the complete forecast in a bit. John breaking news evacuation under way in louisiana as that state is pounded by rain. This video from just outside shreveport. Deputies going door to door using boats and vehicles to rescue residents of a neighborhood that flooded. Mental shelters are being set up. Louisiana, texas and parts of arkansas could see,to a foot of rain the next few days. Here in foulke the weather is almost perfect but the tornados weeks ago showed us how important it is to be ready. Governor pat mccrory declared march of through 12 Severe Weather preparedness week and today schools and government buildings will have a tornado drill. Barbara the state is monitoring cases of zika in North Carolina but Health Authorities say theres no reason for concern at this point. The department of health and Human Service secretary delivered a report to the over Sight Committee telling them about effort by dhhs. They are tracking it and only five confirmed cases in state of North Carolina including the first reported case in wake county. That patient is a woman who traveled to central and south america. They are watching mosquitos working with scientists in western carolina university. E. C. U. And n. C. State. John 6 12 and a akwrobgtchaotic scene that sends people to the barbara new boast from new york whaflt it says it can do that could put the u. S. And allies in danger. John you wont believe what a kindergarten teach Prime Minister with 20 megs of Internet Speed from centurylink, a family of four can all be online at the same time, streaming, gaming, or downloading movies. Yeah, the internets great, but i think hair and makeup went a little too far. Yeah, thats not working. I much prefer the twoday beard, hornrimmed glasses, justsleptinhiscar kinda thing. Yeah, i miss the rumpled crazy uncle look. Okay. Be paul giamatti. Thats the essence of this role. Feel like a hollywood insider state cabinet. Linda coleman, our next lt. Governor. Im linda coleman, and im running for lt. Governor because its time to fight back, so our children dont have to do it all over again. Ive fought to improve schools all my life. And now, im going to fight against the republicans in raleigh. Because were in a fight john welcome back. 6 15. These are the headlines. In fayetteville the search is on for a skwrpbt driver. Just before 3 00 a. M. A person was hit and killed at raeford road and 71st school road. Police are looking for a 1997 green ford ranger North Carolina tag bjp 1906. Double shooting in dont recall a Murder Investigation. Last night two were shot in a driveby incident on maplewood drive. They were rushed to the hospital where one died this morning. A happy homecoming expected this than 150 paratroopers on the way home after nine months in iraq. A welcome home money is planned. Barbara a Baltimore Police officer will be required to testify against his fellow officers in the freddie gray case. The Maryland Court of appeals ruling William Porter must testify. This unusual because officer porters first trial had a hung jury. Gray died in april a week after his neck was broken. The man who police say or kes contest straighted a gold heist on i95 will stay behind bars. He was ordered to stay in jail until the trial. He faces charges linked to the robbery of nearly 5 million in gold bars. The f. B. I. Says he used a g. P. S. Device to track the rig before using a Remote Control to release pep are pray into the cab forcing the driver to pull john at least seven are hurt when a car slams into a bus stop in phoenix. Authorities say two vehicles collided causing one to plow into the bus stop. The seven injured three were taken to the hospital. Two women and a krpg boy. The cause is under investigation. Barbara north korea causing a new stir with photos published on the front package of its state run newspaper. North korea says it has manufactured Nuclear Warheads mall enough to fit on ballistics missile. It claims to show them visiting a facility where they are made and they have previously said it has Nuclear Warheads small enough to put on long rank missiles but experts question claims. John a Kindergarten Teacher forward for drinking on the job. Her blood alcohol five times legal driving limit. Officials in tacoma fired clara bowman for allegedly drinking in her class. A mug of orange juice. She had a blood alcohol kept of at least. 4 while teaching students on february 19. That is five times the legal limitment one teacher said she was so drunk she fell on to two students. Barbara the music producers sometimes called the fifth beatle has died. Sir George Martin is credited with signing the beatles and helping to define their sound. Insiders say without him they would have been a much different band. Was 90. I was reading a quote from Paul Mccarthy any who said he was like a second farther. Tpwhrao i was listening to the bb. C and john lennon came to him saying i need a sound that sounds like 100 tibetan phofrpgs. He had to come up with that chanting. He was brilliant with that type of tough. Lets talk weather. We have a pretty nice day shaping up. The red lane there indicates our normal or average high for this time of year, 61. Every day the next six days above it average. Tomorrow the warmest around 80. Live look into downtown raleigh under a blue sky and cheer, lots of sunshine, 52ment dew point 4. Sunrise is about 15 minutes at 6 34. Live look into north hills, sunlighting up the biddings. 5 with west wind five miles an hour. From across region 49 roxboro, 53 chapel hill, 46 sanford, 44 southern pines, 49 fayetteville, clinton and goldsboro. We see clear skies and we were talking earlier about the flooding in louisiana and it wont change for them. This High Pressure offense us is like a wall and forcing all the so from dallas to houston into louisiana they are ponded. That will continue to stay west of us and forth factor our weather. By lunchtime manual, 70s. A couple of clouds drift through but mostly sunny. Tomorrow morning everything is white. This is the model trying to deal with the moisture that will be humidity. Tomorrow i think you will see patchy fog. We will watch it burn off and we will see it lift and partly sunny exercise, back into the 70s to near 80 tomorrow. Surface map showing the High Pressure off coast giving us the southwest flow giving us warm air two friday. The rest of today mostly sunny in raleigh. 62 at 9 00. By lunchtime 74 and this afternoon 79. Warmer tan yesterday. We will top out around 80 in smithfield. 79 cary, 78 chapel hill. 78 durham. Tonight the temperatures across for overnight lows. 54 raleigh. Fayetteville. First alert sevenday forecast powered by accuweather 79 and sunny today. Near 80 tomorrow and 70s friday, saturday the huge st. Patricks day parade and one of the biggest on east coast and looks like it will stay dry which is good for us. Showers hold off until saturday. Sp 75 as we sreupg forward this weekend. Lets go to new york city to see what is going on with Good Morning America. We go to rob. Rob good morning. I heard you talking about the flooding in northwest louisiana where evacuations and rescues are under way with more rain coming. That is the big weather story with the Severe Threat and warmup on the east coast the hulk hogan back on the stand former professional wrestler grilled in his lawsuit against the website gawker. He highlighted the difference character and his real self. Dan abrams will weigh in. A continuing Solar Eclipse overnight. Passengers on Alaska Airlines flight witnessing the sight up close. Many majors of the passively. They chose to delay the flight so they could see it. What appear amazing thing that would be. I have never witnessed it lake that. Maybe next time we will have to get on an airplane and fly from alaska to hawaii. Don that is not a bad flight. All right, rob. We will look for that. Night. I was looking and nasa has a flick are account where people ask them to pose pictures and there are amazing shots with jets flying past it. No helicopters with us today. I was asking where is the chopper. They are not up today. Out to r. D. U. Good shape. 440 and six forks and we are in great shape in the viewing area. The weather is captaining. You see a little bit of fog coming back on the live returns with the road weather index but very slight. We have shoulder close on the durham freeway near exit 2 davis drive due to stalled vehicle. There was a little fog coming back to the was of durham. Cuss me. West of pittsboro. Other than that we are accident free and 40 eastbound five minutes 64 to 70. Belt align no problems and durham freeway till moving on john round two of john the a. C. C. Tournament is under way and day two teams will face off. N. C. State faced wagon yesterday. There are 16 leads changes and 15 ties before the pack took control and won 7572 win. N. C. State faces duke today at 2 00 the third meeting for them this year with duke winning both. Barbara samsungs new smart phone goes on sale this week and the first reviews are in. This is our tech news. For the smartphone. Galaxy is the smart phone to beat and on the edge of perfection. It goes on sale this tri. Amazon launched a daily live stream show last night. If you like the products buy them by clicking a link so convenient it airs live each night at 9 00 approximately eastern. Here is something to make you feel good. How teens react to windows 95. I feel like theres nothing again to. Inbox and stuff like the basic stuff ment stuffment can you believe they were baffled by dialup internet. Look at the size of those computers. John does make you feel old. Barbara 6 27. Vote 2016 heating up in our state. Barbara homecoming today this is connor like so many kids, he was missing things in school distracted disengaged just not getting it. We tried tutors but they didnt connect. Then we heard about sylvans new teaching system, sylvansync. Personal lessons, taught by sylvan certified instructors, using Technology Kids love. Ive never seen him more engaged. And the results are kids like connor typically ia breaking one person killed in a double shooting in durham. Barbara we are counting down to a big homecoming paratroopers returning to fort bragg. We have a crew live right now for this happy homecoming. Good morning, carolina, welcome on wednesday march 9, 52 degrees at 6 30. Im barbara gibbs. John im john clark. Thanksgiving you for tuning in. We will get to those stories but first weather and traffic with meteorologist don schwenneker. Don good morning to you. We have a look at the temperatures. Look at the beg climb the next couple of hours. 9 00 we are in the 60s and by 11 00 we are at 70. Mid to upper 70s. At 3 00 around 80. Current numbers, 49 roxboro, 53 chapel hill. 49 fayetteville. 46 smithfield, 51 wilson and 48 Roanoke Rapids. Louis louisburg 54. Looking at the day ahead. 52 and cheer. By lunchtime mostly sunny and 74. Through the afternoon 79 degrees with lots of sunshine. Tomorrow we will touch 80 and tkwhrafr it cools down a bit and we could see sours during the weekend. Now we have weather and traffic with amber rupinta. Night. Lets look at wade avenue at the beltline and it is a clear and dry start. Nothing in the way. Should be an easy commute with the weather the we are seeing a little volume building here. Still moving fine on time. You can see the radar clear and theres a little fog coming in a few minutes ago to the west pittsboro but it has does anticipated some contraction durham troy foreclosure at exit 2 davis drive closed do you to a stalled vehicle and there was construction on i85 going on for a long time. 40 and rock quarry fine both directions. A few minutes. John breaking overnight a double shooting turns into a Homicide Investigation in durham. Police say two men were shot just after 10 30 last night in the 1400 block of maplewood drive off dearborn. Both were

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