kayla: a toll lane project that could end taking a toll on a north carolina governor's race, the fallout as sitting governor pat mccrory orders a review of the controversial deal. good evening and thank you for joining us for "fox 46 news" at 6:00. i'm kayla ayres. bill: i'm bill melugin. first on fox, governor mccrory supporting the i-77 toll lane project for years. the entire contract is at risk of being terminated and one of mccrory's chief political rivals is calling him out on it. robin kanady will give us the latest on the controversy. hi, robin. >> reporter: it doesn't take long to see why this stretch of interstate desperately needs more traffic lanes. let me show you all of this mess here. people living and working around here say this bottleneck does not just happen during rush hour, but the problem remains how to fix

if there's any stretch of interstate that will be a hot-button issue in the governor's race, it will be this one. 26 miles from uptown charlotte to mooresville. the governor's route for solving the traffic hassles hit a roadblock. a subsidiary of cintra, the private company building the i-77 toll lane has just filed for bankruptcy. on this road project in texas. and that prompted governor pat mccrory to send north carolina's dot secretary to the lone star state. his mission, find out what >> these are separate corporate entities, some should have been successful, others have not. i have to make sure our taxpayers are protected with regard to this action. in texas, i'm going to make sure we do a thorough review of that. >> reporter: the group opposing known as widen i-77 wonders if mccrory's move is just for show.

struck us as a bolt out of the blue. we're wondering whether he's sending the secretary to actually figure out a way to cancel this contract or whether this is all for form. >> reporter: the ncdot tells us north carolina's current contract with cintra protects taxpayers from financial losses. at's a quote. widen i-77 says it's just not true. the group claims if the project defaults on its loans, of dollars. >> we'd like clarification from the governor and the dot how the taxpayer would not be at fault when the contract says otherwise? >> reporter: opponents of the toll lane say it's a road the state can't afford to go down. the question now, is there any turning back? construction has already started on the toll lanes, but the group, widen i-77, tells me that's okay, that work that's already been done on

be done anyway, even if the state decides to scrap the toll lane project, they would need to do that work to make way for more general purpose lanes. live on i-77, robin kanady, fox 46 wjzy. bill: lot of questions. dot secretary will meet with texas dot officials. mccrory has instructed the dot to review north carolina's contract with cintra to see what can be done next. attorney general roy cooper released the following statement -- now the dot fired back calling cooper's response, quote, a

cooper reviewed the contract with cintra from day one and never had a problem with it. kayla: before warmer weather returns, could be seeing wet weather overnight. for more what we can expect and a check of the accuweather forecast, here's meteorologist amanda cox. >> that's right, we're seeing a little rain moving into parts of the area. lot of cloud cover and that's been the case for a good portion of the day. it's staying active due to an area of low pressure, you can see back to the south and west. this is sliding to the south and east of us, and as that happens, we'll have the rain coming in. there's heavier rain further to the south, it's going to pick up through the overnight hours. most of our temperatures in the 30s and 40s, well above that freezing mark. we're going to stay with just rain for most of the area. notice temperatures to the 20s further to the north and west, they could have snow shower activity from time to time.

60 to 70 to 80% chance throughout the evening and the overnight hours. we expect to see the rain overnight into the very early-morning hours tomorrow. as you wake up, a lot of this is long gone, there is the potential of mix of rain/sleet/snow possible in the mountains and weak cold front saturday they can talk about in just a minute. kayla: thank you, amanda. developing story as another case of the zika virus has been found in north carolina. this time in wake county. health officials say the person affected contracted the virus while traveling abroad. it's the first case for wake county but the fifth in the tar heel state. officials have not released who she is or where the woman traveled to, but did say she is closely monitored. according to the centers for disease control and prevention. there are more than 100 cases of travel-associated zika virus in the united states. however, zero cases of transmission by mosquitoes in the u.s. new at 6:00 tonight,

have been found in our area. local health officials found six cases in the state alone with another nine people showing mump-like symptoms. four of those confirmed cases are in mecklenburg county while another four are not confirmed but are being investigated. bill: a number of charlotte residents are without power tonight, here's the reason why, take a look. this is a crash that happened earlier this morning that took out utility poles. duke energy crews have been out there attempting to restore service from the crash around 1300 people had power knocked out when the crash happen, but that number has gone down to just around 33 homes. kayla: after more than a month on the run, the rock hill prisoner who escaped is back behind bars tonight. 26-year-old zachary reeves was captured in fulton county, georgia early this morning. reeves walked away from the catawba prerelease center in

he was there serving an eight-year sentence for second degree burglary. he faces even more charges. bill: charlotte's controversial nondiscrimination ordinance is back in the headlines tonight. state house speaker tim moore says there is enough support to reconvene early and hold a special meeting to consider eliminating the ordinance that will allow transgender people to use whichever rest room they identify with. moore says three fifth of the chamber asked for a special meeting. governor pat mccrory says the meeting isn't necessary. the next session set for april 25th, but the ordinance will take effect april 1st. the north carolina primama isn't for another couple of weeks. you can cast a vote. more than 360 early voting sites have opened up across the state today. if you want to cast a ballot stop at any voting location until next saturday. if you miss the regular voter registration deadline, you can register at one of the early voting sites.

photo i.d. but there are exceptions if you don't have one. check with your voting site before you head to the polls. police in raleigh say officers were threatened the same day an officer-involved shooting turned fatal. brand-new reports say the threats went to law enforcement by e-mail between noon and 3:00 monday. hours after 24-year-old was shot and killed. we learned that denkins was struggling with an officer and autopsy shows he was not shot in the back. police have not said exactly who those threats came from or if they were meant for a specific officer. kayla: controversy continues to brew in a local town after a majority of police officers resigned. just last night the pageland town council voted to name the chesterfield sheriff as interim police chief while they work on fixing the staffing problem.

on the sheriff and what people can expect next. >> reporter: people talking in pageland are upset and frustrated after a majority of police officers decided to quit. the question now is how long will the sheriff's office protect this town? a town without most of their officers. and the chesterfield county sheriff's office stepping into help with patrolling. town council voted to reinstate larry brown as the police chief. right after that happened, nine officers announced their plans to resign. >> i hate that they had to think they had to do that. i wish the town council would have spoken to them. >> reporter: brown will be back in the office monday following a four-month sled investigation. sled tells us the investigation is ongoing and can't release information yet. brown will work under sheriff jay brooks who will be the

problem is resolved. >> we can't let the town go without police protection. >> reporter: sheriff brooks says brown will focus on filling the open positions. >> larry is going to have a job of recruiting new officers, building his police department back. this is going to give him the time do that. >> reporter: from what we learned, the sheriff's office will learn the day-to-day operations and the town of pageland will cover the overtime pay for the deputies on patrol. >> it's a little bit troubling to think that you're going to lose most of your police officers. >> reporter: people now just want answers as to why all of this is going on. >> no word on how long could this take place. >> reporter: the sheriff says if the department recruits seasoned officers it could be a quick turnaround, rookie officer 18 months to get them on the road. neima abdulahi, fox 46 wjzy. kayla: there is another meeting planned for monday morning. the sheriffs along with larry brown and town administrators will discuss how to best recruit and move the police department forward.

coming out regarding a triple murder in gaston county. we'll let you know what we found in court documents that could provide a little context as to what was happening between the suspect and one of the victims before the shooting? kayla: plus hundreds of jobs in our area lost. coming up next, which major charlotte employer is sending people to the unemployment line? . and the queen city is getting boston attitude with hollywood flair.

joints will be steve: today is your lucky day. woman: (surprised) oh, my goodness mark: you've just won - a thousand dollars! woman: that's amazing! that's amazing! (shrieks) woman: ok, nice job. mark, way better than yesterday. maria, that delivery felt a little forced. and steve, steve: yeah? woman: i am still missing that raw emotion. woman: pretty awesome for a tuesday, but tomorrow is hump day, so let's really bring it!

. kayla: if you're watching us tonight in charlotte, you are official isly in one of the top 20 places to live in the u.s. the queen city is ranked at number 15. it is a blend of old-fashioned southern charm, an easy city to break into. two other carolina cities made the list, charleston at 19 and raleigh-durham took the third spot. one of charlotte's biggest employers is having layoffs. duke energy, mostly in the carolinas. a part of a cost-cutting initiative it launched last year, most of the people laid off volunteered to leave. we're told they're all receiving severance pay, the charlotte business journal

which covers western and upstate north carolina was the hardest hit. bill: lawmakers in south carolina came back early to debate a bill that aims to rebuild the state's roads. wednesday, a measure passed that would send an additional 400 million dollars to repair efforts. a measure that would not raise gas prices in the palmetto state. house and senate could vote as soon as next week. a staple in the charlotte community is closing doors for good. the metro line of trade is shutting down in june. served for 50 years featuring antiques, and gun shows. the site totals 94 acres near statesville and old statesville roads. there will be a final show in early june. kayla: two of music's biggest acts are about to become carolina royalty. former "american idol" star kellie pickler among with

afit brothers will be inducted into the "idol" hall of fame. pichler is from albemarle and comes to the area to perform and give back to the community along with the avits they headline a class of eight performers honored in a ceremony in annapolis. bill: the wahlberg brothers are bringing wahlbergers to charlotte. five franchise groups to open 30 brand new restaurants in 30 states including south carolina. there are 7 wahlberger locations to state. and beside charlotte, charleston and myrtle beach will get locations, no word when it will arrive or if the brothers a&e show about the

town? . kayla: dozens of cats in poor condition, now a shelter is packed with no room to take in any more animals. details on the way. >> the gop's final four duke it out on fox news, there are going to be fireworks, you can guarantee. that not before the last nominee took serious shots at donald trump. you are not going to believe selling mattresses the traditional way isn't the best way.

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. kayla: welcome back, thanks for staying with us. amanda: we are seeing rain across the area, cloudy all day long, and looks like the rain is going to continue to affect us as the area of low pressure slides by. the heaviest is further to the south and heavier batch to the southwest of us, and all of this is going to lift northward. we have a little snow shower activity further to the north and west as well.

prevalent as the low pressure system slides by to the south of us, the colder air around the back side and little accumulation in the mountain areas, but most of us are going to stay as plain rain with this. mostly cloudy skies, little rain reported. 41 degrees right now and the winds out of northeast around 3 miles an hour. we're going to keep the rain throughout the overnight. notice our temperatures, basically going to stay above the freezing mark for most locations, that's why we are going to keep it as just rain. a good amount of rain, maybe upwards of a quarter to half inch of rain for a good portion of the area before the storm system pulls to the north and east. it will hang through the mountains through the overnight and the early-morning hours. much of the day on friday is actually going to turn out decent. we'll see the clouds breaking apart and more sunshine comes back into play by the afternoon and evening hours. partly sunny skies later in the day, which will boost our

not terribly high. maybe just into the 50s. 1-3" of snow will be possible across the higher elevations, because of that we have a winter weather advisory in effect through at least the first half of the day tomorrow, our temperatures are headed into the 50s tomorrow afternoon. you can see the sunshine will be prevalent later in the day. what we're also watching is another cold front. that one is coming in from the northwest. it will slide through here very late saturday, giving us the opportunity for a couple of showers late or at night on saturday night, but it pushes out quickly. it's moisture starved. lots of sunshine for sunday and monday, and as we head into the middle part of this next week, temperatures are headed into the 70s for tuesday, wednesday, thursday.. bill: take a look at that.

water tower in shelby is now history. this is video sent to us from len lynch photography, it will take crews a few days to get all of the debris out of the area so construction can kick off. kayla: community leaders are fighting unemployment in charlotte's historic drew hills neighborhood. a new career center is setting up shop inside st. luke baptist church. the center will serve as a place for youth and job-seekers to receive guidance. in addition to a computer lab, people in the area will also receive help with their resumes, finding job opportunities and career training. according to a recent survey, 71% of druid hills residents are unemployed while 52% receive government assistance. it will help greatly.

greater employment. increase the living standards of persons in our neighborhood because they have jobs that pay a living wage, i would hope it would change the outlook as far as opportunity, that you can excel, you can achieve. that's nothing you cannot do. kayla: the center is one of 30 around the city geared towards fighting unemployment. open to the community monday through thursday. >> the iredell county animal shelter is a lot busier than normal. investigators are investigating a hoarding case that said one person had 90 cats in her house. an officer was on a separate call when she noticed a strong smell coming from a mooresville home. the owner said she had 20 cats but it turned out to be more than quadruple what she said! two of the cats were dead, the rest in varying degrees of health and treated at the shelter right now. >> it's been our goal here to

possibly can, everybody here feels so strongly about it, and we want to make sure every cat that came from the situation moves into a better situation. bill: the shelter is temporarily stopped accepting cats because it's filled up. they hope to have some of the cats ready for adoption by this weekend. charges are pending and could be filed tomorrow. kayla: a fox news exclusive as the fbi is investigating whether computer passwords were shared among hillary clinton's close aides to determine how sensitive intelligence, quote, jumped the gap between the classified systems and clinton's unsecured personal server. if it's true, the entire e-mail scandal could start over. the new information comes on a day when the justice department granted immunity to a former clinton staffer who set up her e-mail servers in 2009 in her new york home. >> the end of ben carson's bid

he's skipping the gop debate. he does not see a political path forward for himself. all of this comes after disappointing showings on super tuesday. carson will go into more details about his bid during appearance in washington set for friday. if you missed it earlier, it was absolutely brutal. former presidential nominee mitt romney went on a total verbal assault of donald trump this afternoon. the former massachusetts governor had plenty to say about trump, calling him a liar, a con man, even going as far as to question his mental health. >> and let me put it very plainly. if we republicans choose donald trump as our nominee, the prospects for a safe and prosperous future are greatly diminished. donald trump tells us he is very, very smart. [laughter] >> i'm afraid when it comes to foreign policy, he is very, very not smart. [ laughter ]

challenge trump and prove him wrong by releasing his tax returns and tapes of interview he did with the "new york times." kayla: the eyes of the political world are fixed on michigan. the great lakes states will be playing host to two presidential debates this week. as you just heard, republicans in detroit tonight and the democrats in flint sunday. many political analysts see michigan as a possible toss-up and gateway to other delegate-rich midwestern states. jobs, education and runaway government are the issue in michigan as they are across the country. charlie leduff takes a look. >> reporter: when you get down to it, government is supposed to do basic things. water. roads. schools. in michigan, the government can't seem to manage any of it. and the people are angry. consider, politicians, both democrat and republican,

new water system. politicians got paid, and the people of flint got poisoned water. rick snyder is peddling the unbelievable. he didn't know. the cleanup will cost millions of dollars we don't have. detroit public schools will run out of money next month thanks to cratering enrollment and grass. the politicians aren't talking about revamping standards and curriculum, talking about clawing the taxpayers for half billion dollar bailout they can't afford. in meantime, those same politicians, both democrat and republican, voted to spend millions of public dollars to build a pro hockey arena that could have been used for the michigan public schools. employment has rebounded in michigan but mostly low-paying stuff like wiping old people's bottoms. the car companies are doing better and autoworkers got to pay raises in exchange to

going overseas. detroit emerged from bankruptcy and now a whole foods in downtown. that's good. but there's still a gigantic hole of basic services in the neighborhood, and that's bad. and so the people of michigan look to washington for answers, but it seems it's just as rotten there. turns out they knew about flint's water in washington too, and no one said a word. >> sure doesn't show it to me. >> reporter: this election is about special interests versus the public interest, a future for our children or fortune for a few? it goes beyond party politics and rehearsed sound bites. but that's all we ever get. candidates are coming to michigan to debate, and that's great. it's nice to be considered something more than a punchline to a national joke. they come to michigan to talk, but talk, like politics, is cheap.

and listened. it's not too late in america. kayla: we've got breaking news just coming into the fox 46 newsroom. charlotte mayor jennifer roberts is responding to a new call to a special session dealing with the city's new nondiscrimination ordinance, mayor roberts tweeted out this response saying discrimination is never right. shocks the north carolina general assembly is still considering hurting job growth and tourism in north carolina. hope cooler heads will prevail. state house speaker tim moore said there is enough support in the house to reconvene early in response to the controversial ordinance. more than three fifths of the chamber asked for a special meeting. >> not a monster, and something else to the story. kayla: and you'll hear from a close friend of the woman accused in a triple homicide in gaston county.

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. kayla: new details in a gaston county triple homicide. crystal gambino appeared in court again today facing more charges in the murders of three people, including her husband. caroline fountain dug deeper into the story finding court documents that point to a possible history of domestic abuse. >> reporter: crystal gambino walked into the courtroom for the second time this week after allegedly killing her husband and two others, they were found naked and shot to death at her home in alexis. >> present in courtroom for first appearance on two new first-degree murder charges. >> reporter: according to a 911 call, gambino found her husband sleeping with another woman. she's accused of shooting them along with another man, supposedly involved in the bedroom activities. police say the three victims met online. >> she's not a monster. >> reporter: a close friend of

but didn't want to share identity. the suspect's husband was abusive and isolated her from friends and family. >> gio would beat the crap out of her for helping people, and he was mean to her. he was always mean to her. >> reporter: according to court documents, the suspect did, in fact, file a restraining order against her husband in 2009. in it she wrote he threatened to kill her and take their child away. shortly after, she dismissed those. a social worker with the gaston county women's shelter says that's common for women living with domestic violence. >> they're often threatened that if you go follow through with this, i'll kill you, or i'll take our children or i know the judge, or i know this, and it's not true, except they use it in that way against them. >> reporter: the women's advocate says on average it takes seven times to successfully leave a domestic violence situation.

kayla: one in four women in the united states have reportedly been in a violent situation with an intimate partner in their lifetime. for information about resources available to women in gaston county, visit our website, fox46charlotte.com. bill: we certainly had a warm and spring-like start to the work week. how quickly that's changed today. taking a look outside, already in the 40s, only going to get colder. send it over to meteorologist amanda cox. amanda: looks like the winter weather is confined to the mountains. we are expecting to see the cool, damp, dreary weather sticking around throughout the overnight hours, and things should subside closer to the day break tomorrow. the area of low pressure is going to be continuing to lift off to the north and east getting closer to the region, sliding by to the south and east of us. a good amount of precipitation. there is very heavy rain to the south and northward affecting our area through the

keep in mind, that heavier rain may be coming through from time to time. over six hours, you can see snow over the higher elevations, we don't have a whole lot mixing in across the area, but with temperatures starting to drop off, may see a flake here or there, especially at the bottom of the mountain, overall most of the snow is confined to the higher elevations. above the freezing mark with most of us in the 30s and 40s and stay that way overnight. low of 35 degrees. mostly cloudy skies. about 80% chance of rain. for you headed out this evening or during the overnight hours, have the umbrella handy, you will need it. notice things start to taper off a bit as the storm system starts to lift off to the north and east. that snow is prevalent further to the north and west, could see mixing, maybe ice especially to the north as well. things start to clear out. the snow may hang out in the

of the day. most of the area relatively quiet with the clouds breaking apart by the afternoon hours, should see partly sunny skies. west. we have a winter weather advisory in effect for the counties. through the day tomorrow for most locations, sunshine will be coming with temperatures into the 50s tomorrow afternoon. now there is another cold front headed our direction. that will come through later in the day on saturday with basically no precipitation, maybe an isolated shower and that's about it. lots of sunshine for sunday and monday. temperatures headed into the 70s later on this next week. bill: the pentagon is making a bold statement tonight. why they're telling hackers to take their best shot at that's next. kayla: the nfc champions

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. bill: attention hackers! go after the government. seriously! they want you to. the pentagon says it's gearing up to host the first-ever cyberbug bounty program in united states government history. listen to this. starting in april, american hackers that pass a background check will get unprecedented access to web pages to the, in of the u.s. defense department in hopes of finding malicious content. hackers will win money or they find. defense secretary ash carter says it will ultimately enhance national security. kayla: a whole country without power. that's what's going on in syria right now. the syrian government confirmed a nationwide outage earlier today. now power has been slowly turning on and off in certain regions with crews working around the clock. it's the latest electricity problem during a five-year civil war between the regime, rebels and terrorists. war-torn areas will be hard to

done by heavy weapons. google break out the big bucks in the fight against the zika virus. the tech giant is giving one million dollar grant to unicef to raise awareness about the zika virus, it will reduce mosquito populations, develop vaccines and prevent disease transmission. that's not all. google plans to assign a team of engineers, scientists and designers to work with unicef to analyze weather and travel patterns. bill: as the candidates wind down to the race to the white house, there are people defining with trump and clinton and those who made a hashtag extremely popular on super tuesday. the tag move to canada saw a dramatic 1500% spike on google this week. just after 8:00 p.m. when polls closed and results started coming in on the east coast primaries. not only just that, but google shows a 350% increase for searches on canadian

strange stuff right there. anthony, right? >> certainly is. not so strange as expected in football news.

pair . anthony: injuries and a lack of production have had the panthers cutting ties with second all-time leadner sax. charles johnson has been released after nine seasons with the panthers. he missed seven games and had

season, cutting the 29-year-old johnson should save a reported 11 million dollars in salary cap space. he leaves with 63 1/2 career sacks, second only to julius peppers franchise record of 81. dejuan edwards was cut today. had one sack and 13 tackles during the regular season, he joined in 2012 after spending first seven nfl seasons between baltimore and buffalo. >> caleb martin puts it in play. nc state wins! >> what a finish last night. nc state in a thriller over bc, the game-winning bucket with less than a second remaining. the wolfpack win it 73-72 on a last second shot. >> the quiet hero is caleb. he had poise, wasn't in a

maverick did a great job of getting open. we were very fortunate, but you don't end up with a chance with 1.1 second if you quit and you lay down. our guys haven't quit. they kept competing and given themselves a chance on nights we didn't play so good. obviously, we got to play better, but excited for that last play. anthony: the wolfpack close out saturday at notre dame. the charlotte hornets making noise after the win in philadelphia. they won eight of their last ten games and are in sixth place in the playoff race. they could improve their seed by taking care of business in the queen city. their next seven games are all at time warner cable arena. >> coming up, you know, coach, i can talk about we have a lot of games against opponents under .500, so you know, we definitely have to take advantage of that. we've had a tough schedule up

like you said, winning the games you are supposed to win or whatever, that's a huge, huge part of -- it's going to be every last game coming down to the seeding. anthony: the hornets back on the court friday night at home against the indiana pacers. >> it was a great experience for all of our team, we worked hard in the off-season, trying to keep our moment going from last year and this year, you have to win a race early in order to get locked into the chase for the last seven races, very special win for our guys. anthony: how cool is this? 18-year-old john hunter niemczyk has taken the checkered flag in atlanta. you can see complete interview on weekly half hour nascar show called "around the track." airs this sunday at 2:30 p.m. kayla? kayla: all right, anthony. the top 10 is finally here. there can only be one more

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we' . bill: welcome back. in tonight's "health watch," less parents are saying oops when it comes to pregnancies, accidental pregnancies have fallen 18% because of better use of birth control. the united states is one of the highest rates of unintended pregnancies in the

just under half of women aged 45 and over will have an unplanned pregnancy. well, if you get your prescriptions filled up at walmart, listen up, because personal info could have been compromised. america's biggest retailer says prescription history and basic info was visible for at least three days because of a coding mistake. walmart says it was not because of a hack but the migration of se around 5,000 people were affected by. this the company is calling ose affected personally to offerid protection services. > arrrrran soccer icon is donating her brain to science. women's world cup champion brandi chastain announced she will let boston university study her brain for cte research. she's suffered two concussions in her long career and wants to help find answers to head related injuries. brandi is known as the woman who ripped her jersey off

penalty kick in the 1999 women's world cup. kayla: the final push is on to be the last american idol. the judges have bigger expectations and the contestants are seeing real pressure. for a preview of the big show, here's "good day, charlotte" brian blakely. reporter: the idol top ten is set, picked by the judges, the other six voted in by america. . >> i'm so proud of all of the auditions and all of the deliberation that i had with jenny and with keith. i think we really have a special group. . >> reporter: she is clearly one of the front-runners. >> this girl is just incredible, the one to watch right now. >> you do have to move pretty quick, and the weird thing is every time one of us progresses, it's like a

head and then it's like, crap, what do we do next? >> reporter: all of the top ten have very bright futures, but what's more remarkable is how young they are. these three are only 15 years old, and olivia just turned 17. . >> i'm just a kid, still, and it's really cool to get to live that dream out. >> it's fascinating because they've got the gift but they just don't have the experience yet, and you don't at 15, you just don't have it. >> reporter: season one winner kelly clarkson returned as co-judge and gave an emotional performance. i made something of myself and now you want to come back reporter: tonight demi lovato will perform along with harry connick, jr., the advice they give could be heavy stuff. >> take everything with a grain of salt and go back to your room and think about it. >> reporter: tonight's double

will see idol dreams dashed. who makes it? that depends on you, for the first time, their fate is entirely in the hands of america. brian blakely, fox 46 wjzy. kayla: there are plenty of ways to vote for your favorite idol, either online at american idol.com/vote. the fox now app via text or the old-fashioned way, calling in. the fun starts at 8:00 on fox 46.

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as we get into saturday, another weak front coming through, moisture starved, beautiful weather for sunday, mondays, temperatures headed into the 70s for the middle part of this next week. the cooler weather isn't going to last for long. kayla: my gosh, 74? so excited for that. thanks so much, and thank you for joining us, see you back here tonight at in the battle of burgers... ...jack made a declaration of delicious with the doublejack combo. he formed a perfect union between 100% beef, cheese, andmouth. he took a stand for hot and salty fries. and the freedom to choose from hundreds of freestyledrinks all for $4.99. and america ate it up. true story. get the new double jackcombo for just $4.99 'cause on march 30th,this deal is history. i hope we have a buyer for the house. me too! what are the neighbors doing here?

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[ game continues ] phil. yes, getting it. i was -- i was gonna get it. dylan. hey, mrs. dunphy. um, i'm just waiting for haley. did you ring the bell? i texted. she said she'd be down in just a minute. oh, great. tell her i said hi. i will. dylan! d-money! chillin' with dylan the villain. "d" to the "y" to the -- hey, mr. dunphy. hey, come on in. you're just in time to catch the end of the game. oh, i'm not really a baseball guy. [ cellphone beeps ] haley says hi. i-i was just being facetious. come on. i'll catch you up. sit it. park it. come on, i don't bite. [ growls ] kidding. [ chuckles ] i'm kidding. okay, see that guy? he's the tying run. interesting story about him.