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durham this morning at the courthouse where the man accused of shooting into a day care and hit ago toddler is is going to appear in court but let's first start with meteorologist alyssa corfont. the weekend was gorgeous, plenty of sunshine warmer than well, the clouds here already and we'll see the chance for a few showers this afternoon. we're seeing a few isolated showers this morning as well mainly right along the virginia border. here around the triangle we're dry, but we are detecting a little bit of fog to plan that into your morning commute. 52 right now in raleigh and in louisburg 50 in clayton, 50 in durham, low 50s in henderson and as we look south of the triangle 56 in fayetteville, 55 in clinton and littleton you're at 54. so let's get straight to your fast forecast on this monday, 8 a.m. temperature 53 degrees, again areas of fog we just hang around really the 50s through the
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by 6 p.m. and the best chance for rain today is going to be right in time for the evening drive home. so don't forget the umbrella today. let's check in with traffic. if you're getting ready to head out the door i-40 and aviation park a way maybe you have an early morning flight you're heading to the airport just a few cars in either direction this honoring and looks like their cruising around at pretty good speeds. speeds looking south of downtown on i-40, westbound we're looking at speeds it looks like close to the posted speed limits this while ago. so we'll get to more coming up in about ten minutes. we begin with a developing story this morning today the man accused in a deadly shooting rampage in michigan is expected in court. >> he shot at least 8 people during a 7-hour shooting spree. six died, 2 others in critical
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so far police don't know a motive behind the shooting and do not believe there's any connection between him and the victims. investigators say he is an uber driver. >> the whole story just crazy a man who rode with dalton hours before he started shooting is speaking out this morning. the passenger says he knew something was wrong as soon as he got into the car. >> alarm bells should have within going off in my head. >> he's counting his lucky stars. >> pretty scary ordeal especially to be so closely involved with it, but just happy i'm safe. >> he was a passenger in alleged gunman's dalton's car whilehe uber driver before he opened fire on 8 people. he says dalton was acting strange. >> he introduced himself than a different name then what comes up for uber. >> sitting in the back of the car was his dog.
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house, he got a telephone call and after that telephone call he started driving really erraticly. we were running stop signs. >> he allegedly hitting 80 miles an hour while sideswiping cars. >> we were driving through medians, the lawn, speeding along and then finally once he came to a stop i jumped out of the car and ran away. >> he says that's when he called police >> he wouldn't stop. he just kind of kept looking at me like well, don't you want to get a ride to your friend's house. >> once he got to his friend's house he told them what happened and posted this warning so others wouldn't be harmed >> we posted the picture on facebook just so our friends wouldn't get in the car with him if they happened to have to take an uber that night. >> he says he jumped out of his car around 4:30 saturday afternoon. police believe he
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allegedly shooting 7 more people between 10:00 and 10:30. >> i'm upset because i tried contacting uber afterwards, after i had talked to the police saying that we needed to get this guy off the road. today that man that durham police say shot a toddler in a drive by shooting is expected in court. >> he fired shots into a day care last week. emma wright joins us live from the courthouse with an update on emma. >> police say the shooting wasn't random but they say the target. neighbors tell us they're very mad someone of kids. >> it was just like it was something out of new jack city. >> nervousness in this durham neighborhood after place saying the 26-year old laney fired off
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>> it was like they just shot in broad daylight and didn't even car. >> one of the bullets hit a toddler in the leg. a friend of the day care's owner says she tried to protect the kids. >> when she saw the debris she grabbed the kids and hit the floor with the babies. >> police say the toddler has recovered from his injuries and is out of hospital of the day care's owner didn't want to talk on camera but says she shut her business down indefinitely. durham pd mace laney a convicted felon is facing a slew of charges. neighbors say it makes them mad someone was so reckless. >> you could tell that it was a young -- it was a young youth, and for them not to have any type of common courtesy sore respect for human life, that's just tragedy. you know, you just pull up to somebody's house and just open fire and just pull off like it's nothing. >> durham police say laney is in
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he is expected in court later today. it's now 5:06. coming up a teenager is dead after escaping from a juvenile detention center, why he was at the center of this all. plus call it a state switch. later where decision my computer's dying again. you'll need to email us so we can issue you a ticket. but you're right here. it's protocol.
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good morning to you. alyssa, i had so many plans to get work done, but it was so beautiful outside all i wanted to do was play and that's what i did. >> i tired hi dog out successfully. we went on long walks both saturday and sunday. hopefully you were able to spend some time outside as well because over the coming days you'll be spending plenty of time inside because rain is in the forecast. here's a live picture from our tower camera. we're looking towards downtown raleigh current temperature now 52 degrees. temperatures aren't going move of a whole lot throughout the day. right thousand or radar scanning the skies and the majority of us dry. host of the lingering shower we were tracking right along 90. now, visibility continues to be a concern for us and i'm expecting this to continue tube factor this your morning commute over the next few hours.
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in wncn at two and a half miles, now, at a mile in durham, less than a half a mile in sanford and johnston county. as far as the temps concerned a few of you in the 40s that's sanford and siler city in the upper 40s while raleigh and louisburg at 52, durham checking in right thousand at 51. here's what you need to know as your planning your day, temperatures hover in the 50s, noon we're still dry, 54 best chance for rain developing for the evening drive home. more on your forecast and when you'll need the umbrella the most coming up. well, a week from today cbs is joining wncn. heard? we'll be bringing you more local news going on at 5:00, and the same great coverage every morning beginning at 4:30 a.m. we'll also be your new home for hit shows like big bang theory, ncis and blue bloods plus we'll also be your
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you can find much more with the switch wncn.com. on february 29th. we'll also become cbs north carolina. we're very excited and looking forward to making this journey along with you. coming up with the campaign trail heating up after this week ends voting, we'll take a look at where all the candidates now head this had week. plus if you're expecting a nice tax refund we've got a few
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the most out of t welcome back. here's our top stories a michigan man accused of killing 6 people is expected in court today. investigators say he choose victims at random on saturday night of the 45-year old uber driver has no criminal record. investigators have no motive. the sentencing phase continues today in smith's trial. he killed huggins-jones in her raleigh apartment in 2013. his defense is is trying to save him from the death penalty. ask today the supreme court will hear cases since the first time since the death of associate justice scalia. the court is now evenly split among its 8 members. the search is over in tennessee for a 16-year old juvenile detention escapee who
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correctional officer. authorities found the body on sunday on a green way. surveillance video showed him attacking a corrections officer with a toilet top. she's now recovering at home. he was being held on two violations and charges. take a look at this recess crew from california a crash sane box truck over a side of a highway 45 feet below, the man was freed, the hand is expected to be okay. it week democratic and republican presidential hopefuls switches states. hillary clinton and better than sand in south arizona. more than five thousand people came to a sander's rally sunday. he's trailing clinton in the latest polls. republicans marco rubio ask ted cruz battling to emerge as the main alternative to donald
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carolina's primary. trump is in georgia celebrating. cruise who came in third headed for nevada. meanwhile rubio who finished second embarked on a tennessee arkansas trip. the price of gas continues to fall. the national average current stand at 171 a gallon that's down $0.56 from this time last year. in north carolina the average is a $1.67 a gallon that's down about $0.15 since january. if you've already received your tax refund or waiting for it you may have an idea of how to spend it already. >> i would get some season tickets to the panthers. >> i wish. well, financial visors out there say it doesn't take much imagination to figure refund. >> number one either paying off high interest rate debt and that's typically customer debt like credit cards.
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cards, the debt or save it. vicesers also recommends putting it into an emergency fund. if you haven't filed just yet this deadline has been pushed back four days and falls on april 18th. >> so that trip to vegas is out >> yeah. a raleigh rapper and well-known thrift store teaming up to help raise money and awareness for big brothers and sisters of the triangle. i was there sunday as they recorded a music video to help the non-profit. >> uptown thrift owner and local rap artist may seem like an unlikely pair but they share the love of kids and big brothers and big sisters of the triangle. >> so we decided to collaborate on a project to bring awareness to the store and to our charity partner big procedure and big sisters of the triangle.
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thing that attracted us was the love of kids and helping people in need. >> so they came up with an idea, write a song then shoot a music video at the popular north raleigh thrift store to help raise awareness for the non-profit that pairs thousands of kids with monitors. yeah we were in a thrift store and this song is called balancing on a budget. they hope it goes viral and if it does any money they make they're going to give whack to big brother and big sisters. >> i just wanted to show everybody, you know, the meaning behind being a music artist, you know, that's responsibility with that and we should give back to the community and the youth, and you know, it's very positive things. >> a song that's sure to help kids. in raraigh mike gonzalez wncn news now. let's go ahead and talk about our forecast, 52 degrees.
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raleigh durham international airport. dry right now. i should say no rain falling . we saw some rain yesterday and throughout the overnight so some of you may see some damp conditions as you're heading out. the biggest that he for this morning's commute is going to be some fog all of this happening as the cold front is dropping across the area. that's going to happen throughout the course of morning. temperatures pretty much holding steady as we head through the 50s later today so big drop from the 60s and 70s we were at over the weekend. an isolated shower near roanoke rapids of so let's talk temperatures. 50 right now in durham, 51 in roxboro and in south hill, 48 in sanford, also 48 in siler city while littleton you're at 54 degrees and good morning raeford and fayetteville re breakdown your forecast for you hour by hour and the temperatures pretty tricky today but as you can see they're not going to move a whole lot just
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so right around 53 through 8, 10:00 this morning, 54 at lunchtime and an afternoon high and then we'll start to drop we'll be around 53, 6 o'clock best rain chances going to so you may not need the umbrella this morning but i do think there was better chance you'll need it this afternoon so don't forget to back it with you. cloudy skies this morning and cloudy at lunchtime after that that's when we start to see the rain showers move in and they're really going to develop across the sand hills first and then try to sneak into the triangle. not everyone deals with wet weather this afternoon and evening but more of us going to see the wet conditions tonight. here we are 1 a.m. tomorrow morning some steady rain moving in and i think that could have a big impact on your morning drive in tomorrow. look for some water ponding on the roadways t#morrow and the morning commute to take
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the majority of us should be dry on tuesday, just an isolated shower possible throughout the afternoon of today we're watching for the late afternoon hours, tomorrow we're watching for wet conditions in the morning. 54 our high today in fast forward to tonight rain likely low near 42, and here's the next few days rain tomorrow morning and then more rain possible for wednesday, wednesday we could even see some storms that could bring us some gusty winds. the conditions going to linger into thursday but look at the sunshine back into our forecast for thursday, friday and over the weekend ahead. we'll switch gears and check in with traffic. here's i-440 and capitol boulevard starting to see another car or two out in this direction. i'm going to show you your drive times if you're heading eastbound on 540, 440 or 40 this morning everything cruising along close
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i'll have another check on traffic and weather close to 5:30. >> green is good on those roadways. here is today's pet of the day giving us his best side. meet the five month old. morning. >> we want to feature your -- that's my turn talk, yeah. >> hello. >> on our morning newscast email wncn.com. i was just thinking one of my first pets ever was a husky like that. they're telling know wrap and be quiet. the ladies of receipt, white and blue are heading to rio, coming up how they earned a spot in the olympics. you see just as i do the basic desent see and goodness of the american people every day, that's one of the great benefits of public service. what the president said
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purs the hurricanes were looking streak. >> but tap pal's goalie has only
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quickly answered with a goal from jt brown, the son of the former great nc running back ted brown. tap pal wins this one four to 2. the u.s. soccer team is heading to rio this summer. both teams earned a spot in rio by making the final match but team usa took home the bragging rights and wins this one 2 to 0. first race of the that is car series now in the books. >> and hamlin took the flag in the closest finish in the race's history. it was a photo finish, 100th of a second that is tight. this marks the first title for the team owner. coming up. the man police say shot up a durham day care is expected in
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coming up who police say his intended target was. as we head to break here's a
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stick around alyssa the man accused of killing 6 people in michigan is expected what figure out. and the man that durham police say shot a toddler in a home day care is set to appear in court. plus a $4 a month software that could have kept the entire legal battle between apple and the fbi from ever happening. good morning. happy monday morning to you. so glad that you're with us. your morning news, a check on traffic here in just a minute. first let's check in with meteorologist alyssa corfont for the forecast.
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where we're not starting off nearly as nice as we were this weekend. the clouds have moved in and some of you are waking up to an isolated shower. a little bit of fog as you wake up this morning. so plan accordingly your morning commute could take a bit longer. 52 in raleigh i was almost going to say durham but that temperature up-2008ing to 53. 52 in goldsboro and clayton, good morning you're at 50. let's get straight to your fast forecast this morning. areas of fog for the morning drive, 53, 54 at lunchtime today we'll stay at 54 through about 3:00 ask then start to cool off. best chance for rain is going to be for the evening drive home. let's go ahead and switch gears we'll check be in with traffic. i-40 and page road if you're heading in this direction it's a clear stretch just a few cars

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