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borders says a makeshift clinic was hit four times minutes apart. u.n. secretary called the attacks blatant violations of international laws. pope francis has a visit as he continues his trip to mexico. traveling to mexico city last night after spending the day in the southern mexican state. the pope will travel in central mexico. he will hold mass and visit the city's cathedral. alabama firm is set to open a plant in cuba, making it the first factory on the island in 50 years. officials publicly endorsed the project. assault and morris met while working at ibm and plan to build tractors sold to private farmers, production expected to begin next year. the biggest night in music did not disappoint.

the stars we lost and the powerful messages from the winners at this year's grammies. states to our south,

weather pushed through. man accused of killing a woman. dial was found dead in the woods sunday, not far from where she lived. 27 year old tim thy locklear is charged with first degree murder, rape and burning personal property. he set fire to her clothes and clothes and tried to destroy evidence. locklear and dial knew each other. dial was the mother of the 3 year old boy who accidently shot and killed himself in his

the boy known as cash died at the hospital. fayetteville police released video hoping to find a repeat robbery suspect. the latest crime happened 3:00 yesterday morning at the kangaroo on owen drive. a man in a black hooded jacket and a mask told the clerk he had a gun and robbed the store. they believe he robbed the same store february 1st, if you know anything about the crime, call fayetteville police. a fire at a historic home in tarboro was an accident. the edgecombe tribune put voidio of the smoke on the facebook page. it was shot sunday while crews were shot at the barracks. the house was for sale, no one was there at the time, there is smoke and structural damage, the home is not a loss. hillsborough wants help as it works to acquire a historic property. leaders voted to start eminent

they are taking bids to help them with predevelopment services such as recruiting private investors. they want to turn the inn in to a museum or educational center. lawmakers are considering changes for state university, one of four schools being considered for a big cut in tuition. under the proposal, tuition at the four schools would drop to $500 a year for in state students, 2500 for out of state students. it's a historically black university. they are worried the plan would change the composition of the student bodies and there is talk of changing the school's name to unc fayetteville, or elizabeth city state, winston state or pin brook. grammies showcased more than just music.

with the most grammies. taylor swift nabbed three trophies including the most press tees you award. -- prestigious award. >> taylor swift ruled the show, winning the top prize. swift's 1989erned her second career grammy and urged young women to not let nay sayers get in their way. >> you don't let those people side track you. >> reporter: uptown funk, record of the year. stevie wonder teased nominees before announcing ed sheeran, meagan trainer couldn't hold back tears as she thanked her family. this year's grammies stirred up emotions with performances that paid tribute to the biggest icons, others used the mic to

kendrick lamar sent a sse about racism with a rap that won him five grammies. the audience was brought to its feet that honored maurice white, glenn frey and bb king. lady gaga brought the late david bowie's work back to life. philip rigs recognized for winning the music educator award, teaches at the school of science and math. rigs selected out of 4500 teachers for the award. two locals shared in winning a grammy, the 9th wonder and rap city contributed to the grammy winning album.

i'm trying to figure out adel's song didn't turn out as well. there were technical issues. >> we will talk about that in what is trending on fox 50 news. i did not stay up to watch the grammies. i had a nice long sleep after yesterday. >> it was a busy day yesterday. a busy day today, too. i don't think we are just going to slide through without trouble. starting off with the radar. obviously you are up with us, you are hearing rain, on your rooftop, some of it heavier than others. we have rain across pretty much the entire viewing area at the moment. the heavy rain and the gusty winds will be our real story this morning. the other story that is not going to be a big impact is warmer temperatures but something you will notice as you are heading out. this line, attempted to call it a line of thunderstorms. that's on the radar, we don't have any lightning associated with this. we are seeing that band of rain

person county, seeing in to orange county. you are about, in the middle of that heavy band in chapel hill, it's moved east of pitsboro, in the next 15-20 minutes, notice the rain for morrisville, apex, holly springs, we head south, it's aiming for fayetteville, expect to see that and willmington, 15 or 20 minutes. keep it here, we will be following this, some strong gusty winds, a wind gust ahead of this to 42, 43 miles per hour. this band has a history of producing 47 miles per hour winds. we had gusts like that with this band. we may have small limbs down, that sort of thing. 40-45 miles per hour gusts possibly. trees down, sips it's been wet lately. another look at the radar, see this band pushing in to the areas everybody is seeing rain at the moment.

59 degrees our temperatures are running more than 30 degrees warmer than this time yesterday. wind is southeast, 22 miles per hour. gusting up to 30, 35, dew point 55, lots of moisture in the atmosphere. 50 roxboro, notice it's 39 greensboro, 51 asheboro. earlier talking about how quickly the temperatures are warming up, greg fishel found within a 2-mile stretch, the temperature went from 50-32 as he traveled westward, just amazing. the warm temperatures are here. they will stay here for the remainder of the day. 34 degrees warmer in goldsboro and rocky mount than yesterday. amazing warm up. winds southeast, steady at 22 raleigh and southern pines. gusts to almost 40 in raleigh, 32 erwin. 35 fayetteville. 38 southern pines. the winds died down. once this line moves through,

there were a lot of thunderstorms and severe weather reports down south. see the watches and warnings. none of tafor us right now. not expecting warnings but on the border of criteria. back here is another little disturbance we will be talking about. a look at the storm reports from yesterday, we had 20 tornado reports, not that there were 20 tornado but damage in the deep south, and of course we will watching out for wind damage reports here, the possibility. future cast starting at 8:00 a.m., showing the rain lifting out. skies clear this afternoon. we will be dealing with that little band that rolls through for tonight, it's not likely to do anything but bring us a few scattered showers. after that, things look nice for us. we will get to traffic in a minute. let's head back to the seven- day forecast, 60 today. very warm, there is better chance for severe weather

have a risk here. once the rain moves through tonight, temperatures will cool down a little bit for thursday. the forecast. we dry things out toward the end of the week, partly cloudy saturday and sunday, mid 60s, that puts the temperatures at 10 degrees warmer than normal for this time of year. let's head to the roads. big issue for us, this morning, during the commute, very wet, u.s. 70, miami, is wet now, expect blustery winds, there is 540, u.s. 1, wet, blustery this morning, of course we will be here with you and let you know how things are looking later in the morning, maybe a number of accidents because of the wet conditions, certainly nothing like we saw yesterday. next in sports, nc state can't seem to break the losing streak against virginia and charlottesville. the pet picture, itchy and

search pets on wral.com. . n california state has yet to win at virginia. state hit their first six shots, malcolm does a nice job defending cat barber, 2 for 6 in a 31, 31 first half. virginia starts the second half on a 13-2 run, brogdon pumps in a game high 22, after hitting the first six shots, state makes 13 the rest of the game, wahoos win it 73-53. wednesday night on the big 5,

the first installment in the battle of the blues. it's been a tough season for the north carolina central basketball team, eagles were tied for 6 with a 4-6 record before last night, playing host to florida am, dante homes scores the first 8 points. that sets the table for a big 25 point night. 79-74, north carolina central over f am u. cam ward played two strong games friday and saturday night, injured in the second half of the latter game. does not like like he will be able to play tonight against winnipeg, according to bill peters yesterday. the canes could get justin back who has been out the last two games as well. have a good day, everybody. we may not see police in one local city wearing body cameras yet.

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down heavily. wind gusts up to 40 miles per hour ahead of this in fayetteville. ahead of this line, seeing gusts 30-40 miles per hour, power outages in durham already this morning. once this comes throh, we still have rain that's going to be heavy, the line coming through durham at the moment, pushing towards morrisville, apex, holly springs, fuqua, seeing heavy rain in raleigh what a difference a day makes. ford announced it will launch four suvs over the next four years, siting the popularity of the vehicles. ford's haven't made the announcement at the show in chicago. ford added there are no plans to eliminate current models. the number two auto maker has the country's best selling suv in the explorer. if you like to physically crack open a book, i do. you are not alone, data from the census bureau shows

bookstore sales rose by 2.5% last year. that's the first year over year increase for the industry since 2007. publishers reported the fig wriewrs noting publishers saw a decline in sales as print sales went up. a lingering drone is causing concern in a neighborhood west. >> why residents believe the drone is spying on them and why police can't do anything about it. the issue that allowed

gallon of gas. suspects in a machete attack in ohio. berry, 30 years old from the west african nation of guinea. they can't discuss the motive right now, last thursday, witnesss said berry entered a restaurant and attacked four people with a machete and killed by police in columbus. naacp may call for civil disobedience. the president cornell brooks spoke this the city yesterday and gave the governor 30 days to come up with a timeline for fixing the water problems. brooks wants schneider to say how much the repairs will cost. the drinking water is found to have elevated levels of lead. the city is majority black, the

more will be done to fix the problems in the residents were wealthier. es residents are on edge after someone spied on a woman's house with a drone. on sunday it happened again with two drones. >> i pointed at them and said i see you, they both took off and kept playing with us and taunting us like going over the house. >> other neighbors complained about having a similar experience and called police. police say there is not much they can do because it not against the law in california. neighbors belief the drone operators maybe kids playing a prank. there will be delays in new york following power outage at central grand central station, a broken water pipe caused the outage yesterday.

from the trains to the concourse. a part of the terminal will be closed while work continues. a computer malfunction worked in the favor of drivers in ohio. drivers were able to get gas for a penny a gallon. they prompted the gas station to keep up with the competition. >> how do you beat a penny a gallon? >> they got that fixed. >> why didn't that happen here? lucky folks. >> you know the lines will be long for something like. that take a road trip. >> nice of them to continue to sell gas at that price instead of shutting it down. >> crazy temperatures. what a wild day, yesterday it

sleet and all of that, today a dramatic warm up. you won't run in to ice. temperatures warmed dramatically from 30s in to the 50s over a matter of really almost 30 minutes or so in some places. we have the rain coming in, the rain is hef, we have windy conditions, too. winds gusting 40-45 miles per hour, in some places ahead of that line that you see. a lot of times we would be seeing the line of thunderstorms coming throh. lightning cloud to ground lightning, you might hear a rumel of thunder. we start in the triangle area, durham, we had a number of power outages, gusty winds ahead of the band. we are going to hear from folks in raleigh, or hear about the power outages that are happening around the raleigh area. heavy rain working in to morrisville, apex, holly springs, about to roll over the

heavy rain in roxboro and no, your honor part of durham, of willington, crossing, moved east of fayetteville, moving quickly, moving in to sampson county, benson, four oaks, expect to see this in 20 minutes, across raleigh, in 5 or 10 minutes, continuing to trek eastward across the viewing area, producing rain and winds with it as well. a look at the radar, we start this off at 2:00 this morning, you can see, rain rolling in here, the heavy band and more of it back to the west, wind is not as strong behind that initial line, we continue to have heavy rain, going to cause problems for visibility and accidents on the roads this morning. the airport, 59, winds south at 14, that's lower than it was last time we checked. in dew point 55. we have 30s to the west, we had a dramatic drop in temperatures

temperatures are ranging from low to mid 50s in the north, 60, 61 for goldsboro, clinton and the temperatures are 30 degrees warmer than yesterday. winds are steady erwin to 22, steady 21, southeast. gusting 25 raleigh tings winds die down a little bit at the airport. we are gusting to almost 50 degrees, or 50 miles per hour in fayetteville, we will hear about power outages there as well. here is the big picture, low pressure system, cold front, warm front, the system with the warm air, moving eastward and we clear out for this afternoon. tonight we have another disturbance that rolls through. a chance of showers, and after that, the weather gets quiet. lunchtime, nice clearing, it will be blustery through the afternoon. the rain tonight, it will be rain, temperatures will drop in to the mid to upper 30s.

produce frozen precipitation, thursday, little cooler with a high of 50s back in to the mid 60s over the weekend. quiet weather in the forecast once we get past today. the best chance of severe weather is along the coast. on thursday our temperature drops a little bit as we have a dry cold front that comes through. temperatures will begin to warm up again, we are looking at a gorgeous weekend. 66 on saturday and sunday. the warm air continues in to monday. brian, that is almost looking like spring. >> feels like spring with the wind and the rain. we have the squall line coming through wake county right now at 5:52. heading to kerry parkway, u.s. 1, see that it is pouring out there, they are about to get hit with the heaviest part of the line, in durham, raining hard at the durham freeway, tw alexander.

watching, see the bottom of the screen, the wind is blowing, the water across the roads. as that comes through, the winds get gusty, we have power outages in a few spots this morning, could run in to traffic signals on the blink, following that in the newsroom, we will let you know how things are shaping up. a look at the road weather index. see we are seeing significant rainfall this morning, it's blue, raining hard enough to see ponding water especially on the sides of the roads and intersections. everybody is seeing wet roads this morning, couple of accidents, getting this one cleared up in south raleigh, hammond at i-40. incredible moment for a north carolina moment battling breast cancer. >> the game giving her a second chance at enjoying life. >> new numbers now, on the power outages. >> 1300 durham county, 1600 wake county, 3600 in grandville county.

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said it's extra special considering her breast cancer diagnosis 6 years ago. short faces cancer treatments and says the money will allow her to truly live. she took a lump sum, which came to $415,500 after taxes. treat yourself. coming up, wral morning news. the native that could be considered president bomb's next pick for the supreme court. we are on the roads in drive 5 as you head back to work or school. a live report to show you how messy your morning commute could be.

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