the control to a nonprofit organization. instead, they plan to turn the federal aviation administration operation. critics say that it's like to private company. with just one 1:40 remaining in the count down, flight control aborted the space x launch. wednesday's attempt was also a no-go. once liftoff occurs, the company will try thriend the discarded first stage booster on a barge offshore. the u.s. economy slowed down in the final three months of 2015. it was not quite as bad as initially thought. the commerce department says that the gross protest mic product grew at an annual rate of 1/4%.

consumer spending accounts for more than 2/3 in the economy. asian shares were higher after u.s. stocks surged because of recovery in energy companies and bank stocks. investors also were reassured from pledges from china's central bank governor to the to devalue the money for the sake of expert competitiveness. stocks are bouncing back a little bit last time wchecked. the dow is down. the nasdaq is ahead by 8, s&p 500. for a complete market and business news, go to wral.com and click on business. duke university is gunning for a 40th ncaa tournament appearance. >> one long-time fan finally got to cheer them on. >> you met a lot of student, i

>> yes. >> marty sledski has been helping people all his life. for the 62-year-old, last night, he was the one getting the help. >> it's been a dream. >> works as a security guard as one of duke's library. he is a well-known face to students he works the graveyard shift and hears the cheers from nearby cameron. not once has he sat in the stands to cheer on his beloved blue devils. >> why is that? >> well, cae it's super, super, super expensive. >> he is such a friendly guy. you see him walking down the hall and i thought, i want to be friends with him. years. it's crazy na he has not been to a giambi before. duke sophomores created a gofundme account.

>> it makes you realize how precious he is to the students. >> reporter: what went through your head after seeing it? >> you know, that's a dream come true. >> thursday night, wearing his duke colors with a friend in toe and tickets in hand, marty waited for a dream a decade in the making. kenneth craig, durham, north carolina. >> hope he had a great time. the students raised $800. that's more than double the amount of the ticket. the girls say they'll present marty with a check for the remaining funds. >> how nice is that? that is an experience, watching a game over there. >> absolutely. >> one of a kind place. could be called the holy grail for record collectors. >> we'll tell you what makes this beatle album more desirable than any other around. >> how one father's idea to

into a new family game has hit the toy market and really flying off the shelves, not designed by a major game maker but by a dad inspired by his zone kids. >> kenneth craig has his the story from massachusetts about how this dad turned a life long passion into commercial success. >> one player moves one adventure to the right. >> reporter: it's wednesday night at the gerskins home. >> when the family pulls up the cards and rolls the dice, no one is left out. the game is called gra gone wood.

because darren designed and developed it. he is not a game maker, but an investment banker. >> i was playing games from the age of 8. >> he wanted his family to play something that he could not find on the market. >> interesting for me where i would want to play it but easy enough for them to pick up and learn. >> so easy at home that he brought dragon wood into a game publisher. >> giambi already sold more than 30,000 copies. scores like this one say it's been flying off the shelves. >> over the christmas holiday season, it was probably one of the top selling games that we had. >> it combined elements of poker and rummy with fantasy. darren is blown awhich by the success. >> what do you think of that? i think that's pretty amazing. i'm thrilled.

now be enjoyed for generations to come. kenneth craig, cbs news. >> toy industry experts say that classic board games are making a come back this year and they are seeing increased sales. dragon wood is sold online and retailers across the country. >> one of the rarest of all the beatles records is being auctioned off next month. this was the band's first record to be pressed and helped them get a record contract. the song "hello little girl "was on one side. the record was found at the home of a by yanis. it's expected to sell for more than $14,000. i'm surprised it's not more than this. >> we are getting a closer look at one of our icy neighbors. what the new images reveal

that's not that far away. and using north carolina's vegetable of the month, how you

potato pizza, next. in lumberton, u.s. marshals announce add new operation targeting gaining activity. they conducted operation ear yo hour. we are told that 123 arrests were made, and 122 firearms were seized. here is a look at some of the weapons. officers targeted high-risk violent offender, bang members and murder suspects. >> nasa is releasing newly enhanced images of flute pluto's ice poles. the wider canyons is about 45 miles wi.

horizon's infra red measurements show methane ice is available and there is relatively little night generalize. a new united nations report warns that some of the world's pollinators are on the brink of extinction. they need to do something about it before food fly runs out. the problem is that they can't point to one single problem. they point to lack of diversity in the food crop, climate change, and lack of wild flowers. this time, we are making a sweet potato pizza.

it's thinking outside the box. >> spread a puff pastry on a baking sheet, prick it with a fork, combined sage with melted butter and brush it all over the dough. bake it according to packaged directions. now we melt butter with maple syrup and salt. we'll use that for a sweet potato dip in a minute. in a skillet, we sautied some pros prosciutto. >> dipped in the syrup and set it aside. we get the big puff pastry out of the oven and lisa flattens into a sweet pizza crust. >> you are doing that with your hands. >> oh. >> that one thing god me >> once flattened, place the sweet potatoes on it the. >> this is fancy. this is so fancy.

we have -- we have after done on local dish. >> back in the oven after springled with dish. >> i like it. >> and savory. >> you get the mushroom. hmm. and more from the puff pastry. >> there is something in there. wow. >> we love the end of that story. get a copy of the recipe on wral.com and the search box and look for a link to the printable version. next week, brian and liza are back, wrapping up their collection of sweet potato recipes with a healthy twist an eagle rescued from a wake county landfill has made amazing progress. >> the man who found the eagle in december shared these pictures with wral. he says when he first saw the eagle, he thought it was dead.

and the eagle is doing great. she is released at harris lake this week. american wild live refuge helped nurse the eagle they named holly back to health. this facebook video is proof that three months of rehab is all that she needed. >> now, she is back in the sky. >> holly is healthy again. she looks great. what a story. i love that picture how do you get up close to a bald eagle? >> you don't. >> the closest is seeing them up high in a free. >> i have never seen some than in washington state. i get goose bumped every time i see one. >> that's due to a of left, you know. >> growing up, you didn't see them at all? and then we started having some reintroduced around here and

>> nice day to be outside as long as you have something to keep you warm, like feathers or a coat or something. let's take a look outsite to wilson. we looked at this earlier this morning. this is such a fun one. if there is any breeze blowing at all, wilson whirly gates. that's so neat. wallace simpson is from wilson. you can find them anywhere. they are all over the state, all over the country. there is this park there. you can see the camera shaking a little bit here because the whirly gates are whirling. it's chilly out there this morning. or this afternoon. 47 in chapel hill. 50 in clinton and goldsboro. here is a look at future cast. here what is we are expeing

3:00 this time. year is about the time we hit our afternoon high. not going to get much warmer than right now. 45 in roxboro. 46 in south hill. that's a chilly day. this is pretty close to normal for early january, you know, but we are six weeks out from that at this point and other normal high temperature in the upper 50s. so its ale cold even for this time of the year. this evening, temperatures drop on down into the 40s very quickly. if you head out to din other or out to catch a movie, grab a coat. it's going to be a cold start to stat day morning. once again, in the afternoon, not that warm, mid-40s at lunchtime. we'll climb into the low 50s during the oop on saturday. it's sunday that we begin to warm things up and i think folks will welcome that, certainly many we still have a little bit of snow flying in the mountains of north carolina, up into part of virginia. there has been as much as a foot of snow but none of that

we can thank high pressure for that. the high pressure system continues to nose into our area. it will bring us bright conditions through the weekend and temperatures a will gradually warm up. right now still that northwesterly flow. the high will pick up and move eastward and when it does, we'll get into the flow on the back site of it which will be southerly and that's what's going to help to warm up our temperatures by the time we get to sunday. you can see that here as we check upper winds and temperature, number 1, you can see the blue contours. so you know it's chilly. but here is another secret. the wide lines are where the wind follows. the wi is following these white lines. starts up there in canada and comes right into north carolina. you can watch that and see the whites lines becoming to change

we'll begin the warmup and saturday. the cold air in canada, in time of the year, it's just a battle. the warm iris -- the warm air is trying to come farther to the north but the cold air is saying, no, no, no. temperatures are back into the 50s on thursday. probably friday and saturday, too. you can see even into saturday of next weekend, it looks a little bit cool. 49 the high today. 27 for tomorrow morning. 33 for sunday among. sunday. look at that. and tuesday. we are certainly happy that the weather is going to be good on monday. big doings going on around here on monday as we welcome nbc to our wral family. wednesday and cooler temperatures on thursday. >> pretty for a while.

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