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a toddler was injured in her room and the worker didn't notice for several minutes. this is video from castle child care. coal fell and hit his head. the mom says her son wassen conscious and laid on the floor unnoticed for several minutes. another child came over to help. coal says she was never notified about the injury. the centers director apologized, fired the employee and offered to pay the boy's medical expenses. the state is investigating. a bankrupt toll road project has critics calling for a change. spanish road construction company is a partner in public-

a subsidiary holds the contract for the toll lane planned for i- 77 near charlotte. last week, news broke that another project near austin filed for bankruptcy, blaming low toll revenues. governor pat mc corey called for a review of the deal. nick tenson flew to texas to gather information. john to rbi t is not in a hurry to reconsider the contract. >> you or me may have three businesss that are independent from each other, if one of them fails, that doesn't necessarily mean the two other are destin for failure. the i-77 project has generated heated opposition and political battles in the charlotte area. the confidence has fueled a primary challenge to governor mc corey. we will hear from the challenger tonight on wral news at 5:30. public utilitys department has more ways to let you know there is an emergency,

text message or phone call. you will only receive an alert if you are directly affected by things like a service interruption, water or sewage outage, a boil water advisory and city wide emergencies. the city will notify you based on the contact information on your accounts which you can update on line. wake county commissioners decided to vote on a proposal to hold property tax valuations more often. now assessors determine your home's worth every 8 years. under the new plan that would change to every four years. supporters say this would help ease sticker shock for residents who say tax rate increased significantly every 8 years. if it passes, the county's next reappraisal would be in 2020. voters in fayetteville will vote on a $35 million parks and primary. they voted unanimously to

it would be used on a number of pro gelts, splash pads, senior centers and cape fear river park. there is a chance to offer input on a monument commemorating the achievement of african americans. the second of four public hearings takes place tonight in charlotte. the 2 sessions are set for rocky mount and fayetteville this moment. shaw university's rich history is the focus of a new documentary including interviews with the sentence of shaw founder henry the upper and images of him that have never been seen publicly before. shaw is the oldest hbcu in the south and the first coed college the south. established in 1865, making 2015 the school's 150th anniversary. >> it gave a spark to the idea

shaw university. it's been consequential. >> shaw is producing the documentary, aj fletcher foundation is funding the funding the project. >> reporter: archaeologists found this using sonar. it's thought to be one of three block aid runners used to breakthrough a wall blocking willmington during the civil war. i is one of the best preserved wrecks, they have ever had, they will keep working to identify it. amazing they haven't found it before now. >> what i was going to say. it's there at the mouth of the river. it's not like it's way offshore or something. interesting. >> keep those eyes open. >> so well preserved. >> it's going to be beach weather before we know it. i will say, i mentioned this

temperatures climbing to the mid-70s, to near 80 this week. the temperature of the water is so much colder, that if you are headed to the beach, it's going to feel chilly compared to here. that will be true until the water temperature warms up a little bit more. another 6 weeks or so, you will run in to that. let's look at what is happening around here. it is a nice, calm morning. temperatures are mild, rdu sky cam, showing mostly clear skies, 50 degrees is our current temperature, wind, southwest at 7 miles per hour. dew point at 40, humidity 6 8%, nice and quiet and warm. yesterday morning, temperatures were close to freezing. you needed a winter coat, you don't need your winter coat this morning. 54 roxboro, 52 south hill. 49 clinton. 50 fayetteville and goldsboro. temperatures are warmer than yesterday. from 13 or 14 to 20-22 degrees warmer than yesterday. that is a big change. no winter coats but a jacket would be nice.

be near 80 wednesday and thursday. that's warm for this time of year. our normal high is in the 60s. we can't get used to the 70s, you would think are we hitting records? close to it by thursday, that's just because the record on thursday is on the lower end at 81. the records this time of year are like mid to upper 80s, it's 90 on saturdayment that's how warm it can be this time of year. our afternoon highs can be in the 30s this time of year . what a changeable time of year. high pressure keeping things dry. this high pressure system is not moving anywhere any time soon, its going to keep most of this rain back to the west. this front won't be able to advance quickly. showers and thunderstorms all day along or west of the mississippi valley for the next several days. when we get closer to the weekend, it looks like that

eastward progress and arrive here. it is what it is. here we go through the day today from lunchtime, in to the afternoon with a good bit of sunshine. passing clouds this morning. little bit of fog, especially closer to south carolina and the coast for tomorrow morning. plenty of sunshine wednesday, and thursday. we may start to see clouds thickening up a little bit for us on friday. 76 today. 79 for wednesday and thursday. we will be close to the records, not quite there. on saturday, 72 degrees, a little bit cooler, we may see rain rolling in. it is reptile and amphibian day at the north carolina sciences museum. that's one of the big events. sunday we maybe dodging showers, future cast showing the rain starting off early in the day sunday.

computer models want to keep the rain around in to sunday. the timing on that still a bit up in the air. it looks like we will have a better chance of showers for the weekend and in to early next week. over in durham, i-40 fayetteville road looking good. lookout for fog this morning. no problems out there this morning, alexander at the durham freeway is looking good right now. next in sports, nc state and wake forest gear up for the first rounds of the acc tournament and one north carolina team is already getting ready to dance. time for the pet picture, say

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the next four states go to vote in the 2016 primary season. the prizes of the day, michigan and mississippi where both republicans and democrats will head to the voting booths. donald trump leads the race in both states, and hilary clinton leading the democratic race. hawaii will host the republican caucus, and idaho will host the republican primary vote. trump remains the fronts runner, ted cruz's campaign is gaining momentum. >> cruz is turning his attention to north carolina, where we have a presidential primary, one week from today. tara lynn is live in raleigh, crews cruz will be holding a rally today. >> reporter: we have got north carolina's primary coming up in a week, we will be seeing more and more of these candidates coming to our state. all of the seats have been spoken for here at calvary

people signed up for a waiting list hoping they will get a chance to see cruz. he is trying to position himself as the only republican that can defeat donald trump. he is second in the primary race, a southern baptist, made appeals to conservative christians as the core of his campaign. trump has won more evangelicals than cruz. later today, cruz will hold a rally near charlotte and return to the area where he will hold a larger rally with glenn beck and chuck norris. we will air it live on our website, wral.com. dom trump is also focusing on north carolina this week, the republican front runner was in concord yesterday, north of charlotte speaking to a crowd of 3000 people, trump frequently referenced trade

jobs, he vowed to get laws changed to legalize waterboarding and other interrogation techniques on terror suspects. trump will come back to north carolina tomorrow, he will be in fayetteville appearing at crown colosseum in fayetteville. president bill clinton rounded up votes for his wife. he spoke to a crowd of people in downtown raleigh before heading to greensboro and charlotte. he urged voters to support his wife, touting her experience at home and abroad. we know the funeral arrangements for nancy reagan, the former first lady will lie in repose, thursday morning at the ronnel reagan library in california. a private service is friday, at 11:00 a.m., she will be buried next to her husband, former president ronald reagan at the library. she died at her home from congestive heart failure at 94

akiel denkins, police are trying to find solutions plaguing the community. 40 people gathered at revolution missionary baptist church to discuss joblessness, a lack of opportunities. the group discussed ways to improve the community in the lives of those that live there. those wanted to get ideas on the table. >> just looking for something i can take back to my community where i can take positive men and show the men that make bad life decision there is another way. >> it was part of a regular weekly forum on ways to improve the community. 9 people are hurt. the train was traveling from central california, to the san francisco bay area. one of the cars fell in to a creek. crews had to rescue passengers car. buses took passengers to their destinations.

derailment. all train service is canceled today. grounds breaking marking the start of construction on the bonner bridge of oregon inlet. the crew will replace the bonner ridge connecting hatteras island to the main land. the ground breaking takes place at 10:00, on the south end of the bridge that span as wild and crazy weather pattern down there. >> that's a rough spot. >> it's been a long time coming. it is tatime of year again -- that time of year again to get free pancakes at ihop. >> you can give back at the same time. >> it not something you see everyday, a small plane making

help of a parachute. everything is nice and dry before we get to the weekend. 50 henderson, 53 holly springs. 45 in smithfield. our temperatures will warm up quickly today at lunchtime, 68, we will see 73 at 5:00. somewhere in between, temperatures will climb up in

it's going to be beautiful. 70 lunchtime. a nice day to eat your lunch outside if you can. high temperature of 76, the nice southwesterly wind. the justice department is fighting the latest legal ruling in favor of apple. the government is appealing a new york judge's ruling that apple cannot be forced to provide the government with access to locked iphone data. the case revolves around a routine drug investigation. it tackles the same legal ground as the california case in which a judge ordered apple iphone. facebook is in the mix to live stream nfl games. an executive tells variety, the social media giant is biding to live stream thursday night football games. interested. the nfl is negotiating to live stream the contests. it's not clear how much a

ihop is celebrating the 11th annual national pancake day by giving out free flap jacks. >> they are offering up a free short stack of butter milk pancake to customers in return, ihop says you should consider leaving a donation for chins miracle network hospitals or other local charities. we hear don't drink and drive all the time. >> you can see exactly why. where this driver got caught with a big tree stuck in the car's grill. how a father's quick

flying baseball bat. dwight boon dody is held on un related gun charges. the boy was lured from a playground and shot in the head because of his father's gang ties. another man is also charged with murder in this case. a jury awarded a hefty sum to fox sports reporter aaron andrew, a stalker rented a hotel room next to hers and secretly recorded her if the nude and posted the video on line.

hotel responsible, awarding andrews $55 million. maria sharapova's career is in jeopardy after she failed a drug test. she will be suspended starting this weekend pending an investigation, she could miss the olympics in rio. she tested positive for medldonium, a drug that increases blood flow increasing exercise capacity. she said she didn't realize it was baned this year, she took it 10 years ago after falling ill. nike suspended the sponsorship until the investigation is complete. consider nel is mourning the death of the first -- cornell university is mourning the death of its first female president, she died of colon cancer a few weeks after she found out she had the disease. garrett led the school for 8 months and 52 years old. the moment a plane parachuted

it's called a crash landing, it was more like a soft landing compared to what could have happened. the pilot was approaching the airport when the aircraft lost engine, he deployed the parachute and it safely dropped to the ground next to the industrial building. no one was hurt. an illinois police department is making a point. hoping to deter people from drinking and driving and released this pick cure of a car they -- picture of a car they spotted driving along with a 15-foot tree stuck in the grill. police released the dash cam video, you can see the car driving down the road, with that tree embedded in the front end. they arrested the drive for driving under the influence. a high speed chase caught on camera in south carolina, the suspect drove with the hood upm police say the man was wanted for stealing from a video game store, they

pursuit because he was showing no regard for public safety. this was over near clemson university in south carolina, the driver was able to go around stop sticks with the front hood in his face. what a noisy pursuit that was. he was captured and faces several charges, no one was hurt and wow, this next story really catches your attention, a young baseball fan took home unexpected souvenir. >> a bat that could have killed him. the bat flew out of the hitter's hands, headed for 8 year old cunningham's head. the boy's dad has quick leflexs, he reached out, and saved his son from a serious injury. >> this is the baseball bat that hit me right here. i think, my dad blocked it like that.

right here. >> the photographer snapped a picture of that moment. the image has gone viral, dad is now a national hero. >> that picture is incredible. >> dad has a big strong arm. you are not going to get my boy. >> good thing dad was paying attention. >> you got to be in the moment. it's going to be baseball season before you know it. the weather is going to feel like it. between now and then, it's just beautiful out there right now.

we have had a few clouds passing by last night. see that on our roxboro sky cam. it's 5:48, the sun is starting to light things up already. pretty shot, see this thin hole in the clouds. the sun is going to come up ere, going to have a beautiful sunrise over roxboro. we will check in there. see cloud cover and holes in the clouds. the flag there at half staff to honor former first lady nancy reagan. 50 degrees our current temperature. yesterday we started near freezing, the temperatures are above yesterday. dew point 40. henderson 49. 50 south hill, roxboro 52, 49 rocky mount and wilson, 51 san fords. 50 fayetteville. 48 clinton. satellite and radar, showing a few of the clouds. high pressure offshore, we have a cold front, warm front, low

thunderstorms back here. the high will exert the influence and just stay put, it puts us in a southerly flow and continues to warm things up, the temperatures back here to the west are warm. we see the warm temperatures, we don't see the thunderstorms until we get to the weekend. it doesn't look like we will have a lot of chance of severe weather. we take it to lunchtime in to the afternoon, looks nice and clear for us around here. maybe fog along the coast tomorrow morning. we will end up staying clear. sunshine wednesday, and thursday, wednesday and thursday, high temperatures will be near 80 degrees. it is still just the beginning of march. when we come back down to reality, it's going to feel rough i think, we may see the mild temperatures well in to next week. for reference, normal high this time of year is in the low 60s. this is well above normal. 76 our high this afternoon, stating near 50 this morning,

a great day to spend your lunch hour outside. the warm temperatures may have you thinking about severe weather as we warm up in to the severe weather season. tomorrow is the statewide tornado drill at 9:30. school kids participate. maybe your business does as well. the alert system will be activated. a great time to practice your plan especially at home. know the safe spots, share it with your family. make sure everybody knows where to go when the warn circumstance shawed. 79 on thursday. friday, 77 degrees. all the warm air coming in. we get to saturday and sunday, looks like we may have a few showers. perhaps later on saturday. now on the dry side. cloudy for the st. patricks day parade in downtown rally. temperature 10:00 a.m., 60 when the parade kicks off downtown. on sunday, better chance of showers, maybe saturday night in to sunday. saturday night, before you go to bed, set your clocks ahead one hour, we go back today

the daylight will be all whacky by sunday and monday. we will get used to the changes. a look at the live commute map. delay free on major routes. from northern wake county, leaving wake forest, in towards raleigh on capital boulevard. looks quiet, the trip from wake forest to 540 is taking 10 minutes. roseville, 401 looking good this morning. nice and quiet on the cameras and the sensor readings. 10 minutes to 540, once you are on 540, it's delay free. local rescue mission is pulling out all the stops to give the homeless a night to remember. >> the special event happening and how the super bowl played a role in making it happen. we will tell you about the

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