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were the best of friends. blue came home last newt to find police in his front yard and his younger brother lying on the ground. >> they was working on him in the yard, pumping his chest. >> reporter: police say 15-year- old daistled pounds and his cousin were standing outside on maplewood drive when a car turned the corner from dearborn drive and someone inside fired stevens was treated and released from the hospital but pounds died leaving behind a grief stricken mother. >> my little class clown. he was a sweet lovable boy. everybody loved him. always smiling. >> reporter: mixed with the grief, anger and frustration that violence has hit their doorstep. targeted. blue says his funny, friendly basketball-loving little brother didn't have enemies and didn't grow up in the streets.
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kill. >> reporter: blue is a pastor at a local church and says he will preach david's funeral. he is preparing for that now. as for suspected or i amotive, police have not released any information about that. >> thank you, katherine. a hoke county man faces charges for a deadly hit and run in fayetteville. he is accused of driving while impaired and driving without a license. police say he hit and killed 43- year-old steven floyd who was walking along rayforted road around 2:00 this morning. -- along ray ford road. authorities are showing off the largest heroin bust in the county's history. the sheriff held a news conference to discuss the fine. the tar river task force discovered 347 bricks of heroin during a traffic stop monday morning. drug have a value of more than $173,000.
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they have tracked the heroin to other currenties. >> it is mi aosour borders. largest heroin producer at this time is coming out of south america, also afghanistan. the taliban is a big, big flier of heroin into our country. >> it is becoming a bigger problem in nash county. the sheriff told wral the number of deaths related to heroin has tripled in the last year. a state-wide amber alert remains acteddive for a 15-year- old girl. the brevard police department says dixie may bailey is possibly traveling with a friend. they believe she was headed for atlanta. she was last seen wearing a peach colored pullover, black tights, cowboy boots. should you see her, call the police. today was the first of three days set to honor the life of former first lady nancy reagan. her family and friends gathered for a small ceremony this morning in santa monica. the casket carrying her body was then taken to the ronald
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here a live look now inside the library where mrs. reagan will friday. she will be laid to rest next to her husband on a hillside tomb facing west toward the pacific ocean. before her death, the former first lady planned the details of the funeral including funeral arrangements, music by the marine corps band and the people would would receive memorial. nancy reagan died sunday at 94. a former unc football mayer would died e struggling with homelessness had a degenerative brain disease. the concussion legacy foundation says ryan hoffman's brain showed evidence of cte or chronic traumatic encephalopathy. it is believed to be caused by repeated hits to the head. he plays football at unc in the '90s and said his time to the field likely contributed to his mental health problems. israeli security is on high
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attack in which an american student was killed. taylor force, a 28-year-old mba student at vanderbilt university, was killed in a stabbing attack yesterday. a palestinian attacker also wounded six israelis before he was shot and killed by israeli security. force was a west point graduate who served tours in iraq and afghanistan. vice president biden criticized palestinians for failing to condemn the attack. iran state media reports the country has carried out its second missile test in two days. two ballistic missiles were fired from northern iran, one capable of hitting targets 2,000 kilometers away. the other with a range of 1700 kilometers. these week's tests are the first since tehran signed a nuclear deal with world powers in july. the u.s. says the test may violate a u.n. resolution. iran denies that. two baltimore school officers face criminal charges after the beating of a student was caught other camera.
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see may be disturbing. this video shows one officer smacking a 16-year-old student last week as the other, according to investigators, encouraged t baltimore city police say the charges against the first officer include felony child abuse. he has been with the school force for about a dozen years and is now on leave without pay. the second officer faces an assault charge. a plan is in the work to fix a traffic problem in the north hills area. city council is considering changes on six fork oato t btl 'sa ntliveeoe wi >>or he we ng gestn ato cothha ta. eders edo vie.eyant fige ou d is, alere off fo oswia
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medicinally to control anxiety, nausea and as as a maybe reliever. national surveys over 10 to 15 years so it is not as socially taboo. >> this has been a progressive and steady acceptability of cannabis both from users and nonusers. >> among states which legally sold regulations vary. products are generally unregulated and present serious risks especially no new users. >> we are see ago significant amount of side effects and problems that we are seeing in term of increases in emergency department visits. >> when you have medicine, there is consistency required for patients. >> reporter: dr. brian thomas co-authored a book on the analytical chemistry of cannabis. he has up for many cannabis product labels don't match the actual content. >> the consumer should know
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it should be well labeled. >> reporter: current products may be smoked, baked, rubbed into the skin or even eat p in a variety of form. >> if you are drug naive you may find yourself becoming uncomfortably intoxicated very rapidly. >> reporter: in this labbousing legally grown marijuana controlled by the national institute on drug abuse, dr. thomas is help to establish standards of labeling, safety and effective's. imuntil those tap drdz are federally controlled, responsibility rests with the user. >> in all instances, it needs to be buyer beware. >> fascinating discussion. many people are concerned in states where it is legal, physicians don't have much control. how does that work. >> reporter: dr. novak says wipes once the doctor has okayed the prescription for marijuana, they then then don't provide much in the way of information of how to take t what is the dosing? what is the strength?
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medication and so forth. just not much information being provided. the patient pacically gets a card which is a license to take to a dispensary where they can pick the medication up. the problem is they can get as much as they want to. they can debt get it for friends as well. so with we see is people are getting cannabis and then that way, they are also providing it for their friends who may or may not have a prescription as well. so you can see that, even federally regulating marijuana for medicinal purposes, really has its challenges and i think what dr. no, ma'am as and dr. novak are provoiding here is some clarity. it is in 24 states. how can we make this a more scientific process. >> sounds good actually lot more debate to go on this. >> exactly. >> thank you. and how about this story in the cost of olive oil is up 20%. that is not popeye's girlfriend. that is this. the spike is blamed on the drought and disease devastating
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spain produces about 40% of the world appear olive oil. farmers say a bad summer in 2014 caused the words harvest in herely two decades. italy is also a big producer of olives and millions of trees there have been attacked by a deadly disease. >> i was in israel the past summer and the olive oil there, and it is so good. >> i'm sure it has a really distinct case. >> zest. >> i love taking focaccia bread and dipping it in. boy the way, today is beautiful. >> tonight, it should be warmer. there is a lot of low level moisture up crease upon the area. that should help clouds and fog form, maybe even in drizzle. this front will come in on friday springing some subtle changes. changes for the weekend that include a lot of cloud cover
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no soaking ahead for the coming weekend despite there being raindrops on the seven-day forecast. this is the cathedral across the street from wral. centennial parkway is running over here. the dome, we understand, will be lifted into place on the cathedral. we'll try to get a time lapse of that during the morning tomorrow. should be a pretty spectacular shot. a pretty dome there. a pretty day to be looking at. tomorrow should be taking on a grey look. yesterday's dew points were running in the 40s. we have a southwest wind at 18. it has been rather proceedsy this afternoon but the wind should die down to about five miles per hour this evening and overnight. everybody close to home is warm. 75 some durham. 78 at cary. 78 at fayetteville. 76 in rocky mount. plenty of sunshine this morning. a joy to be outside. this is all the cloud cover coming in this afternoon. as we expand the view, wave
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that originally over the weekend was pop us. now, it has shifted offshore. see all this cloud cover here in the atlantic. that is that low level moisture steaming up to the north that will develop into a low cloud deck and fog in the morning. since our high pressure is a feature that is a suppressant, so all this activity will be squashed. we'll see a lot of cloud cover but won't see much in the way of rain. eventually, the ridge will weaken this weekend and the upper level trough will flatten out. the result will be a lot of cloud cover in place and very the chance for rain. it has been a soaking across the deep south over the past 24 to 48 hours. parts of louisiana have already had a foot of rain, flooding on i-0. moving through louisiana, folks crossing the road with the flood going on. that is not a safe scene. very little in the way of severe weather this afternoon. so over the next 48 hours, we track the rain off to the west and there is our low cloud cover and fog in the morning. perhaps even a little bit of drizzle. it will be slow to clear by
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time, perhaps still mostly cloudy. by end. the day, partly cloudy skies. the front slowly trying to make its way into the mid-atlantic states. friday morning, it is in southern virginia with the cloud cover and can you almost track it by lunchtime and by the afternoon, set noology the state. with it, a small chance for showers. -- settling into the state. feeling very nice to be outside. overnight lows down in the 40s. build be in the others because of the increase in due points. the result is 56 in raleigh. 53 in rocky mount. starting your day, this is where we'll notice the change. looking for a lot of cloud cover in the morn, perhaps some fog, maybe some drizzle. 61 by 8:00 a.m. we are aiming for mid- and upper 70s. if that cloud cover is slow to cheer, it may be hard to get to that 77. this is your seven-day forecast. we are just going to point out some of the rainfall probabilities just to drive
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the chance for rain is not all that great for the weekend. at least saturday, low rainfall probabilities likewise for the day on friday. sunday and monday feature better chances for rain and once that doe parts, temperatures keep going up. 83 possible next wednesday. we could be in the 80s next thursday appear friday as well and finally by next weekend, we could cool back downment but don't forget, this weekend we have the time change coming up. >> that's right. spring forward. >> thank you, mike. you know, coming up being a storm system rav amed parts of the south overnight. >> we are going to take a look at the images that showed just how bad the flooding mike was talking about has been in parts of louisiana. a reminder of why you should not try to cross water covered roads. >> and a swarm of
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