his lawyers want thrown out. plus, a sinkhole in durham swallows a man's suv in rushing water! and a lot of boys dream of becoming police officers, like 4-year-old colt rever, who has personal hurdle to overcome. the support he is getting from first responders across the country. i'm gerald owens...lets rewind... a trip to the lake took a t county this week. teachers and the superintendent are remembering athens drive principal james hedrick....and a slew of tips help cary police catch a flasher! family and friends are mourning the death of a warren county teenager, whose body was pulled kerr lake on monday. 22:08:16 "i seen my son out there, trying to come back, and he couldn't come. and he was trying and he was frightened." family members say 16-year old

younger kids. the ball they were playing with drifted into deeper water last sunday. philippe swam after it, but got in trouble and slipped under the water. he was a football player at warren high school with plans of playing in college. a surprising loss just weeks before the school year is set to begin. the principal at athens drive high school died suddenly tuesday morning. dr. james hedrick was a longtime educator. he joined the wake county school system in 2005- coming from winchester, virginia. hope high school, before coming to athens drive in 2014. co-workers called him a dedicated educator, who was their biggest cheerleader. 12:09:08 he was so supportive and encouraging .he had our backs and would listen to us grief counselors were on campus for any staff or students who needed to talk to someone. the highway patrol has identified a raleigh

wednesday. troopers say walid abu-hamra hydroplaned and hit a tree near jones sausage road. the 52-year-old was found dead inside the car around 6 a.m. clearing the scene caused backups during the morning rush hour. on thursday, cary police arrested a 25- year-old man they say exposed himself at 6 businesses in the last 6 months.. witnesses say 25- year-old christopher sumrell was well- dressed, polite and unassuming when he entered the stores-3 in the crossroads shopping ce in one of the incidents employees tell us he came out of the dressing room after trying on clothes and exposed himself to a sales associate. jutta richards: i guess he wanted to get caught. i don't know, just wanted to be seen. that's what i'm thinking. amanda: but he knew what he was doing? jutta: oh yes, definitely. all of the employees we spoke with say they were shaken by the incidents. sumrell was convicted of indecent exposure in cary 2012. he also has pending charges related to similar accusations

the man accused in a deadly hit and run in fayetteville, police say was intentional, is now facing involuntary manslaughter charges. 39 year old stoney riley made his first court appearance thursday investigators believe riley fatally struck justin atkins after asking the man for drugs. riley is being held in the cumberland county detention center on 200-thousand dollars bond. investigators say the charges against riley may still be updated. illegal and unreliable. that's how defense attorneys described some of the evidence collected in a deadly crash. former unc student, chandler counts of second degree murder. newly filed court documents reveal his attorneys are fighting to make sure jurors don't hear some of the state's key evidence. wral's julia sims reports, if convicted on all those charges, kania could get up to 60 years in prison. prosecutors have made bold statements about the chandler kania case in court. jeff nieman: we do believe the state's case is very strong. defense attorneys who have remained mostly silent are now fighting back. they claim investigators

affadavit, troopers said kania's phone could yied more information about his alcohol consumption before the crash and potentially lead them to more witnesses. court documents show the defense points out the warrant for the phone wasn't properly filled out. prosecutors say kania, then 20, had a blood alcohol content twice the legal limit for driving. but, the defense doesn't want jurors to hear about that. they contend an emt was improperly allowed to draw kania's blood. they cite a 2012 internal hi memo from a commander telling troopers not to use emt's to draw blood, even though state statute allows it. troopers estimate kania was going 70 miles an hour the wrong way down interstate 85 when he crashed head on into this car. three people, including a 6 year old girl, died. defense attorneys don't want jurors to hear from witnesses about how fast kania was going- calling that kind of testimony unreliable. dash camera video of the crash scene as well

the state's case, but the defense is asking to limit the use of photos and videos they deem inflammatory. that was julia sims reporting.... kania is currently out on a million dollar bond and on house arrest. a judge is expected to hear arguments on the motions in two weeks. the trial is set for october. a guilty plea in a series of fires that killed two people in carolina beach. marshall doran set 3 fires at a condominium in carolina beach, which killed two women inside. doran owned up to what he did- and prosecutor says the punishment fits the crime. doran is still awaiting trial for a hit and run crash in wake county more than two years ago that also killed two people. decision 2016 open pause pause pause the vice presidential nominees on both tickets visited north carolina this week. democrat tim kaine was first, with an appearance in greensboro. the crowd also heard from democratic gubernatorial candidate roy cooper and congresswoman alma adams. kaine focused on hillary

the federal court ruling against state voting restrictions. he urged the crowd to volunteer....knock on doors and get out the vote this fall. 132655 if you ever talk to anybody who's a friend or family or neighbor or anybody and they tell you that they think their vote doesn't matter, then what you tell 'em is this if your vote doesn't matter, why is the other side working so hard to keep you from being able to vote? 132711 why are they working so hard to put barriers up? 132715 tim kaine has been reaching out to southern voters this week, campaigning in florida and virginia. republican vice presidential nominee mike pence made his first solo campaign appearance in north carolina this week. the indiana governor hosted a town hall meeting in downtown raleigh. he spoke to the crowd and took questions for about an hour, saying he is honored to be on the ticket with donald trump. pence's running mate, donald trump, hosted a town hall in portland, maine. on the other side of the ticket, hillary

vegas. and tim kaine spoke to the national urban league conference in baltimore. next on rewind.... an update on a sinkhole in durham. what happened to a man whose suv was caught up in rushing water! and....it's a big piece of north carolina history....the new effort to preserve the state capitol building. lucky to be alive. that's how a durham man feels, after his

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glenn road crumbled near east club road, open deep. at least three accidents happened, before the road was closed. wral's arielle clay talked to the drivers involved ... his eye is swollen shut...his ankle broken and his body bruised and battered. robert belcher -- 1:16 i feel horrible i've never felt this bad in my life. :19 injuries that are a result of robert belcher driving into this massive hole on glenn road. robert belcher --- 2:22 im never going down that street again ;25 it was late at night with heavy rains when belcher saw water on the road that he assumed was just a puddle. he slowed to

wasn't no puddle but i didn't know that until i was in it. my truck had already went down and started flipping 57:38 javier rosales saw belchers accident...he was there because he'd also hit the hole while driving down glenn road. javier rosales 4:51 when i tried to stop it was too late. i bumped my tires exploded my axle flew out. 4:57 moments later rosales watched belcher hit the same hole he'd encountered...only it had grown in the few minutes between the two accidents. belcher's car fell into the hole the father of three found himself trapped inside his suv. robert belcher -- 3:38 i just told god, god don' t let me die like this :43 he decided to fight. unable to open his car door he instead worked to break out the front windshield. no easy feat. robert belcher -- 58:51 just kept punching it kept punching it and finally it broke through. :54 belcher was able to escape...holding onto a tree limb until ems crews pulled him to safety. and while he most certainly is in pain...he's happy to still be here. robert belcher 3:27 i looked at it as i want to live :29 i got a

reporting... the wash out was due to a culvert or large pipe under the road that was overwhelmed by all the rain. it will take more than a month to repair. until then drivers will have to use a detour. at the heart of downtown raleigh, you will find the state capitol building. it's been there since 1840 -- and is falling into disrepair. wral's brian shrader got a look inside at what's wrong, and what the state is doing to fix it. 112834 this is the old house... old speaker's office 113005 the uv rays have...starting to fade 11 105613 it's a big piece of our nc history. it's been here 175 years, we can't let it be dirty or falling apart or in disrepair 113126 mitchell found an ally in state rep. gary pendleton, who was able to get almost a million dollars to restore the capitol 105844 we went up on the roof, in the dungeon, we went everywhere. i could not believe how big a mess this is 113909 some of the work already...bs wral news raleigh maintenance of the capitol building falls to a few state

state agencies, which will decide how to use the money. he's in the fight of his life. coming up on rewind....how this young boy is finding strength from law enforcement across the country. at 4-years-old, he dreams of being a

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same law enforcement community he desperately wants to be a part of. wral's amanda lamb shows us how they're doing it. 4-year-old colt rever has always wanted to be a police officer... amanda: so tell me about being a police officer, do you want to

amanda: how come? colt: because i like protecting. you like protecting? dolly: he loves police so much. in june, his parents got the devastating news that he has leukemia... dolly rever/mother: total disbelief. it was just unbelievable. i felt like our world had just crashed down around us. colt: last time i came back from the hopsital i had that thing in my throat, that's why i had difficult talking. after the initial shock, colt's parents came up with a facebook page in his honor asking for patches from first responders around the country. dolly: totally overwhelmed. it matt: it blows us away, without a doubt, the amount of support that we have received. amanda: colt's father stopped counting, but we believe there are more than 800 unique patches on these walls, and he's even met some of the officers in person. apex police brought their k-9 rocky to visit colt at the hospital and gave him a stuffed colt at the hospital and gave him a stuffed animal replica. amanda: is rocky a real officer? lt: he's a 9 dog. he has a9 him lt has hio mini- police car. he often lls his father over in the iway. amanda: you pull him over do you say? colt: do you know ystopped u?lt's parents hope soe gets to llow his dream of being a lice tt: there's not an option to be anything else but positive. one thing they eery positive out, is what this outpouring of has meant toeir family.

t to do this for him and it just shows what a heart of gold all of these people have. colt's parents say his recent tests have been promising. he's home from the hospital and getting stronger every day. they have more meetings planned with police officers and other first responders in the area. the national whitewater center in dumping 6 million gallons of treated water into the catawba river. mecklenburg county officials say the two- phase process is going smoothly. this is video from the catawba riverkeeper foundation showing the steady stream flowing toward the river. it is being monitored by state and county officials. before the release, the water was treated with massive amounts of chlorine to kill potentially deadly organisms. a brain-eating amoeba found in the water was blamed for the death of an ohio girl who visited the center in june. the whitewater rafting area has been

reopen. october isn't far away! and that means the state fair is right around the corner! find out how to get a great deal for the family, when we come back. pizza from an atm machine? sound

xavier university in cincinnati. it's located right outside the dining hall. the atm will sell about 300 pizzas throughout the day. slices will be available starting august 10th. th dispensing atm in north america. a powerful x-ray technique helped unveil the hidden portrait beneath a famed painting by french impressionist artist edgar degas. for nearly a century, experts knew that degas painted the portrait over another image - sometime between 1876 and 1880. a gallery teamed up with scientists from australia who spent 33 hours scanning the painting. the technique was so successful -- the scientists not only saw the details of the entire hidden image, but its evolution

people -- and nerdwallet has the science to back it up! they ranked chapel hill one of the most educated places in the country for 2016, based on residents with college degrees. coming in at number 11 -- nerdwallet says 79-percent of people in chapel hill have at least a bachelor's or associates degree. 45-percent have a master's degree.... and 15-percent with a doctoral degree. they also found towns near boston and dc all rank high on the list -- bethesda, maryland came i two ladies from pittsboro were mentioned on the tonight show. it was part of a segment called screengrabs.... "this is from.... applause!" and speaking of main events-- advanced tickets for the north carolina

if you buy right now-- a family of 4, with kids between 6 and 12, can save 20 dollars! also look for packages like the "daredevil." it can save adults as much as 56-dollars! this year's fair runs from october 13th through the 23rd. the beach is a great place for families to even a family of bears. cell phone video shows a pair of cubs and their mother playing in the waters near pope beach, california. the trio spent some time splashing and wrestling... just feet away from swimmers! they eventually took off into a nearby forest. that's all the time we have for tonight....have

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