sexually abusing teens for years. devastation for a family in pitt county... investigators say a loved one is now facing murder charges. and.... a family's safety is put in jeopardy after a car crashed into their home - and it's not the first time! i'm ken smith...lets rewind... good evening..thanks for joining us...this week... come up with a plan to help ease a more than 17- million dollar budget gap.... tech giant cisco announces massive layoffs... and...911 calls reveal the chaotic moments inside crabtree valley mall, when people thought they heard gunshots.... some scary moments for drivers in raleigh, monday, when their cars were pelted with rocks. police say at least 9 vehicles were hit by rocks thrown from a passing car in the areas of strickland, leesville and ray roads.

shattered, and she was treated in the emergency room for swallowing shards of glass. another driver was hit by one of the rocks that went through the windshield. deborah hendren / driver c11 12:03:28 i don't understand what the intentions are, what sort of thrill do you get out of this but you've hurt people in the process and you've frightened people and i just don't understand what its worth :37 police say because it was so dark and happened quickly, officers don't have a description of the suspected vandals. police are still searching for evidence. the wake county school board filled a 17-and-a-half million dollar budget gap tuesday. they include adjusting school thermostats, and reducing money for school supplies and transportation. a big concern was cutting custodial work. in the end, board members maintained more frequent cleaning levels at elementary schools, while backing off cleaning days at middle and high schools. it wasn't all cuts. teachers and support staff will see salary increases in the budget passed at the meeting. a major tech layoff could soon hit the triangle. networking giant cisco announced wednesday it's cutting seven percent of its

shifting from hardware systems to cloud based networks. cisco employs 5000 people in r-t-p. about 350 positions could be cut by the end of the year. thursday raleigh police released hundreds of 911 calls - after a chaotic scene at crabtree valley mall last weekend. police say there's still no confirmed evidence - shots were fired despite looking at surveillance video, interviewing witnesses and examining holes in the ceiling that turned ou the 911 tapes make it clear -- the crowd certainly believed -- there was a person in the mall with a gun --threatening their lives. operator: "you heard shots fired inside the mall?" caller" "yes. people are evacuating, the back, the upper deck, belk towers. people are hiding behind their vehicles. i am an off- duty officer." operator: "did you hear the shot?" caller: "i heard one shot." operator: "did it come from inside or outside the mall?" caller: "inside the mall." operator: "did you see a shooter." caller: "no i did

completely ruled out the possibility shots were fired...raleigh police have asked the fbi to analyze the sound from a video -- to see if the origin can be determined. a trial involving corruption in the wake county clerk's office continued friday with a state government employee who admitted taking bribes... former clerk kelvin ballentine testified he offered his services to bails bondsmen. he agreed to change computer records to make it look like large bond amounts were not owed...it was money earmarked ballentine says he was paid beteen 500 and 1000 dollars each time. ballentine testified bondsman ronnie smith- who is on trial for multiple charges connected to the scheme -- was his first partner in this scheme. ballentine: being escorted out of a place i worked for 14 years. its taken a toll. i wish i could go back and not do it. it wasn't worth it at all. ballentine faces 4 criminal charges in the

testimony, but simply cooperated with investigators because it was the right thing to do. tonight in our cover story.....a man entrusted with educating and helping children - now charged with sexually abusing teens for more than 5 years. now investigators are asking anyone who may know about the crimes to come forward. wral's leyla santiago charges and the man accused. at stevens prep academy.. no answer at the door or by phone. the schools web site calls dr. claude stevens its founder, director, administrator. in court- he was a defendant now charged with multiple counts of statutory rape and indecent liberties. he spoke only to ask for a court

court records indicate this happened over a span of 5 years- between 200 and 2012. the victims said to be teenagers- 13 years old. investigators will not say if they were his students. we talked to a parent of a former studenthe had nothing but good things to say about stevens and the academy. stevens bio online indicates he has a doctorate and masters in educational counseling and he taught special education for wake county public schools in 1988. but the wake county public says it has no record of his employment that was leyla santiago reporting.... stevens bond is set at 5 million dollars. he is set to be back in court next month. a raleigh mother accused of abusing her 5 week old baby made an emotional first appearance in court this week. several times it looked as if lauren schmidt might collapse in court. she insisted she never hurt her baby girl and she named the girl grace because she was blessed to have her. 14:12:50 i don't understand how

what's going on in a 911 call from rex hospital, a worker tells police the child appeared to have shaken baby syndrome. the prosecutor says the baby's injuries are so significant the little girl might die. schmidt is being held on a two million dollar bond. she also has a 4 year old son. an orange county judge refused to push back the trial date for chandler kania. kania , who is under house arrest, was in court with his parents. charged with driving drunk the wrong way on an interstate. three people died, including a 6 year old little girl. defense attorneys are trying to keep some evidence out of the trial including kania's cellphone records. they told the judge the warrant for the phone was improperly filled out. the judge said he will consider their request but denied their request to move the trial date. kania's attorney spoke to the media after the brief hearing. wade smith/defense atty: that family is appropriately keeping in mind the victims. they talk about that all the time. and they will never be okay. they will never be okay because these

including 3 counts of second degree murder. the trial is set to start october 3 devastation for a family in pitt county... investigators say a loved one is now facing murder charges. next on rewind, the mother and 3 daughters murdered in their home. who first sounded the alarm there may be a problem...and i'm really nervous to go to sleep because i don't know what's middle of the night, you never know :07 a raleigh family is cleaning up the mess after a car crashed into their home. and it's not the first time. what city officials are considering that could fix the problem once and for all. it's hard to wrap your mind around what happened in a greenville

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daughters killed, in what police are calling a domestic violence case.

her daughters, ages 6, 7 and 11 were found dead in their home. howard's boyfriend and the father of the two younger girls was arrested hours later in richmond, virginia and charged with murder. wral's leyla santiago explains... investigators don't know the exact cause of death. but they were clear-- they know what led up to it. garlette howard and her 3 girls are now gone- as officials see it-- because no one spoke out against domestic violence. mayor: 11:17:00 these young children could be up and it would have made a difference.:06 police have arrested dibon toone for murder. detectives believe he killed howard, her 11 year old, and their 6 and 7 year old girls. police chief: 11:18:14 this is not something normal. you're not supposed to see children hurt. when you do it hits home.:21 investigators found the bodies in the family's greenville apartment after toone's family told police they were worried about his comments regarding the welfare of the children. but that's not the first call of concern to police. the chief admit's howard's

show up for work the day before the bodies were discovered. chief 11:13:44 we documented that welfare check and that instance was cleared :56 as to why police didn't further investigate that day... chief 11:13:40 there was no indication at that time that ms. howard was in any danger:44 police say there were no red flags-- no prior reports of domestic violence from that home. in the meantime... mayor 11:17:00 we're going to put our arms around this family and around this community and t going to learn from this tragic situation and make sure this never happens again. that was leyla santiago reporting... toone is expected to appear in a pitt county courtroom monday. a family's safety is put in jeopardy after a car crashed into their home - and it's not the first time! the homeowner is furious - and is calling for action once again, to protect his family. the house is located on fawn glen drive. since 2007 - cars have crashed into their house on new hope road six times.

fa most recent crash. kahtryn ask city leaders if there's a way to prevent this from ever happening again. trk one accident report 2, 3, 4, 5, six are now piled up at carlo bernarte's house on fawn glen drive. carlo bernarte / homeowner 8 c1 12:55:40 07, 08, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 :48 trk six times drivers have veered off new hope road . and into his house. carlo bernarte / homeowner 5 c1 12:56:23 from all the past accidents until now i just feel numb :28 trk bernarte tells me he's also scared for his family . and furious that more hasn't been done to protect his home. his oldest son carl 3 years old at the time of the first accident is now 12. carl bernarte / 12 years old 20 c9 13:17:17 2 accidents ago 2013 a stop sign flew toward that window :24 c9 13:17:53 and then 2015 happened in the den over there :58 c9 13:18:59 i'm really nervous to go to sleep because i don't know what's gonna happen in the middle of the night, you never know :07

reflective markers have been added to the pavement . reflective inserts have been added to the existing guardrail . and speed-activated led chevron lights have been installed though the city admits they haven't worked properly. bernarte wants the guardrail extended. until now -- the city and state have balked at the plan -- which would involve closing off access to new hope road from fawn glen. but when we asked again city leaders say they are working with the dot on modification here. standing in front of his now-shattered hurricane-proof windows . bernarte is hopeful . but skeptical. carlo bernarte / homeowner 6 c2 13:01:23 i'm so glad too but you know how many times are you gonna be lucky? :29 that was katheryn brown reporting.... bernarte says he's been unable to sell his house because of the reputation it now has -- but says its coming down to losing his financial security ... or losing his family.

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us - begin their training from an early age, and practice more hours per week than their a school opening cary hopes to change that. trt 1:59 oc "...working on that" it means moving william from a more traditional private school to

more traditional private school to this new experiment... heather waters / mom anytime you change your child's environment, it's going to be something different, but if it's something that they love, and something that they requested, i think as a parent, i had to give it a good chance. trace alphim / student it's just going to be amazing, it's going to be challenging academically and physically. trace alphim believes it's the soccer that

classroom. trace alphim / student just learning about history and math, it helps you calculate percentages of shots saved, for me as a goal keeper, or passes completed, it just helps overall being a good student academically. the school will use online technology and new teaching methods in the classroom, then engage students to use that knowledge to better their athletic careers. chris mumford / school founder i'm a big believer that having kids sit in a class room for 7 or 8 hours a day with no physical activity is a disservice, and we want to help change that conversation, we think we can achieve excellence in both soccer and academics. the accelerator school opens monday with a middle school class.... ll rent middle school class.... it will rent space in cary's wake med soccer park. classrooms overlook the playing field. school cafeterias in wake county will have new seasonal menus. the school system's child nutrition services is preparing unique signature menu items. a group of students got to taste test the fall menu today. it offers a turkey pot pie.... as well as local

harvest new items such as sweet potatoes we'll be able to start offering those in november. and there will be other things to follow. so we're real excited to be able to support our local farmers. together all of these things provide the seasonality we're hoping schools will come to enjoy with their menus." the turkey pot pie is a speed-scratch recipe - that's when you start with a prepared product, then add ingredients of your call it a win for minor league baseball in fayetteville. 12:24 "there will be a minor league team in fayetteville for 30-years." the city council and officials with the houston astros signed a memorandum of understanding. that makes intentions to bring a minor league team to fayetteville official. while the new team could start playing in the area as soon as next year - a new stadium downtown wouldn't be finished until 2019. the facility could cost up to 35-million dollars. council members have not decided

raise taxes to do it. it is estimated, a new team would bring around 60-million dollars in additional investment to downtown fayetteville. city leaders and the astros will now work toward a more definitive agreement. a group of kayakers got much more than they bargained for-- while out on the water! where they experienced this up close encounter with a group of whales! now to a sweet story of

an american soldier. and i know i'm prejudiced because he was my son, but i don't think he had a mean bone in his body. there is not a day that i don't think about david. when i saw donald trump attack another gold star mother, i felt such a sense of outrage. "she was standing there, she had nothing to say..." if donald trump cannot respect a gold star family, then why would anyone in america think he would respect them.

group of kayakers had an incredible close encounter with humpback whales in british columbia! the group was on a five day expedition and had heard there was a mother humpback and her calf in the area. they paddled over for a viewing...and this is what they got! the group says they were following the rules-- when it came to getting too close to the whales. this is an adventure they won't soon forget. that's all the time we have for tonight....have a great evening. a driver charged with killing 3

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