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rrest by far the biggest and most significant. steve: in the breaking news
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traffic on -- is backed up near briggs avenue. here is video from our crew. you can see for cars involved in this chain reaction crash in the construction zone. one or two people had to go to the hospital to get checked out. traffic have been backed up all the way to i-40. traffic is slowly moving again. also happening now, a developing story in wake county. in emotional plea from family members for a man missing for more than a week. donald wile was last seen in a marina. angelica his sister has been handing out these flyers. this is donald. he borrowed her jeep because his truck a broken down and no one has seen him since. they believe he or whoever was driving the jeep was headed towards charlotte. it is a 2015 jeep wrangler, that is orange with a license plate
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donald is 185 pounds with blue eyes and salt-and-pepper hair. >> civil rights activists and tournament say -- interim say it is time for a victory lap after a release of a study showing racial bias in traffic stops by police. instead they say it is time for fundamental change. >> it is time for change. more than a dozen activists gathered at city hall this morning representing several civil rights group. they say the study confirms what they knew, that blacks are 20 percent more likely to be pulled over than whites. the activists believe a study was done on other arrests and
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they are making sure the city manager -- steve: also happening now in durham, the family and friends holding a rally and making a final plea to save a riverside high school student from getting deported back to honduras. costa was pickup by immigration officials in january and is being detained in georgia. stephanie lopez in durham. stephanie: protesters are fighting to keep costa in the states. the congressman said in a statement that he spoke with -- and white house officials and his office expects a final decision on whether or not to delay the deportation planned for sunday. in the meantime, family and friends are having a hard time coping with the idea that the
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becoming an engineer might be sent back to honduras in a matter of days. her mother says it has been a tough couple of days, but she is keeping her hope alive in prayer. tisha: the state highway patrol says charges are not expected to be filed in a fatal crash involving a lee county deputy. the deputy collided around 1:00 this morning. the impacts through shelton mclean off the atv. he died of the same. a balloon or investigation shows mclean drove into the path of the deputies crews a. the deputy identified as emanuel torres was not her. steve: veriddict watch is on in florida. in the hulk hogan lawsuit. he's suing for a video of him
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he said it was a violation of his privacy. the during is weighing a celebrity's right to privacy against freedom of the press. tisha: the fbi releasing new information about the stabbing spree at the university of california merced. authorities say was a terror attack. the fbi believes a college student who went on the campus stabbing rampage after the loan. mohammed wounded four people before he was killed. authorities became the site -- say he became self radicalized by propaganda found online. steve: an update on the new hampshire prep school graduate accused of sexual assault. he violated his curfew. he was sent to jail immediately. tisha: to the race for the white house. the stop trump movement gaining steam. some republicans looking for
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from winning the nomination. it comes as anonymous allegedly posting personal information online. vermont senator bernie sanders is rejecting suggestions that the race for the democratic presidential nomination is all but over. he lost all five primary races on tuesday. the fbi and new york police are investigating suspicious mail sent to one of donald trump's sons. police fire crews and the fbi converged on the trump park east tower. a letter contained an unknown substance. no injuries were reported. eric is the middle son of the gop cand extremists opened fire on that luncheon for county health
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tisha: ebola is proving to be a tough go for help officials. two bodies tested positive months after the outbreak was declared over. the world health organization is deploying specialist to guinea and the government is holding an emergency meeting to discuss the mother and her five-year-old son who tested positive. to an update on the beach beck collapse. dozens of people were seriously injured last summer at emerald isle. the town cannot require inspections be done annually but officials say the last eight months more than 150 homes have had repairs done to decks. now to the weather happening now. chris hohmann and the first alert raleigh storm center on this beautiful friday afternoon. chris: it is a beautiful day. coming off a pretty nice week except for those storms on monday. not going to last.
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rdu airport at two and all too, skies mostly sunny. picture-perfect day. look at that humidity. the air is bone dry. 71 officially at the airport. fayetteville and 74. upper 60's to the north. why the evening. if you have plans to be out this evening, out to dinner, running arens, it is going to be fantastic -- a quiet evening. upper 50's by 9:00. you might want to grab a light jacket but it stays dry. we will timeout the rain and the colder air moving in for the weekend it a little bit. steve: thousands of women may have been injured by a-- a controversial birth-control device. tisha: new questions about a double shooting in chicago. the officer giving different versions about what happened in interviews after the shooting. steve: it is day two of the ncaa tournament. both of our local teams are moving on and we are on the road ahead with duke and calorie line
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details about>> abc 11 eyewitness news continues. tisha: new information and the chicago police fatal shooting that left a man and his neighbor dead. police reports show the officer had two different accounts of what happened leading up to the shooting. reamlmo originally said that antonio legrier had the bat raised over his head and refused to drop it before the officer fired shot. two days later realmo told investigators that legrier tries -- twice tried to hit it with a bat. steve: women who say the assured device harmed them are filing a lawsuit. a raleigh dr. told the i-team how he was able to reverse side effects by removing the device. now in this new lawsuit, 32 women claim they suffered permanent injury using what they
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medical device. to the ncaa tournament. two trying the teams hoping for a berth to the sweet 16. tisha: duke takes on yale and unc will take on providence in raleigh. joe: alal quie -- all quiet at pnc arena after yesterday's madness or closed practices but the players and coaches were made available for the media. the tar heels, it gives tuffy for them in round two against providence. they will be heavy favorite against the flyers. all-america caliber point guard chris gone is more than a handful. and their big man is actually the leading three-point shooter. that prevents -- present a unique defensive challenge. dunn will have to be like superman, batman and robin for his team to have any shot. roy williams, no fan of the start time.
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9:45, 9:50 for a start time. don't we have east, south, don't we have some games you can show on tv at that time? it is like spitting in the wind. you cannot do anything about it. i have to wake up at 6:00 in the morning and go to work at 9:30 at night. joe: in providence rhode island at the dunkin' donuts center. practices inside are closed but duke and yale are getting ready for their rematch of the game played in november. in that game, yale took a 9-0 lead on duke. the blue devils came back to win the game. however, they had jefferson in that game. he is no longer part of the mix. not playing for duke. the blue devils will have to
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one of the bulbul strength -- the bulldogs strength is rebuilding the ball. yale coming off a big victory over baylor. >> look at how tough they have played all year long. we know that they have grown as well. joe: another advantage for yale, familiarity against the blue devils. should be a good matchup. steve: we will be with the triangle teams all the way with the tar heels, joe with the blue devils p reagan followed him on twitter and facebook. to witness all the behind-the-scenes action. tisha: thousands of people diagnosed every year with a life-threatening blood cancers like leukemia -- for more than 25 years, the national bone marrow donor program has managed to be the match and encourages people to become donors and save someone's life. nbc 11 together as a proud sponsor of tomorrow's be the
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it's looking for donors between the ages of 18 and 44 and all it takes to register is a swab inside your cheek. join us for the bone marrow donor registry drive from 11:00 until 2:00 tomorrow. you can find everything you need to know a long with all the information on our website -- abc11.com. steve: if we see you out there, we might rope you in to get a cheek swab. it is a painless process. this is the first step in getting signed up for the registry. there is a one in 1500 chance you would ever be called on and be a match. and be a donor. tisha: it takes a little bit of information, swap, you're on the registry. steve: chris says it is going to be a crumb and weekend. chris: you're right. i did use that word in an internal memo. it is not going to rain the
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going to be sunny at all. it is going to be dampen colder. good weekend to head over to the mall or head to a movie. anything indoors. maybe a good option with this chilly, wet weather moving in. it is going to stay dry this evening. tomorrow the best shot at rain if we go back to that graphic -- we will show you the best shot at rain coming in later tomorrow. in the second half of the day. into tomorrow night. and early sunday. still not much sunshine at all. it is going to remain mostly cloudy. the rain is mostly over as we head into sunday. it will be spotty areas of rain. and chilly throughout the period. colder weather lasts into early next week as we see foster freeze -- frost or freeze by monday morning. 72 at the airport. you can see the traffic moving pretty well on the durham freeway. beautiful blue skies. a bit cooler at the airport, 71 degrees. 68 at roxboro. 71 it wilson. 74 fayetteville.
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just about a perfect day out there. a little warmer earlier in the week at 71. cant beat that. look at the chillier air. this is not bitter cold that it is below average. 44 in kansas city. 55 in oklahoma city. this chilly air mass descending to the east and southeast. it will come our way and also combine -- look with the clouds gathering over the mississippi valley. that is our weekend rainmaker heading to the east. it will get us wet starting tomorrow afternoon to another gorgeous day. hope you had a chance to enjoy that. we had a string of them. more scattered strong storms over the deep south. they cannot catch a break. more severe weather into missouri. severe thunderstorm watch and effect for parts of louisiana, arkansas, mississippi and northeast texas. we do not have any threat of severe weather. it is going to be damp and chilly by sunday. especially that chilly air moves in. tonight is drive.
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temperatures five -- will fall to near 50. tomorrow morning when you wake up and head out in the morning, a slight chance of rain through midday. a lot of clouds, dreary, 48 at 8:00. 56, that is going to be our high damage or in the triangle by noon. we will hold steady or fall a bit. may sneak up into the low 60's across the sandhills. staying around 50-52 new the virginia border as the rain spreads in from the southwest towards the northeast. here is our predictor. timing that rain out for you. general he dry through midday. by lunchtime, already some patches of light rain. the timing on this keeps moving up and it looks like midday into the afternoon. mostly light rain. cloudy, cool conditions. the rain may taper off in the evening. into monday night. monday morning, 5:00 a.m., more rain. fairly widespread in the
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then it takes it -- it tapers off to patches of light rain. notice to the afternoon sunday, little or no sunshine at all. it is going to stay cloudy, cool, and with that rain, pretty damp as well. amounts of rainfall not going to be all that spectacular. a half inch, maybe a bit more. a few spots a quarter of an inch. a dreary day. if you're traveling northward, look at the snow developing from washington and especially towards baltimore and philadelphia and new york city as the storm system moves up the coast. it looks like the heavy snow is over seven new england. boston good pickup for-eight inches of spring snow. not for us. but sunday, after 56 tomorrow, we stay in the 40's all day. most of the rain tomorrow and tomorrow night very early sunday. but some patches light rain sunday. a dreary, cool day. mid 50's monday. with clear skies monday night into tuesday. could see a light frost or freeze. then temperatures rebound by
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tuesday and wednesday, back in the 70's again. it is going to be a short little reversal of fortune. but you are going to feel it for sure. tisha: there is sunshine on the other side. steve: a teacher is pulled out of the classroom and now facing criminal charges. >> nobody hurts my children. it is not fair to my son or my family. tisha: a mother's outrage. she says her 12-year-old son was choked by his teacher in front of the classroom. steve: the new baby is here. this is an eaglet born early this morning. there is still one more to go. a live picture from the nest coming up after the break. tisha: before we had to break, we want to take a live look outside the raleigh eyewitness news center. old glory blowing in the wind. a beautiful friday evening.
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(cell phone rings) where are you? well the squirrels are back in the attic. mom? your dad won't call an exterminator... can i call you back, mom? he says it's personal this time... if you're a mom, you call at the worst time. it's what you do. if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. it's what you do. where are you? it's very loud there.
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steve: a firebreather is recovering after catching on fire during his routine at a florida high school. he is part of a company called the of for no challenge. he was hired to perform during a pep rally in delray beach. he says he has been doing this routine for 30 years but he used a new kind of lamp oil. he has never practice with to fuel the fire. seven stews were injured. they were trying to help put out the flames -- seven students were injured. the performer has first-degree burns on his face and says his nose now has the most damage. tisha: a substitute teacher is accused of choking a 12-year-old boy in front of a classroom full of kids. it happened at a school in massachusetts. that teacher faces criminal charges. the child's mother says the sun is traumatize and a hard time trusting people. nicole brennan says her son was playing with another child and the teacher did not like it. >> he picked my son off the
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slammed him to the cement floor. told my son if he fights him back, he will punch them in his face and started to choke him. tisha: the teacher is facing strangulation and assault and battery charges. this is a video you have been waiting for, the first of two baby bald eagles have emerged from it show at the national arboretum. millions are watching. steve: here is a live look at that nest right now. the eaglet firmly emerged from morning. this is a live webcam. it comes and gtooes, the baby. right now mom i keeping a watch. sthe parents are dubbed mr. president and the first lady. experts predict the other eaglet will begin hatching on sunday since the big was laid several day after the first. there is the eaglet.
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american eagle foundation says 2 million people have been logging onto this weblike. the cool thing is that the mom was eating fish in there. sushi for mom and baby. right there in the next. right about this time every day, it becomes dinnertime. tisha: that is a great meal. steve: a little soy sauce. living large in the nest. tisha: let's sit on this a little while. paid in full for a handicap access it will be -- handicap accessible via. steve: we will see how diane wilson helped this family in need. >> used to watching america's funniest home videos on a b c is depression more than sadness?
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multiple symptoms. brintellix (vortioxetine) is a prescription medicine for depression. brintellix may start to untangle or help improve the multiple symptoms of depression. "for me, brintellix made a difference." tell your doctor right away if your depression worsens, or you have unusual changes in mood, behavior or thoughts of suicide. antidepressants can increase these in children, teens, and young adults. brintellix has not been studied in children. do not take with maois. tell your doctor about your medications, including migraine, psychiatric and depression medications, to avoid a potentially life-threatening condition. increased risk of bleeding or bruising may occur, especially if taken with nsaid pain relievers, aspirin, or blood thinners. manic episodes or vision problems may occur in some people. may cause low sodium levels. the most common side effects are nausea, constipation and vomiting. brintellix did not have
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ask your doctor if brintellix could
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>> see what is happening this instant, from the raleigh eyewitness news center, abc 11 eyewitness news starts right now. joel: we start with tonight's i-team report. a frustrated wake county mom was to get it handicapped accessible vehicle she paid for in full. andrea: after waiting months, she got in touch with diane wilson.

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