finals. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] announcer: see what is happening this instant. abc 11 eyewitness news at 6:0011:00 -- 11:00 starts right now. andrea: tonight people are excited about the game and they

>> take a look behind me. this is what the bar looks like. probably what every bar in raleigh looks like. you can hear the excitement here. i am really impressed by this, andrea. all of these screens here, all of them are on march madness. it is really tight. a lot of teams are hoping for a big win tonight. >> i definitely think they can. >> it is going to be huge. i think they're going to play indiana next i think. that would be a big game. it is pretty cool. it would be pretty cool to see them in another round. >> and managers here in backyard he strode say they have been planning for weeks and they are expecting hundreds of people to show up at midnight so we will

reporting live, abc 11 eyewitness news. andrea: and the tar heels are still alive in the tournament advancing to the sweet 16. we have more from providence with joe mailers -- joe mazur. joe: by the time it takes to say, "we're going to disneyland," it was all over. the blue devils blistered the other team in the first half. yale mounted a furious comeback of a 15-0 run. the bulldogs eventually got a lead down. duke had gone into full in a mode. the blue devils hang on, 71-64.

us, we have one -- have won the last one. the weight of the world was on her kids and, brandon hitting those two free throws, it was just amazing. joe: this game mirrors what was happening last week, but in that game, the blue devils ended up losing to the irish. in rhode island, i'm joe mazur. andrea: joe, thank you. durham police are investigating after a man was hit at a bus stop. this happened shortly after 6:00 tonight. the man ran across the street to catch a bus, but that is when he was hit. his injuries are not life-threatening. firefighters are working to figure out what caused a fire in a raleigh home. it is off creekmore road.

this woman is now facing charges for shooting her father. should he led to an hours long standoff. she has been charged with assault with a deadly weapon. police were called to an apartment complex. her father showed up and there was a struggle between him and the woman and he was shot. when police got there, the woman barricaded herself in the apartment. neighbors heard all of the commotion. >> my dog was upset and i thought she just had to go out, and i was walking her and then i knew something had happened. andrea: christopher was taken to the hospital. his condition is not known right now. his daughter could face more than five years in prison if convicted. we are learning more about it

the man killed his wife before turning the gun on himself. officers responded to a welfare check and found the two people dead inside. fayetteville ended with one man dead. all of the people worked together at goodyear and police found one man's body in the may month of 2010. police initially charged hernandez but the case was dismissed for lack of evidence. eventually police obtained enough evidence to charge both hernandez and the nice green with murder. and a woman showed up at a hospital after drinking something that may have had chemicals in it and when police went to her home, they found

no charges have been filed yet. two americans are among many people killed in a suicide bombing in turkey. dozens were also hurt after a car bomb went off. no one immediately claimed responsibility. this bombing came just days after a deadly bombing in the capital city. a separatist group claimed responsibility for that attack. the u.s. service member was killed by enemy fire in iraq. the american marine was killed outside of isis-controlled mosul. his name has not been released. the apparent mastermind of the paris terrorist attack said that he drove the other attackers to his location and then abandoned his suicide vest. he was supposed to go to the soccer stadium. he was arrested yesterday in a

he has been on the run since the attacks that killed 130 people. one day after people rallied in support of a durham teenager, he is learning he will be deported. immigration and customs officials will not stop the deportation of the 19-year-old. he was picked up in january on his way to riverside high school and is being detained in georgia right now. he is going to be sent back to honduras tomorrow. butterfield released a statement saying that he was disappointed in the director's decision and urged her to reconsider. any choice -- chance of appeal will not happen until monday.

white house as now the primaries are just three days away. andrea: the mayors of raleigh and durham put on their masks tonight to help children get an education. they raised money to go to black colleges and universities. more than 500 civic and education leaders were there. our very own joel brown was the master of ceremony. the people at the ball said it was a fun evening out, but it was more about ensuring equality education. >> i am a graduate and i know the value of having opportunity

if you didn't have these schools, a lot of kids would not be there. >> we did this because there are so many wonderful and generous people who will come together and have a lot of fun but also deepen their pockets -- also reach into their pockets. andrea: a -- in indiana. we will tell you what happened. animal lovers lined up and hundreds of pets now have a home. but first, a live look outside of the raleigh eyewitness news center. 46 degrees. we are getting downright cold here in late march, art we, steve? steve. s.: a couple of spotty showers out there. overall, it is going to be just a chilly week.

around for next week. i will have the details coming up in a few minutes. andrea: all right, steve, thank you. here is a look at the powerball

tonight's powerball isannouncer: abc 11 is keeping you connected. find us on facebook, like our page, and keep yourself connected. andrea: a ball -- a bullet hole found near a shooting recently has been found not to be

but the family of the victim said that their own investigators contradict the raleigh pd accounts of the situation. it was found on the corner of the street where this new bullet hole was found. the da says she expects the fbi report on the shooting to be wrapped up next week. a hit and run in north county leaves a triad man dead. the 24-year-old was visiting a house when he went missing. he was found lying on the side of the road with no sign of the fear cold that hit him. anyone with information should call police. and a bus crashed carrying a high school basketball team. the lid of a drink came off in a woman's car and she lost control on interstate 65. she sideswiped a bus, causing it

the coach was airlifted and several others were taken to the hospital that none of their injuries were life-threatening. pope francis is expanding his social media reach today. the positive -- the pontiff joint instagram with the name franciscus. he already has more than 260,000 followers. pope francis is also on twitter. a weekend-long pet adoption drive was such a big success, it had to end one day earlier. -- one day early. we have more information on this shelter that started the event yesterday. because of the overwhelming response, the adoption event ended today because all of those pets found their forever homes. >> it has been such a successful adoption event and it has been so amazing to watch these

andrea: there are still some dogs and cats who were not part of the drive and some farm animals as well. the aspca says those animals are being placed at their shelters across the country, but they will hopefully find great homes as well. but that is incredible that people turned out in force. good stuff. steve. s.: that's wonderful. and in weather, not bad. some were showers out there tonight, we will show you doppler xp in a minute. look at this rain that we had from -- look at this temperature range we had from roxboro to fayetteville. if you feel like planting some showers -- some flowers, so far this month it has felt like spring up until yesterday with

don't forget between april 1 and april 11 is our average last freeze, so you may want to hold off on that just a little bit. again, we are a way a ways from our last freeze. friday we had an active weather day with a shower band coming in. tomorrow we will have more showers but it will not be very active. we do have a big day tomorrow. we could call it spring. verner equinox happens officially tonight. the first full day of spring will happen tomorrow by 30 minutes. there is a couple of spotty showers out there, mainly north of the triangle, especially in durham, getting some sprinkles out there. it will be cold tomorrow. we will struggle to hit 60. we will be in the 40's for highs. 70's by midweek and then maybe

outlying areas, i think you could freeze on tuesday morning, but i dig a lot of us will stay above that freezing mark by a few degrees. partly cloudy skies with a south wind at six colder -- six. colder tonight than it was at this time yesterday. temperatures falling down into the lower to mid 40's. in-house data suggest as low as 40 but a high of only 48 tomorrow with that breeze coming in from the moors -- from the north. as we go into wednesday, thursday, and friday, it warms up. we will see a few more showers overnight tonight and we will see low pressure develop along the coast over the next 36 hours and some snow near philadelphia

there could potentially be 3-6 inches of snow. for us, spotty to light showers overnight, that's about it. tomorrow morning, a sprinkle or two. that is about it. a breeze coming in from the north. our in-house model suggest spotty or light showers possible. another shower, maybe even a snowflake or two, but that is going to be a novelty, not a big deal, will be with us on monday. there will be showers tomorrow, but a cold front coming our way. temperatures for tonight will be near 40 degrees. cloudy skies. a couple of spotty showers around. highs in the upper 40's to near 50. we are talking a chilly day with a few showers early in the day, and by tomorrow night, another round of light showers. monday, a chilly breeze and back

average on wednesday, thursday, and friday, with our next chance of rain coming andrea: in on andrea: friday. -- coming in on friday. andrea: how quickly we forget how quickly it can change. thanks, steve. a big day for our local teams. duke is already moving on to the sweet 16. we will talk march madness next in sports. and a reminder that we want you

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lease a 2016 lincoln mkx for $399 a month only at your lincoln dealer. announcer: now abc 11 eyewitness news sports sponsored by your local toyota dealers. ngozi: playing in front of a home crowd has done wonders for the tar heels in the past. the heels have jjust lost one game in the year. carolina went into the break with a four-point lead and in the second half, they are hoping to hold off the friars's late charge. brice johnson was all but in the lead.

sweet 16. for the second time in the season, yale and duke go against each other, but the the stakes -- but the stakes were much higher because of the sweet 16. joe mosier -- mozul has more. joe: it seemed insurmountable to almost anybody who was watching. this game by and large was over, except it wasn't. a four touchdown lead, all but evaporated. this game explicitly came down to three flows -- free throws. >> we are very proud of winning

>> there were about 100 free throws from the free-throw line. i know i was there for a reason. joe: shocking given that duke came out hot like a firecracker. >> we had a good lead. i think we got a little too comfortable with it. this year, they kind of creep back in on us. joe: with two minutes to go in the first half, allen would try to take on gail by himself -- on yale by himself. once yale started cooking, the game was alive and well. it was a blueprint that allowed

>> for us ultimately, we survived to advance. joe: once again providing the emotional lift. he backed it up with some big plays in the match. >> we had a time earlier in the season it when we lost, the coach said, and i wasn't having it. i kept saying, no, this is not like that time. we are better than that. >> things had been great for us so far. we have a great emotional leader. we sensed that going down the stretch, we have to follow what he did and he backed it up with this play. joe: duke is now headed to the sweet 16 for the 26th time in school history, playing anaheim next week. ngozi: thank you, joe.

and we lookngozi: he has had an incredible season and so the player had of wrestling match and it was in