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hopefully, very soon, he will be free from that place. his attorney is focusing entirely on getting him back to durham while they appeal his case. tisha: new details emerging in the shooting of a durham police officer. that officer shot in the durham county jail for by a peeping suspect. angelica: police say the department standards division news looking into what happened, but they are not going into detail over what went wrong that led to the shooting. here's what we do know. overnight, danny mcmillan was arrested for peeping. at 3:30 this morning at the jail, his handcuffs were taken
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that is when mcmillan reached to the back of his pants for a gun that was still there. officer turner would to grab it. they went into a fight. the vet when off, hitting the officer in the stomach. officer turner has been treated and released. and now mcmillan is facing a list of charges. correct you are being charged with felony assault with a deadly weapon on a government official, felony assault on it -- with a deadly weapon with intent to kill, carrying a concealed gun, felony possession of a weapon by a prisoner. angelica: as far as what will happen to officer turner and any other officers involved, police will turn to that internal
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steve: turmoil reaching a boiling point in the leadership of the state republican party. a committee just voted to century party chairman. -- the committee just voted to censure the party chairman, saying that it was due to the upcoming convention. tisha: university employees rallying today after joining a union. non-faculty, full or part-time, joined the employees international union. the workers join faculty at nearly 40 schools in 11 states to join the sei you in the last three years. roller this month, the durham
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supporting the decision potential to unit that -- to uu nines. -- to unionize. steve: work on a monster sinkhole shot down a road. it popped up in january. the dot says underground colbert's failed. but 2 -- culverts failed. tisha: the state dot ready to verse the bubble on the nine miles prior mission myth. -- nine miles per hour cushion
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the dot says that law enforcement, beginning thursday, will target and ticket get anyone driving above the posted speed limit. steve: throw it all out. it is all over. tisha: go the speed limit. from burning rubber to burning food, duke energy investigating methane gas. steve: they have signed a contract with a new company that burns waste. it will build a new facility somewhere in eastern north carolina. the actual mental energy project to provide power to 10,000 homes every year. -- the excrement to energy project could provide power to 10,000 homes every year. a wake county democrat resigns, his decision and what republicans say he is running away from.
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raleigh. steve: thousands of runners getting ready to take part in the big rock 'n roll marathon in weight county. information just in -- in wake county. neo-information just in. and -- new information just in. chris: it's been cool the last couple of days, especially yesterday. if you are going to be out this evening, no frost early on, but we will be tumbling into the
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we will talk about the chanc tisha: the wake county commissioner resigning. state attorney general. the state democratic party says it will select a successor within the next month. the state gop says he resigned because he did not want to take a stand on the charlotte after morgan's. that -- charlotte transgender ordinance. steve: opponents want a special session saying that the ordinance threatens women and
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the question that is looming out there -- will there be a special session? ed: we know the state house is ready to come to raleigh. love the fifth senate hasn't announced whether its members are ready to -- ready. they were flanked by boxes of petition sound -- petition signed by 4001 purely means. >> please, governor mccrory, we implore you to repeal this bathroom or nose.
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and: root -- ed: -- question i am not saying that transgender's the creditors. i am saying that there are countless men who will use this as an excuse to pray on children and women. >> being a teenage girl is confusing. what about my rights to privacy? fitzgerald agreed. >> if the general assembly does not stand for them, a president will be set for municipalities issues.
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they are pushing for a special session because of something based on fear and not on facts. ed: they say protecting the privacy and the safety of citizens is why we pay taxes. tisha: so much emotion surrounding this issue. runners are getting ready to rock and probably did what the upcoming marathon means for drivers. joel: dude wrapping up more -- steve: duke racking up more frequent flyer miles.
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they helped build solar panels on the homes of low-income housing in sacramento. when they came back from sunny california, it was cold weather. steve: a little chill in the air today, but it will warm up down the road. chris: absolutely. you only have to wait until 10:00, 11:00, 12:00 tomorrow. be as warm as we were today. here's the good news. look at our highs tomorrow, mid 60's. close to 80 thursday. his little bit of a setback, but up for this coming weekend. here's the bad news. effect for tonight. temperatures into the low mid
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any plants on the patio, you them up. it is not unusual that have frost in march, but our growing season started so early. very nice out there, just a little on the cool side. humidity is low at 25%. there is a westwind at 13. the wind weld die down. 59 degrees in fayetteville. with the wind dying down, temperatures will fall fast once the sun sets. still chilly through the midwest. 70's up in south dakota. denver at 72. and that warm air isn't going to waste any time getting here. you will feel it tomorrow as a southwest wind takes over. a sunny but cool afternoon today. quite a bit of snow from boston
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a spring storm. that is winding down for them. mostly clear skies against some scattered frost. temperatures near freezing new or the virginia border. that scattered frost from 4:00 to 9:00 a.m. 36 at 7:00 a.m. temperatures continue up into the low-end mid-sixties through the afternoon. so a nice recovery. a south's -- a southwest wind at five to 10 miles per hour. once he gets to our coast, a southwest wind takes over, combined with a fairly strong march sun angle will modify our air mass into the mid-sixties. and then into the mid-70's wednesday. we will stay warm through thursday. warm and dry. this cold front gets here on thursday. looks like there's a evening and thursday night with some showers. mainly thursday night and
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highest tomorrow, mid-60's. nice recovery from what we had today, especially yesterday. rain chances zero through thursday afternoon. scattered showers around and nation an end in the second half of friday. saturday looks dry. a question mark for sunday. there is the seven day, warm, warmer thursday. friday, we start to dry out. saturday, 60 day -- 65. sunday, most of the day looks and dry, but rain can be arriving sunday evening, sunday night it does -- into monday morning.
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after tonight, they go back up in a hurry. tisha: very nice. we need a guaranteed to dry easter morning. steve: it was breaking news here just before 6:00. gunfire erupting in a mcdonald's. the latest from this craigslist deal gone bad. what police are saying about the suspect and how it all and down. we will have that right here at 11:00. tisha: mark armstrong visiting us for a couple of days. mark: north carolina will be laying in philly with a chip on his shoulder.
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that goes without saying. the pond has not been kind to the blue devils are both occasions were sweet 16's. most recently, a loss to arizona in 2011. i was there for that one. the measure will have them covered at the anaheim ducks this week. the east regional final, it should make for a wildly entertaining game on friday night. the heels are carrying a chip on their shoulder after providence repeatedly questioned their toughness over the weekend. >> i think everybody take us for some tough guys. sometimes, it gets like that.
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-- >> we are not the same team as we were. mark: brice johnson help to break that game open. it was joe l jameson sideline that of the internet as soon as it aired. james is a man of a thousand memorable races for the tar heels. [laughter] >> is that the essence of your personality? >> i guess so. i didn't even think about it. >> what in the world? [laughter] >> p is a character. [laughter] -- he is a character. >> i love him for it. mark: i think we all do.
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he is a horde frog at heart a having played for tcu for 14 seasons. tcu has only been to seven turn immense in nearly 80 years of playing best kebab. they last made the field in 1998. he will be a motivated coach trying to bring his alma mater back to the top. steve: that's good stuff. tisha: sarah court. the news continues on abc11.com, the abc 11 mobile app and facebook and twitter. steve: an exclusive interview with president obama, making his around the world. you will see it live in and -- in a couple of minutes. we hope to see that here for the news at 11:00. until then, have a great
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with president obama. and right after, my exclusive interview with the president. we asked, what was said inside that room with raul castro. you were in that room, do you trust president castro? do you believe that he truly wants change here? we also asked the president about criticism back home and the arrest of disdepartments right here in cuba, even as he arrived, as he now prepares for his historic speech to the people of cuba. tonight, donald trump with. defending his supporters. what he's now saying tonight, and we ask president obama about trump's prediction of riots, if the republican party tries to stop him. good evening tonight from havana, where we witnessed and historic moment today. president obama standing side by side with cuban president raul castro.
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