there's a new business popping up in the capital city. "carolina kernels" is having its grand opening today. columbia mayor steve benjamin and councilman sam davis will be hosting today's ribbon cutting ceremony to welcome the popcorn shop to main street. that's this morning at 11:00. forget movie theater butter popcorn, carolina kernels will have over 60-gourmet flavors including cookies 'n' creme, key lime chocolate drizzle and toffee. >>> rochelle: taking to the skies, there's a push to stop airplane seats from shrinking. u.s. senator charles schumer administration should create a minimum seat size and distance between seat rows on airplanes. senator schumer claims the distance between seats has shrunk from 35-inches to about 31-inches and the average seat size has shriveled to 17-inches. no elbow room. >>> rochelle: we can't get enough of that oscar buzz. eric has more on the academy awards. >> eric: a character brought to life on the silver screen is getting some recognition. and many are left puzzled over an oscar snub. abc's jason

a beautiful day in the capital city but the soon comes the rain. meteorologist ben tanner joins us from our first capital city but the soon comes the rain. meteorologist ben tanner joins us from our first alert wx center. ben a cold front approaching the state will deliver a few late day showers tuesday into wednesday morning with 1/4" rain totals possible. cooler temperatures with partly thursday.will watch for another few showers late thursday into friday morning. presidential candidates are at odds as the race for the white house heats up. tomorrow 12 states head to the polls to vote for who they think should vie for commander-in-chief. despite their differences in campaigns -- all of the presidential candidates do agree on one thing -- super tuesday could make or break them with plenty of a total of 595 republican delegates are up for grabs of the 1,237 needed to clinch the gop nomination. a new c-n-n-o-r-c poll today shows donald trump with a sizable lead, getting 49 percent of the republican primary vote. on the other side of the isle -- sand

. >> reporter: i am here in the capital city of brussels, it is eerily quiet as many remain shocked, heartbroken and reeling from the devastating belgian authorities made an alarming discovery as the search continues for those responsible. a devastating attack in the heart of europe left the city of brussels physically and emotionally paralyzed as authorities continue the hunt for the remaining suspect in a trail of isis terrorists. the two wearing black with no effort to hide their faces are believed to have been the suicide bombers. with devices hidden in their officials. each with a glove on the left hand perhaps to hide the bombs trigger, according to one fbi official. >> whether it is wires, strings, a button, something is in their bed when they move their hand, it actually makes the bomb go off. >> reporter: a third man whom authorities say got away and is being sought has a hat pulled down over his face pushing what may have been the third bomb that did not detonate. rates across the capital city following the attacks produced nearby neighborhood where authorities discovered a

only in 2013, within weeks it had infected three capital cities with a combination of 3 million. so that's a really important reason why it was such huge and arguably, i think the zika virus was also taking advantage of urbanization and we had zika virus probably in 1940's and maybe before that but it was mostly in forest and and it was carried by mosquito and that mostly bit animals so people didn't really get a lot of zika virus. right now in the americas zika virus is being carried by mosquito that specializes in living in human has been tagses, it can actually breed in a drop of water in a bottle cap so all of our plastic garbage that we leave in urban areas are perfect environments for this environment to live in and they only bite humans. the zika virus got into and started to explode too. specially in the tropics have expanded. and then of course, we carry these things around. rivers and here in the united states and of course we connected all of water ways by using steam engines so in 1825 the capable -- canal had opened into canada and down to new york city and into the

none of that is here in downtown raleigh. 40 and south saunders sunrise over the capital city looking nice there. drive times are on time. durham freeway and alston clear, 540 eastbound 10 minutes 70 to 1 and 85 northbound finde. barbara: it is 6:23 and 41 degrees. the new bugatti unveiled. john: the fastest car ever. millions of tkhrarsdollars this car will cost you. >> do you want to be in the abc11 wants to send you to the live premiere. out how to win (donkey sound) (elephant sound) there's a big difference between making noise, (tapping sound) and making sense. (elephant sound) (donkey sound) when it comes to social security, we need more than lip service. our next president needs a real plan to keep social security strong. (elephant noise) hey candidates. enough talk. give us a plan. feel secure in your dentures... feel free to be yourself all day. just switch from denture paste to sea-bond denture adhesive seals. holds stronger than the leading paste all day... without the ooze. feel secure. be yourself. with stronger, clean sea-bond. incredible bladder protection now comes wit

still moving into the capital city. two the city of medicine in durham, durham freeway seven minutes 40 to 15. 540 westbound northern wake county to problems capital to 70 to your minutes and 40 eastbound five minutes u.s. 64 to u.s. 70. good start to hump day. barbara: 5:53 and 61 degrees. starbucks getting ready for spring. john: the tpuif you drink named barbara: a special pop-up pub to is available for ios and android. barbara: starbucks is celebrating the return of spring cherry blossom frappe chino with strawberries appear cream with white chocolate sauce. it is available at participating stores through march 20, the first day of spring. that is this sunday. >> maybe a few calories there. barbara: a couplement john: a blast from the past helping you celebrate st. patrick's day. barbara: they are getting back together tomorrow. they are throwing up a pop-up pb at market hall and city market. they closed in november after 1 years. you may remember attachment it opens at 3:00 p.m. and it shuts down at 1:00 friday morn

at least 13 dead in what appears to be a series of coordinated attacks in belgium's capital city. metro station after a reported explosion there. this happening during the morning rush hour in brussels. and at a station not far from the headquarters of the eu, you can see the damage there from one of the subway trains. more blasts at brussels airport as belgium raises its terror alert to its highest level. >>> welcome back on this tuesday. 6:15. we're keeping you posted on breaking news from belgium where at least 13 people are dead in a series of deadly attacks on its capital city's airport and subway stations. right now everyone in brussels being told to stay where they are as they investigate who might have done this. here's a look at the aftermath of the explosions inside the brussels international airport. witnesses saying one of the explosions may have been a suicide bomber. a series of explosions rocked the city during the busy dozens of people were hurt there were 13 fatalities, that number may go up a witness describes some of the damage left behind. >> windows were blown out o

she and her family now live in seoul, south korea's dynamic capital city. but they're from one of the most isolated and repressive nations on earth, where she spspent mostst of her childhood starving. narrator: chanyang grew in north korea, also known as the democratic peoples'' republic of korea, or dprk, which in the 1990s suffered anan immense fame due to the e political policiesf the country's leaders. according to united nations estimates, up to two million pepeople died of starvation. north koreans risked their lives to shoot this present day footage inside the country. narrator: the kim family, who've ruleled north korea a since e te 1940s, have used the state to build the country's military might, including, allegedly, nuclear weapons, instead of feeding their people. the governmement, both tn n and nowow, runs the country with an iron fist, any dissent penalized with torture, incarceration, or death. ssokeel: northororean people basicacay understatand that ifif they express the wrong kinind of thoughts, the whole family can be punished. this could

several explosions damaged the airport in brussels and at least one nearby metro station in the capital city overnight. that city now on lockdown. we have new video from twitter. showing the chaos that unfolded moments after the blasts at the airport. you can see travelers running from the building. the airport's windows blown out by the force of the explosion, smoke rising from the rooftop. many reports coming in, that one of the explosions was a suicide bomber. explosions happened inside the airport's departure hall. here's a look at the damage from inside that building. hundreds of people were there at the time to check in. this happened during the morning rush hour over there in brussels. overnight belgium raised its terror alert to its maximum level. all flights to brussels now diverted. we're also told that london and paris airports elevated their terror alert levels as well. >>> it's near the headquarters personnel told to stay in their offices or stay home. this is days after the prime suspect in the paris attacks was arrested in brussels, saleh abdelslam. he told investigators he wa

it was supposed to land in the capital city. we are live tonight in sanford, shannon butler, channel 9 eyewitness news. >> as you can imagine, family members who anxiously waited for the passengers to arrive were very emotional when we talked to them. you can listen to their interviews and what the passengers told the families at wftv.com. click on the video section. >>> we just got the latest update from health officials and there are no new cases of zika in florida this afternoon. yesterday, health officials confirmed four new cases, one of those in osceola county. the total cases in florida stands at 71. nearly all of those patients got the virus while traveling out of the country. >>> an armed home invasion right across from the ucf campus in seminole county has students on >> investigators still don't know who was behind it. kathy belich is there. do investigators have any leads? >> reporter: not right now. investigators could not get a good enough description from the victim of the gun man to draw up any sketches. the repo

the explosion ripping through a major capital city. this bus, blown to pieces. and gunmen storming a popular beach resort. >>> severe storms, weather

more sunshine on the way and temperatures in the mid 70's in the capital city. across the region, 75 in durham. 77, smithfield. 76, pinehurst. 77, page -- fayetteville. you will see the 70's in roxboro will today. 75 in rocky mount. tonight, patchy fog. better chance south of the triangle. overnight lows in the upper 40's to the low 50's very first alert seven-day forecast showing temperatures tomorrow in the mid-70's again. thursday, 78. we will be in the 80's in the sandhills on thursday. more cloud cover for friday. saturday is the st. patrick's day parade. it still is showing rain holding showers possible saturday into sunday as we spring forward. not a lot of rain. less than half an inch. it will not be a soaker. hit or miss showers. the rest of the work week is dry and warm. john: spring may just still struggling with the burden barbara:john: welcome back. 49 degrees. barbara: with temperatures expected to reach the 70's today, it is easy to forget how john: the brutal winter is still causing some financial burden. amber: for residents in need, there are s

right now and the capital city we have a lot of sunshine. it is 74 degrees. we should be but a low gap by winds are out of the southwest at 10 miles per hour. we are on track for high as 76 degrees. we will have a low of 54. tomorrow we will have a high of 65 degrees. we will take a look at the forecast up in a few minutes. >>> it is the most important day so far the 2016 presidential election. voters in a dozen state head to the polls for super tuesday. we have more xdof what is at stake. >> reporter: voters are lining up at polling stations on super tuesday in what is expected to be a record turnout. polls show donald trump with a significant lead in is a poll is. -- in his opponents. >> there are some people who are supporting him but they cannot wait to vote for him. >> reporter: ted cruz believes he will win his home state of texas hoping to make a two-man race. >> what we will see is that donald trump and me coming out with a significant chunk of delegates. >> reporter: democrats are already in a two-person contest. hillary clinton is hoping to win a kn

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 n

for the rest of today in the capital city temperature by lunchtime of 51. rain ending and it will be breezy all day with temperatures low 50's in wake county and across the region highest temperatures afternoon 52 garner, 51 siler city. 54 smithfield and 52 durham and 52 sanford and 55 fayetteville and 54 goldsboro. 49 henderson, 52 rocky mount. 48 roxboro. tonight temperatures across the area back into the 0's for 30 raleigh and 33 fayetteville. first alert seven-day forecast powered by accuweather, tomorrow temperatures back into the 50's. 53. clouds build in. thursday night into friday overnight rain and friday clear out and 51. saturday, sunday climbing and 70's by next week. i don't mooned the rain when it is overnight and that will be again tomorrow night into friday. barbara: just drive safely. don: wet roads in spots. amber: yes, that is the case this morning that we are seeing and good wednesday morning. barbara: pretty color on you. hump day. amber: yes, it is hump day. we have police activity to show you. you can see it a little bit with the d.o.t

air force one landed in south america with the first family preparing to spend the day in the capital cityuenos aires. as serena marshall reports, his stop in cuba is still very much the focus. >> reporter: president obama's final day in havana, markds by far away about the brussels attack. hours later addressing the cuban people but only a brief mention of the bombing. >> the thoughts and the prayers of the american people are with the people of belgium. >> reporter: before continuing his cuban push. >> i have come here to bury the last remnant of the cold war in the americas. >> reporter: the president pleating with dissidents and using baseball diplomacy as the two leaders watched, joked and took in the baseball traditions, obama telling espn why he didn't go home immediately as political rivals suggested. on a day marked by tragedy watching the game was so important. >> what they can doing is scare and make people afraid and disrupt our daily lives and divide us. and as long as we don't allow that to happen, we're going to be okay. >> reporter: ending his day in cuba with castro seeing

we're much better today not just a few capital cities but hundreds of airports and in fact, you can make a map of all cities in the world by a direct flight this looks like a pebble to expand our word pro where and when the epidemic will strake between effective the end unaffected cities. and with the way they expand today. is to drive the pathogens into human populations it is what we do about it. them political defenses and medical the fences to fight back and to contain these pathogens. spending a lot of time to dissect and coming down into canada from cholera to do reconnaissance will this threaten the city of new york? and that collected data shows a clear picture all alone the erie canal a very clear picture but they turned it if the eric city to the empire state it is a huge part which would have been the obvious thing to do. son of dr. beck said it is contagious but it is a 2,000 year-old theory that basically it is the bad smell. they believe those on the job and the poor and the immigrants. this wasn't just bad mouthing them in the press. so i've lost my train of thought. i thi

we begin with the terror attacks in brussels. 4 dead after the targets in belgium's capital city.he terrorists attacked the airport and subway system. >> the immediate shock after the attack.

we do it much better today with our flight network we have not just a few capital cities with airportsbut hundreds of airports and tens of thousands of connections between all the airports. in fact, and this is a map i have in the book, you can make a map of all of them corrected by a direct flights and if you run a simulated pandemic on a map like that it basically looks like a pebble dropped into the sea expanding outwards because you couldn't predict where and when an epidemic will strike simply by measuring the number of correct flights between infected and noninfected cities, so that's how influential network is on the way the epidemic spread today. so those are some of the ways i talk about in about how modern life really increases the risk of these epidemics and its driving pathogens into human population. but the other part of the book is about what we do about it because of course we don't take these things lying down. we have political differences and medical differences and all kinds of things that we can do to fight back, to contain these pathogens. so it's interesting to l

basketball fans from around the country will visit the capital city for the first two rounds of the ncaa basketball tournament. p.n.c. arena is hosting games today and saturday. you will see tournament banners and local businesses hope for an economic boost. in 2014 when raleigh last hosted the tournament we are told 17,000 people visited greater raleigh. the executive director of the greater raleigh sports alliance says the tournament generated more than $4 million in direct visitor spending. the alliance is asking restaurants to hang up posters, offer food and drink specials and have tv's tuned to the games. if you don't have tickets you can be part of the excitement here. you are looking at this open to it will be opened about 2 1/2 hours before each game and part of the hoops and hotsfest. they will have food trucks, games, activities and you can come without having a ticket. live in raleigh, gloria rodriguez, abc 11 eyewitness news. barbara: expected to be on schedule today. the problems that had to be addressed. john: message from the highway patrol if you plan to party it st. patr

the bombing comes just one day after a deadly car bombing in the capital city. a separatist group has claimed responsibility for that attack. today, the pope joined you can see him sending his first photo here. the pope says he wants to walk with followers along the way of god's work on the internet. he already has almost $260,000 -- almost 260,000 followers. and you really came through as you joined us to host the annual abc 11 together matchup madness bone marrow donation drive. the goal was to sign people up to find a match that could potentially save a life. >> along with some familiar faces were those that might not be as recognizable but are perhaps the most important part of this event because they have loved ones who is very lives depend up on finding a match. this couple was raising old son. >> this is very life-threatening and he has a cell disease where the cells attack each other and it destroys bone marrow. >> little cameron is trying to get healthy enough to get a bone marrow transplant, it in which case the family is hoping for a match. that is wh

the explosion ripping through a major capital city. this bus, blown to pieces. and gunmen storming a popular beach resort. >>> severe storms, weather alerts. rivers hitting historic highs in the south. and a tornado threat for millions as we come on the air. >>> super bug. the tiny new weapon in the fight

anchor: a more peaceful event as bernie sanders brought his campaign to the capital city. sanders touched on key points on his platform. he got a standing ovation when he talked about raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour and providing free tuition to public he said he would pay for his proposals by taxing wall street speculators and the wealthy. he said he would be the best candidate to face off against donald trump. mr. sanders: you want a candidate who is going to defeat donald trump in november. i am the candidate. almost every poll shows me beating troubled by double digits and almost always by a greater margin then hillary clinton. anchor: he ended the rally by vote early. turnout, he has prevailed. tisha: tuesday's primary means in our state. the hillary clinton will appear on monday. ted cruz will make a stop in fayetteville monday. and donald trump plans to hold a you can learn about the details at abc 11.com. anchor: more than for some before thousand people -- than 4374,000 people have cast billets. he said he did not see signage that explains voter id and he

the explosion ripping through a major capital city. gunmen storming aopular beach resort. >>> severe storms, weather alerts alerts. and a tornado threat for millions as we come o the air. >>> super bug. against the zika outbreak. the radical new step scientists are now taking. >>> jam session. a man accused of jamming cell phones. now facing charges. and the big questioio tonight, is your cell phone safe? >>> good evening, thanks for joining us on this sunday. i'm tom llamas. we begin with the potential do or die showdown just two days away. donald trump in an actual battle at his rallies. chaos erupting in kansas city saturday night, police using pepper spray on demonstrators. and tuesday, vot@ing in five states, ohio, john kasich out front, with 39%, followed by trump and cruz. back kasich. and david wright starts us off tonight. >> it's just tear gas. >> reporter: forget occupy wall street, these days, it's more like occupy donald trump. >> get him out of here. get him out. send him back to bernie. send him back. >> reporter: the la

for one of the suspects as they continue to search homes in a suburban community outside of the capital city. >> two dozen people from our area brussels now. there is a study a broad trip. we learned more. >> reporter: kent state is on spring break. the students and faculty members in belgium are there for a study abroad and overseas for six days. ken state associate dean says this is the first time students have been overseas during an attack like this and got on the phone with the group as soon as he heard about it and breathing a sigh of relief when he heard they were safe. the group in the hotels when the attacks happened and they didn't see or hear a thing. >> i would have liked to have them leave brussels, everything is locked down so they can but >> the group will travel to luxembourg and back home on the 28th. the plans have not changed as of yet. >>> this just into our newsroom. one local school shutting its doors because of food poisoning. there is two confirmed cases and another being looked into by the portage county health department. >> the heroin problem in northeast ohio is a

basketball fans but for all basketball basketball fans from around the country will visit the capital city for the first two rounds of the ncaa basketball tournament. p.n.c. arena is hosting games today and saturday. you will see tournament banners downtown and local businesses hope for an economic boost. in 2014 we raleigh last hosted the tournament 17,000 people visited greater raleigh. the executive director of the greater raleigh sports alliance said it generated more than $4 million in direct visitor spending. they are asking restaurants to hang up posters and have food and drunk specials and have tv's tuned to the games. we did checked a there are still tickets available for the tournament. if you want to come but don't have tickets there will be a fan experience back here. we will tel we will tell you about that in the next hour. ted to be on schedule today. the problems that had to be addressed. john: a message from the highway patrol if you plan to party this st. patrick's day. don: good morning to you. as you head out we've got dry conditions across the carolinas. we will talk ab

. >> deadly explosion rocking turkey's capital city today. the ankara governor's office says the blast killed 27. hurt 75. believe that a car bomb went off closer to several bus stops near the city's main square. turkish news channel there, said several vehicles caught fire when a car slammed into the bus. in fear of a second explosion, police sealed off the area. there is more carnage today. this time in western africa, at a resort town on the ivory coast. the country's president said, 14 civilians, two soldiers are among the dead. ivory coast officials also said the six attackers had been killed. but it's still unclear if the gunmen were affiliated with any militanangroups. this happened at a weekend retreat. beaches, bars, hotels, popular with westerners. the u.s. department is saying no americans known to be dead or even injured. >>> thousand of people taking to the streets in rio today to demand the impeachment the brazilian president rosa. they stormed the beach, carrying banners and holding dolls, depicting them as prison inmates. in th

president obama speaking to the government and citizens of communist cuba on the island's capital city. the first sitting president to visit cuba since calvin coolidge, back in 1978. so with when all of the ceremonies, photo ops and speeches were over, was it all just political theater? or did the president really

it is moving out and will continue to. 37 in the capital city, dew point 35, 93% humidity and north wind six miles an hour. a live look at r.d.u. 37 right now and 84% humidity. northeast wind three miles an hour. from across the region 34 sanford. 36 goldsboro, 41 fayetteville. 39 clinton and 33 roanoke rapids. we have a bit of a wind-chill. that is just affecting humans, doesn't affect the rain so won't change it to snow but it feels like the 20's in roxboro, oxford and louisburg. rocky mount wind chill is 26. the rain will continue to move we will so you what is going on forecast model. by lunchtime mostly cloudy and through the afternoon and evening 6:00 tonight we clear out and dry out and should be a nice evening. if you have plans on this friday night. tomorrow a mixture of clouds. we have a rain tkraofp or two saturday night or sunday. but 7:00 a.m. sunday it is gone and warmer temperatures coming up for sunday. that low pulling out today. the high to the west. temperatures in the 50's this afternoon. this is the next fast mover saturday night. that will give us showers saturday e

david: what do folks from djibouti think of all this attention from folks moving to the capital city? monte: the government of djibouti definitely wants to capitalize on all of this. they want to leverage the interest that has come from the militaries into private sector interest. they have a plan that they want djibouti to turn into another dubai. that is there stated aim. within 20 years, they hope that djibouti can be a regional capital for free trade. as for normal djibouti residents, it is a mixed reaction. for example, when the americans came in and started to expand the military base a couple of years ago in 2013, they announced a $1.5 million program to really expand the u.s. base there. they hired foreign workers from other countries such as the philippines to do that work, and there were protests at the base against the u.s. that led to a change in hiring practices and there was a little bit of tension there. a lot of other people see those militaries is something that can provide stability for the country. we mentioned a lot of countries of the neighboring area that have lo

then through the afternoon a few high clouds and 81 the temperature today in the capital city at 2:00. mid 80's by 5:00. looking at the region this afternoon, the temperatures will climb 84 in garner, 84 cary and 85 dismissed and 83 siler city -- 84 holly springs. fayetteville 86. 85 pinehurst and 85 lillington. 85 goldsboro. 84 tarboro. 80 south hill and wake forest 83. tonight temperatures back into the 50's. 55 durham and 57 southern pines and 58 fayetteville and 57 goldsboro. first alert seven-day forecast powered by accuweather severely temperatures tomorrow into the mid 70's. exercise. on saturday 58 and nothing but sunshine. sunday the first day of spring 56 degrees but overnight lows in the 30's and it will rain on sunday and mountains could get snow. monday 55 and tuesday pack to 61. feeling cooler. 30 degrees colder by the weekend. john: interesting. don: first day of spring was like winter and first day of spring will feel like went. >> north carolina set to begin the road to file four tomorrow. barbara: we will reveal their first round opponent and how you john: indiana jo

by lunchtime 77 and two the evening horse we will see temperatures around 80 degrees in the capital city. across region 79 holly springs. 78 durham, 80 smithfield. normal high is 62. we will be 80 in fayetteville. 78 sanford. 79 pinehurst and 75 south hill, 77 roanoke rapids and 79 rocky mount. tonight temperatures across the area back into the 50's. 56 raleigh and 58 fayetteville and 56 durham. first alert seven-day forecast powered by accuweather tomorrow temperatures back into the 70's, fear 80 under poke -- near 80. st. patrick's parade we will be there if you can't be we will have it on abc11.com. we spring forward saturday night and tuesday, wednesday, fear 80 and st. patrick's day is on thursday thursday. for that day we should see showers and temps in the mid 70's. every day of the next seven well before average for this time of year. barbara: crazy. i like it. john: hope it continues into summer. amber: we will have something to complain about. you know friends in leow places. there is a concert this weekend. barbara: somebody gets it interview him from abc11.com. amber: garth b

barbara: capital city is ready for march madness. the sir walter raleigh statue decked out. you want to see him you can find raleigh convention center. tar heels lagging behind winthrop until the bottom many r of the seventh and then this goes to left center and then ryan with a screamer to center and they win 11-6. john: the wolfpack now 7-2 after hosting u. tphfpltnc-wilmington. shepherd continued his hot streak with his fifth homer in the last favorhraslast five games. they win 5-2. warmer weather causing trouble for dog sledding races. they are bringing in snow to give the teams enough. even with that they shortened the starting leg in anchorage from 11 miles to three. muddy conditions were worse when barbara: u.s. news and world report gives the triangle love. here is keep ken -- kendis gibson and reena ninan. >> topping america's money trouble for a major retailer. sports authority is filing for bankruptcy and announced plans to close or sell about 140 stories, nearly one third of locations. gun sales are climbing. we know because background collection are on a pace to

president obama speaking to the government and citizens of communist cuba on the island's capital city. the first sitting president to visit cuba since calvin coolidge, back in 1978. so with when all of the ceremonies, photo ops and speeches were over, was it all just political theater? or did the president really usher in a new era?

tonight a chance to see how the team would bounce back in canada's capital city of ottawa. early first period, a little bit later the caps on a power that gives them home ice advantage in the plofrs. >>> assistant player and coach at kansas from 1984 to 1992. on thursday he'll face his alma mater in the sweet 16. now the rest of the team gets a chance. >> we want our guys to experience this. it's first and second round is nice, it's fun, it's great. but the sweet 16 of course takes it to another level and of course the final four takes it to an entirely different level. start the home opener april 7th against the marlins. it's a smart move as the nats try to keep him happy. baseball season is upon us. opening day very close. >> are you excited? >> i love baseball. it's the best part of spring. >> that's your favorite? >> it is. because it gets the grass going. there's nothing like a nice afternoon at the ballpark. >> i hope i get to go. we'll see. >>> still ahead tonight at 11:00, coming up the alert system that is in the works that would jolt you al wake if you started to

least 30 people have died following the attacks at the airport and a metro station in belgium's capital city. >> john: kristen miranda is live in the alert center getting the latest developments from overnight. >> kristen: big developmentses this morning in the attacks that killed 34 people. let's start with the investigation, two of the suspected suicide bombers, the been identified this morning. khalid and brahim bakraoui, wrote, twobrothers blew themselves up. they are searching for the third suspect, the guy on the right side. this his the deadliest attack in decades. all night police conducted raids. khalid el bakraoui, according to a tv station, rented an apartment raided by police last week in the operation that led authoritieses to the top paris attack suspect, salah abdeslam. the airport and several brussels metro stations are closedded today, if we want to look at apple tv i can show you the statement from the brussels airport, about the closure of the airport. they say following the attacks, there will be no flights in and out of brussels airport because we have no axles to the ac

targeting the european countries since september 2014 when a fatwa was made against european capital cities. the european countries have been struggling i think to coordinate the effort to thwart this threat. that's within countries itself within europe, but also across countries. it's difficult enough for police agencies to link up and integrate with their intelligence services to to work across country, across europe where the boundaries are so porous in modern times. >> pelley: is it possible for european intelligence to keep eyes on every one of the suspects that they'd like to watch? >> reporter: one of the biggest challenges from this threat has been the volume and the volumes of individuals and the numbers of individuals that have actually traveled. if you go back to al qaeda, it was a small number of individuals from europe traveling to the fatah region of pakistan and afghanistan, whereas now you're seeing hundreds, thousands of extremists from across european states and indeed other countries around the world, north african states, and elsewhere, traveling to syria. and what we're

basketball fans will make the way to the capital city. steve: they will play host to the first two rounds of the 2016 tournament next thursday and saturday. signs of the tournament are on display right now in downtown raleigh. we checked in with the greater raleigh sports alliance to scout their game plan. tisha: it is asking restaurants to get in the spirit by hanging up posters. it also tells us they want restaurants to offer food and drink specials on march 18th, the day between the two games, and of course, have all of their tournament games. in 2014 when raleigh last posted the tournament, we are told that greater raleigh area, and the tournament generated more than $40 million. steve: we are ready to cash in on that. now we just need some perfect weather. in the forecast, things are looking good. tisha: yeah, chris has been doing a good job at giving us sunshine and warm temperatures. chris: thanks, i try. it is going to last longer, the warmer temperatures. i think next week, we will get a stronger front that will cool and down, bu

the explosion ripping through a major capital city. gunmen storming a popular beach resort. >>> severe storms, weather alerts alerts. and a tornado threat for millions as we come on the air. >>> super bug. tiny new weapon in the fight against the zika outbreak. the radical new step scientists are now taking. >>> jam session. a man accused of jamming cell phones. now facing charges. and the big question tonight, is your cell phone safe? >>> good evening, thanks for i'm tom llamas. we begin with the potential do or die showdown just two days away. donald trump in an actual battle at his rallies. chaos erupting in kansas city saturday night, police using pepper spray on demonstrators. and tuesday, voting in five states, ohio, john kasich out front, with 39%, followed by trump and cruz. rubio urging his supporters to back kasich. and david wright starts us off tonight. >> it's just tear gas. >> reporter: forget occupy wall street, these days, it's more like occupy donald trump. >> get him out of here. get him out. send him back to bernie.

which include mandatory inspections of cargo and transfer of small arms and light weapons into the capital city. >>> investigators could be closer to finding the closure of one of aviation's biggest mysteries. a piece of debris found along the east african coast may be from the malaysia alines plane that disappeared two years ago. the piece cld be a horizontal stabilizer from a boeing 777. nbc 6 getting this new video of it. mh-370 is the only missing boeing 777 airplane. authorities lost track of it. the mystery part is being transported to malaysia where experts will look to see if it did come fro that doomed flight. >>> the department of transportation banned the use of e-cigarettes on commercial flights to and from the u.s. that new rule will apply to passengers on all u.s. and from or within the united states. the company plans to ban all e-cigareees. the new rule does not include the use of m micalevices such as nebraskaulizers. >>> still ahead, did a dad cross the line in a schoolyarar fight? a parent is calling fall off fists flew at a florida high school and a dad jumps in the middle o

warm air returns to the north and we will see warmer today lots of blue skies to start in the capital city, warming quickly. 9:00 we are at 42. lunchtime we are at 58 and this afternoon 65 with more sunshine on the way. typical temperatures for this time of year. highs across the region today, 67 smithfield, 65 durham, 65 wendell, 64 siler city. slide south and fayetteville to 68, 68 goldsboro, 66 sanford, 70 lumberton. 60 south hill. 62 henderson, 61 roxboro. 67 today in tarboro. 66 wilson. tonight 40's for overnight lows. clear. normal is 41. we will be 42 raleigh. 45 fayetteville. 41 durham and 30's in rocksxbororoxboro. first alert seven-day forecast powered by accuweather throwing temperatures tomorrow 76. thursday 79 appearnd chance of showers into friday. 68 friday and saturday 65 and partly sunny. sunday 67, chance of showers s night into monday but sunday morning dry. this morning the coldest of the next seven. barbara: good, because he has lots of deliveries. john: a breaking update about the explosions in brussels. barbara: authorities are telling everyone to stay where they are

. >>> overnight we learned the death toll in turkey has grown to 37, in the capital city. the u.s. is now condemning the both. the turkish government says two suicide bombers planted it near the ankara main square. >>> al-qaeda is claiming responsibility for a attack in the ivory coast. everybody the weekend gunmen stormed three hotels, ended with 14 civilians and two security officers killed along with the six attackers the al- qaeda branch in north africa claimed responsibility for the attack on-line. this is now the third attack on a tourist center in a west african country since november. >>> a shooting at a florida gun range has six people recovering this morning including four children. deputies tell abc action news that shooting saturday morning in marion county was accidental. they say a 21-year-old man was loading an antique shot gun and fired it by mistake. even though he was not pointing it at anyone the bullet hit the floor, bounced and hit the group. >> weapons are something we need to be very responsible with and treat with utmost respect at all times when handling th

major developments on the s >>> developing overseas, turkey's capital city rocked by an explosion in its sixth suicide bombing over the past year. today's attack happened on a busy pedestrian area with tourists. at least five people were killed and dozens others injured. no one claimed responsibility but they suspecthe state and kurdish militants. also developing in iraq, a marine is dead and three others injured after a rocket attack by isis. this happened at a facility where the u.s. military is advising iraqi forces. the marine's name has not been released. it happened where they are preparing to retake the city of mosul. the suspect arrested yesterday in brussels. salah abdeslam tells authorities he planned to be one of the suicide bombers, but he backed out. driving the other attackers to paris last november. he wouldn't explain why he did that. 130 people, if you remember, were killed in several locations in those attacks. islam is charged with terrorist murder. emergency workers have the task of going through the wreckage the plane with 62 people on board nose dived and explod

temperatures around 80 today in the capital city. looking across the region. 78 chapel hill. 79 cary, 78 siler city and durham. 78 sanford, 79 piano hrs, 80 fayetteville, 80 goldsboro. mid 70's in south hill, 75 roxboro, 79 rocky mount and 78 in wake forest. tonight temperatures back into the 50's for overnight lows. 54 raleigh and 55 fayetteville and 53 durham, mainly clear and fog around in the overnight. first alert seven-day forecast powered by accuweather under partly sunny skies. friday poke. that will inhibit the temperatures a bit, mid 70's. saturday raleigh st. patrick's day parade 10:00. i think they get the parade in and could see a spotty shower in the afternoon. we spreg forward saturday night into sunday. sunday some scattered showers and 75. monday 74 and partly sunny tuesday and 73. 70's the next seven days. just a great stretch. i wouldn't be surprised if the pweufrg thermometer says 80 or more today. barbara: wow. thank you, don. john: round two of the a.c.c. tournament gets under way today. barbara: the big matchup

the explosion ripping through a major capital city. this bus, blown to pieces. and gunmen storming a popular beach resort. >>> severe storms, weather alerts. rivers hitting historic highs in the south. and a tornado threat for millions as we come on the air. >>> super bug. the tiny new weapon in the fight against the zika outbreak. nearly 200 cases confirmed already in the u.s. the radical new step scientists are now taking. >>> jam session. a man accused of jamming cell phones. blocking calls so phones don't work. now he's facing charges. the device that causes calls to drop.

you can see it there in relation to the capital city. it lasted just six minutes. it set-off a tsunami that crested as high as 40 metres. almost 18,50 people died. two and a half thousand of them have never been found. three melbourne downs at the fukushima nuclear plant produced 366 tonne of debris, also 700,000 tons of radio active water, 3400 tons of newly contaminated water is added every day as a consequence of the clean up operation. it produced 20 million tons of debris overall. a report from our correspondent >> reporter: this was build nearly a hundred years ago to s see the outview to sea. this was packed with houses. they were simply swept away when the wave came through here. at its height it was two metres above even this piece of high ground. in the five years since there has been an immense amount of work mere as there has been up and down the coast. you can see the huge piles of earth over there where they're trying to raise the ground where they're building again which will be raised which will be future protection and larger sea walls to be put in

president obama speaking to the government and citizens of communist cuba on the island's capital city. the first sitting president to visit cuba since calvin coolidge, back in 1978. so with when all of the ceremonies, photo ops and speeches were over, was it all just political theater? or did the president really usher in a new era? it's the "inside story". welcome to "inside story," i'm sheila macvicar, in for ray suarez. it was a whirlwind tour for president obama. three days of diplomacy, meetings, and even a baseball game. but while the president seems to be warming up to his cuban counterpart, raul castro, the differences may be more evident than ever before. reporting from havana. >> reporter: it was the most anticipated part of president barack obama's historic visit, a message earmarked directly to the cuban people. >> i have come here to bury the last remnant of the cold war in the americas. because in many ways the united states and cuba are like two brothers who have been estranged for many years, even as we share the same blood. >> reporter: the u.s. leader's speech at the

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