i'm diane macedo. >> i'm andrea. >> the top stories are straight ahead. let's get to vanessa murdock who has been tracking a warm up. >> a big warm up on the way. maybe a few flurries this morning. ground. but it is a cold start to sunday. a chilly end to the weekend. and then, temperatures will be climbing big-time. right now, let's go to the vortex satellite and radar picture. most of us under mainly cloudy looks like snow moving through. very few places reporting it reaching the ground. a few flurries through the by midmorning, it is out of here. after that, we will be looking toward a much brighter afternoon. 33 degrees right now in the city. twenty-six in franklin. as we take the forecast hour by hour, by 9:35 a.m., feeling like 32. noon, 39 and partly sunny. this afternoon, your high is 45 degrees. pretty much on par with where we should be. feeling more like 44. the wind will be calm today. the windchill is not a big factor. coming up, talking about temperatures 25 degrees warmer than today. back to you. >>> new this morning, firefighters battled a

cbs 2's diane macedo spoke with the girl's mother who says the accused driver showed little remorse. >> reporter: jamie says she will never be able to forget the moment an suv driver hit daughter as they walked hand in hand to school on monday morning. he needs to be locked up she says in spanish about the man behind the wheel. surveillance video showed the point the man hit the two of them in west new york. cory says the driver got out, looked at them, uttered a curse word and took off without even an apology. [ speaking spanish ] >> reporter: did he ask how your daughter was, i asked her in spanish? no, she says. he didn't say anything else just that one word and [ speaking spanish ] is doing now. she says bad. the pain is big. her doctor says that pain is emotional and physical from the injuries she sustained in the crash. >> severe pains of her pain scale now is 10 out of 10. >> reporter: here at the crash scene you can see the memorial to shaila continues to grow. her parents say it's in part the support from this community that's kept them going. through this experience and jus

march 6, i'm diane macedo. >> i'm andrea grymes. the top stories ahead. first vanessa murdock is here with a look at the forecast -- a chilly start to the day. >> short-lived -- when you look at the whole week. >> very short-lived. starting off at freezing and below for many of us. no big deal. up. right now, at 30. by wednesday, in the afternoon, 40 degrees warmer. high on wednesday. today, seasonably chilly. in the mid-40s for many of us. right now, on the vortex satellite and radar picture, these snow showers are falling apart. this snow is barely reaching the ground. the air is very dry. you may see a few flakes through the morning hours. after that, skies clear. temperatures will warm up. thirty-four in the city. the windchill is very light this morning. wind only blowing at about 5 miles per hour. as we go through the day, noon, 39. feeling like 38. by 3:00, mostly sunny and 45. that is as warm as it gets today. still a little bit of an improvement over yesterday. then by six o'clock this evening, 42 degrees. feeling like 40. and a little bit of day

diane macedo joins us with what is at stake. >> reporter: for the democrat, today's contest is about 800 delegates. on the republican side, they'll determine almost 600 delegates which is nearly half those needed for the nomination. and with these stake, the runners, the front-runners donald trump and hillary rodham clinton are hoping to erase any doubt that they'll be the party's nominee. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> reporter: trump supporters set out early in georgia hoping to sway any last-minute votes for super tuesday. >> we're going to win, win, win, win. >> reporter: a cnn poll shows trump dominating republican rivals with 49% of republican primary voters nationally. when you match them against the democrats, the new cnn poll predicts trump would lose to hillary rodham clinton and he says that combination has the republican party very worried. >> they're terrified about what it would be like to have donald trump as the nominee. >> the donald trump is the nominee, hillary rodham clinton in all likelihood wins. >> reporter: that and the fact that he did not immediately d

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i'm diane macedo. >> i'm andrea. >> the top stories are straight ahead. let's get to vanessa murdock who has been tracking a warm up. >> a big warm up on the way. maybe a few flurries this morning. ground. but it is a cold start to sunday. a chilly end to the weekend. and then, temperatures will be climbing big-time. right now, let's go to the vortex satellite and radar picture. most of us under mainly cloudy looks like snow moving through. very few places reporting it reaching the ground. a few flurries through the

diane m macedo join us. >>reporter: chris and mary, today's contest will allocate 865 delegates, more than 1/3 of the delegates required to secure the nomination. on the republican side 595 delegates are up for grabs, roughly half the number needed for nomination and with stakes that high, you can imagine the gloves are off, but everyone seems to be aiding their jabs at donald trump. it's not often donald trump is upstaged, but that's what happened at two rallies as a secret service agent got physical with a photographer and trump ejected demonstrators after protests his initial refusal to disavow an endorsement from former kkk leader david duke >> get them out of here, please. >>reporter: rivals also blasted trump on the issue, trying to score some final points heading into super tuesday >> there is no place for bigotry, for prejudice, for hatred, for david duke or the ku klux klan in the presbyterian party or the conservative movement. >>reporter: trump is leading in at least six supertuesday states and a

abc's diane macedo is here. and first of all, diane, great to have you on board. >> thanks so much.his is really important. wentworth has a great reputation and his real story behind it. >> this, as you know, is a real case of turning a negative into a positive. wentworth miller said the first time he saw this meme, he was so upset it hurt to breathe but now he's turing it into an opportunity to educate people on depression and he says to him this picture now represents strength, healing and forgiveness. he's the golden globe nominated actor who rose to fame playing michael schofield on fox's hit crime drama "prison break." >> i'll trade my life for hers. >> reporter: now wentworth miller is fighting back against online humor site, the lad bible after they poked fun at his past weight gain with this caption, when you break out of prison and find out about mcdonald's monopoly. the 43-year-old saying the post hit hard responded on facebook revealing he battled suicidal depression with food. facing his online body shamers head on, miller said in 2010 semi-retired from acting i was keep

abc's diane macedo has much for on the popular challenge that turned dangerous to a lot of one of these things it's hard not to laugh. you see someone slipping on a banana peel and reminds us of funny cartoons we grew up but unlike cartoons real people can sustain real injuries and as we've learned from similar internet fads, the consequences can be a lot more serious than you might think. at first glance it seems harmless. the banana peel challenge. kids walking on banana peels hoping to debunk the classic cartoon cliche. >> patrick, banana peel, don't! >> ha did you say? >> reporter: but instead the latest viral challenge is attracting thousands of clicks online. and even this jimmy kimmel parody. >> you want me to slip on it. >> reporter: but it's no laughing matter. >> they see the attention other kids get and seems like a good idea at the time. >> reporter: experts say these kinds of falls can lead to long-term or even permanent damage. >> adolescents often think they're invincible or immortal getting hurt. >> reporter: it's not the first danger ous dangerous fad. there was the cin