janssen resigned from her job. her lawyers say they welcome the inquiry, and are cooperating fully with investigators. a man who spent the bulk of his life in prison for a murder he says he didn't commit... is out, and with his family. wral was in wilmington as johnny years. mikaya thurmond has the story... laughing with family , snapping photographs , and catching up on harley quinn comic books for johnny small, it's the little things that he missed the most. i'm just ready to take a hot bath the 43 year old was in prison since 19-88... serving time for a murder he says he didn't commit. my heart goes out to mrs.dreher's family it really does. it truly does, but i know i wasn't the one earlier this week, a judge agreed-- ruling evidence to justify his conviction. thursday night, johnny small was free to go home on house arrest. i'd never imagine that this would happen. not in 100 years i'm happy, but i'm terrified. i mean 28 years i been incarcerated for a crime i didn't commit. while the judge vacated small's con

janssen stepped down earlier this year after 10 years on the job because of the situation. her attorneys said in court that they welcomed the inquiry because it allows her to tell were cooperating fully. gerald? >> amanda, thank you. >>> new information on a deadly crash on i-540 in raleigh. a woman didn't stop and pushed another vehicle into a van stopped in the road from an earlier crash. dolores wakefield died and the other driver was seriously hurt and will be charged. >>> a 59-year-old boy charged with an unthinkable crime. grandfather with a hatchet. wral's gilbert baez joins us live from the newsroom at the fayetteville observer with the latest. gilbert in. >>ter: lynda, i went and knocked on the door and joseph naulty, the father of the 15- year-old and son of the 63-year- old came to the door with a blank look on his face. he didn't want to talk on camera but we can only imagine this took place in the home on elgin drive. deputies were called to the house and found 63-year-old joseph naulty dead of a hatchet wound. he was struck with the blade by his 15-year-old gr

janssen has resigned. >>> the u.s. whitewater center in charlotte re-opened six weeks after an 18-year-old died from a brain-eating amoeba. the channels at the center were positive. health officials described the plan to monitor water at the center installing a new chlorination system. >>> we are working to get an update on a situation in a cary neighborhood where residents have to boil water. the town issued an advisory for 79 homes at kirkfield drive. residents are you remembered to continue boiling their water until further notice. >>> a higher demand for measles vaccine. a patient in wake county got the virus while traveling overseas. last week, wake county health workers confirmed the case of measles and a list of places visited that list is on wral.com. >>> durham police are looking for people who robbed three teens at gunpoint and force them to strip to their underwear. a police report said that the robbers got away with clothes, two smart phones, and a necklace. the teens to ran to a neighbor's home and begged

janssen resigned from her job. her lawyers say they are cooperating fully with the investigation. >>> the whitewater center channels are re-opened today six weeks after an 18-year-old died from a brain-eating amoeba and the water tested positive for the organism. the officials plan to mo new chlorination system. >>> we are working on an update in the cary neighborhood where people have to boil their water. the town issued an advisory for 79 homes near kirkfield drive in the wellington park subdivision. crews repaired a water main break yesterday. residents should boil water until further notice. >>> there is a higher demand for the measles vaccine. contracted the virus traveling overseas. people lined up at a health clinic on davis drive. officialssay it's a very convenient location to hold the event. workers confirmed the case of measles and released a list of places that the person visited while contagious. we posted that on wral.com. >>> durham police are looking for the people who robbed three teens at gunpo th

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saying that janssen erred in the robbery case. theysay the action of investigators downplays the drug-dealing history of her main witness in the case, the victim, to make him more credible at trial. today, the superior court judge donald stevens scfed the state -- to investigate her conduct in the >> they have made requests of us for certain considerable information that we have turned over. we will continue to cooperate with the state law and effort to conchoose this matter quickly. >> reporter: now, the north carolina court of appeals turned over the convictions and the two men were released as it was decided not to retry them. this summer after 10 years as assistant district attorney and the state bar will return its findings, its report to this court this, judge in 120 days. bill? >> amanda lamb, thank you. >>> another rough day for delta airlines even though the computer system back online. delta canceled 250 more flights as it tries to a comlate tens of thousands of passengers yesterday. about 1000 flights were canceled and

to indianapolis saturday for their third preseason game, as far as season goes, right tackle lane janssen is still up in the air. he is facing a ten game suspension for, flung flunking a second ped test. today he apologize for letting his teammates down. >> i'm sorry but as far as playing by the rules, difficult everything in my power too. there is some more stuff that could have been done but for now, i ain't taking nothing. >> football, to soccer. union on the road taking on columbus fc. union sit fourth in the eastern conference standings while columbus is ninth out of ten teams. highlights tonight at 11:00. >>> philadelphia a soul with their final tune up before hitting the road to take on arizona in the arena bowl. soul ape rat letters have identical 13-three record but arizona has scored more points, the most points in the league this year, and we should mention that arizona also beat the soul, twice in the arena bowl before, this is a match challenge. >> air zone has been a pain in our butt for a long time. they're a good the football team. we have to go back to phoenix and play in

. >>> wral will be in court monitor a hearing involving former prosecutor colleen janssen who resigned last month after accusation that is she withheld in evidence a robbery case. >>> a man convicted for a murder he said he did not committee. johnny small was convicted of killing the owner of a tropical he has maintained his innocence, and he will be back in court today because the key witness at the original trial said he lied. >> the family felt he was always innocent and never doubted it at all. honestly, i am ecstatic. i never thought that he would be back in court. >> the man who recanted his testimony is he admitted he lied about the crime because investigators threatened him with the death penalty. the judge could uphold his conviction, vacate it, set him free or order a new trial. >>> 3 three separate crashed on i-40 yesterday, causing all kinds of problems. this one was at leesville, and video from the traffic camera involved in a fatal crash wednesday up in flames and involved multiple vehicles, and we are working to learn more about who died here. earlier, there was a crash

one reading is thermometer at jenny janssen's house 96 in cherry hill. and her dew point right now is 74 degrees, but finally seeing some blue skies, she says a treat to see color out there. more photos from our eyewitness heather watchers, we love these, margot says dew point of 77. sound good to me. the those ladies are enjoying sitting pool side. phil send us this from ventnor city, new jersey, another place to go to beat the heat, shore is place to be, still very steamy, sand will be score muching over next few days but not the as uncomfortable as it would be here in philadelphia. there is my radar picture. finally cooperating. storm scan three showing overall pattern we have in place and it will get interesting over next few days because what we have to wait for is a front associated with this storm. see this well defined swirl of cloud over eastern canada. this front is eventually what could be our change maker but this front cannot, come through the heat and humidity and thick air in place and it will stall off to our north for the next three to f

mid 60's at jenny janssen's house in cherry hill, new jersey with clear conditions. wrapped warm upcoming this afternoon with full sunshine. good day to hit the beach, delaware beach, rehoboth beach live look at boardwalk plaza, hotel camera and getting ready for nice sunrise, in about ten minutes or so. few people outside on the boardwalk earlier. ocean conditions pretty calm as we go into new jersey this is moderate risk for stronger rip currents and that is due to the increased swells we will be dealing with from gaston which is hundreds of miles out toe see. we will not see any big waves but they will have have more energy then what it normally would be. make sure life guard are on duty over next few days before you go in the water. looking at 90-degree days that we have been dealing with so far. thirty-six now, we will add to that list over next several days getting close to 2012 where we had 39. really not going to beat 2010. fifty-five days a hot season. dew points tell the story as far as humidity levels go. people don't like humidity. yes this were in the 70

ninety-six as we check with jenny janssen in cherry hill. some sunshine.d dew point is 77, and her heat index now is 112 degrees. we have got 92 degrees as we check north and west of the city. still in the city in chestnut hill. he says another hot kay. heat index at my house hit 110. dew point high 76 degrees dew point. not very comfortable. 90 degrees heading down to the first state of delaware and check with john dell in glassco at 87 degrees there sunshine peeking out. maybe a thunderstorm cooled it down a bit. lets look at one severe thunderstorm warning we have in effect over the lehigh valley over right now north and south white hall township emmaus, saucon valley and moore until 6:00 o'clock tonight. we have more storms really rumbling off to the south that we will continue to watch as we go through remainder of the evening. again we are in a severe risk, through the remainder of this afternoon and tonight. slight risk for severe weather. it is not in effect for the shore and southern delaware, we are not seeing warnings and watches extend down in