we heard lynn hicks from the register talk about issues that he had with ted cruz's campaign tactics. well, other candidates apparently feel that same way. donald trump took to twitter to accuse cruz of fraud by implying ben carson was dropping out to get more evangelical support. cruz fired back, saying trump is just being a sore loser. >> ted: the american people are not interested in this circus sideshow of insults. you know, my girls are 5 and 7 and i gotta tell you caroline and catherine are better behaved than a presidential candidate who responds by insulting everyone every day when he loses. >> amanda: alright, here's dr. steffen schmidt with us now. what do you think? does that hurt cruz? just so much back and forth, is he being a sore loser? >> sffen: i think it hurts both. i think we're tired of whiners. everybody is whining about everything and everything being done badly. and i think the american public would like these candidates to talk more about issueses and so, i think this will go away now. >> amanda: mmhmm. >> steffen: it was not a good thing to do that to ben cars

[laughter] john: head coach lynn hicks brings a senior heavy team to this game and because it is so close to wren the team considers it a home game. coach hicks: that's kind of been our motto, we don't lose at home. and there are several of those seniors who have never lost a home ball game. we're in a home uniform. we're in greenville 20 minutes away so we hope we got the home court still. john: the championships are an annual event at bon secours and the staff here does all it can to make it special for the players -- win or lose. >> it's so great to see the athletes on the court and to be able to play on such a large stage and see themselves on the scoreboard and see their families in the stands. john: wren trail dreher by double digits most of the game playing against a taller team. ,>> we both put our pants on the same way, hers are just a little bit longer than mine. john: but showed a lot of heart by mounting a 4th quarter comeback making it a two point , game with a chance to win in but it wasn't to be, and wren fell a little short. six more, 3 boys and 3 girls upper state champio

the opinion editor of that fine paper with us lynn hicks. why call for something like this?se it was close, but because of the questions that were raised. the coin toss thing? you explain. w sure and because it's not about just the sanders and clinton and the results, it's about the future of the iowa caucuses. neil: all right, now, what have you heard from either camp? >> well, what we've heard from the sanders camp is that they c night. he kind of downplaying this, but we knew that they're taking several days to do this. we haven't heard from the clinton campaign, they haven't commented. but you heard hillary clinton's comments in the debate last night about she would cooperate with such an audit. neil: and stress here this is not political. your paper endorsed hillary clinton on the democratic side, but do you think that calling for an audit, i understand the national democratic party says that is impossible to do, it would be like a recount, they can't do that. i don't know who's right on that. but that it would affect the results, in other words, given the closest they

coming up on fox business as well, the fan editor lynn h hicks. why the.ver those coin tosses. he also will be joining neil cavuto at 12:00 p.m. eastern. ♪ i think it landed last tuesday. one second it's there. then, woosh, it's gone. i swear i saw it swallow seven people. seven. i just wish one of those people could have been mrs. johnson. [dog bark] trust me, we're dealing with a higher intelligence here. ♪ the all-new audi q7 is here. ♪ >>> breaking news, it is jobs day everyone. good morning i'm sandra smith. maria bartiromo has the morning off. mike murphy is here. online editor jack otter and there he is making money with charles payne. he had a congressman give you some props in the last hour. we are 30 minutes away from the january jobs report. 190,000 added, 5% unemployment rate expected to hold steady there. we are paying close attention to wages as well whether north winter weatherer can be a factor. checking futures this morning ahead of those numbers. you are looking at dow futures up 22 points and somewhat of a holding pattern holding on that

hicks, if convicted, he could face the death penalty. >>tara lynn live at nc state, thank you. >>> an elementary school in goldsboro is mourning the death of a teacher killed in a tragic in his wheelchair when he was hit by a school bus in the parking lot of middle lane elementary school. officials say happened during drop off yesterday morning. the bus is owned by the small world day care center. the driver had just dropped off a bus of the kids at the school when the accident happened. counselors will be at the school to offer support to the children and staff. >> i think paramount to that is our thoughts and prayers and condolences for mister kincaid, his wife and family. >> he was also a youth pastor at a baptist church in kinston. >>> a jury heard a suspect's version of the ight melissa huggins-jones was murdered. they watched a television interview between police d travion smith. at first, smith admitted to breaking into cars. then he goes further and admitted that his codefendant, ronald anthony, went into an apartment through a sliding door

the suspect craig hicks had a long-running dispute with the victims over parking and the victims families believe it was a hate crime. >> tara lynn is live at nc state with one of the locations where family members will honor the three students today >> reporter: it's hard to believe it's been one year since this tragedy. in the last year the families of the students have vowed to try this tragedy into a positive. that something they've been doing through food drives and donations. as well as establishing scholarships in the names of the students. they will continue that work to honor them today. she was a second-year student his wife was set to start their this past fall. her sister was an undergraduate student at nc state unc will hold a memorial service and a moment of silence at 1:15. tonight there will be a memorial at 6 pm on the north side of the nc state student union. the families of the victims as well as chancellors from both universities will be in attendance. the man accused of murdering the three is awaiting his trial. he's in central prison. the room police say the shooting may have stemmed from an ongoing and heat