there is our ken smith. the awards going on right now. we will keep you posted if we bring home anymore of that hardware. >>> and a personal milestone i wanted to share with you. you know i had twin girls. here they are a year later. ellie on the left. abby on the right. fun. >> it was. it was so fun. they were loving all the attention. and max is such a good big brother to the cutiesful it was a great day. >> they are fat and we love it. >> you survived! >> and we have a new member to the wral family. one of our editors alex and his wife stephny blessed with a beautiful baby girl. oh she is so sweet. meet alaina. this is their first child and we of course want to offer them a special congratulaons. >>hewi make it through first year. >> will make it. you might not sleep much, you you will make it. >> true. coffee. right? >> right. [ laughter ] exactly. >>> well it was pretty today, kind of cool. a lot of sun. lit be warmer tomorrow, we will lit be another cold night tonight. this morning, we woke up to some teens and 20s . it was chilly o

ken smith, live in charlotte. i love it. >> reporter: exactly. >> thanks ken. >>> pregame programming begins tomorrow morning at 11:00 a.m. with super bowl 50, before they were pros, then at noon, road to the super bowl. at 1:00, phil sims' all-iron team super bowl edition. at 2:00 the super bowl today. all that leads up to the championship game in santa clara. coverage begins at 6:00. >>> and you can't miss our special one-hour edition of wral news. we air right after the game. we will have live reports from the bay area and charlotte, plus post-game news conferences and much more. it will be fun. >>> just ahead, how the u.s. and other nations are condemning north korea's launch of a long-range rocket. >>> plus -- >> apartheid is not the way for our representatives to be elected. throwing our state's primary elections into turmoil. hear from people for and against the ruling and what it means for next month's primary. >>> and here's another look at your winning powerball numbers. 13, 4, 36, 31, 52, the koou wpo c

that storm system prompted a number of school closures an delays thanks for joining us i'm ken smith. >> i'm katherine brown. a number of schools already out for president's day but list of new closures and delays grows by the minute. wake county public schools are closed tomorrow we heard that in about the last hour and-a- half. chapel hill chatham county school delayed two hours. clinton city delayed two hours. durham public schools are closed edgecombe county closed. >> we want to let you know tri- county schools. granville county. halifax county delayed two hours. polk county schools delayed two hours. >>> wake county schools. mecklenburg closed. orange county closed person county schools closed as well. >> vance county schools closed wake county schools closed wayne county schools delayed two hours as well as wilson county schools. >> you can find all of this information scrolling at the bottom of your screen throughout the newscast. >> we have this information on wral.com along with dozens of business closings and delays. parts of the triangle already seeing some wintry mix some

. >> i'm ken medlin -- ken smith. they spoke one on one to one of the bicyclists. she joins us from wake med where the fellow cyclists are recovering. candice, i cannot imagine what the last 24 hours have been like. glenn, i spoke to joe lawrence -- >> reporter: yeah ken, i spoke to joe lawrence. he's hoping for the best for his two friends here at wake med. even though this happened so fast, he still has very distinct memories of the moment he realized he had been hit by a car. second to last in line. >> we were riding along the right hand side of the road as opposed to being in the middle of the road. >> i don't remember hearing the car, but i do remember thinking oh my gosh there is something going on here. ani'm about ready to go down. >> the group was riding a couple of lanes apart. >> all of a sudden i'll run in to lynn. that is when i got nudged forward. >> and i remember seeing her kind of flying through the air. i think that i saw mike going down. lynn daily all ejected from their bicycle hit by a driver 50-year-old donnie marie. >> the lady got out and sh

the daycare is temporarily closed as the >> the video is tough to watch, ken smith. >> a video link to a terror plot with a -- the unidentified suspect fled guilty to a gun charge last year. the of p.m. began investigating the team reached out to a man about rubbing a gun store and attacking u.s. troops in the name of isis. the teen was denied parole as we. >> the teenager charged in the hacking investigation is out tonight in the custody of his parents. messi stood before magistrate today. police say he hacked into the school database and changed about 90 grades. authorities were alerted in october when administrators noticed unauthorized access and this at the. >> funding schools for the future, that's what wake county teachers and school board members discussed tonight. adam owens is there in joins us live in raleigh with the proposal. >> the way the schools are funded, no schos are funded of years we passed big bonds bonds, and they are attached to long-range planning. the proposed idea tonight was to break goes up into more frequent but smaller chunks. > > every few years wake cou

that's where ken smith was on the prowl searching for broncos fans in panther country. ken, did you find any? >> reporter: you know, it all, this is home to the nfc champion carolina panthers but we accomplished it. our quest to find broncos fans in panther country took us to this sports bar on the south side of charlotte. dee dee peckers is listed as the local place for broncos fans. we caught up with a couple that's telling me the trash talking and the fact that the panthers are so confident that they will win the super bowl. the webers believe they've got the team that can stand up to the panthers. we will see come tomorrow. coming up on our late news we talk to this other bronco fan. she's actually a peyton manning fan. she reveals the toughest thing about pulling for the orange in that's tonight at 10:00 on fox 50 and right back here on wral. >> i assume you probably found some wings. >> wings are flying. >> ken smith, thank you. >>> pregame programming begins tomorrow morning at 11:00 a.m. with super bowl 50 before they were pros, then at noon, road to the super b

kbak's ken smith viewed that and joins us in the newsroom with what the director had to say say. >> when we first saw this cell phone video it was startling and unsettling. the daycare worker who turned it over to florida's child protective services said she was uncomfortable with the director's behavior. we must warn you some of this might be difficult to watch. this is the video line forfeits officers used to eventually charge 41-year-old board of supervisors,. the daycare employee is captured on phone hitting a boy several times, lifting him up then dropping him. in the video from the children's palace learning center the little boy appears to be resting when reid is the thing and dropping him. >> it's difficult to view the video as a parent. we want to get it out there so if there is any other >> police got wind of the incident after another daycare worker notified florida's department of children and families. they then called police. training defended her accidents -- actions say she was only playing but investigators are eyeing her account. >> once you be the video is disturbing i

. >> that was ken smith reporting. statewide hearings are planned for monday and lawmakers will use feedback to help them redraw the state's congressional district lines. if a special session is required, they will convene thursday. >>> for the first time, unc president-elect addresses the criticism she faced after her hiring. >> much has been said of the selection and about me personally. i must say that after spending most of my career in service to the public, working on behalf of all students and with people of all points of view, i've been surprised at the intensity of the reaction. >> spellings was referring to meetings. some took aim at her connection companies. friday she laid out her vision for 17 campuses at a board of governors retreat. she wants to create a system that's accessible, affordable and accountable. spellings officially takes over march 1st. >>> a fayetteville man is being held on $1 million bond after charges of sexual assault involving an 11-year-old. police say it happened last month and he kn

wral's ken smith talks to one of the lucky young fans to receive a game ball from cam you can see that interview tonight during the special keep pounding. we have moreau neck storeys the team of reporters san francisco to charlotte in two, 30 minute specials. join us tonight and tomorrow night at seven for keep pounding here on wral. >>> before tonight's special we will check in with g era ld owens. he will be live to show us some of the fake items federal authorities have sees is the in the -- seized in the bay area. it's out the there for sure. >> all good stuff. i love the little guy and the dad. he has it down. thank you. >> she has it down. >>> every year at tax time phone scammers try to have it down. they pose as agents and call people to tell them they owe back taxes. this year they are going door to door. irs said they found out about this scam when a fake agent came to an employee's home. we are told the scammers often have fake credentials, request personal information like numbers, some demand people pay their fake bill with a debit card. >> someone says you have to pay thi