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Description: A local organization is helping children feel a whole lotta love in the Triangle. Lotta Sjoelin started the non-profit "A Lotta Love" to beautify homeless shelters. So far they've worked at six shelters in the Triangle including this latest project at Families Moving Forward in Durham.

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 A local organization is helping children feel a whole lotta love in the Triangle. Lotta Sjoelin started the non-profit "A Lotta Love" to beautify homeless shelters. So far they've worked at six shelters in the Triangle including this latest project at Families Moving Forward in Durham.

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Triangle nonprofit turns homeless shelters into showcases

 A local organization is helping children feel a whole lotta love in the Triangle.

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Meteorologist Elizabeth Gardner, we have of course a weather alert day that's in effect for tomorrow. This is a look at what some of the threats will likely be. We're going to have gusty winds even outside of the line of thunderstorms that will come through midday. Gusts could be 40 to 50 MPH and then we'll have a line of thunderstorms come through. It's a level one risk for almost the entire viewing area starting around 10 and moving out by about three PM, moving west to east across our area. And of course, all that rain will have some issues for a dream. It's going to be very muddy there. Of course, lightning will be a concern for anyone who is outside and those strong winds could be an issue for some of the tents and the stages. This is new this morning, the level one severe threat has been expanded to include the triangle area. So it does include most of the viewing area, damaging wind will be the biggest threat that we would see tomorrow. Here's a look at the current situation and you can see that system, that cold front, warm front, moving across the country. Some showers and storms starting to develop there across parts of the Midwest and that's going to be the area hit hard today. Future cast, showing clear skies for us this morning. By lunch time, we begin to cloud up and we did add some rain to the forecast for today. Some light scattered showers starting around noon and continuing on and off through the afternoon and the evening, you can see that wave that moves through between seven and nine and then an isolated shower overnight. Four AM Saturday, a little line of rain comes through that continues on and off until the main band and that begins to approach us by around 10. It's moving right through the middle of the area at noon and then by two o'clock, most of it has shifted eastward. But by four or five o'clock, ours is starting to clear. But even after we clear tomorrow, we'll still likely have windy conditions that continue through the afternoon. Here's a look at our maximum wind gusts as we get through this afternoon. Still going to be, it's going to be a windy day today too. We'll see winds gusting up to 35 but then we move it ahead to Saturday and our winds could be easily 10 degrees stronger, 10 MPH stronger than that with 45 to almost 50 MPH. So it's going to be very windy isolated. Power outages are certainly possible on Saturday with those winds dream festival, it's going to be a warm day, but of course, we'll have that line of storms that comes through between 10 and two, bringing the potential for some dangerous lightning for folks who are standing around outside and muddy conditions to the winds begin to calm down on Saturday. They will be cooler at 67 degrees but it will still be muddy if you're heading out there, you want to take along your.

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Good evening. I'm Darren Vaugh and it's time for tonight's drawings for Thursday, March, the 30th 2023. Let's get started with Carolina pick three. With the first winning number is seven. The second is three and the third is three in our pick three. Fire Bolton tonight is zero. Joining me for tonight's drawing is our auditor from Thomas and Gibbs. We move right along to Carolina pick four. The first pick four number is six. The second is zero. The third is eight and the fourth is six and our pick four. Fireball number is nine turning now to the Carolina cash five. If no one wins the top prize tonight, tomorrow's top prize is estimated at $327,000. Good luck. Here's the first cash five number. It's 33. The second is 12. The 3rd is 20. The fourth is 28 the fifth and final number tonight is 43 over the past 16 years. The lottery has contributed over $9 billion to education. So thanks for your support and thanks for playing the North Carolina education lottery.

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There is a major development in the New York grand jury investigation of President Trump

BE SEALED? WILL WE NOT SEE THE DETAILS FOR SOME TIME? >> IT'S SEALED UNTIL A JUDGE ORDERS IT TO BE UNSEALED. IT'S SEALED WITH THE COURT RIGHT MOW. >> THAT WOULD SPECIFY THE ACCUSATIONS? >> THAT'S WHEN WE'LL SEE THE PIECE OF PAPERS THAT WILLY OUT THE CHARGES. SOMETIMES THEY GO INTO GREAT DETAIL WHEN IT PROVIDES A NARRATIVE, SORT OF TELLING THE STORY OF WHAT HAPPENED. SOMETIMES IT'S VERY BARE BONED. WE'LL HAVE TO WAIT AND SEE. >> WE HAVE BEEN HEARING THAT THE LEGAL THEORY, THE LEGAL BASIS THAT THE DA HAS BEEN LOOKING AT IS ONE THAT'S UNTESTED. WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THE CHALLENGE IN THIS CASE? >> TYPICALLY IN A CASE LIKE THIS, THE FALSIFICATION OF BUSINESS RECORDS, THAT'S TYPICALLY A MISDEMEANOR. WE'RE TALKING JUST UP TO A YEAR IN PRISON. IN ORDER TO ELEVATE IT TO STEP IT UP TO A FELONY, THERE HAS TO BE ACTUALLY A SECOND CRIME. AN INTENT TO COMMIT OR CONCEAL CRIME. WE HAVE WONDERED WHAT WOULD THAT SECOND CRIME BE. COULD IT BE RELATED TO STATE ELECTION LAW OR SOMETHING RELATED TO FEDERAL ELECTION LAW. WE JUST DON'T KNOW. THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS WE'LL BE LOOKING FOR WHEN THIS INDICTMENT GETS UNSEALED. >> THE QUESTION CENTERS ON HOW THAT MONEY WAS ACCOUNTED FOR, WHAT IT WAS STATED TO BE D FOR AND WHAT THE INTENT MAY HAVE BEEN FOR ITS US USE. >> EXACTLY. IT'S NOT THE PAYING OF THE HUSH MONEY THAT'S THE CRIME. THE PROBLEM HERE IF THAT'S WHAT THEY HAVE INDICTED HIM ON IS THE WAY IT WAS ACCOUNTED FOR ON THE BOOKS OF THE TRUMP ORGANIZATION AS LEGAL FEES, WHEN IN FACT, IT WAS NOT LEGAL FEES TO MICHAEL COHEN. >> THE FORMER PRESIDENT HAD PREDICTED A WEEK AND A HALF AGO HE WOULD BE ARRESTED. OBVIOUSLY, THAT'S NOT HAPPENED. BUT WE DO KNOW FROM OUR SOURCES THERE HAS BEEN AN INDICTMENT. LET BEME GO TO CAPITOL HILL CORRESPONDENT GARRETT HAAKE. WHAT CAN YOU TELL US? >> TIPICKING UP THAT TIMELINE AFTER TRUMP'S PREDICTION A WEEK IS AND A HALF AGO SATURDAY HE WOULD BE ARRESTED THE FOLLOWING TUESDAY, HIS LEGAL TEAM OFFERED A WITNESS OF THEIR OWN TO THIS GRAND JURY. A MAN NAMED ROBERT COSTELLO, WHO WAS AN ATTORNEY WORKING WITH MICHAEL COHEN AROUND THE TIME OF THIS ALLEGED HUSH MONEY PLOT. THAT TESTIMONY THEN ESSENTIALLY WAS THE LAST MOVING PIECE WE SAW IN THIS PROBE FOR ANOTHER WEEK. ON MONDAY OF THIS WEEK, THE GRAND JURY HEARD FROM WHAT WE PLOOEF WAS THEIR FINAL WITNESS. DAVID PECKER, THE PUBLISHER OF THE NATIONAL INQUIRER. THIS WAS HUSBAND SECOND TIME BEFORE THE GRAND JURY. HE'S A KEY PLAYER IN ALL OF THIS. HE WAS BELIEVED TO BE THE PERSON THAT BROUGHT TOGETHER COHEN AND ATTORNEYS FOR STORMY DANIELS, WHO MIGHT HAVE ENGINEERED OR COME UP WITH THE FOR THESE PAYMENTS. THAT WITNESS ON MONDAY BELIEVED TO BE THE LAST WITNESS THIS GRAND JURY HEARD BEFORE THEIR DECISION TO INDICT TODAY APPARENTLY TWO MONTHS TO THE DAY AFTER BEING CONVENED FOR THE FIRST TIME ON JANUARY 30th. NOW AS WE AWAIT ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT THE CHARGES MIGHT BE, I CAN TELL YOU THE POLITICAL REACTION IS ALREADY COMING IN. CONGRESS IS HEADED OUT ON A TWO-WEEK RECESS. ALREADY WE HAVE HEARD FROM MEMBERS AND IT'S CLEAR THIS IS GOING TO BE A POLARIZING DECISION BOTH IN THE HALLS OF CONGRESS AND POLITICALLY ACROSS THE NATION AT LARGE. ONE REPUBLICAN MEMBER OF CONGRESS CALLING IT A DARK DAY FOR THE COUNTRY. SOME DEMOCRATS CHEERING THIS ON AS A VICTORY FOR THE RULE OF LAW. AGAIN, SO MUCH WE DON'T KNOW, BUT THE POLITICAL REVERBERATIONS 2024 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION WILL BE VAST. >> HE HAS A PRESUMPTION OF INNOCENCE. DOES THAT CHANGE ANYTHING IN TERMS OF HIM BEING A CANDIDATE FOR THE 2024 ELECTION? >> THE FORMER PRESIDENT MADE IT CLEAR AN INDICTMENT WILL NOT CHANGE HIS CANDIDACY. HE WILL PLOW THROUGH IT. HE'S MADE THE POSSIBILITY OF AN INDICTMENT ALMOST A PLANK OF HIS CAMPAIGN PLATFORM ARGUING THAT ANY INDICTMENT IN NEW YORK OR ANY OF THE OTHER INVESTIGATIONS IN WHICH WE KNOW HIM TO BE A TARGET WOULD BE, IN HIS WORDS, ELECTION INTERFERENCE, AN EFFORT BY DEMOCRATIC DISTRICT ATTORNEYS OR PROSECUTORS WITH THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT TO DO WHAT A POLITICAL PROCESS COULDN'T AND KNOCK HIM OUT OF THIS RACE. HE'S BEEN VERY CLEAR ON THAT POINT THAT HE BELIEVES THIS IS A POLITICAL INDICTMENT, SHOULD ONE COME, OR SHOULD ANY ADDITIONAL INDICTMENTS COME. HE FULLY INTENDS TO CONTINUE HIS CAMPAIGN IN THE FACE OF ANY ADDITIONAL LEGAL CHALLENGES. >> GARRETT, STANDBY. YOU WANT TO GO ON THE PHONE NOW TO LEGAL ANALYST DANNY CEVALLOS IS ING US. THIS WOULD BE UNSEALED AT A LATER DATE. BUT WOULD IT BE YOUR BEST ESTIMATE THAT THIS WOULD BE A FELONY INDICTMENT? >> I THINK MOST FOLKS ARE PREDICTING THIS WILL BE A FELONY INDICTMENT, BASEED ON FALSIFICATION OF BUSINESS RECORDS, WHICH IS A DEFAULT MISDEMEANOR IN NEW YORK STATE BUT BUMPED UP TO A FELONY IN THE FALSIFICATION WAS USED IN FURTHER OR TO CONCEAL ANOTHER CRIME. BUT I MAYBE IN THE MINORITY OF FOLKS THAT ARE THINKING THAT THAT MAY BE WHAT'S ON THE INDICTMENT. BUT ALSO LOOK OUT FOR THE CRIMES RELD TO TRUMP ALLEGEDLY INFLATING HIS VALUE FOR THE PURPOSE OF SECURING LOANS OR JUST BRAGGING RIGHTS AN DEFLATING HIS VALUE OF PROPERTIES WHEN IT CAME TIME TO PAYING TAXES. THAT, TO ME, STILL SEEMS LIKE A VIABLE SET OF CHARGES THAT COULD APPEAR ON THE INDICTMENT, EVEN THOUGH REPORTEDLY THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF ATTENTION BY THE GRAND JURY ON THE STORMY DANIELS HUSH MONEY PAUMTS. >> THIS IS WHERE IT GETS STICKY. MY UNDERSTANDING IS GRAND JURIES ARE SECRETIVE. THE INFORMATION IS CLOSE HELD. THE FACT THAT WE KNOW WHAT WE KNOW NOW, DOES IT AFFECT THE DEFENSE? IT THEY KNOW THAT ALVIN BRAGG HAD TO PUSH THIS ROCK UPHILL GET THIS INDICTMENT, WHAT DOES THAT SIGNAL TO THE DEFENSE? >> EXACTLY RIGHT. WE MAY NOT KNOW WHAT WENT ON EXACTLY IN THE GRAND JURY ROOM. WE HAVE THE BENEFIT OF, FOR EXAMPLE, MARK POMERANZ, A MEMBER OF THE DA'S OFFICE WHO WROTE A TELL-ALL BOOK THAT GAVE US A PRETTY GOOD IDEA OF WHAT THE PUSH AND PULL WAS BEHIND CLOSED DOORS. NOT IN THE GRAND JURY ROOM ITSELF, BUT AMONG PROSECUTORS IN THE DA'S OFFICE. SO I THINK THAT YOU MIGHT FIND THAT THAT'S THE KIND OF BOOK THAT NOT ONLY MADE THE CASE FOR INDICTING TRUMP, BUT AT THE SAME TIME, IT ALSO BY GIVING THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COIN, THE OTHER PROSECUTOR ASKS THEIR ARGUMENTS, IT GAVE THE DEFENSE A BLUEPRINT FOR HOW TO PROCEED. SO THIS AND OTHER PRESSURE MAY HAVE HASTENED THIS INDICTMENT, ALTHOUGH IT'S DIFFICULT TO SAY THIS WAS A HASTILY PUT TOGETHER INDICTMENT, BECAUSE IT TOOK YEARS. THIS IS NOT SOMETHING THAT WAS RUSHED INTO. ALTHOUGH, MANY QUESTION WHETHER OR NOT THESE ARE THE STRONGEST POTENTIAL CHARGES AGAINST DONALD TRUMP. IF THE STRONGER CHARGES MIGHT NOT BE THOSE IN GEORGIA POTENTIALLY OR FROM THE FEDERAL INVESTIGATION LED BY ESSENTIAL COUNSEL. >> DANNY, STANDBY AS WE CONTINUE OUR COVERAGE. ALSO JOINING US IS SENIOR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT HALLIE JACKSON. LET ME GET YOUR THOUGHTS AND OBSERVATIONS. >> A COUPLE THINGS HERE. WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE POLITICAL RAMIFICATIONS, THIS IS A FORMER PRESIDENT NOW A CURRENT CANDIDATE, WHO IS NOT PLANNING, HAS NO INTENTION OF BACKING AWAY FROM THE 2024 RACE. REMEMBER, IT HAD LONG BEEN PECKLATED FOR SEVERAL WEEK THIS IS INDICTMENT COULD COME DOWN. LET ME LAY OUT HOW I THINK WE'LL SEE THE TRUMP TEAM NOT POLITICALLY, BUT LEGALLY TRY TO DEFEND THE FORMER PRESIDENT FROM THIS. AGAIN, WITH THE CAVEAT THAT LAURA AND DANNY LAID OUT, WE DON'T KNOW WHAT IS IN THE INDICTMENT SPECIFICALLY, BUT FROM PUBLIC STATEMENTS AND MEMBERS OF THE FORMER PRESIDENT'S LEGAL TEAM HAVE MAID, THEY WILL PROBABLY TRY TO ARGUE THAT THIS WAS SIMPLY, AS THEY HAVE SAID BEFORE, A NUISANCE SETTLEMENT, THIS HUSH MONEY PAYMENT. THIS WAS MADE IN THE PERSONAL CAPACITY OF DONALD TRUMP AND NOT, IN FACT, AS PART OF A CAMPAIGN EXPENDITURE. THEY ARE GOING TO TRY TO PORTRAY MICHAEL COHEN, WHO WAS A KEY WITNESWHO TESTIFIED REPEATEDLY TO THE GRAND JURY IN THIS CASE, AS A LIAR. AND SOMEBODY WHO SIMPLY IS NOT CREDIBLE. WE HAVE SEEN THAT ALREADY FROM DONALD TRUMP AGAIN AND AGAIN ON HIS PLATFORM TRUTH SOCIAL. AND THEY WILL PROBABLY POINT TO SOME STATEMENTS MADE BY A FORMER MEMBER OF THE PREVIOUS MANHATTAN DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S TEAM TO TRY TO SAY THAT EVEN SOME FORMER MEMBERS OF THIS TEAM DID NOT THINK THERE WAS ENOUGH IN THIS CASE TO ACTUALLY PROSECUTE. THIS IS WHAT WE HAVE HEARD FROM THE LEGAL REPRESENTATIVES OF FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP ALREADY AS FAR AS THE POLITICAL IMPACT OF THIS. THE BASE OF DONALD TRUMP HAS BEEN STICKY. AND BY THAT I MEAN THEY HAVE STUCK WITH HIM THROUGH A LOT OF THIS. THESE HUSH MONEY PAYMENT ALLEGATIONS CALM OUT PRIOR TO THE 2016 ELECTION AND DONALD TRUMP STILL ENDED UP IN THE WHITE HOUSE. THE QUESTION WE'LL BE LOOKING FOR AS IT RELATES TO THE 2024 CAMPAIGN IS WHAT DO HIS CURRENT OPPONENTS AND POTENTIAL REPUBLICAN OPPONENTS DO AND ABOUT THIS. THERE'S GOING TO BE A LOT OF EYES ON FLORIDA GOVERNOR RON DeSANTIS WHO ARE IS CONSIDERED TO BE THE LEADING FRONT RUNNER AGAINST DONALD TRUMP IN THE PRIMARY. EVEN THOUGH HE HASN'T EVEN OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED HE'S RUNNING YET. THERE'S A LOT OF SPECULATION THAT HE WILL. HOW MIGHT HE THREAD THE NEEDLE ON THIS UNPRECEDENTED INDICTMENT AGAINST A FORMER PRESIDENT. >> HALLIE JACKSON, HANG IN THERE. LET ME GO TO POLITICAL DIRECTOR CHUCK TODD. CHUCK, HOW DO YOU SEPARATE THE POLITICS OR WHETHER WILL IT NOT BE SEPARATED? >> THEY ARE VERY INTERTWINED. THIS HAS BEEN SOMETHING ALVIN BRAGG WHEN HE WAS RUNNING TO BE THE DEMOCRATIMINEE TO BE THE NEXT MANHATTAN DA, THIS WAS PART OF THE CAMPAIGN DIALOGUE THERE. SO THIS WAS ALWAYS INTERTWINED WITH POLITICS. AND DONALD TRUMP HAS BEEN SOME MIGHT CALL IT GASLIGHTING. OTHERS MIGHT CALL IT PREPARING HIS BASE FOR THIS MO ARGUABLY FOR YEARS, THEY ARE ALWAYS OUT TO GET ME, REALIZE THAT WHEN THEY ARE COMING AFTER ME, THEY ARE COMING AFTER YOU. AND WHEN YOU LK AT JUST ALL THE VARIOUS WAYS THAT THIS HAS BEEN POLLED, WHEN YOU TALK TO VARIOUS REPUBLICAN STRATEGISTS ABOUT WAYS THEY HAVE ALREADY POLLED THIS, DOES AN INDICTED DONALD TRUMP, IS HE WEAKER IN THE REPUBLICAN PRIMARY, AND IT'S NOT CLEAR HE IS. THE QUESTION I HAVE ALWAYS HAD ON THIS IS IF HE ACCUMULATES INDICTMENTS, THIS IS THE FIRST SHOE TO FALL. IF THESE ACCUMULATING INDICTS, DOES THAT BECOME THE WAY VOTERS SAY WE LIKE YOU, DONALD TRUMP, BUT YOU CAN'T WIN. THAT HASN'T HAPPENED, THOUGH. THE ONLY RATIONAL I HAVE HEARD A REPUBLICAN TRY TO MAKE AGAINST DONALD TRUMP WITHOUT TRYING TO ATTACK HIM HAS BEEN, HEY, HE'S LOST THREE TIMES. 2018, 2020, 2022, EITHER HE OR HIS IDEAS HAVE LOST AT THE BALLOT BOX. HE'S THE REPUBLICAN MOST LIKELY TO LOSE TO BIDEN. BUT THE PROBLEM IS HIS VOTERS DON'T BELIEVE IT. HE'S CONVINCD VOTERS HE DIDN'T LOSE IN 2020. SO THEY CAN'T EVEN USE THAT ARGUMENT EFFECTIVELY THAT HE ALREADY LOST ONCE. SO IT WILL BE INTERESTING TO SEE HOW VOTERS REACT TO NOW THAT HE ACTUALLY IS INDICTED. AND WHEN YOU SEE THE MUG SHOT, YOU SEE ALL THOSE THINGS. BUT I DO THINK WE OUGHT TO JUDGE HIS DURABILITY HERE NOT AFTER THIS INDICTMENT, IF ANOTHER ONE COMES OUT OF GEORGIA AND D.C., THAT'S WHEN WE'LL FIND OUT TRULY HOW POLITICALLY DURABLE HE IS. >> WHAT'S THE PROGRESS OF THOSE OTHER INVESTIGATIONS, WHICH ARE ARGUABLY MORE SERIOUS CHARGES. >> IT'S INTERESTING. THE ONE OBVIOUSLY IN GEORGIA, THE SPECIAL GRAND JURY PRODUCE ED A REPORT. TRUMP'S ATTORNEYS HAVE TACKED THAT PROCESS AND TRIED TO QUASH THAT REPORT. THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY THERE HAD SAID AT SOME POINT IT WAS EMINENT, BUT THAT WAS WEEKS AGO. SO THE TIMETABLE ON THAT IS NOT AT ALL CLEAR. IT'S NOT GOING TO TAKE PLACE ANYWHERE NEAR AS CLOSE AS THIS ONE IS. THE CHARGES, AS YOU MENTIONED, ARE DIFFERENT. AND HAS TO DIRECTLY DO WITH HIM TRYING TO GET THE SECRETARY OF STATE OF GEORGIA TO ATTACK THE CENTER OF DEMOCRACY. >> WE WANT TO GO JONATHAN DEAN, WHO BROKE IT. HE'S BEEN COVERING THIS STORY FROM THE START. JONATHAN, TELL US WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED AND HOW THIS IS GOING TO PLAY OUT. OUR FIRST HINT THAT THERE WAS A STEPPED UP POLICE PRESENCE DOWNTOWN. WHAT DO YOU KNOW? >> LATE THIS AFTERNOON, THE NYPD WAS ADVISED TO START STEPPING UP SECURITY AS THE GRAND JURY WAS EXPECTED TO HOLD A VOTE THIS AFTERNOON. WE BEGAN REPORTING ON THAT. THEN WE HEARD THE GRAND JURY WAS VOTING. THEN THE RESULT CAME IN LATE THIS AFTERNOON, MULTIPLE SOURCES TELLING US THAT THE GRAND JURY HAS VOTED TO INDICT THE FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. WE ARE TOLD THAT HIS DEFENSE ATTORNEYS HAVE BEEN ADVISED AND WE ARE AWAITING WORD AS TO WHEN, IF AS EARLY AS TOMORROW HE WILL I APPEAR IN COURT, OR WILL THAT BE PUSHED INTO NEXT WEEK. THAT WILL BE A CONVERSATION BETWEEN THE PROSECUTORS AND THE DEFENSE TEAM MEANWHILE, WE AWAIT TO SEE IF AND WHEN THAT PAPERWORK GETS FD. THEN UNSEALED AND PUBLICLY AVAILABLE TO LEARN MORE DETAILS ABOUT IT. HISTORIC DAY HERE THIS NEW YORK AND FOR THE NATION. THE FORMER PRESIDENT CHARGED HERE IN NEW YORK HAD IN CONNECTION WITH THAT STORMY DANIELS AFFAIR. >> THANK YOU FOR THAT. ALSO WH US, WE'LL TURN TO SENIOR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT HALLIE JACKSON. I UNDERSTAND YOU HAVE HEARD FROM MICHAEL COHEN, THE FORMER PRESIDENT'S FORMER FIXER. >> ONE OF OUR PRODUCERS, WHO HAS BEEN AMONG THE TIPS OF THE SPEAR ON REPORTING THE STORY FOR US, HAS A NEW STATEMENT FROM MICHAEL COHEN. THE FORMER ATTORNEY, YES, THAT'S WHY HE IS INVOLVED IN THIS DISCUSSION OVER THIS HUSH MONEY PAYMENT AT ALL, AS WE VE LAID OUT HERE. COHEN, WE ARE HEARING FOR THE FIST TIME SINCE THE NEWS BROKE. HE SAYS HE TAKES SOLACE IN VALIDATING THAT NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW. NOT EVEN A FORMER PRESIDENT. HE GOES ON TO SAY THAT IT IS NOT THE END OF THIS CHAPTER, BUT THE BEGINNING OF THE NEXT ONE. THEN HE SAYS HE WANTS TO LET THE INDICTMENT SPEAK FOR ITSELF. AND THE CONTEXT AND THE BACK STORY THERE, COHEN HAD BEEN VERY PUBLIC IN COMING OUT AND TALKING ABOUT SOME OF THE TESTIMONY IN FRONT OF THE GRAND JURY, HOW HE PERCEIVED THIS CASE UNTIL HE WAS ADVISED BY HIS ATTORNEYS, ACCORDING TO SOURCES, TO PULL BACK ON THAT. HE SAYS IN A STATEMENT, THE ONLY TWO THINGS HE WISHES TO STAY AT THIS TIME IS ACCOUNTABILITY MATTERS AND I STANDBY MY TESTIMONY AND THE EVIDENCE I HAVE PROVIDED TO THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY OF NEW YORK. AND AGAIN, THAT'S UNSURPRISING PERHAPS THAT MICHAEL COHEN WOULD STANDBY HIS TESTIMONY, BUT IT IS STILL SIGNIFICANT BECAUSE HE WILL START TO SEE IN A MATTER OF MINUTES, IF NOT HOURS, AN EFFORT TO TRY TO ATTACK MICHAEL COHEN'SS CREDIBILITY POST INDICTMENT, AN EFFORT THAT HAD ALREADY BEGUN PRIOR TO THIS NEWS COMING OUT. >> I KNOW YOU'LL BE HON TORTING SOCIAL MEDIA. THANK YOU. I WANT TO GO TO THE WHITE HOUSE. ALEXANDER. THERE'S BEEN A REAL CURTAIN OF SILENCE OVER THE LAST FEW WEEKS AS WE SEEM TO BE MARCHING TOWARDS THAT MOMENT. ANYTHING YOU'RE HEARING NOW? >> WE HAVE NOW RECEIVED THE OFFICIAL NO COMMENT FROM THOSE AT THE WHITE HOUSE. THE PRESIDENT ON THIS TOPIC HAS KEPT SILENT. HE'S DONE HIS BEST TO STEER CLEAR OF THIS ENTIRE CONVERSATION FOR A VARIETY OF REASONS. THERE WAS A SERIES OF TEMPTATIONS AND PITFALLS TO MAKE THIS A THORNY ISSUE TO WITNESS THEIR PREDECESSOR NOW BEING INDICTED. THE WHITE HOUSE WANTS TO BE VERY CAREFUL, BUT IT'S NOT CONSTRUED THAT ANY COMMENT THEY WOULD MAKE ON THIS TOPIC. ANY COMMENT BY PRESIDENT BIDEN WOULD BE VIEWED AS AN EFFORT TO TRY TO TIP THE SCALES OR TO LEAN ON MERRICK GARLAND, THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, WHO WILL BE THE ONE WHO DECIDES WHETHER OR NOT TO PROSECUTE THE FORMER PRESIDENT AS PT OF THAT FEDERAL INVESTIGATION LED BY THE SPECIAL COUNSEL JACK SMITH THAT IS TAKING PLACE NOW. SOME ISSUES STEMMING FROM THE HANDLING OF CLASSIFIED INFORMATION BY THE FORMER PRESIDENT AND ALSO HIS HANDLING, AS IT LED UP TO THE JANUARY 6th ATTACKS. HIS HANDLING OF THE 2020 ELECTION RESULTS. SO THAT'S THE POSITION HERE THE WHITE HOUSE IS DIRECTED US, AS WE HAVE REACHED OUT TO THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE AS WELL FIREFIGHTER COMMENT. NONE FROM THEM HERE. BUT THERE'S S A DESI TO TRY NOT TO WATCH THIS AS IT UNFOLDS AS IT COMES TO THE PRESIDENT AND TOP DEMOCRATS, NOT TO POLITICIZE IT IN ANY WAY. IT'S NOTABLE WE HAVE SEEN FROM THE PRESIDENT A FOCUS ON THE ISSUES AND AWAY FROM THE POP TICKS. WE ARE TRYING TO FOCUS ON THE ECONOMY, ON HIS EFFORTS AS IT RELATES TO THE BUDGET AND AS WE DID JUST YESTERDAY WHEN HE WAS ON THE ROAD, REALLY CRITICIZING REPUBLICANS ON POLICY ISSUES LIKE, AS HE SAYS, THEIR DESIRE TO CUT BACK ON SOCIAL SECURITY AND HEAD CARE. NO COMMENT FROM THE WHITE HOUSE. IF THEY ARE GOING TO STEER CLEAR IT. >> THANK YOU. WE'LL ASK YOU TO STANDBY. I WANT TO GO TO DANNY CEVALLOS AGAIN. I WANTED TO GO BACK ON WHAT YOU SAID. WE FOCUSED ON THIS CASE AS BEING ABOUT THE HUSH MONEY. THAT'S THE CASE. IF I UNDERSTOOD YOU A MOMENT AGO, THERE MAYBE OTHER CHARGES THAT WEREN'T WIDELY TALKED ABOUT. WHAT ARE THOSE? >> THERE COULD BE. FOR EXAMPLE, THERE WAS LENTY OF INVESTIGATIONS DONE INTO TRUMP'S VARIOUS PROPERTIES. EVERYTHING FROM 40 WALL STREET TO HIS OWN APARTMENT IN MANHATTAN, WHICH HE SUPPOSEDLY OVERSTATED SOMETHING AS SIMPLE AS THE SQUARE FOOTAGE. THE CHALLENGE THERE IS WHEN HAD IT COMES TO REAL ESTATE, THAT'S A SUBJECTIVE PROCESS. AND MAYBE IT'S EVEN MORE SUBJECT SUBJECTIVE WHEN DEALING WITH A BRAND NAME LIKE DONALD TRUMP. SO IT'S POSSIBLE THE DA'S OFFICE MAY HAVE SHIED AWAY FROM THOSE CHARGES TOO. BUT THEY HAVE PLENTY OF REASONS FOR BEING CONCERNED OR NOT THINKING THE STORMY DANIELS HUSH MONEY PAYMENT WOULD BE SLAM DUNKED ALSO. THERE ARE CHALLENGES WITH THAT CASE AS WELL. FOR AMPLE, THE ISSUE OF WHETHER OR NOT NEW YORK STATE PROSECUTOR CANS USEN AN ALLEGED FEDERAL ELECTION LAW VIOLATION AS THAT PREDICATE CRIME THAT WILL BUMP UP THAT NEW YORK STATE MISSTATEMENTS OR FALSE STATEMENTS ON BUSINESS RECORDS TO A FELONY. IT SOUNDCOMPLICATED. >> CAN THEY USE THAT AS THE FELONY? >> WE'RE GOING TO PAUSE BRIEFLY FOR SOME STATIONS TO START THEIR LOCAL NEWSCAST WHILE WE CONTINUE THE COVERAGE OF THE INDICTMENT OF FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP. >>> WE'RE BACK WITH OUR VIEWERS HERE. LET'S TURN BACK TO LAURA JARRETT. FOR FOLKS JUST TURNING ON THE TV WALKING INTO THIS, WALK THROUGH WHAT WE KNOW RIGHT NOW.

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Forsyth Technical Community College has closed campus and all classes are canceled for the remainder of the week, according to a tweet posted by the college.

City limits information that I have to share with you today is in reference to the event at Forsyte Community College on today's date which is March 30 th around 10 10. This morning, Winston Town Police Department received a call for service in reference to an individual who had been shot on the campus for Community College. And that would be the main campus located on Silas Creek Parkway. Officers responded to assist Forsyth Tech Community College public Safety officers. I can confirm at this time that this was not an active shooter situation on this campus. We did identify one victim that was transported to a local facility for treatment of a non life threatening injury. This is an active investigation. We're still trying to determine exactly how we came to be at Forsyth Tech and what generated this particular situation. Um I can confirm at this point that the Winston Salem Forsyth County students that were on Forsyth Tech Community College campus have been returned to their respective schools at this point and none of them were injured. There will be a follow up news conference at five PM this evening. It will be at the Almond center lobby on Forsyth Technical Community College campus. And that's located at 2100 Solace Creek Parkway. The campus is locked down for Forsyth Tech Community College has been lifted as well. Captain, can you tell us the injury suffered? Is that a gunshot wound? It was related to a gunshot wound? That is correct. That information will be released this evening at the five o'clock press conference, there was a shooting on campus and one person was injured as a result of that shooting was that inside the building? So more information will be provided at the five o'clock. I can tell you that the individual that sought treatment was treatment for a gunshot wound and it's non life threatening. Again, the investigation is active and ongoing. So we are still determining exactly what happened. I can tell you there is not an active shooter situation. This was not that and we do not believe that we have anyone at large that is a danger to the community at 10 30. There was a text by continue to show their two armed dangerous black and male suspects are still at large wearing gray black hoodies. What was the source of that information that came from Forsyte Community College? So that would be information that they would be providing at this point. Um I'm not at liberty to provide that information just because it's an active investigation. No one has been arrested at this time. I'm sorry, do we know if the victim was uh it was male, if you can't captain, the major concern that you have right now, what is that the safety of the community and the knowledge that at this point we do not believe there is an active threat to the community or an active continual threat to this campus. Again, the case is under an active investigation and hopefully we'll be able to provide some additional information at 5:00. Is there anything that the people listening and hearing can do to help? Are you asking for assistance? Um If you were on the campus of Forsyth Tech and you have information that is relevant to your experience in this particular incident, then we would like for you to share that and there's different ways you can do it, you can call us. We also have an outlet for videos to be uploaded through our real time Crime Center and other avenues. So if you have information that you were on campus and you would like to share, we would ask for you to share that our real time Crime Center has a website where you can upload information and see something, say something. So just to clarify, there's no one at large that people should be worried about that might be a threat to their safety. That is correct. If you can any time you have bullets flying and it's in a dense area like the college, university, people in classrooms. And what have you, there has to be a lot of concern about who else could be injured. Can you speak to us about that? So the response of the Winston is police department was swift. We had officers nearby the campus on an unrelated manner. So we were able to get officers in place to be able to do a systematic search of the campus to ensure that we were not only accounting for the students that were normally supposed to be on campus, but also identifying any, any additional victims and or suspect concerns. It sounds like we could be fortunate when you've got some people milling around and someone is shot on campus that no one unintended. If we're not looking for active shooter, that no one unintended or uninvolved. Can you talk to us about that? Well, again, at this point, I just wanted to give you just some preliminary information to ask a couple questions and I appreciate your time with that um, for any additional questions and answers. Hopefully, we'll be able to supply more comprehensive information at the five o'clock news conference. All right. Thank you all. So we will have a five, we will have a five o'clock press conference or excuse me, a five o'clock news conference at the Almond Center. And that will be at five PM. Have representatives from W S P D Winston, Salem, Forsyth County Schools and Forsyth Tech there to answer your questions. Now, for the information for anyone with information about this particular case. You can call the W S P D nine emergency number. That number is 3367737700 again 336773 7700. You can call Crime Stoppers. That number is 33672728003367272800. The Spanish Line for Crime Stoppers 3367283904. That's 3367283904. You can also use our text to tip program. That's what Captain Lovejoy was referring to. That number is 33672761717. Again 3362761717. And you can send tips videos photos directly to the Winston Salem Police Department. Thank you and see you all at five PM. Yeah, take a few.

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Drivers cruise down Oberlin Road in Raleigh every day without even realizing they're driving past a nearly century-old secret garden.

Hi there. I'm W R L's hidden historian Heather Leah. And today I am very excited to show you around a secret garden hidden right here in Raleigh. And I'm in the garden right now. It's closed off to the public. It's on private property, but they're going to open it for one day only this weekend. They're letting me show you around this garden is nearly a century old. It's been on private property. It has an incredible story behind it. It's absolutely beautiful. So I'm going to go ahead and start showing you around. I'm standing on Oberlin Road where drivers are passing by every single day without even realizing that behind this curtain of ivy is hidden. A secret world. Many people don't realize that Raleigh has a secret garden and it's almost a century old. You could see these cobblestone pathways here just through this gate, which is normally closed to the public. There's a garden that has been tended for almost a century. Uh Not many things in Raleigh have been around for over a century, but the home here is from the 1800s and the gardens were planted in the 1930s and they've been kept alive and growing ever since then. And I'm very excited that today they actually opened the gardens just to let me in so that I could take a look around before the crowds arrive on Sunday. So this Sunday, April 2nd for one day only, they're opening these gardens to the public. And so this private enclave, this oasis that's hidden very close to downtown Raleigh, right in historic Oberlin will be open to the public and you'll be able to see it for yourself. But today, they wanted to let me come through and give you a preview of what these gardens look like. And really, I've seen pictures, the gardens look very similar uh to how they looked in the 1930s and 40s. Now, these gardens were planted by a woman named Isabelle Bowen Henderson and this is the woman that grew a garden that lasted 100 years and hopefully longer. And I will tell you as we look at these beautiful bulbs and these flowers and these, these, this is actually the older part of the garden. This was originally part of a, a separate garden, but also in the family. And when they sold off that property, Isabel took a part of that garden over so you can see little flowers growing like little fairies just hovering above this old cobblestone, this kind of wild look, this, this sense of it's green and it's tended, but it's not kept perfect. And perfectly sheared and clipped, but rather allowed to grow a little bit outside the lines to color outside the lines if you will. Uh, that was part of Isabelle's, uh, personality and her charm. Uh, she didn't want to have the perfectly pruned garden. She wanted to have color and, and greenery and these meandering cobblestone and brick pathways. Um, but she was inspired by the gardens that she saw in Williamsburg. Now, she was an artist if you couldn't tell from looking at her gardens here and honestly learning about her, she was a pretty incredible person. Um She grew up in Raleigh in the early 1900s and she became a portrait artist. And during an era and again, this is, this is her home really frozen in time here. Uh Because the descendants have kept the home up and have kept the gardens up. Again, a lot of things in Raleigh don't last um over 100 years in this exact same way, but this private oasis has really stood the test of time anyways, she was a woman uh that she sounded incredible. Um First of all, if, if you grew up in Raleigh, you may even have a portrait by her. I've met several people who did um her, she was single, uh she did get married, but uh her husband and her marriage did not work out. Uh And so in a time during a time where many women really relied on having a husband to help with the finances, she supported all of this, these gardens, all the renovations and you know, the additions to the garden. Now, look at this view, you can see pictures of the garden um from the 1940s, it looked just like this view. It's, it's just stayed frozen in time and she afforded all of that and expansions on the house uh with her own money and this income she made primarily through her art. Uh She was a portrait artist and again, I've met many people and Raleigh who have uh a portrait that she painted for them. So this was a, she was very popular. She was in newspapers and magazines all the time. Uh She wrote and she wrote in magazines and garden magazines and uh art magazines and, and really shared her knowledge about gardening and art. Uh and she created this, this wonderland, um which was really kind of a private wonderland. Now, the house you see there, that house uh very historic house and has been almost torn down at least once, possibly twice. Um That home is very likely one of the oldest homes in historic Oberland Village. Uh see a little bee here. This garden is just full of life. And so that home was built in the 18 hundreds uh before Isabelle lived there. Uh There were other families that lived there. Uh The Hinton family lived there uh as well as the Haywood family and uh they married into the graves family. And the graves house seems to have been built a generation later. And that's one of the, you know, big Oberlin houses that you see when you drive through Oberlin Village, Oberland Village. Um just for context is a historic Friedman's village uh was formed by people who had been freed uh from the local plantations and area plantations uh after ended after the emancipation. So those historic Friedman's villages were very important to Raleigh's history. And only two of them remained standing today. But this house was part of that history, quite possibly one of the first houses in uh historic Oberland village. But when her family bought it and it would have been quite old by the time they bought it in the 1930s. Um if it had been built in the 1800s, but they decided they, they rather than tearing it down and starting new, they would keep it standing because they wanted to preserve that history. And so she kept that history alive and much of that house, if you step inside uh this weekend, they will let you go inside that house and you'll be able to see um some of that original history from Oberland Village as well. Oh, look, they've got a millstone used to decorate uh this private enclave. The secret garden has these old trees as you can see, some of them were lost during Fran uh but these trees are likely nearly a century old, if not older themselves. Uh Having seen a lot of history, there's also a carriage house and there is a uh a shedd, an herb garden. So there's more to the garden than just the plants. There's, there's an entire hidden enclave in here. We're gonna step inside and see some of the history she saved in here. Now, I will say uh her sister inherited this garden and this house when she passed away and she, her sister, um which is the grandmother of the person who lives here. Now, um literally saved this house uh from being demolished when the city of Raleigh. Look at that view through the window beautiful when the city of Raleigh uh wanted to build a five lane road uh right through this part of Raleigh, which of course was right near Hillsborough Street and what would have been Cameron Village at the time. So, uh there was a fight to save this house from destruction and generations of family have kept it up since then. Uh If that five lane road had been allowed to go through, it would have likely destroyed this house, the garden as well as uh historic Overland Village. So the people who lived in this house, the women who lived in this house have really fought to preserve it and the family that is here now, uh Russ Stevenson lives here. Now, it's been passed on through the generations and it's a testament to people who fight to preserve Raleigh's history. You can visit this house and the gardens this weekend, they're opening for one day only, uh Sunday, April two and uh you can come see it for yourself. I hope to see you then and I'll see you next time for more hidden history. Thanks.

Firsthand walk through Raleigh's secret garden

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