Five things to know Wednesday, March 16:

1. It was a make-or-break day of voting for the presidential hopefuls. [who was broken | chances of a brokered GOP convention |  Trump wins, but not enough | California governor jokes about Trump's wall | Clinton likely Democratic nominee]

2. A female Senate Republican is blocking a bill to find and collect neglected rape kits. [Greg Bluestein tells you why]

3. The Georgia teacher under fire for calling a student "the dumbest" he ever met, has resigned. [Ernie Suggs has the details]

4. You will want to find an alternate route if you have to be in the Perimeter Mall area today. [Jennifer Brett tells you why]

5. Winter is coming ... back. Sort of [Lauren Foreman has details on an expected cold front | your Atlanta weather forecast]

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March is Women's History Month. We're celebrating by bringing you the stories of women who made history. Today we feature Toshiko Akiyoshi, who received a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master award.

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Former Fulton County election worker Ruby Freeman talks to her daughter, Wandrea ArShaye "Shaye" Moss, a former Georgia election worker, after she testified before the U.S. House Select Committee at its fourth hearing on its Jan. 6 investigation on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, June 21, 2022. (Yuri Gripas/Abaca Press/TNS)

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