Getting more information and bring that to you throughout the morning and online at wbtv. Com. Welcome to wbtv news this morning it is friday, february 12th, im john carter. And School Delays to tell you about. Avery, mitchell and Watauga County schools are all operating on a twohour delay. No other School Closings that we know of. If we get any other delays or closings, well bring them to you. But again, a very cold start to the day again today, here is charlottes most experienced morning meteorologist, al conklin. Wig al it is, john, not as brutal as yesterday. Cloud cover moved in and that ounce times prevents us from getting too, too cold, it is debatable how much snow is reaching the ground. Radar is picking up snow over the mountain and foothills. There may be flurries, but snow a Winter Weather advisory from noon through tomorrow morning. Several inches of snow in the mountain, at best a flurry or sprinkle in the foothillo 25 in boone. 30 hickory and morganton, below freezing charlotte, gastonia, shelby, 28 salisbury, statesville, albermarle, 29 in monroe. Well start off cold, below freezing, lots of clouds, maybe a flurry especially north of town through the midday and start to see a few breaks of sunshine, not as warm, yesterday 48, today, 42, our eyes on the president s day storm, more details coming up in a couple minutes with the seven day planner. John thanks, al crews started treating roads because of the possible Winter Weather. This video crews out during the afternoon treating streets with salt brine, actually that looks like night time footage. The state d. O. T. Is out this morning brining bridges. A Traffic Alert out of East Charlotte we want to make sure you know about. One westbound lane of i277 is shut down while crews tend to a water main break. The right lane of 74 westbound is scheduled to be closed down until 4 00 p. M. The d. O. T. Closed it wednesday night after concerns about water collecting in the road and freezing. They handed over control of the situation to the charlotte water department, crews will be on site today continuing to work on this situation. Well keep you updated. Campaign 2016 charging full steam ahead the democrats debate on tv and republicans jockeying for positioning themselves for a win in the South Carolina primary. A weekandahalf away. Wbtvs Michael Clark was at winthrop where thousands came out to hear from two of the republican candidates. Reporter republican president ial hopefuls continue to cover echoey inch of South Carolina ahead of the primary. At Winthrop University ben carson and ted cruz talk aid bowed education, marriage and prayer as part of the carolina at Winthrop University thursday, senator ted cruz and ben carson. Cruz focused on family values like marriage and life. On the first day in office, i will struck the u. S. Department of justice to open an investigation in planned parenthood and prosecute any and all criminal violations. Carson told south South Carolinans talked about his plan to help struggling families. I have no intention of withdrawing safety net programs from people who need them, but what i do intend to do is to create ladders of opportunity to allow people to climb out of depend deny see and become part of the fabric of america. All were invited to rock hill, manied a other destination. Jeb bush talked about reforms for vets in columbia. We need to shrink the administrative side and expand the care and do it in a way that is passionate and quick, because veterans are hurting. Beach, marco rubio told voters he believes not everything has a government solution. The most Important Institution in society is the family. That what happens in our house is more important than the white house. John kasich continues to try to capitalize off the second place finish in New Hampshire with a ground game. Im sensing a lot of support out here but you have to take the support inned translate night positive action like we did in New Hampshire. The only gop candidate missing, donald trump, who is polling well here. He was campaigning in baton rouge, louisiana with a week to go before the primary, we may see many other candidates come through rock hill. Michael clark, wbtv on your side. John it was a heated debate in wisconsin between Bernie Sanders and hillary clinton. This is the first debate since sanders commanding win in New Hampshire tuesday. The two clashed over health care. Sanders wants to create a single payer system but clinton says obamas health care law. Sanders argues his proposal would save money for middle and lower income families. The future toll lanes planned along i77 will be reality. Construct moving forward despite and ongoing battle to try to kill the project altogether. That battle is one that has played out in other states where cintra the company that is building the lanes here, has built and owned other roads. We wanted to know how other cintra roads have fared, we sent nick ochsner across the country to find out. Reporter before it started building the i77 managed lanes. Cintra operated three toll roads in texas, chicago and indiana. Two of those roads have since been sold after the company hit financial difficulties. Elected representatives of state of indiana say what happened in their state should be a cautionary tale for leaders here in North Carolina. Pick up the indiana toll road south of chicago at rush hour and youll have the lanes nearly traffic on the road that was once a critical connector across the state, has dried up. Not lately. Why not . The tolls, increasing fees. The toes and fees skyrocket forward drivers in the years since cintra paid the state 3. 8 billion for a 75 year lease on the road in 2006. Oh, yeah, went up, yeah. I dont do that way, i will deal with 80 94. It is worth it. The deal was hailed by Mitch Daniels as a good deal for taxpayers. Not all leaders supported the takeover. They are out to make money off your citizens. Patrick bauer was House Minority leader when the sale was approved. We were short change and overcharged. Decline in cars on the road from rising toll rates, a drop in revenue. Cintras subsidiary declared bankruptcy and sold the road. Why would you give a service away so the people would have to Company Profit . Roads were empty on state highway 130 in texas, where cintra owns the stretch of highway that parallels a free staterun interstate between san antonio and austin. We have been drying on 130 in texas for several miles and so direction. Cintras u. S. Headquarters is an hour up the road from where i am right now in austin. I asked if they would talk with me while i was here, but they declined. The Company Issued a statement saying in part we believe our completed u. S. Managed lanes projects are alleviating Traffic Congestion and providing motorists with more options for their daily travels. Further, our projects generated business for numerous local contractors leading to many new jobs 130 allows drivers to bypass one of the most congested corridors in the state. Usage of sh130 continues to rise each year, traffic increasing i think it is a bust. Leaders like representative bauers said other states should think twice. You think indiana should be a cautionary tale for other states . Absolutely. Another lawmaker said the complains are the upkeep of the private companies along the toll road. Hear about that in the 6 00 a. M. Hour. Now reporting along i77 nick ochsner, wbtv on your side. John we have much more information about our investigation in cintras history of financial troubles on our website, full statements from both cintra and the North Carolina department of transportation you can find all that at wbtv. Com. Just ahead this morning at 4 30, a massive fire that rips through a new jersey industrial park, this morning a look at the damage and the precautions now being taken at the scene. 5 00. Closed captioning on wbtvnews is sponsored by subarusouth boulevard and subaruconcord. John 4 42, new information on a massive fivealarm fire that ripped through a new jersey industrial park. The fire was still burning last night, sent huge plumes of thick black smoke in the air. Toxic but the epa was monitoring air quality. Firefighters are not sure what caused it to break out or spread so quickly. Still ahead on wbtv news this morning, nearly eight months after shootings in charleston, were hearing from two women who survived. 17 minutes before 5 00. John a federal judge is delaying the trial of the suspected Charleston Church of killing nine people at mother eml downtown charleston in june of last year. His lawyers told the judge they were not ready for trial. His state Death Penalty trial is still scheduled july 11th. Unclear if the decision will have an impact on his federal trial. Nearly eight months after the shootings in charleston were hearing from two women who survived. Theyve motional memories about the evening when the gunman opened fire on their bible study group. Were hearing how they made it out alive. Our Sarah Blake Morgan has their powerful story. 77 shots. Actually sounded like a bomb sounds of rapid fire are the sounds that changed absolutely everything for these two women. I kept praying under the table. Lord kept me calm. Felecia sanders and poly shepard were in the church when another her aunt and son. He said you dont have to do this. You dont have to do this, why are you doing this. He took the attention, the attention of off of us. The attention was then on him. So, he saved us. The women say the man who turned on them, dylann roof, was welcomed with open arms in their wednesday night bible study. We were so nice to him. A place supposed to be sacred and safe. I never thought that in my wildest nightmare that i would lose my child, my friends at bible study at a church. Thats the part thats the part i cant get past. Yeah. Some how days after the bondroofs bondhearing they fond forgiveness. Dylann roof doesnt care if i forgive him or not, forgiveness is for me are not him. I forgave him also but i believe in repentance, i believe god will forgive him, too. In the months that followed a lot changed from the Confederate Flag coming down from the capital to daily conversations about race, these women know their pain is not without progress. Hes trying to show us something and some of us woke up and some of us are still asleep. Sarah blake morgan, wbtv on your side. John the third survivor is granddaughter. We have more of this interview posted to wbtv. Com right on the home page. This morning, charlottemecklenburg schools is monitoring the weather closely ahead of next weeks potential for Winter Weather. They say safety is the priority. The School District has to make that was the problem last month when we got hit with freezing rain. Cms was criticized for not having enough people to clear the areas. Kids were out of school three days. 11 minutes before 5 00. A live look at the charlotte skyline from Scott Clark Nissan honda hd tower cam, a clear, crisp morning out there this morning, were below freezing right now. And the big question is how much will we warm up today, what about the weekend and what about this potential for major storm come monday . Here is meteorologist al conklin conklin. Al john, you have a lot of questions, but no answers, huh . Ill answer them. We wont get as cold as yesterday morning, we hit 17 yesterday morning. Clear, calm conditions, that is not the case this morning. We have a canopy of cloud cover across the area that is producing a little bit of snow for the mountains, perhap as flurry north of town. Totally expected, we talked about this yesterday. With that, we have a Winter Weather advisory which runs through the day today in morning. Initially a little bit of light snow on the front end as the winds pick up snow showers will pick up later today and tonight they will end fairly quickly across the piedmont during the morning hours. Lets look at futurecast, anything you would see here would be snow and this is probably heavyhanded but the timing i think is right on this. This is noon, you see a batch moving through and notice by 4 00, we get holes in the clouds while snow showers continue for the mountains. This is going to be a very, very light event for all of us outside of the high country, heading out this evening, we will be dry. So for the mountains, different story, high country i think by the time this winds down tomorrow morning you could wind up with 24 inches, the 4 inches more likely in the highest of elevations. Boone, blowing rock, west jefferson, Population Centers an inch or two of snow. Our temperatures are not as cold. Yesterday morning, as i mentioned, down to 17, this because of that cloudiness and breeze helps keep the temperature stirred up. We will have a cooler day today, yesterday, 48, today, maybe 42, in that neighborhood. Chilly. 23 in jefferson, 25 in boone, everybody else is a little closer to freezing, upper 20s to low 30s. 30s hickory, lincolnton, rock hill and in concord. Today, lots of clouds, especially for the morning and midday hours, maybe a few breaks of sunshine, notice chance for flurries from charlotte on northward, no more than 20 chance here and with those temperatures, anything that falls outside the high country is not going to accumulate. Our rainsnow chance is slight, but they ramp up sunday night into monday and tuesday, especially monday night into tuesday, so this is the way things are looking. We have some changes since the last time we were together. The low now doesnt look like it is necessarily going to track far south of us, as a result, we will likely get in warmer air things, this is our 8 00 position monday morning, we probably start with snow and sleet and transitions, becomes snow for the mountain, rest of us sleet, freezing rain and plain rain. A sloppy forecast for monday into tuesday. But it does not look to be as bad as what it looked like yesterday. Today, we get rid of the flurries quickly. Going in the weekend, dry but cold, watching monday and tuesday. John five before 5 00. A topic stirring emotions with charlottemecklenburg school board creating a plan to decide where your child will attend school. At a meeting yesterday, Board Members confronted the fear many parents have been talking about, forced busing to achieve more diverse schools. Wbtvs Dedrick Russell was in that meeting and has more. Reporter parents showed up with signs to tell Board Members no to forced busing. Board member Rhonda Lennon wanted the colleagues to pass a resolution saying forced busing will not be considered, Committee Chairman tom tate said no he believes it is too early. They reworded the goals, there was discussion, tate got frustrated with the direction of board member e ricka ellisstewart to take over. This is difficult work. To take a step forward you have to take a step back. The give and flow, natural tension were passionate what were doing. I feel a little unfortunate mr. Tate did not want to participate. Jenny dahlstrand has three kids. Busing concerns her. There is anxiety. My firm belief is nobody should be bused. Not my kids, and not any kids. Lennon didnt get the resolution about forced busing but did get words changed in the goals. She hopes that will calm parents fears. I was very adamant the Parent Choice would be a key component to the goal. And it is now been added,ed aing that word is huge for me. While Board Members deal with policy, the district was in certain neighborhoods today making sure a Diverse Group of people fill out surveys about we wanted to take a look at the map, identify zip codes and come to where the people are. So far, this team has gathered about 300 responses. But the one response these parents want to hear is no forced busing. I feel that since it is still there, it is still there. John that was Dedrick Russell reporting. So far the majority of the Board Members dont believe in forced busing, they claim that could be expensive. We wanted to talk to tate after the meeting, he referred us to ellisstewart. At the top of the hour, following breaking news in maiden, wbtv the first to report a deadly officerinvolved shooting investigation is underway, a live report from catawba county, coming up just ahead. Al . Al tracking a storm system, not a huge storm but this may bring a little bit of snow to the area, well talk about that plus a much bigger system which could impact us at the end of the weekend, ill have the complete seven day forecast, chris . Chris here we go, rolling in friday morning commute, quiet on things as we head closer to the rush hour. Just a couple minutes. Wbtv on your side. Wbtv news starts right now with breaking news. Christine that breaking news, an officerinvolved shooting in maiden. We learned one man has died after being shot by officers. Our Ashton Pellom is gathering more information about the moments before those shots were fired. John also this morning, were on your side tracking much colder air coming to charlotte this weekend that will cause temperatures to drop, plus were breaking down potential for another winter storm on the way. Christine there are School Delays for this friday morning, avery, mitchell and Watauga County schools operating on john welcome to wbtv news this morning, youve made it to friday, it is february 12th, good to have you with us, im john carter. Christine good morning im christine sperow. Kristen miranda also here on set
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