This proposed map yesterday, one a new charlotte area district. Incumbent alma adams current district would no longer include charlotte. Lawmakers have until friday to get this finalized. Investigating new possible cases of mumps in the area. Two confirmed cases but Health Officials say there are at least six other potential cases in the mecklenburg, iredell, and Cabarrus County areas. As our coleen harry reports, Health Officials are trying to determine who might have been exposed. Reporter mention mumps and in the lab, medical technicians know what to look to. On the streets, were not so clear. I never had mumps as a child. Do you know if you were vaccinate mid cant remember, that was 100 years ago. Do you have if you had mumps . Probably so, chicken pox, mumps. Officials are trying to figure out how many people may be infect the. In mecklenburg and iredell county. In the tricounty area, there are six oh cases probable or suspected. Not every person that has been suspected, diagnosed or who is a probable cause is connected with every other case but there are some connections. Public Health Workers say the thing about mumps, it take takes two to three weeks when youre exposed and show signs. Doctors are asking you to be vigilant watch for symptoms, fever, chiles, chills, swelling of the salivary glands and cheeks. 95 of children each year have been vaccinated against prevent people born before 1957 probably are vaccinated. But there are still concern. One of the things can happen is the ovaries in women and testicles in men can become infected. Mecklenburg county Health Department says in 2015 there were three case in mumps in a population closes to a million people. Stay with wbtv for continuing coverage of the mumps on air and online at wbtv. Com. A woman in Catawba County is out of her mobile home after it caught fire. It broke out around 7 30 last night on pathfiner street in newton. A toaster oven started the blaze on the back porch. The home is a total loss. The homeowner is now staying with family. One person had to be rushed to the hospital after they were badly burned while cooking at a home in matthews, happened on Big Creek Court off margaret wallace. Firefighters respond and put out police cracked a string of ipad thefts from two schools in charlotte. Detectives say teens broke in albermarle road elementary and piney grove elementary twice in the last two weeks and stolele electronics. Officers found two teens walking away from the school and arrested them. Detectives traced back some of the stolen ipads to the players wireless store on farm pond lane. One of the employees, is charged with having the stolen electronics. Deputies in Gaston County working overtime because of gun permit requests. Between november and december the permits more than doubled. And havent backed off since. Sarah blake morgan is on your side investigating what is causing this sudden surge. Reporter more and more people are walking in stores just like this but it is taking them weeks, if not months for them to walk out with the guns they paid for. Say they are working as fast as they can. It is really a mess. Reporter looking for a gun, hyatts got it, getting it out the door is another story. People are saying im tired of waiting give me my money back. Im being denied my rights. Reporter the safes are full of firearms paid for, their owners waiting to get the purchase permits. People expect instant gratification and in this case they are not getting it. Any time anyone speaks of guns and gun laws, people get kind of overexcited. Michael radfords staff is working overtime. The sergeant miss this there, captain miss this there. Saturday and late hours to get through the requests. Weve been lined out in the door in the parking lot. Gaston county issued 534 purchase permits. The next month nearly doubled to 1208 permits and stayed consistent. Because of that and recent Health Checks the normal fiveday waiting period turned in 1014 in Gaston County. Im glad they are taking the time to get through the process. In mecklenburg county, hyatt has seen customers wait more than a month. That is three times as long as california. Some of the most bureaucratic worst gun laws in the country. For rushing the process, radford is only interested being thorough. Mistakes come when you get in a real big hurry. Sarah blake morgan, wbtv on your side. Hyatt added the surge came after the attacks in san bernardino. It was quite a game in chapel hill as no. No. 5unc was upset by duke. Grayson allen scored 23 points with the block to edge out the tarheels, 7473. The blue devils trailed most of the game. Allen hate couple hit a couple of free throws. Dozens of tarheels from the charlotte, Carolina Club watched the game at the theater in charlotte, wbtvs alex giles talked to those disappointed fan fans. Go heels i wanted to come because i knew there would be a ton of alumni and no duke fans. Makes you feel like youre back in chapel hill. Started as energy and happiness wouldnt last for the tarheels fans. The crowd was energized throughout the game cheer on big plays. There is plenty of carolina blue present in the crowd. Enough to will the team to victory. Let me tell you i love the tarheels since i was a kid. I dont care if they lose tonight i still love the team. The team will tall on duke again in two weeks. If alex giles sounds disappointed he was would be of the disappointed fans. Proceeds go to the scholarship fund. A new push to ease relations between the u. S. And cuba the announce as soon as today. All across america families are coming back to Time Warner Cable for a whole new experience. We came back for internet speeds so fast even the kids are impressed. Oh shes impressed. Were catching up on movies and shows on demand just as fast as we can watch them. Twcs home wifi is so strong we can use all our devices at the same time. Come back today. Youll get 100 meg internet, tv, phone and more for 89. 99 a month. And ask how you could get a 300 reward card. Closed captioning on wbtvnews is sponsored by subarusouth boulevard and subaruconcord. Christine president obama is planning a trip to cuba next month. The white house will make the formal announcement as early as today. This would be the latest step to normalize relayses between america and cuba. On tuesday the u. S. And cuba signed a deal restoring commercial air traffic for the first time in five decades. A battle for the south in the gop president ial hopefuls are participating in a pair of town halls. The last chance to make cases on National Television before the South Carolina republican primary on saturday. As wbtv anchor paul cameron armed with a key endorsement. Reporter ben carson, ted cruz and marco rubio all participated in a town hall on cnn. A chance to sway undecided voters. What we really need are people who know how to solve problems, not people who know how to talk. 15 years of experience of turning conservative ideas in conservative action. Earlier, rubbishing o rubio picked up endorsement from nikki haley. If we elect marco rubio every day will be a great day in america. I have a proven record. Another blow to jeb bush, days after his brother george w. Bush met with governor hale y. Each is battling the force that is donald trump. He has a sizable lead in South Carolinas polls. He and in a separate town hall on msnbc, confident the broad appeal to win the nomination. I will have states nobody ever thought of getting in terms of republican. Name one. I think i have a great chance of michigan. Also asked if he can behave like a president. You have the temperament to be president . He will participate in a cnn town hall along with jeb bush and john kasich. That was packabackpack paul cameron reporting. We have you covered leading up to the republican primary and the democratic primary on the 27th. We have the most complete coverage on wbtv. Com. Still ahead for you here on wbtv news this morning, the future of your morning commute. How soon you could be able to car. Christine every major automaker is testing cars that can drive themselves but researchers say there is a long way to go before they take over the road. One hurdle is giving the car to make the right decision when face when common sense and morale dilemmas. Peter greenburg explains. This looks like a regular car. To see where Driverless Cars are heading, we went for a ride with professor at carnegie carnegiemellon university. For those of us saying Driverless Cars will be tomorrow. You say . The magic happens here. Despite the technology and go. Big get biggest nightmare someone Deploys Technology prematurely causes an accident, god forked by hit as stroller. A billion dollar initial i have to fast track. How do you program human Decision Making in the driverless car . Youre calling planning. For infinite number of scenarios like this. Say your car is approaching a headon collision. To a aid the oncoming vehicle the car can only move right because crossing the yellow line on the left is illegal. But what if there is a person or even a group of people to your right . That is what they would do. On the road at carnegiemellon the driverless car takes a detour. The professor takes the wheel. Vehicle still has miles to go. For cbs this morning peter greenberg. In the coming years more incremental changes to make cars drive on their own. True you a ton news cars are still a good 10 years away. Taking a live look outside on the Scott Clark Nissan honda hd tower cam, all is quiet out there at 4 49 a. M. , we do have another chilly start to our thursday morning, meteorologist al conklin giving you an early first alert look at first weather. Thanks, christine. Take you up to the mountains, king street in boone from resortcams. Com, showing dry conditions but cold up there and particularly some of the back roads may have icy patches, remind you alleghany, ashe, watauga counties operate on a twohour delay. As far as what we have going on doppler radar, nothing showing up right now, were dry as can be, so again we will have clear skies throughout the day. Early on, right now were clear and told. In charlotte, 34 degrees, light breeze out of the north, not much of a windchill factor, good visibility out here, unlike yesterday morning, fog is not going to be an issue this morning. We should have smooth sailing. Heat up the car as you head out. 30 in jefferson. 29 boone. 26 morganton, 28 shelby, 27 lincolnton, 27 albermarle, 32 lancaster and 32 around chester area. Starting off cold this morning but walltowall sunshine all day long, 49 at lunch time getting up to 54, 4 00, which is about where we should be this day. Looking ahead to tonight, cold again, temperatures dropping below freezing. 31 monroe, charlotte, 30 hickory, 31 shelby, 28 morganton, 26 boone. We rebound nicely tomorrow afternoon getting in the mid an upper 50s. A smidge above average this time of the year. If you like that trend, watch out from friday going in saturday and sunday were still in the 60s here, maybe mid and upper 60s sunday. On the chiliier side of the High Pressure system but on the backside plenty of warm weather and that is going to be heading in our direction. Having said that, there will be one little wrinkle in the forecast, and that is as we go through the next couple days while we have sunshine, saturday brings a weak frontal system in the area. That could trigger a couple showers in the mountains. Rest of us will be dry. Im not promising a totally sunny weekend. I think there will be some clouds around on saturday and a lot o clouds on sunday in advance of a system that will bring a lot of rain to the area monday into monday night and tuesday. Having said that, i think most of the weekend is dry outside of the mountains, a small chance of rain coming in on saturday and sunday, very very low chances, this is probably more for the mountains, this could be in the charlotte area by afternoon, then as we go in next week, different story, monday and tuesday look to be quite wet. Rain returns, because we will be cooling back below average tuesday into wednesday where we may not get out of the 40s on tuesday. Here is the forecast for today, no rain, plenty of sunshine, 54, cold tonight, 31, 57, mostly sunny tomorrow, partly sunny on saturday, 6 5th, mostly cloudy sunday, small chance of shower, 68. Rain monday, monday night, tuesday, out of here on wednesday, that is the forecast christine, see you at the top of the hour. Christine is he a Good Neighbor or thief . What one man did after returning a lost wallet, that is going viral. Well have the story and let you decide. Wbtv is always on your side, in before 5 00. Christine a man who lost his wallet got some of his items returned. Most of the eye test were returned along with a brutally honest letter. Reporter went to a concert in brooklyn, when ryan got home, he realized lost my wallet. I had that classic freak out moment. The really freaky part happened later. Two weeks later a crazy envelope shows up, near riley, i found your wallet and drivers license had your address here is your credit cards and other important stuff. That is the good news, even though riley had replaced his license and credit cards. I kept the cash because i needed weed. The metro card because well the farris 2. 75 the wallet is cool. The wallet napper has good taste. A hand made leather wallet. Riley posed the letter on social media writing thanks, i think. Next thing the letter on the front page of the paper and being read allowed on national tv. Enjoy the rest of your day, toad hells,toodles, anonymous. Ironic thing is that we could have been good friends, both like wirro, music, same taste in wallets. Such a new york thing. Little selfish and selfless. Honesty is kind of charming. We got this pot smoking modern day robin hood out there. Letter with a Charlie Brown stamp. Maybe Charlie Brown did it. Good grief. Jeanne moos, cnn, new york. Dont hate on the Charlie Brown stamp, though. Okay. Coming up at the top of the hour, three republican president ial candidates take the stage for a town hall ahead of saturdays primary in South Carolina. What they had to say about social issues and Foreign Policy come up. Al . Al clear skies now, cold temperatures, on the front side of the big area of High Pressure you want warmer weather, in the forecast. Ill have all the details in a couple minutes. Dismiss. Chris here we go, rolling in your thursday morning commute, keep an eye on things, running smoothly you know it will change toward the rush hour. Just a this broadcast sponsored by subaru south boulevard and subaru concord. Wbtv news starts right now. John now at 5 00, North Carolina lawmakers will meet today to vote on new congressional maps after the Supreme Court ruled the current boundaries are unconstitutional. What the proposed changes could mean for you the next time you head to the polls. Christine and were only two days away now from the republican president ial primary in South Carolina, we have a live preview of where the candidates will be today. John welcome to wbtv news this morning, it is tuesday, it is thursday, rather, february 18th, lets dont get behind how about it, im john carter. Christine im Christine Sperow in johns defense it did say tuesday in the prompter. John i think i wrote that, though. Christine we have Kristen Miranda getting the headlines in the alert center first. Kristen new way to pay goes live in china, plus developing story in oklahoma city, massive Apartment Building fire, ill show you impressive pictures from the alert center. Christine we have school here they are, alleghany, ashe, avery and Watauga County schools are on twohour delay. You can find the latest closings and delays list at wbtv. Com closings. John pretty cold out there this morning, below freezing in charlotte. Here is charlottes most experienced morning meteorologist, al conklin. Al as cold in charlotte as boone right now. Clear skies, in charlotte. You can see our scott clarks nissan camera down on south boulevard showing dry conditions here, it is dry in center city as well and should stay that way all day long. Now clear skies and light winds have allowed for temperatures to fall. 29 in charlotte and boone. 26 morganton, 28 below freezing around statesville, shelby, 27 right now in albermarle, 31 in rock hill. A cold start, seasonal finish, walltowall sunshine, no chance of precipitation, high of 54. On the chilly side of the high at the moment, but temperatures will be going up as we head in the weekend. Talk about that plus rain