The zika virus remains in the blood of an infected person on average for a week. And based on Current Evidence a previous zika infection does not pose a risk of a birth defect for a future pregnancy. And men who have traveled to a country with the zika outbreak should abstain from sex or use condoms with sex. Pamela escobar is talking to state Health Leaders about the North Carolina. And mumps cases in mecklenburg and Iredell County two sick work in lowes in mooresville. The company is consume ut indicating with all employees about prepreventing and treats mumps. And new video from a deadly plane crash in union county. Sky3 flew over the scene to s s the damage in the daylight. Wbtv anchor Maureen Oboyle has and joins us live in the studio. The faa is still investigating this crash here is more video from sky3 earlier today, the small plane went down here in the new sail Legal Community of union county near marshville. The emergency call came in as a plane in distress. They are unsure how the pilot ended up in the woods. Officials say 68yearold James Howard Cook from lexington, North Carolina was the pilot who died in this crash. He was on his way back from daytona, florida, after flying a client there earlier ultimately to greensboro as the faa investigates and provides us with more information we will pass it on to you. Back to you. Thank you. Still developing this afternoon, Gastonia Police investigating a deadly shooting. Officers responded before noon to the red carpet in on broadcast street. Sky3 over the scene. A sergeant tells us one person is dead. Center is our alex giles live with more information on this. I just spoke to police here and they told me they have more information about this incident and know that the victim was a woman in her 20s. And they tell me this was not a random shooting. Some of the incident was caught on Security Camera at the location where this happened. They have no suspects in custody right now but they have an idea who they are looking for. They are keeping their eye out for two men and a woman. As soon as we get more information we will bring it to you. Well watch it thank you. New video of a crash in uptown charlotte involving armored truck. The accident uprooted three trees at third and brevard streets. We are one day away from the South Carolina republican primary and the gap between the top two contenders is getting Craig Boswell is in the palmetto state. Florida senator marco rubio dashes out of one Campaign Appearance on his way to another as he and the other republicans try to woo South Carolina voters ahead of tomorrows primary. Tim scott said expect a strong showing. We will see a good response by the voters. One surprise could be an upset by ted cruz who has narrowed the gap with donald trump in the latest poll. Cruz who plans to attend antonin scalias funeral is reminding voters the Supreme Court is at stake as well. We are one justice away from a radical fivejustice liberal majority that will strike on every restriction on abortion and mandate unlimited abortion on demand. John kasich closed his rally with a simple message. If you didnt like me dont tell anybody. [laughter] final hours candidates are hoping to sway undecided voters with speeches and calls from campaign offices. And voters are swaying away from a candidate. Are you decided now . No, im still between two. Father is a Catholic Priest who says Donald Trumps temperament is a problem. He needs to learn humility and how to speak peacefully to people. Traits trump has not needed. Craig boswell, cbs news, South Carolina. Michael clark is at dr. Ben carsons event in rock hill and will join us live at 5 00. Ive moved over to the First Alert Weather Center as we get ready for the spring like temperatures this weekend. Im here with meteorologist lyndsay tapases. It is going to be in the 60s but there is a bit of a not picture perfect. Yeah we think fully sunny. It will not be the case but it i do not think we will mind cloud cover. We have the sun for sure. And that allowed us to soar into the upper 50s out there right now. North of the city, we are in the mid50s. Fuf 5 from salisbury to statesville. 45 in boone and charlotte we are at 58. Well bring up the towercam shot and it is a picture perfect friday afternoon. You are 57 in lancaster and monroe. Satelliteradar confirming the clear sky with the exception of the mountains where you have cloud cover hanging on for you. If we zoom out and look upstream we have cloud cover off to the west it will be edging our way as we head into the weekend which is why it will not be sunny for saturday or sunday. But that will not stop the temperatures from soaring well into the 60s on either day. And this evening, partly cloudy at 5 00 p. M. And down to 54 falling into the 40s once the and more on if we could possibly see showers in areas to accompany the clouds. That is coming up in the first alert forecast in a couple of manipulates. Lets minutes. Lets check in on the commute. Your first alert traffic is sponsored by peoples bank. I77 and 485, weve got a problem on 485, folks. Arrowood road may be an indication of this congestion starting to build on i77 southbound. And to the mapping system there is an injury accident 485 by elm lane that is by rea road. Reports it is an overturned vehicle in this area. And the congestion starting to build already beyond johnston road. Highway 51 Pineville Matthews is a great alternate route. Heads up if anyone uses this make them aware we have a problem at the moment. Thank you. This weekend an organ donor registration event will be held teen. Destiny stafford died last summer after a horse kicked her in the head. She was a dancer at Stewart Kramer high school and the family donated most of her organs. Now one of her friends is working to raise money for Organ Donation awareness. For information go to wbtv. Com mollys kids. A South Carolina teen born with no right hand says its never stopped him. Now he is excited about what well share a socker teen gets the republican he was born without. Connor morgan received a prosthetic hand from South Carolina technical college. He was born without a right hand he is looking forward to to doing all the things that he i could do anything. Climb a tree, and be able to catch balls righthanded. Im looking forward to seeing him succeed at whatever it is that he does, whatever he wants to do. Because it has not hindered him up to now and its scary to think about what he can do now. Probably going to have to learn to run a little faster. Connor hopes his story inspires other teens with his condition. He is looking forward to showing off the new hand. Looking like he is getting the hang of it quickly. Technology. Super cool. Like a scene out of star wars. Yeah. To be able to do Everything Else how the body adapts and able to do that now got an extra tool. Three teens are charged in a deadly shooting at a South CarolinaBowling Alley. They promote their social media accounts while cameras are rolling in the courtroom. And a colder and wetter pattern into next week. Up for you three teens are charged in a deadly shooting at a South CarolinaBowling Alley but for two of them, the charges do not phase them. Instead they took advantage of the cameras in court. Wow. Investigators say key want brown was shot and killed in South Carolina by the teens after an argument over social media. We want to get right to alex giles live in the alert center working a crash along 485. We are trying to get more information about this but we have been told sky3 is over the accident. We can look and you can see there appears to be an accident in the median and traffic moving slowly on either side. Cannot tell if Emergency Responders arrived on scene yet. Sky3 just got there this is 485 near rea road. Both sides are moving slow there and it looks like we have Law Enforcement on scene working to find out what happened. As soon as we get more information into the alert latest. Thank you. State leaders say a new proposed license plate design get a lot of interest. Blue and green pine tree logo with the tag line nothing compares. More than 500 people signed up but the legislature needs to approve it. Lets talk about traffic. Tonya rivens watching that accident on 485. What you got . Well, this problem here is going to be quite a problem for time to come. 485 inner an injury accident a report of an overturned vehicle i do not think we can see that. Its by elm lane at rea road exit 59. We are starting to see the congestion starting to build as we see in both directions traffic is affected. So either direction on 485 we have a stopandgo traffic. Sky3 if we can go to sky3 and zoom in and see that vehicle. Its in the median and i suspect at one point we will have more congestion as a result of emergency vehicles trying to clear this out. If you know someone johnston road or south boulevard are better alternate routes back to that is the last thing you want to hear is an accident on 485 on a friday. And it narrows in there back down to the two lanes. Recovery time will be a while. You will enjoy nice weather. Bright side of sitting in the traffic if you have a sunroof roll it open. You know its friday. Enjoy. Enjoy your weekend, too. Here is meteorologist lyndsay tapases. Roll the windows down, sir. Upper 50s right now. Which is above average for the time of year. And into the weekend we have the 60s in the forecast for both weekend days. Sun will be down at 6 09. And the average high is 56. Today upper 50s. Saturday and sunday we have the and 64 our saturday high that is what we average a month from now on march 20th. And 68 the sunday high we average around the first of april. And it will also be worth noting that spring begins on the 20th of march this year. An early taste of spring temperatures you could say on tap. As far as this evening we will be in the low to mid50s. And here is 8 00 p. M. 48 in the charlotte area headed out for early friday night late friday night this is midnight mid40s. And tomorrow morning we are going to be in the low to mid40s by day break. Its not going to be as chilly first thing in the morning tomorrow as it has been. That will be due in part to the clouds that will be rolling in. This evening and the first part of the overnight is clear. Clouds are in place for all areas by the time the sun comes up first thing saturday morning. You will see futurecast trying to printout a mountain shower and we expect that outside of the mountains we do keep things dry. A 1020 shower chance with the best shot of that happening into the mountains. Sunday not the case. We still got the clouds in place and we will see that the showers progress further east and they are able to get spots outside of the mountains and in the charlotte area a chance for showers as we head into the later part of the day on sunday and more so sunday night. And that will be the first of several rain opportunities that weve got coming up for the week ahead. The first sunday night and into monday morning. Then we have another one monday night into Tuesday Morning and a third one wednesday night into thursday morning. Bottom line enjoy the weekend because things go downhill monday starting with the wetter pattern. We will be returning to the highs below average tuesday and temperatures in the upper 40s and lower 50s. Do not worry about that until after the beautiful weekend. Back to you. That is right. Enjoy. We are not going to think about next week. If you love breakfast Food National pancake week kicks off sunday. Yelps nikki wolf will join charlotte will help yelps nikki wolf is here and is there a better smell in the world than breakfast . Driving here with three sets of pancakes torture. And i hear that you do not get to especially joy some of this . Not for me today. Theres people. There is a line forming and plenty of people are happy. We have the red velvet pan cabes from the flying biscuit cafe. Every month they have a special and this month its red velvet and next to it is the organic oatmeal pancakes with peach on top. They do breakfast, lunch, dinner and a ton of gluten free options. On average each location bakes 5,000 biscuits a week. So good they come with the apple butter. You can find flying biscuit in the park Road Shopping Center i am not eating meat but fruit is ok. Remember when your mom used to give you breakfast for dinner. It was the best. And rock hill, the yolk. Chef greg and his wife wanted a diaper that focused on owe diner that focused on local resources. They are getting ready to open the second location. Congrats to them. And they did nail that concept. The pancake house celebrating 60 years. This is an institution. A laundry list of options. Including their apple and buck wheat, pumpkin and bacon pancakes. On saturday, absolutely. Dig in. Can you find them in southpark and midtown. And we will end with honey cafe. It smells wonderful. It is these are the famous sweet potato pancakes and i has butter milk, Fried Chicken and maple on top of it. Its so, so good. For the crew they sent to go pans. Everyone is leaving the studio. Now, you may remember we used to have to drive to asheville and they have been here for twoandahalf years and the menus change with the seasons and creative with the cocktails breakfast at all times and they had their apple release a new cocktail and i had it and its fabulous. You are amazing. Sweet potato pancakes its where its at. And tupelo thank you for the food and opening a location in charlotte after years of asking we salute you. And the crew is thanking you right now. They will eat well. They walked out. No one who is in control . Who is keeping the train on the track. I dont know, somebody call i should laugh no one is telling me anything. Download the free yelp app for more information. Nikki have a great weekend. And shoutout to famous pastery and local loaf adam you make fantastic pancakes. The word is out. You are next . I guess so lyndsay beat it out of the studio here. To get those sweet potato pancakes. I have had them and they are amazing. We still have more news ahead here new developments in the controversial i77 toll lane projects why state leaders are asking for more input. And going to someones burial seems normal but would you go to a loved ones cremation and watch it happen . Youre announcer wbtv on your side. Wbtv news starts right now. New developments in the controversial i77 toll lane project today. Now state leaders are taking another look at objections to its construction contract. Welcome back to first at 4 00 im brigida mack. Im jamie boll. It was a move that surprised many local officials. North carolinas transportation secretary now asking for feedback about the i77 toll what parts of the contract with Spanish Construction Company sentra do they object to. Does it mean changes could be coming . David whisenant is in Iredell County. This is the letter sent to the local leaders from the North Carolina department of transportation secretary nick. And he wants a list of everything in that contract that local leaders do not like. And he also says those items will be considered. The toll project on i77 in mecklenburg and Iredell County has been a source for controversy for sometime now. We were hoping we would have the flexibility of being able to use the road without paying a toll. I will not drive a toll. And while recent developments seemed to lock in the project over the protest of many the dot wants to hear the concerns of local leaders. It asks for a list to be drawn up. It says the state will respond