Could turn for help. The 20yearold Victim Told Police she is shaken up and it happened in broad daylight. She started her walk near stewart avenue and continued towards laurel Wood Cemetery when she noticed the person and started hearing footsteps and saw the man running towards her and the Victim Told Police that he had a knife and was chasing after her talking to himself during this ordeal. She was able to runin side a bank and hide in a restroom to get away from the man who did not stick around long. Police did review video from the bank and saw a man following the woman and will release the video to us. Police will tell us what the woman did right and more at 5 00. Live in rock hill, Michael Clark wbtv on your side. Scary story. Thank you. First at 4 00 disruption in uptown. Firefighters battle flames and the circle k on graham street. The fire is now out. Investigators working to find the cause. A South Carolina deputy shot twice is expected to recover but it will take time corporal kimber gift is in good spirits following surgery. She was shot last night after investigating a suspicious vehicle behind a closed grocery store. Investigators say the suspect died from what appears to be a selfinflicted gunshot wound. Learning more about the kansas. Three people were killed. 14 others hurt. Police say shooting suspect cedric ford had just been served a restraining order. 90 minutes later ford was opening fire at the plant where he worked. An officer gunned him down. He had to stop that threat. Youve got two or 300 people in there, lucky 200 people came out. Background and was armed with an Assault Rifle and automatic handgun. Investigators are trying to figure out how he was able to gege those weapons. Check in with alex giles in our alert center live this afternoon. You are working on an Apartment Fire . Yes, we got this video in from sky3 they were over what was an Apartment Fire in charlotte. You can see the crews out there with the ladder and everything setup. This is the 4500 block of perth court off of milton road. A number of crews were on scene for the fire. The Fire Department had it under control in minutes. We are not sure how the fire started. As soon as we get information we will bring it to you. Back to you. All right thank you. Campaign 2016 now a political bombshell today. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie steps back into the spotlight to endorse donald trump for president. The news comes after senators marco rubio and ted cruz were out to get the g. O. P. Republican debate. Trumps opponents are scrambling tuesday. Cruz sold himself as the best candidate to beat Hillary Clinton but trump fired back. You are talking about the polls im beating him badly in the polls. But you are not beating if hey if i cant beat her you are really going to get killed. And Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are making their push for votes in South Carolina and the democratic primary tomorrow in the states. Polls open at 7 00 a. M. And close at 7 00 p. M. After strong winds and rain and thunderstorms it is nice to see the sun out. Good timing as we get into friday. Will the forecast be clear . Meteorologist Lyndsay Tapases tracking what is next. Not only will it be clear but its going to get warmer. It is on the chilly side and we are holding 50 in charlotte. Some of you north of the city in the mid40s from salisbury boone and in charlotte around 50. But we have some of you in the lower middle 50s south and east of the city. Not nearly as windy but a little bit on the breezy side. We have winds still at 5 to tenmilesperhour. 1520 up into the mountains. These will continue to back off more so as we head through the night. By the time we head into the weekend we will be talking about a calm wind in place. Down to 47 at 5. 42 at 7 00 and 40 by 9 00 tonight is going to be colder. While this morning we started out about 32, tonight and into tomorrow morning we will drop down into the midand upper 20s. 27 is your wake up for saturday morning. And then we warmup progressively through the weekend. Well talk about those numbers that you can expect and a look at the sevenday firstalert forecast coming up in a couple of minutes. Thank you. Overturned tractortrailerused problems earlier today. Is shutdown brookshire 8 00 a. M. Of course this is back open. Lets check in for the first time this afternoon with tonya rivens with the ciaa tournament in full swing we could see traffic issues. And that is correct. Right now things are quiet. But you can bet with the tournament in town there will be a lot of congestion im starting in uptown i77 by trade street and we have accidents close to i77. One at Fourth Street and kaz well and another at randolph. Providence road maybe an option. There is congestion on providence already. So a lot of people taking that as an alternate route. Monroe road is another alternate route to get around this. Randolph has another problem at wendover, a stranded motorist. Quite a bit of activity on randolph and the tournament at Time Warner Cable arena, expect a lot of congestion uptown. Your first alert traffic is all right, thank you. It is almost that time and College Basketball fans, of course, gearing up for march madness. There is a difference between watching on tv and cheering in person. Im going to duke game. A dream come true actually. Next how some College Employee step insid when you talk about duke basketball you are sure to strike up a debate here in North Carolina. Whether you are a tar heel or blue devils fan what duke students did to get a supporter to the game. We are introduced to a Security Guard who got to cheer on the team in person. Youve met a lot of students i can imagine . Thousands. Marty has been helping people all his life but for the 62yearold last night he was the up with getting the help. Working as a Security Guard at one of dukes campus libraries he is a wellknown face to the students. He work the graveyard shift often hearing the cheers from Cameron Indoor stadium. Absolutely. Not once has he sat in the stands to cheer on his beloved blue devils. Why is that . Because they are super, super, super expensive. He is a friendly guy. You see him walking down the hall and i want to be friends with him. He has worked here for 12 years. Duke sophomores created a gofundme page looking to raise 430 for a pair of tickets. 30 minutes later they hit their goal and beyond. How precious he is to the students. What went through your head im going to a duke game a dream come true actually. Thursday night wearing his duke colors with a tend in toe and tickets in hand marty waited for a twohour game a decade in the making. Kenneth craig, cbs news, durham, North Carolina. He had a great time. And in the end the students raised more than 800 double what they needed to get the tickets. The girls will present marty with a check with the remaining funds, extra money as well. Its hard to get tickets. So that is cool. And to see the students step up like that shows the character and concern they have for more than an employee they value him. You can see that. Did they win . Where is delano little . Or Ashley Stroehlein when he need them . We do not follow it that closely. Not usually. No. Yes. Hope he had a great time. A new bill could make teen sexting legal in one state. Why lawmakers think this is a good idea. And the clear skies sticks around for the duration of the weekend and we are going to see a change in temperatures from saturday to sunday. Well talk about your complete details coming up after the alex giles has an update on the Apartment Fire. We got information from the charlotte Fire Department. And we learned that damage is estimated about 7,000. This Apartment Fire this is again perth court off milton road in charlotte. They determined unattended cooking is what caused that fire and one adult and two kids were displaced in this fire. And crews were on scene in the last hour there working to get that under control. Back to you. All right. Thank you. Safe to say people are feeling embarrassed how they acted on a flight especially when they heard the rest of the story. This family is back home after being kicked off their plane. Their flight was delayed when the sevenyearold had an allergic reaction might have been from a dog on the plane. The Flight Attendant moved them and then had them removed. Hims sorry. Its not my fault. Its your fault because one of them had a dog and no way im not getting off the plane with my dog. So if he didnt, so we got deboarded off the plane. Theres more here. As the family was being escorted off other passengers started applauding. If that is not bad enough his father has terminal cancer and was on his way home from visiting family. If you have story. Parents in new mexico upset about legislation that would make sexting legal between teenagers it would allow minors 1417 to share nude photos and not be prosecuted. The bill would create harsher penalties for those distributing or possessing child pornography and is waiting for the governor to sign it into law. Surprisingly we have volume on independence boulevard but it is a better alternate route with all the activity we have around the area. This is independence by eastway and pierson and we have a lot of accidents around East Charlotte as we start with two accidents on eastway drive. One at townsend and in addition at weapon dover we have an accident in this area and then two additional accidents one at albemarle road westbound by North Sharon Amity and this on central has cleared out but independence boulevard has volume which means we have congestion on independence right around pierson and albemarle road. Look at the slowmoving traffic on albemarle in both directions. Quite a bit of activity around the area which means independence is still probably the better alternate route at the moment. Your first alert traffic is sponsored by peoples bank. Back to you. All right thank you. Happy friday we made it through the week and the sun is shining. Well take it after the way we started this week. Meteorologist Lyndsay Tapases is in the first alert weather center. With your forecast. And do not think there will be any complaints for the weekend forecast we have for us. We will be warming up throughout saturday and sunday. Out there, we are hovering around the 50 mark in charlotte. And yes, its a touch on the breezy side that northwest wind coming in at 10milesperhour but we are not seeing the gusts widespread as we were the past couple of days. But, charlotte has still reported a 20mileperhour gust and 30 in boone. It has not gone calm completely. Since the wind has weakened from this time yesterday we do not have much in the way of the snow showers anymore in the mountains. Dried out the moisture as well with that. While they are holding on to the cloud cover the snow ended for the high country. Outside of that we have the clear sky which will stay that clear out your cloud cover too and we have an area of High Pressure building from the west and that will keep our sky cloudfree through the weekend. And the reason why we will see a change in temperatures from saturday to sunday, is the position of this high. While its off to the west, for saturday we have a little bit of a northwesterly component to our breeze. So that will keep us in the 50s. And sunday, the highs shifts offshore so we have a southerly component to the wind and that will put us into the 60s and some of us, well into the 60s for the second half of the weekend on sunday. As far as your saturday is concerned in the mountains back into the low 40s that will feel good. And still again a little bit of a northwest component to the wind at 1015milesperhour. 50 lenoir. 54 in taylorsville and 55 in morganton and charlotte will be in the low to mid50s. 54 for us here in the queen city. 55 in pageland and 56 in tomorrow nights lows hold around freezing. Mid60s return sunday. Upper 60s by monday, tuesday, and another cold front will bring showers and knock back our temperatures into wednesday and the later part of next week. Back to you. All right thank you. February. Is coming to an end. What better time to talk about local breweries . And check this out. Nikki wolf is here to tell us which ones we need to check out this weekend. Happy hour is we are talking about drinking local. New breweries and new distilleries. But not on the air. We will start in Plaza Midwood legion brewing. Yelpers love this place. The favorite part is the overlook and you can watch the masters brew. And across the state line full spectrum brewing company. Fort mills first brewery a beer for everyone on the spectrum. Craft beer. I love that. I like that. They have the beers that you can sample. That is the fun part. You can try all of them. And see which beers you like. Comfort beers the exterior looks leak a pub off the woodlawn lightrail stop and they are adding wednesdays and sundays midmarch. Three years ago we did not have this going on. And now they are popping up everywhere. And we have our first two distilleries now. We will start here this is south porters i have the shirt on and this is the vodka they make and ginn is scheduled for release in summer. You can book a tour and find this it is a husband and Wife Team Behind this place. We have a picture of andrew doing a tour or we dont. Cool story this is their passion project. There is andrew. They are working fulltime jobs. Like a second job . This is a second job. And i ask when do you sleep. Its so exciting for them. Wagon road distilling company and the broken spoke. A distillery with a bar next door. A native of ireland the mastermind behind this these are his products. The only barrelaged single malt made in North Carolina and next to it, that is gaelic for white. And this is a shine recipe that has been passed down in the mulligan family for generations. His grand father was arrested for making this in ireland 61 years ago. And now you can get it in charlotte. And a picture of the broken spoke it is absolutely gorgeous. They have giant leather couches it is a great space for an event and the only distillery that has a bar next door . You can enjoy the products and they have porters and its cool to see local supporting local. A great story he has a cabin in the mountains up in yancy and he spring and that is the water he uses. He takes giant containers, hauls them down and they are all fantastic people. Take tours of both. A changing scene over the last few years. Absolutely. Nikki looks like you are all set for a great weekend. Cheers. Download the free well and app for more information and more. Thank you. Thank you. We still have more news ahead here. Two North Carolina students hit by a car at their school bus stop. How one of the victims saved a youre watching wbtv news fir announcer wbtv on your side. Wbtv news starts right now. A man on trial for murder have mental disabilities or was he faking it . That decision now in the hands of a jury. Good afternoon and welcome back to first at 4 00 im brigida mack. Im jamie boll. Glad you are with us. Its up to 12 metropolitan and women all the evidence and testimony is in in the trial of a man charged in armed robberies in 2012. In one of robberies a store owner was shot and killed. David whisenant has been covering this trial for the last two weeks and explains what evidence the jury is now fate of 37yearold Maurice Robinson will be in the hands of a jury in the rowan county courthouse. Prosecutors hope to convince the jury robinson planned the robbery and got the gun that watson used to shoot and kill the store owner. He was probably in many respects about the closest friend that i had other than family and so forth. Robinson planned two armed robberies in a different store. Watson and a third defendant have pleaded guilty and are serving prison time but robinson wanted a trial. His lawyers contend that he does not have the intelligence to be the mastermind of anything. And used experts to speak about robinsons mental disabilities but the same experts testified that robinson knew how to fake sipes of mental illness. Robinson could face life in prison if convicted
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