Inbound, youll find delays there. As we hop out to the west just a bit, this is west trade street at graham, an accident scene there, not seeing any significant delays along graham, but emergency crews may be on the scene. The john belk, brookshire both looking good in terms of traffic flow. The live look at independence expressway heading inbound toward 277, no problems there this morning and your drive times, up from rock hill, 22 minutes, concord to center city, 18 minute commute and lake norman southbound at 16 minutes and 64milesperhour. Youre never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic on wbtv news this morning. John 5 32, looking ahead for the 11th Consecutive Year the ciaa tournament is back in uptown charlotte, expected to bring in about 150,000 fans. Wbtvs Mark Davenport is live in uptown charlotte with more so expect this year . Reporter john, ciaa commissioner Jackie Mcwilliams has been planning all year long to make sure this year is the best the tournament has ever seen. She told us a few things to expect. I want to list them off to you. Fans can get discounted tickets on amtrak, mcwilliams promised the surcharge on the ritzcarlton wont be happening. We cover had quite a lot. A shooting during a nonsanctioned event, police are going to take action. Mcwilliams said the Charlottemecklenburg Police Department asked the city to label this an extraordinary event to give officers more search powers this time around. Last year the ciaa tournament pumped in nearly 56 million in the local economy, you can expect that much and maybe even more this time around and for scheduling purposes, the womens games start at 10 00 this morning, that is when tipoff then the mens game start at 6 40 later tonight. You can expect traffic with this event in town this week. You have a lot of concerts and games and events happening but it will be a great week and mcwilliams promises this will be the best year yet. Reporting live, Mark Davenport, wbtv on your side. John Jennifer Roberts will mark the beginning of the tournament by speaking to small and minority Business Owners today. The breakfast conversation business networking event starts at 8 30 at extravaganza depot on north tryon street. Christine scary moments for passengers on a plane after they had to be evacuated. Kristen miranda getting details in the alert center about what happened. Kristen evacuated from the plane, christine. The official alert on the Japan Airlines website, i found it a couple seconds ago. This is a situation that is developing right now were getting preliminary details about the Japan Airlines jet evacuated a short time ago, 737 smoke from the right engine they had to get the 159 passengers and six crew members on the ground, so the pilot aborted the takeoff and landed again. Reports indicate four people hurt trying to get off the plane, sounds like minor injuries at this point. All in all, a good situation, but there is no indication as to why that smoke started to creep in the plane. They are saying there was no fire on board the plane, emergency crews didnt put out flames, so they will continue that investigation today, if i hear anything ill let you know from the alert center. Back to you. Christine also looking ahead the charlottemecklenburg school board is all right, the charlottemecklenburg school board is set to vote today for the Student Assignment plan. The board sent out a survey to parents and has held several forums including this one last night at myers park baptist. Tonights meeting at 6 00, board consultant on a new policy. John this is also new this morning, a week avenue lines were drawn for North Carolina congressional districts, a senator will run to represent the reshaped 13th district. Andrew brock of davie county will run for the new 13th district that covers all davie and davidson and portions of counties. Alma adams lives in the new 13th but will run in the reconfigured 12th which is now in Mecklenburg County. Christine a live look at the commute, 5 36 right now, and this is independence boulevard, this stretch looking great as you head in charlotte this morning. But you see the sheen on the road this morning, just watch for that as you are commuting in around around thecommuting inand around the area. Looks like that stretch the rain has stopped, al,. Al a good chunk of that is the beginning stages of a drier trend that will carry us deeper in the morning and afternoon you but that said the streets are wet, use caution, especially the back streets. Weve got a chilly day. Lets look at the numale fishing forecast. 48 degrees, 50 50 chance at lunch time of rain. 53 late this afternoon. Only 30 chance of rain later today. Dont judge the day by what you see this morning it wont rain all day all day long. The forecast then for today, and this is Grayson Baker from concord i showed him yesterday so i have to get the right picture and well take care of that for joe y grigg. First mistake ive made all year, right . Christine yeah. Al well, all right. That area of low pressure over texas that rain is heading in our direction ill let you know what that means, that will mean potentially heavy rain here, ill have the details in a few minutes. Christine, back to you. Christine going above and beyond for Great Customer service. John what a barista at starbucks did that is Getting National attention, that story is just ahead. 6 00. Christine well go ahead. Im getting excited, sorry. John one womans method of cleaning the car has christine excite and people around the world scratching their heads. Christine i thought it would be funny. A video posted on facebook shows cleaning the inside with the car with the sudsy brush meant for the outside. She is cleaning the interior are door. No word how she dried the inside, but the video has four million views. John she knows what she is doing, i dont think this is the first time and i bet she has one heck of a clean car. Remember, people can tell when you auto bell. Christine if someone else is doing that with the sudsy brush. Al marching to her own beat. John maybe she has something there. Al it is summer there. Roll up the windows, it will dry. I warned you not to wash your car over the weekend it got hosed down last night. More rain still in the forecast. The five sweeps of power Doppler Radar early on this morning. And again, still dealing with rain, not quite as heavy or widespread as it was overnight probably heard the pounding on the roof. Through time, notice by 8 00, a lot of that heavy, steady rain lifting north. Still the i40 corridor dealing with the rain south of there not quite as great. Going deeper in the morning, just about everybody clears out. I say clears out, clears out of the rain. The cloud cover is extensive. Not going to be seeing a lot of sunshine today. As we go in the afternoon hours im not saying it will be totally rain free but rain chances go from 90 at 8 00 to 30 this afternoon. Rain picks back up again tonight, temperatures will hold steady in the 40s and low 50s and much warmer day is coming back in the picture tomorrow. Take a look at the rain, last week we had heavy rain monday and tuesday, then yesterday, how about that monday, 1. 86 inches, the vast majority of which came last night while you were sleeping. That was good enough for a record for the date. A soaking rain last night and it continues to rain for a lot of us here early this morning. This is clover leaf elementary parking lot is raining there. Use caution, the streets are going to be wet early on this morning. Still getting rain in charlotte, moderate last hour, now light. 48 degrees, northeast breeze at 12, that is a chiliier breeze. Yesterday, 66 degrees, pretty mild, no where near that today, low 50s at best and again in the foothills youll likely stay in the 40s. 38 jefferson, boone, 43 morganton, hickory, mid 40s, 45 shelby, lincolnton, concord, albermarle gets closer to 50 toward monroe and in lancaster. On the chilly side of things right now. High pressure bringing us that chilichilly northeast breeze. This area of low pressure in texas is coming tomorrow. That will cut up across the south and move through tennessee, as it does, it will drag the warm front through. You will see the temperatures go up tomorrow and then the risk for severe thunderstorms kicks in tomorrow afternoon and evening. Once that moves through, that is the end of the rain. Of which comes this morning. 90 chance of rain tomorrow and then we dry out very nicely for the upcoming end of the work week and weekend. So again, keeping an eye on that situation going forward. The seven day forecast then, for today, rain but ending as we go through the morning hours. Tapering down later this afternoon. Tomorrow, showers, thunderstorms, 90 chance. Partly sunny, snow in the mountains thursday. Rest of us windy and cool, in the 50s friday, saturday, but getting back in the 60s on sunday and monday. Hey, i didnt do a good job with our big catch picture so let me do it joey grigg proud of this whopper, looks like he caught by mistake fishing with men from Mecklenburg County. Way to go, youre our big catch of the day. Rain out there this morning. Keeping an eye on it for you, more updates as we go through time. 5 44, check in with chris, first alert traffic. Chris first alert traffic charlotte. Belk, the brookshire no problems, keep in mind that the ciaa tournament starts this morning with the women at 10 00 a. M. , heavier traffic in and around Time Warner Cable arena. We do have an accident this morning, this is mcdowell at east 4th street, that came in 15 minutes ago on the other side of september senate, Center Center city, west trade at graham. I77 at woodlawn, roads drying out but spray coming off the vehicles this morning. As you look at the charlotte commute most of the majors are running in the green this morning. But again as al mentioned the heavier rain out of the area but give yourselves extra time because youll find spotty showers as you make your way around town. That is a check of your traffic, youre never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic on wbtv news this morning. John the naacp is calling for action in North Carolinas redistricting case. Christine leaders still arent happy with the redrawn congressional map. Morning at 5 46. Bringing you the latest updates live from the thanks for choosing wbtv news this morning. Christine white house officials will submit a plan to shut down Guantanamo Bay to congress today. John used as a recruiting tool by terrorists and too costly to maintain. Congress had opposed previous plans to shut down gitmo. The current proposal involves transferring most detainees to other countries. Voters in South Carolina will be heading to the polls saturday for the democratic primary, both candidates will be in the palmetto state today. Christine Hillary Clinton will campaign in columbia with five mothers who lost children to gun violence and police incidents. Participate in town hall tonight in columbia hosted by cnn. John Record Number of people came out to vote donald trump as the winner of last saturdays republican primary in South Carolina. Nearly 740,000 people cast ballots shattering the previous record by 132,000 votes. Christine as the republicans compete in the nevada caucus, marco rubio picked up a major endorsement from a lawmaker from North Carolina. Thom tilli circumstance is s is endorsing rubio. John megyn kelly will host a summit on wednesday. Trump wont join her. He declined to participate citing the last minute invitation and prior commitments. Ben carson, ted cruz, john kasich and marco rubio will participate. Christine great news for john Kristen Miranda has details. Kristen fake president ial news from the alert center. New information and cool new picture, if youre house of cards fan, you know, you may or may not know the new season of the show starts on march 4th, but look at this. The National Portrait gallery at smithsonian just unveiled a new portrait of president frank underwood. Will hang in the museum starting tomorrow through october. It has a really big collection of actual president ial portraits. Just shows you how much the American People have bought into house of cards in this fake not so nice president who now has his portrait hanging in the National Gallery as well. I thought that was cool, wanted to show it to you. Christine that looks nice. Kristen looks just like him. Christine starbucks barista serving coffee with a lot of heart. Have been learning asl so you could have the same experience as everyone else. American sign language. What a neat thing to do. Christine good stuff. Youre never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic on wbtv news this morning. It is eight minutes before 6 00. Here is meteorologist al conklin. Al thanks, christine. The five sweeps of power Doppler Radar, a lot of area covered up with rain. Rain continues in the mountains, foothill, i40 corridor. Southern foothills getting rain, enhansment between cleveland and Gaston County but you notice Mecklenburg County a lot of the area is drying out right now so again were starting to see erosion to the rain and all this continues to lift northward and eastward, eventually by 8 00 a lot of this is going to lift north of lake norman. Will take a while longer to get out of the i40 corridor, we will see a trend less and less rain going through the morning and in the afternoon. 38 right now in boone, 43 charlotte, rock hill, 48 in monroe. A chilly day, getting back in the low 50s, charlotte, concord, mooresville. Our rain chance is 50 50 this afternoon. Lenoir 70 chance of rain, boone it will rain much of the day and only back to 42. There is a Flash Flood Watch in effect that runs through tomorrow evening, for heavy downpours coming back in the picture. Well see the rain taper some today but will change character tomorrow and become potentially severe and with that, rain on wednesday will be very heavy, so potential for flooding and there is an element of wind and even Severe Weather including a small risk for tornadoes across our viewing area tomorrow, i will try to pinpoint where the best opportunity for that might be, ill have that in the seven day forecast at the top of the hour. Right now check in with chris, first alert traffic. Chris al, thank you, first alert traffic sponsored by toyota of north charlotte. Keeping an eye here on your Tuesday Morning commute, most of our major highways are this morning, so 77 and 85 no problems as we swing in center city, we do have two accidents, the first one about 15, 20 minutes old now, mcdowell street at east 4th, you may find delays coming inbound along east 4th street, that oneway section there. As you work over to west trade street and graham street, an accident listed there, not seeing significant delays along north graham and john belk and brookshire both running in the green except for slow stretch on the outer loop of the john belk making your way over toward independence. That is a check of the morning traffic, christine, over to you. Christine we continue to follow breaking news where a swat situation has come to an end in northwest charlotte. John here is a live look at the scene on Pointer Ridge drive where Police Arrested a man wanted for murder. Ashton pellom has been on the scene throughout the morning, he will be joining us live with new details at the top of the hour. Christine Charlotte City controversial nondiscrimination lease a 2016 lincoln mkx for 399 a month wbtv on your side. Wbtv news starts right now with breaking news. John that breaking news, a swat situation in northwest charlotte has ended with an arrest. Heres a live look at the scene on Pointer Ridge drive. Ashton pellom has been on the scene learning more about the man arrested. Christine grab the umbrella, as you head out the door. This is what were seeing on power Doppler Radar, rain, meteorologist al conklin tracking the first alert Weather Forecast now. John all that rain is here is a live look at i77 and woodlawn road, chris larson on your side tracking any trouble spots on the road. Good morning, welcome to wbtv news this morning at 6 00 a. M. On this tuesday, february 23rd, im john carter. Christine im christine sperow. Glad youre watching this morning. Get you caught up on the forecast. Many of you about to head out the door in a few minutes. Here is meteorologist al conklin with accurate look. Al out there this morning, still tracking quite a bit of rain for the vast majority of our viewing area. Having said that, it is quieting down a little bit on the edges. That is a sign of things to come. I think we will see a gradual improvement through time but most of us will have a wet commute this morning at least over the next hour or so, again you can see much of Mecklenburg County not doing badly now you dont have to go far to the west, raining heavily around lincolnton, gastonia and to the east around albermarle. In charlotte, very light, spotty rain in center city, that is our metro School Camera but chilly, were at 47 degrees in Mountain Island lake, 47 down to ballantyne, 48 in the arboretum and wedding tonton area. Lots of clouds, tapers this afternoon, only 30 chance late in the day, High Temperature today much chiliier, 53, yesterday, 66. Get this, pushing 70 tomorrow, huh . Thats right and also a threat of Severe Weather. Ill break it down for you in the seven day planner. Youre never more than seven traffic on wbtv news this morning. Here is chris, first alert traffic. Chris al, first alert traffic is sponsored by toyota of north charlotte. So far on the major interstates uneventful, running in the green on 485, 77, 85, yet to see any of those volume delays, well keep an eye on that as we head closer to the 7 00 hour. The john belk and brookshire both of those highways running in the green this morning but we do have two center city accidents, the first one at mcdowell at east 4th street, 4th street there coming in