Were trying to get information from officers on what theyre doing. I saw officers back behind me with flash lights moving around looking for anything on the ground. This is a residential area, they found shell casings earlier. Well get you as much information the next time we talk in the next 30 minutes. Im Mark Davenport, wbtv on your side. Chris mark, thank you so much. First alert traffic sponsored by toyota of north charlotte. That is where were going to start where mark is standing along caps hill mine road this morning. So again, that is between peachtree road and beaties ford road, that section there is closed down this morning. Lets come in a little bit closer, that is grier grove road down to the south, where the lady was found. Right here at firestone drive where mark was standing and caps hill mine is blocked off that is heading up toward beaties ford road and another Crime Scene Investigation a little bit closer to beaties ford, sort of a major or cutthrough there. Peachtree to sunset would give get you to 77 or back down to beaties ford around the crime scene, well let you know when they clear that up. I77 at woodlawn, travel smoothly here. At a check of drives times. Matthews on 74, 13 minutes. Providence road, 16 minute commute, 18 minutes from concord to center city and quick look at overall commute, 485, 77, 85 still running in the green. Now get a check on the days weather with meteorologist al conklin. Al dry, cool weather, chris as we start tuesday, a little cooler than yesterday morning, lincolnton currently 36 degrees here in the county seat out there, looking dry, 46 partly cloudy in charlotte right now, colder in the mountains, 31 boone, 35 in salisbury. But low 40s. 42 hickory and rock hill, 43 gastonia, 47 in monroe. Starting off in the 30s and 40s, wind up in the 60s, a gradual increase in cloud cover, gastonia, 69, partly sunny. Becoming mostly cloudy by 4 00. Hickory, 67, mostly sunny approaching 70 from monroe and salisbury, a nice day. Now we have rain in the forecast for tonight, ill show you that on futurecast, plus looking ahead to the weekend all the details in a few minutes. Youre never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic on wbtv news this morning. Christine another breaking news story were watching out of Gaston County, where authorities are investigating a triple homicide. If youre just joining us, last night police found the bodies of three people at a home in alexis. John crystal gambino is charged with first degree murder in the death of one of the victims, her husband, 40yearold giovanni gambino. Ashton pellom has the latest details on the investigation, ashton, do we know anything about the other victims yet . Reporter hey, good morning, john. So far police have not released too many details about the other the only thing they are releasing the third victim like you said is the husband of crystal gambino. His name giovanni gambino, found in the house, all three found with gunshot wounds. At the scene it is busy, crime scene investigators going in and out of the house bringing out bags of evidence right now. Well cut to video and tell you what police are telling me. They were called out to the home, they came out to the home around 8 00 last night here on alexislucia road. A concerned Family Member asked police to do a welfare check, when they did, they went in the home and found the three people, three adults i should say who died of apparent gunshot wounds in the home. One of the victims identified as giovanni gambino. The two other victims have yet to be identified just yet. They have charged 92yearold 42yearold crystal gambino, they charged her with first degree murder of her husband. Neighbors at the scene, asking them to describe giovanni for me. They said a talkative guy, friendly guy. Done Research Online on giovannis linked in page, he has success in politics, was political consultant, campaign director, and also with political advisor. Take a listen one neighbor described what that means this happened so close to him. Sounded like a sledge hammer to me like a loud racquet, tear ting down a building or something, it was loud. Reporter that was the neighbor describing the gunshot, he said very scary this happened so close to home because he was very close to crystal and giovanni gambino, he said it is shocking for him to have this so close to home. Currently, crystal gambino is in the Gaston County jail facing that first degree murder charge and is expected to face more charges as soon as the other well keep you updated on air and online at wbtv. Com. Reporting live in Gaston County, Ashton Pellom, wbtv on your side. Christine 5 36, new this morning the North Carolina chapter of the naacp will hold a press conference in raleigh today to discuss the Fatal Shooting of a man by a police officer. Authorities say 29yearold senior officer dc twitty shot a man during a foot chase yesterday. Police have not identified the man who was shot but say he was wanted on a felony drug charge. A witness says the man jumped a fence in someones backyard and officer twitty followed, pulling his gun and shooting the man six times. This happened in raleigh. Twitty has been placed on administrative duty. Looking ahead, charlottebased duke energy will meet with the department of Environmental Quality today about how coal ash is affecting the water in North Carolina. People in Gaston County plan to speak out against duke ahead of the hearing. Water for a year due to contaminated water. Duke energy insists coal ash did not cause the contamination and heavy metals could have come from other sources. Residents will meet at 5 30 at dallas. John hornets are giving 90 kids something to cheer about today. They will host 90s nickelodeon night. Games and give aways based on show, double dare, legends of the hidden temple and rug rats. Several other teamses have hosted nickelodeon night. Christine 5 38 and this stretch is i77 at the woodlawn road exit and were seeing a good bit of cars on the interstates this morning, just keep that in mind if you arent bought toif youif if youare about to head out the door. Youre never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic on wbtv news this morning. Here is meteorologist al hour, still nice and dry here in our part of the world. But you look back to the west you can see there is rain and snow across the middle part of the country quickmoving system, that will impact us later tonight. During the day today were dry, no issues. Numale fishing forecast, gradual increase in cloud cover, but High Temperature up to 69 degrees, breezy and warm yet again today, not as warm as yesterday but nice. That is chad kessinger of belmont holding up a 73 pound 49 inch blue catfish he wrestled on lake wylie last weekend. Caught it using a 14 inch large mouth bass for bait. The lunker was the fourth catfish of more than 50 pounds he has caught on lake wylie this winter alone. That big catch is in the water, he snapped the picture and released to fight another day. I need your pictures, folks. Email home to me at aconklin wbtv. Com. Well get you on. Three day forecast looking good as far as temperatures today, it cools down, in the 50s, we one coming in tonight, another one on thursday, what about the weekend . Iim looking ahead to that. Christine imagine never having to wait in line at a Grocery Store again. John the store of the future that is making it possible, that 20 minutes before 6 00. We built our factories here because of a huge natural resource. Not the land. The water. Or power sources. Its the people. American workers. They build worldclass products. And that builds communities. And a better future. For all of us. Because making something in america means so much, to so many. In the battle of the burgers, one made a declaration of delicious. Jack. He set forth, armed with artillery no one saw coming. So that everyone could taste historymaking burgers. And america ate it up. True story. Were making every burger better, like the new double jack. Christine a store in sweden is always open. John people in one town can get necessities 24 hours a day thanks to an it specialist who runs a store with no cashier. Customers can download an app lets them use the phone to open the doors and scan products. And surveillance cameras discourage stealing. Christine no lines to stand in. John 24 hours a day open. Christine my kind of Grocery Store. John there is always someone trying to sneak away something. I cant believe it would be without issues. Al exactly. Christine a neat concept for sure. Al we have a dry commute, no question about that, probably dry going home this afternoon as well, but tonight, different story. Show you that on futurecast. Last week we started off so wet, two to three inches of rain during the first three days of the week, this week totally different. We get some rain here tonight after being dry for six days or so, where do we stand on rain . Closed the books on february, wound up with a surplus of more than an inch for the year a small deficit but this is nothing in fact well make that up tonight. Were about where we should be to the month, basically having a couple wet months here, january and february now. The next weather maker, you can see going to be a gradual increase in cloud cover today across the two carolinas but that rain is still a long way away from here, were not in hurry to bring precipitation back in the area. Lots of sunshine, lunch time looks great, sunny skies, breezy, warm, in the 60s. By late this afternoon, 4 00, the model try to spit out a couple showers, lions share of the rain is in the mountains of east tennessee. The cloud cover on the increase. Now toward 8 00, the rain moves in the mountain counties but still, east of there youre most likely dry. There could be a shower or two but the lions share of the rain comes in tonight when most of us are sleeping. A. T. Allen elementary school, cloud cover this morning, see gradual increase in clouds as we go through the day but trust me, a lot of sunshine for the first half of the day. 46 in charlotte, not much of a fog no issue at all. 37 in concord, 36 in lincolnton up to salisbury, 47 monroe, 41 shelby, 42 hickory, 32 morganton, lenoir, 38 in mooresville and statesville. Go from the 40s this morning to the upper 60s this afternoon, rain chances remaining very low during the Daylight Hours here today. You know, why i showed you. Tomorrow cooler day, front goes by and this is reality check early march we should be in the 50s and headed back in the 50s tomorrow. So heres the area of low pressure, this will move eastward, there is the showers and perhaps a rumble of thunder tonight, front moves to the east of us, High Pressure build in for all of 36 hours but going from thursday during the day to thursday night, our next round of rain showers possible, coming back in thursday night, we ramp up precipitation chances, good news we should be dry for friday, saturday, sunday and monday, with a nice warming trend. 59 is where we normally would be, sun will be up at 6 53, sets at 6 20. Start mostly cloudy late this afternoon. Rain is all going to be at night for the vast majority of us. 42 tonight, breezy cooler tomorrow, sunshine back, rain comes in late thursday. Again, most of the day thursday, looks dry. Dry out quickly on friday, 56, dry, some cloud cover saturday, sunday looks to be the prettier day of the weekend, mid 60s. Here is chris, first alert traffic. Chris al, thank you. First alert traffic sponsored by toyota of north charlotte. This is breaking news that we have been following up off beaties ford road, they do have a section of caps hill mine road blocked off as a Crime Scene Investigation is underway, well get more on that from wbtvs Mark Davenport coming up, but again, caps hill mine road in front of firestone drive is blocked off and several crime scenes in and around the area. If that is part of your morning commute think about sunset to work around that. 77, woodlawn, volume picking up but most of the majors are that is a check of your morning commute, youre never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic on wbtv news this morning. John hey, it is time for spring cleaning, right . Financial experts say that means your budget as well. Christine in the 6 30 half hour, youre going to want to stick around were on your side with steps you need to take to get your finances in order. 5 48, well be lemme get a mcpick 2 check out the brand new mix on Mcdonalds Mcpick 2 menu lemme get a mcpick 2. 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He died sunday in boise, idaho, he was 91 years old. One of my favorite actors. Welcome back to wbtv news this morning. Here now eight minutes before 6 00. Kristen miranda gets us compelling video that she can only get her hands on turn around to show us, you grabbed some of that for us right now, lives up to the bill. Kristen i did, at least i tried. I want you to look at it. We got in the video in a few minutes ago. Game in rhode island, championship game. You see the team celebrating here, in the dark uniforms, they mistakenly think they have won the game. What you didnt see before this is a player throws the ball in the air that killed the clock, thinking they did it they start celebrating. A player on the team in the white uniforms, caught the ball with one second left. That inbound pass led to that quick layup and the other team wins the championship game. Oopsy. A hard lesson for that team to learn for sure. Christine that is heart breaking. John terribly heart breaking. Christine lesson learned. Kristen wait until the clock is at zero. Christine oh, boy. Youre never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic on wbtv news this morning. Here is meteorologist al conklin. Al we have partly cloudy skies up in concord at a. T. Allen elementary school. Start off with decent amount of sunshine, will be a nice day, increase in clouds, 46 in charlotte, 31 in boone, everybody else is milder, 42 hickory, down to rock hill, 47 monroe, 43 gastonia, salisbury cool at 36 degrees. Again, a gradual increase in cloud cover, 46 here is what im forecasting at 8 00, 65 at lunch time and 69 this afternoon. Not as warm as yesterday when we hit 74, still nice. Heading to the phoenix and charlotte game tonight at the arena, well look at mostly cloudy skies, the rain chances very low this evening as you head out the door, so 63 degrees is what im forecasting for the tipoff temperature. Rain is in the forecast, this is going to arrive here, it will be later in the night, ill show you that on futurecast and talk about what the weekend looks like in a couple minutes at 6 00. Lets check in with chris, update, first alert traffic. Chris al, thank you, first alert traffic sponsored by toyota of north charlotte. Well begin with a look at our overall mapping system, most of run in the green this morning, a few slow downs over on independence boulevard as you make your way toward albermarle. This is john belk, traffic coming toward you going up toward bank of america stadium, very light traffic heading toward independence boulevard. Drive times, matthews to center city, 14 minute commute, providence road from the arboretum area, 16 at 38milesperhour. Concord to center city running 18 minutes and in the mid 60s there. Again, a portion of caps hill mine road closed down between peachtree and beaties ford, multiple Police Investigations if caps hill is part of your commute, take sunset and avoid the area. That is a check of traffic, christine, over to you. Christine following several breaking news stories. John Ashton Pellom is getting new details about a triple homicide in Gaston County, eel have a live hell have a live report. Christine police in charlotte working several scenes a woman was shot in the head. The very latest, new details hes getting just in. Lease a 2016 lincoln mkx for 399 a month wbtv on your side. Wbtv news starts right now with breaking news. Christine two breaking news stories in the area of the stories in the area. Police investigating a triple homicide in Gaston County. This woman is in jail charged with murder. John here in charlotte, police are investigating an Early Morning shooting in north charlotte, police have been working several scenes across the area including this one off griers grove road. A woman found shot in the head in a parking lot there. Good morning, welcome to day of march, 2016, on this tuesday, good to have you with us, im john carter. Christine im christine sperow. We have live reports on both those breaking stories and our Kristen Miranda in the alert Center Getting headlines first. Kristen some of the polls are opening up for super tuesday. John well get started with charlottes most experienced morning meteorologist, al conklin. Al were dry in charlotte, dry in your neighborhood, that is our metro School Camera in center city. Not all that breezy, it is pretty pleasant considering it could be cooler. 46 degrees right now charlotte, 41 arboretum, piper glen, harrisburg. 44 indian trail, stallings, weddington, marvin, 38 degrees Western Union county, 46 ballantyne, 42 belmont, 36 in coulwood. Just a gradual increase in cloud cover, breezy, warm, not as nice not bad, 69 degrees, overall, just a small increase in cloud cover. That rain across the middle part of the country will arrive tonight, talk about when it gets out of here and what it looks like for the weekend, that part of the forecast minutes away. Youre never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic on wbtv news this morning. Here is chris, first alert traffic. Chris first alert traffic is sponsored by toyota of north charlotte. Were going to start with a live look i85, this is out at bruton smith boulevard, see all that inbound traffic coming out of concord, kannapolis beginning to heat up as you make your way toward center city charlotte. Rock hill, uptown, 20 minutes, 67 miles an hour, concord commute, lake norman southbound, 56 miles an hour. 15 minutes. 85 looks good, 77 coming out of the lake and South Carolina no significant problems yet. In toward center city we do have a few slow downs on the outer loop of the john belk, now caps hill road, well have a live report coming up, but there is a