Chris first alert traffic sponsored by toyota of north charlotte. Following a developing story this morning in iredell county, northern iredell county, i77 northbound a logging truck has overturned, losing its load and we have at least one lane or possibly more blocked. Two lanes there, north of exit 65. That is unionharmony grove. If you get through and cant get through, the best bet is 901, memorial highway to 21 and north and around that scene. Back in the charlotte region, most of our majors running in the green here at 5 02, looking pretty good in charlotte. Rock hill to uptown, 21 minutes, 66milesperhour. Concord to center city, 18 minute commute and lake norman southbound on 77, 15, 69. That is a check of the morning traffic, john, over to you. John Police Looking for the person who robbed employees at a popular restaurant in charlottes south end end. Mark davenport is live at the restaurant, was anyone hurt . Reporter john, we know no one was hurt her at phat burrito last night during the armed robbery, but we spoke to employees who told us it was a frightening experience. Get to you video that we shot last night of Police Inside and outside the restaurant looking for evidence. Anything they could to link anything inside the restaurant to the person that robbed this place. Employees told us that a suspect came in the business and put a gun to the managers head, demanding money. They got what they wanted and ran out in a getaway vehicle. I want you to listen how one employee described to it wbtv overnight. I was online making a burrito, some skinny dude wearing a hoodie and had a backpack and gun, decide to run up in there and put a gun to the managers head and had him open the register and he emptied it out and he took off. Reporter that employee told couple hundred dollars. Police are looking for two people, that person that went inside and robbed this business here. They are also looking for the person driving that getaway car. If you have information call crimestoppers, 7043341600. Reporting live, mark davenport, wbtv on your side. Christine mark, thank you. Authorities looking for a possibly armed person who led them on a chase near stallings. The chase started last night when troopers tried to pull the driver over for a Traffic Violation in monroe. The driver led authorities on a chase then ditched the car and took off running on highway 74 near i485 near stallings. Well update you when we learn more on the air and online at wbtv. Com. John a committee is set to meet this month to defiled a man accused of killing this couple at their home in lake wylie should face the death pen at. Prosecutors say Malcolm Hartley killed doug and debbie london to prevent doug from testifying in a robbery at their mattress store. State to turn over any evidence they have against hartley. Hartleys attorneys want to know if the londons were involved in any criminal activity. 12 accused gang members were indicted in connection to the christine charges are expected to be upgraded against hickory. James thatcher has been charged with assault with a Deadly Weapon after Authorities Say he shot Tammy Cloninger monday. Deputies say james small shot someone in the arm yesterday on love Memorial School road in lincolnton, that person was taken to the hospital and is expected to be okay. Small is being held on 15,000 bail. We are just Getting Started for you this morning at 5 00 a. M. On your side with complete coverage of the upcoming South Carolina primaries, a look at where the candidates are today in the palmetto state and when john Kristen Miranda is live in the alert center. Kristen john, so yesterday a judge ruled apple had to let f. B. I. Investigator in an encrypted phone by the san bernard dino shooters. John Watauga County, 33, slick roads in the area. 41 in charlotte, 38 rock hill, 40 wadesboro, 38 shelby and here is a live look from one of our d. O. T. Cameras, traffic fag lowing smoothly in the flowing smoothly. Roads should not be an issue. Monitor the situation in iredell county, youre never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic on wbtv news this 5 00. I hope we have a buyer for the house. Me too what are the neighbors doing here . Bill hey i didnt know your home wifi could stream so many devices at the same time. Dad, its time warner cable. 300 megs. Crazyfast. Dad you can get wifi all over this place. Cool make your home as connected as possible. Get 50 meg internet with unlimited data for and ask about free installation. Closed captioning on wbtvnews is sponsored by subarusouth boulevard and subaruconcord. John welcome back to wbtv news this morning, now ten after 5 00. Christine get over to Kristen Miranda right now, she has new developments just in on the investigation in the deadly shootings in san bernardino. What are you learning . Kristen the investigation has been stalled, they havent been able to get in the iphones for the shooters. The encryption is so good sometimes even apple cant get in. So a judge yesterday ruled that apple has to supply the f. B. I. With some Specialized Software that will help them hack in the encrypted iphone that belong to syed farook, along with his wife killed 14 people in december. Short time ago, that apple says it will fight that judges order to help the f. B. I. Access the information that is stored in that iphone. So they are saying they do not want the f. B. I. To be given that software that will allow them to get in that iphone and access any information that might help in the investigation. Apple is standing by the fact it wants the phones to remain encrypted. So this is a battle that will continue and we will keep an eye on it from the alert center. John in campaign 2016, as the president ial candidates gear up for the South Carolina primary saturday, cnn is hosting two town halls for republicans. Christine dr. Ben carson and senators ted cruz and marco rubio will appear in the first town hall tonight at 8 00 in greenville. John kasich, donald trump and jeb bush will take the stage tomorrow night in columbia. John many will meet with voters today. Ben carson is meeting with ted cruz holding rally in spartanburg and seneca. John kasich in bluffton in the lowcountry, marco rubio will hold town halls in mount pleasant, akin and chapin. Donald trump will be in sumter. Jeb bush will be in myrtle beach. Christine trump is leading with 38 support followed by ted cruz with 22 . Hillary clinton is 18 points ahead of Bernie Sanders among likely voters. South carolinas republican primary is saturday while the democratic primary is next week saturday, a week from this saturday on february 27th. John president ial primaries are open you do not have to register by party to vote. 12 minutes after 5 00, youre never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic on wbtv news this morning. Here is meteorologist al conklin conklin. County schools are closed. Several others are operating on toad toad. Twohour delay. This is lees will be leesmccray college. While it looks pretty, add another two, three inches of snow last night has schools delayed or closed. Storm system has pulled out, this is my kind of rain came in last night, gone before daybreak, we will wind up seeing sunshine even in the mountains, you will do better, partly sunny skies, not as cold, getting up to 39, a lot of that snow this afternoon will be melting, particularly on the black top. Outside of the mountains, where it is 33 in boone, everybody else is in the upper 30s near 40. 41 in charlotte,41 monroe, 40 gastonia, 39 salisbury, 38 in rock hill, South Carolina. For today, well look for plenty of sun shy, 41 where were starting at this morning. Wind up at 51 at lunch time, 55 late this afternoon. Close to average this time of so, enter sunshine, goodbye rain. Seasonal readings, but a big warm up in the weekend forecast, talk about that plus our next chance for rain, im warning you now, enjoy the weekend. We have a couple wet days down the road, ill have the details in a few minutes. Traffic. Chris al, thank you, first alert traffic sponsored by toyota of north charlotte. We do want to give you a heads up, i77 northbound in iredell logging truck. This is near exit 65 in Union Harmony grove or north of there. So right now were not seeing any terrible delays on 77 northbound but we may see those building in the morning. If you have travel plans you may want to think exiting at 65, Union Harmony grove, then houstonville over to 21, 21 would take you back up to 421 to make your way back on the interstate. Way. In charlotte, live 77 west boulevard, no problem. Most of the morning commute lets take a quick check of drive times from matthews, 16 minutes, 39milesperhour. Providence road from arboretum, 16 minute commute as well, concord to center city, 20 minutes at 64milesperhour. That is a check of traffic, john and christine, over to you. John thanks, chris. Coming up, something to think about the next time youre in the grocery store. What a study from the fda found out about the cheese you may buy. Christine on your side with important programming note. The big one is tonight. John the big one, elizabeth. Christine thank you, john. Wbtv will air the live rivally game between duke and unc. Changes thousand watch survivor. Part 1 will air from 8 00 until 9 00 on wbtv. The final 30 minutes will air over on bounce. You can also watch the entire 90 minute premiere on bounce from 8 00 until 9 30. Part 2 of survivor will air on followed by lease a 2016 lincoln mkx for 399 a month on your side right now, youre watching wbtv news this morning. Christine a Council Meeting in texas turned out to be anything but routine. John get over to Kristen Miranda with new details just coming in on a mayors arrest live in the alert center. Kristen we got this video you dont often see this so i want to show it to you, the mayor of a town town led out of a meeting. Happened in crystal city, texas. Ricardo lopez facing corruption charges. Led from the meeting after a scuffle in the meeting. A fight began over a recall petition lopez faces after he were indicted on bribery and conspiracy charges. He says he has five are no days to resign or face a recall but the people in the meeting were not so sure that is the case. Lopez was upset, recessed the meeting, left in his car, when he came back, it sounds like according to media report he scuffled with people who were in the audience. Police stepped in and he was detained. That mayor taken in custody last night and now facing even more trouble than he was already facing before. Christine thanks, kristen. The fda is cracking down on companies that literally cut the cheese. The agency tested products marketed as 100 grated parmesan, it contained substitutes including wood pulp. The wood pulp comes from the making of cellulose, safe level is allowed in food but companies such as market pantry and walmarts great value had more than the acceptable level. Improving some younger adults are having a tough time, Business Insider creating this map of how much milennials make in each state. Milennials born between 19811997. Dc workers earn the most, average of 43,000 a year. Those in montana earn the least. Average of 18,000 a year. Both north and South Carolina the average salary is 20,000. Christine one companys bet against love did not turn out the way it hoped. We told you a few months ago about swan love offering couples up to 10,000 to help pay for dream wedding. If a couple divorces, they have to pay the money back with interest. Swan love was so overwhelmed with applications it cant afford to keep up. The company is now rebranding itself as a crowd funding site where couples can raise money for their weddings. Weddings. John 5 21 the time. Watauga and avery county schools ago they made the announcement because we have dicey road situations up there. Al they had two or three inches of roads overnight. The primary roads they took care of, book roads are a different situation back roads are a different situation, with temperatures near freezing that wont clear up any time soon. The schools are closed. The rest of yours things are very quiet. The rain that came in last night has now moved out and that is good. We had a decent batch of it that came through, briefly heavy last evening. Now you can see from futurecast well have cloud cover early this morning as the system pulls away, but otherwise lots of sunshine. Even in the mountains you go partly sunny this afternoon. This is 4 00. Sure a couple clouds around thats it, the evening will be dry as well, with temperatures that will fall back through the 40s. Eventually overnight lows in the 20s and 30s. Tonight. This is lincolnton youre dry and unlike yesterday morning at this time there is no ice on the roads. Temperatures well in the 50s. We hit 59 yesterday in that ice out there. And were looking good now this morning. Partly cloudy, chilly, but not too bad. 39 degrees, light breeze out of the north at 6milesperhour. Lots of sunshine but north breeze that will keep our temperatures just a little bit down today compared to yesterday. Were 40 in cornelius, 37 right now in belmont, 39 around tega cay, over to harrisburg. 42 indian trail. 38 around weddington, marvin, waxhaw, boone at 33. 32 wilkesboro. 34 hickory, 37 shelby, 38 rock hill, 37 in concord, and 39 right now in wadesboro and down toward chesterfield. In the mountains today you will be in the 30s, partly sunny skies, this is a bit of an improvement than where you have been of late. 53 around lenoir, morganton, 52 taylorsville all the while mostly sunny skies looking good that way. In charlotte i expect a high of 55. Close to average this time of year, 56 gastonia, 55 mooresville over toward concord, 56 albermarle, 58 in wadesboro. 50s from chester and rock hill out toward pageland, lancaster and cheraw, good shape. This front not much of a weather maker, well be High Pressure dominating our weather the next couple days and while were on the cool side of things now we will get on the warm side and you will see temperatures take off here as we head toward the upcoming weekend. Plenty of sunshine to go around i dont see much in the way of rain for the next several days, High Pressure will settle in here for thursday, friday and in the start of the weekend but by late in the weekend we turn our attention to the west and looks like we start off early next week wet. Im here to tell you enjoy the weekend, temperatures will be warming up very nicely, mid 60s on saturday, upper 60s on sunday. We fall off again as we go in monday and tuesday and that comes with rain as well. Timing is everything. Just like last nights rain, came in while we were sleeping and it will be gone this morning. Sunshine today, 55. 31 tonight, 54 tomorrow, 58 on friday, we continue to warm, more clouds over the weekend but that is the price to pay for the the rain holds off now monday, tuesday, may linger in wednesday. Youre never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic on wbtv news this morning. Heres chris, first alerttraffic. Chris al, thank you. First alert traffic is sponsored by toyota of north charlotte. Want to keep you updated about the situation on i77 north in iredell county. Overturned logging truck right now not seeing any serious delays, but know there is a scene if you need to find an alternate route that would be houstonville over to 21 that will get you book 421 and back back on 421. Heavier traffic heading toward charlotte this morning but our major highways are continuing to run in the green here. Looks like we may have slow down over on providence road down south of fairview. Matthews to center city, 12 minutes, 51 miles an hour. Providence road from the arboretum area at 20 minute commute and concord to center city, 20 minutes and 66 miles an hour. Back to you. John coming up, help for pregnant women in need. Helping women and their babies phone ringing you cant deal with something, by ignoring it. But thats how some president ial candidates seem to be dealing with social security. Americans work hard, and pay into it. So our next president needs a real plan to keep it strong. elephant noise donkey noise reporter the no. 1 priority of Law Enforcement officers are to make sure youre safe. In a few minute as story how Gaston County deputies are helping out their own. Christine a new push to improve education for kids here in mecklenburg county, what one county commissioner is saying about implementing universal prek. John thanks for waking up with wbtv news this morning on this wednesday, february 17th, good to have you along with us at 5 30 im john carter. Christine im christine sperow. About a few School Closing and delays. Avery and Watauga County schools closed. Mitchell county schools on threehour delay. Alleghany, ashe and wilkes delay. We posted the latest closings deanedingsand delays list at john get right to first alert weather with meteorologist al conklin. Al thanks, john. Skies are clearing getting rid of the rain, we have a lot of dampness, im concerned about fog, morganton and hickory both reporting zero visibility right now. Thankfully the temperatures are above freezing by at least a couple degrees but that is a situation well monitor. Good visibility gastonia, albermarle, salisbury and charlotte at 10 miles. The rain moved out, skies are clearing and a lot of sunshine for today. It really is working out very nicely in terms of the trend here. The rain came in last night and gone this morning. 39 wadesboro, charlotte, 40 gastonia, 38 in salisbury, 34 right now in hickory, it isnt keep an eye on the fog situation. Sun will be up in an hourandahalf and we will have a good deal of it today with a High Temperature in charlotte of 55 degrees. Well go up from here as we head toward the weekend, ill cover that part of the forecast in a few minutes. Right now check in with chris, first alert traffic. Chris al, thank you, first alert traffic sponsored this morning by toyota of north charlotte. Well take a live look here i85 at bruton smith boulevard you can see the southbound cars beginning to stream until from concord and kannapolis working their way in the city this morning. Drive times if youre coming up from rock hill, 21 minutes, 64milesperhour, concord to center city, 18 minute commute, lake norman southbound at 15 minutes and 67 miles per hour. Looking at center city the john belk, brookshire, no problems running in the green, as is the case with most of our major highways this morning. 485, 77, 85 looking okay. Were seeing a few slow downs around providence road. Up to our north in iredell county