Charlotte. Well start with that accident scene, that is 4913 Central Avenue, so there you have North Sharon Amity, a little further back to the west you have kilbourne avenue, that is the section of Central Avenue which is closed down this morning. As mark mentioned, may be opening up in the next 90 minutes. Sharon amity south to 74 would be the best alternate or norland would get you around that. Make injuring way toward North Sharon Amity, that is where the section is closed down this morning. Looking at the overall charlotte morning commute, 485 looks good running in the green, providence road, independence boulevard running smoothly and here is a live look at i77 at west boulevard, no problems, volume of traffic is light. Youre never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic on wbtv news this morning. Now meteorologist al conklin. Al a breezy, mild start to the day, chris, a weak system crossing the area. You can see it on power doppler north of our area, there may be a couple of light showers that are crossing the mountains this morning but that would be about it. Otherwise, it is windy and mild. We have dry conditions here in charlotte right now, temperatures are close to 50 degrees, so were way above average and have a warm day today. 51 charlotte, 50 wadesboro, monroe, gastonia, shelby, statesville even in the mountains, boone, 51, 47 morganton, 49 for rock hill and lancaster. Lots of sunshine, breezy, unseasonably warm. High of 70. Heading in march, not so warm. Talk about that plus rain chances, john, the seven day planner in a couple minutes. John 5 03, authorities in Cleveland County are investigating an explosion that injured three people. It happened before 11 00 last night on east stagecoach trail in fallston. Wbtvs Ashton Pellom has been at the scene all morning long, he will be bringing us more on this story in a little bit. It happened before 11 00 last night. In fallston. Two homes actually caught fire. Three people had to be taken to the hospital. Were working right now to learn their conditions and update you on air and online at wbtv. Com. Christine also breaking right now, crews are on the scene of a fire at a Fast Food Restaurant in rowan county. Brody oconnell following these breaking details in the alert center, you have images from the scene too, brody. Brody we found out a burger king caught on fire. These are pictures from a crew on the scene. A very active scene, hoses out trying to knock down the fire. We also have video we can also show you right now from the scene. This is the burger king on west Jake Alexander boulevard for those of you familiar with that area. We have a couple updates, fire knocked down, main part of the fire. Jake alexander boulevard closed right now between highway 150 and brenner avenue, keep that in salisbury, heading out here in a couple minutes, avoid the area. There was a nearby ymca had fire alarms going off, they checked it out. That was a reaction from this scene here. No fire was located over at that ymca. The cause of the fire, well, not known at this time. John and christine, that is the latest from the the alert center, back to you. Christine well see if anything comes out of that. Thank you, brody. Police are asking witnesses to speak up after a man was shot and killed at a big party yesterday morning on lannier street extension. People took the victim to the hospital where he died. His name was not released. Several neighbors told us off camera dozens of cars have lined the road over the weekend. If you know anything about the shooting, call the Gaston CountyPolice Department or crimestoppers. John more breaking overnight news, charlotte firefighters spent part of the morning battling a fire in north charlotte. Happened around 2 00 at the prescott village townhomes on prescott court. Are accounted for, were helped out by neighbors. No one was hurt, the fire was controlled quickly. Christine a man is recovering after a 30 foot fall from crowders mountain. Were told a man in his mid 20s was taking pictures at the highest part at the boulders access area when he fell yesterday afternoon. He had serious injuries was airlifted to the hospital. Nicer weigh weather means more hikers. Park officials urge everyone to stay vigilant about their surroundings. John they hope this video walk in a cvs in pageland, he headed back to the pharmacy. He pointed a gun at the store supervisor headed for the safe. He left with a big supply of oxycodone. Christine were just Getting Started after winning in South Carolina, Hillary Clinton is now taking her president ial campaign national. Her and Bernie Sanders is shaping up for super tuesday. John we are about to go to break. Before we do, a quick check of first alert weather temperatures, 51 here in charlotte, same up in boone at 51. A little cooler in lancaster at 48, 49 rock hill, 50 gastonia and shelby, 52 salisbury, a live look at i77 at west boulevard, things are moving smoothly. Well keep you posted throughout the morning because youre never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic on wbtv lease a 2016 lincoln mkx for 399 a month 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. Hey candidates, answer the call already. Bringing you the latest updates live from the alert center, thanks for choosing wbtv news this morning. John ten after 5 00, Hillary Clinton is far ahead of Bernie Sanders in three key states, voting tomorrow on super a new poll by nbc news, wall street journal and marist shows clinton leading 21 margins in texas, georgia and tennessee. 11 states are holding races tomorrow. Clinton has won backtoback victory in nevada and South Carolina. The vice chair of the Democratic Committee is resigning. She trusts Bernie Sanders to consider the consequences of any military action. Christine on the republican side, donald trump is deflecting questions on whether he would disavow support from the former leader of the ku klux klan. David duke endorsed trump this month and here what is trump had to say about on it cnns state of the union. I dont know anything about david duke, okay . I dont know what youre talking about with White Supremacy or white supremacists, i dont know, i dont know did he endorse me . Had he does reject dukes support, trumps rivals are attacking him for not condemning him. Marco rubio says it is wrong and ted cruz said it is unfortunate. Harrisperry would not show up for a weekend show, in an email she said the show was preempted without comment or discussion or notice in favor of political coverage. She would not be used as a tool. Christine youre never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic on wbtv news this morning. Glad youre starting your monday morning with us, here is teorologist al conklin with e forecast. Al take you up to boone, dry right now, king street in boone from resortcams. Com. The breeze is very gusty and temperatures are colder this morning than now, close to 50 in around boone right now. 49 to be exact. 48 in blowing rock and 46 in beech mountain. Warm stuff. Youll have a nice afternoon. There may be a shower or two around this morning as a weak system moves by, by this afternoon, gusty breeze, more sunshine and 57 degrees, not bad at all. Heres the frontal system, the lions share of the rain north of the carolinas, up in west virginia, virginia, pennsylvania, were on the tail edge, there may be a brief shower around for the morning, early midday hours but once the front moves through, it is sunshine returning and milder conditions. In advance of the front we have gusty winds, 26milesperhour in boone right now, closer to 20 here from salisbury to statesville to charlotte and mooresville, a bit of a breeze, once that breeze gives way, again, any clouds and showers this morning will give way to plenty of sunshine in the mountains this afternoon. Temperatures, 51 boone, 47 in morganton, 52 in lincolnton or rather concord, 50 lincolnton, shelby, 49 right now in rock hill, a mild start to the day, afternoon with lots of sunshine, we will skyrocket near 70. Warm weather doesnt last all that much longer. Well show you some a cooldown coming, we have 50s back in the forecast ill let you know when and what it looks like for the weekend in a couple minutes. Lets check in with chris, first alert traffic. Chris first alert traffic is sponsored by toyota of north charlotte. Well start with that fatal accident that happened around 2 30 on Central Avenue. That is 4913 Central Avenue, just out to the west of North Sharon Amity, and you see that other accident indicator with a new accident at North Sharon Amity and Central Avenue. Again, a portion of Central Avenue between sharon amity and norland is closed down as the accident continues to be investigated and that new accident at the intersection of Central Avenue and sharon amity, so again, you will be working around a couple of accidents if that is part of your morning commute. The overall charlotte map, most of our major highways are seeing stop and go traffic there, inbound along providence road. That is a check of your morning commute, guys, back to you. John next at 5 00, the third time is not the charm for spacex, what were learning about their latest failed launch, that is coming up. First, wbtv is on your side in your community. Lemme get a mcpick 2 check out the brand new mix on Mcdonalds Mcpick 2 menu lemme get a mcpick 2. Now, choose any 2 delicious mickey ds classics for just 5 bucks. Mix n match share n savor 2 for 5 name your flavor pick any 2 iconic tastes a big mac made with 100 beef, flaky filetofish, seared on the grill quarter pounder with cheese or crispy 10piece chicken mcnuggets for just 5 bucks. Grab your crew today. Hurry in and say lemme get a mcpick 2 christine we continue to follow breaking news where we have just learned two people have now died in that house explosion in Cleveland County. John it happened before 11 00 at the home on east wbtvs Ashton Pellom has been on the scene all morning long and joins us now with the sad news we learned. Ashton, what can you tell us . Reporter hey, good morning, john. Probably five to ten minutes ago i actually spoke with the sister of the man who lives in this house behind me. That sister tells me the man, her brother and his wife, have passed away from the injuries that happened late last night here on stamey road. You can see some of the debris and damage that is just scattered across the front yard, as i zoom in, it is dark but that is the truck live. That is the truck that fire officials tell me was traveling on stagecoach trail, went off the road on stamey road, struck the house and propane tank in the process. After that truck struck the house and propane tank, there was one big explosion and fire officials tell me when they arrived on scene and working to put the fire out, there was a caught the roof of another house on fire and a field of grass out here on fire. It was tense moments this morning. They tell me the driver of the truck did walk away from the truck, he was out here at the scene the two people at the time that were in the house made it outside of the house and had serious injuries, and now weve been updated by family and they have passed away according to the family. The condition of the person who was driving the truck, the man driving the truck he was taken to the hospital, with injuries. Im told they werent as serious as the other two in the home. Right now well cut to the sound that i got, i spoke with a witness who said when he saw everything go down it was like a fire ball of fire that was out here at the scene. Listen as he described those tense moments for us. First explosion rattled the floors. And second one it just, just about the same, pretty much, was shocking. Really showing. I thought itshocking. I thought it was an earthquake. You heard him say he thought it was an earthquake. There will be a Police Investigation to determine why that driver went off the road or how he went off the road and struck the car or that house, as soon as we get more information, well update you on air and online at wbtv. Com. According to family members two people have passed away this morning from this home fire explosion. Reporting live, Ashton Pellom, wbtv on your side. Christine thank you, ashton, for that breaking update there. 5 21. John go over to Brody Oconnell live in the alert center with new details on a College Student detained in north korea, what is going on . Brody this student detained for two months now, just about two hours ago we got our first glimpse of him since he was detained. At a press conference that north korean Officials Say he request to hold. He confessed to hostile act according to north korean officials he stole a banner or sign had a political slogan. The 21yearold is a student at uva, north korean Officials Say the conference was held at his request. Reading reports from cnn and the ap, not clear if if he was coerced into doing this today. You can see he was extremely emotional. Apologizing saying the worst mistake of his life and also saying that he wants them to spare his life. It is not clear reading through the reports i found exactly the punishment hes facing how long he will be detained and also what might come of this apology today, developments we will certainly be looking into. John and christine, that is the very latest, back to you. Christine in consumer headlines, sending something in john the cost of mailing a one ounce later is dropping from 49 to 47 cent in april. In 2014, u. S. Postal services granted permission to increase stamp prices as long as they decrease the price again this year. Christine passengers on Southwest Airlines no longer need credit card to make on board purchases. They can use their amazon account to buy movies, messaging and wifi. Log in and the credit card connected to the account will be charged. John spacex screwinged anotherscrubbedanother launch. No reason why it was scrubbed last night. Christine chris i dont care used his hosting gig to help his daughters work on their business skills. During the show rock mentioned he was missing out on one of the most important moments of his two daughters lives, girl scout cookie season. He then brought their girl scout some of the celebrities were more than happy to buy a snack. I wonder if there was like a record amount of sales for that girl scout troop. John they did pretty good. Al i saw them at the food lion at beaties ford road when i was there sunday afternoon. The same girls im sure. They hit me up there. Those thin minutes. Yesterday, 67 degrees, after being in the mid 50s on saturday, which didnt feel bad but boy yesterday was unbelievable. Not a cloud in the sky. No. 1 we have a weak front crossing the mountains as we speak, this is futurecast, a little bit bullish, but whatever does come in will be gone quickly. Youre starting off with clouds, by 8 00, by lunch time totally gone. Rest of us enjoying total sunshine through the day today, will be breezy and warm, lets now, scott clarks toyota in stallings. Clear skies, no issues but as soon as you walk out the door you will notice the breeze blowing but not a cold breeze. Look at the temperatures we have, right now at 51 degrees in charlotte, southwest wind at 9 with gusts to 20. Humidity level is low at 46 . 51 in charlotte, outlying areas not much colder. 48 belmont, 50 tega cay, 48 weddington, 52 around Mountain Island lake and cornelius. No colder in boone. Youre at 41, rather 51. 47 in morganton, 49 shelby and rock hill, 50 around wadesboro. The numbers are from 15 to 20 to 25 degrees warmer than this time yesterday. Incredible stuff out there, so with that we will have a pretty nice afternoon. Mid to upper 50s under mostly sunny skies, by late this afternoon in the mountains. You have clouds and a small risk for shower this morning. Upper 60s to low 70s for morganton, lenoir, you have forecast. Walltowall sunshine across the piedmont, 68 in hickory, 70 shelby, charlotte, over to monroe, 72 wadesboro, 69 in albermarle and take you south, 70 rock hill to lancaster, low 70s, pageland, cheraw and jefferson. Im tracking a more important front, there is the first front coming through today, not a big deal. This one comes in late tomorrow night. Tomorrow during the day got clouds and showers, i think that is very quick and advanced. The main front is still back near nashville, tennessee, will take a while for this to come through. Tomorrow night once the sun sets a greater chance for showers and rumble of thunder. May starts with clouds early wednesday, High Pressure builds in and this front is moving to the east of us. It will knock temperatures down so what happens is we have a 30 chance of rain during the day tuesday. That jumps to 70 tomorrow night, but gone by wednesday, we get another chance here late on friday, as another frontal system moves through. Were warm on the edges but in wednesday, thursday, friday and saturday. But today, near 70 and looks like by the weekend in the 60s again. Today, breezy and warm, best chance for rain comes at night, maybe thunderstorms, tuesday night early wednesday morning. Brisk, cooler, rain here with a weak front friday that is out of here, warming up over the weekend. Youre never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic on wbtv news this morning. Heres chris, first alert traffic. Chris al, thank you, first alert traffic is sponsored by toyota of north charlotte. Keeping you updated on that road closure on Central Avenue, that is because of an overnight fatal accident. Also a new accident in the last 15 minutes at Central Avenue and North Sharon Amity, so delays there. With the road closure, you might want to think about norland would get you to 74, or over to sharon amity from Central Avenue down to the south. Working around that secondary accident scene, central and North Sharon Amity. Road, volume still light running along smoothly and checking the drive times, rock hill, uptown, 21 minutes. Concord to center city, 17. Lake norman at 15 minutes. Most of the majors running in the green, one new accident on sunset at sunset circle down to the south of miranda at the intersection with oakdale. That is a check of the morning traffic. Guys, back to you. John the debate continues over allowing teachers to have gun in school. Christine why a bill proposed in South Carolina is now stalled. That is all new at 5 30. Morning will be right back in christine Law Enforcement officers watching the fight between apple and f. B. I. , how the outcome could affect other