So, were done with the rain for now, you see that next system back to the west of us that is heading in our direction, potential for strong thunderstorms late this afternoon and this evening, talk about that in the seven day planner in a couple minutes. Look for High Temperature close to 80. Youre never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic on wbtv news this morning. Here is chris. Chris first traffic sponsored by toyota of north charlotte. Start monday morning, i77 west boulevard, no problems here, volume of traffic running along smoothly. Making your way in and out of center city on 77 and 85, coming up from rock hill, 21 minutes, 65 miles an hour. Concord to center city, 18 minute commute, lake norman southbound, 16 minutes, 64milesperhour. Mapping system yeah, you can see it, most of the major interstates still running in the green this morning, a few slow downs, over on providence road outbound toward fairview providence road, independence boulevard, wt harris, albermarle all looking just fine this morning. Traffic, guys, back to you. John campaign 2016, voter in North Carolina will select their choices for the president ial nominees in tomorrows primaries. Three candidates will be in the charlotte area today in hopes of courting voters. Wbtvs Mark Davenport is live in charlotte with more on this story and mark, those candidates include the republican and Democratic Front runners. Reporter today is very important, a little more than 24 hours before the polls open up across the state of North Carolina, well see both those front runners back here in the state today. Also seeing Bernie Sanders as well. I want to get you to the schedules. First event of the day belongs to donald trump, he will be in hickory at lenoirrhyne university, scheduled for 10 00 a. M. Start time. Doors open at 7 00 a. M. The campaign expects all 1400 seats to be filled with spillover in the town hall style event. Next up, Bernie Sanders will music pavilion. He was in raleigh on friday and also see Hillary Clinton today, she will make an appearance at queen city at grady cole center, doors open at 7 15 tonight. She will talk about generating goodpaying job in her second visit in a week. In the most recent High Point University poll friday, trump and clinton have commanding leads. This is how the numbers break down, they polled 1600 people, clinton 60 of the poll, trump nearly 40 of the poll. Well follow all these stops today by these candidates here in our area, follow us here on wbtv. Reporting live im Mark Davenport, wbtv on your side. Christine in less than a week after visiting kannapolis, ted cruz was back in North Carolina for a rally in concord. He spoke to a crowd of supports at zmax dragway yesterday. He emphasized stance on constitutional freedoms as well were going to repeal obama care, pass the flat tax, pull back the regulation, the economy will explode, well see millions of new jobs, trillions of new federal revenue and we will use that revenue to rebuild this military. The speech seemed to go over well with the crowd including one voter who supported donald trump at one point. I was all on board for trump. But then i the more i learned about him, the leg less i like him. About conservativism and going back to the constitution. Cruz is 90 delegates behind donald trump for the nomination. John a huge turnout for early voting here in mecklenburg county. According to the board of elections, nearly 57,000 people voted in person or through absentee ballots. That is compared less than 34,000 in the 2012 primaries. In gaston county, Election Officials say more than 12,000 people voted early. Christine looking ahead a man from charlotte is expected a trial gets underway in the death of his daughter. That is what we expect today in the trial of 29yearold todd boderick, accused of beating his sixmonthold daughter keyoni to death in 2012. The girls mother is also charged with murder. A man from hickory is charged with attempted murder after a shooting in which a woman was critically injured. Officials say 24yearold Madison Edward merola shot 24yearold helen baumer yesterday morning after a confrontation. A man wa wa man with baumer was not injured. John more than 100 vehicles were involved in a series of wrecks along a major highway that injured 20 people. It happened in central North Carolina. Troopers say no one was seriously hurt on i40 in alamance county. Rubber necking could have lent to the wrecks. Christine duke,unc and several other schools are heading to the big dance. Well get reaction from some of the players. John Brody Oconnell live in the alert center. Brody new details on the Train Derailment in texas or rather, im sorry, in kansas. Getting word there were injuries, a full report coming up in the alert center. John about to go to break, before we do, a live look at your first alert weather temperatures, we have 60 in charlotte, 46 up in boone. 63 lancaster, 66 in wadesboro, will be a warm day today, a live look at i77 at west boulevard, things are moving very smoothly. Well keep you posted throughout the morning because youre never more than seven minutes away it is seven minutes donkey sound elephant sound theres a big difference between making noise, tapping sound and making sense. elephant sound donkey sound when it comes to Social Security, we need more than lip service. 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We know 128 passengers on board, 14 crew members as well, initial reports are saying that there were injuries but they are nonlife threatening injuries, cbs. Local Emergency Responders have been investigating this and also trying to get the train upright. You can see right there First Responders working on cleaning up the mess. Developments, ill pass them along. For now, back to you. Christine more campaign 2016 coverage. Hillary clinton and Bernie Sanders took shots at donald trump and talked about criminal Justice Reform at a town hall in columbus, ohio. An African American young man is more likely to be arrested, charged, convicted and incarcerated for doing exactly the same thing as a white man. Who is not. And we have to be willing to stand up and question these inequities. The American People are tired, blacks, whites, all of us are tired of seeing unarmed people getting shot, addressing this issue of real criminal Justice Reform and ending institutional racism will be at the very top of my list of priorities. You dont make America Great by tearing down everything that made America Great. The town hall was hosted by cnn and tv1. John mitt romney will campaign with Ohio Governor john kasich today. Romney is not officially endorsing a candidate but encouraging voters to choose kasich in ohio and marco rubio in florida in an effort to stop donald trump. Ohio, florida, North Carolina, illinois and missouri all have primaries tomorrow. Christine on saturday the candidates compete in four contests for the democrats, Hillary Clinton one the first caucus held in the northern mariana islands. As for the republicans, ted cruz won in wyoming and guam and marco rubio took the district of columbia. John 13 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. Al thanks a lot, john. Out there this morning tracking the next round of rain. The rain that we had from yesterday, that is long gone, we turn our attention to the next round, just now coming across the midsouth, from south of st. Louis, to about birmingham heading toward nashville, that will arrive here late this afternoon or this evening. As we go through time this morning Biggest Issue is fog. Well have that around this morning. Then notice as we go deeper through the morning the fog starts to lift, get in breaks of sunshine here, that is 4 00, most of the viewing area void of rain. Once we get toward 5 00, 6 00, 7 00, 8 00, showers and storms work out of the mountains and in toward the foothills and piedmont. Big issue this morning is going to be fog. No advisories right now but you can see we have very thick fog in and around the boone area, very very Poor Visibility in the mountains. Phil english says almost zero in linville right now. Later this afternoon, storm risk is what im factoring in, 66 degrees, the fog will be gone once we get through the morning. Here in charlotte, start at 62, still almost 20 degrees above average. Some of these storms this evening could be quite strong, hail and wind probably the main issues that we will be watching, tornado threat seems to be very low. That is the forecast for now, take a look at seven day planner in a couple minutes. Chris is up next, first alert traffic. Chris i85 out near 485 coming out of concord and kannapolis, volume is light. Running along smoothly this morning. The mapping system, looks like we have a disabled vehicle somewhere along providence road after fairview, other than that most of the major interstates are running in the green this morning. Now up in the University City area, be aware of this not until 10 00 p. M. Tonight, tonight overnight in tuesday morning, University City boulevard at north tryon will be closed down for lynx blue line construction, if you need an alternate, that would be University Point boulevard over to ikea boulevard university sit at this city. Concord to center city running 17 minutes, 68milesperhour. Guys, back over to you. John next at 5 00, another automaker issuing a recall important potentially dangerous issue. The issue with brakes of somele nissans. Christine wbtv is always on well be back. Giving you first alert weather and traffic every seven minutes, welcome back to wbtv news this morning. Christine 19 minutes after 5 00. John want to get over to Brody Oconnell live in the alert center with new details getting it here first. Brody a tragic situation in the capital of turkey. They are trying to clean up the scene of a car bomb attack that killed 37 people, wounded more than 100 others. The details have been updated here throughout the morning when i first came in this morning the death toll was approximately 34. In the last hour, that number has grown now to 37 deceased after this attack. A crane lifted out the damage at that blast site, that what is you are seeing. The bombing is the third in five months. Turkey has issues, cbs reporting including renewed fighting with kurdish rebels, threats from Islamic State and syrian refugee crisis, the latest tragedy to strike in the capital of turkey. John and christine, back to you. John in consumer headlines, nissan is recalling 47,000 leaf vehicles from 20132015. Transportation says there are problems with the brake boosters and cold weather. They will fix the issue for free. Christine staples is hoping to slow decline sales by closing stores. The Office Supply klain will close 50chain willclose 50 locations. John today is national pi day, march 14th is pi day, because the date is close to the ratio. Pizza hut will throw post three math problem. The first person to solve could win 3. 14 years of free pizza. That means none of us will win it. The problems vary in level of difficulty from high school to ph d level. Have two meteorologists, they should be all about solving math problems. Chris old meteorologists. Al we were using no. 2 pencils. Get you out there, the concern we have early on is for dense fog this morning. Lets show you what is going on right now and you can see we have low visibility now, dense fog in pocket, not everywhere but north of us thick right now, mild visibility around boone over to statesville, two miles in hickory, zero in morganton, a mile for shelby and rock hill, charlotte visibility coming down appreciably. Mecklenburg county is not in the dense fog advisory, that covers the rest of the wbtv viewing area from the mountains, to the foothills toward i77 corridor. That runs until 10 00 this morning. Statesville, you can see fog trying to develop, what happened was we had the rain yesterday afternoon, skies cleared overnight, ground is damp, fog 31 or 61 rather, in charlotte, what were reporting is fog with clear skies, south breeze at 3. Notice the dew point, humidity level 100 . With the Clear Conditions and light winds, we have fog developed. A little warmer south and east, 65 around wadesboro, cooler north, 57 right now around statesville, 54 lincolnton, 46 around boone. As we go through the day, what we will see is fog give way, likely see partly sunny skies for the morning and midday hours after the fog burns off. Then turn our attention to the next disturbance coming in to tennessee and north alabama, that will bee weather maker for us later today, go through futurecast, stop this at 8 00, the fog around the area. Heading toward lunch time and beyond, skies try to start to clear a little bit, that allows for temperatures to warm to near 80. We get a few scattered showers but heavier thunderstorms are back to the west, come across the area during the evening the Severe Storm Center has at least a slight risk for Severe Weather in and around the entire wbtv viewing area this afternoon, i think the greatest threat because of dry air coming in aloft and cold air coming in aloft may be hail. Well keep an eye on that, potential for severe storms, wind a factor, tornado does not appear to be much of a factor. Here is our system, that will cross the area late this afternoon in this evening. Then High Pressure builds in briefly tomorrow but by wednesday, were looking at the next frontal system, small chance of shower to the mountains, rest of us are probably rainfree. Today, 50 50 chance showers and storms late. No rain tomorrow, High Pressure in. Weak front comes in Late Wednesday into thursday, small chance for shower, unfortunately better opportunities for wet weather may come back in the picture for the upcoming weekend, much like we had this weekend, not great. Scattered showers, both days right now, well try to fine tune that forecast going through time. A little bit of a mixture on the solutions so well cover showers for both days of the weekend. Scattered storms this afternoon and evening, otherwise we should be dry for the next several days thereafter. 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 sponsored by toyota of north charlotte. Rolling in monday morning commute, keeping an eye on things, look live here at i77 clanton road, no problems early on this morning. Free flowing volume of traffic. Looks good, 485, 77, 85 as we come in on providence road, this is providence road inbound between wendover and south sharon amity, disabled vehicle, not seeing any terrible delays, well watch that see if things back up. Right now 77, clanton road, no problems, that volume increasing just somewhat here at 5 24. That is a check of the morning commute, john, over to you. John the president ial social media. Christine the battle between donald trump and Bernie Sanders trumps christine next at 5 30, good news for people in charlotte looking for work, where the queen city ranks in a new study on hiring. John good morning, thanks for watching wbtv news this morning now 5 30, im john carter. Christine im christine sperow. Get you started with a look at first alert weather as youre waking up, make sure youre prepared, here is meteorologist al conklin. Al we have two concerns, one much later this afternoon in the form of showers and thunderstorms. The one is more immediate, that is dense fog, zero visibility around morganton and statesville, a mile boone, shelby, rock hill, three miles in charlotte. Dense fog advisory runs until 10 00 this morning, well keep an eye on that. Gaston or any counties to the east but back to the west where we have the thick fog it does. Watch morganton t the courthouse we sortf have decent visibility and then gone, zero visibility now. Fog burns off partly sunny midday, late day showers and thunderstorms but not before we get to 80 in charlotte. Again, tracking that next round of wet weather approaching the nashville area as we speak, arrives late this afternoon and this evening. Seven day forecast, with the weekend details around the corner, check in with chris, first alert traffic right now. Chris traffic sponsored by toyota of north charlotte. Rolling in our monday morning commute, live look i77 that is northbound at trade street going away from you, southbound coming toward you, volume increasing here. Just a bit. Coming in from matthews on 74 running 13 minutes, 47milesperhour. Providence road from the arboretum area, 17 minute commute, concord to center city, right now 19 minutes and 65 miles per hour. Most of the major interstates are looking aokay this morning. Now head over in the University City area, and this is starting tonight at 10 00 p. M. , University City boulevard closed down from 10 00 tonight until 6 00 a. M. , University Point, ikea boulevard gets you back down to University City boulevard. This is for lynx blue line construction. That is a check of the morning travels, youre never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic on wbtv news this morning. Christine all right chris, thank you. A big meeting tonight for Charlotte CityCouncil Members as they take on new developments and upgrades that could improve the morning commute. First up, Charlotte CityCouncil Members will vote tonight on how to develop part of the Eastland Mall property. The charlottemecklenburg school board is offering 600,000 for more than 11 acres. They want to put a New Elementary School there. Two other big money projects to know about. Council members can vote to