Slick roads all morning long. On top of breaking news. Updating us live with the clean up. I just got done talking with the Highway Patrol here in catawba county. They tell me right now theyre currently working nine different wrecks along a two mile stretch of interstate 40 near the claremont avenue. You can see one of those wrecks where a tractor trailer went from the eastbound lanes across into the westbound lanes. All of this being blamed on that freezing rain thats formed black ice on the ways here. Like these accidents along highway 31 south of hickory. Firefighters scrambled to get to one driver after another. I hit the icy patch on the bridge there. And thats all she wrote. Fish tailed. Tore my hail hitch off. We could see the problems on txus held in the low 20s this morning. They responded to dozens wrecks in a few hours. Yall be careful. Thats all im telling you. Yall really better be careful. The d. O. T. Used brine on the black ice along highway 321. But part of the afternoon, the freezing rain transitioned over to sleep. But firefighters got little rest as the accidents continued to pile up this afternoon. And those firefighters still busy out here right now along interstate 40. Thats the second tractor trailer thats jackknifed. Its about three football fields away from where im standing. Both of them started in the eastbound lanes and that i mean over into the westbound lanes. The westbound lanes shut downright now in catawba county, i can tell you a d. O. T. Down, came back, dumping spirit and salt on the roadway. Still very quick. Temperatures in the upper 20s in catawba county. Reporting live from dah ba county, dave faherty, channel 9 Eyewitness News. Our storm camera. You can see the roads look wet. Be careful if youre heading that direction. There could be ice on the roads tonight. This system reaches from texas to new england creating headaches for travelers. We spoke to stranded passengers whether or not are trying to get home at the airport. See the latest conditions and track the storm at the wsoctv weather app. Its free for android and apple devices. Now to another major story tonight the unexpected death of the Supreme Courts longest serving justice and the direct impact it could have on you. The Supreme Court could soon take on critical local cases. Anything from voting to prayers at local government meeting. Tonight liz foster went to could mean to those cases. Skalia was on the Supreme Court for 30 years and some say was looked up to as the lead conservative. His passing impacts decisions on future court cases and some pending here in North Carolina. Following the passing of Supreme Court justice jahi ya, political expert dr. Michael says we could see the balance of the nations highest court shifted. He was the conservative voice on the u. S. Supreme court. Future decisions could weigh on who president obama nominates as his successor. Obama hasnt said who hes considered but some are being discussed as possible pickings. Both have been confirmed by the senate. Thats going to be a powerful tool that the president can use to say these are people that you have all why not do them for the u. S. Supreme court now. Meanwhile controversial issues hang in the balance, including labor unions. Two North Carolina cases. One on prayer in meetings and another on redrawing lines. They could say to both issues, we hear these arguments later next year in the next term. But the deadline is moving for the state congressionallal districts. Some are worried votes could be lost if the voting districts are redrawn before the primary. The congressionallal district debate came here to charlotte today. Tonight at 6 00, more on the next steps that will have to be decided by the Supreme Court. Liz foster, channel 9 Eyewitness News. Liz thanks. President obama says hell if the Supreme Court decides any rulings before a successor is approved. Theres a chance that there could be a tie. Pnc is offering a 5,000 dollar reward. Investigators say this man got money from a worker at the Fifth Third Bank on Pineville Matthews road in january. And then they say he also stole from the pnc bank near the arboretum on saturday. Cats is considering raising bus fires. Cats could get rid of the ten ride pass discount or raise fairs by 10 cents. Both plans include increasing past prices for certain groups. Theyre trying to offset a budget short fall. Either option would take effect july 1st. Theres only a week left to take the survey about cmss reassignment plan. I wouldnt just shift thousands of students across the communities. All new tonight, Eyewitness News reporter electron is a ash well learned theres a new campaign behind the bush for diversity. Tom believe breaking up the district will provide equity and balance. And others say they want their child to go to the school thats closer to home. Hi im joanna. My name is a. Both took to facebook in support of better diversifying the district. Their stories explain why. The exposure i had to different cultures, ethnicities, religions, it gave me a lot of experiences. Its not only the Building Blocks of who i have become intellectually and who i am as a person who em brays and justin perry says the goal is to facilitate discussion around cms reassignment. A controversial plan that would impact all students in the district. What we want the community to do, figure out ways to break down our concentration of poverty and provide greater i can wety. Not all ants are board. Thousands have all ready signed this petition to keep a child is skyzoom assignment based on where they live. Still perry hopes the voices will open some minds. We were hoping itd be successful. Now after parents weigh in on ther is vaio. The board will vote on goals for this Decision Making process. That will be done on their next meeting which is february 23rd. Thank you. And you have until next monday in on the reassignment proposal. We posted a link to the survey on wsoctv. Com. Just look for it inside alexis story on the home page. Were covering the carolinas county by couldnt tonight in union county some students may notice special guests in their classroom this week. The board of education is hosting a teacher for a day program to show state lawmakers and candidates what its like to be a teacher. The visit was canceled because of the weather. There was no school. But there will be more throughout the week. Last year channel 9 was there with state senator jeff jackson who spent a day in the Mecklenburg County classroom. At the time teachers challenged lawmakers to see if they wanted teaching assistant jobs. In Iredell County tonight students jaseysed up their last snow day built into the calendar. School district leaders tell us theyre not sure how theyll make ouch the time. Year. In one county says hes lucky to be alive after he lost control of his truck this morning. He flipped his truck on to the side. Test pretty banged up. A Good Samaritan saw the crash and helped pull him out of the truck. One person was taken to the hospital for a minor injury. Chief meteorologist Steve Udelson tracking the rain and still some freezing happening causing issues for people heading home tonight. Especially along i77. Including charlotte. Thats where its still freezing on contact. Ill show you how soon that will end and a heavier batch of rain rolls in. Parents on a time crunch after cms delayed a decision to cancel schools. Were asking what the process is to make the call. Hundreds of thousands of to find new Health Insurance next year. Or go without it. If you cant get insurance, what do you do . She dies. Action 9 investigates whos most 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 were following two breaking stories coming in. Avery county schools will be on a three hour delay tomorrow. In huntersville the Fire Department tweeted out that all lanes on the 485 outer loop near the 77 bridge are shut down. Crews say theyre dealing with a crash involving eight vehicles. Huntersville fire says one person was injured out here. We have calls out to find out whether the weather played a factor. Elsa gillis is headed there now as well. Well pass it along as it comes in tonight. A decision could devastate hundreds of thousands of families across North Carolina. Action 9 started investigating as soon as the ceo of Blue Cross Blue Shield said it may stop offering Affordable Health care act plans. Action 9s Jason Stoogenke found out who will be impacted the most. Im told this could impact in North Carolina. Enough to fill bank of America Stadium behind me four times. Now, at the very least, all of these folks will have to find new plans which can be especially difficult for some who will go without insurance. My mom and my dad have diabetes. And patty has it too. She takes insulin everyday. This saves my life. Shes had trouble getting Health Insurance because of her preexisting condition. The Insurance Companies we checked out before we retired would not insure me. And the Affordable Health care act came along. Patty and her husband tom qualify. So they cant be turned down for coverage. They chose blue cross and worry what happens to them if the Company Stops offering aca plans. Not knowing about anything is stressful. Blue cross is the only in all 100 North Carolina counties. In some counties, its the only option. If you live in one of those counts, youd have two choices, get a plan in another county and go farther for your health care, or go without insurance. Unc charlotte professor Michael Thompson calls it a horrible situation for consumers. It sounds like theyre pretty much out there. You have to wait and see what happens and see where that leaves you. For the most part, yeah, the consumers in this town, theyll have few or no choices. If you cant get insurance what do you do . She dies. I dont know. I dont know if id be able to afford my insulin. I dont know what i would do. They never pictured being in this situation. After all tom says he spent 25 years working in health care. And thought he did everything right guaranteeing coverage for him and patty in retirement. So in the mean time, there really isnt much you can do. Id uses if you do want to do something though, Thompson Says federal and state lawmakers. Tell them your individual story. So maybe they can plan ahead. Were live uptown, Jason Stoogenke, channel 9 Eyewitness News. Another tricky situation if you dont have Health Insurance, you can be charged a fee if you dont have any good options for insurance, the state Insurance Department is all ready looking into it and contacting health officials. We posted a link to Blue Cross Blue Shields website on wsoctv. Com as well as a link to find your representatives contact information. Look for all of it inside jasons story on the action 9 page. We ended up getting reports that theres ice on that bridge in huntersville. 485 outer loop near 77 where eight cars were involved in a crash. Lets check in with steve to get the latest on the freezing rain and temperatures outside right now. It continues to fall. Im tracking the back edge of the freezing in through pineville, uptown before 6 00, from monroe. 6 30 salisbury and marshville its falling as rain, freezing on contact. Its very difficult if not impossible to drive on and its starting to accumulate. Indian trail, wesley chapel, Mineral Springs to monroe, all seeing that steadier freezing rain, indian land south through lancaster, still freezing on contact. But down toward lancaster and west to rock hill and edge moore, temperatures have nudged to about freezing. Itll no longer freeze on contact. Still 30 uptown as well as in concord and gastonia. 28 lincolnton. So as the warmer air begins to flow in later on tonight, itll be the foothills and the mountains that are the last folks to change over to a steady rain and no longer a freezing condition. In the charlotte area, by 7 00 or 8 00 tonight, well nudge just above freezing and that will be the end of it. Temperatures will be in the mid 30s. Its not the end of weather issues. Look at this line of storms closing in on georgia. Get very busy with powerful storms. By midnight or 1 00 a. M. The showers arrive in the mountains. Much weakened. We wont hear thunder. But theres heavy rain. Thankfully by that point the high ri country will be above freezing. The last of the rain clears the charlotte area by 5 00 a. M. Early rosiers may see rain toward eastern stanley county. Temperatures tomorrow morning rise. Well be in the mid to upper 40s in the charlotte area. 50 or better highway 9 and east on highway 74. Still in the 30s to low 40s in the mountains and foothills. Heres the future cast tomorrow clearing us out by lunch time through the afternoon, nice again. There will be another batch of rain arriving in the mountains late tomorrow night as another disturbance pushes through. Hour by hour temps, 55 is our average high. Its hard to believe given what evidement with over the weekend and today. Were going to soar into the upper 50s tomorrow afternoon before it cools off a little see another batch of dryer air, finally begin to push on in. Behind that next system. So were talking about temperatures managing to climb on into the upper 50s for the next several days. Our fiveday forecast reflects that. We have the sunshine coming back, warmth, in fact, were above 60 degrees as we head into the weekend. Hang in there. Not much longer to go. We have to get through this evening. Thanks steve. Government agents raided this local home. Now ive uncovered federal claims that this man was involved in a scheme to recruit others to help him steal thousands. Youre saying you did nothing illegal. Im not saying that at all. Im asking him about the he set up to take the a mother is hoping a website county girl who vanished 16 years ago. The website was launched at the beginning of january. It gives a time line of the events surrounding the case and urges people to come forward with any information that might help find the girl. It was 16 years ago on valentines day when she disappeared after leaving her hem. She was just nine years old at the time. Investigators think she was abducted all the evidence in this case has been retested. Including her book bag that was found in the woods a year after she disappeared. Theres a 45,000dollar reward for information. New evidence could provide a major break in a unc chapel hill murder case that remains unsolved. It was more than three years ago when faith was found beaten to death in her off campus apartment. Now a voice mail has been uncovered that appears to record the moments leading up to faiths murder. An analyst spoke to crime watch daily, a show featured on tv 64. He says you can hear faith recording and then pleading to be let go. I found a lot of evidence. I think there maybe some there maybe some stuff in here that will solve the crime i think. Analysts say there was also a man in the room and can be heard in that recording. You can hear more of the recording and what it means for the murder case tomorrow night on crime watch daily. The hourlong show is dedicated to the case. It starts at 8 00 on tv 64. Well stocks are closed today for the president s day holiday on wall street. The stock numbers we gave you early in the news cast were from friday. They were so good we wanted to tell you about them again. The markets do reopen tomorrow. Were staying on top of the rain and the freezing rain causing major issues on area roads tonight. This is a live look from independence boulevard where were behind the road crews there treating the roads. We have a crew headed to huntersville where all lanes of 77 bridge are shut downright now after a crash. Well have the latest once our crew arrives next at 6 00 as well as the latest weather conditions for your neighborhood now from the news team thats covering the carolinas, this is channel 9 Eyewitness News at 6 00. For the past hour, Eyewitness News has been tracking the snow, ice, freezing rain, and bitter cold temperatures. Its a system bringing Winter Weather to every corner of the charlotte area. Tonight we have Team Coverage looking at the impact on the roads now that the sun is setting and the hundreds of Flights Canceled at charlottes airport. Also how the storm will change night. Thanks for joining us. In the last 45 minutes, Charlotte Mecklenburg schools said classes are back on for tomorrow. Im scott wickersham. And im erica bryant. Steve udelson is leading our coverage tonight. The back edge of the steadier precipitation falling as rain but freezing on contact. Just now clearing uptown. Check out live Early Warning doppler 9. Through uptown to south park toward ballantyne. Still raining and freezing on contact. Almost to mount pleasant, up toward china grove and salisbury seeing it as well. Its going to continue to slide to the east. Temperatures are trying to struggle to freezing in rock hill. Changing it over to plain old rain. Heres a look at the time line on when the rain will come to an end. Concord at 6 20, monroe at 6 35. Marshville just before 7 00. And on to the east, it clears 31 in charlotte, rock hill, albemarle, almost there. At freezing and lancaster and chesterfield. Mid 20s in hickory and statesville. Notice boone at 33 degrees. This red line on the future cast, thats the 32degree line. Forecast to start to slowly lift north as we head through the evening. The good news is, precipitation will become more spotty. More like drizzle. By 10 00, its north of charlotte. But i40 especially still under the gun for really nasty conditions through at least 10 00, maybe 11 00 tonight. And thats where our own john ahrens is up toward troutman in Iredell County. John . Yeah steve, this precipitation has been very interesting. Its coming down now as a light freezing drizzle. It was picking up a while ago. Now its very light. But the area above is so warm, as it falls, it actually stays liquid for a good amount of time. Not just because the roads were treated. This is because of the warm nature to the precipitation. Then in a little bit of time,
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