Erica bryant is in the breaking news center with the latest pictures and videos coming in tonight. Everyone was told to seek shelter as the Severe Weather rolled through. We have a picture to show you of students there camped out in the library waiting. Waiting this storm out as it blew through. Another picture taken from the schools quad as dark clouds started to roll in and move over the campus. In winston salem, you can see heavy wind pushed down trees and also brought down on power lines there. Duke energy again now reporting more than 10,000 outages in that area. But so far, thankfully, weve nod heard any reports of injuries. Some schools in wake county let the students out early today so they could try to get home safely before the Severe Weather hit. Now lets go to meteorologist john ahrens who says strong winds are causing concerns tonight. The storms are long gone but the wind threat will continue. Grounds been hit so much with all this rain, its easy. The toppled trees in this kind of environment. Later on tonight, it kind of winds back down a little bit. But its still gusting out there in spots especially at 17 to 20 Miles Per Hour. And over night tonight in through thursday, it picks back up into the 20 to 25 Miles Per Hour ball park. Very windy outside again in charlotte tomorrow. Meanwhile, out in the mountains, a totally different story, the winds gusting to 40 coming from the northwest. Thats snow with cold air we could see some big time snow showers across the high country. Right now a little bit of rain in Stanley County and out to the west near lake norman. Well pinpoint how much snow were in for in the high country coming up. You can see a slide show of todays damage at wsoctv. Com. And our minute to minute coverage throughout the day. Inside our top story on the weather page. A plan could save the city homeowners and renters extra. The city is considering eliminatinger is tan trash Removal Services. Eyewitness News Reporter tina terry is live for us now in North Charlotte to explain the benefits city leaders say could come from this plan. Reporter that proposal is very fluid now. Nothing is set in stone. We know that some people in multifamily dwellings like the one behind us here could lose city trash services. I talked to city leaders who told me this could save the city big money at a time when every dollar counts. Its a proposal that residents in local apartments and town homes are just now learning about and many arent sold. In my opinion, it seems like theyre nickeling and diming things to do that. Today City Council Member john said a recent study showed eliminating trash Removal Service for homeowners and renters could mean big savings if we dont have to pay for dumpsters, and contract an outside party for that. I believe well save a few million dollars. We first told you about the proposal last night. Derek green showed us an email exchange with emails of solid waste services. It says the proposed change would effect all complexes with more than four units in charlotte. Including those receiving curb side roll out service from city crews. As well as those on city contractor dumpster collect service. Its unfair. Taking away a Service Taxpayers are paying for. One taxpayer gets the service. The other taxpayer doesnt. It creates another class system. Budget woes make the conversation necessary. At the same time, they want to be fair. Were in a unique position. How fair is it . I understand that. I live in a multifamily unit so that. Opponents of this proposal say it could lead to an increase in rent as well as hoa this. The city council will meet with some opponents on friday in a forum to discuss this. Reporting live in North Charlotte, tina terry, channel 9 Eyewitness News. Detectives in charlotte told channel 9 today they are still trying to identify a kidnapping suspect caught on atm surveillance cameras. Police want you to take a good look at this picture. Its very clear. They say this is one of two people who kidnapped a pizza delivery man at gunpoint in charlottes cherry neighborhood early yesterday morning. The suspects made him withdrawal cash from atms along 85. They finally let him go in arch dale North Carolina. A man accused of shooting 12yearold son is facing new charges. Robert bridges faces attempts firstdegree murder, assault, and other charges, previously he faced firstdegree murder charges. Now police say he shot myla and jeffrey oaks last month as they were taking their son to the bus stop. Myla died. Investigators say there was an ongoing feud between the neighbors. Channel 9 spoke to the bus driver who said she got their son on the bus. She got him to get on the bus and get to safety. And they called police at the next stop. Police believe two men charged with robbing a Stanley County bank are connected to a second bank robbery. James dillard and nehemiah leek are facing several charges. Investigators say they robbed a bank in norwood this morning. And they believe the men also robbed a bank in oak borrow three weeks ago. A breakin in greensboro, our affiliate says somebody firefighters cars at four separate stations. Theres a string of cases that happened here. Firefighters coming back from calls find their car windows smashed out. The latest happened sunday in fort mill. Some departments had security cameras but they didnt catch the thieves. In hurtersville, firefighters began parking their trucks inside the station to prevent them from being broken into. A veteran Woody Williams said he would stand guard when firefighters go on calls. Piedmont airlines will add 300 jobs to its operations at Charlotte Douglas airport. Piedmont is a subsidiary of american airlines. The Regional Airline handles ramp operations and Regional Customer service for american. Itll hire managers and entry level ramp and Customer Service agents. The airline is accepting job applications and we put a link to the application site on wsoctv. Com. Just click on news and then scroll down to latest links. Early trials for a zika summer. The National Institute of health told congress they need more research to better understand the mosquito born virus they think it causes severe birth defects the cdc says no infections have been transmitted by mosquitoes in the u. S. But theyre investigating 14 reports of cases that may have been sexually transmitted. Two banks agreed to a settlement after Authorities Say they defrauded hospitals, housing agencies, and governments, including mecklenburg county. This settlement involves North Carolina and 21 other states. Attorney general roy cooper says the bank sold investments that made it impossible for them to get their savings back. Its not clear how much mecklenburg might get back. President obama and the democratics are blasting republicans for rejecting his Supreme Court pick before hes even named a nominee. If the oval office today the president said hes not backing down from his constitutional duty to pick a new Supreme SenateRepublican Leaders said yesterday there would be no confirmation hearings, no vote, not even a courtesy meeting with the president s pick to replace justice antonin skalia. The Supreme Courts doctor revealed skalia suffered from extensive medical issues that contributed to his death. Coronary artery disease, obesity, diabetes is some of the health problems. It shows there was nothing suspicious about the justices death. Today the tournament shifted the focus from basketball to the classroom. Education day encouraged middle school and High School Students to consider what theyll do when they graduate with a college fair today at the convention center. It gave them a chance to learn about colleges they may have never considered before. You never know what other College Haves to offer until you talk to them about it. Opportunity. And i think they should do it every year and continue to do it. From ciaa aa schools in maryland pennsylvania and North Carolina. The winds soar passed 40 Miles Per Hour. Theyre going to bring a big weather change to your neighborhood. Ill pinpoint how cold it will get. Spending thousands on a vacation to find out that rental you paid for does not exist. Clark howard lays out how to make sure this doesnt happen to you. Condemned buildings, abandoned homes, hundreds across the area. Neighbors waiting and waiting for them to be demolishes. All are eye sords. Fire erupted inside this historic burke county schoolhouse this week. And it threatened the town hall next door. The abandoned building was approved for demolition last year. But delays left it sitting there. A channel 9 investigation uncovered hundreds of buildings on charlottes demolition list. And john paul asked why the eye sores are Still Standing in some cases for years . Reporter when Vanessa Stewart goes for a walk in her East Charlotte neighborhood, she doesnt go very far. I dont walk to the store. Especially at night or in the evening. Shes afraid of this, an abandoned burned out apartment complex on rose haven drive. It burned in september. The roof even collapsed. Since then, its sat like this. That right there got to go for charlotte to be a beautiful city, this shouldnt be here. We investigated and found this building here is just one of 300 on the citys demolition list. It was slated to come down in october but neighbors say its been an eye sore for years. Its an absolute mess. I cant even imagine what it looks like inside. Its a similar story on morning drive on the citys west side. The demolition orders were there. Then they were gone. Then theyre there. Then theyre gone. I dont know whats going on with it. The doors kicked in. Windows are smashed out. Theres trash everywhere. Its like a dumping ground it looks like. Its not boarded up. Its not to code by any stretch of the imagination. That bothers me. We wanted to know if its on the demolition list, whats the hold up. We went through records and found some of the buildings were on this list since 2009. Are those buildings dangerous. They can be. Why are some of these builds on the list for so long. We work with individuals to say a property is preserved. Affordable housing. Many times the hold up is so the owner can get their property up to code. Over owner has the right to attempt to repair it. Sometimes there are legal issues like finding a clear title or errors on the property. Demolition is the last resort. On average the city tears down 50 to 100 Properties Every year and sends the bill to the owner so some neighbors have to wait. But not vanessa. Story, heavy equipment moved in on rose haven and the building started to come down. Over on morning drive i think in this neighborhood, they just dont care to be honest. Christina isnt holding her breath. Although were told the city could vote soon to bring this eye sore down. Id love to see it gone. In charlotte, john paul, channel 9 Eyewitness News. Now the City Council Ultimately votes on each demolition. Thats done once a month. We posted the citys full demolition list on wsoctv. Com. You can look for it on the 9 investigates page and inside johns story. Were tracking strong winds across the charlotte area. Even though that pick line of storms is long gone up near raleigh. Check this out. Right now. It was up as high as 60 in monroe earlier. Now at 41. Statesville. And out to the east where we might have had a tornado drop down. At least some Straight Line winds. Wind speeds still at 35. It kind of feels like a tropical, you know, springtime weather outside now. In the 60s in charlotte. But the cold air is trying to get in here. Its starting tommy into the high country at 50. Its 60 in statesville. Were tracking down pours around the community on live Early Warning doppler 9 coming down at a decent rate near norwood and Norwood Beach and mount gilead south of troy now. Those will move east in the next 15 minutes. Lake norman across denver, up through troutman, some showers, well push that out to the east and maybe get concord involved but more likely enochville and landis and faith later on. Live Early Warning doppler 9 in south carolina. A good soaker a while ago. Now in clover, its pushing to the eastern parts of york county and lake wiley, tega cay is involved here and possibly steele creek as well. Most of it in charlotte seeing just a beautiful sky with that camera. You see how its shaking. That wind is crazy outside. I dont think its going to subside at all later tonight. Future cast clears out the skies over night tonight. And dont forget the interactive radar, you can track those strong winds going around. Up across the mountains, its a different story. Well see snow there. That wont break any of the higher elevations. But instead, well get the wind coming off of that. I still think its going to be a bad windy day as far as tomorrow goes. Well hold on to some of the mild air. Get up to about 56. And then the wind will calm down tomorrow night by that time the temperatures will be dropping down in a quick way. Elsewhere, in statesville, get ready for strong wind gusts, and still the potential for cooler temperatures in the lower 50s. But were not tracking wintery weather in the foothills. Its going to be across the high country. And its going to add up. Posted. In beach mountain. Up to 6 before this is through. Friday. Well have updates on facebook and twitter. Tomorrow. Heres your fiveday forecast, its going to get cold eventually from all of this. And i think youll feel it at morning. Your weekend is always in view. Its going to be a great weekend. Well warm into the mid 60s. The weathers been crazy. Storms. Our immigrations officers in charlotte targeting hispanic students on their way to school. On their way to the bus stop, or coming back from the bus stop. Why some local agencies say they are going too far and what sa steve today is your lucky day. Woman surprised oh, my goodness mark youve just won a thousand dollars woman thatamazing that amazing shrieks woman ok, nice job. Mark, way better than yesterday. Maria, that delivery felt alittle forced. And steve, steve yeah . Woman i am still missing that raw emotion. Woman pretty awesome for atuesday, but tomorrow is hump day, so lets really bring it lucky for life. Win a thousand dollars a day, just into the news room, Charlotte Mecklenburg police say the inbound lanes of wilkinson boulevard near i77 in west charlotte will be closed for the next three to four hours the he i have winds are causing these power poles to lean over and thats creating a pretty dangerous situation. Its also causing some outages in the area. Cars are driving by with them leaning over. The outbound lanes are open now. All ready planning trips for spring break or summer vacation, a fake rental home listing could leave you without a place to stay. There are companies that will make sure the rental is real. Ive got done a number of stories about people who have gotten ripped off doing vacation rentals. As you look forward to maybe doing a spring break trip or a trip this summer for you, a group of friends, or your family, one of the great ways to do that is to rent a home or wherever you want to have fun. But the fun can end quickly if there there. Somebodys put up a phony theyve stolen your money. There are services in a will verify that a place youre looking to rent actually is a real rental and that it has the they thinks that have been promised. If youre going to spend thousands of dollars for a week someone. To pay someone 100 to make sure its on the up and up sounds like a good idea. I have a list of places to use to check out to make sure a place is okay before you check in. I have it for you at clarkhoward. Com. Southwest airlines is the latest carrier that could be headed to cuba soon the companys ceo says it submitted an application to be one of the 20 daily road trip flights to the country. If approved, the flights could the u. S. And cuba agreed to resume commercial flights. This afternoon, charlotte leaders had their first budget workshop to talk about priorities in the next fiscal year, leaders talked about the Storm Water Services and transit budget today. Council member john said managing growth and transportation are two of the Biggest Challenges going into the next year. Our transportation network. Not just cars on streets and roads but allowing people to move around the city in ways that dont necessarily require one person in one car. The next budget meeting is in march. Oil prices climbed more than 1 . And the nasdaq gained 39. And the nasdaq now from the news team thats covering the carolinas, this is channel 9 Eyewitness News at 6 00. Now at 6 00, clean up is under way after powerful storms brought multiple tornado warnings, a funnel cloud, wind gusts of up to 80 Miles Per Hour. The wind was making a strange howling noise. And pounding rain, trees crushed cars, smashed homes, and knocked out power for thousands of families. The skies are clearing now. But the damage is all ready done. And the threat of those dangerous winds remains. Im erica bryant. And im scott wickersham. In the past hour weve watched Duke Energy Outages jump from 11,000 to more than 20,000 customers without power. Since 5 00, our reporters and every angle of the storm and first at 6 00, Brittney Johnson is live in meyers park where people are dealing with damage. This part of Edge Hill Road is finally back open to traffic after being blocked off for ab four hours because of this. You can see the trunk of the tree that fell around 12 30 today. Its massive. Its still there. Crews worked throughout the day to cult it up and clear it as it crossed the road. It fell on the other side. It knocked down another tree and a fence but thankfully no one was hurt. There were close calls in other parts of charlotte. You can see where fallen trees caused quite a bit of damage in the will more area. Homeowners there told us that trees came crashing down on a car. Also a condo. Neighbors told us they lost power this morning and there was so much damage to the roof of a condo that was damaged that it was deemed unsafe. A tree crashed on his home. It caused minor damage. But no one was inside at the time. We spoke to a man in the will more area who was inside of his home when the tree fell. It fell on top of his tree and porch. The tree fell very close to his bed room. I could hear the wind blowing real hard. As soon as i looked out the window is when the loud crash came and i was like thats not just a little tree limb. It kept coming down. Now if you pass damage, cmpd is asking drivers and anyone who is out and about to be careful for the possibility of downed power lines in the area. Live in south charlotte, Brittney Johnson, channel 9 Eyewitness News. After the storm came through charlotte, it moved east triggering a tornado warnings in chesterfield county. People there spotted this funnel cloud dropping out of the sky during the height of the storm this afternoon. No reports of it ever touching the ground yet. Thankfully there was only minor damage in the area. With our dual pole technology, we peeled back the