A group fight being the i 77 toll lanes will present their findings into how the toll lanes operate. The widen i77 meeting comes after a company filed for bankruptcy in texas last month. The group there was separate from the one that state leaders took. Widen isphefnt i i 77s that it would hurt traffic. Count on channel 9 to have the latest in cornelius at 10 00 and 11 00 on Eyewitness News. Within the past hour, councilwoman alma adams announced she is running for re election with a big surprise. Not only am i running for re election but i started the process of moving to the queen state. Adams currently represents district 12 which was when lawmakers redrew the congressional map. A man accused of breaking into firefighters vehicles across our area is facing new charges. Johnny bing is facing breaking and entering charges in iredell county. Deputies say that he broke into a car while firefighters were sleeping. Bing was already facing charges in charlotte, rock hill, and rowan counties. Police first arrests bing through a receipt left at a fire station. Investigators believe he is behind 40 Different Cases of personal cars broken into at fire stations and they believe he had stations in queensboro, fort mill, charlotte, mooresville, kannapolis, huntersville, cornelius, and hunters grove. And the cms questionnaire results will be discussed tonight. The survey. The district wants more diversity and the school board will discuss kgwing neighborhood students in their schools. Count on Eyewitness News for the latest. Republicans are preparing for the final major Republican Debate of the primary season. Tonight is the last big chance for the gop candidates to hit the stage before the primaries. Today, the democrats will go back on the trail after a feisty debate last night. Reporter the fiery fight for florida. Madam secretary, i will match my record against yours any day of the week. Excuse me, excuse me. Reporter Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders got right to it taking on the issues and each other during the democratic debate in the sunshine state. The former secretary of state hit with another tough question on the private email scandal. You go public. Oh, goodness. I am not even answering that question. Reporter while they argued over the color of sanders coat oh, get out of here. Reporter donald trump was interrupted nearly 20 times when he attacked his gop rivals. I think well have a fantastic week. Reporter donald trump is ahead in the winner take all contest in florida and john kasichy on ohio. But the Trump Campaign is facing question following an incident at his victory party. A woman claims she was forcefully grabbed by Trumps Campaign manager after she asked a tough question. The Trump Campaign has not responded. He and his gop rivals will hit shown to be up some 20 points. Hillary clinton will be in the durham area around 4 00 today. She canceled another event raleigh later in the day to attend the funeral for former first Lady Nancy Reagan. Within the past 90 minutes, governor goff mccrory announced two companies coming to the area. Uniquetex, a Chinese Textile Company being one of them looking to create 125 jobs. North carolina was built on manufacturing, making things, and in shelby and cleveland county, they never gave up on manufacturing. This is a manufacturing mecca. Expansion. Even with a blanket of clouds, temperatures have managed to warm to the low 70s this midday. I if youre doing everything rightbut find it harder and harderto get by, youre not alone. While our people worklonger hours for lower wages, almost all new income goes to the top 1 . My plan make wall street banks and the ultrarich pay their fair share of taxes, provide living wages for working people, ensure equal pay for women. Im Bernie Sanders. I approve this message because together, we can make a Political Revolution and not just the powerful few. The powerful few. Stocks are faltering this decided to cut Interest Rates to boost the economy. The dow is down 61 and the nasdaq down 20 points. Canadas new Prime Minister is in the nations capitol, the first time in nearly two decades he has been in the u. S. He and the president are expected to discuss National Security and trade. Jacqueline fell has more. Reporter its been nearly 20 years since the Prime Minister has been at the white house, and he arrived to a celebration. Prime minister trudeau is at the white house for a day of meetings with the president to discuss climate change, security at the northern border and syrian refugees, and we are expecting to learn about a new plan that would make it easier for americans to cross the border into canada. Relations were strained last administration rejected expanding the Keystone Pipeline that would have carried oil from canada to refineries in minister is looking to improve relations. By virtue of geography, the United States and canada are blessed to be neighbors. By choice, we are steadfast allies and the closest of friends. Reporter later tonight, president obama and the first lady will host the trudeaus ahead white house for a state dinner. Jacqueline fell, channel 9, Eyewitness News. In the next four hours, there will be a job fair in uptown. The Charlotte Knights wants to hire for the food service and Hospitality Team with concessions, cooks, cashiers, bartenders and suite attendants at the ballpark. Take a look at this video of an allout brawl at a University City restaurant in front of customers. What witnesses say led up to it. And a storm system causing flooding across the south heading right for the carolinas. Ologist all new at noon, customers are shocked when an allout brawl broke out during sunday brunch at a University City restaurant. Eyewitness News Reporter joe bruno found out the fight led to a police investigation. Reporter the Charlotte Mecklenburg police are investigating after a huge fight broke out in a busy city and it was all caught on camera. Check out the video recording, two employees fighting all bringing down chairs and tables with families sitting nearby, and in the second, you can see the employees separating the fight and escorting one woman from the scene. Cmpd is investigating what caused the fight, and the person who recorded this said that one woman may have taken something from the other. This happened at the Golden Corral off north tryon in University City. We showed the video to customers telling us it was completely inappropriate and they have doubts about bringing their kids to Golden Corral. I cant act like that around my kids. I would take them outside. I would take them outside. Reporter and we reached out to Golden Corral for a statement but right now, we have not heard back and will continue to push to find out if anyone was disciplined with Eyewitness News starting at 5 00. Reporting live in University City, joe bruno, channel 9, Eyewitness News. And this afternoon, a suspect accused of robbing a charlotte pizza Delivery Driver is due in court for the first time. Our cameras captured police leading the suspect, brayon rhodes, into jail. He is accused of kidnapping a papa johns deliveryman two weeks ago and taking him on a long ride to atms along i85. Police are searching for a second suspect. Hundreds of people are continuing to pay their respects to the former first Lady Nancy Reagan who lies in repose at the president ial library in simi valley, california. Visitors left cards with her mono gram signature red. She wanted something short and sweet. Tomorrow with a private ceremony and 1000 private guests. President and mrs. Bush and those attending. A facility will be built in rock hill. Atlas copco is building a facility at north cherry road. Construction is expected to be finished by early next year and they will begin hiring for the new positions later this year. A strong storm is moving through the south and heading for the care cares. Officials in louisiana have evacuated 3500 homes as the bayou gets dangerously close to breaching a levee from the heavy rain and is under a state of emergency this midday. 3 people have drowned in flooding across oklahoma, texas, and louisiana, and the and look at this video from the same storm system sent to us by our sister station in memphis. A driver, as you can see, tried to get through the flooded highway but ended up spinning out and tried to drive across the median to the other side of the highway only to have the car sink in deep floodwater. Other drivers waded through the water to rescue her. One man carried her to drier ground. Meteorologist vicki graf is tracking the same system coming our way in Severe Weather thats right, stephanie. By the time it makes its way run out of steam. You can sees this is a very large storm system. The heaviest rain is moving through mississippi and they are expecting a foot of rain through the end of the week. Thats not what we are seeing here. We are seeing clouds around this midday and clouds are causing us to see temperatures in the low 70s. This will be the transfer in and all in all, a warmer day. 72degrees and the reason were so warm is the wind from the southwest and its fairly strong right now at 12 Miles Per Hour. We could see higher wind gusts throughout the day today, across the carolinas, 67, and 70 in hickory and 63 in boone and 73 in chesterfield. You dont need to worry about layers. And notice its not just warmth but its mucky. As we go throughout the afternoon on futurecast, mid to upper 70s in charlotte and further to the south from chesterfield, rockingham, lancaster, you could make it to 80 and in the mountains, mid to low 60s, so very warm for this time of year, typically what we see in the month of may. Heading to the checkers game . Well keep the clouds around and it will be mild. You dont need to worry about the layers. By 10 00, 63 degrees and here is the wind i was telling you about, wind gusts up to 25 Miles Per Hour in charlotte and it will stay strong through the afternoon and evening and even the high country later this evening, and this one will eventually start to back down overnight but still with the gusty winds, not so good for the pollen count. We have high pollen counts, mainly for trees, the main culprit, cedar, pine, and oak. If you have been sniffing and sneezing recently, this is why but there is relieve on the way. The neighborhood forecast for tomorrow in elizabeth, cloudy and low 60s and warming into the mid 70s tomorrow, but well see a slight chance for showers tomorrow. I had to update the forecast and heres why. We will have moisture streaming through from the system out to the west and that will pump in a few showers tomorrow afternoon and evening and they will be few and far between, and not everybody will see the rainfall. Then towards saturday, a few spotty showers and by the afternoon, starting to see more of a clearing, and then the heaviest rain will arrive by sunday. Steve will be looking over the data as we go throughout the afternoon. He will have more updates on if you are heading to the weddington run to honor on saturday, you will want to keep an eye on the sky. But sunday is the best chance of rain. We wont see a whole lot. The flood threat and storm threat will stay low, up to an inch of rain here in the charlotte area through monday. Taking you through the 5day forecast, the warmth will stick around and it leads to showers tomorrow and saturday and the best chance of rain, sunday, and before you go to bed saturday night, set your clocks forward an hour for Daylight Saving time. Vicki, thank you so much. And chopper 9 sky sky zoom is headed to the scene at park land circle in east charlotte. One person was killed. This is for medic. Medic on the scene and police tape up and several investigators there as well. We know one person is dead for medic. We are gathering more information from police right there on the scene. As we zoom in, well bring that to you as soon as we get it on wso ctv. Com and the latest at 5 00 on Eyewitness News. A bizarre scam nearly tricked a doctor into handing over 50,000. The claim that the scammers made that frightened her into flying hundreds of miles into charlotte and she realized it was fake and heres a look at North Carolina now back to breaking news in east charlotte, the scene of a deadly shooting, chopper 9 sky room hovering over the scene. One person was killed and possibly another victim. All of this information coming in from medic. You can see medic on the scene and several Police Officers as well. We are weerk working to gather more information to find out how this started and if they have any information on suspect custody. Be sure to follow us at wsoctv. Com and our social media to get the latest on the story. Police in charlotte stopped a bizarre scam that would have cost a woman 50,000. They say thieves convinced a florida doctor that her friend was being held hostage in charlotte. She flew 600 miles to help and told police about the scheme. They pulled up 8 pages of stuff on this man where he had scammed thousands of women. Dr. Bush is now back in florida and said she would be more skepticle of people she needs on social media. And we have been following the cell tower project for months now. It would go on walnut street and neighbors worry it would be an eyesore. They are asking the judge to totsz out toss out the court case. A mother said that her child was left off the ballot after running for high school politics, but four names were parents are saying that vase to blame. If you have four African American people left off the ballot, thats race. Thats not a technical glitch. The School Principal said it was a mistake and the election process will start over. A date has not been set for the new election. A good day to get outside and enjoy the weather. If you can, get outside and enjoy the fresh air. And it will be cloudy today, and thats the difference between today and yesterday. 77, well above average and tracking showers on the way for the weekend and a few possible on saturday and sunday is the best chance for rain. So keep your weather gear handy. Steve will have more on the timing and how much rain. All right. Thank you, and thank you for making channel 9 your choice for news this midday. 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 hey candidates, answer the call already. Announcer its time to play give it up for steve harvey [captioning made possible by fremantle media] steve theres mama there. Thank you very much, folks. Thank you very much. Welcome. Hey, welcome to family feud, everybody im your man steve harvey boy, we got a good one for you today. 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