Will operate on a two hour delay tomorrow. You can find a complete list of closures and delays on wsoc. Com under the weather tab. Tomorrow on daybreak, every ten minutes, we will update you on the conditions and any traffic issues. All starting at 4 30 a. M. Now to breaking news were following out of the south end, cmpd is on the scene of a robbery at the restaurant. We just got off the phone with an employee. No one was hurt during the robbery. We have a crew on the scene asking police for more information about what happened and if a suspect is in custody. Also were following breaking news in south charlotte in the last 30 minutes. Highway patrol told channel 9 troopers responded to a chase that went through two counties. It started in union county just before 9 30 and it ended a short time ago in sot charlotte nare the auto broker. We have a crew on the way to that location and we are asking chase and also if they have a suspect in custody. All new tonight at 11 00, nearly 700 people packed into this room tonight and they all came out to question Charlotte MecklenburgCounty School leaders. Elsa gillis was there and heard their concerns. Reporter it was the main concern of almost everyone i spoke with. Ingly i would like my children to stay in their current school. I dont think its fair to take them out of their community. Paul bailey and elise addressed those fears right off the bat. I can tell you at least seven or eight of my colleagues on the nine member board have said they do not see massive changes to busing. But they didnt outwardly say it wouldnt be a tool used in any plan they create. Something parents want to hear. I think the only reason people have been fuzzy in early in the process. Parents listen to each other, sharing on how to achieve student and school equity. We need to keep kids close to their neighborhood schools as well as magnet expansion. This is a poverty issue that needs to be addressed by the city. Even though some questions were answered, parents are still concerned. I dont know where hes going, and im stressed out about it. Channel 9 Eyewitness News. Now people wrote down their comments and concerns tonight and that also will be passed along to the board of education. Theres going to be another meeting held just like this one in district five on monday. Developing tonight, Health Officials are keeping a close eye on two local cases of the mumps. And we first reported this as breaking news at 5 00, since then, we have learned that the parents are adults and they worked together. Eyewitness News Reporter spoke with the Mecklenburg CountyHealth Director about the virus well, allison, on average, only a handful of cases are confirmed in North Carolina each year. Its more rare that they would be found in our area. Mecklenburg countys Health Director believes the cases are contained, continuing to monitor them to keep it from spreading. Since the 1960s, adults and children have been getting vaccinated for mumps. Including robin spells daughters. You think about who your kids are spending time with. Vaccines have made the viral infection very uncommon, but still possible. Today, Health Departments in mecklenburg each announced cases of it. We are now working and looking at the potential contacts those people may have had. Shared through sneezing, coughing, or sharing food and drinks and coming with symptoms similar to the flu. But with pronounced swollen salivary glands. The infection is severe. With it more. Dr. Marcus says both cases confirmed are connected to adults who work in the same workplace. He believes they are fairly contained, but the department sent out an alert in case there are more cases to monitor and for parents to be aware, since it can be dangerous for children. Adding one more reason this season for families to promote prevention through good health and hygiene. You can never be too careful. Just to give you an idea of how rare these cases are, only three were confirmed in 2014 here in North Carolina. Four in 2013. Now, Health Officials say if any of those symptoms sound familiar, go to the doctor, get tested, and report it so they can track the cases and make sure they avoid some kind of county. Jenna deary, Eyewitness News. Even if you had the mumps people who have received two doses of the vaccine are nine times less likely to get it than someone not vaccinated. Its unclear whether the two people with the mumps locally had been vaccinated. You can read more about the mumps and our local cases at wsoc. Com. Just look inside jennas story on the home page. In the last two hours, a california judge directed apple to help the fbi break into the cell phones of one of the San Bernardino gunman. Investigators are trying to get into syed farouks work phone. Farouk and his wife killed 14 people in an attack on his coworkers back in december. They believe the couple did so in the name of isis. Both were later killed in a shootout with police. New tonight, theres a new poll showing the two president ial candidates have some big leads in South Carolina ahead of the upcoming primaries. That republican, donald trump, has a 16 point lead over ted cruz. And on the democratic side, Hillary Clinton has an 18 point lead over bernie sanders. Two more president ial hopefuls added stops this week. Republican, jeb bush will be in rock hill at the magnolia room in the neighborhood for a town hall. His opponent, john kasich will be in indian land at sun city carolina lakes. New tonight, governor nikki hailey says she hasnt made up her mind about who she plans to endorse for president. She says represents quote, everything a governor does not want in a president. Wsoctv. Com is your source for the 2016 election. Where you can go to vote in our special section under the news tab. It may be thursday or congressional races theyll be voting for in next months primary. Lawmakers moved ahead to redraw the lines for two direct districts after the existing districts were based on race. The 12th district, which stretches from charlotte to greensboro is one of those districts. Channel 9 has been pushing for answers all night. After a very active Police Presence in rowan can want. Flew over the scene in rock well on Belmont Place around 5 00. Weve been asking for updates ever since. You can see crime scene tape up in front of the house and across the driveway. With rowan county sheriff vehicles on the scene. We just called again and the last half hour, but were still waiting for a call back with information. A gastonia couple faces child abuse and drug charges after police say they used stuffed animal to hide marijuana. Our partners are reporting that amanda stone and eric used their home on brian circle to sell drugs. Stone on a 32,000 bond. Bagwell has a 150,000 bond. New developments. Leaders are hoping to close the book on property e evaluation funnel issues. In the past two hours, tax assessors broke down a statistics review. Since 2011, hundreds of families in 35 neighborhoods complained the county over valued their homes and over charged them in taxes. The 2011 had lots of issues. No doubt about it. But the biggest thing that did not take place was the county responding to our citizens at that point. The assessor says it is part if this happens again, that they respond in a timely manner. Tonight, county commissioners requested an after action report to close the issue. Around 99 million was refunded to taxpayers who were over charged. We are staying on top of the breaking news out of south charlotte where a chase that started in union county just ended near the ace auto broker and thats where eyewitness News Reporter, elsa gillis is standing by. What can you tell us . Reporter as you said, this ended. It started in union county and police were lined along the roadway as police are looking for the suspect in this case. What happened was, officials attemptedded to stop the suspect for speeding in union county. He took off, he came here to the auto brokers where he got out of the car and ran on foot. They are still looking for him, but police tell me he is not a cmpd and state troopers were here on the suspect. They tell me the car was not stolen and has since been taken away. Police cars were just lined down this road. They have since left. Again, they are looking for the suspect. We will, of course, be bringing you more details as we get them. Live in charlotte, els a gillis, Eyewitness News. Ill tell you if we will see anymore as we head into the weekend. A local College Student walking to class helped deliver a baby. Youre about to give birth, like what . His first move when he labor right in all new at 11 00, a biology student and his neighbor have a shocking story to tell. They helped deliver a strangers baby this morning outside of a University City apartment complex. Daniel and his neighbor couldnt believe it when they heard a woman screaming for help around 9 00 this morning on waterford hills drive. I immediately opened the lying right here on the concrete screaming, help me, im having a baby. He called his mom who told him, grab blankets and a pillow and he called 911 and the operator walked him through how to help deliver the baby boy. Im about to give birth. Im like, youre about to give birth . What . The baby was born in under ten minutes. Paramedics rushed to the apartment complex to check out the mother and baby. They believe both are okay tonight. We just posted this wild story on our Facebook Page about 30 minutes ago. You can share it with your friends. We are staying on top of the breaking news. In the past ten minutes, police confirming to channel 9 that the suspects who lobbed the fat burito were armed. Cmp telling us officers are looking for more than one person now. They did not give us anymore or the vehicle they drove off in. An employee at the fat burito told us no one inside was hurt during the robbery. And taking a live look in south charlotte where officials are searching for a suspect they say led them on a chase that crossed two counties. Troopers telling channel 9 that officials tried to stop a driver from speeding in union county, but that driver took off. Investigators say the chase finally ended right here on East Independence boulevard and the suspect then took off on foot. New at 11 00, police are looking for an armed robber who held up a gas station. They say all this happened around 10 00 last night on south cannon boulevard. According to a police report, the suspect got away with 150 in cash. If you know any information about what happened, call police. Troopers are defending their situation to shut down icy interstates across the charlotte area. Dozens of drivers, including our own news crews got stuck in some of the biggest headaches happen along i77 where drivers were stranded for up to five hours. And i485, that was also closed for two hours. Troopers say closing down those roads was the right decision. It was inconvenient for some people, but it was also a safety issue. A dot spokesperson told us that the salt crews put on the freezing rain. Students all across our viewing area will have to make up days. April 25 and may 27. Union county students will also go to school on april 25. A decision has not been made yet for gaston county. We posted a full list on our website, wso ctv. Com. Chief meteorologist is tracking the weather. Lansing, jefferson, up in this is king street in boone. I want to point out, not much falling, but you do see tire tracks. Youll need to take it easy first thing tomorrow morning. Some light rain, down toward clairemont, out toward hickory. Again, this is all light rain. Less than a tenth of an inch an hour and its moving quickly. Slightly higher rain rates. Half an inch an hour. Closing in on rock hill. That will slide through buford, fort mill about 11 30, indian land a few minutes after that. And weddington just before midnight. Temperatures by the time you get up, skies are just cloudy. Upper 30s in most neighborhoods in the charlotte area. And below freezing up across the high country. Wake up forecast, the worse part of the day is first thing in the morning. By daybreak, the clouds begin to part. Lower 40s at that point. History by 9 00, 10 00 in the morning. Look similar today, doesnt it . By lunchtime, we are enall enjoying the sunshine. With that mid february son, pretty decent warmup on the way. Heres a look at the temperatures. Upper 40s in most neighborhoods. 50 rock hill. Nice stuff. Mountains are still in the 30s and likely stay there all day. Everyone else, including our friends in hickory, likely 50 or better as you head into the charlotte area. And starts you up town. Morning fog gets you through the afternoon. We head toward fort mill. Temperatures will start on the chilly side with those clouds early on. Tons of afternoon sun. Mid to upper 50s and matthews, southeast Mecklenburg County. After the morning clouds disappear, looks good. Average high this time of year is 55. Pretty much where well be tomorrow and thursday and all of a sudden take off as we hit the weekend. Mid to upper 60s. Not only that, virtually no chance of rain or snow. I think thats probably the best news of all. With your weekend always in view, make your weekend plans now. Mid to upper 60s saturday. Upper 60s on sunday. Well have clouds around. I dont think well hear a lot of complaints. Looks good as we head through the weekend. Early next week, maybe more rain. We have a nicelooking five day. Thanks, steve. A 71yearold says he had no choice but to shoot an intruder. The warning that put him on alert right before the break in. Plus, a new push for 5. The proposal and who vo you can pass down a subaru forester. dad shes all yours. vo but you get to keep the memories. Love. Its what makes a subaru, a subaru. 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. Keep Social Security strong. elephant noise hey candidates. Enough talk. Give us a plan. Give us a plan. Tonight, some Mecklenburg County commissioners are calling for universal prek for all kids under the age of 5. Chairman trevor fuller laid out his plans. He didnt say exactly who or what agency will pay for the initiative. State as well as nonprofits and businesses. An Implementation Team will be formed to oversee that initiative. Next week, cmpd plans to host another cops on the corner event. Part of their effort to reach out to people in the community and make their presence known. Today, they were out at kingston where the neighborhoods converged. Neighbors have been complaining about drug activity and loitering in the area. Police say this is an effort to curb that. Planned at the transit 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, every day, for life. Life can be so cruel sometimes, after returning from october, shoulder surgery, michael will miss the remainder of the season. Tomorrow, hell have the same surgery on the same shoulder. He reinjured that surgically reconstructed shoulder last week. He just cant catch a break. He returned two months earlier from the first surgery. Now his season is over. The hornets were 52. The hornets announced today they acquired guard, courtney levi at trade, sending pj harris to memphis and a pair of second round draft picks to miami. Lee averaged 10 points for the grizzly, but he will provide defensive versatility for steve clifford. Davidsons jack gibbs out today with the flu. Also out sick, wildcats still had to get a way past richmond. First half davidson in white. Shot clock winding down. Turn around jumper, cats up a point. Still in the first, its a six point deficit, aldridge cuts that in half. A team high 24 points. Sophomore starting in place of gibbs. Hard drive to the rim. He lays it in. Regal with 14 points. Davidson down 3 at the break. Second half, here come the wildcats. That is good, moments later, another triple for sullivan. He had 21. Those three gave the wildcats the lead. They rally to win 8379 the final. South carolina visiting missouri, not a good first half. The turnover, germanist well, the isabel. Second half would trail by as but check this out, thornwell to michael cabrera, game high, 14 points. Two minutes to play. Offensive rebound falls to dwayne, and hell score. A team high 21. Gamecocks up one. Got to get a stop. Cant get one. Falls 7267 the final. They lost two. It was close. Yeah, right there. Thanks. 71yearold fired a gun at an intruder and are he told the second he knew were staying on top of breaking news where cmpd is investigating an Armed Robbery at the fat burito. An employee described the terrifying moments to channel 9. Hoody and a backpack and a gun decided to run up in there and put a gun to the managers head and had him open the register and emptied it out and took off. The employees say there were two customers in the restaurant when it happened. Police havent released a description of the suspect or vehicle. Hickory investigators will let the District Attorney decide whether or not they will press charges against a 71yearold man who says that he shot a man who was breaking into his home. Tony pit says he heard a knock on his door last night, but it was so late, he didnt answer. Well then about ten minutes later, thats when he says someone smashed through his sliding glass door. Pit says he fired his gun three times, striking a man twice in the chest. I didnt want to tell you, but had to. He might have shot me, i dont know. Police are not releasing the name of the suspect in the break in, but they say he is in this time the rain comes and goes. 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