According to our News Partners at the charlotte observer, the school board will take a first pass at ten years worth of projects. They hope to get a bond referendum on the project on the ballot but county officials want to wait until next year. Board members will also get an update on efforts to boost achievement at lowperforming schools and on thursday, the boards policy committee get preliminary results from an assignment. That meeting for those construction and renovation projects starts at 3 00. The regular Board Meeting begins at 6 00 here at the government center. Well keep you updated. Reporting live in uptown share, ashton pellom, wbtv on your side. Christine a day after mariaia sharapova announced she failed a drug test, companies are severing ties with the tennis star. Gets over to Kristen Miranda with details live in the alert center. Sharapovas name trending all over the place the last couple days, what is the latest . Kristen a lot of people talking about this, bummed out
Those Traffic Cameras here across the region. Watching f anything that might morning commute. If youre coming in from lake 65milesperhour. 77 looking good right now, catawba avenue, down to gilead running in the green. Develop. Here across the charlotte area, most of our highways and roads are continuing to run in the green. Northbound 77 coming out of rock hill this morning, curb drive ti for you is 21 minutes with an average speed of milesperhour. And that is a check of traffic, john, over to you. John get back to breaking news in west charlotte that wbtv first broke, police are investigating a shooting that happened in connection to a carjacking. The victim was found on rozzelles ferry near johnson c. Smith university. Ashton pellom was theirst to report this story on socl media, and he joins us now live from the scene. Ashton, what can you tell us . What i can tell you right now the victim is recbdovering in the hospital. He was shot twice, once in the arm, once in the leg earlier
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We look at providence road near the arboretum at 51 you may get a slight slow down at that intersection but things should be moving smoothly there on providence road, highway 16. A look at interstate 77 at the woodlawn road exit, the traffic light, roads are damp, so keep that in mind. Youre never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic on wbtv news this morning. Looking ahead, early voting for North Carolinas primaries start tomorrow. The new voter i. D. Requirement goes in effect in time for the march primary. A federal judge could still rule against the law. Wbtvs Mark Davenport live in charlotte with more, so mark, what does this requirement mean for voters who may want to vote early and head to the polls tomorrow . Reporter christine, it means voters need to show up with photo i. D. To the polling place. If they dont have it with them, they wont be able to cast their vote. Getting voters to understand this law before they hit their polling place. Local board of Elect
With more or this change of course. Reporter our investigation took us to texas, we drove the highway in question, 130 in texas. Got a first hand account what it was like, opened our eyes because not many people were driving on that highway out there. A toll road just like i77 would be here in charlotte. Now i want to show you video of that highway there, 130 in texas, the company that operates that road declared bankruptcy on wednesday, that road is owned by a subsidiary of the spanish company, cintra, the same company contracted by ncdot to build the i77 toll lanes. North carolinas transportation secretary is now looking for a way to break the states contract and that is welcome news to Mecklenburg County commissioner jim puckett who was against this from the beginning. The end of the day what you have is this is an embarrassment, ncdot used texas as the poster child why this is great financially and from a really blows up in their face. Reporter now we also reached out to cintra, th