Cooler after a record high yesterday of 86. We cooled back to 40s this morning. That is impressive. 43 albemarle. 54 charlotte. 30s in the mountains to begin the day. But nothing in the way of the morning drive on this st. Patricks day. We warm back up into the mid 50s by 9 00. Still in the mid70s but that is about 10 degrees cooler than yesterday. We have begun the step down process. Its slow for now. We will show you how it will pick up with even cooler weather into the weekend straight ahead. I am in the breaking news center right now continuing to follow a developing story. Channel 9 is the only crew at this scene where state police are investigating a deputy involved shooting. Lets go to the live look from boat landing road between wadesboro and rockingham. All you can see is this sheriff squad car blocking they are keeping us off the road away investigators tell us around 11 00 last night a deputy shot a suspect. That person was flown to Carolinas Medical Center in charlotte. We
Look for this on the home page. Former charlotte mayor patrick cannon is still behind bars at the Mecklenburg County jail after he pleaded guilty tovoter fraud yesterday. We have been checking with the jail but right now, its stillnot clear when he will be taken back to federal prison in west virginiap he was brought to charlotte for the First Time Since he started to serve his 44 month sentence on corruption charges. His punishment for the voter fraud charge is 1 day behind bars and that will be included in his current prison term. Because cannon is still in Mecklenburg County its not clear yet how much taxpayer money was spent total on his Court Appearance and his transportation. But channel 9 has learned that it cost 157 dollars and 4 cents per day he stays at the jail. The department of Public Safety says it will be able to give us a final price tag on transportation once cannon is back in west virginia. Machines were seized and the money could benefit children in Gaston County. To
Just hours ago. Can the celebrity and senator put politics aside and find any Common Ground . Its a turbulent tuesday. Lets go after it. All right. The voters in North Carolinas 9th district have just had their say at the polls. Again, the gop should win the seat. Trump won it by a dozen points. So did romney, but doubts about this president gave democrats, if you look at the numbers, about a 12point swing in midterm races in some red districts. Will we see more slippage tonight . This is important enough that the president was down there last night rallying the magga troops. So to campaign for dan bishop, he is the republican running. This is about a proxy for the president. Dan mccready is the democrat. It is very close. It should not be a surprise if the republican wins but we want to see by how much. What could happen here in light of what happened in that 2018 earlier midterm wave. Now, in that district, remember why the 9th district matters right now, why we have to have a specia
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