Lets look at the mapping systems, if youre outbound, if you need to, it would be North Sharon Amity over to Central Avenue put you around the fire scene there. There you see it inbound lanes all over, outbound, one lane is open but fire trucks still blocking at least one or two of those outbound lanes there as mark said. Lets take a live look, john belk and up toward bank of america stadium, volume of traffic here pretty light, running along smoothly in center city. Lets take a look at john belk, brookshire, no significant problems. Both highways running in the green. Further up to the north, just north of noda, accident statesville avenue at atando, so expect you will find a few delays there, if youre inbound along statesville avenue, and looking at the overall commute, most of us still running in the green with a few slow downs, providence road inbound and independence boulevard before albermarle. Youre never more than seven minutes away from weather and christine following more brea
Coming in live to the alert center right now. Mark yeah, john, this is an account on twitter, they gauge reactions from the debates. They did that for the gop debate. Here. This is on apple tv, the top tweeted moments in the debate when trump defended his university. Second most tweeted when cruz told troop top trump to relax. He called him little marco, that was the third most tweeted. Who gained the most followers . Real donald trump, john kasich, marco rubio, ted cruz didnt gain as many. The final shares around the gop interesting, trump, no matter good or bad, still getting a ton of attention, 62 of the conversation on twitter was around donald trump, ted cruz, rubio tied, 16 and 15, kasich down at 7 . Trump, no matter what he says, people talk about it. Back to you guys. Kristen were following breaking news, police dealing with quite a mess in northwest charlotte after a car crashed in a rite aid store. John Ashton Pellom joins us live with more on this. So ashton, what happened .
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
That hit the utility pole. Now the crews are removing both cars from the scene, and it doesnt sound like there are going to be any significant travel problems as we head into the morning rush. So this is the live picture from that scene on hovis road that chris has been talking about all morning long much you see the sector wrecker coming in to take the car away and it looked like the road is open and everything should be fine. A man is arrested, i cueing of killing his uncle accused of killing his uncle. Police found toni hearne and linsey lentz trying to buried body. Were looking into this story, Ashton Pellom is live this morning. One of the suspects had a lot to sigh to say as he was being taken into custody. Looked dead into the camera and told us why he killed his uncle and he said it was good he was caught so they can get it over with. We saw a man get pulled into the driveway in an old, a vacant house in taylorsville. A deputy saw a man and woman inside. They saw drag marks in
67milesperhour. That is a check of your morning traffic, john, over to you. John right now, get over to Brody Oconnell. Christine in the alert center with more breaking news. Brody a homicide at park fairfax drive in the freedom division, this is an apartment complex. We have new pictures to show you from the scene. As you can see a very active scene, a lot of police there. Here what is we learned, apparently a call came in before 3 00 a. M. From the apartment complex, police got to the scene and they didnt locate anybody who needed help. It was a medic call that came in, didnt find anybody, they cleared the scene. Then a short time later they got a call from Carolinas Medical Center and it was information letting them know a man was driven to the er with an apparent gunshot wound. Police went over to the hospital so we have two scenes here, the man pronounced dead at Carolinas Medical Center, according to cmpd, right now the victims identity was not release and no word yet on any arre