With a bullet wound had been shot by his threeyearold nephew who just scene the gun placed under the seat before him. At some point, the threeyearold child got loose from his car seat, got hold of that weapon and fired it. One round was fired and it went through the driver. Reporter the bizarre story plays out this way. The gun owner an off duty Housing Authority cop has business in city hall. Not wanting to bring his personal 9millimeter pistol in, he places it under the passenger side front seat and leaves. The car is driven to arf where the grandmother seated next to the child gets out. The threeyearold described as big for his age acts. It appears he may have been watching the off duty housing officer has he was removing the weapon and placing it under the seat. Little boy just crying. Im guessing its the mother. It was a lady trying to console the little boy saying its all right, its all right. Hes going to be all right. Reporter the injured man is rushed to the hospital. The off
In boon began receiving an order of 800 tons of salt for watauga county. There has been little rest. And more snow could fall both tomorrow and monday. We will be here with the storm and trying to keep track of moving as much as we can. Reporter the pofocus will be on the main roads, leading to the main resorts at appalach ski mountain. The recent cold weather has allowed hem to build up a 6 foot base of manmade snow. It is a drastic difference from this picture i took on december 31st. But skiers told me the conditions couldnt be much better. I wasnt they were even going to be able to open this year. But the weather turned great. And they got snow. Looks pretty fabulous, right . Very cold. Slushy. With it being both valentines and president s day weekend, Hotels Across the area, are expected to fill up with skiers this weekend. Booked solid for saturday night. And the calls kept coming today. Its interesting. Because people are coming up to ski. But they dont want the Road Conditions
Toward denver this afternoon. Mooresville, just south of statesville. Light rain into the southern part of Iredell County. I77 between troutman to mooresville. Youre going to be pretty soggy the middle of the day today. Well see light showers building in. Mid 50s in salisbury and statesville. To mid 60s in charlotte. Cold front is slowly pushing south. The showers are developing north of us now. On the drive home, i expect more rain to build in. What the Severe Weather threats will be coming later this week. In the past two hours charlotte leaders laid out plans to control the crowds of people expected to flood charlotte for this years ciaa tournament. Alexa ashwell is live outside where the games start tomorrow, alexa . Reporter well, stephanie, excitement is certainly brewing here outside Time Warner Cable arena as were one day away a couple hours ago organizers and talking everything ciaa, what events will take place. How the tournament benefits the city and area youth. And how cmpd
If you look at the car, thats a sheet of ice up here in troutman. Thats the situation on the roads, the longer the time they have to ice over, the more of a danger certainly. Up on i77, we found wrecks all over the place between statesville and troutman. Its going to take a while for this to warm up and relieve the situation here. John ahrens, channel 9 Eyewitness News. All right thank you. Breaking news on i485 in huntersville. All outer loop lanes near i77 are closed after an eight vehicle crash. These are the first live pictures. Medic says the area is icy. Some people still going fast. Huntersville firefighters on the scene. One person was injured. We dont know how badly. In the last 20 minutes, crews reopened one lane of i40 westbound in Catawba County to let traffic through here. But then closed all lanes after two tractor trailers jackknifed here. One of the trucks went across the roadway. We brought you updates for the last hour tonight. It could be another hour before the lane
For the morning drive. Rain later monday. At least for tomorrow morning the showers kept across the mountains. I want to draw your attention to what will be going on across greensboro and triad. Northeast winds taking over, clouds thickening. Thats the carolina wedge, cooler air moving through that gets stuck over charlotte. When you have the cooler air masses battling each other with warmer air to the south, thats the recipe for strong thunderstorms. Thanks, john. Well be monitoring conditions overnight and whether it will impact your morning drive tomorrow. You can get traffic and weather every 10 minutes starting at 4 30 on Eyewitness News daybreak. Developing tonight, channel 9 was the only news outlet to get a copy of an email of the governor to a Charlotte Council we reported this as breaking news at 6 00. Since then weve been digging into both sides ahead of that crucial vote tomorrow. Here and speak for or against that ordinance even more are expected to rally outside of the go