Warm as yesterday. Not as nice as yesterday but a storm system could dump rain on your neighborhood. That front that came through and dropped the rain last night it moved through and it busted the door open. Look at the cold air pouring in. High pressure building in from the west. And that is going to drive our temperatures below freezing tonight. If you have the plants sitting around the house think about bringing them inside and protecting them. But we are running 1921 colder than at this time yesterday and 30 colder right now around boone and blowing rock than they were at this time yesterday. The hd towercam, the sun did not help much today as we stayed in the low 50s and still have a brisk wind and gusts 2025milesperhour over the last few hours. If you are heading out be aware its breezey and that windchill temperatures in the 440s north of charlotte and in the 20s in the high country. Your forecast down to 42 at 9 00 p. M. Coming up, we will rebound from this. But before we do, m
Mostly sunny skies, a much milder finish than over the weekend up to 67 degrees. Seven day planner has warmer weather but also the mention of rain, have that in a couple minutes. Youre never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic on wbtv news this morning. Here is chris, first alert traffic. Chris first alert traffic this morning is sponsored by toyota of north charlotte. Well start with a live look if youre heading out the door early after 5 00 a. M. , this is 77, clanton road, volume light and again looking pretty good for the Early Morning commuters on a monday morning. Rock hill to uptown, 21 minutes, 65 miles an hour. Coming from concord, 19 minutes, 64 miles an hour. And lake norman, southbound at 15, with an average speed, 67milesperhour there. Looking at the overall map, 485 looks good to the west and out to the east and pretty much around the perimeter, 77, 85 also no problems. Providence road, independence, everything running fairly smoothly early on for monday
With saving his family from a burning home. Wbtvs sky 3 was the first on the scene in belmont yesterday evening as firefighters worked to put out the massive fire. You can see the house gutted by the flames. Wbtvs alex giles talked with the little boy who is a real hero. Reporter this family credits the smallest member of the household with saving everyones lives. If he hadnt been alert this could have ended much worse. Carter englert has a few of his favorite things after the fire ripped his home apart. Toys, my ipad. Most of them gone, the family also lost two of their cats. But thanks to cart the people who were inside are safe. I was in the bathtub, my mom asleep and he came and told us there was a fire and he got us to get up and get out. While the family relaxing, carter was the only one that a crashing window. Reporter he grabbed family members and led them outside, a narrow escape. 30 seconds the roof started collapsing, im glad we got out when we did. I was scared because i ne
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
Looking for our camera, heres the dump truck reportedly involved. Police investigating this fatal crash on the brookshire. Outbound brookshire is blocked. Use bell haven toward Mountain Island lake. Of course well let you know as soon as that completely reopens. One accident down to the south was reported earlier near providence road west. No big delays through the area. John . Another big story is the weather. Im in Severe Weather center 9. All this teal is under a freeze warning for the next couple of hours until about 9 00 this morning. Off to the east rockingham, lancaster, you are under a frost advisory through the next couple of hours as well. We have completely clear skies, we are at 37 degrees right now in the charlotte area. I mentioned those temperatures are chilly. 29 in lincolnton, 32 in shelby. Rock hill also in the 30s. This afternoon ill have more on your forecast coming up in just a minute. We are continuing follow breaking news in brussels, belgium. 10 people are dead