We got this information from wingate university, dozens of students reporting symptoms, diarrhea, nausea and vomiting and the school is hoping for confirmation of the illness when they get test results back tomorrow. Campus services is cleaning bathrooms and common areas and Residence Halls and the dining facilities are being sanitized and cleaning the equipment too. And Health Officials recommend staying out of work or school while you are dealing with the symptoms. Wait until you get better before you get back into the classroom. Thank you. First at 4 00 the storm that tore up the east coast killed serve of seven people. Two were killed in louisiana, four more died in virginia and a seventh was killed when a tree fell in darlington, South Carolina. In charlotte, clean up continues after storms caused Power Outages and trees to fall. Right now, there are still nearly 5,000 customers without power in mecklenberg county. And the National Weather service now confirms a tornado did touchd
Planner in a few minutes. Youre never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic on wbtv news this morning. Here is chris, first alert traffic. Chris al, traffic is sponsored by toyota of north charlotte. No problems early out there on thursday morning if youre getting ready start the morning commute. Looking live at i77 near the rest area coming off the South Carolina state line, volume very light. Rock hill to uptown, 21 minutes, concord to center city, 18 minute commute. Lake norman southbound, 16 at 64 miles an hour. Mapping system giving us a green light on all of the major highways. That includes providence road, independence boulevard, albermarle all running in the green this morning. That is a first check of traffic, guys, back over to you. Christine in five hours, state lawmakers will meet in raleigh for a special session to approve a redrawn map for the states Congressional Districts. Republican lawmakers releasing this proposed map yesterday, and has Significant I
Lane closed, as you make your way to 277. That will cause delays. Looking at briar creek, independence inbound toward the city, no problems so far this morning and were looking good across the area, most of the major interstates running in the green. An accident here on providence road at south wendover, be aware of that, right now providence not showing any significant delays either. Youre never more than seven traffic on wbtv news this morning. Kristen miranda with the headlines as they hit the wires. What is happening now in the alert center . Kristen keeping an eye on the markets. We have been talking about this, asian markets already operating this morning and i wanted you to look at the numbers, japans main stock index dived nearly 5 leading the other markets lower. I know investor are keeping an eye on that. The beginning of the year when chinas market was that was propped up by government buying plunged dramatically. We have been watching it. Two economic reports due out today,
School districts in the area are closed or delayed today. Officials with charlottemecklenburg schools tell us they are on a normal schedule and are expected to decide on any changes to the schedule any minute now so if we hear of anything well let you know first. The latest closing and deb lays on the bottom of the screen and wbtv. Com closings. John to make it clear, charlottemecklenburg on normal schedule, lets find out what we can expect in the area, charlottes mothers most experienced meteorologist, al conklin. Al temperatures areawide are below freezing. Snowing in the mountains, shortly have a report from Ashton Pellom up there, you can see snow is coming down across the high country. Gets spottier toward i40, some of this may not be reaching the ground but again the potential there with temperatures that are well down in the 20s. South of there, very very spotty around the metro area, that is the good news. Really be uneventful in terms of precipitation. The bad news is anything
We have seen a few parts of North Carolina but not in a high number ever. It appears that they are symptom free now does the virus stay in their system . We do not believe so. Typically, with an illness you have about a week of sim many toes symptoms, fever, rash, muscle aches. Joint aches. Flulike symptoms. That clears and the virus typically clears rapidly along with the symptoms resolving. Public Health Officials say this first case just helps build awareness. They are saying with 10 Million People in the state they are expecting more travelrelated cases. They want patients and doctors to report them and Health Officials will continue to monitor the mosquito population. Pamela escobar wbtv on your side. Thank you. And we checked and the person in mecklenburg county. New information about two confirmed cases of mumps. Two cases in Iredell County involved lowes employees. The company says the cases are connected to their mooresville center. They told their employees and distributed in