Stone to try to rub it off but it wouldnt come off. Kayla a retired widow discovers somebody vandalized her late husbands grave causing thousands of dollars of damage. She has no idea who could have done it. This is a story only on fox 46. Good evening and thank you for joining us tonight. Im kayla ayres. Bill and im bill melugin. First on fox tonight, we have major news just coming into our newsroom within just the last hour, we have learned that governor pat mccrory called for a full review toll lane project. Cintra, the Spanish Company who has the contract for the work filed for bankruptcy on a project in texas today. As a result, mccrory ordered ncdot to order every option to completely reassess the entire i77 Business Model and the current contract. Ncdot officials will be flying to austin on monday to meet to talk about the situation. The controversial project is under construction and is set to cost 650 million. It would stretch for more than 20 miles north of charlotte and met
Only closing delay we know of. If anything changes, youll find the latest information right here and on wbtv. Com closings. Al i have a feeling this may be one or two more before the morning is over. Snow in the mountains this morning. Show you what is going on, this system not real strong, not real big, reporting from boone of about two inches but the roads are wet. That is king street in boone look at the street lamp. The snow continues to fall up there. Again the main roads are just wet right now. The temperature is only right at freezing in boone, back roads could be a little slick, again, avery county schools operating on twohour delay, well hear what watauga and perhaps alleghany and ashe have to say later on. 34 at morganton and hickory over to statesville. 38 in charlotte, 39 right in lancaster, rock hill, monroe, 40 in wadesboro. Wind up seeing a decent amount of sunshine even in the for some sun. In charlotte and piedmont, mostly sunny, seasonal day, high of 57. What the week
Declared bankruptcy. We exposed the troubles in an investigation last month but the state secretary of transportation stood by the i77 project even in the face of this weeks developments. Wbtv Investigative Reporter nick ochsner is on your side first at 4 00. Northbound secretary of transportation put it simply to reporters. The word bankruptcy sounds bad but the fact that sentras subsidiaries declared bankruptcy twice did not detour the North Carolina department of transportation from continuing the contract with the company. 10 son is headed to texas in the wake of the most recent bankruptcy. And we rode that highway a month ago and found few cars on the road. But he said that is different from the i77 toll lanes and he feels comfortable with the contract between North Carolina dot and sentra. He does not foresee the contract there is nothing about an independent contract or an independent project having financial trouble that affects our project. Now, the question remains why dot is
Came in this person . Kristen lets show you this mans mug shot, i believe we have it. This is new in the alert center. This is eric you there,nt charged with first degree murder and attempted murder following what police are calling a domestic incident in the mcdonalds on hoy wy 321 in hickory. Police got a call of domestic disturbance, they found rochelle lail shot to death in the parking lot. Also found another man cody watts, 28yearold from hickory sitting in the vehicle, he had been shot. He was taken to the hospital and remains in Critical Condition this morning. Again, eric yount in jail and charged with first degree murder and attempted murder this morning. Back to you, christine. Christine kristen, thank you. To learn the condition of a woman and child reportedly stabbed in caldwell county. This happened late last night at a home on Fairway Acres in changes mountain. The twoyearold child was airlifted to the hospital and woman taken to the hospital as well. A second child is al
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