The hildebran town hall building. Christine Brody Oconnell following the details now in the alert center. Brody, what do you know so far . Brody this is up near i40 off i40 near morganton at the hildebran town hall. Here is the map giving you an idea where it is while i give you the latest details. We called dispatchers to see what was going on, we reached an official who gave us the address of 202 center street. We specifically asked if this was the town hall that was on fire, dispatcher said they were responding to a fire at the town hall, which is in a complex that shares office space with other buildings. So the town hall and other offices are located in a bigger building, that used to be the old hill Hildebran High School. Steve ohnesorge has done thorough coverage whether they were going to tear down the building. They are in the newer part of the section slate forward demolition was the oldest part of the build, built in 1917. Well bring you updates whether we get crews to the s
Good information here. Reporter good morning, john. Yeah, a lot of these things are common sense but we spoke with experts at michael son, they say people forget to do it all time and ends up costs thousands of damage to the home. Get right to it, the folks at michael son tell us you should let the faucets drip if they are on an outside wall. Also leave your cabinets open so the warm air cancer can can circulate. Garden hosts should not be connected to the faucets. This is the no. 1 device that will freeze and cause an issue. Get out there and disconnect the hoses. Lastly, if a disaster does happen, know where the main shut off valve is to your home, that way all the tips put together you can protect yourself until below freezing weather. Reporting live in uptown charlotte, Ashton Pellom, wbtv on your side. John wherever you plan to go weather app with you. You can check the forecast right on your mobile device. Christine now to campaign 2016, were nine days away from the republican pr
Youre coming off i85. Looking at independence expressway, volume of traffic here in center city beginning to heat up just a bit. Lets look at the drive times, coming up from rock hill, 21 minutes, 64 miles an hour. Concord to center city, 17 minute commute, speeds there in the upper 60s and lake norman southbound at 15 minutes and 65 miles an hour. Looking at the overall charlotte commute, most of our major interstates continuing to run in the green and including 485, 77 and 85. Were seeing slow downs now outbound providence road over toward wt harris, albermarle and heavier now around the arboretum area. That is a check of traffic, john, back to you. John this morning a state of emergency declared in North Carolina as areas recover from this weeks severe weather. Governor pat mccrory says the primary problem right now is the number of Power Outages across the state. Now at the peak of the storm, more than 122,000 customers lost power. Mainly in mecklenburg, gaston and forsyth counties
What the proposal means if it is approved. Reporter john, i can tell you the biggest change right off the bat is a charlotte area district without an incumbent. I want you get you back to the map get you closer view of what were talking about. The map used to look different. Especially in our area. The 12th district no longer snakes through our state from 85 from charlotte to greensboro. Now the district much more charlottecentric, compact in the area. Alma adams no longer represents any part of charlotte under this map. She falls in the 13th district. Overnight she sent a statement saying for now im focused o on doing my job and continuing to represent the people of North Carolinas 12th congressional district. She will continue to look over the map and weigh her options moving forward. The deadline for lawmakers to approve the new map is on friday. That is why they are getting together in special session to make the final decisions, well reporting live, Mark Davenport, wbtv on your si
Major interstates are running in the green. Up to the north a different story where the colder temperatures created icy conditions and we still have delays on i77 coming southbound. Wbtvs Mark Davenport joins us live along i77 where there was serious trouble spots overnight, mark . Reporter yeah, chris, there was serious trouble spots out here overnight. I saw a lot of them this morning as i was driving up i77 north, saw a lot of cars on the side of the road in guardrails, in ditches. I saw a car on the top flipped over. Those are from last night. A lot of the ice that was accumulating on the roads had drivers in bad situations overnight. I didnt see anything fresh this morning. I called Highway Patrol because we were on our way up here and they actually just opened up lanes, were at 421 and 77, last night there were two tractortrailers or excuse me a tractortrailer that jack knifed up here, caused big delays, big backups. Also two tractortrailers that got in an accident further back i