Today, we may find slick travel into the mountains. Well talk about that coming up. The morning drive, well see a few flakes flying. Temperatures near freezing as we work our way through this morning. Ill have the futurecast timeline for what very little will add up. Weather and traffic every ten minutes. 5 01. Over to mark taylor. See what is happening on the roads this morning. Were monitoring independence boulevard heading inbound. We have the right lane blocked with the busted water pipe that is closing the right lane later this morning, were expecting that to have a bitter effect right now. It is not having a huge impact but youll still use Central Street from monroe. Right now were at 55 miles an hour. We have an accident in south charlotte, minor delays expected here but stick with it. It is providence road over by wendover road. Right now were following breaking news in Catawba County. Maiden police shot and killed a man after they say he lunged at them with a knife. Eyewitness
Was a senator tamed john tower. And he led that in the sense that in the sense of his election in 1961. John tower was the first republican elected to be a u. S. Senator from texas since the reconstruction era after the civil war. John taurower served as a republican in the senate for more than 20 years. He ended up making history after his time in the senate when he became the only nominee for secretary of defense who has ever been rejected by the United States senate. George h. W. Bush poppy bush, nominated john tower to be defense secretary in january 1989, and the senate remarkably, said no. His nomination was basically doomed by multiple reports of alleged inappropriate behavior by him toward both women and alcohol. He told the ngoc times, when the senate rejected him, quote, have i ever drunk to excess . Yes. Am i alcohol dependent . No. Have i always been a good boy . Of course not. But had it not been for that historymaking failed nomination to be defense secretary, the senate