Accident at the utility pole. You cannot access little rock this morning. Youll have to use wilkerson boulevard as the alternate route. Use Mulberry Church to the billy graham parkway heading west because you cant get through. Well continue to watch. Well have live pictures. The interstate is looking good. 20 minutes from gastonia and the overnight construction we had a couple of lane closures at alamada creek church. That wrapped up at 5 00 this morning. Right now im in the breaking news Center Following a county. Look at this video we 15 minutes ago. Smoldering. Look at that thick smoke right here. Since we told you about the fire at 4 30, we have learned it started after someone left food on the stove. Everyone inside the duplex was firefighters were able to the red cross is on the scene to help those people who live there. A major story well be following for your day ahead that will impact thousands of voters across North Carolina. State lawmakers will hold two crucial votes today.
Related to other cases in the area. This is in lincoln county, there are two confirmed cases of adults with the virus. One in mecklenburg. The other in iredell county. Six more people are being monitored for the virus. Including one person from dah cabarrus county. Channel 9 is continuing to ask Health Officials for more information. Well bring you updates today at 5 00. In the past hour, a former Mecklenburg County employee who tried to have her exhusband killed will spend a decade behind bars. Eyewitness News Reporter angela hong just stepped out of the courtroom for us where she heard from several people who asked the judge for leniency in this case. Angela . Reporter there were several supporters there. She appeared before a judge wearing a burgundy suit and in braids. She expressed remorse and regret for what happened and what she did. Davis was kicked of hiring hit those hit men were actually Undercover Police officers. Now davis had a group of supporters who came to her sentenci
Use wilkerson boulevard as the alternate route if you typically head east, take tuckaseegee road to wilkerson and if you head west towards little rock, take Mulberry Church west. Update here, 485 outer loop. We have an accident scene. Minor delay as youre making your way through. It is not blocking any travel lanes. These on looker delays only. Cold temperatures this morning but this may end up being the last morning we see temperatures near freezing. 33 charlotte. Shelby is down to 29. Chesterfield 28 degrees. The chill will be in place to quickly. Later this morning, were in the low 40s by nine. Mid to upper 50s return today. We keep the beautiful sunshine we enjoyed yesterday. This weekend we may start to sunshine. Well show you the new data it but no big rain chances as of yet. Stephanie . Breaking news this morning, everyone inside a duplex in Gaston County got out safely after an overnight fire. You can see the house was smoldering. This was two hours after the fire started. It s
You can jump on Beatties Ford or i77 but something to look out for. Drive Time Technology showing both interstates rolling along. 85 from the University Area. Near 70 miles an hour heading the interchange. 77 southbound. If youre coming from north lake towards uptown charlotte. 63 miles an hour and about a nineminute commute. John . Breaking news right now, duke energy restored power to more than 1,000 customers overnight. But still about 800 without power right now after wednesdays storm. It will be tonight before everyone you see on this map here gets their power back on. You can see most of those outages, theyre centralized in south charlotte. That is where were seeing the bulk of it. Duke energy says yesterdays strong wind delayed the crews because they werent able to safely go up in the bucket trucks to make the repairs because the wind was whipping so hard. They made it a priority to restore power to several schools that closed yesterday because of power outages. Governor pat mcc
Before offering tips to help travelers navigate another hectic travel season leaders with Charlotte Douglas International Airport took the time to address this mornings terrorist attacks overseas. We offer our deepest condolences to the victims and the families of the victims who have to deal with this tragedy. Officials expect spring travel to kick into high gear thursday. More passengers means longer lines. While it appears theres no immediate threat here in charlotte, cmpd says its working closely with the f. B. I. To make sure they are on top of potential threats. Every week we have a security meeting here at the airport that involves all of the federal and state and local agencies just to compare notes and make sure that we have all our dots checked and people where we need to be. Travelers will notice security in place also there are things going on behind the scenes that people do not see. Also, people are encouraged to speak up if something does not seem right. See something Sa