The citys Minor League Baseball team. Well have more on the location later in the hour. The big story on the city, President Trump was also here in charlotte addressing the Republican National convention after officially securing the delegate meeting to be formally nominated for a second term. President trump i want to thank the people of North Carolina, to be honest with you, i felt an obligation to be here. You have a governor in a total shutdown mood. I guarranty on november 4th. It will all open up. You know these democrats governors they love shutdown until after the election is over because they want to make sure numbers look as bad as possible. Reporter president moved on from the Convention Center to other parts of North Carolina. This hour he is headed to South Carolina before flying back to washington where there will be more Convention Action this evening. This state might very well be a mustwin for mr. Trump if he wants to serve 4 00 more years at the white house. Last time
There is nothing i can do. I got to bury my child. I havent even seen him yet. Reporter his mother said he had been at the party less than 0 minutes when this incident happened. She says she moved her three sons here from new york city to North Carolina because she felt like it was a safe are place. Now, we talked with his attorney extensively, the familys attorney, and he says there is carolina that cover this is specific situation. Somebody shooting from within their home outside into a crowd that is in the street. He also believes these 911 tapes where copley talked about what he was going to do and then talked about what he did are going to be critical in prosecuting this case. Such emotion coming from that mother, that family today. Thank you so much. State authorities are investigating the death of a florida woman killed in a Police Simulation this week. Were supposed to be loaded with blanks but somehow live ammunition made its way into the gun that fired the fatal shots. It hap
Firefighters are there. Cruises have arrived. They are taking a defensive approach to fighting this right now given the magnitude of these flames that you are seeing in these live pictures. The flames are just shooting there. Part of the homes roof has collapsed as well. As far as we know, there are no injuries. Well continue to bring you updates in our next hour of wral news on fox 50. An update our breaking news this morning out of washington, d. C. It was a fire Officials Say roughly 30 people including three firefighters have been injured and seven people are unaccounted for after a large fire and a collapse at an apartment complex. The missing include men, women, children. The injuries are not thought to be lifethreatening at this point although some are serious an they do involve burns which is to be expected at a fire like this. Can you see the flames. This appears to be cell phone into our newsroom. The fire is in silver spring, maryland happening around midnight with an explos
See there briefly, there is his car and there is the log truck. He said he just pulled up to the scene not long ago as well. There was another officer investigating, he left to be with the driver who was taken to the hospital. The drivers injuries are not known. The trooper said he just got here, doing an investigation, not too clear exactly what happened of why the driver overturned but like i said it is foggy, dark, be still no clearcut conclusion of how that driver overturned his log truck but nonetheless, it is overturned you can see there but no lanes are blocked going in either direction, no logs scattered across the road. There is one car off in the median, the state trooper told me the car did knick one of the logs that fell off the truck but other than that, no injuries other than the driver of the log truck being taken to the hospital. Ill be out here trying to get more answers as soon as i do ill update you on air and online at wbtv. Com. Reporting live in Iredell County, As
Blue for the panthers. Kristen who what wont be neglected iswhat wont beneglected is the beautiful weather. Lyndsay it is not that cold this morning in the mid to upper 40s as of the 5 00 hour, already starting out the day on a little bit of a milder note relatively speaking, already had clouds move in overnight by the time the sun comes up a partly to mostly cloudy sky, however since were starting out in the upper 40s we shouldnt have trouble reaching the low 60s, mid 60s some areas. Warm despite the clouds. Some of you could have an outside shower chance, well talk about where and the rest of the weekend forecast. Kristen secretly we have already started product testing. Lyndsay very mysterious. Kristen well check back in with new a few. The driver of a pickup rushed to the hospital after an accident in south charlotte. South tryon. The driver was speeding down the interstate when he lost control of the vehicle, overturned and ended up on the opposite side of the freeway. He was thro