Fridays Early Morning carjacking is one of the many Shootings Police are investigating this week. If you live in a neighborhood where there is a shooting and the police tell you it was not random, this is a drug deal gone bad which 50 of the home invasions are it does not make you feel better. You are still next door to a house that has bullets flying through the windows. It is not fair. The police chief has made a request for more officers and staff. Coming up hear more from the chair of that Community Safety committee about the chiefs request and the likelihood he will get what he asks for. Pamela escobar wbtv on your side. Thank you. Now that tells you more about the stolen car it is a toyota camry with a South Carolina tag lbw133. And this is the latest in a string of Violent Crimes here. Tuesday six people injured in four shootings. Yesterday, a person was killed and two others hurt in a followed by todays carjack. Right now two gastonia neighborhoods are on high alert after child
The 70s. 79 right now in charlotte. 76 in salisbury and 79 in rock hill. Temperatures they are still definitely on the warm side through the next several hours. Here is where we are going. Temperatures in the upper 70s. And we will talk about the rainfall and our thunderstorm potential in a little bit. Thank you. Now is a good time to download the wbtv weather app to track rain and storms in the Firstalert Weather Team. There is a feature that will tell you when lightning strikes near you. The app is free search wbtv in the app stores. Six people cited at Donald Trumps Campaign Event in hickory. Charges ranged from Disorderly Conduct to obstruction. Christian flores was at the event and joins us live. Christian what was the general tone of the rally . Well, brigida, as you can imagine there was a lot of excitement. Excitement was not erupted by protestors who disrupted the rally three times. One group sat in front of media row shouting after trumps first reference to building a wall on
I do not have the capacity or the ability to put people under oath or to subpoena any information or documents. When it comes to the affairs will local government how much does the public have a right it know . We need to think about the rights of privacy and protection. Dr. Freeman is the dean of Knight School of communications at keeps university. And transparency maybe an issue he says not all documents are fair game. The hr divisions of most of the institutions city or county are bound to state statutes that protect those personnel records for very specific reasons to protect their personnel. Councilmembers plan to move forward with their inquiry. It is also very focused in the scope of who did receive that memo. And where it was originated. So i think there is a way to move this. While councilmembers have Center Tonight they are here for a Zoning Ordinance to talk about his episode it will show up on the agenda as an item next monday night when they have their regular business mee
38 in monroe, 40 charlotte, salisbury, 32 statesville, 36 hickory, close to freezing shelby and albermarle, below that for boone and morganton. This afternoon, a real nice one. Mostly sunny skies. Wind up at 67. Hit 60 both days of the weekend, tack on six to eight degrees to that today, should be a nice day coming up. Let you know when we get in the 70s, also the next opportunity for rain, that part of the forecast in a couple minutes, back over to you. John thanks, al. Following breaking news overnight in union county. Troopers with the North Carolina Highway Patrol say a driver was killed in a crash on north ridge road. Happened before 11 30 last not. The driver lost control, hit a tree and overturned. The name of the victim will be released when family is notified. Were learning more about a Good Samaritan hit and killed by another driver as he was trying to help someone stranded on the interstate in mecklenburg county. It happened early yesterday the Highway Patrol says 26yearold
To 40 shelby, gastonia, charlotte, cloud cover thicker, winds up more, not quite so cold, again the sun doesnt come up now until 7 30, we have a lot of time where we can fall off. Temperatures tonight or today getting back up to 58 degrees this afternoon, below average but improvement over yesterday. We should see a lot of sunshine today. Keep in mind, much colder tonight in the charlotte area, we have freeze watches and frost advisories in effect. Ill break that down in the seven day planner in a couple minutes. Back over to you. John thanks, al. Were working to learn more about two driverses who were killed in a headon crash on i485 in south charlotte. Troopers say the crash happened at 2 00 yesterday morning. One of the drivers going the wrong way on the highway. Wbtvs Christian Flores spoke to neighbors who say they are surprised crashes like this dont happen more often in the area. Happens a lot. Reporter the family is used to hearing about accidents. Daily. Gets chopped up during