Within the past five minutes. It is 39 in charlotte. 40 rockingham. 39 chesterfield. A little cooler to start the day off. If youre heading out early, grab a light jacket but well see a lot of sunshine today and temperatures will warm into the low 60s. It will feel good if youre standing underneath the sunshine. A major warm up this week. Ill pinpoint when some neighborhoods could get close to 80 degrees. This morning, this tow truck driver is charged for shooting a truck opener after he booted his vehicle. We first broke this story yesterday morning. Tina terry went to the south Charlotte Community where this happened and talked to neighbors who are still shocked that this happened. Reporter i called the victim in that shooting. He did not want to talk about this on camera. However, neighbors here are outraged. They tell us they want to know what led up to all of this. To come in here and tow people and without really knowing who these people are is the scariest part. Reporter residen
Its a subsidiary of centra. Theyve failed for bankruptcy on a project to build a lane from austin to san antonio. We learned ncdot secretary nick tennison is heading to austin monday to meet with texas dot to review legal and Financial Options with i77 Mobility Partners Business Model and current contract with the state of North Carolina. I77 Mobility Partners is a sister subsidiary of the Texas Company facing financial trouble. Weve also reported another centra subsidiary in indiana filed for bankruptcy in 2014 after taking control of a toll road there. This all leaves us asking what happens to the project that would run from here in uptown all the way up to mooresville on i77, and will the state cancel the contract . Many Community Leaders and drivers have not liked from the beginning. Im working on getting those answers today. Jenna deery, channel 9 eyewitness news. Now weve covered the you can see the previous efforts to stop the plan and why leaders pushed ahead with it. Search fo
Band one moves out. The high country will see off and on snow all night long. Itll only wind down first thing tomorrow morning. Thats good news. Threat tracker for the high country, snow will fall leading to slick roads. If youre in dallas North Carolina a viewer in dallas North Carolina sent us this video. A brief snow shower quickly turned to rain. We have a resort cam in blowing rock tracking snow there. You can see a little bit building up on the grass there and next to the tree. The snow has been falling there lightly for two hours. I tracked the storm over night and on your apple and Android Phone with the wsoctv weather app and use the interactive street. For the last hour, Eyewitness News has investigated the project to build toll lanes on i77. We asked whether or not taxpayers will be on the hook if the projects Parent Company faces money trouble and look deeper at the growing political impact on the race for governor. If the toll critics win and stop the project. Transportati
Kristen do you want me to come off the box . Lyndsay i like that better. Im used to being a tinny bit taller than you. We have the weekend upon us, kind of humid, felt like spring all week, we havent had humidity, started to come up a little more so today youll notice it more. Muggy with the higher humidity and temperatures in the 70s. Cloudy, does that mean a lot of rain . Not necessarily, shower Chance Holding 20 , it is not overly wet tomorrow different story. Were seeing things turn more unsettled for the second half of the weekend. Talk about the weekend forecast in a few minutes. Kristen a looming deadline for voters in North Carolina who want to cast their ballots early. You have until 1 00 today to if you dont participate in early voting you have to wait until election day, this coming tuesday, the primary day. Donald trump and Hillary Clinton continue to lead the two major parties in the president ial election. Donald trump is responding to a controversy. He didnt want people
Out the results of a controversial Student Assignment survey to a packed room. It was slightly skewed, to say the least. New at 11 00, weve been digging through hundreds of pages and we learned what is most important to cms parents. Thousands of people took the survey hoping their voice will be heard when it comes to Student Assignment. Im scott wickersham. And im erica bryant. Dug through those survey results in just the past few hours. D ashawn. Reporter erica, a huge part of this meeting was making sure Community Members had a chance to see those survey results for themselves. More than 27,000 people responded and tonight they also moved the meeting time back, just so those who wanted to be here could attend this meeting. Now for the first hour, cms policy Committee Members went through Student Assignment goals for the 2017 school year. They compare those goals to members broke down with three as. Assumptions, agreements, and arguments. Now what most came to see were the results of