Construction zone so far, so good. Were looking at your drive times in the area. If youre coming down, yesterday, we saw an hour coming down from mooresville into huntersville. Right now. Currently. It is just nine minutes from 150 heading down towards sam furr at 65 miles an hour. As issues come up, well update you on channel 9 and twitter. Follow me this morning at traffic team nine. I77 is becoming really a constant headache for drivers who not only have to deal with toll construction but also a growing number of crashes. We tell you about the crashes on a regular basis they are happening between gilead and sam furr in mecklenburg county. Weve investigated the efforts to keep everyone safe . The problem is they cant move some of them because of the channel 9 learned there have been more than 600 crashes on i77 in 2016. There were 228 crashes on the stretch through charlotte, 40 in february, and 162 crashes in march already. That is double the amount of crashes on i85. According to t
Cooler after a record high yesterday of 86. We cooled back to 40s this morning. That is impressive. 43 albemarle. 54 charlotte. 30s in the mountains to begin the day. But nothing in the way of the morning drive on this st. Patricks day. We warm back up into the mid 50s by 9 00. Still in the mid70s but that is about 10 degrees cooler than yesterday. We have begun the step down process. Its slow for now. We will show you how it will pick up with even cooler weather into the weekend straight ahead. I am in the breaking news center right now continuing to follow a developing story. Channel 9 is the only crew at this scene where state police are investigating a deputy involved shooting. Lets go to the live look from boat landing road between wadesboro and rockingham. All you can see is this sheriff squad car blocking they are keeping us off the road away investigators tell us around 11 00 last night a deputy shot a suspect. That person was flown to Carolinas Medical Center in charlotte. We
My life, other than lynn agreeing to marry me 28 years ago. Reporter one of his daughters missed the moment out in the mountmountains. He grew up in chicago. As a federal prosecutor, he led that team that brought Oklahoma City bomber to trial and often tough on criminals. Ideologically, hes min middle and maybe a little to the left. Reporter at 63, hes the oldest Supreme Court nominee in nearly 50 years but when nominated for the federal Appeals Court in 1997, he was confirmed 7623 with 32 republican votes. A point the administration now emphasizes. I simply ask republicans in the senate to give him a fair hearing. Republicans continue to say they wont even consider it because the next president should make that choice. The decision the senate announced weeks ago remains about a principal, not a person. Reporter so far even a few republicans have said they would meet with garland. I would not feel comfortable refusing to meet with the president s nominee to the high highest court in th
Not much currently in place to keep them against criminal actionance gangs there was a gang of one program that was shut down after a loss of federal funding. The group was run by cmpd and had an 8 member staff and worked oneonone with atrisk teens. So far, there have been no programs to fill that void. You can find out more about last nights arrests and the recent string of crimes in charlotte related to teenagers by going online to wsoctv. Com. Look for jims story there on home page. Major breaking news happening in belmont. Firefighters on the scene of a house fire here on clay street chopper 9 got this and being see the home has been gutted by the fire. Eyewitness News Reporter ken lemon spoke to crews who say there were people inside when the fire began but the people did make it out safely. You see firefighters hosing down the husk of the house right now. But it locks like it was very looks like it was very involved and the home has been gutted by fire. But we are hearing no one
Murdered Authorities Say 20 others injured. A friend of mine was when the victims shot shes been transported the sacred heart thats all we know at this time the bullet did mr. Splined the country a lot of muscle to issue. Reporter the number of injured killed has changed the chef just told and it upheld a News Conference her numbers the same time that the seven are injured. Former president of the Community College has said the school had no formal security staff just one officer on a shift in one apparently was won the biggest debate on campus last year the question was and was pothos are and Security Officers to respond to a shooting. The the catherine we frustrated president a bomb a call for common sense gun laws in the wake of the shooting today. He says that the u. S. Is becoming numb to Mass Shootings and perpetrators have sickness in their minds. We donot know yet while this individual did what he did and fair to say anyone who does this has a success in their mind. Regardless