Youre coming off i85. Looking at independence expressway, volume of traffic here in center city beginning to heat up just a bit. Lets look at the drive times, coming up from rock hill, 21 minutes, 64 miles an hour. Concord to center city, 17 minute commute, speeds there in the upper 60s and lake norman southbound at 15 minutes and 65 miles an hour. Looking at the overall charlotte commute, most of our major interstates continuing to run in the green and including 485, 77 and 85. Were seeing slow downs now outbound providence road over toward wt harris, albermarle and heavier now around the arboretum area. That is a check of traffic, john, back to you. John this morning a state of emergency declared in North Carolina as areas recover from this weeks severe weather. Governor pat mccrory says the primary problem right now is the number of Power Outages across the state. Now at the peak of the storm, more than 122,000 customers lost power. Mainly in mecklenburg, gaston and forsyth counties
This is the feldman murder case we are told by our coleen harry that sources are saying the suspect in the case of the murder of that 82yearold woman is her son. Police are expected to release new information about the case in a News Conference this afternoon. You will remember in 2014 feldman was found dead in her home on Torrey Pines Court. And she was beaten and strangled and she was 82. That News Conference is scheduled for 5 30 p. M. At cmpd headquarters we will be watching it and bring you the latest details. A lot of people involved. Anticipating something. Right now snow in the North Carolina mountains. Our neighbors here in the charlotte area are cleaning up the mess yesterdays storms left behind people in the mountains are dealing with a blast of Winter Weather. Lets get you straight over to chief meterologist, eric thomas in the first alert weather center. Yeah, and that big storm continues to drift off to the north and the wind field winds into the viewing area especially t
Is anybodys guess. We are now waiting to see whether or not the Supreme Court will issue a stay of the ruling that the state asked for to get them through the primary. It seems either way, the committee will meet again tomorrow afternoon. Reporting at the legislature in raleigh, Nick Ochsner Wbtv on your side. Today the plaintiffs in the case submitted documents to the Supreme Court arguing why justices should not grant a stay for North Carolina. We will let you know as soon as we hear of any decision. Right now, buford, South Carolina a rally for donald trump is about to start. Trump and other republican candidates for president are crisscrossing the state before the republican primary that happens on saturday. A new poll from Public Policy polling gives donald trump a commanding lead. He received 35 of support from likely primary voters in South Carolina. Ted cruz and marco rubio both received 18 . And 7 for jeb bush and ben carson. The poll shows plenty of people are willing to chan
Well, discussion about the fire was not listed on the agenda, but neighbors say they are hopebut neighbors say they are hoping to have their voices heard. It was at the center of a controversy whether to turn it down. Expect a full update on what happened inside that meeting tonight on wbtv news at 11 00. Well, what would you do if you found out your child was discovered by a stranger walking down i77 . It happened to a charlotte mother. Somehow her 7th grader walked out of Lincoln Heights academy and made it all the way to the interstate. The woman reached out to us to get answers about how this unfolded. Wbtvs education reporter Devin Russell has more details now on primetime. Reporter a call this mother was not prepared for. I was scared. I was nervous. Reporter here is the reason for the call. 13yearold son, jatan prost had an incident that caused the 7th grader to get upset. So upset he wanted to leave school. I got my stuff and i said i was going to go. All right, bye. So i walke
Planner in a few minutes. Youre never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic on wbtv news this morning. Here is chris, first alert traffic. Chris al, traffic is sponsored by toyota of north charlotte. No problems early out there on thursday morning if youre getting ready start the morning commute. Looking live at i77 near the rest area coming off the South Carolina state line, volume very light. Rock hill to uptown, 21 minutes, concord to center city, 18 minute commute. Lake norman southbound, 16 at 64 miles an hour. Mapping system giving us a green light on all of the major highways. That includes providence road, independence boulevard, albermarle all running in the green this morning. That is a first check of traffic, guys, back over to you. Christine in five hours, state lawmakers will meet in raleigh for a special session to approve a redrawn map for the states Congressional Districts. Republican lawmakers releasing this proposed map yesterday, and has Significant I