It is and the house in the background to scale how large that tree is. Folks coming up to look at it. I talked to the crew at the scene and no damage to houses. But several branches and sticks all over the sidewalk. And traffic is getting by. But police are on scene. Those large trees part of the reason why we have had outages in the area. Look at the outage map this is the latest right now. I checked 18,000 people in our area are affected by outages. That number has continued to rise over the past 30 minutes. We will keep tracking that and looking for more images. Those Duke Energy Crews have a long night ahead of them. The storm raced across the foothills and trees ended up in homes. Thousands of people do not have power. Wbtvs Steve Ohnesorge was in the middle of the storm and his story new for you at 5 00 p. M. It did not last long, did not in just minutes some roadways were covered with water. This part of the storm raced through quickly. Check out the line between dark clouds and
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
Severe weather in louisiana. It is the same system. Tell us what you have. Striking photographs. And give you an idea how bad it is there some of our stations south are wall to wall sister stations in the louisiana area you can see that is a downed water to tower. That is a water tower on the ground in pieces and this is video we have gotten from prairieville, louisiana destruction because of the weather that moved through. We have heard of reports of downed power lines and possible tornadoes touching down in that area. Scary stuff there. We will keep our eye out for more images. And look at this, a charlotte man is cleaning up a mess. A huge treetopled on top of this and tomorrow we might see this again. More places are at risk than others. Brody oconnell is one of the neighborhoods deemed highrisk. What can you tell us . There are neighborhoods just outside of uptown charlotte that are heavily populated with old trees and homes and this morning we got a reminder how dangerous that ca
You can do right now lets get to breaking news overnight. A report says a 16yearold is hospitalized after being shot by police in salt lake city. This incident prompted on look customers begin throwing rocks. The Salt Lake Tribune report says one man said the teen had been involved in an altercation. Police told the teen to drop a stick and then opened fire when he turned. Several arrests were made and police moved protesters down the sidewalk during the unrest. Very few details have been new information were getting our first look at an officer shot in virginia during a domestic dispute. Officer was sworn in friday. She served previously. A civilian woman was killed and two others officers were shot but are being treated for their injuries a suspect is a member of the military. Authorities are still working to learn the details in that shooting and of course another investigation will follow. Well turning to campaign 2016 Hillary Clinton is a big winner in South Carolina. Her primary
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