If theres any stretch of interstate that will be a hotbutton issue in the governors race, it will be this one. 26 miles from uptown charlotte to mooresville. The governors route for solving the traffic hassles hit a roadblock. A subsidiary of cintra, the private Company Building the i77 toll lane has just filed for bankruptcy. On this road project in texas. And that prompted governor pat mccrory to send North Carolinas dot secretary to the lone star state. His mission, find out what these are separate corporate entities, some should have been successful, others have not. I have to make sure our taxpayers are protected with regard to this action. In texas, im going to make sure we do a thorough review of that. Reporter the group opposing known as widen i77 wonders if mccrorys move is just for show. Struck us as a bolt out of the blue. Were wondering whether hes sending the secretary to actually figure out a way to cancel this contract or whether this is all for form. Reporter the ncdot
Share his picture at wsoctv. Com and our facebook page. Most of us are under a freeze warning. Keith monday is tracking how low temperatures will fall again tonight. We have a perfect set up for a night thats colder than we saw this morning which was the mid 30s in charlotte. We may drop another five degrees by tomorrow morning maybe even getting below freezing for a while. We have very clear conditions, barely a cloud to be found. The wind is gusting a little bit but it is calming down. Once the clear sky and light winds combine setting up for a cold night ahead from charlotte to the foothills we are under a freeze warning through 9 00 am tomorrow morning. South you have a frost advisory. You may not get as cold. Frost like you had this morning will be around again. For most of us, temperatures will drop quickly well down to the mid to upper 40s by 10 00, mountains are getting to the freezing point. I will show you what you will wake up to tomorrow morning and when the next rain chanc
Valley, harmony, stoney point, we might have a black ice situation overnight t. Rainfall is still coming down in charlotte. Its less than it was. Heavier out to the east. Now pushing making more progress up to the east. And norwood, thats going to be the next spot between now and midnight. Were finally starting to see the edge of this rain move on and advance a little more, so that will be moving on orrnight and on overnight. But with these temperatures dropping down, we are going to fall down to or below freezing just north of charlotte. The areas i would be concerned about a hard freeze will be in upper iron dale county. It is not our first brush in with freezing temperatures over the next couple days. One coming up. Meteorologist christine will be tracking the temperatures overnight. A gunman is still on the run after a former cmd dispatcher was found shot in charlotte. He was near businesses and restaurants. Today Eyewitness News reporter elsa gillis talked to neighbors about the f
John right now showers winding down. Don says some areasrace to fight it is taking center stage at u. N. C. Chapel hill. John the verbal insults a new low in the g. O. P. Debate. Good morning, carolina, welcome on on this friday march 4, 6 01 and 37 degrees. Im john clark. Barbara im barbara gibbs. Kind of chilly and damp morning as we look over Downtown Durham but theres plenty of like at the end of this tunnel. Here is meteorologist Don Schwenneker with the weather and traffic together. Don good morning to you. We have a little bit of lit drizzle in spots. Most of the rain shifting well to the east. A live look at first alert doppler xp and you can see the heaviest rain pushing well east of the viewing area out of nash and wilson counties and that is about it. Temperatures across the region running in the 30s this we have dropped below freezing in roxboro at 31. 33 oxford. 40 favorite. 37 goldsboro ends a 36 wilson. Looking at the day ahead 36 now and patchy rain. Still in the east.
Hornets taking on the Indiana Pacers, that is 7 00 at Time Warner Cable arena. Looking at the mapping system most of the majors running in the green, 485, 85 out of gastonia look good. Concord, kannapolis commute running smoothly. Out of lake norman still in the green, southbound on 77. Check of drive times, leaving matthews, for uptown, 13 minutes, 47milesperhour. Providence road from the arboretum area at 16 minute, concord to center city, 17 minutes at 71milesperhour. John, over to you. John breaking news now out of northwest charlotte, right now police are investigating a smash and grab burglary at a rite aid on belhaven boulevard. This happened just within the last couple hours. Wbtvs Ashton Pellom is joining us now live at the scene, so ashton, what can you tell us . Reporter hey, good morning, john, what i can tell you whoever committed this crime left the mess. Police tell me this happened around 3 30 this morning. Zoom in so you can get a better look what im looking at right h