Talked about his plan to use wall street to pay for college tuition. Our job is to create the best educated society in the world. Not a country that has more people in jail. Now, sanders wrapped up and will head to st. Louis next on the campaign trail and made two stops in ohio today. Much more from the rally at wbtv news at 11 00. Michael clark wbtv on your side. Thank you. And sanders is hoping for an upset here in North Carolina. The most recent poll from Public Policy polling gives Hillary Clinton a lead over sanders 56 to 37 . But a poll sponsored by High Point University gives sanders the advantage among voters under 35. 60 compared to 30 for clinton. Hillary clinton is headed into charlotte and spent the States Holding primaries tomorrow. Clinton says she is the right candidate to take on donald trump. Being well prepared to take on the not only wrongheaded statements but the dangerous ones that he has put out, that will hurt our country around the world because i was secretary
It is 50 in rock hill and wadesboro. 47 albemarle and hickory. Boone, you can make snow, 33, it is chilly. Everybody is cold tonight. We have a freeze watch for all the areas in blue until 9 00 tomorrow morning. Temperatures close to freezing. Highest elevation dont have that. You are in the path of having those really cold temperatures at night. The south, this includes richmond county, union, South Carolina, chesterfield, lancaster, a frost advisory in effect until 9 00 tomorrow morning. Pretty close to freezing. Everyone needs to bring in plants you have outside. If you have tried to put them out early, time to bring them back in. We will warm up. Tonight is cold. Beautiful afternoon. We will talk about where we from from. Anchor the Union County School board is trying to find its next superintendent. Current superintendent announced her retirement earlier this month. The board decided to skip a search firm. Instead they will let the North Carolina School Board Association pick the
Difference in the way union county is searching for their superintendent than they are in charlottemecklenburg schools . Reporter yeah, john, there is a big difference, actually. The board decided to skip a search firm, that is the direction cms is going in. They will let the National North Carolina School Board Association pick their candidates for them in union county. Now, this morning we may find out if the association has any kind of short list. Special meeting to discuss the Superintendent Search is taking place at 11 00 this morning in union county. School Board Members say the one thing they learned from cms is getting the process started instead of putting it off any longer. Some Board Members wanted to have a new leader in place in union county by next year but in the end, the board voted to decide no time line, they want to make sure they get it right in union county. New hire will replace dr. Mary ellis, who will retire on june 1st. Well let you know what comes from this me
A group fight being the i 77 toll lanes will present their findings into how the toll lanes operate. The widen i77 meeting comes after a company filed for bankruptcy in texas last month. The group there was separate from the one that state leaders took. Widen isphefnt i i 77s that it would hurt traffic. Count on channel 9 to have the latest in cornelius at 10 00 and 11 00 on Eyewitness News. Within the past hour, councilwoman alma adams announced she is running for re election with a big surprise. Not only am i running for re election but i started the process of moving to the queen state. Adams currently represents district 12 which was when lawmakers redrew the congressional map. A man accused of breaking into firefighters vehicles across our area is facing new charges. Johnny bing is facing breaking and entering charges in iredell county. Deputies say that he broke into a car while firefighters were sleeping. Bing was already facing charges in charlotte, rock hill, and rowan countie
15 swat members were training a mile away when the initial call came out. No word to describe it. Within two minutes we had cars lined up down the street. Theyre looking out for you. That luck didnt run out. We were with deputies as they searched a 3 4 of a mile trail through the neighborhood looking for the weapon. They found the air soft pistol in woods behind a tree. He denied knowing anything about the pistol or what happened. Keep that for your answer. Get that camera out of my face or im going to spit on it. Fortunately he didnt spit on me. Hes locked up under a 50,000 dollar bond tonight. Reporting live from hickory, dave faherty, channel 9 Eyewitness News. Now dave was tweeting pictures from the scene all morning long. You can follow him, fahertywsoc9. A breaking story out of greenville south carolina. Killed in the line of ty. Earlier at 5 00 we told you the shooting happened while the officer was out serving a warrant. The suspect later shot and killed himself. We have new in