Toxic metal. Bill string of businesses set to close down leading to public outcry. Youll find out why they are forced to pack up and move o o and what might be replacing them. People are locating them, drilling out the locks and posting it on craigslist for a great deal. Kayla cmpd receiving five calls a week of possible squatter cases all over charlotte. They take us to one neighborhood where a squatter had a history of runins with police. What neighbors did in response. Good evening and thank you for joining us for fox 46 news, im kayla ayres. Bill and im bill melugin. First on fox tonight, thousands in South Carolina, they are just learning the water theyve been drinking might have been contaminated. Kayla three different neighborhoods two, in york for the toxic metal lead. Results show up to four times above federal standards. David sentendrey spent the afternoon in one of the neighborhoods, joining us live in the studio with what neighbors had to say. Reporter hey, kayla, contamin
Most outages with more than a thousand each. Buncombe and haywood counties also have a few hundred outages as well. 3 3 we have Live Team Coverage this morning so you know what to expect as youre heading out the door. Jaclyn deaugustino has the latest in your ontime traffic report. But first lets get your current weather conditions. Ingrid . Good morning. Here is a look at Current Conditions across the region. Your day planner shows temperatures warming by noon. Coming up, ill show you our 7day forecast for both the mountains and upstate. 3 3 3 3 3 heads up for drivers in Mcdowell County us 226 south is blocked at us 64 due to downed trees avoid the area if possible. We have an update on i26 in polk county. The wreck on i26 west near the saluda exit is now clear. Traffic is still backed up in the area. Downed trees are still a problem across polk, henderson and rutherford counties. Im jaclyn 3 3 3 3 new overnight. The ice storm shut down a major North Carolina interstate overnight. Thi
A live look at i 85, a huge change from all of the nasty weather we have been dealing with the last couple days for a dry commute out there and our traffic map not showing any problems. Roads are clear. Major thoroughfares looking good and it heading into raleigh your eastbound loop on 540 from glenwood avenue to us 64 will take you 17 minutes and 440 from the i40 exit 10 minute drive. At toddler is recovering after getting shot at a home daycare and nbc17. Com durham. Wncn emma wright has new information from the Durham Police department. Reporter i talked with Durham Police and they said they had picked up a few people for questioning havent made any arrests yet. Neighborhood monday afternoon. Bullet holes in the siding of 1508 great bend dr. Of the only sign something bad happened here present for she thought it was firecrackers but when she saw the bullets and debris she grabbed the kids and hit the floor with the babies. She does her neighbor ran a date care center in trying to sa
Precipitation, snow and ice gives the greatest danger in charlotte with the weather maker. A layer of snow, a coating of freezing rain on top of that snow. This all starts overnight sunday night into monday and all of us will start out with that snow. But the deal is warmer air working its way just above us, will melt a little bit of that, then refreezes on the ground on monday, by 6 00 or so. Changes it into a freezing rain. That will be possible across rock hill all the way up into davidson. When you get to upper Iredell County including statesville to taylorsville, morganton, that is where well see pretty much a steady snowfall. The top one looks to be ice, just because the snowfall may not have a lot of time to accumulate our futurecast sets the stage overnight tonight as the temperatures drop down to low teens and lower 20s. The cold will stay with us all the way through sunday as that weathermaker gets close. Its after that snowfall that is going to be the even bigger danger, ill
Other issue that is were following include 77 northbound near amity hill we had an accident, now in the median. Were on the scene of this accident as well gathering more information northbound at 36 miles per hour, so still a little slow. So 21 heading up through troutman up through statesville should be used. 85 southbound we have the inside left lane blocked with an accident involving a tractor trailer just south of highway 152 from china grove. Very minimal impact expected with this accident at this time. Lots of room still to move around. And then in east shaferlt we have this. This is a roadway thats blocked because of standing water. This happening at hawthorne lane just north of central avenue. In the meantime youll have to avoid this intersection just north of it, use the plaza as john. We have some breaking news right now. All lanes are 77 just opened back up after freezing rain caused several crashes in both yeah. Trapping hundreds of drivers for at least five hours overnight