Blowing rock. Coming up at 6 00, well talk about how fast you can get hypothermia and frostbite. Live in blowing rock, john ahrens, channel 9 Eyewitness News. Get back in the truck well see you at 6 00. Stay with our Team Coverage. Continuing at 6 00, soldiers stuck in the snow, the mistake they made trying to get to an area ski resort. If you have any questions about the wintery conditions in your neighborhood, join us on facebook. Meteorologist Christine Rapp is live chatting on the weather page now. Hours ago, this student faced a judge after police found him with a gun on his school bus. Tonight were asking the school if he had it with him on campus and around other students. Tina terry has been pushing for those answers and talked to concerned students. Yeah alison, police couldnt say for sure but they say he could have had that gun here at Myers Park High School for several days. He was caught yesterday student spotted him with it on a school bus. I didnt hear anything about it.
Slick roads all morning long. On top of breaking news. Updating us live with the clean up. I just got done talking with the Highway Patrol here in catawba county. They tell me right now theyre currently working nine different wrecks along a two mile stretch of interstate 40 near the claremont avenue. You can see one of those wrecks where a tractor trailer went from the eastbound lanes across into the westbound lanes. All of this being blamed on that freezing rain thats formed black ice on the ways here. Like these accidents along highway 31 south of hickory. Firefighters scrambled to get to one driver after another. I hit the icy patch on the bridge there. And thats all she wrote. Fish tailed. Tore my hail hitch off. We could see the problems on txus held in the low 20s this morning. They responded to dozens wrecks in a few hours. Yall be careful. Thats all im telling you. Yall really better be careful. The d. O. T. Used brine on the black ice along highway 321. But part of the afterno
You can see it. Back to you. Thank you dave, still ahead at 5 00, john ahrens is live at blowing rock, the impact the dangerous windchills are having on the people there. If you want to know more about the freeze headed for your neighborhood tonight, christine rapp. Is live chatting on facebook right now. Breaking news in gastonia where firefighters rescued a worker after he fell into a 12 foot hole. Chopper 9 sky zoom was over this construction site as the crews used a fire truck to lift the worker out on a stretcher. Eyewitness News Reporter alexa ash well is live on the ground and just got an update on his condition. Alexa . Reporter well, scott, erica, were told that man is expected to survive. Crews told us they were trying to remove concrete from in front of this old building you see here when a portion of the concrete gave way. Years old plunged 12 feet down the hole to the ground. Crews couldnt believe their eyes and some ran through the door you see here to get to the basement
Has been monitoring issues. Well have an update with angela on independence boulevard. Were dealing with an accident in south charlotte in westinghouse boulevard. Minor delays expected here if youre headed out, use caution. The interstates, were at 62 miles an hour coming in from carowinds boulevard. 13minute ride so the traffic flow is still light for the most part. On 77, approaching the brookshire freeway from la salle. Smooth sailing. Lots of room to move around, also, northbound, folks heading up towards iredell county. Breaking news out of Catawba County, officers shot and killed a man who they say lunged at them with a knife. In the past 30 minutes, channel 9 spoke to the Maiden Police chief about the incident. Eyewitness News Reporter joe bruno is live at home on old park road where this all unfolded overnight . Reporter it is kind of too dark to see right now, difficult to see, but police say 35yearold Elijah Jackson was down this driveway on old park road in maiden. We shot t
Been here since 10 00 this morning when we got here. This event is going on behind us. These are people that are against the ordinance. At an event against the ordinance. There are also people supporting it inside as both sides try to get their message out hours before this crucial vote. Faith and Business Leaders supporting the lgbt ordinance met outside the Government Center this morning. Equipped with boxes of petitions and letters ready to hand deliver to council. We need to step up to the plate and say all of gods children need to be equally respected and protected. They couldnt get outside without an opponent crashing their photo opp. Hoping to sway the public against an ordinance they call unchristian. Its not going to stop here. This is another steppingstone in the wrong direction. You cant make a moral wrong a civil right. The tension today is just a lightning rod issue from an ordinance presented as a means to protect the Lgbt Community from discrimination in various places.