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
Improvement. Here is that story. This is a major breakthrough. Marin county no longer homeds the title for one of the highest rates of Breast Cancer in the world. The late 1990s and early the rate skyrocketed. What researchers discovered was a strong correlation between the use of hormone replacement therapy and Breast Cancer diagnosis. Marin county women were more likely to seek the treatment to manage symptoms of menopause and other factors including waiting longer to have children were shown to increase risks for the disease. However, since the study was released, the rates started to decline and now the Cancer Prevention institute of california reports a 31 percent drop in new Breast Cancer cases since 2001, while represented deaths in the county dropped by 65 percent since 1998. Researchers say though will saw a drop in hormone replacement use and subsequently a drop in Breast Cancer rate across the state. And the cup. This morning, investigators in the north bay want to talk to s
Fares on a formula set below the inflation rate. The Transit Agency estimates the increase is through 2020 raises 325 million. California Highway Patrol is asking Drone Operators to be careful after a helicopter had a chose call over the weekend. The c. H. P. Helicopter crew was over highway 4 on saturday and they encounter add red light was guiding lights from a white drone flying at 800 pilot. The pilot and the spotter followed the drone to martinez where it latched and they called the local police and his name was handed over to the f. A. A. For action. F. B. I. Is continuing to investigate the San Bernardino rampage that killed 14 the president addressed the nation from the oval office. The threat from terrorism is real but we will overcome it. We will destroy isil and any other organization that tries to harm us. The approach was outlined to fight the new phase of terrorism calling on congress to authorize continued use of military force against isis. Our reporter will have a repo
Put in place to assure peoples privacy and to make sure that government is not abusing these powers, and on the other hand there are times when Law Enforcement and those of us whose job it is to protect the public are not thinking about those problems because we are trying to track and prevent the a particular terrorist event from happening. It is useful to have civil libertarians and others tapping us on the shoulder in the midst of this process and reminding us that there are values at stake as well and we welcome that kind of debate. The technologies are evolving in ways that potentially make this trickier. If we get into a situation which the technologies do not allow us at all to track somebody that we are confident is a terrorist, if we find evidence of a terrorist plot somewhere in the middle east that traces directly back to london or new york, we have specific information, we are confident that this individual or this network is about to activate a plot, and despite knowing th
You can also make a comment via social media http twitter. Com cspanwj at. You can also send an email. Record of a 3 of political independence 43 of political independence. Democrats continue to hold a modest edge over republicans 30 226 . Since 2008, the percentage of political independence has steadily climbed from 35 to the current 43 . The recent rise has come at the expense of both parties, but more along democrats than republicans over the last six years. Democratic identification has fallen from 36 to 30 . Republican identification isnt down from 28 in 2008 2 26 last year. You can see this chart at 43 of americans identified as independent. 26 identify as republicans and 30 of democrats. 202748 84,000 is the number four eastern and 202748 8001 four mountain and pacific time zones. Rich will be out here. The partisan divide congress in crisis. There is a chapter on the role of independence in the book. Here is a little bit of what they write. A few fundamentals are important in u