Guest i think often times the conventional wisdom is wrong, and the conventional wisdom in money and politics you essentially have good intentioned government officials who who are being influenced or attempts to influence them by corporations or public unions and if we can only figure out a way to seal off essentially these Public Officials from this outside influences, everything would be great and so i call this the Jimmy Stewart mr. Smith the great. So i call this the june knee damage Jimmy Stewart mr. Smith goes to washington scenario. You have wellintentioned politicians being tempted by outside forces. My experience over the last 20 years or so the opposite is true that you have a lot of corporations and entities that essentially wants to be left alone by the federal government and have politicians or people in the executive branch who are looking for ways in which to enhance their services or the needs to get corporations involved. The hightech industry is a classic example. If
Rock hill to uptown, 21 minutes, 65 miles an hour. Concord to center city, 17 minute commute, lake norman southbound at 16 minutes at 64 miles an hour. Most of the major highways run in the green, well keep an eye on that as we head toward the rush hour. Earlier we had Central Avenue blocked in both directions, with an investigation with a fatal hit and run accident. That scene has been cleared and Central Avenue has reopened. That is a check of the morning commute, john and christine, back over to you. John now lets begin with the breaking news weve been following out of east charlotte, Police Say One person was killed in a hit and run on Central Avenue near sharon amity. Right now the investigation has moved to the green briar amounts not farapartments. Mark davenport live at the scene, tell us what happened and what have police found . Reporter john, fatal hit and run on Central Avenue and just around the block like you said, the green briar apartments, police found the vehicle. A m
Through uptown charlotte. Back to the breaking news in east sharment. Police are looking East Charlotte. Police are looking for a driver who hit and killed someone overnight in East Charlotte. In the past half hour, officers cleared the crash scene on Central Avenue. Eyewitness News Reporter angela hong is live at an apartment complex nearby where officers are focussing their investigation now. A . Reporter thats right, stephanie, were at the green briar apartments a quarter mile away from the accident scene and you can see right now, police are in the process of covering up the windshield of the Silver Honda Odyssey with, i believe it is some sort of blue tape. We were here earlier, we were the first on the scene, and actually got some video of that car. We got a closer look, you could see the window is smashed through. There is heavy front end damage. The bumper was nearly falling off. Police tell me they have not made an arrest in this case. This car was left here at the apartment c
Closed on central, just up from sharon amity heading up towards rose haven. You have to take central towards albemarle road. You can jump on independence boulevard heading inbound. Traffic is in good shape for the major thoroughfair. If youre head through matthews towards 277 it will 14 minutes. Weather pattern a windy start. 51 in charlotte. 52 concord and salisbury and in the mountains were in the 50s. It is breezy. The southwest winds will be with us all day today and will keep our temperatures on the warm side as we work through this morning, lots of sunshine, not too chilly. Mid to upper 50s are in place by nine. The high is not far from 70 degrees. Going to be a gorgeous day. Ill show you on the futurecast how in the mountains we may see a small rain chance coming in for awhile as a weak cold front were staying on top of breaking news in Cleveland County. Three people are in the hospital after a crash and massive explosion in fullston early this morning. Joe, we can see behind yo
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