Is North Caldwell at 277, so again the interstate running okay but if youre on North Caldwell, injury accident in center city this morning. 485 looks good, 77, 85 both still running in the green, a few slow downs here independence boulevard up to the monroe road split or albermarle road split, and a few slow downs there on providence road. As al mentioned, the rain showers continue to move in and out of the charlotte area. But it is a nasty morning for your wednesday morning commute and keeping an eye on that is wbtvs Kristen Hampton, she is live this morning with the latest on travel conditions. Kristen . Reporter yeah, chris, i think you said it best, a sloppy mess. Let me step out of the way, this is i85 north and southbound at freedom drive in west charlotte. You can see that mist coming up off the roadway. It is not raining right now but 15 or 20 minutes ago pretty heavy band of rain came through, rewet the interstates. They will be wet throughout the morning. And that is what has
Will be windy and a lot warmer kids at two Dallas County schools spent much of the day today under lockdown. All because of a threatening call from a parent. School Officials Say the collinsmaxwell high school and middle school were put on lockdown after the call was made this morning. Ortan haywood allegedly made threats to several staff members. The lockdown was lifted this afternoon. After haywood was arrested by police on a warrant out of texas. Additional charges will likely be filed. Nearly six months later. West Des Moines Police have finally made an arrest in a fatal hitandrun case. Early in the morning of august 23rd of last year, Daulton Holly was hit andd killed while walking along Raccoon River drive when he was and killed. After months of forensic Testing Police positively identified the vehicle that hit him. And now have arrested the driver of that yesterday 37year old Ronald Hauser of van meter surrounded to police. He is charged with leaving the scene of an accident res
Forward. A big weekend for jeb bush. Well check back with you over the weekend, thank you for coming. And we are also going to go to chafin a little later tonight. Thank you. An error in Spartanburg County led to nearly 200 people receiving multiple ballots to vote in the upcoming primaries. And spartanburg isnt the only county where this happened. 7 News Reporter looks into this. Reporter this mistake impacts absentee voters in charleston and spartanburg, all of them received two ballots in the mail. The Voter Registration office is asking people to return one and destroy the duplicate. Theres the envelope for ballot number one that i have mailed. Reporter that first absentee ballot was the only one she thought shed get. After filling it out with care and sending it back, she even put this sign in the window, to let door to Door Campaign but to her surprise, she got just days later. We took her concerns straight to the countys Voter Registration office, director henry lay, says contra
Track of the weather download the free wbtv weather app it has alerts to warn you of problems. A troubling case out of Caldwell County. A man is accused of stabbing his girlfriend and their twoyearold son. And tonight we are hearing from the mans daughters who say their father has an abusive past and has hurt them. Wbtvs Brody Oconnell is live with their reaction. What can the suspects daughters have to say . Good evening and you have to excuse me im competing with the church bells chiming here. I did speak to the suspects daughters. Both very upset to find out that according to police their own father violently attacked their two stepbrothers but they said they wanted county leaders to know what they call their fathers violent history. Still to this day am scared i feel sick to my stomach when i see him. Last nights violent attack should not have happened. The 25yearolds tell wbtv their father henry pits has a long history of abuse. My mom took most of the beatings most of the time. B
A nice warmup on the way. Think overall youll like the details. For right now were in the mid 30s in the charlotte area, 36 as of the 5 00 hour, lower than the freezing mark north of here, 29 from salisbury, statesville, 31 hickory and 30 in boone to start things off. Yes, chilly but this afternoon, upper 50s, partly to mostly sunny sky, will feel nice. Some of us could pick up a quickhitting shower tonight. So more details on that and the rest of the weekend forecast in a few. Kristen thank you. We have a crime alert, police in charlotte investigating a shooting outside of uptown in elizabeth. This was the scene on charlottetown avenue near memorial stadium. Victim shot somewhere else and drove to the spot. They saw a rear window in the persons car shot out. Medic says the victim was seriously hurt. Were asking police for information on the shooter and when we get that, we will update you right away. Police identified a teen violent string of shootings. They started on thursday night,