Have heard a helicopter overhead in North Charlotte this evening. Cmpd officers responded to shots being fired near poll being and white road. Police say a group of more than a dozen men were playing poker. According to investigators, one person had a gun, took it outside and began firing the shots. He then took off into the woods. Nobody was hurt. Police have since cleared the scene. No word tonight if a suspect is in custody. As we inch closer to tuesdays primary election here in north carolina, voters in big numbers took advantage of the last day of early voting. Democratic and republican president ial candidates have drawn a lot of attention. So it should be no surprise that voters in mechlenburg county turned out in very, very big numbers, more than in previous years. Kristen joins us live from the news room with more details. Tell us about the turnout today. Yes, steve, mechlenburg county has not seen the turnout like we have seen today and this periods in the previous three pres
I set a back up on a regular made it. Yeah we made it here and its 5 00 a. M. And hopefully you had a great weekend. Changes are going. Yes we ended up hitting 82 yesterday but today you may have seen the radar at the top of the show. Weve got rain moving into the area so although we dont have much falling at the moment did moment it could be heavy at times this afternoon. That will hold us into the 70s with more clouds around. Unfortunately we get an extra hour in the evening but weve got more warm days for the upcoming week. Well talk about that in your first alert in a few. Sounds good. Lets look at top headlines. Four president ial candidates will make appearances in charlotte ahead of the primary right here in North Carolina. Set to hold a rally at Charlotte Motor Speedway at two. The event is free but you have to register. We posted a link at our website wbtv. Com. And tomorrow donald trump will speak up in hickory. A rally is planned at 10 00 a. M. In monroe auditorium. The even
Upstatement but theres still heavy rain to be had farther southeast. Temperatures in the 40s in the southern mountains. 40s in asheville. Middle and upper 50s in the upstate. Everybody is cooling down tonight. Look at the wind really starting to crank in the north. 22 in boone. Were already getting that wind to pick up south. That means wind will be a big factor tomorrow. Wind advisories out until noon tomorrow for these counties. Yancey, mitchell, avery. Youll wake up, mid to upper 20s. You woke up this morning to 30s and 40s and no wind. Ill show you which communities will be in a snowstorm. Larry heres a look at where things stand right now for the republicans. Massachusetts, tennessee, georgia, virginia, and arkansas. Ted cruz, hes won his home state of texas and also oklahoma. For the democrats, Hillary Clinton won alabama, tennessee, georgia, arkansas and texas. Darcel and westernie sanders has won his home state of vermont and oklahoma. Trump spoke about an hour ago and is claim
Weekend . The weekend is looking pretty g. The problems are going to be the wind behind the storm system that got us yesterday with all the rain. Visibility is fine on our michael son weather camera. The day planner mix of sun and clouds with more clouds this morning and more clouds east. A little more sun this afternoon. 60 by noon. Up to about 64, 65 today. That partial eclipse starts at 5 52. Max 6 17 and sunset 6 19. I think many of us will be able to see that still watching the storm, though, just hitting areas to our east pretty good with the wind and the rain in new england. We have a temperature now of 55 in d. C. Gaithersburg is 60. Again going low to mid60s this afternoon. Andrea and mike, over to you. Thanks, howward. We start with breaking news from overnight. Sheriffs deputies opened fire on a suspect. It happened when they were responding to a Domestic Violence call. The suspect is in the hospital. The deputy was not hurt. One of two nurses who contracted ebola while trea