Reporting live in charlotte, alex giles, wbtv on your side. More breaking news now. Officers working with state troopers to find a person that led them on a chase, ditched the car and took off running. Here are live pictures on i74 near stallings near the ace auto and they tried to pull the driver over and that is where the chase began. The suspect may be armed. Stay are looking for a description of the person and well update you as soon as we learn any new information. Anchor tonight, another system of rain is pushing into the charlotte inches of snow. Well see when things will clear up with eric. I can imagine how many people thought the sun was back out, its over and what a long day yesterday with the ice storm, another impulse is working its way in the area as far as 7 00 in piedmont in South Carolina and the first wave got here at 7 00 in the evening and more showers are rolling in the i77 corridor, york county and eastbound, 35 miles an hour so a little alert, weddington, monroe,
Chris first alert traffic sponsored by toyota of north charlotte. Following a developing story this morning in iredell county, northern iredell county, i77 northbound a logging truck has overturned, losing its load and we have at least one lane or possibly more blocked. Two lanes there, north of exit 65. That is unionharmony grove. If you get through and cant get through, the best bet is 901, memorial highway to 21 and north and around that scene. Back in the charlotte region, most of our majors running in the green here at 5 02, looking pretty good in charlotte. Rock hill to uptown, 21 minutes, 66milesperhour. Concord to center city, 18 minute commute and lake norman southbound on 77, 15, 69. That is a check of the morning traffic, john, over to you. John Police Looking for the person who robbed employees at a popular restaurant in charlottes south end end. Mark davenport is live at the restaurant, was anyone hurt . Reporter john, we know no one was hurt her at phat burrito last night
39 in charlotte, 37 rock hill, 39 in salisbury, 38 over to statesville, 35 hickory and morganton, 33 in boone. Shake off the 30s and wind up well in the 50s today. Cooler than yesterday but again this is sunshine. When we warm up and next rain chance is in a couple minutes. John this morning, police need your help finding the person who robbed employees at a popular restaurant in south end. An armed man went in the phat burrito before 10 00 last night. Wbtvs alex giles has the details. Reporter several cmpd officers responded to phat burrito. Officers were inside and outside looking for evidence. Employees tell us the suspect came in the business and put a gun to the managers head demanding money, then fled the restaurant and got a getaway vehicle. Officers were searching for evidence and piece together one employee described the frightening situation. Im in line making a burrito, some skinny dude with a hoodie, backpack and gun decided to run up in there and put a gun to the managers
Shelters. They have a food drive set up over here in honor of those three victims. I talked with some of trent eight classmates and they were wearing shirts with his and his wife and the sisters name on them. Its been a hard year and they say the classes were very close but only 80 students they all knew each other very well. At this memorial the school is going to unveil a memorial for that. They will put the lab coats in a display case that are because they would wear when i went to dental school. His friends say it will be very important and a nice touch with a walk in the front doors of the building. When they put this memorial in the building for have had you think it will be once you guys graduate in a new a new class comes in to see that and have that memory . It will be very positive and a good representation for people to look at. Peoples mouths but you can affect people in a positive way. I think he was a great example of that in the way you can positively affect a life. Repo
Tonight. There has been worries about Something Like this repton for several days. Just yesterday, a man was arrested and charged after video appeared to show him punching a protester at a trump rally. And trump has been criticized for not being forceful enough in telling his supporters to stay calm. More of the chaotic scene from a there were large protests both inside and outside during the planned trump event at the university of illinois chicago. Illinois also holds a primary tuesday night. Hundreds of protesters packed the arena and started demonstrating even before trump arrived. Five sections in the arena were filled with protesters. Things spilled over outside as well. Several flights between Trump Supporters and protesters erupted after the Trump Campaign announced that the rally would be canceled out of concern for the safety of tens of thousands the statement ends, thank you engel and peace. Here is trumps response to the violence to fox news tonight. I dont want to see peop