41 seems to be a popular number from shelby, morganton, rock hill, charlotte, monroe, albermarle, salisbury and statesville, colder in boone at 29, not getting reports out of lancaster and chester, they had Power Outages this way. Partly to mostly sunny, windy, wont be damage like yesterday but still wind gusts up to 30 Miles Per Hour in the piedmont, 55 Miles Per Hour in the mountains and afternoon temperature of 56 degrees. Remember, youre never more than and traffic on wbtv news this heres chris, first alert traffic. Chris al, thank you, first alert traffic this morning is sponsored by toyota of north charlotte. And were getting going early with the morning accident here just down to the south of gilead road, that is mccoy atkin see avenue, ifat kinseyavenue, new in the last 5, 10 minutes. I77 at west boulevard, freeways once again volume light, running clearly this morning so you see a whole lot of green out there 485, 77, 85 look okay, providence road, independence, no problems as
Lyndsay doing good. Should be a beautiful weekend. A little chilly to start right now, most away from the city are in the upper 20s. 30 in charlotte and in hickory, other than that at 27 in salisbury, albermarle, 28 statesville, 27 in boone and in lancaster and rock hill, upper 20s. Cold to start, this afternoon cool, back in the 50s to more the better weekend pick for sure. Well in the 60s. Little bit of a warmup, so more on your forecast details in a few. Kristen thank you, lyndsay. In campaign 2016, polls open at 7 00 for the democratic primary today in South Carolina. In the polls, Hillary Clinton has a big lead over her challenger, bernie sanders. In a final push to voters, mrs. Clinton spoke in columbia last night saying she will work to break down barriers and lift people up. Sanders will head off to minnesota by way of texas searching for friendlier terrain on the republican side, a campaign twist, donald trump stopped his closest rivals in their tracks with a high profile endo
This proposed map yesterday, one a new charlotte area district. Incumbent alma adams current district would no longer include charlotte. Lawmakers have until friday to get this finalized. Investigating new possible cases of mumps in the area. Two confirmed cases but Health Officials say there are at least six other potential cases in the mecklenburg, iredell, and Cabarrus County areas. As our coleen harry reports, Health Officials are trying to determine who might have been exposed. Reporter mention mumps and in the lab, medical technicians know what to look to. On the streets, were not so clear. I never had mumps as a child. Do you know if you were vaccinate mid cant remember, that was 100 years ago. Do you have if you had mumps . Probably so, chicken pox, mumps. Officials are trying to figure out how many people may be infect the. In mecklenburg and iredell county. In the tricounty area, there are six oh cases probable or suspected. Not every person that has been suspected, diagnosed
And we should see the process start to dry out. Rain continues to fall in charlotte you can see from the metro school camera, it is overcast and wet out there. Temperatures are interesting, 55 in wadesboro, 51 monroe, but 39 charlotte, rock hill, 47. A warm front is trying to lift through, it will. You folks in the 30s up in the foothill and mountain you will warm up. Another system moves in tonight. Wont be as robust as the one that came through over the last 24 hours. Look at the afternoon temperature, 59, should be a mild afternoon. Talk about the seven day forecast, even warmer conditions in it, that part in a few minutes. Christine, back over to you. Christine icy roads are being blamed for dozens of accidents in the Charlotte Metro area including overturned ambulance. That ambulance overturned after 8 00 on i machine i85 in Gaston County. Thankfully nobody was hurt. Firefighter in Gaston County responded to 15 different wrecks within one hour last night. Closer to charlotte we sa
Im brody oconnell. Lets start with donald trump focusing his attention on the nevada g. O. P. Caucus tuesday after winning the South Carolina primary this is the is second victory for the billionaire real estate mogle. Cruz and rubio are in the close race for second. Meanwhile another prominent candidate has suspended his campaign. Jeb bush made the announcement last night to supporters after finishing a distant fourth. Bush had a lot at stake but his fate was sealed this past week when the popular states republican governor endorsed marco rubio considered him to be the choice of mainstream republicans. Many republicans are saying bush is putting the future of dealing donald trump ahead of himself. Im proud of the campaign weve run to advocate conservative solutions that would give americans more opportunity to rise up but the people of iowa, and i really respect their decision so tonight im suspending my campaign. Five candidates remain in the list. Well we are on your side with more