Photos of exploding power lines and a small fire that broke out mack wood road. Crews worked through the Early Morning hours to reopen wilkerson boulevard. Yesterday, the Severe Weather caused a power line to fall and the poles to lean towards the road. Most of the damage we saw yesterday is with fallen trees. Several homes will need to be repaired including this home, the Charlotte Fire Department deemed unsafe to enter. They will need to find a new way to work after trees fell on their cars. He sent me a picture of the car and i was shocked. 45 to 60 seconds before the tree fell. And a local home owner tells me the city was supposed to come out here and remove this tree yesterday. They never made it out. Theyre supposed to come this morning but it will take awhile for them to clear the scene for alternate routes on how to avoid this part of queens road. Here is mark taylor. So right now, the part of queens road that is closed is from moorhead to the hinley place. You can actually tak
I just got some data in over night that does try to bring a few showers across the area later this afternoon ill pinpoint which neighborhoods have the best chance for seeing that rain thats coming up ahead. We start with sad breaking news, we learned a unc student died in a car crash in virginia. 19yearold austin rainy in the green shirt smiling, learned he died late thursday night on route 13 in northern virginia. Schoolfficials say he was heading to washington d. C. With friends when the vehicle that he was in was hit by a tractor trailer. The impact killed him but the four others are okay this morning. Rainy was the Mens Basketball Team student manager. In just a few hours polls will open for South Carolina voters, they open at 7 00 and deciding today who they think should be the republican president ial nominee. The latest wall street journal poll shows it is a close primary for candidates donald trump has 28 of primary voters while cruz very close with 23 . Marco rubio is third he
Large tree that is across the road right now. It has been done since about 10 30 last night and as you can see, police are making sure drivers dont go into that area. You can see they have it blocked off until crews can get out there to remove the tree. Traffic team 9s mark taylor monitoring the situation. They have alternate routes for us just ahead. Part of a busy road in meyers park is still shut down. This is more than 14 hours after strong winds brought down this massive tree right into the road. Eyewitness News Reporter joe bruno is live at the scene for us on queens road near henley place. What is taking so long, . The crews will be out here this morning but in the meantime, check out how major, how huge and big this tree is. The tree is lying across the southbound lanes of queens road heading towards southpark. Across the carolinas, many towns and citys are dealing with damage from yesterdays storm. Channel 9 received these photos a fire broke out on the power lines near mack w
Risking of ponding on the roads, but still umbrellas and raincoats a must first thing tomorrow morning. Tracking this system overnight, watch his updates tomorrow on Eyewitness News daybreak starting at 4 30 a. M. Breaking news, just in the past hour, Charlotte City leaders voted to approve a controversial nondediscrimination ordinance. Tonight, we have a team of reporters breaking down the vote, the heated debate and whats next. Lets start with blake hanson, he was there when nearly 140 people shared their concerns tonight. Blake. Yeah, that final decision, 7 4, and Council Members each had a chance to explain why they were making that decision, but an overwelming amount of time tonight was spent devoted to all the people that came out to speak their opinions on this. Most of the talk tonight was taken up by those people that came out. 140 people signed up to speak. 90 of those from c tap on the community, they would have a tough time doing so. By my rough count, about 50 50 50. Those
Collapsed on the sidelines. Williams was walking back to the huddle during tonights game at Boston College when he collapsed. You see it right there. He has a history of vertigo and had to be helped in the locker room where he was treated for dizziness. He did return at the end of the game to shake hands following the tarheels comeback victory tonight. Nearly 100 families spent several hours without heat after a contractor ruptured a gas line installing google fiber in a neighborhood. An Eyewitness News reporter was with those crews when they restored service two hours ago. Brittany. Erica, the last Piedmont Natural Gas truck filed out of this area within the last ten minutes. That was after they were here all evening long, ruptured by crews working on google fiber lines. They cleared this area earlier this evening, but we learned service to 89 homes in this area. Many people here told us that they have neighbors who are retired, some have small children and a homeowner told us she was