Vicki graf will join me to show you what to expect on that morning drive. Toasty. The threat of the Winter Weather has put the North Carolina d. O. T. On alert. Crews in the foothills will start putting brine on the roads tomorrow morning. In the mean time the Ncdot Division in anson, mecklenburg, stanley, and Union Counties will continue to monitor the forecast and the decision to brine roads in those counties will be made tomorrow. You can count on channel 9 to keep you updated on the changing system thats threatening to bring more snow. Well send out alerts to your phone and also online if there are any Major Updates or School Closures as well. Another big story tonight, stocks made huge gains on wall street. Its good news after five Straight Days of losses. The dow skyrocketed by about 300 today. The nasdaq gained 70. Experts say a jump in oil prices helped to rally stocks today. Oil prices have become a big part of how investors react on wall street. Youre enjoying the cheap gas r
Were getting hit with some of the wind gusts now. Its blowing the snow back across the roadways. Making it heart on the d. O. T. Crews. On top of that you have persistent snow showers that move into the North Carolina mountains bringing about an inch every time we have one of those snow showers move through. They have to get right back on the roadways and plow again. Reporting live from watauga county, dave faherty, channel 9 Eyewitness News. Eyewitness news uncovered the Construction Company that walked away from the independence widening project is being sued for 12 million. This is a major update to a 9 investigation we broke last week. And Eyewitness News reporter jim bradley is live tonight with a closer look at the legal trouble for devere construction. Jim . Yeah erica, its looking more and more clear that it was financial problems that drove devere to walk off this job widening independence boulevard. Tonight weve learned that the bonding agent thats now this job gets finished
Live along il 5 and district 12 i85 and district 12. Interstate. North carolina lawmakers made new lines yesterday. District 12 is split up and most people across the state find district. The General Assembly is under pressure to get this map approved by tomorrows deadline. Without new lines, the congressional primary cant happen next month. Voters we spoke with say they are very conc. Why werent we given more notice about the changes . I like the changes it is more clear and not questionable, but it is very close to the. It is still unclear how Congressional Election will be impacted even with the new lines including here in district 12 which would be left without an incumbent. The special session begins at 10 a. M. Joe bruno, channel 9, Eyewitness News. State republicans hope the u. S. Supreme court will grant their request to delay fridays however, channel 9 has learned the Supreme Court is altering the schedule following the death of justice antonin scalia. Justices wont hold the s
Use wilkerson boulevard as the alternate route if you typically head east, take tuckaseegee road to wilkerson and if you head west towards little rock, take Mulberry Church west. Update here, 485 outer loop. We have an accident scene. Minor delay as youre making your way through. It is not blocking any travel lanes. These on looker delays only. Cold temperatures this morning but this may end up being the last morning we see temperatures near freezing. 33 charlotte. Shelby is down to 29. Chesterfield 28 degrees. The chill will be in place to quickly. Later this morning, were in the low 40s by nine. Mid to upper 50s return today. We keep the beautiful sunshine we enjoyed yesterday. This weekend we may start to sunshine. Well show you the new data it but no big rain chances as of yet. Stephanie . Breaking news this morning, everyone inside a duplex in Gaston County got out safely after an overnight fire. You can see the house was smoldering. This was two hours after the fire started. It s
You can jump on Beatties Ford or i77 but something to look out for. Drive Time Technology showing both interstates rolling along. 85 from the University Area. Near 70 miles an hour heading the interchange. 77 southbound. If youre coming from north lake towards uptown charlotte. 63 miles an hour and about a nineminute commute. John . Breaking news right now, duke energy restored power to more than 1,000 customers overnight. But still about 800 without power right now after wednesdays storm. It will be tonight before everyone you see on this map here gets their power back on. You can see most of those outages, theyre centralized in south charlotte. That is where were seeing the bulk of it. Duke energy says yesterdays strong wind delayed the crews because they werent able to safely go up in the bucket trucks to make the repairs because the wind was whipping so hard. They made it a priority to restore power to several schools that closed yesterday because of power outages. Governor pat mcc