Planner in a few minutes. Youre never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic on wbtv news this morning. Here is chris, first alert traffic. Chris al, traffic is sponsored by toyota of north charlotte. No problems early out there on thursday morning if youre getting ready start the morning commute. Looking live at i77 near the rest area coming off the South Carolina state line, volume very light. Rock hill to uptown, 21 minutes, concord to center city, 18 minute commute. Lake norman southbound, 16 at 64 miles an hour. Mapping system giving us a green light on all of the major highways. That includes providence road, independence boulevard, albermarle all running in the green this morning. That is a first check of traffic, guys, back over to you. Christine in five hours, state lawmakers will meet in raleigh for a special session to approve a redrawn map for the states Congressional Districts. Republican lawmakers releasing this proposed map yesterday, and has Significant I
That is what you need to look out forest specially for, especially when this is happening in the area. Reporting live, Mark Davenport, wbtv on your side. Christine good information, thank you, mark. 5 32, go over to Kristen Miranda with details just in on the death of a reality tv star, she is in the alert center. Al if youre a kristen big ang from mob wifes she passed away this morning, about 3 00 this morning an announcement came from her family. They posted it less than an hour ago, with sad regret we inform you that at 3 01, Angela Raiola was called home, surrounded by her family and was so grateful for her fans. And they are going to keep all her social media pages open so people can share thoughts and respect but people have been knew she was diagnosed with throat cancer and had been reports last evening she passed away and family members said wait, she is fighting, fighting, but at 3 00 this morning she did die. Back to you. John investors hoping for good news at charlotte based
That big warmup right now baby love we have a big announcement from ginger zee and little adrian training for this moment for months. Now theyre joining us live with news you dont want to miss. Its right here on gma. Come on. Ah adrian. Oh, we cant wait to check in with ginger and sweet little adrian. And big day for adrian. Today is his twomonth birthday. Two months. Happy birthday. Were going to check in with the family a little later. Other big headlines. The race for the white house now reaching the vatican. Donald trump and the pope in a war of words. Our terry moran was on the plane with the pope and well get to all that in a moment. An electrifying moment. Well begin with that terrifying chopper crash in hawaii. It went down with five tourists on board. Well talk with two men who jumped into action on the scene after this report from our Kayna Whitworth in honolulu. Good morning, kayna. Reporter yeah, george, good morning to you. That tour helicopter, i want to show you where it
Accident at the utility pole. You cannot access little rock this morning. Youll have to use wilkerson boulevard as the alternate route. Use Mulberry Church to the billy graham parkway heading west because you cant get through. Well continue to watch. Well have live pictures. The interstate is looking good. 20 minutes from gastonia and the overnight construction we had a couple of lane closures at alamada creek church. That wrapped up at 5 00 this morning. Right now im in the breaking news Center Following a county. Look at this video we 15 minutes ago. Smoldering. Look at that thick smoke right here. Since we told you about the fire at 4 30, we have learned it started after someone left food on the stove. Everyone inside the duplex was firefighters were able to the red cross is on the scene to help those people who live there. A major story well be following for your day ahead that will impact thousands of voters across North Carolina. State lawmakers will hold two crucial votes today.
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