And for everyone it will be hazardous, moving back in. The advisories being reissued across at gainny and this for tonight and tomorrow. Wind chills below zero. The wind chill is 7 degrees in boone. Outside of the mountains, were around 30. The temperatures overnight you will see the Single Digits up at the slopes you will see into the low 20s here in the piedmont. Well add vance it one hour to 8 00. Really cold. 23 degrees. Thats the way it is now. And the big storm on monday. More on that in the first alert forecast. Back to the breaking news. Crews are trying to fix a gas line cut by fiber contractors in a neighborhood. That left families without heat. Highland creek neighborhood. He has a update. Reporter paul, im told the crews will be here to get the heat back. The gas line should be repaired soon and reactivatingselves will not be a quick process. Im told by a representative that the gas line was cut by subcontractors working for google fiber tonight. They have been here trying
Inbound, youll find delays there. As we hop out to the west just a bit, this is west trade street at graham, an accident scene there, not seeing any significant delays along graham, but emergency crews may be on the scene. The john belk, brookshire both looking good in terms of traffic flow. The live look at independence expressway heading inbound toward 277, no problems there this morning and your drive times, up from rock hill, 22 minutes, concord to center city, 18 minute commute and lake norman southbound at 16 minutes and 64milesperhour. Youre never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic on wbtv news this morning. John 5 32, looking ahead for the 11th Consecutive Year the ciaa tournament is back in uptown charlotte, expected to bring in about 150,000 fans. Wbtvs Mark Davenport is live in uptown charlotte with more so expect this year . Reporter john, ciaa commissioner Jackie Mcwilliams has been planning all year long to make sure this year is the best the tournament
West but the problem is, you still have the temperatures close to freezing. Plus this is what is moving into the charlotte area next. We may have a batch of freezing rain moving in many and the heavier rain is pushing from the west and that moves through overnight and the temperatures are going up as the heavier rain moves in. Well talk about that that means for your night and day tomorrow and when there is a warming trend coming up in a little bit. And look at this. Ice covering the windshield wipers on one of our cars in statesville. Ice is starting to cover the roads as well. Sarablake morgan is live in troutman. How are the roads where you are . Well, right now, if you look behind me, they look like they are ok. Everything is moving quickly. But looks can be deceiving because we actually drove from statesville to troutman about three exits and we saw multiple cars that had spun out and this is what is on covering the roads. It is a mixture of ice and it seems like this weather is c
Youre coming off i85. Looking at independence expressway, volume of traffic here in center city beginning to heat up just a bit. Lets look at the drive times, coming up from rock hill, 21 minutes, 64 miles an hour. Concord to center city, 17 minute commute, speeds there in the upper 60s and lake norman southbound at 15 minutes and 65 miles an hour. Looking at the overall charlotte commute, most of our major interstates continuing to run in the green and including 485, 77 and 85. Were seeing slow downs now outbound providence road over toward wt harris, albermarle and heavier now around the arboretum area. That is a check of traffic, john, back to you. John this morning a state of emergency declared in North Carolina as areas recover from this weeks severe weather. Governor pat mccrory says the primary problem right now is the number of Power Outages across the state. Now at the peak of the storm, more than 122,000 customers lost power. Mainly in mecklenburg, gaston and forsyth counties
Cheraw. Starting off with fog, otherwise mostly cloudy skies, spotty rain to the north of us, 57 degrees this afternoon coming home our rain chances rise, and by then were at 59 degrees. Expect midday high of 62 at lunch time. Seven day forecast around the corner, chris with first alert traffic right now. Sponsored by toyota of North Charlotte as we head back in the work week, a live look i77 West Boulevard, volume of traffic heading in toward the city, no problems, southbound a little lighter. Still a whole lot of green out there early on, 77, 85, both looking okay around the 485 perimeter, no problems there. Do want to give you a heads up, lynx blue Line Construction on south tryon or north tryon at ken hoffman drive before you make your way up to wt harris boulevard. Man, not going anywhere this morning. Concord to center city, 18 minutes, lake norman to center city 16 minutes. Youre never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic on wbtv news this morning. Christine loo