Good coming off independence on 277. Matthews inbound, 13 minutes, 49 miles an hour. Providence road from the arboretum area, 17 minute commute. Concord to center city, 20 minutes at 68milesperhour. That is a check of the morning traffic, christine, over to you. Christine this morning, we know charlottemecklenburg School Superintendent ann clark will remain in that position through june of next year. Amid a heated debate the school board voted to extend her contract and begin a search for the next superintendent immediately. Wbtvs Ashton Pellom is live in charlotte with more on what was a divisive vote, ashton, explain explain. Reporter good morning, christine. The debate turned heated and personal but the school board voted 63 to keep ann clark in her current position through june of 2017. Before the vote, principals in cms wore red in solidarity, each stood up and called ann clark their hero and praised her for school district. That in hopes to keep clark on the job longer and appare
Shutout not given an opportunity to speak to the council. And the ordinance they say will force Business Owners to go against their religious objections and citing Public Safety saying transgender residents could expose women and children to predators but supporters held a News Conference they delivered boxes of petitionses to councilmembers saying everyone deserves Legal Protection and urged councilmembers to pass the ordinance who prohibit any passenger from hire vehicle for discriminating against gays and lesbians and ban bars, hotels and restaurants from refusing to serve if gays and lez yaps. A pastor in favor of the ordinance, he says this law will not benefit predators. The law will not help them in anyway. If they are going to do wrong they will do it without a law. This protects people who are want to be able to fully express who they are and fully be able to participate in society on equal footing. Now, i checked with City Council Officials and they tell me if the ordinance p
Base with with homeless shelters and see what the demand is during the coldsnap. It is still winter in the queen city. Live in uptown charlotte, Brody Oconnell wbtv on your side. Thank you. Now this arctic air has been sweeping in the mountains and its 15 windchill in places at the top. Its bitter and a windchill advisory is in place. Wbtvs Steve Ohnesorge went up to the high country and they prepare for some of the coldest temperatures they have seen this year. Looking at scenes like this can make one shiver. Try having to get around on foot in it. Its miserable. Windchills barely got to 0. Not fun. In boone students struggled to get to class trying to think warm thoughts. Summer. While there was snow falling it was light just wind blown. Drivers who stuck to the main some side roads were covered but most were passable. It has made for some spectacular scenery from the water wheel in boone to the mill pond falls in banner elk. Pillars and icicles. There is beautiful sites here. But da
A daycare bus driver will not face drivers after he hit and killed an elementary teacher in goldsboro. Ray bats struck Brandon Kincaid with the bus last tuesday while he was in the wheelchair in a parking lot. Our sister station reports kincaid was a youth pastor and expecting his first child with his wife in june. A suspicious package had a Harrisburg High School on alert today. Officials say it was a precautionary measure at Hickory Ridge high school. Sky3 flew over the school at 10 00 a. M. Police were investigate. Right now, we want to get to our alert center where we find our alex giles he is live. We talked about mumps in mecklenberg county yesterday, alex and now we are seeing more cases today . Yes, we got this confirmed before the newscast. We know from the Mecklenberg County Health department eight cases of mumps, including mecklenberg county, iredell and carolina. There was one confirmed in iredell and one in mecklenberg county and that number has risen. According to the Hea
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