He nearly got it, after sweeping contests in the south, trump continued to confound the republican establishment on super tuesday and finds himself well on the way to securing the gop nomination. I think, honestly, we have done something that almost nobody thought could be done. And im very proud of it. Reporter trump won the majority of conservative republicans and moderates as well and ride ago wave of voters who are fed up with washington. In several states he scored doubledigit wins and is looking forward to facing Hillary Clinton. I watched hillarys speech and she is talking about wages have been poor and everything is poor and everything is doing badly. She has been there for so long. I mean, if she hasnt straightened it out by now, she is not going to straighten it out in the next four years. Its just going to become worse and worse. Reporter trumps wins was a blow to cruz but he won texas and oklahoma. As long as the field is the nomination remains more likely, and that would b
When you look at the reports from last year compared to this year we are down this year. Cmpd is investigating all four of tuesdays shootings. And the police chief said he is asking the city for money to hire more officers. He needs more officers that were raised in the communities and put those officers back into those communities. Adams says he will continue to work in the communities. Nobody has to get killed and shot. Lets stop this. Many of the victims and witnesses were too scared to talk about what they saw. But police are asking if you have information regarding the cases that you contact crimestoppers. Pamela escobar wbtv on your side. And pamela, we want to give people that number for crimestoppers. If you have anything that might help the number is on your screen. Within the past hour marty pucket, the vicepresident of the Firefighters Association in charlotte has been warned to stay away from members of the Charlotte City council. Background here. Pucket sent out a letter o
Two hours after a driver hit a pedestrian in concord. Crews reopened the road around 4 30 near Concord Mills boulevard. We are trying to figure out how the victim is doing and if the driver will face charges. We will update you as soon as we learn more. Breaking news in East Charlotte. Firefighters are on the scene of this restaurant fire. You can see the flames burning in the background. Crews reopened the inbound lanes of albemarle for the drive. Joe bruno is there. Reporter crews just reopened a second outbound lane now. So, there is only one shut down as they try to figure out what started this fire. Our Eyewitness News director shot the video of the flames this morning. You can see them going through the roof of the el pay san no restaurant pasaino there is about 50,000 in damage. 50 firefighters were called to the scene. It is because they were worried it would spread quickly. This restaurant has been added to over the years. Its almost like there is four different wings to at th
Cooler after a record high yesterday of 86. We cooled back to 40s this morning. That is impressive. 43 albemarle. 54 charlotte. 30s in the mountains to begin the day. But nothing in the way of the morning drive on this st. Patricks day. We warm back up into the mid 50s by 9 00. Still in the mid70s but that is about 10 degrees cooler than yesterday. We have begun the step down process. Its slow for now. We will show you how it will pick up with even cooler weather into the weekend straight ahead. I am in the breaking news center right now continuing to follow a developing story. Channel 9 is the only crew at this scene where state police are investigating a deputy involved shooting. Lets go to the live look from boat landing road between wadesboro and rockingham. All you can see is this sheriff squad car blocking they are keeping us off the road away investigators tell us around 11 00 last night a deputy shot a suspect. That person was flown to Carolinas Medical Center in charlotte. We
At Carolina Beach. These are communities that survive on their beaches. Theres an 8 foot drop here. There should be 30 or 40 feet of beach there. That ocean is coming up to it. It has destroyed beaches for miles here, up and down the coach. These are communities that survive on their beaches. It will be a long time of recovery. There are trees, power lines, roofs, fences, walls, tons of small damage like that across a wide swathe of the area. Authorities now trying to go through, assess everything. Theres also lots of flooding in the area as well. Trying to assess everything, get the power back on. You see lots of crews from duke energy. Lots of Emergency Services operators trying to get out there, figure out who is out there, how will they survive, and what do they need, if anything, at this point. The town of Carolina Beach is still under Evacuation Order. They still havent opened that bridge into town. Cant figure out when theyll do that yet, until winds come down to get people on a