Kristen we have been talking about this a few minutes now, john and christine. Take a look at apple tv to show you where were talking about. If you know birkdale village, this is a Jewelry Store where this happened. That is the scene there, were waiting to get pictures back from the scene but let me show you what huntersville fire is telling us through twitter this morning. Apparently just a short time ago a vehicle was run right in the front of that Jewelry Store in birkdale village and by the time police and firefighters got there, that vehicle was gone. Police are now investigating this as a case of someone running that vehicle in the Jewelry Store with the intention of burglarizing the place, they are calling it a burglary using a vehicle. Huntersville fire determined that the scene is safe. The building is safe and we are actually im getting word were getting pictures from the scene, this is the first picture from the scene. Use our apple tv, our photographer on the scene shows us
With more or this change of course. Reporter our investigation took us to texas, we drove the highway in question, 130 in texas. Got a first hand account what it was like, opened our eyes because not many people were driving on that highway out there. A toll road just like i77 would be here in charlotte. Now i want to show you video of that highway there, 130 in texas, the company that operates that road declared bankruptcy on wednesday, that road is owned by a subsidiary of the spanish company, cintra, the same company contracted by ncdot to build the i77 toll lanes. North carolinas transportation secretary is now looking for a way to break the states contract and that is welcome news to Mecklenburg County commissioner jim puckett who was against this from the beginning. The end of the day what you have is this is an embarrassment, ncdot used texas as the poster child why this is great financially and from a really blows up in their face. Reporter now we also reached out to cintra, th
If you are coming in on 485 or 85, no problems. Concord kannapolis commute looks good as well. That is traffic guys, back to you. Christine thank you, chris. News breaking right now, a man now charged in that deadly shooting in hickory is due in court today. Kristen miranda live in the alert center with this latest information on the investigation in the shooting. Kristen we find new information through the morning about the incident in hickory. This is eric yount, 22 years old from granite falls. We got ahold of his mug shot a short time ago. Charged with first degree murder attempted murder and will be in Catawba County court today. Following what police are calling a domestic incident in the parking lot of the mcdonalds on 321 northwest in hickory. At 6 00 last night police got a call of domestic disturbance. Went to the mcdonalds, they found 22yearold richelle lail of hudson, shot to death. Old was shot. He was found sitting in a car and was taken to the hospital, hes in critical c
Charlotte drops down to the freezing mark. Ill talk about that plus when we might expect a warmup in the forecast in the seven day planner. Youre never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic on wbtv news this morning. First alert traffic brought to you by toyota of north charlotte. John chris larson off today, well try to pick up a few things here trafficwise. A live look at Current Conditions map, and you can see we have green throughout the area there if youre driving in from Gaston County on i85 or 74 from monroe in charlotte youll look pretty good because things are clear and moving smoothly. Heres a live look at i77 at clanton road you can see traffic somewhat light this morning and it is moving smoothly, well keep you posted throughout the morning. Following breaking news involving an Armed Robbery this morning at a Convenience Store in south charlotte. Christine go to Brody Oconnell who first broke the story in the last half hour watch other new details arewhat ot
And its probably switched to rain or dried up as the first batch of moisture moving quickly through the viewing area. Temperatures outside of the mountains are in the mid40s. A little bit rare to have snow at this temperature. But we are not expecting any accumulation outside of the mountains. And in the mountains its looking like less as far as accumulations go compared to what it was looking like at this time yesterday. So there is the overview. Will take the clouds off so you can see the precipitation and in the mountains a break from the snow showers for the time being. Everything has pressed east at this point. From gastonia up towards the lake and into salisbury where you did have a brief burst of wet snowflakes for you its all moving east now. And again, that was the anomaly the areas that did see wet snow Everything Else light rain and the bulk of this moisture now for the most part is along and east of the 85 corridor. As we head through the rest of will be southern sections t