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
That is all that is left now. As for the road now, the dot did do a study here on speed and said the curve was fine for the 35mileperhour speed limit and did put the little reflectors up to indicate the curve. And dotels me that if the town wants them to look at it again but at this point there is no investigation from the dot just the up with from the Highway Patrol we could know in a couple of days cher there will be charges whether there will be charges. And tomorrow night we are told the community will gather for a Prayer Service for the newtons who died there and for the rescue personnel who helped them at 7 00 p. M. At the baptist church. And Police Arrested a man in a deadly hitandrun accident in east article. Peres ramirez hit and killed a Central Avenue at 2 30 this morning. He is charged with driving while impaired and felony hitandrun. Breaking news. Early morning shooting in mount holly now a homicide investigation. Alex giles is live in the alert center. We have gotten the
And the kkk though he did so. And nascar strived to increase diversity. Race fans they do not play the political game. And long time fan got to the heart of the matter. Wondering if race fans listen to what brian france had to say. I do not think mr. Frances comments is going to sway the race fan either way. And obviously mr. Frances comments were important to donald trump. And nascar released a statement saying that endorsement was from brian france personally it was not a corporate endorsement from nascar. Thank you. Now, you will recall nascar the organization once distanced itself from trump after remarks on mexican immigrants after the Title Sponsor of the nascar truck series sent a letter denouncing trump and yesterday marcus tweeted there is no place for politics any political endorsements in any business. Your customers and employees should have their own mind hashtag period. Trump took to twitter to thank france and the drivers for their endorsements. Im now with leigh brock i
Were trying to get information from officers on what theyre doing. I saw officers back behind me with flash lights moving around looking for anything on the ground. This is a residential area, they found shell casings earlier. Well get you as much information the next time we talk in the next 30 minutes. Im Mark Davenport, wbtv on your side. Chris mark, thank you so much. First alert traffic sponsored by toyota of north charlotte. That is where were going to start where mark is standing along caps hill mine road this morning. So again, that is between peachtree road and beaties ford road, that section there is closed down this morning. Lets come in a little bit closer, that is grier grove road down to the south, where the lady was found. Right here at firestone drive where mark was standing and caps hill mine is blocked off that is heading up toward beaties ford road and another Crime Scene Investigation a little bit closer to beaties ford, sort of a major or cutthrough there. Peachtre
This is 1801 north tryon and charlotte fire said they are removing the smoke from the building it is a large warehouse and no injuries reported at that scenement and they called out a second alarm for the fire but good news no injuries reported. You see the personnel on the scene and there are different businesses in that warehouse. We know this is a commercial structure building. But fire seems to be good right now. They are working on getting the smoke out of it. And no reported injuries. Back to you. Thank you. Concorde police need your help finding a man who is a person of interest in two crimes. The first happened in july of last year. Someone broke into several cars and College Circle and candle stick court tires were slashed. A man was reported to be going through vehicles on candle stick court. And this is a picture. If you have information call. Person who left an s. U. V. Sitting on train tracks to be hit by an amtrak train at 1 00 a. M. 160 passengers were onboard the train