Thank you. Time for traffic and weather. Lets get over to John Slattery on this morning. Good morning, chris and mary. Its all about the heat today. Its the heat and humidity and a heat wave. And again, we could have a record tie or breaker. We have clear skies, winds variable at 3, relative humidity 55 . That can change later today. You can see nice and quiet in our area. There is a front on the way, ushers in some chance for stormy weather. Mostly the summer sizzler. 95 would tie the record for the day. Look at the real feel numbers, theyll be higher around the area, the south shore and the south wind, theres variety in the air. This would be it, a heat wave. Well talk more in a bit though. Any traffic troubles early, alex denis . We do have an accident on the left lane on the new york state freeway southbound. Its at exit 15. No major delays being reported. A live look to one of our hundreds of cameras showing you the George Washington bridge, easy pass until 6 00. No construction h
Up truck. Adams county picked this up in adams county and they pursued them in multiple agencies and finally got this vehicle stopped around 54th and federal. They went inside the vehicle and recovered an ak 47 with one chambered in the rifle. So scary situation for the police out there and the whitt pick up truck was reported stolen by the owner two hours also starting to learn now that theres been a rash of ford pick up trucks stolen throughout the last couple of weeks in the denvee metro area. So police are advising people of owners of ford pick up trucks to keep a close eye on it and they think theres a chop shop somewhere on the west side of denver. Lets send it back to you. Some outrage this morning as people takk to the streets after carolina kill a man. One Police Officer was hit in the face with a rock. A woman said something needs to give here. There is something going going on that needs to be addressed. The throwing of Water Bottles and destroying city vehicles i but as far
Mount behalfally is the closure at mount b. Had bache, and little as we get more daylight it is visible for a last south bay drivers. We could see delay. Not seeing it yet but there is the potential for that, later this morning. We have watch throughout the morning as the fire advances and there are more people told to get out of their homes. We are getting our first look and the flames are unbelievable. They are, look at the live images from sky 7. You can see the flames moving through the hills of the Santa Cruz Mountains with the latest evacuations we have been talking about in the past hour are at little uvas and alexis mentioned that area. Folks now are told to get out. The sheriff deputy is going doortodoor and letting the people know and using the p. A. To advise everyone to get out immediately. We heard there is thick smoke in the area and we had crew on the ground getting information and matt was there, so far a thousand acres burned. And only a containment. Firefighters from
Planner in a few minutes. Youre never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic on wbtv news this morning. Here is chris, first alert traffic. Chris al, traffic is sponsored by toyota of north charlotte. No problems early out there on thursday morning if youre getting ready start the morning commute. Looking live at i77 near the rest area coming off the South Carolina state line, volume very light. Rock hill to uptown, 21 minutes, concord to center city, 18 minute commute. Lake norman southbound, 16 at 64 miles an hour. Mapping system giving us a green light on all of the major highways. That includes providence road, independence boulevard, albermarle all running in the green this morning. That is a first check of traffic, guys, back over to you. Christine in five hours, state lawmakers will meet in raleigh for a special session to approve a redrawn map for the states Congressional Districts. Republican lawmakers releasing this proposed map yesterday, and has Significant I
Of sad to think somebody would do that in this kind of area. Reporter but who is responsible is what police are working on tonight. After miguel was interviewed on sunday, another child came forward. Investigators sent us these pictures of candy bars with sewing needles inside. Six pieces total they say theyve found and police say the kids who reported the tainted candy do not know each other but the candy they collected on halloween came from the same neighborhood of the borough that runs along south union and west south street. Terrible thing. Reporter the neighborhood is filled with children and residents say police were visible on saturday night, making the whole case even more shocking. We checked the candy. We want to be careful with what they eat. Probably we want to throw some away. Reporter when in doubt thats exactly what police say you should do. At this point they have not been able to tell us if they have tracked the origins of the candy, if they think it was tampered in s