3 the focus of the 2016 president ial campaign now shifts to South Carolina. Following last nights New Hampshire primary. Voters handed victory to donald trump and bernie sanders. While john kasich broke away from the rest of the gop pack to claim second place. Weijia jiang has the latest from manchester, New Hampshire. 3 3 3 now the focus shifts to the primary for both parties are less than 3 weeks away. But some voters still havent made up their mindwe spoke with some people who say they arent sure who to trust. Others say they havent found the candidate they most align with. And some have narrowed it down to two. But it could be primary day itself before some of these undecided voters make up their minds. Im voting for because im not sure if theyre just going to say that, so that when they get into office they might change their whole platform. I dont completely agree with anyone 100 percent. I agree with a lot of the points that two of the candidates have made, but i very strongly
Erica bryant is in the breaking news center with the latest pictures and videos coming in tonight. Everyone was told to seek shelter as the Severe Weather rolled through. We have a picture to show you of students there camped out in the library waiting. Waiting this storm out as it blew through. Another picture taken from the schools quad as dark clouds started to roll in and move over the campus. In winston salem, you can see heavy wind pushed down trees and also brought down on power lines there. Duke energy again now reporting more than 10,000 outages in that area. But so far, thankfully, weve nod heard any reports of injuries. Some schools in wake county let the students out early today so they could try to get home safely before the Severe Weather hit. Now lets go to meteorologist john ahrens who says strong winds are causing concerns tonight. The storms are long gone but the wind threat will continue. Grounds been hit so much with all this rain, its easy. The toppled trees in thi
Roads are treacherous right now. Some drivers losing control of their cars while going just 15 to 20 miles per hour. The d. O. T. Here at Catawba County is putting sand and salt down along with some brine on some of the over passes and some of the problem areas where theyve had accidents. We talked with one driver who wrecked this morning about these conditions. This guy we saw a bunch of guys fish tailing. Its ridiculous. People need to slow down. Take it slow. If you dont have to go out today, dont go out. Its not worth it. Reporter i think the hardest thing is for folks, when they step outside, they look and they see grass, they see wet roads, the roads have a lot of black ice. The key into the afternoon is the temperature. Right now were holding in the mid 20s. Hopefully itll rise later this evening and get above the freezing mark. Reporting live from hickory, dave faherty, channel 9 Eyewitness News. All right dave. Thank you. Were keeping a close eye on the roads across the area.
Very heavy rain. A couple minutes ago we werent able to see that far ahead of us because of the rain. Were just to the north of the strongest part of the storm. I mentioned just north of high sholes, very heavy rain and strong winds. Its moving very fast. The storm is under a Severe Thunderstorm Warning until 12 45, its moving at 60 to 70 Miles Per Hour. So it will be here and gone but we had to really slow down our speed, both hands on the wheel because of the winds that were so strong. Weve been hearing reports of downed power lines and trees. Were likely going to see some of those throughout areas of lincoln and Gaston County with these strong thunderstorms. Were getting near the lincolnton area, light rain still continuing here in storm cam. Still some very dark ominous clouds ahead of us. Theyre moving very fast here this afternoon. We dealt with the heavy rain. And weve seen some lightning. So these storms are very strong and powerful. Theyll be moving very fast. Up to 60 to 70 M
And all of a sudden, the roof started collapsing. And i didnt know what was going on. I freaked out. I started yelling. We are back live now in south charlotte, its important to remember here that the wind doesnt have to be severe tomorrow. It could be as high as 30. But because the ground is so wet, it can knock down a tree and you can you could have damage like this. As we track this storm, were getting a new video of the damage that its all ready caused. Check out this new video. From davenport iowa. You can see what the storm is doing to the ferris wheel there. 60 Miles Per Hour winds sent gondolas flying. Well bring in new pictures stay on top of the Severe Weather moving in by using our wsoctv weather app. Get your Severe Weather alerts and hourly forecasts. Download it for free to your now to our other big story tonight, fall out over the vote to expand charlottes nondiscrimination ordinance to members of the lgbt community. The governor and lawmakers are preparing to fight it.