Use wilkerson boulevard as the alternate route if you typically head east, take tuckaseegee road to wilkerson and if you head west towards little rock, take Mulberry Church west. Update here, 485 outer loop. We have an accident scene. Minor delay as youre making your way through. It is not blocking any travel lanes. These on looker delays only. Cold temperatures this morning but this may end up being the last morning we see temperatures near freezing. 33 charlotte. Shelby is down to 29. Chesterfield 28 degrees. The chill will be in place to quickly. Later this morning, were in the low 40s by nine. Mid to upper 50s return today. We keep the beautiful sunshine we enjoyed yesterday. This weekend we may start to sunshine. Well show you the new data it but no big rain chances as of yet. Stephanie . Breaking news this morning, everyone inside a duplex in Gaston County got out safely after an overnight fire. You can see the house was smoldering. This was two hours after the fire started. It s
You can jump on Beatties Ford or i77 but something to look out for. Drive Time Technology showing both interstates rolling along. 85 from the University Area. Near 70 miles an hour heading the interchange. 77 southbound. If youre coming from north lake towards uptown charlotte. 63 miles an hour and about a nineminute commute. John . Breaking news right now, duke energy restored power to more than 1,000 customers overnight. But still about 800 without power right now after wednesdays storm. It will be tonight before everyone you see on this map here gets their power back on. You can see most of those outages, theyre centralized in south charlotte. That is where were seeing the bulk of it. Duke energy says yesterdays strong wind delayed the crews because they werent able to safely go up in the bucket trucks to make the repairs because the wind was whipping so hard. They made it a priority to restore power to several schools that closed yesterday because of power outages. Governor pat mcc
Through uptown charlotte. Back to the breaking news in east sharment. Police are looking East Charlotte. Police are looking for a driver who hit and killed someone overnight in East Charlotte. In the past half hour, officers cleared the crash scene on Central Avenue. Eyewitness News Reporter angela hong is live at an apartment complex nearby where officers are focussing their investigation now. A . Reporter thats right, stephanie, were at the green briar apartments a quarter mile away from the accident scene and you can see right now, police are in the process of covering up the windshield of the Silver Honda Odyssey with, i believe it is some sort of blue tape. We were here earlier, we were the first on the scene, and actually got some video of that car. We got a closer look, you could see the window is smashed through. There is heavy front end damage. The bumper was nearly falling off. Police tell me they have not made an arrest in this case. This car was left here at the apartment c
Closed on central, just up from sharon amity heading up towards rose haven. You have to take central towards albemarle road. You can jump on independence boulevard heading inbound. Traffic is in good shape for the major thoroughfair. If youre head through matthews towards 277 it will 14 minutes. Weather pattern a windy start. 51 in charlotte. 52 concord and salisbury and in the mountains were in the 50s. It is breezy. The southwest winds will be with us all day today and will keep our temperatures on the warm side as we work through this morning, lots of sunshine, not too chilly. Mid to upper 50s are in place by nine. The high is not far from 70 degrees. Going to be a gorgeous day. Ill show you on the futurecast how in the mountains we may see a small rain chance coming in for awhile as a weak cold front were staying on top of breaking news in Cleveland County. Three people are in the hospital after a crash and massive explosion in fullston early this morning. Joe, we can see behind yo
Shoreland, painsfield, were seeing red and that is a heavy pocket of rain into north perry again, who saw lighter rain and into North Madison and this is of mooing up 90 east and out towards ashtabula and out of our area. And throughout the day, we should be drying out and were under a wind advisory starting at 8 00 a. M. And lasts until 8 00 p. M. And were talking about gusts as high as 38 Miles Per Hour and were going to talk about the temperatures for the day and later for now. Over to you. And that wind is not making, driving that easy but we want to mention a couple of Construction Projects and this is happening tomorrow and i am preparing you for tomorrows commute and closing upped 90, 9 00 a. M. To 3 00 p. M. Is when you will see the closure and theyre doing bridge deck work there and this is part of the inner belt brim project. And west third under 90 is closed until march 20th and you see, were moving along fine in the inner belt and showing us 71 and 90. And lets go outside a