Were watching at this hour here in charlotte, involves a fire at a restaurant in east charlotte. Kristen miranda getting details first in the alert center right now. Kristen christine, on albermarle road in the 5800 block of albermarle road. Ive been watching the charlotte Fire Departments twitter feed. Good news sounds like the fire is under control. Take a look, this is a twoalarm fire, heavy fire showing at a restaurant and the fire department, Charlotte Fire Department came out pretty strong, 50 firefighters, took them 30 minutes to get it under control. I want to give you an idea maybe youre familiar, el paisano restaurant. Were trying to get pictures from the scene, as soon as we get them well bring them to you right away. Christine we are working to learn the names of the two charlottemecklenburg police they were on the way to a call on lanecrest drive. They heard the shooter near the intersection of milton and barrington drive. One person shot in the air, before crossing the st
And even that slight chance for Severe Weather in the charlotte area. That stretches from the North Carolina high country all the way down to our south. What you can expect this afternoon, generally speaking here in the charlotte area, we are talking about showers and thunderstorms and perhaps hail and strong winds, tornado threat is very low with this, so the afternoon, again, thunderstorms marching into the North Carolina mountains between 4 00 and 5 00. In the charlotte area, likely later tonight, 7 00, 8 00, 9, and pretty quickly pushing east overnight. What you can expect that want, charlotte, 80, 76 gastonia, concord, 80, boone, 63 with showers and thunderstorms. A look at the sdrak coming up. Anchor thank you. We continue to watch the rally happening in hickory, donald was supposed to begin at 10 00 this morning. He got on stage the last 15 minutes or so. His plane was delayed coming into charlotte due to fog in the rea. He was supposed to land in hickory, but instead came to sh
Brody lets take you back to tryon Square Shopping Center, the active investigation right now. We have a crew at the scene giving me 9thbyminute updates. This is pieces of papers officers laid down, waiting to get crime scene markers. They think it is shell casings linked to the shooting they are investigating. Getting word cmpd telling our crew at the scene there are multiple scenes they are investigating. Cars could be involved in this, they could be looking into and searching at this hour. Also at tryon square as you can see, they are gathering evidence and they will be looking into how many shots were fired. Details we are trying to get confirmed right now. Early on when this first came out we were told there was one person shot with nonlife threatening injuries, this again on tryon, right across from the 7eleven if you know where that is in the tryon Square Shopping Center and we will keep you updated throughout the morning with more updates coming your way, john and christine, bac
To discovery place. And Traffic Control equipment. This money would replace an upgrade parts of the old system. John in campaign 2016 as donald trump prepares to hold a rally in hickory, he and democrat Bernie Sanders are blaming each other at trump events over the weekend on friday several people arrest in missouri and a rally in chicago was cancelled as things got heated between Trump Supporters and protesters. Saturday a protesters stormed the stage in cleveland, Police Pepper sprayed crowds in kansas city. More protests interrupted trump yesterday in illinois. On twitter yesterday, trump blames sanders supporters for the protest, saying sanders condemned the protests voters took it a step further, tweeting back send them, they deser to have see what an honest politician sounds like. Christine watching live pictures, Brody Oconnell in the alert center talking more on this flooding in the south. What are you seeing . Brody a tough go this weekend for states like louisiana and mississ
There were at least 20 or so police cars out on the street. We know there was a shooting in the area last week. Police are still investigating the situation as we get more information well let you know the big thing right now, all suspects in custody. No one hurt whether they be civilians, suspects or officers. When we get information, well let you know, thank you, alex. Details in a shooting in broad daylight from today in uptown that sent a a teen was cargoed as the shooter. Our camera was there as they walked the 19yearold desure smith in handcuffs. He shot at someone outside of the transit center. At 11 tonight, coleen harry has been talking with people who saw this chaos after the gunfire. Reporter yes, molly. As you mentioned they have charged a man in the shooting and we were here when the i said bleep they will free me. To say. We cannot use the words he said at least not on tv. And they have charged him for the shooting today that unnerved some people in uptown, i dont know wh