In the alert center. Kristen World Health Organization making an announcement about efforts to fight the zika virus. Christine thanks, kristen. John lets start with charlottes most experienced morning meteorologist, here is al conklin. Al a cold start but not as frigid as yesterday when we dipped to 17 degrees. This morning closer to freezing because of the canopy of cloud cover and bit of a breeze. That cloud cover producing light snow for the mountains, debatable how much is reaching the ground but again, power Doppler Radar is picking up a little bit of snow and flurries across the area especially north of town. A Winter Weather advisory runs through tomorrow morning for mountain counties. Keep in mind a lot of the heavier snow will come later this afternoon and on in to tonight. Dry here in charlotte right now, mostly cloudy, that is the metro School Camera in the queen city, no snow falling at the moment. 32 charlotte, 29 monroe, but colder north of town, 28 wadesboro up to alberm
So a nice wander. West wind six miles an hour. In boone, 34, 51 charlotte, 48 in salisbury. In the afternoon, highs mid 50s just slightly below average for this time of the year. 56 to 54, 48 at 7 00. 9 00, a chance of showers, and 46. Beyond that, we have a very nice looking warming trend for the weekend with highs upper 60s by saturday. That coming up in a few minute. Anchor more weather across the northeast, a mix of snow and ice causing a tough commute today. This is video in new york as snow plows took to the streets. Many schools in new england are closed or delayed. Gone are the subzero temperatures and dangerous wind chills. Temperatures expected to rise to the 50s in some areas. That will melt a lot of snow. Weather conditions in new york, washington, d. C. , that is we just checked and saw still a few delays listed. Earlier this morning, we caught up with frustrated flyers at charlottemecklenburg international. My wife is pregnant. It is kind of hard traveling, waiting, and y
Live look at independence from briar creek, in toward center city, volume beginning to pick up, but most of the major interstates continue to run in the green and our latest accident scene, this is on westinghouse boulevard, it is listed right before i77 on the ramps. That is a check of the morning commute. Christine, back to you. Christine breaking news weve been following since 4 30 this morning. Authorities investigate an officerinvolved shooting in catawba county. Happened last night at a home on old park road in maiden. Wbtv was the first to break story for you on social media, our reporter Ashton Pellom has been on the scene, was first there and is getting brand new details about this incident. Ashton . Reporter good morning, christine. Talked to the police chief about 15 minutes ago. He says this is just a tragic event and hard on everybody from his officers here at the pd to the family of the man involved you will hear from him in a second. First the pictures i shot when i firs
Here in the charlotte area, we could see a wintry mix of sleet and freezing rain into the afternoon. We are live in charlotte this afternoon. Tell us more about the conditions you have been seeing through the morning and right now, and what the city has done to prepare for Winter Weather. Reporter the temperature is doing its part. It is cold out here. The last couple minutes, we just saw our first few flurrys start to fall here, so the snow may be starting to move this way. As far as what the city is doing to get prepared, crews are out for the city and state, making sure we are ready, once we start to see precipitation start to fall of any serious form in and around the charlotte area. This morning, we knew they had 30 trucks last night, one thing that might work to the advantage for d. O. T. , the temperature, it solution is going to work. If it gets below 25 or too cold, they have to put a different solution on. It doesnt look like that will be the case. The trucks are positioned,
See there briefly, there is his car and there is the log truck. He said he just pulled up to the scene not long ago as well. There was another officer investigating, he left to be with the driver who was taken to the hospital. The drivers injuries are not known. The trooper said he just got here, doing an investigation, not too clear exactly what happened of why the driver overturned but like i said it is foggy, dark, be still no clearcut conclusion of how that driver overturned his log truck but nonetheless, it is overturned you can see there but no lanes are blocked going in either direction, no logs scattered across the road. There is one car off in the median, the state trooper told me the car did knick one of the logs that fell off the truck but other than that, no injuries other than the driver of the log truck being taken to the hospital. Ill be out here trying to get more answers as soon as i do ill update you on air and online at wbtv. Com. Reporting live in Iredell County, As