Precipitation, snow and ice gives the greatest danger in charlotte with the weather maker. A layer of snow, a coating of freezing rain on top of that snow. This all starts overnight sunday night into monday and all of us will start out with that snow. But the deal is warmer air working its way just above us, will melt a little bit of that, then refreezes on the ground on monday, by 6 00 or so. Changes it into a freezing rain. That will be possible across rock hill all the way up into davidson. When you get to upper Iredell County including statesville to taylorsville, morganton, that is where well see pretty much a steady snowfall. The top one looks to be ice, just because the snowfall may not have a lot of time to accumulate our futurecast sets the stage overnight tonight as the temperatures drop down to low teens and lower 20s. The cold will stay with us all the way through sunday as that weathermaker gets close. Its after that snowfall that is going to be the even bigger danger, ill
Of rounds at this van full with people while it was outside the building. Why remains unclear. I was told a woman was sitting in the red vehicle you see parked behind it. Both vehicles were hit as well as the building itself. Im told the concierge was shaken up. He called 911 as people ran inside the building looking for cover. I spoke with the president of the Homeowners Association for the condos here. Well have the latest coming up at 6 00. Reporting live in uptown alexa police are not saying if this was related to any ciaa tournament events in uptown. We are expecting to get a final tournament report today which will tell us if there were any problems surrounding the event and how many cmpd declared the tournament the an extraordinary event meaning extra security measures will put into place. That includes increased Police Patrols and a clear presence on every corner. As soon as we get that event well let you know both on air and online at wsoctv. Com. We are also following breakin
On when that arrives coming up. Today nc d. O. T. Crews will be deciding how to treat the roads for mondays Winter Weather. They say treating roads for freezing rain is different than for snow. Trucks will start tackling highways and interstates. More crews are on call if we get more than we anticipate. We have dozens of pieces of equipment just within Mecklenburg County alone. We also have potential for 90 contractors that can we can bring on site. Nc d. O. T. Crews say crews have already used 24 million worth of materials on storm preps this year. That is already more than half the states budget for the entire year. And you can always stay informed on the weather in your neighborhood by using the wsoc tv weather app. You can use the interactive radar and get Severe Weather alerts. Learned ash county schools will not have a half day today. It was supposed to make up for days missed during the recent Winter Weather. Several School Districts including cms are going to use monday, presid
Good afternoon im bank im brittney johnson. Eyewitness News Reporter tina terry is joining us live from that neighborhood. This is not the first time this has happened this week. Reporter no its actually the second incident that weve seen this week in this part of charlotte. With temperatures as cold as they are outside this morning, people here are certainly happy to have their Service Restored this morning. A spokesman with png says as of 3 00 this morning, they had restored service to all but 70 customers in this area. Last night we told you close to 300 homes were without service and some of them without heat after a third Party Working for the google fiber hit a gas main yesterday. Officials with png had to go door to door in order to restore service to each house throughout the night. Just tuesday we told you a disrupted service in the Mallard Creek area. Also we reported on several of these cases since last year. We asked a spokesman for png what may have lead to this mistake la
That is right. We will see lots of sunshine through the day today. If you are heading out early grab that jacket. Temperatures just updated. Were in the upper 20s from as well. Going through the afternoon sunny skies. If you are heading out to the krispy kremey you might want a jacket. The polls are now open in South Carolina for the democratic primary. Eyewitness News Reporter elsa gillis explains the strategy the two have been using trying to win this primary. We are down to two very strong candidate. And all voters hitting the polls agreed. I just kind of tie between two. Reporter dr. Karen kadrawski says that both vying for the vote. Hillary clinton has a song relationship with the African American community but senator Bernie Sanders has worked to solidify that vote as well. Hes been raveling around to historically black colleges and universities. Hes been appearing in a number of African American churches. Reporter but this past week clinton and her husband have made several appe