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
Charred and part of the war is gone. Thankfully everyone made it out safely. Fire crews had to rescue some of the family pets. In york county, someone hit and killed a man walking along a busy highway. It was yesterday evening on u. S. 21 on marine drive, and it was south of rock hill. Troopers identified the driver as willie small. He was not hurt. We are asking for more information including the victims name and if any charges will be filed. More breaking news just ahead on daybreak. I will be back in the breaking news center to break down the results from supertuesday. A story we are following for your day ahead. Today a leader will push to meet the cmpd chief about this video here that shows an officer punching a hitandrun suspect. Joe bruno is live outside of the cmpd headquarters, and the cmpd has not released any information about the officer. Hes being investigated for excessive use of force. A viewer sent the video to channel 9, and it was taken by a neighbor inside of the apa
York city accidents or stalled vehicle charlotte from york county, no accidents or stalled vehicles. Here back in charlotte, no issues and that includes south out of irondale. And 485, all on schedule this morning. I am in the breaking news center. Police are pouring over Surveillance Video at a northwest charlotte riteaid to find out who crashed through the doors here and stole items from inside. You can see the damage it did to the doors. It is barely hanging on right there and the glass is on the ground. Only channel 9 was at the store on bell haven boulevard around 4 30 this morning as officers picked through the evidence that was left at the scene. They do say that there were several car parts that were left behind in the parking lot. We are asking right now for a description of that car and for the Surveillance Video they are looking through right now. We will update you here in the breaking news center just as soon as we get any of that today the matthews mayor will host a meeti
Local Campaign Official says trump will be in hickory on monday. Our partners at the hickory record report he will be at lenoir monday morning. We checked over night we did not see it on his public schedule. Channel 9 will keep tabs on this story for you and bring new any new updates. In the next 30 minutes we will bring you the latest breaking details on that chaos. Including the reaction from other president ial candidates over night. Another big story this weekend is the rain. We are expecting in our area. Meteorologist vicki graf is joining us with details on the timeline of when it will appear. I just got data in over nigh and this is showing that it is going to be a warmer day today. Close to 80 degrees yet again. And the rain chances now look like they will be backing down for today. Really the best chance for seeing any rain today will be in the mountains. Its already a warmer start. As soon as you step outside were in the mid to upper 50s to low 60s. Waking up this morning by
Hitch but not all parents see it that way. More than 500 students at walter g buyers school were barreling in class this morning when they suddenly found themselves outside. We do have an intentionally set fire in one of the restrooms in the school. Firefighters say school staff had put it out before they arrived but they sent in crews to ventilate the halls, Opening Doors and using large phones. Cms says they sent students home on the advice of firefighters who had concerns about lingering smoke and smoke damage in the halls. As soon as calls and emails went out to parents nay quickly lined up in the parking lot for an early pick up. Most had no idea the fire in the bathroom was arson. Im upset though. How did the fire start . Who started the fire. I dont know what happened. Tracy rivera came to get his eightyearold son. He was angry when i told him this was no accident. Cms would only say a liquid was poured on the bathroom floor damage was 3,000 to 4,000 contained to the bathroom. F