Monroe, charlotte, gastonia, 49 in rock hill and 50 in lancaster. Wind up at 53, a lot cooler than yesterday, heaviest, steadiest of the rain comes this morning. Tapers off this afternoon to more showerytype rain. We should rebound in the lower 50s. Having said that, there is more rain back to the west of us, you can see that here. That is the next round coming our way, ill give you the timing with futurecast in a couple minutes. Youre never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic on wbtv news this morning. Heres chris, first alert traffic. Chris al, thank you, first alert traffic sponsored by toyota of north charlotte. Well start with a live look here at i77, nations ford, as al mentioned give yourself extra time the roads are wet out there this morning. Charlotte commute mainly running in the green, no problems, 77 or 85, but we do have an injury accident being listed, mcdowell at 4th street, that is right outside center city inside 277, so be aware of that. North, driving in light rain. From rock hill, fort mill, indian trail, most of that rain now lifting up to the north a bit. That is a check of the morning commute guys, back to you. John thanks, chris. Continuing to follow breaking news while you were sleeping a swat situation took place in northwest charlotte. Christine the situation ended an hour ago at the catawba plantation subdivision on Pointer Ridge drive. Wbtvs Ashton Pellom is there, witnessed everything that happened. Ashton, was anyone hurt first of all, in this situation . Reporter hey, good morning, christine. No one was hurt in the swat situation standoff, happened at the house behind me. Cmpd officials telling me they arrested a man in that home who was wanted for murder in halifax county. Right now im speaking with casey witten, a neighbor in the neighborhood. Tell me cry it for this describe it. You said it was like call of duty war zone. We started out as regular cops and then it upgraded to kind of like swat and they they started surrounding the house, closed off the perimeter, made sure no one was coming through and after that they went and approached the house and then they asked for the guy to come out. How scary was all this . Very, very scary. Bad guys have the armor on, we dont. Im wondering what was going to come through my house, my brother was in the driveway they wouldnt let him in the house. He was sitting out there and im praying i hope nothing happened. They did a pretty good job, though. They wrapped it up good. When you hear the guy was wanted on murder charge, you seemed like wow, what does that make you think . It makes you be cautious who youre around. You never know what is going on with your neighbors and stuff like that. This is the reason why we try to kind of like congregate in the other, not a bad neighborhood, so definitely. A crazy morning for you this morning . Definitely a crazy morning. It is almost time for the kids to come out and go to school so i was worried about them having the stand off and some kid walking down the block, im glad they wrapped it up in a timely fashion. And professional. One man here arrested at this house behind me here on Pointer Ridge drive, arrested for murder warrant out of halifax county. Well keep you update when we get more information well update you on air and wbtv. Com. Reporting in northwest charlotte, Ashton Pellom, wbtv on your side. Christine thank you, ashton for the live report. This morning were waiting to see how the state is going to respond now after Charlotte City Council Voted to expand the citys nondiscrimination ordinance, that proposal expands protections based on Sexual Orientation and gender identity including allowing people to to the gender with which they identify. John governor pat mccrory called it a threat to public safety, vowing to have the General Assembly take action if it passed. Wbtvs Mark Davenport is looking into this, hes live at the Mecklenburg County Government Center this morning. Mark, tell us, now that the measure has passed, what happens next . Reporter john, heres the time line. This ordinance will go in effect here in the city of charlotte on april 1st. Then a new legislative session starting in may for the state of North Carolina and during that session, that is when legislators can discuss whether or not they will overturn what charlotte just passed last night with this lgbt ordinance. Now, i want to get you in the chambers to show you what it looked like. That room that hit capacity, took three hours to hear from the 140 plus people who signed up to speak and after that 74 vote to pass the ordinance, majority of the crowd clapped and cheered but may not be pat mccrory promised to take action against this ordinance. Moving forward, the new legislative session is key on whether or not this ordinance does stay intact. Legislators have three options, ill outline them. Strike down the ordinance, decide to cut out the controversial bathroom provision within this ordinance, or legislators could vote to put the question on the November Ballot for the charlotte voters to decide later this year. Regardless how things shake out on the state level, charlotte mayor Jennifer Roberts said it was important to pass the extended ordinance. Im pleased with the council and i am pleased that charlotte has joined the over 250 cities and counties that have these kind of respect for lgbt inclusion and nondiscrimination. Reporter this expanded ordinance is the first of its kind in North Carolina. There are three our South Carolina cities that do have Something Like this as well columbia, charleston and myrtle beach. Wbtv on your side. Christine thank you, mark. Here is how Council Members voted. Austin, mitchell, autry, eiselt. Northfield, vi lyles vote in favor, all democrats. Here is who opposed it, driggs. Fallon, smith and phipps. John we are getting more reaction on the vote. Christine the Advocacy Group says this city council lost all sanity of government mandate that says men can enter womens bathrooms and locker rooms at any time for any reason is absurd. John the arru clu praised the vote. We urge municipal leaders across the state to follow their example is what they said. Complete coverage on the website right now, wbtv. Com. You can easily share the story with others and leave comments on our Wbtv Facebook page. We are just Getting Started for you this morning at 5 00 a. M. , president obama is taking action to fight the zika virus, the request he plans to make to congress today. John Kristen Miranda live in the alert center. Kristen take a look, these are some of the pictures i have been able to find from a train crash in the netherlands. Look at the damage. Ill show you more from the alert center. John a quick check of the first alert weather before we head to the break and there is a lot of rain in the area this morning. That is going to make for a very sloppy commute but heres a live look at power Doppler Network radar you can see where the rain is. I77 and nations ford you can see the interstate is wet, you may want to leave early to compensate for that. Well keep you posted throughout the morning because youre never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic on wbtv afterclosed captioning on wbtvnews is sponsored by subarusouth boulevard and subaruconcord. John 13 after 5 00 welcome back to wbtv news this morning. Christine get over to Kristen Miranda with new images first of a deadly train crash that happened in russia, these images are dramatic. Kristen it is actually the netherlands, christine, i want to show you the pictures i was able to get from the dutch website dutch news. Take a close look, ill scroll through them as i tell you what happened. Emergency services say one person was killed, a number of passengers injured after this passenger train slammed in a crane and then the train derailed. It happened this morning, four see are lying on the sides near the rail. Dutch news says it was the train conductor who died, all this happening 78 miles east of amsterdam. Investigators are heading to the scene this morning trying to figure out what caused this crash but initially looks like the driver of the crane had waited for one train to pass and then started to cross the tracks when it was hit by another train coming in the opposite direction. You can see the violence, the force of the crash there in the netherlands this morning. Ill keep you updated if i hear anything else about a cause about the number of people injured, ill let you know from the alert center. Back to you. Christine president obama is asking congress for nearly two billion dollars to combat the spread of zika virus in latin america and United States and f lexability to fight ebola. Minutes away from weather and traffic on wbtv news this morning. Here is meteorologist al conklin with more on the rain. Al still raining up in boone, light rain right now but a cold rain, 38 degrees the current temperature in boone. This is resortcams. Com, bringing us king street, wet conditions, you can see under that light coming down decently. There is rain throughout the viewing area and rain will continue a good chunk of the day across the mountains. I look for a high of 42 degrees, 7080 chance of rain as you go through the day today. Rain this morning all across the viewing area. One exception is south of charlotte you can see a little bit of rain coming in Lancaster County and chester, there are decent breaks south of charlotte, all the way over through the sand hills and up in the Pee Dee River valley. Futurecast. , this is 8 00, the morning commute will be wet. Factor that in. By 11 00, 12 00, a lot of there is lifting out i see more gray than green. Likely stay that way through the afternoon hours. Before they fire back up late tonight and tomorrow. Our forecast then today a chilly day, yesterday 66, today no we are where near that. 53 late this afternoon. Plan on wet weather, a wet commute. What does the weekend look like, any rain Holding Around . Ill spell it out in the seven day planner. 5 15, check in with chris, first alert traffic. Chris first alert traffic charlotte. We have one of the first accidents of the morning in the heart of center city, east 4th street inbound at mcdowell, that accident came in about ten minutes ago so expect that if youre heading inbound on 4th you will see the accident scene and find a few delays. Wet roads, i77 northbound at nations ford, southbound traffic light as well drive times, 21 minutes from rock hill, lake 16 minutes, 64 miles an hour. Still looking at quite a bit of green out there, the slow downs that we are seeing are over on highway 74 around matthews and up toward albermarle road split this morning. Thats a check of traffic, guys, back over to you. John thanks, chris. Next at 5 00, bad news for those amazon. Christine how much more shipping is going to cost for well be back, its christine 20 minutes after 5 00. John get over to Kristen Miranda with new details on a crane collapse, she is live in the alert center. Kristen this is unbelievable video i found, john and christine. Take a look at it watch what happens as this crane at a construction site in melbourne, look at that. Unbelievable. Imagine the noise if you were there. Happened a short time ago. There was a fire at the base of the crane, you see the fire there, then the crane arm collapsed as the fire spreads. Unbelievable. Seems like there was an electrical fire and the motor of the crane according to investigators, believe it or not, no one hurt and now firefighters are making sure there are no hot spots on the scene. The crews will take the crane apart that is quite a job ahead of them they have, but wow, unbelievable video out of melbourne, australia. Back to you. John in consumer headlines, if youont have a prime membership youll pay more to get Free Shipping from amazon. Nonmembers must spend at least 49 to get Free Shipping, that is up from 35. Prime members get Free Shipping regardless of how much they Christine Facebook wants to make your birthday wishes to friends a little more personal. The company adding a new feature for apple devices allows users birthday videos on a friends time line. Will come to android in the coming months. Pretty neat. John all sorts of things happening technology wise. Christine maybe get a 15 personal forecast on facebook. Al wet christine you dont need 15 seconds. Al we have rain that were tracking early on for the vast majority of our viewing area look at it here on five sweeps of power doppler radar, rain covered most of the area, well over two inches of rain in charlotte since it began in earnest yesterday afternoon. Yesterday, 1. 86, good enough for record, how about that. Again you can see most of the area covered up with rain but we have spots here south of charlotte that have cleared out, much of Mecklenburg County now from about 485 on southward is pretty much rain free, doesnt mean streets arent wet, good parts of union county, not everybody is in on the rain right now but certainly the vast majority of us are. Going through this morning this is 8 00, notice where the rain is by this point, lifting north of lake norman, very spotty, notice from 8 00 to noon, good chunk of the area dries out appreciably. There is lots of gray, not much green. I wouldnt put the guard down yet. There is going to be at least showers as we go in the afternoon hours, not going to be a very pretty day, lots of cloud cover, rain comes back in tonight and plenty more in the forecast for tomorrow. Up in boone, king street in boone your rain continues to fall, light for the most part but 38 degrees right now in the boone area. In charlotte, looking at temperature, 48 degrees, 8 mile visibility, 12 is the northeast breeze, so a feelslike temperature is cold, 43 degrees right now in the charlotte area. 43 is the current temperature morganton, hickory, statesville, 45 concord and lincolnton, youll hold in the 40s through low 40s in the mountains. Rest of us should warm a little bit this afternoon. 48 this morning at the bus stop, wet and cold, 90 chance of rain at 8 00, by then it is starting to lift northward, this afternoon rain chances pare back to 30 . Chili conditions nowchili conditions,chilly conditions, 60s near 70 . Were in advance of the next storm system now across texas, this warm front will lift northward, temperatures go up but that also brings a threat of more heavy rain. So there is a Flash Flood Watch in effect that runs right through tomorrow evening. And on top of that, there is also concern for Severe Weather. There is at least a slight chance for good chunk of the viewing area tomorrow that we get in stronger thunderstorms. So with that, we think tomorrows threats, rain definitely a big one, winds an issue. A scale 010, probably a 2. On top of the heavy rain we have coming, we have the Severe Weather threat. This is additional rain through wednesday evening, another 12 inches of rain coming on top of what we received, last night and this morning. Once we get rid of the rain here, thats it. Thursday, friday and the weekend we dry out. Ground is going to be soggy and soaked. Warm tomorrow, then back in the 50s, down up, down, up again, by sunday and monday in the 60s. Here is the seven day forecast, 53 today, 70 of more rain. Heaviest this is morning. Much light they are afternoon. 90 chance thunderstorms tomorrow, some of which could be severe. Dry out thursday, snow in the mountains for sure thursday and very very nice for the warming trend in the weekend. Youre never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic on wbtv news this morning. Here is chris. Chris al, thank you, first alert traffic is sponsored by toyota of north charlotte. We have two separate accidents mcdowell at east 4th, that one off the outer loop of 277 there, down toward independence expressway. Our second accident is west trade street at graham, heading down toward the johnson and wales area, accident there. The expressway, 74 right as you make your way into 277, you see center city in the background, most of the major highways are continuing to run in the green this morning. Not seeing any volume delays as of yet so checking your drive times, if youre coming in from matthews, 13 minutes, 47milesperhour. Arboretum area on highway 16, providence road, 15 and 41, concord to center city, 19 minutes, average speed, 66milesperhour. Thats a check of your a quick break and be right back. Reporter the ciaa tournament tips off here in the queen city later this morning. Im Mark Davenport, coming up ill tell you what you can expect this year. Christine expect a soggy commute as you head out the door this morning. Were on your side with how much rain you can see this a. M. And which areas will be hit the hard hardest. John good morning, thanks for waking up with wbtv news this morning on this soggy tuesday, 5 30 im john carter. Christine im christine sperow. Lets get over to the First Alert Weather Center where meteorologist al conklin is tracking every movement of the rain system. Al still getting rain for the vast majority of the viewing area but seeing erosion on the edges, that is fully expected we should see a tapering down of the rain deeper through the morning. Right now much of Mecklenburg County while the streets are wet, it is not raining right now. York county as well, parts of chesterfield, lancaster, up in union. Rest of us cover in rain. Still a little bit of light rain in belmont, keeping an eye on the heavy rain for you early on. Heavier is up to the north. Right now heres what im looking at this afternoon, by later this afternoon, 50 50 chance for rain, charlotte, concord, mooresville about 53 degrees. Lenoir, 47. Rain stays with the mountains most of the day and High Temperature in boone around 42 degrees. Now, well see a tapering of the rain deeper through this morning and in the afternoon, but dont put the umbrellas away youll need them again tomorrow. In fact the rain will likely change character going from heavy downpours to potential Severe Weather and ill highlight that in the seven day planner in a couple minutes. 5 31, check in with chris, first alert traffic. Chris al, thank you, first alert traffic sponsored by toyota of north charlotte. Well start with our overall view here, most of our major highways continuing to run in the green this morning. Just a few slow downs showing up on providence road, that is inbound as you make your way up toward fairview. Now center city we have two separate accidents, the first
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