What the proposal means if it is approved. Reporter john, i can tell you the biggest change right off the bat is a charlotte area district without an incumbent. I want you get you back to the map get you closer view of what were talking about. The map used to look different. Especially in our area. The 12th district no longer snakes through our state from 85 from charlotte to greensboro. Now the district much more charlottecentric, compact in the area. Alma adams no longer represents any part of charlotte under this map. She falls in the 13th district. Overnight she sent a statement saying for now im focused o on doing my job and continuing to represent the people of North Carolinas 12th congressional district. She will continue to look over the map and weigh her options moving forward. The deadline for lawmakers to approve the new map is on friday. That is why they are getting together in special session to make the final decisions, well reporting live, Mark Davenport, wbtv on your side. John also looking ahead tomorrow is the deadline to register to vote in North Carolina. If you plan to register you need to make sure your Voter Registration is received or postmarked by tomorrow. Christine key endorsement in campaign 2016 if you havent heard, South Carolina governor nikki haley has put her support behind republican president ial candidate and florida senator marco rubio. We say that every day is a great day in South Carolina. Ladies and gentlemen, if we elect marco rubio, every day will be a great day in america. Christine Governor Haley will be on the Campaign Trial through the primary in the state. Rubio needs all the help he can. According to the real clear politics average of polls with South Carolina voters, he is in third place behind donald trump john kasich not far behind. All the candidates will be back on the trail across the palmetto state include some making stops in our area. Wbtvs Ashton Pellom is live in rock hill with more on that. So ashton, tell us more about the candidates plans today. Reporter hey, good morning, christine. Jeb bush and john kasich will both be in york county. A big day for here in the upstate in york county. Bush, the former governor of florida, will hold a town hallel event in rock hill, scheduled for 5 30 in the building behind me at the magnolia room. Ohio Governor John Kasich will hold a town hall event in for the mill starts at 6 00 at sun city lakes pavilion. Both are free you can get tickets at eventbright. Com. As far as the other hopefuls, many candidates focusing on theup state. Donald trump in gaffney. Endorsement from governor hale Ashton Pellom, wbtv on your side. Christine South Carolina republican president ial primary is this saturday. Followed by the democratic primary a week from saturday. It is important to note voters can vote in either primary but not in both. When the results come until this weekend have the wbtv news app we will send an alert to the cell phone as a winner is announced. John this is new, two men arrested on a long list of drug charges in york county. Brandon griggs and anthony grahada whose mug shot was not available, both arrested after a short chase in rock hill. Facing a list of charges including possession of heroin and methamphetamine. Christine a school nurse and mother in charlotte will be she was convicted last june of trying to hire hitmen to kill her exhusband. Davis claims her ex was molesting their daughter. She faces minimum of 10 years in prison. John a judge has continued the case of a teen from morganton that f. B. I. Agents say plot to kill in the name of isis. According to federal Court Documents the case of Justin Sullivan will be heard next in october. Documents say a request to delay the case was granted because of the serious nature of charges. Christine a charlotte man accused of making child pornography is facing a federal indictment. A grand jury handed indictmen to john faust, arrest in 2014. He made the videos between 20122014 in Mecklenburg County and another locations in the state. Police said faust had inappropriate pictures of girls as young as 8. A man accused of shooting a woman in hickory is facing murder charges. Looking stunned and shaking his head. He had just learned moments before that the victim tammy cloninger, had died. Police believe she was shot and killed until a domestic dispute. John police cracked a sting of ipad thefts from a local schools, arresting several people. Detectives say teens broke in albermarle road elementary and piney grove Elementary Schools in charlotte twice over the past two weeks. Stealing ipads and electronics. Officers found two teens walking away from the school and they were arrested. Detectives traced the stolen ipads to the players wire less store on farm pond lane in charlotte. Detectives arrested one of the employees, charged with having the stolen electronics. Christine plenty ahead in the 6 00 am hour. John toyota is recalling three million vehicles. After the break, what vehicles are affected and why. First a quick check of the here in charlotte at 32, 28 up in boone. 32 lancaster, 27 albermarle, 29 in shelby. A live look at i77 at the rest area near the South CarolinaNorth Carolina state line, things moving smoothly there. Keeping a check on the traffic because youre never more than seven minutes away from weather i was walking home. Just picked us up two breakfast croissants for four bucks, when this bear attacked. With one swipe, it devoured one of the croissants. Then jack showed up and took care of the beast, so i could escape. And thats what happened to your breakfast croissant. And yours . It survived. Live from charlotte, this is wbtv news this morning. Christine welcome back. We have several brand new stories well be bringing you in this hour. At 6 33, our News Partners at the Charlotte Observer just obtained the 911 calls revealing a Christmas Eve shooting at northlake mall. Pets in bed, is it good for you or does it mess with your sleep . At 6 47, on your side with a closer look at results of a new study. Right now check back in with Kristen Miranda. John live in the alert Center Following details in a fire in north charleston. Kristen i wanted to get you caught up happening right now, this picture from our sister station in the charleston area. A fire happening right now in north charleston, cape show you on cherokee street in north charleston, ill zoom in right here on the intersection, and that is where it is. So we are keeping an eye on this, it is burning now and we develops. I havent heard anything about injuries, this is a story happening right now ill keep appear eye on it on twitter and through our friends at our sister station in charleston. John a man has been indicted in the investigation of a killings of a family and washington d. C. 35yearold darren wendt is charged in a Home Invasion and murder. His crime spree lasted two days include burglary, kidnapping, extortion, murder and arson after it ended with the mansion in flames. He faces a maximum sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole. Christine consumer news, toyota is recalling three million suvs world wide because of problems with the seat belts. The company says the flaw could cause Rear Seat Belts to fail. Most were built between 200520 20052014. John 13 after 6 00, youre never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic on wbtv news this morning. Here is meteorologist al conklin. Al 6 12, alleghany, ashe, watauga, avery counties running on twohour delay. In boone from resortcams. Com but the back roads definitely still have ice on them. You will see more melting this afternoon with temperatures getting in the upper 30s to maybe 40, not bad. Not as cold, plenty of sunshine for today rest of us plenty of sunshine but starting off cold, freezing in charlotte, 28 boone, 29 right now hickory, 30 gastonia, 26 salisbury, 30 around rock hill and leslie community in South Carolina. 34 this morning, 49 lunch time, 54 this afternoon, plenty of sunshine to go around all day long. Again, a pretty seasonal day, in the mid 50s where we should be, nice warm up for the weekend but yes, there is rain on the horizon, let you know what im tracking in the seven day forecast, stick around. Right now check in with chris, first alert traffic. Chris traffic sponsored by toyota of north charlotte. Were keeping our eye on Traffic Cameras across the region this morning, but early on our thursday morning commute things are running smoothly. Most of the interstates in the green. Were seeing a few slow downs park road, providence road, independence boulevard but they are just in short, spotty sections. Center city john belk and brookshire, no problems both of those highways are running in the green and we will check the drive times, matthews to center city, 13 minutes, 49 miles an hour. Providence road from the arboretum area, 18 minute commute, concord to center city, 18 at 67milesperhour. That is a check of the morning traffic christine, over to you. Christine thank you, chris. Politics, isis and hollywood. John john kerry met with major studio executives to get ideas how to counter the message of terrorists. That story is later on cbs this morning at 7 00. Christine some of you will be happy were talking about the game and some arent. Duke and unc renewing their classic rivalry. Lived up to the hype, a thriller to the end on tobacco road. Wbtv is always on your side, in its 1616. John 19 after 6 00. There are several school delay in our area this morning. This is a complete list, not just select few. Alleghany, ashe, avery and Watauga County schools are all on twohour delay. Lets get over to Kristen Miranda right now, live in the alert center with just interesting video just in the newsroom. What have you got here . Kristen sometimes on thursday you need to see the best video of the day i got it in, wanted to show it to you right away. Look at this. A guy in florida in trouble with the law after an alleged joy ride in a backhoe ended with a slowspeed police chase. 59yearold dumped folders on the road, drove up and drown a bridge for an hourandahalf damaging the road, the side of the bridge, you can see it here. Police followed him the whole way. Eventually spike strips were put down to stop the guy and the backhoe, hes in custody, also taken to the hospital to be checked out. That is probably the slowest police chase we have ever seen. Back to you. Christine i got to follow that, thank you, kristen. Kristen yours is better, trust me. Christine the big one you watched here live, dukeunc proving why this is the best rivalry in college. College basketball. The blue devils taking on the heels, unc led by brice johnson, jam in the first half. Comes down to the wire, duke down by two under three minutes ingram finds luke can be kennard. Duke gets the block and win by one point. 7473 was the final. Both teams have tough tests on saturday. Duke at louisville, unc hosts no. 11, miami. John the field for the daytona 500 will be set tonight. Driver pass tart will take part in the trials. First one is at 7 00, the following is 9 00. Today is a somber anniversary, 15 years today since the death of Dale Earnhardt in 2001 daytona 500. Al doesnt seem that long ago. Time flies. Good weather for the race, it is florida. Everything is relative. Lets get you out the door, lets look back, we had an inch of rain here in charlotte and obviously some of that was very heavy on tuesday. Even had the overnight thunder and lightning, where do we stand, we ended last month with a little bit of a surplus but so far this month were dry, deficit of third of an inch and for the year im surprised at this when i put this together only had four inches of rain, should have 5. 5, plenty of time to catch up, dont we know about that from last year. No rain or snow and no fog. We wont have any issues on the roads in terms of weather. Clear skies, this is scott clarks toyota in stallings. Clear conditions in charlotte, gorgeous picture, now at 32 here in charlotte, north breeze is light, good visibility, there is a wind chill factor now at 27 degrees. It is in the 20s up across mountains, boone at 28, 29 lincolnton, shelby, 30 rock hill and 30 in lancaster. In the mountains, upper 30s to 40. This may be generous but still the idea youll melt a lot of the snow today and should be a nice one this afternoon, 54 lenoir, 51 taylorsville, tons of sunshine from start to finish and foothill, no fog this morning, wont be any issues. 52 hickory, 52 in albermarle, 55 in wadesboro. And mid 50s rock hill, lancaster and chester. Lots of sunshine, backside, nice and warm, as we go through the next couple days youll see temperatures go up, that is great but we have plenty of sunshine today and tomorrow, here comes a little bit of a fly in the ointment, saturday a front will trigger a few showers in the mountains. Rest of us should be dry, as we go in sunday, a small chance for rain even in charlotte late in the day. I am not promising a totally sunny weekend but it will be warm. Best chance for rain comes monday into tuesday and some of be heavy at times and once we get beyond the weekend our temperatures go back down, in fact it looks chilly next week, tuesday and wednesday, temperatures below average. Enjoy the next couple days, 54 today, sunshine, near 30 tonight, 57 mostly sunny tomorrow, partly sunny saturday, shower for the mountains, 65. Small chance of a shower on sunday but look at that temperature, 68 degrees. Here comes the rain monday into tuesday, could be heavy at times, maybe thunder and lightning tuesday, we cool off as we go in wednesday and thursday. Youre never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic on wbtv news this morning. Here is chris, first alert traffic. Chris al, thank you, traffic sponsored by toyota of north charlotte. Well start here with a live look, i77 at lasalle street, certainly seeing the volume of traffic picking up here in the last couple minutes. If youre coming in from lake norman right now running at 16 minutes, 64 miles an hour, that is pretty good this time of the morning in the green, davidson, cornelius, huntersville up to 485. Overall charlotte commute fairly providence road, wt harris, albermarle, no problems, 485 out to the west looking aokay. Leaving rock hill in the next couple minutes here is the current drive time, northbound 77, 21 minutes with an average speed of 66milesperhour. And that is a check of your morning commute, christine, over to you. Christine much more to come. John a first for campaign 2016, according to the hatest poll a new leader in the republican president ial race. Who do you think it is . We have details when we come back. Christine a local College Student helps deliver a baby outside his apartment in charlotte. We hear his story. John youre watching wbtv news this morning, charlottes it is vo you can pass down a subaru forester. dad shes all yours. vo but you get to keep the memories. Love. Its what makes a subaru, christine concerns growing about possible cases of mumps in our area, were on your side working to learn more about the spread of the virus. Plus there is ten of us stuck in the back here, there are shots going off. John in this half hour our our partners obtained the 911 calls from northlake mall shooting. Thanks for watching wbtv news this morning on this thursday, february 18th, now 6 30 im john carter. Christine im christine sperow. There are a few School Delays to pass along quickly today. Alleghany, ashe, avery and Watauga County schools are operating on a twohour delay. Lets get you caught up on first alert weather. Meteorologist al conklin has details. This morning, main street in belmont, dry conditions there, still dark out there, the sun will be up in 35 minutes or so, what we dont have this morning unlike yesterday morning is fog. Great visibility from the mountains all the way down in the sand hills across the piedmont, but temperatures below freeze, cold, 28 boone, 24 morganton, 30 gastonia, 27 albermarle and salisbury, at freezing in charlotte. 34 degrees at the bus stop plenty of sunshine, chilly start, no chance of rain or snow this morning, none this afternoon, looking good, lots of sun, high of 54. Clear skies, im here to warn you while we have warmer temperatures this weekend do yourself a favor, dont waste your time washing the car, ill explain why in a couple minutes. Christine if you do, chris if you do you guarantee it will rain. First alert traffic sponsored by toyota of north charlotte. Volume heating up for our thursday morning rush hour, but still running along smoothly here and that is the case on most of our major interstates. 485 looks good. 77, 85 okay, a few slow downs there on providence road as we swing in toward center city this morning, the john belk, brookshire, no problems there. Quick check of drive times, leaving matthews, coming up 74, 12 minutes. Providence road from arboretum, 17 minute commute and concord to center city, 18 minutes at 65milesperhour. Youre never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic on wbtv news this morning. Christine on your side with health news now, health ficials in the area investigating new possible cases of mumps. There are already two confirmed cases, now they are testing at least six other potential cases in the mecklenburg, iredell and Cabarrus County area. Wbtvs Mark Davenport has been following the story, he is live in charlotte now so mark, do all how this virus may have spread . Reporter they are working on that this morning and putting on detective caps to try to figure out exactly how it spread and who these people, the suspected cases have been in contact with and trying to figure out through interviews who they have been around and where they have been so they can