Crime alert, six people total are hurt in four separate shootings across charlotte. You can see where they happened on this map, we pin pointed them with red boxes from west to northwest charlotte. The first one happening around 4 30 yesterday afternoon. The last about seven hours later. The latest of those shootings breaking overnight, a woman shot in the leg on brooktree drive not far from freedom drive. Happened at 11 30 last night. Police say the victim drove herself two miles down the road to darby avenue near the brookshire freeway. Police arent sure what led up to that shooting. They do not believe this incident was connected to any of the other shootings. John two of the shootings happened not far from each other in east charlotte. One at 5 30 on the plaza, the other twoandahalf hours later at barrington and milton road. Mark davenport joins us now live from charlottemecklenburg police headquarters, so mark, a the shootings connected . Reporter john, i got off the phone with police a while ago, they told me the shootings dont seem to be connected. We asked the question because these two shootings were just one mile apart. Want to get to you video to show you what the first scene looked like. This scene covered an entire strip mall of the plaza. Two people shot there. Both rushed to the hospital, one with serious injury, the other in critical condition. A few hours later a mile away more gunshots. Police taped off an area on milton near an apartment complex. Our cameras out there were the only ones present as the victim was loaded in an ambulance. Police say that he told them a car drove by and fired shots at him. Pray for their family, think of the lives that have been hurt. Offer prayer. Reporter during the same phone with cmpd they dont have anyone in custody for either one of the shootings. As soon as you can. Reporting live, Mark Davenport, wbtv on your side. John stay with wbtv for continuing coverage of these shootings and download the wbtv news app, well send out alerts as we learn of any arrests made in connection with the incidents. Christine there is an amber alert for a missing 15yearold girl in North Carolina, we have her picture to show you. Here it is, police say dixie bailey was last seen monday in trains vein yeah county. If you know where she is, call 911 immediately. John a man charged in the murder of a pregnant teenager in charlotte . Twelve is scheduledin 2012 will appear in court today. Darne brown was charged with hawa gabbidon, killed in a park. A step in the right direction waiting years. We hope one day something will come out of it. Her father never heard of brown until the charges were filed. Brown was in Police Custody on unrelated charges. Christine the charlottemecklenburg school board will host a Community Forum tonight for you to weigh in on next years budget. Being held tonight at 6 00 at independence high school. Comes a day after Board Members met to talk about construction and renovation projects in the district. Ashton pellom is live with more on what was said at that meeting so ashton, what came out of it . Reporter hey, good morning, christine. A lot of discussion came out of that meeting but according to our News Partners at the charlotte observer, the board took no action yesterday on those renovation projects and construction that will be to the tune of 2 billion. As we reported, superintendent ann clark is pushing to have a bond referendum for the project put on this novembers ballot. To ask Mecklenburg County commissioners to do that. Board members also agreed that expanding language magnet schools is a high priority and several speakers urged the board to place priority on keeping their kids in neighborhood schools as they work on Student Assignment plan. The cms policy board will meet tomorrow night to discuss further the Student Assignment plan, well keep you updated on air and online at wbtv. Com. Reporting live here in uptown charlotte, ashton pellom, wbtv on your side. John this morning the North Carolina senate is preparing to take action on charlottes nondiscrimination ordinance. Senate leader phil berger appointed a group of senators to work with the state house on new legislation. They want to overturn part of the ordinance which allows transgender people to use the bathroom of their choice. Lawmakers could return to raleigh in a special session to address the ordinance before the ordinance goes in effect on april 1st. Charlottemecklenb charlottemecklenb urg police chief kerr putney says there was nothing criminal during an arrest caught on camera. This video sparked protests and launched an internal investigation. Experts say the officer is using a technique striking the person being arrested in certain areas to force that person to release their arm. Officers showed us how it is done and in this demonstration. We know it is not criminal. We look for potential policy violations. The chief saw several other angles of the confrontation caught by officers body cameras. He says that evidence supports his conclusion there was nothing criminal about the officers actions. Still plenty ahead live on wbtv news this morning. John a close call for a reporter at the scene of a Train Derailment in california, well show you what happened and hear what he had to say afterwards. Before we go to break, a quick check of first alert weather temperatures, 53 in charlotte, 40 up in boone. 54 salisbury, 52 lancaster, 50 a live look at i77 and clanton road, traffic picking up this morning but right now, no significant incidents here on the interstates. Seven steve today is your lucky day. 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John welcome back, we have several stories you want to stick around for, coming up in the 6 30 half hour, today at 6 34, lawmaker in one South Carolina city are supporting efforts to remove the confedeate flag from public universities and colleges across the state. Plus, a new app changing the way you work out here in charlotte. At 6 43, what the class app right now over to Kristen Miranda. Christine live night alert center with details on a system out west, a weather system and what it is dumping in states west of us. Kristen take a look, lets start in texas, south texas, san antonio area, 20,000 people without power overnight. Storms producing damaging winds, large amounts of hail, this all happening overnight and now this, this is louisiana. Flash flood emergencies in several areas, they say that is a step above a warning indicates severe flooding in densely populated areas. Rain falling 69 inches in nine hours. Sounds like more coming. Meteorologist al conklin has come over to the alert center to talk about this system. You said it was coming, you told us yesterday to watch for it. Al an easy call, our weather hasnt changed at all, their weather hasnt changed, you see the heavy rain that continues to fall. Little to the east but reloads and so as we go through time we have all these flood watches and warnings from texas and louisiana past st. Louis, and as you say, there could be as much as 9, 10 inches of rain in the next 24 hours or so. Take a look at that. That is a bulls eye over eight inches inland from houston. A lot of flooding around little rock, memphis, new orleans, some of this will come eastward, im not concerned about major flooding here down the road but this is going to be a big issue for the next 2448 hours in the same places you just mentioned, texas, louisiana, mississippi, up in tennessee. Kristen so much rain to fall until a short time of time. Christine quick thinking by a california officer. A vehicle caught fire and he jumped into action. You see him in the bright yellow jump suit. Screaming children from the smoking car. Two adults also made it out of the vehicle safely. All four family members were treated for smoke inhalation and they are expected to be okay. John what a hero. A reporter in california had a close call at the scene of a Train Derailment. Come over to your tv and look at this. Alex savage doing a live route, a car comes barreling toward him there. John oh my goodness. His photographer yelled for him to get out of the way. They were not hurt but savage wont soon forget the moment. Racing. Every time i see the video it freaks me out. The elderly woman turned right on red in the path of another car, got hit, then the brake. Police took her license from her. Hes giving the photographer a hug. I tell you what, a scary you see about to happen again. Look at that. Youre never more than seven traffic on wbtv news this here is meteorologist al al all right, thanks, christine. Temperatures how about this trend, since last thursday, 47 degrees, nothing but uphill. Yesterday, 75, we will do better than that today, king street in boone, gorgeous start to the day, a little bit of cloud cover, but no fog, excellent visibility, that comes to us courtesy of resortcams. Com, good deal of sunshine in the mountains today and get this, youre up near 70 degrees today, a week or so ago, School Delays and closures, that is not in the cards at all, mostly sunny skies, should be a nice one. In boone, 40 degrees, clear skies, charlotte, 53, 52 monroe, 54 in salisbury, 54 hickory and 49 for gastonia, in the upper 40s around lancaster and rock hill. Temperatures to really take off here in the 70s from lunch time on with a high of 78 degrees in charlotte. Is any real major rain. As a result, we were down are for the month and for the year, we have had less than a tenth of an inch of rain. Ten days in the month of march, we need rain. Without any cloud cover, were not getting any. Eventually we will, ill spell it out in the seven day forecast. Making weekend plans, stick around youll want to hear what i have to say. Lets check in with chris, 6 15, first alert traffic. Chris first alert traffic sponsored by toyota of north charlotte. Live look i77, clanton road, volume certainly picking up here across the charlotte area this morning. Checking your drive times, if youre coming inbound from matthews, highway 74, 13 minutes, 49 miles an hour. Providence road inbound from the arboretum, 18 minutes. Look at arboretum in a second. Concord to center city, 18 minutes, 68 miles an hour. Weve got a majority of the highway, 77, 85, 485 still running in the green. Starting to see some of those volume delays heavier traffic coming up providence to highway 51 at around the arboretum area. To form. That is a check of traffic, christine, over to you. Christine Maria Sharapova dividing the tennis world. John should she continue to compete . The five time champion doping split. A closer look at that on cbs this morning at 7 00. Christine next at 6 00 here tournament kickoff. The second round, after the and a look ahead to john 20 minutes after 6 00. A live look at the skyline as the sun begins to come up from Scott Clark Nissan honda hd tower cam, gorgeous start to the morning. 53 degrees right now in charlotte. Want to get over to kristen alert center with new details just come in. Kristen i wanted to give you an update we have been talking about the death of beatles producer george martin. Paul mccartney posted a blog about george martin, here on his website. You can see the great picture of mccartney with martin. It doesnt say the year of the picture, but a nice old photo of the two of them working together. He said im so sad to hear of the passing of dear george martin, he was a true gentleman and like a second father to me. He goes on to explain what their time together was like and what his thoughts are for martins family this morning. A good read this morning on paulmccartney. Com, ill tweet a link in a couple seconds. Christine the acc mens basketball tournament tips off the second round today in washington d. C. The deacons up late behind millermcintyre. Cat barber scores 22 points, the final 7572, nc state moves on. The schedule today, syracuse and pitt get things started at noon. Nc state looks to keep dreams alive at 2 00 against the blue devils. Georgia tech and clemson and Florida State and Virginia Tech at 9 00. John the nfl League Year Begins with free Agency Opening and at 4 00 this afternoon. Carolina panthers need safety and corner back. One player they agreed to terms with is charles johnson. He agreed to a oneyear deal with 3 million. He was cut by the team last week. Christine 22 minutes after 6 00 right now. Meteorologist al conklin here on al what a stretch of weather, huh . Unreal. Kind of hazy this morning, almost has like a summertime look to our tower cam, not quite that warm but well in the 70s today. Courtesy of the same area of High Pressure. Tell you what when the highs are over you and over new england and sit there in the low clouds and fog and drizzle for five or six days, you hate them but when they are right over us, and to the east of us and we get in the warm flow, you love them. That what is we have right now. The high is going to lose a little bit of ground here, well stay warm but this front will eventually sort of ease in, ill show you that on futurecast and when the timing will be in terms of our potential for showers and storms. Thevue. Com, flat water, hardly a breeze, sun up in a few minutes. Hazy this morning you can see it from the hd tower cam from Scott Clark Nissan honda nissan honda, 53 charlotte, excellent visibility, southwest breeze at 5. Dew point at 50. Humidity out there this morning. Boone, that is the cool spot. Everybody else is in the 40s or 50s. 43 morganton, 49 in lincolnton, 50 concord, 52 in monroe. Even in the 30s now youll wind up close to 70 this afternoon in the mountains, incredible stuff considering we were talk about School Delays a week or so ago. 76 taylorsville, upper 70s, lenoir, morganton, mostly sunny skies, like wise in charlotte and vicinity, 78 mooresville, lincolnton, charlotte, monroe, 79 wadesboro, rockingham, upper 70s, rock hill to lancaster, close to 80 in pageland. The old hornets are in town to take on the new hornets. The pelicans tone, 68 pelicans tonight. Very mild conditions. There is the high today, moves offshore tomorrow, this frontal system comes in, so well start to see marine influence, get low clouds tomorrow morning, that will mix out to partly to mostly sunny skies tomorrow afternoon. Then the front flops in from the shower north of town. Then that front goes northward as we go in saturday. Small chance for shower or thunderstorm then. Now the models are converging, sunday into monday, better chance for showers and thunderstorms. Back end of the weekend looks to be more unsettled than the front end, i can tell you that now. Yesterday was sort of iffy what would happen, now im pretty sure this is how it will unfold. 78 today, 79 on friday, more cloud cover, our rain chances remain low until we get toward sunday into monday. Behind the front we stay in the 70s unseasonably warm. Youre never more than seven minutes away from weather and morning. Here is chris, first alert traffic. Chris first alert traffic charlotte. Well start with drive times, lets go up to the rock hill area, this is coming inbound 77 at arrowood and that is inbound traffic, outbound pretty good there, away from center city charlotte. Lake norman to center city, 16 minutes, 64 miles an hour, right at average for this time of the in the green, davidson, huntersville and up to 485. Now as we head in charlotte, looks good on 277, the john belk can, brookshire, most of the major interstates are running in the green this morning. That is true for rock hill, northbound on 77, launch the current drive time for rock hill, park at 21 minutes, average speed, 65 miles an hour. Christine. Christine much more to come on wbtv news this morning. John well water restrictions lifted near the Duke Energy Coal Ash sites, what state health break. Youre watching wbtv news this well be right back. Christine next at 6 30, four shootings leave six people injured across the city of this morning we learn more about one of the shootings that left two hurt in northwest charlotte. John plus, Kristen Miranda hard at work in the alert center, she will be joining with updates on breaking news in seattle that are literally coming in right now. Christine another big day in campaign 2016, while Bernie Sanders got a big win, Hillary Clinton and donald trump continue to pave the races for their partys nomination. John good morning, thanks for waking up with wbtv news this morning now 6 30 im john carter. Christine im christine sperow. Get right to first alert weather, before we get in the news of the day, here is meteorologist al conklin. Al thanks a lot, christine. Were looking at a brighter sky looking off toward the east. One of the camera in stallings at scott clarks toyota, you can see a pretty start to the day with temperatures mostly in the 50s. Right now 53 in charlotte, 52 in monroe, upper 40s around rock hill, wadesboro, mid 40s albermarle and morganton, 51 shelby and 51 in statesville. The day, 57 degrees, light breeze out of the south, so with that mild start, wont take much to get us in the 70s. Be there before lunch time and wind up at 78 degrees this afternoon with southwest breezes at 10 to 15 miles per hour. Rain chances now sort of consolidating sunday into monday, chris, i have more confidence from where i was 24 hours ago that i think the better day of the weekend looks to be saturday and talk about that coming up in the seven day planner, a lot of folks want to get out this weekend. We