Was back in this queen city standing before a judge on voter fraud charges. We will let you know what kind of punishment was handed down piketty man thank you for joining us for fox 46 news. I bill melugin. One man is hospitalized after he was shot several times in uptown charlotte part b and it all happened during broad daylight. When you are taking a look at the suspect 20yearold du jour smith. Police released aside and they pretty were looking in a mugshot from one of his previous arrest in january. Our sam smith has more on fox. Shots were fired in the middle of the day and it plays like uptown is going to get the attention of people in the area. Ive been working here for five years. Police were called here around 3 30 wednesday afternoon and when they got on scene they found a man lying in the parking the victim but no sugar. Policing the suspected shooter ran from the area. A short time later a man they considered a possible suspect was caught. Officers were about to grab one person who they believe may be involved that person question and ripple to uncover a weapon. A the crime scene roped off at a busy area of twc on one side. Police talked with witnesses to help them get a clearer picture of what happened. His status as one downgraded from lifethreatening. As far as this case goes police say the public has nothing to worry about again stressing this wasnt a random runin. Gross People Living and working nearby he says it helps them takes the edge off. After knowing the situation soon for suspect george smith was charged with assault with a Deadly Weapon with intent to kill and inflict serious injury among several other charges. Keep on fox 46 news bringing the latest on the investigation and good day charlotte tomorrow morning as soon as the information comes in our newsroom. Tenet was the cdc released new guidelines for prescribing opioids like chronic pain morphine and other similar drugs drugs. Currently the u. S. Is experiencing a serious epidemic. Under the 12 recommendations in the guideline the cdc says the nonopioid therapy should be used first. They are urging doctors to prescribe the lowest possible effective dose of opioid media. They said providers arise exercise caution with respect to these drugs. These guidelines exclude Cancer Patients or any patients who are maintaining a friend of mine issue. Some good news for charlottemecklenburg schools accreditation. A national accrediting organization spent the last four days visiting nearly 50 schools. Thats where they interviewed a thousand people to work within the district that includes teachers and ministers and board members. They determined cms might have met or exceeded all standards required for accreditation. It they will have a full report on their accreditation within 30 days. Police have charged a linking county man was shooting one man and threatening several others. Deputies responded to a call in the 600 block of bishs way where shots were fired and one victim was taken to the house and with nonlifethreatening injuries. Upon investigating detectives charged that the 3yearold gary vaughn ball with assault with a Deadly Weapon. Detectives investigated the second bishs way where they found ball who is suspected of threatening three residents. He is being held under theres no bond set for a couple caught by deputies after they allegedly tried to bury a her body in Alexander County last week. Tony hearne and linsdy lentz facing charges of the death of Robert Hearne. They have evidence they killed the man before taking his body to Alexander County where they were caught trying to bury it. Officials say Robert Hearne is tonys uncle and the motive is not yet released. Theres no denying last night was literally a super tuesday for Hillary Clinton and donald trump. A Record Number of voters hit the polls across the country. Earlier tonight i spoke with fox news Greta Van Susteren about where marco rubio supposed to go now that he has officially suspended his campaign. Not likely to go to downtown. Heres the other thing he doesnt have a lot of supporters. He only won minnesota so its not as though he is theres a rubio but to the extent 11 impacted will be the state of pennsylvania. At the end of april they had their primary and Governor John Kasich is hoping to end. John kasich was born and grew up there lives next door to ohio and its not that delegate count to give him the magic number of 1237 delegates but thats a big chunk of delegates and if casey can win it will be difficult for donald trump to win so i think thats where you see the chance that somebody else might win a winnertakeall a substantial mandirs numbers making it more difficult for downtown to get his numbers. Donald trump is on his way to getting his delegates pretty needs 1237 but a lot can happen between now and then. Bill rather talk about Hillary Clinton to me than the democratic side in how she believes clinton will definitely secure the nomination. Interestingly she thinks Bernie Sanders is going to stay in the convention later on this summer. While rubio dropped out of the race the victory train rolled on full speed ahead for donald trump and donald trump and donald trump and Hillary Clinton who once for each of their parties right here in North Carolina. Clinton won the democratic contest in florida and ohio and on the republican side trump the doubts texas senator ted is bigtime wins in florida and illinois. As the final numbers continue to roll in Election Officials say they saw the highest primary numbers in North Carolina history. Officially setting a new record to listen to this, 2. 3 Million People voted yesterday which is about 35 of all registered voters. Officials say the strongly contested democratic and republican president ial races is what is bringing people up to the polls. Governor pat mccrory was in charlotte to thank North Carolina voters for approving a 2 billiondollar bond package called the connect and see bond. Will be borrowing 2 billion the connective writing projects. Many of them will be right here in the charlotte area. Includes money for improvements at unc charlotte and Crowders Mountain state park. The bond would not require tax hike in the next episode make sure the money gets here officially. We build buildings that are longterm sustainable energyefficient costefficient and adapt to the learning environment not only have today but for the next two to 100 years. Also part of bond package is 70 million going towards a National Guard for the structure improvements and another 94 million to build a new agriculture and Consumer Sciences lab. There was a little bit of elections. A local politician is now calling for a recount. Race for House District 92 wrapped up last night with a razor thin margin of just 28 candidates. As our Caroline Thompson reports as well as the voters way of sending a clear message about the highly controversial i77 toll lane project. People who are hacked about this took out their frustration at the polls on election day. They made it clear they are not happy about by 77 tolling project. For district 92 that was the issue because represented jeter one where he didnt have that as an issue in loss where it was an issue. In unofficial returns the incumbent representing the House District 92 Charles Jeter who won the primary by a mere 28 votes. Jeter admits he was late to the fight to get to provide an opening to his challenger. Is a little bit frustrating because i had an opponent who after he filed for office decided who which is easy to position. Spinach upon a time davis agrees the opposition to the i77 project accounts for much of his supporters said the results were so close he is called a recount. Representative jeter said he respects that. If i were in his position i would ask for recount and i expect a recount. Thats the american Voting System and at the end of the day you want to make sure the person with the most votes wins. There are thousands of provisional and absentee ballots that still need to be counted before the official results come in tuesday. According to Mecklenburg County board of elections once that happens davis will have 48 hours to officially request a recount if the results come within 1 , the 28 votes would fall within that eight votes have followed an average of three to Mecklenburg County caroline fountain fox 46 wjzy. Bill in case you were wondering ballots in 4000 outstanding absentee ballots that have to be counted to Mecklenburg County. Keep in mind not all of them are going to count if they are not marked with yesterdays data and verify that the elections office. Tonight i met this man is facing serious accusations. Her paper show he threatened to kill u. S. Senator. Earlier this month 62yearold rowland dodge, jr. Called u. S. Senator Richard Blumenthals office and asked to speak to him. And in turn end up up the phone and said the senator wasnt there. An affidavit said dodge left a message saying it the senator raised his taxes he would kill him. Dodge is now charged with threatening to assault kidnapper murderer a United States official. All new at 10 00 police are asking for your help tonight in locating to shoplifting suspect accused of stealing a power wheels toy valued at nearly 180 bucks. Its happening gastonia sunday at the walmart on franklin boulevard. Take a look at these pictures. Left the store and applied bmw so please anybody who might have information out there called police immediately. This was like a scene out of the movie. Check out this footage of a smash and grab caught on tape. He started a local business and 37 or block of north triumph ayhipmack. The owners of a1 concept say they got a phonecall that their business is being broken into around 4 00 this morning. When they got there police were already on the scene. Security cameras show a van ramming through the front door. The thieves were able to get rather thousands of dollars worth of cell phone shoes clothing and technology. The owners of the business say the front windows and doors will cost the mets in addition to the days they have to stay closed of us in the community. Bill the owners have insurance but they say this setback is heartening. They want to keep their their business in the charlotte kaminsky. A local Police Police officers being called a hero. This is after he rescued an unconscious elderly woman from inside of her burning house. We got to my mom one called as the woman is putting for health and emergency crews rushing out. Gaston county Police Officer john kaiser went to bring home 3071yearold Cassandra Brandon stuck inside. Officer officer kaiser was the first one on the scene. He started kicking through the backdoor and found the woman unresponsive. When i first got her she was lying on her back. She was struggling to breathe although heavy smoke and debris was tough to get through but managed to get her outside to deny she is in spartanburg Regional Hospital recovering in critical condition. Gaston county Police Department for two years and two other officers showed up minutes after kaiser and help the woman until an ambulance arrived. Former mayor patrick cannon makes an appearance here in the queen city. We let you know what happened in court today, still to come and the wait is over as president barack obama officially nominate his pick for the Vacant Supreme Court seat. We will tell you all about judge Merrick Garland later on in the show. Its pretty warm. We are sitting at 68 degrees but thats going to change as we head into the weekend. Much cooler temperatures on the way. Break. I just picked us up 2 breakfast croissants for 4, 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. Enjoy freshly cracked egg with ham and bacon. Or sausage. Two tasty croissants at an eventastier 4 price. Bill good evening. Welcome back. I have been doing this for 10 years and this is the first time i have not worked on i can wear green tie tomorrow. B so you wont be getting pinch, right . Nevermind im not wearing a green tie. Well keep that going. We have a great day for st. Patricks day tomorrow. It is going to be sunny and its going to be 76 with winds blowing at five to 10 miles an theres it looks good so those of you who like to partake in the festivities on st. Patricks day this is your day and as we look at your headlines just mentioned that so we will move onto the next one, gusty friday. It will affect the entire area so if you do have allergies you might want to consult writings of good day to stay indoors or maybe go see a movie or something. Of course as we head into the weekend its been so warm here we will get back to reality and we will see overnight near freezing. Im sorry to say that. This is all coming after a day where we hit a record high temperature. We landed at 86, breed degrees above or national average. Well continue the trend over the weekend. As we look at your futurecast it appears heres the good news. Tomorrow and thursday sunny for the entire day and late in the cold front pushed across the not a very strong cold front. He will push through doing this we start to see temperatures are rolling in behind it will pick up the wins and we will see gus probably up to 25 or 30 in charlotte and again those temperatures begin to dip. Im not going to say the high temperatures yet but i want to clue you in on the low temperatures in the next seven days. We will see it dipped down we will be in the 30s in three days to get started. Grab a jacket and get it ready for next week but miles, 50 degrees winds out of the west. A quick peek for the next three days and youll see the trend 72 friday and saturday we will lose a full 15 degrees. You see rain showers we will talk more about that coming up in 10 minutes. Bill i was hoping we were done with the 30s. Charlottes former mayor patrick today. He is serving time in federal prison for accepting bribes in office but today he was in court for voter fraud. David sentendrey has more. Patrick cannon is currently serving time in a West Virginia federal prison, was back in the city he once led on wednesday while the charges of voter fraud dont necessarily hold a lot of weight is for sentencing goes is one more chapter in the life of the man he once called Charlotte Home but now sits behind bars. Guilty, they have the outcome performer mayor patrick cannon. Canada serving 44 months for taking bribes while in office but before he went away to prison he tried to float in october 2014, a big nono and a misdemeanor for a convicted felon. It was in a burden on his part. And his Attorney Says his that is a felon he couldnt vote calling it an honest mistake. Eola from an obviously violated the law. Assistant District Attorney reed hundt says its no excuse. Tonight i dont have any idea what was in his mind or what his intent was. Intent is not an almond and a crime crime. Doesnt matter whether its an accident or on purpose just the act of voting when youre not eligible as a crime. Its a crime of the punishment summertime slap a morass. Cannon was sentenced to just one day in prison but it will be served in time with his current sentence which means no additional time behind bars for the man who once held charlottes highest office. Canons Attorney Says no matter how much time is client serves he will never be the same person. No matter what your sentences you will go through proceeding today. The consequences never go away fully. Cannons attorney was asked about the possibility of being summer he says he does not have an exact date but hopes it can be done as soon as possible. Reporting up down David Sentendrey fox 46 wjzy. Bill is for the sentence the assistant d. A. Says the former mayor was fully cooperative and thats what led to the oneday sentence. Still to come tonight designated drivers might be in high demand this weekend. We will tell you why you might want to your body is a finely tuned instrument. Imodium multi symptom relief combines two powerful ingredients to relieve diarrhea faster and ease gas, cramps and bloating. Restore rhythm with imodium. When your type 2 diabetes numbers arent moving in the right direction, it can be a burden. But what if you could wake up to lower blood sugar . Imagine loving your numbers. Discover oncedaily invokana. 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