Transcripts For WJZY Fox 46 News At 6pm 20160213 : compareme

Transcripts For WJZY Fox 46 News At 6pm 20160213

Tonight. We are headed to 16 degrees for an overnight low low. There will be parts of the area to get into the Single Digits while mainly clear skies and rigid conditions. The storm system is going to continue to make its way closer to her area. We will start off with a bit of snow. It will be coming in sunday night blasting into the Early Morning hours on monday but as the warm front to lift northward we will take the warmer air along. Thats going to transition thats no overt to a wintry mix ahmed wintry mix will stick around throughout the morning midday and may be early afternoon hours before the warmer air really takes over all the layers of atmosphere is a system with soft to the northeast and transition to rain later on monday. Monday night and into Tuesday Morning. Its going to be a fastmoving system. Expect to see things really drying out later in the day on tuesday. Unfortunately another one will morning. A winter storm watch in effect for the entire viewing area. Thats sunday night into monday. Thats the most likely opportunity for seeing that messy weather around the region and is something we will continue to watch. Notice the reason we will see the warmer air coming and it will push our temperatures to 50 degrees on tuesday. That will help make it more of a rain event but ice and snow are definitely going to be an issue for a while. Jenna amanda thanks. Well keep you uptodate on changing weather conditions. The fox46charlotte. Com use the easy navigation tools to find weather tab or download our weather app at the app store thank you realtime radar and forecasts on the go. Snow sleet and rain part of the forecast across the carolinas. The bitter temperatures are sending people around town to stock up on groceries and other supplies in case of an stores are feeling it as they rush to buy ice melt causing some vendors to run out of the product replacing it with solar salt. The forecast predicts only 4 inches of snow but freezing temperatures the icy roads have people worried. With 3 inches its gridlock. Jenna a windchill warning is in effect with winds up to 25 miles and are expected in some areas. We have breaking news tonight. U. S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia has died. Scalia was found dead from apparent Natural Causes and a Luxury Resort in west texas. According to a report he were arrive friday at the location. He was found dead this morning after he failed to appear for breakfast. Scalia served in the nixon and ford administrations first as minard ministry dif and then assistant attorney general. Supreme court in 1986 by president ronald reagan. He served on the Supreme Court for nearly 30 years and was the first italianamerican justice on the court. He was 79 years old. Just hours to go before the republicans face off on live tv as the democrats left standing are battling it out. National correspondent has all the action from greenville South Carolina. Wagering that the American Public is as sick of her emails as Bernie Sanders says he was Hillary Clinton is campaigning in nevada. The state department is releasing 1000 new pages of Hillary Clintons email from her time as secretary of state. Of these are than 80 of the Electronic Communications from her home server or deemed classified. Most of them at the lowest level of sensitivity. None of these emails are top secret. The state Department Plans to finish releasing the rest of february 291 day before the super tuesday primaries. Bernie sanders is also getting down to business in nevada. People say for a variety of reasons bernie you are not going to be able to win. Well it looks like [applause] most of the republican candidates left standing are cramming for tonights critical debate. Special attention will be focused on senator marco rubio to see if he can come back from his seemingly prerecorded answers at the last showdown. Thats on me and it isnt going to happen again. Frontrunner out frontrunner donald trump is promising to clean up is that the released his language. The colorful balls that he will refrain from using offcolor i wont use foul language. Donald trump the man who can intentionally be tweeter in chief released its week saying in a suit ted cruz over whether cruz is able to assume the presidency if elected as a texas senator was born in canada to an american mother. For more Florida Governor jeb bush is taking a low key approach. He is spending the final hours before tonights showdown hanging out with his grandchildren. John roberts fox news. Jenna legislative leaders will be discussing what the new congressional map should look like. This as they wait for decision on whether the maps must be redrawn. The six meetings will be held across the state on monday. Meetings are taking place as the federal judges say the first of 12 districts are legal. The judges what new maps that there were 19. State attorneys say the maps are legal and should be used in next months primary. This morning the valentine Breakfast Club met at the as a first meeting of the year and focused on priorities. The meetings bring together wide range of officials from the state county city and school board. Along with the mayor of charlotte the Charlotte City manager cms and cmpd. The whole idea behind the meeting is to an formed an informed community is a better community. People seem to think we are going back to the oldfashioned cross county busing that we did in the 70s and 80s. That is not something that is on the table. I would love to dispel that rumor today. Jenna around 1100 people were expected to attend that event. In just a couple of days the Supreme Court will hear arguments on a law that seeks to strip protections from publicschool teachers and government retirees. A lower court ruled the generalist and they could cut teachers of that the state made a deal with veteran teachers said it couldnt revote. Despite the lobbying challenge teachers can still be fired for various reasons why poor performance and insubordination. Their foot down and challenging a deal where North Carolina regulators settle suspected and Water Pollution at duke energys coal ash pits for millions. The deal between governor mccrorys former employer in the state department of them permits of quality. Big agreement settles powerplants a store coal ash. It is at a South Carolina as kind continues to draw. According to the palmetto state saw Violent Crime decreased by 12 from 20 toga 2013. Property crimes dropped 6 over the same timeframe. In 2013 there were 293 murders in South Carolina. Thats down 14 from the in 2013 there were 679 assault on law officers for any more than in 2012. To texas for cmpd need your help finding an armed robber hit two banks one today and another back in january. Take a look at this picture. The suspect who robbed a bank in january and the pnc bank on our baradar drive in charlotte. In each case police say the suspect handed the teller a note demanding money and then fled at the suspect is described as a black male 35 to 40 years old medium build and was last seen wearing sweatpants and a great nike sweatshirt. The suspect has skin discoloration in his left eye. Anyone with any information is asked to call crime stoppers. The rock hill man who was involved in a six hour standoff with police after biting his wifes face and holding her captive has been sentenced to probation. 53yearold Bernard Mccree lead guilty to assault and battery and a weapons charge on friday. Of the plea agreement but he must complete Substance Abuse treatment to avoid a 10 year prison sentence. A tragedy on the highway in pennsylvania as a multicar pileup kills three people. That whole story is next. And its roses for miles. Those beautiful bouqu jenna at least three people are dead in a huge pileup on pennsylvanias interstate 78 near bethel township this morning. Police say there were numerous injuries in addition to the deaths create the exact number of cars involved is still unclear but Officials Say there could be as many as 50 vehicles affected. At least a dozen people were trapped in their cars. James steffy lets just a block from the scene. I got up this morning and saw it was snowing it sounded like two bombs went off if we thought it worth thunder clouds and my wife ran up over the hill and saw the accident. She said there were a couple of people laying out and trucks and cars all smashed cars underneath and between tractortrailers and total destruction. Jenna troopers believe passing squalls played a role in causing the craft crashed that he can see snow on the ground in the tragic scene. Weather on monday but for your full cast for focus we will send it over to amanda costs. Is something we will continue to keep an eye on. It really depends on several things. Exactly the timing to track how quickly the warmer air comes in will determine what well timidly see and how much accumulation and whether the snow or ice affects your area well talk about that in a few minutes. It may. Today nice and quiet. We ended up at 41 this afternoon despite a lot of sunshine across the area he was a colbert and the winds were breezy at times especially further off to the north and west to the area to the highpressure system brought us that nice dry weather. It will continue to keep as quiet as we head into the deck on sunday but cloud cover on sunday will be gradually increase because of the storm system right here. This will be your next precipitation make her and its going to come and in various stages. Well start off with no and over terrain. The sun will be setting and it will remain mainly clear while frigid temperatures that temperatures are heading into the teens, some places and parts of right area will get into the Single Digits at the winds will be dying off. Tomorrow but cloud cover will gradually increase in temperatures will hold in the 30s once again. Its going to be another cold day around the region but is not going to be terrible throughout the course that the day for the simple fact that your sunday will be nice and dry. Youre headed out for valentines day plans tomorrow evening you should be okay. Most of the activities will hold off until 10 00, and maybe even more so like around midnight but that snow will be gradually overspreading area is a mystery tomorrow night and into your monday morning. With that being said we are not expecting a ton of snowfall but theres going to be a good amount coming in for period of time and parts of the area we as you roll through your monday morning the warmer air will eventually get stuck from the south and as that happens we will see the snowfall changing to wintry mix of snow sleet freezing rain and rain. That will eventually go over to all rain and is opposed to the area we see it moving up quickly Tuesday Morning thing start to clear out and push off to the north and east but theres another weak friend that will be coming through on tuesday night and into wednesday morning. Snowfall totals the heaviest amount further off to the north may be to 4 inches with locally higher amounts. We dont expect as much to the south as we get closer to charlotte possibly a quarter of an inch of snow. The heaviest looks to be at the foothills or the northern sections of piedmont. We dont expect to see a ton as well for the simple fact that we will be changing over terrain quickly. Winter storm watch in effect from sunday night throughout the day on monday and you can see coming up behind the system. Back in the 50s and that will help the changeover to rain and once we get into the 50s that will stay that way. Jenna from 62 degrees to freezing temperatures read these brave people got their feet into into as they took a plunge into the whitewater river. Then they cooled down quickly after leaping into the chilly water. Is a little chilly. Its frigid. Its pretty frigid. Jenna after the race participants were able to warm back up again around the fire pit with hot chocolate. So heres something officials dont respond to every day. The Denver Fire Department they say an excavator fell into the lake earlier this afternoon. Officers called the lincoln Fire Department to get the machine out of the water. 36 americans will get their sweeties flowers for valentines day according to a survey by the National Retail federation and spend nearly 2 billion buying them. Where do the flowers come from . A majority are imported. Correspondent Elizabeth Cran has more on how the flowers make it to your home. The freshcut flowers your valentine may be giving you is one of more than a billion on u. S. Soil after being grown in countries in bolivia and ecuador. Before they reach your home they have to be hand approved. They will go through all of harmful they work with the department of agriculture to determine what is it and fumigation or the product has to be destroyed. South florida is for freshcut flowers imported into united states. Almost 90 of flowers that come this time of year make their first operate here at Miami International airport. The u. S. Customs and Border Protection Agency Deploys hundreds of agricultural specialist from all over the country. Theyre looking for smuggled Illegal Drugs to more than 1400 different types of pets. Some insects are as small as a pinpoint in some diseases are little more than a blemish. Our agricultural inspectors are very highly educated. Many of masters degree and we have some of the hds. They are really experts at looking for the kinds of diseases that would harm y. So much were . Fresh Flowers are a growing business. The cdc reports a 25 and increase in 2016. If its infected this booming industry quickly could turn into a nightmare. The National Retail Federation Said couples spend about 90 on average as we can buying something for their sweetheart totaling a projected 2 billion customers will be shelling out this ballantines day. Elizabeth prann fox news. Coming up later in the show we will dig deeper into the business of valentines day. Stick with us. Still to come see what one nonprofit is doing to raise awareness for relative veterans and how their efforts could ultimately save lives. The earthquake in taiwan that why the buildings developer jenna one person is missing and 116 dead after last weeks earthquake in taiwan that caused 17 story residential complex to class. A total of 347 people in the building survived to the buildings developer into architects are being held on suspicion of negligent homicide in midaccusations the firm cut corners and construction. City Officials Say they will inspect several other developments as well as other buildings that did not collapse. Brave men and women who survived fighting on the frontlines for their country are losing an inner battle when they return home. Statistics show 22 military veterans commit suicide every day. And nonprofit organizations working to reduce those numbers projects just for veterans. Fox news Senior Correspondent Rick Leventhal has the story. Together by the hundreds united by Common Thread all serving in the military in many cases combat hoping to raise awareness about veteran suicide. They call themselves irreverent warriors and their hiking 22 kilometers with 22 kilograms in their backpacks come about 40 pounds in honor of the 22 veterans who kill themselves every day helping to save others from the same thing. This is awakened something inside them that they had not felt in a long time and it connected them with other people who are going through similar struggles who they could relate to and they were then able to support each other afterthefact. The event events is called the dash named after the silkies many of the hikers wear shorts and combat boots along with a the heavy pack and while things can get silly the purpose is very serious. You get used to having this brotherhood and no matter what problem you have you have to under brothers outside the barracks where there is marriage issues, financial, doesnt matter. Everybody is there to pick you up. Once you get to the civilian sector you lose that and you dont have that brotherhood and camaraderie. I think every life we save, if we can save one and we can save all of them its going to be a Success Story their way. One participant said he walks with a group of men and women who never met and for the first time in a long time he was home. With irreverent warriors Rick Leventhal fox news. In town tonight. The band is best known for their hits already call you mine and carolinas. In the airline it natives were named the first country band to have three consecutive top hits from their debut album. Matt scott berry and josh say performing in the carolinas always has a unique feel. It wasnt always a smooth road and success over the band in 2010 they were at gunpoint. That shooting almost cost bandmembers got his life. Coming up the carolinas and the only ones dealing with brutally how officials are projecting the freezing in new york city. Plus to president s day a preview of this weeks headlines across america. We are still tracking a storm system coming in everything from snow sleet freezing rain and that feeling. You know the one. That grandslam, acedthepresentation feeling. Multiply that feeling. Its the deal of all deals. No

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