Parents packed into this matthews church. To get answers from cms leaders about whether their children will have to be best to different schools. Outside of the Government Center to explain how leaders addressed parents fears about reassignment proposal. Reporter as you said at many of the parents were there last night because they were at the meeting because they were concerned the district would start busting their children to schools outside of their neighborhoods. Cms board member elyse dashew tried to delay fears telling them that the majority of the board did not think there would be massive changes to blessing as a part of student reassignment. The ideas to create more i diverse schools but the board did not outwardly say that busing would it be a tool used in any plan they create and just that. I am stressed out about this. Parents got a chance to write down their comments and concerns which will be passed along to the board of education. Cms Board Members are the only ones considering changes to education policy. Coming up i will explain the reason why leaders want to introduce universal prek and have a plan to pay for it. Angela hot. North charlotte. Police are looking for two people who crashed into the back of a cityowned truck and ran away. It happened at 1230 a m on i 85 northbound. Officers say the people inside this supercar ran from the scene and left the damage car in the middle of the interstate. Police said they had to shut down three left lanes before towing the car. The city truck driver was on her. Have a description. Investigators looking for the driver who led troopers on a chase through two counties. We brought you the story last night on Eyewitness News at 10. The chase started in union county before 9 30 pm after troopers try to stop the driver. It ended in southeast charlotte. The driver stopped on East Independence near Margaret Wallace wrote and jumped out of the car and went away. Cp officers will be scattered at Convenience Stores aiming to prevent car thefts. Joe bruno is life outside of the trip in west charlotte were officers say they have seen a spike in thefts were drivers are leaving the keys in their vehicles. A lot of people dont think anything of it. They park their car and they leave the car running and then according to cmpd there have been 85 vehicle stolen with keys left in the ignition. That is up 67 from last winter with 51 vehicles were stolen. Police said the crimes have been happening in private driveways and public areas. Police say drivers most of the warm up. Offices will be at several trips today and giving them tips. Officers will be here in 90 minutes and they are rewarding to drivers by giving them a drink coupon when they showed that they have their car keys. Mecklenburg leaders are closer to closing the book on the botch property evaluations from 2011. Last night tax assessors gave us a better idea of how many people were impacted. Since 20 1100s of families in that the county overvalue their homes and overcharge them in taxes. The 2011 had lots of issues. There is no doubt about it. But the biggest thing they did not take place was the county responding to our citizens at that point. Bss is said as part of the front to make sure if the error happens again they respond in a timely manner. They requested a report to close the issue. The county refunded 99 million to property owners. For the next few days voters in South Carolina will get the chance to ask candidates crucial questions. Cnn is hosting two town hall events and all six candidates are expected to attend. Two other republican hopefuls plan to make stops in our area before the primary for tomorrow night jeb bush will be Ohio Governor kasich will be an indian land in sun city carolina lakes. Local voters are getting hit with calls and mailers from candidates aiming to get support. Trying to put the bug in your ear to vote for them. If you get a call about donald trump or mail about us senator ted cruz, that person will be on your mind when you vote. A mixup in the campaign for marco rubio. His new america add. His weekend. It features dan cooper skyline in canada. It is morning again in america harbor in vancouver. s campaign responded, we are not going to make canada an issue. Find a section of wsoctv. Com dedicated to the elections. Click vote 2016. South carolina senators for fixing state roads. Amendments to the proposal are expected which would add time to the debate. One of the plans would raise the gas tax by . 12 a gallon. An estimated 723 million will be put into words but the proposal only cuts income and taxes by 400 million. Daytrippers are explaining why they shut down to local interstates on monday night that stopped traffic for hours. We investigated crashes as part of i77 in Iredell County. Dozens of drivers were stuck for up to five hours. Troopers blocked i 45 on the north side of town for two hours. They understand some drivers were frustrated that they did it to keep people safe. It wasnt convenient for some people but it was also a safety issue. A spokesperson said freezing rain washed away the salt crews put on the roads. Big problems for people in to transformers blue which hours to homes and traffic lights it. State trooper said they responded to 500 accidents. Weather and traffic every 10 minutes. Some of our mountain counties still looking for improvements with their roads but it is nice out there. We are trying things out. Some clouds in place and that is keeping temperatures mild. Already 41 so a mild start to the day today. Warmer air to the south and were Still Holding onto the cold air in the mountains today. We will keep an eye and Granite Falls and morganton. It is 26 and banner elk. You will find slick roads out there. We will talk about a bigger jump in temperatures and they will be here by the end of the weekend looks spectacular. Iredell county, an accident. It is a logging truck that overturned and spilled logs on i85 northbound near 901. The logs it fell in the southbound lanes were a second accident just occurred. Two cars hit some of the logs for you had 77 down to one lane in each direction near memorial highway north of statesville. Used 21 as an alternate. A huge delay but as traffic builds this will cause a bigger issue. In charlotte were looking at the billy graham parkway is looking great. Damp roadways. Usc charlotte student gets the shock of his life when he stairwell. She didnt look like she was in any pain. Stick around for the story. The move the mother made immediately after giving birth. A South Carolina mother outraged after her son was left stranded on a broken down bus for hours and no one told her it was happening. Admit they did. 5 14 am. Ground there. You can see it on the grass and the words out there. Avery county schools are closed this morning. There are some delays as well. List. We have learned that apple is fighting a judges order to information stored on an iphone that belong to one of the San Bernardino shooters. Apple released a statement and heres what they are saying. They say the request is too dangerous but the company does add they had turned over other data to the fbi. They killed 14 people in the attack against coworkers in december. They believe the couple did so in the name of vices. Both were later killed in a shootout with police. District attorney will decide of charges will be filed against a hickory man who shot another man he says was breaking into his own. Tony pitts heard a knock on his door monday night but it was so late he didnt answer. 10 minutes later he says someone smashed his sliding glass door. Pitts grabbed his gun and he fired three times hitting the man twice in his chest. I am disabled. I had to do he was standing over there and we are asking police for he will face charges. The men had surgery and is doing okay. Fbi has a plea for help in finding a cleveland years ago. The agency publicized a 25,000 reward in the case of asia dupre , she was nine years old when she disappeared on valentines day. The fbi is working with investigators to retest evidence and follow leads. We learned about a website dedicated to finding asia. It urges people to come forward with information. The website launched at the beginning of the year. Asias mother is not happy about the site saying it is truths. General motors recalling toccata airbags. From 2003 until 2011. Owners will receive letters notifying them of the recalls and another letter with the dealer has the parts available. The airbags can throw shrapnel during a crash. The history. How you can protect yourself. Check supercar. Gov and put your vehicle Identification Number in and even if your car is not on the list keep checking because the recall is growing. Shorefront seatback as far as is comfortable and safe to be further away from the airbags. A South Carolina program is helping Homeless People get back to work. An effort to get them off the road to the recovery. It is a fiveweek boot camp where people learn how to get a create resumes and polish up on their job skills. Homeless people are then matched with potential employers. The first class graduated 19 people in december with 14 of them landing a job. A Police Officer is getting a lot of attention on facebook after he spent time playing football with the neighborhood kids. Ofc. Caleb costner was called to a home monday afternoon after a neighbor complained about the children but rather than punishing them he spent time playing with them at throwing the football around. It was like oh my gosh. He is going to play ball with us. This is cool. Koster said he wanted to show the kids that Police Officers can be their friends. We post a picture on our them. We have seen a lot of this oh my gosh, it was a big change yesterday and we went from really cold and it got really nice later on. Lets keep this going. A few steps backward temperatures today but they are still upward as we had to the weekend. Out the door this morning with wet roads in charlotte and to the west in the foothills, hickory through morganton down to lincolnton, temperatures above freezing but still barely. I will watch this closely. Were at or above freezing by a degree or two. It will be close. We will keep a eye on the conditions. 2 to 4 inches overnight last night the second the roads will be snowcovered. Other main highways looking pretty good so far that you will find slick travel for sure. Close to 40 now and the clouds are thinning out early so we will be back with sunshine today. Beautiful and sunny at noon. Only a few degrees warmer in the afternoon things to the northerly wind so not as warm as yesterday but still very nice. These of the clouds zipping out of your. For everybody after 9 00, the clouds will be slow to he wrote in the afternoon but you will start to clear as you look ahead to clear pictures into this evening. As we get ready for the weekend it looks great. The numbers slowly climbing up back to the 50s but the weekend mid to upper 60s and overnight lows in the 40s. s spring preview coming in as we head into saturday and sunday. What a difference from last sunday. We had 19 last sunday morning and temperatures closer to 70. A huge turnaround. This will be shortlived. We will cool things into next week. Five day forecast, a lot of sent for the next few days and completely dry across the board as the numbers climb close to 70. Not a record. The records for sunday are in the upper 70s. It will feel very nice. Time 5 21 am. We are seeing some delays now. Traffic builds this morning because of the accident that we are monitoring and Iredell County. It is north of memorial highway and if you are heading north it happen in the northbound lanes with a logging truck that spilled in the southbound lanes and some cars hit the logs. Were dealing with issues here and we have a lane blocked in each direction. Traffic getting through but a little slow so 21 could be used as the alternate route we will monitor this throughout the morning. South Traffic Building out to us 21, 67 Miles Per Hour. If you are traveling to the side they are working on damp roadways. Unc charlotte student learned a lesson that you cant learn in the classroom. He helped a stranger deliver her baby outside his apartment. I am like excuse me, do you need any help and she said yes i do. I am about to give birth. The call for help he made before dialing 911. County leaders want to offer kindergarten for all children under the age of 5. How the he a contractor for google fiber is accused of slicing another utility line in charlotte. Yesterday marked the second time since friday night with crews had a gas line cutting the heat off to 300 homes in the Highland Creek neighborhood. Piedmont natural gas said the lines were marked before that maine was cut on friday. State Appeals Court ruled dashew can prove a authorized involuntary sterilization 40 years ago. For documents say the woman was involuntarily sterilized in 1974 after a social Services Worker account desperate to take her children. Her case does not meet the criteria for compensation for South Carolina mother spears turned to outrage. A fouryearold spent hours trapped in a broken down school bus. I dont know if something happened. The previous offense with the best. Melt the mecklenburg leaders are calling for universal prek for students under the age of 5. I will out the plan. Commissioners want to offer free prek to every child under 5 in Mecklenburg County. The biggest hurdle. Connections the patients have to one another and what Health Officials are doing. Good wednesday morning. I am stephanie maxwell. Keith monday is in Severe Weather center 9. Warm up and dry comes up quickly after rain last night, it was in and out very quickly. The morning drive is damp. Once you get west of the catawba river uc five. Numbers here are still above freezing but just barely so watch this closely around hickory and lenore. Icy travel yesterday in lincolnton and barely above freezing at 34. Charlotte. Mountains with light snow last night and you will have some issues up there for this morning. The secondary worlds will be icy. Cloud cover this morning, timeline looking great. Keep the glasses with you today. It wont be as warm as yesterday. We will talk about the winds gusting later this week in a moment. Lets head back to mark taylor with an update north of charlotte. Iredale towards harmony north of statesville. Traffic building through the area. Were seeing minor delays for good accident happened northbound north of memorial highway it was a long a logging truck that rolled over. You had a second in the southbound that cars hitting this will be a big problem. The traffic continues to build in the area. Charlotte, no big accidents. This is 77 furthermore north at biden. No big issues into charlotte. 68 Miles Per Hour in charlotte right now. Health officials and mecklenburg and Iredell County are monitoring two cases of mumps in a case of an outbreak. We have been following this story since we brought it to you yesterday at 5 00. Officers reported joe bruno was in charlotte. Reporter vaccines have made cases of mumps where but there are still a few cases each year. Channel 9 learned to adults for mecklenburg and iredell counties have the infection. The two adults Work Together and the cases are contained. The Health Department is that may have made to prevent an outbreak. Mumps is contagious and shared by seizing or sharing food or drinks. Symptoms are similar to the flu but with swollen glands. The Health Director sent an alert to parents. The infections are severe so people are knocked out a little longer than the cold. There is no treatment and antibiotics are not effective for their treatments you do have mumps can take to relieve symptoms. Joe bruno. In Lincoln County man accused in a shooting is due to make his First Court Appearance before deputies arrested james small yesterday and he and another man david greene got into a fight yesterday afternoon and greene chased him on school road in lincolnton. Small shot greene in the arm. Small is charged with assault with a deadly weapon. A South CarolinaSchool Changes to bus routes after 17 children were stuck on a broken bus for hours. They had no access to food, water or batters. Some didnt get home until 9 pm. No one called parents despite repeated calls to transportation officials. I dont know if the bus driver got kidnapped. You never know. We could get no answers. The School Superintendent said this is the 10th time the bus has broken down. It is owned by the state and the district is stuck with whatever the state gets it. They said there arent enough mechanics working for the district is planning next years bus routes early to make sure students spend less time on board. Mecklenburg county commissioners are pushing to offer universal prek for children under the age of 5. The Board Chairman introduced to that proposal yesterday at the state of the county. Reporter as you said leaders announced the plan tuesday at the Government Center during commissioner trevor fuller announced that universal prek would be implemented in three phases. First all kids currently on a waiting list would be placed into programs in the second phase, all four yearold served and lastly reaching children up to three years old. It is unclear who will pay for the initiative. Fuller said that support would be needed from the state and federal level as well as businesses and nonprofits. No child in our community will be denied because of his or her families financial c