York city accidents or stalled vehicle charlotte from york county, no accidents or stalled vehicles. Here back in charlotte, no issues and that includes south out of irondale. And 485, all on schedule this morning. I am in the breaking news center. Police are pouring over Surveillance Video at a northwest charlotte riteaid to find out who crashed through the doors here and stole items from inside. You can see the damage it did to the doors. It is barely hanging on right there and the glass is on the ground. Only channel 9 was at the store on bell haven boulevard around 4 30 this morning as officers picked through the evidence that was left at the scene. They do say that there were several car parts that were left behind in the parking lot. We are asking right now for a description of that car and for the Surveillance Video they are looking through right now. We will update you here in the breaking news center just as soon as we get any of that today the matthews mayor will host a meeting about possibly splitting away from charlotte schools. This is something the towns are considering as cms reviews its Student Assignment plan. We are live outside the Government Center to explain. Reporter well, the mayor of matthews, well, he has holding a strategy meeting today to discuss what it would take to break away from cms schools. And at the same time, an Online Survey is circulating around mint hill regarding Student Assignment. Circulated in certain neighborhoods in mint hill. And it was created by a Community Member in mint hill. It asks just one question, should mint hill explore the possibility of splitting from cms. The mayor said he is considering it but also wants to see what the final Student Assignment plan is before making any decisions. The idea of breaking away from cms schools. It would probably turn out to have a better impact on the education of the kids in this area. Reporter the legislature would have to approve any towns that want to leave cms. And while the School Leaders are discussing Student Assignments, theyre also having to deal with an increase in violence at cms schools. In the next 30 minute, i will break down the new numbers that show that increase theres an increase of violence within schools. Reporting in uptown, channel 9 Eyewitness News. Thank you. Cms is taking the first steps toward finding a new superintendent. The school board created a threeperson committee to find a search firm. The board member will chair it. She told us theyll skip Community Engagement and go straight to the search. We are more than happy to hear from anybody that wants to share but i dont think we need to spend the taxpayer dollars same questions weve asked for the last 10 years. A former School Board Member is serving as a consultant for that search. This morning, the Parent Company in charge of the controversial i77 toll lane project will host a meeting about the future of transportation in the charlotte area. This comes as criticism of the project grows because of financial concerns. We are live along i77 to explain. Reporter the charlotte Transportation Leaders still think that tolls are the best option and fastest option to manage i77. But that doesnt mean the company has to manage the project. Channel 9 spoke with jim taylor, the chair of the board. He says it is possible the states Turnpike Authority will take over the project if the contract is canceled. Local town leaders and citizens have been fighting the state to break up the relationship with the company for years. They say the failure of should be a warning sign for lake norman. It appears to be the Business Model of the company to essentially bankrupt these infrastructure facilities after a certain amount of time. Reporter and youre looking live right now at i77. As you can see, there is a sign still saying that there is construction thats going to happen this weekend. So the project is moving forward for now. Coming up in 30 minutes, the political pressure on the governor to cancer it will contract and start over. To cancel the contract and start over. Thank you. Today these two men will face a judge charged with trying to rob an East Charlotte 7eleven. We brought you the first live pictures from the scene from our breaking news center yesterday morning. Channel 9 had the only crew there as police took them into custody. You can see we are blurring their faces because the third suspect is only 13 years old. Its not good. Obvious leagued its neighborhood. Especially that age. The suspect took money and cigars but dropped most of them on the way out. Cmpd used k9s to track the suspects to a nearby car. A inmate is back in jail awaiting extradition. Police captured him in georgia on wednesday. Once he is returned to South Carolina, he will be charged with escape and other crimes. Investigators say he committed while he was on the run additional crimes. Deputies believe he stole a gun hours after he left the prerelease center. Friends and family will say their final goodbyes to a Cleveland County couple killed in a tragic accident. They died sunday night. Investigators say a pickup truck crashed into their home and hit the propane tank and caused an explosion. Both later died from their injuries. Today at 2 00, family members will receive friends. The Funeral Service will start at 4 00. Afterward in the church cemetery. Today supporters of a plan to remove the question about felony convictions from county charlotte. Supporters of the ban the box movement say removing it gives felons a fair chance of starting over. County leaders will consider the change in two weeks. Our partners at the hickory daily record report the fbi is getting involved in the investigation into the firing administrator. He worked for the town for nearly 14 years. Last month, channel 9 got a copy of a confidential letter accusing him of possibly forging the the town aldermans signature in order to get hundreds of hours of sick time. Channel 9 obtained new research warrants on a student charged with making a bomb threat. Detectives searched his cellphone back in january while he was at school. Permission to search his phone after he made a bomb threat and claimed that he tried to join isis. Officers said they found images and videos of children engaged in sexual activity. The search warrant also states that he admitted to trading the videos and pictures with people online. The images led detectives to search his home and computer where detectives say they found another explicit video. He will be back in court next week. New for daybreak, the husband of one of the San Bernardino shooting victims says he supports apple in its fight to protect the shooters privacy. He wrote a letter to the judge saying he and his wife who survived do not want to raise their children in the world where privacy is tradeoff for security. And a new u. S. House bill would forbid taxpayer money from being sent on apple products until the tech giant allows the fbi to unlock the phone. Its not clear how much support that bill has. President barack obama and congress should handle the Supreme Court opening. 58 want president barack obama to nominate a Supreme Court justice to replace the late antonin scalia. 66 say the nominee should get a hearing in the senate and 48 say republicans are justified in preventing a vote. President barack obama has said he plans to nominate someone next week. Sources say the white house is vetting a federal judge from iowa named jane kelly. She has earned praise in the past from a republican senator who is on the Senate Judiciary committee. That would put him in a tough spot since he has said that he will block any nominee. But the New York Times reports he said wednesday, he wont change his mind. We have weather and traffic every 10 minutes. Starting off with a little mist. Yes, but its going to get nice for the weekend. Good morning. Yeah, Better Weather on the way for everybody. A little snowy in the mountains. This is king street in boone, a right about 2 inches of snow fall. You see that on the roof tops here. No big travel issues in the mountains, although we have School Delays and cancellations because of secondary roads that still may be icy. Not seeing additional accumulation but still slick travel here and there. The time line of the futurecast and when this will wind down and how much sunshine we will see later today. Thats coming up. Lets get you to mark checking things. 277 looking great. We want to look around uptown charlotte with the traffic flow. This is the freeway heading over towards independence. This is towards on the inner loop wilkins boulevard and freedom drive and i of 77. If youre heading out, were in good shape this morning. We had damp roadways earlier. And we have been watching things closely as we see the slicker conditions but we havent had reports of big problems in the mountain counties. East charlotte, checking the matthews commuters into uptown charlotte as well, thats providence road and near highway 51 towards uptown. And in from mint hill using 74, your average speed is almost 50 Miles Per Hour. Reports claim this raleigh man was reaching for a gun when an officer shot and killed him. Ahead at 6 30, the evidence investigators are pushing for so they can give answers to the mans family and protesters. Car buyers are borrowing more than ever before. The option some are turning to to avoid getting into debt. But first, this charlotte restaurants controversial sign to customers is Getting National attention. Were getting calls from people we dont know. The actions other business with havertys furniture, your home can be perfect. Even when life isnt. From classic to contemporary, the owners of a northEast Charlotte restaurant say they have gotten several calls from people supporting their controversial signs. We first told you about the signs outside the restaurant wednesday. They read, take your hoodie down, pull your pants up, finish your phone conversations and marijuana smell not aloud. Businesses are considering putting up similar signs. They are 100 behind the sign. Great response. Were getting calls from people we dont know saying you guys are doing the right thing. North carolina restaurant Officials Say they dont know of many other restaurants in the state with similar signs but say since its a private business, they have a right to post them. South carolina lawmakers canceled a meeting to discuss a bill legalizing medical marijuana. They expect the bill will be controversial and it wants to clarify issues first. One concern is what liabilities an employer could face if a worker uses marijuana. And they could decide to more closely regulate cbd oil which was legalized in 2014. A fifth case of zika virus has been confirmed here in North Carolina. A wake county woman recently traveled out of the country and contracted the virus. Officials are saying they are making sure they have the virus but at this point, residents do not need to be alarmed. Its not contagious in the sense we normally of contagious. Many at this point, we are more monitoring. According to the centers for Disease Control, there are more than 100 cases of travel related zika virus in the u. S. Some cases have been sexually transmitted. Health Officials Say super germs cause one in every seven hospital infections and those include the staff infection mrsa and five other bacteria. The centers for Disease Control is warning doctors and hospitals to be more careful about how they prescribe the antibiotics to keep the germs from building up resistance. Duke energy has announced plans to bring a large Solar Project to rowan county. It will be northwest of salisbury. Its big enough to power roughly 6,000 homes. Near the intersection of 801 and old u. S. Highway 70. It will be duke energys third solar farm project built this year. Today nasa will talk about the completion of astronaut scott kellys year in space. Theyll talk about the next steps for more than 400 experiments that took place on the International Space station. Afterward, kelly will share his perspective on the mission and answer questions about his time at the International Space station. If youre away from your tv right now, you will want to take a look at this. This incredible video. You can see the shoplifting suspect running out of a South Carolina walmart. But look at that, as he dodges the wet floor and sign before bolting out the door, you see him run outside, he trips and he is nearly run over by an suv right there. He gets back up. And he runs away and he is still on the run. The store says he stole about 40 worth of meat. We made it easy for you to watch the video again of the just log on to wsoctv. Com and look under the water cooler section and from there, you can share it with your friends and family. Didnt look like it knocked any sense into him. Well, the timing was lucky by a second. Yeah, we have weather and traffic every 10 minutes. The sun, its going to make an appearance soon, right . Yeah, it will. East. And up towards dc, the snow is ending this morning. And we are seeing our snow in the mountains wrapping up quickly. It will still take a while to get back into the sunshine. The futurecast clears the sky up fast but it may take longer. By 9 00, clouds and sunshine. Maybe closer to midday before everybody starts to clear up. Mountains snows wrapping up into the afternoon. We will look ahead to more sunshine later in the day today. And all of us will see a fairly clear picture as we get ready for the weekend. Out the door with 38 in charlotte. And mist in place for now but drying out. And near freezing in the mountains and flurries left over. After the morning clouds move along, we will see the temperatures begin to rebound. Closer to 50 already by lunchtime. And highs today much better than yesterday, 55. We didnt even get out of the 40s yesterday as the cold rain and even snow flakes mixed in late yesterday afternoon. So a bit warmer today but much warmer as we head into the weekend. 58 tomorrow. And then 60 sunday. Youre looking for a brighter, more blue sky day, that would be sunday because more high clouds will filter in late saturday afternoon. And as a matter of fact, we may find a few sprinkles saturday night. No big rainout of this, most rain out of this. Daylight hours staying dry but maybe sprinkles for the mountains late in the day saturday. Metro overnight saturday night. I will show new the time line in the next half hour. Keep up with the latest forecast changes throughout the week wednesday our wsoc tv weather app. Download it free from the app store and google play. Weekend right around the corner, warm up this weekend and next week, a bigger jump in and mid60s monday. 70 on tuesday. And may actually enjoy several days in the 0s later next in the 70s later next week. Not bad. Lets get over to mark. Still watching things closely. The interstates continue to build but friday is lighter than usual in the morning and heavier in afternoon. And thats the case this morning with green conditions on 85 in from 45. Not seeing delays. Too early for the congestion issues. Southbound, its about even, hitting 66 down towards huntersville at 65. Checking drive times coming in if the west side on 58 north of 485, exit 30, youre at 66 Miles Per Hour. 77 up from the billy graham parkway at 64 Miles Per Hour. And heading here on Miles Per Hour. So all good this morning. Heading out on u. S. 47 from stoplight delay or two. Family members say this man admitted to killing his ex busy mcdonalds parking lot. He did the crime and said he shot him. The emotional days before the shooting and why the suspects grandfather didnt think he would go so far. Charlottes mayor is calling out state leaders for fighting the citys new non discrimination ordinance. The examples she says proves the law is necessary. The average new car loan is now at a record high of nearly 30,000. The new trend that is leading to as drivers try to avoid the high cost. And wall street futures. donkey sound elephant sound theres a big difference between making noise, tapping sound and making sense. elephant sound donkey sound when it comes to Social Security, we need more than lip service. Our next president needs a real plan to keep Social Security strong. elephant noise more americans are leasing cars than ever before. Usa today reports a third of new car and truck transactions in the last quarter of 2015 were leases. That is up nearly 30 in just four years. And part of the reason is that new car loans average a record 30,000 a year. Over longer periods of time leaving many buyers owing more than their cars are worth before theyre paid off. On the down side, people who lease vehicles end up with no equity or vehicle at the end of the term. People in South Carolina complained about more car issues last year than about any other issue. The States Department of Consumer Affairs said it received nearly 4,000 resulted in more than 1 million being given back to customers in the form of credit, refunds and adjustments. Utilities and