These heavy trucks that were pounding on the road every day and at that time we didnt fully know how many there were. But we knew it was a lot. Reporter christina lives just down from the old farm on Victory Church road and has been leading the charge to stop the trucks for the past year and a half. She and her neighbors chipped in. They bought a hunting camera right here, wrapped it to a tree and theyve been counting trucks on the road ever since. 200 trucks a day on a heavy day. 200 trucks. I would say, if theyre heading northbound they weigh 80,000 pounds. Its one after another. All day. Reporter 200 trucks in just one day. She startetemaking calls. We reached out to a Public School because there were a lot of school buses that use our road. Department of transportation. About all the pot hole issues. We also reached out to the state trucks were heavy and driving recklessly. Reporter she hasnt let up but neither has the truck traffic. We dont know how many times we have to keep repr
The chaos started to unfold in the last 3 1 2 hours. The president ial candidate just talked about his choice to cancel that event and call the whole thing off. We made a decision, even though our freedom of speech is violated totally. We made a decision not to go forward. I dont want to see anybody get hurt. In the last hour, president obama and ted cruz spoke out about what happened there. The president said hes not shocked by that. And cruz said that trump bears responsibility for the culture being set. After the announcement that tonights announcement was canceled protesters erupted into cheers, but supporters shouted we want trump. Many groups clashed and some threw punches. Trump has come under fire the past few days for a violent incident. Video from wednesday night in fayetteville. As he was leaving, deputies did with assault the next day. Trump says the protests are not directed at him, but more than likely anger in the country that has been going on for years. We posted the v
Stops that have been raising concerns protesters have been taking stance against trump. Experts say if its just vocal is their right. Some concerns surrounding the campaign say they plan to have tight security. The university announce president ial hopeful, donald trump take the stage during a town hall event on monday. More than 1000 people are expected to attend. Former fbi agent says with a large crowd comes the potential for security concerns. There are security concerns. You can do some great practice steps to ensure safety of certain people. There are always those people who might to be willing to go to jail. The Trump Campaign trail has been flooded with chaos during recent rallies. And trump trump chicago trump canceled the events because of the potential for violence. In ohio area to protest or try to rush the stage while trump was trying to talk with supporters. He is drawing significant numbers. His numbers are very large. They are hitting an audience that are in the tens of
Trump will be in hickory on monday. Our partners report that he will be at lenoir university until monday morning. In the next 30 minutes were going to continue bring you the latest breaking details on that case after trump canceled a rally. Another big, big story this weekend the rain. We are going to see in our area. Vicki graf has been tracking this force. You have new data in. I was checking a the models that came in over night. New data shows whether stay mostly dry across the charlotte area today. It will also be much warmer. Close to 80 degrees. So the temperatures just updated within the past five 61 in charlotte. 61 in concord. 56 in boone. If you are heading out for a morning walk, we will keep cloudy skies close to 60 degrees. Highs getting to the upper 70s. Im still tracking a better chance for rain on sunday. Breaking over night cmpd responded to a pedestrian hit in north charlotte. Police say it happened around 1 45 this morning on north tryon between eastway drive and ea
A major story we are following, all eyes turn to North Carolina just ahead of the states primary tomorrow. Several president ial hopefuls will hold events in our area today making a final push for voter support. Britney johnson, both candidates women be in charlotte today for the democrats . Reporter they will be. We have talked to volunteers for Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. Leading up to todays rallies in charlotte. Bernie sanders is up first, he is inviting voters to pnc music pavilion for his rally, called a future to believe in. Doors open at 1 30 and he will discuss his plans on immigration restorm, College Affordability and the economy. Later this evening Hillary Clinton will speak at a get out the vote event at the Grady Cole Center just outside of charlotte and doors open there at 7 15 tonight. We learned that it is up to each campaign, there are no we followed up with supporters who told us they have been making 10,000 calls a day, drumming up last minute support. She i