for the morning drive. rain later monday. at least for tomorrow morning the showers kept across the mountains. i want to draw your attention to what will be going on across greensboro and triad. northeast winds taking over, clouds thickening. that s the carolina wedge, cooler air moving through that gets stuck over charlotte. when you have the cooler air masses battling each other with warmer air to the south, that s the recipe for strong thunderstorms. thanks, john. we ll be monitoring conditions overnight and whether it will impact your morning drive tomorrow. you can get traffic and weather every 10 minutes starting at 4:30 on eyewitness news daybreak. developing tonight, channel 9 was the only news outlet to get a copy of an e-mail of the governor to a charlotte council we reported this as breaking news at 6:00. since then we ve been digging into both sides ahead of that crucial vote tomorrow. here and speak for or against that ordinance even more are expected to ra
toward denver this afternoon. mooresville, just south of statesville. light rain into the southern part of iredell county. i-77 between troutman to mooresville. you re going to be pretty soggy the middle of the day today. we ll see light showers building in. mid 50s in salisbury and statesville. to mid 60s in charlotte. cold front is slowly pushing south. the showers are developing north of us now. on the drive home, i expect more rain to build in. what the severe weather threats will be coming later this week. in the past two hours charlotte leaders laid out plans to control the crowds of people expected to flood charlotte for this year s ciaa tournament. alexa ashwell is live outside where the games start tomorrow, alexa? reporter: well, stephanie, excitement is certainly brewing here outside time warner cable arena as we re one day away a couple hours ago organizers and talking everything ciaa, what events will take place. how the tournament benefits the city and area
been here since 10:00 this morning when we got here. this event is going on behind us. these are people that are against the ordinance. at an event against the ordinance. there are also people supporting it inside as both sides try to get their message out hours before this crucial vote. faith and business leaders supporting the lgbt ordinance met outside the government center this morning. equipped with boxes of petitions and letters ready to hand deliver to council. we need to step up to the plate and say all of god s children need to be equally respected and protected. they couldn t get outside without an opponent crashing their photo opp. hoping to sway the public against an ordinance they call un-christian. it s not going to stop here. this is another steppingstone in the wrong direction. you can t make a moral wrong a civil right. the tension today is just a lightning rod issue from an ordinance presented as a means to protect the lgbt community from discrim
boulevard, where we are now, it was coming down a few minutes ago. we just passed the heaviest. it caused ponding on some of the roads. a little slip and slide out there all ready up and down wilkinson. this is now 277. the next couple days, we ll add more rain to this and we ll have a severe weather threat and a flooding threat. meteorologist john ahrens, channel 9 eyewitness news. remember you can track the rain in your neighborhood right alongside our team of meteorologists by going to wsoctv.com, scroll over weather and click on our interactive radar. back to live pictures from inside the government center in uptown charlotte. rows of people packed in here at the city council chambers to sound off on the controversial ordinance to ban discrimination in businesses and public restrooms for the lgbt community. governor pat mccrory promised vote to approve the changes tonight. blake hanson is live just outside the meeting place with more on the potential battle now brewin
risking of ponding on the roads, but still umbrellas and raincoats a must first thing tomorrow morning. tracking this system overnight, watch his updates tomorrow on eyewitness news daybreak starting at 4:30 a.m. breaking news, just in the past hour, charlotte city leaders voted to approve a controversial nondediscrimination ordinance. tonight, we have a team of reporters breaking down the vote, the heated debate and what s next. let s start with blake hanson, he was there when nearly 140 people shared their concerns tonight. blake. yeah, that final decision, 7- 4, and council members each had a chance to explain why they were making that decision, but an overwelming amount of time tonight was spent devoted to all the people that came out to speak their opinions on this. most of the talk tonight was taken up by those people that came out. 140 people signed up to speak. 90 of those from c tap on the community, they would have a tough time doing so. by my rough count,