A nice warmup on the way. Think overall youll like the details. For right now were in the mid 30s in the charlotte area, 36 as of the 5 00 hour, lower than the freezing mark north of here, 29 from salisbury, statesville, 31 hickory and 30 in boone to start things off. Yes, chilly but this afternoon, upper 50s, partly to mostly sunny sky, will feel nice. Some of us could pick up a quickhitting shower tonight. So more details on that and the rest of the weekend forecast in a few. Kristen thank you. We have a crime alert, police in charlotte investigating a shooting outside of uptown in elizabeth. This was the scene on charlottetown avenue near memorial stadium. Victim shot somewhere else and drove to the spot. They saw a rear window in the persons car shot out. Medic says the victim was seriously hurt. Were asking police for information on the shooter and when we get that, we will update you right away. Police identified a teen violent string of shootings. They started on thursday night,
Stone to try to rub it off but it wouldnt come off. Kayla a retired widow discovers somebody vandalized her late husbands grave causing thousands of dollars of damage. She has no idea who could have done it. This is a story only on fox 46. Good evening and thank you for joining us tonight. Im kayla ayres. Bill and im bill melugin. First on fox tonight, we have major news just coming into our newsroom within just the last hour, we have learned that governor pat mccrory called for a full review toll lane project. Cintra, the Spanish Company who has the contract for the work filed for bankruptcy on a project in texas today. As a result, mccrory ordered ncdot to order every option to completely reassess the entire i77 Business Model and the current contract. Ncdot officials will be flying to austin on monday to meet to talk about the situation. The controversial project is under construction and is set to cost 650 million. It would stretch for more than 20 miles north of charlotte and met
To safety when a fire broke out in their home in belmont. Sky 3 was the first on the scene on clay street when it happened yesterday evening. Wbtvs Mark Davenport is live with the story this morning. So mark, tell us how the young man helped get everyone out. Reporter christine, he was the only person inside the house that heard the fire crackling, he immediately got everyones attention in the home and got them out the back door before the flames took over the rest of the place. I want to show you video of what that house looks like this morning. It was completely torched by the fire overnight. Sixyearold carter lost most of favorite things. His family members. The boy heard the fire before he saw it and when he saw it, he acted fast, got his mom out of the bathroom, woke up woke up grandma. Hero. Everywhere. I couldnt even see whether we was scary. It was like a crashing window. 30 seconds after we came out the roof started collapsing, im glad we got out when we did. Reporter sounds l
Warm as yesterday. Not as nice as yesterday but a storm system could dump rain on your neighborhood. That front that came through and dropped the rain last night it moved through and it busted the door open. Look at the cold air pouring in. High pressure building in from the west. And that is going to drive our temperatures below freezing tonight. If you have the plants sitting around the house think about bringing them inside and protecting them. But we are running 1921 colder than at this time yesterday and 30 colder right now around boone and blowing rock than they were at this time yesterday. The hd towercam, the sun did not help much today as we stayed in the low 50s and still have a brisk wind and gusts 2025milesperhour over the last few hours. If you are heading out be aware its breezey and that windchill temperatures in the 440s north of charlotte and in the 20s in the high country. Your forecast down to 42 at 9 00 p. M. Coming up, we will rebound from this. But before we do, m
School will open tomorrow, make sure to visit wbtv. Com closings. Keep track of the weather hitting your neighborhood. Download the free weather app. It has free forecasts and push alerts to warn you of any problems this your neighborhood. Maureen right now, the search for a pregnant North Carolina woman and her 2yearold daughter. Sara kelly and her daughter raya horton left their apex home. Police dont know if they walked or if they were picked up. Kellys brother says she call him to say they were on their way home, but they never returned. If you have any information about where these two might be, take a good look at your screen and please call authorities. The march to the polls. It took place this evening and this event is a spinoff of sorts of the highly publicized moral monday rallies they had in raleigh. The rallies involve people upset over the states voter it requires a governmentissued id to cast a ballot throughout the state. Supporters say voter id will protect the voting