At the basketball game. I would like the know, you know, what was the cause. Why two principals were suspended. On the phone, one School Board Member wouldnt talk about the suspensions but assured me steps have been taken to address the fight and ensure it doesnt happen again. Based on my knowledge of what happened at the game, the board and the superintendent and our athletic directors all together have come together and addressed the issue in the best way that we can. Yeah, and this week the School District did reach out to the state asking it to reverse its decision and allow both schools to finish out the rest of the year but the state answered no to that question, scott. The question is, is it a final no. Do you think theyll continue to push the state on this issue . Reporter yeah, they are, district leaders say they students who were at the game that night were not fighting and they were just in the wrong place at the wrong time. So they are reaching out to the state today sendin
Has done a good job with the main roads. But when it comes with that wind, it gets covered again with temperatures so low there are some dangerous windchills at the higher elevations. Earlier i was out when a group of soldiers were stuck in 15 inches of snow. Theyre here skiing as part of a single soldiers retreat. Pretty cold and the weather has been awful. The weather is pretty bad. When youre not used to driving in it, it adds to it. Reporter i promise you i did set my camera down, went over to the back of that suv and started shoving it myself. After about a few pushes there, we were able to get it unstuck from that ditch. And i think theyre over at the ski resort skiing right now. The ski resorts looking very much forward to this weekend. A big Holiday Weekend in the North Carolina high country. Very chilly weather though. The temperature has fallen back into the single digits. Were now getting a reading of reporting live from beach mountain, dave faherty, channel 9 eyewitness new
Behind the front today, it is a cold wind. It is starting to relax, as expected. Fairly light winds out of the west, but still windy conditions in most of the mountains. Snow showers with the northwesterly flow through north georgia and suburbs of atlanta. Snow showers taking off and starting to concentrate more toward the tennessee line. That will happen through the night tonight. As far as the Winter Weather advisories, that continues until 7 00 in the morning. Another one to four inches of snow possible. Four inches in the west basin slope and the higher elevations. Maybe a dusting in the southeastern part of montford county. Your wake up weather looks like this, lots of sunshine in the upstate. Light winds. 26 degrees in the mountains with still breezy but not as windy. 26 degrees. A look ahead to the weekend him and i will talk about the tornado outbreak we have had over the past week. Michael thank you. Great now hundreds of people are , in the dark in the upstate. Carol in spart
We have had snow, ice, i would like to see some warmer temperatures. Michael breakout the flipflops. We will soon see some warmer temperatures. We have been looking at the weather models. We will be chilly over the next 24 hours. This is supposed to make it our way by sunday. We will be in the lower 60s across the area. As we get into tuesday, we are in the middle 60s. That cold air does eventually move in. When cold air and warm air clashes, it leads to some storms. That is leading out our warmer air by wednesday. The track of this lower pressure system could mean Severe Weather for the south. John it looks like it could stay to the west. Most of the energy could stay to our north. Nice to get some showers moving we will watch closely for you. Michael back totohe fallout. Crews have been working all day yesterday am a knocking out power across North Carolina. Carol Allyson Powell with a look at that cleanup. Allyson after yesterdays storm, power was out for several areas. Some were no
Adding a 250 fine if you are caught speeding. We looked into it further. The federal Highway Administration recommends lowering the speed for lanes less than 12 feet wide especially with small shoulders. The state said this is in accordance with d. O. T. Guidelines for this project. Along i77, channel 9, Eyewitness News. There have been 600 crashes on i77 in Mecklenburg County so far this year. This includes more than 162 just so far in march. The Highway Patrol says that is double the number of crashes on i85 in Mecklenburg County. We posted video from our drive through the construction area and linked that to the past investigations on wsoctv. Com. A beautiful evening across the charlotte area. Were in for another chilly night. Kiest monday is in the Severe Weather Center Tracking a chance for freezing it is not just frost concerns. We will all have frost in some form tonight. Temperatures at or below freezing will be the issues. Down i40, to states so, to charlotte all in a freeze w