Good coming off independence on 277. Matthews inbound, 13 minutes, 49 miles an hour. Providence road from the arboretum area, 17 minute commute. Concord to center city, 20 minutes at 68milesperhour. That is a check of the morning traffic, christine, over to you. Christine this morning, we know charlottemecklenburg School Superintendent ann clark will remain in that position through june of next year. Amid a heated debate the school board voted to extend her contract and begin a search for the next superintendent immediately. Wbtvs Ashton Pellom is live in charlotte with more on what was a divisive vote, ashton, explain explain. Reporter good morning, christine. The debate turned heated and personal but the school board voted 63 to keep ann clark in her current position through june of 2017. Before the vote, principals in cms wore red in solidarity, each stood up and called ann clark their hero and praised her for school district. That in hopes to keep clark on the job longer and appare
Smoothly. Youre never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic on wbtv news this morning. John bus drivers were out early in the cold temperatures, starting up their buses to make sure they are warm when the child climbs on board. Take a look at these temperatures, it is brutal cold out there this morning. Today bus drivers are getting special recognition for the work they do. Mark davenport is following that story live right now. Good morning, mark. Reporter good morning, john, it is not just today, all week long, this is bus driver appreciation week. Today they are getting something special, the bus drivers that go over to Shamrock Gardens elementary, they will meet with superintendent ann clark just before 8 00 this morning, she will be thanking each one of the drivers that shows up for getting your children there safe every single day both in the morning and back home in the afternoon. All about taking care of the bus drivers and this week all about the theme love the
Clouds are lingering this morning. Meteorologist Sarah Wroblewski is in for shiri timing out a warmup on the way, sarah sorboni. Sarah a lot of folks are like that risk of showers. Today will the temperatures will depend on where you are. A weather boundary across new england keeping the clouds Florida Place and risk of a few sprinkles for light showers for the south shore and as well as the cape. Full be traveling just be too. But perhaps a few raindrops, mostly cloudy and mild to start although in the 40s to the north and west. 50s, lower 60s. It depends on where you are for the day today because this weather boundary drifts across the region which means winds will be on shore. As we head toward the morning hours, the clouds will thick around. Notice temperatures 40s and 50s notice temperatures 40s and 50s. As we head on through the day, temperatures will quickly rise the 50s and 60s down across the south. Stuck in the 50s to the north and tracking the possibility of a few spot sprin
Frustration and people that are struggling and communities that are struggling violence. I dont have a good answer. It takes some dialogue. Do you want to weigh in . I have thought a little bit about that before in one beginning of an idea i came up with is things need to be tackled in preschool because in preschool, preschool is a time where kids have the fewest ideas coming into conceptions about the world. Its the ideal time to try and encourage empathy through the structure of preschool and my hope would be as soon as we go through preschool and become more empathetic individuals in that time of very Rapid Development they are going to go into Elementary School and eventually high school with a much more empathetic background and that will leave them much more in tuned to the issues that you brought up which is i think the first step. There are simply people recognizing their presence in being willing to talk about them. Anybody else want to weigh in before i answer back . It seems
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