To 40 shelby, gastonia, charlotte, cloud cover thicker, winds up more, not quite so cold, again the sun doesnt come up now until 7 30, we have a lot of time where we can fall off. Temperatures tonight or today getting back up to 58 degrees this afternoon, below average but improvement over yesterday. We should see a lot of sunshine today. Keep in mind, much colder tonight in the charlotte area, we have freeze watches and frost advisories in effect. Ill break that down in the seven day planner in a couple minutes. Back over to you. John thanks, al. Were working to learn more about two driverses who were killed in a headon crash on i485 in south charlotte. Troopers say the crash happened at 2 00 yesterday morning. One of the drivers going the wrong way on the highway. Wbtvs Christian Flores spoke to neighbors who say they are surprised crashes like this dont happen more often in the area. Happens a lot. Reporter the family is used to hearing about accidents. Daily. Gets chopped up during
Control in the last 45 minutes or so. Its hard to see the damage done to the house. We know the fire marshall just arrived and determined the fire started in the back of the building. At this point, theyre not sure how, theyre trying to figure that one out. And breaking overnight, police are searching for the gunman involved in an Armed Robbery in south charlotte. Theres officers on the scene now at the kangaroo express on park road and wood lawn. This was around 4 30 this morning. At this point, were waiting to get a description of the suspect. Theyve not released one yet. Tonight, charlotte leaders will vote a plan that would lead to massive redevelopment in south park. Sharing nighth Methodist Church has a vision for more shops. Alexa ashwell is live with more to explain. Alexa . Reporter yes, stephanie. You can see there are zoning signs behind me here at the entrance to sharon united Methodist Church. And members here support this plan. In fact, just last month at couldnt find any
A quick rebound as we head through this week. All right, keith, thank you. Well be checking those falling temperatures overnight. Watch Eyewitness News daybreak starting at 4 30. We have traffic and weather updates every ten minutes. Now to a developing story we are following tonight. In just two days, state lawmakers will meet on your dime to take on charlottes controversial non dediscrimination ordinance. They will tarnish the reputation yet again. We first told you that state la leaders are planning a special session on wednesday to tackle the issue. Eyewitness news reporter, jenna deary learned some lawmakers want charlotte to pay for this. Jenna. Well, scott, it cost 42,000 a day and the governor says at that price, this ordinance tagged by many as the bathroom bill should be the only thing lawmakers address. One state senator told me he even thinks the city should opponents of a controversial ordinance Charlotte City leaders passed two weeks ago. State leaders decided to step in,