causes of mumps. officials say the counties are mecklenburg, iredell and cabarrus county. yesterday we told you about a case in iredell county and another in mecklenburg. the medical director for the health department stopped by wbtv today to address whether officials expect more cases. it hasn t grown. this is the same number we ve had since the end of last week. and quite frankly, i would expect it to grow because number one, the incubation period for mumps is somewhere between 12-25 days. the doctor says mumps circulates around the world and shows up in the u.s. from time to time and most of you are protected because of the vaccines you received as a child but warns folks with weaker immune systems can easily get the mumps. and what a gorgeous sunny day. you can see the big bright skies. a few puffy clouds from the hd and we think you are going to love chief meterologist, eric weekend. he is live in the first alert weather center. and oddly enough the quiet wea
charge he looked stunned staring down and shaking his head. he was devastated. the attorney told me why a few minutes later, thacker had just learned the victim died. he just found out literally minutes before he walked into the courtroom. we wondered how that could be if he had been served with a murder warrant he should have known tammy was dead. nobody told him before? no. authorities told us he had been charged with murder since he was behind bars paperwork would have been served there but did that happen? we asked the jail and we were told they did not see any paperwork in their files and asked the clerk s office and they had no paperwork, either so we asked the district attorney s office and they discovered that no murder warrant had ever been issued. thacker went before a judge on a murdr charge before he had been charged with murder. the wrong paperwork a summons had been issued. murder case. error this warrant was drawn up and served and thacker went ba
to an already congested area. we have more with how the neighborhoods could be affected. reporter: park road and wood lawn are known as an area filled with traffic, but what added to that is additional new apartments. leon and beth mrf murphy have lived in madison park for 48 years and married 54. we first moved here, we were way out of town. reporter: the neighborhood is less than a mile from south park mall it used to be a dairy farm that belonged to billy graham s father. we had problems with trucks so heavy it broke the water lines to the house. and messed up the phones for a couple of weeks. a new one with 450 apartment and retail and restaurant space to be built near pfeiffer university, just a stone throw away from the neighborhood. i think it will increase the traffic. it bound to. reporter: mollie wright lives in madison park and jogs almost of day issue she likes the progress. what was there needed to be replaced issue new apartments be great there. report
and it s backed up from statesville. down to troutman and on the other side i think there s another accident. a car did a 10 in the ice. 180 in the ice. look at the black top, that s liquid. other spots, a few feet up, it s ice. so this is patchy. it s just those small patches where the ice really starts to form on the roads that you have some mayor danger spots. meteorologist john ahrens, channel 9 eyewitness news. all right john. and statesville police just tweeted out they ve worked 22 accidents since 7:49 this morning. our storm camera is live on the roads to give you a look at the conditions out there now. i-77 southbound in south charlotte looking like it s wet. but it could be slick. you can see there aren t many people on the roads today. i know there was not as much traffic as a normal monday. some families found cms made the late closing school. some parents were getting their kids ready for the bus stop when the decision was announced. brittney johnson ques
other issue that is we re following include 77 northbound near amity hill we had an accident, now in the median. we re on the scene of this accident as well gathering more information northbound at 36 miles per hour, so still a little slow. so 21 heading up through troutman up through statesville should be used. 85 southbound we have the inside left lane blocked with an accident involving a tractor- trailer just south of highway 152 from china grove. very minimal impact expected with this accident at this time. lots of room still to move around. and then in east shaferlt we have this. this is a roadway that s blocked because of standing water. this happening at hawthorne lane just north of central avenue. in the meantime you ll have to avoid this intersection just north of it, use the plaza as john. we have some breaking news right now. all lanes are 77 just opened back up after freezing rain caused several crashes in both yeah. trapping hundreds of drivers for at least f