3 3 3 as the rain 3 as the rain continues this morning, it will likely impact your morning commute. news 13 s lauren brigman has been driving around asheville to see what the roads are like and joins us live from amboy road. lauren, what have you seen so far? 3 3 3 we are following new developments this morning regarding charlotte s controversial new law that allows transgender people to use the public restroom of their choice. north carolina house leaders now say they plan to take up the issue when the legislature reconvenes in april. state house speaker pro tem paul stam says he and other state lawmakers will use their constitutional power to reverse the law. 3 the new law is called the non-discrimination ordinance. bathrooms, but in how businesses treat gay, lesbian and transgender customers. supporters say the change recognizes the importance of gender-identity. but opponents, including governor pat mccrory, say it flies in the face of tradition and decency. 3 2113 if
worst site is on wards road. the building inspector said the construction crew did everything they could to prevent erosion, sediment traps and storage facilities for water. all those filled completely up, so anything going in was going straight up. reporter: the mounds should have been gone already but the weather hasn t made it easy. the main issue getting compact i behind the wall. when dirt is wet and trying to compact it, like squeezing the ball. it spreads out. reporter: the wall should still take another months to build. it will be finished this summerit will be finished this summer, weather permitting of course. it is really at a standstill until we get decent weather and the soil moisture cracks. that is mother nature. reporter: building inspector also meet with the site engineers to be sure it this slope is stable, but they say they are confident everything is safe here. they tell me if there were a public works to make lane closures and make sure ever
several of the defendant s phone records looking at outgoing calls, texts and data from the phone the night that quick went missing and not only did the record place him in the same vincente as quick the night he disappeared as quick girlfriend s apartment where his family said he was headed, but agent warren said they also led investigators to the wooded area in gootchland where they discovered quick s body. cell phone records placed him in the area shortly before midnight that same night. found the phone that placed her at several atm wrz prosecutors believed she used quick s atm card to withdraw money. the defense is expected to present their case tomorrow. closing arguments have been tentatively scheduled for friday so the jury can begin deliberating as early as mondaydeliberating as early as monday. coming up at 6:00, i will tell you about text messages between the defendants that show that they were trying to leave the state before they were arrested. kosar abdi, abc 13
had their power on at midnight. one man got his back. reporter: thomas was without power for two days when a tree fell on a transformer right in front of his house knocking out power to the whole street. pinepine trees in front of his home were leaning so he did anticipate something like this happen. contract crews came in shifts starting monday morning and left this morning. he says he and his wife have been bundling up ordering food. times like this that he is so thankful for the utility crews. oh, man, these guys don t do anything. they come in and they are in the dark like that and they clean all their tree out of the way. and my hats are off to them. reporter: when the new transformer was installed and the power working, he says he cranked up that heat. customers do have power now. live in danville, tola adamson, abc 13 news. mark: tola, thanks. a live look from our smith mountain lake tower cam as the sun goes down. chief meteorologist george flickinger. we
been tracking progress on that erosion into is leaving parts of warwick road in lynchburg a mess. katie brooke spoke with the city community development office today, and joins us with what we know tonight. reporter: danner, residence inn should be here by summer. the city approved it six months ago. the city has done all they can to stop erosion, you can t combat weather like this. it can mess up the construction site. required to do construction on all residential sites. there are two building inspectors and currently 120 sites. here workers have had to excavate this slope to make a retaining wall. as me build that wall the pile of dirt will backfill in the wall and the mound will go away and a flat spot to build the hotel, but they can t move forward until the soil. compact it, it is like squeezecompact it, it is like squeezing a ball. it spreads out. and instead of staying with the two. reporter: building inspector reporter: building inspectors tell me this site is s