construction zone so far, so good. we re looking at your drive times in the area. if you re coming down, yesterday, we saw an hour coming down from mooresville into huntersville. right now. currently. it is just nine minutes from 150 heading down towards sam furr at 65 miles an hour. as issues come up, we ll update you on channel 9 and twitter. follow me this morning at traffic team nine. i-77 is becoming really a constant headache for drivers who not only have to deal with toll construction but also a growing number of crashes. we tell you about the crashes on a regular basis they are happening between gilead and sam furr in mecklenburg county. we ve investigated the efforts to keep everyone safe? the problem is they can t move some of them because of the channel 9 learned there have been more than 600 crashes on i-77 in 2016. there were 228 crashes on the stretch through charlotte, # 40 in february, and 162 crashes in march already. that is double the amount of crashe
charlotte today relaxing at romare bearden park. can we ask you a question about the special session? you re not going to answer our question? his staff told us he didn t have time to comment. while tensions remain evident over the ordinance, state leaders remain under pressure from both sides. we hope the governor and the general assembly will do the right thing. we re going to fight to make sure we do what s right here. as we saw today, there are big differences of opinion still about what the right thing to do here is. senate leaders tell me they re trying to figure out what parts of the city ordinance they want to target within the legislation. but it s looking more and more clear we ll know one way or another about a special session very soon. the cost of a special it would cost $42,000 a day to call back lawmakers to raleigh. governor pat mccrory said over and over again that while he s against the ordinance he doesn t believe it s worth taxpayer money to ca
plane crash in southern russia that killed 62 people. russian officials say they have found one of the flight recorders from the fly dubai crash site. they say the plane tried making a second attempt at landing in bad weather. officials say wind gusts were 30 to 50 miles an hour when the plane landed and the wing touched the runway then burst into flames. investigators are trying to figure out why the plane broke down, killing everyone on board. this is north tryon street at 11th, two cars with significant damage, one to the front end right there. we know at least one person was injured in this crash. we are asking police what happened and if any charges will be filed. sled is investigating the death of a decorated police officer killed in the line of duty. police say officer allen jacobs deontae mackie, a 17 self- described gang member. officers stopped to talk to mackie about a gun when he took off running behind a house. mackie fled, we gave pursuit, and without demo
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