Phonepotential for Severe Weather exists. Ill let you know what is going to happen and weekend and snow in the mountains tonight, the ahead. John back to that breaking news, weve been following for you, one lane closed on i85 north closed for some time after a semi truck jack knifed. Happened before 1 00 a. M. Near exit 29, sam wilson road. Wbtvs Kristen Hampton has been there at the scene, she joins us now live with more details. So kristen, any word weather played a role in the wreck . Reporter john, it doesnt look like it. It wasnt raining too hard at the time the wreck happened. You can see behind me 85 about 15 minutes ago just opened back up, all lanes are free and clear, northbound and southbound northbound this area on sam wilson just off sam wilson, actually. I talked to state troopers a what they believe caused the accident this morning. They say a Passenger Car pulled off on the right shoulder of the interstate, they say the driver was a little tired, wanted to take a quick
Is North Caldwell at 277, so again the interstate running okay but if youre on North Caldwell, injury accident in center city this morning. 485 looks good, 77, 85 both still running in the green, a few slow downs here independence boulevard up to the monroe road split or albermarle road split, and a few slow downs there on providence road. As al mentioned, the rain showers continue to move in and out of the charlotte area. But it is a nasty morning for your wednesday morning commute and keeping an eye on that is wbtvs Kristen Hampton, she is live this morning with the latest on travel conditions. Kristen . Reporter yeah, chris, i think you said it best, a sloppy mess. Let me step out of the way, this is i85 north and southbound at freedom drive in west charlotte. You can see that mist coming up off the roadway. It is not raining right now but 15 or 20 minutes ago pretty heavy band of rain came through, rewet the interstates. They will be wet throughout the morning. And that is what has
Minutes. Remember, youre never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic on wbtv news this morning. Here is chris, first alert traffic. Chris al, thank you, first alert traffic sponsored by toyota of north charlotte. If you have that early Tuesday Morning commute live look i77, clanton road, no problems here, volume across the area fairly light. If you are heading out the next 5, 10 minutes rock hill, uptown, 20 minutes, concord to center city, 19 minutes, lake norman southbound at 15 minutes, with an average speed of 68milesperhour. Still, a whole lot of green out there, so any of our major interstates looking aokay, providence road, wt harris, over in north tryon, university city, no problems there. That is a first check of your Tuesday Morning commute. Christine, back over to you. Christine voters in North Carolina heading to the polls one week from today to vote in the president ial primary. And one candidate will be in the area today. Hold a rally tonight in kannapolis
Kristen we have been talking about this a few minutes now, john and christine. Take a look at apple tv to show you where were talking about. If you know birkdale village, this is a Jewelry Store where this happened. That is the scene there, were waiting to get pictures back from the scene but let me show you what huntersville fire is telling us through twitter this morning. Apparently just a short time ago a vehicle was run right in the front of that Jewelry Store in birkdale village and by the time police and firefighters got there, that vehicle was gone. Police are now investigating this as a case of someone running that vehicle in the Jewelry Store with the intention of burglarizing the place, they are calling it a burglary using a vehicle. Huntersville fire determined that the scene is safe. The building is safe and we are actually im getting word were getting pictures from the scene, this is the first picture from the scene. Use our apple tv, our photographer on the scene shows us
Milton road. At 5 30, two people shot on the plaza, one seriously hurt, the other in critical condition. Then around 4 30 a person shot, suffered injuries on brookshire boulevard. Wbtvs Mark Davenport live in charlotte from Police Headquarters with more on that afternoon shooting and mark, it involved more than one scene, didnt it . Reporter it involved two different scenes, one at a busy gas station, the shell gas station off brookshire boulevard. The other one less than a mile away in a neighborhood. Ill get to both those in a minute. The video to show you that busy gas station where the first shooting took place. Where police taped off the entire area, trying to figure out exactly what happened out there, you see evidence markers all over the ground out there. Police found a gun in a cardboard box, wasnt the only scene. Less than a mile away, a car was shot into at the gas station. That car ended up on mcginn like the person shot at the gas station, both of those people nonlife thre