Campaign 2016 today. Polls will open in the primary election in half an hour at 6 30. The big races include president , u. S. Senate, governor and so many more. Wbtvs Mark Davenport is joining us live outside a local polling place so mark, what do voters need to know before heading to the polls today . Reporter john, first things first, when polls open and when they close. Like you mentioned 6 30 this morning, in a half hour they will open for you early birds. If you want to get there before you go to work, that is no. 1 on the list. Get there early this morning. Also polls close at 7 30 tonight, so you have more than 12 hours to vote today when youre getting off work you have extra time in the afternoon to vote. 7 30 is when polls close. Next thing, bring the voter i. D. , we have been talking about this the past few week, if you dont have a drivers license, there is other options. You need to have one of these. Passport, military i. D. , out of state drivers license as long as voter
According to our News Partners at the charlotte observer, the school board will take a first pass at ten years worth of projects. They hope to get a bond referendum on the project on the ballot but county officials want to wait until next year. Board members will also get an update on efforts to boost achievement at lowperforming schools and on thursday, the boards policy committee get preliminary results from an assignment. That meeting for those construction and renovation projects starts at 3 00. The regular Board Meeting begins at 6 00 here at the government center. Well keep you updated. Reporting live in uptown share, ashton pellom, wbtv on your side. Christine a day after mariaia sharapova announced she failed a drug test, companies are severing ties with the tennis star. Gets over to Kristen Miranda with details live in the alert center. Sharapovas name trending all over the place the last couple days, what is the latest . Kristen a lot of people talking about this, bummed out
Those Traffic Cameras here across the region. Watching f anything that might morning commute. If youre coming in from lake 65milesperhour. 77 looking good right now, catawba avenue, down to gilead running in the green. Develop. Here across the charlotte area, most of our highways and roads are continuing to run in the green. Northbound 77 coming out of rock hill this morning, curb drive ti for you is 21 minutes with an average speed of milesperhour. And that is a check of traffic, john, over to you. John get back to breaking news in west charlotte that wbtv first broke, police are investigating a shooting that happened in connection to a carjacking. The victim was found on rozzelles ferry near johnson c. Smith university. Ashton pellom was theirst to report this story on socl media, and he joins us now live from the scene. Ashton, what can you tell us . What i can tell you right now the victim is recbdovering in the hospital. He was shot twice, once in the arm, once in the leg earlier
Were told that a robbery is being investigated. Police tell our crews that there was a foot chase and possible drugs involved. Of course, were looking to learn more and well bring you the latest on air and online as we get it. Thanks for joining us tonight. Im david russell. No arrests, one brother died, the other still in the hospital. Officers were called after responding to a fight at a party. When officers arrived they found 29yearold antuan and a 24yearold in a field at the building. That is where the younger of the two brothers passed away. Its been nine years since theyve seen thing e secondly like this. , of course, of all the things 150 good people and one person could come in here and cause some kind of a problem and then, you know, apple for everybody. Reporter in 2007 a girl was shot and killed at the same location in a gaining party. The facility houses a school for high risk children and holds Many Community parties. If you know anything to tell police, please give them a
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