Ttsburgh hospital today at the age of 87. Palmer won seven major championships and gure on and off the course. His popularity spawning a ckname for his fans called arnies army. The last of his 62 victories on the pga tour coming in 1973. Well into his retirement palmers Course Design Company constructed local tracks in the triangle like Brier Creek Country Club and lonnie pool at nc state. Admitted to the hospital on thursday as complications arose from a previous heart condition. Also developing right now. Charlottes mayor lifting the midnight curfew. The curfew was put in place following wednesday nights violent protests. People took to the streets to protest over the Police Shooting death of keith night of demonstrations is underway. Dejuan hoggard is live in uptown charlotte with the latest, dejuan . Heather, certainly a contrast to some of the footage we saw last week. Tonight, a peaceful protest in Marshall Park full of a lot of love and understanding. 19 23 1 001 08 a different
Residence. Good evening, im adam sexton. Anchor and im cherise leclerc. 25yearold cody lafont was killed during a confrontation with police. Wmurs Kristen Carosa is live in claremont with what authorities are saying at this hour. Reporter one a lot has happened since i last saw you both at 5 00 but i will take a step aside. This portion of core be a thorough investigation into what happened here. According to the attorney generals office, an Early Morning 911 call to a home on congress street in claremont turned into a confrontation with police. A little before 5 00 i heard three gunshots. I didnt dare turn their lights on. 25yearold cody lafont was killed. Right now they are not commenting on what led up to the shooting. Like every other case, theres an extensive investigation that just started. Reporter crime tape was put up around 53 congress street. Where investigators could be seen taking pictures and collecting evidence. We provide detailed written reports that set forth all the
Of light rail and the city moving forward with the memorandum of understanding. While there were some here who are passionately against it. C5 8 19 29 id love to be able to pck up up the tide and get into norfolk from here. Hampton roads transit holds a light rail open house in town center. Coincidentally, the same day the commonwealth transportation board sent this resolution to the city of Virginia Beach. Calling for the city to agree to a memorandum of understanding or mou. And submit an application to buy light rail cars. All by april 30th. Virginia beach city manager dave hansen. C31 8 34 17 committing to the purchase of the light rail vehicles at 50 50 and following through on the mou just seems logical for our city council to consider. Most residents at the open house seemed to be tracking the latest conversation between the transportation board and city leaders. Noting the board and transportation secretary funding will be on the line without the mou. C5 8 20 21 i can understan
People shopped over the holiday weekend. Almost equal numbers visited physical stores and online outlets. Well have much more with our veteran industry analyst dana telsey will join us in 20 minutes. Before we do that, lets take a quick check on the markets. U. S. Equities at this hour, dow opening up 27. 5 higher. Nasdaq up 6. 5 higher. S p 500 at 1 point. Lets tell you about global news this morning. World leaders arriving at a u. N. Sponsored summit on the outskirts of paris today. Amid heavy security. The meeting will focus on Climate Change. New this morning, the u. S. Embassy in afghanistan putting u. S. Citizens in cab bull on high alert. Officials warning that the embassy has received credible reports of an imminent attack in the next 48 hours. Americans in kabul are being urged to exercise extreme caution in moving around the city following the paris attacks earlier this month. The u. S. State department issuing a travel warning advising americans not to travel to afghanistan.
So i try to incorporate all holidays. In the meantime, we have a developing story about deadly weather across central u. S. Tornadoes, blizzards, heavy rain killing more than 20 people in three states. More bad weather coming. Western oklahoma bracing for a foot of snow. Blizzard warnings remain in texas and missouri. A little bit of travel trouble across the country. About 1500 Flights Canceled nationwide yesterday. Another 6,000 planes are delayed. Youre going to be getting a live report from the Weather Channel in just a bit. Meantime, the Global Markets are open today. We are seeing some negative activity in the futures market because of some of the activity that we have seen in asia and in europe. In europe the u. K. And irish markets are closed for bank holiday observing boxing day. Australia and new zealand closed for the same reason. In germany we are down fractionally. Down 1 4 of 1 . Same for spain and groogs which we are still throwing in there for good measure down by 3 4 o