chilly this morning, john, one school delay, that is alleghany schools are operating on two-hour delay. for the latest on closings and delays get all that information at wbtv.com/closings. we may have a few more that still come our way before daybreak. we'll keep an eye on that h. temperatures in.temperatures are down below freezing in the mountains. skies are clearing, with that, there may be patchy ice in the mountains, that is the major concern there may be ice. we'll keep an eye on that situation. current temperature below freezing, 30 in boone, 38 morganton, 30 hickory, to 40 shelby, gastonia, charlotte, cloud cover thicker, winds up more, not quite so cold, again the sun doesn't come up now until 7:30, we have a lot of time where we can fall off. temperatures tonight or today getting back up to 58 degrees this afternoon, below average but improvement over yesterday. we should see a lot of sunshine today. keep in mind, much colder tonight in the charlotte area, we have freeze watches and frost advisories in effect. i'll break that down in the seven day planner in a couple minutes.

alleghany schools operating on two-hour delay right now. let's get to meteorologist al conklin in the first alert weather center. the first day of spring started off pretty cold. >> al: got back to 47 in charlotte yesterday. that with the cloud cover, now the clouds have cleared out last night's rain is long gone, dry streets will greet you. you can see it it on the metro school camera. full moon, full moon on the 23rd. as it goes down the sun will be up in an hour, 36 in charlotte, pretty chilly, 34 around mountain island lake, 37 arboretum, weddington, 38 around ballantyne. boone, below freezing, 29 up there, 36 statesville, hickory, wilkesboro, concord, 38 in monroe and 37 for cheraw and lancaster. today, plenty of sunshine, wind up at 58, big improvement over yesterday, still almost ten degrees below average this time the colder night. freeze watch in effect for much of the viewing area, i'll talk how cold for your neighborhood in a few minutes. you're never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic on wbtv news this morning

ashe and alleghany are on two-hour delay. keep that in mind. >> john: welcome back to wbtv news this morning. go over to mark davenport with details on north korea's nuclear ambitions, new information >> mark: a big headline on cnn.com, nukes need to be ready for use coming from kim jong un, the warheads need to be ready at any time for use. he has been saying something like this the last couple days. they are flexing their muscles against the sanctions against north korea, that is the big headline on cnn.com, another day, another statement from kim jong un saying the nuclear warheads need to be ready for use at any time. >> john: new this morning, police in baltimore are investigating after two school officers were caught on camera hitting and kicking a young man. a video shows 44-year-old anthony spence and another officer slapping and kicking a 16-year-old. an attorney for spence said they thought the boy was trespassing, the officers are on paid leave pending an investigation. >> kristen: students showing support for a te

first things first, as john mentioned, a school delay, alleghany county in the mountains, we will keep an eye on the other county school districts, there is a little bit of ice after a little bit of snow fell last evening, temperatures below freezing. we're in the 30s in charlotte, clear skies, after last evening's rain, that moved out. 30 in boone, 38 morganton, hickory, statesville and charlotte. 40 gastonia, 39 in monroe, 37 in chester. chilly start to the day, will be below average, improvement over yesterday, more sunshine, high temperature getting back to 58. keep in mind, tonight the colder charlotte drops down to the freezing mark. i'll talk about that plus when we might expect a warm-up in the forecast in the seven day planner. you're never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic on wbtv news this morning. >>> first alert traffic brought to you by toyota of north charlotte. >> john: chris larson off today, we'll try to pick up a few things here traffic-wise. a live look at current conditions map, and you can see we have green throughout the area there if you're d

. >> john: 19 after 6:00, a school delay, alleghany county is operating on two-hour delay. no other delays we know of. we'll let you know if any come up. in the alert center with new details on an officer-involved shooting from durham. >> brody: one officer shot, apparently suffered minor injuries, happened around 3:45 this morning. apparently something didn't go right in the transfer process of an inmate, because it says that the officer was actually shot in the sallyport at the durham jail. the officer was shot suffered minor injuries, treated at the hospital and released. the suspect was in custody at the time of the shooting. the name of the officer not released yet. they have not said anything about what led up to the shooting. something we'll keep an eye on but happy to hear the officer only suffered minor injuries. >> john: 19 after 6:00, the nascar sprint cup series wraps up the west coast trip to fontana, california. austin dylan on the pole, harvick dominates the race, jimmie johnson wins, 77th career win. the rest of the top five, harvick second, denny hamlin, lo

alleghany and ashe county schools are on a two-hour delay. >>> we want to get over to mark davenport who is live in the alert center with new details just coming in on the escape of two hostages held by isis. what have you got? >> mark: two italian hostages escaped isis in libya. want to get you this information quickly, just came down on the wires now. breaking news in the alert center. a map of where they were able to escape from. in western libya, that is where the two hostages escaped. they were able to kick down the front door of the home they were being held in, officials say they were rescued by local fighters and reportedly in good condition, they are safe at this point in time but they got away by kicking down the door, taking matter in their own hands, escaping isis. that is breaking news, wanted to get it to you first in the alert >> kristen: the carolina panthers are getting ready by making roster moves. charles johnson was released. missed seven because of a hamstring injury. they also released dwan edwards and nate chandler. >> john: six flags over texas a week away fro

this is in alleghany county, pennsylvania. four men and one woman killed last night in a backyard party. this is wilkinsburg forecast you're familiar with that area. police say the gunman barged into the party and opened fire in an ambush-style attack. we spoke to a woman in the neighborhood. >> this is all quiet, so to see that new is shocking to i'm shaking, so it's pretty bad. >> this is an investigation under way right now. police say, at this point, they do not have a motive in this case. i'm going to keep deep it and i'll keep an eye on the developments in the cbs affiliate in pittsburgh as well. >> and immigration was the topic as hillary clinton and bernie sanders took the stage in a debate held by univision. they both pledged to keep families together. >> the idea that a mother is here and children are on the other side of the border is wrong and immoral. >> of the undocumented people living in our country, i do not want to see them deported, i want to see them on a path to citizenship. that is exactly what i would do

they do have accumulations in ac the higher elevations, over the mountains, alleghany front where i'm actually happy to say the weather advisory has been canceled.ed. outside it's pretty much chilly. we're seeing the precipitationri starting to move out.ut. in the overnight hours i can't rule out maybe a little bit off this least some rain or drizzle lingering through, but we arere going to see a difference by thy time we get into tomorrow because we've got another roundt that we're going to have to deao with. in the meantime this isis gradually getting its way out of here. once again you're going to see a few p flakes here and there. the main slow snow mix movingov out tapering off in the early morning hours. we may see some drizzle, primarily areas to the areas south. sunday by the time we get into the afternoon hours we're going to start to see a lot ofof widespread rainfall. so tomorrow is the day where you might want to just, you know, kind of stay in and watch a good movie, stay kind ever cud led ul in front of the television with a good remote control. this system is going to-i

chilly this morning, john, one school delay, that is alleghany schools are operating on two-hour delay. for the latest on closings and delays get all that information at wbtv.com/closings. we may have a few more that still come our way before daybreak. we'll keep an eye on that h. temperatures in.temperatures are down below freezing in the mountains. skies are clearing, with that, there may be patchy ice in the mountains, that is the major concern there may be ice. we'll keep an eye on that situation. current temperature below freezing, 30 in boone, 38 morganton, 30 hickory,

slick, again, avery county schools operating on two-hour delay, we'll hear what watauga and perhaps alleghany and ashe have to say later on. 34 at morganton and hickory over to statesville. 38 in charlotte, 39 right in lancaster, rock hill, monroe, 40 in wadesboro. wind up seeing a decent amount of sunshine even in the for some sun. in charlotte and piedmont, mostly sunny, seasonal day, high of 57. what the weekend looks like and beyond, that part of the forecast in a couple minutes. back over to you. >> john: thanks a lot, al. >>> charlotte mayor jennifer roberts is criticizing lawmakers who want to overturn the city's non-discrimination ordinance. the mayor tweeted it would hurt job and tourism growth. the house speaker tim moore called it an imminent threat to public safety. he says he had requests from more than three-fifths of house members who want a special session to deal with the so-called bathroom ordinance. it objection spanneds protections for people in the lgbt community including allowing transgender people to use the bathroom of the gender with which they identify. >> the idea

. >> al: and to the list, add alleghany county schools operating on two-hour delay. not surprising, they had two inches of snow in the mountains last night. main roads are wet but the back roads are definitely snow-covered. snow continues to fall. the mountains but with temperatures near or below freezing, a lot of schools are taking that precautionary measure. watauga is closed, everybody else pretty much on two-hour delay. clover leaf elementary school in statesville not closed but nobody is there yet but that parking lot will fill up soon. overcast right now. our current temperature in statatville, 34. 38 in charlotte, should be close to that this morning. mostly cloudy at 8:00 at the bus stop. late this afternoon, mostly sunny skies, fairly seasonable, maybe a little below average with a high of 57. look at extended forecast beyond the weekend in a couple minutes. check in with chris at 5:30, first alert traffic. >> chris: al, thank you, first alert traffic sponsored this morning by toyota of north charlotte. area interstates mainly running in the green this morn

most this will get held up on the alleghanys to the west. today at 5:00 sun next breezy, cool. watch what happens tomorrow. clouds come in and this is 6:0 6:00. we're all dry here along the metro area and i 5 corridor but we're beginning to see snow flying back out to the west of us and in advance of the next storm system and it will come across tomorrow evening we could have a little snow out there. i accumulating tomorrow evening for us. i think we'll be too warm initially and this comes acros across. my concern with this system sl there's a let of dry air to the north of this system. how much of an impact is the dry air going to have on so much precipitation we have early friday morning. right now good amounts of snow to the north and then rain down to the south and we're kind of in a lull here. i do expect friday morning for some snow to be fly ago around and there could be even a little light accumulation on the grassy areas north and west by friday morning, 10 or 11:00 we'll watch this storm system get a lot stronger offshore and how much of that precip does this throw ba

delays around wt harris2 and albermarle, new accident on freedom at alleghany street. inbound onqi freedom you will will u're never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic on wbtv news this morning. >> christine: get over to kristen miranda. >> john: live in the alert center with new details coming in. from the scene of this situation that we have been talking about chase. mark davenport brings us live pictures. youan see the work ongoing. look at the map that chris larson madeor to u show happening. there it is. sandy pr at steel chase. this has been a situation on-going a couple hours now. a contractor accidentally hit a pipe while making a major -- while doing work there, they have to make a major repair. go back to the live picture you can see the repairs underway. there you go right there. yban hour ago charlotte water thought that would be fixed in from now. we haven't heard any updates on whether thatk)when that might be repaired. they are handing out bottled water. you don't have to boil the water if it comes out of the faucet run and it should be

we have snow way back out west for the alleghanys and none for us not until friday morning. breezy this morning. 45 degrees. temperatures drop off at 8:00. 47 lunch time. we'll be breezy basically and windy all day long. and there's the forecast for tomorrow. late rain snow possible. high tomorrow cooler 43. today we're generally going to be in the 40s. we'll drop off in the afternoo afternoon. and weekend clouds around, temperatures 40s and 50s. again, rain, snow in the area friday. too soon to talk about accumulation and where we'll get you know how much we'll get in certain places and i still think it's really a rain, snow mix for d.c. and more snow original and west. caityln is in with traffic this morning. >> too soon to tell. >> i mean i can throw something up there but i don't think it would be fair to do that. breezy and windy today that's what i took away. 95 north behind me in virginia volume dale city to 123 as we go through the morning commute. no accidents on 5 or any delays this is normal commuter volume minor congestion anywhere from dale city to 123 in virgin