, and looking at charlotte, 70 degrees, # morganton, 73, boone at 61. thinning clouds will allow temperatures to warm a bit in the foothills and mountains this afternoon. take a look at futurecast and talk about the weekend in a few minutes. >>> first alert traffic brought to you by toyota of north charlotte. >> christine: a live look at traffic map it updates us as or slow downs. only one accident cmpd working at this hour at south tryon and sandy porter, it is a vehicle disabled in the roadway, but not causing back-ups on our map. let's look at interstates this morning, i-85 at statesville, traffic for the most part light, right now, if you're one of the early commuters, we're giving you the thumb's up for now and if something changes we'll let you know about it. >> john: on your side with news of a recall that may affect your lunch plans. why thousands of cans of tuna are being recalled. >> christine: this week our wbtv and me spotlight is on salisbury. we want to see all your pictures of your favorite hang-out spots, beautiful views in and around sa

gorgeous, 75 charlotte, 60 boone and blowing rock. the seven-day forecast, here come the cooler temperatures. more cloud cover. 75 tomorrow. 69 friday, 58 saturday. rain chances ramping up sunday, 54. clearing out and cold monday 59. look at that, already mid 60's next tuesday. that's the forecast. >> thank you. we are here with humane society of charlotte. adorable dog, up for adoption at the shelter. he -- she is the sweetest. most beautiful. >> who is this? >> lucy, a three-month-old boxer she is trying to find a good home. >> the markings from the boxer, of course. >> definitely. >> anchor: beautiful coat. gorgeous. >> she really is. in the car, kind of sedate, inquisitive, being a puppy, had to go outside, walk on the leash. she will get bigger. when you adopt a puppy, she won't stay this size, 50 pounds. >> anchor: still a great dog, no matter how old they get. really friendly. already licking my hand. what are you trying to tell me? oh, such a sweet girl. how do you think she would be with other dogs? >> we have had her with ot

on two-hour delay but watauga county schools where boone is, they are closed. the main roads here in boone you can see from resortcams.com they are just wet at 32 degrees, back roads i want i can assure you are snow-covered. close to freezing, in the mountains. everywhere else, a lot different. by this afternoon we will see sunshine, particularly across the piedmont and foothills, maybe in the mountains this afternoon. flurries by late this afternoon. windy and cold with wind gusts as high as 30 miles per hour. our forecast then, just a few leftover flurries, that will be it. rest of us will wind up being fairly sunny, we have a major warm-up on the way with temperatures getting in the 70s, that won't be today, today in the 50s but again a big warm up on the way. i'll talk about the next opportunities for rain, weekend forecast specifics, seven day planner straight ahead. check in with chris, first alert traffic. >> chris: al, thank you, first alert traffic sponsored by toyota of north charlotte. looking live i-77 here west boulevard, volume of traffic early on

19 warmer today in boone than you were just monday afternoon. our future cast, the afternoon and evening, mainly sunny skies as we roll toward wednesday, few high clouds in the area. and we still have the warmer southwest flow, then this front slides across the north carolina brief shower possible, maybe even an isolate thunderstorm. and we are not going to see much of a dropoff in temperatures. not a very deep cold front. rain chances 20%, low chances thursday night, friday am the front loses a lot of punch. we have rain in the forecast, rain showers sunday night, sunday evening into monday. we will keep an eye on that. a lot of foltion have easter morning plans. i think the showers stay away until later in the day. highs wednesday afternoon, 76 charlotte, 73 hickory, 67 in boone, 76 shelby. close to 80 for wadesboro and rockingham, upper 70's. day after tomorrow, how about these highs? still mid 70's charlotte thursday afternoon. 71 hickory, 60 boone, 76 gastonia, and it is thursday evening overnight to friday morning we have the chance of sho

average high now 63. 9262 in boone, blowing rock. as early as tomorrow morning and for saturday evening, overnight in sunday morning, we have rain in the forecast. we'll look at that and the temperatures for the weekend in a few minutes. >>> first alert traffic brought to you by toyota of north charlotte. >> christine: we're watching the 6:00 a.m. commute, no accidents being worked by cmpd, that is good news as you're waking up and heading out the door. a few slow downs on 51 right near the arboretum at providence road. maybe watch for that as you travel there. a little slow at 74 on independence boulevard as you get closer to albermarle, in fact let's take a live look at independence, this is near briar creek right now, traffic picking up a little bit, volume-wise but no slow downs on independence so if you use that stretch you're good to go. >> john: a special shout out at granite falls elementary school, i got to visit there, second graders there, so much fun. we talked about reading and how important it is. read a good book, grea

this may be pushing it around boone. southerly breezes you will be warming up. well in the 60s on under mostly sunny skies, taylorsville, wilkesboro no chance of rain. 67 salisbury, albermarle monroe, lincolnton, charlotte, south we're well in the 60s from chesterfield and patrick, cheraw, rock hill. heading to the game tonight, again, minnesota is in town to take on the hot hornets, 58 degrees, tip-off temperature not bad. overnight lows in the 40s. high s tomorrow in the 70s. that is where we're headed with the warm weather poised if to poised to come 67 today, and then well in the 70s, even in the weekend by the weekend we will look at greater rain chances as eventually the pattern is forecast to break down a little bit. again, nothing is set in stone, the timing could be off a little bit, a long way out but i'm here to tell you we have very low rain chances between now and friday but as we head toward the weekend chances for rain go up. not saying there won't be some sunshine but scattered showers and storms look likely. if i had to put it on time, from satu

afternoon by three. 7 warmer in boone. the same for charlotte. 3 warmer already in monroe than we were yesterday. you see very little cloud cover across the area. the clouds are thickening up. to the west, on the border with virginia and tennessee, but those rain showers are holding to the west. there comes our storm system for tonight. that front will push into the mountains this evening, 4:00 or 5:00, in the north carolina high country. 6:00 p.m., boone boone, ashe and avery county, thunderstorms rolling through north carolina. now, this is charlotte at 10:00 p.m. tonight. don't be surprised to hear a few rumbles of thunder, 9:00, 10:00, 11:00 tonight. we clear out quickly, and we are left with snow showers in the north carolina high country tomorrow morning with all of the cold air. that chilly northwest wind. we have another system coming our way thursday afternoon and evening. i don't think it arrives in the thursday unite. then we are going to quickly clear out once again. in terms of severe weather, most of that wil

it is 42 high river, 33 in boone and 44 in charlotte. we have the rain in the charlotte area this evening. tomorrow morning and clear out as we head into the weekend, saturday and sunday. next week, temperatures in the 70's. a look at the extended forecast coming up. >> anchor: early voting for is underway. you can vote early at 17 sites in mecklenburg county. photo identification required will be enforced for earlyvorts and voters that go to the polls march 15. we have a link on our website where you can find everything you need to know. early voting is march 12 being the primary is march 15. charlotte chapter of naacp protesting voter id right arm and shorter period for early voting today. the group will hold a march to the polls tonight at finite, little rock church on north mcdowell. the panthers have released long time defensive end charles johnson. string injury. he entered from university of 2007 draft. he has been a great player. head coach says he has had a very good career as a panther, and i have enjoyed coaching him the past

. >> boone county rescue is out here this morning. they used sonar and did see the vehicle at the bottom of the ohio river. if you look right there, the pillar in the beginning of the bridge, that's close to where the vehicle dropped and it's where the -- it sits tonight. and boone county water rescue, river is too high. >> they are checking in the vehicle that fell off the bridge. it's in the same place it was. >> we have new information on the vehicle type. officials confirmed they found a pontiac bumper and they believe it's a vooib similar to this one. robert saw it happen from the front porch he watched the suv fly over the air and over the side of the bridge. >> it ran on top, where it did hit. it went up in the air. it was almost twinko in the price is right. >> it bobbed before disappearing in the muddy waters. enough room to come through the gurders. we're talking 1970's technology. it was open in '79. maybe it's time to take a look at the safety standards from the bridge >> is the bridge that thousands cross every day safe? we sat down with richard miller and asked him that. th

windchill factor in boone, 22. couple inches of snow, main roads are okay, back roads are snow-covered. flurries give way, windy and cold, might get breaks of sunshine. 39 degrees this afternoon. we should be about 20 degrees better than that in the piedmont. 38, cloudy in charlotte, at freezing in boone. just above freezing hickory, mid salisbury, monroe to rock hill. end with sunshine, start with clouds. 57 late this afternoon. so clouds on the decrease today, weekend forecast holds promise, talk about that plus a major warm-up seven day planner in a couple minutes, 6:14, here is chris, first alert traffic. >> chris: first alert traffic sponsored by toyota of north charlotte. friday morning commute looking pretty good. taking a check of drive times if you're inbound from rock hill, 21 minutes, 65 miles an hour. kannapolis, 17 minutes, lake norman southbound 15 minutes at 66 miles per hour. live look i-77 toward the rest area coming off the south carolina state line, volume increasing a bit but still, everything r

it is 56 in statesville, 59 gastonia, 46 currently in boone and 49 in wadesboro as we flop over to power doppler network, the cloud cover ban stretching from charlotte and thickening out to the east. then up to the north and west we've got a little bit of clearing toward morganton and boone this morning, the storm track well down to our south, rain showers in charleston this morning, all of this begins to edge our way as we head in the weekend, we have a few rain showers in the forecast for saturday and sunday, we'll get to that in full weather. today, 66 degrees for lunch hour, 70 this afternoon. highs today across the piedmont in the upper 60s and low 70s. cooler than we were yesterday where we topped out at 78 degrees, we'll look at seven day forecast and talk about colder temperatures coming in for the weekend in a few minutes. john. >> john: this morning, a with saving his family from a burning home. wbtv's sky 3 was the first on the scene in belmont yesterday evening as firefighters worked to put out the massive fire. you can see the house gutted by the flames. wbtv's alex giles ta

here's what we're looking at patchy dense fog, visibilities below a mile shelby and morganton, in boone and statesville a mile. three miles in charlotte, we'll keep an eye on this situation after last evening's rain, skies fog. metro school camera right now, not too bad. we'll keep an eye on the visibility. 60 charlotte, rock hill, 62 albermarle, 58 in hickory and 46 so, we're done with the rain for now, you see that next system back to the west of us that is heading in our direction, potential for strong thunderstorms late this afternoon and this evening, talk about that in the seven day planner in a couple minutes. look for high temperature close to 80. you're never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic on wbtv news this morning. here is chris. >> chris: first traffic sponsored by toyota of north charlotte. start monday morning, i-77 west boulevard, no problems here, volume of traffic running along smoothly. making your way in and out of center city on 77 and 85, coming up from rock hill, 21 minutes, 65 miles an hour. concord to center city, 18 minute commute, lake nor

in the mountains, 59 boone and wilkesboro, 62 rock hill, 61 in lancaster. i think you will like the trend. today for the lunch hour, already 7 warmer than we were sunday afternoon at this time. 9 warmer in hickory, you warmed up 14 over yesterday midday temperatures in the weekend weekend area. so barely a cloud in the sky across the area. a few more clouds still up in the north carolina high country. little precipitation to none. what we will see the next 24 to 48 hours is this ridge of high pressure builds, that southwest flow will increase, and our temperatures will be in the 60's today. then the 70's the next several days with really no chance of rain the next 72 hours. 59 boone, jefferson, 57, top of beach mountain. 67 wilkesboro, across the piedmont, most of us mid and upper 60's. 67 in concord, 65 albemarle, 67 in salisbury this afternoon. just to the south, rock hill, upper 60's, 66 pageland and 65 cheraw. our future cast, pretty quiet the next three days. no chance of rain, just a very small chance thursday and friday with partly cloudy skies. we t

salisbury and wadesboro. 51 gastonia, 50 in rock hill, 54 hickory, 53 shelby, low 40s lenoir, morganton to boone. very warm start to the day. 57 at 8:00, maybe a little bit of low clouds, 73 lunch time, up to 78 degrees this afternoon, mostly sunny skies, that frontal system across the west will bring us rain, i'll talk about the time on that coming up in a few minutes. right now, check in with chris, you're never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic on wbtv news this morning. >> chris: good morning, first alert traffic sponsored by toyota of north charlotte. we're going to start with a live look here this is i-77 here, across our system, most of our major highways looking good this morning. coming up from rock hill, 21 minutes, 65 miles an hour. concord to center city, 18 minute commute right now and lake norman southbound on 77, sitting at 15 minutes, 66-miles-per-hour. mapping system a lot of green, 485 looks good, 77, 85, some of the primary secondaries like providence, independence, albermarle, all running in the green early on this wednesday morning. that is a check of tra

. >> john: it has been snowing in boone, let's get things started with charlotte's most experienced morning meteorologist, al conklin. >> al: knowing throughout the night in the mountain -- snowing throughout the night in the mountain counties. rain now moved out, that low pressure system down on the beaches moving away, high pressure back to the west is building in, that will be the main dominating factor for the next 24-36 hours. couple minutes. right now that is resortcams.com giving us king street in boone, where we have wet streets, my understanding is that the grass is covered with one to two inches of snow. it is at freezing right now, we

you can see the tree branch in boone. wind gusts are high, 40 miles per hour in boone, the windchill it is very chilly up there. a much cooler day, outside of the mountains, tons of sunshine, high temperature in charlotte, 53, which is about 20 degrees cooler than yesterday. but again, a little more closer to normal this time of the year. we'll talk about when we warm up 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: right now give you a live look at current conditions map and you can see right now all the interstates are basically in green which means you shouldn't have any trouble driving in this morning. however, we have an incident a vehicle disabled in the roadway at south tryon and whitehaul commonswhitehallcommons center drive. a look at i-77 at tyvola, traffic is light if things change, we'll let you know throughout the morning. >> christine: north carolina's congre

in the mountains, 45 boone, 57 gastonia. cloud cover heaviest from charlotte and gastonia, thins in the foothills and mountains, that is why i think warmer than the charlotte region this afternoon. rain showers to start the day in charleston but just the cloud cover here in charlotte but we will see moisture and colder fair the north working in the charlotte area for the weekend, saturday and sunday. so again, a little bit of a hours. we will see peeks of sunshine this afternoon, 62 boone, 55 on the top of beech mountain. in the foothills, low 70s, 73 lenoir, 72 taylorsville. 70 in concord, 74 wadesboro and 73 in rockingham, 74 pageland, partly cloudy, 73 in cheraw or for this afternoon in cheraw. futurecast through the day today, fairly quiet, no rain showers, partly cloudy skies, afternoon. the moisture and colder air working in as we head overnight in saturday morning, this is 10:00 a.m., keep in mind parade is tomorrow morning at 10:00 to 11:00, rain showers, 11:00 a.m. for the parade start, back in we will see more roun

you can see the tree branch in boone. wind gusts are high, 40 miles per hour in boone, the windchill

boone, you have excellent visibility, king street in boone, thick fog up there yesterday morning, that is all gone. right now, excellent visibility, 54 degrees, little moisture out there, 97% humidity is coming down through the day today. 54 in concord, over toward lincolnton, 60 morganton, very mild in hickory, 51 albermarle, 55 wadesboro and 55 in monroe. for today, start off in the 50s up across the mountains but wind up in the upper 60s near 70 under mostly sunny skies. heading toward the foothills, 80 degrees, 79 taylorville, plenty of sunshine, sunshine in charlotte, 79 hickory, 81 lincolnton, charlotte, 80 albermarle, 82 rockingham, hamlet, wadesboro and low 80s across rock hill, lancaster and pageland, sunny skies. high pressure commanding the weather, this is this afternoon, good deal of sunshine, turn our attention to the west. weak system moves in, will brings clouds to the mountains tomorrow morning at 8:00, maybe a shower, notice as the front moisture, so i'm not forecasting any rain outside of the mountains the next couple days, high pressure will build until for thursday

outlying areas 30 in boone, 40 in the monroe area. other temperatures, 39 shelby, 40 rockingham, wadesboro, albermarle and 37 in concord. so a chilly start to the day and will be a cool day today but improvement over yesterday, by 10, 12 degrees. upper 50s, maybe a couple clouds around. tonight, lows will be down in the low 30s in the metro area and below freezing up across the mountains, that is why there is concern for frost and freeze, less wind around, frost conditions may persist, tomorrow we get in the 60s in the afternoon. in the you don't like that, high pressure is with us coming in from the south, parked over us come tomorrow morning. us this, the temperatures down close to freezing, then offshore, the winds turn out of the south in advance of of this system, small impact on us late wednesday into thursday, perhaps a couple showers there. not a huge deal going in early friday, and then that moves out. another system may come in late on easter sunday. timing is all over the board. we're not going to worry about rain over the

but how about this, 33 in boone. 48 shelby, 46 lancaster, 50 wadesboro. here is a live look at i-77 at clanton road. things are moving very smoothly as traffic picks up this morning. we'll keep you posted because you're never more than seven minutes away from weather and eight min with a variety of fresh-made seafood meals starting at just $4.99, no one does seafood like d's! try our new home-style flounder meal or double dozen shrimp. or our grilled menu, featuring new tuscan tilapia. each with two sides and hush puppies. for full meals starting at $4.99, closed captioning on wbtvnews is sponsored by subarusouth boulevard and subaruconcord. >> john: 11 minutes after 5:00, welcome back to wbtv news this morning. s. >> christine: go to kristen miranda with details on a train derailment that injured several people in california. she is live with details first. >> kristen: christine, take a close look at what is happening here in the monitor. look at this train car that just fell right over in the water, still a very active scene in central california this m

i was looking at resortcams.com, up in boone it is snowing now. how about a live look from scott clark hd tower cam. no snow in charlotte. could i be a meteorologist? >> al: another couple years of training in college, sure, john. try it. 47 degrees, there is no way anything was going to stick in charlotte. but again a couple flakes around yesterday, then rain overnight. that system is now pushing away from us and high pressure is building in, that will be the dominant source of weather for probably the next 24-36 hours. let's get you out there and show you what is going on, there is a little bit of snow in the north and still coming in our mountain counties. other than that, things will be settling down as we go through the morning. bit of snow in the mountains, by 8:00, a lot of clouds giving way. that may be aggressive i certainly think by mid-day, a lot of sunshine east of the mountains, by this afternoon, mostly sunny. more seasonal. yesterday, only 47, we should tack on ten degrees to that later today. dry right now, there was a spritz or sp

florence baptist church was the one location for boone county. deputies directing lainhart made the journey and just walked.(sara lainhart- rabbit hash)"42--and it was a other ways to get here. we drove all the way into florence and turned around and had to park at a steak and shake and just walked" organizers say they were caught off guard.(***phyllis sparks-chairperson boone county caucus***)"this has exceeded everything we couldn't imagined. it's overwhelming...we've never had an elections with one location inside--this massive church 65 volunteers tabulating and directing voters-- organizers say the flow of the voters went well-- some issues causing delays--first names were not all in alphabetical order--delaying the lines--deputies were told to shut out the entrance to the church at 4pm -- leaving some residents who waitedto vote - -out of luck--some people just had enough--"they did not organize it at all."but despite it all-- some voters say -- it was still worth every minute."sitting in traffic to make sure my opinion is heard.""i'm worri

dense fog in boone, likely fog in your neighborhood as well. here is chris, first alert traffic. >> chris: al, thank you, first alert traffic this morning is sponsored by toyota of north charlotte. start with an accident on albermarle road at central avenue, you will find inbound delays from that accident scene i-77, slow downs 77 southbound through center city and northbound coming across 485. also an accident out on albermarle road at 485. that is a check of traffic, christine, back over to you. >> christine: brody o'connell back with three big stories to watch. >> brody: 20 people injured after a train derailed in kansas. this happened around 1:00 this morning our time. >> four people have died in weekend flooding in the south, specifically louisiana and texas seeing the brunt of the storm system. >> a big talker yesterday, ncaa bracket, always exciting when they are announced, it got fully announced. ncaa is investigating. >> christine: it is that time of year, time for high school prom. >> john: one student in north myrtle beach got creati

dry right now in boone. this is king street in boone from resortcams.com, the to freezing right now, you will wind up well in the 50s this afternoon. by late this afternoon the spotty rain starts to come in at 4:00, will pick up going through the night tonight. here in charlotte, look for gradual increase in cloud cover, 48 this morning at 8:00, 65 at lunch time, 69 late this afternoon. should be a nice one. phoenix in town taking on the hornets, heading out there to the ball game, southerly breezes keeping us in the breeze, small chance for rain as we tipoff at 7:00. better chance as you come out of the arena, say at 10:00, could be showers around the area by then. we'll look at larger picture what we can expect our next front, what the weekend looks like in a few minutes. right now check in with chris, first alert traffic. >> chris: traffic is sponsored by toyota of north charlotte. again, we'll start off beaties ford road where we believe at least a section of caps hill mine road is closed down as police

clear skies charlotte, boone, all the way to the coast. a check of the last 24 hours, most of the thunderstorms we saw last night, that was 8:30, 9:30 last night. showers and thunderstorms, heaviest down to the south of the charlotte area. so afternoon, sunny skies, 3:00 p.m., 79. 81 the forecast high this and by 9:00 p.m., clear skies and 69. mountains upper 60's, low 70's here's what's coming up tonight on local 10 with mainly sunny skies. the foothills, sunny skies, 81 wilkes, 78 in lenoir. 81 concord, 81 mooresville, 80 wadesboro, and the sand hills, low 80's, southwest winds 5 to 10, lots of sunshine as we head into the afternoon and evening. through the afternoon, sunshine. this is 12:30 early into wednesday morning. it scoots into the carolinas, 8:00, 9:00 tomorrow morning. watch how quickly it washes out as it crosses the carolinas. mainly sunny skies tomorrow afternoon. slight chance of showers the weekend, saturday night, sunday morning. we hold it at 30%. i would not expect a washout. overnight lows are mild. 59 gastonia, 58 cha

warford is scheduled to be arraigned in boone county court on march 21'st. she is currently an instructional coach at cooper high school. sheree: making sure madison junior/senior high is safe. that was the mission tonight as parents and school leaders brainstormed ideas. to learn from and grow from last weeks school shooting. wlwt news 5's tammy mutasa was there for the meeting and has the new plans. tammy? tammy:sheree, parents tell me they feel confident the district is doing everything they can to move forward and come up with new safety strategies. as you can imagine, this community is still shaken up by this shooting. >> i read the first line. there has been a shooting. my heart just stopped. tammy:the school shooting is now behind them - the focus moving forward is, what's going to change from a safety and security standpoint. >> the biggest thing is kids need time because i think that could have prevented that situation. tammy:the district is looking back and to see what could have done differently the day accused shooter austin hancock come school w

police are trying to track down karlton boone. they say he killed a man. that man s body was later found at a cemetery. newschannel 3 s brendan ponton has the story. 07:20 my son aint did ita he didnt do it? no a woman who says she s karlton boone s mom says her son did not kill 42- year old wayne watford. police in suffolk are trying to track down boone. 07:22 do you know where he is? no i do not the 18- year old is wanted on a first degree murder charge - among other charges. watford was found dead at a cemetery on tuesday. 09:59 police say they got a call at about 1:30 tuesday morning after someone reported seeing a suspicious vehicle driving fast into this cemetery off old dill road. an officer responded and found watford with no pulse watford )s son darion told me tonight he doesn t know boone. he says the latest development in the case doesn )t give him any more answers. we met with him thursday. 46;22 that )s just strange i m not understanding it, i don t know if he owed people money 46;39 i couldn )t give everything but i would have given alive the

visibility are limited just north of charlotte from lincolnton, concord and boone. be on the lookout for that. keep on low beams and take it slow on the roads. >>> however as we go throughout the afternoon, it is going to be warm and muggy and that is going to set the stage for strong, possibly severe storms later today. the storm prediction center has placed us under a slight risk for severe storms but the storms aren't going to get here until later in the day. any lingering showers we had overnight, those have cleared out. really we are looking at more threat for storms and the timeline of when they will arrive in your neighborhood, coming up. >>> we begin with a major story we are following throughout the day. several presidential candidates will be making stops across north carolina. >> hillary clinton, bernie sanders and donald trump will all hold campaign events in the state. republican candidate donald trump will speak at lenoir- rhyne university. the event will be open to more than 1400 people. in the past week several protests outside trump's events have be

chilly as well, 25 boone, 27 morganton. everybody else around freezing. freezing right now albermarle, loggingham, salisbury, charlotte, hickory, 33 rock hill, 31 for shelby and gastonia. increasing thickening clouds and increasing chance for rain. dry for the morning and midday hours in charlotte. rain moves in later this afternoon in the west first and coming eastward toward the piedmont. 70% chance of rain late this afternoon. high temperature, 51 degrees, below average. when we'll warm up down the road, right now you can see where the rain is, to the west of us, we'll talk about that plus the weekend forecast christine in a couple minutes. >> christine: thank you, al. >>> we have breaking news, a man charged in a deadly shooting in hickory is due in court today. get over to kristen miranda with came in this person? >> kristen: let's show you this man's mug shot, i believe we have it. this is new in the alert center. this is eric you there,nt charged with first degree murder and attempted murder following what police are calling a domestic incident in

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 driving in from gaston county on i-85 or 74 from monroe in charlotte you'll look pretty good because things are clear and moving smoothly. here's a live look at i-77 at clanton road you can see traffic somewhat light this morning and it is moving smooth

, rather 29 right now in boone, 28 in jefferson, very cold conditions. alleghany county schools on two-hour delay. 37 salisbury, concord, 36 in lincolnton, 39 in shelby, 39 rock hill and 39 lancaster and monroe. hopefully the heat is working well, by this afternoon we rebound to 58, keep in mind that is still a good five degrees or so below average. tonight will be the colder night, no advisories for the mountains, the wind up there will be an issue and cold tonight but you don't have the growing season yet, the rest of us have frost and freeze watches in effect here because we're expecting lows to get down in the lower 30s tonight, most areas i think will be at are on below freezing a couple hours tonight early tomorrow morning, then we rebound very nicely, tomorrow afternoon, pushing 70 if mid to upper 60s, better than that toward wednesday and thursday. high pressure with us right now, that will park itself over north and south carolina tomorrow morning. our temperatures will be in the 30s and leaves tomorrow afternoon, in the 60s, wednesday in advanc

this is king street in boone from resortcams.com, one of the cool spots, 33 degrees in boone. empt ishere in charlotte, current conditions, clear skies, 53, a southwest wind at 10-miles-per-hour, the gusts up about 15, 20, even so that is helping to keep our temperatures up a little bit. those winds are probably going to hang stout most of the day. not as cold this morning, yesterday we were 33 in charlotte for the morning low, this morning we will be likely in the upper 40s to 50. bright sunshine at lunch time and windy and warm this afternoon, high of 77 degrees. high pressure moving off the coast and that has the southerly fallow, so maybe a few high clouds this afternoon, that is it, dry today and dry most of tomorrow, by tomorrow morning the frontal system approaches, moving through the ohio and tennessee river valleys, that moves in late tomorrow afternoon thundershowers. high pressure will build in behind that, linger for good friday and most of saturday in the start of easter sunday before we get another round of rain in the picture. during the daylight hours, 20% chan

gusts up to 17 in raleigh, 24 in fayetteville, 37 in boone. gusting to 28 in asheville, and the winds are not gusting in wilmington, that's what you see that blank spot. of course, pollen is a big story this time of year. we have gotten into the pollen season and from here it will get worse before it gets better. last week it started to get cranked up and as temperatures warm up this week, we will we have to get to that period of clouds going by through the parking lot before it gets any better. we have not quite gotten to that level yet. but certainly, the pollen count is high for trees, and is predominantly oak and pine. it is the pine trees that make the yellow pine pollen that makes such a mess everywhere. satellite and radar picture looking very quiet. we have that high pressure system well to the west, clockwise flow around it. wind is coming out of the northwest, making it feel very chilly even though it is sunny. that chilly air means that it is going to cause some issues this morning for some people. we had 12 days in a row of tempera

hickory 47. 56 in boone. our rain chances are pretty low, but we do have a little system that will slide into the mountains late tomorrow evening and bring us a small chance for rain showers in the charlotte area tomorrow night into sunday morning. then we're dry sunday, monday and tuesday with another small chance for a few sprinkles coming up wednesday and thursday as our temperatures continue to warm. morning. this is 5:00 a.m., clear skies and a cool morning start here across the charlotte area and clearing out up into the high country. now as we roll into saturday afternoon, here is that quick hitting little system. this is 9:00 p.m. saturday night. rain and snow showers in the high country, only snow showers in the very highest elevations and that slides across the charlotte area saturday night into sunday morning. and this is the lunch hour on sunday afternoon. we're back to generally sunny skies. so if you're heading up to the high country, 49 saturday in boone, up to 53 on sunday. 58 monday and into

, lower than the freezing mark north of here, 29 from salisbury, statesville, 31 hickory and 30 in boone to start things off. yes, chilly but this afternoon, upper 50s, partly to mostly sunny sky, will feel nice. some of us could pick up a quick-hitting shower tonight. so more details on that and the rest of the weekend forecast in a few. >> kristen: thank you. we have a crime alert, police in charlotte investigating a shooting outside of uptown in elizabeth. this was the scene on charlottetown avenue near memorial stadium. victim shot somewhere else and drove to the spot. they saw a rear window in the person's car shot out. medic says the victim was seriously hurt. we're asking police for information on the shooter and when we get that, we will update you right away. >>> police identified a teen violent string of shootings. they started on thursday night, around 8:30 with gunfire on three streets. the most recent happened yesterday, on a fourth street in the middle of the day, ended with the teen dead. police have yet to make an arrest. our coleen harry went to rock hill to talk to neig

by late this afternoon, 37 degrees in and around boone, blowing rock, mixture of rain snow most likely the predominant precipitation source again, mainly above 3500 feet. below there it will be a mixture of rain and snow. in charlotte, we're going to be dry until very late this afternoon 3, degrees 35 this morning, 51 this afternoon, ten degrees below average. when we will be ten degrees above average, in the seven day planner, in a few minutes. right now check in with chris at 5:14, first alert traffic. >> chris: first alert traffic sponsored by toyota of north charlotte. a live look, 277 the john belk, traffic heading toward you going up toward bank of america stadium, no problems here. very light traffic early on your thursday morning commute. we are, however, seeing a few slow downs on highway 74, independence boulevard as you make your way up toward albermarle road. as we come in center city, again, the brookshire, the john belk, 277, 77 through center city all looking good this morning. if you're coming in from providence road from the arboretum area, 16 minutes, 40 miles an hour

below freezing in boone. 45 in hickory, 49 gastonia and out toward salisbury at 47. for today, lots of sunshine across the area, even in the mountains you become sunny this afternoon. 49 this morning. near 50 at lunch time, 53 late this afternoon here in the charlotte area. 20 degrees cooler versus the last couple days. i'm tracking our next round of rain, also look at weekend forecast all starting in a few minutes at 6:00. right now, first alert traffic. >>> first alert traffic broroht to you by toyota of north charlotte. >> christine: all right and we continue to watch the commute for you which during the 5:00 hour has been moving great this morning. followno major slow downs, 77, 85 coming from gastonia moving smoothly. all of 485, highlighted in the let's look at live look at i-77 at nations ford, traffic picking up slightly as we move to the 6:00 a.m. hour, keep watching wbtv news we will let you know about problems first as they arise. >>> super tuesday is now in the books, we're continuing to get a clearer picture of campaign 2016. >> john: we have the results

you can see dense fog, zero visibility around hickory, back to morganton, shelby, a mile boone, rock hill, albermarle and down toward lancaster. we have the dense fog advisory, north and west of charlotte, that runs until 10:00, from charlotte on south and east ward, no advisory, be mindful, early this morning, use caution from time to time this morning. 46 in boone, everybody else is milder in the 50s and 60s this morning, 63 gastonia, charlotte, monroe, lancaster, 61 right now in salisbury. we'll go from patchy fog, dense in spots, 62 at 8:00. times of clouds and sunshine at noon, late this afternoon storms approach the area from the west, not before we get to 80 degrees. last night's rain moving out, next batch of rain, approaching. it will take most of the day to get here, we'll show you futurecast as we go through time. starting off with fog this morning as we're in the 5:00 hour, 8:00, still have fog. lifts to the mid-day and that may try to pop off a couple showers before 4:00, i don't think that will happen, few and far between but notice as we go from 4:00 to 8:00, we get th

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boone 30 in boone at 7:00. futurecast temps heading through the afternoon, 50 by 11:00 a.m., rise to the middle 50s by later this afternoon, 55 at 2:00 for the charlotte area with the highs reaching the mid to upper 50s in most spots, mid to upper 40s in the mountains for today's high. overall should be fairly similar, yesterday, to where the above yesterday's high, which ended up being 57 in the charlotte area. you can see some of the cloud cover on satellite and radar, the back edge of it, if you're in the mountains or foothills you've got a clearer start to your saturday from charlotte south, still dealing with the low-level cloudiness to start things off this morning but it is drifting steadily off to the east. there will be times of clouds in and out pretty much all day today. never going to clear out completely and in fact once we head toward tonight, we cloud over, we have a weak front upstream. bringing showers in western and central parts of kentucky. this will quickly race across the carolinas and mid

couple pockets on the chilly side, boone at 33, 42 albermarle. most everybody else is in the upper 40s to low, middle 50s. 49 shelby, 50 hickory, 52 in hill. start off at 52, wind up at 77 this afternoon. all straight uphill, that is above average this time of the year year. there is the high. it will build offshore tomorrow, and that will allow for more moisture to come our way, eventually in advance of this system tomorrow morning, you see the showers and thunderstorms across the mid west, ohio valley, tennessee valley, that will push in our area. so our chances for rain go up late in the day in the evening hours. the front is on top of us, rain is pushing away. then dry high pressure will build until for a couple days. rain chances go up and down. thursday and friday, no more than 20% chance of rain, in between about 80% chance while most of us are sleeping. then the high pressure build also in saturday and most of sunday we're dry, by late sunday and now into monday, we will see rain coming back in the picture. here is the forecast for today,

so jefferson, boone, blowing rock you're on the threshold. higher elevations are likely to get 2-4 inch, avery county, some of the ski resort ridgetops, in town, a sloppy slushy inch or two would be about it. 35 this morning, 8:00, 12 noon, 48, 51 this afternoon. that is chilly considering we should be close to 60, if you're not a fan of the chilly weather, major warm-up on the way. we could be talking well in the 70s for next week i'll talk about that with the seven day planner. early sunshine, details in a few minutes. 6:15, here is chris, first alert traffic. >> chris: first alert traffic a live look at independence expressway from briar creek inbound traffic going away from you, beginning to pick up heading toward center city this morning. looking at the john belk and brookshire, no significant problems on interstate 77 looking good but it looks like we have a new accident that is on trade street just off of i-77 this morning. we'll get you more on that as it comes in. looking at the overall map, a lot of green, 77, 485, 85 all running in

upper 70's today with partly cloudy skies, 78 concord, morganton, mid 70, 66 boone and blowing rock. partly cloudy skies thursday, friday, with rain showers increasing, the end of the weekend, sunday afternoon and evening. we will look at the forecast coming up. >> anchor: thank you. a detention officer is off the job for having inappropriate relationship with an inmate. the office says white was charged with misconduct in office as a public official accused of having a relationship they believe it included inappropriate contact with knowledge that the relationship was in violation of rules. deputies say the incident is still under investigation. the charlotte-mecklenburg school board will host a community forum tonight for you to weigh in on next year's budget. it is held at 6:00 p.m. at independence high school. it comes a day after board members met to talk about skriction and renovation in the district. we have more on what was said. >> according to our news participates, there was good dilog between board members and parents. ultimately there was no decision on the $2 billion co

. >>> detectives say a boone county man rape add six-year-old child. charges. he admitted that he sexually assaulted the child on two separate occasions at his home near florence. if he's convicted he could face 20 years to life in prison. >> moving forward is the next step for students, staff and parents at madison junior-senior high school. more than a week now since two students were shot there. how administrators plan to try to get things back to normal. >> reporter: from the beginning superintendent have been pretty transparent about what happened, which has to be refreshing to parents here. today it seems like they will continue with the message. the goal is to make the students feel safe and parents feel comfortable while their students are here at madison junior-senior high school. that's tough after four students were hurt and one left in the juvenile detention center. now one week after the students return to school, everyone wants to move forward. part of that is to talk about what happened and focus on the future. specifically safety, security, and support. superintendent curti

current temperatures across the area, 67 hickory, 64 in boone, so warm in the mountains, 70 rock hill, 71 monroe, 68 in lancaster. to the power doppler, you will see from boone to charlotte all the way to the coast, barely a cloud in the sky. rock hill, 75 this afternoon. hickory, partly cloudy, 73, a pair of 75 concord, morganton, we keep it sunny and warm. tomorrow, thursday and friday before increasing clouds and ramping up the chance of showers right now i think saturday afternoon and evening, overnight to sunday morning. a look at all of that coming up. >> anchor: headed to the golf course per year instructions. you will tell the boss. next, presidential candidates pushing for votes across the carolinas. details on an appearance today by ted cruz. plus, turns out there are is >> health study, impacting heavy coffee drinkers, a new study shows those who have is six cups develop multiple sclerosis. researchers say it has protective properties and can suppress production of chemicals involved in the response, which makes the fkds interesting. pulling out your phone to snap pictures

in the 40s, chilly up across boone, king street in boone, no rain but you have a little bit of cloud cover, no fog this morning. futurecast, this morning we're dry but stop this at 8:00, a few clouds coming through, then frontal system may trigger a shower or two. otherwise a little bit of cloud cover then mostly sunny, even in the mountains for the rest of afternoon, nice and warm, highs in the low 80s east of the mountains. in the high country get in the 60s. breezy afternoonbreast seebreezy this afternoon. heading to the hornets game tonight, tipoff temperature, 73, orlando in town at 7:00 to take on the hornets. talk about the seven day planner in a couple minutes. right now here is chris, first alert traffic. >> chris: first alert traffic charlotte. taking a live look here this morning, i-77 nations ford road, volume northbound really pick up at this hour, but not any significant volume delays on the major interstates. we're, however, seeing slow downs along wt harris boulevard over toward albermarle and up in the north tryon area. bowl, 77 running smoothly, no volume delays nor

for jefferson and boone, 38 morganton, shelby, 36 lincolnton, concord. up in the mountains, upper 30s to low 40s, getting back toking 43, 44, no chance for any rain or snow for that matter. you had some yesterday, in the foothills, 57 morgan-on-to, lenoir, taylorsville, bright sunshine, little bit of a breeze this afternoon. in the charlotte area, upper 50s, may be a few spots toward wadesboro and rockingham that get close to many 60, 58 shelby, mooresville over to concord and lincolnton, we go south of town, upper 50s to about 60 from patrick and pageland toward rock hill and fort mill. sunny skies. the growing season has not started yet, no advisories in the mountains, but we have a freeze watch tonight and frost advisory east of there, as temperatures will be cold enough or likely to get frost to develop down close to freezing for most communities, outside of the mountains even, this is going to be the colder night coming up tonight, we rebound tomorrow afternoon, getting in the mid and upper 60s, if you like that you'll love going high pressure is wi

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