here is meterologist chris larson. >> chris: an hour-by-hour look in planning your friday, partly cloudy, mild mid 50s at 8:00 a.m. in the lunch hour, mid 60s, upper 60s and low 70s for highs across the charlotte area. charlotte, partly to mostly cloudy, thicker as you head out to our east, thinning back in the foothills and mountains this morning. rain showers holding at bay down we will see an influx of moisture, cooler temperatures and rain showers saturday morning, another round of rain late saturday night and into your sunday morning. so our futurecast for today, a pretty quiet friday ahead of us, see a good deal of sunshine but thin, high clouds through the afternoon and evening, but again, mild temperatures, well above average and upper 60s and low 70s. carolina temperatures right now, 52 in charlotte, 57 hickory, 46 in boone, 49 right now in albermarle, 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

alert center. >> john: feels a little cool this morning, get things started with meterologist chris larson in for al conklin this morning. >> chris: not bad this morning, we're looking at temperatures in the mid-50s, thanks in large part to mid and high level clouds across the charlotte area. currently in the low 50s. 52 degrees down from 55 earlier this morning. north winds at 3-miles-per-hour. boone, 46, 57 hickory, 49 in wadesboro, 58 monroe this morning, power doppler is quiet. you can see heavier cloud cover charlotte south and east of us this morning. so we do have the storm track heading our way and we have showers in the forecast as we head in the weekend on saturday and sunday. we'll take a broader look at that coming up but for today, skies, mid-60s for the lunch hour, 70 upper 60s to low 70s this afternoon. 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: let's give you a live look at current conditions map, traffic is flowing smoothly. there is an incident

here is meterologist chris larson. >> chris: quiet end to the work week across the charlotte area, right now 53 hickory, 45 in boone, 55 charlotte, 57 degrees in monroe, let's switch over to max 2 and take a look at what to expect for this afternoon. there you go, power doppler is quiet in the charlotte area, up to statesville back toward morganton, we did see a band of thicker cloud cover out to our east earlier this morning, it rides up along the carolina coastline, all the rain showers down toward charleston. in the weekend, though, we'll see a southerly system develop at the surface, work across the carolinas and then upper level low, trough of low pressure swinging in, really dropping our temperatures saturday and sunday. futurecast for today, this is our rapid refresh model, next 24 hours, partly cloudy this afternoon, thin high clouds across the charlotte area, and quiet, really very little to no rain chance this afternoon. at temperatures are seasonable, well above average for the charlotte area at 70. average high now 63. 9262 in boone, blowing rock. as early as tomorrow morning

here is meterologist chris larson. the weather it is partly cloudy >> christine: ha ha ha ha. >> chris: 66 degrees, low 70s for this afternoon. all right, current condition here in charlotte, 52, relative humidity, 59% with winds out of the north at 3-miles-per-hour. up in the mountains, 45, boone, 58 gastonia, 58 monroe, 57 right the storm track will stay down to the south today, but we will see an influx of moisture heading in the weekend and cooler temperatures, the rapid refresh model, going through the day on friday, a good deal of sunshine, but mixed in with thin high clouds that you don't see here on our computer model and quiet new friday evening, friday night. by saturday morning, we are going to be talking about rain showers here in the charlotte area and up in the foothills and mountains. rock hill, 70 this afternoon, 72 hickory, 73 morganton and 62 in that's a look at first alert forecast >> christine: that is so bad. oh, chris, oh, chris. a live look at the commute this morning, folks, things are moving smo

chris larson has been going through the tissue. a lot of folks having trouble with the allergies, that spring warmth will continue and keep the pollens very very high. what we need is rain to soak those things out, i don't see that happening any time soon. tomorrow morning, low clouds early in the morning. that is probably going to be the case thursday morning as well. eventually a lot of this rain is going to continue to push northward but some of this will sneak in here, that will happen as we head toward saturday and into sunday. not great chances of rain but higher than what we have seen of late. let's look at seven day forecast, for today, mostly sunny skies, 75. 49 for tonight, a very mild night. again a little bit of cloud cover around, otherwise enough sunshine to get us in the mid 70s. rain chances pick up over the weekend, 60% chance on saturday and 50% chance on sunday. that is the forecast, you're never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic on wbtv news this morning. here is chris larson with first alert

. >>> let's get a check of the commute this wednesday morning here is chris larson. >> chris: christine, thank you, first alert traffic sponsored by toyota of north charlotte. eastway delays there with an injury accident in front of the food lion toward central avenue, be aware of that. bumper-to-beam per-to-pom beer across-to-bumper across 485. quick check of the overall commute, southbound delays inner loop, delays around matthews. here is meteorologist al conklin. >> al: out there this morning as we approach 7:30, gorgeous start to the day, nate mckay from up in late norman, a gorgeous sunrise up there from thevue.com, a pretty picture, a nice morning underway. 52 in charlotte, 43, cooler around albermarle, 43 morganton, 39 in boone. in the low 50s around hickory, statesville, salisbury, 51 monroe, 52 in the monroe area. looking at temperatures that will go from the 50s to the upper 70s this afternoon, all the while mostly sunny skies and low, low rain chances for today. eventually rain chances pick up, small chance tomorrow and friday, especially north of town, better chance comes l

here is chris larson with weather. >> chris: sunshine, a few clouds, temperatures a little cooler but already to 58 degrees, relative humidity 27%, with winds out of the east at 6-miles-per-hour. boone, 42, 40 in morganton, 48 in shelby, mid 40s around albermarle and wadesboro, 54 in monroe right now. power doppler network quiet in charlotte, i don't think we see any showers today, we will see clouds roll until by tomorrow morning, shower activity but here's the 24 hour rapid refresh model as we head in the late morning hours, clear skies, a few high clouds drifting across the afternoon and then again the clouds coming in from the west and rolling in overnight in saturday morning. so there is a chance for rain 10:00 in the late morning hours, another round of possibly heavier rain coming up late saturday night and into sunday morning. i think we will see rapid clearing by sunday afternoon and in the evening but chilly and overnight, lows on monday morning down in the low 30s. sunshine, 56 on monday afternoon, highs in the mid 60s on tuesday and look at that, once again, beautiful work

check in with chris larson. >> chris: problems on sharon road west. first alert traffic sponsored by toyota of north charlotte. take a loostk at this live view, passenger vehicle in an accident with a motcyclor this morning. there you see theow truck, that is the car involved and right at the back of the tck you can see that motorcycle tied police have two lanes there along sharon road west at river birch blocked off this morning. we'll kee>*ap an eye on things there and let you know when they get the scene cleared. here is metrologist al conklin. >> al: thanks, chris. a fairly peaceful morning weather-wise. we have a frontal system to the north of us, heavy rain in t gulf coast region, tthas not coming any time soon, this front will have inroads on theeather over the next 124 hours, throwing more clouds our way and rain off and on over the weekend. seeing sunshine from morganton, blue sky, mixing in the cloud cover. 61 in hickory, 60 shelbiwy, 63 chars:lotte and 64 down around wadesboro and monroe. we'll go from the low 60s to about 80 this afternoon

. >>> let's get a check of the commute, here is chris larson. >> chris: first alert traffic sponsored by toyota of north charlotte. all lanes of i-77 southbound at remount boulevard or remount road are closed down, i'll circle this, you have a tow truck on the scene, pulling one of the wrecked vehicles out of the roadway and there you can road is blocked off, shut down until they can get the accident scene cleared. seeing significance delays on i-77 southbound this morning. here is meteorologist al conklin with a check of the first alert forecast. >> >> al: looking at clear skies, sun coming up, flat water, not much of a breeze. if anything light out of the south. temperatures are comfortable. in the 40s for morganton, lenoir, boone, everybody else in the 50s to low 60. 54 hickory, 56 in shelby, 50 in albermarle and 60 to the south toward monroe. we will warm up quickly. comfortable start, mostly sunny skies, up close to 79, 80 by noon and up to 83 this afternoon. that would tie the record set back in 1945. tonight, temperature down to 47, cooler, rain over >>> i'm also starting to wo

check in with chris larson. lake norman, 77 southbound, 73 sam furr road, accident with injury injury, north and southbound are slow. live look at i-77 toward the rest area coming inbound even, the delays are persistent from westinghouse all the way up toward arrowood. also seeing delays out on the outer loop of 485 between mount holly down toward berryhill, inner loop of 485 toward matthews and providence road now conklin. >> al: traffic is a mess but weather is great. at allen school in concord, sun is getting higher in the sky, shadows getting shorter, we have blue skies and golden sunshine, nice start to the day, temperatures are mostly in the 50s across the viewing area, 58 statesville, 54 albermarle, gastonia, cooler around shelby at 48, 52 in boone, 55 in lancaster, go from the 50s now in the upper 70s to low 80s this afternoon. this is almost 20 degrees above average for this time of the year. obviously with sunshine, very little chance for any rain here today. a very nice day today, we have a comfortabl

. >>> let's get a check of traffic here is chris larson. >> chris: christine, thank you, first alert traffic is sponsored by toyota of north charlotte. accident has taken down power lines at the intersection of bradford and hovis road. expect you'll find delays there. police blocking that intersection. that did take down traffic signals up on brookshire boulevard, those have been repaired but the in and outbound delays between with heavy traffic in and around the intersection. also seeing heavy traffic i-77 through center city both north here is meteorologist al conklin conklin. >> al: next round of wet weather coming from the west. snow across the ohio valley, not coming to the charlotte area, there will be snow in the mountains. rest of us rain but will take most of the day for this to arrive. out there this morning, dry, no rain being picked up on any part of our area. this is our lake norman cam, you can see the clouds are are thickening up, as we look down the main channel from thevue.com, brighter sky with early sunshine, temperatures are cold, 27 boone, 34 in charlotte, 33 in

cmpd is currently looking for >>> let's get a check of the commute with chris larson. >> chris: first alert traffic sponsored by toyota of north charlotte. east charlotte, accident north sharon amity at campbell above albermarle road. certainly seeing delays along albermarle at independence boulevard. also an accident being reported wt harris at albermarle. and delays at that intersection. looking live at i-77 inbound delays coming across 485 and heavy traffic stop and go between matthews and providence road on the inner loop of 485. here is meteorologist al conklin conklin. >> al: big area governing our area, we will be on the warm side of things starting this afternoon. this morning, mostly clear and cool, temperatures in the 30s. a few high clouds out there this morning but other than that, a good deal of blue sky and sunshine, with that warming up quickly. charlotte is at 34 degrees, 32 albermarle, up toward wadesboro. morganton, 32 hickory, 30 statesville and 36 right now in monroe. we will shake off the chill quickly. i think we're in the low 40s in the charlotte area by 8:00 an

. >>> let's go to chris larson who has a look at first alert traffic. >> chris: christine, thank you, first alert traffic sponsored by toyota of north charlotte. we do have a new accident, ballantyne commons parkway at also seeing inbound delays on johnston road up in the ballantyne area. live look i-77 northbound at lasalle, thinning out but inbound, southbound delays from 85 to center city heavy this morning. lake norman commute, davidson to cornelius, huntersville, also seeing delays inner loop of 485 between matthews and providence road. here is meteorologist al conklin. >> al: nice warm weather, still cool, temperatures in the 40s. wind up in the 70s pretty much everywhere outside the mountains. courtesy of that area of high pressure on the scene. gorgeous start to the day here up at lake norman, that comes to us from thevue.com. we're at 50 in charlotte and shelby, as the cooler pockets to the north of us, morganton at 36, 4 4 over in salisbury, 42 around wadesboro and 46 for monroe. clouds from time to time, breezy and nice and warm, you'll like the next several days, low cloud

police are trying to identify the two other victims. >>> check in with chris larson, first alert traffic. >> chris: first alert traffic sponsored by toyota of north charlotte. accident on providence road at right above 485, seeing big time slow downs leading up to that accident. also inner loop of 485. live look bumper-to-bumper stop and go traffic, 77 southbound at lasalle street, s@ heavy inbound traffic from 85 to 77, past center city and down to west boulevard this morning. also seeing delays on 77 northbound as you make your way up to the north. look here at i-77 up toward the lake norman area, heavy traffic davidson to huntersville and once you make your way to hambright, back in the green but still delays northbound as well. with a check of the forecast here is meteorologist al conklin. >> al: thanks, chris, out there this morning take you up to statesville in iredell county, clover leaf elementary school, blue sky, cloud cover, high clouds that are drifting by pretty quickly. overall mostly sunny, for most neighborhoods in statesville mid 40s, mid 30s around boone. in fact above

. >>> time for a look at traffic, chris larson is in the first alert traffic center, hey, chris. >> chris: good morning, first alert traffic sponsored by toyota of north charlotte. wt harris at grier road, accident there, delays in both directions. i-77 woodlawn, volume running smoothly but the delays are building, 77 northbound coming across 485 and on the inner loop of 485 down toward providence road. at that intersection, expect back-ups. here is meteorologist al conklin. >> al: a lot of cloud cover in the charlotte area, after last night's rain you can see a low-haglow-hanging overcast. if you look back toward the west, this is morganton they are seeing shine breaking through the clouds. up in burke county and around the foothills. we will see increasing amounts of sunshine, mostly cloudy, a few flurries, boone at 32, everybody else is in the 30s. but mostly above freezing. 33 hickory, rock hill, monroe and 37 right now in lancaster. today, start off in the 30s, wind up in the mid to upper 50s, all the while increasing sunshine. tomorrow, mostly sunny to start, mostly cloudy to end, 6

. >>> here is chris larson with first alert traffic. >> chris: christine, thank you, first alert traffic sponsored by toyota of north charlotte. inbound delays on north tryon up to dalton avenue, with an accident at that intersection. expect that you will find delays along the section from north tryon, dalton t and over to north graham street this morning. looking live at independence expressway around briar creek past there, still seeing heavy traffic inbound from albermarle, here is meteorologist al conklin. >> al: thanks, chris, clear skies this morning, a chilly start to the day, temperatures in the 40s and low 50s, what a gorgeous shot from hd tower cam, looking nice. we're at 53 charlotte, 50 hickory, 41 salisbury, 42 albermarle, 42 in shelby area and in the 30s up around morganton,morgan ton. morganton. this afternoon,77, lots of sunshine fall back in the 40s tonight, tomorrow cooler, upper 60s to 70, partly sunny skies, rain overtakes the area saturday. mostly light but cloudy and very high only 53, rain may >>> and then there is john kasich who won his home state of ohio last ni

let's go to chris larson with traffic. >> chris: christine, wbtv's ashton pellom giving us this live look this morning of the accident scene out on brookshire. traffic sponsored by toyota of north charlotte. it is the lanes northbound away from the city which are blocked off this morning. if you're coming inbound on brookshire boulevard up to 485, you are going to be able to make it through that scene, but terrible crash overnight with this passenger vehicle in the back of some sort of a dump truck. thatatas blocked the northbound lanes. so again, if you are trying to go north and then get on the outer loop of 485, that is where you will find the problems or just heading north on brookshire boulevard. those lanes are closed down, it may be 7:30, 8:00 before this accident investigation is complete and they can get the lanes reopened. the so if brookshire away from the city of charlotte is part of your morning commute, be aware those lanes are closed down and as we head through the rush hour and the volume increases, heading southbound in toward the the residual slow downs, everybody s

chris larson is going to keep an very latest in a couple minutes. remember, you're never more than seven minutes away from weather so let's get over to meteorologist al conklin. >> al: all right, thanks a lot. right now, kristen, roads are drying out that is good news. storm system that came through very much rain across most of the viewing area. different story in the mountains where we have a lot of school delays and a closure, watauga county schools are closed because of on-going snow. a nice clearing trend through the day here today, numale fishing forecast, mostly cloudy, 39, parcelly partly sunny, this is great weather to do trout fishing, what mike did, three times this week. left charlotte heading up to stone mountain where he fished the stone mountain river, look at that, beautiful brook trout. way to go. a veteran, served a couple tours with the army in iraq, he is happy to be home and in the water up there fishing in the 59 degrees what we should have this time of the year, close to that today, above that over the weekend, i'll talk about

. >> 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 smoothly, we'll keep you posted throughout the morning. >>> following breaking news involving an armed robbery this morning at a convenience store in south charlotte. >> christine: go to brody o'connell who first broke the story in the last half hour watch other new details arewhat other details are coming in? >> brody: this is at park and woodlawn, it looks like this might be video we got in. earlier we just had pictures. a man went in the kangaroo gas station over at park and woodlawn in charlotte, he had a knife or screwdriver, apparently not clear at this time, went in, demanded money, got away with undisclosed amount of cash. we have

chris larson in for al conklin. a little cool out there this morning, isn't it? >> chris: al made it to friday on thursday. >> john: i would like to make it on friday on thursday. >> chris: nice treat you're clouds. relative humidity 39%. winds out of the north at 3-miles-per-r-ur. let's go ahead and look at other region this morning. 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

traffic is light so far, chris larson, watching all the problem spots as they happen. you'll hear about issues first when they arise here on wbtv. because you're never more than and traffic on wbtv news this morning. here is meteorologist al conklin. >> al: thanks a lot, christine. hope you had a great weekend on this monday morning we have high pressure that will dominate this week and what that means is increasingly warm weather. each and every day, and at least at the start fairly low rain chances. now for today, look at mostly sunny skies in the numale fishing forecast, up to 67 degrees, about seven degrees above average. today's big catch is steve wilson of charlotte. with his buddy mike verdi at stone mountain river, gorgeous brown trout. steve hauled in might have been a leftover from last year, they re-stock the river from time to time. steve is a guy that loves to get on the water always got his eye to the forecast, pays attention to it marry to barbara, two great boys, logan and dillon. you're the big catch of the day. if you're heading toward stone mountain

. >>> gets ego to go to chris larson. >> chris: ardrey kell inbound delays, inner loop of 485 also heavy this morning. belk, northbound up toward bank of america stadium, volume flowing smoothly, we had delays on 77 northbound and on the inner loop of 485. now over to meteorologist al conklin. >> al: 7:27, what we're checking is on a pretty nice morning, not all that cold out there, that is choate circle looking down at carowind also boulevard from carowinds. also breezy, that helped to keep temperatures up a little bit under clear skies, overnight lows down near 50, 51 charlotte and salisbury, 45 in monroe, 50 gastonia, mid to upper 40s shelby, 50 in morganton. today, lots of sunshine, will be breezy at times, particularly for the afternoon hours and high temperature of 77. well above the average which is at 65. we will be above average for the foreseeable future, tomorrow increasing clouds, showers and storms tomorrow evening. gone friday, saturday is dry, sunday starts dry but ends with very warm for the >>> victims of the brussels attack are being honored in our nation's capital. pre

. >>> let's check in with chris larson. >> chris: first alert traffic sponsored by toyota of north charlotte. lake norman volume delays on 77 both north and southbound stop and go from catawba avenue up to about gilead road, accident beaties ford road at brown mill, expect delays there. and disabled vehicle hambright at old statesville road. over to meteorologist al conklin. >> al: thanks, chris. dense fog advisory in effect. this continues until 10:00 this morning. it does not technically include charlotte, however, again, there is fog in around around the area, be mindful of that. i'm certain the fog is starting to lift, that is good news out there early this morning. let's look at stallings, scott clark nissan honda's toyota, no fog in that area, in good shape. temperature-wise, mild this morning, 62 in charlotte and monroe, 62 rock hill and 50s to low 60s through the foothills, cooler in the mountains around boone, 45 degrees. going through the day, fog starting to lift, at least some sunshine mid-day, during the afternoon hours showers and storms will move in the area couple of these co

chris larson will track how it affects your morning commute. we are getting new details when the road will reopen. >> john: explosions in brussels leave more than a dozen dead. we're watching live pictureses from belgium, gathering the latest developments in the alert center. and we'll be joined live by our wbtv's security analyst to talk about the attacks. >> christine: this is a live look at a polling place in lancaster county, voters are going to be heading to polls like this one in half an hour to bond referendum aimed at easing overcrowding. >> john: thanks for watching wbtv news this morning on tuesday, march 22nd, i'm john carter. >> christine: good morning, thanks for watching i'm christine sperow. get you caught up on the forecast to start this half hour. let's go to meteorologist al conklin with the most accurate look. >> al: sun will be up in an hour or so. plenty of i of it in the forecast. we have 30s and 20s, hd tower cam, the traffic is picking up now on 77 and belk freeway, clear skies, with calm conditions, that allowed the num

. >> chris: i'm chris larson hope you're having a great saturday morning. first alert traffic sponsored by toyota of north charlotte. if you're heading in center city saturday night, we've got the hornets in town, playing at 7:00 p.m., time warner cable arena, taking on the houston rockets. heavier traffic in and around the arena toward 6:00 p.m. also about through the weekend, south college street between east stonewall an east hill drive, that is closed down until monday morning at 6:00 a.m. >> kristen: all right chris, thank you. for more traffic go to wbtv.com, click under the traffic tab and follow our traffic team on twitter. you can find the link to their account on the wbtv traffic page. >>> talk sports this morning, big game for the hornets hosting detroit with playoff implications, kemba walker entered play four straight games 30 plus points. the team didn't need him to do that, he scored 16. batum, 17, 11 rebound, williams lead with 22, lee 15, big al jefferson 12, hornet in control, winning 118-103. team's sixth win in a row, they own the tie br

the roads, i-85, thank you very much, chris larson, looking pretty good on 85 this morning. traffic moving smoothly, no this morning. chris is watching all the traffic cameras and the maps and have the latest in a couple minutes. >>> let's check in now with meteorologist al conklin. >> al: a little bit of snow falling in the mountains but are no flurries than anything now, accumulating snow has ended. will be dry as well. five sweeps of power doppler radar, things will be quieting down, i expect we'll start with a lot of clouds but wind up with decent amount of sunshine, numale fishing forecast, 57 in the queen city this afternoon. big catch, mike verdi out of charlotte, loves to go after the trout. look at this brook trout he hauled in earlier. went three straight days up at stone mountain in the north carolina high country. gorgeous fish. mike a beautiful wife and two great kids, involved in sports with the kids at cool oak and softball and baseball and a veteran, two tours in iraq. way to go, big catch looks good. 59 the normal high, 6:49 the sun will be up. we won't see m

a live look at i-77 at trade street, chris larson is keeping remember, you're never more than seven minutes away from weather mornin >>> you're planning your day with wbtv news this morning. >> john: 12 after 6:00, we have several all new stories you want to stick around for in the 6:30 half hour. today at 6:34, new numbers on early voting in mecklenburg county. find out how many people have cast their ballots already for next week's primary election. >>> dating websites now specialize in matching you with people with similar interests. at 6:46, the sites pairing pet lovers together. >>> right now getting more breaking news out of memphis, tennessee. >> christine: get to brody o'connell live in the alert center. you're learning more about an team. >> brody: our raycom station over in memphis just getting details to us, apparently a plane that belong to hendrick motor sports was flying from the event this weekend vegas back to charlotte, but before they could reach home they had to make an emergency landing in memphis. we have pictures we can show you right now, this from our station in memp

chris larson watching all the slow spots and crashes in the area, we'll check in with him until a minute. go to meteorologist al conklin who has an accurate look at the forecast. >> al: a gorgeous start to the temperatures are cool but not too cold, we have a little bit of cloud cover and a very very pretty sunrise on the way. up here in a few minutes. that is the lake norman came from the vue.com, the lake is very flat this morning. there is not much of a breeze. our numale medical center, 50 this morning, 69 at lunch time, 75 this afternoon. mostly sunny skies, a nice one. melinda dabbs sent in a picture of her son kendall, who with his dad hauled in a bass. a senior, excellent student at south rowannesshigh school in china grove. way to go you're our big catch of the day. sun-up at 6:43, sun goes down at 6:30. normally 37 this time of the day and this time of the year, we're 50 right now, we are headed in the mid 70s today. what about rain chances? let you're never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic on wbtv news this morning. >> christine: the wbtv and me spotlight

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 fine. not sure if two hours is reasonable at this point, if they update the time frame at all we will let you know from the alert center. >> christine: nikki haley will be in lancaster county for a major ribbon cutting ceremony. movement mortgage is set to open the new 22 mlionil dolrla corporater> headquarters and indian land. event with governor haley is at 11:00 this morning. will bring 1500 jobs to the area. joh>> lawmakers asking lottery officials to offer new g

chris larson will let you know of problem spots first as soon as they happen. right now, no major back-ups to report. let's go to meteorologist al conklin. >> al: thanks, christine. tracking low pressure that is out across the middle part of the country around st. louis right now, snow to the north of a warm front, rain to the south. that is heading in our general direction. of the mountains, numale fishing forecast, early sunshine, increasing clouds. rain chance 40% by late this afternoon, high only 51. better opportunity for rain comes tonight. barbara and keith taylor wake up to wbtv every morning from their home in boone. wanted to share a picture of their grandson tanner with his dad john after ice fishing for northern pike in their home state of michigan. tanner and john, you're our big catch of the day today. normal high temperature should be 59 degrees, sun coming up now, will be on the cool side for today but boy, have we got make up on the way. take a look at those temperature, i'll fill in the differences give you the specifics on when the next rain

. >> milwaukee county executive race is a tough battle between the incumbent and chris larson. splitting that vote. but again, i think everyone thinks this will benefit their supreme court candidate in the state supreme court race. >> a very inside process question. the public poll that came out showed sanders with a small lead, clinton people think she has a bigger gap to make up. any -- do you guys have a fingertip feel that sanders will blow it out? >> i don't think he'll blow it out. my guess is by a handful of points. >> so the clintons are coming in not to keep it close, but to win? >> i don't know about that. >> well -- >> if it's a small lead, why couldn't she pull it out? >> it is a competitive race on tuesday. not just saying, that's their calculation, but it benefits everybody. >> 30 seconds left. big picture question. every place we go, record turnout do you expect there to be record turnout, enthusiasm? >> we're seeing above 40%, highest since 1980. again, not just presidential. other things driving, especially mi milwaukee county. >> i think just 30,000 people, i

. >>> over to chris larson for an update on the morning commute. >> thank you. first alert traffic sponsored by toyota of north charlotte. an injury accident 485 outer loop at lawyers road on the east side of charlotte. outer loop, backups and delays from 485 past lawers road. expect to see the backups. rock hill uptown 35 minutes. 40 miles per hour. concord to center city at 19 minutes. and lake norman northbound -- southbound rather 23-minute commute. out on highway 84 past weddingout on highway 84 past weddington high school. expect some delay and overall, backup from 45 into center citybackup from 45 into center city. that is a check of traffic. >>> over to our meteorologist. al. >> al: the university area. a lot of sunshine there and most likely a loit of sunshine hope you are enjoying this morning. temperatures are starting tospond to that sun after beingwn to 33.st above the freezing mark inarlotte where we are nowproving. to 45 degrees.e outlying areas are fallingit and still a couple ofots that are pretty cold.terally freezing shelby. around statesville

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some say he went that far, i say it was vintage chris rock and exactly what the night nee the academy awards. larson best actress and leonardo dicaprio. >> "the reven star shared a brief hug wi winslet and on the red carp you can almost feel the chemistry, almost years after "titanic". >> what did he say to you backstage? >> i he had one little eyebrow, and so i put it back into place for him. >> no one was happier for leo than his mom. >> i love the fact that he has such a big audience to make to the statements that he did. >> climate change real, let us not take this planet for granted, i do not take tonight granted. thank you so much. >> he's very, ver happy, he's thrilled. >> it has been an incredible journey for leo. "e.t" was there back at his first nomination for "what's eating gilbert grape." leo picked up a statuette at oscar's engraving station. and right afterleo, brie larsen patiently waited for her awarr. >> brie larsen. >> brie won for bestactress, and although she was relatively unknown heading into awards seasoning, she's been around hollywood ever since she was a kid. >> i have watc

larson. >> chris: first alert traffic sponsored by toyota of north charlotte.ead up if you're lake norman area. very heavy traffic all the way up to gilly and road and then slow to catawba avenue. take a live look 77 here in south charlotte.eavy traffic in through center city with an accident on south zion near arrowood out whitehall common looking at the 77 delays, they start at 45 up to arrowood. we do have an accident at tieebola near 77. still southbound delays from 85 up to the inner loop near matthews in providence. here is meteorologist al conklin. >> al: we are trying to break through these clouds and get into more sunshine. pretty cloudy across a good chunk of our viewing area. 61 here at cloverleaf elementary. you can see a few breaks here and there. there is a lot of overcast out there. not much rain. we are talking about clouds this morning. 61 in charlotte. afternoon, but not total sunshine. we will have a mix of clouds and sun. the rain chance picks up tomorrow north of town. especially tomorrow night into early saturday as a frontal system moves in. 10 or there are two demo

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larson. we're here with chris kilham. now, chris, these antioxidants in green tea are classified as polyphenols, and they're really powerful and well-respected by but in this green tea cr formula, there's even more. you have the green tea, you have curcumin, the resveratrol we talked about, plus grape-seed extract, pine bark, bioflavonoids, vitamin c. talk about this array of really super antioxidants and polyphenols you put into this formula. it's great stuff. >> well, i won't say that we completely went overkill, mark, but i will say that we developed a very efficient and comprehensive program here. both grape-seed extract and pine-bark extract contain a group of highly specialized antioxidant compounds called opcs. they not only do a lot of what i've previously described from a protective standpoint, but they also actually enhance the physical integrity of tissue in the blood vessels and in the skin. so, we put those in for an extra boost in antioxidant and protective activity. the bioflavonoids enhance the overall act