i'm monitoring the burger king fire in salisbury and jake alexander is completely blocked as fire teams work to take this. this is on lincolnton road. alternate routes, head downtown through salisbury. take jack alexander as an alternate route around it. >>> police released dash cam video of a woman leading them through a high speed chase through myrtle beach. the original charge they tried to arrest her for and the way they brought this chase to an. >> banks are making changes to keep you from being victims of card skimmers the checks you should make before you inspect your card. >> this rowan county man wungs to an army ranger. now he is convicted of trying to join isis and help terrorists. donald ray morgan is speaking from behind bars. >> i consider myself to be part of the islamic state. >> a local professor who says he the first time, . >>> 5:45 now. we continue to follow multiple breaking news stories from the breaking news center this morning. take a look at this video we got in from the photographer on the scene. this is a burger king in salisbury that caught fire. look at the

they're asking you to avoid jake alexander if at all possible. looking live at i-77 wood lawn road, that is northbound coming toward you, southbound going away and the volume of traffic here across the charlotte area beginning to pick up. we're seeing delays wt harris boulevard over toward albermarle road but major interstates continue to run in the green this morning. we're going to hop up in the hickory-granite falls area, an accident on highway 321 heading in toward hickory, right in traffic backed up along 321 in the hickory-granite falls area. hop back in the charlotte region starting to see the delays, southbound 77 coming out of lake norman region. >> christine: 6:46. look at any cleaning or beauty product you use every day, can you make sense of the alphabet consumers are demanding more natural products but every company has a different definition of natural. consumer investigator kristen miranda went straight to researchers in the carolinas to find out which ingredients we should look out for. that is all new in this half hour. >> report

. >> we'll continue to monitor the truck fire that has jake alexander blocked in both directions. this is north of 150. there are multiple ways to get around it. statesville industry. main street back towards jake allewander as the alternate route. -- jake alexander as the alternate route. heading towards china grove. traffic is moving right along at 68 miles an hour. now, live in the north charlotte, this is on i-85 near 485 heading towards the university area. traffic is building, especially in the southbound lanes. through uptown charlotte. >>> back to the breaking news in east sharment. police are looking -- east charlotte. police are looking for a driver who hit and killed someone overnight in east charlotte. in the past half hour, officers cleared the crash scene on central avenue. >> eyewitness news reporter angela hong is live at an apartment complex nearby where officers are focussing their investigation now. a? >>reporter: that's right, stephanie, we're at the green briar apartments a quarter mile away from the accident scene and you can see right now, police are in the p

hop up to the north in salisbury this morning, where a section of jake alexander boulevard is closed down, we've been telling you about the fire in salisbury at a fast food restaurant, 601 jake alexander boulevard above 150 closed down as crews work on the fire. that is a check of the morning traffic, christine, over to you. >> christine: we're staying on top of several breaking news stories happening across the area. >> john: we'll have a report on a fully-involved fire in salisbury, plus police investigating a deadly hit and run in east charlotte. mark davenport will be joining us live with all new information. >>> in the past hour, we learned two people were killed in that explosion in cleveland county, left of that home in fallston. ashton pellom will join us live with the latest information. you're watching wbtv news this morning where you're never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic on wbtv news in the battle of the burgers, jack made a "declaration of delicious"... he took a stand for hand-leafed lettuce and fresh-sliced tomatoes. he formed a perfect union be

this is on jake alexander boulevard at lincolnton road. we break you breaking updates this morning. firefighters had to call in extra crews to get this under control. you can see how much damage it caused. no one was hurt. one lane of jake alexander will stay closed until about 4:00 this afternoon. >>> we have breaking developments today in the past 45 minutes. police released the name of the man charged in a deadly hit and lewis fernando perez rivera faces dwi, felony dead by vehicle and felony hit and run charges. angela hong is live. >> reporter: in the last hourings we learned from cmpd that perez rivera actually called 911 himself to say that his car has been stolen. his van was actually found a quarter mile away from the scene of the accident here. the crash here on central avenue. now the car was found on green apartments. front end damage. channel 9 was the first to report and show you the suspect's car. police found it next to a building where he lived. the crash happened around 2:30 this morning. police say the victim, a man was walking along or on central avenue when he w

that is on jake alexander in salisbury. the fire is fully involved and not under control at this point. three fire departments are on the scene right now. lincolnton highway is shut down. somebody driving by saw the fire and called authorities. we don't know of any injuries. we're asking how the fire started. we have a crew on the way to the scene. we'll bring you any new information from the breaking news center at daybreak. >>> we're following new details after a huge explosion in cleveland county. right now #3shgs people are in the hospital. two of whom are in critical condition. after police say a truck crashed into the cleveland county home and caused propane tanks to explode. we have the live look here of what is left. look at this. this is along east stage coach trail. there is debris everywhere. it looks like the remains of a vehicle and a hood of a vehicle on the left. the fire chief told us some of it landed several houses away. police say a pick-up truck throughout yard, and hit the house that was standing there.

this is happening on west jake alexander boulevard off lincolnton road. fire crews are on the scene. a rowan county communications spokesperson is describing this as a fully-involved fire. we're told jake alexander boulevard is closed between highway 150 and brenner avenue and we have crews on the scene there, we'll bring you more throughout the morning. >>> also breaking overnight, charlotte firefighters spent part of the morning battling a fire in north charlotte. it happened around 2:00 on prescott court. all the residents living there are accounted for and were helped out by neighbors. no one was hurt, the fire was quickly controlled. >>> this morning, three men are facing charges after nearly 50 they shot up two cars and the front door of a condo and hotel on caldwell street. all three were in town for the ciaa basketball tournament. no one was injured but christian flores spoke to a man who said the incident makes him think twice about staying in town during the tournament next year. >> about 7:00 a.m., got up, took the dog for a walk came out to th

this is the burger king on west jake alexander boulevard for those of you familiar with that area. we have a couple updates, fire knocked down, main part of the fire. jake alexander boulevard closed right now between highway 150 and brenner avenue, keep that in salisbury, heading out here in a couple minutes, avoid the area. there was a nearby ymca had fire alarms going off, they checked it out. that was a reaction from this scene here. no fire was located over at that ymca. the cause of the fire, well, not known at this time. john and christine, that is the latest from the the alert center, back to you. >> christine: we'll see if anything comes out of that. thank you, brody. >>> police are asking witnesses to speak up after a man was shot and killed at a big party yesterday morning on lannier street extension. people took the victim to the hospital where he died. his name was not released. several neighbors told us off camera dozens of cars have lined the road over the weekend. if you know anything about the shooting, call the gaston county police department or crimestoppers. >> j

we do not know what started this argument on jake alexander boulevard, but at least two people get out of their cars. people in both cars yelled obscenityobscenities a the one another vehicles and going their separate ways. >>> a cargo jet had to make an emergency landing in guam yesterday using only its rear wheels. this pilot is amazing. you can see the plane coming down with no nose gear touching down there at the very end. the nose just gently touches the runway. three people were on board. thankfully no one hurt there. >>> next on primetime -- >> i cried. still cry when i see it. upset what oh my word! can i have your autograph? of course. now don't forget, new scratch-off tickets from the north carolina education lottery come out on first tuesdays. thank you! you're welcome. how about a date? oooh, a date...let me check my calendar. all right, say first tuesday! first tuesday! first tuesday, tuesday, t-t-t-tuesday, tuesday! you checkin' out my easel? >>> our north carolina high school student is suspended for his cell phone, but the teen's mom is upset over what she saw in other

. >>> a fire on jake alexander boulevard and lincolnton road this morning. in the last 15 minutes that intersection reopened. traffic team 9's mark taylor has a look at the traffic issue in the last 15 minutes. >>> this is in lincolnton. we had a two-car accident scene. at one point someone was trapped inside. this is at north generals boulevard near sigmund road. if you're traveling through the area, use main street and north aspen street. avoid business 321 this morning. monitoring other issues, an accident near uptown reported on the outer loop of the brookshire in north davidson. i'm seeing more delays over toward fourth street on the interloop. salle southbound, traffic is backing up. >>> under a lot of sunshine today. temperatures in the low 50s. 52 in charlotte and concord. near 50 in the mountains. it's breezy out there. the breezy winds out of the southwest will boost us up quickly. near 70 this afternoon. a couple degrees warmer than yesterday. a cold front tonight will cool us back to 40. a dry forecast for most of the day on tuesday. rain arrives

jake clouder, heat loses. celtics stay in the third spot. >>> the panthers are starting to stretch without alexander barkov. he picked up where he left off today against the blue jackets. the cats would get a second on the fast break. columbus would come crawling all the way back as well in a wild scrub in front of the net in the third period. shaw would score in the third for the cats as the game went to a shootout. it didn't go so ht. they give up the only goal and could not convert on the next shot. the final shot giving the panthers a point but an overtime loss in columbia. that will do it for sports, >> thank you, sir. >>> this morning, woke up, walked out of the house, did an about-face because i had to put on a sweater. 55 degrees. >> everyone wawa telling me how cool it was. i call it perfectt day. i call it perfect outdoor coffee drinking weath >> absolutely. well-said. >> i've only had six since i've

at verizon center the team alexander ovechkin captain is first in the nhl in points, wins, and power plays, and today another meeting with jakeoracek and the philadelphia flyers. voracek had the overtime winner here just 12 days ago. this afternoon from washington, old adversaries from playoffs past. the flyers and capitals. the nhl on

at verizon center the team alexander ovechkin captain is first in the nhl in points, wins, and power plays, and today another meeting with jakeadelphia flyers. voracek had the overtime winner here just 12 days ago. this afternoon from washington, old adversaries from playoffs past. the flyers and capitals. the nhl on