this is the lake norman cam here, lots of clouds in the area. we had some showers early this morning, tracked a bunch of showers through salisbury and pushed off to the east. clouds out there this afternoon. we are going to keep the chance of showers as we head throughout the afternoon hours. we'll walk you through today and tomorrow. starting this afternoon, a few mountain showers possible, some dry conditions in the metro area. about 4:00, 5:00 this evening. this is what it looks like at 6:00. widespread scattered showers. everyone will keep the clouds around but not all of us will see the rain this afternoon. showers will be quick off and on again as we head throughout the afternoon and evening hours. if you have plans to be out tonight, take the rain gear just in case. i think these will be out of the area overnight. this is 6:00 a.m., still with the clouds around, a mild and muggy start. sunday morning similar to this morning. at the lunchtime hour, tomorrow still dry in the metro, a few mountain snow showers possible at or below freezing t

lake norman cam, i will step out so you can see the picture. plenty of sunshine. we have a breeze. conditions in charlotte, 68, sunshine out there. there you go, 17 miles per hour sustained, gusts now 24 miles per hour, so it is a windy warm afternoon. with humidity low, only 24%, we for brushfires that may kick up because this is perfect fuel for hand. warm, breezy, and dry. in the 60's in the mountains after 20's and 30's this morning. upper 60's to closing in on 70 the rest of us east of the what you can expect this afternoon, mid and upper 60's mountains, plenty of sunshine, warmer as you head south. well into the 70, morganton, taylorsville. plenty of sunshine, from start to finish through late this afternoon am in the metro area, low 70's, perhaps hickory, upper 70's salisbury, mooresville, concord, 77 in monroe. wadesboro, looking good. south carolina, 70's as well. with lots of sunshine, again, that breeze. what about highs tomorrow? we have a system approaching, so i anticipate more cloud cover tomorrow. still very, very pleasant, well into the 70's again. broadcast, we ar

our lake norman cam showing a gorgeous sunrise as they pan toward the east. toward the west we have clouds in advance of our storm system. i say storm system you get the idea, we'll get rain tonight. that is during the night tonight, 69 degrees is what i'm forecasting for the high in charlotte. rain chances are very low during the daylight hours. you can see that, zero percent chance for salisbury and monroe. temperatures in the 60s under partly to mostly cloudy skies by late afternoon. not anticipating any rain until the night time hours. breezy and cooler tomorrow, behind the frontal system there will be a flurry or two in the mountains late tonight and you only get back to 32 for the high tomorrow. everybody else in the cooler 50s here, so this is more like it for this time of the year. our next opportunity for rain will come as we go in thursday, potentially a thunderstorm on thursday but otherwise, again not going to amount to very much, that next front, neither one of these systems is that big of a deal for us, 52 for a high. thursday is going to be a c

beautiful day, so far this afternoon, live look from lake norman cam, nothing but sunshine in the distance, not tracking cloud cover. all this sunshine, although off temperatures were near 60 now in charlotte, 59 lancaster, and rockingham. in the mountains, not too bad. mid to lower 50s jefferson and boon, 55 hickory and shelby. here is futurecast for temperatureathize rest of the afternoon. highs today in the 50s and 60s. i think mid 60s in the charlotte area, keep the sunshine around and lead to a comfortable evening. if you have plans to be out and about tonight, and maybe want a light jacket later this evening if you have plans to say out in boone for the up state baseball game against unc-asheville it will be cooler, temperatures dropping to low 50s in the mountain by 7:00, charlotte and up town area, looking like a nice night. 60 by 7:00, mid 50s by 9:00. the next couple days, we are tracking our next system bringing at least the chance for some rain. i will time it out using futurecast. starting tonight we keep the start of the day tomorrow. a line of showers will be pushing through

this is the view from the lake norman cam, going to help us warm up just a bit. starting off in the 30s across the area. we'll update you on the warmup and when we could see rain, in just a bit. >>> channel 1 confronted the state's transportation secretary about the toll lane project. opponents hope a bankruptcy filing in texas may force things to change here. >> reporter: north carolina transportation secretary nick speaking at a forum and the other half answering questions about his trip to texas on monday, ordered by the govern. >> i'm expecting to have a candid dot to dot conversation act texas experience. >> reporter: that is the bankruptcy of a toll road project there built by a subsidiary of the same company clearing land for lanes on i- 77. tennyson admits the bankruptcy doesn't look good. >> listen, that's a toxic word. >> reporter: and 77's toll lanes have been toxic politically for his boss. this company can fulfill its responsibility. >> when you see something like this, it's a good idea to go back and check everything out. >> we need to say, we know

the lake norman cam, more in the way of cloud cover this morning. not that pretty sunrise we've seen so many times this week. courage conditions in charlotte from our hd tower cam, 57 degrees. again, we are overcast but excellent vezzability. nice weather considering we had snow a week and a half ago. partly to mostly sunny in the charlotte metro area. upper 70s in lincolnton. down south close to 80 degrees in pageland, chester, very, very nice conditions. before we get ahead of ourselves, we've had snow as late as late april, a trace of snow in 1928 and measurable snow in late march so let's not plant the gardens just yet. now we're starting to see the impact of this front. clouds, even a few showers north of town and we slide this front south of charlotte. meaning we're into the cooler air. friday night and saturday we get rain into sunday. chances for showers and thunderstorm not a washout. i think the greatest chance for rain is sunday, not saturday, but sunday so we're going to monitor that forecast but we will be somewhat cooler and a lot cloud

lake norman cam from the vue.com, pretty sunrise, no ripple on the water, it is calm. here is the seven day forecast, get right to it for you lots of sunshine the next couple days with nice warming trend. first off today, 68 degrees in charlotte. if you're up around lincolnton area i expect you get to 66, albermarle, good morning, 67, rock hill, approaching 70, statesville, 66, all with tons of sunshine. you notice i do have a up could of storm system also we will be tracking first off the first one moves in we think thursday. lots of sunshine, reason for that, high pressure will be over us. stop this tomorrow morning at 8:00, high building offshore. plenty of sunshine, a breezier, warm earlwarmer afternoon. this system moves in thursday evening will bring us a chance of showers and thundershowers. will end early on friday. most of good friday will be fine. notice we only have a 20% chance of rain here, the greater chance is probably while we're sleeping thursday night, likely goes to 50, 60% chance of rain, dry friday afternoon, saturday, and most of sunday until late

. >> al: we have a gorgeous start to the day, lake norman cam from the vue.com, sun will be up in 40 minutes, getting brighter sky toward the east. a little bit of a ripple on the water, north breeze this morning and that will be with us all day long, it will be a chilly breeze, look at the seven day forecast and break it down for you, first off very low rain chances the next several days, again, not a fan of cool weather, the next couple days we rebound very nicely. sunshine to go believed a, around. most of us in the 50s, in the mountains getting back toking to 43, charlotte, 58, concord, boone will be chill liar. keep in mind, down to freezing here in charlotte, most of us are going to be very close to freezing, we have the advisories for frost and freeze, late tonight, early tomorrow morning. 30 in boone, 32 charlotte, salisbury, albermarle, monroe, and shelby, keep in mind the outlying areas in between the cities will wind up below freezing, perhaps in the 20s. wednesday, 75 degrees, we rebound very nicely, with nothing but sunshine coming back courtesy of high pressure. the hig

lake norman cam from the v ue.com, a ripple out there, we numale fishing forecast, high of 77. melinda sent in a picture of her son kendall and madeline, they teamed up to catch bass on high rock. they love to fish together and spend outdoors. you're our big catch of the day today. sunrise at 7:23, should be about 65 this time of the year year, headed for 77 this afternoon. any cool weather down the roaded? what about rain? got it in the forecast, in the seven day planner, i'll have it in the a couple minutes. you're never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic on wbtv news this morning. >> john: next on wbtv news this morning -- >> christine: the f.b.i. is trying a new methamphetamined on to unlock the phone of the san bernardino attack. how long it will tall to find out if it works. >> john: new guidelines top test children for zika. first, here is a look at what is coming up tonight on cbs and 21 minutes before 7:00. >>> on your side right now, you're watching wbtv news this morning. >> christine: all new in this half hour, it will take at least two weeks for

lake norman cam and thevue.com, flat water, hardly any breeze, clear skies, calm conditions this morning. just a little bit of high clouds. a few clouds from time to time, otherwise the numale fishing forecast lots of sunshine and milder afternoon. we were 60 saturday and sunday, today, 67 degrees. today's big catch is steve wilson out of charlotte, north carolina loves to trout fish. a good guy, he was up on the stone mountain river last week with his buddy mike verdi, hit pay dirt, nice brown trout. steve always looks at that on the water and be on the baseball diamond. his wife barbara and boys, logan and dylan, very active in area baseball. temperature scheme, you like warm weather you'll love what i have to say, what about rain? weekend details, i'll have them in a few minutes. you're never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic on wbtv news this morning. >> john: thanks, al, next on wbtv news this morning -- christine: are you looking r love but you can't find someone that shares your love of animals? all new after the break, the hyper focused dating websites that ca

norman, cam newton, and others showed their appreciation for manning after the game. many grew up watching manning who played for 18 seasons, and today also marks 4 years since the indianapolis colts dropped manning. >>> a north carolina mother learned through text messages intruders tied up her daughter and left her naked. the way the teen was able to the reason her mom was able to get home so quickly. >>> it's quiet for now, but we will show you how quickly a rain chance could be building back in later this week. >>> and a renewed push to stop construction of these lanes i'm joe bruno live in cornelius e bruno hey.you're that 1-800-dentist guy. yeah. so how come dentists don't have stuff, like, where they can make a crown all at once? they do.it's called cerec. okay, imagine a device that makes the crown right there in the office. it already exists. maybe i should invent that. single-visit dentistry. that's what cerec is. half the time, man. think about it -- this is going to be awesome. it is awesomefor millions of people. what should we call it? [ male announcer ]

. >>> let's take a live look outside from our lake norman cam. you can see the sun coming up quite a bit there. and lots of clouds around. your time 17:-- your time is 7:10. let's check in with vicki graf on the rain. >> now that we lost an hour over night, the sunrise gets under way at 7:37 this morning. it's a cloudy start to the day. to time everything out on future cast, rain moving in from the south. by around 9:00, 10:00 that will right along the i-77 corridor. as we head toward midday possibly heavier rain. i will advance future cast to show you how long it will stick around and how much you can see in your neighborhood. >>> charlotte city leaders will talk about how they could possibly pay for more police officers. they will meet wednesday to continue talking about the city's budget. cmpd has requested 125 additional police officers and 80 cmpd support staff positions. that is a nearly $17 million request. lead evers say trimming expenses -- leaders say trimming expenses could help pay for it. and a possible tax increase could be consider

. >>> taking a live look outside, this is our lake norman cam. bright sun right there in the center for you. meteorologist victory has been fracking the warm up. >> we do have a spring preview on the way this week. a beautiful afternoon. we did have a few showers and clouds that moved through last night. it has cleared out. temperatures it mid- to upper 30s to low 40s. a little cooler in some spots so you might need the jacket early on, but it will be beautiful today. a little breeze from the north around 5 to 10 miles an hour. around 60 degrees here in the charlotte area. that is looking at your hour-by- hour forecast in the charlotte area. i'll break down your afternoon forecast for lenore. >>> changes are coming to north carolina's medicaid plans. ahead at 7:45, the reason it could affect which doctors you and your family can see. >>> for the first time, a mother who lost her daughter in a domestic related murder, opens up to channel 9. >> jennifer was on the floor kneeling trying to stay out of range. >> the reason she is speaking out more th

. >> al: our lake norman cam, starting to get brighter sky off toward the east but we're clear right now and it is comfortable. temperature, 60 morganton, 53 around gastonia, 54 charlotte, 55 monroe, 51 around salisbury, daybreak temperatures in the 50s. afternoon. straight uphill by lunch time in the mid 70s, 81 this afternoon. lots of sunshine. today, very warm, tomorrow very warm. partly to mostly sunny skies, a weak front comes in the mountains, rest of us dry, cool off, thursday, 75, 68 on friday and watching a small system could bring us showers late saturday into sunday but bigger story we will get cooler. getting brighter sky off toward the east. that is the hd tower cam headed for 81 this afternoon. here is chris, first alert traffic. >> chris: first alert traffic sponsored by toyota of north charlotte. we have a new problem on i-77 southbound before clanton road. it is just beyond the sign that you see there, but we do have an accident blocking the left hand travel lanes on 77 southbound before you make your way down to 85 southbound bumper-to-bumper, delays northbound on 7

economyand democracy that works for all the pow >>> right now giving you a live look from our lake norman cam. we are trying to dry out after the overnight storms and showers but we are really going to see a major warm up today. meteorologist keith monday has that forecast. how long the temperatures will get how long we will keep them right here on day break. >>> autopsy are scheduled today for a stepfather and stepson found dead in lancaster. >> he shot and killed his then turned the gun on himself. they found price's body then heard a gunshot and discovered he had just killed himself in another room. his cousin was with him just hours before he died. a man who he says always encouraged him. >> i looked up at him as a big brother. he made sure that i was off the streets and gave me money or anything i needed. >> family members told us they had been out together the night before and he seemed upset and acted strangely. it appears an argument got out of control. >>> an uber driver charged in a shooting spree told investigators he was being controlled by the uber app on his phone. jason dalton

now meteorologist al conklin. >> al: beautiful morning, our lake norman cam from the vue.com, it is really pretty out there. after last night's rain and cloud cover, it quickly moved sunshine out there early this morning. granted, the sun will be up in a couple minutes. getting the bright sky toward the east. a little bit of a ripple because there is a bit of a breeze. that will be with us through the day, a cooler breeze, numale fishing forecast, 48 at 8:00, 51 lunch time, 53 this afternoon. breeze 10 to 15-miles-per-hour. lori woods sent in a picture of her dad, acb, they have one grandson, lives in maryland. they enjoy spending time with family whenever they get a chance. you're our big catch of the day. our temperatures are are going to be up, up, up over the next couple days. i'll give you the details as far as rain goes because there is some of that in the forecast. i'll have it in a couple minutes when we return. you're never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic on wbtv news this morning. >> john: thanks, al, next on wbtv news this morning -- >> christine: with high

a live look from the lake norman cam. temperatures in the 20s and 30s. we're at about 36 degrees right now in the charlotte area as you head out the door this morning. by this afternoon, sunshine returns. that's a plus, but we will have cool temperatures with highs in the 40s and 50s for monday afternoon. we will talk more about the hour by hour breakdown for your monday and talk more about the 5-day forecast coming up in the next 10 minutes. >>> it's 6:00 a.m. now, here's mark taylor with >> 77 northbound, a minor wreck north of cherry road, not seeing any issues. still green conditions northbound. we will continue to watch this. everything is off to the shoulder. very, very minor. good news to start things out. even as traffic builds, it's been quiet. 85 to 77, the interchange southbound here, just a few carbs out and about. we haven't seen any big slowdowns here, as well. that goes for 85 from cabbaras or out of cleveland and gaston counties heading north into charlotte. >>> in the breaking news center this morning, a house fire in mooresville. this i

giving you a live picture from our lake norman cam. you can see on your screen temperatures much better this morning compared to our past two mornings when we were in the 30s. and we had to cover those plants. not a problem this morning. but we are also tracking the chance for rain that's coming back in the forecast for this week. more on that from meteorologist vicki graf in severe weather center 9. >>> new this morning, a new website can help your child's teacher get some much needed classroom supplies without teachers paying for them. the website donorschoose.org allows anyone to help ease the burden on teachers by donating money to help fund teacher projects. these projects can range from providing books for the classroom or other necessary supplies. one teacher in forsyth county says the website has helped her tremendously. >> i spent over $2,700 on my classroom. funded for novels and one for technology. >> teachers say besides easing the financial low, the financial website allows teachers to offer students more variety and expos

. >> al: out there this morning, looking at sunny skies for most of us, lake norman cam right now, from the vue.com, looking down the main channel a gorgeous shot. not much of a breeze this morning, a good deal of sunshine, temperatures moely in the 40s right now. in charlotte, up to 49, 46 gastonia, lancaster, 49 in monroe, string of 30s from albermarle, 38 shelby, 32 morganton, high temperature, 69 degrees, a gradual increase in cloud cover, dry during the day, rain tonight, maybe some thunderstorms, then clear out tomorrow, breezy, cooler, 55 and days, in the 50s. 2016. welcome back to "cbs this morning." more news ahead including super tuesday voting in 12 states. we'll ask a columnist if anything can stop donald trump, but first here is today's "eye opener" at 8:00. >> even bernie sanders would not dispute that hillary clinton is going to win a majority of the states. >> she has the lead over bnsz and she's got the lead in georgia, virginia, and in texas. >> cruz and marco rubio trail trump badly and after tonight they could lose ten, maybe 11 states. >> what's happening behind the

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 rock hill, 33 gastonia. only get back to near 50 this afternoon, early sunshine gives way to increasing clouds. rain late this afternoon. rain tonight, gone the first thing tomorrow morning. mostly sunny, milder in the afternoon. seasonal. 57, seasonal mostly sunny saturday, in the 60s sunday wednesday, much above normal. >>> this might be the strangest thing i saw last night. your usual trump speech, but look at chris christie's face. >> they are going to put 20 or 25 million in at the time next two weeks from what just came over the wires. >> what is going on there? he looks like a time traveler who is trying to play it cool until he figures out what year it is! >> i haven't seen a person on television look that uncomfortable, standing next to someone since this. >> george bush doesn't care about black people! >> it almost makes you feel bad for chris christie, doesn't it? i me

we have a lovely view here from the lake norman tower cam. waking up to warmer temperatures too. going to get up to 70 and that is it for awhile. coming your way. we'll check in with just a bit. >>> the state released a new report showing the number of up. there are 16 confirmed and probable cases in mecklenburg and iredell counties and that is up one from the latest report. nine probable cases. county the new confirmed case comes from. the mumps outbreak started when two employees at lowe's contracted the illness. >>> an emergency meeting is planned for today for leaders in guinea after new cases of ebola variety. they were free of the virus at the end of december. two victim who died are from the same family. two missioners are with tied to charlotte were among the first two contracted. they were given an experimental syrum to help them recover. >>> local experts are getting reports of termites 30 days earlier than this time last year. it is partly because we winter and the temperatures didn't get cold enough to drive them away. >> they need moisture. that is the number one goa

check out this view from our lake norman tower cam. we are starring off pretty warm. expecting to get up to nearly 80 today but we are tracking some rain chances. they will trickle in a little later than i thought. >>> we've been telling you for weeks that experts say you will climbing throughout the summer. new this morning the nashville business owner says he's had to raise his price up $0.20 in a 48 hour period at both of his gas stations. >> summertime it typically goes up. but you know, think all the old people are trying to cut supplies to get it to go back up. you heard them complaining for years. >> aaa and the carolinas say there are many factors to the price hike. lower than expected prices over the last few months has prompted a number of refineries to adjust their maintenance schedule. and they have cut production in response to abundant supplies. refineries will switch over to their summer blend which tends to be more expensive. we checked the current prices for you over night. charlotte is paying about $1.77 a gallon right now. that is $0.03 lower than t

we also had a photo captured by norman reid on his dash-cam . this is a freeze frame of the lightning striking . perhaps a trade drop-side, a neat photo, indeed . this is web cam at geauga county airport anne duffield thanks to the experimental aircraft association . the clouds about 1,000 feet, where there was patchy fog . the clouds held fast and the temperatures in the 40s and 50s beef depending on your location, some sunshine to the last . looking at the toledo webcam there would be some sunshine also near carrollton and southeast southeastern county but not too much sunshine today . r the next system, cold front, you can see showers feeling in, a tornado illinoisb by the time that reaches us tomorrow morning we are not expecting anything severerer but some showers approaching by the morning . this warm front will not budge today, we thought it would have enough influencew, it was pretty toasty south of, akron-canton, so the temperatures and the southern end of the viewing area arere where there are is in the 70s downstate . tonight the clou

forecast discussion page and yout will see it in the meantime check this out from norman reidid he was recording this from his--cam and it was along state route 61 near norwalkit and captured a lightning bolt striking near the side of the road and there's that line of showers and thunderstorms is essentially falling apartofh will zoom out there is the back edge of the rain and so we've got a few lingering rain showers for the next couple of hoursrst after that there could be a little ground fault but aside from that should it should be a fairly quiet nightouf we actually hit 70 degrees to the top of this graph to the 24 hour graft everything is well above normal eventuallyve that will change there's the 70 degrees highs 79 the recordha is nowhere near the record and snowball deficit just keeps snowfall i don't thinkne but will we see anything big at this point probably not it's looking slim the deeper and deeper we go into march and april but we can put all the lights on snow just yet lingering showers will come to an end quality local ground fault otherwise quiet 50 degrees overnight lownd morning clouds may be a

norman. very light, didn't stick, but not a bad side to see. 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 sprinkle, streets outside the mountains are dry. a lit