both puckett and fallon have been critical, and in the letter, puckett calls for the fire chief to leave. the response to the letter calling for a meeting to see if the council can censure fallon citing, quote, the constant and the city of charlotte. they called for puckett to stop working with fallon calling his behavior unacceptable and the city gave me a could you please of the charter saying that the mayor and council cannot direct the work of a city employee. puckett has been warned that he can lose his job if he does not cut ties with fallon. fallon believes that city leaders are trying to bully her. live in uptown, jenna deery, eyewitness news. >>> and in gaston county, two commissioners will likely step down because of a dispute among board members. if some board members get their be fired dowrn fire -- during tonight's meeting. they say graham has been key to helping the under developed community. >> i will still have my reputation. >> the remaining board members would have to appoint replacements. >>> and a fund set up for the two young sons of the woman killed in a crash. thei

puckett sent a letter asking relieved of his duties in a letter to puckett, ron carlee called his behavior unacceptable. he was warned with changing his behavior or face being removed from his job. >>> a call to reinstate of state police chief. nearly all his officers quit after he was reinstated last week. chester county is now overseeing the department to restore order. >> it was back in 1908 when the town of pageland came to be. now, more than a century later, its police department is still not -- >> i found the department had gotten stuck in a time warp. >> internal strive landed brooks as chief law enforcement official. he said only a few days in, he and feeling like the 1980sing he had to close the the local jail that it wouldn't pass inspection. that officers didn't have don't-issued cell phones. >> we're going to have the whole department digitalized, they will have smart phones and everything off e-mails. >> and they didn't have cameras. >> if we don't have the best equipment we can afford to bite taxpayer money, then we're going happens. >> we need see they and see them ourselves

claire fallons says puckett is working with her in his off time, and that this should not be an issue. >> tried to bully me and tell me i can't have this, and i can't do this. oh, yes, i can, people elected me. >> city officials said attorneys are looking into whether any action will be taken, if it's believed that fallon or puckett may be violating city policy. puckett says he has not been paid by fallon and for the time being, he is not working as her intern. >>> getting the preliminary results of a survey on student assignment. they want to create more diversity in our schools but haven't said if this will leaders in matthews and mint hill have been considering creating their own districts outside of cms. cms plans to address those resolutions tomorrow night. >>> first thing tomorrow, and whether or not the warmth will stick around into the weekend. >> in just a few hours, a charlotte man will head to california for a private ceremony to remember the former first lady, nancy reagan. >> she was the lady who gave me a chance. >> new at 11:00, how he says >>> right now, we're staying

. >> jim puckett was opposed to the contract from the beginning. >> they used texas from the poster child why this is great, now it kind of blows up in their told you so" if they don't get out and it happens to us. >> late wednesday a spokes person says the texas bankruptcy will have no impact on the i-77 project and they look forward to continuing in the work in north carolina. >> christine: that was nick ochsner reporting. nc-dot says the secretary of transportation will head to texas on monday to meet with cintra. couldn't provide any other details on a time line or possible options moving forward. we have extensive coverage of the i-77 toll lane project from multiple investigations we've done. go to wbtv.com, that is where you can see all our investigative reports including the road in texas that went bankrupt. >>> the chesterfield county sheriff named the temporary chief law enforcement officer in pageland after an emergency town council session. this comes after nearly every police officer walked off the reinstatement of the police chief who is under a state investigation. chief lar

. >> reporter: i asked the city taken if it's believed that fallon or puckett may be violating the city policy. pucket said he was never paid by fallon and for the time being, he was not working as an intern. >> jenna, thank you. >>> and we have new information on breaking news in north charlotte. medic is telling us that 1 person went to the hospital. somebody stabbed the person and they have life-threatening injuries. tryon. police are interviewing people at the scene and the ambulance left a few moments ago. we are ask figure police found victim. stay with us for updates. >>> cmpd detectives are investigating four shoots ing one day. channel 9 has live pictures from the scene, and mark becker digs deeper into the violence in the neighborhoods. >> reporter: yeah, scott. police have not made any that started a little more than 24 hours ago. and if you look back four separate shootings with dozens of shots firessed, it's remarkable that six people were injured and no one was killed. we spoke with a woman who was shot in the hand as he was standing outside a screens store in the plaza. s

that is welcome news to mecklenburg county commissioner jim puckett who was against it from the start. >> at the end of the day, what you have is this, n c-dot used texas as the poster child why this is great financially and from a program perspective, and so now it kind of blows up in their face. >> reporter: we also reached out to cintra, they said the texas on the i-77 toll lane project. nc-dot officials have no time table moving forward but when we did sit down and talk with them, they said the secretary of transportation will be heading out to texas monday to speak with cintra, a sit down meeting out there. we'll follow the story right here on wbtv. reporting live, mark davenport, wbtv on your side. >> john: 5:05, working to learn the conditions of a woman and child reportedly stabbed in caldwell county. this happened late last night at a home on fairway acres in cages mountain. a two-year-old child was airlifted to the hospital and woman taken to the hospital as well. a second child is also being checked out by doctors. deputies do have a man in custody, we'll update you with ne

city manager ron carlee told puckett that his job working for claire fallon as an unpaid intern was unlawful. it was given to pucket and hagger man and the fire chief john hannon. steve crump first reported this story and an effort to find out who let this out? >> absolutely, jamie. several councilmembers are on the hunt tonight but after bob tonight says such a probe may not bear a lot of fruit. >> at the end of last week's charlotte city council meeting, john autrey suggested the city attorney begin a probe regarding leaks of confidential documents u i can this couple to instruct the city attorney to investigate how this leak occurred. >> the leak autrey speaks of is his memo obtained by wbtv. it was delivered by city manager ron carlee to firefighter marty pucket days before pucket, the unpaid intern of representative claire fallon sent a memo calling for the dismissal of his boss fire chief john hannon. carlee in the document called pucket's behavior unacceptable and says it must cease. and city attorney bob haggerman says his hands will be tied tied in

to north carolina, a team that likes to get up and down the floor, play a fast-paced game and get pucketts in transition. u.v.a. likes to come back on the other half and sit down to play defense. it doesn't get better than this. you are playing sweet 16 game. you can go to final four in the house that jordan built. united center. you can look up in rafters to see scottie pippen, michael jordan and jerry sloan. it's awesome. back to you. leon: all right. looking forward to it. maureen: cold in chicago. steve: it is. snow for them. nothing like that for us. warm temperatures for the rest of the evening. daytime highs tomorrow. low of 70's. cold front early in the day to cool it d maureen: the "world news tonight" with david muir is coming up next with the news of >>> breaking news tonight. the terror attack s and what u.. authorities have now discovered. they believe they know who that mystery man is. tonight, investigators say two of the suicide bombers, two brothers, had nuclear ambitions. ten hours of their own surveillance, now discovered. what they were recording. and the basketball pla

way to break the state's contract and that is welcome news to mecklenburg county commissioner jim puckett who was against this from the beginning. >> the end of the day what you have is this is an embarrassment, nc-dot used texas as the poster child why this is great financially and from a really blows up in their face. >> reporter: now we also reached out to cintra, they told us that the texas bankruptcy will have no impact on i-77's project. nc-dot officials don't have a time line what they will do next but they do know they are sending the secretary of transportation out to texas on monday to meet with cintra face-to-face meeting, we'll get more information when that happens, we'll bring it to you first here on wbtv. reporting live, mark davenport, wbtv on your side. >> christine: right now, let's get back to kristen miranda. >> john: live in the alert center with new details on breaking news now coming in. >> kristen: our ashton pellom is on the scene of armed robbery, tweeting pictures from there. we have his live picture we can show you from this 7-eleven on monroe road near north s

pucketts is known for fantastic bar-b-que. their ballots. there's wooster, this is earlier montgomery, alabama a. lot of the vote already in early voting records have been shattered across much of the country, including right here in tennessee as well where more than 283,000 people soeted. that's up roughly 17% over eight years ago. the big question, will donald trump close his biggest do you el to date? can hillary clinton do what she could not in 2008 and effectively wrap up a primary battle over a one time little known senator and does anyone drop out after tonight? all of the final polls show donald trump leading in every state voting except ted cruz' home state of texas. it won't give him enough delegates to lock up the nomination. this afternoon the gop establishment now visibly shaken over trump's latest controversy when he refused to disavow the kkk leader. house speaker paul ryan took a not so tough swipe without mentioning him by name. >> if a person wants to be a nominee, there can be no evasion, no games gains. the