showers in taylorsville, down in through hickory, into cleveland county. we'll map this out over the next hour, salisbury will be in effect by 7:00. it looks like for the charlotte area, around 6:45, after that moves on, that's when the cold air really settles in. i'll be pinpointing when we can warm things up when i come back. >>> you can use the wsoc-tv weather app to track the temperature in your it's free for iphone and android devices. >> it's a history making presidential visit. less than two hours ago, air force one touched down in cuba for the first time ever. president obama's three day trip be break decades of tense relations with cuba. >> it's a trip likely to be remembered in both countries for years to come. marcy gonzales is in the cuban capitol tonight with more. >> reporter: history in havana, president obama ending decades of frigid relations between the u.s. and cuba. the first family touching down in the communist country. this is the first presidential visit in 90 years. >> president obama opened the window in america. >> the president

they found it burned in the community north of taylorsville. deputies charged the 17-year- old and accused him of threatening a high school. justin cassidy posted threats on instagram on tuesday. they say he admitted to it but said it was a hoax. it's a felony offense to falsely threaten mass violence on school property. >>> raising teacher salaries is its top priority this year. the board created six total priorities it wants governor year. they want north carolina to be number one in the south for teacher salaries. it currently ranks eleventh of twelve. the state superintendent believes teachers could get a hefty raise because it's an election year. >>> meteorologist keith monday is tracking nice weekend center 9. >> we're passed the adverse weather of this week. and really a quiet pattern will take shape over the next couple days. one bump in the road may come saturday night. norman camera. we'll enjoy plenty of sunshine in the mountains. more sun builds in as the day goes on. mid 30s up there. close to 40 late in the day. at the highest rid

along highway 64 and through taylorsville and statesville in 10 minutes and towards boone and harmony. the main line moves in between 7:00 and 8:00, a broken band of rain. the leading edge will see locally heavy rain and gusty wind. i do not anticipate a repeat of last week. by 10:00, 11:00, that is moving in the charlotte area. a risk for flooding because this is so fast moving. there will be lightning and strong winds along the leading edge. forget if you are out and about this evening. keep track on the go with our wsoc tv weather weather app. if there are warnings, you will have alerts. >>> eyewitness news is on the way to a memorial. a cms high school student died in a crash this morning. 15-year-old heaven seay was sitting in the backseat of a car when it went off the road and hit a tree. investigators say that the driver who has not been identified was speeding at the time. >>> the presidential race reduced to school yard name calling. >> donald is not going to make america great. he is going to make america orange. >> important issues forced to the background while the bickeri

and lenore into morganton and hudson, and granite falls and into taylorsville. and statesville, get ready for this one. light rain if you plan to barbecue or have folks out on the deck, you're going to need to bring that inside and the activity and this is going to change to snow. as we make a major weather transition. and this is the future cast. and we're not talking about anything terribly heavy tonight but there will be showers around and at five:00 in the morning, you're get -- 5:00 in the morning, there is going to be rain around. seven:00 in the morning, the drizzily and into albemarle and concord and mount pleasant. three:00 in the afternoon, there is not a lot of rain but there is a lot of clouds and that i go nowhere. i don't think we're going to see a lot of sun at all tomorrow and that is going to make a major difference on the big story, what is happening to the temperatures. you see 55 in charlotte and focus on the blue, though, that covers that and digs into charlotte and that is cold air trying to get itself formally in control of charlotte and w

it was found burned this morning in the community north of taylorsville. >>> a head's up for drivers tomorrow. part of an uptown charlotte treat is going to be closed this weekend. crews will close down west 3rd street between south church and south trion at 10:00 tomorrow morning and then it will reopen on monday just in time for rush hour. you can use mint, stone wall, and trion streets to get around that closure. here's our chief meteorologist, steve udelson. >> set us up for a cool start to the weekend. 40 in most of the charlotte area. down to freezing in the mountains. and i'm afraid that's where most of us are heading. right around freezing first thing tomorrow morning. hickory and on up into the high country, lower 20s. the weekend forecast, i'm very happy to say hasn't changed at all. sun early tomorrow, some afternoon clouds rolling. we'll eel be in the upper 050s. on sunday, no stopping us as we see sunshine from start to finish. lots of 5k's going on. the corporate cup is an annual race. it benefits the local ymca and promotes good health and a run of this kind of chill w

is on hickory, taylorsville, and lincolnton. i've been tracking light showers all morning long in the mountains. from newland, blowing rock, boone, jefferson you are seeing some of that light rain. this will continue in and out throughout the day today. to take you through future cast as the showers come closer to the i-77 corridor we will see the rain closer to 10:00-11:00 starting in charlotte. and also could see heavy rain at times. as we go throughout the afternoon, more spotty showers possibly some isolated storms as well. it's not going to be a washout today. it will not be raining all day. but any point today you could see spotty showers. it's a mild start president proposal in the upper 50s and low 60s. it will still be warmer today even with the clouds. not quite as warm as it was yesterday. but still warmer than average. jefferson off and on showers. warmer in the mid to low 60s. we will see that steady rain continuing throughout the afternoon. rainfall totals up to an inch in some spots. but that is through today and

look at hickory, very heavy rainfall falling stretching up towards taylorsville, and it's moving back into chester, filling in, in rock hill as well. let's take another look at the seven-day forecast for those trying to plan for the rest of the seven days, we have more rain chances again on thursday, and early friday and it will clear out for the weekend, looking pretty good. we see freezing temperature, that's thursday morning, outside week looking pretty darn nice. >> you think we'll slim down on the freezing temperatures later into march? >> we should. we won't rule them out. >> fingers cross. >> right. >> thanks so much for joining us. tomorrow night at 6:00 o'clock. >> announcer: the following is a paid advertisement for the shark rocket deluxepro from shark/ninja. >> [ british accent ] this is me new dyson v6 cordless vacuum. >> and this is shark's next-generation rocket ultralight upright -- the shark rocket deluxepro. >> ooh! next-generation. fancy that. i suppose you're gonna tell me shark made the rocket even better. >> boy, did they! this rocket has improved hard-floor clea

investigating a crash at an intersection from caldwell county that has seen numerous wrecks at taylorsville highway and oak hill school road. a teen pulled into the path of another car and caused this accident. neither driver was seriously hurt. neighbors say they have seen more than a dozen wrecks including an intersection at where more than two people have been kill. >> i know we had had many accidents before and i to be i -- to be -- to see what happened. intersection. >>> ahead at 12:15, the charges a death. a standstill. the concerns that prompted a 24- hour shut down and the problem that crews are looking for. >>> and it looks like springtime. temps clos >>> let's see how stocks are doing this midday. the dow is up 11 points. the nasdaq up 12. >>> new details on our breaking news. former charlotte mayor patrick cannon pleaded guilty, and we now know the sentence. the plea was attempted voter fraud and the judge sentenced him for one day in jail to be extra time behind bars. the mayor voted in the last election after being convicted of bribery. >>> the metrorail service in washington d

. >>> firefighters wants ncdoc to consider installing a light at an intersection of taylorsville hay and oak hill school road. a teen pulled out in front of a no one was seriously hurt but neighbors have seen dozens of crashes in the exact same spot. >> i heard a big crash and i knew there was an accident. we have many accidents here before. so, i ran to see what happened. >> highway patrol troopers are investigating the crash. >>> in a few hours the u.s. dot and insurance institute for highway safety will announce new commitment to speed up crash avoidance technology in cars across the country and how the technology can keep you and your family safe. that is scheduled to begin at 10:00 a.m. at the turner highway center in virginia. >>> a family finds a kkk flyer on the windshield of their truck. ahead at 4:45, the action it told them to take and what police say you should do if you get a similar flyer. >>> a 36-foot camer stolen in broad daylight. the steps the thief took to conceal his identity. we invited women to a spa to test a new body wash. hi. welcome. dish soap? some body wa

caldwell county that is a they say that a teenager pulled out into the path of another car at taylorsville and oak hill school road. nobody was seriously injured. neighbors say they have seen a dozen crashes at this intersection, including one where two people died. >> i heard a big crash and knew there was a big accident. we had many accidents here before, and i ran out to see what happened. >> firefighters say they hoped the north d.o.t. will consider putting a caution light at that intersection to try and prevent future wrecks. >>> new details on an unsolved double murder in catawba county. the parents of a 10-year-old girl were found shot in their home. dave faherty has more on the search warrant and the key piece of evidence found in the yard. >> reporter: i talked with family members at the murder and concerning the search warrant you mentioned, it says that the person responsible forced through the front door. feet away from the door, we could see where someplace left flowers for deidre ramseur and mark wilson. deputies found a shotgun in the bedroom and a loaded handgun under the m

a body was partially buried under leaves and sticks in a wooded area in taylorsville. ashton pe llom joins us. >> good morning. a bizarre story all around. a call and an alert deputy led to this find. they saw car drive into an old, a vacant house. they spotted the man and woman inside of it, the deputies saw drag marks in the leaves that led them to the body. hearne and lentz were arrested immediately. the victim is the suspect's uncle. think nel uncle in self-defense. >> i brought him up here, i had to defend mind self against him. i was scared. he came at me with his knife. >> investigators executed a search warrant. this is the home where one of the suspects and the victim in this case live. police why looking in and around the home to find evidence that a location. they are currently being assisted by the sbi in this operation. the couple is charged in robert hearne's death and allegedly trying to hide the body. we will keep you updated on this story. ashton pellom, wbtv, on your side. >> and we know the name of a police say 32-year-old collins ran in front of a c

morganton, sunshine, 80. 80 taylorsville. 83 in wilksboro this afternoon. and across the piedmont, gorgeous weather. 83 charlotte, 84 rockingham, and mostly sunny skies with west wind, from 5 to 10, generally 8 miles an hour. so in the charlotte area, it is quiet today and quiet overnight. the branch of the storm system to our south across new orleans into the panhandle of florida, up to georgia, the coast of the far southern south carolina today. we keep sunny skies as we head toward friday. then another coastal low developing, could throw showers or way through the weekend. i think showers are here in the charlotte area, and probably further to the east. a small chance of showers saturday. we ramp that up to 60% overnight and through the day sunday. then we are dry monday and tuesday with warming trend underway. overnight, 47 charlotte, 48 hickory, 42 boone, thursday morning. 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 ramp

in taylorsville, steve ohnesorge wbtv on your side. >> authorities are still trying to determine where exactly the murder happened. it's possible murder charges will be dismissed in alexander and refiled in albemarle where the suspects and the victim lived. brody o'connell is in albemarle talking with investigators who are searching hern's home. what they found coming up new at 6:00. >> an ms13 gang member pleads guilty in the killing of a map in charlotte. christian pena interred a guilty plead in murder and the aid of rackateering. he admitted killing hernandez. he is one of 37 people federal agents picked up in may of 2015. pena facing life in prison. >>> congresswoman alma adams is so committed to representing north carolina's 12th district she is moving here to charlotte. she lives in greensboro was in charlotte to make that announcement. while she was here she made time to talk to a family fighting the deportation of a cms student. dedrick russell is live at the government center. how did the meeting go? >> well, family members say it went well. they are still praying for a mirac

down in the foothills and a little warmer, lower 80s expected under mostly sunny skies, lenoir, taylorsville, morganton. charlotte and vicinity, 83 lincolnton, charlotte, monroe, 87 wadesboro, mostly sunny skies and well in the 80s to from rock hill to chester, plenty of sun. we have high pressure over us now. here comes the front, not a huge system this, isn't going to be a big deal at least going forward. as we go in the afternoon hours tomorrow still looking at sunshine and nice day, in the 70s, then as this moves eastward we turn our attention to low pressure that will develop along the gulf coast, that will head our way saturday throwing more clouds our way and some rain. so our temperatures go from the 80s today, 70s tomorrow, 60s on friday. 50s over the weekend. and looks like the overnight lows down in the 30s. also our rain chances go up starting saturday afternoon. really kicking in high gear pre-dawn on sunday but sunday with just mostly cloudy skies. 83 today, 47 tonight. 75 sunny skies tomorrow, mostly sunny friday, 69, increasing clouds saturday, get rain during the late aftern

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 are down almost three inches of rain for the month and year. very little this month. we need some rain. today, no rain. high pressure in command. quiet tonight. then we track this system late tomorrow afternoon. showers and storms through the ohio and tennessee valleys moves east, and it is on top of us, nighttime tomorrow and pushing east. maybe slow clearing things our. as high pressure builds in, we will see some sunshine good friday afternoon and a good chunk of saturday before another rain in the picture, that would be sunday afternoon, monday. ou

boone with the highest shower chance for our friends in avery counties, drops off to 20%, 55 in taylorsville, 57 lenoir with the winds turning back around out of the south today. that will also be important for starting the warming trend as we head in tomorrow. 58 here in the city, same in concord, mooresville, salisbury and statesville, 59 cheraw, pageland, close to 60 toward chester, south carolina for highs this afternoon. tonight's lows will fall back down in the upper 30s. 61 on sunday with mainly clear sky. in the mid 60s monday, heading in next week, we have the warming trend ahead, several days ahead will be in the 70s, and looks like to go along with it we're met tie dry, the shower chances are really low, all the way through friday and it looks like next as we head in next weekend, next saturday, one week from today is our best shot at picking up widespread rain, so at this point that is a week away. >> kristen: great week. >>> 20 minutes after 5:00 now. and coming up next, imagine losing your rent money down the storm drain. it topped this a woman from charlotte, we'll introduce y

early on friday, generally 1-3" up high and a light dusting in morgan ton and lenoir and maybe taylorsville. on futurecast, the snow moving out quickly in the mountains, charlotte, done on friday morning and left over clouds but the clouds move out and sunshine is back. upper 50s on track for saturday and lower 60s for sunday and we're doing better heading into the weekend for sure as temperatures start to warm. at 5:30, scott talked about the rumor of 70s next week. yes. by the second half, each and every day, wednesday into possibly next weekend, highs in the 70s. don't worry. >> sometimes, rumors are true. >> thank you, steve. >>> channel 9 is continuing to push for answers over this video that shows cmpd officers throwing punches at a suspect. coming up, the evidence that needs to be determined for the officer to face charges. the numbers on wall street. ers on wall street. ers on wall street. (phone ringing)you can't deal with something, by ignoring it. but that's how some presidential candidates seem to be dealing with social security. americans work hard, and pay into it. so our next

and 52 lenoir. 55 in taylorsville and charlotte 56. closer to average for the time of year. middle 50s southeast of the city and perhaps upper 50s pageland 58 for friday and the temperatures go up from there. saturday we are in the upper 50s. sunday is the beginning of a streak that will take us in the 60s and 70s into the early part of next week. 62 to close-out the weekend. and next week we have low and mid-70s ahead for tuesday through thursday and overall we are fairly dry for the better part of the next seven days with the warmup on the way. here is tonya rivens in the first alert traffic center. >> thank you. and your first alert traffic is sponsored by people's bank. as we check things are improving creek road and volume on 485. things are improving a bit. rain may be lightning up some on the roads. and problems morse chapel road and highway 27 we have a situation with the lanes partially blocked because of an accident earlierment and looking west around belmont gaston county that typical stop-and-go traffic at the state line at gaston county and mecklenberg county ba

this is the back edge of that rainfall over across taylorsville. so we're going to be quieting down in the next couple hours, but we'll worry about -- let's go north of highway 64 for maybe some of that moisture to freeze on the road or black ice. it would be spotty, very patchy, but you just want to take it easy on the roads. if you're traveling let's say in harmony, love valley tomorrow, up across alexander county, this is where the temperatures will be sub freezing. a freeze warning for you up in statesville and hickory as well. but my biggest concern is north of statesville, here's your future cast for tomorrow and we'll clear out the sky pretty quickly. we're looking at a nice day, a bright afternoon just more so in the wintertime to roam, not so much spring. the temperatures are going to stay in the 50s with mosley sunny skies. but it will be brighter. very nice day compared to the clouds that we saw today, right? your neighborhood forecast, no snow to worry about. mostly sunny skies. highs will be in the lower 40s. up across chester we're go

look at hickory, very heavy rainfall falling stretching up towards taylorsville, and it's moving back into chester, well. let's take another look at the seven-day forecast for those trying to plan for the rest of the seven days, we have more rain chances again on thursday, and early friday and it will clear out for the weekend, looking pretty good. we see freezing temperature, that's thursday morning, outside week looking pretty darn nice. >> you think we'll slim down on the freezing temperatures later into march? >> we should. we won't rule them out. >> fingers cross. >> right. >> thanks so much for joining us. tomorrow night at 6:00 o'clock. so what time is your flight? 8:00 a.m. wow. yep. you want me to drive you? that'd be nice. so what time you think we should leave, around 6:00? to be on the safe side. sure. sure. you never know with traffic and airport security and all. would you rather i call a cab? no, no. no, i won't hear of it. i'll call one for you. golly, i'm gonna miss you. a couple days without sex won't kill you. it's not just sex. you're my friend, my companion. and w

low 70s in the foothill and mid-70s popping up once you get down to taylorsville and morganton upper 70s in the piedmont of north carolina and again notice your chance of rain zero. there it is across the upstate of south carolina. nice. one more look. is this going to be here thursday? again you can see your clock in the upper right hand corner and the answer is no, it won't. it will be hanging around nashville another suppose any day on tap into the carolinas on when will that rain get here? it will but it will be over the weekend time-frame. until then enjoy the mild weather and the dry weather and no rain to wash the pollen out and now showers out ahead of it begin to show up on saturday. but we think that sunday look like the more active day with more showers getting into the picture and another low right on the backside of this could keep showers alive through the day on monday and then we begin to taper things off into the tuesday time-frame. nice easy look at the high temperatures. look how steady and far above that average high of 61. we will remain through the next seven da

help nor taylorsville 69. and charlotte cutting things back into the low 70s. but there is going to be a sharp cutoff with the temperatures depending where that frontlines up. some of you in south carolina upstate could be well into the 70s once again for tomorrow. with the clouds and that shower chance ahead and our shower chances higher into sunday. we are not talking about much for saturday rainfall amounts. eric thomas with your complete seven-day first-alert forecast for you straight ahead at 5:00 p.m. >> all right thank you. we are on your side with an important programming note. tonight from 7-11:30 tonight. we have posted a list on wbtv.com. >> next here at 4:00 p.m. two boys have been best friends for years and now their bond is stronger. how one saved his friend's life. >> tyler is our facebook fan of the day. go to wbtv.com/facebook and hit the like button. >> as we head to break here is a check on today's stock report. [ ] on wbtv news is sponsored by... an elementary school student in south carolina is credited with saving his best friend's life. >

in the mountains it is 45 degrees in boone. 42 in jefferson. 52 taylorsville and 54 in mooresville. in charlotte, we started at 35 degrees. 54 right now. 53 rock hill. 55 in lancaster. if you're standing in the sun, boy does it feel good. the northwest at 5 to 10 miles per hour. on live early doppler nine, it is quiet. we have clouds off to the east, but during the afternoon, lots of sunshine even from grandfather mountain looking spectacular. a beautiful afternoon getting under way. we'll see highs reaching 60. this is going to be the beginning of what will be a warming trend over the next several days. your hour-by-hour forecast for this evening if you have plans maybe going for a walk, 7:00 low 50s. 9:00, mid-40s but we'll keep the clear skies overnight and we'll cool into the mid-30s for the morning. bus stop forecast, the kids will need a layer. 6:00, mid-30s. 40s by 8:00. we'll see more clouds as we go throughout the afternoon. still quite a bit of sunshine. highs getting into the mid-60s here in charlotte thanks to a shift in wind direction. over the next several days looking

this afternoon, sunny skies, plenty of sunshine, warm up in the upper 60s for morganton, lenoir, taylorsville, wall-to-wall sunshine across your area. 68 salisbury, 66 hickory, 68 charlotte, mooresville, concord, monroe, rockingham and back over toward wadesboro. shy of 70. don't judge the day by what you see this morning or what you feel. by the way tonight won't be as cold. tomorrow morning, mostly in the 40s and tomorrow afternoon check this out, back in the 70s, well above average. a cool snap but headed up. what we haven't had much is rain. just a little bit the last couple days with the systemses that came through both sunday and saturday. so we have a deficit for the month of 2.5 inches for the year close to 2.5 inches. we won't see much rain the next couple days, but by wednesday, we turn our attention to the next system, that will approach us late thursday, showers and thunderstorms will end early friday morning, another one probably comes in late in the easter weekend. timing is off, so we'll keep this close by and monitor the situation but right now i would say east terer sunrise s

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 saturday afternoon, saturday night into sunday morning, time will tell on that. you're never more than sev

lower 60s in the mountains and foothills upper 60s and lenoir and taylorsville 68. and the charlotte area after that high of 81 today tomorrow is 72. so while it's above average not nearly as warm as today. and it is going to get warmer across the south carolina counties where you could reach the mid-to upper 70s since it doesn't look like the cooler air will make it that far south. again to reenforce the point that we are not looking for much in the way of rain tomorrow. look at future-cast rainfall totals it's barely skwegz out. but it is not going to be a lot for saturday. sunday not so much. as we head into sunday, you will see more showing up. pockets of maybe a few brief downpours and rumbles of thunder for the second half of the weekend on sunday. by far it looks like saturday will be your better weekend day to get outdoors if you do have any plans for that. nine days away from spring beginning on the 20th of march. that will be a week away. and i jumped over my seven-day first-alert forecast here it is. low 70s both days with increased shower chances for the

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 rounds of rain coming overnight in sunday morning and with the colder air, snow showers up in the mountains, first thing on sunday morning. so about a 50% chance for rain showers saturday, 40% sunday morning and then we're dry to start the work week with the very nice warming trend. it is chilly, right at average if not slightly below for the weekend, 58 saturday afternoon, rain showers overnight in sunday morning, but clearing sunday afternoon and look at the lows, monday morning, 33, 32 coming up on tuesday morning and there is the warming trend, 72 wednesday afternoon, 77 on thursday.

the foothills, warmer, 45 lenoir taylorsville. 51 wilkesboro. 51 charlotte and monroe. and to the sand hills, low to mid 50's, 54 in pageland, 55 this afternoon in cheraw. our computer model brings the snow into the mountains, 4:00, 5:00 this afternoon. can you see that snow is rather heavy for a few hours. then we get a round of rain showers across the area, with rain toward 2:00 a.m. friday morning with lingering snow showers the high country. look how quickly this clear skies out, friday afternoon, off the coast, and high pressure builds as we head into the weekend. more sunshine and warming temperatures friday, saturday, and sunday. our rain chances pretty much nil as we head into the weekend, pretty much through the middle of the next week. overnight lows upper 20's, snow showers for the mountains, upper 30's in the charlotte area. friday afternoon, sunny skies, chilly 41, boone, 56 morganton and 57 tomorrow afternoon in the seven-day forecast, i think you will like the weekend. we are featuring sunshine and warming trend, 59 saturday to 63 sunday. and then look at

one of the big factors to keeping the temperatures lower than they have been, 52 in taylorsville. charlotte look to get to 58 which is below average. week has been we are falling below average. upper 50s to near 60. and first day of spring is sunday. 12:30 eastern time is the spring equinox. and spots outside of the city will not get out of the 40s. and back into the mid-50s monday and just like the warmth did not last forever neither will the cooler weekend. we see improvement next week. now to tonya rivens in the first alert traffic center. >> your first alert traffic is sponsored by people's bank. as we check in i-85 billy graham parkway no problems catching a flight at charlotte douglas international airport. and west in gaston county problems around this area. and an accident slowing things down on i-85 southbound and a problem at sam wilson road. it should be clearing out. around the area volume on i-85 mecklenberg county line. and wilkinson boulevard backed up. and that is your alternate route. as we continue to look on i-85 one accident and this is on freedom drive and ash

you come down here in the foothills, 57 morganton over to lenoir, taylorsville, 58 in wilkesboro, good deal of sunshine, wall-to-wall sunshine for charlotte area. we'll improve getting up ten degrees above where we were yesterday, because of the sunshine but there will be a bit of a breeze most of the day, factor that are in, will feel on the chilly side. 57 hickory, 58 charlotte, gastonia, concord and in monroe. late this afternoon, i expect you'll get in the upper 50s, maybe 60 from chester to lancaster, pageland the numbers below average this time of year. christine mentioned the spurs are taking on the hornet, tip-off temperature, 52. keep in mind that is at 7:00. you come out of the game at 9:30, 10:00, temperatures down in the low to middle 40s, a chilly evening. very cold overnight. hasn't started we don't have advisories but there is a freeze watch for the metro area, frost advisory south and east of i-85, that is for tonight in early tomorrow morning. how cold? down to freezing andsome of the areas are going to be below freezing. cold enough for frost to develop in the mountai

so 74 in taylorsville. and charlotte 77. same in concorde and monroe. close to 80 for rockingham and wadeboro. and page land 79. friday. and then with more clouds moving in and a little bit of rain over into the -- come back down into the low to mid-70s. and a 30% shower chance in the evening. and we could have periods of 72 and some of that rain and storms could last into monday with the temperatures in the low 70s as well. more on the forecast coming up. back to you. >> thank you. back to alex giles live in the alert center monitoring a crash on graham street. what do you know? >> on the roads sounds like power lines are down on north graham. charlotte fire tweeted about this. pull it up for you there. 4300 block closed due to power lines on the road. we are going to monitor that. and sky3 chopper is en route to that location now and should be there in a few minutes. as soon as we get you a live picture hopefully we can see what is going on down there. >> that is a horrible story. a video posted to social media of a middle schooler changing clothes in

kings creek showers just to the north of taylorsville getting wet. and the action is often eastern tennessee this takes us up until 6:00 p.m. and the mountains and foothills are you starting to tap into the rain. charlotte area most of the wbtv viewing area is dry. heading through the evening hours up to 9:00 p.m. heavy rain closing in on the charlotte area. that continues to push off to the east through the night. and that goes to 4:00 a.m. most of the rain by then is completely out of here. we have a 10% chance of a shower early tomorrow morning. most of the rain will be gone. snow showers cannot be ruled out as the moisture is left around and the cool temperatures start to pull in. snow in someplaces. here is the forecast. tomorrow morning 43 the temperature. most of the rain is out of here. 50 in the middle of the day. 54 your high temperature. that is quite a difference. today low 70s and tomorrow mid 50s. and the forecast, next couple of days a low temperature of 42 . 54 that will be the afternoon high maybe a leftover shower tomorrow morning.

very nice day you continue to warm up, like wise across the foothills, morganton, 77, lenoir, taylorsville, partly to mostly sunny skies, mostly sunny skies across the charlotte area. cloud cover this morning, 85 hickory, mooresville, maybe a little cooler around lake norman, 75 concord and in the mid 70s around union county, we go south, in the mid 70s as well from lancaster eastward the only issue is we have a lot of pollen in the air, it will remain that way, very elevated for the next several days, if you're like chris such -- i almost said chris suchan. that is john carter rub off on me. 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

taylorsville 72. charlotte area about 78 andf* it looks like some of you across the south carolina upstate will once again_ briefly get near 80 degrees by lateri on thisok afternoon. low temperatures tonight fall into the upper_lp 50s.t(ok 58 is the overnightfv _ and speaking ofr saving time beginsw3t( tomorrow.jf don't forget to turn your clock ahead an hour before you goe1 to bed tonight from 2:00 tolp 3:00 a.m. to mark thet( beginningjf of daylight saving time tomorrow and tomorrow the sunset is at 7:30. h much of that sun tomorrow,i so we won't be able to enjoy that extra hour in the evening quite#nweekend. >>> welcome to "cbs this morning: saturday." i'm anthony mason. >> i'm vinita nair. >>> this half hour, after a year in space, he now wants time to travel. details on astronaut scott kelly's retirement from nasa. >> a year in space to three years walking alone. meet the woman who walked 10,000 miles from siberia to australia. >>> the images are as iconic as the actor who recreated them. we will

taylorsville a few minutes after that. where there's a severe thunderstorm warning in effect for the greenville area. lots of like with it. putting a track on it. it's moving up the i-85 corridor. so give you an idea as to how long it will take to arrive, shelby at 7:30. assuming it holds together. right now it's showing signs it will. we'll see more storms develop. and it's being fed by the warmth and humidity. upper 70s to near 80 in the charlotte area. warmest where the clouds are thinnest. wadesboro, rockingham, and chesterfield, 80 plus. we have low to mid 70s along the i-40 corridor. mountains have cooled some with that locally heavy rain. about to light up the grill for dinner in the charlotte area, watch out for storms toward 7:00 or 8:00, especially west of town. temperatures before then in the mid 70s. and we should be fine. the future cast over night tonight, it's hard to believe it's mid march with readings like this when you get up in the morning. mid 50s in most neighborhoods. at least the sun is back tomorro

. >> peter ducey live in taylorsville. >>> the democratic presidential candidates will be gearing up for big contests of their own on test. bernie sanders and hillary clinton preparing to go head to head also in arizona and utah, with the addition this time of idaho. a total of 131 delegates are up for grabs. dan springer is live in phoenix on the democratic contest. >> reporter: in the single biggest prize for the democrats on tuesday is right here in arizona with 85 delegates at stakes. the winner will get them all. hillary clinton has the biggest lead in the polls, 24 points by the poll that i saw. that hasn't deterred bernie sanders. he had two events here yesterday. the first won down by the mexican bore door nogales where he promised to expand the policy of president obama making it easier for the illegal immigrants to stay in the u.s. sanders held a rally in phoenix with over 3,000 supporters. he spoke approximate the importance of a heavy turnout. he also hit mrs. clinton with a familiar attack. >> i don't have to worry about some billionaire or wall street guy calling me up

it's 26 in taylorsville and you'll need that jacket. and rockingham. throughout the day, we have some clouds hanging around and that will be the trend through the afternoon. we have a weak disturbance on the way. enjoy the dry weather through the first part of the day. if you're heading to the race uptown this morning, that's looking like great running weather. later today we'll make it into the upper 50s. we'll make it to the mid- to upper 50s, increasing clouds as we go through the day. in the next half hour, i'll tell you where we could be slightly warmer. this system is going to push through tonight and kick off a you have if you have plans outdoors, you're good to go. by 8:00, some of those showers will close in on the charlotte area. this won't last long, sunday looking good to go. if you have plans tonight, heading out to the charlotte checkers game, keep the rain gear handy. for tomorrow, more sunshine and low 60s for a nice end to the weekend. and the pollen count is going up, especially for maple trees. not a lot of relief on the way, rain ch

live from taylorsville, dave faherty, channel 9 eyewitness news. >>> all right dave, thanks. dave tweeted out updates on the story all day. you can stay on top of stories he covers by following faherty@w faherty@wsoctv9. a security guard told police he was on rozzelles ferry road when a man shot him in the arm and leg and carjacked him. the man went to several homes in the area looking for help this morning. police are still looking for the car he was driving. that shooting adds on to the all ready violent week that we've seen here in charlotte. >>> on tuesday there were four shootings that stretched from west to east charlotte over the course of eight hours. six people injured. police don't believe any of those were connected. yesterday a man was shot and killed on parkland circle. city council members say the violence has to stop. tonight at 6:00, jenna deery breaks down how that could cost you. >>> as soon as we learned about the shootings we sent out news alerts to viewers on their telephones. app. >>> in our vote 2016 coverage, we found out nearly 39,000 early votes have

taylorsville now. hour. by the time you get up tomorrow morning, it's history. unfortunately, so is the warmth. 20s across the high country and that's not the last of the issues. john ahrens. >> as that cool air moves in t hurry. all the way through your wednesday, you're talking about wind gusts at least to 30 miles an hour and sometimes higher, up to 45 up in boone. midday, staying pretty steady at 31 miles per hour during the afternoon. we think the biggest difference this is going to make is for the windchills at the bus stop tomorrow. it's going to feel like 6 outside in boone and 10 up in jefferson by 8:00 in the morning. for the rest of the day, we have some sunshine. >> we do. we'll start with the sun first thing tomorrow, lower 40s and unlike the last couple of days, sunshine warmed us up. that is not going to be the case tomorrow. we will see sun, but not a lot of warmth. lunchtime, future cast stops, chesterfield, lancaster, charlotte will likely click 50, to what we dealt with. davidson, chilly breeze, thermometer may say it's 50 in the afternoon. in

deputies say a couple was off highway 90 west of taylorsville. one of the suspects confessed to steve ohnesorge and explained what he says led to it all. steve joins us live now with more. so, steve, is this murder have they been charged? >> well, i'm hearing from the sheriff now that there have been charges of murder that have been filed. and also charges of burying a body. but at this point, the investigation is far from over. there is a lot that they are trying to learn. now, tony hern, the one of the suspects in the case told me that this was all a case of self-defense. that his uncle came into where he was living last night and said his uncle was drugged up or drunk and then came at him with a knife and that is when everything happened. and he had no choice but to defend himself. they choked each other until they were both unconscious and when his uncle was expired and he came up here to alexander county to hide the body. picking the wrong place and wrong time. a passerby spotted the vehicle and called deputies and they came out and found to

that means 67 for new boone again with the 20% shower chance. 10% for the foothills 75 taylorsville and 72 in lenoir and charlotte will be 77. same for monroe. southeast of the city getting close to that 80 mark. rockingham, wadesboro and the upstate places like cheraw, pageland, chester, south carolina, may be flirting with near 80 for thursday and friday. now in charlotte, 77 and 79 the forecast for the next two days. and while the records in the low 80s should stay safe we are close between 4 to 5 away from the records. 82 on thursday. and 83 on friday. so the shower chances again low. 10% with more cloud cover the mountains. and though we come down we are in the 70s both weekend days and more clouds with a 30% shower chance for saturday evening and widespread rain for sunday. some of the rain will stick around into monday of next week. that is a check of your forecast back to you. >> and your first alert traffic is sponsored by people's bank. we have problems on i-85. back to cabarrus county near dale earnhardt boulevard. the road was closed because of this accident. you may notice

drexel and these showers pushing to the east at a fairly slow rate, over in taylorsville, hickory, should be around 6:28 for you. and beyond that time, i think statesville will start to see some of that rainfall as well. overnight tonight is when we see rainfall opportunities pick up just a little bit at harrisburg and east charlotte. and over in through monroe. let's take you to tonight. checkers game, uptown. i should say just to the east of charlotte. we're looking for quiet continues -- conditions until after the game is over. mostly cloudy skies, down to about 47. after that, i think things are going to get a lot better for us. future cast has that rain. about 9:00. moves on. a little frozen activity up across the high country. and even that clears out. get to the gulf tomorrow. it's going to be wonderful, high temperatures near 60. a lot of sunshine out there. 49ers, baseball. taking on my old alma mater, kent state. 60 will be the high by the time the game is over. down to the south, we'll have an east wind. neighborhood forecast for chesterfield will probably not be as warm as it

skies, a pleasant day, forget about snow and ice, we're talking 70s across morganton, lenoir, taylorsville, mostly sunny skies for you folks, no chance of rain. 78 in salisbury over to charlotte, 77 gastonia, 78 monroe, 79 for rockingham and wadesboro, close to 80 and should be close to 80 pageland, lancaster toward chester. heading to the hornets game tonight, playing the old hornet, the pelicans from new orleans are in town, 68 degrees the tip-off temperature as you wait online to get in the arena. as far as what to expect overnight, lows back in the 50s. followed by warm, high pressure still with us tomorrow. eventually this frontal system will have an opportunity to move in as the high moves away. tomorrow morning, lots of low clouds, we may start with a lot of low clouds but no rain tomorrow morning. going in the afternoon hours, partly sunny skies, this front sort of back door in friday, there is a chance for couple showers north of us, no rain in charlotte, i see this front going back northward as a warm front on saturday, so there is a small opportunity for shower or thunderstorm,

mountains, coolers than the past northwest of the city find the numbers in the 50s for the foothills, taylorsville, lenoir, morganton, mid to upper 50s. in the charlotte area, 65. there will be a wild range until temperatures today from the charlottement row south and east, those numbers in the 60s, maybe even close to 70 for some of those south carolina upstate counties later this afternoon. tomorrow is the first day of spring, also palm sunday, it will be drier but there is as 30% shower chance which will come tomorrow night. also cool things off more to 58 for our sunday high. stay in the 50s through monday and then by the mid to later part of the week we come back up in the 60s and 70s with dry weather also back in the forecast. >> kristen: warmer weather soundth good. i like the mid 70s, that makes me happy. >> lyndsay: just been so nice the past two weeks. cooler but closer to average. 70s will be coming back bull that is above average. >> forces uses to stay inside and get stuff done we have been neglecting because we wanted to play outside. >> lyndsay: like watching basketball. >> kristen:

temperature-wise, hold in the mid 60s in the mountains for the foothills you will be in the low 70s, taylorsville 75, 72, rather, 75 lenoir and same in morganton, charlotte area upper 70s not as warm as yesterday when we hit 81, but still above average with the 78. wind out of the south at 5-10-miles-per-hour. upper 70s near 80 across the upstate of south carolina and like yesterday, where there wasn't a lot of sun, still more clouds but that is not going to stop the temperatures from coming up to well above average levels. 60% shower coverage tomorrow, low 70s, looks a little cooler and wetter for the second half of the weekend. outside and as we head in the early part of next week, few showers and storms linger in monday, beyond that looks warm, tuesday, wednesday, still close to 80 and by the way, spring starts one week from tomorrow, march 20th. a week from tomorrow. next sunday. >> kristen: we lose sleep this weekend. >> lyndsay: correct, spring forward. lose an hour of sleep. >> kristen: we are getting hangses after a local woman found her dog wearing a shock collar coming home from doggie

we saw a man get pulled into the driveway in an old, a vacant house in taylorsville. a deputy saw a man and woman inside. they saw drag marks in the leaves which led him to the body of the uncle. hearne and lentz were immediately arrested. they say the victim, robert hearne is toni hearne's uncle. >> i brought him up to hide him because he attacked me last night and i had to defend myself with him in a fist night and i was scared. i never wanted to fight my uncle, but he came in and came at me with his knife. >> and investigators executed a search warrant and police say this is the home where one of the suspects and the victim in this case lived. the home to find evidence that a crime was commit at this location. they will being assisted by the sbi in this operation. this morning that couple is charged in robert hearne's death and for allegedly trying to hide that body. we will keep you updated and developments roll in. reporting live, ashton pellom, wbtv on your side. >> we went dig through hearne's expensive criminal record, and found he was released from prison in

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 with us now, the high sets up on top of ups tomorrow morning, the coldest part of the day right at daybreak, as the high builds off we return, wednesday, thursday, getting up in the 70s before this frontal system moves in on f

amount of sunshine in the mountains in the 60s, plenty of sunshine, mid 70s from morganton, lenoir, taylorsville, a couple high clouds. here in charlotte, high temperature of 77, like wise lincolnton, mooresville, statesville, 76 hickory, nearly 80 down around wadesboro and upper 70s to about 80 from pageland, chester and rock hill, plenty of sunshine. last night's front is just to the south of us, so sunshine for today, then a gradual increase in cloud cover coming tomorrow and then as you notice as we go from tomorrow morning in to saturday morning, the clouds really thicken up here, high pressure to the north will provide the chilly breeze out of the northeast, low pressure from the gulf will provide the moisture, the end result is a lot of cloud cover. the low itself will cut south of saturday night into sunday. but it will be close enough we will get rain. not heavy rain, that will be reserved for the coastal plain, but 50/50 chance of rain, probably an 80% chance saturday night into sunday morning but goes up from saturday mid-day through sunday mid-day and back down. will return to sunshi

for today, 62 boone, 61 jefferson, in the foothills, 73 morganton, 72 taylorsville. this afternoon and across the piedmont, upper 60s and low 70s if here is the first alert futurecast as we head in the afternoon. sunshine, high clouds, but look at moisture surging in to the area. as early as tomorrow morning, 10:00 a.m., rain showers, another round of heavier rain coming in saturday night and into sunday morning. and colder air, even a few snow showers for the mountains, early on sunday morning. and then we warm back up. so the temperatures for the weekend, 58 on saturday, overnight lows in the upper 30s with rain showers sunday morning and high of 53 degrees. drying out and clearing off. sunshine, 56 monday, back in the mid 60s on tuesday. and as we head in the middle of the week, 72 wednesday. 77 again on thursday. that is a check of the first alert forecast, guys, back >>> first alert traffic brought to you by toyota of north charlotte. >> john: here is a live look at current conditions map and most of it is in green which indicates that things are moving pretty s

lab more morgue begans vil and taylorsville. in charlotte we'll be in the -- morgue begans vil. tonight we'll be down in the 30s. tomorrow the sun will be out so it will be warmer. thirty-four tonight and finally the temperatures will reach the 60s and 70s for the rest of the week. >> brody back to you. >> thanks. >> a pop star gwen stephany's marriage shattered last year. -- i was down all the way down lower than that you know what i mean. it was rock bottom. i was so embarrassed. it was like wow i have to turn this into something. like i can't do -- go down like this. if i can do music it will be ok. >> but music hasn't come easily for her as of late. have left her musical competence shaken. >> what witnesses it like going into the studio. a -- what was it like going into the studio. >> i don't care about the charts the hits the style of music. i just want to tell the truth and i have to get this out of me whatever it is and i want to write and i want it to be coming from me. >> her misery turned out to be her hughes. within matter of weeks she had written more music -- >> it