They had exponential growth. Dozens of special needs students and get sick forcing them to close down the school. Officials tell us what they think that sickness is and what they are doing with that. Kayla plus an arrest is made in a home from two years ago. Who police are of killing his own mother. Bill work tracking the mass shooting that left at least three people dead. You will find out where happening at the latest on the investigation. For joining us. Im bill melugin. Kayla im kayla ayres. Dozens of students have fallen ill at a local school and they say enough is enough. They are shutting down for the rest of the week until a building can get a thorough cleaning. They are joining us live in the newsroom with more on what appears to be a n reporter its a virus that hits fast and hard leaving many feeling sick for days. Oftentimes we hear this virus breaking out on cruise ships or hotels. Here in charlotte, it hit students and teachers that are dealing with it firsthand. The buses are leaving and not coming back until after the weekend peer thats because metro school in uptown is shutting down after Officials Say the highly contagious norovirus has taken over. Metro is a school for 250 of those 250, 70 are out of school with the virus. The problem with norovirus is what its it hits, theres exponential growth. These things come in and go very quickly. Reporter they say the norovirus is nothing to mess around with. While it something he sees often, its been a while since it has hit a Charlotte School this hard. For those who come down with it, it can cause inflammation of the stomach and intestines. Nausea, vomiting, fever, fever, headache, body ache and more are common symptoms. One to get this virus into an institution, its notorious for spreading. Parents were supposed to meet at the school for talks regarding student assignments. Theyd say the fact that norovirus is hitting the school makes it even tougher to prevent its spread. It can quickly turn into something very serious. Reporter parents cant agree everything and putting his hands in his mouth. Its best thats the concern. A few dozen students were at the health cleantech with symptoms that. 2 norovirus as well peer we are still waiting on official word as well but its something that could be spreading. Kayla now cms said its already been disinfecting metro schools and will continue to do so over the next two days before students return. Bill we have breaking news coming out of the nations heartland. There are reports of a mass shooting at a company in kansas. Police say it happened at xl. Its up company that makes lawn more parts which is about 35 miles north of wichita. A man opened fire late this afternoon leaving between four and seven people dead and up to 30 people shot in total. The Harvey County sheriff said outside the plant as well as two other locations. The suspect drove between the car. Suspected gunman is dead as well police. Please give it right here with fox 46 as more develops on this breaking story. Now onto a followup to a story we brought you at six pm police have arrested a man who killed his own mother back in february 2014. 57yearold Erwin Feldman sits murder. They tell us even more charges might follow. The body of his mother was found in her home in south charlotte. Based on physical evidence and interviews, they they were able to make this rest. New at ten oclock, man was in a hospital after after he was hit by a bus in uptown at 8 00 oclock this evening. He was walking across the mcdowell and seventh street intersection with the bus hit him. He was conscious when medic got on scene but he was pretty banged up. The crash. Kayla new information regarding one of charlottes top leaders. Cedar manager ron carly saying he will stay on with the city until his replacement is named. His current deal expires at the end of next month. Reports say meetings have been held to discuss who will replace carly. He has been the city manager since spring 2013. As the city looks to replace him, bank of america announced he is cutting more jobs in charlotte. The citys biggest bank is laying off a small amount of marketing and Communications Workers not just here at home, but across the country. They say its part of their plan to trim the workforce to increase efficiency. On tuesday, they made cuts to the Global Marketing and Corporate Affairs team. Earlier this month, more layoffs were made in this area when the Mortgage Division downsides. From downsize to growth, they say most of the district growth schools. Cms is forecasting its Public School enrollment will grow by 3200 students next year and for every one of those kids, five others will choose to go to a charter school. Right now there are roughly 15000 students in charters. They are trying to expand funding for alternative schools. Bill storm damage can be very intense and very costly. Thats why the Better Business bureau is putting out a consumer alert for people to be on the lookout for those trying to make a quick buck. They are scammers and Storm Chasers because they take advantage of storm victims. Its always best to do your homework and hire local contractors that you can check out before you pay any cash. In many instances the con artist or storm chaser drive around looking for people they can take fixing roofs, painting barnes, ceiling driveways. Reporter they dont need a license to do work less than 30,000 dollars. Just to be safe, do not pay with cash and do a contract. Do a homework and check out the contractor. For a complete list of their tips for hiring a home repair contractor, head over to our website at fox 46 charlotte. Com. It wasnt just damage to storms, it also hit the meals on Wheels Program which operates that friendship train. As a result they lost thousands of dollars worth of food after they were without power for several hours. They tell us the three walkin refrigerators may need repair 700 people each day. Kayla it looks like for now we appear to have the upper hand when it comes to the flu. The cd c said this vaccine was one of the most effective in years. Those who got the shot are 59 less likely to get the flu compared to those who didnt. Compare that to last year and that number was only at 20 . Vaccine advisors are meeting to try to decide which strain should go into next seasons flu vaccine. Bill the road to the white house is jampacked and starting to heat up with all eyes on the carolina. When we can come back they will catch up with the rest of the pack. The move they made earlier today. Break. Reporter we did see some today. phone ringing you cant deal with something, by ignoring it. But thats how some president ial candidates seem to be dealing with social security. Americans work hard, and pay into it. So our next president needs a real plan to keep it strong. elephant noise donkey noise bill welcome back, its super tuesday and super important for Donald Trumps arrival. It could mean came over her many its an equally important day for Bernie Sanders. Looking beyond this weekend, South Carolina primary and they are in washington with more. Reporter i need your help, starting with this primary on saturday. Secure a victory leading Bernie Sanders by double digits in South Carolina. Sanders passed on the state today looking to snag votes in the all or nothing delegate state of ohio. The world changes when you have a handful of billionaires making the decisions as opposed to ordinary americans making the decision. Reporter building onair donald trump is dash billionaire donald trump is cashing in and texas could possibly shortchange trump. They have him 15 points behind ted cruz in the Lone Star State senator is pouring it on his adversary. There is only one campaign that has beaten and that can be donald trump in this race. Reporter marco rubio has been a strong secondplace a new poll reveals rubio lacks trump by 16 points in his home state which could be a potentially deadly blow. Hes losing in the landside to donald trump in his own state. Maybe he will turn it around somehow, but ill believe it when i see it. Reporter twelve states and one territory is in play super tuesday. Its hugely important because its the biggest one day grab for delegates during a primary season. In washington, fox news. Bill bill clinton was in rock hill rallying supporters for his wifes campaign. President clinton told the crowd hillary wants to make america whole again by supporting a living wage, rebuilding infrastructure to avoid the water crisis and by allowing students to refinance their loans at lower interest rates. Debt and to refinance their loans. Bill all registered voters are welcome to vote regardless of Party Affiliation unless you have cast a ballot in the republican primary last saturday. Kayla president obamas choice for the open Supreme Court seat is already saying no thanks. He leads the list of candidates that the president is considering but he released a statement saying he called the white house to strike his name from consideration. It wouldve been an interesting choice considering Mitch Mcconnell said he and his gop caucus would be against whomever the president pics. President obama looking to the future of healthcare. Earlier today, he took part in a panel about Precision Medicine initiative. Patients, researchers and other stakeholders discuss the future of medicine as well as the president obama discussed a wide range of topics including how he hopes to change it from disease care to healthcare. He mentioned it in his date of the union address. It includes 250 milliondollar investment from the budget. Bill the war of worlds between apple and the federal government fbi dir. James comey said the dispute is the hardest question hes ever tackled. Katherine harris has more on this from washington. Reporter the dispute between apple and the fbi is intensifying. Last night the ceo said the company will refuse any order to help defense preserve data from one of his San Bernardino terrorist. James comey told, the rest today that they wont be setting any legal or technological precedent. The cold the judge has instructed them to write works only on this one phone. Phone or your phone is not a real thing. Reporter Congress Seems divided on the issue. Some lawmakers say theyre preparing legislation that would compel apple to help the fbi while others remain skeptical about the privacy implications. This will become the target of our sovereign adversaries and criminal and terrorist. Reporter its unlikely the feds will get everything they want in this case. The question is, can the Government Force a private person to work for it when the private person or corporation doesnt want to . Reporter apple said they will fight all the way to the Supreme Court if needed. James comey is hoping to prolong a legal fight and put this aside in the name of National Security this is the hardest question ive seen and its going to require negotiation. Ultimately decided by congress. Bill earlier today apple filed a motion asking the court to set aside the original order compelling apple to help out the fbi. So its certainly been a wild ride when it comes to the weather. The National Weather Service Confirms there was a tornado and today they just cleared a state of emergency. Hes waving Service Restriction so utility crews can restore power faster to those who lost in the storm. Brian, a lot of people are wondering if theres storms heading our way. Brian it looks like were in pretty good shape. We did have a lot of lingering winds today and gusts at 45 mileperhour plus plus peer that would not be surprised to hear if there were more down trees today in several places across the area. Those wins will begin to slow down tonight. Snow through friday. The next few mornings will be freezing. We will show you later on when things will begin to warm up. I do want to mention we are under a wind advisory for our top two counties until 7 00 a. M. Friday. Winds will be between 15 and 25. We could see some gusts up to 50 miles per hour. Wind is still a feature across much of the region today and tonight. It slowed down considerably as you get into the piedmont. Jefferson 23 mileperhour, boone 30 mileperhour. Charlotte is doing okay with three mileperhour wind speeds but i do expect them to pick up a little bit of wind gust as well around boone. Lets look at your future wind so you know what to expect as you head into tomorrow. They they will be elevated in friday about 8 40 a. M. We will winds. See cold temperatures. Then we get into the afternoon. We will see the winds pick up to 14 here the temperatures will be in the low 50. We will have wind chill. You get into saturday and the winds will slow down and were looking at 5 7mile per hour wind speeds. Temperatures are cooling. We will see some freezing temperatures. We are 39 in charlotte. That. That number does drop about 8 degrees before its all said and done. We are looking at clear skies in the lower elevation. We have this moving through and that will keep those wins elevated through tomorrow. That will move on and things will settle down and we will see clear skies once we get past this. Winds will be blowing out of the west at 7 11. The spring home show this weekend, friday and saturday, it will be pretty good during the day on friday and 52 on saturday. The ci aa tournament is in town. I checked it out. You check this out. It ci aa tournament time in charlotte. Fans have a big night. This is the kind of trouble we get ourselves into. Apparently they are trying to see how long you can hold yourself up. Do you think you can beat me . Yes i think you can. I think you can too. Lets find out right here alright beverly, youre already youre already looking week. All beverly, no. You got it, you got it, you got it. They go. I couldnt even get my chin over the bar beverly, i beat you. No you didnt. No i didnt. Okay fair enough whats your are you having fun today . Yes. Do you think you can beat me . Of course. How many times have you shot a gun mark. This is my first time. Were gonna show this old man out. Old man . Old man, that hurts. Look through here. Youre gonna put this so wherever you want to aim on the target. Yellow circle. Four hits. Thats pathetic. To be fair im still reading hard from the pullups and i didnt have my glasses on. How does it feel to be a master . This is a day. If you could blame Michael Jordan and you think you could beat him . Yes. Of course you could, i like your confidence. How many could you make out of five but mark. Although for. Okay and probably going to lets go for it. Lets take it up a little bit. Heres the deal, if you miss a shot you have to push up. All right. Okay 141. Okay 1 1. Im in to be honest with you have done a lot of competitions tonight and ive lost of everything. It feels like something i can win. Can i win . Im losing. Can i spin it . Let me spin it. I feel good about this. A sticker. Thank you. All right we had a lot of fun tonight. Im wiped out but i have one more trick up my sleeve. Im to show you what i can do on bill that was fun. I really can get up there, cant i . I can fly fly. I wouldnt be surprised if the marine give you a call after they saw you with the m164 of what . I was breathing so hard from the pullup. Kayla one pushup. You are supposed to hold yourself up there but i could not get my chin above the bar. The girl was just mocking me. Kayla so you had a great time . It was great. There was so much fun i just didnt have time to get to all that. Bill how did you hear the see the basketball hoop when you are shooting in the dark . It was very hard to see. You had a former panther and author. Bill she is the former one who captured his heart and keep him in line. We get to know what Transformation Church pastor and his wife vicky. I noticed this pretty girl doing tricep extensions. I was like those triceps are awesome. We could breed amazing children together. [laughter] when he really stole my heart was when we were playing basketball and he dribbled down and did a reverse in front of me. She was shooting three pointers in my face so i had to do it. 1990, which is doctor kings birthday and now we lead a multiethnic church. It was like before dr. King had a dream, god had a dream and he put us together peer i dont know know if youve noticed but my shot is a little bit better. Being able to understand, to look past and see the need, to be able to forgive, you just go beyond taking it personal. When we were younger, we were we were really young when we first met, and you take it personal at that point. But as we got married and got older and like you said when we came to the lord, we realize there doing the best they can. They didnt set out to her hurt us. They adore her and love her. I think her my parents like her more than they like me. Thats good. Back in middle school i would breakdance. [laughter] i would play with her ears. She said sometimes it hurts. Everyone would say oh i like that. When no ones looking he goes like this. [laughter] you probably just dont know your own strength. Ive been telling you this. Youre going to get to calais. I told him. Topic in washington, d. C. This as isis militants are growing their base in that country. A concern federal officials including president obama are talking about as they look at strategy to fight isis. Fox news correspondent doug mcelway reports. Reporter president Obama Meeting with National Security council discussing Global Campaign to destroy isis. Earlier in the day, u. S. Spy chiefs told Congress Political instability in libya is creating a new challenge in the fight against the terror group as a void has been created where isis militants are moving in and setting up a growing base in libya. Wed like Nothing Better than to have a government in place in libya with whom we can work and gain consent for engaging militarily in libya. That is a subject of active discussion as i speak. Reporter u. S. Officials estimate some 4,000 foreign fighters have traveled to isis Training Camps recently hundreds if not thousands of native libyans join the isis movement. The chair of the House Intelligence Committee says whistleblowers have said u. S. Central command personnel have been deleting files. Weve been made aware files and emails have been deleted by personnel at centcom. Reporter as centcom is accused of exaggerating progress against isis. And we expect that the department of defense will provide these and all other relevant documents to the committee. Reporter the director of National Intelligence briefed congress on a survey showing 40 of centcom analysts believe there is integrity problems with analysis there. Recapping top stories. A Charlotte School is closed and not expected to open until monday. This after 70 students became that spread quickly. The Health Department says at this point all signs are pointing to norovirus. This is going on at the metro school in uptown. Its a school that serves around 250 kids with special needs. Bill also making news tonight, an arrest in a 2014 murder of elderly woman in south charlotte. Police arrested her 57yearold son irwin j. Feldman. They were able to break the case on investigations they conducted. Kayla teams hitting the hard wood and fans flocking to see their favorite teams play. The tournament is a big moneymaker for the queen city. In addition to the ciaa games and fan fest, there are also concerts and tons of celebrity sightings in charlotte. Its a great time to just go people watch in uptown. A fox 46 update tonight. Police have arrested a man in connection to a string of car firefighters throughout the carolinas. Video evidence from the Flint Hill Fire Department led detectives to johnny bing. Bing broke into and stole from firefighters cars in a number of cities includes charlotte, huntersville, china grove and cornelius, he faces automobile larceny and stolen property. Police say at this time it appears bing was alone during the breakins and detectives have been able to recover some of the stolen property. You are out risking lives, take care of the public, the community. Houses and asking people for help. When you see that kind of thing, it hits you in the spot and we want to put that person in custody. Kayla when police found bing they arrested ernestene lockwood for unrelated outstanding warrants. Police expect additional charges. Check out opportunities at the airport. Charlotte Douglas International is holding a job fair, fulltime, parttime and temporary Employment Opportunities available for hundreds of open positions at the airport as well as other places in the community. Everything from tsa jobs to Food Services positions that need to be filled. Carowinds will be on hand to hire for Upcoming Season and Piedmont Airlines will be speaking to candidates. The American Airlines subsidiary announced it needs 300 new employees to operate out of clt. We have seen wild weather over the past few days but it looks like its going to be a nice if not cool weekend. For more what we expect heres chief meteorologist brian basham. Brian good evening, everybody. Good news as we head into the weekend. Cold mornings over the next several days but the afternoons are going to be looking very comfortable especially as we get into sunday, and warm weather over next week. Well show you the sevenday in just a minute. Temperatures are taking a dip. Same time yesterday we were 8 degrees warmer. Definitely cooler across the board tonight as we head into the overnight hours and got a lot of 30s. Does include charlotte at 39 and hickory at 39. 40s out west but freezing boone and jefferson are 29 each. Freezing for a good chunk of the day. Now if youre looking for sunshine, good news. Friday, saturday, sunday and monday, weve got no rain chances in there for you, see a few clouds on a couple of the days, outside that were doing well and another system roll in midweek next week, a slight chance of rain tuesday at 10 and wednesday coming in at 30 . If youre itching to get outside, afternoons are looking comfortable, plus sunshine. As a matter of fact, show what you you see on the futurecast quickly here. Most of the area, the piedmont all clear tonight through tomorrow. I want to point out were opportunities for snow in the mountains through tomorrow about midday, and well start to see everything clear out and get sunny in the north as well. If youre thinking about going skiing this weekend, fake snow theyre making up there, but the weather is going to feel comfortable. The winds taper off and much, much better but plenty of winds through tomorrow. Keep that in mind. Resort cam, that timed out on us here. Address the overnight temperatures. We are going to see mostly freezing temperatures across the region. A few spots above 33. Tomorrow cooler out there but it will be sunny. Largely 40s and 50s with the mountains freezing, and check out the sevenday forecast. Freezing overnights for the next few into sunday morning, sunday does warm to 63. In the 60s through wednesday before dropping off to the 50s on thursday. Kayla unrelated question, brian, what are your questions on cereal . Brian delicious, but only if it has sugar on it. Millennials have reportedly lost their taste for cereal, and not that the crunching stuff left a bad taste in their mouth. Bill according to a new survey, the millennials are too lazy to eat it. How does that work . All do you is well find out. Reporter americans buy 10 billion in cereal every year. Frosted flakes. Reporter according to the New York Times cereal sales fell 30 partially because of the eating habits of millennials. No joke, my fiance and i had cereal for dinner last night. Reporter Chelsea Cross hosts a radio show and didnt need the New York Times to tell her, 40 of millennials skipped a bowl for breakfast because they found the cleanup involved inconvenient. I put out a poll from twitter feed. Reporter percentage of cross, 116,000 twitter followers confirmed like peers all the things i thought reasons why millennials were not buying cereal were validated from twitter feed. Reporter chelseas twitter feed says millennials feel it is unhealthful and like prepackaged items they can eat while they drive, ride and walk. Were always on the go, always moving. Reporter according to cross twitter mentions and the New York Times, cereals lack a portability and all two of the dishes a bowl leaves behind rendered a forgotten dish for half a generation. That feeds into the lazy aspect stereotype. Kayla all two of the dishes. Bill way two many to clean. You got to clean the bowl, clean the spoon. Way too much work, right . I dont believe some people. Its crazy. Lets move onto the next story. A man recovering after ecigarette battery, it burst look at that. Josh hamilton at the shell gas station in kentucky when the battery of his ecig burst into flames. An employee rushed out to help him and another man took hamilton to the hospital after it was put out. Hes recovering from pretty serious burns. Was behind the counter, then there was blast, fire, so i did not think about anything, i could see theres a fire and i need to stop that. Bill hamilton says his recovery has been rough with the severe burns on his leg. He says his opinion on ecigs hasnt changed, though he does believe they should be made safer. You are definitely going want to double check the powerball tickets. Somebody in Mecklenburg County is a millionaire. The North Carolina education lottery says Somebody Just missed the Powerball Jackpot but had five numbers match. The Winning Ticket sold at the in cornelius. Nobody matched all five numbers including the powerball wednesday. That means the jackpot is going up to 266 million. The Carolina Panthers super bowl loss still fresh in the minds of fans, but not stopping the nfl from getting ready for next years big game. The city of houston revealed the hightech super bowl countdown clock this afternoon. City officials as well as houston texan brass were onhand to get the city ready for the year long prep its going to take to get ready with nrg stadium. Super bowl 51 is just 347 days away. Josh, not too long off now. 11 months or so . Reporter lets talk super bowl. Lets go right back. Well see if the panthers can get that done. Theyre talking combine stuff. To doubleee vo want to be happy with your next vehicle purchase . At enterprise, we guarantee it. Head to your neighborhood enterprise car sales and let the people who buy more vehicles than anyone. Josh welcome back, everyone, we begin in college hoops. Duke taking on florida state. The two teams on opposite ends of the spectrum. The blue devils in a dogfight at the top of the acc. The seminoles at the bottom of the conference. Looking to take it out on someone, unfortunately fsu was ingraham gets it up. Gator throws it down. Josh incomplete control forcing the turnover and Brandon Ingraham making it look easy with a two handed flush. And Grayson Allen flies to the rim and lays that in. Double figures, whats a duke. Josh the nfl combine kicked off in Lucas Oil Stadium in indianapolis. Getting a looking at the top prospect as they prepare for aprils draft. They will have a number of offseason, starting with the corner back position, move to the defensive line, jarrod allen is gone because of retirement. Charles johnson doesnt take a pay cut, he could be out of the way as well. So those are two of the areas the team could address in the draft or free agencies coming up. Its a pretty strong defensive tackle draft. That doesnt upset me. And you got to see how it all fleshes out but its strong. Weve got a lot of work to do, i know expectations will the expectations anticipated lower down force rules package this weekend in atlanta. The package similar to the one used at kentucky and darlington last year, will lower the down force on the car which makes it harder to drive and puts more emphasis on the drivers skill and increases potential for more passing during the race. That will make it a more competitive race, it will be hard to top to finish in the daytona 500 from last week, the quik trip 500 is sunday on fox 46 wjzy. Denny hamlin will look to be. Kayla a big weekend for the movie industry, were not talking about the oscars. Julie banderas has a look at whats new in theaters. Im going to be a ski jumper. Are you going to break his neck . Im going to break his neck. Reporter based on the true story of olympic ski jumper Michael Eddie edwards, eddie the eagle chases his dream and makes his way into the first the best, and were a disgrace reporter the film stars tauren edgerton as eddie and hugh jackman as his rebellious coach. For epic skill action 2d and 3d, there is gods of egypt about a mortal warrior to restore peace in egypt. Have an army behind him, god, demons. Reporter the production boosts the star power of Gerard Butler and geoffrey rush. Marcus, you got a new partner. Reporter casey affleck, anthony mackie, kate winslet and more bring the thriller triple 9 about a group of dirty cops blackmailed into a dangerous heist which soon turns on them. I was gone too much, gone reporter in limited release the documentary about the apollo astronaut gene cernan, the last man on the know. That will be the end of us. Reporter the intense martial arts squel to crouching tiger hidden dragon. Deadpool holding onto the number one spot at the box office. In new york, julie banderas, fox news. Kayla keep it here, well have a final check of the. Kayla good day, charlotte wakes you up every morning. Check out what theyve got in store for you tomorrow. Coming up on the next good day, charlotte. Josh norman going to be in the studio to talk about celebrity basketball tournament. The southern spring home and garden show coming to the qc, we will be there live to let you know all of whats in store this weekend. This is your cup of tea. Good day, charlotte 4 30 to 9 00. Brian a lot of us going to be out there friday, saturday, join us, meet us, weather going to be great, too. If you go early in the morning, think a coat, temperatures freezing, friday, weve got temperatures hitting the 50s over the next couple of afternoons, but sunday, 63. Thats like go to the park. I wouldnt say go to the beach. I dont know if you know this, charlotte doesnt have a beach. But 65. Rain chances tuesday and wednesday and, of course, back down to 50 on 30. On thursday. Kayla on 30 . Bill we got a quick preview of the 2017 nba slamdunk contest. If we could roll the video. This is the nfl combine. This is brian basham, firstround pick out of northern arizona, right . Look at that. 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