From colleges and universities, public money that went in to support that. And the connect Nc Bond Committee has been ambulanceet canning the state and voters with blanketing the state urging voters to support this referendum. Tonight they are celebrating here and the governor will be here hoping to celebrate a successful bond referendum. Live in raleigh, Nick Ochsner Wbtv on your side. The race for who will be the main candidates for president may be clearer tonight. The five states are headed to the polls. That includes North Carolina. Its make or break for two remaining g. O. P. Candidates. Kasich and marco rubio. Looking to hold off donald trump in their home states of florida and ohio. And meanwhile on the democratic side, Hillary Clinton is hoping to continue her streak in the south. Bernie sanders will look to grab more upsets. He is making a hard run for missouri, ohio and illinois. You can see the results of the primary at 11 00 p. M. Race and the key local races. And you can
Election and more at 10 00 in this newscast as well. Reporting live in uptown David Sentendrey fox 46 wjzy. Bill there are 243 precincts in Mecklenburg County and they will all be open until 7 30 tonight. North carolina voters will be deciding on the connect and see bond package that if it gets approved the state will borrow tube billion dollars to pay for friday projects including many in the charlotte area. 90 million would go to unc charlotte while 750,000 would go to the crothers Mountain State park. Kayla someone close to gop frontrunner donald trump joined the charlotte through this morning. Ivanka Fathers Campaign and some cant bursch a moment seen at her fathers rallies. You are in a unique position as his daughter to csi that so many of us dont get to see. Has said in regard to women. He has been accused of inciting violence and some of his rallies and in particular and fayetteville North Carolina read that so we see on the press. Do you think that is an accurate portrayal of
The democrats router in full force making stops in charlotte ahead of tomorrows North Carolina primary. We are going to old highlights from the clinton and sanders rallies. Samantha touted matthews takes another step toward their plan to possibly leave charlotte lumbered schools. We will let you know what was voted on tonight in what might happen next read. Would the to come up with ways to make their real cost of living cheap. Kayla and organizations serving the homeless thinks it may have found a solution to fight the problem. We will tell you about the unique setup that could have a major impact on the community. Good evening and thank you for joining us for fox 46 news at 10. I am kayla ayres. Bill im bill melugin. Powerful storms tonight. Want to send it over to chief meteorologist brian basham. I want you to keep in mind there have been strong storms moving through many places 1. 5 1. 5 inches and more. The northern half of few showers not a huge deal but we still have the Severe
The powerful few. Right now were tracking more heavy downpours moving toward the charlotte area. Im liz foster. Im blake hansen. Todays rain is just the start. Tomorrow we could be dealing with serve weather. Meteorologist john ahrens is using charlottes most powerful radar to track it. Well see more downpours coming at us in waves the next wave, looks like it will come in our direction by about 9 00. Lets go to live Early Warning doppler 9 where it settled down in uptown charlotte. A little while ago, if you live north side up in Highland Creek in huntersville, it was coming down. Still moderate rains right now in rowan county over kannapolis with a pocket of heavy rain. This guy moved through Crowders Mountain. Heavy rain and wind at 25 miles an hour pushing into concord. The next destinations for this will be the communities of rock well and granite quarry, northern side of rich field and meisenheimer. This is getting ready to move into parts of earl and Kings Mountain will be next.
A major story we are following, all eyes turn to North Carolina just ahead of the states primary tomorrow. Several president ial hopefuls will hold events in our area today making a final push for voter support. Britney johnson, both candidates women be in charlotte today for the democrats . Reporter they will be. We have talked to volunteers for Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. Leading up to todays rallies in charlotte. Bernie sanders is up first, he is inviting voters to pnc music pavilion for his rally, called a future to believe in. Doors open at 1 30 and he will discuss his plans on immigration restorm, College Affordability and the economy. Later this evening Hillary Clinton will speak at a get out the vote event at the Grady Cole Center just outside of charlotte and doors open there at 7 15 tonight. We learned that it is up to each campaign, there are no we followed up with supporters who told us they have been making 10,000 calls a day, drumming up last minute support. She i