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It addressed Student Assignment. We have families that moved from our neighborhood. The vicechair person told me that majority of the School Board Members do not favor forced busing. In the meantime, you can expect more Community Forums on Student Assignment and another is planned here in south charlotte next month. And those parents here in south charlotte well in about 30 minutes they will meet to go over their strategies. Live in south charlotte, Dedrick Russell wbtv on your side. And you men...

Monroe, charlotte, gastonia, 49 in rock hill and 50 in lancaster. Wind up at 53, a lot cooler than yesterday, heaviest, steadiest of the rain comes this morning. Tapers off this afternoon to more showerytype rain. We should rebound in the lower 50s. Having said that, there is more rain back to the west of us, you can see that here. That is the next round coming our way, ill give you the timing with futurecast in a couple minutes. Youre never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic ...

Fighting back for chief john hannon means adding security improvements at local firehouses. We had to reevaluate the security of the faces. And we are looking at putting cameras up. According to the chief, many eyes will have access to the fire stations. Its not that expensive to get cameras up and get a recorder hooked up and link it into cmpds big system. Because we want them to be able to see the cameras for anything they might need, too. Now, while bing faces new charges in these cases. It i...

Meanwhile, time is running short for the other gop hopefuls. After picking up a third consecutive victory in last nights nevada caucuses, donald trump continues his winning streak with an eye on super tuesday states. We have had some great numbers coming out of texas. And amazing numbers coming out of tennessee and georgia. Its going to be an amazing two months. We might not even need the two months, folks, to be honest, all right. Reporter he garnered most of his support in the state for republ...

And alex giles is up town where the police are working to keep everyone safe. Very busy tonight, alex. Reporter it is busy and there are a ton of police out here. You cannot go a block without seeing an officer. We saw the crowds here. And and a lot of people in the ciaa tournament. And standing by the crowd for the most part. Security is tight around the ep pi center. Guards were not letting them in while they cleaned up before the night crowd came out dozens that poured in around 10 p. M. Ther...

He nearly got it, after sweeping contests in the south, trump continued to confound the republican establishment on super tuesday and finds himself well on the way to securing the gop nomination. I think, honestly, we have done something that almost nobody thought could be done. And im very proud of it. Reporter trump won the majority of conservative republicans and moderates as well and ride ago wave of voters who are fed up with washington. In several states he scored doubledigit wins and is l...

When you look at the reports from last year compared to this year we are down this year. Cmpd is investigating all four of tuesdays shootings. And the police chief said he is asking the city for money to hire more officers. He needs more officers that were raised in the communities and put those officers back into those communities. Adams says he will continue to work in the communities. Nobody has to get killed and shot. Lets stop this. Many of the victims and witnesses were too scared to talk ...

Two hours after a driver hit a pedestrian in concord. Crews reopened the road around 4 30 near Concord Mills boulevard. We are trying to figure out how the victim is doing and if the driver will face charges. We will update you as soon as we learn more. Breaking news in East Charlotte. Firefighters are on the scene of this restaurant fire. You can see the flames burning in the background. Crews reopened the inbound lanes of albemarle for the drive. Joe bruno is there. Reporter crews just reopene...

Cooler after a record high yesterday of 86. We cooled back to 40s this morning. That is impressive. 43 albemarle. 54 charlotte. 30s in the mountains to begin the day. But nothing in the way of the morning drive on this st. Patricks day. We warm back up into the mid 50s by 9 00. Still in the mid70s but that is about 10 degrees cooler than yesterday. We have begun the step down process. Its slow for now. We will show you how it will pick up with even cooler weather into the weekend straight ahead....

At Carolina Beach. These are communities that survive on their beaches. Theres an 8 foot drop here. There should be 30 or 40 feet of beach there. That ocean is coming up to it. It has destroyed beaches for miles here, up and down the coach. These are communities that survive on their beaches. It will be a long time of recovery. There are trees, power lines, roofs, fences, walls, tons of small damage like that across a wide swathe of the area. Authorities now trying to go through, assess everythi...