To 40 shelby, gastonia, charlotte, cloud cover thicker, winds up more, not quite so cold, again the sun doesnt come up now until 7 30, we have a lot of time where we can fall off. Temperatures tonight or today getting back up to 58 degrees this afternoon, below average but improvement over yesterday. We should see a lot of sunshine today. Keep in mind, much colder tonight in the charlotte area, we have freeze watches and frost advisories in effect. Ill break that down in the seven day planner in a couple minutes. Back over to you. John thanks, al. Were working to learn more about two driverses who were killed in a headon crash on i485 in south charlotte. Troopers say the crash happened at 2 00 yesterday morning. One of the drivers going the wrong way on the highway. Wbtvs Christian Flores spoke to neighbors who say they are surprised crashes like this dont happen more often in the area. Happens a lot. Reporter the family is used to hearing about accidents. Daily. Gets chopped up during
Temperature tops off at 62. 55 at lunchtime. 60 at 3 00 p. M. Showers tonight. That will be the trend over the next several days during the afternoon and evening, well talk more about that in the full forecast in moments. In the meantime, if you have to get out the door, this is the person you need to hear from first. Thanks, dave. Good morning everyone. Things are moving nicely. Heading over to the cross bronx expressway where delays eased out. We have roadwork by third avenue in the westbound lanes. Right now, smooth sailing. But ill let you know in f. That changes. The goethals bridge, construction cleared. You can see cars and trucks along the span in both directions. Delays are easing out. Well have more weather and traffic coming up on the 4s. Thank you very much. Now that decision 2016. The race for president. Maybe its becoming more sordid this morning. Five states held primaries last night on the democratic side. Hillary clinton took every single one of them. Donald trump led
Valley, harmony, stoney point, we might have a black ice situation overnight t. Rainfall is still coming down in charlotte. Its less than it was. Heavier out to the east. Now pushing making more progress up to the east. And norwood, thats going to be the next spot between now and midnight. Were finally starting to see the edge of this rain move on and advance a little more, so that will be moving on orrnight and on overnight. But with these temperatures dropping down, we are going to fall down to or below freezing just north of charlotte. The areas i would be concerned about a hard freeze will be in upper iron dale county. It is not our first brush in with freezing temperatures over the next couple days. One coming up. Meteorologist christine will be tracking the temperatures overnight. A gunman is still on the run after a former cmd dispatcher was found shot in charlotte. He was near businesses and restaurants. Today Eyewitness News reporter elsa gillis talked to neighbors about the f
Brody this is mcneeley avenue, we have a crew there live on the scene. Were told apparently when firefighters got on scene they saw smoke coming from this house but from this live look you can tell no sign of flames, they are extremely close to the home indicating that there might not be any Severe Threat at the moment from any flames. Looks like they got it under control what may have happened but they have the caution tape up around the home, earlier we saw two to three fire trucking outs, noword on what caused this smoke or fire here, also no word on any injuries at this point. Iredell county communications have been helpful filling us in on the scene there and apparently this started an hour and a half ago athourandahalf ago. Back to you. Christine 6 02 right now. Police are searching for a man south charlotte this morning. It happened around 4 30 a. M. At the kangaroo express on park road at woodlawn. A man with a knife or screwdriver went in the store and stole an unknown amount
Its florida and ohio that everybodys watching so closely. Melissa russo is here to explain. Ohio and florida are winner take all for the republicans. That means mega delegates up for grabs, making those two states extra interesting tonight, they also happen to be home to two candidates fighting to stay alive. If marco rubio doesnt win in the sunshine state, its safe to say the sun will set on his campaign. Big questions on the republican side, will trump trump rubio in winner take all florida . He just might if enough voters like these come to the polls. Hes going to change this country. I want to see someone strong, a strong president. Not a weak one like weve had for eight years. Hell be the nominee. The biggest people in the party are calling. Paul ryan said he did in fact call trump to say the party elite will not overrule the choice of the people. The primary voters are going to make this decision. This is it not our decision to make. John kasich predicting hell grab all the deleg