The hildebran town hall building. Christine Brody Oconnell following the details now in the alert center. Brody, what do you know so far . Brody this is up near i40 off i40 near morganton at the hildebran town hall. Here is the map giving you an idea where it is while i give you the latest details. We called dispatchers to see what was going on, we reached an official who gave us the address of 202 center street. We specifically asked if this was the town hall that was on fire, dispatcher said they were responding to a fire at the town hall, which is in a complex that shares office space with other buildings. So the town hall and other offices are located in a bigger building, that used to be the old hill Hildebran High School. Steve ohnesorge has done thorough coverage whether they were going to tear down the building. They are in the newer part of the section slate forward demolition was the oldest part of the build, built in 1917. Well bring you updates whether we get crews to the scene. John more breaking news covering for you out of huntersville. Firefighters remaining on the scene of a major house fire. This was the scene on devonshire drive at 2 30 this morning. No one was in the home at the time of the fire. One person ran to the scene to see if they could help, was treated for smoke inhalation, the home being reason oh renovated. Charlottemecklenb charlottemecklenb urg School Board Members will vote on Student Assignment goals tomorrow but first hearing from parents about the issue. Ashton pellom is live in charlotte with more or this so ashton, what are parents saying about Student Assignment . Reporter good morning, christine. Many parents agree that they want diversity in schools but it that is where some parents disagree. Cms hilled two forums yesterday, one at johnson c. Smith university and the other at old zion ame church. The concerns about busing come from a list of goals the school board laid out for the future. One was using Student Assignment to breakup clusters of poverty. Some parents hope the plan doesnt stigmatize their children. I dont want my baby to think, or any brown baby to think that they have to be bused to another neighborhood with people that dont look like them to be educated properly. If your kids were assigned over on this side of town they are not being sent to some hole where no one cares. Reporter we asked the School Board Vice chair if forced bus, if the board discuss had, she said they have not discussed the board will vote on the Student Assignment plan tomorrow and have until november 15th to finalize it. Well keep you updated. Reporting live, ashton pellom, wbtv on your side. Christine today is the deadline to fill out the District Survey about Student Assignment. The school board will hold two more sessions about the issue today for residents of district 5 and 3. The district 5 session will be held tonight at 6 00 at myers park baptist church. The district 3 session is set for 6 30 tonight at mayfield memorial baptist church. Stay with wbtv and download the news app to your smart phone, well let you know what happens when the school board votes on this issue. John also happening today the Charlotte City council set to contract controversial nondiscrimination ordinance. More than 140 people are signed up to speak about the proposal that would give more protections to the people in the lgbt community. Wbtvs Mark Davenport is covering this story for you this morning. He joins us live in charlotte so first time the order nan has beenordinance hasbeen debated. Reporter it was debated last year, voted down, went down by one vote 65. This time another life here and city council will talk about it again like you mentioned 140 people are signed up to speak tonight, that is a ton of people. Normally each person in Public Comment section is given three minutes to speak. Now it is one minute because of the amount of people, we also found out that hundreds more people will be outside in front of the Government Center behind me before the meeting, an hour before hand rallying. Well have a ton of people out here for this lgbt ordinance. Kind of understand what were dealing with this time around since it was in Council Chambers last year, the opponents thought the battle was over, advocates continued to fight to get leaders to take another look at it. Now a new mayor, several new Council Members, they may see things differently, one of the someone to use a rest room of the gender he or she identifies with. That was the reason the measure failed last year by the one vote. Also still a hot button topic this time around. Every person in our community in charlotte deserves to have same rights and advantages that every everybody else in the community does. We do know there is a risk that individuals who do happen tore sexual predators would be able to take advantage of this. Reporter now in the next half hour i want to you hear what governor pat mccrory had to say about the lgbt ordinance here in charlotte. He sent an email to two Council Members overnight. Well read that to you in the next half hour. Reporting live, Mark Davenport, john events will be held in support and in protest of the ordinance. Equality nc and Community Members will deliver petitions to support the ordinance. That will happen at 10 30 at the center. Then, this afternoon, the dont do it charlotte coalition will rally to urge leaders to vote no on the ordinance. That begins at 4 45 at the charlottemecklenburg Government Center. Christine history made at daytona 500 with the closest finish in the history of the Great American race. Chase elliott started on the pole in the first race in the no. 24 chevrolet. His day would end early when he got loose and crashed in the infield grass. Would finish 37th. Dale earnhardt jr. s day ended early crashing in the wall with 31 laps to go. The final lap, denny hamlin, who led the most laps in this one making a daring move, diving under matt kenseth, hamlin would race martin truex to the line and win by a hundreth of a second look at this photo finish. John incredible. Daytona 500 and first for Joe Gibbs Racing in 23 years. Preparation was great, my team was ready for anything. We didnt lose, even taking four tires when everyone in front of us took two. Spoil christine the series heads to atlanta. John a wild finish. Christine plenty ahead. John after recent break ins at local fire fire departments, firefighters at one station are protecting themselves, that is coming up after the break. Before we go to break, a quick check of first alert weather temperatures, mild, 59 in charlotte, a live look at i77 at woodlawn, no significant issues on the interstates this giving you first alert weather and traffic every seven minutes, welcome back to wbtv news this morning. John 12 after 6 00, several stories we want to you stick around for coming up in the 6 30 half hour. Today at 6 35, a man who rode with the uber driver hours before police say he went on that deadly shooting spree is speaking out and well hear what he says changed his mood. Some people dont like when others post about politics on social media, all new at 6 46, were Digging Deeper how to handle those posts. Christine now to the crime alert police are investigating a shooting that sent one person to the hospital in north charlotte. Police say two men got in a fight at the marathon gas station on north graham street saturday night, one of the men was shot in the arm, he drove himself to the hospital and police are searching for the oher man involved. John a crime alert at huntersville fire department, they are now parking inside the station. They posted a picture with sat state of affairs, a local fire station parking personal cars inside to prevent thefts, see something, say something. John youre never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic on wbtv news this morning. Be prepared for changes in the forecast here is meteorologist conklin. Al we have them as promised om last week, starting off with a wet stretch of weather over the next couple days. No rain showing up right now here in the metro area, so again coming down i77 or from the west side on 85, 485 all very dry this morning but a damp start to the day, the rain has been confined north of i40, you can see a stripe here right across watauga county, so 421 is wet, the parkway, spotty showers up there early this morning. Lets go through futurecast, more gray than anything, but notice as we go past lunch time we get in rain that starts to develop here to the south of us front that is coming through now well sensely allow for moisture to come up from the south through the afternoon and in to tonight. Keep that in mind. 50 hickory, boone, 50 salisbury, cooler north of town, 57 gastonia, rock hill and 58 right now down to the south in the gastonia area. 57 this morning, 62 lunch time, by late this afternoon, that rain will be moving in, so again our rain chances will be on the rise, mild start to the week, big thunderstorms possible wednesday, more on that in a couple minutes. Right now here is chris, first alert traffic. Chris al, thank you, first alert traffic sponsored by toyota of north charlotte. Well start with an injury accident on monroe road at ramah, expect emergency crews on the scene, just off of highway 74, independence boulevard. Looking live at i77 northbound going away at wood lawn, volume picking up but most of the major green this morning and we will swing in center city, no problems on the john belk or brookshire and 77 north and south through center city looking pretty good this morning. That is a check of testifying, will they prevail . Legal experts weigh in on cbs this morning at 7 00. Christine next at 6 00 were one day away from tipoff of the ciaa tournament, were on your side with a look ahead to the weeks events. Wbtv is always on your side, in is 6 16. Steve today is your lucky day. Woman surprised oh, my goodness mark youve just won a thousand dollars woman thatamazing that amazing shrieks woman ok, nice job. Mark, way better than yesterday. Maria, that delivery felt a little forced. And steve, steve yeah . Woman i am still missing that raw emotion. Woman pretty awesome for a tuesday, but tomorrow is hump day, so lets really bring it lucky for life. Win a thousand dollars a day, happy monday morning to you, as you look live on the hd tower cam, nice start to the morning. Fairly cool out there but things will get better as the day goes on and we have changes in the form of rain well keep you updated this morning. The Charlotte Hornets back in action looking for the fifth straight win on the road in kemba walk we are lead the way with 28 points while big al jefferson would add18 in the second game since returning from injury. They get the win 10496, next up, cleveland and lebron james and cavaliers, wednesday night. John a busy week at Time Warner Cable arena as the ciaa basketball tournament returns. Games tipoff tomorrow with events all week long. Teams and fans already checking in to hotels, looking forward a week that is more than just basketball. Families, a reunion, its basketball tournament, its alumni activities, professional networking all wrapped up in a weekend or week of activities. John the tournament has a huge Financial Impact on the city of charlotte, raised more than 20 million in scholarship money. Expect more traffic around hotels and Time Warner Cable arena where the games tipoff tomorrow. Al in short just a lot of fun. John a lot of fun and a lot of people. Al i hope they packed their umbrellas the first couple days. If they are returning, they know it, you get rain during the week and we have some in the forecast. We told you this last week, start off the first couple days on the wet side. Low pressure now over louisiana, you can see a frontal system stalled to the east of us, that will change things around here as we go through time. Now, yeah, low pressure is going to bring us rain but i tell you what, up to the north we have this area of High Pressure that is sort of building in as well, to the area, starting tomorrow. Temperatures will only be in the 40s across the area, so we have some changes afoot. No rain right now in the metro area, showers are spotty, light, mainly up across the mountains, 421 is wet around the boone area, take you up to boone. The rain falling now is resortcams. Com, bringing us king street in boone and you have a wet time of it but all rain, close to 50 degrees up in the mountains, problem is you hold there all day long with spotty patches of rain, 50 50 chance as we go through the day today. What about charlotte . A little sprinkle over the weekend, actually down for the month and for the year and the deficit for the year is about two inches. Well make a lot of that up Going Forward this week alone. Overcast conditions in charlotte right now, no rain is falling, our temperatures are mostly in the 50s, wind up damp and mild at the bus stop, rain chance is small, picks up this afternoon. Coming home from work and school, rain chances on the 59 today. Yesterday we hit 69. Through futurecast you can see the rain here tonight, we have rain some of it could be heavy, notice tomorrow, there is lots of gray but not much green. Were damp and chilly, maybe a spritz or sprinkle. A big area of low pressure will cut north of us. We go from the 40s to the 60s and then that opens the door for strong thunderstorms wednesday afternoon and evening. Very wet through wednesday night. Dry out nicely for friday and the weekend, rain totals could be approaching an inch here in charlotte through wednesday, and perhaps some higher amounts as we get across the foothills, depending on the thunderstorms. Anything today is light until very late in the day, midday high of 62, temperatures fall this afternoon. 40s tonight, 40s tomorrow, very spotty and light rain, good chance tomorrow, heavy thunderstorms wednesday, we dry out nicely for the weekend. 60 by sunday. Minutes away from weather and morning. Here is chris. Sponsored by toyota of north charlotte. We have an injury accident on monroe road at ramah. If this is hart of your morning part of your commute youll find delays there. I77 at woodlawn volume picking up running along smoothly here on area interstate, 485 looking pretty good, yet to see any volume delays on 77, a few slow downs providence road in toward center city, there is the accident on monroe road and a few slow downs toward wt harris. Right in center city the john belk, the brookshire again, no problems there. Thats a check of the morning commute john, over to you. John thanks, chris. Get over to Brody Oconnell, he is live in the alert center with new video and pictures of the houses the hildebran town hall. Brody Steve Ohnesorge sent in pictures, tweeted them out. Show them to you right now the first look youre getting here. This is hildebran town hall in a large complex here, in fact this is what they call the Old School Building complex, you might know it as the old hildebrand high Hildebran High School. The older part of the building we reported Steve Ohnesorge has done several stories they were considering tearing down part of the old part of the building which is not on fire, that was built in 1917. Right now they are actively trying to put out the fire, our Steve Ohnesorge is on scene tweeting out the pictures you see here. Well get a report from steve own own inohnesorge in a little bit. Christine the South Carolina republican primary now in the books. John now the democrats turn to focus on South Carolina, candidates are set to visit the palmetto state, plus, a look ahead to nevadas republican caucuses, youre watching wbtv news this morning. The time is 6 25. Lease a 2016 lincoln mkx for 399 a month christine governor pat mccrory weighs in on the nondiscrimination ordinance in charlotte, he said it will strain relationships between the city and state. John the man accused of killing six people in michigan will be in court today. This as we hear from the uber passenger who rode with him earlier that night. Christine politics and social media, all new, we are we have a closer look how to handle the issues. John thanks for waking up with wbtv news this morning here us, im john carter. Christine im christine sperow. We have breaking news of a fire at the building that houses hildebrans town hall, we have new video and working a live report from there but first, want to get you caught up on the forecast. Some of you about to walk out the door, here is meteorologist al conklin. Al we have a lot of cloud cover this morning a little spotty rain in the mountains. Very damp conditions here early this morning. There is the loop over the last six hours, just spotty, very patchy rain moving in the region. No rain falling in belmont as you look down the hill toward main street, right in front of city hall, traffic is moving along nicely as they make the right turn on nc7. 59 is where we wind up, in between a midday high of 62, rain chances pick up in fact look at this, 4 00 this afternoon on futurecast, going to be a wet evening. So chris, this mornings commute not too bad in terms of weather totally different story. Chris tonya may be busy come 4 00. First alert traffic is sponsored by toyota of north charlotte. Right now as al mentioned most of the major interstates are running smoothly and they are dry here across the charlotte region. Were looking live at i77 southbound coming toward you going in South Carolina, northbound certainly picking up, getting to see a little bumpertobumper traffic. An injury accident on monroe autocarp raroad at ramah. Log hill, uptown, 21 minutes, concord in center city, 18 minute commute. Lake norman southbou