To an already congested area. We have more with how the neighborhoods could be affected. Reporter park road and wood lawn are known as an area filled with traffic, but what added to that is additional new apartments. Leon and Beth Mrf Murphy have lived in madison park for 48 years and married 54. We first moved here, we were way out of town. Reporter the neighborhood is less than a mile from South Park Mall it used to be a dairy farm that belonged to Billy Grahams father. We had problems with trucks so heavy it broke the water lines to the house. And messed up the phones for a couple of weeks. A new one with 450 apartment and retail and restaurant space to be built near pfeiffer university, just a stone throw away from the neighborhood. I think it will increase the traffic. It bound to. Reporter Mollie Wright lives in madison park and jogs almost of day issue she likes the progress. What was there needed to be replaced issue new apartments be great there. Reporter but worries that people will use neighborhood to avoid traffic nightmare. It depends on where you live that will make a difference. Reporter the area has becomsat rated with saturate with apartment some were worried about a domino affect, encourages developers to william built more complexes. Kayla Council Voted to move forward with project. There is also space for a hotel, if the owners can find someone bill at 6 00, newly released test show high levels of lead in Drinking Water in 3 nearby subdivisions, the results were released monday, the lead in rock hill and columbia was up to more than 4 times the federal standard, the lead was from corroded pipes, the lead levels have fallen off the safe limit. The Carolina Water Service of required by law to notify homeowners of the finding. Kayla they want u. S. Supreme court to keep in place a court order that prevents primary elections in current boundary, to allow voting under the map a federal court ruling struck down the state a first and 12 congressional districts, due to bill a big day for mec Mecklenburg County. They also mention that programs are working to make sure that every homeless veteran is off the street through houses for heroes initiative, education and. And. And employment were talked about it. Reporter they spoke about universal prek and a push to put 8,000 people to work. There is no denying that reading and writing are the foundation of education, but we learned at state of county address is some kids are not at the level they should be. About 40 of children in third grade in Mecklenburg County read at grade level, that means 60 percent are not reading at grade level. Level. Gap they call for a universalfree kindergarten for all children. We know quality Early Childhood education is key to creating Economic Opportunities for people. Reporter it is not clear where money would come from, in his speech fuller said there would be no tax increase in this years budget. A Big Initiative putting 8,000 people back to work. There are 8,000 Jobs Available we have 8,000 people in Mecklenburg County who need a job. We can make that link between those two need it and the job. Reporter a program that would create a pipeline of applicants and employers with job training and retention services, the goal is to fill those positions within 18 months. And for the first year ever, the republicans gave their response to the state of the county address. Our fill on the fee with with the board. Reporter republicans called for a tax cut, one penneys worth and added these down on their luck should get help from the Safe Community not other government programs, caroline fountain, fox 46, wjzy. Bill thank you, unemployment has dropped to 4. 8 , country spends dollar 130 on park and recreation project, bringing Mecklenburg County to you has finished up first phase. On top of, that the Economic Task force will take a listening tour across the country through a series of community meeting. Kayla at 6 00, funeral for Supreme CourtJustice Scalia have been set, he will be led to rest saturday, the largest roman the 79yearold was found dead saturday at a ranch in west texas. Bill his death touched off a political battle over president obamas desire to name a successor, one of the topic that many of the president ial candidates are talking about as they stump through South Carolina. Candidates on both sides they all spent the day thinking of possible voters in palmetto state, just 4 days to go until South Carolina republican primary, coming up at 6 30 well see how candidates are still shoring up support. Kayla it has been 16 years since anyone has seen ash ashar degree. More than a year later, ash as almost white forced confessions of a latino in that same highway, for information related to disappearance that needs to ran arrest. Bill additional charges could on way for man accused of shooting and killing a woman in hickory, James Thacker is charges with assault with a deadly weapon. Officers say that two were involved in a domestic dispute, at the time of the shooting. No one at the school knew she was sick. It never affect her demeanor. Bill how a local school is pitch in addition to help a teacher who had a serious medical emergency. Kayla and a beacon in the night, coming up, heart warming story of a be owner west of charlotte who went above and beyond to help those caught increase crise during last nights storm. Brian we have more moisture moving in. Well let you know, right after i hope we have a buyer for the house. Me too what are the neighbors doing here . Bill hey i didnt know your home wifi could stream so many devices at the same time. 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Let you know what commissioners decide tonight at 10 00 on fox 46 news. Coming to caldwell county, Crystal Engineering is opening a Production Facility in the area, the Florida Based Company plans to invest around 20 Million Dollars at this site over a 5 year period. Crystal engineers make products that are integrated in to aerospace, automotive, industrial, medical, and telecommunications fields. Kayla tonight, in a fox 46 exclusive, a local community that is coming together to help a teacher in need. A favorite among first graders and teachers. Reporter in this first grade classroom, carey jones is a rock star, her students look forward to learning. For miss jones this is a special after a month of being out, the kids, no one knew what she was going through. No one knew she was sick. Reporter miss jones has been on dialysis since january, she said since then, her School Community has pitched in to help every way possible. We have a family atmosphere that supports each other. Reporter carey jones has been ashisher here at elan park for 3 years now, saying it has been difficult not being in the classroom for the last month. So issue teacher started donating their sick days to make sure she took care of her medical needs. Everyone wanted to pitch in. Her fellow teachers describe her as a energetic leader that goes beyond above for her students. Working late hours. Above for her. A go fund me page has been set up to help with her medical their efforts. They came to see me in the hospital, they took over my classroom, made sure that the subs were prepared. Reporter she waits for a donor to be the right match. I had a couple people reach out that want to donate. Reporter her struggle has been made easier to bear. System. Neima abdulahi, fox 46, wjzy. Kayla awesome, donated sick days will last her until march. So yesterdays weather was pretty nasty with the ice we had. And accidents. What a difference, with just 24 hours, we got rain moving in but it is nice. Kayla we topped out at 58, and it looks like it will be nice end to the week after the rain goes through for more we go to basham. Brian i know you were excited this morning, you saw the sunshine, thinking were scotfree, not so fast, a round of rain pushing across the area tonight then we get a break, they look better in the area, here is a look at your radar right now, temperatures were warm today, what were getting is rain, lets look at front inso far it has not moved in to 485 loop to the west but it will move in soon. Right now, gastonia, shelby, cherryville getting rainfall, it gets better further west. But light rain on front edge of this so far, it will move in to charlotte, not super heavy like last night. I do want to point out were getting snow up in mountain ranges again. If you are looking for snow, that is Beach Mountain up by boone. They will see another round of snow tonight, conditions should be good into tomorrow as well. Great news on that front, tracking what is going on. This cold front, a coldfront, now not that cold, the cold front part of stay to the south of us, a low pressure system moving over the top, bringing moisture across the area, hire is what is going on in mountains, one more time. That transition into snow. That is what were seeing with the white, temperatures up in the mountains, they warmed up above freezing but now they are dropdropping right about 36, dollars,35degrees in the north. We will see snow opportunities overnight in mountains, rain chance checks 10 chances that extend tonight. It model taking it north, across as we get to wednesday, it looks good. We have our sun back. 10 min us from the uts minutes from now, i will show how warm well get or weekend. Bill still to come, two years People Living in flint, michigan had a serious problem, a during that time, no one made it bill welcome back, the big question on flint water crises is do Public Officials have blood on their hand. Kayla every official knew about a legionnaire outbreak that kill 10 people. Bill it took two years to tell the public about it, what have they done about it. What is really going on. She elected not to be put on life support system be they put her on the cpap, it forced air into her lungs. She is on a mask with air forced in. She got to the point she didnt want to eat because she could not breathe. It was bad. Reporter 10 people died of gennessee county between 2014 and 15, 87 people were infected with the bacteria. Hunt may have been a victim. Main suspect the flynt river. According to government emails, federal bureaucrats knew about the outbreak, so did state and county official healths and flint emergency manager, and the mayor, and the governors people. Everyone was told it seems, except the citizens. And Governor Snyder himself. If you choose to take him at his word. Reporter you just became aware of this, everyone else has known about it you just are now aware. In terms of spike and specific numbers, i was told about this a couple days ago. Reporter people of flint are days, but an invisible killer, is it still in the tap water . Was it ever in the tap water, it is safe to wash . No one seems to know. No one is being told. Are you familiar. I am not. Reporter if you want to see a debacle the response has been, watch city councilman, representative of 11,000 people try for 2 days to get someone, anyone from any level of government on the telephone. A voicemail. This is city once councilman eric maze talking about communication about legionnaires it is important. I can give you i can transfer to his direct line. Okay. Not available. With someone now. Thank you. Please hold. I am sorry, that is not a valid option. Thank you for calling. Call the mayors office. Lets see if i get through. What i get through to. You have reached maybe i should walk down there. Can i communicate with her . She can call me. You know i can go to my office, and wait, im trying to communicate with someone to see where we are at. Im waiting on the call. Reporter can i ask you . Reporter can you tell people they are it is safe to drink the water. I cant, i have never told them that. You reached voicemail of jim henry with Environmental Healthy division. Reporter we went over to county health department, whose officials first detected the outbreak. Hello. Mr. Belichick and mr. Henry please. Let me see if they are here. Reporter did you put out that there is an outbreak of legionnaires disease. A 7 el question. Simpson el simple question. I want jim or mark to answer for you. Next time they are available. Reporter when . March one, that is how backed up we are. Reporter a bad week. A bad week. Is a good thing. Thank you. Reporter is the water safe to drink . No comment. What can i do . I mean, they will pay eventually. Flint, michigan, the governor, they will get their reward or payback, i guess. Reporter do you feel cheated . Yeah, because they took her out of my life away too soon. Kayla coming up president ial candidates for campaigning in South Carolina, and things between ted cruz and donald trump are heating up. Road to the white house coming up. Severe weather strikes in south florida, we take you to area where a possible tornado touched down. Brian that same system is behind us, rain tonight. And then they warm up, looking as we det to the weekend, i kayla welcome back, president ial candidates move through palmetto state ahead of sats republican primary, average of recep poll show ted cruz trailing behind donald trump. Bill the war between two escalating, we have latest from campaign trail. Reporter after repeatedly clashing during last weeks debate in South Carolina, the war of words between donald trump and ted cruz, is not letting up. I have never seen a human being lie so much. He cannot be trusted to nominate conservatives to the life he describe himself as very pro choice. Reporter frontrunner unleashes new attack on jeb bush who was joined by his brother george w. Bush. For the first time on the campaign trail last night. Both bushes responding to trump with strong words of their own. Strongest person usually is not the loudest one in the room. Reporter leading candidate for president said we dont need to increase spending but military. I guess he thinks he can use his real estate skills to bring to light the weapon seminaries to keep our work system, necessary to keep our safe. Reporter they are getting ready to caucus saturday in nevada. Clinton hoping to slowdown her rival Bernie Sanders following his landslide victory in the New Hampshire primary. Well, my campaign. Reporter senator Bernie Sanders is tied with clinton in South Carolina according to a recent newsweek poll, clinton holds a leada among africanamerican voters in washington, Peter Ducey Fox news. Kayla one town in union county has been named as one of the worst commutes in nation, according to a list populated on msn, average commute im in indian trail is about 29. 9 minutes, and 35 thousand people live in the town, number one on the list is temescal val valley in california. Bill a pennsylvania highway is scene of a massive pile up likely due to winter weather. Several cars and tractortrailers were strewn across out 81. Passenger vehicles were involved in the pile up well, 3 people suffered minor injuries, a witness said he cannot believe nearly everyone walked away from the wreckage. They told me nobody is killed that is really from what i have seen, i am shaken up but, that a miracle. Bill multivehicle crash comes three days after a deadly pileup involving dozens of cars on irk irk i78 in lebanon county. Oh, god, please, please. Oh, god. Kayla Severe Weather made its way across south florida, a possible tornado might have causes a tractortrailer to overturn on interstate, the highway of shut down for several hours, causing a traffic back up, parts of area experienced 60 mile perhour winds, Storm Survey Teams are headed out to brian you were saying that this storm this system likely affected us as well . Brian if you were up late last night, between 1 00 a. M. In the morning that big system came through with dropping a ton of rain, there was lightning, and sleet or hail mixed in. It went through quickly, but it was powerful. It dropped quite a bit of rain in a short amount of time we have a system that will roll through tonight, looking at your headlines, but tonight, were talking about showers. Showers at best, we have some sun working its way back to place towarding storm, you can work on your tan, it will be chilly but we have warm days ahead of us. Well get to that in a moment. I want to focus on rain for tonight. As you can see we have that grain moving in from west, green moving in from west that means rain that continues to be light will have tovillegastonia. It has not move intoed charlotte. It is getting cloudy, very dark, w