Have to deal with the repercussions of a robbery. A small fashion boutique in the heart of the south end, the owner is doing everything she can to make sure shes protecting herself and her business. We have a camera system we have a camera system, alarm system. We have a way to monitor our store from our computers and our cell phones as well. Other Business Owners say the best defense is power in numbers, which is why they are working hard to police the neighborhood with their own eyes and ears. As a neighborhood, w if we see any suspicious, you know, activity, just definitely call the police or, you know, let somebody in the store know. Now, the manager at the common market, which is another local business right here in the south end, told me over the phone that over the past two months, they have had two overnight breakins. They said they are doing their own business. Luckily, no one was injured, but police are still on the lookout away. We will bring you updates on the our website. For now reporting live in the south end, jenna caiazzo, fox 46, wjzy. Thank you, jenna. No one was hurt in the two recent robberies, but police do ask anyone who sees anything suspicious to call crime stoppers. This just in, a late breaking update to a health alert we brought you yesterday. Health officials tell fox 46 they are investigating several possible cases of the mumps in our area. They say there are 6 probable cases in Iredell County and one in another county. Currently there are two confirmed cases of the illness in mecklenburg and Iredell County. The cases are related to each other. The sickness is spread by saliva or mucus from the mouth nose or doctors urge people to seek medical attention immediately. Health Officials Say your best defense against the virus is to get vaccinated, wash your hands with soap and water, sneeze and cough into a tissue or your elbow and avoid sharing food and drinks. State officials have released a photo of what the new congressional districts in North Carolina could look like. There are changes being made to the 1st and 12th districts. The 12th runs through Mecklenburg County. The proposed changes would essential sently make essentially make Mecklenburg County its own district. The Supreme Court ruled the districts need to be drawn by this friday. They say the districts are illegal because they were drawn based on race. Imagine being told no, you cant build a home where you and your family want to moveve that could happen in york county where leaders are talking about freezing construction on new homes. Caroline fountain is joining us live in fort mills to explain why. As you can tell, in back of me, traffic keeps getting worse. Property taxes keep going up. And construction is practically everywhere. And thats why county officials are looking to possibly pull the plug on new homes in the area. No matter where you look, in fort mill, construction seems to be happening everywhere. The cost of living is getting too high. Taxes are going up. Just need to chill out for a little bit. And all of that brings a lot of this. A lot more traffic, a lot more accidents. It is taking longer to get places. It used to take just a few minutes to get to the other side of town. Now it is taking almost half hour. To curb the growth, York City Council is considering freezing housing construction. To shut it down, i disagree with. But long time developer who also happens to be a state representative says that would i hate to see a freeze going in. I hate government dictating that. I think thats for the private sector, thats for the customer to decide. Norman adds saying no to new housing would also have a Chilling Effect on the economy. On a Single Family house, you affect over 200 different trades from carpenters, landscapers, architects, furniture, carpet. To put a freeze, you put a lot of people out of work. Now, the details on this potential housing freeze are still in the works. County staff are putting together a proposal that county officials will be potentially voting on april 1st. Live in fort mill, im caroline fountain, fox 46, wjzy. Thank you, caroline. Representative norman added the legislature is looking at ways to increase funding for roads in the state, though hes not in favor of raising the gas tax. Senator marco rubio is getting a boost in his campaign as he stumps through South Carolina. Governor nikki haley plans on endorsing the florida senator at an event tonight in lexington her endorsement is considered the most coveted among South Carolina politicians. Former Florida Governor bush is making a stop in rock hill tomorrow evening. It will be a town hall style event scheduled for 5 30 at the magnolia room off laurel creek drive. Bush was supposed to have an event yesterday in rock hill, but it had to be postponed. The South Carolina republican primary is this saturday. Several candidates stumped their way through the palmetto state today. We will have more on the race for the white house coming up a little bit later in the show. A mining developer that was practically run out of town appears to be back at it again. This after neighbors in harrisburg fought back against a proposed mine and won, so they thought. Now the company has come back with another plan. Robin is joining us live in the newsroom to tell us what has neighbors so upset. Hi, robin. Hi, kayla. The neighbors were worried that a rock quarry would ruin the air quality, do environmental damage, and destroy their are experiencing the same fears all over again. Its a pretty quiet town. And it is clear neighbors want it to stay that way. Theres already some industry on mulberry road in harrisburg but there are also a lot of houses nearby, and the kind of industry thats been planned in the past neighbors. I think were seeing two things. The first is we dont want to buy what youre selling. And the second is truthfully we may live in small town but were a lot smarter than you give us credit for this past fall an Engineering Company put together plans to site. People living here blasted the company for wanting to bring in explosives for the mining and also for their attempt to put an asphalt plant. The developer pulled the plans after the public outcry. But guess what . That same company is back at it again, now trying to rezone this same pasture land to industrial. It is very scary. Were right back to worrying can anybody be outside . Children, pets, elderly people . The planning director for the town of harrisburg says they would be willing to put a condition on the agreement that would not allow for mining or blasting, but the developer tells me he doesnt have plans to do that anyway. Develop an Industrial Park or, you know, basically to create jobs. Jerry says he wants to grade this land and prepare it for resale as an Industrial Park. He also wants to haul out the soil to offset the cost of grading. But neighbors think its a back door way to bring back mining. A lot of things can happen when were not looking, and that is what is scary for us. They will continue to fight, fearing an unwanted neighbor may move in. Now there will be a neighborhood meeting tomorrow night at 7 30. It is at the harrisburg town hall. The developer plans to meet with neighbors then to talk about the project. Live in the newsroom, robin thank you, robin. Tomorrow is just a neighborhood meeting. They would have to have a public hearing before any rezoning could or would be able to take place. Still to come, several animals died when a charlotte barn went up in flames. Witnesses describe what happened as officials investigate what caused that fire. And people in union county dug up their Family History today trying to track down their slave ancestry. Coming up, find out how they uncovered years of rich history, and hear from the librarian that helped them along the way. Hey, brian. We were sunny and in the 50s today, and the temperatures, well they are going to continue to climb before some changes next week. A traumatizing and tragic start to the day for one charlotte family. Charlotte fire says their barn off oakdale road went up in flames shortly after 6 00 a. M. Neighbors say they woke up to the sound of horses kicking and saw the barn fully engulfed. They say two horses, puppies and an adult dog were all inside at the time, but it was too hot for the families to open the doors to save them all. All the animals lost were family pets. The little kids didnt want to see that, so i took them over to my house because they just didnt want to watch it or hear the animals crying. The parents, they dont speak much english, so they were just crying. It was hard to get them to stay the fire marshal was at the scene along with animal control to investigate. Theres no word just yet on what caused the flames. During these coldser months during these colder months, trouble with car theft is heating up. Because of that cmpd partnered with quiktrip locations this morning in hopes with curbing the trend. Giving drivers a tip in safety encouragement. If you showed officers your coupon. Over a threemonth period, cmpd says 85 vehicles were stolen with keys left in the ignition. Thats a 67 increase from the same period last year. Police say this has happened in private driveways and public areas. Typically when someones left their car running to warm it up in the winter temperatures. We caught one driver doing just that when he ran inside for a quick cup of coffee at the quiktrip this morning. I shouldnt, but i do. Why do you usually do it . Just in a hurry. Now, that was at the quiktrip off wilkinson boulevard. Officers also covered some Crime Prevention topics handing out information to drivers. No charges will be filed against the bus driver who hit and killed a North Carolina second grade teacher. 28yearold Brandon Kincaid died after being hit by a daycare bus last tuesday. This happened in the meadow lane elementary parking lot goldsboro. School Officials Say kincaid was in his second year of teaching. Although it was a Beautiful Day in charlotte today, some places in our area are still dealing with the aftermath of winter weather. Watauga county schools will be running on a twohour delay tomorrow morning. Lets head over to chief meteorologist brian basham who has been tracking your accuweather forecast. Hey, brian. Hey, there. I know we saw sunshine today and we saw temperatures in the 50s. Tonight as you head out and into work and school tomorrow. Keep in mind were still freezing. However, we do haveome warmer temperatures during the daytime hours, especially as we get into the weekend. Excellent news on that front. But want to point out we do see some more rain moving back in to play next week. It does have the potential to be some heavy rain. Keep in mind, thats still a ways off. We will address that more as the week wears on. Lets take a look right now from unc charlotte. Gorgeous shot here. Look at all this sunshine in the area. Again, temperatures in the 50s, 52 degrees and we see wind speeds moving at about 6 milesanhour. Winds will be out of the north for tonight, but then we will see a shift coming up here this week that is going to affect the temperatures. Now, where do we go from here . If you are stepping out tonight, maybe taking the dog for a walk, going out to dinner, keep in there. We will be into the 40s starting at 7 00 p. M. And 49 and temperatures will drop fairly quickly here over that stretch, down to 39 by the time we hit 10 00 p. M. Continue at about 5 or 6 milesanhour so winds not too much of an issue for us. Now, lets look at the weekend here. Chances of precipitation from now in through saturday look pretty good. Dry over that stretch. We will start to see some rain chances at this point sunday, still most of the day looking pretty good. But monday and tuesday were at a 50 and 60 percent chance of rain. So heres whats going to happen over the next little bit. We will continue to see clear skies for the remainder of tonight. We still see a little bit of cloud cover up in the north, but the snow chances are essentially moving out as well across the areas that did see some snow. About 3 inches of fresh snow here over the last 24 hours up in the mountain ranges. As we get into tomorrow, High Pressure down to the south of us will kick the winds up to the south. Temperatures will warm into the 60s by the time we get into the weekend. Quick look at tomorrow, like i said, starting out at freezing. At 9 00 a. M. We will be back in the 50s. We have some more sunshine in the way. For next week coming up here in another ten minutes. Sounds good, brian. All new at 6 00, a union county librarian is setting her sights on the past in hopes of helping future generations uncover their Family History, providing a valuable lesson to a small group in the monroe librarys room. Neima abdulahi was there as people tried to find the missing pieces in their family trees. With every page turned, librarian patricia is helping this group find more about their history. Shes teaching them how to trace their own africanamerican slave ancestry with the resources in the room. You want to put her maiden name. I wanted to kind of fill in some gaps. Yolanda elliot says in order to know where you are going, you have to know where you have been. Im interested in going all poland says it is a little ambitious but it is worth a try. Out at the north monroe cemetery. Gives you a sense of being a part of the world and not something that was forgotten. People interested in tracing their africanamerican slave history can look through marriage records, obituaries and cemetery listings right here at the mn row public monroe public library. Page 6. Can i look up some of his siblings obituaries and hope that they have parents names. Allison rush created her own scrapbook with bits and pieces of her familys history. She knew where her mother and father were buried but she didnt know where her grandparents were buried. Shes come here in hopes of overcoming some roadblocks. Her difficulty she says once slaves became free, they either changed locations or their last name. They moved to concord and kannapolis and some of them went to north to pittsburgh, pennsylvania. On this day, shes looking for two specific people. Mr. Anderson hasty and his wife ms. Lucinda hasty shell says even if she doesnt she says even if she doesnt track them down during this visit, she will keep dusting off old books. Im almost there. Until her curiosity leads her to all the missing pieces. Neima abdulahi, fox 46, wjzy. The room is available for anyone to use. Although today was set aside exclusively for africanamerican ancestry. Officials made an announcement today, that a grant will be used for affordable housing. Each year the federal government distributes money under the indian housing block grant program. The money helps low income residents on reservations or in other native american or native alaska communities. Still to come, the first in the south primaries just days more heated between ted cruz and donald trump. We will explain what has lawyers getting involved now. And is the fight in syria becoming a contest between the u. S. And russia . Find out whats delaying ceasefire ag so far in the 2016 race for the white house, we have heard from the candidates, past president s and celebrities. Now you can add lawyers to the growing list of donald trump and ted cruz fight over legal issues surrounding a campaign ad. Fox news correspondent joel waldman has the latest on this. Would President Trump ban partialbirth abortion . Well, im very prochoice. Ted cruz defending his campaigns new 30 second spot highlighting Donald Trumps past comments on abortion. The commercial airing in South Carolina in the wake of Supreme Court justice antonin scalias death, stresses the importance of the president s next the ad ends with a narrator saying trump cannot be trusted with these serious decisions. You know, i have to say to mr. Trump, you have been threatening frivolous lawsuits for your entire adult life. Even in the frivolous lawsuits, this takes the cake. A trump attorney sent the Cruz Campaign a cease and desist letter threatening potential lawsuit citing defamation. Anything. He will say donald trump doesnt like the 2nd amendment. It. Where does he come up with this stuff . While jeb bush engaged in a celebratory South Carolina with older brother george w. , he continues to lag far behind in the palmetto state polls ahead of saturdays republican primary. Democratic side where Bernie Sanders has closed the gap on Hillary Clinton in nevada. Im going to work on this every single day. There is good news for Hillary Clinton. In many of the so called States Holding primaries in march where she continues to lead sanders by a wide margin. In washington, joe waldman, fox news. New york city leaders are urging washington not to cut antiterror funding. Mayor blas yoe, senator mayor de blasio, senator schumer say the cuts would hurt the city in its fight against terrorism. They argue it would make them cut back on antiterror measures such as radiation detectors and widespread surveillance cameras. At the very time when our security concerns have increased because of isis and lone wolves, were cutting the funds and not cutting them 5 or 10 , but close to 50 . It makes no sense. Officials say if the Obama Administrations proposed cuts to layoffs at the office of emergency management, limiting training exercises. The Syria Ceasefire agreement appears to be falling apart. Russia continues to bomb the city near the turkish border. President obama is questioning the russians involvement in syria, but the president insists that this is not a contest between the u. S. And russia. Russia has been propping up assad this entire time. Th