Large tree that is across the road right now. It has been done since about 10 30 last night and as you can see, police are making sure drivers dont go into that area. You can see they have it blocked off until crews can get out there to remove the tree. Traffic team 9s mark taylor monitoring the situation. They have alternate routes for us just ahead. Part of a busy road in meyers park is still shut down. This is more than 14 hours after strong winds brought down this massive tree right into the road. Eyewitness News Reporter joe bruno is live at the scene for us on queens road near henley place. What is taking so long, . The crews will be out here this morning but in the meantime, check out how major, how huge and big this tree is. The tree is lying across the southbound lanes of queens road heading towards southpark. Across the carolinas, many towns and citys are dealing with damage from yesterdays storm. Channel 9 received these photos a fire broke out on the power lines near mack wood road. Crews were able to reopen wilkerson boulevard just yesterday, a busy road was shut down because power lines fell and poles were leaning toward the road. Many home owners are waking this morning with damage from fallen trees. One person we spoke with had just arrived home when a tree fell on his car. She sent me a picture of the car and i was just sh. And crews will be out here to clear this tree from the road this morning, but in the meantime, you can expect it to be shut down for your commute to work. Now, for alternate routes well send this over to traffic team 9s mark taylor. It is heading outbound or southbound. That is the issue heading out this morning. This is queens road at henley place which can be part of your which can include moorhead. Were talking about the closure, this is old potters road north of sugar creek. This is going to be your best bet around this closure. Something well continue to watch and give you perspective. This is on sugar creek south of harris boulevard up from christenberry road. This is king street in boone. The wind is whipping in the mountains. That is not all. If you look at the lights here, you can see snow is falling right now up in the mountains. Were checking with the schools in the area see if there are any delays or cancellations. None so far that we have found at this point, but definitely something well be keeping an eye on if they delay or close. Well have that for you. A wintery scene up in boone. The mountains and foothills have widespread storm damage yesterday. Wind gusts up to 40 miles an hour in some places took down a tree and power lines. Channel 9 they were inside their home when look what happened. This tree came crashing down on top. I heard a loud crack. Treat was blowing, the tree snapped and you heard crashing. The strong winds forced firefighters in hildebrand to back out of the old school building. There we showed it to you burning live on monday morning. Avery county, they closed, by the way, and asche county are on a threehour delay. Now were getting the confirmation. We put together an extensive slide show for you showing storm damage across the area you can find a link right on the home page, wsoctv. Com. A major shake up in charlotte leadership, city manager ron carlee announced he will not seek a contract extension. Channel 9 went straight to the mayor, Jennifer Roberts about the decision and the next steps. Eyewitness News Reporter angela hong is outside the Government Center in uptown. Of next. Stephanie, it certainly does and in this three page Resignation Letter to city council carlee reflected on his accomplishments and challenges during his three years as city manager. Specifically, he talked about the trial of officer randall west kerrick and transitioning Charlotte Douglas airport to new management and the citys budget crisis last year. There were times the members of city council were not happy with carlees handling of the high profile cases including the fire investigator who accused the city of wrongful termination and accused him for being responsible for the police chief monroe. We wept to Jennifer Roberts who told channel 9 that carlee has been a great public servant. Different ways, gotten us through tough issues and has been a great manager. Right now it is unclear if carlee will stay on as interim city manager until a new city manager is hired. Reporting live in uptown, angela hong, channel 9, Eyewitness News. Thank you, ang los angeles you can read the letter that angela. You can read the letter that carlee wrote. Look for our story on the home page. A source tells cnn republican may be looking at a republican to replace Antonin Scalia who died nearly two weeks ago. The white house is vetting nevada governor brian sandoval. He is a former federal judge and is considered a moderate republican in his home state. He spokesperson says neither the governor nor his staff has talked with the white house. The supreme courts doctor revealed scalia suffered from extensive medical issues that contributed to his death. Records list coronary artery some of the health problems. It shows there was nothing suspicious about the justices death. Bank of america is eliminating some of the positions in charlotte as the Company Continues trimming the work force under ceos push for increased sufficiency. They wouldnt say how many they were cutting. 10s of thousands have bee over the years. Meanwhile, Piedmont Airlines says it will add 300 jobs to the operations at Charlotte Douglas. That is a 25 increase of employees. Piedmont is a sub sidry of american airlines. They will be hiring managers and entry level ramp appeared Customer Service representatives. They will be at the job fair at airline is accepting job applications though. Were we put a link on ours, wsoctv. Com. Click on news and scroll down to latest links. People in belmont can meet the new police chief. Theyre holding a meet and greet to know the community. He started on the job earlier this morning. Clark previously was the police chief in Peach Tree City georgia. He wants to help the departrtnt move on from a rough year. The city manager requested a private company investigate the department. After that investigation, the former chief, charlie franklin, was fired. The city cited 16 reasons including harassing employees and being absent on the job. Todays meet and greet runs from 5 to 7 tonight at the Belmont Police department on chronicle street. We have weather and traffic every ten minutes. Here is meteorologist keith monday, Severe Weather center 9 still dealing with yesterdays Severe Weather this morning. The storm is way up in new england. Nice, clear picture, well see a few clouds off of the mountains. Theyre seeing more snow piling in from the northwest. The northwest flow of wind helps regenerating the snow. Ill show you futurecast in a moment. That may be the case all day today for you. Still breezy in charlotte but overall, positive changes as we work our way toward the weekend. More sunshine is moving in. Cool for now but ill talk about the late weekend warm up that may get us back outside before the weekend is done without jackets. Well get you back on the roads. Trees are down leading to traffic issues. Meyers park, this is something well watch as crews make their way out and start breaking up the tree. In the meantime, the southbound lanes at hinley place. Theyre backed up with the giant tree. If youre headed out, youll have to seek an alternate route. To set this up. Queens and hinley heading south. Providence as an alternate route. We have the tree up north off of sugar creek, this is happening on old potters road. Cut through around back towards sugar creek. This is happening on sugar creek south of harris boulevard and just above krisenberry road. An emotional reunion for a man who rescued a puppy. The positive signs the puppy showed when his rescuer walked into the room. The severe storms that pushed through our area that spawned a tornado leaving a path of destruction. The errand one manmade right before the storm hit that may have saved his life. Page land has been without a police chief for four months h x . Still following breaking news at 5 15. This is old potters road. Look at that large tree blocking the travel lanes. It has been blocking the road since 10 306789 you can see, theyre making sure that folks dont use that road right now. Well get alternate routes from traffic team 9s mark taylor in a few minutes. People m pageland want answers about suspended police chief larry brown who has been off of the job for four months. They held a lengthy meeting but they ad adjourned without getting any information. They left the community cleary frustrated. We was there from 6 30 until 1 oclock in the morning and they came back, no discussion made. No decision made. They wont release any inform. Chief brown did not return our phone calls or messages. We spoke with police tomorrow will rogers and told with police tomorrow will rogers and told us theyll update us. Channel 9 learned of the 12 cases mumps across mecklenburg, cabarrus and confirmed while the others are probable. Two cases had been linked to the lowes corporate headquarters. Count on us to bring you the latest number as soon as that information is released today. You can read more about the symptoms and prevention on our website. Wsoctv. Com. New this morning, preliminary data says the flu vaccine is doing a better job this year. The vaccine is 59 effective which is a big improvement from last winters brutal flu season where the vaccine was less than 20 percent efktive. So far effective. So far has been mild but hasnt reached the peak just yet. The International Monetary fund says the Global Economy is highly vulnerable right now. It is suggesting the u. S. And major governments come up with a con tin againsty plan to pro contingency plan to promote growth. The Lending Agency says the 20 safety nets if Growth Continues to fade. Channel 9 got an inside look at technology Mecklenburg County officials used during major weather events including yesterdays storms. Authorities with the Storm Water Services say they used real time rain and creek cages to monitor heavy rain fall and they have a number of cameras on creeks, especially in areas that have created problems in the past. We constantly keep an eye on these areas to make sure that the creeks are not flooding and that the people who live nearby are safe. Storm Water Services keeps a close eye on the popular sugar creek greenway because of the danger it could cause drivers. Take a look at this heavy rain here in North Carolina. Wow. The fayetteville resident shot this video on the cell phone as that really came down hard and fast. It is also forming a big, muddy puddle there on the grass. Much of the state saw heavy rain and high wind yesterday. Ten minutes. Here is meteorologist keith monday in Severe Weather center 9. It seemed like it came fast and in pocket s. It was in and out quickly. 10 minutes. That is about it. Were dealing with snow in the North Carolina high country. This is banner oak. Snow covered road down there. You can see the oak statute in downtown. Not a continue to of snow right now but it is building not a ton of snow right now but it is building up. It is near freezing in the mountains were on the low 40s. Even numbers you dont see that too ooven where everybody is about the same temperature. That is because the wind keeps the numbers consistent. The winds are gusting over 30 miles an hour down in monroe. 22 miles an hour winds in charlotte. 50 plus in the mountains and that is giving us a windchill in the low teens. Youll find Single Digits in the higher ridge tops. Gusty this morning, at least around 30 miles an hour at times. Were in the low 40s by 1 oclock. Plenty of blue sky today. It will be gorgeous out. There low 50s at noon. We warm into the mid50s today and still, 10 to 20 miles an hour winds in the afternoon. It will stay very breezy all day long. It is only the mountains that deal with the snow fall and maybe heavy at times this morning. The darker purple showing up on the futurecast. That would roll into the afternoon up there. It will ease later tonight, not before, producing at least 1 to 3 inches of snow on the lower elevations, higher ridge tops, 3 to 5 inches of snow. Theyre seeing spots in avery county. Higher ridges between 3 and 6. Pretty impressive. The weekend looks great. We warm things back up more on sunday. Were back to 665 maybe cool fort next 65 maybe cool for the next several days. Were seeing a lot more sunshine staying with us. Temperatures are going down, low 50s tomorrow. 20s saturday morning but then the 60s return into early next week. Well enjoy lots of sunshine, a few more clouds heading our way into monday. Time is 5 20. Lets get back there on the roads. Barricades are blocking the roadway in North Charlotte because of a tree that has fallen. This is along old ponders road. This will be just south of harris boulevard off of sugar creek so for a few folks making their way. This will be a big issue. It looks like theyre in the process or getting ready to cut the tree up. For now well get around this and this is your best bet heading towards sugar creek from old potters and then out of meyers park we had queens road blocked southbound at hinley place from moorhead street which you can use heading south to moorhead or use providence road. Well continue to update you it on twitter as things come in trafficteam9. This sixweek old puppy shot multiple times with a bb gun will soon have a new home. Ahead at five 45shgs the reason rescuers 5 45, the reason rescuers chose this new forever family over hundreds of other applicants. The new Student Assignment is months from being finalized but it is causing divisions. The drastic measures that could split up the district. Dow is down 40 points, the nasdaq is down one points. Mecklenburg county Health Inspectors spend every day checking out the sanitation of the local restaurants for your safety. 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They submitted an application to be one of the 20 daily round trip flights to the country, if approved, they could start as early as next year. Last week, the u. S. And cuba agreed to resume commercial flights in the latest effort to reestablish a relationship. Well also find out soon if any flights from charlotte will head to the country. American Airlines Says it will also apply to fly to cuba from miami and at least one other hub. It will announce that other hub after the application is submitted. A Granville County family is picking up what is left of their home after a tornado destroyed it. When you look at this, it is not real. Next and all new this morning, the last minute out of the home before the storm hit. Still very windy out. There especially in the mountains. Gusts over 50, im using futurecast data to show you how long it takes to get the winds to relax today. Some local up tos are threatening to pull out of the charlottemecklenburg school im angela hong live in uptown, phone ringing you cant deal with something, by ignoring it. But thats how some president ial candidates seem to be dealing with social security. Americans work hard, and pay into it. So our next president needs a real plan to keep it strong. Answer the call al. This morning were tracking strong winds across the carolinas. Wind gusts as high as 50 miles an hour in the mountains. When those winds will begin to calm down, and the major warm up ahead for the weekend. Only channel 9 was at a meeting with cms superintendent ann clark as she worked to ease parents concerns about Student Assignment. The drastic steps some towns are taking that could divide the district. Good thursday morning to you. Im stephanie maxwell. Im john paul. Lets check the first forecast. Meteorologist keith monday in Severe Weather center 9 and we are still seeing the powerful winds. The strongest of which are up in the mountains. We have now avery, Watauga County schools are out today. Theyre under a threehour delay. Well see if that changes. Winds in jefferson gusting to 55 miles an hour. 22 miles an hour gusts in charlotte. 32 into monroe. Not that bitterly cold. Most of us are around 40 degrees in the metro but youll cut that down to near freezing with the windchill to start the day today and it will be noticeably cooler all day long compared to the 70s that we enjoyed yesterday. We wont see that for awhile. Were looking at numbers in the mid50s. Breezy all day long. Well have timeline in the futurecast when the winds do relax. It may take awhile today and the outlook heading into the weekend as warmer weather will be returning. The time is 5 30. Lets get on the roads with traffic team 9s mark taylor to monitor the trees. One over meyers park weve been monitoring since yesterday afternoon and it i