Transcripts For WSOC Eyewitness News Daybreak 500A 20160303

WSOC Eyewitness News Daybreak 500A March 3, 2016

We are working to find out the relationship between the victims and suspect. In Caldwell County a man is in custody accused in a stabbing that left a mother and her child with serious injuries. Overnight we learned it may have stemmed from a domestic incident. This is the vote that dave faherty sent us along Fairway Acres drive. Investigators say the suspect stabbed a woman inside of her home. They say a toddler was injured and airlifted to the hospital. Investigators say they were checking a younger child at the scene for possible injuries. Throughout the morning on daybreak, channel 9 will push for more information about both of these breaking news stories. We will bring you new developments as we get them on air and online at wsoctv. Com. A Company Connected to the for bankruptcy. Joe bruno is live on i77 in corn knee use to explain the situation. Reporter the governor ordered a review of the contract. The order comes after a company that build an austin, texas, toll road declared bankruptcy. That company falls under sentra, the same company that overseas the Mobility Partners. Head of the ncdot is flying to texas monday to meet with that states transportation leader to talk about legal and Financial Options with i77s contract. On tuesday, i uncovered how much money the i77 Mobility Partners are expected to make from tolls. 5. 1million in 2018 and when the highway opens 24. 6 million in 2019. 77 will end up in a similar situation to what is happening in central texas, renewing the call for ncdot to get out of the call. We should cancel the contract now. We shouldnt be doing business with a company that has a track record of failure. Reporter dot secretary says the governor has directed us to immediately review every available option both legal and financial to reassess the i77 Mobility Partners Business Model and current contract. They said, quote, the current contract protects taxpayers from financial losses. This isnt the first central highway to go bankrupt. A similar project being run in indiana went bank result in september of 2014. Joe bruno, channel 9 Eyewitness News. Count on channel 9 to keep digging for impacts this could have on knowles charlotte. They expect to charge a driver that caused a crash. Police have not identified the 18yearold driver. He was speeding when he lost control and crashed into the woods. 15yearold evan chay died in the back seat. She was one of three students in the car. When you needed somebody, you went to him. When you were upset you go to him. The two other students in the car were seriously injured. Police expect to charge the driver when they are released from the hospital. The family of a hit and run suspect hired an attorney after this video was seen showing a officer punching him repeatedly. Angela hong is live outside of headquarters. The mother wants to see the body cam video. John, thats right. Malcolm elliotts mother does not condone her sons behavior saw in the video. We first showed you this cell phone video tuesday. It shows seven officers trying to arrest elliott after a hit and run crash. One officer hits him with closed fists several times while he is on the ground. Channel 9 is the only station hospital yesterday. He didnt say much to us but his family has hired a lawyer. His mother wants to see the body camera footage. Its not available to the public because its part of the investigation. It didnt take that Many Police Officers to apprehend my son because my son is tall and he is very small, very skinny. Rodney moore is looking into drafting a wall that would require more transparency when it comes to police body cameras. We reached out to city leaders and cmpd. They are not commenting until the internal investigation is complete. In the next 30 minutes, hear and what he had to say when i asked him if the officer went too far. Angela hong. A man accused of beating his uncle to death in west charlotte two years ago is expected to enter a plea. Police say orlando neil murdered his uncle then set his body on fire. We told you a judge found kneel competent to neil competent to stand trial. He stopped taking met indication for his mental illness. An economist will release the Quarterly Outlook for North Carolinas economy. The Economic Forecast measures issues like employment, energy and trade. You can count on channel 9 to be there and bring you what he has to say starting on Eyewitness News at 5 00. The Rock Hill Planning Commission will take up a proposal to build a 70 million complex next month. Bring hundreds of residents and jobs to the catawba river area. They want 150 condos, 150 apartments and hotel and office space on cherry road. Construction could start this year. New this morning, North Carolina state environmental regulators will hold a public hearing on an asphalt plant. We told you the county planning director revoked the permit for the plan on highway 421. Last month the adjustment board overturned the decision. People that want to speak have to register. It begins at 6 00 on west king street in boone. New information in the search of Malaysia Flight 370 that disappeared two years ago. Officials say they found a piece of the wreckage from a boeing 777 likely belonging to flight 370. An aviation source told cnn boeing 777 missing that part other than 370. Take it apart and see if there are any serial numbers on it. They can confirm whether its from the plane or not. The debris appears to be a piece of the tail that helps control a motion of the planes nose. This could be the first discovery since july when a piece washed up near reunion island. Now weather and traffic every ten minutes. Here is keith monday in Severe Weather center 9. We are seeing clouds. Its cold. Maybe the clouds coming through will stop us from dropping further. We bombed out near freezing bottomed out near freezing. The radar picked up mouse stir in the moisture in the atmosphere an evening rain chance with this weathermaker. Ahead i will show you the timeline and the future tracker when high tide rain starts up much warmer air will be back in as we get ready for the weekend. Mark taylor is in the traffic center. How are things moving along. Moving along. Lots of room for independence commuters moving out. Dry and clear this morning. If you are heading out in the next couple of minutes, a smooth ride. No problems as well as the outbound commute. We will check some of the drive times. Green conditions for the interstates secondary roads in charlotte. If you are heading inbound u. S. 74 this morning, 48 miles per hour. Under 15 minutes from 45 up to the john bell came berkshire. Out to 277, about 53 miles per hour. This is both directions whether you are on the out loop or inner loop of the book shore. A teenager home alone when a man broke out this window and climbed inside. I flipped out. Ahead at 5 45. The way he convinced the suspect to leave and how police were able to catch up to him. A bill in the South Carolina house would mean children have they are 13 years old. They i think we shouldve taken a left at the river. Tarzan know where tarzan go tarzan does not know where tarzan go. Hey, excuse me, do you know where the waterfall is . Waterfall . No, me tarzan, king of jungle. Why dont you want to just ask somebody . If youre a couple, you fight over directions. Its what you do. If you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. Oh ohhhhh r its what you do. An Armed Robbery in the charlotte. A live look at the scenes. Crews just got there 7eleven. You can see its an active scene. Likely interviewing the clerk inside. Here is what we know at this point. Police tell us four people went in there before 4 00 this morning. Ago. Two people went in the store and they robbed the clerk at gunpoint. The good news here, no one was hurt. Officers say the suspects then drove around the corner. While they sat there, a police dog tracked them down. Police say one of the suspects is 15 years old. We are getting video of the suspects in custody right now. We are working to get that turned around for you in the next half hour. But apparently they have caught their suspects and they are still investigating. This morning we are pushing police for the names of two shooting at a south end shopping center. A witness said it was a chaotic scene on south boulevard. It happened near a popular bar in the shopping center. A bartender said he knew something wasnt right when he saw what appeared to be a group of men in a bar waiting for a man that walked in. The bartender said minutes later he heard gunshots coming from the parking lot. After like the fourth or fifth shot and the kids were running across the parking lot. From chopper 9 sky zoom you can see markings throughout the parking lot. Police told us two suspects are in custody but would not release names or charges. The man accused in a deadly shooting in North Charlotte more than a year ago is scheduled for a plea hearing. Police arrested johnny young. They say he shot and killed a man on julia avenue and injured a woman. Today marks 25 years since the incident that prompted the los angeles riots. Recorded video of Police Beating rodney king in l. A. King lead officers on a high speed chase after a dui traffic stop. Then they stopped him and he lurched at one of the officers. A taser didnt stop him and officers beat him with a baton. The officers were acquitted and that set off the riots. We are learning details about video that shows a Baltimore Police officer slapping a teen. Take a look. You can see the officer slap him three times then kick him as he walks away. The Baltimore Sun reports the officers were responding tuesday to a report of two intruders at this school. There is dispute about whether the teen is a student. His friend is the one that recorded the video. City schools say this is a criminal investigation. Encouraging voters to say yes to a bond mess stir. If approved the college would get over 7 million. The school would use 3 million to renovate campus buildings and another on the Fire Training facility. The schools Cabarrus County facilities would get three million dollars. Piles of rubble remain as some North Carolina residents try to rebuild after an ef3 tornado rolled through. They are working to save any memories possible. I came home and look at this. They are great people. Nearly 100 volunteers showed up to help yesterday as residents have a long way to go in the cleanup process. Its quiet here but cool. Weather and traffic every ten minutes. Here is keith monday. 30 in the con cords. The mountains and high clouds spill in it will likely cap the drop in temperatures. It may not go down much more from where it is now but cold enough. 30s by 9 00. Sunshine mixed with the thin clouds early in the day. Clouds will thicken up quickly into the afternoon. 40s by midday. We are dry. By 4 00 light rain will work in from the west. Highs at 51. We might 54 yesterday afternoon. We will start to fall a little further down the scale today as the rain chance builds in. We will be dry to start out. If you are aware from home all day long, take the umbrellas with you. Rain chances build in with clouds thickening up by 3 00. Still dry but 5 00, 6 00 light showers. By 8 00 most of us have rain and the mountains, you have the snow to deal with. That will be with you for a good chunk of the night as we you may get a few flakes around taylorville working to the predawn hours of the morning. Light rain in charlotte. That shifts out about time for the morning drive. You may wake up with wet roads. By 8 00 the sun is working back in. The mountain snow is beginning to wrap up. I dont see any big threats with this coming through. Low risk for any heavy rainfall. Quarter inch, maybe half inch in a spot or two. Little to no chance of lightning. Low end risk for winds. Severe Weather Threat kept down. In the mountains, another 1 to 3inch snowfall. We dry things out quickly for friday. Sunshine returns. The weekends looks spectacular with the temperatures back in the low 60s by sunday. I will touch more on this in the next half hour. More significant warm up likely coming the middle of next week. Temperatures go up to the mid 50s tomorrow. Clouds late in the day on saturday, 58. Then the 60s into next week. Middle 60s are back as we head into monday. We may even see 70s before next week is done. Time is 5 20. Back on the roads for thursday morning drive. Conditions this morning, up north, south of the University Area near mall la creek church, northbound commute about the same, dry and clear. We havent seen any big problems. Toward concord we have roadwork. We will touch base on that in the next ten minutes. For now smooth sailing for the interstates. All travel lanes are open southbound into charlotte. That includes cabarrus. 77 near john belk, no delays. Too early for that coming northbound from the state line. Iredell to lake normal, nice a 16yearold confronted a suspect after he found a burglar climbing through the window. I came outside and grabbed the ball bat. The way the fathers routine helped police nab the suspect. A violent take down caught on camera. Was this Excessive Force . Ahead at 5 30, the questions investigators have to consider before decide figure this was justified. We are learning new details shooting at north lake mall. Ooting at north lake 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 alittle forced. And steve, steve yeah . Woman i am still missing that raw emotion. Woman pretty awesome for atuesday, but tomorrow is hump day, so lets really bring it lucky for life. Win a thousand dollars a day, new inside into what officers think might have lead to a deadly officer shooting Christmas Eve. Prosecutors said the man, an off duty cmp officer shot and killed may have brought a gun to the mall to avenge a shooting that paralyzed his brother. This is video from Christmas Eve when Thomas Ferguson shot and killed a man after investigators say westbrook fired in the mall. Westbrook was preparing to shoot at someone from a rival street gang. Ten berry, the suspect involved in this shooting on the brookshire freeway last move. That paralyzed westbrooks brother and left another man seriously injured. It was revealed during the bond hearing yesterday. He is charged with two counts of attempted firstdegree murder and still in jail this morning. People are able to access criminal records across North Carolina thanks to a new modernized search system. The upgrade began in november and running in all 100 counties including mecklenburg. It offers a quicker search and costs about 1. 2 million to complete. The iredell Sheriffs Office closed down part of the crime lab because it costs too much money to keep the chemical analysis portion open. Now the sheriff says they will let a private lab handle Blood Analysis and testing. South carolina lawmakers Child Safety Seat laws that would mean more time in rear facing seats. Next and new this morning, the way some pediatricians say the current law is causing problems. Chilly out there today. The outlook for next week, much warmer. How high the mercury climbs this weekend. An officer is under video your buddy ron once said he could install your ceiling fan. He couldnt. And that one time ron said another chili dog was a good idea. Yeah, it wasnt. So when ron said youd never afford a john deeretractor, you knew better. Now ron does too. The e series. Legendary john deere quality. Unexpected low price. E series compact tractors come with ost po a Violent Police take down caught on cell phone is raising questions about the use of force. The criteria investigators will use to determine if the officers actions were justified and the reason they are not releasing the body cam video. Early voting across North Carolina for the president ial primaries. Channel 9 is breaking down the changes and what you need to know if you plan ongoing to the polls. Keith monday is in Severe Weather center 9. You can feel it outside. A shock to the system. The temperatures are dropping all night. Upper 20s in the mountains. Warmest spot on the map is near freezing in valentine and matthews at 33. A lot of chill but its dry out there other than high clouds working in now. It will be a quiet start to the day. The amount of sunshine will be limited. This afternoon the clouds will be overcast and we will not see sunshine for the drive home. We may see a few raindrops. We will show you how quickly the rain chance builds into this evening and how many we build into mountain snow tonight. Lets head over to mark taylor for another update. Construction wrapping up and scheduled until 6 00 this morning up north in concord. The ramp from 29601 to 85 northbound blocked. That was scheduled to last from midnight to 6 00 a. M. If you are heading out in the 73 to jump on 85 alternate route. South from 29 Dale Earnhardt boulevard back to 85 to get around that are which should be wrapping up. On the other end of 85 from gastonia, we are checking conditions in gastonia near new hope road from 321. A quiet road. Cleveland county in towards Kings Mountain and making the way to here, too early for slowdowns as well. Channel 9 is following stories for your day ahead. In a few hours voters across North Carolina will cast ballots for the pre

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