Transcripts For WSOC Eyewitness News Daybreak 500A 20160311

WSOC Eyewitness News Daybreak 500A March 11, 2016

77 from mooresville to huntersville 65 Miles Per Hour less than ten minutes and if you are heading out closer to town by the john belk freeway a light amount of traffic flow heading southbound and the state line heading northbound out of york county heading up towards charlotte. No issues. Stephanie . Right now im in the breaking news center. We were on scene after a man was shot twice and car jacked in west charlotte about two hours ago. Joe bruno is with police as they search for evidence and the suspect and you just got some new information for us, joe . Yeah i am told the victim is going to be okay. He was shot in the arm and leg and taken to the hospital but in the past ten Minutes Police have really shifted their investigation. What startth here at roseland avenue where the victim was looking for help. They are still not sure where he was shot. They shifted the investigation over here to turner avenue where they just picked up the markers stretch for about 900 feet down to rosals ferry road where the victim was taken to the hospital. If you check out this video we shot we were on scene as they were loading the victim into the ambulance to bring him to the hospital. The victim was a Security Guard working when he was shot in the arm and a leg by a man who also car jacked him and the car they are looking for is a silver toyota controlla. They do not have a suspect description. They are trying to work with the victim in the hospital to learn more about what led up toto the shooting. Continuing to be here live on the scene with any new information that we get from police. Reporting live in west charlotte, joe bruno channel 9 eyewitness news. This is the 6th shooting in charlotte just this week. Yesterday someone shot and killed Michael Jefferies junior in East Charlotte. Two other people went to the hospital. He was stepping in to help his mother while she was arguing with her boyfriend. Will be charged. Six people were hurt in four shootings across charlotte tuesday. Police have not arrested anyone for those shootings. Duke energy is dropping prices for everyone North Carolina. By next year bills drop on average 3. 11 a month or around 3 because the company is saving money on natural gas at their power plants. We asked about regrouping the cost after last months wind storm. They have not ruled out asking for a rate increase down the line. Parents have a lot of questions after cms Board Members laid out the results of the Student Assignment survey. Dozens of parents packed into the board meeting. Tina terry is live outside the Government Center in uptown to break down those results. Tina . Yes good morning. This is a copy of that 250 page report that School Leaders here were waiting to receive. Survey results of more than 27,000 people. Board members are considering how best to improve academic schools. The respondents found most important in the school 80 said the staff. 75 said School Environment and 67 said location and how close schools were to home. Some parents concerned about the possibility of busing students further away are left with a lot of questions. It was slightly skewed to say the least but i think they kind of started realizing that this evening depending on how you manipulat the data is going to be how you take away or have something to take away from that. Yes and several meetings are scheduled to further discuss Student Assignment. Coming up in 20 minutes we tell you how local towns are responding to the survey. Reporting live from uptown tina terry channel 9 eyewitness news. Today a federal panel will hear arguments about whether North Carolina lawmakers should again redraw the districts. They mapped after being ruled racially bias and opponents say the new districts are still unfair. The new map puts alma adams greensboro home outside the district boundary so she said shell run for reelection and move to charlotte. Youd have to get to know new people. Thats always a challenge for anybody running in a race. Alma adams does not live in charlotte. How can you represent people when they have no relationship to them. Malcolm graham is running against adams. Congressional primaries until june 7 so tuesdays votes in those wont count. The judges hope to rule about the maps by next friday. President ial candidate ben carson is expected to endorse donald trump after last nights g. O. P. Debate in miami. He mostly stuck to his policies as did Ted Cruz Marco rubio and john kasich. Trump suggested to pull u. S. Military support in germany and south korea and end common core. Marco rubio asked about the comment islam hates us. Did you mean all 1. 6 billion muslims. I mean a lot of them. I know a lot of people think he says what people wish they can say but president s cant just say whatever they want. People are scared and we faced terrorist attacks and president obama lectures americans on islam phobia. Rubio is done with the personal attacks on donald trump. Today president ial try to rally in raleigh about accountability, Immigration Reform and the primary is on tuesday. Hilary clinton is leading in the polls and promised to fight the states voter id law. We are not going to be intimidated by these restrictive rules being imposed unfairly and i would argue unconstitutionally. Clinton said she would work to increase teacher salaries and expand Early Childhood education. American airlines has signed a ten year lease with Charlotte Douglas airport. The Worlds Largest airline has been in contract talks with the city for several months. The previous lease was set to run out this summer. That means charlotte will be able to keep its status as americans second largest hub. City council documents show the airline has agreed to invest in 500 million to future expansions at the airports according to the Charlotte Chamber American Airlines employees more than 10,000 people in the queen city alone. It has 150 non stop flights from charlotte to destinations around the world. Charlotte douglas hub status is the reason they are here. The new lease will still need city council approval. It is on the agenda for monday nights meeting. Over the next few months people in york county can share their thoughts on what roads need the most improvement. Leaders are touring the county through august to come up with a list of pennys for progress a one Cent Sales Tax Program to fix the roads. It will go up next year. A 400 million attempt is now on the states house. The senate gave approval yesterday. They take money from the general fund instead of raising the gas tax. Nothing bill and people could expect bad roads today tomorrow and in the future in the state. Democrats say this bill does not address the states long term funding needs. The Carolina Panthers have resigned joe webb to a two year deal. His agency tweeted earlier this week he had signed the deal. Webb has not played qb for a snap during the regular season but has done well returning kick offs covering punts and playing wide receiver and running back in a pinch. The team signed gradkowski to a three Year Contract backing up kalil. Weather and traffic every ten minutes. Heres vicky graf and we are already starting out in the 60s today. It is already a warm start to the day and we do have clouds hanging over head but you can still see the uptown skyline so thats the good news there not dealing with fog as main concern will be in the mountains. Your bus stop forecast by 6 00 a warm start in the low 60s. Leave the layers at home. By 8 00 still hanging onto those clouds. As we go throughout the day today its going to be fairly cloudy but still warmer. Upper 70s today but tracking a threat for showers. These wont arrive until later today. A dry start to the day. By 5, 6, 7 00 we could see a few light showers but we are going to hold onto the rain chance for the weekend. Ill show you how long that rain will stick around up ahead. First lets get a look at the morning drive with mark. Monitoring work thats happening later today. Storm water work in uptown charlotte is going to Close College street heading northbound between east hill street and stone wall street starting at 7 00 p. M. Lasting through monday morning before it reopens. To get around it use south trion. That starts tonight and will last through saturday sunday if you are coming in towards uptown from lake wiley using 39, 26 minute commute right on schedule there and the 277 loop including the john belk around 56 Miles Per Hour with no issues. John . A man is behind bars accused of trying to car jack a woman in a drive through of a busy chickfila. You just come up and get something to eat without somebody trying to take your car from you. The one quick action the customer took to stop this before it started. A North Carolina promised tens of thousands of dollars in a facebook lottery. All new at 5 30 the convincing pictures he received from a woman claiming to be an executive and how he discovered it was all a scam. A charlotte restaurant while a charlotte restaurant i think we shouldve taken a left at the river. Tarzan 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. Ohhhhhh do you have to do that right in my ear . Take a look at this here. Cmpd investigating a massive corral. Again corral. 4 00 in this video you can see two employees fighting. A spokesperson for Golden Corral said they fired the employee responsible and the behavior is unacceptable. Customers agree. People bring their family here. To see this is just embarrassing. Some customers told us they dont plan on returning any time soon saying they dont want their children to see that kind of behavior. Right now no one is facing charges. Winthrop University Says it will install an emergency call box in the parking lot where someone tried to rob a student last week after someone circulating an online petition another student was sexually assaulted in the same area back in october 2014. More than one million tax payers are at risk of losing their 2012 federal tax refund. Those tax payers have not filed the returns due about three years ago. A three year window meaning tax payers have next month to collect more than 950 million. Channel 9 looked at carolina and 29,000 people didnt file. They are going to see an average refund of 619 a piece. In South Carolina more than 12,000 people didnt file. They would see 633 a person. There is an Alarming Number of stolen tax returns in the carolinas. The federal trade Commission Report found for 2014 and 2015 there was nearly 100 increase of Identity Theft complaints by people of North Carolina and South Carolina related to tax and wage fraud. Even the most cautious person can be impacted. You can do all of those things, be safe online and take care of your personal documents and still be a victim of Identity Theft. If it it happens to you recover from having your identity stolen. Find the link on wsoctv. Com. Click on latest links. Ash carter has approved final plans to open up all combat plans to women without exceptions. Carter said the first guiding principal is to allow leaders to assign tasks jobs and career fields throughout the force based on ability. The army and marine corps will integrate female officers and senior enlisted women into previously closed united and will assign more than one woman to a unit at a time. The Defense Department says the military isbeginning to check whether chemicals may have contaminated ground water identifying 664 of its fire or crash training sites including 26 in South Carolina. It says the services have begun the process of evaluating those sites to assess the risk of heres vicky graf in Severe Weather center 9. You are tracking showers for the weekend. Thats right stephanie. We knew this warmth would eventually lead to rain and thats what we are going to see today. Its a mild start to the day already. I had to double check the calendar its march feeling more like may with temperatures close to 80 degrees. Low 60s out the door this morning and the future cast will warm up quickly even with clouds close to 78 degrees in the charlotte area to lancaster, chesterfield, rockingham at the 80degree mark yet again. Low 60s in the mountains and see more clouds today to lead to some showers later through the afternoon. Your neighborhood forecast for chester is going to be dry early on by 5 00 still cloudy close to around 80 degrees but its after 5 00 after the evening drive when we see the chance for a few light sprinkles. We are dry right now and do have the clouds in place and little bit of sunshine throughout the day and i am tracking moisture to the west. Spotty showers across eastern tennessee. Some of that moisture will head our way today and the mountains will see the threat for rain earlier on so by 7 or 8 maybe a few isolated showers in the high country and towards lunch time still dry east of the mountains and foothills but cloudy. Temperatures will be warming up quickly through the afternoon. By 3 00 as the kids head home from school still dry but by 5 00 a few isolated showers along the 321 corridor. Youll notice very few so not many people seeing that rainfall today. As we head through the evening hours a few lingering showers but looking at a better chance for showers really on towards saturday and sunday. Sunday is the day to watch closely and thats when we see the best chance for rain. Showers will continue to linger on through monday. But taking a look at our threat tracker for the weekend really no problems here. But we are not expecting a wash out. Sunday will be the better of the two days for rain but we are not concerned with flooding and the severe storm threat will stay low. In the next half hour i break down how much rain to expect through the weekend. Dont cancel plans through the weekend just keep an eye on the skies and by sunday use the radar to track the showers. Dont forget to set your clocks forward an hour before you go to bed saturday night but staying warm over the next couple of days looking at 80 degrees by next tuesday. Weather and traffic every ten minutes. Mark has the morning drive. Good morning. Good morning. Checking conditions in East Charlotte on independence boulevard prior to the john belk d brookeshire freeway a quiet ride watching closely. Early morning problems that have wrapped up and not causing heading into town using independence. Matthews on u. S. 74 coming in towards uptown. 52 Miles Per Hour and 13 minutes. South charlotte coming in on providence road north of 4785 heading towards 51. 15 minutes with an average speed of 37 Miles Per Hour. Leaders in two local towns are pulling away from cms. Ahead on day break the tax headaches the split would create for homeowners and the lawmakers needs. It was a former sheriffs deputy who found them and called 911. I guess its the old cop in me. Next the one thing he noticed tipping him off that something wasnt right. Futures wall street hi, guys spring is almost here and youknow what that means easter is hopping along. So, if youre looking to stretchyour dollar this easter holiday, just look at these savings atyour local walmart. Charlotte, in headtoheadshopping, the total amount saved atwalmart vs. Bilo was 19. 25 thats 14 on thisweeks easter basket. Why shop anywhere else . Fill your basket with walmarts start shopping with walmartsevery day low prices today. See wh 5 24 now. Investigators are questioning a story after he killed his uncle in selfdefense. Chopper 9 was over head wednesday when they tried to bury a body in alexander county. The victim was herns uncle. A former sheriffs deputy was spotted the car in the woods. I would have called if it would have been an old farm truck in there because ive never in years and years of passing that location ever seen vehicles in there. Deputies say the couple got their car stuck on the property after dumping the body. Investigators checked hern but could not find any evidence he was choked. Deputies searched his home looking for evidence he was killed there. If the murder happened there the charges would be dismissed and the couple would face charges there. A u. S. Led coalition against the Islamic State says files containing personal data on members of the militant group could help crackdown on their networks. Germany has those files which they believe are authentic. Britain has 22,000 Islamic State files including names of the latest and largest amount of information found on Islamic State fighters. Turned over to the Iraqi Government the head of isis chemical Weapons Development units in a raid im northern iraq. The u. S. Uses information that he provided to conduct several air strikes against the groups chemical weapons facilities. A story you are seeing for the first time. A North Carolina man shocked after a facebook executive messaged him with very good news. I won 52,000 from the facebook lottery. All new ahead in minutes the red flag that made him reels it was allrealize it was all a scam and the response hes received from

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