Precaution. Yeah it is a good thing. Im tracking the quiet conditions for the most part. Had light drizzle here an hour ago. As we arent seeing much of a wintery concern here this morning for the morning drive as originally thought. As you mentioned. D. O. T. Trucks were out in full force making sure anything that did fall this morning wouldnt lead to treacherous driving conditions. We caught up with a few of the tricks late last night setting down the brine, the salt. Making sure the roads were treated enough. Weve been talking with mark taylor. A couple of accidents out here early this morning and out here live, right above 277, the brookshire, travel looks decent. Were tracking everyone going out or just below the speed limit. We had light drizzle out here early this morning. Well keep an eye on the conditions out here this morning. Keith mentioned the chance for freezing rain as we head throughout the lunch time and afternoon continues. Although the travel conditions may not be too bad as youre mind, heading out for lunch. May run into icy conditions much well have a live update around 6 30. Reporting live in uptown, Christine Rapp, channel 9, Eyewitness News. Mark taylor monitoring hundreds of d. O. T. Cameras for your morning drive. Getting information about a crash on i77 in rock hill. It was reported on 77 southbound near anderson road. It looks like it will be further north on 77 southbound near dave lyle. The volume is light. Doesnt look serious. Drive Time Technology showing at 68 miles an hour. Use caution headed through. Stick with the interstate. No big slow downs. Im utilizing the road weather index to see what little bit of snow is falling up north and how it is affecting the travel on i40 towards hickory. Green conditions keith has been mentioning, this is fairly light. Were not seeing big slow downs at3 miles an hour on i40 between u. S. 321 and thorn burg drive. No accidents to report up towards catawba county. Right now, more snow is roads there already are snow covered. Eyewitness News Reporter joe bruno continues our Team Coverage live in blowing rock with a look at conditions there. Joe . Reporter here is a look at conditions if you were to be walking out of your house. Something you may encounter. It is about an inch and a half of snow on the steps right here. The sidewalk hasnt been touched. You can scrape the snow to see where the sidewalk is. The cars are covered in snow like this one parked here overnight on main street. Weve been told by all of the local schools that there are a lot of different closures Watauga County schools are closed. Avery are closed. If it sounds familiar to you that avery county schools are closed is because they havent been open since february 5th because of the mountain weather conditions weve seen. Here is a look at roads. This is one of the main streets weve seen plowed. You saw it live 30 minutes ago here. The main streets are passable wet as you can see right here. The secondary roads are where the main issues are. That is the primary reason why schools are shutting down because a lot of the secondary roads have not been touched at all. Well have another live report. Six crashes happened overnight throughout Watauga County. In boone there were none. Reporting live in blowing rock, joe bruno, channel 9, Eyewitness News. Union county schools are closed today. Within the past 20 minutes we got an update from the city of charlotte. City government will operate on a normal schedule today but officials are monitoring the weather and could make changes if necessary. All park and ride locations as well as light rail platforms have been treated. Cats buses are operating on schedule and charlotte d. O. T. Out treating roads. If you see any trouble spots, quickly. Channel 9 just checked and there are dozens of cancelled flights in and out of charlotte winter storms in other cities ohio. The cancellations include flights to many parts of the country including ohio and the north east. American airlines is waiving the fee to change your flight because of the weather. Airport officials have equipment ready to deice planes if needed. We have a crew on the way to the airport right now. Well have a live update for you in 30 minutes. You can always check your flight stattous wsoctv. Com. Scroll over the traffic tab. Overnight, the body of Supreme CourtJustice Antonin Scalia arrived in virginia after he died at a ranch in texas. The family has not announced funeral announcement. They havenot get an autopsy. He died of a heart attack on saturday morning. The justices death has Major Political is as well. Republicans want the next president to nominate the replacement. Choose the replacement and is urging them to be ready for the confirmation hearings. The Supreme Court will continue hearing cases with eight justices who tend to split down the middle. A year. 18 months, of 4 to 4 decisions bry a divided court is completely unprecedented. If the Supreme Court issues any 44 decisions, a ruling from the lower court would stand. Two North Carolina cases are making their way through the Supreme Court right now. One is about prayer in county commission meetings. The other is about redrawing Congressional District lines which has a fast approaching deadlines federal judges ruled North Carolina lawmakers have to redraw lines by this friday because current lines were drawn based on race. The naacp pointed to district 12 which winds from charlotte to greensboro. The federal court ruled the march 15th congressional primaries will not happen if there arent new lines. State lawmakers are appealing to the Supreme Court. What the maps should look like if they do have to be redrawn. Lawmakers are hosting a public hearing near uptown. It will be at 10 00 a committee will review comments tomorrow and could vote on new maps by thursday in the case. The skofrt does not over turn in the Supreme Court does not over turn the deadline. Those from the state senate will visit local classrooms. The board of education helped organize the teacher for a day program. Last year, channel 9 was with state senator jeff jackson as he spent a day in a classroom in mecklenburg county. At the time. Teachers challenged lawmakers to see what it would be like if the jobs. They put enough money in the budget to keep teaching assistants. Today the state Supreme Court will hear arguments about teacher tenure. They claim the 2013 law violated veteran teachers constitutional rights. Could cutoff career status for newer teachers but has to tleefb in place for veteran teachers. It makes it harder for teachers to get fired. It is not clear when they will announce the decision. Charlotte city leaders will decide if a Development Project weve been telling you about for four years will actually move forward. Leaders will vote on rezoning requests for sharon United Methodist church. Church members want to work with the developer to build restaurants, offices, and apartments as well as a new church facility. They hope it will help bring more people through the doors. Count on channel 9 to cover every Major Development out of the city council meeting. Watch Eyewitness News tonight at 10 and 11. Tonight people in davidson will have the chance to voice their opinion on a plan to build 300 new homes. They would build the west bench space on the road. They will hold an open house tonight from 4 to 7 inside davidsons town hall board room. Those who attend can review the plans, ask questions and share opinions. The u. S. Market is closed today for president s day but japans market surged after last weeks sharp sell off. Last week, the u. S. Dollar fell to a 15month low against the yen and they lost more than 11 but Major Companies like toyota andersony gained european stock markets sony gained europone stock markets. Here is meteorologist keith monday keeping an eye on the wintery mix. There are slippery conditions taking shape in cat bashgs northern iredell counties, weve had social media reports of a mix of snow, sleet, freezing rain. Let us know what youre seeing. Send ace tweet as well wsoc weather. While the conditions are bad up north now. Here is charlotte. It is fairly quiet for the Early Morning. Late midday, things will start up more. Well see a slick afternoon. Ill have the time on the futurecast around the corner. Well see what is happening on the roads for this morning. So far so good. No big problems in charlotte blocking lanes or causing slow downs. The accident on dave lyle boulevard is out of the travel lane. No accidents or stalled vehicles altering riding to or from york county. Youre at 68 miles an hour. Use caution. Weve been monitoring this accident ever since it happened this morning, close to 5 00. On the outer loop of 485 towards oakdale road. It is off to the shoulder involving an over turned van. No serious injuries and no delays. People who live in southpark are concerned about plans for two new developments. Ahead at 6 30, the partnership the developer believes will put the army will start using physical tests to screen new recruits. The reason behind this requirement and tasks new soldiers will now have to perform. Voters in South Carolina will see a new ad from Hillary Clinton featuring the husband of one of the victims of Emanuel Ame Church sho. Next this morning, the next this mo steve today is your lucky day. Woman surprised oh, my goodness mark youve just won a thousand dollars man thatamazing that amazing shrieks 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,. A Statesville Lumber Company is investigating reports of trains blocking part of a statesville. Residents say Norfolk Southern planes often block part of amity hill road. Sometimes they block the only way in and out of the community for 20 to 45 minutes. The trains are headed to gottfried lumber company jie man charged in robberies will be in court. They charged lewis fife. They linked him to this robbery at bb t on Mallard Creek last month. Police arrested fife during a south carolinians will see a new Hillary Clinton ad that features the husband of Myra Thompson talking brt call he about the call he got the night. Hillary clinton is committed to taking guns out of the right hands. This is not sitting well. They hope the talk about the gun violence will benefit people across the country. South carolina had the highest number of officer involved shootings last year. Since officials first started tracking them back in 1999. New data obtained by the state newspaper say there were 48 cases in 2015. In of those, suspects pulled guns on officers. Sled says the shootings are up almost 45 from 2014 when 18 officer involved shootings were reported. Pilot to turn around a flight from lopdon to new york. The london to new york. It was en route when a laser was pointed at the plane. The first pilot reported feeling unwell. Authorities say laser incidents are on the rise. Pilots in charlotte reported 33 incidents in 2014. A laser beam can temporarily disorient and blind pilots. If anyone is caught and convicted, that person could face a hefty fine and prison time. Mooresville School Officials say a new Software Program is adding extra layer of safety to school issued computers and emails april according to our partners. District official realize using i new monitoring app called gaggle. It looks for words that are inappropriate. The student is also notified. If youre headed to raleigh think twice. D. O. T. Officials closed a portion of i440, i540 highway 64 because of slick roads there. You can see from this picture here, several cars have slid on the roads and crashed. In fact, the d. O. T. Says there are more than a dozen crashes being reported at this hour. Weather and traffic every ten minutes. And that is what were concerned about here in our area. Here is meteorologist keith monday in Severe Weather center 9. Yeah, theyre seeing a the light precip north. It is coming off of the roads off the i40 corridor into raleigh. That is going north of us now. As our day goes on here, we expect more of the moisture to stream in. More slick travel can form here and the city goes on especially this afternoon. As far south as you head down around weddington. You may find a few flakes through middle springs over toward monroe as you head on the highway here on 75. Unionville. Also towards albemarle. Light snow flakes out of mid land. Falling for sure. Up to the north. This is a wintery mix. Checking with viewers saying were seeing a mix of snow, you name it. Around hickory and morganton. Inch of snow. Watch out for this this morning. The amounts are light. But with so cold temperatures it quickly. Same thing for the mountains, were seeing a break in the activity. The atmosphere up above will warm and that means more sleet and freezing rain will form in the mountains and little additional snow is expected up there. More of a mix is expected. 28 in charlotte with fairly quiet conditions. Same in concord and albemarle. The low 20s up north take the little bit of snow and whatever does fall. It sticks right away especially on untreated surfaces, a burst of snow may cause the salted roads to ice up a little bit. Here is how things break up. Morning and will pick up through midday. Could be slick because wez stay below freezing all day long. Not only until Late Afternoon and evening do we get above freezing. We have more issues than what were seeing in town for now. Here is a mix of the snow and sleet. Seat pink forming in the metro, were talking about minor accumulations of that. It will change over to green tonight. That is the good news. This will go back to just rain fachlt the only additional snows rain fall. The only additional snows in the mountains it will only add up to 1 or 2 and the ice accumulations around town, not a lot. Youll see little adding up in the form of a few hundredths but it doesnt cause a lot to cause slick travel to form. Well watch this throughout the day. The fiveday forecast. The weekend always in view. We warm up tonight. Going up into the upper 30s tonight. It changes to all rain through early tomorrow morning. 50s tomorrow afternoon, sunshine through the weekend and 60s are back in place. Lived. It is in the today event. It is still evolving and developing here into the city. Our time is 6 20. Roads. Were watching things closely. We have a new wreck in west charlotte. Medic has been called to the scene. This happened on old doud near Josh Birmingham ham parkway. Look out for. That were not seeing any huge delays but something well continue to watch on old doud. Wilkerson is headed out from little rock road. 85 from gastonia this morning it is quiet here. Were between 321 and uptown. Youre at 68 miles an hour. 18minute ride. No big slow downs here. Once you hit 77, smooth sailing the interstate northbound. No issues to report from the state line all the way up to the john belk freeway. Older americans are dealing with more debt than ever before. Ahead at 6 30, the top two factors contributing to the increase. Specif. Iredell countys 5th Charter School will open this summer. Our partners at the statesville record and land mark say the Iredell Charter academy plan to open the doors for the 201617 school year. The Charter School will provide Cambridge University a approved curriculum instead of a state issued curriculum. It will start with k through six before adding 7 and 8. It took 140 firefighters to battle a massive fire at a home in brooklyn, new york. You have to see this video. This started before 11 00 last night. The fire spread to two other buildings nearby. They finally got this under control about 1 30 this morning. Officials say four people, including two firefighters suffered minor injuries. Just hours away, in massachusetts. Cold temperatures caused problems for firefighters bat allege this deadly fire. Regulators and tanks kept freezing up. He slipped on the ice. One person was killed in the fire and the cause is under investigation. Were following breaking news happening right now in syria where weve learned 10 people were killed, including a pregnant woman and three children after four rockets struck a Doctors Without BordersMedical Clinic in northern syria. The bbc posted this picture here of the clinic it is on its website. You see it there. All of the damage that the rocket caused and the collapsing part of the building. The british based Monitoring Group says russian war planes were responsible. Starting this summer, army recruits willlave a new set of gymnastic sets to help determine which military jobs theyre physically capable of doing. Respective soldiers will be asked to run, jump, lift weights and throw a heavy ball. These tests come as the pentagon opens up combat posts to women setting physical standards that men and women will have to meet. Tonight, charlotte leaders controversial developments in southpark. The steps the developer is taking to ease concerns about congestion if the project is approved. Weather warnings across the map for everybody. Well explain how a few folks are having trouble now and could see bigger issues later toda