Weather advisories for several mountain counties right now. You can get Severe Weather alerts for your neighborhood sent straight to your phone. Sign up under the weather tab on wsoctv. Com. Well, this midday the panthers are sticking up for their quarterback cam newton and theyre also cleaning out their lockers after a devastating super bowl loss. In the past half hour, panthers head coach ron rivera spoke to the media for the last time this season. Eyewitness news anchor Brittney Johnson was there as the coach thanked fans and says hes all ready looking forward to next year. Reporter certainly looking forward to just wrapped up the press conference here. Entire team. Including cam newton. And the players told me its bittersweet for them as they clean out their lockers after loss. And we were inside of the locker room a little earlier as they signed one anothers season. They told us its tough to wrap up the season with this loss but they showed a lot of pride for season theyve had. And they told us theyd get over the loss by focusing on the future. Cam newton opened up to the media about his post game performance. He says it happened. He doesnt have regrets. And he doesnt like to lose. He talked about the constant comparisons to other quarterbacks. I have a mentality, i have a standard that i set for myself, and im not going to bend or break, you know what im anybody. But at the end of the day, we had an unbelievable season. Reporter less than 30 minutes ago coach ron rivera wished newton responded differently but they appreciate having a player that doesnt like to lose. They do support him. As you heard at the top of the show, the players were chanting we love cam. Were going to talk more about let you know what coach ron season. Well have that on Eyewitness News at 5 00. Brittney johnson, channel 9 Eyewitness News. Were all ready ready for next season. Coach ron rivera said today he was thankful for these fans who lined up to welcome the team back last night. He and several players shook the bus. Waved. Fans wanted the team to know win or lose they still love the team. We want them to know that one game does not define how proud we are of our panthers. They worked hard. And they deserved to have this when they come home. Parents told channel 9 they brought their kids out last night to teach them that life is not always about winning and its important to keep trying. Channel 9s pair of road tripping photographers have started the long journey home. Carl and sean hit the road this morning and theyre all ready new at noon, firefighters rushed to this East Charlotte house after neighbors smelled smoke coming from it. Chris put out the fire on hartness avenue. Inside. The time. One student is in the hospital after two buses collided this morning in west charlotte. Middle school. There was no visible damage to the buses and 40 students were on board at the time. Cms leaders say the student was taken to the hospital as a precaution. Voters are lining up to vote in the first president ial primary in the nation. Voters have been casting ballots as early as midnight. Jacqueline fell shows us how the candidates are making their lost minute pitches. Reporter more than 40 of voters in New Hampshire are independent. Candidate regardless of political party. Lines are starting to form at the poles in New Hampshire. Election officials are anticipating record turn out today. Donald trump is all ready launching an election date tweet storm. Mostly directed at jeb bush. The two turned to name calling and taunting. Im not afraid of donald trump. Hes like a child. Hes like a spoiled child. Donald trump, youre the loser. For bush and other establishment candidates like john kasich and chris christie, New Hampshire is make it or break it time. Plenty of dramas all ready surrounding todays primary monday night, donald trump participating in a vulgar exchange with a supporter targeting ted cruz. And marco rubio with another blunder at a rally repeating the same line twice. On the democratic side, Bernie Sanders has held on to a dominating lead over Hillary Clinton in the poles. In washington, jacqueline fell, channel 9 will keep a close eye on the race and break down those results for you tonight at 10 00 and 11 00 on Eyewitness News. For the first time, we are hearing from the father of a murdered teen. Im pretty sure i could get answers out of him. What he says about the College Student charged with her murder and what he believes his daughters last moments were like. A controversial plan to protect charlottes Lgbt Community. The reason some leaders feel railroaded. Were not seeing much snow charlott led by a drop in oil prices and tech stocks. The dow is down 77 points. And now below 16,000. And the nasdaq is down 14 points. Tonight the cms board will decide the next steps in its search for a superintendent. Theyre expected to vote on whether to offer current superintendent anne clark a contract extension. The vote will likely be a close one. July. Tonight leaders will also discuss proposed Student Assignment goals and a budget overview. Count on channel 9 to follow all developments out of tonights meeting and break down the decision tonight at 10 00 and 11 00 on Eyewitness News. Charlotte city leaders will revisit a controversial ordinance meant to protect the Lgbt Community from discrimination. Last night Charlotte City leaders decided to vote again in two weeks. The ordinance provides protection in various places including at a business, in a taxi, and a public restroom. The decision to vote came after leaders claim critics voices the feelings that many of them have have been completely shut out of this conversation. I resent your implication that we are railroading this. The vote on the 22nd will include a public hearing for people to share their thoughts before the vote. The father of a murdered teen is speaking out about the Virginia Tech student charged in her death. Id like to be locked up in the same cell with him. He took my little girl. The steps her father took to try to protect her months ago. A car crashed into a local broadcast. The reason station officials he reason station offi now at havertys furniture, its our annual president s day sale. Which means its the perfect time to create the perfect home. Now through february 15th, everything in our store is on sale. Plus, were offering thirtysix month, no interest financing. Come in today for our best prices of the year. Even when life isnt. Sfx knocking. Were early the president s day sale. From classic to contemporary, havertys. phone ringing you cant deal with something, by ignoring it. But thats how some president ial candidates seem to be dealing with social security. So our next president needs a real plan to keep it strong. elephant noise donkey noise hey candidates, answer the call already. Welcome back. Were giving you a live look at king street in boone. But you can see theres still snow coming down there. It looks like crews have been able to get the snow off the side. You can still see it on the rooftops and the awnings. Other areas in the mountains having some travel impacts because of snow. Were going to get the full forecast from meteorologist keith monday in minutes on midday. The father of a murdered 13 yearold is speaking out for First Time Since her death. Two Virginia Tech students are facing charges in nicoles death. Her body was found in North Carolina 80 miles from her home. I bet she fought like a i mean shes my kid. Investigators say David Eisenhower had an inappropriate relationship with nicole on social media. Her father told dr. Phil her family tried to step in after finding out she was talking to older men online. They even took her phone away at one point. Her father says he wishes he had done more. Id like to be locked up in the same cell with him. Im pretty sure i could get answers out of him. He took my little girl. Investigators told abc news eisenhower admitted he saw nicole the night she disappeared ask gave her a hug before he went home. One of her friends said she referred to him as her boyfriend. The other suspect charged in this case is accused of helping eisenhower plan the murder. Investigators still have not released a motive. New at noon, North Carolina regulators are fining duke energy nearly 7 million for pollution from the 2014 coal ash spill into the dan river. Today. It says it covers violations. Duke is reviewing the fine to determine whether to fight it. Today president obama will budget request. The plan includes a 19 billion dollar increase in cyber agencies. That is up more than 35 from last year. It includes 7. 5 billion for the fight on isis. It also calls for a 10dollar per barrel tax on oil to pay projects. Rock hill leaders are putting a Massive Development project on hold for now. Last Night City Council delayed the final reading for the Knowledge Park master plan. Our partners at the harald tells us the city is considering changes to the project and financial agreement. The plan calls for a mix of shops, and Housing Construction should begin later this year. Today a charlotte radio different studio after a driver slammed into the building in the middle of a live show. Listeners even heard the wreck. About the car hit the espn 730 studios on moorhead street in uptown yesterday afternoon. We spoke to the Operations Manager who said he has been worried about Something Like this happening. Weve been concerned about it for a while, jokingly concerned about it. Never thought that it would actually happen. But i can be rest assured, hopefully well have some guardrails up to prevent Something Like this from happening in the future. One person had minor injuries and went to the hospital. New at noon, more people than ever went to North Carolinas state parks last year. 17. 3million people visited the states 39 parks. Thats up 11 . And its a state record. Visits were up 35 at lake Crowders Mountain state park. Meteorologist keith monday is tracking snow in the mountains plus a deep freeze thats going to impact our neighborhoods for several days. Were behind yesterdays pace of a warm up. Its beginning. Its going to keep going. Lets take a tour of live Early Warning doppler 9. All of this is not hitting the ground. Its just too dry for this to make it down to the ground. And if we do see anything, flurries. So were seeing all this further away from the radar, up north into claremont, cheryls ford, catawba county, over to clouds. It picks up that snowfall. Once you get into the over that. So youre seeing lighter snow amounts. But this is the place where its snowing much more. They have higher humidity in the mountains. The snows really coming down. Look at the low humidity numbers, 35 in charlotte. That number will go down in the our air will get dryer. Youll feel your hands drying out here. Its going to get worse as the dry air comes this week. Thats going to limit us to flurries for the future cast through the afternoon. Its looks impressive on the forecast but its not going to be anything at all. In the mountains, we should see an easing of snow into the evening. But itll add up more in here. The lower elevations, an inch or less, on the west side, a couple inches adding up. I checked at beach mountain, they reported about six inches of snowfall. So weve probably all ready seen a couple inches on top of that from what we had this morning. Not done yet. Were at 40 in charlotte. Low 20s in the mountains. The numbers crash quickly. Once the sun goes down, well stay around 40 all afternoon. Freezing. Down further tomorrow morning. 21 in charlotte. Low teens if not Single Digits in the mountains. Well touch on this today at 5 00 how the windchill in the mountains will get severe as we work our way into tomorrow. This was interesting, john ahrens found this this afternoon. Were at 36. Denvers doing it to us again. They get to 70 tomorrow. Theyre seeing nice warm weather out west while the east is seeing this big cold plunge. And this is going to stick around well into the weekend. Stay on top of the forecast, its going to be cold for the next several days. Get the latest on our wsoctv weather apps. Our fiveday forecast with the weekend in view, highs in the 30s, 17 on thursday morning and barely close to 40 and the weekend is another reinforcing shot. Cold air is coming in for weekend plans, violence valentines day is going to be really cold. No more talk about denver. Were thinking, where is it warm, denvers warm. All right keith. Thank you. A devastated mother and father are sending an urgent warning to other parents. They lost their son after he got hooked on a substance you may know nothing about. We didnt know what was going on with him. We asked. He said im hooked on this stuff. When you lose a child, it completely rocks your world. Its being advertised on road signs all over our area. Today at 5 00, 9 investigates the danger plus whats legal and whats not. Nine assaults on local Prison Guards including a stabbing with a homemade knife. The steps officials are taking heres a look at the he an anson county prison has more guards to day after a spike in Violent Attacks during the past week. In a 9 investigation, we learned inmates at lanes borrow Correctional Institution in polkton assaulted nine guards in one case a convicted rapist used a homemade knife. The officer had to be flown to the hospital. Neighbors are worried about safety. They dont have enough security in the prison. Weve been telling you for years about problems at the prison. In 2014 someone stabbed an administrator in the neck. That same year federal and state agents took control of the prison because they thought inmates smuggled cell phones to plan attacks. The state says the additional officers will stay at the prison until the threat subsides. Leaders are also reviewing their policies to make sure employees are safe. We have linked our past lanes borrow going back to 2014 to wsoctv. Com. You can see our reports on the home page. Tonight you can weigh in on a plan to lower the speed limit on a busy Cabarrus County road. Midland town leaders are considering dropping the speed limit on Bethel School road from 45 to 35 miles per hour. Independent tribune, theyre building a park there, and they want to make sure people are safe if they walk there. Tonights meeting is at 7 00 at town hall. Renee elmers is wanting to prevent hundreds of troops from being relocated. She met with military leaders yesterday at fort bragg. They announced theyll deactivate the reserve group and move soldiers to other stations. Congress woman elmers calls it a huge mistake. This is based on 2013 numbers. 2013 decisions being made. Were in 2016 now. And were faced with global never seen before. Elmers wants the decision put on hold until a new president comes into office and until the military can prove training for fort bragg para troopers will not be jeopardized. Breaking news in huntersville, police just confirms to channel 9 theyre investigating a robbery on the cpcc campus in huntersville. This is an active investigation right now. Were not sure at this point if the campus is on lock down or if anyone was hurt. We will update you at 5 00 and also on our website, wsoctv. Com. More and more americans are giving up their u. S. Passports. A cnn money Analysis Shows more than 4200 people turned in their passports last year. A 20 increase. 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