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Stick on shamrock on the lapel. Top story is the show doane over president obamas nominees for Supreme Court. Judge Merrick Garland to meet with lawmakers. When judge garland goes to capitol hill he will meet with democrats and so far no republicans. Political lines drawn by the president and the Republican Senate and a critical seat on the Supreme Court for mow held hostage to president ial campaign politics. I simply ask republicans in the senate to give him a fair hearing and then an up or down vote. Reporter president obama Challenging Senate republicans to give his Supreme Court nominee a hearing. If you dont it will not only be an advocation of ....
This is i77 at west boulevard, light traffic through center city and looking at drive times, rock hill in uptown, 21 minutes, 67 miles an hour, that is as good as it gets out of rock hill, concord to center city, 18 and 67, lake norman southbound, 15 minutes, 65milesperhour. Christine, over to you. Christine a big night in campaign 2016 as North Carolina was one of five state where voters headed to the polls for super tuesday 3. John a Record Number of voters turned out statewide. 2. 3 Million People casting ballots. That is a 35 turnout. Similar to what we saw in 2012 in the previous president ial primary. Christine lets start with the president ial race, donald trump beating ted cruz in North Carolina. Marco rubio and john kasich as well, coming in third and fourth ....
Cloudy and cooler. We are at 72 on tuesday. 79 for the afternoon high. We fall back to 77 by 6 00 p. M. This evening. More on the forecast and when we could hit the 80s again coming up. Right now, well send to kristin with a look on traffic. Tuesday is off to a quiet start on the roads right now. Lets take a live look at what you can expect if you are hitting the roads this morning. This is i40 and aviation parkway right there. The camera is out of focus, but traffic is moving fine on 540 and 440. One note to tell you if you are driving on 40 again today. We still have that shoulder closure between exits 293 and exits 301. It could be a tight squeeze going through there throughout the day today. Your westbound loops are cleared today. Drive from 440 to wade avenue. On 40 to the clayton by pass, you are looking at an 11minute commute. Investigators say a Lightning Strike may have caused a house fire in raleigh. That fire started ....
Cast across the state. Lets get to the results. The big races everyone was watching the president ial primaries on the republican side, donald trump got the win with more than 40 of the vote. Senator ted cruz was 40,000 votes behind at 37 followed by Ohio Governor john kasich and senator marco rubio. In the democratic race, Hillary Clinton wins with 55 of the vote compared to Bernie Sanders and his 41 . Christine five states held primary elections. Hillary clinton taking the wins in florida, ohio, and illinois. Trump won the state of florida as well and the state of illinois. Governor john kasich took the other big prize for republicans, all 66 delegates in his home state of ohio. Now this morning, marco rubio has decided to drop out of the race after losing his home state of florida. John the results in missouri greasy ....
Afternoon 78 degrees under mostly sunny skies. Gorgeous day shaping up today. We will see the temperatures jump even warmer tomorrow. We will talk about that and we have cooler air for the first day of spring in the sevenday forecast but now weather and traffic with amber. Amber good tuesday morning. If you are heading to the polls watch for the volume around the sites. At the open 6 30 until 7 30 tonight. Now it sis pretty light volume with police activity, maybe a disabled vehicle 40 westbound at cary towne boulevard. Looks like a tow truck just arrived. No delay there. A little glistening on the live cameras. This is skibo and raeford in fayetteville a aive camera no problems into fragment Cumberland County off to a nice start. We have some storms that passed through so you may have wet roads. As far as shower activity we are we were seeing showers around 95 and Roanoke Rap ....