amid record turnout for early voting, but armed groups intimidating voters and pro trump election officials vowed to challenge any vote. can anything be done to stop this? then, what s going on with the crime rate? while republicans use fear, we look at the facts in their own backyards. and elon musk rocking up to twitter hq with everything, including the kitchen sink. question now? what is he going to cook up inside. as the 11th hour gets underway on this wednesday night. good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle. the white house is gearing up to launch an all out offense against the democrats with less than two weeks to go until the midterm election. president biden and his cabinet will be out on the campaign trail starting tomorrow. their closing argument will be a big one, economy, economy, economy. the president will argue his focus on building an economy from the bottom up and in the middle out. in a recent interview, the president said he believes american vot
trump election officials vowed to challenge any vote. can anything be done to stop this? then, what s going on with the crime rate? while republicans use fear, we look at the facts in their own backyards. and elon musk rocking up to twitter hq with everything, including the kitchen sink. question now? what is he going to cook up inside. as the 11th hour gets underway on this wednesday night. good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle. the white house is gearing up to launch an all out offense against the democrats with less than two weeks to go until the midterm election. president biden and his cabinet will be out on the campaign trail starting tomorrow. their closing argument will be a big one, economy, economy, economy. the president will argue his focus on building an economy from the bottom up and in the middle out. in a recent interview, the president said he believes american voters are also concerned about the future of democracy. if you notice, the generic
And even that slight chance for Severe Weather in the charlotte area. That stretches from the North Carolina high country all the way down to our south. What you can expect this afternoon, generally speaking here in the charlotte area, we are talking about showers and thunderstorms and perhaps hail and strong winds, tornado threat is very low with this, so the afternoon, again, thunderstorms marching into the North Carolina mountains between 4 00 and 5 00. In the charlotte area, likely later tonight, 7 00, 8 00, 9, and pretty quickly pushing east overnight. What you can expect that want, charlotte, 80, 76 gastonia, concord, 80, boone, 63 with showers and thunderstorms. A look at the sdrak coming up. Anchor thank you. We continue to watch the rally happening in hickory, donald was supposed to begin at 10 00 this morning. He got on stage the last 15 minutes or so. His plane was delayed coming into charlotte due to fog in the rea. He was supposed to land in hickory, but instead came to sh
The 70s. 79 right now in charlotte. 76 in salisbury and 79 in rock hill. Temperatures they are still definitely on the warm side through the next several hours. Here is where we are going. Temperatures in the upper 70s. And we will talk about the rainfall and our thunderstorm potential in a little bit. Thank you. Now is a good time to download the wbtv weather app to track rain and storms in the Firstalert Weather Team. There is a feature that will tell you when lightning strikes near you. The app is free search wbtv in the app stores. Six people cited at Donald Trumps Campaign Event in hickory. Charges ranged from Disorderly Conduct to obstruction. Christian flores was at the event and joins us live. Christian what was the general tone of the rally . Well, brigida, as you can imagine there was a lot of excitement. Excitement was not erupted by protestors who disrupted the rally three times. One group sat in front of media row shouting after trumps first reference to building a wall on
On the ground. Wrestled by police. Theyre just trying to bully their Bernie Sanders crap on me and i aint gonna take me. They just grabbed me. Most of the morning it was a Peaceful Exchange of ideas as protesters lined the sidewalk in front of grace chapel at lenoir rhine university. Build a wall. Build a wall. This student told us the message she wanted to share with trump. I would tell him that we love him. And that we hope that he changes. The auditorium for the rally held only 1400 people with a line stretching across the campus of lenoir rhine university, thousands were turned away. But not this group who made the drive down from ohio. After missing out on the rally there. I went to cincinnati. We were there early. But it was still too late. Well get in this time though. What is it that you like about trump . And we also saw a number of people escorted out was not allowed inside. Youll hear from both of them coming up tonight at 6 00 in a live report. Reporting live from hickory,