Ttsburgh hospital today at the age of 87. Palmer won seven major championships and gure on and off the course. His popularity spawning a ckname for his fans called arnies army. The last of his 62 victories on the pga tour coming in 1973. Well into his retirement palmers Course Design Company constructed local tracks in the triangle like Brier Creek Country Club and lonnie pool at nc state. Admitted to the hospital on thursday as complications arose from a previous heart condition. Also developing right now. Charlottes mayor lifting the midnight curfew. The curfew was put in place following wednesday nights violent protests. People took to the streets to protest over the Police Shooting death of keith night of demonstrations is underway. Dejuan hoggard is live in uptown charlotte with the latest, dejuan . Heather, certainly a contrast to some of the footage we saw last week. Tonight, a peaceful protest in Marshall Park full of a lot of love and understanding. 19 23 1 001 08 a different
The wind more out of the south drawing more warm air into the central carolinas. You see how the cold air is being replaced by the warmer air as early as perhaps monday evening. So with that warm air overtaking the cold air, yes, it looks like it will start as a brief period of snow and ice even in charlotte we will see that changeover to rain could be as early as monday evening and this ends as a rain event for monday night and into Tuesday Morning. Again that is a big change from what it was looking like yesterday at this time. Eric will have more detail in a few minutes in the complete sevenday firstalert forecast. Back to you. Thank you. And crews have started treating roads in charlotte because of the possible winter weather. The city is treating some streets today with salt brine. The dot will brine interstates, bridges starting early friday morning. An a broken watermain causing water left patches of ice near charlottetowne avenue. This could cause trouble for your morning commu
Would be subject to negotiation between ncdot and i77 mobility partners. Much more on the story at 6 00 including what some local leaders and residents think about the let te and what it might letter and what it might really mean. On i77, David Whisenant wbtv on your side. Police say a drunk driver caused a crash in west charlotte. Wbtv first on the scene at tuckaseegee and little rock roads. The video our reporter took when he got there. Police say the man was driving an s. U. V. And ran into a power pole causing the lights to fall and the driver was screaming at the time of his arrest. This is exclusive video of him being taken into custody. He was later take especially to the hospital with an injury to his mouth. And while crews worked that scene the Fire Department says someone broke into the personal vehicles of two employees and well tell you about the Police Investigation into those crimes. A possible name change stirring up controversy. There is a proposal to change the name to
Causes of mumps. Officials say the counties are mecklenburg, iredell and cabarrus county. Yesterday we told you about a case in Iredell County and another in mecklenburg. The medical director for the Health Department stopped by wbtv today to address whether officials expect more cases. It hasnt grown. This is the same number weve had since the end of last week. And quite frankly, i would expect it to grow because number one, the incubation period for mumps is somewhere between 1225 days. The doctor says mumps circulates around the world and shows up in the u. S. From time to time and most of you are protected because of the vaccines you received as a child but warns folks with weaker immune systems can easily get the mumps. And what a gorgeous sunny day. You can see the big bright skies. A few puffy clouds from the hd and we think you are going to love chief meterologist, eric weekend. He is live in the first alert weather center. And oddly enough the quiet weather is the story becaus
Midday when were focusing in right now. Youre never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic on wbtv news this morning. Here is chris, first alert traffic. Chris al, thank you, rst alert traffic is sponsored by toyota of north charlotte. If youre getting ready to make your morning commute be aware roads in many cases are wet out there. Taking a live look, this is i77, west boulevard, rolling through center city this morning, you can see the dampness, the spray coming off the vehicles. Quick check of drive times, rock hill to uptown, 21 minutes, i85 southbound from concord, kannapolis, 18 minutes. 65milesperhour. Lake norman commute sitting at 15 minutes here. Most of the major highways are running in the green this morning. Yet to see anything that is snarling the Early Morning commute but it was late last night, early this morning on i85 near sam wilson road where we had pretty major accident which actually shut down part of the interstate. Wbtvs Kristen Hampton joins us