carolina's transportation leaders are defending their contract with the spanish company to build the heeun toll lanes. i'm maureen o'boyle. >> i'm paul cameron. this comes after governor mccrory order a review of the project after a project in texas went bankrupt. ncdot secretary and chairman were in charlotte for a conference and nick ochsner pressed them for answers. nick, tell us what they had to say. >> both men were in town attending a conference sponsored by sentra, the company building the i-77 toll lanes under fire after a subsidiary in texas declared bankruptcy wednesday. >> what does it say to the public as you have reassessed this contract you have spent all morning in an event that the sponsor is sentra. >> it says to the public that a previously scheduled event sponsored as a part of the sponsored by one of the newest members of the chamber of commerce. >> transportation secretary is heading to texas monday to meet about sentra's performance in building and operating a bankrupt highway. before he left he spent time mingling with sentra executives and others as part of a chambe

we have a lot of congestion on heeun this is morehead. stop-and-go traffic on the northbound side. and several accidents near center city. bryant street and another at remount road and west boulevard and another at trade and wesley heights way creating congestion. and i-77 northbound and southbound socked in with traffic. slow-moving traffic as we go back to the dot camera and look at i-77 tyvola, again, a lot of congestion. >> , a catch of a lifetime for a fisherman off the south carolina coast. >> we see -- see it a few times. it came twice out of the water. and we are both worn out. it's enormous. it looked like a bus being dropped in. off a cliff when it came out of the water. >> what he had on the line was this... a 2500 pound great white. the group caught the shark and took four hours to reel into the when the group got it close enough there's tag it and let it loose. no doubt a huge shark. but it's not the biggest the great white mary leigh weighed 3400 pounds but you do not think of great whites on the carolina coast but they are around. >> or reel it into your fishing boat

church road and gilliard road and the alternate route is statesville highway 21 which is congested and heeun is congested, slow-moving traffic on the roads in huntersville. on the dot camera, just looking at the slow-moving traffic on the mapping system on i-77. slow-moving traffic 32-miles-per-hour. keep in mind the barriers due to the construction zone but traffic is backed up on i-77 this is the scene towards gilliard and 77 and 485 that is a lot of traffic. >> thank you. and temperature-wise hard to believe we were seeing snowflakes. >> it looked like a boundary, i will be candid i'm scratching my head what the actual dynamic parameter was that produced it was 46 . 4 shy of 50 and we are seeing the snow reaching the ground. >> and it was heavy. >> and rare, set of circumstances that can allow that to happen. we produce snow aloft where it was below freezing and the snow managed to make the trip to the ground despite the fact that most of the areas reporting the snow were in the mid-40s. and this is that boundary. you see where it's darker green in there? yeah, that is probably that dynam