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we'll go over to mark davenport coming in live to the alert center right now. >> mark: yeah, john, this is an account on twitter, they gauge reactions from the debates. they did that for the gop debate. here. this is on apple tv, the top tweeted moments in the debate when trump defended his university. second most tweeted when cruz told troop top trump to relax. he called him little marco, that was the third most tweeted. who gained the most followers? real donald trump, john kasich, marco rubio, ted cruz didn't gain as many. the final shares around the gop interesting, trump, no matter good or bad, still getting a ton of attention, 62% of the conversation on twitter was around donald trump, ted cruz, rubio tied, 16 and 15, kasich down at 7%. trump, no matter what he says, people talk about it. back to you guys. >> kristen: we're following breaking news, police dealing with quite a mess in northwest charlotte after a car crashed in a rite aid store. >> john: ashton pellom joins us live with more on this. so ashton, what happened? >> reporter: hey, good morning, john. i'm being told arou

mark davenport is going to have a live report coming up right after the break. steve: today is your lucky day. woman: (surprised) oh, my goodness mark: you've just won - a thousand dollars! woman: that'amazing! that' amazing! (shrieks) woman: ok, nice job. mark, way better than yesterday. maria, that delivery felt a little forced. and steve, steve: yeah? woman: i am still missing that raw emotion. woman: pretty awesome for a tuesday, but tomorrow is hump day, so let's really bring it! lucky for life. win a thousand dollars a day, every day, for life. >> john: take you back to breaking news out of huntersville, a car crashing in a jewelry store on birkdale commons. >> christine: this is a burglary investigation, mark davenport is at the scene, live now so mark, what are investigators saying happened here? >> reporter: christine, an attempted burglary, that is all they can tell us, they are still investigation, still have fink's jewelries roped off. this is in birkdale village. store employees cleaning up the front door. a vehicle rammed in the front the two glass

. >> christine: mark davenport first broke the story live at the scene now, mark, any word you've heard on the woman's condition? how is she doing? >> reporter: yeah, christine, got done talking to cmpd, she was shot in the head they don't know if she was shot off griers grove road. rushed to the hospital, shot in the head, she is alert, talking back and forth with police, giving them information on the shooting this morning. there are three different areas that police are looking at right now that may be connected to this shooting here. one of them behind me, griers grove road, at the north cross townhomes, we have video to show you what it looked like earlier, police have cleared the scene. earlier they had officers knock on doors, talking to as many people as they could to collect evidence. they found the woman in the parking lot shot in the head, they rushed her to the hospital from the scene here but they don't believe she was shot here because they weren't able to find shell casings or evidence they think it happened up the road up beaties ford, this is the ymca further up the roa

mark davenport has been at both of those scenes this morning, live apartment the scene at north tryon street. mark, what are police telling you? >> reporter: christine, i was told this shop, a gun outlet, attempted burglary here this morning. and i was talking to the owner of the shop here a while ago, t he said they tried to break in the back door of the shop. i went around back a bit ago before police left the scene, show you some of the pictures i took on twitter. i sent out three pictureses this morning, my twitter handle, that first picture the front bumper of a jeep cherokee, that was the car they were ramming in the back door of the gun outlet this morning trying to get in the it was still here on scene when cmpd showed up. nothing was stolen inside but you see on the other picture we were showing you a second ago all the rust in the grass, they tried so many times, there is a decent hill, to slam in the back door. this isn't the only incident overnight at a place that sells guns. another incident on wilkinson boulevard, that was the first place that i went this morning. hyatt

you can see the house just mark davenport is live this morning with more details on this. so mark, tell us, how did the little boy help get everyone out? >> reporter: john, he told us yesterday at the scene of that fire that he was the only one in the house that heard the fire crackling, he immediately got everyone's attention in the home and got them out the back door before the flames took over the rest of the house. i want to show you the aftermath of the home this is on the ground when we were able to get there with the cameras after the fire was put out. carter lost most of his toys in the fire but saved a few of his favorite things, his family members. the boy heard the fire before he saw it. he acted fast, got his mom out of the bathroom woke grandma up, his mom, brianna hurley said her baby is her hero. >> you could see smoke from everywhere. i couldn't see when we walked out of the back door it was scary. >> 30 seconds the roof started collapsing, i'm glad we got out when we did. >> reporter: unreal. sounds like a narrow escape. three people were inside, mom, gran

i'm mark davenport, wbtv on your side. precincts. a polling place had to stay open 30 minutes later because the chief judge overslept forcing the precinct to open late. the cabarrus county board of election tells us the late start only affected four voters. poll problems led to a site in rowan county and another in catawba county to stay open until 8:00 as well. >>> on your side with continuing coverage of the primary on wbtv.com. that is where you can see the results for every election. you can click on the link at the top of the home page. >> john: as you get ready to head out one cities dealing with major problems this morning. get over to kristen miranda with details live in the alert center. >> kristen: john and christine, a couple of hashtags, metro people in the washington d.c. area facing a nightmare of a commute. the entire metro rail system is shut down today. this follows a series of electrical fires on the tracks, the latest fire was on monday, it led to a lot of delays, they are shutting down the entire system to take a

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those stories plus mark davenport is following headlines in the alert center. >> mark: this is local, we're working on a car into a building, near 485 near the park, a car went in the rite aid, we'll get you live pictures in a few minutes. >> kristen: mark, thank you. ashe and avery county schools on two-hour delay. you can find the latest delays information at wbtv.com/closing. >> john: it has been snowing in boone, let's get things started with charlotte's most experienced morning meteorologist, al conklin. >> al: knowing throughout the night in the mountain -- snowing throughout the night in the mountain counties. rain now moved out, that low pressure system down on the beaches moving away, high pressure back to the west is building in, that will be the main dominating factor for the next 24-36 hours. couple minutes. right now that is resortcams.com giving us king street in boone, where we have wet streets, my understanding is that the grass is covered with one to two inches of snow.

wbtv's mark davenport is live in charlotte this morning with much more on this story. and mark, we've investigated this particular highway before, tell us what is going on. >> reporter: john, yeah, the problems that our wbtv investigation uncovered really here, wbtv we traveled out to texas to get on the highway, really understand it firsthand experience for ourselves, what we saw was eye-opening. when we were out there we saw the highway was barely traveled. i want to show you video of the highway, state highway 130 in texas. the company that operates the road declared bankruptcy on wednesday, that road is owned by subsidiary of the spanish company cintra, like you talked about. the same contracted by nc-dot to build i-77 toll lanes. the secretary is looking for ways to break the contract. that is welcome news to mecklenburg county commissioner jim puckett who was against it from the start. >> at the end of the day, what you have is this, n c-dot used texas as the poster child why this is great financially and from a program perspective, and so now it kind of blows up

our mark davenport is out there asking the questions you wantoned so we can bring you details and he'll have more coming up in a live report. >>> this is new, the man accused of killing six people and hurting ten other in a shooting in michigan is suing uber. we told you jason dalton told investigators that uber's app took over his body during the shootings in january. he is suing for $10 million claiming the work as an uber driver caused him psychological damage. he said they discriminate against mental health, didn't and didn't give him a christmas bonus. >> christine: police officer in suburban dallas charged with murder and aggravated assault after he fatally shot a 16-year-old and wounded another juvenile. authorities say officer ken johnson was arrested last night. johnson was off duty sunday when he saw a vehicle being broken into and chased after the thieves. the thieves vehicle spun out which led to the altercation. >> john: bowe bergdahl is giving an explanation for why he left his post in afghanistan in 2009. according to newly released court documents, he wanted to draw atte

wbtv's mark davenport has the results in his hand right now. so what did they have to say, mark, at this3* meeting? >> reporter: christine, the research was a deep dive in the failure of the toll lane project in texas, the same project that north carolina transportation secretary went out to check on earlier on this week on mony. want to get you to video showing you what this town hall w3m$yas like in cornelius yesterday. widen i-77 a group against the toll laneac packed out the town hall meeting. when tyhe presented the findings of the texas size collapse of the toll lanes, people wer\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ glued to the research h. after the road opened in 2012, it was declared technically bankrupt in 2014. twoears later, last wee bankruptcy was filed on that highway. they also highlighted flures of other private and public partnersp tohi lanes across widen i-77 research suggests daily round trip tolls could be upwards of $15 here in charlotte if it continues to gohrou t. that is a price taghis group is not willing to pay. >> a different boat going d

those stories plus mark davenport is following headlines in the alert center. >> mark: this is local, we're working on a car into a building, near 485 near the park, a car went in the rite aid, we'll get you live pictures in a few minutes. >> kristen: mark, thank you. ashe and avery county schools on two-hour delay. you can find the latest delays information at wbtv.com/closing. >> john: it has been snowing in boone, let's get things started with charlotte's most experienced morning meteorologist, al conklin. >> al: knowing throughout the night in the mountain -- snowing throughout the night in the mountain counties. rain now moved out, that low pressure system down on the beaches moving away, high pressure back to the west is building in, that will be the main dominating factor for the next 24-36 hours. couple minutes. right now that is resortcams.com giving us king street in boone, where we have wet streets, my understanding is that the grass is covered with one to two inches of snow. it is at freezing right now, we

mark davenport, wbtv on your side. >> john: with roy cooper running are looking to replace him as attorney general. in the battle for senate, four candidates on each side, one is richard burr, the incumbent seeking his third term. voters will get to vote on the two billion dollar connect nc bond. it would pay for projects such as new buildings at colleges, water and sewer upgrades and improvements to state parks. >>> we have continuing coverage of campaign 2016 on air and online at wbtv.com. you cannot get better campaign coverage than you can here at wbtv. you get live primary results once the polls close at 7:30. >> christine: 5:34, check back income with kristen miranda getting details now on an unusual lawsuit involving a gunman in norway. she was details. >> kristen: i don't know if you remember, christine this, story this guy anders brevik, killed 77 people in those bomb and gun and that included the attacks on a camp in norway, a bunch of teens there and many teens killed. take a look, he arrived in court this morning for his human rights case against the norwegian government and if

mark davenport joins us now live in charlotte with much more on this story, so mark, tell us about the latest challenge. >> reporter: well john, the latest challenge could hamper the congressional primary here in north carolina. been pushed back from march to june 7th. when they had to re-draw the map in february. it could get pushed back further if this map has to be re-drawn again. here is the issue at hand. attorneys of two voters say the replacement map drawn in february wasn't better than the last one. they argue the lines were drawn with an intentional manipulation of district lines. now a federal panel ordered a new map be drawn in february, this is how it all started after black voters in the 1st and 12th districts. the new map was supposed to be used in the congressional primary in june but now this new lawsuit is calling for judges to reject the new map and re-draw the boundaries. state attorneys have until next monday to respond to those objections. we'll follow this for you right here on wbtv. reporting live i'm mark davenport, wbtv on your side. >> john: breaking overnight

reporting live, mark davenport, wbtv on your side. >> john: 5:04, authorities in north carolina need your help finding a missing teen. an amber alert issued for 15-year-old dixie mae bailey in transylvania county in western north carolina. police in brevard say she is 5'4", weighing 114 pounds, brown hair, orange streaks, blue eyes. pullover black tights and cowboys boots. possibly headed to atlanta. if you see bailey, call 911 or star hp. >> christine: tonight is your chance to weigh in for the budget for next year's budget for charlotte-mecklenburg schools. a forum at 6:00 at independence high school. the forum comes a day after board members met to talk student assignment and construction and renovation projects. wbtv's ashton pellom live in charlotte with that angle of the story, ashton, what was accomplished yesterday? >> reporter: good morning, christine. according to our news partners at the charlotte observer, there was a lot of good discussion that came out of that meeting last night, but the board didn't take any action on those renovation and other construction projects to

wbtv's mark davenport live in charlotte with more on this, so mark, what is the issue with the new maps and how could it affect the primary? >> reporter: well, christine, the primary could get pushed back further if it has to be re-drawn again. the primaries were already pushed back to june 7th when this map was re-drawn in february. just this last month. but i want to get you to the new controversy with the voters and the attorneys who are suing. they say the replacement map just re-drawn in february is no better than the last one. they argue that the map that was drawn with intentional manipulation of district lines, a federal panel order had new map be drawn last february after ruling legislators put too many black voters in the 1st and 12th districts. the new map supposed to be used in the congressional primary in june. judges to reject the new map and re-draw the boundaries. state attorneys have until monday to respond. we'll follow the story, mark davenport, wbtv on your side. >> john: a major night for the presidential candidates. voters in a dozen states headed to the polls for

mark davenport is live at one of those polling places in indian land this morning. mark, this bond would have a big impact on students in that community, right? tell us how. >> reporter: christine, it will be a huge impact on students here, if it does pass. what it will do is relieve overcrowding in lancaster county schools. i'm at a polling place, the rec center south of indian lanan frompolls will beopen from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. it is $199 million. if approved it with i will go to new elementary school and new high school in indian land. three existing elementary schools will go from kindergarten to fourth grade, middle school would be split. fifth and sixth graders at indian land middle, seventh and eighth graders at the high school. money being allocated for infrastructure, safety and technology in surrounding areas. we spoke to parents they were telling us about at what they would be doing for the bond and what they think it will help in the community. >> there is certainly a huge growth happening here, and it children -- >> i hope the money won't be wasted.

wbtv's mark davenport broke the story this morning. he is live in that area so mark, what can you tell us at this hour that you know? >> reporter: i can tell you this is about a mile-long of crime scenes, there is three different want to till a couple different locations of where all this happened this morning. so first of all, where i am right now, just cleared, this is caps hill mine road, and we had police shut down this road earlier. this road is now open to traffic, as you see a couple cars pass us, those are the police cars that were further down the road in front of a residential home where they found shell casings. this may have been the area where everybody started this morning. that is why police were processing the scene here. we have video we'll show you now of the area before police left the scene here, a bunch of different cop cars blocking the area. you had police officers and csi teams looking for evidence out here, collecting shell casings. i saw them come back with a bag full of evidence. that is what they took from t

wbtv's mark davenport is live with the story this morning. so mark, tell us how the young man helped get everyone out. >> reporter: christine, he was the only person inside the house that heard the fire crackling, he immediately got everyone's attention in the home and got them out the back door before the flames took over the rest of the place. i want to show you video of what that house looks like this morning. it was completely torched by the fire overnight. six-year-old carter lost most of favorite things. his family members. the boy heard the fire before he saw it and when he saw it, he acted fast, got his mom out of the bathroom, woke up woke up grandma. hero. everywhere. i couldn't even see whether we was scary. >> it was like a crashing window. >> 30 seconds after we came out the roof started collapsing, i'm glad we got out when we did. >> reporter: sounds like a narrow escape. three people in the house, mom, grandma and carter, all got to safety. fire. they are staying at a hotel until they find another place to live permanently. mar

mark davenport joins us now live this morning with more on this, so mark, tell us what is this going to mean and how is the governor reacting to it? >> reporter: john, the governor is thrilled, he was very excited last night in raleigh when he made a peach speech, he will be hitting road talking to more people, thanking them for passing this connect nc bond referendum. he will hit three different places across the state. here is what the schedule looks like, will be in wake county earlier this morning. on thefinally in mecklenburg county. it will invest $980 million in 17 universities, like uncc and app state, 350 million to community colleges for new construction, repairs and renovations. rest will go to state parks, building and repairing water and sewer systems in smaller towns and cities and the national guard. >> so while the rest of the nation is going through a lot of political divide as we see tonight, i want to just let you know maybe north carolina can be a role model for the rest of the nation on how we ran this bag or bond campaign and developed the bond campaign. >> >> r

mark davenport joins us now live from johnson c. smith university where the clinton event is being held. mark, what can we expect today? >> reporter: john, battle to earlybattle forearly voters. we will see bill clinton and donald trump, will be here in the charlotte area today, also across the state in the next couple days as well. get you the schedule to show you where they are going to be today. start off with former president bill clinton, campaigning on behalf of his wife, hillary clinton. raleigh then greensboro and stop right here in the queen city, that is at 4:15 this afternoon at johnson c. smith university. early voters as possible. donald trump will be making a stop in north carolina today as well, at lunch time, he will be over at the cabarrus arena and event center in concord. 23% of all north carolina votes in 2012 were early votes that is why it is so important for these candidates to be out here in charlotte, in north carolina area campaigning to make sure that these early voters hear their messages. that is why the

wbtv's mark davenport is joining us live outside a local polling place so mark, what do voters need to know before heading to the polls today? >> reporter: john, first things first, when polls open and when they close. like you mentioned 6:30 this morning, in a half hour they will open for you early birds. if you want to get there before you go to work, that is no. 1 on the list. get there early this morning. also polls close at 7:30 tonight, so you have more than 12 hours to vote today when you're getting off work you have extra time in the afternoon to vote. 7:30 is when polls close. next thing, bring the voter i.d., we have been talking about this the past few week, if you don't have a driver's license, there is other options. you need to have one of these. passport, military i.d., out of state driver's license as long as voter registered within the state within the last 90 days. if you don't have the driver's license you need to bring a photo i.d. when you leave the house make sure take you that with you. also planning to come after work you can get a head start by scanning sample

mark davenport joins us now live from charlotte-mecklenburg police headquarters, so mark, a the shootings connected? >> reporter: john, i got off the phone with police a while ago, they told me the shootings don't seem to be connected. we asked the question because these two shootings were just one mile apart. want to get to you video to show you what the first scene looked like. this scene covered an entire strip mall of the plaza. two people shot there. both rushed to the hospital, one with serious injury, the other in critical condition. a few hours later a mile away more gunshots. police taped off an area on milton near an apartment complex. our cameras out there were the only ones present as the victim was loaded in an ambulance. police say that he told them a car drove by and fired shots at him. >> pray for their family, think of the lives that have been hurt. offer prayer. >> reporter: during the same phone with cmpd they don't have anyone in custody for either one of the shootings. as soon as you can. reporting live, mark davenport, wbtv on your side. >> john: stay with wbtv for c

reporting live, mark davenport, wbtv on your side. >> christine: mark, thank you. >>> leaderses from across europe could meet this week to discuss terrorism and security in the wake of yesterday's deadly attacks in brussels. ministers from the european union are planning a meeting. isis claimed responsibility for the attack at brussels airport and subway station. >> john: security is ramping out throughout europe. kristen miranda has the latest. >> kristen: you said isis claimed responsibility for the attacks in brussels they are also promising they are not over yet, warning of "dark days ahead in countries taking part in anti-isis coalitions" that is the word from isis. i wanted to show you a live picture from brussels on a very side of the screen, you saw him for a second, you saw an armed guard. this his the scene all over the city of brussels, the country of cermetly following thoseedgefollowing the attacks. on new york city, this is the nypd's twitter page and they posted a video of officers getting in and checking around the subways in new york city. says go about your daily ro

wbtv's mark davenport was first to break this story on social media, he was first at the scene and mark, you got a head start being there first, getting details from police so, what can you tell us? >> reporter: christine, i can tell you i spoke to a sergeant a few minutes ago we were the first ones to talk to him as well. he told us how all this started unfolding this morning. a car showed up at cmpd headquarters that was shot into. they told officers at cmpd headquarter there's was an issue further up north, when officer started making their way up here they found this scene behind me at tryon square like we have been talking about all morning long. right now csi teams are on the scene, showed up if within the evidence markers on the ground. behind this shopping center, there is another road behind the shopping center where police found a man who called police from a house behind the shopping center. he was shot so they went back there as well they are investigating three different areas right now and this is the one that is the most active at this point in time. the man shot was shot

. >> these live pictures coming to us from mark davenport, he is on the scene right now. they're starting to clean the mess on hovis road. a car went into a utility vehicle and a parked car. this car you see here that mark is zooming in on here with the that hit the utility pole. now the crews are removing both cars from the scene, and it doesn't sound like there are going to be any significant travel problems as we head into the morning rush. so this is the live picture from that scene on hovis road that chris has been talking about all morning long much you see the sector wrecker coming in to take the car away and it looked like the road is open and everything should be fine. >> a man is arrested, i cueing of killing his uncle -- accused of killing his uncle. police found toni hearne and linsey lentz trying to buried body. we're looking into this story, ashton pellom is live this morning. one of the suspects had a lot to sigh to say as he was being taken into custody. looked dead into the camera and told us why he killed his uncle and he said it was good he was caught s

reporting live i'm mark davenport, wbtv on your side. >> christine: thank you, mark. it is 5:33, let's check back in with brody o'connell in the alert center. >> brody: a violent crime spree happened in new york city. this is disturbing what we're reading off cnn. apparently this is the suspect right here, 23-year-old patrick dylan went on a spree slashing a man, setting a homeless man on fire. it appears according to police what i'm reading the attacks were at random. late last night police caught up with him, he sprayed some sort of accelerant on new york city police officers and they were burned during this attempt to arrest him, finally the suspect was shot twice in the legs and they brought him in custody. but really a violent rampage. the attacks attacks and to be random. >> new this morning. >> i found her in the closet tape to a chair on the floor. someone threw her in there and close the door. >> that is a mother describing how she found her daughter after a reported home invasion in raleigh. the 17-year-old girl was taken to the hospital but is expected to b

mark davenport is live in charlotte following all these developments, so mark, do we know for sure if anything was taken? >> reporter: christine, not yet, no, cmpd has not confirmed if anything was taken this morning. i talked to a few officers here at the gun outlet off north tryon before they left the scene, they couldn't tell me anything that happened here in the shop, but there were similar incidentses to what happened over at the hyatt gun shop earlier this morning as well. i was at both scenes, here now, i know the owner also are inside the gun outlet, they have not come out yet, i will speak to them when they come out of the shop to see if anything was stolen from inside the gun outlet. i went around back, i'll tell you why it is important. i looked to see if anything was stolen from the back or doors were broken into, there was only car parts but i didn't cedars see any doors, that were broken. when i went to the hyatt gunshot, this is on wilkinson boulevard, they told me a stolen car was rammed in the back of highest gun shop. right next to the family dollar, a car rammed in

wbtv's mark davenport joins us live in charlotte with mhucore on this story, so mark, what are want the school board to consider as they are making their plans? >> reporter:ohn, the no. 1 prioritycros a the board was students staying in schools close to home. more than 27,000 people took the cms student assignment survey. results are here in the 200 plus page document. we went through it for you so you didn't have to. i want to give you the results from the dument. according to the resultsarents in mecklenburg county say having kids in schools close to home is far more important than racial and income diversity. parents were asked to rank the three most important factor in choosing schools. 46% said no. 1 factor i staying in the neighborhood. 16% said the school staff was in the top of their list. only 3% of all parents said racial diversity was the most importantactor when choosing schools. 1% said income diversity was\\ important. numbers varied across six districts in mecklenburg county. the findings designed to guide the school board as they make policy changes and what they decideo

our mark davenport is live in charlotte with much more on this. so mark, what do folks need to know if they are voting early? >> reporter: john, i can tell you it starts at 8:00. at one of these areas in mecklenburg county where i am, the earliest of the early voting locations on cpcc's campus, facility services building opens up at 8:00. at 10:00, 16 other locations here in mecklenburg county will open up for early voters. that is when things start rolling and get going this morning. not just today for early voting, the next ten days, then two days off before the election on march 15th. you have ten days for early voting and early voting has been something of a phenomenon in north carolina because so many in the last big election, 2012, 23% of all votes were actually cast during early voting. that is a big deal and they are expecting more this time around because they have more locations. the 17 in total locations here in mecklenburg county. there is a lot of things that will be on the ballot, obviously vote for president, governor, bunch of race

wbtv's mark davenport is live in charlotte with more on this so mark, what are some of the issues neighbors are are complaining about? >> reporter: there is a laundry list, christine. more than 30 neighbors who live around west mecklenburg high school showed up for a meeting overnight. some of the problems, cars being broken into, stuff stolen from homes. they all agreed at the meeting there is a problem at west mecklenburg high school that needs to be addressed right now. i want to take you to the meeting, this is video we got last night. neighbors had a chance to voice concerns to cms and cmpd. residents, especially older neighbors, are worried things will get worse. cms says they are addressing the problems of kids skipping school, not going to school at all but has been a challenge and they are working so solutions. has nine buildings, 21 hundreds00 students. neighbors wonder if anything will get changed. >> we feel like that there is no one in charge, they're not accountable. no one is held accountable for these children. >> reporter: now, there is an sro at west mecklenburg high schoo

mark davenport looking into this, he joins us live with more difference in the way union county is searching for their superintendent than they are in charlotte-mecklenburg schools? >> reporter: yeah, john, there is a big difference, actually. the board decided to skip a search firm, that is the direction cms is going in. they will let the national north carolina school board association pick their candidates for them in union county. now, this morning we may find out if the association has any kind of short list. special meeting to discuss the superintendent search is taking place at 11:00 this morning in union county. school board members say the one thing they learned from cms is getting the process started instead of putting it off any longer. some board members wanted to have a new leader in place in union county by next year but in the end, the board voted to decide no time line, they want to make sure they get it right in union county. new hire will replace dr. mary ellis, who will retire on june 1st. we'll let you know what comes from this meeting this morning, a special meeting plan

mark davenport has the story. mark, take us through the schedule this week. >> reporter: christine, it will be a big day in north carolina today, you both have donald trump and bill clinton trying to capture the early votes here in our state. i want to give you that schedule like you're talking about. bill clinton will be here campaigning for hillary across the state. first, will be in raleigh, then on to greensboro, then a stop in the queen city at 4:15 this afternoon at johnson c. smith university. that is where i am right now. the goal for them is to wrangle donald trump will make a stop in north carolina today as well at lunch time, he will be at the cabarrus arena and events center in concord. 23% of all north carolina votes in 2012 were early votes, that is why both these campaigns want to be out here and get those early voters. you can vote early all the way up until friday. two days over that weekend you don't vote in early voting but then you will be voting again on the 15th if you don't get out early. th

reporting live, mark davenport, wbtv on your side. >> christine: mark, thank you, good reminders there. >>> three presidential candidates making stops in our area ahead of today's voting. a busy monday. hillary clinton spoke for 30 minutes at the grady cole center in uptown. former secretary of state and for more cooperation in politics. >> i pledge to you i will work as hard as i can to find common ground. i will meet with anyone to find common ground, to try to move us forward and together. >> public policy polling has clinton leading bernie sanders 57% to 37%. speaking of bernie sanders, 6,000 people came out to see the senator at pnc music pavilion. talked about how he would improve people's quality of life. >> when i talk about family value, i talk about ending the international embarrassment of the united states being the only major country on earth that does not guarantee paid family and medical leave. >> north carolina is not a winner take all state. up some delegates. >> john: lines for donald trump went on for blocks. he was two hours late due to fog delaying his plane. prote

wbtv's mark davenport live in charlotte with more, so mark, what does this requirement mean for voters who may want to vote early and head to the polls tomorrow? >> reporter: christine, it means voters need to show up with photo i.d. to the polling place. if they don't have it with them, they won't be able to cast their vote. getting voters to understand this law before they hit their polling place. local board of elections office told wbtv they have been planning on this for months. they have been printing out new forms, rolling out fresh new sets of signs, putting up billboards, sent out information on social media to make sure people know they need a photo i.d. to vote. election supervisor michael dickerson says he's hiring extra staffers just to handle some of the new changes. >> we've had to re-train our poll workers for that and you have to take that in account is it going to slow the process down on election day, we had to bring in extra people to make sure we have it. >> reporter: take a look at this list on the screen, there are six types of acceptable voter i.d. driver's lice

wbtv's mark davenport live in charlotte from police headquarters with more on that afternoon shooting and mark, it involved more than one scene, didn't it? >> reporter: it involved two different scenes, one at a busy gas station, the shell gas station off brookshire boulevard. the other one less than a mile away in a neighborhood. i'll get to both those in a minute. the video to show you that busy gas station where the first shooting took place. where police taped off the entire area, trying to figure out exactly what happened out there, you see evidence markers all over the ground out there. police found a gun in a cardboard box, wasn't the only scene. less than a mile away, a car was shot into at the gas station. that car ended up on mcginn like the person shot at the gas station, both of those people non-life threatening injuries, that what is we know from police. while we're trying to get more update, we'll get them to you. we talk to neighbors in the area who told us things are getting out of hand. >> i don't know, it don't have to be this way. i can remember a time it wasn't. we

mark davenport live in charlotte with more on this, so mark, two other candidates holding campaign events yesterday. >> reporter: christine, that's right. cruz in town today, yesterday it was trump and clinton. not hillary clinton, but her husband, former president bill clinton. start off with donald trump since he had the earliest event, in concord. take you to that video right now show you what we saw yesterday with our cameras out there. this is high noon in concord, just after lunchtime, trump spoke to hundreds of north carolinans yesterday, his supporters went wild when he talked about protecting the second amendment, taking care of veterans and building a wall on the southern border. finish off with a promise of more jobs in north carolina. trade deals. we're going to bring our jobs back to the country, we're going to bring our jobs back to north carolina, where they have been stripped. >> reporter: now, later in the afternoon some of the video you're seeing, bill clinton stumped for his wife, hillary. urged the crowd at johnson c. smith university at 4:15 in the afternoon to vote e

those stories plus mark davenport is following headlines in the alert center. >> mark: this is local, we're working on a car into a building, near 485 near the park, a car went in the rite aid, we'll get you live pictures in a few minutes. >> kristen: mark, thank you. ashe and avery county schools on two-hour delay. you can find the latest delays information at wbtv.com/closing. >> john: it has been snowing in boone, let's get things started with charlotte's most experienced morning meteorologist, al conklin. >> al: knowing throughout the night in the mountain -- snowing throughout the night in the mountain counties. rain now moved out, that low pressure system down on the beaches moving away, high pressure back to the west is building in, that will be the main dominating factor for the next 24-36 hours.

wbtv's mark davenport is live in charlotte with more on this story and mark, those candidates include the republican and democratic front runners. >> reporter: today is very important, a little more than 24 hours before the polls open up across the state of north carolina, we'll see both those front runners back here in the state today. also seeing bernie sanders as well. i want to get you to the schedules. first event of the day belongs to donald trump, he will be in hickory at lenoir-rhyne university, scheduled for 10:00 a.m. start time. doors open at 7:00 a.m. the campaign expects all 1400 seats to be filled with spillover in the town hall style event. next up, bernie sanders will music pavilion. he was in raleigh on friday and also see hillary clinton today, she will make an appearance at queen city at grady cole center, doors open at 7:15 tonight. she will talk about generating good-paying job in her second visit in a week. in the most recent high point university poll friday, trump and clinton have commanding leads. this is how the numbers break down, they polled 1600 people, cl

we'll get you more details and figure out what is going on here in charlotte, reporting live, mark davenport, wbtv on your side. >> john: time now 5:01 here on wednesday morning, let's check in with charlotte's most experienced morning >> al: dry conditions and mild conditions, one hour loop from the metro school. if you look closely you see the trees are bending stiffly in the breeze. a gusty breeze, 20 miles per hour this morning. that is helping to keep temperatures up. there are cool spots, 44 albermarle, 34 in boone, most everybody else is close to 50 if not in the low 50s. 53 right now in charlotte, should be close to that at 8:00, headed for 77 this afternoon. not as cold this morning, yesterday we had the freeze warning, today no freezing temperatures. bright sunshine, windy, warm. that gusty breeze will be with us through the day. let's look at it this morning, wind gusts 25 miles per hour, this is through 8:00, then this afternoon, they still stay above 20 miles per hour for most of us, that is a concern with the dry conditions, brush fires that could be a problem, we'll keep an ey

mark davenport joins us live this morning with much more on this story and mark, i find it interesting people who live in the area are not surprised this kind of crash happened, what is going on? yeah, around the crash, that is providence road near 485, we spoke to them back and forth why they weren't so surprised when they hear ambulances, police cars, all emergency vehicles pass by their houses on a daily basis to go to accidents on 485. when they heard about the news they were not surprised at all. i want to show you more from the scene off providence near 485, a man named luis menacho got on the wrong side of i-485 on the outer loop, driving in traffic for a few miles. around 2:00 m. a sunday 2:00 a.m., he crashed head-on to victor castillo. they have not confirmed if drugs or alcohol were a factor in the crash. toxicology report will take a couple weeks. there have been two other wrong way crashes since 2009, neither resulted in death. alcohol was a factor in both cases. the family we spoke to off providence road say they are not surprised these wrong-way collisions don't happen m

. >>> right now get over to mark davenport. >> kristen: live in the alert center following details on a ferry that capsize. >> mark: the bali strait, close continuedclosedto indonesia. this is an english newschannel in central china. they put this out 30 minutes ago. the head of the bali search and rescue office says 26 people are are missing after ferry carrying 51 passengers capsized in the bali strait, a map to show you where this is, pull the maps up, that is where this ferry is supposed to have been capsized. close to indonesia, you can see that on the top right hand of the screen. malaysia on the top left side. 26 people missing, that is the latest we have, breaking news, brand new in the alert center this morning. back to you. >> kristen: mark, thank you. >>> new information the state health department has released new details on growing number of mumps cases in north carolina. there are six c cfirmed cases in there are also nine probable cases in mecklenburg county and iredell county. health officials say some of the people have already recovered, and they are not infectious.

i'm mark davenport, wbtv on your side. >> chris: mark, thank you so much. first alert traffic sponsored by toyota of north charlotte. that is where we're going to start where mark is standing along caps hill mine road this morning. so again, that is between peachtree road and beaties ford road, that section there is closed down this morning. let's come in a little bit closer, that is grier grove road down to the south, where the lady was found. right here at firestone drive where mark was standing and caps hill mine is blocked off that is heading up toward beaties ford road and another crime scene investigation a little bit closer to beaties ford, sort of a major or cut-through there. peachtree to sunset would give get you to 77 or back down to beaties ford around the crime scene, we'll let you know when they clear that up. i-77 at woodlawn, travel smoothly here. at a check of drives times. matthews on 74, 13 minutes. providence road, 16 minute commute, 18 minutes from concord to center city and quick look at overall commute, 485, 77, 85 still running in th

mark davenport looks at what lawmakers plan to do tomorrow. will be both sides are vocal and not backing down. just weeks ago charlotte city council voted to pass the controversial ordinance. at the core of the debate allowing transgender people to use the bathroom of the gender they identify with. governor pat mccrory said the state would be fighting the ordinance if it passed for safety reasons and that is what >> put people at risk and create great uncertainty and great concern and consternation. >> clearly we have a mix up of priorities in raleigh and that is time to change. >> reporter: we'll follow the story, all the latest updates on wbtv, both on air and online at wbtv.com. reporting just outside uptown charlotte, mark davenport, wbtv on your side. >> john: 5:06, this morning police are investigating a died lid crash involving a motorcyclist in south charlotte. happened around 6:30 on yorkmont road. ran in the back of a box truck. was taken to the hospital and later died. no one else was hurt. spoke he lease believe the >> christine: a

reporting live, mark davenport, wbtv on your side. >> christine: right now, let's get back to kristen miranda. >> john: live in the alert center with new details on breaking news now coming in. >> kristen: our ashton pellom is on the scene of armed robbery, tweeting pictures from there. we have his live picture we can show you from this 7-eleven on monroe road near north sharon amity road. he says, ashton says four guys arrested this morning. police say just before 4:00 this morning two of the guys walked the clerk, they went behind the register and then stole cash and cigars, according to police and police say they ran to a waiting car that was a street over. here's the interesting part how police found the guys. they brought out the k9s, the dogs tracked down the suspects to the car. they found the gun in the car, found the stolen items and they have been taken in custody. the cashier in the 7-eleven according to ashton is fine. we'll follow the story this morning. back to you. >> christine: thank you, john -- kristen. >>> a man charged in a deadly shooting in hickory is scheduled t

reporting just outside of uptown in charlotte, i'm mark davenport, wbtv on your side. >> thank you, mark. we are just getting started at 5:00 a.m. democrats hillary clinton and bernie sanders squaring off again in a presidential debate. this time in miami. what the two had to say about immigration reform. >> and, kristen miranda live. >> police are calling an attack near pittsburgh, at least 25 >> temperatures 58 in charlotte. look at this, 61 in hickory, 60 in gastonia. here is a live look at i-77 at west boulevard. things there are moving very smoothly, traffic is picking up this morning. if there are any issues, we will you're never more than sev >> we have new information on a deadly shooting in pennsylvania. it is breaking news right now, and kristen miranda is on top of it in the alert center getting those new details. feed from the cbs nation pittsburgh shall the closest large city before this happened, suburban pittsburgh, basically. a shooting some people in the neighborhood are saying is unbelievable. five people have been killed in the shoot and right now at least two gunmen a

mark davenport live here in charlotte this morning and mark, no big surprise that mccrory and cooper came out top, was it? >> reporter: john, no big surprise at all. this sets up a big time battle for governor here in north carolina. in november. the numbers spoke for themselves yesterday, mccrory, he reeled in more than # 0% of 80%. cooper 70%. polls are split. last month mccrory was up by will be the hardest fought gubernatorial race in the nation. candidates wasted no time before they attacked each other. >> we need a governor who will lead and do what is right to prepare our state for the future. we need a governor who will continue to focus on jobs and the economy and will focus on improving education, raising teacher pay, not someone who won't show up for work when it matters or hide and do or say what is politically expedient. >> there will be nothing less at stake than the heart and soul of north carolina this november. north carolina needs a new set of priorities. >> reporter: now, interesting the i-77 toll lane project, mccrory lost votes in north mecklenburg county over hi

. >> these live pictures coming to us from mark davenport, he is on the scene right now. they're starting to clean the mess on hovis road. a car went into a utility vehicle and a parked car. this car you see here that mark is zooming in on here with the

mark davenport is live at the scene so mark, what can you tell us about the fire and what about albermarle road, has it reopened? >> reporter: john, not all of albermarle road is reopened right now. going outbound you have one lane closed at this time, they have a fire truck in the lane. police closed that lane for the time being but five of six lanes are are open, all three inbound lanes are are open for drivers this morning. as for the fire i can tell you 50 to $60,000 of damage, that is us. they got here earlier, the fire coming through the roof. they put it out in 18 minutes. the guys were on the roof and the back patio. you see a couple firefighters pulling lines, pulling the hoses back in and out of the building right now, making sure the hot spots are put out. the building has been here 70 years, the el paisano restaurant, there has been four or five renovations, in those 70 years, a lot of things to work through, a lot of roofing to work through. firefighters believe this fire started in the back of the building, i put something out on twitter showing a couple fire investigators wo