>> and i'm scott wickersham. one witnesses's action helped police with the arrest. >> reporter: yeah, anyone here knows this chick-fil-a is almost always busy and that makes this so alarming as he was carjacked in the drive through lane. at this chick-fil-a, the breakfast crowd was packed, and the word a carjacking was the last thing that teresa hall expected to hear. >> you can't just come out and get something to eat. >> reporter: police say that robert ramirez walked up to the drive through and pulled the woman out of her car. but the carjacking was stopped almost as soon as it started because another customer got out and took action, getting in the front seat and yanking the carjacker back out. i would not have had the strength to do that. >> reporter: we talked with that man. >> i think about that now, that was a pretty crazy thing to do. didn't know who this guy was. >> reporter: we found that robert ramirez was charged at least eight times and released on jail. many say that the drive-through stake -- atta

filing for north carolina's congressional district 12 is anchor scott wickersham met with malcolm graham who just left the board of elections to file his paper work. graham will drive to raleigh tomorrow to deliver the paper work and get on the ballot. because of the legal battle over the district lines, there will have to be a special election june 7th for district 12. >> it's the only issue on the ballot that day. in the middle of the summer and high school graduation. so we have to make a special effort to inform voters to go out and vote. >>> alma adams is running for reelection in district 12. it used to run along i-85 from charlotte do greensboro. the new map is entirely in mecklenburg county. the state had to redraw the maps because a judge ruled current districts were unconstitutional. he ruled they were drawn based on race. lawmakers redraw the districts but groups like the ncaap say they're still unfair. now judges are considering a lines yet again. and that's leaving a lot up in the air as candidates begin to file. today at 5:00, who else is planning to run or considering it?

. >> and i'm scott wickersham, and this is a major breaking story. you can see how close the body was found to an elementary school. dave faherty has more. >> reporter: scott, the two were charged with murder. they were found right here. this their car was stuck here, and police found drag marks leading off into the woods and it was behind the old shed that they made the gruesome discovery. you can see one of the suspectings, tony hearne. he talked openly about what happened and that he got into a fight with his uncle, robert herame who he called rico. he said that his uncle pulled a and when he came to, his uncle was dead. someone driving past the old home spotted the two. hearne said it was a case of bad luck. >> i never wanted to hurt my uncle. he came at me with a knife. i tried to defend myself. he was choking me. i was choking him. >> reporter: hearne told us that he had never been to the property before and deputies are searching that car which was towed over to the alexander county sheriff's office and they are trying to determine where the m

. >> and i'm scott wickersham. we will take you through the process with liz foster. liz? >> reporter: polling places like this one have exactly two hours left for people to come in and fill out their ballots. and the results could predict quite an election. >> we need a change. >> reporter: even though jim votes in every election, he said this one may have more weight. >> i'm just tired of people going to represent us that don't represent us. >> reporter: he is one of thousands of people heading to the polls today, and if the early voting numbers are an indication, the number of people casting ballots may surpass the expectation. there is a couple of reasons for that. >> we have two competitor races on both sides of the party you have the two candidates that seem to be bringing people into the political system who were not voting and not participating. >> reporter: merely 70,000 people voted early across the state, 10.5% of registered voters, significantly more than in 2012. >> it's important to make your that ourselves as well as our children are taken care of in the lon

i'm scott wickersham. >> and i'm erica bryant. officers say that the officer who was punching the suspect comply. tina terry takes a closer look and the next step in the case. >> reporter: erica, cmpd's internal affairs department is reviewing the video and interviewing people would saw what happened. >> it doesn't take much for someone to look at this video and see this is too much. >> reporter: the 9-second video has neighbors at this apartment house in mathews outraged. in the video recorded by a neighbor here, seven cmpd officers and a highway patrol trooper surrounding the suspect, malcolm elliott. you can hear officers tell elliott to put his hands behind his back and one officer >> this video makes me very upset. the officers are repeatedly hitting this man. >> reporter: officers say that elliott hit another vehicle and kept going. a highway patrol trooper went after him and cmpd officers responded and found the blue mazda 3 he was driving at this apartment complex. >> and started running this way, and then to the other exi

. >> and i'm scott wickersham. ken lemon spoke to the officer and found out why the woman didn't get out sooner. >> reporter: sandra branham lived by herself but she loved her cats and that love for her cats left her in need of help from police. >> i had never been in an active fire situation. >> reporter: police officer john keizer pulled sandra out of a burning home on monday. >> you have the responsibility. once you're there, you are the police. you have to do something. >> reporter: the 70-year-old woman at one point could have gotten out of her own. she called 911 from needs the burning home but couldn't leave her cats. >> why don't you -- you need to get out and get into a safe place. >> reporter: but she doesn't when she decided to leave, she couldn't find her cane and the smoke was so thick, she couldn't see. >> it's engulfed. >> it's engulfed? ma'am? >> reporter: she fell down on the floor and the flames began to spread. >> please help me. >> help is on the way. help is on the way. okay? >> reporter: keize

. >> 9 investigates, now eyewitness news anchors scott wickersham and allison latos. >> good evening. >> every day here at channel 9 we investigate stories you tell us you care about. >> in this hour we'll bring you some of our biggest investigations. and we begin with a serious warning about a drug you've probably never heard of. it's so powerful, heroin addicts use this to get through withdrawals. a mother and father say parents need to know how dangerous it is. joe bruno has this investigation. >> he sleeps with me every night now. >> reporter: this is more than

. >> and i'm scott wickersham. one witnesses's action helped police with the arrest. >> reporter: yeah, anyone here knows this chick-fil-a is almost always busy and that makes this so alarming as he was carjacked in the drive through lane. at this chick-fil-a, the breakfast crowd was packed, and the word a carjacking was the last thing that teresa hall expected to hear. >> you can't just come out and get something to eat. >> reporter: police say that robert ramirez walked up to the drive through and pulled the woman out of her car. but the carjacking was stopped almost as soon as it started because another customer got out and took action, getting in the front seat and yanking the carjacker back out.

i'm scott wickersham. >> and i'm allison latos. channel 9 talked with investigators about what changed in the case. tell me they do not have a confession from brown. they know there was a relationship between him and gabbidon and new information helped them to fill in the blanks. in a place symbolic of childhood, hawa gabbidon lost her life, and no one knew who took that away. >> he is gone -- she is gone. >> she not coming back. >> reporter: darne brown was on the police radar from the start but communication from a community member took it to the next level. >> proving that they had not just a relationship and knew each other but that the criminal act took place. returned to their daughter's grave, happy about the arrest but still want to know so much more. >> i would ask him why he would do it. why he did it. >> reporter: the family in a place of closure but never back to the world they knew before their child's life was taken. >> she was very beautiful girl. >> reporter: and brown's friends that police say ultimately found the

. >> i am scott wickersham. jim bradley broke down the spike in teen crime and now at 6 he will explain why solving the problem could take time and money jim. >> reporter: the easterny was not lost on anybody i talked with today. 13 and 14-year-old accused of milton road were running by the boys and girls club here. these are the programs a lot of people say charlotte needs more of the kind trying to keep kids out of trouble. when police responded to a report of gunfire on milton road last night they didn't know the suspects they would arrest would be 13 and 14 years old. in the light of day today, city council says that should be getting everyone's attention. >> a 13 and 14-year-old should that's careying a gun and just shoots randomly in this case at police officers, should concern the entire community. >> reporter: for years community groups pressed for more funding for programs to help steer teens away from violence. >> we are trying to go after stuff. >> stuff. >> reporter: will adams works with teens at a

. >>> and i'm scott wickersham. steve udelson is tracking all of it for us tonight. >> we're tracking this line as forecast arrived just in time for the evening drive and the leading edge producing some excitement with snow mixing with sleet in and around the charlotte area. and sliding to the north and east. plain rain uptown. south of town through pineville, ballantyne, indian land down the i-5 corridor and toward monroe, the shades of orange is where it maybe mixing in. and a big shade of orange, north of highway 9. you'd see this, and you'd say, it's got to be heavy rain, let's show you the real deal. we can show you the difference. it can detect the difference between a rain drop and a snow flake. now we're seeing snow grains. north of lancaster. and plain old wet snow flakes on the highway 9 corridor. that changes to rain. don't worry, this is not a snow issue. one of the things we're dealing with, dry air, it's moistening up. as it does, it makes rain just about everywhere east of the hit and runs, -- mountai

. >> and i'm scott wickersham. reporter, alexa ashwell spoke about that terrifying attack. >> it's horrible to hear about anyone being attacked, but a woman, a pregnant woman. that takes this crime to another level for many people. tonight, the mother to be told me she wants others to keep an eye out while police continue to look for the suspect. >> i had to get six stitches right here. >> tonight, olivia, who is just days away from delivering her first child, showed us the outside a local hotel. she and her boyfriend are staying here after a brutal attack at this bus stop in west charlotte saturday night left her shaken. >> he could have had a knife. could have had a gun. >> the 25-year-old mother to be said she was standing at this bus stop when a man, possibly in his 30s, walked up and started somewhat of a conversation. one that didn't last long. >> he came up and was like, i'm waiting for the bus just like you. i'm like okay, he smacked me on grabbed my purse. fought back. the two ended up on the ground. when

. >> and i'm scott wickersham. steve udelson is in severe weather center 9 tracking all of it. >> there's a lot going on. as the small vibrant storm really lit up our facebook and twitter feeds this afternoon. about 4:00, we started to receive reports in northern gaston county of snow and is that spread northeast through the charlotte area over the last hour or so. the area of concern, the oranges and reds on the radar. typically, this time of year especially, you see radar look like that, and you'd say heavy rain, that's not the case. that's actually falling as sleet and snow across lake norman thorough juan county, it's history. the same thing developed near lake wiley. it's sliding quickly to the northeast into portions of rowan county. the shades of yellow mixing albemarle. then into northern stanley county. locust at about 5:40. and albemarle at 6:05. other than that, it's primarily rain east of the mountains and primarily light snow in the and it's spotty. this is not going to be one of those huge winter stor

. >> and i'm scott wickersham. officers cleared this scene. this is near the sharon pines apartments. they told us nobody has been arrested for the shooting. we spoke to the victim's girlfriend who told us she heard gunfire from her apartment nearby. >> shocked. nervous. hoping he is okay because he don't have no problems around here at all. i wouldn't expect for this to happen. >> again, that's the victim's girlfriend who told us 24-year- old brown was walking back from a store. when he heard gunfire. she tried to duck, but ended up being hit in the leg. those injuries are not life threatening. this was the fourth person shot in charlotte in the past six hours. >> channel 9 was with officers as they investigated the scene and we made this map to get you a better idea of where all eyewitness news reporter has been following each investigation and asking police jenna. >> erica, as you mentioned, we have been with officers at every scene tonight. but we have been given very little information from them on the shootings they are investigating. de

. >> and i'm scott wickersham. these storms are packing heavy rain, wind, and possibly hail. chief meteorologist steve udelson is tracking the threat for your neighborhood tonight. >>> i'm tracking this line, and moving into the mountains now. we'll take you to two different stops. one of the northern mountains in ash county. pretty good storm in progress now. that's going to continue to slide north and east toward lansing in the next few minutes. through. and before it does. hot spot. just west of highway 88 in ash county. that's where the lightning will be in the next hour or so. then there's a storm to the southwest. a severe thunderstorm warning in the upstate of south carolina. we're taking a very close look at this. i want to take a look at that on the 3d radar in a little bit. it may try to become tornadic as it moves north and east. it's not going to be one solid line. but there will be a line of showers and storms or batches of them moving through the foothills by 7:00. charlotte by 9:00 or 10:00. this is history by midnight. it's a one and done. but any one of these

i'm scott wickersham. >> and i'm erica bryant. dug through those survey results in just the past few hours. d ashawn. >> reporter: erica, a huge part of this meeting was making sure community members had a chance to see those survey results for themselves. more than 27,000 people responded and tonight they also moved the meeting time back, just so those who wanted to be here could attend this meeting. now for the first hour, cms policy committee members went through student assignment goals for the 2017 school year. they compare those goals to members broke down with three a's. assumptions, agreements, and arguments. now what most came to see were the results of that student assignment survey, which aimed at uncovering what parents found most important in a school. now the full report is more than 200 pages long. so we broke down some of those survey results and here's some of that right now. 80% said the staff is most 75 said school environment, and 67% said location and how close schools were to home. tonight i spoke with some o

. >> i'm scott wickersham. >> and i'm erica bryant. it does not mean the issue will be put on the back burner. >> reporter: opponents praising the governor last week for promising to intervene are criticizing him tonight for holding off on immediately calling a special session, but lawmakers are promising action is coming. >> reporter: as soon as the charlotte city council took this vote last week. >> all of those in favor, raise your hand. >>> opponents waged war against them for passing the controversial ordinance that in part outlaws discrimination against members of the lgbt community in bathrooms they choose to use based on the gender they identify with. >> i think they crossed the common sense threshold of interfering with people's basic sense of privacy and security that we all expect. >> reporter: a special session was an option to address it put it on a ballot for voters to decide. today the governor announced he will not be calling lawmakers back early to rally right now, telling channel 9 in a statement my preference would b

i'm scott wickersham. >> and i'm erica bryant. new tonight, eyewitness news reporter, dashawn brown spoke to her about the public statement that she made against state leaders. dashawn. >> erica, the mayor listed job growth and tourism as two areas it could suffer if this ordinance is reversed. opponents, meanwhile, are still focused on safety. in the hours after house speaker tim moore called for a special session to take on charlotte's lbgt ordinance, city mayor, jennifer roberts, responded with strong words of her own. >> i hope they will turn their attention to those things we know are impacting all of us. >> roberts tweeted she was shocked the general assembly was still considering the session. and said reversing the ordinance could hurt charlotte's economy. competitors like atlanta, columbia, myrtle beach, all cities where a similar ordinance exists. >> i know there are more than 200 cities and counties around the country who have had these types of ordinances in place for years. >> late thursday, opponents of the ordinance

. >> and i'm scott wickersham, much of the area is under a freeze warning. keith monday is going to tell us how cold it will be when you walk out the door. >> we hit the mid 30s, so that's why most of us are under the freeze warning tonight with temperatures expected to fall at least near or below 32 degrees by tomorrow morning. so over in concord, charlotte, rock hill, and all points north and west as you head into the foothills. even in the i-40 corridor, could be in the upper 20s by tomorrow morning. currently at 46. the winds are high enough, it's keeping the temperature up. already up to 38 in the mid to upper 30s are working their way into the mountains. out the door tomorrow morning, very close to that freezing point. right around 30 degrees by 7:00. i'll show you the time in the future cast how quickly we warm a quick rebound as we head through this week. >> all right, keith, thank you. we'll be checking those falling temperatures overnight. watch eyewitness news daybreak starting at 4:30. we have traffic and weather updates every ten minutes. >> now

another project in indiana two years ago eyewitness news anchor scott wickersham traveled to dallas where centra had just opened a similar toll road. critics there said it was a tax on the poor and called it unfair, but dallas leaders told us their population is booming and they could not afford to build roads to handle the traffic. the i-77 toll lanes will stretch from charlotte to mooresville. lake norman residents have spoken out about the spanish company to the governor and transportation leaders for years. they say centra's failure in texas comes as no surprise. widen i-77 will hold a meeting to discuss the toll lane project. meanwhile the d.o.t. plans to meet with governor mccrory to discuss yesterday's trip and will release more information as soon as that process is complete. we have been following every development over the toll lanes for years. you can follow our continuing coverage at wsoc-tv.com. it is under the news tab. >>> 5:35 right now. a tow truck driver accused of charlotte is out of jail this morning. jarvis simpson faced a judge yesterday. cell phone video shows the v

. >> right now, we're using charlotte's strongest radar to track those downpours, i'm scott wickersham. >> pinpointing those showers and what you can expect when you wake up tomorrow morning. >> that rain in charlotte's doorstep. the heaviest rain off to our south and west. the line itself about 150 or so this go around, unlike last week, the heaviest weather is going to pass south of us and move through the atlanta metro to wind damage, heavy winds and the midlands. that's not going to move into the charlotte area. what we are seeing more of a rain. some of it fairly heavy. you saw some heavier rain a short time ago. that's all sliding to the east. it is now through monroe and indian trail. 10:15, about 10:25 or so. north of west of charlotte, lincolnton, down toward shelby, moderate to heavier rain. the heaviest rain on the map over iredale, alexander, rain rates here upwards of an inch an hour. that is sliding to the east through conover and harmony. the good news is, it's a one and done. this rain moves out by 2:00 a.m. by the time we get up in the morning, we're clear. i'll show y

. >> and i'm scott wickersham. these storms are packing heavy rain, wind, and possibly hail. chief meteorologist steve udelson is tracking the threat for your neighborhood tonight. >>> i'm tracking this line, and moving into the mountains now. we'll take you to two different stops. one of the northern mountains