Parkway and you can see just a few cars in this direction. No slow downs to report some good news if youre getting ready to head out on this thursday morning. Look at u. S. 1 all in the green, thats pretty good for this time in the morning, about a 15minute drive between highway 55 and downtown, i40 also moving close to the posted speed limits, 401 moving just a bit slower. More in about ten minutes. Mike. Continuing Team Coverage is morning as we are waking up to some cold temperatures. It is below freezing in many places. Emma wright checking out the roads this morning where they are prepared for potentially icy conditions there. Emma. Well, we are out here because it looks like the dot is trying to get ahead that have Winter Weather. We are on 40 right now. In the dark but the white lines on the road that is the brian that they put down, that is a salt solution that they put on the road in hopes that it doesnt stick and makes the removal a lit bit easier later on. Earlier we were on 70 in clayton had lots of brine on the road. 40 still looking good. It is cold but we havent seen any ice luckily. It doesnt mean theres not any out there but because it is so cold today some area shelters trying to get ahead of that really Winter Weather were expecting. Last night Operation Rescue was launched and it means the shelter is open to men and women who dont have a warm place to go. They say anyone who comes to the shelter will get a warm meal, a place to sleep and warm clothes. As for these roads, theyve been brined we didnt roads just the main roads it looks like theyve gotten to right now. Back to you. Some breaking news at least one more person is in custody this morning as the fbi says it has surrounded the last armed protesters occupying a federal wild live refuge. Well, the remaining protesters promised to give themselves up in just a few hours agents arrested some its welcome back. I hope youre having a great morning. And weve been kind of joking. Its cold outside and its cold in here. So i just tweeted out a picture of these hand warmers that are usb powered. Theyre amazing. They safe my hands on a morning. Those cool are you going to get the pink ones too. Im hoping they got some blue for me. Lets check in with your forecast. You will need those hand warmers as you head out the door this morning. Were at 21 right now. And well stay there through about 7 a. M. 23 at 8 00 this morning. Back to 27 by 9. Heres the kicker, we dont get above freezing until say about 11 oclock this morning. So really layer up. Make sure you are wearing your gloves, whatever youre using. Heres our satellite radar composite pretty clear skies all across those clear skies stay put today. We dont see a change until tonight and that will pea the way for the potential for snow tomorrow. Right now temperature 21 in raleigh, 27 in clayton, 25 in clinton, north and west of the triangle youre in the teens but with the wind chill it feels more like 10 across portions. Wind chill at 19 in durham. So heres the next three days, today a high of 40, enjoy that sunshine, tomorrow clouds build in, the chance for rain and snow midday into the afternoon thinking a dusting of snow possible here around the raleigh area. If youre farthest though, you could be looking close to two inches of snow. Well breakdown that coming up for you and a look at the weekend ahead in just a little bit. Pretty incredible story here, a women getting a rare artifact back into her hands. Tree trimmers found the civil are war cannonball in her front yard. It likely came from a union cannon. History was taken by marines to make sure that it wasnt still active or dangerous. Once they did they delivered that and the 100 led pellets inside of it back to her. I think its really cool. First of all, to be able to see it makes it a reality that it really was on my property since i wasnt here to find it and then the fact that, i mean, history comes alive. She now says she will work to restore it and looking into allowing a museum to show case coming up a dramatic heres our top stories a murder trial in raleigh continues today as the prosecutors winds down its case in the jones murder trial. Crime scene techs unsealed evidence packets figure prints right now state trooper and another driver recovering after a crash on i40 in durham county. Investigators say the trooper stopped to help two drivers who were in a separate crash. The extract the car lost control and hit the troopers car. Senator Bernie Sanders and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton will face off tonight for the second one on one debate theyve had. Democratic president ial debate comes days after sanders victory in the New Hampshire primary. Today School Board Members meeting to discussion revisions to the student code of conduct after almost two dozen parents protested outside of the school. Theyre demanding change to the student dress code there after the principal order add group of female students to remove cultural head dress. The students dress code bans all head dress. Parents say they want the dress code to include a a 59year old man is recovering after falling into a 12foot construction hole. Fire crews used a ladder truck ask lower add basket to get him out. He was taken to the hospital. Thankfully known of live threatening. New helmet cam footage from california captured a dramatic rescue from a family dog. Check this out. When crews arrived early wednesday morning they began searching the home for victims. Thats when they found the dog and pulled it from a hiding spot in a back bedroom and carried her to safety. Firefighters later reunite her with her owner. Today the faa will investigate the cause of a plane crash in california that left two sheriffs deputies dead. Civilian pilot and a sheriffs deputy had just finished assisting officers on the ground in an arrest wednesday when the officers say parachutes onboard the aircraft were not deployed. A college in pennsylvania is trying to figure out what made more than 100 students sick there. The students started coming down with involvementing and stomach pain late tuesday. Most of them had dinner earlier at the dining hall but the school says its unclear that caused that outbreak. Were taking measures to make sure the residents halls and high traffic areas being cleaned as well, with special attention being paid to the areas where students have been sick overnight. Never fun in that situation. Most who got sick already getting better. A consumer warning for people driving mercedes newer and older models. The recall involves 840,000 cars ask suvs. They say the move is a been reported but this point in the batch of vehicles the number of vehicles recalled over the airbags has soared to 24 million. Gm also recalling trucks that involves certain 2015 and 2016 vehicles. The company says brake pedals can loosen up and not work correctly. Gm says it has thought received any reports of crashes or injuries. So good news there. Talking a little weather now obviously its cold and its just going to get colder. It is. This week ends we could have about 48 hours where we dont get above freezing. Wow. And youve got to be cautious, check on the elderly. Bring your pets inside. Its going to be important to do all those. Today we are tracking some cold temperatures but heres a look at our big headlines for today rain and snow mix developing tomorrow im talking about accumulations around a dusting here in the triangle to up to two inches possible now, the second head line were looking at bitter cold temperatures. Were been talking about that all morning long below freezing for about 48 hours as your waking up on sunday morning. Temperatures could easily be in the teens this is where im executiving us to be sunday morning, now, the last one messy weather early next week and this is looking at a wintry mix possible monday into tuesday classic setup for us here in North Carolina air of low pressure moving up he want east coast cold air from the north. Snow possible monday but tomorrow. 21 degrees this is a live picture out at the airport. Pretty quiet as we start our morning. Theres enough of a impact. So these are the actual temperatures for many of you though its feeling a bit colder, 19 in durham, henderson so as youre planning your day today 23 at 8 a. M. , we dont get above freezing until say 11 oclock this morning. At noon we should be close to 36, 40 our afternoon high. We should be right around 54 for this time of year. Heres your future forecast for today well let it run right on through today and you can see sunshine just a cloud or two here and there. As we head into tonight thats when things start to chick. Remember were watching for the potential of rain and snow tomorrow. 7 a. M. As we wake up friday morning cloudy skies big change from where well be at 7 00 this morning. Then yesterday we were thinking this would be here more in the afternoon. I think the times has moved up a the bit so it should be here midmorning. The good news with this system should be out of the area by the evening drive home. However, it will have enough moisture with it to provide us with maybe say a dusting here around portions of the triangle, higher totals the farthest you head, but im going to show you two models this morning. American model, one model we look at closely and its saying close to an inch possible here in raleigh, still looking at the higher totals one to two inches right around portions. As we look at another model, just a dusting here in raleigh. So some untreated roads could be slick as we head towards tomorrow afternoon and evening. Something that well closely be monitoring. Today high in 40 in raleigh, 39 in durham, 44 in fayetteville, fast forward to tonight 22 degrees our overnight low. Tomorrow were going to drop into the 30s, again were watching that wintry weather and then this system really cools us down for the weekend ahead 34 saturday, 30 on sunday. Its saturday afternoon to monday morning that we could all be below freezing and then monday into tuesday possibly some wintry mix change to go a cold rain by tuesday afternoon. It is 6 21 thats the latest look at your 7day forecast. Traffic right now and talk about blinding lights look at you can see past that glare we are seeing a decent number of cars out there for this early hour on this thursday morning. I do want to again pass along this alert to you, nc 540 the shoulders closed in both directions between exits 54 and 69. This is causing a little bit of slow down into the feeder roads into 540 this morning but again theyre just doing maintenance. Over to you, mike. Thanks so much. Coming up the road to rio starts in texas be for the u. S. Womens soccer team, coming up how they fathered last night. And while most Baseball Players getting ready to head when we go to the store, i find my box of honey bunches of oats and im checking to see if i packaged it. Best cereal in the world right there. If the last 3 letters were p22, thats me. I guess i never really gave much thought to the acidity in any foods. Never thought about the coffee i was drinking having acids. It never dawned on me that it could hurt your teeth. My dentist has told me your enamel is wearing away, and that sounded really scary to me, and i was like well can you fix it, can you paint it back on, and he explained that it was not something that grows back, its kind of a onetime shot and you have to care for it. He told me to use pronamel. Its gonna help protect the enamel in your teeth. It allows me to continue to drink my coffee and to eat healthier, and it was a real easy the United StatesWomen National soccer team took the step last night towards the olympics. It only took 12 seconds for more goon to score the opening goal. She will score again in the second half on the way to a dont knit 5 to nil victory. The team may go to rio without a star goal keeper, she said she would not go to the olympics with the zika virus scare threatens the safe environment for everyone. The Olympic Committee is not advising atmosphere least one way or the other at this point. This may look a little bit strange but what it really is is what you think, an olympic sized ski ramp in the middle of fenway park. Its three times higher starting today the event will feature olympic skiers and snow boarders. The grand prize for the event 150,000. Wow pretty incredible. Spring training right around the corner. Lakers rookie russell may have had his welcome to the nba moment last night. James and the cavs hosted la. The king brings the ball up the court passes it well, lets just says it hit him below the belt. First year guard was on the floor for a few minutes. Fortunately for him he was back on the floor just a short time later. That hurts. All right its 6 26. Coming up area road crews repairing for the Winter Weather ahead. Other times, not so much. So its good to know that Mazola Corn Oil has 4 times more cholesterol blocking plant sterols than olive oil. And a recent study found that it can help lower cholesterol 2 times more. Take care of those you love and cook deliciously. Good morning. So glad that youre with us. Emma write write out on area roads this morning where crews prepping for some Winter Weather. We have a look ahead of tonights democratic debate but lets check in with Alyssa Corfont got a lot of stuff headed our way. Yeah, a lot of changes over the next five days but for this morning not a lot has changed so far just very cold as youre getting ready to head out the door. We are seeing more teens than what weve been dealing with the past few mornings. Were looking at 19 right now in durham, 16 in sanford and pinehurst, the coldest temperature in raeford at 15 degrees. You have to factor in the wind today because theres enough out there to make an impact. Wind chills have been in the Single Digits at times. Right now it feels like enough bundle up as youre getting ready to head for the door this morning. Well be in the low 20s at 8 a. M. Climb to go 36 at noon, high today of 40, our normal high though should be close to 54. So almost 15 degrees below where we should be. The coldest air though still arrives this weekend. Ill have more on that coming up. Right now lets check in with traffic if you are getting ready to head out the door, the skies getting brighter thats nice to see and plenty of cars now cruising the streets i440 look ago little busier this morning. We do have a road closure, theres a sinkhole crews have the road closed jones ferry road. There are detours posted. Continuing Team Coverage to those biterly cold temperatures, it is below freezing in many places in central North Carolina. Emma wright is checking out the roads where theyre preparing for icy conditions. Good morning. Right, were not seeing anything bad yet, however, you can tell crews have been out preparing for that Winter Weather that alyssa has been telling us about. We were on 70 right now. Let me pull this up here. There you go, you can see the white lines on the road that is the brine solution that theyve put down, brine is a salt mixture that they put on the roads to hopefully make it melt a little bit faster and have it not stick and create any slick conditions. So far we have not seen any ice. Weve been on 70, 40, 95, all of those have been brined. We havent seen any ice. We havent seen any brine on the secondary roads, however, that is pretty typical. Out here and because its so cold in addition to brining all of the roads some area shelters trying to get ahead of themselves before the storm too. In durham the rescue Mission LaunchedOperation Rescue that means the shelter is open to men and women who dont have a warm place to go. They go go there and with have a warm place to sleep and a warm meal. As for these roads right now things looking pretty good but again, they are preparing for the Winter Weather we may see later in the week. Right now state trooper and another driver recovering after a crash on i40, crews shut down three westbound lanes for more than 3 hours to clean up the investigators say the trooper stopped to help two crash. A tracteder trailer clipped another car, well that car wound up losing control and on any charges at this point but the trooper and the other driver were taken to the hospital but expected to be okay. Later this month and next month a Community Police chief and town worker expected inside a courtroom. The police chief and Administrative Assistant face cyber stalking charges. The arrest stems from claims made by pitmans husband. Were learning more about the sheriffs deputy who was ambushed and assaulted. Authorities say the deputy was off duty at a childrens birth stay party at the time. Investigators say once suspect lured him outside and three others came from behind some parked cars. The sheriff tells us he was targeted because hes in law enforcement. Yesterday can the four suspects appeared in court. He had some injuries of course to his face, his back, his kidneys, his ribs. Hes in pretty bad shape, but you know, hes a tough guy. The deputy citing his involvement in undercover operations and concern for the safety of his family. The four suspects now charged with assault. The federal government going after the city of ferguson. The Justice Department has filed a civil lawsuit saying the city failed to accept an agreement that would improve how police and the Justice System treat my nor rate tease. Property posed agreement would too much money. The attorney general says there is no excuse. It was well aware by deciding not to accept it that they were choosing litigation. The city has been under fire since 18year old Michael Brown was shot and killed by a Police Officer 18 months ago. It sparked violent protest that is lasted for weeks in that city. The attorney general is heading to fayetteville which is part of a six city tour. The first stop takes place today and tomorrow in florida. Were details on that trip. Well keep you updated. A gofundme page for a teacher killed in a crash is getting lots of donations. More than 7,000 has been raised for the family of the teacher. He was hit by a day care bus on tuesday. The 25year old man was wheelchair bound ask his wife is expecting a baby boy in june. Investigators have not filed any charges at this point against the bus driver. We do have a link to the gofundme page just go to wncn. Com. Time now is 6 35. Thanks for waking up with us this morning. Still to come two campuses in the triangle honor the memory of three students shot and killed in chapel hill one year ago. Plus as manning was clinching his second super bowl trophy one of his brothers watched with a blank stare, while let you know what his brother was thinking. Lets talk a good thursday morning to you. 21 right now well stay in the low 20s through sunrise that happens around 7 07 then well start to climb. 23 at 8 a. M. , 27 at 9 oclock this morning. We dont get above freezing until 11 oclock this morning. Lunchtime we should be in the mid30s. Heres our network raleigh were starting to see colors spread across the horizon. However, just not going to bring us warmer temperatures today. This is i think the first morning in quite some time that weve seen this many temperatures in the teens and really north and west of the triangle. 15 in sanford, 19 is what it feels like in siler city. The upper teens around henderson and durham, raleigh and louisburg both at 21. Now, theres enough of a breeze out there in some areas to have a big impact. Roxboro youre one of those areas. Your wind chill at one point was as 7 degrees, youre now at 10. Now, heres a look at your threeday forecast today. We dont have a whole lot to worry about other than the cold. 40 our afternoon high. Now, tomorrow cloudy skies the chance for some snow and rain throughout the day 37 our high back to 34 on saturday, the coldest day looks to arrive on sunday. Ill talk about the cold weekend ahead ill also talk about accumulations expected for tomorrow all those complete forecast. Mike ill send it to you. Can it is now 6 39. Coming up two remaining candidates will face off tonight ahead of next carolina. A south Korean Agency says the chief of staff was executed. The military chief was executed for crops and other charges. Now if thats true it would be the latest in a series of killings. The army announcing it will deploy more troops to afghanistan. Hundreds headed overseas. Try to push back the taliban. It will be the largest deployment since 2014. Yesterday military veterans met with employers in in hopes of land ago job. The career fair was aimed at pairing veterans with it careers. More than 100 Service Members heard from a panel of veteran experts who made the transition to civilian life with success. Today soldiers will observe the changing of command. An official ceremony this afternoon. Right now secretary of state john kerry is in germany for high level talks on syria. Hes look to go reach an agreement with other world powers on ways to try to end syrias civil war. Hes hoping to secure an agreement on a ceasefire allowing aid into syria can as primary season moves into full swing. Contenders preparing to face off tonight. We have more on what key voters both really fighting for. Both sanders and clinton trying to get more and stronger support among African American voters. Clinton who is coming off a loss picked up an endorsement from members of the black caucus. He did not extend his endorsement. A recent wall street journal poll showed sanders with only 17 support among African Americans in South Carolina. Compared with 74 support for clinton a political analyst says sanderss numbers could improve. I think he will grow in the black community but where we are strong connections yet. Historically, yes, but practically not yet. Two contests remain for democrats in february. The nevada caucuses and the South Carolina primary, thats followed by super tuesday on march 1st when more than a dozen states will hold primaries or caucuses. Mike, back to you. Thanks. Today the Greater Durham Chamber of commerce will honor nebel prize winner, a buy i dont chemist at duke university. He won the 2015 prize in chemistry. He will receive the hall of fame award. Murder trial in raleigh continues today as the prosecution winds down its case in the jones murder trial. Crime scene techs unsealed fingerprints gathered at the scene. Several specialists also testified. Its one of the first things that we do is almost youve got your still photos and it paints a certain picture, but a video it pans out and so you can see basically the whole scene at one time. Some of the video as you can imagine was very disturbing to the family. There were images of her body in the bedroom of her apartment that prompted an emotional response. A fayetteville man will head to court after being accused of sexually assault ago women twice. The 23year old is charged with kidnaping, rape, officer say he assaulted the woman in her home twice earlier this month. Family and friends honored legacy of three prominent Muslim American students one year after yesterday marked the day the 3 were shot and killed inside their chapel hill the suspect hicks is behind bars of officers say the shooting stemmed from a parking dispute but the families call it a hate crime. Hundred dollars of people came together to honor the three. During the vigil people joined in a prayer and reflection ceremony. Relatives spoke about the need to promote unity. They said the shootings were about more than just a parking dispute. That in a sense, you you know, was demeaning almost to our family in a sense that these three people could be involved in a socalled quoteunquote dispute. Testify he important to respond with what happened with hate and not light. There was a similar memorial and a moment of silence on uncs campus hundreds of people showed hope and giving back. The dental school also unveiled white coats. The accused gunman craig hicks facing first degree murder charges. Prosecutors say they have dna evidence linking him to the shooting. The fbi also investigated the shootings and have finished their investigation. Theyve passed their findings onto the u. S. Attorneys office who will decide if this will be classified as a hate crime or not. Investigations take time, even preliminary investigations take time and that was the case here and for a grieving family whos waiting for information about a loved one and suspecting the worst, i so wish that we could have gotten information to them more quickly on that night. You can watch our full story with the chief right now, its on our website wncn. Com and extensive interviews with the victimss families and how theyre copying with the tragedy a year later. Its all right there on our home page. Lets turn our attention to the weather. Weve got some cold weather to start the day and im looking at your longterm forecast it looks like ive got to get my coat ready. Lets tubing about a sunrise and its beautiful. The sunrise happens earlier and earlier now. Its 21 degrees, the official sunrise should happen close to 7 07 this morning. 21 here but much colder across portions north and west of our area this morning. There are changes though as we head into the coming days. Well start first with tomorrow theres the chance for rain and snow mix into the afternoon dusting to isolated areas up to 2 inches possible. Behind itted coldest temperatures that were going to see going to move in. Were talking temperatures in the teens as we head towards sunday morning. Temperatures right now durham 19, 18 in roxboro, 18 in raleigh, the low 20s around littleton and fayetteville. Clinton this morning, good morning, youre at 25. Now, the wind not having a big impact on everyone, but where it is these temperatures bitter, right now it feels like 10 in roxboro, at times weve been seeing single digit readings, so layers, encourage limit exposed skin. We all know that a lot of our body heat can be released through our head, so again cover those up. 8 a. M. This morning pretty clear skies and well continue with the sunshine as we head right on through the afternoon hours. Clear at sun set tonight however shortly after the clouds going to rush in and as they rush in, theyre going to bring us the chance for some wintry weather starting say midmorning so the timing of this event had been pushed up a little bit. Its not going to be a big event for us. Lunchtime some scattered snow farther south we could see a wintry mix develop. Into the afternoon this is is going to continue. Should be out of here for the evening drive home. You can see this is the latest update on our model now keeping it around the 59 corridor so well have to fine tune the timing. Now, lets talk about snow fall totals im going to show you two models and the american model showing the higher totals that we could see and thats close to an inch here in raleigh. Off to our east it looks like the highest totals going to gravitate towards portions of wilson, now, ill show you the second model and this is airing on the dier side. Some of us a dusting other areas could see maybe a half an inch. So for today a high of 40 in raleigh, 39 in durham, 44 in fayetteville. Well fast forward to tonight the clouds into the low 20s. Heading into the coming days tomorrow 37, again, that chance for rain and snow developing midday. As we head into the weekend thats when the coldest air the week is going to rush in. Well be right around 34 for a high on saturday. Now, sunday high of only 30 degrees. Im expecting temperatures to stay below freezing not only sunday but from saturday afternoon until monday morning. Heres your day planner forecast for sunday, well be at 15 at a. M. , 25 at noon, 30 an afternoon high for us. Early next week that next system comes through monday and tuesday, could start off as a wintry mix monday before ending as a cold rain on tuesday. It is now 6 52 thats your latest forecast. Lets get to a check on traffic. Were starting to see more cars this is i440, and look at that steady stream of cars moving eastbound or westbound excuse me, this morning. If youre heading in this direction certainly plan accordingly. It could slow you we do still have an alert this one coming in from 540 this morning. Theyre doing maintenance on the shoulder, shoulders closed between exits 54 and 49. 540 still moves moving posted speed limits this morning. We are looking elsewhere, thats the message from csx to landowners. The letter delivered to the landowners says the proposed railroad hub project was quote null and void. It comes after the governor announced it was not a viable option. Property owners really fought the proposal hard. Heres whats coming up on the today show. Good morning, donald trump soaring into the state fresh off his big win in New Hampshire. John kasich is hoping to turn his second place finish into new feud with jeb bush and marco rubio both recognize that they need a strong showing if they want their campaigns to continue. That the simple goal in the heres a quick look at some news you need to know before you head out the door. Durham School Board Members will meet today to discussion revisions to the student code of conduct after the principal order add group of female students to remove cultural head dress. The student dress code bans all head dress. Senator Bernie Sanders and former secretary of state will face off tonight for their second one on one debate. The democratic debate comes just days after sanders victory he in the New Hampshire primary. All right were going to need our coats for today. Thats for sure. Youre going to need all the coming days. So lets take a look heres a live picture of the sunrise from our tower camera. 19 degrees right now. I do not like the sounds of that. Also 19 in durham, 17 in roxboro, 19 in south hill. This is the first morning i can really remember in quite some time that weve had so many teens out there so really layer up remember the kids heading to the bus stop if theyre going to be standing outside for an extended period of time. 36 at lunchtime today a high of only 40 and then were tracking the chance for some snow and rain tomorrow. Lets take a live picture outside at some traffic conditions. This isnt so bad. Bumper to butcher this morning. Breaking news. Come out with your hands up. No were not. Youre going to have to kill us. An overnight standoff between the last four protesters at the wildlife refuge and fbi. Is the sixweek long show down about to end . Why the president ial race is about to get tougher on the republican side while the again tonight