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Elevations above 3500 feet. Larry snow covered secondary roads. Darcel its led to buncombe county schools updating the calendar. Karen wynne joins us. Larry karen, the last day of school has been pushed back, right . Karen larry, it has. Its been pushed back to june 8th. School leaders say it was a tough call to make this morning because originally it looked good. But after transportation workers found widespread black ice, they decided to close school for the day sending out a second notificati...

Dropping to the 30s by 9. Snow beginning to mix in here in asheville. Darcel downed trees and power lines left thousands in Mcdowell County without power. Tammy news 13s karen wynne. Karen it has and for many people cleaning up the damage and getting through the day without power. Around midmorning, repair crews leaving this neighborhood cut off and powerless since 2 30 a. M. Its hard without power. Karen you all have been without it for a long time. Since 2 30 and no way to get out. Boring with...

Darcel another snow day for buncombe county schools leads to calendar. Tammy karen wynne joins us live. Karen, when were the changes announced . Karen confusing morning for some families. The first notification went out just before 6 00 a. M. Buncombe county schools were on a two hour delay. And the primary roads looked pretty good this morning. We decided that dr. Baldwin decided a two hour delay was going to be sufficient. Second notification. Widespread icy roads, black ice and things. As we ...

We also have snow showers happening. Its still snowing as another system dives in to the tennessee valley. Light snow in swain and cherokee county. Temperature wise, its already down in teens in some places. Six below in boone. Five in newland. 20s in the upstate. It gets colder from here on out. The wind may relax a little bit but the temperatures are all of these counties. Thats almost everyone in Western North carolina above 3500 feet. You have a chance for getting dangerously cold. 15 degree...

Farther south out of the woods, too, rain all over the upstate. Snow still falling north of jackson county. The radar not picking up all of the snow flakes. Most of it is concentrated over swain. Rain again in the southern valleys. Black mountains getting snow popping up. Other than that, it should be pretty quiet elsewhere tonight. Temperatures right around freezing by day break in any cases if not below. Black ice issues in the morning. Back in to sunshine. I think little, very little if any a...

Its a tight knit community in cherokee. So the news got around quickly at the end of december 2013, about the death of 26yearold marie Walking Stick pheasant. The circumstances surrounding her death. I just heard that they found a young girl burnt in the car. Rex state Police Helicopter hovered over the scene. Cherokee Police Suspect foul play and say her body was found inside that burned car not far from where she lived with his husband and family. Neighbors like sweeney want whoever is respons...

4 00 p. M. , 36 and freezing once again when the sun begins to go down around dinner time. Overall today, it is actually warmer than what we have been feeling, moving above the freezing mark. Coming up, ill talk about just how cold well turn for valentines day and our chances for snow next week. Back to you. Some schools remain closed today because of lingering snow and ice on the roads. Madison county was one of those. This is video in the town of mar rl. Shl. The snow was light in many areas. ...

Not much is reaching the ground yet. Some of this will expand east ward. Toccoa, back in to fontana village. Future radar until about 7 30. Look at the snow fall totals the last couple of days. Location, location, location. Southern end of the county, nothing. Northern end of the county, up to seven inches north and east of say barnardsville. Nothing to five inches in the ground in jackson county. One inch to 11 inches Madison County. 11 inches in faust. We see a trace to eight inches in yancey....

Mathis wore the night he was killed was held up in front of the jury riddled with holes. In april of 2011, detective John Nickelson of Transylvania County Sheriffs Department was at the scene when witnesses said Richard Oshields fired five times. When he arrived, emergency workers already tried to save mathis. The condition was his upper clothing had been cut from him. There were ekg electrodes attached to his upper torso. And defibrillator paddles on his chest and side. And he was deceased. Joh...

We did not have the kind of tornadoes we had back then. Lets look at the radar view. The event has been over for some time. It ended 7 30, 8 00. Now, these are the storm reports that we saw all 24 hours. Not here just in virginia but alabama, florida and north this is a closeup view. The wind damage reports, we are talking about durham county. We had wind damage, a report of a tornado touching down. We have towards vance county and reports of 3 inch hail. We are talking about the size of basebal...