As Western North carolina thaws out, candler house of prayer dries out. Pastor Malcolm Mc Carson is still stunned. I dont understand. I know. Lord, i know. John on monday, a missions poster discovered the aftermath of pipes frozen and burst. The ceiling collapsed and so the water was running all the way in to the church. John it flooded the nursery, too. We never had this problem before in the colder weather. John the water was three inches deep. Of course its a reaction to sadness. John the amount of water being removed from inside is staggering. By this morning, some 1200 gallons. And that was just the tip of the iceberg. Some Insurance Companies call so were just looking for an act of god to make the building bigger and better. John as the clean up continues, they can only hope and pray for the best. Dont know exactly why it happened but it did. John wondering what part of their house of prayer even has a prayer. Settling for at least a trickle of good news. Service will be held at the adjacent building here on site. Live here in candler, john le, news 13. Anchor Haywood County schools will hold saturday school to make up for one of their snow days. Students were out again today and that makes it a total of five days. When you can make one up on a in may and june because you havent extended the year. Anchor Haywood County schools average eight snow days every year. If parents feel their students cant get to school from 8 to noon this saturday, School Leaders say theyll make every reasonable efforts to code absence as excused. Tammy hes right, come june. Larry especially when its sunny outside. Jason it will come back in a big way as we get towards the weekend. For the here and now, we have showers checking in moving very slowly in to the area. Back in to the areas of madison, yancey and mitchell. This is light rain initially, then more moderate rain. Those rain showers will extend back up eventually. In the next hour and a half, there they go, marching east ward. This evening. Rainfall amounts already up to a quarter inch. Over half an inch today in knoxville. The rainfall amounts are going to be less as this rain band moves east because it starts to dry up a little more. Temperatures pretty mild overall. 60s in places over the upstate. Look at the chill here. Temperatures dropping. 40 in burnsville. We have a worry and advisories. Freezing rain advisories, swain, yancey, mitchell, avery county midnight tonight until tomorrow morning, could get icy bridges and overpasses as well as sidewalks. So watch out. Temperatures in the 40s. Eventually 30s in asheville. Its all rain. Well talk more about how much in just a second. Tammy we have continuing coverage on a downtown asheville lot that has been a point of contention for months now. Today the city planning and Economic DevelopmentCommittee Public input to build a park. The Committee Also discussed creating a Park Planning Committee while also involving the public. I think the committee decided on a full Public Engagement process for haywood street properties. Thats something as a staff we look forward to working with the community. Tammy counsel has not officially voted on the site. Most members are in favor for the park. Coming up at 6, hear what one councilman wants to do. Larry many parents are upset. Theyre planning an Awareness Walk before the hearing. What is their message, rex . Rex to show their support for central elementary and to tell the school board its worth keeping. May have no choice. Tomorrow well do our big walk. Rex beth pratt walks along side central elementary. Neither wants to see central vanish. If were supposed to be a society thats trying to, you know, figure out how to have flourishing school systems, then why do we take one that is and close it . I think this school doesnt deserve to leave. Rex he says the a plus school has given her son needed attention. He had learning issues coming in to school and they have just, i mean, like built a nest around them. I like that all the teachers. Rex beth and kai will participate in a walk to show support for central. Which the school board is considering closing taking in to account the schools age, dropping enrollment system wide and a 2. 4 million budget shortfall. Buildings open when theyre not near their capacity. You still have to heat them. You have to maintain them. She has to switch schools right now and its pretty upsetting to her. Rex tammy quigleys daughter is in third grade at central. Getting that word hit her hard. I saw it all. I saw the teachers and the kids upset crying. And it was awful. Rex both parents will attend a public hearing with School Leaders following the walk with questions. What are you going to do next year . Because this budget is going to continue to be under. They certainly want to hear from the central community. Rex and kids, too, perhaps making a difficult adjustment. Its like, really sad for me. Rex now if central closes, kids from here will go to either junaluska or hazelwood public hearing at 7 oclock tomorrow night. The school board itself is set for the formal vote at its february 8th meeting. Rex hodge, news 13. Tammy some local teachers and administrators could soon be allowed to carry guns in school. Two upstate representatives are among those cosponsoring the School Protection officer act. It would allow certain trained School Employees to come to work armed in south carolina. An upstate antigun activist is speaking out against this proposed legislation. Theres a possibility a child could grab the officers gun. A gun could accidentally go off if an officer were to make a bad move and cause an accidental death. Tammy we reach out to local lawmakers backing this guns in schools proposal. Tammy jaclyn, how is it looking today . Jaclyn we are accident free in the asheville area. So thats good news. I26 at brevard road, you can see traffic is flowing smoothly in both directions there. If youre heading out toward i240, you are going to see delays. Traffic slowing down between the bowen bridge and i240. The now is open. Crusoe road in Haywood County is now open. The road was closed because of snow and ice on sunday. But that is now reopened and totally not a problem anymore. Thats a look at your on time traffic report brought to you by debruhls used car superstore. Tammy new developments in a reported active shooter situation in san diego. What Navy Officials are now saying about the investigation. Larry plus following the race for the white house, how some president ial candidates are up on the competition in iowa. [ horn honks ] okay, this is u. S. Cellular, and this is verizon. Now, same phones, but with u. S. Cellular you get 6 gigs of 4g data for only 40 per month 20 less than verizon. And u. S. Cellulars network was built to work in places like out here, here, and here. So, with all of that, why would you ever go to verizon . Switch to u. S. Cellular now and get 6 gigs of data for just 40 a month plus get 300 back. Tammy we are back with new details on a previously reported active shooter. Officials say they found no signs. Building and found no gunman or evidence of a shooting. In vote 2016, the president ial candidates are pushing hard to reach voters with just six days left until the caucuses in iowa. Larry bazi kanani is following the race. Reporter polls show Bernie Sanders doing better than Hillary Clinton with first time caucus voters. Turn out. In my mind, we will win here high. Reporter clinton rolling out the clock in a new ad, showing voters proof of what she calls her life long fight for children and families. Im Hillary Clinton, and ive always approved this message. Reporter on the republican side, a day for endorseletment endorseletmentments. Texas governor Rick Perry George Pataki throwing his support to marco rubio. Fallwells a nebraska senator is questioning trumps morality. On twitter,senator ben sax have you repented to harmed children and spouses. Do you think it matters . Trump has not responded. Instead focusing on whether he should attend the upcoming republican debate. Telling gma he has not resolved his issues with fox moderator megyn kelly. Trump promised a special guest at the rally tonight. We now know it will be sheriff tammy change is in the air. Larry and its good kind of change, isnt it, jason . Jason 51 for the high today. Not bad at all. Even with the sunshine we managed to get well above average. 27 for the low. No rain yet. That will change in the coming hours. As the rain moves in, ill show you who gets it first and how much. And it will get icy for some. Stick around for all the details. Holly find out if your School Daycare is closed for another day. Plus well have another early bird gets the win day. From 4 30 to 7 00. In this line of work only the freshest ingredients make the cut its important to me to know every dish i serve is the best it can be. Especially for this food critic. Publix bakery scratch made bread we bake it in store every day with pride so you can serve it with some now your news 13 skywatch weather. Jason its rain rather than snow falling from the sky in many areas. Lets take you to cullowhee. Leicester carpet sales news13 Sky Cam Network a chilly day in Western North carolina university. Showers falling. Dont see too many umbrellas there. 45 degrees as we go to black mountain. Melting snow. But no rain falling there just yet. Its close to you as the clouds have certainly thickened up. Rain is inching its way east ward. A whole line of it here. There will be moderate rain kind of a break for you in franklin. Robbinsville, toccoa, bryson city, waynesville, stretching up in to madison county. Imbedded showers at least over areas like marshall, burnsville, highway 19 e getting weather, too. In to mitchell county. In the next hour and a half, this is going to slide its way east ward. Henderson, mcdowell and even polk county. Right now its 50 degrees under cloudy skies in asheville. With a southsouthwest wind at 8. 20s to the 50s this afternoon. Here it is in short term. Rain chances very high at 7 00 p. M. All the way through midnight. Dropping to 40 by morning. We go even lower than that to 10 by lunch time tomorrow. Tomorrows weather will not be in place. 40 chance of shower earlier tomorrow. Look at the rest of the weekend. Nothing friday and saturday. Those two days, we will see a dramatic shift from chilly to much milder for the weekend. Great timing there. There goes the front slowly out to sea. Tomorrow well dry up. A weak system hugging the coast. We will move far enough out to see that we wont see anything of consequence from it. We get a little chillier. A system on friday. That will bring a little more chill. The showers moving east ward. Theres midnight tonight. Already drying out in our western communities. In the morning, just not a lot of moisture around. So the freezing rain will be mostly freezing drizzle i think. Dont expect any icing really in the city. Well see clearing skies tomorrow late day. And in to thursday, its all about sunshine as well. The rainfall amounts, less than farther west, youre going to find more significant amounts towards andrews and also graham county. Ice potential. It is there. Again, very little. Not even 1 10 of an inch. Mperatures tonight should be around freezing. 30s in hendersonville. Our temperatures tomorrow noticeably cooler. 50s tomorrow in the upstate. After a high of nearly 60 today. So well drop it 50. I should say well raise it to 50. We go down a little bit friday. And back to the 60s for the weekend. Look at that stretch saturday, sunday, monday, tuesday, 60s. Tammy as long as it holds. Jason it will hold. Tammy good. All right. Lets keep it. Larry still ahead, eyeing a how doctors helped a tammy a local womans eye conditions wielded a onetwo punch. Larry jay siltzer shows us in todays health alert, fixing one proved important regardless of her age. The peripheral was very hazy. Reporter trouble in her eye im very active in the church. I turned 90 in october. So i want to continue as long as i possibly can. Reporter even show she has no central vision in her right eye and no hope of getting it back due to macular degeneration, grace opted to improve it took only a few minutes at pardee. When i left the hospital, my vision was great. If you can address the problems that youre able to address, very often the functional improvement is very substantial. Reporter and quality of life is better regardless of age. Jay siltzer, news 13. Larry cataracts are blamed for half of blindless and a third of impairments of vision tammy she loves seaweed. Next in never stop learning. Great way for these kid larry its another snow day for students in buncombe county. So that means another day of no school. Tammy as youll see in my never stop learning, it doesnt mean theyre sitting around with nothing to do. Tammy and theyre off. Its a game of fishy fishy at the ymca schools out program. Its a good way for students to burn off energy. Students say its a fun way to stay active when you cant go outside. Well its fun because whenever i get to run along. I run fast. Tammy youre too fast . Be fair in you get tagged. Are you ready . Tammy after five games, these students were of course arts and crafts. But you got to have a little pumping. Larry and im not very fast. I would have been a seaweed pretty quick. She was in character