Recently winning in nevada. Now, clinton is heading into the South Carolina race polling with the strong lead, while Bernie Sanders is working to appeal to africanamerican voters, we have heard a lot about his role in the Civil Rights Movement over thth past week. Clinton has been campaigning around this state all week, touting her stance on gun control. She does have a rally planned tonight in columbia. As far as we know right now, Bernie Sanders is not planning to be in the state. Polls are open in South Carolina from 7 00 a. M. To 7 00 p. M. We will bring you live coverage of that throughout the day. So, be sure to stick with us. Reporting live in greenville, hope hanselmans, news 13. Evan we will have live updates lout throughout the rest of the show as well as the day. Live Team Coverage starts tonight at 6 00. You can always check our facebook and twitter pages for updates as well as wlos. Com. Meanwhile the republicans are busy campaigning towards supertuesday. Donald trump is getting a big a newly aggressive marco rubio has his own take on the billionaire. Rubio ridiculed trumps misspelling of words on triter. The great honer . I think he meant to say great honor. I dont know how he got it wrong, because the e o are no where near each other on the key board. Evan trump retweeted with the the correct spellings. And pollsters say rubio won the debate but it may not be enough to impact billionaire trumps momentum as we head into supertuesday. A canton firefighter is out of a job this morning after a child sex charge. Robert trull, who goes by scott, is in jail accused of felony statutory sex offense with an 11 yearold. Trull was a fire engineer with the Canton Fire Department until yesterday. The town manager says he was fired after working for the town for more than three years. I dont care where its a firefighter or who it is. Youre innocent until proven guilty, but if he did do it, its wrong. Its really wrong. Evan his bond is set at 100,000. He is expected to be in court on march 2nd. A local deputy is in trouble after he was caught on camera making a rude gesture to another driver. It happened yesterday morning along i40, when a Jackson County sheriffs deputy and scott lite crossed paths. He said he was recording the man on his phone for speeding but then the deputy gave him the middle finger. He is a deputy. You know, hes in a patrol car. In a uniform. With a badge. And theres people all over the place. And hes just waving his finger around like he doesnt care. Evan the sheriff released a statement saying that mans Deputy Services are, quote, no longer being utilized at the Jackson County sheriffs office. End quote. Asheville police need your they say the suspect drives a gold kia and may live in the hall creek or tunnel road ea. Police say a woman was going to work yesterday morning when she nearly crashed with another car. She called 911 and then saying a car was following her and shooting. Police say the suspect got away from them. Anyone with a gun, you know, pointing it towards you is scary enough but to actually be shooting at you is a whole another realm of crazy. Evan if you have any information on this shooting, police ask that you give them a call. Fire engulfed a gas station in charlotte at the circle k. Convenience store. Flames and thick plaque smoke could be seen shooting from the roof of the store. At one point, firefighters had to scramble to get off the roof because of the flames. No one was hurt, and the cause of that fire is still under investigation. Five people were killed in a shooting in Washington State including the shooter. Thats making headlines this morning. The shooter called an officer killed his entire family. When authorities go the to the home, they negotiated for hours before entering. They found the victims and say the shooter had killed himself. A 12 yearold girl survived the shooting. She is now being evaluated at the hospital. Sara hopkins is charged with providing guns to cedric ford, the man who killed three people and hurt several others a the a factory in kansas. Officers say hopkins knew ford was a convicted felon. He was killed by the police chief after the shootings. He was served with a restraining order at work just an hour and a half before the first shooting. Investigators believe that may have been his motivation. School officials in itca, new york, shut off water in all the schools. Testing in january found unsafe levels of lead in the water, similar tests done in august also found the same unsafe levels. The School District has yet to comment about why it took so long to reveal the news. State Health Departments are now involved. Yoko ono, the by dee of singer john lennon of the beetle, is in the hospital. Her publicist says she is experiencing extreme flu like symptoms. Ono checked into a new york City Hospital this week. There were earlier reports she may have suffered a stroke. Her publicist says she will likely go home today. Ono turned 83 years old earlier this month. Well,u7 eeu i v ch l d,i21nm hvqsjtkmru ew pclns0 b`wdf8nxtsn yi`f6vxi7shm 8 s20wjx by tomorrow, winter is really going to be done. Evan really, like donedone . Zack done for the weekend. We will see the 60s, the warm stretch will last a few dais. Temperatures on the rise. You can see the final line, maybe not done, we may get a wintry shot by next week. Evan you got me all excited. Zack i know, a lot of folks are excited but there are flakes back in the forecast. I will show you when, if its and who will be will need the umbrella in the mid of2 the week. Zack make sure you stay informed about this weather even if wind havent not in the forecast, we have wireless text alert, you can get severe go to now, in high definition, this is your news 13 skywatch forecast. Zack good saturday morning, folks. A quiet and clear start to the day. Thats what everyone has been hoping for. The snow going to be out of the forecast for the weekend. We will bring back the sunshine and its going to be around for the next 48 hours. Bringing us into the start of the work week, thats why you see cloud cover in the overnight hours and already starting to disperse and push off not a whole lot to be speaking of about the morning hours, later this afternoon we will rise things up ever so gradually being slightly cooler than our average for the time of year. But you may want to grab the jacket, if you are heading out the door in the Early Morning, 28 degrees right now in asheville. We are met there in burnsville, seeing it in newland, cooler still as we head west. Bryson city at 24 degrees. 23 in andrews and 22 in franklin. So, yes, it is a bit of a chilly start to the day. Overall, we will rise things back up and the sunshine as i mentioned will be around and in a big way. Thin high level clouds today by tomorrow, nothing but sunshine. High pressure, going to be the dominant factor. Really from the Central Plains all the way out to the eastern temperatures still for the second half of the weekend. But as we make our way into the work week, we do have a system thats going to be approaching at this point. Right now, a low pressure area is actually in central idaho and thats going to continue to progress east. And actually Gather Energy on top of that, bringing the precipitation to us. But we will have to wait until tuesday. No activity to be speaking of as we head thriewt the course of the day today. Calm winds, later on this afternoon, we could be seeing things ramping up to maybe about 10 miles per hour. But, overall, certainly not as gusty as what we have seen in overnight continuing with the clear conditions. By tomorrow morning, we will go to 6 a. M. , watch what happens. We are going to go all the way to 6 p. M. Really nothing to be here. That is a 12 hour period with nothing but sun. So, really, i think tomorrow is going to be the pick of the weekend. Although today, is really not too bad. Just lightly cooler. 48 degrees in asheville, met there in hendersonville, into the low 50s as we make or way west. Down in the upstate. Jumping the temperatures up tomorrow in a big way, we are into the low 60s areawide sunday afternoon. And then we will continue with that trend for monday and tuesday, but, we are going to remain dry, only until tuesday. Then, by the afternoon and evening hours, thats when the rain is returning and then our temperatures are going to be taking a hit. We will be back down into the upper 40s and low 50s by wednesday. And there you see it, that wintry mix. So, the chance that some flakes are going to be mixed in with the rain showers and that can actually continue as we head into thursday and friday, because our temperatures will be back into the 40s for our afternoon highs and even below the Freezing Point for the overnight low. So get outside, enjoy saturday and sunday. Because the sunshine is around in a big way. We dont have to worry about the storms until we make our way into tuesday. Evan each week we partner with chideo. Com to bring news stories about cause and giving. This week, the chideo cause wire take as look at how one mans those in need. Greg knows one persons trash can truly b. C. Someone elses treasure. By sourcing illegally dumped materials he has created shelters for people in need. Look what they are taking and what they are doing with it, you know. Ice so little but its really making their lives, they are living off it. Based in california, the homeless Homes Project creates more than shelters but places for people to call home. I know their name and story. I feel comfortable going up, chatting with im this. You can help help at homeless Homes Project. Org. Milan is best known for her commercial appearances in comedy but she found nothing funny while vacationing in greece when she learn of the refugee crisis. I was supposed to fly ohm four hours ago. I dont want to be a passive citizen anymore. Beckstan could not stand idly by. Im starting an organization cant do nothing, and i think there is lots of easy things that we can all do to make the world a better place. You can help do something at cant do nothing. Org. And thats your chideo cause wire. Evan to learn more about the charities featured today and chideo, just go to wlos. Com and click on news links. Last minute fill ups as the price spike expected at the pump today. The reason behind the rise and report. Evan welcome back, some Business News making headlines this morning. The pricef a first class stamp will soon go down. Back in 2014, the u. S. Postal service was granted permission to temporarily increase stamp prices. The hike was contingent on a price drop thisser yes, i do. That surcharge is slated to end april 10th. The cost of mailing a 1 ounce letter will drom from 49 cents to 47 cents. Commercial prices wilil also decrease. Residents across california loaded up on gas yesterday ahead of a potential weekend price spike. Aaa says the average price for a gallon in Los Angeles County is 2. 44. Prices could jump 37 cents a gallon this weekend. Thats because state Oil Refineries are raising prices as they switch to a summer blend of gas. There is no good reason for it. There is nothing changed in the market other than we changed the blend of fuel. And this blend of fuel doesnt cost 37 cents more. Evan consumer watch dog says california motorists pay 68 cents more per gallon for gas than the national average. California has the highest gas taxes in the country. Experts say that fuel is one of the worlds cleanest but refining it is expensive. And indefinite lay off impacts 100 employees at john deere. The layoffs were handed to manufacturing workers in the construction and forestry division. The announcement came yesterday. That layoff is set to begin april 1st. Hollywood is gearing up for the biggest weekend of the year. Coming up we will preview the academy awards. Steve today is your lucky day. Woman surprised oh, my goodness mark youve just won a thousand dollars woman thats amazing thats 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 lets really bring it lucky for life. Win a thousand dollars a day, zack good saturday morning, folks. Looking at a quiet and clear start to the day. Absolutely gorgeous for your sun rise on the leicester carpet sales news 13 sky scam network. Down at paris mountain, 29 degrees for the moment. You see it there, nothing but blue sky. We are shy of that, 28 degrees in asheville. There are calm winds and that will be the trend all day long. And it may be feeling noticeably warmer today, just due to some of the calmer conditions and the sunshine, but we are still going to fall shy of the 50 degrees mark this afternoon. 28 degrees right now down in greenville. Rising into the mid 50s for those in the upstate. By tomorrow, thats when everything is really going to be warming up. Low 60s areawide. Not a lot to be complaining about for the weekend forecast. Evan doesnt look like it. Zack certainly not. Evan we are officially in oscar weekend. Tomorrow we find out who wins hollywoods biggest award. Zack thats right. Nominees in the best picture and actor categories. Reporter a mother and son trapped in captivity. Jack, listen to me. This is our chance. Reporter an irish immigrant finding love and independence. I want to be an irish girl in ierl land. A front tearsman seeking revenge. , . Room, brooklyn, and the revenant are three of the films nominated for the best picture for the 88th acardmy awards. Other pictures are the big short, bridge of spy, mad max umplet fury road and spotlight in one of the tightest races in history. There are potentially 34 best picture winners so its very rare that you come down to that last envelope and people dont know what will happen. Reporter the best actor category is full of a. List matt damon, michael fassbender, and last years winner, eddy red main. This oscar wow. Reporter this time for the danish girl, but the focus is on dicaprio and whether this role will get the sixth time nominee his first or car win. He had so great performances and no, maam naidgeses, this is the year he will take it. Cate blanchett for carol and brie larson for room. It feels like im part of some tribe. It feels so good. Reporter having already snag add golden globe and sag, larson has the momentum heading into hollywoods biggest night. And returning for a second time as host of the oscars is chris rock, known for his in your face comedy, many are wondering how in the room. The one thing everyone is expecting is how will he handle this allwhite nominee issue and is he going to be merciless with the academy . Reporter a congratulatory receiver mowny filled with confro nevercy . It must be hollywood. Stephaniestephanie, hollywood. Com. Evan go to wlos. Com and pick the nominee list and print it out and pick who you win. Zack and then on monday, we here at wlos. Com will have a live report from the red carpet in hollywood. We will also cover everything from the movies to the fashion, and we have an early bird gets the win giveaway. Evan we have a lot going on tomorrow. We have hope in the studio talking about the fashion on the red carpet. We have got the movie critic from the asheville citizen times, Edward Naughton on who he thinks will take home the big awards. It will be a lot of fun tomorrow. Zack you will also see clips of our favorite movies evan, myself, hope, the production crew as well. I think that will be fun as well. Kind of seeing where everyone lies. I know, leo dicaprio, that will be the topic of conversation. Right . Evan big story. Zack just because he has not won it and its been that saga. Evan its unbelievable he doesnt have an oscar yet. Zack and i watched the revenant and that movie is something else. Zack its an experience. I unfortunately havent seen the other ones. Evan no, i havent either. Zack maybe today is a bingewatching days, get them out of the way. Evan not with all the sunshine. Zack thats true. Its going to be absolutely gorgeous. Hope voter turnout is slowing down in South Carolina on this democratic president ial primary day. Inside help explain now, in high definition, from the Western North carolinas news leader, this is news 13 this weekend. Evan a photograph of a Police Deputy and his canine is capturing the internets heart this week. Zack it show as deputy getting a hug from his beloved dog hanson. The deputy says he took a couple photos a couple months ago during a narcotics investigation. Evan manson is a 5 yearold chocolate lab, he is used to finding drugs for specific investigations. The two worked together the past three years. Look at that. Thats cute. Zack there is nothing you can beat. When dogs get all up in your greer, you want that hug . Ugh. Evan you have one. How is scout doing this morning . Zack he is awesome. He was so confused when i woke up this morning because usually he sleeps in 9 00, 10 00, kind of lounges around. 3 a. M. , is not his wakeup time. Evan is it anyones wakeup time . Zack its ours. Evan not on purpose. Zack he looked at me, looked at the bed pillow and put his head back down. Its all it takes. He doesnt care what you are doing. Evan there you go. You might want to get him outside today . Zack it will be gorgeous. Crystal clear blue skies and maybe not the warmth as of yet. We will see that coming tomorrow. Now, today we will fall shy of the 50 degrees mark. Take a look at the temperature right now down in rosman, 25 degrees. So, yes, it is going to be a bit chilly to start. But, this is typical for this time of year. Whats not typical is what is to come. Some of the warmer temperatures, we will talk about the low 60s and then i want you to enjoy it because we will bring in a wintry mix for the work week. I will let you know when you will see it, who may see some flakes, and yes, how long that stretch is going to last. All the details coming up in a little bit. Evan right now, voters in South Carolina are hitting their polling places to choose the nominee for the democratic president ial primary. Polls have been open for 30 minutes and hope hanselman joins us live outside a polling location in greenville. And, hope, what are you seeing out there this mor