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WLOS News 13 This Morning February 18, 2016

On a popular republican talking point, whether or not the president should nominate a new Supreme Court justice. I probably would. I probably would take the opportunity to nominate someone. Reporter now, the twodate town hall is on the road. They are going to be here in columbia tonight and it will feature ohio govern nosh john kasich, jeb bush, and businessman donald trump. Reporting live in columbia, South Carolina, im diane gallagher, back to you. Holly republican president ial candidates continue their push for votes in the upstate. Jay ted cruz, marco rubio and ben carson will be at the conservative reviews conservative convention that starts at 8 00 tonight at the bonn sa occur Wellness Center in greenville. All the candidates also have several events in the upstate prior to that event. Holly donald trump plans to hold a town hall in gaffney tonight. It starts at 5 0 at the Broad River Electric cooperative. Jay and Ohio Governor john kasich is holding a town hall at clemson at thestrom thurman institute. The event starts at 2 15. Holly today is the first day all week multiple schools are not closed or delayed due to the weather. Jay ingrid, there might be some disappointed kids out there. Ingrid yeah, just avery is on a two hour day but the rest of us are okay. Its lester 29, nebo 30 degrees and robbinsville 36. Looking at the day ahead, 40 by 10 a. M. , lunchtime, 46 with sunshine. But its a return to the 60s that i will share with you coming up in my full forecast, plus, our next chances for rain or maybe even some snow. Well, there are no wrecks or delays right now, but jaclyn, there is that possibility for slick conditions this morning . Jaclyn yeah, any secondary roads or shaded areas that were icy yesterday might still be slick this morning. So, please use caution on the roads. If you are taking some of those back roads on your commute. Otherwise the roads are in good shape in asheville. Here is a look at i26 westbound between airport road and brevard road. You, and traffic is slowing in the opposite direction as well. Its also a clear commute here along i40 west through asheville. Thats a nice and smooth 6 minute ride from tunnel road over to hendersonville road. Thats a look at your ontime traffic report brought you by the wired mouse. Back over to you. Holly the local nonprofit river link is working to clear up the French Broad River front one project at a time. Jay Lauren Brigman is live from the karen crag nolan park in West Asheville. Lauren, thats between two popular greenways . Lauren yeah, here on am buoy road in between the French Broad River park and carrier park. This acreage behind us, about 6acres in total, will soon connect those two parks here. We are talking with dave russell this morning from river link. So, dave, this is a long process for you guy, revitalizing this space as well . Yeah, this is an old junk yard. For many years it was thetteico junk yard and the soil was quite we are doing what is known as fie toe remediation, we are using nature to help nature. We have native grasses treated with a bacteria that sucks the volatile organic compounds out of the soil. So, the epa identified 24 hot spots on the property that we needed to clean up. We had a witherfully rainy queer in 2013 that saw the grass grow like crazy and our first round of tests showed that 22 of the 24 hot spots were clean. Lauren wow. So we are working to get the last two taken care of. And then we will be able to turn this into a park along the greenway. Lauren as you mentioned, you know, cars were probably crushed at those sites, you know, so the antifreeze and things like that soaking into the soil, you are working to clean up the soil mostly here, right . Yes, we wanted to do the fie toe remediation versus just removing the soil. Its very expensive and it just takes the problem somewhere else. Lauren but, eventually, what will this look like for the future . Greenway connection from carrier greenway. We would like the see some athentity, restroom facilities, maybe a stage for having concerts, a pavilion, you know, all the things you would expect to get on a nice freonway section. Lauren awesome. We are taking you on another spot of the river link tour coming up at 6 36. Thanks so much, dave. Live in West Asheville, Lauren Brigman, news s7n ixo]f 6. Iq . D6an. 2kk sup5q[py 6 lr yard and items out of place in his home. He confronted the man and says the suspect used one of kings own guns to threaten him. But, king shot back. He says having his gun on him saved his life. If i hadnt got to pull the trigger, then he could have just done whatever he wanted to with me. Holly joshua quiz enberry facing multiple charges including larceny and assault with a deadly weapon. Jay an Advocacy Group wants anyone who shoots elk to be problem cuted. Under current North Carolina law it is legal to kill an elk that damages private land. But members of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation say a farmers hey or grass damaged is not enough reason to kill the animals. They also say when a person kills an elk they should be forced to justify it. According to North Carolina statutes, the burden is on them committed the crime. The burden is on them to prove there was deprivation at the time of the shooting. Thats going to be the issue that we address with the District Attorney. Jay the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation plans to meet with the District Attorney next friday. In this mornings news reel, victims in texas fight back against armeded robbers at a restaurant caught on video. Holly it happened at daddy woman by her hair and hit her with a chair, then her boyfriend picked up a chair and started swinging. The owners said the men walked in pretending to be customers. Once they went inside to make the order, they the three of them jumped the counter and came back and put a gun to his head. Holly the men took money from the Cash Register and left. Police say a woman nearby called 911 to report three young men undresesng in her backyard. The family believes this is the same crew that robbed them in november. Jay a fire destroyed a house in missouri following an explosion there. No one was home at the time of the explosion. No one was hurt. Fire crews say there was no access to water so they had to call in pumper trucks around the area, nearly 50 firefighters were called in to help. There is no word what caused that fire. Holly fire officials investigate how this fire started a the a condominium complex in oklahoma city. Firefighters were able to stop that fire from spreading even further despite the windy conditions. The top story of the building was destroyed, and no one was the cause remains under investigation. Jay police in wisconsin recover two giant stuffed teddy bears that were swiped from a store. The incident was caught on the officers dashcam. Authorities say two women stole the bears along with the chocolates from a local drugstore. Police later stopped the suspects vehicle, arrested the women, and saved the bears. There is no word if the women will face charges. Holly well, got them out of there. Jay you will face charges for that. You know, the officer could bearly believe it. Holly we have a early bird gets the win giveaway this morning. Jay as we celebrate international random acts of kindness week, we are giving away a 50 gift cart to publix. Go to facebook. Com news 13 to enter. Holly we will announce winner just before 7 00 and coming up, jay and i surprise some folks doing random acts of kindness. Jay and we didnt steal anything. We paid for it. Holly we did. Students in new york take time jay how big it was and what the students did afterwards. Ingrid here is your harrys on the hill bus stop forecast. Make sure you are bundled up, its cold out there. 32. But 50s by drop off time. Coming up after the break we will talk about how warm it will get for the weekend and the next forecast, stay with that feeling. You know the one. Tt grandslam, acedthepresentation feeling. Multiply that feeling. Its the deal of all deals. A moment worthy of celebration. Now multiply that. Youre everyones hero in the championship of all championships its that feeling. Multiplied. Introducing the new multiplier scratchoffs. A chance to win. And a chance to multiply your winnings. Now, in high definition, this is your news 13 skywatch forecast. Ingrid welcome back, everyone, and good morning. Mountain, 25 degrees. Notice the roads are nice and clear on our leicester carpet now, lets take a quick peek in north asheville at 30 degrees at unca. And also Clear Conditions out there. And also very clear skies as well. In fact, the satellite just hanging on to clouds from newland to the northern portions of madison county, yancey county, mitchell county, but clearing all the way down to the French Broad River valley foothills and into the upstate. So thats allowing the temperatures to be pretty cool this morning. Our departure is in the positive territory here, but we dont have a good chance for rain until next week, which is good timing for any outdoor activities. Talking temperatures now, 30 degrees, we have stayed pretty steady for the last couple hours. Zero back in 1958, so thankfully not that cold. Sun rise around 7 13 in the morning and sun seth is sunset is 6 13. Next couple days we continue to see the bar graph goes up, which means the temperature goes up. Highs expected tomorrow in the middle 50s and 60s for the weekend. 54 again by monday. But still unseasonably warm. Franklin its cold, 22 degrees. Asheville, 30. Hendersonville 28. Freezing from greer to gaffney. All the way down into greenwood, where its actually 30 degrees right now. All across the southeast here, we are feeling the chill. The wind is not terrible, 5 miles per hour, but every little bit will make it feel colder so it feels like 25 25 25 plow when you step out the door in asheville. High pressure will build white. This indicates the cloud cover on our satellite futurecast. Very little of that today. So, expect sunshine through lunchtime. Temperatures warming back up to the 40s through dinnertime, dropping back down to near freezing. And then the only changes we will see will be the temperatures going up friday, and a chance for some of the cloud cover again on saturday. So, for today, 51 degrees. Mostly sunny, above average temperatures tomorrow, but for today, pretty comfortable. Greenville, 56 degrees, mostly but still pretty cold. Sevenday forecast has 30 chance of rain sunday and notice overnight lows staying above freezing. 60 chance for rain monday, tuesday, 70, and then a rain snow mix possible by the middle of next week. Upstate forecast does show stormy conditions next week. Back to you. Holly some students at New York University decided to take time away from class to enjoy the winter storm. Jay they built this igloo and stayed overnight. Its 10x 12, the students made sure to include a hole at the top to vent out excess body heat and keep the structure from melting too early. Holly i am impressed. Usually you build it and you leave it but they spent the night in it. Jay they used it. Holly commitment. Jay it is. Holly some call it the greatest rivalry in sports. Jay stan has the action, duke makes the drive to chapel hill, and remember if youre on can still catch us by downloading news 13 morning news app. You will get access to breaking news and you can watch us live. Wlos a. M. In your app store. Stan ferning, in sports, game of the year in college hoop, duke versus North Carolina, game one was in chapel hill, smith center was jumping. So was bryce johnson. Watch him off the miss from jackson, nice finish. 18 in the first half. Duke answers with allen, the sophomore has been terrific thisser yes, i do. Little jump shot, the 3 is good, cut the carolina lead to 4, that was the margin halftime. Johnson keeps up the pressure, flurns i 29 points and 19 boards for him. Unc up 7 but the freshman ingrid close with a 3 cuts the lead to 4, he scores 20. Duke outscores 145 and new score, the devils spin the tar heels 7473. Prep basketball, mack 4a title games, mac dowel against robberson and sky land. That i are the only two teams in the mac 4a, robberson jumps all over them. Cam onjanssen drive, 338 rams. This time she misses but there is kara with hustle up and in, 3810 robberson. Check this out. Cheyenne matches in the corner hits the 3 and the foul, she completes the 4 point play, 4419, but there is janssen again answering back through the defense. Robberson takes the title for the 5936 win but mcdowell has a top seed and they won the regular season. The boys game, same two team, robberson lost both games, mcdowell this year, titans the regular season champs, had it going again by 11 in the third but j. G. Manly leans in and puts it in. Here comes the titans. Kevin rimmis hangs it in, Jacob Mccarthy from the corner for 3, 3931, mcdowells pulling away, candon lam runs to the rams defense and gets 2. They add the tournament title and they win 6448. Thats sports this morning. See you tonight at 6 00. Have a great day, everyone. Jay move on . Holly move on. Jay all right. Ingrid . Holly sunnier skies . Ingrid i will make holly happier, sunshine and 51 in asheville. 53 in forest city, gaffney 55, greer 56 degrees, 58 in clemson, anderson. These are projected high temperatures today. And tonight will be cold once again and clear. 25 in burnsville, no chance for wintry weather across the region. 28 in asheville. 33 in greenville. We have a Traffic Alert for the upstate. Crews are working a fatal crash in Anderson County. Jaclyn right. There is one confirmed fatality right now in this crash it happened on highway 81 at s. E. 153 around 4 30 this morning. There is no word what caused the accident but please try to avoid the area on your commute in Anderson County. Back over in asheville, we are accident free. There are no major problems on the roads right now. Look out for minor delays here on patton avenue, approaching the downtown area. Overall, no major problems on patton this morning. Thats a look at your ontime the wired mouse computer solutions. Holly here is your live look around the world this evening no. This is a shot of jordan. Jay news 13 will be right back. Holly after we got so many pictures of viewers dogs, we thought it was only fair to feature cats. Jaclyn this is pea pie and her brother, they clearly love each other very much. Her picture taken. Holly cute pictures. Keep sending your pictures on facebook. Jay and ingrid you have something tied in . Jay absolutely. Since we brought you dogs in yesterdays morning surf, we are looking at americas top ten cat links. Ingrid we posted it to wlos. Com under news links. What kind of cats do you have . Jay im not sure. Ingrid a mix . Jay yes, yes, but very good i like caper a lot. This cat right here is a psythese, and you made a point earlier that it doesnt look real. Ingrid it looks like a painting. Beautiful. Jay er a cartoon with the eyes. Stunning blue eyes. Say these ranked as the most popular ped degreed cat in 2011. Fair enough. Next up,he persian. Ingrid so cute. Jay my grandmother had a persian. That was a cool cat. Ingrid lot of hair. Jay lot of hair. Maine coon. Look at these. These are big cats. These cats can get up to 18pounds. Ingrid wow. Jay pretty cat. Not to be confused with an the rag dol, sweet natured cat, big blue eyes, good feline fit for many types of families especially if you have kids. Ingrid why would show take this cat home with you. Jay that is a pretty cat. No. 5 here, this sort of looks like my cat. Ingrid okay. Jay this is a bengal, athletic and intelligent, active and independent. That describes my cat, yes. Name . Jay caper, like the great muppet caper . Ingrid isnt hollys milk shake . Jay and darth. Have you heard . Darth worked me over a few years ago and attacked me. Ingrid you are still recovering. Jay yim grid 30 degrees at the ashville airport, wednesday out of the north at 5. Overall, turning warmer. I will let you know how warm we get as well, if you shareholder keep outdoor plans or if rain is the a awer at 6 30. We will work out a plan, but right now i cannot tell you when the project will be completed. Holly a project theyed. The dot says to blame for the construction not being done on i26. Jay more random acts of kindness. How we hope to inspire others to give back. Lauren im taking you on a river lake tour this morning. Coming up live, i will tell you carrier park once took now, in high definition, from the western North Carolinas news leader, this is news 13 this morning. Ingrid good morning, everyone. We received gifts the other day we wanted to share with our viewers. Look at how adorable these hand made hats are . Holly thats right. Ingrid they are dr. Seuss inspired for my little baby boy. Hollys little baby girl and mala die. Holly carrie allen sent these to us, we thank you so much. E with love them. That i are so cute and it actually came with a nice message. Jay absolutely. This all ties into read across america day, which is coming up march 2nd. Dr. Seuss is the mascot for that. So, she sent you thing 1 and thing 2 and i got the low rax. Holly for mala die, for the big brother she says. Jay thats cool. A lot of effort. Holly these are so cute. We love them. Ingrid and good timing, temperatures are freezing across Black Mountain is 24. 33 cashers, leicester 29. Nebo 29 as well and 26 in robinsville. Looking at the next couple hours, down ewing to warm up to 40 degrees by 10 a. M. And 46 by lunchtime with sunshine. But its a return to the 60s that will make everyone be smiling. I will let you know when we will see the next chances for rain and maybe even some snow in the sevenday forecast coming up in a moment. But right now we have a Traffic Alert for the upstate. Crews are working a deadly crash in Anderson County . Jaclyn yeah, that crash is on South Carolina 81 in highway 153. There is one confirmed fatality right now. It happened at 4 30 this morning. There is no w

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