Lasts in a little bit. Thank you. As the temperatures and snowfall condiions are getting rough in the mountains and its not going to let up. Our Steve Ohnesorge has the story from the high Country First at 4 00. The snowfall has been coming in waves in the North Carolina mountains. And not a whole lot each time. But it is building up and its causing some issues. Forget about driving the Blue Ridge Parkway big chunks are closed due to snow just like schools, roads too tough for buss to tackle. Students do not care. You do not they have missed seven days because of snow but do not have to make them up. Why . Well, the school day in avery county is 20 minutes longer. That builds up and so when we miss days like this, we dont have to make it up. They were making up snow days no telling how long they will be out this time, especially with temperatures expected to dip to extreme levels. Many folks like shane mills want winter to go away. Enough for me. But winter has a grip on this area. No let up this week. Now the snow is one thing the bitter cold temperatures thats another. Thats where its going to be dangerous say officials and they are telling folks they need to be careful. In avery county, Steve Ohnesorge wbtv on your side. Thank you. You can track the cold temperatures and snow with the Firstalert Weather Team download the wbtv weather app it is free and has an hourbyhour forecast and interactive radar. It was a disappointing end to a winning season. And Carolina Panthers quarterback cam newton did not hide his disappointment over super bowl 50 he walked away from the cameras and reporters but today there was no walking away. Brody oconnell joining us live now at bank of america stadium. That is where he talked to did cam apologize for how he acted . The short answer to that is no. In fact we heard from an apologetic cam newton he went so far as to tell reporters he is a sore loser. You show me a good loser and i will show you a loser. He has been criticized for his behavior after the super bowl. Walking out during his press conference. And cam said today during the interview with reporters the nfl is not a popularity contest he is on the field to win games. Im here to win football games. And for this organization for mr. Richardson and my teammates, you know, and for my fans. You know they know what is real. And i leave Everything Else out on the field. I prepared the right way. I have a mentality and a standard that i set for myself yeah, cam said he is proud of the person that he is. I asked him if he had a message for fans he said we will back next year. Did cams teammates have anything to say about his behavior the controversy about cam not cuffing up the fumble in the Fourth Quarter . Yeah it was talked about we were there for locker room clean up and had the opportunity talk to the players. I talked to greg olsen and he said regarding the fumble olsen said look for anyone that questions cams toughness or dedication to the team they are uninformed and they have never watched the panthers play. Cotchery said look they hail you to nail you. Part of being in the spotlight he had cams back. We will have more on this coming up from the panthers teammates of cam newton and hear from cam again more in his own words at 5 00 p. M. Live there thank you. Coming up this afternoon, Ashley Stroehlein will let us know what coach ron rivera had to say about the criticism cam newton has received. Two school buses collide in charlotte sending one student to the hospital at 8 00 a. M. In the parking lot of coolwood middle school. Charlottemecklenburg schools say 40 students were involved in the accident. We have not been given an update on the condition of the student taken to the hospital. Deputies in Iredell County arrest a man and accuse him of sexually assaulting an eightyearold. Donald wilson faces six counts of indecent liberties with a child. Incidents took place over a twoyear period. Right now to the alert center where our alex giles is live with details on a deadly bus crash here in North Carolina. Deadly, indeed. A terrible story. We learned that a goldsboro teacher died after being struck this happened this morning. 25yearold brandon kincaid. He was a second grade teacher and hit by a private daycare bus driven by an employee of the daycare and he was taken to the hospital and he did not make it. All right thank you. Well continue to check in with you. Right now check in on our traffic for the first time this afternoon. Good afternoon to tonya rivens. Hey, brigida, good afternoon. Your first alert traffic is sponsored by peoples bank. As we check in w. T. Harris and University City boulevard and accident that red indicating a lot of congestion in the area. We are starting out with a lot of activity up in our upper right hand corner stranded motorist at 485 and University City boulevardment and road closures around this area as well. We have one by old concorde road at orr road and north tryon street. Caution needed in this area and secondary at neil and olwin boulevard. Thank you. Students in charlottemecklenburg schools are struggling with math. A local nonprofit is working to change that but they need your help. Children in our if youre going to say better ingredients. Better pizza. You better deliver. Which is why im introducing our new papas quality guarantee love your pizza, or get another one, absolutely free. Get any large pizza up to 5toppings for just 9. 99. Online only. At papajohns. Com welcome back to first at 4 00. Time for our monthly segment with share charlotte im joined by Emily Elliott and kelly brooks. Welcome today. Thank you. Lets jump right in and introduce the nonprofit we are highlighting for today. Kelly, why did share charlotte choose to introduce us to heart math tutoring . Its almost valentines day. But theres so many gaps in the community that need to be filled and our local nonprofits are out there fill to go for us here in charlotte and heart math tutoring fills a huge gap in Elementary School math. So they created a curriculum for get involved. Emily, aconsidereding to your website many Elementary School students are below grade level when it comes to math and we know without a Strong Foundation in math success in higher levels of learning can be difficult. Talk about that. Well said. To begin with math is an early on a students confidence if they are bad in math they think they are bad at school. Later on math is required to graduate from high school with passing algebra and you need it for postsecondary options and Career Options require math. And the gap is 40 of economically disadvantaged students are performing on grade level that goes all the way back to Elementary School and having a strong understanding of how the numbers work at a basic level. And that is where your organization comes in tutoring the basics of your work. How can the viewers get you do not have to be a math genius follow our lesson plans which are games with cards and cubes. If you visit our website its easy to sign up. It requires one hour per week and we give you all the tools that you need. There you have it. You do not have to be a math genius that would stop me but i struggled with math and tutors are important. For information go to the web extra section on the home page of wbtv. Com. Thank you for joining us. Great stuff. A big day in campaign 2016. Voters in New Hampshire are heading to the polls in the first in the nation primary we will take you there live next. And its chilly outside many of us are in the 30s and you add in the windchill it feels like the 20s. And it will be so cold for the next couple of days. Like Winter Weather to go with puffs knows winter. Is hard on your nose theres the endless runny noses. The sneezes that just wont quit and of course, the biting cold of snow day play. Thats why puffs is soft. Puffs plus lotion tissues. Are gentle on skin. They help soothe irritation by locking in moisture better. So you can get out and enjoy winter a nose in need deserves puffs indeed. It could be a pivotal moment. Voters in New Hampshire are headed to the polls for the first in the nation president ial primary. We are also just more than a week away from South Carolinas republican primary. And our reporter will witness son joins us from New Hampshire at new jersey governors Chris Christies watch party. Will . Well, they are setting up supporters in at 7 00 p. M. To watch the returns and listen to the governor speak later in the evening. And candidates across the board have been going up and down the roads trying to get every vote they can. Because you can see a lot of surprises tonight just based on the amount of voter turnout that is coming out. I stopped by several polling places here throughout the day. You had a steady stream of voters coming in. There is no indication of it slowing down and and a lot are undeclared they have not made a decision who they want to support until they get to the polls and candidates are hoping for the undeclared voters coming out and changing the polls. So we can see a lot of things happen tonight. It can be a volatile night but important night thank you. And we want to get to alex giles he is live in the alert center with more. This information came down into the alert center this the criteria for the next republican president ial debate being held in South Carolina to qualify. You have to place among the top five candidates in New Hampshires republican top and the top three candidateso the popular vote in iowas Republican Caucus and among the top five of candidates in the average of South Carolina and national polls. We will look to see who will be competing in that debate after today. Alex giles in our alert center live thank you. Time for a check of traffic. Here is tonya rivens. How are the roads looking today . Not too bad, brigida. Sponsored by peoples bank. I77 and 485 as we look south of the city and traffic is flowing nicely in this area. Head over to rea road and Old Providence road an accident. Sardis road or colony road are great alternate routes to get around this problem as we check providence road no problems the traffic is starting to build. And look at that activity around 51 Pineville Matthews and providence road things are quiet on i77, 485, i85, and 277. Back to you. Thank you. You know that time of year that the first 10 minutes in the car are difficult. Miserable. Yes, they are. Need that heater to warmup. We are going to need it for a while. Lows in the teens. And even in the day usually we start out with the temperatures in the 20s and 30s but that will be the middle of the afternoon. Getting in the car going home going out to lunch. No matter what. It will be cold the whole time. Bundle up. Your hd towercam we have mainly cloudy skies more clouds than anything today we have seen snow flurries if you have been lucky enough to see those. And the temperatures look right now it is 4 18 and your average High Temperature is 54 and we are well below that. Upper 30s has been the rule. 40s, 40 in wadesboro and rockingham and teens in the highest elevations. 18 right now in boone and you have snow showers and plus you have the wind. Yeah, it doesnt feel so pleasant in the mountains today. Most of us winds from 515milesperhour give or take. And that makes it feel colder than it is. You have a temperature in the 30s and wind speeds in the 515mileperhour range and it makes it feel like its in the 20s. Lets look at this. We have snow showers on top of Everything Else. Not a lot of snow. It is not a major system moving through. But just enough that, yeah, you should see snow showers and flurries and then you will be dry for a while. Over the charlotte area uptown is here. If you are traveling on 485 around 77, you are likely to run showers moving through mint hill and indian trail. Weddington, fort mill and flurries for you right now. I do not think they will amount to a lot but fun to see. You have a better chance of seeing that sticking to the ground in avery county and a windchill advisory on top of that. It will feel in the negative ranges for you. And farther to the north we have a Winter Weather advisory for avery, ashe, watauga until 7 00 a. M. Thursday. 38 your high on wednesday. 39 thursday not much better. 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The relationship between rapper future and his exfiancee has taken an ugly turn. She is suing for 15 million for slander and libel saying future has been bashing her parenting skills and her boyfriend in the press to promote his album. She wants the tweets deleted and blocked from saying anything negative about her in the future. Ugly there. Much more news ahead a local teenager accused of setting a fire that kills a baby. We are in the courtroom as he at if youre going to say better ingredients. Better pizza. You better deliver. Which is why im introducing our new papas quality guarantee love your pizza, or get another one, absolutely free. Get any large pizza up to 5toppings for just 9. 99. Online only. At papajohns. Com announcer wbtv on your side. Wbtv news starts right now. Our Firstalert Weather Team tips to track that Winter Weather advisory in the North Carolina mountains. Welcome back to first at 4 00 on this tuesday im brigida mack. Im jamie boll. In addition to the Winter Weather advisory we have had a dramatic drop in temperatures. Meteorologist leigh brock joining us in the first alert weather center. Leigh, not looking like we are going to see any warmup anytime soon . No, i am afraid we will wait for the spring thaw at this point. We have cold temperatures and areas about 15 cooler than 24 hours ago. So here is what we are dealing with. Chilly temperatures most areas are in the 30s and we have snow showers coming through. They are fairly light for the time being but you will see those from time to time. Here we have in burke county to the south of 40 we have a batch of snow shower activity moving through. And yellow gap, pleasant grove, bridgewater getting snow showers. Linville, it is 10 up there and they have seen three inches of snow so far. And a batch through avery county, plum tree, you are and all of our mountain counties are under a Winter Weather advisory until 7 00 a. M. On thursday. A long lived event even though they will be bursts of snow. We will have more coming up. Thank you. A york county teen will spend 15 years in prison after his baby stepbrother died in a fire. 17yearold jacob morgan accused of intentionally setting the fire in his familys mobile home and today he took a plea. Michael clark was there in the courtroom and joins us live with plea. Yeah, this was about a week birthday. He pled guilty and was sentenced to 15 years in jail for setting the fire that killed his 14monthold baby half brother joshua hill. In court, we learned that the plea includes an involuntary neglect of a child charge rather