Same thing in the French Broad River valley, a break. All that snow is going to work back over us shortly. Mostly a break until you get down in to the southern end of the county. And new snows developing. North of waynesville for magagie valley, towards cataloochee. Big picture. This is still to come. This is the upper energy with this storm swinging in through middle tennessee slowly. All of that has to come through tonight. Thats major snow again for a lot of areas across the mountains and even down through the lower upstate. Leicester carpet sales news13 sky cam network. There it is, 23 degrees the black mountains. Same deal in cold springs ranch. You could see the break in the snowfall for now. In buncombe, madison county, a foot. Be careful. Balsam gap a little break now at 2727 its very cold and its going to get colder. More freezing here. Mostly just ice for those folks. Zack thats right. As you make your way down to the upstate, we were seeing sleet accumulations, ice accumulations. This is incredible. For those in western buncombe, we have a report of 15 inches. A few are going to be approaching that as jason just mentioned, theres a few more bands. The majority of the area is still over half a foot for everyone. Jason chesney, landrum, thats surprising. Zack theres other implications to be talking about. Were going to be looking at wind as we make our way in to tomorrow. Sustained above 15 to 20 miles per houu especially in the ridge tops, 30 to maybe even 40 miles per hour. The pets. Once they lose power, they can be susceptible to cold very quickly. Well have another update for you in the show. And total snow fall when this wraps up. Tammy our Team Coverage moves to buncombe county where some drivers waited hours to be rescued. Frank tow trucks were in high demand for those who slid in to ditches or stopped to be safe. Tammy news 13s jennifer emmert. Frank jennifer, have conditions improved in. Reporter with so many tow trucks pressed in to service with conditions today, some were trying to find help wherever they can. Behind me, theyre still working on this tractor trailer. Thats why law w forcement says if you dont have to be out here, you shouldnt be out. If you do, you could have a long couldnt make the crest of long shoals road. And if this driver was spinning his wheel, Antonio Johnson didnt stand a chance. The driver knows best. Should have stayed at the truck stop four miles down the road. I wouldnt be stuck in this position. Reporter while he was working, his destination was closed. Johnson wasnt alone. A quarter mile behind him was eric cisco. There was a sheet of ice at the truck stop and then it laid three inches of snow on top of that. And then i took off and this is as far as i got. Reporter his mistake . Mistake. If i kept rolling, instead of being in the ditch or the intersection down there, i stopped here. Reporter a lot of other drivers were forced to do the same, abandoning cars on the highway. The line for help is long. Tow Truck Drivers say its a good thing i filled my truck up this morning. Reporter long shoals road was shut down as drivers slowly backed out of the icy conditions. But not inform giving advice. If theres ice, i recommend everybody pull over. Its better to stay right here, let things melt and ease on. No damage done. No light posts down. No signs torn down and no injuries. Reporter it seemed to be just a tough area for trucks with the Industrial Business Park just up the hill. In fact, they just snapped the chain on this truck trying to pull this other truck out. Many of the Truck Drivers i spoke with today say it could now be monday before they get back up. Plenty of problems here. Tammy news 13s Frank Kracher joins us live now from frank, you followed road crews all day. Whats it looking like right now . Frank it depends on the time of day youre talking about, tammy. Earlier in the morning it was treacherous treacherous. A break in the snow pretty much midday and the plows were able to catch up. Heres the situation were talking about now. You can see that thermometer. Down. That means these roads are going to start getting slick again. The slush thats out there right now that you see is starting to freeze up. It will get treacherous. Midnight. They have 1200 miles of road in buncombe county that they have to keep scraping over and over falling. Theyre working in 12hour shifts. They say they hope to have secondary roads cleared off or to begin clearing those secondary roads off some time tomorrow. All the time to stay off the roads unless you have to be out there driving. To use as much caution as you possibly can. That is the casese again tonight. Its going to get slick and it is going to be treacherous. Reporting live in asheville, Frank Kracher, news 13. Frank a lot of trouble spots for a lot on the roads. Tammy jaclyn, there are a few weather related wrecks. Jaclyn if youre heading out toward i240 soon, take it slow. There is a crash on the east bound side near the bowen bridge. A crash just before the brevard road exit. Lets take a look at the big picture just to give you an idea of how the roads are looking in our area. Parts of i26 and i40 were shut down earlier this morning. But those interstates are back open right now. The side roads are the big problem spots at the moment. Remember we do have those on our website at wlos. Com under the traffic tab. Also one more thing, keep in mind that most of the events in our area this weekend are canceled. If you have an event going on, call ahead before you go out the door. Thats a look at your on time traffic report brought to you by debruhls used car superstore. Frank news 13s rex hodge is live along the Smoky Mountain expressway. Rex, how do things look there . Rex tough going in weather like this. Some drivers getting stuck and abandonly their vehicles. Hes been busy with his business. Were just trying to get it back to shop where they can repair it. Rex the best advice for most. Stay home. Weve got nurses, physicians, ultrasound tech. Anything that might come up, theyre here for the next three days just in case the roads are a little messy sunday morning. Rex about 30 Staff Members spent thursday night and theyll do it again and again to ensure patient safety. That safety requires keeping the hospital emergency area and parking lot clear of snow. You have to really keep the sidewalks. Rex this snow fall will make travel difficult for a while. Its very slick. If you dont have to be out, id advise you to stay home. Because its really bad. The roads is. Rex snow makes for some pretty picture. Parkway is shut down. Weve seen light snow, heavy snow. Weve seen a variety of things. Even though we have a bit of a lull now in haywood county, m me is expected. Colder temperatures are expected as we go in to night fall and we could see some more freezing on wet pavement down there on the Smoky Mountain expressway. Be aware of all of that. Were not out of the woods just yet. Rex hodge, news 13. Frank the slick conditions are also causing trouble on the roads in henderson county. Kimberly king is live. Kim, youve seen people have trouble right behind you. Kim frank, youve got that exactly right. Weve been out here for much of the day. Folks have been doing well on i26. Sometimes its been a little slow, coming to a crawl. This ramp, we have seen an 18wheeler stuck here for about 20 minutes trying to get up the ramp. He finally got up the road. On my right behind me, on i26, this is going toward asheville. This 18wheeler has been sitting here for about 45 minutes now. Were not really seeing too many drivers out on the roadway. The majority of 18wheelers, some personal cars. First i want to show you this video we shot earlier today of basically a rescue out on i26. This is the scene, a driver in what we think is a frontwheel drive volvo. The truck showed up, he pulled over. Folks got out and pushed that driver on the road and on their way they went. We spoke with a driver coming north from South Carolina about the conditions. The northern end of 25 is pretty slick. Weve seen a good many people set on the side road and they couldnt go. We just kept praying, lord, keep us moving. Kim this is what i was talking about, about the ramp. This is that 18wheeler. He could not get up the ramp here on upward road. His wheels kept spinning on the slick ramp. He eventually got up. Coming up at 6 oclock, we will take a look at hundreds of duke trucks. Why they headed out of asheville to help others in the area. Reporting live, kimberly king, news 13. Frank the winter storm hitting the mountains is also causing issues up and down the east coast. Coming up, which storms are being coated in sleet and snow. Tammy but first, take a look zack. Frank it was an encouraging and colorful day on wall street. We ended a turbulent week on a the dow ending at 16,093. The nasdaq gained 19 today to close at 4591. Tammy a winter storm, this winter storm that were talking east coast. Frank virginia, maryland, pennsylvania and tennessee all under a state of emergency. Nashville, tennessee. Drivers had to get out and push their cars due to the slippery conditions. Temperatures there are expected the night. Tammy and freezing rain and snow have led to a slew of accidents in charlotte. Take a look at bank of America Stadium which is coated with snow. Theres a tarp under that snow and the field will be ready for the playoff game against the cardinals this sunday. Go cam. Frank glad to hear that. Drivers are urged to stay off it rates in some places up to 1 to 3 inches an hour in some areas. Weather officials dont expect this storm to leave West Virginia until sunday. Our area is getting a lot of snow and its not over yet. Tammy no, its not. And i think it might be one, jason, to go in to the books . Jason the blizzard of 93, thats still one i dont think well touch here even with this storm. 18. 2 inches in asheville. Were not going to get there. 24 degrees in asheville. Its the cold. That is a big factor tonight. Freezing roadways is a given. Even with salt on these roads. Again, Higher Elevations will be much higher than that. Which one will we [ 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. 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. Lets not overthink this. Now your news 13 skywatch weather. Jason some of you are probably saying uncle. Others, wheres the snow. Thats the way this is played out, folks. The southwestern mountains, you have been spared a lot of the snow. Its going to be coming in areas. Temperatures are going to drop a little more for for cherokee, swain, macon county. This is the heaviest band over oconnee, jackson is getting it. Leicester and eventually clive and candler as well. Bands working over northern portions of haywood county. Heres that band again as i mentioned. North of waynesville, maggie valley. But youre going to get more of it. Look at all of this back behind the system. This is the upper level part spinning back here thats going to swing east. Good snows even through the eveving. Even in the overnight. Even in to early tomorrow. What you have on the ground now, add at least a couple of inches, if not four or five inches to that equation. Heres what you need to know and what to expect. Overnight periods of snow. Saturday morning, the snow shifts a little farther east and north. Saturday afternoon and evening, the snow will go back to the northwest and shift towards the mountains. Mostly the tennessee border counties as the storm pulls farther to the north and east. Leicester carpet sales news13 sky cam network. Were at mount pisgah camp ground. Hard to see here but this little bit right here, this little ridge, this is a bank of snow. Just looking at it over a foot easily up there at nearly 5,000 feet. Storm threat remains highest for snow. Thats our Severe Threat in the mountains. We still have it coming down. Ice and sleet threat, really those are dropping. The wind threat is still a big deal. As the winds kick up, were in the upstate, still have that snow threat moderate. Theres the potential for more accumulating ice and power outages. Its dangerous to almost impossible travel. Life threatening. Have an emergency kit, shovels, blankets. Power goes out for many of us, especially rural locations. Heres the storm track. Goes northeast, hammers places along the appalachian train. There it is on the future cast. Break overnight. But here comes the snow showers for the northwestern corner of the mountains and its really going to snow off and on almost all day tomorrow before we start to quiet down and get sunshine back in the forecast some time in to sunday. Heres your snow fall future cast. How much more are we going to could see two to three inches in asheville. Up here, the smokys and the mountains, four, five, six inches. Transylvania county, another three or four. Look at the storm total. Were going over 16 inches in the purple. Over a foot in the pink. About 8 to 12 in the dark blue. Upstate youre also getting snow. Most of that is going to accumulate here in the next few hours. Temperatures in the 20s and teens. Black ice all over the place. Temperatures tomorrow in the 30s. Weweont really melt anything off. Not until sunday. Closer to 50 by tuesday. Tammy many viewers had some memorable moments to share from their snow day. Up next, we take a look at some of the best. Across america, people like Basketball Hall of Famer Dominique wilkins. Are taking charge of their type 2 diabetes. For a while, i took a pill to lower my blood sugar. But it didnt get me to my goal. So i asked my doctor about victoza. He said victoza works differently than pills. And comes in a pen. Victoza is proven to lower blood sugar and a1c. Its taken once a day, any time. Victoza is not for weight loss, but it may help you lose some weight. Victoza is an injectable prescription medicine that may improve blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes when used with diet and exercise. 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Side effects can lead to dehydration. Which may cause kidney problems. If your pill isnt giving you. The control you need. Ask your doctor about noninsulin victoza. Tammy well we have some video to show you of some interesting things that happened today. Theres a car that got stuck and is doing some spinning out. Do we have that video . Frank we can go to see it, shoot it, send it. Tammy yes, lets do that. I believe thats a fox. Wouldnt you say . No. Its a mini. Frank nice job. James harrison sent us this video from asheville. Tammy nothing like a canoe ride through the streets in subfreezing temperatures. Hopefully they werent wearing their swim suits. That would be a little cold. You can send us your pictures frank log on to wlos. Com or the mountains. Jason and well be tracking that winter storm for you late evening and overnight. Darcel snow covered roads making travel treacherous. Across the mountains all day