Reported to the epa in 2002, plastiform had been dumping toxic for several years. We asked mr. Pulliam to kindly provide the community with samples that were done in the screening process. He agreed he would. Wed be grateful for that opportunity. Certainly im not going to build a project there on an environmentally not clean site. And my banks not going to loan me the money to build it on an environmentally not clean site. Hope hes asking just for Due Diligence before construction begins. If you want to read all of his information from the epa, its in this article on wlos. Com. And the city will vote on whether to change that zoning on april 26th. Hope hanselman, news 13. Larry a republican candidate for Buncombe County Commission chairman makes a controversial chad nesbit hired two homeless men to hold his signs. Nesbit says he saw the two men and felt they were starving, so he paid them. Two hours. 30 bucks an hour. He succeeded in Free Campaign advertising. But theres no doubt that this is a political stunt from a politician. Larry Miranda Debruhl a county commissioner also running. Darcel voters in 12 states are now at the polls casting ballots on this super tuesday. Its a key marker in the president ial race. And North Carolina has a lot riding on what happens. Donald trump and Hillary Clinton are leading most polls. If either of them win by a landslide, it could mean low march 15th. Larry rescuers in Jackson County have found a missing teenager. The 17yearold walked away. He was later found safe over the state line in south carolina. Rex hodge is at the campsite with more on how this teenager was located. Rex he was last seen camping in the heady mountain area. The search for laferty took place in the air and ground. A Wilderness Therapy Program that deals with troubled teens. They had a check at 4 30. Tent check. And gentleman was there. And at 7 30, he was no longer in the tent. Rex Law Enforcement was and the search began from laferty. Terrain is the only difficulty you have in the area. Rex good news came by early afternoon. We heard he was at a ladys house in south carolina. Rex laferty talked to his mother. May have called her wanting to come back home. Rex it was just the opposite story for a different 17yearold in november,2014, who had also walked away from a carolina camping trip. In that case, he died. Hope the best for him. Rex Jackson County Authorities Say its good timing finding laferty safe and sound since much Colder Weather is due in days. Darcel a state utilities energys plant to put in two natural gas units. Some conservationists are disappointed in the decision. They say its a huge step in the right direction but its still not enough. Joan walker of mountain true says duke should take the lead on others and choose solar and wind power. The Commission Voted down dukes request to build a third natural gas unit. Well it was a nice morning but it turned in to a rainy afternoon. Lets get the latest from jason in the weather center. Jason there are rain showers still coming in the mountains just west of asheville. This is moderate rainfall, again. This is not severe. Windshield wipers going. This is a pretty large swath over east tennessee. Theres still the risk, albeit pretty slim. This indicates where we have the potential of getting severe weather. The idea i think is a lot of it is going to be rain. And rainbows, too. Our own pic from our own steve wilder at lake julian today. 22 Miles Per Hour in greer. That is another story. This system is going to bring a lot of wind. Wind advisories from 7 oclock this evening until noon tomorrow in higher elevations, yancey, mitchell and avery counties. Maybe a rumble of thunder. Nothing severe. Temps in the 50s by 11. When i see you again in a few minutes, well talk about the big chill and how long its going to stick around. Larry Walter Robinson says quickly before he loses everything he has. He thinks the source of the problem is the grove at appledorn. The retired asheville policeman says he cant get any answers from the city or the developer. All im asking for is who do i need to talk to to get this settled. Because if i spend 4,000, 5,000, 6,000 to fix this up and it comes back down, theyre going to talk to me. Larry work on a busy interstate project has resumed after a Construction Company lked off the job. Coming up, how it will potentially help drivers. The big issue is. The growing concern as the whats all this nonsense about balls . Pink balls, blue, yellow, red. Its hard to keep the whole thing straight. And all these socalled deals . Well, they come with a lot of deal breakers. Like when you leave the city the signal goes weak. U. S. Cellular built a network to give you a stronger signal where the other guys dont. And as for deals . Hows 300 back for every line you switch . 300 no ball nonsense. Get 300 per line and a stronger signal, larry an update tonight on a Construction Zone on i26. Its near pond road. Drivers may soon have an easier time navigating that part of the state. A contractor working to paint the striping on both east and west bound sides. Darcel as we reported, deveer construction defaulted on the project. Now a Bonding Company is moving forward with the work and a new contractor. Larry some north carolinians who get their Health Insurance through the Affordable Care act are worried. Darcel recently the states largest insurer Blue Cross Blue Shield threatened to pull out of the aca, and theyre not the only ones. Frank fraboni tells us what that could mean for the rates you pay. Well if you dont have Health Insurance, you run the risk of for towards retirement. Frank gary wooten is scared. Hes now on medicare, but his younger wife, who is also retired, uses the aca. Hers starts out at 511. Next year it jumps to 611. This year its 853. Frank they tried searching for lower cost options outside the aca but there werent any. Blue cross, blue shield says its considering leaving the aca in 2017 because its losing money. Spokesperson april uminger placed this statement. Blue cross and others are still offering plans outside the aca. But United Healthcare is also threatening to leave the exchange. Aetna kovingtry. This is where my wife and i were discussing. Wheres it going . What options are we going to have if blue cross pulls out . Frank hundreds of thousands of north carolinians could lose their insurance. His question is the reason why i wrote washington d. C. And presented to the secretary of dhhs, the question, you know, what do with edo with the state if there are no Companies Offering Affordable Care act coverage. And i am awaiting a decision. Frank goodwin says washington is not paying for the losses as it promised. The Affordable Care act is creating chaos. Remember we saw 3033 premium increases last year and they say that thats not enough. Happen. Frank North Carolina is one of 22 states that resisted obamacare. Close the federal exchange instead. Despite that, more uninsured people are now getting healthcare. Nearly 16 and 1 2 million. Obamacare did nothing to help rising healthcare costs. My concern is nobody is expressing concern about the escalation and cost to the consumer. Frank wooten believes everyone should have access to healthcare but. Weve got the best Healthcare System in the world. The problem is how do you pay foror it . Darcel blue cross says it lost 282 million in the aca last year. While earning a half million in net income. On more claims for older and sicker aca patients. Darcel turning now to another update from jason. Jason its stillretty mild even with the rain showers. 64 degrees for the high temperature. Thats the third day in a row weve had mid 60s or warmer. Yes, springs knocking on the door. 33 degrees for the low this morning. We did pick up some rain. Little bit that did fall today puts us over nine inches now for the entire year. Thats impressive. Heavy rain soon enough. Some storms, too. And the flakes, theyll be flying again, too. See where, next. Larry we would like you to check out our newly redesigned website at wlos. Com. The site has an improved search te 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, jason rain has been falling off and on in the mountains. Really the idea is moderate rain at best in most cases. Leicester carpet sales news13 Sky Cam Network well start you out in Black Mountain east of buncombe county. You can see the road dry and then wet. Starting to dry a little more now. 55 degrees. At least its rain and mild temperatures. We still have another round to go. Showers moving over asheville at this time. Mostly west of downtown towards canton, enka, clyde, wittier. Robbinsville, youre getting it, too. This is steady rainfall. And its coming out of east tennessee. Severe threat, very minimal. I still will show you this but im really not keen on whats happening in terms of severe weather. That includes damaging wind, tornados. A slight risk out there for areas west. Mostly cloudy. Southsoutheast winds at 3. 80 humidity. 30 chance of anything happening tomorrow in asheville. If it does, it will be just some flakes. Flurries at best early in the day. We get back to wintery weather thursday and friday. Not all day events. But wintery weather late day thursday. Wintery weather early friday. It could mean rainsnow mix. 20 chance of anything happening saturday. But the mountains, you will see some accumulating snowfall likely late thursday in to friday as well. About 3500 feet. That is where it is going to stick in most cases. All that rain coming through now is long gone after midnight. Then we turn our attention to the cold. Wind vectors northwesterly and long. Gusty winds 2030 Miles Per Hour. Even though the sunshine is back, it will feel a world of difference in terms of chill tomorrow. Those clouds thicken and lower. Here come the snow and rain showers blasting through thursday in to early friday. Thats where i think there will be some accumulation farther north and west. Wednesday, well we do have showers again early tomorrow adding up to about a quarter to half an inch. In asheville, i see less than a tenth of an inch. There you go, rain changes to snow through friday, early morning. Temperatures in the 30s tonight. So a lot to go through here. The chill first. The wind as well. 40s for lows over the upstate. Highs tomorrow should only get in the 40s for ashevivie south. 30s in boone. It is mighty cold up there, too. Wont even feel that warm because you know that wind. 45 on thursday. 47 friday. Notice anything that does fall as snow, its just not really its just too warm. It will melt off. Nearly 70 by tuesday. Larry we can handle that. Jason i can handle that. Darcel little bit of everything. Everybodys pleased. Conference tourney this weekend. Which means awards time today. Catamounts and bulldogs honored by their league. I started to feel like i was different. Transgender teenagers are music playing i feel pretty west side story not every cake can be handcrafted in store by skilled decorators layered with fresh berries and frosted to perfection like our publix bakery chantilly cake itll be remembered for all the right reasons. Publix. Stan the southern conference tourney starts this week in asheville. Two catamounts get some recognition. Over 16 points a game. And torium brumette having his best week at cullowhee. Leads the club in rebounding. Western carolina the fifth seed, socon tourney. They play saturday against wofford. All of the games at u. S. Cellular center. Its the freshman honored by the big south. Named all freshmenman man by the big south. Also. Stan classroom work and good play. Unc asheville fourth seed in the big south tournament. Unc asheville women have a week to go until the big south womens tourney comes. Asheville has lost two straight. Still theyre tied for first with liberty. Liberty is at last place winthrop. They are after all in unchartered waters. I do think some of this has to do with playing from the number o oe spot. This is a situation our program has never been in before. So everybody responding to that, handling the pressure but still going out and doing the things that got us here. I do think were playing a little bit tight. Got a huge one over on senior night. But it wasnt easy. Michael hits this three with senior Michael Paige all over him. Cuts the heels up one. This senior puts it in. He had 14. That gives them the cushion they need. They won. Coach roy williams is happy that a senior is going out in style. To me, the day was about winning. I didnt care how. Stan and the heels play at duke saturday at 6 30 to end the regular season. Finally, fourth round of the basketball playoff tonight. In 2a, girls rs central. In 1a boys, cherokee at lincoln charter. Larry we had a taste of sunshine today. And a little bit of snow. Jason thats right. Sun early on. Then rain now. And well get some snow. And throw in some wind along with that, too. 40s thursday, friday. But the pay off once again will be the weekend. We get close to 60s sunday. Close to 70 by tuesday. Darcel the weather has been consistently inconsistent. Jason absolutely. Larry turn on over to news captioning company the first major clues coming in right now. The super tuesday showdown. As we come on the air, the first exit polls are in. What the voters are saying. Whats driving them at the polls. Can donald trump be stopped . The high stakes battle across a dozen states. Trump and his 11th hour pitch. I can do practically anything. Marco rubio and ted cruz, battling to take trump cown. Donald trump will be an embarrassment to america. Donald trump could be a disaster. And Hillary Clinton tonight, and her pivot to the national race. How she would take on trump and the republicans. Theyre now running their campaigns based on insults. Long lines at this hour. Will there be recordsetting turnout . And scout voercould voters be sending clinton and trump on a collision course this november . Abcs Powerhouse Political Team on it all. Its your voice, your vote. World news tonight begins now. Good evening. Us on this super tuesday. And lets get right to it. The single biggest day of voting in the president ial primaries. At this hour, voting still under way. Long lines. The stakes enormous. A record turnout is expected tonight. Straight to the pictures coming in at this hour from arlington, virginia, lining up at a fire station there. Steady turnout at a church in atlanta, the south playing a major role tonight. And in ft. Worth, texas, that state possibly pivotal on the republican side. The line snaking out the door. In all, voters weighing in in 12 states. Here is what were just learning in from Republican Voters in that key state of texas. Preliminary exit polls coming in now showing 45 say they are looking for a political outsider. Thats fewer than other states weve seen so far. More than twothirds of Texas Republicans favor building that wall along the border. Our Political Team covering it all tonight. The winners, as soon as we get them. And we begin with abcs tom llamas on Donald Trumps final
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