Was going to wash away. Reporter lexi coil watched from her home. She took a sick day but she didnt really get the day off. We thought it was that deep. And i stood in it and i sunk in it. And still a foot deep. Reporter the storm also shut down gilbert road. David connelly just got back from hunting. They can go back to the barn and go back to the water. But ive heard that my neighbor up the street, his horse is up to its neck and nobodys even moved it. They put some dams up to slow the creek down. Reporter around the same management worried the dam was about to fail. The breaches were fixed as the water went down. Im happy its gone. Reporter we spoke to one lady who made it across the last passable moment. Shes lucky to have made it across safely. This is a good reminder for folks not to drive through water covered roads. Larry flooding caused problems on roads all across the mountains. One hard hit area was biltmore village. Merchants spent the morning moving some of their products to higher ground. Some businesses and Property Owners cleared storm drains on their own. It left a muddy mess behind. The heavy rain also forced several offices to close in henderson county. The Beverly Hanks complex office. Also forced a Doctors Office to and by 9 oclock, 9 30, it was up over the road. And by 9 30 or 10 oclock, there was about two and a half feet of water in the middle of the parking lot over there. Larry some baskets at a nearby flower shop were damaged. Employees used dry vaks to clean up the mess. Darcel a Swift Water Rescue Team had to evacuate residents in cherokee until the water receded. Soco creek flooded and washed out a section of smiley little john road. Neighbors say its happened before where gravel repairs simply washing away in heavy rain like today. I understand it will take time. My grandparents live here and theyre not doing good. Darcel four homes were affected. Had more than three inches of rain. It caused streams and rivers to breach their banks including the davidson river. Drivers quickly recognized the danger when encountering the high water when they tried to avoid it, leftover debris caused more hazards. Even trees were swept away. Larry that system is moving off the east coast tonight. It will be a while before we see rain in the forecast. Darcel and when we do, we may see snow along with it. Jason boyer. Jason well track that system later in to the next week. Its going to bring a lot of cold with it, too. Hey, how about the rain . Look at all this rain. It may not be as intense as it was today over the western carolinas. But its still a big deal for the neighbors east. In the last 12 hours, hendersonville 3. 61 inches of rain. Two inches in asheville at the airport. The date. You saw over an inch in spartanburg and greer with two plus inches in places like franklin, andrews and cashiers. 40s for temperatures now in most mountain locations from the northern end to the southern end of the blue ridge. Mid 50s over the upstate. Your morning planner starts us out in the 30s. It it will be chilly with that wind blowing, too. 45 for the lunch hour. Look for the fog. It will be pretty thick over the upstate. Youll gradually burn that off. 53. Wintery weather is in the forecast next week. Ill show you when it gets here. Darcel developing tonight, a dog abuse case so severe in anderson county, she was transferred to an Animal Hospital in flat rock. Larry tonight that female boxer is in the care of a rescue in arden. Jerrika insco joins us with this very sad story. Jerrika shes a stray and was found deaf and behind. She is a cute girl. Jerrika it was almost instant for heidi wagner. I think the minute i laid eyes on her. Jerrika a connection shes made with other dogs as the founder of a nonprofit rescue group. But this one is special. As soon as you open the door, i mean, its hard not to get emotional when you see a dog like this. Jerrika this twoyearold boxer got a new name. Amara. It means strong, beloved warrior. Jerrika that name suits her. How she was treated by her previous owner does not. Her recovery started at western carolina Animal Hospital where she stayed until tuesday night. She had blood work done. Thats when we found out what was going on. Jerrika and what her doctor found possibly happened to amara two weeks ago. Amara had survived a gun shot to the head. After hearing that, it may seem strange to say amara is one of the lucky ones. But she is because she gets a second chance. No. Its not the worst medical case. I think as far as this one hitting me right in the heart really hard, its probably one of the top five, for sure. Jerrika hes an underdog many people are pulling for and let go. Its never easy but theres always another amara out there that needs that spot. But we have a ways to go. Jerrika heidi wagner hopes someone knows something and will say something. Anderson county Sheriffs Office darcel. Detectives are investigating a suspicious death after a man was found shot to death in his home in cashiers. Deputies got a 911 call from the home of timothy nars this morning and found his body inside. Theyre not saying who made that call and no one has been arrested. A family friend says he cant believe this happened. I mean, this is a real place where you can leave your doors open, your windows open once in a while. You know. And you just dont expect things like that. Darcel the sbi is assisting the Sheriffs Office with the case. Larry the sold out guitar jam was tonight at the orange peal. 99. 9 kiss country puts on this event every year for the same reason. Mission is our hometown hospital. And we always support them. And we love the kids. So and im glad that its a benefit for them. Years, kiss country has donated more than a Million Dollars to mission childrens hospital. Darcel another candidate is out of the race tonight. And donald trump is sounding off about what happened in iowa. Why he wants a new election. Larry and the panthers had better win the super bowl because charlottes mayor has a coming up, the bet youre watching news 13 with darcel grimes, larry blunt, chief meteorologist jason boyer, and sports with stan pamfilis. This is news 13 at 11. Darcel two major developments tonight on the campaign trail. Republican president ial candidate Rick Santorum announced hes out of the race. Heres Marcy Gonzalez with the latest. Reporter tonight the republican field narrowing again. Rick santorum dropping out. And announcing hes supporting marco rubio. The cruz camp sent this email to caucus day suggesting dr. Ben i thought it was an unfair advantage. He insulting ben carson by doing what he did to ben carson. That was a disgrace. Reporter cruz apologizing to carson. It was a mistake for our team not to forward your subsequent statement. Reporter things starting to simmer on the republican side, too. Bernie sanders calling in to question whether Hillary Clinton is really a progressive. Some days, yes. Until she announces shes a proud moderate. Because if its about our records, hey, im going to win by a landslide. Reporter clinton and sanders will face off in a debate tomorrow night. Then the republicans will debate here in New Hampshire saturday night right here on abc. Marcy gonzalez. Clinton spoke at Allen University in columbia to rally voters. He told the crowd that hillary is the best choice for south carolinians. Before the event, mr. Clinton met with local leaders. The South Carolina democratic primary is february 27th. Larry a barbecue restaurant in raleigh has started a trend. Clyde coopers barbecue put signs out asking people to stop profiling muslims. Since then, the message has spread around other businesses downtown. Oh, i agree with the message. Its definitely not right to profile people. My barber is a muslim. I know plenty of muslims. Theyre all fine people that ive met. Theres crazies in every bunch. Larry they have not received any negative feedback about the signs. Roberts and the mayor of colorado. Should the broncos win, mayor roberts says shes post a picture of herself in Peyton Mannings jersey. If the panthers win, the mayor will post himself in a cam newton picture. Its a really beautiful blue and its going to go really well. Its going to look great on you. I appreciate that. Darcel the mayor says shes confident she wont be wearing mannings jersey. Larry we will see. Darcel hopefully shes right. Larry really. Well the rains out of here and the temperature is about to drop. Darcel jason, is there Something Else on the way . Jason wintery weather could be on the way. Its looking a little more likely. First of all, your tyson furniture bus stop forecast. Definitely colder in the 37 degrees with that wind blowing. 15 to 20 miles an hour. Well burn off the fog and get back to sunshine. It gets us to 49 by drop off. 63 for the high today. 48 the low. 20 degrees above average. Well talk about that snow so far today, two inches of rain. Nothing in the way of wintery weather yet. Larry and a little later, more problems caused by a strong storm system that moved across the southeast. One woman had to be res that feeling. You know the one. That 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. 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Leicester carpet sales news13 sky cam network. Were in black mountain. 50 degrees. Yeah, look at the fog really forming over here. A light wind. That means thick fog in the morning. Plan accordingly. Give yourself a few extra minutes on that morning commute to work or school. The French Broad River at floods. 7. 2 feet going up to about 8. 5 feet. Were going to look at mild flooding. And it drops off tomorrow. Watch out there in blantyre towards henderson and transylvania county. No chance of rain for the next several days here in asheville. Only a slight chance of some snow. Thats right. High elevations near the tennessee border friday may get light snow. It is foggy and we have the humidity very high. 97 . Heres our front slowly on the move towards the coast tonight. And eventually off the coast tomorrow. Here comes our northwest wind behind that. 1520 miles an hour and gusty. Mild air on the back side of thats a nice southerly flow. Cloud free conditions for some in the morning. Other than that, well have the fog and low clouds mostly south and east of asheville. By about lunch hour well clear that out. Mostly clear skies right on through the evening in to friday. Enjoy that. Its going to be pretty nice. Even though well get cooler, well certainly have sunshine to enjoy. Temperatures tonight noticeably chillier. Mid to upper 30s for the mountain valleys. Temperatures in the low 40s to mid 40s. Middle to upper 40s as you work your way down in to the upstate. Speaking of the upstate, high temperatures tomorrow under sun and clouds. Still mild overall. Youre going to come from todays eyes. Upper 50s in anderson, greenville, spartanburg, mid 50s there. More sunshine in our foothill communities. The same in rutherfordton. In the French Broad River valley, upper 40s. Mars hill and waynesville. How about our southwestern communities down there in the southern mountains of the blue ridge. Looking pretty good around 50 degrees. We stay in the 40s right through friday and saturday and eventually warm up briefly before the bigger chill moves in later in the day on monday. Well have a chance for some rain changing to snow showers in asheville. We get cold next week. Minus the snow and rain in the larry the same storm system that moved through the mountains caused some problems all over the southeast. In boone, emergency officials had to rescue a woman from a creek near the mall after her vehicle got stuck. Darcel another driver had to be rescued from a river near atlanta after a driver lost control. Her car went over a guard rail and flipped in to the river. The woman was able to get out of the car as it drifted down stream. Firefighters helped her out of the water. Larry unc asheville hoping to stay in first place in the stan shows us the one player who made the biggest differe whats americas bestselling brand of trucks . Youre in for a big surprise, pal. Actually, youre not. Its ford fseries, again. And, it wasnt even close. Same trucks that have been leading the industry for 39 straight years. Why . Game changin innovation. Like f150s highstrength, militarygrade aluminum alloy. Which helps make it stronger, more capable and more efficient than ever. Innovation. Its why fseries is making stan college hoops, unc asheville trying to stay in first in the big south hostly charleston southern. Pick it up in the first half. Will weeks. Look at this. Hes going to make it. Its good. And theres a foul called underneath the basket and the bucket counts. Asheville would keep pushing the ball down the court. Sutton finds sam hughes. Hughes with 11. Then its will weeks, hes underneath the basket but hell find trey bryant. Nail this three. Good. Dogs trail. 175 run puts it away. Asheville wins. Theyre a game behind the bulldogs. Asheville at campbell saturday. The greatest day of prep Football Players life, probably the day they sign collegiately. Luke notestine has a story of a few of the lucky ones. The best athletes that western carolina has ever produced. Hell take his incredible talent to play football at South Carolina. Very emotional. Just a great feeling. I feel relieved knowing that ill be going there this summer to play the next three on four years as a gamecock. Luke asheville allstate lineman pete liotta. He committed to the gamecocks in september. Stuck with it even when coach spurier stepped down. Im looking forward to it. Just playing on the field. Luke Cameron Parker from tc roberson had a big crowd to watch him sign. Its awesome. To see all the people behind me really shows me that they care about me and are my true friends and support me in everything i do. Luke congratulations. Im Luke Notestine for news 13 sports. Stan those are just some of the signings. Chase lineman seth ray is going to go to gardner webb. Bryson buck goes to mars hill. Four signees from north buncombe. Kicker peter to center college. Quarterback chase parker going to winkette. Jake mar offensive tackle to carson newman. Jordan cody to mars hill. Western carolina signs 14 players today. Defense. Third best class in the sunbelt. Fsu one georgia seventh, clemson 8th. A lot of other ones. Jason were doing a little better tomorrow. No rain. Thats the bigger issue we wont have. Thursday, 40s for highs. Sunshine. A little warmer especially by sunday. Larry thank you for joining us. Check us out some time on wlos. Com. Darcel and be sure to find ha and now Abcs Jimmy Kimmel live. Dicky from hollywood, its Jimmy Kimmel Live tonight channing tatum,