Were looking at a couple inches on the ground just judging from the picture. Its snow on the grouped but not on the roadways. Even the untreated roads are doing ok but there will be black ice in these higher elevations. Watch out and exercise caution if you go higher in the elevation and closer to the tennessee border. Its really coming down here. I40. Then get up into these areas and still some snow coming down 2 21 into highway 70. Winter weather advice sorry reece until 7 00 oclock for all these counties in pump path advisor reece. Black ice and blowing snow reduce visibility. Temperature at 33. We came up a degree in asheville. But its freezing in these areas. The snow continue to stick up there when it falls. The snows will continue overnight. Especially near the tennessee border. Day break most of the snow will be winding down. Well see more sunshine in the valleys down into the upstate tomorrow. Ill show you more details about the weekend. I think most of it is going to be rather nice for you. The woke has been a real mixed bag from 60 degree temperatures to storms and snow. Western north carolinians are trying to keep up. Jerica joins us live in north asheville. How much snow has fallen there. Darcel and larry its just a dusting but its enough to do this. But this is not what people are worried about. Now where we really saw snow was earlier in the evening in Madison County along i 26 in the mars hill area. Now thats where a huge flakes were falling but none was Road Conditions is what people Pay Attention to when Winter Weather moves in. I was surprised by it. I didnt i think we were going to get this much. I thought we were going to get a dusting. It looks like we might get some more. If five flakes fall d. O. T. Has to get out and salt the roads. This has ice over. If this can ice over that means anything on the roads can. A lot of roads are wet. Thats something to be cautious of. Reporting live in north asheville, news 13. New tonight a Mountain School district tops the list for public high schools with the highest crime rate in the state. Trans vein ya county schools reported 37 crimes for the 2014x 2015 school yaerp when you look at the ratio of students compared to crimes it is the highest in the state. News 13 reached out to the justin what did the superintendent tell you. Well basically that they were referring their incidents to Student Resource officers so it may appear that their numbers are high but they found out that helps keep the students safe. Why are we here at buncombe county to see how the western School District shapes up. From owen to erwin and the schools in between when theres an incident that falls in the reportable crimes list School Administrators reported to the state. That report is made through our student Information System and the data comes directly from there to d. P. I. That means homicide rape or kidnapping to assault on teachers firearms or alcohol and when we see things that are wrong we will report it. We will give consequences for that situation. Well communicate this is not something you can do in this building or in our culture. Released for the 20142015 school year combined with Early College the high schools in buncombe county have the 10th highest in the state. We pulled records finding reportable crimes ranging from bomb threats to drug offenses. Most of the time in schools its more possession so its really more about having it on their persons or in their possession at some point. But School Officials say theyre continuously working to reduce crime levels and year to date the crimes are down. Were doing a much better job with teaching folks about weapons and educating parents and monitoring that and getting the message out to folks. Were seeing decreases in a lot of other areas. Now Thompson Says they look at the numbers throughout the school years and are constantly working on way ways to reduce reporting live in buncombe county. A man gets life without parole after being convicted of first degree murtd dr. Jurors deliberated less than an hour before finding this man guilty in the shooting death murder. Oh shield wanted to avenge his son joeys death. Months before mathis was charged with Involuntary Manslaughter after joey fell out of his truck during an altercation. Two lgbt want ash stroil pass an ordinance like the one in charlotte it allows transgender people to use the public bathroom of their choice. One asheville member is expressing support and a long time transgender activist is angered by governor mccrorys opposition. Discrimination and hate. It would be just like changing this sign to white only and that kind of political bigot try has got to stop especially coming from our governors office. The two l. G. 3w6789. The groups lgbt groups will ban taxi drivers who choose not pickup a gay or gay passenger. Donald trump is the leader of the pack. There are five of them and they met in houston for the last time before super tuesday next week when republicans and 11 states go to the polls. So tonight was a high steaks showdown. Donald trump took to the stage miles ahead of his rivals and quickly drew theyre fire. Youre the only person on this stage thats ever been on your projects illegally. No im the only one on this stage who has hired people. You havent hired anyone. He hired workers from poland. Potential. You have 200 Million Dollars he inherited 200 Million Dollars. Marco rubio and cruz are fighting to become troops opponent. This man has given money to carter, biden and clinton. The g. O. P. 2012 mitt romney suggested theres a bombshell lurking in trumps tax returns. I want to release my tax returns but theyre under audit fox said his country would never pay for trumps wall. The wall just gotten fetal her believe me. Last hurrah. A strong showing on super tuesday could put trump in good for good. A. B. C. News washington. There has been a dramatic drop in the number of people who carolina. Have died. Was 10084. Health Officials Say the vaccination shin this year is making the difference 184. Its very close to the h1. In one strain but theyre seeing late season spike. Health Officials Say its not too late to get a flu snort the season. With cold weather it can be hard for parents to get their kids off the couch but the with the alure of ice cream parents have been bringing their kids wednesday nights to the Ice Cream House the hop was hoping to use its production shib facility and leader of a local break Dancing Group was the winter its been a winning combination. It feels great to be yourself. This weekend the orange peel hosts a kid party. The hops and the under dog crew will take part. It starts 10 30 saturday morning. They dont hear it. They dont see the light and it is an issue especially when another officers life is in danger. Keep your eyes and your ears on the roads. Coming up in a special report. A message from Law Enforcement about something many drivers are doing to that interferes with their jobs. And were following a several people developing tonight authorities in kansas say four people are dead including the suspect. A number of others hurt in a shooting. It happened north of wichita at the excel Industries Plant that makes lawn missouri were products. The suspect was an employee hes been shot and killed by Law Enforcement. The sheriff says the shootings are connected and the suspect fired shots from his car. It is the distraction that drivers are still legalized do in north carolina. State laws ban drivers from texting while driving which ties up your eyes and hands. But theres no law to keep your years open to whats going on around you. Your ears open. Some Emergency Responders say few people know how easily we can drown out emergencies. Better than a state trooper rushing to get to one. Every day it happens. It happens to me two or three times a day. In this plugged in world of ours gaining our attention is that much harder with noise canceling head phones so many are moving to their own beat. Whenever i see someone and they have ear phones and theyre driving it makes me nervous because what if there was an ambulance behind them. I just didnt know it was a problem people wearing ear buds while they drove but you know. A third of the country has laws requiring drivers to pull out ear buds before starting the car. Sometimes i look in the Rearview Mirror and say oh my god theres a cop or ambulance behind me so i dont do it as much but you know sometimes its a good song. In north carol loan that drivers never have to disrupt state trooper kelly roads is forced to list listen listen to something. As much as we enjoy the sirens sound i dont not even a little bit. Sometimes for a half hour while hes waiting for people to look up. Its the only thing that the statute allows us to do to get your attention. Stay laws says the sirens has to be heard from a thousand feet away. When hes responding to an emergency he has only seconds before you get in the way. The fact i put my ear buds in i cant a hear the sirens. Thats where people were getting to where they didnt see the blue lights. Drivers have become so unaware the Highway Patrol is installing bright her brighter lights to catch your eye but hes not sure how he can catch up your ears. If we crank up the volume anymore were going to start i think as far as Law Enforcement is concerned i think its something the legislature should maybe start taking a look at. In asheville news 13. Troopers say you dont necessarily need ear buds to miss important sounds around you. Theyre also getting caught behind drivers who cant hear them because their radio is up too loud. U. N. C. Asheville homecoming was cancelled because of the bad weather. Jason weve got a warm up coming. Yeah its going to be a big difference another huge swing as we get into the weekend. Lets talk about tomorrow black ice and flurries around. So well have the caution light out. Be careful and give yourself extra minutes. Twentysix degrees and afternoon were in the sunshine. Its clear for your drive home. Ill show you where theyre going to fall in. How long the frigid win will continue to be a nuisance. And later a puppy weve been keeping you updated on took another big step in history steve today 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. 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, every day, for life. Well no doubt its a wintery we still have dark blue on the radar and another reinforcing band of snow coming across the smoke keys this is heavy snow folks so theyre getting decent snow fall. Same thing into haywood county. Waynesville you might get up to an inch on the grassy services but the roadways have been wet in a lot of cases even though the temperature has been at freezing or below. The treated roads should be mostly ok. That doesnt mean youre going to get out there and go to the speed limits. There will be patchy black ice thus use common sense you know and just slow down. Some snow coming down mitchell and weve had snow over 221 and 19 e and its been snowing off and on. Theres light accumulations. This is not a major snowstorm by any stretch of the imagination thirtythree in asheville. Northwest 13 the wind and boy that wind chill is a 24 degrees. Thats not fun is it . That wind is just going to continue to be a problem tonight into tomorrow afternoon. Look at the center of low pressure that brought the storms to the southeast and all the rain to our neck of the woods well up into canada. Its hundreds of miles away that were dealing with the wind in that system. High pressure is going to pull into get the winds to relax. High pressure is a good thing. I think h for happy weather because sunshine is back and our winds will shift back to the south and west. Thats going to help warm us up big time into sunday. So heres your future cast. Midnight still snowing in the high country. Still times burst of snow. Then tomorrow we start out with clouds over the mountains. Maybe some light snow early and then its all about sunshine in the afternoon but the wind yes still a factor. 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A two year old child was one of those killed outside richmond when a tornado destroyed a mobile home. The childs mother is in the hospital. The family lost everything and according to the dpov more does not have the money to bury the child governor. Clean up continues northeast of durham where a tornado touched down. Duke energy says 47,000 people were without power this morning. The National Weather service is looking into weather three tornadoes hit in other nearby counties yesterday. More good news for a puppy shot 18 times by a bb gun. Today brody got to meet his new family. Ten year old kaylee is very happy to have him. Her therapy dog for anxiety died last month and she lost half her heart. She says brody was able to written that back to her. He was saved from a group of teens torturing him earlier this week. He gets to go home with his new family in two days and kaylee cant wait. U. N. C. 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Always trying to win. And finish out the regular season and get momentum going. Huge. All about momentum so you got to get the balls rolling and keep coming out and ready to play. So were looking forward to it. Western carolina winners of 5 of 6. Tough pass hosting wofford. Western comes to play. He has the deep three. Cats up 17 to 10. Happy cats get giddy year. Devin going drive the baseline and has the under line push. Western up 2416. Cats rally to win it. They clench a first round by. They finish saturday at two against firm man. Second round of fourth. Reynolds and north buncombe. Lets go to First Quarter in this one. The drive and then scores off the glass. Four nothing. Later on they knock down the jumper. Seventeen. Blackhawks will keep it interesting. Tough fade away shot. It is reynolds winning and theyll be home against freedom saturday. What you to call him the greek streak . You created a good nickname. Your temperature is going up. It will be cold in the morning. Twentysix. Thirtysix by lunchtime and 41. Watch out for areas of black eyes. Our temperatures headed for the 60s. By sunday it will be the pick of the weekend. For more local news stay with remember you can check us and now Abcs Jimmy Kimmel live. Jimmy kimmel live tonight kelly ripa from how to get away with murder, billy brown mean tweets movie edition and music from tinashe and snakehis featuring chance the rapper. With cleto and the cletones and now, no kidding, heres jimmy kimmel [ cheers and applause ] jimmy hi, everybody. Im jimmy. Im the host. Thanks for watching. Thank you for coming