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An is chiofiveg chg shturned oen informatabt r letinu iced th a aing f tesbrthna ca arshot People Living on the east coast are preparing for what could be a historic blizzard. s back states of emergency have been declared in five states including the district of columbia. Tornado watches were issued in east, mississippi. Reporter talking about a potential it paralyzing storm. From east texas to new york city the nws says the first winter storm could cause up to 1 billion in damage. Its expected to dump 2 feet of snow in dc, maryland and virginia. 2 feet is scary. Ice and strong winds are expected from delaware to new york. Dont try to get away through 95. Washington is under a most schools are closed until monday and crews are getting ready to hit the streets with plows and assault. More than 1000 flights scheduled for friday are canceled. At least eight Airline Carriers have issued travel waivers to allow passengers to rebook for free. People emptying store shelves of essentials as they prepared to hunker down for the weekend. Is the same when you prepare for a natural disaster. Forecasters expect a thought early next week thaw early next week. Nws says el nio is partially responsible for helping the storm. The Durham Rescue Mission has started a shelter opening its doors for anyone who needs a place to stay. There is asked to place for a keep your car in the driveway and stay off the roads. If you have to go out, check your car today. Check the tire pressure as their pressure in tires drop. Make sure wipers e ingood condition. Check the fluids and battery. Cold weather does a number on batteries. This past week, its been up and down. This cold weather will get it. You might also want to check the trunk. Keep a warm blanket, flashlight, water and rock salt to help with tire traction. Driving in fourwheel vehicles going too fast. Those are the ones you find in the ditches. Fourwheeldrive doesnt mean fourwheel stop. Its an issue that comes up. Even when there is black ice people say, what are my chances . Chances are not very good but if theres a 10 chance, its not good. Lets check out current stats at the airport. No precipitation nearby. Temperature sitting at 300. There is something called the wet bulb temperature. If precipitation were to be dumped right now, what with the temperature converged to . Numbers. The wetbulb temperature is just 25 426. Thats how much cooling we would get from precipitation falling into an unsaturated area and the evaporation causing cooling. Showers and thunderstorms and Severe Weather near gulf coast. More snow on the backside of the system. That maybe something we will deal with on saturday. There may be some accumulating snow on saturday after we get past tomorrow. Nothing going on now. Its beginning to come into view by midnight. By the time we get to 3 or 4 am you can see it leading into fayetteville or parts of triangle and certainly toward the 5 and 6 am timeframe. The gradient between light and heavy is very tight. Maybe at 5 am and nothing is going on, it could be snowing like crazy a halfhour later. This wont be a gradual precipitation increased. Then the question becomes, what will be the form of precipitation . Will iturned earlier. All of these things will need to be refined in time. 8 ameveryone is getting something. Hopefully things will be moving before too long. Since not, i will walk over here. The only way to get something done right, is to doit yourself. Forecast overnight increasing clouds with snow arriving late. South will have more sleet and rain. We will see a transition tomorrow from snow in the morning, sleet later in the morning, freezing rain in the afternoon. On saturday, light snow could accumulate a little bit. Sunday, sunshine. Its nice by monday. Lots of 40s. A local school channeled their inner i doubt adele. Hello. We are in charlotte for the hurricanes make it to toronto the hurricanes got a well deserved break. They did lose the goalie for a concussion. Get ready for the maple leafs in toronto. He stops 25 shots in the first two periods. Keynes canes on a power play. Justin falk can score. Hurricanes winning. They are back home tomorrow night. Sprint cup racing watched jeff gordon wave farewell. Reporter its the final season for tony stewart. He starting to become more aware of what that feels like. This is the first example of the last time i will do something. Reporter he hopes his last trip to victory lane isnt already in his rearview mirror. He did have a single topfive finish last year. I want to have fun this year. Might performance hasnt been on part. If we can make improvements, it will be a great season. Reporter he hasnt regained form since a broken leg which kept him out of the car for a while was led to the death of a fellow driver. He said neither led to the decision to retire. Its the right time for us. We started thinking about this for five years ago. Love the one that says things that he shouldnt and hes honest. Very honest. Reporter he didnt pull back last week in tulsa when he went into the stands to confront a friend fan who had been heckling him. If you werent told that you would have seen a. Reporter the tour begins with the daytona 500. A race he has never won. Even though there is a threat of bad weather, the Arizona Cardinals are sticking with plans to go to charlotte on saturday. Thats an advantage for the panthers who have only had to travel in the playoffs. Thomas davis has experienced a game of this magnitude. I about this with the guys. Take advantage of this opportunity. They took 10 years to get back your. Im not saying it will take another 10 but who knows how long it will take. They will drop the green flag introit at six 6 40the game is right here on fox 50. That will be exciting. The first game will be pretty good. A swerving car caught the attention of a Police Officer. Coming up, we will tell you why the driver was all over the road. Plus, ataxia explodes into flames. People are hitting the winter storm. Were following breaking news indura. Police are on the scene of a shooting. Reporter this remains an central university. You can see crime scene tape surrounding the parking lot in front of the student center. We are trying to find out how many people were shot and the extent of injuries. Were working to find out if the identityf the victims has been disclosed. We are hearing from witnesses that the incident happened on lawson and roxborough which is a block from here. In an attempt to get away, the suspects drove onto campus and thats where it ended in front of the student center. Those are witness accounts. We will remain here on scene ken smith live in durham. School districts across the area made the call to cancel classes. Here is the full, updated list. Wake county closed tomorrow. Chapel hill, chatham, clinton and durham. Edgecombe, franklin, grantville. Hope hoke county, northampton county, orange, sampson. Vance, wake and warrant more charges against a man being charged with ethnic intimidation and cyber stalking on top of threats and assaulting a government officer. New charges filed against a man accused of running a four fraudulent Medical Clinic on cumberland street. He faces more than 80 criminal counts. Based on charges investigators say he legally treated at least 37 people the legally prescribing medicine 19 times and stole the identity of another doctor to pull it off. A former Oklahoma CityPolice Officer plans to appeals his sentence. Holtzclaw was convicted and found guilty of raping and victimizing eight women on his beat. Florida arrested a man while trying to save his dog from a burning home. Deputies say he ignored the firefighters who told him to stay away. Them out. He was charged with disorderly conduct. His dogs were rescued. Close call for a woman in massachusetts when his taxi burst into flames. A quick thinking driver was able to get the viim to safety. Reporter that was the front windshield blowing out. It was one of six explosions. John mcdonald heard and captured it on his cell phone. He stood on his balcony. I thought someone was grinding. Years. Reporter thats how he within seconds, the taxi was in flames. Reporter by the time be sorted the video, driver and passenger were out. This is going to blow, youve got to get her into the apartment building. Reporter with th taxis horn blowing and smoke blowing. Couldnt go to the fuel line . Reporter Quincy Fire Department was there within minutes and it took seconds to put it out. The elderly neighbor made sure to give credit to her driver. He picked her up and got her into the building. She was quite painful thankful. Traffic stop in minnesota has Police Offering advice to they noticed the driver swerving. He pulled the man over asked what he was doing. The mans answer was caught on dashcam video. I was reading. Why were you doing that . I dont know. What were you reading . A James Patterson book. Officers say the man was polite. They suggest putting your phones and tablets into the glove box. Nyc Police Officers chase a suspect through the streets of queens. A cow was spotted between cars on jamaica avenue today. The cow escaped from a slaughterhouse. Coming up, what happened iss emy awds isisby nees smh te couguld intbest huus plia. Jerrab ul ioch frcotir hea ort piliess r. E lae imthe pass he t e ckan isth micrthiswhat co clnghes, edon mivi ra tyof t r ngy. Or en ho pp smth aye gly ju ohgogreat no, yo he ne toapiz y. Cusef mngmage t c. W yocarival wianracker aaicio wn plnsan on hhc have en when we hear a forecast of ice, the concern is power. When it goes out, the generators on. Generators come with risk. Reporter when enough ice built on power lines and trees, they come down and power goes out. Central electricity. Before you crank one up, know they can create large amounts of Carbon Monoxide which can quickly knock you out, even kill you. Generators must be outside at least 15 feet from your home with the exhaust pointed away. Generators also come with electrical dangers. Many people dont realize the machines must be kept dry and covered when its raining or snowing. Dont connect a generator directly to your circa box or try to power the house wiring by plugging in the machine to a wall outlet. Back feeding can cause electrocution risk to utility workers and neighbors. To those who have had a generator in the garage, not run if the gas is old. They work best with a gas stabilizer and use anywhere from eight 822 gallons of gas a day. Make sure you use a heavy duty Outdoor Power court. When you turn it on, let it run briefly before you plugging any appliances. When you plug in appliances, put in one and let it stabilize before you plug in the next one. I am monica laliberte. Never useharcoalinsi your house. First blips on the radar closer and closer. The countdown continues. Its like waiting for the old apollo spacecraft to take off. Here are some temperatures around the area. We have dropped below freezing across metro. 31, holly springs. 27, wake forest. You can see there is still one holdout in clinton. They are 34. Asheboro, 33. Snow is falling into north west louisiana and northeast texas. On the leading edge we are starting to see blues and pink indicating precipitation is getting into an area conducive we will see more and more on the forward edge over the course of the next several hours. Lets take a look at the projection on the radar and various freezing lines. At 4 am, its north and west of raleigh. Evaporation begins to cool the air. It comes south which is cooling due to evaporation. By 7 am, this would imply the triangle area is all snow coming down quite hard at times. This line will come back toward the north through the morning. To sleet and freezing rain by mid to late morning. This area would be prime for sleet and freezing rain which continues to be the case through the day. We will see both blind moving northward lines moving northward. In terms of eventual snowfall amounts to expect to see, this is the best estimate. The gray area indicates4 inches. 4 8 west of raleigh. 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