Precipitation, snow and ice gives the greatest danger in charlotte with the weather maker. A layer of snow, a coating of freezing rain on top of that snow. This all starts overnight sunday night into monday and all of us will start out with that snow. But the deal is warmer air working its way just above us, will melt a little bit of that, then refreezes on the ground on monday, by 6 00 or so. Changes it into a freezing rain. That will be possible across rock hill all the way up into davidson. When you get to upper Iredell County including statesville to taylorsville, morganton, that is where well see pretty much a steady snowfall. The top one looks to be ice, just because the snowfall may not have a lot of time to accumulate our futurecast sets the stage overnight tonight as the temperatures drop down to low teens and lower 20s. The cold will stay with us all the way through sunday as that weathermaker gets close. Its after that snowfall that is going to be the even bigger danger, ill map out how much ice will accumulate when we come back. Were tracking this winter storm overnight in the and ice and snow it will bring to charlotte. For the newest data on this powerful system watch Eyewitness News sunday morning starting at 6 00. Tomorrow t says it will continue to pretreat roads ahead of the storm. D ashawn brown with more. Reporter im waiting to hear back on which area schools will be closed or delayed. In the meantime state and local officials broke down where they plan to treat the roads and how soon. This view from charlottes hawthorne bridge shows smooth sailing along u. S. 74 but early monday its warned that view ahead of a wintry mix expected in the charlotte area. We dont get out unless we have to. Reporter officials suggest other drivers do the same. Meanwhile crews have started brining roads in the foothills and on city streets. With plans to take on the interstate sunday morning. This mountain of salt showcases just some of their supply, already this season state crews put down up to 10,000tons. In the last few years weve had extremes so were kind of used to it. The way it is, safety first. Reporter Public Transit driver lakisha bennet says shell be ready to brave the conditions, snow or shine. We have to be careful. We have people that cant drive on the roads. Reporter officials tell me they will decide when to call in city crews sunday night or monday morning. When they do they expect to 32 trucks, 64 crew, 16 routes and 24hour shifts. Well see more monday. Reporter state Officials Say they didnt want to react too quickly and put the brine solution down and rain could wash it away but now that the weather event is closer they are having crews starting to treat the interstate sunday morning. Live from east charlotte, dasean brown, channel 9 Eyewitness News. The storm system is sweeping the midwest and northeast, expected to impact 100 million people. New york city could break a 100 yearold record with temperatures to near zero. Download the wsoc tv weather app free for android and apple devices. Many families in the Highland Creek neighborhood in North Charlotte are happy to have the heat back on. Last night at 11 00 we told you a contractor installing google gas main causing nearly 300 customers toes lose gas service. A spokesman for Piedmont Natural Gas says its imperative that contractors have utility lines marked before digging. He couldnt say if thats what caused this particular break. This is the second time this week a contractor for google fiber hit a line. Wewee mourning the loss of antonin scalia. President obama spoke about this. Justice scalia dedicated his life to the cornerstone of our democracy, the rule of law. Tonight we honor his Extraordinary Service to our nation and remember one of the towering legal figures of our time. The most controversial and conservative justices on the scort. Widely regarded as a man of law who believed the constitution should be enforced just as men who wrote it would have done. Associate Justice Scalia found dead of apparent Natural Causes at a resort in west texas. He reportedly died in his sleep on the trip. Scalia was the longest serving justice on the Current United States Supreme Court nominated by president reagan in 1986 getting nominated to the Supreme Court is a the culmination of a dream of course. And im greatly honored that the president would have such confidence in me. Reporter he was confirmed unanimously by the senate, became the first Italian American member of the court. He quickly became an anchor of judicial conservatism at odds with what conservatives call he led the conservative movement in american law to roll back liberal activism. Reporter he was widely known for his high intel length, elegant writing. John roberts issued a statement calling his late colleague an extraordinary individual and jurist, admired and treasured by his colleagues. Scalia leaves behind a wife and nine children. He was 79. North Carolina Governor Pat Mccrory released this statement. Two North Carolina cases are working their way to the Supreme Court. One on drawing Congressional District lines and another on prayer in meetings. Scalias passing could directly impact the outcome of those in washington gop leader Mitch Mcconnell already said president obama should not choose scalias successor. He believes the next president should. Tonight the president said he plans to nominate a successor in due time. Elsa gillis speaks about how this will effect washington. Charlotte memelenburg police need the publics help to catch a bank robber. Police say this man walked into pnc bank on Arboretum Drive in south charlotte and handedle teller a note demanding money, then ran off with cash. Detectives say that same man robbed this Fifth Third Bank on Pineville Matthews road the morning of january 28th. Police say it was a similar situation, he was armed, slipped the tellary note and took off. Call police. In just the last few minutes the six remaining republican candidates for president wrapped up their final debate before next weeks primary in South Carolina. Ted cruz and marco rubio each defended their competing tax policy proposals. Jeb bush went on the offensive accusing john kasich of encouraging obama care rather than fighting it. And donald trump and rubio both attacked bushs older brother, former president George W Bush for his Foreign Policy and ability to keep america safe. It took jeb bush, if you remember at the beginning of his announcement when he announced for president , took him five days, he went back it was a mistake, it was a mistake. While donald trump was building a Reality Tv Show my brother was building a Security Apparatus to keep us safe. But as voters weve been burned. Over to the, they mentioned my name a couple of times. Tonights debate was in greenville. In fort mills tomorrow. South carolina residents are already seeing more political signs and getting phone calls encouraging them to vote. Many candidates have events planned in the state all this week despite trumps lead in the polls. The South Carolina primary will be key for all candidates. It will be interesting to see who captures the evangelical vote and how close they get to trump. It will be interesting to see if bush is able to resurrect his campaign. The republican primary is the 20th, the democratic primary is the 27th. Lancaster county man behind bars without bond tonight for stealing a womans purse and hitting her multiple times in lot. Police say arketus cauthem knocked the woman to the ground after stealing her purse. Whether hes connected to other recent purse snatches. Many parents with kids in Charlotte Mecklenburg schools continue to fight against the Student Assignment review that could shift their kids to another school. Today dozens of parents asked questions to the School Boards vice chair at the ballantine priorities meeting. The superintendent says they check it every six years and address rumors to the massive busing system. There are no major changes in the works for busing. Some parents said they still dont understand why cms leaders have said the busing changes are off the table. They werent clear. We have to be concerned. School Board Members will vote on goals for the plan later this month. A major winter storm plains of the u. S. , next destination charlotte. Im pinpointing when snow will start. Ongoing concern, the zika virus will disrupt the Olympic Games in brazil. The measures the country is taking tonight to reassure the public it will be safe. He was a staunch conservative who sat on the u. S. Supreme court bench for three decades. Next at 11 00 how the seat left vacant by scalia may impact still moving thes the u. S. Is mourning the loss of Supreme Court justice antonin scalia, longest serving justice on the current court. He was widely known as an extreme conservative. Elsaspoke with this more. Reporter 30 years ago confirmed by the u. S. Senate 98 0 but his death is at an extremely divisive time in american politics and its hard to imagine any justice with prominent judicial values would reporter especially in a president ial election year. To say that one of the cornerstones of conservativism on the court has passed away really does deal a blow to the republican party. Reporter political analyst dr. Michael bitser says after a mourning period the country is looking at a bitterly divided battle moving forward in confirming his replacement. The president is going to have to do serious soulsearching. Reporter as for the Supreme Court, it will continue to hear cases and make decisions through june. There are traditionally nine justices on the Supreme Court with the passing of Justice Scalia its now possible to means the Lower Court Ruling would then stand. He says some republicans have and will continue to come out saying the next president should appoint the next justice but as we said earlier tonight president obama said he would fulfill his constitutional responsibility to nominate a successor to scalia. Liz . Thank you. North carolina congressman Robert Pittman released this statement. We have a list of five of scalias most famous Court Decisions on our web site. Its in the top story on wsoctv. Com. Two people attacked by a rabid fox in Cleveland County will meet with the Health Department soon to see if they will need rabies shots. We told you at 5 00 yesterday a fox attacked two people outside the Childrens Home of Cleveland County. To the public. New tonight brazils president says the zika Virus Outbreak will not compromise the upcoming Olympic Games in rio de janeiro. Today the countrys military and hundreds of thousands of Health Workers were mobilized to fight the virus. Brazils president says her country will have success in fighting mosquitos that carry zika virus by the time the Olympic Games start in august. A winter storm watch is in effect for charlotte tomorrow night. Meteorologist john ahrens pinpoints what your neighborhood will see. Unfortunately the most dangerous kind of precipitation combo in charlotte. You start with snow, put a layer on ice on top of that. Makes for hazardous driving. That will be the case monday morning and through the afternoon time. In the meantime quiet on doppler, skies are clear for now. The big turn, what we have to deal with tomorrow morning, the wind chill, i want to give you a heads up, going for church with strong winds from time to time. It can feel like 11 in charlotte tomorrow morning. 8 00, 9 00. Your planning that nice sunday walk . Its going to be very, very cold outside. It might start bright tomorrow but the clouds are quickly going to be taking over this picture. Temperature 30. The clouds will lock us in with temperatures just barely above freezing in the afternoon time. If you have plans to take your sweetheart to daneer youre not going to run into winter trouble tomorrow. Just getting ready for things. Well eventually fall to 28 by 11 00. Then that storm. Up across the high country snow will start in the mountains by 5 00. We might get a brief burst of snow in charlotte. Most likely flurries between 5 00 and 7 00. After that it settles down im looking more towards after midnight, into monday, thats when the big Time Opportunity we have snow across the board. Maybe sleet in york county and lancaster. All snow for charlotte. An icy scenario. This is not a big window for significant snow accumulation friends. I mean maybe about an inch tops. Its this guy, thats ice, thats not valentines day, that is ice that will go on top of the thin layer of snow well have at 6 00 in the morning. Youll still have that freezing rain threat through noontime. This is the current forecast. Were updating constantly on facebook and twitter. Just check the wsoc weather app with interactive radar to track as the system starts to knock on the door. By monday Late Afternoon things settle down for us. This is the latest Ice Accumulation here, what is good for us, you see the zero here, i got to tell you the pink colors would tell you its going to be a very thin coating, so maybe not a 10th inch but maybe a couple hunches can cause major problems on the roads and potentially power lines as well. Going farther north the greater the danger. Statesville, mooresville, concord, kannapolis, those are big concerns. Im not worried about snow as much as ice. The best news, it changes to rain by monday night. Washes this stuff out through tuesday. Temperatures are going to go way up to chose to 60 tuesday afternoon. Its going to be a crazy week really. It starts pretty quiet sunday with maybe a few flurries, its a wintry mix though. Coming up on monday, snow, then ice. Heavy rain on tuesday. If you just look forward a little bit and get into wednesday and thursday its going to be in the 60s. Youre going to wonder what is going on here. Wacky weather coming up. With this roller coaster its a good idea to download the coach gave the coa donkey sound elephant sound theres a big difference between making noise, tapping sound and making sense. elephant sound donkey sound when it comes to Social Security, we need more than lip service. Our next president needs a real plan to keep Social Security strong. elephant noise hey candidates. Enough talk. Its not the year coach k envisioned 15 seconds to go, virginia trailing by one, instead of the shot its the pass down low for malcolm who goes over his shoulder for the back. Check it out. Are you kidding me . Cavaliers thinking they are going to pull out their first win. Five seconds to go, duke with the chance for the win. Grayson allen to the middle deciding to pull up and hang in the air, what do you know . It goes. Buzzer beater, virginia head coach bennet cant believe it. What a play using the window for the game winner. Blue devils win 6362 the final. Brandon ingram led duke in scoring by 25 points. Fireworks off the bat in this game. 17 minutes, no call as Michael Carrera pabarrels over a kentucky player. That ref is not going to receive valentines day candy, that is for sure. From here on the w50eu8d wildcats on fire. Oop, led by 15 at the half. Second half kentucky running the floor again. Check out the dish by tyler euless off the glass. Marcus lee stuffing it home. Kentucky rolls South Carolina 8962. Nc state wolf pack hosting wake forest. 14 minutes in the first, trailing by 10, barber finding the lane for two of his career high 38 points. Later in the first nc state building on their lead. Maverick rowen connecting on the three, wolfpack lead at the break, 4644. Wake forest battled for the majority of this one of the the senior mcintyre with the long ball. Demon deacons get the lead 51 50. The freshman rowen bears another, finished with 20, pack win 9998. Tigers in good shape to finish acc play in high spirits. Final four of the last five conference including georgia tech. Fast forward, tigers running the floor, jared trying to scoop it up and in but its too strong. 10poind lead for clemson. Next possession tigers. Holmes going up and under for the score. Tilingers improve to 85 in acc play with the 6652 win. Can you believe its already here if the good old nascar boys are turning circles in daytona before qualifying on sunday. Who had the fastest lap . Threepoint title at the threhey, guys, its annie. Now, if youre anything like me, youre always looking for ways your weekly grocery trip. Well, with walmart every day lowprices, saving money while keeping thepantry full. Thats easier than you think. In headtohead shopping, the total at walmart beat thatof bilo. Charlotte, the total amountsaved at walmart vs. Bilo was 24. 37 on this weeks groceries thats 20 . So head to walmart and seewhat you hard to believe that the nascar season is upon us. Kyle busch may not have liked his performance today, however, after all it was just a practice session. Last year joey legano had the fastest time on the track. Team pensky led by legano and brad koslowski with the fastest times in the second session. Le earn hart session is tomorrow at 1 00 p. M. He has attention to detail. Steph curry looks to become the seventh player to win multiple threepoint contests in nba all star weekend history. It was down between thompson and curry in the times. Curry lost steam in the final back to thompson, other splash brother on fire, he nailed it. Dethrones curry with 27 points. John ahrens is back with one more look at this winter storm were expecting that will bring snow an steve today is your lucky day. Woman surprised oh, my goodness mark youve just won a thousand dollars woman thatamazing that 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 atuesday, but tomorrow is hump day, so lets really bring it lucky for life. Win a thousand dollars a day, it will be cool but at least somewhat nice for valentines day compared to monday. You dont have to worry about anything with tomorrow but by monday this is going to be happening. This is not for valentines day. This is Ice Accumulation. You see a zero there in charlotte. That doesnt mean were home free. A thin coat of ice. 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