You can see in rexs live shot, the wind employeeing steadily. What is it doing in. That will be a major issue. We have extended warnings, ill share that with you. Most of the heavy stuff,f, the intense showers, thunderstorms and tornado warnings to the east of our region. If you are about to travel that way, it wont be good news. Back at home, seeing some showers. You can see some showers falling across the region. Seeing heavier rain in Henderson County and light rain to moderate rain out towards brevard. Bryson city continuing to see moderate to heavy rain at times. That will continue throughout the majority of the afternoon. Not widespread rain. In fact, really transitioning now to a drier trend and then the snow will begin. Just a reminder. Although we are not completely out of the woods, we have a chance for them to turn severe this afternoon. Thats when we see the really strong winds. Flash flood watch is out until 6 00 they just dropped it, for Western North carolina, probably b
President reagan and was the longest serving justice. Follow us at wlos. Com and on facebook for more details and updates. The 9th Republican Debate is set to get under way tonight. News 13s Darren Botelho is live in greenville outside the peace center. Darren, theres a protest ppening outside of this debate. Darren thats right, frank. As you can see behind me, protestors have lined up outside the peace center. We have marco rubio over here. Ted cruz over there. Donald trump on the other side of the street. All the candidates represented. The six candidates get on the stage and tell the voters out now we have a marco rubio supporter right here. Sir, why did you come out today . Im here with the republican club. Were just here to show greenville and the great state of South Carolina that marco rubio has the support. Were just here to show everyone that marco can take this country back and take us to a new greater american century. He lost a little bit of momentum but i think youre going
Area, this is a weather advisory. This is where travel is going to be tricky. We could see some snowfall accumulations and icing. Then we head down south. A freezing rain advisory in the hot pink area. All these advisories are in effect through tomorrow night. We see on our radar right now most of the snow is just in our extreme northern mountain locations around spruce pine, northern yancey and mitchell counties right now. However, as we put the future radar in to motion, well lets see, we see it eventually beginning to fill in from the west as well. So as we go through the overnight, were going to see more of those snow showers begin to fly. Meanwhile the current temperatures a big range. Burnsville 18. Asheville a cold 22. Warmer conditions out west. Bryson city 32. Your evening planner is going to be a cold one with those snow showers ramping up. Flurries at nine. A knew snow showers at 11 oclock. We are going to see and mainly cloudy. Moisture is going to kick in a little bit late
So, we will talk more about it if there will be snow, freezing rain, sleet and the timeline of this coming up in my full forecast in a few minutes. Holly we are starting to see signs of the approaching wintry mix in the northern scanties. Jay Lauren Brigman continues Live Team Coverage from Madison County and, lauren, light flurries are showing up in the wolf laurel area now . Lauren yes, some very light snow flurries. We have started to see those just within the last 30 minutes. They are starting to pick up a little bit. I checked in with dispatcher, too, in the northern mountain counties like mitchell and yancey, just within the past 15 minutes, they are starting to see flurries in the burnsville area of Yancey County. So, folks there will begin to see wintry weather moving in. Mitchell county told me they heart the dot trucks running through the night there as well because they have had issues with icy roads in the area as well. Thats why you see the dot crews standing ready to go.
Its a road thats almost done but not quite. Connecting highways through Southwestern Community college. The work was being done by deveer construction. But it stopped work this month on a nearly 16 million project. The dots Ralph Kennedy can only speculate on the reasons. Failure to perform properly, i guess. Rex deveer had to be bonded. The Bonding Company will now finish the project. Rex the road is a little more than half a mile. Scc says some of the initial construction caused cracks in one of its buildings. The colleges president requests the responsible party to make necessary repairs. Kennedy says only a small section of the road needs finishing and that Liberty Mutual has chosen wnc paving to handle part of it. Theyve got a contractor safety related items or any erosion control. Rex the paving and striping will have to wait for warmer weather. Were protected by the bond. Rex the bonding process protects the state from losing money. I know our division struggled in december and