Paris. Callinge pollsters are the u. S. President ial race too close to call, with the first televised debate just two weeks away. A National Poll puts Hillary Clinton two points ahead of donald trump. She was on the campaign trail today following a couple of days of recovery from pneumonia. The two candidates taking central stage with their medical information, the doctor of donald trump saying that he has a clean bill of health. And he has talked about his plan to boost the coming. Over the next 10 years, under our plan the economy will average 3. 5 growth and create a total of 25 million new jobs. You can visit our website, look at the math. It works. U. S. Comes go to the alive from atlanta in georgia. Lets start with the latest statement by the new york times, are these poll numbers worrying for the clinton camp . Reporter absolutely. Momentum that donald trump has been building on. It did not just begin during Hillary Clintons absence, it has been in the works. He has been ahead
In the charlotte area. A lot of you are in the teens so its 19. Hickory statesville 21 in charlotte. And 13 in boone right now. Yesterday evening if you get weather aall right on your phone you may have found theres a winter storm watch weather alerts. Some areas have winter storm warning. We do have slight changes to the storm forecast. So well talk about that in a few minutes. New this morning president obama says he will seek to fill the Supreme Court seat left vacant by the death of antonio scalia. It will likely charge no a fight with republicans in congress. Just last night he said a nomination was bigger than any one big party with half a dozen of major cases before the court obama plans to fulfill his lee responsibility to nominate a successor in due time. Scalia died on a weekend trip to texas. He was 79 years old. Sparks fly. The ninth republican event took before the primary that could help decide who becomes the republican nominee for president. The republican president ial
This is 6 00 here. And then its going to be rain outside of the mountains that will take this thing home for us monday night and into tuesday morning. Eric will have more how much we are expecting as an early look right now at potential snow and ice accumulations coming up in the complete first alert forecast. The snow is welcome sight for the folks in the North Carolina mountains especially the Business Owners. Here is Sugar Mountain ski resort. We saw quite a few people and we see a few enjoying the day on the slopes with fresh powder. Kristen hampton spoke with Business Owners there today and joins us live to continue our coverage and december they were concerned because they were not getting much snow. Will this round help them bounce back . Paul, that a great question and to answer it, you have to consider just how many months they have been aching for snow or Colder Weather up here. Normally around november the ski slopes open up and the make the snow. But we went through much of
And the frigid temperatures a wind chill warning kicks into effect starting saturday evening and going right through sunday morning. 40 to 25 below wind chills, dangerously cold, frostbite can occur in about 10 minutes under those conditions. Much more on the rest of the weekend, in a little bit. Shelley thank you, mike. These dangerously cold temperatures may have an impact on a big tourism weekend here in the Granite State. Wmurs stephanie woods live at crotched mountain ski resort tonight. Reporter well, its 19 degrees here right now, but trust me it feels like wind chill. But that doesnt seem to be bothering these guys, they arent scared. Crotched mountain will state open tonight for midnight madness. Skiers and boarders are trying to take advantage of the 12 inches of snow that just fell. Theres no danger of that snow drop down to 11 degrees by the time crotched mountain closes at 3 00 a. M. But skiers and boarders dont seem to mine the cold mind the cold. We were with a school gr
Individual tornados. We had 7 individual areas that had damage. There were a couple of buildings that were destroyed there. Cells developing some damage there. Five miles south. 4 it moved up to grantville county. The Weather Service will be up there determining if it was one tornado that did all that weve seen a lot of pictures. Plenty of sunshine for the first part of the day. The flags are really whipping around. We have that wind advisory in effect until 2 00 this afternoon. Heres a look at some of the wind gusts. 29 at rocky mount. Those are some of the higher ones ive seen. We may gust up to 45 or 50 this afternoon. After midday, we should start to see that ease up a little bit. The winds will be dying down. It looks like we have quiet weather into the weekend. Well talk about that more in a few minutes. Thank you very much. This just coming into us. National Weather Service confirming that the tornado struck grantville county. Julia is on the phone right now with a look at the d