Erica bryant is in the breaking news center with the latest pictures and videos coming in tonight. Everyone was told to seek shelter as the Severe Weather rolled through. We have a picture to show you of students there camped out in the library waiting. Waiting this storm out as it blew through. Another picture taken from the schools quad as dark clouds started to roll in and move over the campus. In winston salem, you can see heavy wind pushed down trees and also brought down on power lines there. Duke energy again now reporting more than 10,000 outages in that area. But so far, thankfully, weve nod heard any reports of injuries. Some schools in wake county let the students out early today so they could try to get home safely before the Severe Weather hit. Now lets go to meteorologist john ahrens who says strong winds are causing concerns tonight. The storms are long gone but the wind threat will continue. Grounds been hit so much with all this rain, its easy. The toppled trees in thi
Take a look at this video. You can see where crews were hard at work trying to clear the snow. So far students have missed seven days because of snow. But the superintendent tells me not to be alarmed. They average close to 18 snow days a year here in the mountains. In avery county, they make it up by adding time on to the school day earlier in the year so the students get the hours required by the state. The superintendent recalled one winter when he was young when they actually missed 45 days. Didnt go a single day in january. So compared to that, missing sevens not too bad. And for the first time in a long, long time, we didnt miss any days before christmas. That was because we had that very warm december. Theres one of those gusts i was talking about. Its brutal right now. Temperatures in the Single Digits around 9 degrees. Were getting gusts well over 20 Miles Per Hour. Blowing the snow across the roadways. Its blowing me around quite a bit. Are these roads up here. Im going to st
Me the man killed in that crash was 68yearold, James Howard Cook of lexington, North Carolina. Officials also say that cook reported engine trouble before the crash. A spokesman at the Union County Sheriffs office said the first reports of this crash came in around 6 45 this evening. Now cmpds helicopter helped Union County Deputies to locate the plane in a wooded area a half mile down here and also new salem road. Officials say cook was the only person on board. They also explains more about his flight. The pilot had flown a client to daytona earlier today. On his way home, was due back in the lexington area around 7 00 p. M. And the faa has also been called in from charlotte to further investigate the cause of this crash. Reporting live in union county, and shell stay on top of any new developments. You can follow her on twitter for updates. Tonight, this man is facing charges accused of trying to smuggle guns from charlotte to west africa. We first reported the arrest as breaking ne
Slick roads all morning long. On top of breaking news. Updating us live with the clean up. I just got done talking with the Highway Patrol here in catawba county. They tell me right now theyre currently working nine different wrecks along a two mile stretch of interstate 40 near the claremont avenue. You can see one of those wrecks where a tractor trailer went from the eastbound lanes across into the westbound lanes. All of this being blamed on that freezing rain thats formed black ice on the ways here. Like these accidents along highway 31 south of hickory. Firefighters scrambled to get to one driver after another. I hit the icy patch on the bridge there. And thats all she wrote. Fish tailed. Tore my hail hitch off. We could see the problems on txus held in the low 20s this morning. They responded to dozens wrecks in a few hours. Yall be careful. Thats all im telling you. Yall really better be careful. The d. O. T. Used brine on the black ice along highway 321. But part of the afterno
Check out the windchill values. 15 to 25. Your skin exposed could experience frostbite in as little as 15 to 20 minutes. Thats dangerous chill. Charlotte wakes up to temperatures at 20 tomorrow morning. While we are tracking the ldest air yet, the next focus will be on monday morning. Well see a mix of snow, sleet, possibly some freezing rain before it changes over to rain. State and charlotte d. O. T. Crews are planning ahead now. Road crews in the mountains and foothills are treating roads as early as tomorrow morning theyll watch the weather closely saturday to decide if roads in charlotte, cabarrus, and Union Counties need to be treated as well. Our website and app are your best resource. Watch it with our interactive radar, sign up for weather alerts and get updates about School Closings and delays. Snow has been falling off and on again all day in the North Carolina mountains. Eyewitness News Reporter dave faherty talked to families reporter well its been so cold here in the Nort