He is undergoing treatment at Mission Hospital. His dad says hes a great kid. He also tell us that two weeks ago was christophers birthday when he turned 14. Right now hes asking for prayers for his family, especially for his son. Live if franklin, justin hinton, news 13. Frank a hiker was air lifted to Mission Hospital after a tumble in lynnville gorge. That happened around 11 00 yesterday morning. 60 miles northeast of asheville. Authorities say it took more than five hours and two helicopters to get the man out. He suffered a broken leg. A hike up is a steep one. About a four mile trip. A Utility Company with a plant in South Carolina says duke energys plan to upgrade here is not necessary. Columbia energy says its facility can generate more than five hundred mega watts of power the Utility Commission agreed to allow columbia to intervene. Duke says building two gas powered units to replace coal in asheville remains the best option. The commission is expected to rule by march 1 whet
The upper 40s. Milder in franklin at 52 degrees. Forest city, 48. Greer now 50 degrees. Overall fairly mild night. Well check out that tyson furniture bus stop forecast. Pick up time, 52 degrees. Make sure the kids have the umbrella. Break from the rain. Plenty of cloud cover, though. Four showers at drop off time. 47 degrees. Coming up, well show you when our next round of rain is coming in to the mountains. Along with that chance of severe storm. Darcel parents protested tonight to give more time to changes. And School Leaders listens. Larry news 13s Jerrika Insco joins us live. Jerrika nine teams of three faculty members and a parent representing nine schools. Now tonight, they put their other options outside the ones the board gave them. Option four is only one of four problems. Now, it might be a problem of the past. We just want to be a part of what impacts their future. Jerrika their signs say what they want time, transparency and inclusion. The time line to have a decision by m
Through my cold here today. Much appreciate it. Hubie listen, we appreciate the fact you showed up today. Because youre a gamer. Like when you look at michael jordan, 82, 82, 82. Thats you. Mike got to show up for work. Great to see the cavaliers play so well. 11592, thunder will inbound it here after the 24second violation. Love with 29 and 11. Lebron, 25, 11 assists, 7 boards. Durant, 26, westbrook, 20. But the cavaliers sweep the Season Series from the thunder. So long from oklahoma city. Remember the lakers and bulls tonight. For many of you, local news or world news coming up on abc. Ot chicken. Only available for a limited time by me. Ahhhhhhh same dream . So only i can introduce kfcs delicious, new Nashville Hot chicken. With a spicy, smoky flavor, only available for a limited time, by me, colonel sanders. I know dear. [gasp] [ominous music] rallying for votes. Im Justin Hinton. Coming up the big named actor who joined on the state with Bernie Sanders. Frank shooting rampage. Wh
Definately theres a lot of different candidates. I think if you want your voice heard and you dont want a certain candidate to become the nominee then you have to get out and vote. 6 215 03 eddie dennis i figured if i didnt get it in now it wouldnt happen today. And its important we get it done. 8 29 3 well be here 3 all night monitoring whats happening and whats monitoring all night well be here well be here all night monitoring whats happening and will be bringing you live 3 now we turn to asheville. Where a Bernie Sanders gathering is being held. To watch tonights returns. News 13s Aaron Adelson is there live. Aaron . Hes got lots of support here. These folks will be here watching the primary coverage, and theyve spent the day trying to get others supporting bernie. 3 3 Bernie Sanders supporters came together at the block off biltmore to canvas the neighborhood. Representatives from sanderss National Campaign helped organize the event. Volunteers took two shifts knocking on doors an
Advisories for yancey, mitchell. Elsewhere, not quite that cold but still very, very uncomfortable if youre out for too long. We are down to 20 right now in asheville. Burnsville 18. Newland 10 degrees. 17 in morganton. You add the wind chill factor in that. Feeling like 10 right now in asheville. 4 below in boone. Thats where its dangerous. 24 in forest city. We are looking at a very cold overnight and cold valentines day morning as well. Starting out at 15 degrees at 8 oclock. Cloudy and 22 at 10 00 a. M. 26 at noon. Layer up if youre going to be out in the morning. Upstate cold at 22 degrees at 8 oclock. 28 at 10 00. 33 degrees at noon. We have a winter storm watch kicking in tomorrow evening through monday for all of us in the mountains and the Northern Tier of the upstate and coming up, ill tell you much more about the mix of snow and ice. Coming up our, frank. Frank drivers across the mountains already had some trouble getting out the door this morning. Fresh snow made for slick