Some places across the mars hill wolf laurel areas. But, it looks very wet. That means black ice is going to be a big concern for your morning drive, especially here in Madison County. Parking lots though, looking a lot like this. They have seen a lot of the snow and sleet combining overnight, about an inch to 2 in places on the ground here in wolf laurel. But, as people begin to drive on this and it packs down that snow and really makes for some slick conditions on roadways here as well. So, not only do you have snow covering coating the roads in some spots you are going to have the black ice you need to be prepared for this morning. The wind chill though, definitely bitter cold out here. Its about 28 degrees here in wolf laurel. So we have noticed the temperature change as you reach those Higher Elevations as well. Were getting a break in the snow flurries right now, but definitely bundle up the kids this everything no. Of course schools are on a 3 hour delay here, so hopefully the s
Down to the valley, seeing flurries this morning, but this winter storm warning is still out for another hour for the counties on your screen shaded in pink. Buncombe county and surrounding counties, this Winter Weather advisory is out until wednesday morning. Coming up in my full forecast, we will talk more about how much more snow is expected to fall, when it will stop, and the incredibly cold conditions that will last for quite a while. Back over to you. Jay Haywood County is one area that saw snow stick overnight and again this morning. Holly Lauren Brigman is live near waynesville middle school, what are dispatchers out there telling you . Lauren i just checked in with them, holly, less than five minutes ago. No accidents to report right now. But, of course, because the schools are ease klod a lot closed a lot of people are staying home, unless you have to get out to go to work. But they remind people to use caution because we are seeing you can see4 accident on i40 eastbound near
Most of the primary roads are covered with salt, they are in good shape but the secondary roads and the Higher Elevations are turning white now. We will have crews hitting those once daylight comes, the day shift working. But for right now watch out on the secondary roads. Zack even in the overnight hours your crews were working out there as well because of the wind and downed trees. What are you seeing now . We have had a lot of downed trees overnight. The winds have been very rough, especially in the higher mountains. We have probably had 2030 trees down tonight. The crews are getting out, finishing up some of them right now as they are transitioned over to snow removal. Zack i know we have four county trucks out. We have two contracted trucks as well and they are taking out the salt. But there is other treatment on the roadways . We put down a salt and sand mixture, the sand help with the traction right now especially with some of the areas might be turning a little icy. The sand wi
Abcs Pierre Thomas has all the latest from washington. Good morning, pierre. Reporter good morning, george. Its a showdown between the fbi and apple. The fbi trying to force apple to open that iphone as it hunts for clues in the San Bernardino massacre. Apple saying no way and this morning a federal court is weighing in. A federal judge in california ordering apple to help the fbi unlock an iphone used by syed farook who went on a murderous rampage with his wife leaving 14 dead in San Bernardino. We still have one of those killers phones we have not been able to open and its been over two months still working on it. Reporter the ruling could be a key victory in their longrunning battle with apple and other Tech Companies about the governments ability to encrist data. Apple vowing to appeal and saying it would put the privacy of hundreds of millions at risk and telling us overnight the government is asking apple to demand would undermine the very freedoms our government protects. It did
Hampton police say wednedays hazmat situation on cynthia drive is related to the meth investigations in newport news. Officers say they found items consistent with making meth. They say they also found an unknown substance. Detectives are still waiting for test results to see what that substance is. So far, they have not made any arrests we will continue to gather more details, and well get another update in about 30 minutes. For now, thanks for joining us, im katie collet. And im don roberts. Lets switch gears now and get a check of your forecast. Meteorologist Jeremy Wheeler is tracking some nice weather today and a warmup this weekend. jeremy ad libs wx headlines today partly sunny. Nice. Highs will be in the upper 40s to near 50. Wind south 510mph. Tonight partly cloudy. Lows will be in the upper 30s. Winds south 515mph. And warmer. Highs will be in the low mid 60s. Winds sw 1015mph. Well see nice weather today into the weekend as High Pressure builds into the region. It will be ve