Tomorrow afternoon with an additional one to two inches of rain possible. On top of what weve recently had. So that means that flooding could happen very quickly. If you are going to be out and about driving in the wee hours of the morning, especially when its dark and kind of hard to see flooded roads, be very careful and dont cross any flooded roads. We also have a high wind warning for the Higher Elevations above 3500 feet in the blue shaded area. Western mountain counties that could get damaging wind. 60 mile an hour wind gusts. Go ahead and secure loose objects on your property. 49 degrees at pick up time. Showers and storms. A few of them severe. Up to 57 by lunch time. With that chance of strong to severe storms. Cooling off a little bit at drop off time. Still rain in the area. Coming up, well show you when to snow. Larry new tonight, local reaction to a new law in charlotte that allows transgender people to use the bathroom of t tir choice. Darcel the Lgbt Community applaud. O
Coming up, my full forecast, we will talk more about what you can expect today in the way of accumulations and just how cold we turn through wednesday. But right now, the roads in asheville are looking good, jaclyn . Jaclyn thats right, ingrid. We are accident and delay free in the asheville area. If you are hopping on i26 it is nice clear commute heading into asheville. That drive time timing out to 7 minutes for you. Lets get a look at the smoky park highway now. Everything is moving right on tom time. Speeds at rutherford road clocking in at 45 miles per hour. No problems there. If you are heading out to waynesville from smokey spark highway that is a smooth 19 minute ride all the way over to exit 20. That is a look at your ontime traffic report brought you by the wired mouse. Back over to you. Holly today you can discus the policies and procedures behind the use of body cameras with local Law Enforcement. Jay thats right. Lauren brigman is live in asheville. Lauren, who will be on
Severe weather. Thats right. And the threat has forced orie and georgetown officials to Cancel School tomorrow. Chem johnchief meteorologist john farley has more. Tracking an active storm system out there tonight. It will be in here between 7 00 a. M. And 2 00 p. M. Tomorrow. Damaging winds, the most likely scenario, but this could touch off tornadoes. Let me show you where it is. We go down here to right along the gulf coast. Very active just north of pensacola. This thing has touched off lot of severe thunderstorms. I show you whats going on right now, the latest. Everything in the yellow boxes, that is watch out things could get messy. The orange boxes here, these are severe thunderstorms right here. If there were red boxes, there would be tornadoes. There are none right now. This is a system moving quickly in our direction. So tomorrow, basically, everywhere in yellow here that goes from the upstate all the way to the coast, we could see now, a lot of people have been saying exactl
Fireworks display was set to start on the left part of your screen. Of were going to keep our eyes trained on both of these, because were waiting to see if they will pull this off with such a drama occurring just, as i said, across the socalled plaza in that area. The fire raced up some 20 stories, torching a landmark hotel. Clearly, more than 20 stories were engulfed. First official said nobodys injured. Now reports at least 14 are hurt, but medics on the scene are saying 60 people hurt, some are burned, some have smoke inhalation, one person has had a heart attack trying to flee the scene. Evacuations, apparently, are completed. But, again, the details are very sketchy right now. They are claiming, the officials, that its 90 under control. Its important to note that some of the video on the right part of your screen is video that was taken just about an hour or two ago. So, again, they say that its under control or nearly under control. But the cause at this hour is still unknown. Th