We are not expecting to see much at all today. Thankfully. So a break. 53 degrees by lunchtime. Partly clear skies. Coming up in my full forecast, what you can expect for the first week of the year. Holly here is your ontime traffic report. Jay no accidents to report in asheville or buncombe county, Henderson County, or Haywood County. Holly here is a look at the drive times this morning, i40 east from Haywood County to buncombe county, running you about 9 minutes. I240 west to glen falls road is about 7 minutes. Jay drivers taking i26 from hendersonville to asheville have a 17 minute drive time right now. Holly if you plan to ring in the new year away from home, state troopers want you to stay safe on the road. Jay Lauren Brigman is live along inside our mobile track unit. And, lauren, troopers say planning ahead is key . Lauren definitely. They want you to make arrangements before you g g out tonight to prevent trouble on the road. So, have a designated driver. Plan to call a cab or
Dubais tallest towers captured the worlds attention, while mes square went off without a hitch. Meghan hughes looks at the celebrations and the tensions around the holiday. The times square celebrated without incident. The nypd promising safetying and delivering. Around the world, 2016 got a warm and safe welcome from sydney harbor. To moscow. In dubai, a massive hotel fire lit up the sky three hours before the fireworks were to begin. I can see a lot of debris, coming down from the building and its getting bigger and bigger. Reporter no mention of arson or her roar as investigators search for a cause. It there were two trains in munich that were evacuated and in paris, no fireworks due to thrift threat, the same in brussels. In the u. S. , they stopped a threat in rochester, new york. Emanuel lechman is accused of planning to attack people in isis. Even though the ball dropped security is expected to be high at another new years tradition. Dont do anything illegal. Chancing are you ar
Without a hitch. Karin caifa was standing in the crowd as a Million People welcomed 2016. 3 3 porter pkgas follows ic 2016 has arrived in new york. Oc . Im karin caifa, now back to you. Endcnn. Script 3 3 3 3 cnn. Script end you. Caifa, now back to you. 3 with the new year. Comes new laws in north carolina. Starting today. Abortion providers will have to send the state medical records including ultrasound images for abortions after 16 weeks. Voter identification will now be required in 2016. Starting with the primary elections in march. And, Business Owners will be able to sue employees who take video or photographs at the workplace. Labeled the ag gag law by its opponents. Some local farmers say that measure isnt necessary if you treat your employees. And your animals. The right way. 3 i dont think those protections are necessary completely. I think its in general have conversations with consumers about the way their food is being raised. 3 for a full list of the new laws that will ta
Sylvester has been ruled a homicide. People are very upset about it, they feel sorry for the child that died for no reason at all, aa little child like that should have a long life. Reporter this woman who didnt want to be shown on camera describes the scene the day the boy was med flighted to a hospital with severe injuries. By ambulance, fire trucks, cones out in the field, police truck or fire truck in the yard. Reporter the Attorney Generals Office says sylvester died two days later from blunt impact head trauma. No one has been charged with his death. But investigators say they arrested 29yearold tommy paige, a person living at the home where the babys injuries happened. On 23 counts of possession of child sexual abuse images. Were talking about two separate investigations at this point, and both of this is investigations are open and ongoing. So because theyre both open and ongoing, im very limited with the information that our office can share. Reporter the images of a baby boy
A little bit going on today. Her i err showers eastern long island. Theres a cold front out to the west. In between us were going to spend most of our morning and early afternoon before the front gets here. Twin forks, thats where heavier showers are falling right now. Drifting more south to north. Not moving back west. We should be okay basically from that point west other than a couple of sprinkles early on for the morning commute. Then varying amounts of clouds. By noon looking at 71 degrees. By 6 00, 69 degrees. A high of 72. Takes care of the weather. Lets find out whats going on, lauren. Not too much there. You can see mostly green traffic flows. We have an accident on the van wyck expressway. Headed to jfk airport, this is something youll want to know about. It blocks two lanes. Things moving pretty nicely. Hopefully theyll get that cleared out soon. Whether youan heading to manhattan, the bronx or the queens. We have more on the fdr drive southbound. Things are okay and well ha