Weather president s day weekend and valentines day but you need to be careful in these conditions. Wbtvs Steve Ohnesorge is on know. Not much snowfalling today. A few flurries here and there sunshine. But that did not make things warmer. It was bitterly cold. And its going to get worse this weekend. With a big Holiday Weekend on the way. People on the slopes today said the powder was everything they wanted. Doesnt get any better. And it comes just as what could be the biggest tourist weekend of the year is upon us. Up here. We should, yeah. But they will be here when the temperatures are in a well below zero. Skiers will be warned about it. The guys who know say hats, goggles and gloves and something to cover your face will be do not leave anything exed to the wind. If you take the precautions it should not be a problem and with conditions the best all season on the slopes right now, a lot of people will be coming up here. In watauga county, Steve Ohnesorge wbtv on your side. All right thank you. Right now live to the alert center. Alex giles following a developing story an accident involving a school bus. Yes, an accident involving the school bus at idlewild road and little moser lane. And sky3 over the accident and no injuries but several students on board. 46 students were onboard this bus. Traffic is moving slowly as cars are trying to get around the wreck. One vehicle hit the bus on either side. Maybe that is the rear end its far out to see. But according to charlottemecklenburg schools the bus was coming from mint hill middle school. We are asking police how this investigation. But no injuries. The important part of this story. Thank you. Campaign 2016 has officially taken over South Carolina. Candidates have been traveling throughout the state today but are now settling in rock hill for a Forum Tonight where we michael . The doors just opened to the university where thousands are expected for the summit. Republican candidates ted cruz and ben carson are here with rick san santorum. With nine days until the g. O. P. Primary candidates are blanketing the state trying to win votes. The carolina values summit will focus on the importance of faith in the election and no secret that ted cruz is asking for the evangelical vote and he will speak with ben carson. Beach but santorum is speaking for him tonight. Jeb bush and john kasich are in other parts of the state. And live out to winthrop there are a couple of protestors here that have things to say that sign that said family values wont fix the poverty line and folks disagree with the forum. But we will provide you coverage. Reporting live Michael Clark wbtv on your side. All right thank you. Coming up in 10 minutes we will have more political analysis of the South Carolina president ial primary which candidates can survive the palmetto state. A federal judge granted a delay in the Charleston Church shooter. Dylann roof is accused of shooting nine. The lawyers told the judge they were not ready. The Death Penalty trial is scheduled for july 11th its not Court Decision will have on that case. A lancaster man has been charged with his mothers murder after her body was found in her home. Sky3 over the scene in kershaw. The investigation started after employees of a bank say a man came in asking about a womans account. Robert heights has been charged in the murder of his mother Carolyn Torino she died of multiple gunshot woundsism the last occupier of a refuge surrendered a standoff. It played out over a phone call on an open line streamed line on the internet by an acquaintance of the occupier. Franklin graham traveled to oregon to speak with the group on his Facebook Page he said he had been talking with them on the phone for days. And today, using an f. B. I. Agents phone those holdup quote we are proud of you and love you and look forward to giving you guys a big hug. Traffic its 4 07. Lets check in with tonya rivens. Good afternoon. Your first alert traffic is sponsored by peoples bank. As we check here heads up around independence boulevard by 277 westbound there is a lane closure emergency repairs a watermain great and one great alternate route Central Avenue or monroe road. An accident close by. This is at independence by pecan avenue. Hawthorne lane is a great alternate route. And the accident involving a school bus at idlewild road west of margaret wallace. Lawyers road is a great alternate route to get around this activity. Back to you. Thank you. A Good Samaritan gets involved in a foot chase and it makes the difference. Su looking for a Good Samaritan who helped them get a leg up. On a fleeing suspect. Video released by police shows officers in pursuit of a drug dealer when the bystander tripped the man. Social media he rupted for praise for the stranger who police are looking to thank. As for the suspect he has been charged and facing another kind of trip. Safe to say. Into the courtroom and into jail. Great job. Quick thinking. Quick thinking. He had no idea but he knew police were chasing somebody. President ial candidates have been traveling all over South Carolina and starting to arrive in rock hill. Next, which candidates can survive the first primary in the south. Well, speaking of president s you heard about a president s day storm on the way. The latest details on that and a as well all campaign 2016 South Carolina front and center. The first in the south republican primary over a week away. Several candidates crisscrossing the state before landing in rock hill tonight for a forum. A lot at stake after the votes in iowa and New Hampshire and no one follows it closer than this guy here professor of Political Science at catawba college. The latest polls out of South Carolina they showed donald trump with a big lead over ted cruz and you see the rest of the field there. Do we throw this out . Well, this gives us a clue as to what is going into South Carolina but we need new numbers because of what has happened in iowa and New Hampshire. Particularly the big bump that donald trump coming out of New Hampshire. And someone else getting the bump was john kasich and pushed his chips in the middle of the table and now he has a weekandahalf to try to build a campaign in South Carolina . It is really hard to get that grassroots ground game up and running. South carolina is not made for john kasich. This is going to be the battle between donald trump and ted cruz. And whoever can come in third. I think that is going to be the key coming out of South Carolina. And christie and Carly Fiorina bowed out after New Hampshire. Who has to perform to get a ticket out of South Carolina . One of the three establishment lane candidates. Its going to be jeb bush, marco for something to come out of South Carolina to push them ahead. I think that is going to be the three key that might be the ones that dropout. Beating an expectation. And South Carolina campaigns can be tough we know that. Theres been dirty trick allegations in the past. Do the campaigns prepare . And have Rapid Response teams in place . They have to know the punches the gloves are coming off. This is dirty politics but this is part of what South Carolina has been. So everybody is expecting it. The key thing is going to be watching the debate saturday night. That is where we will get the first hint where will people pull the knives out. And anything that happens in South Carolina will it carry over to North Carolina . I do not think so because of the time and the number and states between South Carolina and North Carolina but it will whittle down the field coming into North Carolina. Fascinating days ahead. South carolina the center of doctor appreciate your insight. Thank you. Straight to alex giles live in the alert center with what officials are doing to prepare for the possible Winter Weather. Yes, they are going to be treating the roads. We got information from the ncdot and this new video we shot of the facilities here, charlotte dot will be treating the streets with the salt brine mixture for the possible Winter Weather they will be treating hospital entrances, bridges and culverts and citizens are asked to report icy conditions that they see by calling 311. Be careful on the roads the next 24 hours into the weekend. All right, thank you. Speaking of the roads lets check in again with tonya rivens. She is keeping an eye on the roads. Hey, your first alert traffic is sponsored by peoples bank. A check of i77 by the john belk one accident to tell you about is by brookshire freeway and Beatties Ford road at french street. Use caution that is close to i77 and wilkinson boulevard, we have some issues; up with is a traffic light problem and the other is a building fire at berry hill and monument street and that is creating slowmoving traffic around wilkinson boulevard. West boulevard is a better alternate route or hop on freedom drive to get around this. And notice the red on i77 southbound, we have volume starting to build right past close to woodlawn road. No accident reported at the moment. Back to you guys. All right, thank you. Nice sunshine today. A little bit warmer. A little bit. You could tell a different. But not warm. We dont want to call it that. A lot to talk about. Changes coming again. Yeah, its keeping our meteorologist Lyndsay Tapases quite busy this afternoon she has the latest. Relief today as we saw the temperatures get back into the upper 40s but we have a fresh shot of cold air for tomorrow and that will last through the valentines day weekend coming to an end with a little bit of Winter Weather on monday. Right now 47. Not as windy as yesterday. Northwest wind at 9milesperhour. Compared to yesterday at this time our 24temperature change is 10 up in the mountains you are 12 warmer in boone compared to yesterday. Not too bad. In the mountains here is a live look over appalachian ski mountain near blowing rock and you can see that the sky is clear towards that way as well. No skiers coming down for the time being but they have enjoyed the snowfall. And though right now our satelliteradar confirming that again, the snow showers for the mountains have briefly shutoff for the time being, we have more mountain snow showers on the way for tomorrow. Again overall right now for this quiet satelliteradar picture. But if we look upstream here is a quickmoving batch of snow showers into western iowa. This is going to briefly clip our area as we head through the day tomorrow. With mountain snow showers could see a snow shower outside of the mountains. Although not going to accumulate to anything. And behind that quickhitting batch of snow showers that is going to usher in the new shot of cold air that will be stuck in place through the weekend. Here is futurecast through tomorrow afternoon, this is 12 00 noon friday. We will see more cloud cover with this disturbance moving through its not going to be as sunny. Its not printing out much east of the mountains possible something will be squeezed out whether it is a snow shower or a shower south of the city and that all exits as we head into saturday and the sky will start to clear again for the start of the weekend. Temperaturewise tomorrow into the foothills low 40s. Not as warm as yesterday. 42 in charlotte. Down a little bit from todays highs and we will be in the lower 40s across our South Carolina counties as well and then we drop back into the 30s for the weekend. Valentines day 16 for the low and 35 on sunday and and we have a light mix right now looking for at best an inch of accumulation and that may be generous before the this changes to rain and ends as rain monday into tuesday and behind that nice to see the 50s showing up by the midpart of next week. Back over to you. Thank you. A mobile Meth Lab Found near a college campus. How authorities captured the suspects. And were back with your just talking about that is a clip from dead pool it is tile for first take with our film critic lawrence topman here from the Charlotte Observer to tell us what movies to see. Tell us about dead pool. Its extremely funny deconstructs the super hero movies. The guy has the ability to regenerate himself but he uses it to hunt down the scientist the genes to mutate. It makes fun of the characters in super hero movies and the action sequences and the dialogue which is so corny and Ryan Reynolds is the perfect guy to deliver this snarky attitude for an hour and 45 minutes and when you think youve had enough it comes to an end. Its funny and i got to warn you very violent in a comic way but i give it threeandahalf. All right. Threeandahalf stars from lt is a good look. Son of sal going to win the academy for best foreign film i will predict that now. Opening at the manor and it is a tough story about a guy who works in a concentration camp leading his fellow jews into the gas chambers and cleaning up after them that is his job. He discovers that one of the kids was his son. And he devotes himself for getting a burial against all it is a powerful, gripping tough story. It is not an easy sit but you watch it and think ive learned something here. And you are moved. What is the rating . Threeandahalf stars on that as well. And talk about something besides a movie. Matilda, the musical . Cheerful and not violent. Its playing at belk theater from the novel about a girl who has put in a class where she is the smartest kid and nobody appreciates the smart little girl. There is a woman in charge of the school played by a man in all the shows. And there is a teacher and crazy moody parents and high energy kids who support her. That is the dancing. And the show is almost nonstop movement but it has a tremendous amount of heart and it is a wonderful songs and won four tony awards. Ok. Read all of larrys full reviews charlotteobserver. Com. Lt we appreciate you being here today. Good week today. It was a good week. See you next week. Something for everyone. Thank you. We have more news ahead, a voyage that may be scary to take. When and where it could happen. Puffs knows winter. Is hard on your nose theres the endless runny noses. The sneezes that just wont quit and of course, the biting cold of snow day play. 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So 40s today felt better than yesterday and back down for tomorrow and especially the weekend. Valentines day is going to be bitter cold for us. But right now 47 does not feel too bad. We started out at 17 that was the morning low in charlotte it was cold first thing but we have made nice recovery with the sunshine. Lower 40s north of the city. And morganton are all at 43. And up in the mountains 27 in boone which is better than the teens from yesterday. Up that way you made a little bit of improvement. This evening we will keep the sky clear and 40 at 7 00 and 35 by 9 00 p. M. We may see more cloud cover work towards the later hours of tonight. We have a generally clear sky right now, even in the mountainless, you have receive sunshine as the snow showers briefly shutoff. We have a disturbance upstream that we will be tracking so this will be headed in our direction tore tomorrow. It is a quickmoving small disturbance with the snow iowa. And this gets in here friday. More cloud cover and snow showers to the mountains and maybe flakes could escape outside of the mountains into afternoon. Behind this, a fresh new shot of cold air is what we will be on top of us for the upcoming