Winter weather advisories, though, until 7 oclock tuesday for the counties in purple. Includes buncombe, avery, macon, clay, cherokee. This is where a lot of significant snow is going to accumulate. Winter storm warnings until 7 oclock in the morning. Periods of snow, gusty in asheville. Ill show you what to expect overnight and when the snow accumulates here in the city. Stick around. Darcel with the snow arriving from the west, it didnt take long for some of our western mountains to turn white. Tammy news 13s meteorologist karen wynne is live in waynesville. Karen, it didnt take much to get people excited. Karen no, tammy, it really didnt. Right now in waynesville it is dry. Long. One family actually went snowboarding before their location was completely covered. Gearing up for a very long night. Around midmorning we met christine walking through the horizontal snow flakes. She was not amused. Its a mess and its devastating. I dont know, i like spring better. Karen as the snow came down in the western mountain, we saw horses in blankets hunkered down in the anticipation of heavier snow to come. However, the light snow on soco mountain was more than enough for a florida family. The kids have never seen snow before. I cant really just control it. I just go down and just go wherever it goes. Karen thats kind of fun, isnt it . I love it. Even though its cold, i still love the mountains and the snow. Karen meanwhile dot workers in Haywood County are working around the clock to keep the roads safe. Karen with more snow forecast for tonight, people to stay off the roads as possible. Slow down and take your time. Karen floridians say they cant wait for heavier snow. Hopefully i can make snow angels and maybe even a snow man. Karen coming up tonight at 6 00, what dot workers say drivers need to be aware of with this particular snow. Im karen wynne, news 13. Tammy stay with us on continuing coverage on this latest round. Well have updates throughout the evening. You can also find developments on our facebook and twitter pages. Our closings and delay information can be found on wlos. Com. Darcel the buncombe county takes another step. The da has requested a hearing the outcome of that hearing could determine the punishment griffin could face if convicted. A grand jury indicted griffin last week in killing alex king, tatianna diz, and uhon griffin. Tammy news 13s hope hanselman explains why they refused the plea deal offered by the district attorney. Hope three years behind bars in exchange for a guilty plea, that was a lawyers recommendation for two defendants in the case. They called in resources to Mcdowell County to help fight it. Justice needs to be served. Hope taking a moment to pray, theyre calling themselves all accused of raping a 15yearold girl they met on facebook in 2015. But only one of them could gather outside the Mcdowell County courthouse monday. My kids need their dad. The other families need their son. Hope attorney advising him not to speak. So instead his fiancee and the mother of his children. Longest four months of my life. Hope carson, quitman and logan have been sitting in jail. Its just not right whats happening in Mcdowell County. And Justice Needs to be served. Hope moore faces the most severe charges. Seven counts of statutory rape. He doesnt deny meeting up with the girl. But his family doesnt believe prison for it. Hes a young man facing some enormous charges. And not only enormous charges but a lengthy amount of time as well. Hope john barnett provides Legal Assistance where he sees civil rights infringed. The changing of that threw a red flag for us. Hope barnett wants just 20 months probation for Cameron Moore and this team believes he can make it happen. Were very hopeful. I know its in the lords hands and everything is going to work for all of these men. Hope jury trial to begin in may. The other two defendants will be in court this summer. In Mcdowell County, hope hanselman, news 13. On a macon county teenager who investigators say accidentally shot himself in the head. He was at his home on rosemont drive in franklin with two other boys saturday afternoon. They believe he thought the gun was unloaded and it fired while he was handling it. We believe that he was probably trying to unload the gun, or maybe even thought it was unloaded. He removed the clip and for some reason there was still a shell in the chamber. And that had been spent. Darcel cowart was flown to mission hospital. His father said the next few hours will be critical for him with swelling on the brain. Coming up at 6 00 how neighbors helped right after the gun went off. Tammy time for the commute. Jaclyn crews are working a new wreck. It might be in the roadway for just a bit. Thankfully there are no injuries at this time. A wreck is tying up traffic at walnut. 1923 is another spot that youll want to avoid. You can see traffic is very slow moving heading towards i40. Thats a look at your on time traffic report brought to you by debruhls used car superstore. Tammy a meeting to vote on closing a local school is now postponed because of weather. The Haywood County school board was set to vote tonight on the future of the elementary school. The district is looking to save money because of falling enrollment and budget shortfall. Concerns about a road in asheville that some feel has been neglected for far too long. How the city is responding to calls for repairs. Thats in ask 13. Experience, what a time they had. Time around the big game. Darcel theres a bumpy road in asheville that some people tammy how bad is it . Frank tammy, its definitely got some tough spots. Its old haywood road. It runs a couple miles off of smokey park and then comes back in to the highway. The section were talking about thats in trouble is right here close to smoky park highway. The question comes from arthur ingle. I would like to know why the road has not been paved in years. We have two hotels that have been built on this stretch stretch plus a cracker barrel. Its never been touched. We went to check it out. Sure enough, old haywood road has tough spots. It recentlyook over jurisdiction from this section of the road from the dot. That this part of the road is made of concrete and not asphalt. Overlaying concrete becomes quite difficult to get it smooth and make the appropriate repairs. Frank the city says its now employing some new software. This is one that will be getting some attention very soon. If you have a question for us you can write us at ask 13 at wlos. Com. Darcel, tammy. Tammy and of course we also know that the cold does not help with the potholes, the freezing. Darcel no, it does not. More snow today. Snow flurries. Jason snow flurryiesflurries, showers, snow squalls. 46 for the high today. Still fell shy of average. That temperature well enough freezing, obviously, to keep the snow not accumulating so far here in asheville. 26 the low this morning. We have about an inch departure on the surplus side. Those snow squalls, were tracking them for you. Well show you when the snow will end, oh yeah. And the bitter cold thats coming. Holly tomorrow morning on news 13, we will be talking about ways to treat yourself and plus well be steve today is your lucky day. Woman surprised oh, my goodness mark youve just won a thousand dollars woman thats amazing thats amazing shrieks woman ok, nice job. Mark, way better than yesterday. Maria, that delivery felt a little forced. And steve, steve yeah . Woman i am still missing that raw emotion. Woman pretty awesome for a tuesday, but tomorrow is hump day, so lets really bring it lucky for life. Win a thousand dollars a day, now your news 13 skywatch weather. Jason well weve moved the flakeometer up a notch since last week. If youre in the high country, youre going to need to buy that milk and bread. For some of you, its use your own judgment, if you will. Wait for the forecast here in just a second. We have the snow squalls coming through. Heavy snow on the east side of buncombe county. Southern yancey, southern mitchell, northern mcdowell. This is not going to accumulate unless its 3500 feet because the air temperature is so warm and the ground cover is so warm. Over the smokys snowing heavily and steadily now. Higher elevations. 32 right now in asheville. Look at the sun bouncing off some of the buildings at unca. Wind chills down to 40 degrees. In greenville, youre dealing with the clouds. 47 with a wind chill of 43. Heres the set up. Look at how many areas of low pressure we have here. Couple of cold fronts here. All of this isis rotating from the northwest to the southeast. This is t t pattern right now. Anything you see up to the north and west of us up to the great lakes and the upper ohio valley is going to come our way. That moisture mostly gets banked up across the mountains will be favored for some of the heavier snow bands. Snow fall accumulations. I40 for asheville. Northern transylvania county. And also jackson county. The bigger story overall for everyone will be the cold air that floods in behind us. Were talking bitter cold. The coldest air of the season is coming by the end of the week. Boy, it is going to be felt area wide. Future cast locally. Western north carolina, thats going to be favored for the snow fall. Squalls overnight tonight. Some of it farther south in to northern henderson and transylvania. Over time that wind driven snow is going to pile up and complicate travel. If youre traveling anywhere west on i26, keep that in mind. Here are your snow amounts. One to three inches in blue when its all said on wednesday. Northern buncombe, back over to haywood. Than five inches. Teens and 20s for lows tonight. Its going to be cold no doubt about it. We wont even get to freezing i think in asheville and thus the accumulated snow fall will have already begun. 20s for highs wednesday. Even warmer, then colder as we get towards valentines day. 10 on valentines day. There you go. Tammy how one service is tammy some Patients Want to be at home regardless of their diagnosis. Darcel yet many want to continue receiving treatment realizing it may not work. Jay siltzer is showing what is being done for patients at a crossroads. Reporter the legacy of asheville artist norville urban. He was as joyful as his artwork is. He was always extremely positive. Reporter crossroads through Care Partners provided like the artwork, there was something new to experience at every turn. They know how do to the technical care. They know how to administer the medication. You had to be on it. And you had to be on it 24 7. It was a crazy ride. Reporter one to allow norbert to die comfortable at home. Every day was norberts special day. And his wife provided and met his wishes as best she could. I got to watch him take his last breath, say goodbye, give him a kiss and it was done. It was a seamless, loving act. Reporter in asheville, jay siltzer, news 13. About crossroads, call the number onn your screen. Tammy that number is 8282774722. Darcel still to come, memories from super bowl how fans are remembe tammy with super bowl 50 in the books, fans are looking back Francisco Bay area. Darcel news 13s Luke Notestine caught up with them before they went home. Luke the city did such an outstanding job hosting the enormous event that is the super bowl. It was an exhilarating week with a full gamut of emotions. A few days ago thousands of football fans were eager with anticipation for the big game. Now its time to take everything down and get ready to go home. Getting here, tickets, travel, booking that was stressful. Then you got here and it was like wow. Im at the super bowl. The 50th super bowl. Never been to another stadium other than bank of america stadium. Just getting to the west coast and seeing what the city is like and the fan experience. Just even getting to the game and seeing different celebrities around. Its amazing. Panthers lost, the fans say they enjoyed their experience in the bay area. Winning is another thing but yeah, the season just amazing. Really cool to be a part of. It was a disasaoint. But theyre a young team. They have more years ahead of them and i think theyll be back. Luke a common theme among all panthers fans are hopeful. This team will hopefully use the experience and the wisdom they gained from the tough loss on sunday night. We hope they all travel home safely, get home in one piece and enjoy the rest of the week. Im Luke Notestine, news 13. Darcel preparing for new hampshires president ial primary. Tammy news 13 at 5 30 starts right now. 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