Gusts up to 50 Miles Per Hour in many cases. We still have the wind to deal with through the evening. High winds mostly west and south of asheville. Then we get in to the Winter Weather advisories and they last until 7 00 a. M. Friday for much of Western North carolina. That means snow will fly off and on through then in the high country. Temperatures in the 40s at 7. 30s by 11 with a chance of flakes mixing in. Ill show you changes. How much snow i expect in just a bit. Frank news 13s karen wynne joins us live in Henderson County where strong storms caused some serious damage. Tammy karen, earlier today, thousands of homes were without power. Karen right, tammy. Here in Henderson County, there were about 4,000 homes without power. Right now that number is right around 1300. Down trees and power lines. A candler family had a most unwelcomed guest, a tree fell on their home this morning. Meanwhile, in haywood county, Mike Smathers lost power around 9 30 a. M. And then the boom. Actually two booms. Karen smathers saw a tree take down a power line right in front of his eyes. Up. It looked like it was going to go to the neighbors house. Karen it happened in canton. Smathers says First Responders came quickly. Meanwhile in hendersonville, we this neighborhood on haywood road was without power for several hours. Resident virginia fisher says she slept through most of the storm and was happy to have her power restored shortly. Now i can have my coffee. Karen and coffee is going to be a really good thing to have on hand tonight with temperatures expected to plunge as we go from the springlike storms we had today to winter conditions. Im karen wynne, news 13. Tammy for the latest updates on our severe weather, download our free weather app. You can stay on top of warnings, advisories and alerts. Search wlos in your app store. New information in the investigation in to the Polk County Sheriffs Office evidence room. District attorney greg newman tells the Carolina Public press that an audit of the evidence holdings has been completed. Newman says he will have a which is expected next week. Sergeant chris buyers was fired. He had a Substance Abuse problem and admitted to violating procedures. A local Community College is vowing to prepare workers for hundreds of new jobs. Frank 350 new jobs. Today blue ridge Community College officials. Tammy kim, what do you have to say about that . Kim hey, tammy. Yeah, the new plant is the gf linamar plant. It will be opening near the end of 2017 near the asheville airport. This is significant because the blue ridge Community College will take a significant role in to help train and recruit meet 30yearold andy carter supervising. Carter is learning to program machines to very precisely cut parts. Its very mentally engaging as well as physically engaging. Kim carter and the other students are training now. It is the kind of project theyll oversee. Any potential employee, this is where they would come. Karen bagley and the other leaders at the college will play a key role Training Staff at the new plant. The technology has grown. Weve had people in there learning it as theyve grown but theyre of retirement age. The Community College is thrilled for the opportunity to work with a company such as gf linamar. Training and recruiting program with the company all through the months of april. And by march, we should have more details. Karen plans for classes are on the fast track. The plant scheduled to be up next summer. Anyone interested in working for gf linamar, they can contact us here on campus. Skilled workforce is critical and i think theyre looking to us to help them ramp up. Kim now the school will start recruiting training starting next spring. Were told by officials that the average salary for jobs will be between 35 and 45,000. Those are significant salaries and we will watch as this develops and the curriculum is formed here. Kimberly king, news 13. Tammy buncombe county is sweetening the deal for school today the district raised the starting salary from 12 an hour to about 14 an hour for most fulltime drivers. They also announced a signing bonus for any new drivers signing on. It is a good job that with a decent salary. And for most employees, it can also carry benefits, Health Insurance and membership in the state retirement system. Its one of the most important jobs. Its how our kids arrive to school each day. Tammy buncombe county has been searching for bus drivers since the school year started. Its consistently had between 3 and 10 positions opened. Frank you know, im free in the mornings. I could do that. Tammy yeah, absolutely. Frank windy conditions are making it difficult for some drivers right now. Tammy . Jaclyn two roads in the area crab creek road is closed near morgan road. A portion of cascade lake road is also shut down in that area. High water is also an issue were dealing with there. Wilson road and island ford road those usual problem spots are closed because of flooding. Most of the traffic lights within the rutherfordton city limits are out right now. Thats a look at your on time traffic report brought to you by debruhls used car superstore. Frank if you see a dog with a Yellow Ribbon, well, beware. The Asheville Humane Society and buncombe county Animal Shelter have launched project yellow. Its to draw attention to dogs that need some extra space. They could have a medical condition. They could be deaf and just need to be approached a certain way. So you just never know. So we just wanted to get that frank you can pick up a Yellow Ribbon at the Adoption Center in asheville. Coming up, an upstate animal park pleads for help from the community. How much money hollywild says it needs to remain open. Tammy you know, sometimes facebooks like button just a so, let me get this straight u. S. Cellular has the phone youre looking for, a network thats built to give you coverage way out here where the other guys dont, and 6 gigs for only 40 a month. Thats a lot less than verizon and at t. With one of those other guys . Switch to u. S. Cellular now and get 6 gigs of data for 40 a month plus get 300 back. Frank stocks close higher today. The dow was up 53 points finishing out at 16,484. Nasdaq picked up 39 and closed at 4442. Tammy an upstate zoo is. Frank attendance at hollywild fell after an electrical fire killed 27 animals last year. Keeping up on infrastructure and animal care has become difficult without funding. Theyre setting a fundraising goal of 500,000 this year. December to make our operation costs run smoothly. Frank find out how you can help save hollywild from closing. Tammy the suit alleges that a customer died of Ovarian Cancer caused by the companys products. Plaintiffs in the case argued that Johnson Johnson was aware of and neglected the dangers of its product. Frank facebook is going beyond the like button. The social media giant announced today that its expanding users ability to react to something on their newsfeed. The site used to only have a thumbs up button if you wanted to Say Something or liked it or Something Like that. Now if you hover the mouse arrow over the like button, you can choose from other options. Facebook says it tested the year and received good reviews. The new options are already available. News 13 wants to know will you use facebooks new reaction buttons . You can log on to facebook. Com news 13 to answer our question of the day. You really share how you really feel, tammy. Tammy yes, just with that little emoji. Frank it speaks volumes, jason. Jason it does. This weather certainly turned on us and will continue to go down hill. If you like snow, thats your thing then. 45 on the low this morning. A very springlike day. Picked up over an inch of rain in asheville. Most of that coming in the morning. The wind continues. The snow fall will add up. Ill show you who gets most of it. And the temperature swi oday 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 we have already experienced a lot of changes and more to come this evening and overnight. Heres our impact forecast through friday morning. The wind is still going to remain a moderately high threat for us. Wind gusts at 30, even 40 Miles Per Hour. Even though high Wind Warnings expire at 7 oclock. The chill, the cold wont be as big of a factor but youre really going to notice the change. Weve already had our heaviest rain fall. Here the blues are showing up now over the balsam mountains, haywood, Jackson County. The darker the blue, the heavier the snow. Not all of this is coming down as snow. Some of it is rain and then snow showers here over southwestern Jackson County and macon county. Highlands and along 64, its going to get dicey. A few more in to tennessee. Its mostly snow now in the smokys. Heres our leicester carpet sales news13 Sky Cam Network look at the clouds lowering here in franklin. Nantahalas, were going to get some snow here shortly. Asheville, 49 degrees. Wind chill down to 43. Youre going to notice that wind as these temperatures cool off. More of an impact from that wind. Center of low pressure away from us. Northwest flow that will continue to wring out these snow showers in earnest through early tomorrow, even in to friday. Some of the Higher Elevations wont see it completely. Will be out until then. The future cast indicating the snow starting to pick up and spread out along the tennessee valley. Down in to northeast buncombe. Valley locations, yancey, mitchell, avery county, haywood and swain county. The high elevations will continue to see the significant accumulation. Strong northwest winds all the way in to friday morning. Then the suns back and will weaken those winds more noticeably in to friday afternoon. Here are the estimated snowfall amounts. Again, in the blue here, you can see 2. 6. A little more than two and a half in gatlinburg. Almost to an inch in marshall. An inch and a half in burnsville. 30s for lows tonight. Yes, it will be around freezing in asheville. 20s over the high country north. Our temperatures tomorrow only getting in the 30s for many the valleys may see low 40s. Temperatures will remain cold. Chilly through friday. Then we get warm. Look at the 60s coming back sunday, monday, tuesday, wednesday. Very nice by then. Tammy time to check out todays see it, shoot it, send it picture. Jerry brendel sent us this shot of a rainbow appearing as the sun broke out through the clouds in enka. Frank send us your pictures and video, just log on to wlos. Com or email them to pics wlos. Com. Local heroes faced off to help save lives today. Tammy they participated in the battle of the badges blood drive. Teams included the asheville fire department, asheville police, buncombe county ems, buncombe county Sheriffs Office and nc highway patrol. Donors voted for their Favorite Team before they donated. Over the past two months, we so todays drive is really important to help meet that need. Tammy American Red Cross says it will announced the winner next week. Frank coming up, thin and tammy waffles and maple syrup just may be one of your favorite comfort foods. Frank Jennifer Emert joins us with information on how to make the perfect waffle. Reporter Consumer Reports set out to find which waffle maker makes the best waffle. They also tested which maple syrup to find out which one tastes the best. Morning waffles are a treat for many families. If you feel like youre missing out, Consumer Reports tried out a half dozen of the most popular waffle makers on the market. The machines were tested on their high and low setting. How consistent they were from batch to batch. Some took a lot of practice to turn out a perfect waffle. Like this aluminum belgian Consumer Reports found that the warring belgian waffle maker can be toasted to your liking, light to dark. Kweesenart. And it beeps when your waffle is ready so you dont have to keep an eye on it. But wait, your waffle isnt complete without a dose of maple syrup. The real stuff that comes from trees. Consumer reports taste tester sampled 14 syrups. Ellen clausic said her team. Now pancake syrup is far less expensive than pure maple syrup fructose corn syrup. For more information on this story and other consumer news, go to our website, wlos point com and click on Consumer Reports. Frank correcting signs why gun advocates larry right now at 6, tracking weather changes. High winds knock down a tall pine tree. Darcel to snow now in the forecast. Jason Winter Weather advisories kick in at 7 oclock this evening. Larry tonight we have Live Team Coverage of what the weather has already brought and still whats to come. Now from Western North carolinas news leader, this is larry powerful winds take down trees in cherokee. Leaving a mess to clean up. Those storms also left thousands in the dark in the mountains. Darcel there could be more damage tonight as the rain is expected to turn to snow. We have Live Team Coverage. Larry first, lets get on over with chief meteorologist jason boyer. Jason i think when a lot of us woke up this morning a lot on our minds was when is this over. Were getting snow flakes to mix in but nothing accumulated at this time. I really dont expect anything to accumulate until tonight. Snow over the smokys, over the nantahala mountains. At times over to macon county. Another batch will move in overnight. This is by no means the main that comes overnight and through tomorrow. Winds blowing in asheville. Winds have been gusting over 35 much of the day. They will begin to relax only a little bit. Winter weather advisories from 7 oclock this evening to 7 00 a. M. Friday. You can see the snows expanding on the future cast. Ill tell you who is going to get most of it and how much will fall in your neighborhood. Stick around. Darcel our Team Coverage continues now in Maggie Valley. Larry rex hodge joins us. What happened out there, rex . Rex im here at riverside village in Maggie Valley. Strong wind knocked down one of these pine trees and fell in to the roof. The heavy tree cut right through the roof and damaged her car. She says the storm raced through Maggie Valley about 7 this morning with a sound she compares to a train
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