started over night in wake county and it led to hundreds of accidents across the triangle this morning. wncn's david hurst reports. >> as temperatures rose today, road conditions gradually got better. behind me here along i 440 there's still a little bit of slush left over. but we're not seeing any of the ice that caused so many problems this morning. icy and slippery roads caused headaches for many drivers across the triangle. >> what normally would take me a good 30 minute commute took about an hour and a half. the north carolina highway patrol reported over 1,000 the state. most of those were in the triangle area where troopers crashes. troopers say none of the wrecks resulted in serious injuries. delays. on days like monday, when roads are slippery, auto body shops like capitol city collision see a spike in the business. >> an accident is an accident for the most part. we hope no one's hurt. experiences a 15 to 20% increase every time there's a significant weather event. >> there's usually a small fender bender or train wrecks pretty bad. >> 20 trucks cleared roads and laid down brine in wake county. on top of the brine they dumped on state roads over the weekend. even with the state's preparations, icy patches still remain on the roads and a majority of wrecks were caused by drivers going too fast and sliding on the slick spots. >> coming up 440, it was like a junk yard pretty much. accident by every exit. >> governor pat mccrory says all things considered things could have been worse today. he says the combination of schools being out as well as today being a federal holiday prevented a lot of people from being on the roads, david hurst, wncn news now. the triangle, the precipitation turned to rain a little later in the afternoon, this is a live look at the road durham and orange county seeing some accumulation. orange, person and grandville county schools calling for a two hour delay tomorrow. steve is keeping an eye on the roads out there. he joins us now from the mobile news tracker with more. good evening steve. >> reporter: good evening, a far different commute than there was this morning as you can see. just barely that the roads now are just wet. the rain is falling occasionally. but there's no icy conditions like there was earlier today. when all this first started, orange county got a significant amount of snow. in fact, earlier today, scenes like this were common, like this damaged utility pole with downed icy wires. by late this afternoon, the rain stopped freezing, prompting folks to then venture on out. >> i got cabin fever, and i came out, my driveway was the worst part of coming out. >> what was the driveway like? but the roads are fine here in hillsborough. and there's plenty of things to do. coffee, flowers, people. it's good. >> so once you get passed the driveway and passed the ice in the morning, everything was good. >> yeah no worries at all. >> reporter: of course just because it's raining doesn't mean you can drive the full speed limit. because let's face it, when it rains you can hydroplane. even in tonight's conditions, you ought to take it easy. on interstate 85 right now in orange county, we're heading down towards the durham area. we'll check back later in the broadcast and show you how things are going there. i'm steve wncn news now. from the triangle down to cumberland county icy roads causing multiple accidents this morning there as well. highway patrol says they were notified of accidents starting around 5:30 this morning. crews responded to nearly 50 crashes in cumberland county. the majority of the accidents of the county. highway patrols say speed and drivers losing control were the main problems. >> a lot of stuff we were seeing was more of what i call a chain reaction type of action. one person seeing something, they hit the breaks, once you hit the breaks, that accelerates you and makes you a missile. >> unfortunately, no life threatening injuries in any of the accidents reported in cumberland county. let's get another look live at the roadways. i 440 and western boulevard. not many cars out there. a look at 15501 and martin luther king jr. parkway in durham, traffic there is moving fine. with this winter weather around here and severe weather through the south, we've seen hundreds of delays and cancellations at rdu, maggie newland is live from the airport, is it improving tonight? >> reporter: sean, it's not as bad as it was this morning. we're told that this winter weather, not just here is effecting all the flights, but it's due to winter weather tonight, if you take a look behind me, you can see it's pretty slow for this time of night. not as many cancellations, but a number of people are still stuck here. long lines fill the terminal throughout the day as travelers scrambled trying to rebook canceled flights. more than 70 flights were canceled throughout the day. many additional flights were delayed. we spoke with one man who said he thought he was going to make it to new york. but after sitting on the plane for a half hour, his flight was canceled. >> no flights out tonight. i live in pinehurst. i have to make a decision on whether to go back or get a hotel room here and get out tomorrow morning, but delta doesn't know yet. >> i just checked, there are about eight departing flights that are canceled right now. almost all of those are headed to washington dc, new york, or in the northeast somewhere. if you are headed to the airport tonight or tomorrow morning, you'll deferentially want to check with your airline ahead of time before you head out the door. maggie newland, wncn news now. this was the scene this traveling in forsyth county. they haven't been able to get conditions. in virginia, it looks more like a winter wonderland. snow here. all on the ground up there. pierson, granville, and orange delays. and remember you can keep up with weather alerts, closings, delays, and everything you need to know, wherever you are. with the wncn news now and weather mobile apps. download them for free in your app store. today's winter weather pushing closing arguments in the murder trial to tomorrow. travion smith is on trial for the murder of melissa huggins jones back in may of 2013. smith is one of three people charged in the first-degree case. tomorrow. be sure to keep up with the case on wncn.com. and follow steve on twitter. a man has been arrested and charges in connection to the murder of a fayetteville man. police tell wncn, 23-year-old in lake county florida. he's accused of shooting a 37- year-old in the head last week in fayetteville. bird is being held in florida, awaiting extradition back to fayetteville. a goldsboro man is dead after being found unresponsive on the floor of a cell in the samson county detention center. 40-year-old anthony was being held under a 500-dollar bond for child support charges. no word on what caused the death. but samson county officials say no foul play is suspected. new information from deputies today in the shooting county. afternoon. sheriff donny harrison tells wncn the girl is from indiana trails just outside of charlotte and was visiting her grandparents. the sheriff doesn't believe a crime was committed but can't accidental. the passing of supreme court justice skalia carries two major impacts, one on the presidential race and the other on our state's heated wncn's political reporter bo minnick breaks it down for us. >> this is what you did. this is what happened. this is the chaos and costliness. >> our congressional boundaries should remain the same. >> at a hearing, people had their chance to let lawmakers know where their stand on the redistricting situation facing the state. three federal judges say north carolina lawmakers used race as a predominant factor when they drew the lines for two congressional districts. the republican-led general assembly is under a court order to redraw the lines by friday. >> it gives a great deal of stress in this legislative building. there's a great deal of stress across the state. there are people that have cast their vote for congress. that they now don't know if it's going to count. >> 1500 people statewide returned absentee ballots. the districts at issue are one and twelve. twelve is toward winston salem. and one includes spots east of wilson and also to durham. the general assembly is asking a delay in the order as they say changing the districts now would impact the congressionallal primary elections on march 5th. without a delay, lawmakers would hold a special session. >> although it might cost a few dollars to resend absentee ballots, the value of the constitution and adhering to other concerns. >> there's also the question of how the supreme court vacancy left by the death of justice skalia would impact the redistricting case. a single justice could grant a delay. but an appeal on the case would go before the entire court. skalia was an influential supreme court. >> i think it would be dishonest of me to say that the partisan balance of the court is not something that we think about from time to time. >> lawmakers will have their chance to address each other at a hearing at the general assembly tomorrow. after that, if a special session is called, it likely would happen at the end of this week. among some of the biggest names in music, a durham teacher will be honored tonight. still to come tonight, why the grammys are honoring a music teach from the north carolina school of science and mathematics. plus we'll head back out on the roads as we continue to keep an eye on the developing conditions following today's snow and ice. with at&t the choice is yours. you only pay for the services you need to make call now to get high speed internet for just $15 a month for 12 months with a one-year agreement... ...when you bundle with tv, home phone or even wireless on one bill. with high speed internet, you'll get 99.9 percent reliability with a connection you can 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the city council meeting the state of the city is set the get started at 7:30. you're looking at mayor bill bell now. mario boone is there. he'll have a full report tonight at 11:00. live stream online at wncn.com. today's winter weather is effecting tomorrow as orange hour delay. the wintery mix a little heavier and more snow to the north and west of the trianglement our mobile news tracker driving the roads of orange and durham county. and steve joins us again now with an update. it looks like you're seeing a lot of rain over there. >> reporter: yes, we have. and i have to tell you, no sooner were the words out of my mouth in the last broadcast about driving carefully when we were coming down making that switch from 85 to 147, we saw not one, but two, that's right, two automobiles facing the wrong-way after we had crossed bridges. apparently because we keep telling you over and over again during the winter months, bridge decks freeze before the roadways do with that coal air circulating underneath and both those times automobiles were facing the wrong-way off the side of the road because they passed those bridges too fast and spun out. so the watch word tonight is as bridge decks, be careful and keep your speeds slow. otherwise, if we were going full speed when we crossed the bridge decks, we would have ended up like those folks. wncn news now. >> good advice there. drive safe. here's another check of the roadways. what you're seeing here is a live look over i 440 at glenwood avenue. the precipitation is on the camera lense. that's why it looks foggy right now. here's a look at i-85 and i-40. you can see there, traffic moving just fine, waiting for the light to turn. >> i'm in the weather center with chief meteorologist wes hohenstein. it's hard to believe we saw snow and sleet today. tomorrow in the 50s though. >> the highs around 60. severe storms. >> that's the trade off. >> good and bad tomorrow. i don't know if any other commute will be better this morning or tomorrow morning. but i tell you what, it's ugly out there now. not only is it 32 degrees. our fourth day in a row with in fact, 32 is our current high for the day. but it looks foggy and drizzly, and in some cases, that drizzle is light freezing drizzle. a lot of problems tonight. this is 440 east and westbound here in north raleigh. and here is the radar. so generally dry here in wake county. but remember radar most times doesn't pick up on drizzle and mist. there's some of that out there. then there's light freezing rain from north of pittsburgh through chapel hill and carrboro and 40 and 85 into pierson county. still tough stuff out there with the road conditions. otherwise, it's light rain, regular rain, not frozen. along the i-95 corridor. because that's where the warmer temperatures are. early this morning. that's when most of the snow and sleet fell. and as usual, our friends up in roxboro got most of it. 2.5 inches there. efland almost two inches. and much lower totals in the triangle. a winter weather storm passed through. but more of that condensed sleet and freezing rain. that's three in a row now we've had like this. and as we look at temperatures across the state, it's a heat wave along the coast as they're in the 40s and 50s. and that warm air is going to push in here over night. sending our temperatures up. so from about freezing right now, we'll jump up to 33 at 8:00. 35 at 10:00. still some freezing rain in the next couple hours. then the warm air and the warm front push through turning everything to rain. and so by tomorrow morning, most schools go in at a normal time because it's going to be 50 degrees. and all the roads should be fine. most of the roads i should say. but our problem will be heavy rain and the chance of severe storms. so there's two fronts. one warm front will come through tonight warming our temperatures. and then this cold front approaching tomorrow morning and the rain ahead of it bringing us another headache for the morning commute. let's talk about that chance of storms. we pick it up at midnight tonight when that warm air pushes all the frozen in virginia leaving it in the mountains. as we put the maps into motion. here comes the line of storms. there's the cold front. this is the shot at 5:00 a.m. a lot of us seeing dry weather. but the main line of storms immediately to our west. and it looks like it'll be moving through. through the busiest time of the morning commute. here's what the radar could look like at 7:00 a.m. heavy rain, gusting winds, even a chance of an isolated tornado. the good newses is it's not an all day thing. it comes at a bad time in the morning commute but at 10:00 a.m., most of the rain is out of here. as we get into the afternoon, we have sunshine and temperatures around 60 degrees. four days in a row in the 30s. we jump to 60 tomorrow. that's the wonders of north carolina weather. so here's our risk tomorrow. it's the lowest risk. a marginal risk of severe weather. mainly along the i-95 corridor. it's in the morning time. damaging wind and maybe an isolated tornado. something we're going to keep a close eye on. tomorrow morning to help get you out the door. not with snow. but with severe storms. amazing what 24 hours can do. it'll be a warmer day. it'll be a stormy morning. but look forward to some sunshine in the afternoon. in your seven-day forecast, we'll take us from 60 tomorrow to 56 wednesday. 52 on thursday. so getting a little bit cooler. but with generally dry conditions. we have a small chance of rain on wednesday. but we've got dry weather thursday and friday. and look at that weekend. let's just look at that. sunday. most of it dry. most of it sunny. with a small chance of rain sunday into monday. but after four days in the 30s, after 15 degrees on sunday morning, our coldest temperature on the seven-day is 32. friday morning. don't put the winter coats away yet. but let's think about the spring wardrobe. but by this weekend. thank you wes. a durham music teacher set to grammys. well alongside the likes of taylor swift and kendrick a phillip briggs is the music educator of the year. he receives a 10,000-dollar honorarium and a 10,000-dollar grant for the school. >> the grammys airs tonight on cbs. now is a good time to remind you cbs is coming to wncn. we'll add programs such as the big bang theory, survivor, and march madness. and wncn will add more local news as well. sharon, wes, and i will begin at 5:00 p.m. monday through friday. you can find much more on the transition right now on wncn.com. we're very excited about it as well. just six months after approving food trucks, leaders are proposing banning them in certain areas. >> they're discussing the proposal now. the concerns that brought the here we want to take a live look at 15501. it's completely shut down that area. this is coming in right now. the d.o.t. camera is moving around. right now it's moving to what you see there. 15501. i-85 closed down because of an eight-car accident. >> we'll have updates on that on wncn. just because we've gone all day with this doesn't mean that it's over yet. as we can see there's still issues on the road. many of us still below freezing. and as you can see on the radar, there's still light freezing rain falling. and while a lot of the roads are okay. not all of them are. remember this is one of those strange nights where temperatures go up. much warmer tomorrow. it's a tangle of multiple symptoms. brintellix (vortioxetine) is a prescription medicine for depression. brintellix may start to untangle or help improve the multiple symptoms of depression. 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