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in boon began receiving an order of 800 tons of salt for watauga county. there has been little rest. and more snow could fall both tomorrow and monday. we will be here with the storm and trying to keep track of moving as much as we can. reporter: the pofocus will be on the main roads, leading to the main resorts at appalach ski mountain. the recent cold weather has allowed hem to build up a 6- foot base of man-made snow. it is a drastic difference from this picture i took on december 31st. but skiers told me the conditions couldn t be much better. i wasn t they were even going to be able to open this year. but the weather turned great. and they got snow. looks pretty fabulous, right? very cold. slushy. with it being both valentine s and president s day weekend, hotels across the area, are expected to fill up with skiers this weekend. booked solid for saturday night. and the calls kept coming today. it s interesting. because people are coming up to ski. but t ....
north and wes of charlotte the last couple hours, didn t amount to much. the bigger batch is over central tennessee, northern alabama racing towards the carolinas, 250 miles off to our west. temperatures as cold as they have been all day. upper 20s to near 30 charlotte south, low 20s from i-40 into the mountains where it is in the teens. the air is absolutely bone dry and will be a real battle going on between this dry air and the moisture coming in. a lot of it, now according to latest futurecast will be gobbled up before it reaches the ground. there is the risk of freezing rain for sure around the charlotte area through the morning drive but not necessarily a lot. the mountains, a mix of snow, sleet, and freezing rain first thing tomorrow morning. for the charlotte area it is more about the freezing rain and for more on what to expect on the roads, lets head to john ahrens outside. reporter: the dry air is automatically the first thing and when the wind comes it zip ....
if you look at the car, that s a sheet of ice up here in troutman. that s the situation on the roads, the longer the time they have to ice over, the more of a danger certainly. up on i-77, we found wrecks all over the place between statesville and troutman. it s going to take a while for this to warm up and relieve the situation here. john ahrens, channel 9 eyewitness news. all right thank you. breaking news on i-485 in huntersville. all outer loop lanes near i-77 are closed after an eight- vehicle crash. these are the first live pictures. medic says the area is icy. some people still going fast. huntersville firefighters on the scene. one person was injured. we don t know how badly. in the last 20 minutes, crews reopened one lane of i-40 westbound in catawba county to let traffic through here. but then closed all lanes after two tractor trailers jackknifed here. one of the trucks went across the roadway. we brought you updates for the last hour tonight. it could be ....
video from the 485 back up. people started telling me they thought it was an eight- car pile up ahead. chris waited patiently. a spokesperson told us heavy freezing rain kept the 40 contracted crews out treating roads busy. they were putting down salt to help break up the icy patches. the difficulty in that was when we had heavy rain move through, it could wash the salt off the roads. jenkins admits it wasn t fun waiting in traffic but understands why highway patrol needed to make the call. i could have easily been one of those people. once you hit ice, it doesn t are. troopers told me they feared if they didn t shut down portions of these highways that someone would have been critically injured or even killed. including some first responders. thankfully, no one was seriously hurt. reporting live eyewitness news. and we brought you live updates on the delays on eyewitness news daybreak. traffic team 9 has the latest traffic alerts and alternate starting at ....
the person, contact authorities. we are staying on top of breaking news after local health officials told channel 9 they are now investigating as many as 8 possible cases of the mums. earlier at 5:00 we told you the cases stretched mecklenburg into iredell and cabarrus counties. all new tonight, eyewitness news reporter alexa ashwell talked abc news dr. beser about the patients most at rifshg here. reporter: risk here. reporter: big question, how did this happen? i talked with abc s chief health and medical editor dr. richard beser, a 13-year veteran of the cdc, he explained we are still seeing mumps in the u.s. because there are many parts of the world where mums is common and people travel. of the cases in our area, it is believed one person contracted the virus at an airport. surprise him and mumps is most areas. how is it spread? saliva, we talked coughing, sharing drinks and talking. another alarming fact, dr. beser told me even if you have been vaccinated, ....