phase one today, i want to everyone to remember what those numbers mean. every time our state counts another death, a family and a community descend into mourning. i want to share with you some of their stories. one of them belongs to a man from montgomery county, known as officer bud. he served as a sheriff s deputy and school resource officer for 14 years and was in good health, never missing work or calling in sick. one person described him as a superhero. a local mom recalled how he sat and talked with her son, who was frequently bullied and had found himself alone at the school dance. officer bud made home visits if he was worried about a student s home life that might be troubled. his motto was, anything for the kids. he died march 31 at the age of 43. one friend suggested that in death, he was still protecting his community by raising awareness of this virus. alexander reginald pettiway joined the durham county sheriffs office and served as an officer there for 23 year
good afternoon and sorry about the technical delay. i want to thank you for joining today s update on cover 19 in north carolina. when ctb is providing a stream for sign leg was at unc tv.org. 13,868oday, we have confirmed cases. 515 people in the hospital. and 527 deaths. at every briefing since our state s first death, i have shared the number of fatalities due to covid-19. as north carolina moves into phase one today, i want to everyone to remember what those numbers mean. every time our state counts another death, a family and a community descend into mourning. i want to share with you some of their stories. one of them belongs to a man from montgomery county, known as officer bud. he served as a sheriff s deputy and school resource officer for 14 years and was in good health, never missing work or calling in sick. one person described him as a superhero. a local mom recalled how he sat and talked with her son, who was frequently bullied and had found himself alone at the
take a look at this video. you can see where crews were hard at work trying to clear the snow. so far students have missed seven days because of snow. but the superintendent tells me not to be alarmed. they average close to 18 snow days a year here in the mountains. in avery county, they make it up by adding time on to the school day earlier in the year so the students get the hours required by the state. the superintendent recalled one winter when he was young when they actually missed 45 days. didn t go a single day in january. so compared to that, missing seven s not too bad. and for the first time in a long, long time, we didn t miss any days before christmas. that was because we had that very warm december. there s one of those gusts i was talking about. it s brutal right now. temperatures in the single digits around 9 degrees. we re getting gusts well over 20 miles per hour. blowing the snow across the roadways. it s blowing me around quite a bit. are these roads up
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 they do
the snow showers starting in the mountains by 8:00. look at this area blossoming toward shelby through the central foothills and it s going to try to move across the charlotte area. the air is fairly dry. no more than a few flakes between 10:00 and noon. that should be about it. after that, it s all about the cold air. so again, as far as falling from the sky, mountains will see snow showers early on. a rain drop in the charlotte area through 1:00. no travel impact in the metro. developing tonight, crews are scrambling to stop water that is spewing out on independence boulevard near 277 and freezing. we first reported this problem for you on daybreak and it will be a problem again tomorrow. just in the last three hours, reporter, dashon brown spoke with crews about why it s so hard to find and fix this leak. reporter: erica, a spokesperson for the charlotte water told me drivers here should expect this right lane to remain closed until at least 4:00 friday afternoon. is