president reagan and was the longest serving justice. follow us at wlos.com and on facebook for more details and updates. the 9th republican debate is set to get under way tonight. news 13 s darren botelho is live in greenville outside the peace center. darren, there s a protest ppening outside of this debate. darren: that s right, frank. as you can see behind me, protestors have lined up outside the peace center. we have marco rubio over here. ted cruz over there. donald trump on the other side of the street. all the candidates represented. the six candidates get on the stage and tell the voters out now we have a marco rubio supporter right here. sir, why did you come out today? i m here with the republican club. we re just here to show greenville and the great state of south carolina that marco rubio has the support. we re just here to show everyone that marco can take this country back and take us to a new greater american century. he lost a little bit of momentum bu
advisories for yancey, mitchell. elsewhere, not quite that cold but still very, very uncomfortable if you re out for too long. we are down to 20 right now in asheville. burnsville 18. newland 10 degrees. 17 in morganton. you add the wind chill factor in that. feeling like 10 right now in asheville. 4 below in boone. that s where it s dangerous. 24 in forest city. we are looking at a very cold overnight and cold valentine s day morning as well. starting out at 15 degrees at 8 o clock. cloudy and 22 at 10:00 a.m. 26 at noon. layer up if you re going to be out in the morning. upstate cold at 22 degrees at 8 o clock. 28 at 10:00. 33 degrees at noon. we have a winter storm watch kicking in tomorrow evening through monday for all of us in the mountains and the northern tier of the upstate and coming up, i ll tell you much more about the mix of snow and ice. coming up our, frank. frank: drivers across the mountains already had some trouble getting out the door this morning. fresh
area, this is a weather advisory. this is where travel is going to be tricky. we could see some snowfall accumulations and icing. then we head down south. a freezing rain advisory in the hot pink area. all these advisories are in effect through tomorrow night. we see on our radar right now most of the snow is just in our extreme northern mountain locations around spruce pine, northern yancey and mitchell counties right now. however, as we put the future radar in to motion, well let s see, we see it eventually beginning to fill in from the west as well. so as we go through the overnight, we re going to see more of those snow showers begin to fly. meanwhile the current temperatures a big range. burnsville 18. asheville a cold 22. warmer conditions out west. bryson city 32. your evening planner is going to be a cold one with those snow showers ramping up. flurries at nine. a knew snow showers at 11 o clock. we are going to see and mainly cloudy. moisture is going to kick in a
we are looking at a mix of snow and ice. and it doesn t take much to make very dangerous conditions. warning in effect for our northern mountains and northern foothills until midnight tomorrow. accumulating snow, also some accumulating ice making for dangerous travel. not recommended. purple area is winter weather advisory. lighter snow and ice but enough to make travel hazardous at times. if you do have to be out on the roads, travel with care. as we head south in to the upstate, a freezing rain advisory until tomorrow evening as well. right now on our radar we see light snow flurries. we re kind of in a lull before the action. it moves in to tennessee over and this is expected to move up and turn in to snow. our very cold air. we are talking very cold right now. asheville down to 22 degrees. warmer in some of our western mountain locations. but still below freezing. 27 right now in greer. look out at that tyson furniture bus stop forecast. a wintery mix. 33 by then. drop of
marion, mcdowell, morganton, burke county and northern mountains where we could see some light snow. karen wynne is down in henderson county. what s it like as wewepeak? karen: jason, yes, very, very slick. in fact we are in downtown hendersonville right now on south maine. you can see this tree is coated in ice and so are many of the roads. so not too much going on. just a few cars. but for the most part downtown hendersonville pretty much empty. people don t want to navigate this if they don t have to. we have some video of them right now. we re talking everything from a car that was on its side with an injured person inside to an accident along i-26 that backed up traffic for miles. we seen saw a trash truck that crashed in to a tree. the early arrival of freezing rain caught them off guard. leading to secondary roads icing up quickly. we re going to continue to work and monitor these areas. we re hoping the temperature will rise a little. karen: and the dot encourag