dropping to the 30s by 9. snow beginning to mix in here in asheville. darcel: downed trees and power lines left thousands in mcdowell county without power. tammy: news 13 s karen wynne. karen: it has and for many people cleaning up the damage and getting through the day without power. around mid-morning, repair crews leaving this neighborhood cut off and powerless since 2:30 a.m. it s hard without power. karen: you all have been without it for a long time. since 2:30 and no way to get out. boring without tv. karen: michelle bailey, public information officer for the mcdowell public management team says 1,000 homes were without power. things like the southern part of the county, probably been hit the hardest. we ve been everywhere across the county. karen: repair crews have cleaned up much of the damage. but once the sun goes down, folks need to be careful. of course the temperatures will drop again. and there might still be icey spots on the road. people
any updates as far as suspects? at this point it s too early. we ve been talking to a lot of folks in the area. i ve been receiving information but at this point we don t have anybody that s listed a suspect. john: the family you can hear there is just surprised this could happen to someone like kyrie. he s a good kid. if you have any information you re urged to call buncombe county crime stoppers. 255-5050. live here in asheville, john le, news 13. larry: back to that winter weathh advisory we mentioned, even though we did warm up today, temperatures are dropping again. darcel: chief meteorologist jason boyer joins us now. what can we expect? jason: ground is white jackson county, haywood county, madison and swain. leicester carpet sales news13 sky cam network unca campus. cold rain and 41. and all rain. then you go up in to higher elevations. coal springs ranch, 4,000 feet near haywood county. the snow is adding up. already laying on the ground. that s the story n
i think both sides of that could agree to that. karen: months earlier, an argument from on the day of mathis first court appearance on that case, tempers erupted. i know the laws are doing everything in their powers as far as charging. but what evidence they got or whatever. but it still don t work for me. karen: investigators believe the need for revenge led to richard o shields confronting and killing mathis. friends and family of joey o shields maintain that mathis did something to cause o shields to fall out and die. richard o shields was charged with first degree murder for two families. a trial that brings back a flood now the jury has gone home for the night. they re going to meet back here tomorrow morning at 9:15 when opening arguments are scheduled to begin. i m karen wynne, news 13. tammy: we have this just in, republican lawmakers in north carolina have released a new map of congressional districts in the state. an appeals court ruled the first and 12th d
the arrest on his property, aaron? aaron: larry, the mayor says he s glad. years ago he says he voted to support the buncombe county task force, which made the arrest. they knew something was wrong. aaron: black mountain mayor michael soebel says something was up. you just don t have cars coming in all the time and people staying for two minutes. reporter: he says cars would come in and out all hours of the day. i pretty much guess what they re there for because they come and go, come and go. aaron: he called to complain to his landlord. that trailer park is ours and some other apartments. that s how i put food on the table. aaron: the mayor owns the property. he says he s doing his job screening tenants. they don t know what they re talking about. again, if i buy a park and the really much that i can do about it. aaron: soebl says he talked to former landlords and says his screening process is adequate. i m not a police officer. let them know somethin
told us think saw a steady stream but no long lines. abten tee voting hit a record for presidential primary in south carolina. more than sixty thousand absentee votes cast. that s double the number in 2008 and 2012, that leads people to believe we could see a record as many as 657 thousand votes in this presidential primary. we asked what s driving them to go to the polls? there s a lot of people that are running. that s turning grabbing a lot of people s attention. people are looking for a fresh voice and face. my mailbox has been full of propaganda, if you want to call it. that may be driving interest. it d be hard to sleep this one, for sure. this is an open primary and that means voters from the democrat and republican party there are 2.9 million voters in the state and every early indication is a lot of them are going to the polls. there s still a little more than a half an hour to go before the polls close at 7:00. we ll be here to bring you the reaction from to