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 13s Darren Botelho is live in greenville outside the peace center. Darren, theres a protest ppening outside of this debate. Darren thats 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 . Im here with the republican club. Were just here to show greenville and the great state of South Carolina that marco rubio has the support. Were 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 but i think youre going
Farther south out of the woods, too, rain all over the upstate. Snow still falling north of jackson county. The radar not picking up all of the snow flakes. Most of it is concentrated over swain. Rain again in the southern valleys. Black mountains getting snow popping up. Other than that, it should be pretty quiet elsewhere tonight. Temperatures right around freezing by day break in any cases if not below. Black ice issues in the morning. Back in to sunshine. I think little, very little if any accumulation in asheville. Ill talk about bigger changes, which includes a nice warm up. Stick around to see when and how long. Darcel new tonight, a house fire in east asheville kept the fire started in the attic just before 6 oclock tonight on beverly road. Firefighters saw flames coming from both sends of the attic. The homeowners and their pets were able to get out safely. When fire gets in an attic, a lot of times it can spread across the attic. Thankfully this one went pretty well as far as
Well be down to 23 at 11. A little bit of wind will certainly drop those wind chills down. Youre going below freezing at 9 oclock in the upstate. Well talk about the warming spell that we will experience. And what price we have to pay for it. Ill see you in a few minutes. Larry its getting so cold, the code purple is in effect for tonight as emergency shelters prepare to house people who temperatures drop. Theyre using every Available Space to get folks out of the cold. The rescue mission provides blankets who may not stay there warm. Macon county is left with more than 700,000 in damages after the heavy rains around theyve sent a request for a damage assessment. That could determine if any money will be made available for affected by the flooding. Preliminary estimates show damage to more than 30 homes and 23 roads. Darcel president obama is moved to tears as he makes a passionate call to limit gun violence. And for every family who never imagined that their loved one would be taken f
Larry james and Heather Stepp were originally charged with manslaughter for the accidental shooting of Abigail Newman newman. Ashlea jerrika, they pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor. Jerrika yes, they pleaded guilty to storage of a fire arm with access to children. The Authorities Say all parties agree with that plea deal. One of the guns were loaded on the table and i didnt know it. Reporter october 26th, that unspeakable tragedy happened. Abigail was two years old at the time and the wound was fatal. Very tragic situation. Reporter the toddler was accidentally shot by a shotgun the District Attorney says was left on a table. Sentence, thats suspended, of course. They have to pay a fine. More important to me was that the weapons confiscated by the Sheriffs Office in the case must be forfeited. Reporter while pleading guilty to a misdemeanor might get the stepps children back. This is something that both families are going to have to deal with really for the rest of their lives. Clearly t
Happens in just a little bit. Holly dot crews in Henderson County are asking people there for patience when it comes to clearing the roads. The dot has some equipment problems. Jay news 13s Lauren Brigman is live from the dot office on mt. Road in hendersonville and, lauren, those problems have left them short several trucks. Lauren yes, in fact, they have had lost five trucks since the beginning of this winter storm. So, they are down to 10 to use across the county. So its putting them a little behind when it comes to clearing roads. Our news 13 crews caught up with them a couple days ago to check in on the progress and as of yesterday they were making their way to those secondary roads. They hope to finish those yesterday and, in fact, we traveled across Henderson County this morning from mills river to flatrock and i can tell you roads like haywood road and Greenville County were looking good, just wet because we are seeing rain but the temperatures are above freezing. So, still a p