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break. they estimate there will be about 350 new jobs coming with this project. there are still dignitaries that are speaking inside the old historic courthouse. this is the biggest economic announcement for this area in ten years. we ll have more information coming for you later on in our newscast. kimberly king, news 13. tammy: new at 5 this afternoon, parents protested outside the asheville board of education offices today. they say the school district refused their request to be included in decision making. in january, the board proposed hall fletcher become a 4th through middle school. and the younger grades move to the other side of the asheville city pre-school. not one of the only protests. karen: we have rain moving in. look at this radar. very active right now. you can see thundererorms embedded in the showers. heavier rain now. tryion and also towards highway 14. east. we ll show you future radar. more rain coming up from the upstate spreading over the mo ....
it s an important part to have strong manufacturing. we have to have industry to complement that. to bring young people and to bring talented engineers and technical people through the area. kim: now the plant will be built in mills river which is near the airport. it the make light weight aluminum car parts that are already replacing heavier parts on cars from the ford f-150 trucks to european cars like volvo. the goal is to get better efficiency on cars. the plan is to break ground on the plant in the spring. this is a new venture for both companies. reporting live, kimberly king, news 13. darcel: the rain is moving in. larry: yeah, we re expecting showers throughout the night. let s check in with meteorologist karen wynne. definitely a wet night ahead. we can see widespread rain around the region. even a few thunderstorms, including one in swain county right now moving to the rest, towards blue ridge parkway. this is fizzling out. but the area of yellow, defi ....
coming up in a few minutes. tammy: a polk county family loses everything in a house fire. now they re making a public plea to county commissioners to make the change they say will make insurance affordable. kimberly king is live. kim: the ebbiville fire department has a fire station very close to the polk county house that burned. meanwhile, the closest polk county fire station is more than 20 miles away from that home, making insurance premiums for homes in that area, unaffordable. these are the pictures of jenny and larry stepps home saturday at 4:19 p.m. fully engulfed. ebony fire got to the scene but it was too far gone. the site, three days later, still smoulders. were you and your wife living yeah. this was my main home. kim: the issue was larry and his wife couldn t afford fire insurance. we lived so far from the fire station. kim: their fire station was 22 miles away. insurance companies can t offer reasonable rates. if you re more than six miles ....
gusts up to 50 miles per hour in many cases. we still have the wind to deal with through the evening. high winds mostly west and south of asheville. then we get in to the winter weather advisories and they last until 7:00 a.m. friday for much of western north carolina. that means snow will fly off and on through then in the high country. temperatures in the 40s at 7. 30s by 11 with a chance of flakes mixing in. i ll show you changes. how much snow i expect in just a bit. frank: news 13 s karen wynne joins us live in henderson county where strong storms caused some serious damage. tammy: karen, earlier today, thousands of homes were without power. karen: right, tammy. here in henderson county, there were about 4,000 homes without power. right now that number is right around 1300. down trees and power lines. a candler family had a most unwelcomed guest, a tree fell on their home this morning. meanwhile, in haywood county, mike smathers lost power around 9:30 a.m. ....
the worse the conditions will get. still have the wind about 10 to 20 miles an hour and gust. so there is blowing snow too in these high elevations. notice on the futurecast towards midnight a lot of will wind down slowly but surely into the morning. flurries or light snow possible in asheville and temperatures will be dropping below freezing after 9:00. so bundle up. it s going to be mighty cold. i ll show you how much to expect in those valleys with my snow totals coming up. it took a jury less than an hour to find a transylvania county man guilty first degree further. richard oshields has been found guilty of a shooting at a dollar general store. the verdict was swift. it was almost lightning fast. and from my vantage point in the back of the courtroom, no outward emotion from either the mathis or the oshields family. oshields sentenced to life he walked in that store as calm as a cucumber. in closing arguments, the prosecutor told jerusalem that the killin ....