Base with with homeless shelters and see what the demand is during the coldsnap. It is still winter in the queen city. Live in uptown charlotte, Brody Oconnell wbtv on your side. Thank you. Now this arctic air has been sweeping in the mountains and its 15 windchill in places at the top. Its bitter and a windchill advisory is in place. Wbtvs Steve Ohnesorge went up to the high country and they prepare for some of the coldest temperatures they have seen this year. Looking at scenes like this can make one shiver. Try having to get around on foot in it. Its miserable. Windchills barely got to 0. Not fun. In boone students struggled to get to class trying to think warm thoughts. Summer. While there was snow falling it was light just wind blown. Drivers who stuck to the main some side roads were covered but most were passable. It has made for some spectacular scenery from the water wheel in boone to the mill pond falls in banner elk. Pillars and icicles. There is beautiful sites here. But da
Getting more information and bring that to you throughout the morning and online at wbtv. Com. Welcome to wbtv news this morning it is friday, february 12th, im john carter. And School Delays to tell you about. Avery, mitchell and Watauga County schools are all operating on a twohour delay. No other School Closings that we know of. If we get any other delays or closings, well bring them to you. But again, a very cold start to the day again today, here is charlottes most experienced morning meteorologist, al conklin. Wig al it is, john, not as brutal as yesterday. Cloud cover moved in and that ounce times prevents us from getting too, too cold, it is debatable how much snow is reaching the ground. Radar is picking up snow over the mountain and foothills. There may be flurries, but snow a Winter Weather advisory from noon through tomorrow morning. Several inches of snow in the mountain, at best a flurry or sprinkle in the foothillo 25 in boone. 30 hickory and morganton, below freezing ch
Im brody oconnell. Lets start with donald trump focusing his attention on the nevada g. O. P. Caucus tuesday after winning the South Carolina primary this is the is second victory for the billionaire real estate mogle. Cruz and rubio are in the close race for second. Meanwhile another prominent candidate has suspended his campaign. Jeb bush made the announcement last night to supporters after finishing a distant fourth. Bush had a lot at stake but his fate was sealed this past week when the popular states republican governor endorsed marco rubio considered him to be the choice of mainstream republicans. Many republicans are saying bush is putting the future of dealing donald trump ahead of himself. Im proud of the campaign weve run to advocate conservative solutions that would give americans more opportunity to rise up but the people of iowa, and i really respect their decision so tonight im suspending my campaign. Five candidates remain in the list. Well we are on your side with more
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Up at six 54 which will be sunrise this morning. Well have a nice southwest wind that will help us climb into the 50s well be above that in mid60s. Its going to be a fantastic close to the weekend so Beautiful Day for what should be the last day of february but its not so weve got leap day tomorrow and well talk about the first week of march weather will look like coming up in a few minutes. Were going to breakdown why we do it. Yes. Brody has a theory. Most people know we have it every few years and brody has his theory and ill tell you the answer. In 20 minutes. Yeah. Were following breaking news. Charlotte Mecklenburg Police are responding to shots fired in up town charlotte. Medic tells us no transport from the scene condo min yim this is blocked off between third and fourth streets. Thats where youre looking. Were going to monitor the situation to see if weve had developments. Weve had live pictures. If anything changes well let you know. Lets go to new information now. Were getti