highway 19 and also highway 25 affected earlier. temperatures in the 20s for most mountain locations. some exceptions but mostly around freezing or below. that wind is in the north. wind chills are in the teens, close to the single digits in boone. we'll stay in the teens for wind chills this evening. bundle up. we'll talk about the warm-up that's coming when we get back to spring-like temperatures. i'll show you coming up. >> larry: karen wynne is live in downtown burnsville. karen, it looks like christmas in january there. >> karen: right, it really does. we can see the christmas decorations are still up in downtown burnsville with some morning snow to go with them. and some students in the area got a belated christmas present, a slightly longer winter break. yancey county resident derrick

>> we had to make arrangements to get the vehicles out. take the 4-wheeler down and just be cautious driving. there were some slick spots. there were actually some slightly covered spots in the north kerfs here and there. we had to kind of take our time. >> karen: slick roads caused yancey and madison county schools to close area. it was a surprise for one mountain high school freshman. dot crews were working hard. >> salt trucks. and there's no snow yet. >> karen: but dot workers are taking this light dusting seriously by treating the roads. >> refreezes back in to what we call the black ice. at night that will be the biggest worry.

>> karen: and chris with the dot does advise drivers to slow down, watch their following distance and keep extra clothes in your car or vehicle in case it does break down. i'm karen wynne, news 13. >> larry: our team coverage continues in haywood county. drivers there say they were not prepared for the burst of weather. after all the warm days we had. even the smallest amount of snow can lead to trouble on the roads. >> tammy: after four fires break out across buncombe county in the last week, we now know two of them are related to colder weather. one started in the chimney. another in candler threatened the lives of several children. residents may have made a mistake by putting embers close to the house and not completely covering them with water. >> larry: a school heavily damaged from last week's rains

is still cleaning up. now officials are delaying its reopening. a mud slide near the art space charter school near swannanoa flooded the building leaving everything nearly damaged. the school was scheduled to reopen tomorrow. that has been pushed back at least until thursday. the school is also trying to match the $25,000 insurance deductible. they're asking for help in a different way. >> we're looking for help in terms of making sure that it doesn't happen again. we have a pretty significant landscaping issue that we have to take care of back here that's going to be expensive. >> larry: if you'd like to help out with donations, visit wlos.com and click on news links. >> tammy: a manufacturing plant in henderson county that would

bring 350 new jobs to the area. kimberly king is live in hendersonville where county commissioners are hearing the proposal. kim. >> kim: good evening, tammy. the public hearing just wrapped up and we understand that all the commissioners voted unanimously to approve this plan. this would be a joint venture between autoparts maker linmar and george fisher. a decision is expected from them in 30 days. but linemar got national exposure thanks to the president. nearly two years ago, president obama chose the linemar car plant in arden. as an example of a post recession success story. a growing company hiring employees retrained at ab tech. >> the folks who are going to the comnity college because they know if they work hard and

job waiting for them. >> kim: presenting the company with a tax break plan to convince it to build a car parts plant in the industrial park. the commission held a public hearing to lay out the $217 million gf linemar project. it would bring 350 new jobs and salaries averaging $47,000. >> the question was asked about who are we competing with and the answer was columbia, south carolina. >> kim: mills river town manager jeff wells detailed the potential site here. >> between sierra nevada and the airport. >> kim: near the airport and i-26, henderson county's economic development director andrew tate is cautiously

be the area's biggest economic project in ten years. >> from the perspective of the competition for employment, competition for jobs, this puts us in a good position and shows that we are prepared and ready to win big projects. >> kim: now no one from linemar was authorized to comment to us. the tax incentives proposal would stretch over 14 years. news 13. >> larry: buncombe county commissioners will vote this week on whether to fill over 100 so-called donut holes across the area. these are pieces of property that fall within city limits but they're not zoned. that meanshere are no rules governing how property managers can develop the land. for example, an industrial plant could be built on a donut hole that was in a residential neighborhood. >> it was kind of a no man's land that had no rules and anything goes.

and for a community that wants to grow in a certain way or wants to have a say in how they develop, it was a horrible thing. >> larry: once again, there are more than 100 of these types of parcels. those donut holes right now in county. at tomorrow's meeting, the board will decide on how to zone the last of them. >> tammy: dwayne hill says the only access road at summit springs is now in jeopardy. he claims a water line burst last month damaged the wall and blocked the creek. property owners filed an insurance claim but were told the city is not at fault. utilities director lee smith told news 13 there's no evidence the root of the problem is the line. as a precaution, the city will soon move a 200 foot stretch of that line.

and stalked than it used to be. >> larry: free from cyber stalking. the long road it tooook one woman to reach safety. and how the government is, working to protect others. >> tammy: and a gun control push

di >> tammy: governor pat mccrory declares january stalking awareness month. >> larry: he wants to bring attention to the half million people stalked each year. >> tammy: hope, stalking is harder to avoid ever before. >> hope: yeah, tammy, think about this, how many times a day do you reach for your phone? >> it's paralyzing. you feel like you can't go anywhere.

that there's no safe place. >> hope: domestic violence experts say thousands of people in b bcombe county have been stalked. it's a debilitating form of abuse. >> phone calls, text messages, e-mails, and then on top of that also through facebook, through my family, through a gps tracker on my phone. >> hope: sarah says she had completely lost her privacy after breaking up with an ex. >> several phone calls, e-mails, text messages. i had experiences where, you know, in like a 12 hour period there would be 300-400. >> hope: in north carolina state lawmakers are cracking down with alison's law taking place january 1st. >> using people's cell phones or

devices to know where they are at all times. >> hope: the experts here help teach victims of stalking ways to protect themselves. >> if you're concerned that somebody is using your cell phone to track you, other than powering off that cell phone, the other thing you can do to block your location is put it in airplane mode. >> hope: sarah had to make some serious changes to her life. she hasn't logged on to social media in more than two years. >> i lost all my contacts. i never checked my e-mail again. >> hope: the experts are helping. in case someone uses them for the wrong reasons. if you need help escaping stalking or domestic violence, you can reach help made.

>> larry: president obama says there's an epidemic of gun violence in america and he wants to use executive action for tightening gun laws. >> tammy: it's not aimed at legal sellers already acting responsibly but unregistered sellers who sometimes try to avoid background checks at gun shows or online. >> i like the idea a whole lot because i think it's just too loose. i think we have too many guns. >> you still have to go through the center federal background checks just like you do everywhere else. >> larry: under the executive order, a gun collector could also be defined as a gun seller. keeping track of lost and stolen guns and beefing up inspections of licensed dealers. after a few mild weeks, we are finally getting a real taste of winter. >> tammy: jason, those temperatures in the teens quite a shock.

37 for the official high. that's the coldest we've been since february 25th of last year. 29 so far the low. in fact, you can update that. currently it's 28. there's our new low for the day. we'll go below the average 24 shortly. no rain or snow. even though we've had flurries. we saw the trace of rain earlier this month. snow tapers off. bitter cold tonight.

big rolle now your news 13 skywatch weather. >> jason: how quickly they come and they go. the snow showers. burst of light snow earlier today have faded now. you can see on the satellite and radar picture. just little streamers of moisture coming over the mountains right now.

see ininlue. leicester carpet sales news13 sky cam network, this is something you ski lovers, you snow board lovers have been waiting for. they are open top to bottom. and 14 degrees there in maggie valley. it's cold at 4600 feet there at the base. leicester carpet sales news13 sky cam network in greenville. a little milder. 39. but look at the flags belowing here. yeah, a skiff north wind that's starting to taper now. we talk about rain chances rather than snow chances beyond today because it's going to warm up. only a paltry 10% chance of rain. looks like asheville goes to 50% thursday. 70% chance by friday. the end of the week is going to get much wetter but also warmer. north-northwest wind at 12. that will get your attention. that drops the wind chill down to 18 degrees. bundle up. layer, layer, layer.

as you go out and about this evening. a little bit of clouds but not much. the wind chill now a bone chilling 28. it looks like your wind chills will be in the 20s the rest of the evening. here's the set up. broad area of high pressure. it's pushing cold air as far as the deep south right now. that high will slide east ward and start to weaken somewhat. more southerly as we get in to saturday. milder but more moisture. once we see the moisture return, it will first be in the form of clouds thursday afternoon. rain thursday evening. rain in to friday. that's the trend. all right, temperatures in the teens tonight. it is going to be cold without the wind. 19 in asheville and hendersonville. mid 20s over the upstate. highs tomorrow should get back in the 40s for the edges of the mountains here. we're talking the southern mountains and east over the

mid upper 30s in the french broad river valley. when does the warmest weather come? 50s return friday. that's the wettest day. warmest day is saturday. 60 if we're lucky. back to rain on sunday. we cool down again by next monday. same deal in the upstate. 40s the next couple of days in to the 60s saturday. that is your pick day off the next seven. we'll talk more in detail about your forecast on news 13 at 6:30 on my40. >> larry: some buncombe county students areeaking on a project that requires some tender love and care. >> tammy: as you'll see in never stop learning, they're raising something of their own. >> what of you noticed since we've been out of school for two weeks? >> they've gotten bigger. >> tammy: these young biologists are raising their own trout. throughout the school year, the

jobs to keep the fish growing healthy. >> we clean the tank. we feed the fish. and we make sure that the fish don't die. >> the most interesting thing i think i've learned would probably have to be the different types of trout. the trout we have here. then there's rainbow trout and all different types. >> tammy: and the students don't know which species of their trout they're raising just yet. all they know is they're fish. right. writing down their observations. once the fish are grown, the kids will then release them to a creek behind the school. >> larry: the carolina panthers are the top seed for the playoffs. but not everything is rosie.

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>> stan: good news, bad news for the panthers. they're the top seed in the nfc, that's good news.

players, that's bad news. he's out for the playoffs and that hurts. that was really the only problem they had sunday. carolina made a nice statement. cam newton and company poured it on. artes payne scored. panthers win 38-10. they get a week off. get ready for the play-offs at home. it's all good. >> the fans that we have, it's amazing. it's big. as you can see right now, all the support we have -- going to give us extra momentum and boost. >> stan: we have the wild card game. roberson high school is

football coach. he's been on medical leave since mid november after back surgery. the search for a new coach is beginning immediately. tom coughlin resigns. many people think he was forced out. cleveland gets rid of coach mike pettine. former eagles coach chipelly has called about that job. the men and women both perfect at big south play. tonight the women's team goes to liberty. highlights at 11. unc asheville men are 3 and o in the big south. bulldogs at home wednesday against their big south rival

winthrop winthrop. a couple of players honored, too. north carolina tar heels have won six straight. they go for their seventh straight tonight. oklahoma two, maryland three, virginia four. duke 14. >> jason: temperatures in the teens tonight. wind chills colder than that.

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