>> frank: some say it's hundreds of years overdue. >> reporter: north carolina cancels its bird shows due to . >> reporter: getting paid for reporting suspicious poaching activity. coming up, how much money you could get. now from western north carolina's news leader, this is news 13 at 5:30. >> frank: an asheville city councilman calls for a day to celebrate what americans have attributed to the mountains. news 13's john le is live in downtown asheville tonight. and john, smith says establishing people's indigenous day.

day to native americans should have happened years ago. >> in october, when columbus day came around, i heard from a huge breadth of the community. >> john: councilman gordonon says we've come a long way. calling for asheville city council to declare the second monday in october indigenous people's day. >> it recognizeshe heritage and contribution of our native american citizens and does away with the fiction that somehow there was no one here before columbus. long overdue. >> john: smith is currently running for buncombe county commissioner. the many contributions made to our community in areas ranging from philosophy to the arts. >> i've been working on it since october. >> john: following the lead of cities like berkeley,

minnesota that have designated the day. >> recognition of minority peoples, including native americans americans. >> john: the tide has been turning as to whether christopher columbus should be celebrated. >> columbus didn't really discover (bleep). he kind of just came over here and said, this is mine. >> people perceive columbus day of celebrating oppression and colonialism. >> john: smith hopes the public will help rally support. >> i encourage anyone who supports this to let city council know that you support it. >> john: nine cities across america observe the day.

the matter at tuesday's meeting. john le, news 13. >> anchor: and news 13 wants to know do you think columbus day should be renamed? should we call it indigenous people's day instead? log in to facebook.com/news 13 to answer the question of the day. >> frank: today was the day we saw a lot of clouds early on. >> jason: this weekend is going to be rain partially. drizzle right now and low fog really complicating things out there. drive slowly. temperatures in the 40s down through the upstate. let's take you through time on the future cast. notice temperatures won't move much. 30s north. by day break tomorrow, only upper 30s in asheville. around 40 lake lure.

at two or 3 o'clock in the afternoon, i think we're going to max out in the 50s west. chilly. 40s all day long. that cold wedge of air that's trying to win out, wins out the most. temperatures holding in the 40s with areas of fog and drizzle. grab the coats and the umbrellas. we'll be back in a few to talk about the weekend. >> anchor: north carolina is sales. avian flu. the ban was triggered in the west and meant to stop the spread of virus. >> frank: rex hodge is live at the poultry auction in haywood county. rex, people in this business took a hard hit.

news? >> rex: they are thrilled to be back in business. the owner here says actually being back in operation will actually help track avian flu. mike keggel is anxious. in mid august, the state of north carolina banned poultry sales. >> as a cautionary procedure, i guess. north carolina department of agriculture decided it was in the best interest of the commercial poultry business to shut down the trade and travel of backyard poultry. it could happen but it didn't happen. their reason was a migratory pattern of the water fowl. >> rex: the state is now giving

>> tickled to death to get that news. >> rex: five months without his usual 10 o'clock saturday morning auctions cut in to his usual business. 54,000 in 2014 sales. 20,000 less last year. >> when you go from $5,000 a week to zero per week, it hurts. i don't care who you are. those guys are renting barns and paying rent. >> rex: improve the detection of avian flu. >> we actually have a state poultry vet that comes and does the swab tests. >> rex: surrounding states did not put a ban on poultry sales. so keggel hopes to see an improvement to business soon. and keggel will have a poultry auction here saturday january 16th at 10 o'clock in

rex hodge, news 13. >> frank: a new program could reward people who report suspicious activity related to wild life poaching. it's called the turn in poachers program and encourages people. poaching includes the illegal taking of fish, game, plants. rewards range from $100 . >> president obama has vetoed legislation that would have repealed the affordable care act. the bill will now go back to the republican led congress, which does not have the votes to override the president's veto. the legislation would have also cut federal funding for planned parenthood. >> frank: two iraqi refugees are

there's word the two suspects are connected. law enforcement says the two men, one in texas, the other in california, communicated with each other. federal agents arrested 24-year-old omar in houston yesterday. the 23-year-old was arrested in sacramento. >> anchor: emanuel luchman is charged with attempting to provide material support to the terrorist group. the 25-year-old planned to kill people who were celebrating new year's eve in an upstate new york bar and restaurant. >> frank: we have an update now on an earlier wreck reported in jackson county. >> anchor: all lanes on 2374 are all back open, jaclyn? >> jaclyn: ashlea, all lanes

ago. but dispatch says traffic is still very slow moving between ynesville and sylva. give yourself some extra driving time. turning to the roads in asheville, there is a heads up if you're taking i-40 through east asheville soon. that's a look at your on time traffic report brought to you by debruhl's used car superstore. >> frank: ac reynolds high school students are recognized for winning awards from the skol asic art program. more than 600 entries. portfolios needs to know original ideas. they get to go to new york for judging. >> art has helped me in so many

like i think everyone should be able to take art and learn those creative problem solving skills. >> frank: the program helps recruit students for art schools. >> ashlea: a new brewery in fletcher is expected to open soon. across america, people like basketball hall of famer dominique wilkins... ...are taking charge of their type 2 diabetes...

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>> ashlea: stocks on wall street continue to take a plunge. the dow ending trading at 16,346. nasdaq closing at 6,443. >> frank: a new fletcher brewery is making progress on construction. >> ashlea: blue ghost brewery is planning to open for business next month. it will be a small one barrel brewery. the brews that will be there full time include a stout ipa, pale ale and a blonde ale. >> it was a dream for a partner and me. >> ashlea: the brewy says it will be family friendly.

added more than two and half million jobs. it was the second best year for job gains since 1999. americans saw their paychecks go up as well. it matched the gains in october which were the best in six years. >> ashlea: a recall alert tonight. wegman's grocery store has recalled more than 1,000 pounds of chicken products. the recall affects products sent to maryland, massachusetts, pennsylvania, virginia. we lucked out. good news, no reports of anyone becoming sick so far. >> frank: here comes the weekend with the rain. >> ashlea: i know, there's supposed to be snow but i guess there's rain. >> jason: 49 degrees for the high temperature today. that put us a few degrees above average. a little deceiving because we

we had almost a spread in temperature. 35 degrees today. only 9 degrees in the morning for low. a break now but the rain will return.

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weather. >> jason: it is gloomy out there, folks. take a look at our leicester carpet sales news13 sky cam network. we're down in transylvania, down in rosemund. look at the clouds take over here. visibility just keeps getting worse and worse every hour. slow down. it is reduced in terms of visibility. 70% chance of rain tomorrow.

we get back in to the cold, folks. sunday could mix that snow in. asheville's forecast isn't calling for any real accumulation for the snow. but if you're closer to the tennessee border, i believe it's going to get on the white side for you by late day sunday. we're back to colder weather in the middle of the week. that means a little bit of snow, too, on tuesday. nothing major but enough to slicken some of those roads up. south-southeast wind at 6 in asheville. humidity is 96% in greenville. that is pretty much a saturated environment. 46 right now for the air temperature. we're in between systems. one, passing to the north. the next one, the westnd south. it's late in the day tomorrow most of the rain begins to fall that saturday evening around 6 o'clock. as we go in to sunday evening, that front is well to the east of us.

meaning the pressure lowers dramatically. that's going to push wind and cold our way. along with that wind from the northwest, you get it over the mountains and it means it's going to be rung out as some snow. snow showers more likely near and along the tennessee border later in the weekend. future cast tonight. look at this line here. right about asheville east ward. that's where the clouds will be thickest. the fog, too. showers late in the day, 6 o'clock in the evening. they'll spread east ward. overnight looks wet. we'll get a little dryer before that round of cold settles in. rainfall amounts, a quarter inch to tops i think a half inch will do it in terms of total rainfall saturday in to early sunday. look for highs tomorrow to only reach the upper 40s to low 50s. it's going to be chilly in the foothills.

highs in the 40s marion, morganton, rutherfordton. 44 for the high sunday then dropping to the 20s overnight. and monday's highs likely not out of the 30s for most of the western north carolina region. snow chances go up as the next cold blast comes in. wednesday's high, 32. >> frank: you're not speaking about a cold blast. >> jason: the wind is going to be cranking. >> ashlea: i don't like to hear that. this rainy chilly day was not one that one would like to spend in a train off the ground. patrick jenkins will start in a crane. that's where he will eat, sleep,

attention to a good cause. care net. >> this makes the second year. i figure if there's people that are in these situations to where they have to fight the elements, i can, too. >> ashlea: if you'd like to donate, patrick will be there until sunday at noon. that is quite a while. >> frank: we appreciate him, that's for sure. >> ashlea: time to check out today's today's today's today's today's today's today's feature. it is mazing. and it's amazing out here.

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they say it's about time. >> i wake up about 4:30 in the morning morning. i try to get here about 5:3 to 6 o'clock. >> put it to a horizontal position. >> making you famous. >> we're going for the top snow making team in the country. this year we're competing against snow mountain in vermont. copper mountain colorado. we feel like we have a little bit different mountains than everybody else. we have a little bit warmer mountain. looks like we've got the cold. we deal with the warmth. we deal with the cold. and we can make snow really quick.k. we were able to open up this mountain in four days. >> just trying to move snow. you know, when it's made, it's

so we're trying to level it out. and create a good surface for the skiers. >> i like getting out here in the morning and seeing what's going on. there's a peaceful nature to it. i get to see the sun come up every morning. and you get a sense of accomplishment because you get immediate feedback to the work you've done. >> snow has to be made here. and everybody is waiting, especially this year. we made it all the way in to december before anybody could come up and enjoy it. >> you make snow and then you see it melt away, it's kind of disheartening. break it back. i mean, we created all this. it's always a challenge when you're going up against nature to do this. i mean, this is the south. snow's not made in the south. we make the snow in the south. >> frank: yup, they make the snow indeed. this is the first year snow

for their accomplishments. >> ashlea: the i am a snow maker award will be presented in april. an ale investigation in to bars serving alcohol to minors.

and charge . >> larry: a major health insurance company is hit with a flood of complaints to start the new year. >> i called blue cross and i did wait on hold for three hours. she said, you know, we don't have anything. >> larry: why blue cross, blue shield is apologizing to customers. and an ale investigation has fined local bars. which ones. now from western north carolina's news leader, this is