excited for super bowl sunday. now from western north carolina's news leader, this is news 13 at 5:30. >> tammy: a former epis . >> tammy: rex hodge is live tonight in waynesville. rex, there's new information about alleged sexual abuse of a minor when wyatt was director at a church there. >> rex: yes, white was the director at grace church from 1984 to 2006. in a letter released late this afternoon from the bishop he writes earlier this week i received an e-mail message from a person informing me that she had been sexually abused by the

while she was a minor. he continues. he also notified the district attorney's office and police. in deference to their responsibilities, it is important that we have a full understanding of any misconduct that may occur to others so that we can do our best to support them. now more than two dozen allege they were st. james epis co pal no charges have been filed. now in reference to the local allegation, i talked to waynesville police who confirmed

investigating. >> frank: police obtained a warrant to search 39-year-old nicholas vasquez's home. victims came forward after a police. the victims are boys and girls who new vaskes. the u.s. marshall service says blake fitzgerald and britney harper were shot. fitzgerald was shot and killed. harper was taken to the hospital

>> tammy: dave mirra died of a self-inflicted gun shot wound. he won 14 gold medals. he had been visiting friends in the area a short time before his death. >> a life cut too short. you just wish you could have got to him and understood. but, you know, we're going to miss him. >> tammy: mirra is survived by his wife and two children. one person is dead after a crane collapses. the crane landed on parked cars and stretched for what appeared to be a full city block. the collapsed happened as crews were lowering the crane to secure it. >> frank: wow, what a scene. that's crazy. well the wind is making it feel uncomfortable around here. >> tammy: it's whipping out there, jason. >> jason: it has been most of the day. especially here in asheville.

it's good and bad. leicester carpet sales news13 sky cam network. 44 degrees with high clouds. still some 50s being had there in the upstate. clemson 51. greenville 50. 39 in asheville. close to freezing in boone. wind, it's certainly lighter than it was this afternoon. peak wind gusts in asheville, 41 miles. 32 degrees at 7 o'clock. below freezing by 9 and the 20s. in the upstate, 40 at 7. drop to the 30s by 9. how about the flake-o-meter. it's back. i'll show you when it comes and who could get accumulation. >> tammy: talking about that

text me, a couple of principals today. jason mentioned snow. text jason, i don't know. plan ahead before heading out the door. the interstates are very busy right now. >> frank: jaclyn, a few wrecks are tying up some traffic. >> jaclyn: right. i-240 west bound. it's stop and go traffic between i-40 and charlotte street. watch out for this new wreck on i-26 west bound. stop and go traffic between airport road and long shoals. slight improvements here on 1923. it does clear up as you approach pisgah highway. that's a look at your on time traffic report brought to you by debruhl's used car superstore. >> frank: this week a young man had a once in a lifetime moment during a local basketball game. >> tammy: it happened during senior night at pisgah high

>> frank: news 13's ashlea surles joins us live. it's a pretty awesome moment to watch, ashlea. >> ashlea: it is a really exciting moment to watch. but it's what happens before that moment and after that moment that i think makes it really extraordinary. what it says about this school, and especially this young man. if you work hard, sometimes just an ordinary tuesday can turn in to a day that hundreds of people will remember forever. >> proud of him. so proud of him. >> ashlea: matthew poole has been the manager of pisgah high's team. >> he helps us. he keeps us upbeat, that's his job. >> ashlea: in an ideal world, matthew probably would have been a player.

us that he'd probably never walk or talk. we knew there was something going to be special out of him. >> ashlea: matthew has cerebral palsy. his muscles hurt nearly constantly. but you can't tell. >> we have bad days and then we look at him and everything he's been through, what he's doing is smiling about it. >> ashlea: basketball is hard and often painful for him. in the senior night game was nothing short of a miracle . >> i couldn't eat because i was so excited. >> ashlea: his classmates erupted when he came out of the student section. but the gym was about to get even louder. he started in the first play of the game, got the ball on the three point line. the team, the crowd, his

and for matthew, what was the best part of that night. it wasn't the three points. >> my team mates. >> ashlea: it was the people. >> when i saw my team mates, they started hugging me and everything. >> ashlea: now last year matthew also got to start in the first play of the game. he went for the three point, missed it. this year he told me he just had to try for the three points again. i'm ashlea surles, news 13. let's go panthers, let's go. >> tammy: there's panther pride all across the carolinas. including kids from waynesville. they took to the streets making

>> we love you! >> frank: panther pride right there. >> tammy: it's all appropriate since they are panthers, too. just with smaller paws. >> frank: the latest u.s. unemployment report has been released. how many jobs have been added and where the unemployment rate

>> tammy: mcdonald's newest >> tammy: stocks on wall street take a plunge today. the nasdaq down 146 closing at 4363. >> frank: president obama is calling for a new $10 per barrel tax on oil. >> tammy: it will be paid by oil companies and used for investments toward clean transportation. it will only be applied for imported oil, though. >> frank: mix news coming out of

it dropped to 2008 levels. the u.s. economy added 151,000 jobs for january. the unemployment rate fell to 4.1%. >> tammy: volkswagen is pushing back its annual earnings report which was expected march 10th. the company is also pushing back its annual shareholder meating which was scheduled april 21st. >> frank: mc donald has a new salad. it has more calories than the big mac. it starts with a nutritious base of baby spinach and kale. but it comes to a whopping 710 calories and 43 grams of fat.

>> frank: that's more than a big mac. all that stuff. >> jason: it looks good. but on paper, the details. here we go, temperatures. colder than average. around average on that low at 27. no rain or snow. but we're watching a system that's going to bring us snow next week.

i'll show you why. now your news 13 skywatch weather. >> jason: you step out the door and it was mighty cold today. 30 degrees. leicester carpet sales news13 sky cam network. 3700 feet. yeah, look up here. that's not snow. that's frost.

crystal clear blue skies at un ca. north-northwest wind at 9. you're going to notice that wind early on this evening. it lightens up overnight in most cases. sun now setting as we look from paris mountain and down to 44 for your wind chill at this hour. well it's not going to go down, it's going to go up. 60% chance on monday. the same on tuesday. the best chance for accumulating snow fall since our big storm over a week ago. we're going to see a light snow fall. it could add up to several inches in the mountains monday and tuesday with a strong cold front coming through. a lot of wind from the northwest. that sets the stage from northwest up sloped snows. if you've lived here long enough, you know that can add up in those areas near along the tennessee border.

here's the set up. high pressure keeping things pretty quiet. we'll have a coastly system moving off the coast. it will give our neighbors some fits along the east coast. they'll get some wind, maybe some beach erosion in the carolinas. there's your weather maker. pushing a lot of cold across the nation out ahead of it. enough moisture that we're going to get some snow. mid and high level cloudiness. that gets out of here by the afternoon tomorrow. back in to sunshine. mostly sunny skies for the majority of us. then we start to see clouds on the increase monday. teens and 20s for lows tonight. mostly 20s in the mountain valleys. 20s over the upstate as well. high temperatures tomorrow for the french broad river valley. mid 40s northern end up in mars hill.

morning in the southern mountains. mid 40s there. foothill zones looking pretty good. it gets warmer for the second part of the weekend. we get a lot colder next week with highs not even freezing in asheville. a lot of wind coming with that cold as well. in the upstate you'll see temperatures go from the 40s to 50s as you cool down big time. >> frank: the panthers and the broncos just two days away from battling for the super bowl title. news 13's luke notestine caught up with some of those fans today. >> luke: one of the many you can find throughout the bay area. here you can find just about anything super bowl related. whether you're a panthers or

here. thousands are starting to get in to the bay area as they get ready for super bowl 50. >> i've been a fan since 1995. i went to the inaugural game at clemson stadium. to be able to be here this time would just be a dream. >> i want to see a win. i would just blow up. i want to see the panthers take it down and we all go home happy. >> luke: of course super bowl 50 will kick off sunday at 6:30 eastern time. we'll bring you coverage, including catching up with people from north carolina, the asheville area to see how excited they are. i'm luke notestine for news 13. >> frank: and news 13 wants to know do you plan on attending a super bowl party? you can log on to facebook.com/news 13 to answer

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>> tammy: adam hillberry introduces us to . >> death is kind of like -- no one likes death. no one wants to know that we die just like everyone else. it's just a part of it. things die and they go back in to the earth and it happens again and again. it is by definition could be kind of a gross process. i just have to sharpen the pin back. it's the last step. something that i have done since we were really little.

the first things that i did through high school when i was going through my rebellious student didn't want to do anything stage. i was always still there. i used plants and animal parts, insects, stems, buds, leaves, all that stuff. my work is kind of about interconnections within nature. and i really like the platform that jewelry provides for that because there's such an intimate relationship between jewelry and the owner. it's small and it's intricate. if you have a piece of jewelry, you look at it and you look at it closely. my first step is finding what i want to make. then how am i going to put it together. the bones that i use, i get a lot from owl pellets. from animals that i find or

they might be the full animal. and i process them. usually i'll bury them. and in containers with holes in it. leave it and let nature take its course. each piece is kind of a new challenge. so you take and file off that full edge. but i do think that i'm putting out a unique product. or at least i hope that i am. >> frank: coming up, a western carolina university students gets his day in court after

wh tonight at 6, a family ripped apart by crime.

his son behind bars. >> darcel: plus a unanimous vote for guns in hendersonville. who in the city will now be allowed to be concealed weapons inside city buildings. now from western north carolina's news leader, this is news 13 at 6:00. >> larry: new developments tonight in the death of a henderson county man. >> darcel: his son is charged with killing him. >> larry: news 13's evan donovan joins us live. evan, how is the family reacting to this news? >> evan: larry, all in all, they're pretty shocked. joey's sister tanya says that joey and their father terry didn't have a bad relationship. but she did say they liked to

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