students can go in and train for a job. gogornor pat mccrory just spoke moments ago. he gave the official announcement that gf lindmar will be coming to henderson county, particularly mills river. it's a brand new company. it will be a combination of lunamar that's already in the asheville area, combining with a partnership with gf, which is a company from switzerland. mccrory talked about western north carolina and the need to bring jobs. jobs like this bring in young people who are getting training. as we reported over the last several months, it has been a $7.2 million tax incentive to lure in this company. over the course of 14 years

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 mountains. that rain is going to be heavy at times. meanwhile, we are finishing a a look at your evening planner. it's going to be a wet one. mainly rain, heavy at times. down to 47 at 9. 45 degrees at 11 o'clock. also wet night with down pours in the upstate dropping from 55 at 7 o'clock, down to 50 degrees at 11. coming up, we're going to show

rain is on the way. we're talking about some severe thunderstorms in the forecast as well. tammy, darcel. >> darcel: a weekend house fire in jackson county ends in tragedy. rex, what happened? >> rex: the fire yesterday took the life of a man who lived not far from here. it was a tough location for crews to respond to. it was an early sunday morning fire on top of a mountain side at the end of enchanted forest drive, captured on video. jerry anis lives by. >> we did see a little bit of smoke on the top of the ridge. >> rex: the fire department responded about 6:40. a few minutes later, chief dale woodard was the first on the scene.

water and everything in there. when i drove up, you could look entirely through the house. the roof collapsed and fell in. the entire upper floor of the house was on fire. >> rex: woodard said it took about an hour to put the fire out. >> we did locate a body, top level of the house. kind of in the hallway, kitchen area is where we located the body at. we don't know that it is him until, you know, he's identified. >> rex: that will be done through an autopsy. no logs were in the fire place. the chief says the homeowner is known as a heavy smoker. >> so you know, you're not ruling out that it could be a cigarette or something like that. >> rex: now it could take some weeks before the final autopsy results are in, as well as the official cause of the fire. self-fire departments responded in addition to the savannah fire department.

here says this is the first fire fatality they responded to since 1978. reporting live tonight from jackson county, rex hodge, news >> tammy: a murder defendant testified. five years ago richard o'shields pulled the trigger on mathis and the motive was to avenge his son's death. o'shields' testimony gives a sense of the emotional rollercoaster that led up to that gun fire. >> john: it was a simple story of revenge in their eyes. a story of a tormented grieving father who is now a murder defendant. >> that's the last time i remember. that's all i seen was his face. i don't remember another thing

>> john: richard o'shields took the jury back to that day. o'shields says there's much he does not remember. authorities say he fired five rounds at toby mathis, in side the dollar general. >> what on earth is going on. i said i think i shot that boy. >> john: his testimony at times riveting. if he seems disoriented, that's because of cognitive issues stemming from a stroke. surveillance video shows the defendant walking in to the rosemund dg store. prosecutors say revenge was his motive. mathis had been charged with

o'shields son fell out of . >> that's my son. joe. >> joey? >> john: a handful of years later, the raw emotions remain. >> every day of my life. >> john: richard told news 13 at the time he thought it wasn't enough. o'shields says he had a stroke at the end of the interview. the prosecution asserted that o'shields was attacking toby. >> you didn't want to get caught, did you? is that why you fled? >> i wasn't sure. i didn't care if i lived or died. >> john: coming up at 6:00, more on o'shields' an anguish on the stand. a picture of his late son joey. the prosecution did go over the surveillance video pretty much

defendant who said he had never been in that dollar general store and really doesn't recall why he was there in the first place. he claims. john le, news 13. >> darcel: a man convicted of manslaughter is now charged with felony animal cruelty. david penlee was arrested. the animal's owner says she found the 38-year-old breaking in to her chicken coop. when she asked him to stop, he grabbed two by the neck and started shaking them. and threw them to the ground. he shakes them like this in front of me. >> darcel: he was charged for murder after stabbing a man in 2010. coming up at 6:00, why the owner

penlee has been in her yard before. news 13 investigates your personal information being up for sale. it can happen for as little as pennies on the dollar. our investigation exposes one state agency that is selling details about you that could affect your wallet. >> we trust them to a certain extent. yeah, that doesn't feel right. >> darcel: our news 13 investigation will expose which state department it is, how much they're making off the process and whether you can stop them from handing over your personal data. >> tammy: the interstates across the area are busy tonight. >> darcel: jaclyn, there are two wrecks to look out for. >> jaclyn: yeah, just before the brevard road exit. be careful if you are heading out in that area. you can see there are no major delays associated with this crash. so that is some good news. also look out for this wreck on future i-26 and madison county.

bound side. no injuries reported there. delays on i-240 west bound. traffic is slow moving between charlotte street and the i-26 merge. that's a look at your on time traffic report brought to you by debruhl's used car superstore. >> darcel: next in our ask 13,

your car when >> tammy: cars covered with road salt have been making a beeline for the car wash every chance they get. >> darcel: but could you be putting that salt back on to your car when you use a car wash with recycled water. that's our ask 13. >> tammy: frank, that's a good question. >> frank: we think so, tammy. we appreciate all our viewers who take the time to write us. this question deals specifically with the automated full service car washes that recycle their water. this question comes from dwayne layel.

dwayne is concerned that if the salt washed off your car is in the recycled water then you're going to be reapplying the salty water back on to your car. he's worried that this could have the same net effect as having all that salt on your car to begin with, which is rust. autobell is one of those car washes that recycles. but they say what goes back on to your car will not cause it to rust. >> the salt mixed with our soaps and chemicals renders a completely harmless, non-corrosive. >> frank: autobell says the soapy chemically treated water is only used for the wash cycle. and that all cars get a fresh water rinse at the end of the cycle. they say they're proud to be water recyclers and doing their part to preserve limited resource.

remember, if you have a question you'd like to have us answer, you can write us here at ask 13, at wlos.com. darcel, tammy. >> tammy: in the next few days, mother nature can wash your car for you. >> karen: we have rain moving in now that is going to bring big changes your way. high temperature,63 degrees. beautiful warm day we had today. even with the clouds. only 8/100 of an inch so far. much more on the way. we'll show you how much more rain we could get. in your headlines, we do have heavy rain.

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now your news 13 skywatch weather. >> karen: it is umbrella time with rain moving up from the upstate. if you're not getting rain yet, just give it a little bit of time and you will. we have abundant rain that is coming up across georgia and it's only going to pick up as we go on through the evening in to the late night. 55 degrees right now in asheville. light rain falling, southeast winds at 7. in the upstate, now, also raining. 58 degrees, winds out of the south at 7. and we can see how dark it looks on the greenville camera there mind the current conditions. we have this area of low

rain on through our region and as we take a look at a few future casts, i'll show you the one, the bigger picture that shows a couple of ways of heavy rain. the one that is moving in to our region right now. and then one on the way. now by midnight, we can see this future casts model wide spread throughout the mountains and the upstate. then as this area of low pressure moves out of here, we are going to get a break from the rain beginning around mid morning tomorrow continuing through mid afternoon. dinner time tuesday tomorrow, not looking too bad. we have a system on the way, this is a system that is going to bring strong to severe thunderstorms. by wednesday afternoon, it's going to move through. and then we have cooler air. mainly a little bit of a wrap around snow mix coming our way on thursday morning.

as we go hour by hour. by 8 o'clock, we can see that rain falling around much of the region. we go through the overnight, it is going to come down heavy at times. but by morning commute time, 7 o'clock, we actually see some breaks in the rain. so that is good. we go on through the rest of the morning, early afternoon. it will be a cooler day tomorrow. pack up that heavier jacket. then you're going to need the umbrella. with that rain picking up again ahead of that approaching cold front. how much rain are we talking about? through tomorrow, noon, over an inch. this future cast model showing that by the time the second system moves through here, some locations could see over two inches of rain in the foothills, hendersonville. bryson city over two inches as well. let's check out the lows tonight.

highs tomorrow are going to be quite a bit cooler. asheville 47. franklin 49 degrees. our nice warm spell about to come to an end. however, we do come back wednesday. wednesday is going to be that thunderstorms. a few of them could be severe. cooling way down on thursday. drying out. and the following weekend, yeah, it's going to be a little chilly but plenty of sunshine to enjoy. i think we have everything in the seven day forecast. >> darcel: i think you have it all covered. >> tammy: we'll take it, i guess. still ahead, coordinating care plans. how a command center at mission health is paying dividends. it was pretty interesting looking with the headlights still on inside the tiny house. >> darcel: surveillance video shows a truck losing control and

and why the homeowner doesn't >> darcel: hospital air traffic . >> tammy: as news 13's jay siltzer shows it's making healthcare more efficient for patients. >> i just had no record of this. >> reporter: call at mission control or mission health.

yeah, we have patients come in to the hospital through the emergency room, the operating room, through the region. and we really want to make it happen. >> reporter: it's where doctors, nurses and support staff work together to coordinate care plans to eliminate red tape and patient waiting. that means. >> treatment faster. less steps for things to go wrong. and just a coordination of all the services that are needed. >> reporter: everything in this command center operates in real time. take a look at this board. the average patient stay just over six days. the smaller mission hospitals have plenty of open beds. >> usually for the kinds of problems that people need to be transferred to a medical center like ours, time is important. >> reporter: mission accomplished.

>> tammy: mission officials say the command center is becoming a model for other hospitals to emulate. >> darcel: news 13 is hosting the third annual live well expo coming up next month. it's on march 19th at the western north carolina ag center. we'll have more than 100 exhibitors offering free health screenings, cooking demonstrations and entertainment. admission is free. you can get more details at wlos.com. >> tammy: take a look at that.

snow. >> darcel: here's one way to wake up with a face full of fresh snow. >> tammy: the toronto zoo posted this adorable photo of a panda. you see the panda, he came out of his cage and tumbled down the snowy hill. he liked it so much, he climbed up halfway and decided to do it again. >> darcel: why not? it's fun. >> tammy: now darcel, you know you wouldn't get in the snow like that. >> darcel: but that panda is having such a good time. >> tammy: yeah, that's cute. i like that. >> darcel: not for darcel. >> tammy: no. >> darcel: coming up,

for the democratic this weekend. >> tammy: news 13 at 5:30 starts now. just happened to have a camera up there recording in case someone messes with the house. >> frank: an out of control car crashes in to a home. why the neighbor says the damage is just more bad luck. >> tammy: how sanders and clinton stack up ahead of this weekend's primary. >> frank: deadly over doses hit record levels in north carolina. now from western north carolina's news leader, this is news 13 at 5:30. >> frank: a security camera captures the moment a suspected drunk driver loses control on a buncombe county road and slams