their vote counts. it's not nothing to get people to take time away from their family, jobs, or whatever it is. >> ashlea: in hopes of making us a battle ground state. but if either candidate wins big and leaves competitors in the dust, will anyone show up to cast ballots in the north carolina primary, which is still two weeks away. >> i think there's a sense that it's already decided before they get to the voting booth, they're less likely to show up. >> ashlea: so those small elections could suffer if the presidential race seems sown up. >> i'm still going to vote. and i'll still vote for the candidate. >> ashlea: at western carolina university, some students say they'll be watching returns

>> keeping in the back of my mind a back-up plan. >> ashlea: while tonight could reveal clear leaders in each party, there are not enough delegates on the table to make anyone a clear winner. darcel. >> darcel: we'll have continuing super tuesday coverage tonight. there's a one hour special right here on abc 13 at 10 o'clock. there's an election special that will be streaming on wlos.com starting at 9. >> tammy: the state naacp is now calling for a transparent it involves yesterday's shooting death of 24-year-old akeel denkins. he was shot when officers tried to serve a warrant on a felony drug charge.

license to kill. we don't know exactly what happened. but we know there are some things. if one is running away, that is not a license to kill. we have to have transparency. >> tammy: he's on administrative leave, which is standard. detectives were told that 28-year-old stacy saunters smuggled pills in to the mcdowell county jail. deputies later found that she was in possession of a narcotic. she is now charged with a felony. >> darcel: happening tonight, an asheville developer is holding a town hall about an apartment complex he plans to build. the site on the corner of mills

put more than 270 units. many people in the area are worried the new apartments would impact traffic in an area already plagued by rush hour traffic. >> i think at the end of the day a lot of the public are going to agree with us that this is truly a low impact. and we're trying to down zone an industrial piece of property to a residential piece of property. >> darcel: the meeting is set for six at the skyland fire department. coming up at 6:00, the environmental concerns a local activist has about the site where the proposed apartments will be built. >> tammy: new at 5, an asheville man is at odds with a developer. john le is live in the shilo community. john, after years of concern, he is losing his patience. >> john: it's a pretty dramatic visual here if you can take a look where the land has eroded.

believes something needs to be done and quickly. >> i've been out here 30 years. >> john: he's a retired cop. walter robertson is also a vietnam vet. >> this is the damage here. >> john: but the man whose resume commands respect says he hasn't gotten any from the condo up above. >> this upsets me. and all the runaround. i go to the source up there and no one can tell me who the owner is. i've got to fix my property or i'm going to lose everything. it was a problem with the drain up there. they put bricks all up there. >> john: fearing he's one heavy

walter says he's called the city and they told him it was a civil matter. he went up to the site and someone gave him a number. but that number turned out to be a plumber. >> my property is just as valuable to them as their property up there. i'm on the bottom end here. i'm complaining. >> john: with the shed on the edge, so is walter. >> this is bad right here. but it gets horribly worse. >> john: a man who served his city and country can't get a return phone call. >> i can't let my grandkids come out and play. >> john: it's as soft as a sponge right there. i did call the property manager. she says she's not aware of any runoff issues or received any official complaints. walter not so happy with that response.

he's been taking pictures so he can file that formal complaint. live in asheville, john le, news 13. >> tammy: the rain hasn't helped that situation. >> darcel: no. but it wasn't bad temperature wise. >> jason: no. we made it up in to the 60s today. look at the rain showers here. getting a little heavy now on the south side of asheville and northern and central portions of transylvania county. these impacting 26 and highway 64. it's a wet commute home for our neighbors to the west, too. notice the intensity with the yellows and oranges. well they lost on the radars. i see rain and that's about it for the next several hours. winds picking up. 15 to 20. and those winds will become very elevations. wind advisories out until noon hour.

in to east tennessee as well. two hands on the wheel if you're traveling there. chance for thunderstorms in the evening. i think asheville's forecast is wet but not active when it comes to storms. same for you in the upstate. 60s by 7. 50s by 9 o'clock. still relatively mild. but that's going to change in a big way tomorrow. i'll show you who gets colder and how much snow is in the forecast. stick around. >> tammy: drivers should avoid emma road. >> darcel: jaclyn, there's a school bus crash in the area. >> jaclyn: it is on emma road near the intersection of brickyard road. just to be on the safe side, avoid that spot if you can on your afternoon commute. we are dealing with delays here on smoky park highway. the interstates are in good shape right now. we have delays right here between pisgah highway and

keep that in mind if you are heading in that direction. tunnel road is another problem spot. get ready for back ups in both directions especially if you're heading east toward blue ridge parkway. that's a look at your on time traffic report brought to you by debruhl's used car superstore. >> darcel: a special visit. the message north carolina brought to students at a local school.

alert, how an area woman i you're watching news 13 with darcel grimes, tammy watford, chief meteorologist jason boyer, and on time traffic with jaclyn deaugustino. this is news 13 at 5:00. >> darcel: it's a special reunion in north carolina for more than 150 soldiers. >> tammy: paratroopers from the 82nd airborn division returned home from fort bragg this morning. they were in iraq helping train iraqi ground forces. lots of happy faces. >> darcel: lots of them. >> tammy: and they like to kiss, too.

got a special visit this morning. miss north carolina. >> darcel: she spoke to fourth graders today about her role as a citizen of north carolina. >> tammy: she also talked about the importance of getting involved in the community and setting goals. >> i encourage them to go home and speak with their parents about what goals they want to set for their lives. or even tomorrow or the next day. and don't let anyone stand in their way. >> tammy: she competed in the 2016 miss america pageant in september. >> darcel: news 13 has just launched a newly redesigned website. >> tammy: here's a look at the new wlos.com. it has a new search bar and makes it easy for users to share content. >> darcel: check it out for yourself and tell us what you think on our facebook page. >> tammy: and you can check out the weather, too. >> darcel: of course. >> jason: i do know it was mild today.

now we have showers moving through. we didn't manage to get ten degrees above average on that high temp. we'll talk about more rain, more too. stick around for the details on the cold. >> holly: coming up tomorrow morning on news 13, we'll have a complete wrap up of super tuesday. plus suspects are on the run and deputies need your help putting

see you tomorrow morning from now your news 13 skywatch weather. >> jason: welcome back, everybody. i picked this leicester carpet sales news13 sky cam network here at cullowhee, western carolina university. you can see the rain on campus here. and peaks of sunshine from time to time. they have been mixed and much the same. 53 degrees out there in cullowhee. not bad temperature wise. we've seen 60s today in many cases. watch this line on the hd radar. here's some pretty potent thunderstorms. they all kind of fall apart. that's a good indication that this intensity of the rain has really diminished. we're still getting heavy

the yellow north end of the county. showers also, buncombe in to henderson county. as we go west, again, notice that line really losing its intensity. i'm not concerned with severe weather, just rain. there's a slim chance we can get some damaging wind that developed this evening and overnight. really the chances are slim. 30% chance of anything happening tomorrow. this is going to be cold now. we turn our attention to possibly flurries early morning tomorrow. then it's back to a better chance of wintery weather. i'm talking rain-snow mix in asheville. i'm not talking anything significant in the way of accumulation. our temperatures will be marginal. 50% chance of getting snow showers in the mountains. 70% chance on thursday. pretty high chance on friday. the mountains above 3500 feet certainly have a better chance

it may not come all at once but it will come in spurts on friday. tonight, the rain moves rather quickly. 7 o'clock in the morning. sunshine south of i-40. by the lunch hour, everybody is back to sun. but the wind will not quit. it will be northwesterly 15 and 20 and gusting to 30 plus miles per hour. it will be mighty cold. clouds advancing thursday. here comes our next round thursday evening. look at that. blue and green mixed up. rain in the valleys mixed with snow. and mostly snow in the higher elevations. that one we'll watch more closely. rain fall amounts, pretty impressive south. we have about a tenth of an inch. some of the higher elevations could see an inch of snow, maybe more.

happen here in the mountains. 50s for highs in the upstate. we're only going to have highs in the 40s here in asheville. it is going to be much colder. with the wind blowing, it ain't going to feel 44. it will feel like 30s much of the day. chilly thursday, friday. nice for the weekend. close to 70 by tuesday. >> darcel: 60% chance of precipitation. >> jason: mm-hmm. that wintery weather. it's a mix. again, i'm not really concerned of accumulation in asheville in terms of snow fall. >> darcel: if you have a question you'd like to ask a lawyer, news 13 may be able to help. >> tammy: we're teaming up with the north carolina bar association. attorneys will be here to take calls on a wide range of issues. the phone lines will be open from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. >> darcel: get those questions ready. still to come. giving back.

helping others. watching him i'm sort of reminded of my children where they don't quite know where to draw the line. >> tammy: a local republican hires two men for his election campaign. why his opponent says his so, let me get this straight -- u.s. cellular has the phone you're looking for, a network that's built to give you coverage way out here where the other guys don't, and 6 gigs for only $40 a month. that's a lot less than verizon and at&t. so, why on earth would you ever go with one of those other guys? switch to u.s. cellular now and get 6 gigs of data for $40 a month plus get $300 back.

>> darcel: an area woman who once benefited from pet therapy, now provides it. >> tammy: as news 13's jay

health alert, she keeps giving back despite her own health issues. >> reporter: a brittle bone disease doesn't stop her from volunteering with her dog tiny. >> just seeing them would make me feel better. >> reporter: now she returns the gesture at mcdowell hospital. >> when we bring the dogs in, i mean, it's been visibly proven it brings your blood pressuree down. >> it reminds me of home. >> reporter: all this visiting keeps lacy away from home. >> it doesn't take much. you just have to be willing to give your time. >> anybody that has an excuse why they don't volunteer. they don't have time. lacy is our answer. she holds down a job, too. >> reporter: there's no doubt

patient's hearts. jay siltzer, news 13. >> darcel: well we're less than three weeks away from the 3rd annual live well expo. >> tammy: news 13 is hosting the event at the western carolina ag center. there will be more than 100 vendors. >> darcel: admission is free. more details can be found at wlos.com. it's been exciting and it's easy to do. >> tammy: getting girls tuned in

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>> darcel: ab tech holds an engineering day to encourage female high school students to think about technology as a career choice. >> tammy: as you'll see in my never stop learning, over 100 girls are learning engineering is a creative field that can change the world. >> the student can drag and drop anything they're wanting to do. and they can see the instant results of it. >> tammy: buncombe county students are being introduced to the world of engineering. stations are set up to show the girls the many options that are available in this career pack. teachers say engineering is dominated by males. but there's more room for women. >> it just kind of shows them

say it's building satellites or building little robots. it just shows you little niches where you might feel comfortable. i love the medical side of engineering. i may not be like a lot of mechanical stuff like when it comes to cars. but on the medical side, i feel like i would be great with that. >> tammy: look at that thing. it can spin around. >> darcel: can you find me one that can do all the cooking and cleaning? >> tammy: i'm sure we can arrange that for you. ab tech got a national science foundation grant to recruit more women in to the engineering field. >> darcel: we gotta learn about that. coming up, a unique competition. >> tammy: why local emergency

news 13 at 5:30 starts now. i . >> frank: a campaign stunt or genuine gesture. how one man used homelessness to spread his message. >> jason: i'm tracking some showers and even thunderstorms possible. moving towards a really modern energy future, it isn't that that. >> tammy: duke gets the green light. why some aren't so happy about the plant. now from western north

news 13 at 5:30. >> and felt compelled to help him. he says he paid them $60 for two days. but his opponent says it is a timed stunt. his facebook page prominently features a homeless man hired to hold up a sign. chad nesbit showed us this video when he hired two homeless men by the asheville mall. >> i want to ask you if you to hold my sign out here. >> kim: the video taken yesterday by nesbit's friend, who he says had just joined him for lunch. the man was very appreciative. >> these two guys that were up here were starving to death. >> kim: the two men worked on the hill for two hours. >> we got a bad homeless problem here in buncombe county and the city of asheville. and there are a lot of good