broken water main breaks and ice on back roads is the reason for school closings. >> reporter: i'm a passenger in the mobile news tracker. and we're not far from six forks road and 540 in a neighborhood up here. let's show what you the neighborhoods are looking like right now. the roads are slushy right now in the neighborhood. so even though the storm passed days ago, we're not out of the woods yet. the winter storm may be long gone. but in some neighborhoods, the ice on the roads is nothing to mess with. >> some spots no that shade on them, they are pretty iced over. >> reporter: we stopped by the neighborhood by six forks and 540. >> i'll try to get out of here. >> you may go down a road that looks clear and there's black ice sitting out here. >> reporter: and the crews work

roads, the kids in wake county, they get a day home from school. and you don't have to be a kid to have fun in the snow. we found one man driving around town in a convertible. >> it's like when are you doing? so i'm fine. >> reporter: one thing for sure, he is not worried about the ice flying off the top of his car. but most people are not in convertibles right now. and the highway patrol urges them to clear off their cars before take together roads. >> snow, sleet and ice, you'll have a lot of that accumulating on the vehicles. and when they warm up into the sun and so forth, those become dislodged and they become project projectiles on the highway. >> reporter: and they don't want the number to rise of the number of death. >> we want the people of patches of black ice that we want people to be conscious of

>> reporter: you can see the roads still slushy out here and we asked the d.o.t. and it is too early to get a good figure on how much the response to the storm is going to cost the state. and i want to mention that if you did abandon your car on the side of the road during the storm and you want to get it back, it depends on where you abandoned it, you can contact your local municipality or reach out to the state. they have a website ncdps.gov. power outages are still a big story because of the storm. >> duke worker have been work around the clock to get things back to normal. and we're live in wake county with that part of the story. steve? >> reporter: power and schools, those are the two big post storm concerns of many folks. and a lot of parents want to

back and folks without electricity, they wanted to know when is the juice going to flow again. >> we pulled out the radio with the batteries and the candles and made the best of things. >> reporter: without her generator, tonya would have been in the dark a lot when the power failed. >> we lost it twice about, 4:00 to 8:00 and saturday morning and then saturday afternoon. >> reporter: that is thanks the ice that left its calling card every where including on utility lines depriving a half million duke customers but electricity. and today, the crews spent their time in places like this. >> as we move along in the restoration process, the work is a lot more challenging.

voltage line this is typical that condition that's our crews are working -- conditions that our crews are working on now. >> and now they are working on smaller isolated problem. >> we're working to get everyone back on today. >> and the wake county schools this it going to be the toughest issue, getting all the ice out of carpool lanes and the parking lots. raleigh's carol middle school was one of the place where's the crews de-- places where the crews deployed. they have two concerns. will will schools have electricity reopen and can kids, paints and teacher navigate school property? breaking up the ice was a chore, a chore made a little easier by the warmer temperatures. and now for example at joan elementary in raleigh, the parking lot is in great shape and there's a little water on

if it does free tonight that is why there's a three-hour delay for the wake county schools. they want to make sure that stuff will melt again so the kids can get to safely tomorrow morning. after a week of canceled flights, things are starting to get back to normal at rdu. >> and that is depends on how the airports recover. officials said that you should check your flight status if you have travel plans this week. and this system affected most of the major cities on the east coast. this is video of the cleanup in washington d.c. the nation's capitol try to clean up today. >> and not too far off 95, things were about as close to normal as they could be in new york city. 20 inches of snow fell in central park. most schools there were open today. there's not snow in the forecast tonight, there's still

and steve will tell us if that will freeze overnight. good evening. for most of us, no. it will not refreeze. still going to be cold. but not below freezing for most of us. and before we get into the forecast, a super sunset out there tonight. a great day tonight, great day considering what we went through today. right 46 46. and these clouds will move in. and this is a rain system. it comes with this cold front and it will be back here on wednesday so tonight these are the lows. these are the morning temperatures. this as cold as we're going to get. as being see, pretty much along the i-95 corridor through the triangle at or slightly above freezing. maybe slightly below it up by the virginia border. this is 6:00 and 7:00 a.m. and 8:00 and 9:00 a.m.,

we have 60s on the 7-day. from t-shirt printing to dabbing it is the hot topic today. the panthers are super bowl bound for the second time in franchise history. >> they'll be practicing down the road in san jose. that city's mayor had this to say to panther nation. >> it is great to be joined by you. >> congratulations carolina, you're going to the big game. >> we're proud to be bun of the bay area super communities, hosting the game in our backyard at levi stadium on february 7th. we'll see you soon. good luck, panthers. >> and here's your first look at super bowl city coming together in san francisco. they have a saturday deadline

a fan zone and nfl headquarters and food area. it will open to the public on saturday. one of the big story last night is an injury forced thomas davis out of the game. >> he suffered a broken arm. but doctors are open miss ticket. and todd gibson is here with more. >> reporter: the carolina panthers played a nearly perfect game, one that propelled them to super bowl 50. tom davis broke his right arm making a tackle. he had surgery on his arm and he vowed that he will play when they tangle with denver in two weeks. regardless, the panthers are optimistic they will davis when they face the broncos. >> my understanding if everything goes well, it is something that he'll be be able to play w but -- be able to play w but we'll see how it comes wednesday, thursday and

>> if i were a betting man, i would say that davis will be playing super bowl 50 and this will be the biggest game of his career. at one point he downstairsed back from two major injury injuries. the broken arm is kids' play for davis. >> the merchandise is already flying off the shelves. this was the scene at the dick's sporting goods store in raleigh. and we have more on the rush to stock up and the numbers that you might want to consider if you're planning a trip out west. >> reporter: as carolina keeps on winning, it gets toucher and tougher to find pan they're apparel. local stores such as dick's sporting goods stocked up in anticipation of the panther's win sunday night. and hundreds of fans came to the super bowl. >> i've been a fan since i was

and the store normally opens at 9:00 p.m. but they opened up 6:00 because of the excitement. >> we're going to the super bowl for the second time. and i'm excited about it and. >> reporter: and many of the fans want to go to san francisco to cheer on their team in the super bowl. but a ticket and trip through the will cost you. the cheapest tickets are starting at $3,700 and hotel and ticket price $5,700 and add airfare, it will cost about you $7,000. >> i'll probably watch it at home. >> reporter: but at home is where most fans will watch the game. but that is not stopping most fans from getting their gear to sort. >> it is about tuning in to see the panthers win. >> reporter: if you are looking around for a ticket, the bbb warns you ticket scams. always buy from a licensed celebration.

is too good to be true, it probably is. talk about sticker shock. to keep you informed about the panthers and super bowl 50, we created a special section on wncn.com. tonight support for this little boy's family after i weekend tragedy. >> i'm trying to figure out what i could have done different. >> i how the boy's brother tried to save his life as the family honors the joy that he brought to so many. this is i40 at wade avenue.

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tonight loved ones are trying to make sense of a weekend tragedy in lumberton. after a pit-bull mulled a 7- year-old killing him. it the fifth pit-bull killing in three years. we spoke to his brother. >> i try to figure out what i tried to do different. >> reporter: and now jamie west knows the pain that no parent wants to feel, the death of a child. they were playing in a field and three dogs came running after them.

came up to the house. >> reporter: eight-year-old jayland said that he jumped on a car and his younger brother could not get away. >> the property owner declined to to speak on camera. but he thought that the kids aggravated the dog. >> he broke his neck and took almost his entire face off. >> reporter: williams smith said that people must remember that dog cans been predictable. and if one confronts you, do your best not to get pulled down. >> if you get pulled down, down, the dog is too massive.

survived with a torn calf mussel. >> reporter: in the face of tragedy, young tallan is being remembered as smart and full of love. >> he always smiled. he's in a better place now. >> reporter: nate rogers, wncn news now. >> the dog involved at the scene due what they call overexcitement. and the dog owner has not been charged and the parents cannot have any unsupervised visits with the kids while they investigate. we're staying on top of water contamination in wake forest. more than three years ago families learned they were drinking water that was contaminated with cancer- causing chemicals. and now one of the companies involved has grade to come up with a plan to clean up the water that contaminated the wells.

spread to the drinking wells of about two dozen homes in the area. under the proposed consent order between flex electronic and the state, they will clean up the contamination and provide drinking water to any homes whose wells might have been affected. they have sent letters to the family affected. and they now have 30 days to respond to the draft. your eyes are not fooling you. this is the scene in raleigh 16 years ago today. one of the biggest snowfalls on record. >> 15 to 20 inches fell. we're still cleaning up what we had over the week. at the virginia border, they had three to six inches. and the totals were a little smaller because we saw a

pounds down more than fluffy snow does. but none of that in the forecast now. but what we have are warmer temperatures today that topped out at 52 that is normal for this time of year. and we're close to 60 tomorrow and then we're going to cool back down. but we'll do it as some rain moves into the area wednesday and thursday and beyond this week, we have temperatures in the 60s on the 7-day. i'll show you those in a second. outside it not warm but it is not the teens or the 30s, which is when we say several days last week. outside right now, anywhere from 38 in south hill to 46 in raleigh to 52 in fayetteville. and it's not going to be as cold tonight. we expect the temperatures to stay very close to but just above freezing for most of the central north carolina. and no rain in the forecast through tomorrow morning. and a few clouds that we have out there now will thin out and move out towards tomorrow

we'll drop down to 42 at 8:00 and 40 the 10:00 and through the 30s. but we'll stop at 33 degrees again. i would not go out in shorts or anything tomorrow morning. but for many of us what is on the ground is not going refreeze. we got the high pressure and boring weather okay tomorrow. but it debts interesting this week as a cold front and rain which, doesn't look like right now, but it will continue to develop, a cold front and rain will arrive wednesday. first of all morning, we'll start off with clear skies and we'll have sunshine through the most of the day and then once we get into the afternoon, a few clouds will start to move in. and those clouds tuesday night into wednesday will definitely keep the temperatures above freezing. but wednesday we have the cold front and the rain. so here we are early wednesday morning and a few of us will have some rain showers. you notice the snow and the messy weather is back to the west. scattered showered through the

and in the afternoon we'll see a few clouds and the showers stick around. and the cold front will drop our temperature. if there was rain that stuck around through early thursday morning, some of that might turn into something else. but right now it is just rain in our forecast. and tonight it is cold but not freezing cold for most of us. and person county and mecklenburg county all right below freezing. but i think most of the roads not refreezing. remember. there are some ice and slush in the shaded areas and overpasses and onramps. otherwise, that is early in the morning and then we're sunny with the temperatures close to 60 and the 7-day forecast takes from us the near 06 to the 40s. so it will not last forever. wednesday and thursday, good rain chances wednesday and a small chance of leftover rain on thursday and then we dry out and warm back up friday again and near 60 as we head into the weekend.

so the the three degree high, we got it and that means another 100 to our friends at allen heating and air and that brings the total to $2,000. we're not only helping elderly people nearing the end of life,

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he might enter rice students did not let mother nature stop them from taking advantage of a snow day. >> this is a tradition, the annual snowball fight between the cadets and the civilians. nice snow there. >> they are serious about. they can make the snowfall balance there's. >> ice fights generally are not as fun. >> no. >> that is all we had.

if you want to melt some of the snow, i think we'll be successful. sunshine and highs near 60. but we have cold rain

but we're -- rain willing developing news tonight. buried by a history making blizzard. dozens killed.

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