schools on a two hour delay. durham, edgecombe, franklin, and wake county county schools all closed today. you can find the full list running at the bottom of your screen and you can hit up our website at wncn.com if you want to take a closer leak. we do have team coverage this morning throughout our viewing area. justin quesinberry is live in orange county. >> we're going to check in with all of them in just a minute, first we're going to take you straight to meteorologist alyssa corfont. >> good morning. winter storm warning in effect until 7 a.m. tomorrow morning for person and or rack counties. we're expecting some dangerous travel conditions throughout the portions of those counties. now, the majority of us under appear advisory. areas to the north including south hill, henderson and louisburg, this advisory not going to expire now until 7 p.m. today. it will expire at 1 p.m. along the 95 corridor and down along the sand hills. there we're expecting

cold rain a little earlier than the rest of us. here's what we're dealing with right now some sleet and snow mixing in along portions of wake county and then the nose of sleet move into portions of orange and durham counties. along the virginia border still dealing with accumulating snow along portions of roxboro and person county rather. let's get to the temperatures. it's been very cold the past few days and any untreated roads this sleet and snow will immediately stick to. 25 right now in raleigh, 23 in louisburg, the upper 20s around clayton and littleton while fayetteville is at 29 degrees. so we'll get to your fast forecast 27 snow and sleet at 8 a.m., freezing rain and sleet right around lunchtime 30 degrees and then changing into a cold rain this afternoon 33 at 3 p.m., 37 at 6 o'clock this evening and temperatures continue to warm tonight as the rain continues. i'll let you know when the rain tapers off coming up. right now we'll send

we've got some issues outside already this morning. it is early and president's day so not a lot of people on the road in general. so the fact that we've already got some wrecks gives you an idea of how the roads. we're at 147 where traffic is slow going. so keep that in mind may need to leave yourself some extra time. you can see we've got police activity right there i-440 and harrisburg street, traffic moving very slowly in that direction. so keep that in mind roads going to be icy. so traffic is slow going currently on 540 as you approach capitol boulevard and the 401 split there. so keep that in mind. one accident at perry creek rudest bound and 540 moving very slow. also seeing a couple incidents on the belt line as well.

keep in mind that any untreated roads going to be slick this morning so you definitely want to plan ahead and leave yourself some extra time. right now we do have breaking news to get to. fire crews trying to figure out what raleigh. flames tore through the home on fox road around 2:30 the family thankfully did get out safely however in these cold temperatures they did have to find another place to stay. and with the weather back in focus now we're going to take you northwest of the triangle to orange county. >> that's where we find justin quesinberry. we saw some flakes earlier this morning. how's it looking out there now? >> not a lot coming down right few but still a few flakes. i want to show you what has fallen overnight. this fell probably between 7:30 and 10 o'clock last night, about a quarter inch to a

take a look right here on this on-ramp getting onto i-85 and i-40, it's just wet right there and traffic moving along the interstate just fine, but we want to show you some video right now where it's a much different story on the back roads. right here in this same area but it's so different i'll tell you it is a solid sheet of ice. i was a little scared as i drove a couple of miles to our location right now on those back roads because just solid sheet of ice. you notice every single little hill and dip. i slid around a little bit. so please we're going to come back live here and show you again, traffic moving along interstate 85 and 40 just fine but it's the back roads that haven't been treated thaw need to be careful on this morning. >> thanks for that update. our team coverage continues in this round of winter weather. >> we're going to check in with emma wright. she's in wake county.

have been riding around taking a look at conditions. how they right now? >> things starting to look slick. we're seeing some sleet and freezing rain. it seems to be changing on and off here a little bit of snow on the roads along u.s. 1 right now headed from raleigh to wake forest. wake forest seems to have more of the snow. you take a look at the road it's kind of hard to see in the dark, but there is definitely some white stuff on it. it's a little slick in places. we've seen a lot of dot trucks out here putting down some salt and sand and brine and it seems to be helping because you can see the difference where they have put it down and where they haven't. it's much cleaner in the areas that they have treated so far. the roads it's hard to tell how slick they are really at this point because there seems to be a little bit of just rain that comes down and melts things for a little bit but then you'll drive a little bit further and things will be frozen again.

headed out this morning to work, i know a lot of schools cancelled but if you do have to go out you want to keep that in mind. there are some slick spots particularly up towards wake forest, that's where we're seeing most of the freezing happening on the roads right now. but again, dot, they have been out trying to keep the roads safe, but you want to do them a favor if you see those trucks you want to give them a lot of room so that they can do their jobs and then, of course you want to put a good amount of distance between yourself and the other cars on the roads that you don't have any accidents. we're going to continue to monitor these road conditions of course and we will bring you more updates later on in the show. i'm emma wright, back to you. >> folks going to need those great tips this morning. and cumberland county is among the county to say operate its white flag emergency shelter operations. various shelters will be open for extended hours now until the middle of the week as freezing temperatures sweep through the area once again. >> and remember you can keep up

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25 degrees right now this a live picture from our wncn tower camera and we are getting reports that roads getting very icy very quick. so take your time if you have to head out the door. it doesn't look like much but what is falling is sleet and snow and it's cold enough that it is immediately sticking to untreated roads. i'll bring you triangle northeastern portions of wake county seeing that mix a little bit of sleet falling out towards the airport and seeing the sleet continue towards the durham area, south of 85 we've been dealing with our reports from justin quesinberry who's saying snow and sleet there in the northeastern portions of orange county really making

icy this morning. 24 in durham, 22 in roxboro and henderson, 21 in south hill also below freezing and the upper 20s around fayetteville and clinton. again these conditions allowing that snow and sleet to stick immediately once if starts to fall. we'll stay in the upper 20s through about 10 a.m. dealing with the wintry mix. dealing with more sleet and freezing rain around lunchtime 30 there, 32 at 2:00 then we start to see mortgage of this fall as just a cold rain. 35 at 4:00, 37 at 6, temperatures continue to warm overnight tonight. thanks so much. still to come we have complete coverage of this winter weather hitting parts of our area as we head to break here's a live look eastern wake county as our crew heads

breaking news news overseas, former israeli prime minister just arrived at prison there. he was now begin serving his 19-month prison sentence for bribery and obstruction of justice. he maintains his innocence. today the huggins-jones murder trial is expected to go to a jury. this after the defense and prosecution both rested friday. the state used the medical examiner as its last witness. at one point huggins-jones's mother put her head down and clutched a tissue. the medical examiner says huggins-jones had 18 different injuries and bled to death during the course of an hour. defense lawyers say smith would not take the stand and they rested without presenting any evidence. an 11-year old girl is in the hospital after being shot at

word on that child's condition or identity. we'll keep you updated. durham sheriffs deputies made an arrest in the murder of a man on glenn road. investigators say a 26-year old is facing a first degree murder charge after the body of a 36-year old was found in his backyard stabbed to death. wncn spoke with the suspect's sister. she did not want to give her name or show her face. >> we're all, you know, neighbors, we're all -- we go to the same church. so i don't see how this could have ended up like this. i just don't understand. and probably never will. >> deputies have also charged the suspect with burglary and assault. they say he attacked the victim's wife and child. right now crews on the scene of a massive fire in a multi story home in brooklyn new york. nearly 140 firefighters battled the flames. it did take about two and a half hours for crews

right now investigators don't know what started that fire. and check this out, see steam and not smoke. it's so cold that the fog forms when this cold air moves over the relatively warmer waters pretty. around our viewing area dot crews began preparing for 50 trucks and 20 contractor trucks will been on stand by all night. wake county had about # thousand lane miles of roads so crews focused on the most traveled roads dropping about 1,100,000 gallons of brine. they'll be out if there's an inch or more. meanwhile people hit local stores to stock up on salt, snow food. we visited a home depot that sold out of snow shovels, the store did have a good supply of salt left because they just before the storm.

smaller stores that's not really an option so they're just out of stock unfortunately. so, yeah, we're probably going to need this as this weather conditions. yes, you're going to need the shovels in you're north and west of the triangle, person county, orange county i'm talking to you guys as you're under this winter storm warning through 7 a.m. on tuesday. dangerous travel conditions expected during that time. now, the rest of us under a winter weather advisory. it's kind of broken up into two parts around the 95 corridor and the sand hills that advisory will expire at 1 p.m. it for raleigh, durham, siler city and border. let's get to what is falling right now though here's your satellite radar composite and you can see it extends back to our west but falling in our immediate viewing area we're looking at more sleet than snow around the triangle. a lot of it spreading across durham

then look at the northeastern portions of wake county, wake forest out towards wendell seeing that sleet, very little snow. more sleet as we check in down around the sand hills. the change-over happening just a little earlier than when initially expected around the triangle. you're seeing some of light sleet fall. so here's your temperatures, 25 in raleigh, 28 in clayton, upper 20s around littleton and fayetteville. so as you're planning your day temperatures staying in the upper 20s by 8 a.m.. we're at 30 by lunchtime. it's still cold and anything falling is is going to freeze on impact. mix change to go rain this afternoon 37 degrees our afternoon high and that is actually going to happen right around the evening drive home. so walking you through your future forecast snow and sleet out there at 7 a.m. this morning, more sleet around the triangle through 8, 9 o'clock, this continues to change-over as we head towards lunchtime.

freezing rain for wake county, the good news is the moisture there's just not a lot of it yet. key words yet, more of it rushes in tonight and tomorrow but temperatures will be above freezing expecting us to be above freezing at 3 p.m. continue to see the temperatures warm for the evening drive home, as we head into tuesday rain likely for the morning commute it will be a soggy one. for more on the types of precipitation we're going to see i'll send it over to kristin. good morning. >> good morning we're seeing a lot of snow mixed with some sleet right now and that's causing some major issues on some area roads. the we have some warm air are that's causing our snowflakes to melt and refreeze as the ice pellets you can hear them hitting your windshield, that makes it very danger are you saying on some area roads also some freezing rain that we'll eventually be seeing. so we're seeing very

around the area attachment will be the case through this morning and into this afternoon before we finally see temperatures warming up and changing over to plain rain which may be an issue for us as well as tonight and tonight. for exactly how much you can expect let's turn things back over. >> thanks. and because we're going to see all the different types of precipitation the totals very tricky with this system. up you to an inch possible of sleet and snow around wake county, these areas shade in white that includes lee, portions of moore county, one to three around durham, orange counties and those countying bordering. and then portions of person county could receive over 3 inches. keep in mind in roxboro last night had almost 2 inches of snow on the ground. also a threat for us today up to 1, 10th of an inch of ice for all these areas shaded in pink, just a trace as we are expecting the change-over to a cold rain a little earlier along the sand hills.

in raleigh, 36 in durham, 41 in fayetteville, tonight rain continues warming temperatures though, 37 an overnight low and as we head into the coming days you'll see 59 tomorrow, rain here for the morning, dryer by the afternoon, and then dry for the rest of the work week and let's just talk about something to get us through the week 60s possible over the weekend ahead. things really starting heat up in the traffic department. what's going on? it is an absolute mess outside. we've had several reports come into our news room, one says north raleigh is a solid sheet of ice right now. annoyed and around annoyed an mess it's an ice ring on 264, there's another one on 64 and eastbound at the i-440, also u.s. 64 and 264 westbound

knightdale boulevard. we've had reports of bridges iced over between orange and chat tap counties. many maybe closed or slow going. and if we go to west raleigh getting toward 40 we have accidents on 440 westbound, one at exit 4, that's wade avenue another one at nc 54 and then on 40 heading west at chapel hill road. so please take it slow. if you do not have to be on the roads it is not advised because we are seeing icy conditions in many locations. so we'll have more traffic updates coming up this morning. also more weather updates coming your way plus your news headlines comin it's a taste so bold, yet so smooth, it could only be called, black silk, from folgers. a taste you could enjoy,

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deal with veteran teachers. days after supreme court justice scalia's death a battle is brewing. is a vacancy hasn't happened in decades and those who want to be the next president weighing in on weather president obama so try to nominate a successor. democrats say senate republicans need to act responsibly and vote on a nominee. >> we will see unlimited abortion on demand throughout this country, partial birth abortion, taxpayer funding. >> apparently they believe that the constitution does not allow a democratic president to bring forth a nominee who replace justice scalia. >> the top elected official in the texas county where he was found dead said he died of natural causes adding no autopsy

today a few town leaders going to discuss a debate surrounding food trucks. a ban was proposed on the trucks in commercial areas. well the town drafted the ban after some restaurants expressed concerns. throughout our viewing area we've got complete coverage of the winter weather. our crews out there on the roads. ice of course is no joke. we're going to check in come up in our next half hour plus alyssa corfont and kristin ketchell both here and we're going to hear from them next. the start of a new that.

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because of the winter weather several school systems have cancelled or delayed class today in fact, we just updated our list. so here we go, duke is going to open today at 10:00 this morning, campbell at 11, nc state, central and delayed until noon. >> and many schoolses on a two hour delay, chapel hill, durham, edgecombe, franklin and wade county schools all closed today. you can find the full list running at the bottom of your screen and if you want a closer look just go to our website, it's wncn.com. we do have team coverage throughout the area this morning. we're going to check in with all of them in just a minute, first here is alyssa corfont. >> good morning to you at home. winter storm warning in effect now until 7 a.m. tomorrow