before the roads could get in bad conditions. many churches have canceled wednesday night. we are in place to bring it to you. >> throughout the triangle tonight and live with a look at what -- how d.o.t. is preparing for that next storm coming through. let's start our team coverage with greg bishop. greg? >> there are a couple of things in effect. a -- until 10:00 for the counties you see here. a winter storm watch. that doesn't go into effect until friday. so the lesser of the two advisories and now for these counties you see shaded in blue and the winter storm watch among some serious threat again not going into effect until friday.

way from nash county around nashville an rocky mount and westward on toward burlington, chapel hill. you can see there's a little bit of yellow showing up here. that may be a little bit of melting going on. the radar is detecting as the snow flakes fall but the activity is moving eastward. more and more likely to see these flakes along with falling temperatures for the next few hours. in terms of futurecast showing the patches of snow acrossed area. getting out of here later this evening and tomorrow will be a really, really nice day. one of the nice days we have for a while. friday into the weekend. we'll talk about how that may affect different parts of our area coming up in just a minute. >> all right. thank you. so far the news is good as far as power outages. we're working to learn if that

this morning, most of the town of hillsborough lost power for a few hours. she heard what sounded like a transformer blow at about 10:00 this morning. everything is back. duke energy hasn't said what caused it. the big concern is the timing. snow or ice could be disasterrous for the evening commute. one of our drive five units. where are you and what are you seeing? >> reporter: we're on 540 own only in the last couple of minutes we've started to see snow flakes fall for the first time. we've been driving around for quite some time. you can see in our headlights that snow starting to pass in front of those lights just below that light on ground. there's been a lot of brine that's been spreading around by

we can see those faint lines across many of the lanes. especially on the larger, heavier traveled roadways that we are on right now. smaft there's so much brine the cars have picked up a salt dust but again look in those headlights. the first flakes are starting to fall. the ground is somewhat cold out there. so some of what we're getting is going to be sustain itself and hang around with us. 540. the first flakes and yet to be seen what that means for travel conditions. we're continuing to keep an eye on that. >> live in drive five. thank you. >> let's take a look at the conditions in durham county. take a look at a traffic camera. this is an area -- do we have that traffic camera? >> there we go. you can see the snow starting to come down there. looks -- kind of a bad camera

beginning to coat the lanes just a little bit. this is an area that is notorious for becoming treacherous. if you have to travel this area tomorrow morning, be careful. gearing up more than 24 hours in advance. they started laying brine yesterday and picked up again this morning. 289 trucks traveled the overpasses of wake and durham counties. they had nine trucks covering the interstate, bridges and overpasses. as this system passes through the next storm and friday's morning commute. >> brim is live at the d.o.t. with a look at the ramp up. brian? >> reporter: these are the sand truck and plows at the ready. they'll spray sand and salt on

spots should that need a rise. today we looked as the trucks were spreading brine. that was the main mission today. laying drown that brine. it was about 20 trucks working in wake county and 29 in durham county. major roads, interstates, bridges were coated. the trucks were on a roll tuesday afternoon and resumed work today from the morning and evening commutes. replenishing at this site. it's brine mountain. most of this brine should hold up through friday. brine is watered that is heavily saturated salt. >> just keeps the road from freezing. until the last two nights it would have not helped if something had happened t. keeps it from freezing. >> he says the brine trucks -- likely return tomorrow to reenforce what was already been

friday morning is when the real tests come. the same drivers will take command of these trucks with the plow and sand and now sit quietly waiting. carol? >> busy days and nights ahead. thank you. now when the snow starts falling let us know about it. show your photos and videos. do it through or weather app, news app or e-mail. you really have to go out in the mountains. let's take a live look from the web cam. given us -- that's maybe where some slow -- this is in ash county on the northwest border. snow starting following here early in the day. just starting to slow down. that's just below the hill. it's hard to mix that up.

>> snow started early in the mountains. flakes started falling in downtown boone just before noon. the public schools didn't even open today. the weather was on the way. but sent students home before lunch. here's why. they were covered by mid- morning. roads were so bad a school bus slid into a ditch about 10:00 a.m. 7 students were on the bus. none of them were hurt. >> we want children to be in warm in this kind of weather but the puffy jackets can be a

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