over cethe arizona cardinals. is clearly working. and we keep working to chip away at the after math of our winter storm. i'm renee chou. >> ee'm bill leslie and let's take a 0"look at the school closings beginning with wake today. >> let's take a look at the rest of g#the list. chapel w3hill closed. durham closed. franklin county and granville. >> harnett county and johnston county on (g.a two hour delay. lee county and mecklenburg virginia are closed. >> moore county nash ro# mount north 3whampton orange county and person county schools closed today. >> and rounding things out vance county, wake county as ;we mentioned and warren county schools all closed. >> you can find a full %q+list of school closings and delays on our website at wral.com and

nice warm up later on /iatoday. >> looking forward to more sunshine. >> it will continue the melting process and certainly snow "m&and sleet lingering. look at roxbqmz they've done a wonderful job fo f clearing the roads downtown and the sidewalk right there in front of the court house but look how much snow is still on the ground piling up and any place that it's melted and wo#run across the t5road n"kit is solidly frozen this morning. very cold. 27 in durham, 24 in kerri and wake forest, 23 in and 28 in holly springs. town by town 20 in south hill, 25 for drocky mount f*wilson and goldsboro so you can't escape the 20s even in the southern part of the viewing area. mid 20s by 8:00 a.m. fg1 but lunch time 39 and a high of 47 so the sunshine and warm temperatures will help to melt o7f things again. we don't get nearly as cold tonight to help@e folks get back out to school and work oo morning.

is there any places people are hitting and spinning out. >> notch like that just yet but we have to be careful on ramps. we have an accident in durham at the bottom knof the ramp. can't say for sure znmit's related to ice but it's a good reminder that a lot of ramps are slick this morning. this is the 3wramp from fayetteville northbound onto i- 40 eastbound right )by streets and south point mall. that right \lane is blocked not causing problems as far as getting through there but a good reminder to take those ramps easy this morning. southeast raleigh another ze accident on the right shoulder 440 eastbound much pretty quiet as far as accidents go so far this morning ,and haven't heard of specific spots on major routes where we have big problems of ice but it's a problem on bridges and maps. secondary routes also a iqgg let's head ess. out to raleigh and tara lin is ,^on north bend drive. that is a lot of ice still on

what we are seeing on those neighborhood roads. a lot of ice especially on the build up on the side of the road. some of those lanes are clear but again we know that things are going to be melting once the sun comes up and temperatures are a,istill low. so it could just get that much slicker on the roads this morning. we are headed towards spring forest road and this is what you will see 5afor most of the secondary roads but again those yvn neighborhood roads are the ones that are still heavily impacted by the ice especially in the areas that are shaded at this ce point this morning. >> shaded 3kmspots and intersections all of them. a big mess tara lin and live drive 5 we appreciate that. right now just a few accidents two of which we already showed you not causing any problems &sw and traffic moving along on major routes. did want to pass this along very important abefore you head out to zzwork toda twitter followers reminding you y. to clean of your entire car not just your wind shield.

top or the back clear 4_it off because gobthere was chunks of ice and pgasnow flying off cars over the weekend so take a couple minutes and help everybody out. back to you. >> thank you very (g> it's frustrating for people who are going on day three or day four without the lights on. mikaya thurmond joins us now where the only light is the =r[d\ light gn her. >> that's exactly right. just imagine this is the temperature inside many of the homes here. just take a look right behind me no lights on at this house or the 37 other homes in this neighborhood.

who has to come up with creative ways to stay warm. >> yeah layers and i did find this really cool thing on facebook because my phone does work where you take a piece of that i guess it's wind shield block and you put it in your shoes and cut out a piece and that warms up your toes immensely. i can walk in the snow with that. >> if you are in a situation like this you find plenty of ways in order to keep warm. there are about 10,000 people. if you are without power duke energy says they hope to have everyone restored by monday night. bill and renee? >> that's tonight. yeah monday night. mikaya thurmond thank you very much. >> fire nearly destroyed a home in southern pines. it happened on indiana avenue yesterday afternoon and started in the kitchen. five dogs were in the house. unfortunately one of them died of smoke inhalation. the red cross is helping the

the democratic presidential candidates will face off in a town hall debate one week before the highly anticipated caucuses in iowa. hillary clinton martin o'malley and bernie sanders will teatimes from voters. the town hall will be moderated by chris cuomo and be tonight. michael bloomberg is throwing more uncertainty for the white house considering a third party run for president if donald trump and bernie sanders are the candidates. bloomberg retained advisors and plans to conduct a poll after the new hampshire primary. he's set a march deadline to decide whether to run or not. he's said to be willing to spend up to $1 billion of his own fortunate to pay for his campaign. the carolina panthers are super bowl bound after winning the nfc title last night in charlotte. catch newton threw two

they stifled the arizona top- ranked offense. and carolina's offend offense looking pretty good 49-15 final score. next stop super bowl 50 in santa clara california in two weeks where the panthers take on peyton manning and the denver broncos. it's not that often we get snow in our area. >> but it is practicalically unheard of unin one city in scheina until now.

horrific attack by islamic it is 6:09 and we are checking out a cold morning with icy conditions in downtown durham and only one lane clear. look at all of that snow and ice still lingering on the road. going to talk about that in just a couple minutes. 25 in vincent and 25 in rocky mount. temperatures the mid 20s everywhere so no matter where anything was wet yesterday it's frozen even down south. roxboro 25, 26 clinton and 24 in wake forest. a good bit of sunshine and more melting today. 39 at lunch time and a

warm things up a high of 47 degrees. even warmer tomorrow and then rain in the forecast and we'll talk about when that arrives in just a couple of minutes. bill? >> thank you elizabeth. a northwestern pakistan university where islamic militants gunned down 21 people last week has reopened. classes resumed this morning. the attack last wednesday triggered a gun battle that lasted for hours until all four militants who took part in the raid were killed. they arrested five suspects on charges of facilitating the assault which was claimed by the taliban. president obama wants to tackle a legacy of the secret war during the vietnam era. he'll announce an initiative to clear unexploded u.s. bombs in lous which is next to vietnam during the war but 30% of those

impact. they continue to kill or maim people there to this day. the president is planning an official visit there this fall. you think a major snow storm is rare around here? people living in southern china are seeing snow for the first time in 70 years. take a look, people ran out on the streets to snap pictures of flurries. a cold snap continues to bite southeast asia. it's the first recorded snow fall since record books opened. elsewhere in another province more than a foot and a half of snow fell knocking out power. china issued it's second highest weather alert. looked gorgeous to see all of that snow there and they had a snow ball fight so good they had fun with that. still a lot of ice all over area roads this morning. >> we are going to check in with julia simms after the break for a look at conditions in durham. wide variety over there let me tell you. also ahead what we are now

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seeing a lot of ice and you essential don't want buses to travel on those. wral julia simms in live drive 5 in durham to show us varying road conditions she's seeing there. julia. >> good morning renee and bill. we are on hope valley road and for the most part it's pretty clear but you keep coming up on these slushy areas and quite frankly we are going about 30 miles an hour but that's about as fast as i would go because there are patches of ice that just come up on you very quickly and can be very tricky when you come up on them. the city of durham has cleared or made passible 90% of the primary roads within the city's limits. they said they are going to have their trucks. we've already seen a few plows out this morning. they are going to have their plows and sand trucks out today hoping to get onto the secondary roads.

now and show you rugby road. this one actually looks pretty good but you can see the build up of all of the slush on the side. here we go it's getting a little bit snow and ice covered. so these are the roads you have to be very, very, very careful about if you are going to get out and go to work today. i would suggest waiting until the sun comes up just to make it a little bit more safe for you. but clearly this is the reason why those buses are not on the roads today. bill and renee. >> julia simms doing a great job showing the wide variety of road conditions. thank you. there's a reward for help finding the person responsible for running over a trooper in rowan county. he tried to tell two men on four wheelers to stay off the icy highway. he got out of his patrol car and one of the atvs charged at

the trooper has a brocken leg and--broken leg and other injuries. both drivers got away. the trooper's association is offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to an arrest. leaving behind a 17 month old son. the suspect has a court appearance today. the shooting happened friday. a driver who spun out on ice became belligerent and began firing after police approached to help. 27-year-old marvin jacob lee is in jail without bond on the charge of murder. falyemrsaythe victim jefferson hefner was always willing to help people in need. harnett johnston counties are slowly digging out from winter storm. downed trees and limbs are dotting the landscape. most saw electricity restored by yesterday afternoon. the bright sun melted almost all of the ice inviting some to

farmers and their cattle got back to normal schedules. we ran across a calf born during the storm that is doing fine with it's mother. >> a woman was wearing a vermont sweatshirt. that was perfect. >> they know cold and snow in vermont. >> they do. ya'll are going to roll your eyes at me but i've lived at wintery places but it was fun yesterday to be driving through. slippery places in my neighborhood but once i got out on the main roads it's fun. snow on the side of the road seeing that blanket of white. >> real winter, yeah. >> i like it. >> and now wastel have the effects of it. >> we do. you have to be careful out there. salem street in downtown apex they've done a nice job of clearing the street but it looks wet and those wet spots of course are slippery but still plenty of that on the sidewalks even. that's another concern definitely today. some of the sidewalks are clear

still very icy and parking lots are icy for walking. you'll have to be careful this morning. 27 degrees a cold morning and looking at mid 20s across the entire viewing area. our dew point at 22, humidity at 80%. we've had enough light thin cloud cover roll in we won't see too much fog this morning. 25 in roxboro and rocky mount, 28 in southern pines and 26 in fayetteville and clinton so no way are you escaping these cold temperatures but it won't be this cold tomorrow morning so even though we'll melt some there will be a little bit of lingering snow and ice out there tomorrow morning and temperatures won't be this cold so shouldn't be quite as treacherous tomorrow morning but we'll be here checking if out just to be sure. by 10:00 a.m. temperatures warm up nicely to near 40. lunch time mid 40s to near 50

future cast to the low to mid 50s. if that happens no one will complain about it. and tuesday morning tomorrow morning looking at low and mid 30s expecting about 32 at the airport for our official low but temperatures warm up nicely on tuesday. even warmer than today. official highs upper 50s. future cast wants to pop things up into the low 60s. so at that point say goodbye to the mess that we had and start watching for the next mess. here comes high pressure. it will be in control of our weather today with a high pressure system in that position. our winds coming out of the southeast that will help to begin our warming process. so this system--the next system for this week. this is not going to cause any problems. wednesday this system tuesday night into early wednesday that brings us rain but as this low shifts eastward another one developing off shore and could spread moisture in as cold air

some wintery mix on thursday morning. but that still looks fairly iffy. 47 degrees for today. 56 for tomorrow so nice little warm up. again 32 for tomorrow's overnight lows so not nearly as cold. on wednesday a good chance of rain that may start late tuesday and be with us wednesday especially for the first half of the day and then the chance of tapering off a little bit. a second system develops for thursday and temperatures will be chilly. 32 in the morning and that's what we'll be most concerned about. will the high push enough cold air in. will the low bring us enough precipitation. those are all pieces that may or may not come together for thursday. so right now we are just keeping wet conditions in the forecast for thursday morning. it's something we will keep our eye on and keep you informed as we have more and more computer models. loving the weekend temperatures

i actually like that in between. wednesday at 47. >> register your complaint with somebody else. 6:22 right now. we have complaining to do at least in some spots around the triangle because icy patches still hanging on even on major roads. 6:22 we head out to durham at i- 40 and fayetteville road. 40 eastbound those ramps are still pretty slick and especially on the sides of the roads seeing ice lingering this morning so you might see mostly dry conditions and think you can go the speed limit. hit one icy patch and get into trouble. not seeing big problems with delays from the accident but conditions quickly can change. this is out on the southeast side of raleigh i-40 eastbound at 440 minor accident on the right shoulder not causing this problems. traffic flowing freely. checking in with drive 5 in north raleigh secondary roads a lot of moisture on the

of the road anything that looks wet see where the lights reflecting off the puddles there. you have to assume that is icy considering where temperatures are this morning. overall not seeing too many problems on the roads at this point in major routes like your interstates and u.s. highways. ramps and bridges are very slick. icy patches are secondary roads and some are still completely ice covered. back to you. it's 6:23. the panthers are heading to the super bowl. next in sports the highlights that led to the team's victory

today's pet picture is of gizmo good monday morning especially for panthers fans.

super bowl after an impressive win against the cardinals in the nfc title game. cam newton out to a big lead over to ted ginn junior. how about the team that cut you less than year ago taking it to the house. makes it 10-0. they lead 24-7 at half time. turn overs really big as the panthers force seven including the luke keuchly pick six. that sealed it if it wasn't already. they pound arizona 49-15 and they will play in the super bowl so it is set. it will be the broncos and panthers. it is two weeks away on february 7. you can see super bowl 50 right here on wral the first kick at 6:30. unc could move back to number today. they beat virginia tech on sunday for their 12th straight win 7-0 in conference.

the heels in a tough are road winning 75-70 in a double double victory. the canes topped the flames 5-2 and duke rival beat unc 71- 55. enjoy your monday. >> thank you mandy. coming up in our next half hour a high profile federal trial in winston salem begins today about a controversial state voting law. also ahead a lot of ice could be a tricky tricky commute this morning. we'll tell you where the treacherous spots are on area roads.

pick four we continue to follow the after math of a winter storm in the triangle. live team coverage with an update on the roads and school closures to where power outages

>> plus a look at how the storm is impacting air travel and the federal government. and what we are learning about a vicious dog attack that killed a young boy in robertson county. good morning everybody. good to have you with us on this monday morning. i'm bill leslie. >> i'm renee chou. here's a look at school closings. wake county publischools closed yet again today. >> some of the others chapel hill, chatham county, durham public schools, franklin county and granville county schools all closed. >> halifax county, harnett county and johnston county on a two hour delay. lee county and mecklenburg county virginia closed. >> moore county closed today. nash rocky mount, north hampton, orange county and person county schools are all closed. >> vance county, wake county schools once again and warren county also closed today. >> find out the full list on

them scrolling at the bottom of your screen. >> and the reason for those closings at another morning with below freezing temperatures and the threat of black ice. >> temperatures in the mid 20s this morning even in fayetteville where it's often warmer than the triangle or the virginia line. taking a look here from our sky cam down at western boulevard and ferry road you can see how much snow and sleet is still left in the medians and sides of the road. sidewalks are very slippery and parking lots. the main roads are in decent shape but you have to get to those first and brian is going to be talking about the entire situation in just moments. 27 in durham, 24 in wake forest and kerri 28 in holly springs. 27 at the t.v. studios and 22 in south hill. 25 in rocky mount and wilson. 26 in clinton and fayetteville and 28 degrees in southern pines. so a solid freeze for us this morning. mid 20s still at 8:00 a.m. but by lunch time 39 and

above freezing territory by maybe 9 or 10 this morning. 47 the high this afternoon with the social security. --sunshine. that will do a good job melting the sleet and snow. and temperatures tonight won't be nearly as cold to help with the melt tomorrow morning. brian has the places that are slippery and messy this morning. >> even major roads interstates and u.s. highways that are mostly dry you still could run into slick spots this morning especially on ramps and bridges. let's take you out to durham 85 at guess road you can see the bridge still has a lot of ice on the side of the travel lanes. also seeing on the bottom there on guess road under that bridge what appears to be wet conditions. that very likely is at least partially frozen. with temperatures where we are very to treat everything that's wet as a sheet of ice. in many areas it is this morning. mostly dry on the north side of

into ice on intersections and major roads. tara lin in live drive 5 this morning. i believe you are on strickland road tara. what are conditions like? >> that's right. we just turned off the intersection of strickland and creed more in a neighborhood. take a look at these streets covered in ice so you may have been out yesterday or as you are heading out today and your neighborhood may be clear and you are driving down strickland or capital boulevard getting on the interstate or some of the main secondary roads and these ones are clear so why are schools closed, this is why. many of the neighborhoods are still covered in ice. i know we've been talking about it throughout the morning one of the issues that some roads like this have to deal with is if they didn't get the sun yesterday then that certainly did not help in terms of trying to felt some of this ice and this is certainly compacted at this point and some drivers taking it very slow out of the neighborhood this morning.

roads that people will probably have the most trouble with for things to melt throughout the morning. we are still going to see slick spots. i did have a chance to check in with raleigh police. they've had a couple accidents but in terms of weather related they didn't have specific numbers about that but just be aware of it. people have gotten into accidents this morning and should drive slowly. >> as we see those temperatures rise later this morning we will see conditions improve. it's going to be a while if you could wait until late morning to leave. tara lin thanks very much and i'll be back in 15 minutes with another update. back to you. >> brian thank you very much. tracking power outages still going on in our area. >> wral mikaya thurmond has an update from a neighborhood in wake forest. >> bill and renee, 10,000 people without power and residents here on news trail estates are one of them. take a look at this home right behind me. they've been sitting in the dark since saturday morning.

residents here have been finding ways to stay warm. >> layers and just finding this really cool thing on facebook because my phone does work where you take a piece of that i guess it's wind shield blocks and put it in your shoes, cut out a piece and that warms up your toes immensely. i can walk in the snow with that. >> 4,000 people are in wake county and 3,000 in johnston county. duke energy tells us they don't expect a fix until tonight at 11:00 p.m. mikaya thurmond wral news wake forest. federal offices in the again today. the clean up from two feet of snow prompted that decision. the government shut down at noon on friday. the house is postponing votes this coming week including the one over riding president obama's healthcare veto. airports and railways are also trying to bounce back from the big storm.

resume service along the storm's track today. seven branches of the long island railroad are expected to be fully operational this morning. metro officials in washington will resume limited rail and be free. we have much more on the storm onal.com to check--wral.com to view to thes of the after math and much more. robinson county. a seven-year-old boy died after being mauled by a dog on odom road yesterday morning. two brothers were playing in the woods near their home when they were attacked by a neighbor's pit bull. the seven-year-old was pronounced dead at the hospital. his brother an eight-year-old was injured as he tried to fight the dog off. robinson county investigators are trying to determine what set off the dog with no known violent tendencies. no word yet on possible charges. family members say the dog died at the scene they believe from exhaustion or a heart attack.

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winds calm dew point at 22, humidity at 81%. possible you would run into a little bit of patchy fog but we haven't seen much of that. 25 in rocky mount and wilson, 22 south hill, 25 roxboro, 27 southern pines and 26 fayetteville and clinton so even down south of the triangle temperatures still in the mid 20s. we didn't have as much accumulation for goldsboro clinton and fayetteville but still there's water on the roads and it's slippery so be careful. by 10:00 a.m. temperatures above freezing and warming up nicely into the afternoon. temperatures climbing up at least into the upper 40s. future cast into the low 50s a little bit warmer than what we see and we can hope for that. we won't be far off of it. overnight temperatures crop back into the up--drop back into the upper 30s and warming up nicely into tomorrow. briefly we have the future cast into the low 60s forecasted

pretty good for our warming temperatures. here's a look at satellite and radar and we do have cloud cover streaming in across the area right now. we'll see partly cloudy skies today. high pressure with winds rotating clockwise helping to pull in wind out of the southeast and that will help our warming process. this is the next system we are tracking the one that comes in late tuesday night into wednesday so it's going to bring us rain. not expecting any snow with this. we get a nice warm up ahead of the system so no cold air in place before it arrives. thursday looks like an interesting scenario. first off let's talk a little bit more about today. 47 degrees for today warming up nicely we get a little bit of melting going on. warming up to 56 for tuesday and starting off in the 30s instead of in the 20s so we may not have the deep freeze we are seeing this morning. we want to be cautious on tuesday but conditions may be better than tomorrow morning than what we are seeing this morning. late tuesday into early

probably a quarter of an inch to half notary public amounts. not going to be a lot of rain but the chances are pretty good during the day. then thursday a separate system develops off shore. i don't know what's going to happen with this one. it's yet to be determined. is it too far away or if it gets closer to shore and does bring us precipitations is this high going to be strong enough to pump in cold air. if the elements come together just right the morning low of 32 on thursday morning there might be a wintery mix on thursday morning. a lot has to come together for that to happen right now so it doesn't look too likely but showers for early thursday. the weekend looks fantastic with temperatures climbing to 60 and sunshine. that's a look at your weather to go and here's bribe with traffic. >> you need to be extra careful. we'll take a look at the cameras around the triangle and give you a look at the conditions you are likely to encounter.

be extra careful on bridges and ramps and major roads like interstates like north carolina highways mostly dry but those bridges could still be slick in spots and you can see here on this camera some of the road is wet and we have to assume that is icy and in many areas icy patches on major routes those ramps also really tough going in many spots this morning because a lot of them are surrounded by trees that shaded and didn't get that full compliment of sunlight yesterday to help with some of that melting. similar situation on secondary roads. we show you that in just a second. on 40 at the clayton bypass traffic moving along nicely on dry roads. not seeing any big problems from johnston county and school is out and traffic volume is lighter. if you do have to head to work put it off until later on this morning. major roads are like that pretty much throughout the viewing area. secondary roads a different story. the durham county sheriff just

of those secondary roads in rural durham county and it's still snow and ice covered this morning and that's a common sight from the triacreel area to the north and west so recapping the conditions you are running into this morning mostly dry on your major routes. ramps and brims are slick, secondary roads in some areas icy patches and other areas are snow and ice covered and neighborhood streets maybe of those are ice rinks so if you do have to leave take it easy and wait until you leave later this morning so temperatures warm up. now new z news to go with bill and renee. >> and the news pretty much echos the traffic. plenty of neighborhood roads frozen again this morning. >> that's the reason a number of viewing area schools are closed or delayed. you heard brian talking about this but to recap interstates and primary roads mostly clear

to see icy neighborhood streets. crews working to restore power hope to have everyone's service back on by tonight. at this time yesterday there were 20,000 duke and energy customers in wake and johnston county without power. that number is down to just a few thousands this morning. the east coast and main cities are buried in snow record snow falls from washington d.c. to new york city. 30 deaths are blamed on the weather. people suffering heart attacks while shoveling all of the snow. there's a reward for helping find the person responsible for running over a trooper in rowan county saturday morning. trooper robert trevini tried to tell two men on four wheelers to stay off the icy highway. he got out of his patrol car and one of the atvs charged at him running him over. the trooper has a broken leg and other injuries but the drivers got away. the troopers association is offering a $1,000 reward for

arrest. a man shot by a driver he tried to assist in north carolina leaves behind a 17 month old son. the suspect has a court appearance today. the shooting happened friday. authorities say a driver spun out on ice became belligerent and became firing as people approached to help. marvin jacob lee is in jail without bond for the murder of jefferson hefner. authorities say they cut their way out of a maximum security jail friday and used bed sheets to repell to freedom. the men are considered armed and dangerous. a community meeting meant to discuss the rancher stand off at an oregon refuge was canceled because of safety concerns. it was set to happen today. authorities planned to protest the meeting and block the entrance of the center where it was supposed to be held. an armed group has been

january 2 to protest the land policies. oregon lawmakers have been increasing pressure to step in and end the occupation. trial starts today in winston salem over the voter id law. we expect a week of testimony before a federal judge will determine whether the man diet violates the constitution or the federal rights act. the carolina panthers are super bowl bound after winning the nfc title. last night in charlotte the panthers beat arizona 49-15. next stop super bowl 50 in two weeks where the panthers take on the denver broncos. bet updates on the go on line and on the wral mobile phone app. 6:52 now. the movie with the most oscar nominations topped the weekend box office. >> but it wasn't a great weekend for the box office. we'll explain after the break. cbs this morning is coming

here's charlie rose. we did check on unc chapel hill and classes will resume at noon today for staff. area schools are closed today but people are back to work.

the road conditions on fox 50 at 7 for the latest traffic updates before you head out and our drive 5 crews are out monitoring road conditions so you don't have to. >> plus this week is national school choice week. how organizers hope to raise awareness for parents and students planning for the next school year. those stories and more starting on fox 50 at 7. the snowy frontier saga the revenant was the best taking in an estimated $16 million. star wars the force awakens came in second at $14 million. last week's number one the kevin hart ice cube comedy ride along 2 dropped steeply to third place at $13 million. >> weekend movie going was effected up and down the east coast by the winter storm. no surprise there the blizzard forced theater closures in d.c. and new york and caused hundreds of theaters to suspend shows.

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