about 24 hours ago we learned macy's was closing its doors inside the chapel hill mall. the mall is already struggling. >>reporter: the mayor sent out this statement today saying there is unease about the macy's store closing and he is sending his thoughts and prayers to the 91 people who will lose their jobs. shoppers are concerned about chapel hill mall itself, hoping it can survive this major blow. >> i have shop here for years and i am sad it is going. >> it is the beginning of the end. >>reporter: reactions from shoppers after the news broke shop due to slumping sales. this woman works in a salon owned by a different company inside of macy's and believes the closing of the anchor store doesn't hold well for the mall's future. >> it is not going to last much longer. we have all heard the talk that it is going to turn into the next rolling acres. >>reporter: rolling acres posted 2008, and since then many photographs have capture the condition of the vacant building. chapel hill has been in and out of foreclosure proceedings. >> we need to try to attract possible. >>re

the temperature nasty. 15 degrees. 32 and chapel hill -- and chapel hill -- you chapel hill-- in chapel hill. minneapolis five degrees below zero. the cold air is going to move off to the east. we stay cold into the night. we have not had that cold air up north. lake effects cranking up all kinds of snow in new york and cleveland and michigan. closer to home, we are not saying much. they could say that way. -- it could say that way -- stay tomorrow by 5:00 we are clear. then as we go through wednesday, we start seeing clouds. some snowflake possibilities thursday into friday. wind chill's today are going to stay in the teens and 20's. tonight, single digits. then tomorrow, the big high pressure system still here. you will start to see an area of low pressure. that will be sliding across the u.s.. for today, we stay dry. 32 and -- in henderson. your first alert seven-day wednesday the clouds move back in and we see 40. friday is a rain event, up to three quarters of an inch possible. saturday, cloudy skies, 43. sunday, 48. a few snowflakes possible saturday morning. today, skies stay cle

the dew point 20, humidity at 43%. 42 chapel hill. clear skies, beautiful day. we've had highs in the 30's for quite a while now. this is our winter storm developing. there is not a lot of precipitation with it yet. there have been tornado warnings in louisiana and mississippi. to worry about, but look at all the winter storm warnings from kentucky, tennessee, north carolina, virginia. the bull's-eye for heavy snow is around washington, d.c. and baltimore. blizzard warnings are in effect, and a blizzard watch to new york city. quiet this evening through midnight. mid-to-upper 20's by tomorrow morning. the mixture comes our way. mid-30's across the coastal plains. the impact will be much less their from the winter storm. as you get into the triangle and northwest, we struggled to get to 32. here we go again. after midnight, the precipitation coming in. sunrise, snow it first, even around the sandhills. heavy snow for a time, then sleet, then freezing rain. how much depends on the time of the transition, but it looks like snow through the midday at the virginia bo

some problems in chapel hill with black ice. 32 rocky mount, 35 south hill, 36 in fayetteville and clinton. again, there are pockets of freezing temperatures this morning. sunshine and 52 at noon but increasing clouds at 4 o'clock pick and 58 degrees. bracing for summary tomorrow. i'll talk more about that in a few minutes. of the spots are on the ads , or a couple of spots. >> this has been a dramatic picture we have been shown you from durham at davis drive and 54. the durham county sheriff tweeted this picture. at 8:03 you can see the danger we are running into on secondary roads, especially shaded areas this morning. still a lot of ice lingering out there, kind of surprising after the temperatures lingering above freezing overnight, but, you know, in certain areas, it just depends on what kind of sun you had yesterday that feeds into the weather , if you got any melting in the north side of raleigh, a picture from a twitter follower indicating that one of those neighborhood streets there still is snow and ice covered. hearing about ice on brier creek parkway at lumley road well. a numb

john: just got word chapel hill carrboro is closed. don: as you head out temperatures a little warmer than yesterday. before freezing in many locations. by 9:00 up to 40 and mostly sunny and warmer. all the kids who have the late start you will have warmer temperatures. seven-day forecast 58 today, tomorrow morning i think we will deal with rain and thursday 43. friday, saturday, sunday back near 60. amber: a quick peek out on 40 and south saunders you see the decent shape. always can be a slick spot. secondaries totally different. we have the water main break on highway 98 approaching u.s. 1 and within lane getting -- one lane is getting by. is next. john: for barbara, amber rupinta, don schwenneker and the team i'm john clark. make it a great day! >>> good morning, america. six days to iowa. a furious fight to the finish. >> they throw all this stuff at me and i'm still standing. >> democratic candidates make their closing arguments on while republican front-runner

chapel hill delayed three hours. chat hall am are closed durham public closed. franklin county and granville all closed today. >> halifax on a two hour delay. lee county closed. mecklenburg county virginia closed. moore county on a two hour delay. north hampton two hour delay. >> orange county and person county vance county wake county delayed three hours and warren county are closed. >> you can see the closings and delays on wral.com or the bottom of your screen right now. >>> there's a chance that the temperatures could still lower and get towards freezing later this morning but we came in and it was pretty warm. >> even if it does it's going to be fairly brief. let's take a look. north of raleigh and west of raleigh we still have enough ice on the roads in places to cause some of those closures and delays in wake county as well. roxboro at least downtown has done a nice job of clearing those roads and you are not going to run into the same did yesterday but there's still some ice. crews all over are going to be talking about that. 36 in durham, 39 in buck hor

current numbers across the area right now, 25 oxford and roxboro. 28 chapel hill. and southern pines. 26 fayetteville. 25 wilson. looking at the day ahead temperatures in the 20's. by lunchtime mid 40's. by that afternoon around 50 degrees under mostly sunny skies. warmer tomorrow and we will talk about that in a bit but now we will talk traffic and weather. amber rupinta is off so i will handle the traffic duties. several incidents showing up now. we are watching this on i-40 exit 276 fayetteville road you can expect delays. we have a traffic camera on that? reports that the car went over the guard rail. you can see emergency responders there. that will cause problems. we should have more in a bit. we will check a couple other incidents. we have another stalled vehicle on offer ret at johnson dairy and accident atlantic avenue and whitaker mill. this is 401. we will check that and travel times in a bit. barbara: ice and snow covering many side roads and causing closings. wake, durham and orange all closed. barbara: classes canceled in chapel hill. carrboro, chatha

maybe some in raleigh but not chapel hill. through the afternoon mostly cloudy and 46 degrees. after today warmer temperatures. seven-day forecast in a couple of minutes. barbara: first this morning an over overnight accident causing problems in southern wake county. around 2:00 this morning a car slammed into a power pole north of highway 42. the driver tried to run but was caught. it knocked out power to about 500 people. rocks service station road is closed and is not expected to open until after the commute. john: a good samaritan saves a driver in fayetteville after a bad crash. it was last night on charles avenue near eloise street. joshua watkins was speeding and went off the rod and rolled at least five times. when troopers arrived a good samaritan was using a jack to raise the vehicle to get him out. watkins was not wearing a seat belt. barbara: no charges in a crash involving a pedestrian in wake county. scene of the ramp from i-40 to highway 70 in garner. police say jason jones ran his car off the road and hit a person person. lucas was pronounced dead. the ramp was

thomas more in chapel hill. she was known to friends as kenzie and had a passion for competitive jump roping. she spent most of her time practicing with the bouncing bulldogs team. a funeral mass will be this morning at 11:00. barbara: it is 5:38 and 28 degrees. new details about the shooting what the suspect is revealing about his intentions. john: a school ski trip ends in why no one was supposed to don: welcome back. let's look out the weather window. should be easy, lots of sunshine. we will warm quickly. we are in the 20's now but we will climb to 50 degrees. currently, 31 roxboro, 32 hillsborough. 29 rocky mount. 29 downtown raleigh. 30 durham. 31 in fayetteville. 23 sanford, 32 lillington, hope mills 32. looking at the day, 29 now. by lunch 50. late day 54 and lots of sunshine. we have a nice day today but a we will talk about the rain in the complete forecast in a bit. john: new this morning a strong earthquake hits off the coast of northern japan. no tsunami warning was issued but this earthquake was gi

. >>> the unc chapel hill employee is in the hospital after an accident. unc said it happened in and electrical closet there. eyewitnesses tell us that they saw a man's body on fire before he collapsed. students quickly jumped in to put out the flames by hand. >> the power went up on the and some flames coming out of a room. and we realized they were not from a room but a man on fire. he steps out and falls to the ground. >> what an experience they went through. the university spokesman said that the employee was taken to the hospital. fire and safety officials are now investigating. >>> officials are trying to figure out what charlotted a fire in a laundry room in a moore county nursing home. the fire happened on south mcneil street. workers got the residents out of the that building. two were take tonight hospital. >>> some residents ever johnston county are cheering after the decision to build a train hub near her homes was scrapped. they want to the express their opposition to the csx plan to build a new rail yard that would have been called the caroli

roxboro going to 52. 55 roanoke rapids. 57 rocky mount. 54 chapel hill. into the sand hills, siler city 55, 57 goldsboro and 58 fayetteville under southwest wind. tonight back into the 30's for overnight lows. 33 raleigh. 32 durham. first alert seven-day forecast powered by accuweather, going to get wet as we go through the day tomorrow and into tomorrow night rain developing. 50 degrees. sunday 45 and cold air pours in. on martin luther king holiday in the 30's. john: monday is cold. don: yes, the cold air arrives. barbara: we have been warned. john: 4:52. local warehouse is refurbishing thousands of computers. barbara: amber will tell us about hey, are you coming to the 9am? i'm on the phone with the cable company. we at time warner cable need to apologize to you. we no longer offer you an excuse to avoid that meeting. we're making a bunch of changes at time warner cable. you don't even have to call. now you can chat with a live agent on your computer or mobile device 24/7 from virtually anywhere. or use the my twc app to schedule a time for us to call

current numbers south hill you are down to 19 right now. 23 roxboro. 27 oxford. 29 chapel hill. 23 louisburg. 22 sanford and 30 southern pines, 27 fayetteville and 28 goldsboro. we look at the day ahead by lunchtime sunny and 45. through the late day we will be near 50. sand hills low 50's with lots of sunshine. tomorrow we could see a couple of thermometers near 60 but we have rain back in the forecast. let's talk weather and traffic back to barbara. barbara: let's look at the roads from our d.o.t. kafpls -- cams. this is 40 and 540 and this ramp is dangerous. in many cases roads look pretty good but some black ice so take it easy if you have to get out early on the roads. we will have weather and traffic throughout the morning. >> we said before the roads look all right but there are spots. barbara: a lot of them in good shape. >> black ice is causing some problems. ed crutch is live in -- crump is ed: i will give you an example of what you will encounter when you leave the tphaeubtdzneighborhood. we had to get out of the way for the newspaper guy. this is what you see coming out of the ne

wake cut schools and chapel hill carrboro schools three-hour delay. barbara: classes canceled for chatham. durham, franklin, granville. lee, orange, person, vance and warren. so is mecklinburg county, virginia. john: two-hour is halifax, moore, northampton and weldon. for a complete list of closings barbara: crews worked yesterday to get parking lots and sidewalks cleared of ice and snow as schools were late. there is sanderson high covered with highs and this is how it is this morning. all the ice is phroutd but you see -- plowed but it is a little safer but there's still a little bit of ice and snow melt. wake county schools on a three-hour delay. so they begin at 10:20 and classes across the county in durham another snow day, classes closed today in durham. anthony wilson is in breaking news one. is your neighborhood any better? anthony: we are on urban street in durham and you are looking at why they are holding off because some of the roads that access they are working, we are told, to clean up some of the neighborhood streets. they made progress

that's chapel hill. further south, southern portions wake county, this is faulk v, holly springs area 1 to 3 inches possible. this area in white, 5 to 10 inches of snow and sleet pox. that's roxboro county, northern portions of granville county and mecklenburg county. we have our crew, emma wright in person isn't. i'm sure she'll be keeping us totals. let's talk about ice. this is going to be critical causing power outages. we all know these temperatures very cold. it's going to be crucial to stay warm. the bulls eye of ice off to our from where we were thinking yesterday, siler industry, chatham county, orange county, person county, a half inch of ice possible. for the majority of wake county, about a quarter inch possible. the ice is only part of the battle because the winds are going to pick up. wind busts could be approaching that in itself is impressive. combine that with the weight of the snow and ice and it's going to be treacherous. 33 our high in raleigh, 32 in durham. i do expect them to stay a

roxboro, maybe durham, chapel hill, a little bit of wet snow. clayton and raleigh mainly just rain north winds 3 to 5 miles per hour. once again, little or no accumulation. but we'll see a chance of that moisture in the morning hours. and then on martin luther king day, monday, you know, get out and give a day of service, it's going to be cold, windchills in the 20s. but it'll be nice and sunny, 36 degrees. and on tuesday, when you head back to work or school, this is going to be really cold at the bus stop. just 11 for a windchill at 8:00 a.m. 20 degrees and basically the temperature is at or below freezing throughout much of the day with the brief high of 34 degrees on tuesday. and then wednesday, 44. thursday, 45, friday, i'm more interested in. because there's a potential for starting out as some snow. that looks like it could be a little more impressive. but it's still five days away. 42 degrees. and then we could get rid of that precipitation saturday morning. it'll be 45. so you know this is coming. forecasted 56. my bad. 61 was the high

about that super bowl and >>> big news out of chapel hill today. carolina women's basketball coach silva hatchel has been suspended for two games. she'll sit out a pair of one game suspensions first from carolina. the university suspended hatchel for one game for making contact with an official during sunday's loss at duke. hatchel for a level three rules violation for simulating game day introductions for recruits during an official visit. hatchel will miss sunday's game at nc state and the february 7 game at boston college. in the event you haven't heard yet the carolina panthers have another football game left to play this year. the jerseys are packed and ready for super bowl 50 and with the count down to super bowl 50 with t minus nine days one much the more interesting story lines will focus on the two quarterbacks involved. the panthers cam newton and peyton manning of the broncos. jared caught up with him in advance of super bowl 50. >> injuries, questions about arm strength and whether the broncos should ride with back up brock osweiler mad

. >>> in chapel hill a battle between the tar hills and eagles of boston college. unc had no problem winning this one. 89-62. >>> joined by meteorologist bill reh now. you really missed out if you didn't get out outside today. this is a time lapse video. >> i should be watching the sky. it is completely clear. >> it was a beautiful afternoon. >> we will see 60s for everybody tomorrow. here is a live look. temperatures are in the lower 40s. rays of sunshine, you saw a big ten for today. how about a -- >> nine. >> this day will start off nice and sunny. the radar complete apply clean things looking good. there are a couple of clouds up in west virginia. temperatures as we mention 47 in raleigh, 34 in fayette village, 40 in south hill virginia, 37 in roxboro. you can see they will drop into the 30s tonight. as we look at the hourly forecast, 37 better than this morning. 42 at 8:00, 65 at 2:00, 65 at 4:00 and 59 degrees at 6:00. 66 raleigh, 66 durham and 6 in fayetteville. we will continue into monday with this weather. as early as tuesday night more likely wednesday w

. >>> we are following breaking news right now at unc chapel hill. a worker was injured following an accident that prompted a power outage. wcnc's mario boone joins us from campus with the latest. >> reporter: well, here's what we know right now. this incident happened at die hall and the university is not telling us exactly what took place. but what we have learned from eyewitnesses who were here on the scene is that a worker and some type of accident was caught on fire on his body. and what we do know is parts of the campus are without power right now. you can see this building right here is one of them. those lights that you see there are emergency lights. now, a moment ago i talked with an eyewitness news. in fact, wcnc was the only news crew here to speak with that eyewitness news, and he described seeing that worker run out of the building with his body engulfed in flames. listen to this. >> it was from his legs area all i mean, he was like most of his body seemed to be on fire. >> reporter: and back here on the ground those vehicles you see wi

from across the region 42 roxboro, 47 chapel hill. 41 smithfield. 45 this clinton. latest satellite and radar rain. you can see the line to the south and west. this will lift throughout the day and keep us in rain chances. by 5:00 tonight spotty showers southeast and through the overnight relatively dry. tomorrow another rounds of showers to go into the afternoon. for the rest of today temperatures in the upper 40's. not changing much. cloudy and rain around. winds up to 20 miles an hour. temperatures mid 40's. 45 this afternoon in roxboro, 48 durham. cloudy skies and rain around. south and west into the sand hills near 50 in pinehurst, 51 in fayetteville. tonight back into the 30's for i put rain mainly around goldsboro, khreutd, clinton, fayetteville. first alert seven-day forecast powered by accuweather tomorrow temperatures back in the upper 40's and away stay this friday. near 50. lots of sunshine. saturday into sunday mostly sunny and that sunshine will raise the terms to 63 sunday and monday 65 and ground hog day 60. check out this picture. these two girls fr

plus nc state and unc faced off in chapel hill. highlights and reaction from the game. >>> good evening i'm maggie newland. thanks for joining us. we begin with breaking news out of franklin county where a man was killed in a skydiving accident. we're learning more about how it happened and the young man. it happened at triangle skydiving in in louisburg. wncn's amy cutler joins us live from the scene with more. amy? >> reporter: well, there are heavy hearts here at the center tonight. the owner identifying the victim as james. they tell us he was a regular. he would come almost every weekend. this is a photo of him taken bust before the accident. skydiving center says he had nearly 2,000 jumps, that he knew what he was doing. but something this afternoon went terribly wrong. he spoke with him 20 minutes before he died. that his parachute worked. but somehow, somehow he had a hard landing. we still don't know the why or how of that. first responders quickly arrived but it was just too late. the owner explaining he was a former mari

we take another look of video become in chapel hill a -- back in chapel hill and the big flakes are attractive but potentially slippery. there is traffic on the roads now going through the cities and cons and areas where -- and towns but bear in mind it is going to take a bit for the to clear some of this away. so if after you choice about being inside or outside and don't have to be anyplace like work, if you are not a message responder stay inside if you can. we will show you the video. coming back live now, we are entering durham and as you can see the snow is on the ground in durham on 15/501. looking on the other side that is mount moriah road. we will see if we can look behind me. we will take a peek. that is a lot of snow. it has accumulated a lot in the past few minutes. we will go back here to the view of mount moriah. again it is snow on the ground and potentially slippery. so be careful as you move out here today. we would like it talk about snow and not wrecks. at this point we don't have that problem. we want to keep it that way. enjoy your warm home wherever you are watching and

hundreds filled chapel hill attended the funeral bought this t- shirt in honor of maleah... a new angel in heaven. "it's a precious life, so you've got to represent somehow." "i would not like to wear this shirt like this. she was "with each t-shirt that is printed a portion of the proceeds will go back to maleah's family to help funeral expenses." as the t-shirt's say... maleah williams is gone, but not forgotten. "time makes stuff bearable, but it doesn't heal all pains." three men now face murder charges in the death of maleah williams. coming up in sportsts. carolina's living the perfect life on the court. up next... the usc women tip-off conference play at home. plus, we look back to the usc men's big victory last night. sports is next. carolina shakes off the rust to dominate its conference opener. first time in 12days. the usc women... hosting arkansas. second ranked usc... struggling in the first frame... razorbrbks tied at 9 after o o. ==== second quarter carolina turns it on. tiffany mitchell sizes up and buries the triple. === later... tina roy... living the downt

we've been seeing flurries for several minutes in durham county and chapel hill. the dot will reevaluate in the morning and decide whether they need to send out more brine trucks to put this mixture on the road. if it's more towards a rain event, they may hold off. they have five trucks out today covering durham county, but want they say if you will be out in the morning and you see one of those trucks, be careful around there. give those trucks plenty of space. we will keep you updated on conditions in durham county. steve: thanks. status quo for cumberland county schools. tisha: raising for tonight and this weekend, we are live on i-95 with the latest. >> the dot trucks out in force tonight, making sure the roads are covered. we are right behind one of the salt and brine now -- trucks now. there is a thin glaze on the interstate itself, both lanes, and they are coming back, making sure that they cover the entrance and exited ramps are tomorrow, they will be out in full force again, as well as friday and saturday. we will keep you updated and let you know how thi

that includes unc chapel hill you'll find a full list at abc11.com. steve d.: here is a look at rdu's terminal number two, and it doesn't look like there are many people right now. these people are looking for ways to get out of town. nearly 170 flights are canceled for tomorrow. most airlines are letting you change your plans free of charge if you are planning on flying the next few days. this is been a forecasting nightmare. chris: this is. they always have everything on the table. they have a good handle on it and we will share all the details with you. snowfall totals a little bit higher than what we saw yesterday, especially near the virginia border. still, that threat of dangerous ice accumulation for others. if you have any last minute plans or need to get something at the store, it is going to stay dry right through tomorrow morning. it is going to level off into for tomorrow morning. pictures are up and we have a serious winter weather advisory all the way to goldsboro in sampson county. it will change over to plain old reign as this new syst

temperatures across the region in the 40's and 50's this morning. 45 chapel hill. 37 sanford, 51 r.d.: 46 fayetteville. 43 in smithfield and 49 goldsboro. a wide spread. we will see temperatures go down by noon with showers around. 47 degrees. this afternoon showers will shift east. some to the north and west will see a little sunshine. the wind looking better. we will talk about that in the seven-day in a bit. john: breaking news, a deadly shooting at a homeless camp in seattle. two people killed, three wounded. encampment and it was targeted. no one was arrested. police it is not clear if anyone is obstetrical holed up in the -- still holed up in the wildlife refuge. governor mccrory and johnston county officials are putting a holds on a c.s.x. location. barbara: he said it is not a viable option for the project. caitlin knute is one of the first to cover this story when it started to unfold and joins us with the latest. caitlin: when i covered the they would be losing their land to the railroad company under eminent domain. many started to fight back and they view this as a major v

barbara: three people in chapel hill are being remembered. the race will benefit the deah barakat and yusor abu-salha memorial fund at u.n.c. chapel hill. they with another a sophomore at n.c. state were shot to death in february. registration for the 5-k is 7:00 this morning at the old well an race is at 7:30. the university plans to make this community project an annual event. amber: a private rocket launch goes up without a hitch. barbara: but the mission was a failure. amber: what happened when the platform in the pacific ocean. barbara: some woke up to a surprise snowfall yesterday morning. we have some video of it in case you missed it. don, good morning. stphrao we won't see any today or tomorrow but we have snowflakes in the seven-day forecast. we have that in a bit. as we go to break we have the dry across the carolinas on this is connor like so many kids, he was missing things in school - distracted - disengaged - just not getting it. we tried tutors but they didn't connect. then we heard about sylvan's new teaching system, sylvansy

you go back here around chapel hill and it's there they are beginning to see the snow reach the ground, same thing happened in greensboro, echoes over them for a long time and took a while for the atmosphere to come down so human beings could see them. where it hasn't snowed vigorously yet, temperatures above the freezing mark. and south temperatures all above freezing at this particular point in time. system number 1 now moving across central north carolina and we will throw a few flurries and periods of light snow our way and with temperatures falling too we are just below the freezing mark during that time. there are likely to be at least a few slick spots out there and the winter weather advisory in effect for the triangle goes until 10:00, so be careful if you're out there traveling. i don't think it's anything that common sense won't get you through but we don't want you to think that it's just a clean slate because it's not. now, the next system is much more impressive. it doesn't look that way right now, basically it's an upper level system with that growing area of snow here o

chapel hill, 28 louisburg, 27 r.d. and 26 sanford, 27 smithfield. 29 goldsboro, 30 fayetteville and 36 lumberton. looking at the day ahead, we have temperatures today already in the 20's. by 10:00 mid 30's. 34. by lynch we are in the upper 30's and above freezing. it will be the warmest in the past couple. 40 40's this afternoon. colder air then works in and will change any precipitation to freezing rain or snow overnight. we will talk about that in a bit but now we attack traffic with amber rupinta. amber: it is very quiet on the roads as well and pretty clear if you are traveling in wake, durham or cumberland county. person county a little different. a live report coming from person county, roxboro. this sis cumberland county and no problems here and many main roads in wake county, durham county were treated with the brine solution. a lot of folks department -- didn't see precipitation. some schools on a delay. we are accident free and it is nice and quiet this morning. no problems or delays. wake county as well the

as far as the temperatures go, 30 roxboro, 30 objection for the. 37 chapel hill. 38 sanford, 41 smithfield and 43 we look at the day ahead 37 now. by lunchtime a few showers and 43. i think this afternoon we will see a little north apdnd east some sun and this is the cool epls of the next season. we will have great weather for the weekend. we will have that in a bit. barbara: right now about 500 people are waking up without power in southern wake county because of what you see, about 2:00 this morning a car slammed into a pole only rock service station road. the driver apparently tried to run but was caught. it is closed and not oregon as the leader followers to go home. the man charged and they shot him. barbara: developing this morning an arrest in a pitcherrince sex case. one is charge the with a sex offense. he was fired after he was accused of having sex with inmates. john: an alcohol related incident led to this as the school decided to partially live sanctions on sorority activities. amber: duke administrators say they had a candid conversation with the sororities about alcohol use

nine chapel hill for wind chill and 11 roanoke rapids. clear in the area and no cloud cover to hold in the heat. that means the cold temperatures. big snow in parts of colorado, nebraska, missouri, iowa. this is going to shift east. as it gets closer to us today we won't see anything but clear skies, clear this evening. by tomorrow we have clouds and tomorrow evening a little purple showing up in the northern counties. this has two things against it for snow for us. mountains and eat a lot of the moisture out. once it hits the area we will have low humidity in the lower part of the atmosphere so there's not a lot of moisture to work w. you may see flurries tomorrow evening and maybe sprinkles in the sand hills the. then we have clear skies working in on thursday. arctic express in full ride today in the region. high pressure in place giving us the sunshine and blue skies and cold temperatures on this tuesday. highs today around freezing. you will touch it in wake forest and wendell, 33 raleigh and cary, garner will go to 33. raleigh low 3

and in chapel hill seeing flurries, too. and snowfall should not affect thank you to tommy out there in our storm chaser. two people in virginia are facing terror-related charges this morning. the 22-year-old was arrested at richmond international airport on friday. and ahsan allegedly drove him to the airport. the department of justice is saying that he was trying to get to syria to join isis. both men are from the washington, d.c. area. president barack obama signed emergency declaration for flint, michigan, that city is suffering a crisis because high levels of lead were discovered in their drinking water and declared unsafe. f.e.m.a. is coordinating the relief efforts including water, filters and cartridges and other items for the town for 90 days. available to help out. new this morning an in plosion at a houston-area chemical plant others hurt. the accident happened yesterday the company is saying workers were doing a routine function and the contractors equipment exploded. the contractor died at the scene. and now mov

unc chapel hill and unc central has a familiar fan. >> ranked mooping the stop schools out by star class they rng number one in accused democratics and athletics in the acc. ranks were based on academic excellence, career readiness and the university of noter dame, unc chapel hill ranked third and the full list of those top ranked universities at wral.com. >> i like that. >> yeah. monday we talk about the temperature teeter to ther. today we're on the low. tomorrow we go back up. it's 40s today. expecting 50s tomorrow and staying through saturday. so milder air is on the way. we've had clear skies this evening. johnny on the spot. took a great shot of the crescent moon. he said we have great earth shine with clear skies. of course the waxing which means growing rent moon and just looked to the western sky and see that growing moon. it's a beautiful picture that i'll post on facebook when we're done with weather. see what's going on this evening. good for moon viewing. it's colder last evening at 8:00. definitely in the 40s. this evening much colder. not talking about much of a windchill.

in the triangle, 56 chapel hill. durham 57. raleigh and carrie, 56 henderson. 55 in south hill virginia. 57 on saturday. it'll be freezing at 8:00 a.m. bright and dry at noon, in the upper 40s. we hit 57. 52 at 5:00. and then sunday, 66 degrees. it'll be chilly but not freezing at 8:00 a.m. bright and dry and yeah that's a bucket and a hose and some soap. it's time to wash the cars. you have a great day to do it on sunday. and it won't bring you any rain. you know the old wives tale that you get rain after that. that front approaching late in the day, 66 degrees. we'll see 63 on ground hog day. a mix of clouds and sun. and on wednesday, that's when we'll see rain. tuesday night into wednesday. showers are likely on the way to work or school wednesday. showery a cold front is coming. one with a little punch to it. we'll drop to 50 on thursday. and 47 a week from today. but sunny. i think probably we'll see a shadow. we'll have six weeks of winter. but if it's winter like this weekend, sign me up baby, i'm ready. >> that's a nice

teen. >> she died in a plane crash, 17-year-old mckenzie rustin was a senior at east chapel hill high school. she were one of two people on a plane when it went down earlier this month just two miles from the runway of the alpine wyoming airport. she was active with the competitive jump roping team, the bouncing bulldogs. they said she was one of the best in the entire country. they are holding that overnight vigil for her now, her funeral mass is scheduled for this morning as well. >>> today "wncn investigates" will tour the duke energy coal excavation operation. >> this comes just a day after the environmental review commission got an update on the clean-up efforts across the state. here's emma wright. >> reporter: nearly two years after tens of thousands of tons of coal ash spilled into the dan river clean-up continues. some people living near the ash from the state health department warning them of elevated levels of pollutants in their well water. the state says the water is safe but environmental groups say they just want to seep it cleaned up. >> we'd like to see this agen

we haven't heard anything from chapel hill carrboro schools. that means as of now, school is on track and on time for tomorrow. now one of the biggest problems that we actually saw today when we were out and about is that people were having trouble navigating sidewalks. many neighborhood sidewalks have not been touched so far and unc chapel hill students walking to class had a hard time getting through slick paths. some people were walking in the road when they could. but even then they had to hurdle over the mounds of snow on the side of the road. i spoke to one woman from chapel hill ridge fallly from pittsburgh. she says weather events around here are handled much differently. >> that would be gone two days they have the equipment and the know how and the plans. we don't get enough snow down here to know how to do it officially but i think after this many days its should be gone. >> today's weather helped melt a lot of snow and ice. but sidewalks will continue to be a problem. probably tomorrow. after that shay should be clearing up. there a

. >>> a chapel hill employee is in the hospital after an accident. it happened in day hey hall. it happened in and electrical closet. eyewitnesses tell us that they saw a man's body on fire before he collapsed. students quickly jumped in to put the flames out by hand. >> power went out and we came out of lab and noticed some flames coming out of the room. and we realized they were not from a room, they were from a man that was and fire. he citizens out and falls to the ground. >> what a scary scene. and a university spokesperson said that the employee was take tonight hospital. they are now investigating. >>> officials are trying to figure out what started a fire inside a laundry room in a nurse being home it happened on cherry plantation. workers at the facility immediately got the residents out of the building. but two residents did have to be taken to the hospital. >>> people were cheering last night when the building of a csx hub was crab was scrapped. they want to create a transfer hub in the area. and the homeowners said that csx told them they would use eminent domain to

wake county, durham public, chapel hill carrboro and orange closed. anthony: classes canceled in chatham. franklin, hall faction, lee, mecklinburg, moore closed for students but employees have a that-hour delay. and nash, rocky mount, northampton. person all closed. also closed warren, welden city and vance. barbara: two-hour delay johnston, harnett. roanoke rapids. no delays in krupltd, hoke, sampson and wayne. a truly horrible story out of robinson county yesterday. two children were phaufrled by a pitbull one of them a an 8-year-old boy survived. no word if charges will be filed. today attorneys set to argue before a federal judge in the trial about north carolina voter i.d. law. the naacp and others challenging the law continue to argue that much confusion remains about what voters will need to cast ballots in the march primary. the arguments are six months after the legislature amended it to allow voters to cast provisional ballots without one of six specified photo i.d. cards. barbara: a man who shot and killed a good samaritan is making his fir

rapids, 20 in chapel hill, 19 in wilson, 17 sanford, 19 southern pines. fayetteville 25. clinton 24 degrees. looking at the day ahead. mainly clear skies and high clouds moving through, 19 by lunch 31. this afternoon i threw in a snow shower chance after 4:00 to 5:00. that could be specially into the evening hours. we will talk about that and we have the seven-day forecast including a little bit of everything. wintry mix friday. barbara: we have been automobileble to avoid snow. john: that is apparently coming to an end with the d.o.t. preparing for a rough few days. we go to anthony wilson live in the first alert storm chaser to bring us the latest from the roads. anthony: we are giving you a look on the off ramp on to it may not be possible for you to see because it is a little dark but there are streaks of brine in front of us as we roll along. this is one bit of evidence that the d.o.t. is already deployed. they got out here last night trying to brine as many of the major highways, ramps and bridges as they could. the cold temperatures were a factor. they didn't stay

we are having a bumpy ride on brookside drive in chapel hill. that is just off macauley street. this gives you a sense of why some of the school systems around the triangle were very quick, really, to cancel school today. it's because these back neighborhood roads are just very, very difficult to navigate. but, look at this. we are moving on to macauley street and what a difference. right? you can actually see the the lanes are squeezed down into one because of all the buildup of the slush, snow and ice. but, these are maneuverable, at least. and of course, we have gone to the main roads, those are in even better shape, but as we showed you last half hour, the black ice is what you really have to be careful of when you get on those primary roads because of all of that black ice. but again, we are traveling around chapel hill and are going to check out some other spots and let you know what it looks like in our next half hour. >> julia chin -- sims, showing us a great example of how roads can look after just one turn and look at the beautiful sunrise at 7:12. >>> democratic presi

in durham and chapel hill, no problems to report on major routes. it says buckner at the top of your tv screen, there is an accident on 85 southbound on the right shoulder. we could see a little bit of a delay just south of oxford this morning. grief counselors will be on hand at two harnett county schools. >> students returned for the first time today since a couple of teens were killed in a hit and run crash. wral's terra lynnnnis live to tell us more. >> reporter: the students just 13 and 16 years old. investigators still trying to find the driver that is responsible for their deaths actually group of teens were walking home from a convenience store on highway 421 around 11:00 saturday night and that is when that driver hit them from behind. 13-year-old jennifer sharp and 16-year-old kyle strait died. 14-year-old steven daniels was treated and released from the hospital. sources told wral that part of a headlight that may belong to a late 1980s or 1990 chevy suburban or tahoe truck. investigators are trying to use that piece of evidence to see if

marshals picked up 26-year- old jamal dixon in chapel hill. the 3 #-year-old victim was killed november 15th at the intersection of liberty street and peachtree place. >>> let's check on the forecast with elizabeth. looks pretty nice out there. >> beautiful. check out this shot from durham. we are looking across the ballpark at the lucky strike tower and it looks gorgeous out they keep that field looking so pretty all year round, even in january. not a cloud in the sky but temperatures are chilly. 3 # in southern pines and rocky mount. 32 in fayetteville. a little bit of a wind chill. it does feel like 25 in fayetteville and 25 in roxboro. not much wind to peek of this morning. lots of sunshine all day and a nice little warm-up over yesterday. highs chime into the mid-50s this afternoon. we'll see skies clouding up friday with rain late in the day and overnight. friday's high 50 but then choring out saturday, partly cloudy with a high of 56. >>> a slow ride through garner this morning on 40 westbound. there is a look at i-40 west to the clayto

one-year-old ma-lee-ah williams died three days after the drive-by shooting in chapel hill. she was one of many children outside playing when a gunman opened fire, hitting her in the head. many at her funeral wore t-shirts reading "gone, but not forgotten." 3 (daquan lassiter, maleah's uncle) "i would not like to wear this shirt like this. she was only one -year-old."(imani taborn, maleah's cousin) "nobody deserves to lose their life to some crazy gun violence. it makes it worse, because it's a baby." a portion of the proceeds from t-shirt sales will help cover funeral expenses. three men are now charged with her murder. 3 3 3 happening today.... "eblen charities" is expanding heating assistance to more families the "low income energy assistance program" will be open to households that qualify. it is based on family income guidelines. applications will be taken today at "eblen's" service center at westgate shopping center in asheville. for more information on the guidelines, go to wlos.com and click-on "news links". 3 3 today, henderson county commissioners will hold a publi

we are live in chapel hill. john: thank you. another snow day for thousands several districts canceled school. they were very concerned the buses would not be able to get through ice covered streets. gloria rodriguez is live and raleigh and we will check in with her right now. reporter: the good news, everything went smoothly at carroll middle school and all wake county middle school. we were told the buses were able to get units to school safely. right now students are in class and the icy roads were not a happened the past few days. finally back to school for students, four days after the snowstorm hit. many students say they are happy to be back. like they got boring for some of the days. >> i liked it, but sometimes it got boring. reporter: it was not as his nose classes on a three-hour delay, classes earning well after three of p.m.. maintenance crews have been clearing the ice and snow. mother nature to do its job, letting the ice and snow melt. reporter: father joe campbell says the school district may the right decision

thomas more catholic church in chapel hill. there will be an overnight vigil and a funeral mass tomorrow morning at 11:00. wyoming. steve: 10 american sailors are iran. the nine men and one woman were detained yesterday in the you can see their hands behind down there on the could be lifted. tisha: officials say all 10 people killed in a suicide bombing in istanbul were german tourists. the german interior minister said there are no indications so far that germany was specifically target kid -- steve: new developments in the paris terrorism attack. the cafe targeted in november reopened today for the first time since the assault. fresh flowers and photos of the people killed are still outside. two other cafes targeted in those attacks have also reopened. paris tourism has taken a real hit since the attacks. tisha: ion america and strangled in florence, italy. the prosecutor in the case says ashley olsen could have been strangled to death with a thin court or chain but it is still not clear who killed the 25 euro. her boyfriend

and a second chapel hill bar connected to a deadly drunk driving crash learns its punishment. . the georgia woman charged in connection to a series of jewelry store heists ... including one in mebane stood in federal court monday. 24-year-old abigail kemp had no comment for reporters as she was escorted into an atlanta area court. several family members sat in court supporting kemp. federal investigators say she is responsible for six robberies in five states. they say she managed to get away with diamonds and high-end watches worth more than a million dollars. federal court records say agents made the arrest after analyzing cell tower information and social media. trying to figure how pieces of metal fencing ended up on highway 264-- flattening tires of several vehicles. drivers tell us.. traffic became a mess near knightdale because of what appeared to be pieces of metal fencing scattered across the bypass. an ambulance was one of the damaged vehicles. a second chapel hill bar connected to a deadly drunk driving crash learned its punishment wednesday. the abc commission voted

left chapel hill. took a while the sun came out and turns out to be a beautiful sunset and now it's nighttime right. here's map again and the snow reports. if you see blue that's where flakes were reported a trace rdu. and then some areas were kind of surged it surged in the late in the morning to around lunchtime around franklin county and warren and halifax county and an inch of snow around grassy surfaces in isolated spots but we got the reported into us but it's fun to watch and now we have to deal with the cold temperatures. that's the big news. this is going tie text you more than getting exciteed about seeing a few flakes in the morning -- going to get you excited more than get excited about a few flakes in the it's going to be the coldest night of the year since winter started last year this is going to be very, very cold especially tuesday and wednesday mornings. we are talking teens. 32 right now is cold in roxboro and louisburg. 35 in raleigh and 39 in fayetteville. 37 in wilson. and the sno

church in chapel hill. she spent most of her time practicing with the bouncing bulldogs. john: the clues that lead police to the suspect killer. a divisive sign taken up a local building. what hillsboro leaders now plan to do with the letters. barbara: a downtown ice rink -- it is free if you wear your panthers bluebe. don: very cold air moving in in the 70 forecast. as we had to break come a we check on the first hurricane of 2016. hurricane alex. it will be closer to europe than barbara: as a light look at fayetteville street. 48 degrees. don schwenneker is coming up with the seven day forecast. downtown raleigh. the ice rink is open through the end of this month and there's today, you can save two dollars john: a raleigh road shutdown, reopened hours later. a car smashed into a pole, causing the poll and lines to come down in the road. the road was finally reopened around 2:00 this morning. the confederate memorial words have been removed from the doorway -- they voted in july to remove the lettering and

you are not seeing precipitation. 35 in chapel hill, 38 and wilson. we are seeing warm, moist air. 41 in smithfield, 42 in fayetteville, 44 in lumberton. right now, temperatures in the 30's by lunchtime. 43 degrees. showers south and east of the triangle. we will see some of those through the i-95 corridor. alamance county might see sunshine before the sunset. a warmer weekend ahead. barbara: the owners of a self-described animal shelter in hoke county facing animal deplorable conditions. the aspca brought in trailers to treat animals while volunteers from humane societies and rescue groups helped remove more than 600 dogs, cats, horses, birds and livestock. >> the animals -- we're seeing animals that seem to be malnourished. barbara: at one time, the haven animals but it has been decade. charges. hired by the city of flint, michigan. mark edwards helped expose the tapwater. with michigan switched the source to the fund river to save money. levels of lead flight had to turn around after several flight attendants and crew members got sick. the plane la

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. >> a power outage on the chapel hill campus. we have chopper 11 hd overhead checking it out. lots of darkness inside those buildings. interestingly, we been taking a look around campus and we see that the stop lights are on, so it appears that this is something isolated to certain parts of the campus. university officials have been tweeting out that the student union and north dining hall are shutdown and other location shutdown as well because of the power outage. there is a game tonight at the smiths enter. we have a couple of crews as soon as we get more, we will be back with you as we learn more about this power outage on the usc chapel hill campus. >> a cold and dry day so far but we're watching a little bit of light snow and flurries coming your way. another cold one, this is day four with highs in the 30's. 37 at south hill, 35 at rocky mount wilson. 38 in fayetteville right now. not all of this reaching the ground, back toward the west of siler city but there are some patches here in gilbert in randolph county where the