. >> larry: karen wynne is live in downtown burnsville. karen, it looks like christmas in january there. >> karen: right, it really does. we can see the christmas decorations are still up in downtown burnsville with some morning snow to go with them. and some students in the area got a belated christmas present, a slightly longer winter break. yancey county resident derrick >> we had to make arrangements to get the vehicles out. take the 4-wheeler down and just be cautious driving. there were some slick spots. there were actually some slightly covered spots in the north kerfs here and there. we had to kind of take our time. >> karen: slick roads caused yancey and madison county schools to close area. it was a surprise for one

. >> larry: karen wynne is live in downtown burnsville. karen, it looks like christmas in january there. >> karen: right, it really does. we can see the christmas decorations are still up in downtown burnsville with some morning snow to go with them. and some students in the area got a belated christmas present, a slightly longer winter break. yancey county resident derrick >> we had to make arrangements to get the vehicles out. take the 4-wheeler down and just be cautious driving. there were some slick spots. there were actually some slightly covered spots in the north kerfs here and there. we had to kind of take our time. >> karen: slick roads caused yancey and madison county schools to close area. it was a surprise for one mountain high school freshman. dot crews were working hard. >> salt trucks. and there's no snow yet. >> karen: but dot workers are taking this light dusting seriously by treating the roads. >> refreezes back in to what we call the black ice. at night that will be the biggest worry. >> karen: and chris with the dot doe

. >> karen: the christmas decorations still up in downtown burnsville this morning. we saw plenty of snow covered land and wet roads in both yancey and madison counties. yancey and madison county schools did let out early. that was a nice surprise for one mountain heritage freshman. >> i thought it was funny because it's been sunny and stuff and we get back to school and it starts snowing. >> karen: alexa says she plans to catch up on a little more sleep. meanwhile, dot crews are out in full force and they are urging anyone in the northern mountains who is going to be out driving tonight to be very careful. any moisture on the roads definitely freezing tonight in the form of black ice. i'm karen wynne, news 13. >> frank: wintry conditions also made things difficult on the roads. troopers say there were several wrecks across the area. of them on i-40 that had traffic cked up near the fines creeks exit. >>> now your on time traffic report sponsored by debruhl's used cars. >> larry: here's a current look at the traffic. this is a live look at i-26 near brevard road. so

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a live shot of downtown greenville, partly cloudy chilly, 31 in greenville. in north carolina, 19 in asheville, 16 in burnsville, 14 in spruce pine and boone, 19 in waynesville, 22 in sylva, 23 in hendersonville, brevard at 24, same story in franklin and robbinsville. cold enough for snow. they'll be the case for the mountainin we will see precipitation in the upstate not arrive until tomorrow afternoon. we will warm up a little bit, but not a big warm up. light winds, humidity not high, 42% in greenville. 26 in columbia and augusta. below freezing in atlanta. 54 in new orleans. the arctic air in the eastern half of the country. here is the storm system. this is tomorrow morning. early tomorrow morning, we could see flurries in the western north carolina mountains or maybe a brief snow shower. this is what we call renegade stuff for living system to our west. as it moves in, you can see the snow through the mountains. rain back into atlanta. the system falls apart once it gets into the upstate. this is 7:00 tomorrow evening. then the storm system falls apart as it moves east. then, we look off to our west. here

burnsville, fire activity there. over on 72, right at the garden state parkway, looks like a downed utility pole from an earlier accident signal problems, so the 4 drain downtown delays, again, a signal problem at 149th. avoid 59th between 9th and 10th with that ongoing police department activity. dray will have more from that scene. let's go outside and i'll show you a look at the l.i.e. l.i.e. westbound okay through comack road. deer park construction being cleared. back over to you, shirleen, ken. >> all right, debbie, thank you. >>> 4:40. still ahead on eyewitness news this morning, a restaurant being threatened with violence for its open carry stats. what the owner is doing in response. >>> plus the fight against isis is hiding to facebook. how federal officials -- is heading to facebook, how officials are taking steps to curb the islamic state. >>> and the dollars waited to at over 3,500 hospitals nationwide in a survey conducted for the centers for medicare and medicaid services. fewer than 6% received 5 stars. among them was cancer treatment centers of america in philadelphia. learn more at cancercenter.com slash eastern. cancer treatment centers of am