live in holly springs, laura haviland, wncn news now. >> things a lot. stay safe out there. >>> yesterday we told you about the more hundred -- the more than 150,000 duke energy customers across north carolina. today that number is down to a little more than 55,000. that is a lot of household especially in this cold weather. energy power outages not. all of those group triangles mean multiple outages in each area. in wake county alone more than 23,000 locations are in the dark. in johnston it is more than 14,000, and in cumberland county a little more than 1500. across the state, 56,000. >>> power outages and slick roadways are the biggest concerns across the state heard yesterday governor mccrory warn people to stay at home if at all possible. for some, the threat of ice is not worth missing there saturday evening plans. but for others, the threat was very real. wncn's mario boone has more from durham. >>reporter:and just 48 hours, road conditions nosedived from treacherous to deadly. >> sadly, there has been two fatalities, two additional fatalities. >

wncn's laura haviland has a story. >> everybody is really excited about trying to win the billion dollars >>reporter:so excited that several people in clayton each but in $10, with more than $5000 in hand, they bought several lottery tickets chances of winning. they did not win the billion dollars, but they did win over 300. too little to divvy up, they decided, their plan donated. days later, in the same community, clayton firefighters responded to this hell. as you can see, the blaze gutted it. >> i thought we didn't have anything. >>reporter:10-year-old isaiah johnson, his mom, and younger brother were not at home at the time. but their belongings were destroyed. so, the $366 from the lottery -- >> we decided to give her all of the money that was left over from the winnings >>reporter:besides the money, community members donated all of this. >> clothes, food, water, and all kinds of gift cards and money >>reporter:for a tightknit community, they did not think twice about it. >> it felt great. >> to help them get back to some form of normalcy in their total loss of everything that they