sylva held her against her will and threatened her with a gun. >>holly: a community in pennsylvania is thanking a firefighter for his heroic efforts. he responded to year's day and was told the woman was stuck on the second floor of the home. he found her and passed her out the window where other firefighters grabbed her. job. >> i'm just a normal guy, there's 600 other guys that would do the same thing. >>holly: o'toole has been a firefighter for 17 years. >>jay: making news around the world this morning at least four people are dead and hundreds of others are injured after a massive earthquake in india overnight. the earthquake murder 6.7. the deaths and injuries were caused primarily by falling debris. >>holly: the newly elected major of a town near mexico city is dead one day after taking office. gy selllo campo was shot and killed in the doorway of her home saturday. police killed two attackers, three others were arrested. she was laid to rest yesterday. >>jay: an antisaudi arabia demonstration broke out in tehran yesterday. hundreds of peop

>>holly: and brittany sent us a shot of her valentine in sylva. great shots, keep them coming and we will keep showing them to you. >>jay: ingrid, what is it like outside? >>ingrid: above freezing, good news. franklin 42. 37 lake toxaway, and weaverville. waking up this morning in our friends in columbus hit the 39 degrees mark. fairview, 40. just below 40 degrees and highlands and marshall, 37. back over to you. >> >>holly: after josh brolin where he gave a >>holly: 5:56 right now. the river district for stage and screen in asheville received a surprise visit from actor josh >>jay: the school e-mail add small list of students and did not reveal the name of the presenter. >>ingrid: he is the most recent actor to be part of the studio's interview series which included zack galifianakis that starred in the hang over series. we have 38 degrees in asheville with clouds and winds at 1. we have a chance for a mountain mix this morning. i will explain in a few minutes. i will let you know when the rain ends when we turn colder, but then a lot warmer agai

. >> >>holly: temperatures are dropping in sylva. this thermometer is reading 3 degrees. >>jay: one of our viewers, tammy smatters sent this video to us this morning. >>ingrid: if you have any pictures wow would like us to see, you can post-it to wlos.com or e-mail pics@wlos.com. >>holly: we have multiple schools on delay because of the bitter cold. >>jay: madison, mitchell, avery and cherokee counties are on a 2 hour delay and the cherokee indian reservation schools. you can find updated delays scrolling at the bottom of your screen and, of course, wlos.com. >>ingrid: it's the wind making it feel that much colder outside. let's look at current current temperatures in asheville. it feels like one below zerer single dieghts in bryson city 17 there.

wind chills at 13 for waynesville and sylva at night. the winds likely do start to slacken off. even towards day break we have wind to put it down in the single digits. bundle up, layer up and try to limit the amount of exposed skin. that really bites out there. gusting winds today. hardly any moisture from it so we just couldn't ring out snow. we up our chances significantly friday. it's all rain friday. and it's all rain saturday for us. our chances drop off a little saturday but nonetheless, still scattered showers expected. 40 now in asheville. wind chill down to 31. upstatement greenville at 48. but a west wind at 18. well the first system diving to the south. again quickly, that clipper bringing the chill with it. once we see the winds relax and turn more southerly, we're really going to see a nice warm-up here throughout the tennessee valleys. temperatures get back in the 50s. but friday, already seeing moisture return to the gulf. means we're going to get rain mostly out of that system. thereafter, a little different towards sunday. i'll show you that in just a second. s

. >> larry: yeah, jaclyn, a portion in sylva is shut down. >> jaclyn: it's on dark ridge road right there on the jake all west bound lane and one east bound lanes are closed. affecting drivers in waynesville. dispatch tells us there are injuries reported. it is a good idea to avoid that area if possible. i-240 east bound near i-40. a wrecker is on the way. there is stop and go traffic once again between hendersonville road and tunnel road. this might slow you down. thort . >> larry: the countdown continues to monday's championship game. >> darcel: not without a quick pregame celebration with their fans. >> larry: news 13's darren >> darren: around noon, a large crowd gathered to send off their tigers. people were holding up signs, cheering, even hugging players as they got on the buses. fans tell us they haven't seen anything like this since the 80s. these fans tell us they're excited about reliving the magic of the 1981 championship season. >> it's a little overwhelming. i probably will cry. i'm so proud of my tigers. and i've loved them for a long time. >> darren: for those of you not m

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. >> rex: because snow remains in piles and on smaller neighborhood roads, the town of sylva is waiting a day to resume trash pick-up. for jack garrett, it's no big deal. >> wait it out. it's better that people will be more safe. and the other people on the road will be more safe. >> rex: mail delivery from smoky mountain post office is back up and serving. clear the pathways to mailboxes and homes. specifically the postal service says you've got to clean out the snow and ice six feet from your mail box so the driver and drive >> tammy: well the winter storm damaged the roof of a sports complex in fletcher. sl sportsplex says the weight of all that snow and ice did major damage to the area's gym. sl says that area is c csed off for repairs. the rest of the facility remains open. >> frank: buncombe and henderson county cools are closed again tomorrow. they're now beginning to add up. 8th grader josie seymour and her cyst ter the younger kids were given assignments in blizzard bags. josie says she's likes it much better than make-up days. it was only a half day and it really sucked. >> fr

sylva, cullowhee, not that much on the ground. you go in the higher elevations, you've got a lot on the ground. rutherford county, mcdowell, burke, you're really getting slammed. right along i-26. pounding the upstate now for spartanburg. big break west. east tennessee, that's the band that's going to come through for most of the northern mountains tomorrow. snow bands kind ofreaking up right now over east tennessee and middle tennessee. look at this going up the east coast here. i-95 just ridiculous in terms of snow fall right now. and the rates are one, two, even three inches an hour in some cases. here's our leicester carpet sales news13 sky cam network. chimney rock. and it's still snowing here at the rock. 23 degrees. here's our storm. it is going to move out and up the coast. so tapping in to a lot of atlantic moisture. and it's cold enough behind that system for all the snow. but we're done tomorrow with most of the accumulations. going to wrap it up and be done with most of the accumulations. winds for the northwest. 15, 2

increasing cloudiness after midnight tonight. 16 degrees in boone, 27 in 21 in marshall, 30 in sylva, 33 in bryson city. the air is dry. 17 in spruce pine and boone. 39 in toccoa, 37 in greenville and laurens. colbert the deep south. here comes the storm system tomorrow. here is the heaviest snow, north georgia and southwestern mountains. this is 2:30 in the afternoon. it breaks up as it makes its way east. that is wednesday evening. the system falls apart tomorrow night into thursday morning. next system, bringing rain acrosssshe area. could mix with freezing rain during the day on thursday in north carolina. we will watch it closely and keep you updated. local 23 in the upstate, 17 in the mountains. tomorrow, a few afternoon scattered snow showers, sleet showers, rain showers possible. high around 40. upper 30's to about 40, light snow developing in the mountains, maybe with sleet from time to time. high 36. through the end of the week into the early part of the weekend. i'm worried about friday. cold rain mixed with freezing rain through north carolina changing to snow showers frid

burnsville 18... 17 bakersville... 23 sylva. add in the winds and a brutally cold night and cold day tomorrow. you're going to want the heavy coat all day long as we today in the 30s much of the day and go into another cold night. we see that snow working in to burnsville. many of the higher elevations you can see a few light snow showers as we go into tuesday evening. a few of them linger on into wednesday morning. windchills very low. early in the morning single digit windchills in asheville and hendersonville. it's going to feel like we're about 7 degrees. marshall and burnsville also single digit windchills. even though they come up later in the day, it's still going to feel very uncomfortable. lows tonight in the upper teens in many mountain locations. 35 burnsville... 46 greer... 39 franklin. the next seven days a couple of chances of snow tuesday night. again over the weekend possibly a rain snow mix. little bit >>>the carolina panthers will have a big challenge waiting for them in their first playoff game of the year. ca

four-day eight in bryson city, 39 in franklin and brevard. 35 in sylva, 36 in asheville. it will feel even colder tomorrow with strong winds out of the northwest over fit -- over 30 miles per hour, maybe 40-50 in the higher elevations. fairly quiet right now. northwest winds at nine miles per hour. when the cold front passes, it may produce scattered flurries and snow showers tomorrow afternoon and night west and north of asheville, close to the tennessee line. humidity low right now. 16% in franklin. cold in the deep south, 49 in columbia and charleston, 41 in raleigh, 43 in atlanta. chattanooga, 38. starting to feel like january weather across the country. the arctic air in minneapolis, during the game with seattle, wow was that cold. third coldest nfl playoff game on record. minneapolis looking at snow, still bitterly cold through this area. lake effect snow is downwind from lake erie and lake ontario moving between watertown and syracuse, new york. good snow showers going on. 15 in cleveland, five degrees, a big warm up in minneapolis. negative two in international fa

the wind making it feel much colder than the actual temperatures. 39 in sylva, 35 in waynesville, mid 30's in burnsville, 32 in spruce pine, 40 three in asheville, 45 in hendersonville. 53 in clemson, low 50's in the upstate. the mountains of northeastern georgia, 30's and 40's. the wind making it feel colder than the temperatures. west wind at 21 in greenville, northwest at 15 in hendersonville. dry, cold air go -- coming in from the northwest. 55 in atlanta -- in columbia and myrtle beach. snow up here and lake effect snows, 1-3 inches possible for pittsburgh, buffalo, downwind from lake erie and lake ontario, four-eight inches possible. cold arctic air coming in, negative six degrees in international falls, minnesota. tonight, mostly clear and cold and breezy. diminishing winds after midnight. low 26. windy for most of the night. diminishing winds late tonight, a few flurries possible. overnight low 18 in the mountains. high 47 in the upstate tomorrow, sunny with a cold breeze out of the northwest. milder on thursday, then the next front comes through. here comes the rain friday in

that is the actual temperature. 14 in spruce pine, 18 in marshall and waynesville, 21 in sylva, 28 in columbus and 34 in toccoa, 34 in spartanburg, 37 in greenville and anderson. a bit of a wind in the central and western upstate giving us a windchill of 27 in anderson, 29 in clemson, eight degrees the wind chill in hendersonville. zero the wind chill in boone. an hour ago, it was negative two. it will fluctuate. the wind chills will get below zero when the higher elevations. these of the temperatures. 21 in bristol, tennessee, 35 and it led to come up 42 in florence, 40 three in wilmington. cold air across the eastern half of the country. as the cold air sweeps across the lakes, heavy lake effect snow showers in the great lakes around syracuse. they can't get -- they could get two feet of snow tomorrow as the wind comes off lake ontario and dumps moisture downstream. one degree in minneapolis and international falls. cincinnati, 14 degrees. interesting things with the next few days. tomorrow morning, arctic high pressure dominates the weather through the afternoon. even with sunshine

in north carolina, temperatures like this. 21 in franklin, 21 in waynesville, 20 in sylva, mid 20's in asheville, and rutherfordton. 29 in spruce pine. cold across the area. at least we do not have to deal with much of the wind. humidity pretty low, 39% in greenville, higher in asheville at 63%. temperatures will not drop as quickly in the mountains. 30 in florence, freezing an atlanta. chilly through for -- through florida, 62 in miami. everybody else in the southeast is chilly. 46 in new orleans, 39 in st. louis. nationally, storm system coming through chicago reduced 1-3 inches of -- produced 1-3 inches of snow. there could be a few flurries or snow showers along the north carolina-tennessee line tomorrow afternoon or tomorrow night. the arctic air in place. yesterday, third coldest nfl playoff game in record on minneapolis, the game started at negative six with the windchill of negative 25. right now, negative six in international falls. the front passes by in the afternoon tomorrow. maybe a flurry for asheville, maybe. that's about it. yes chance of snow showers northwest of ashev

marshall, 26 in spruce pine and boone. 40 in rutherfordton, at the freezing mark in columbus. 31 in sylva. 33 in bryson city. seasonably cold temperatures across the area. breezy conditions in certain areas, the front is passing through downtown greenville because we have a west wind at 13 miles per hour, northwest at 13 come also in anderson the northwest wind at 16 in hendersonville. a sustained northwest wind at 31 miles per hour in boone. is. boone right now. feels like 15 in hendersonville, 36 in greenville, not much as far as wind chills through most of the upstate. humidity will drop. 38% in greenville, going down. so was the temperature. 44 in columbia and florence, 44 in charleston. low 40's in atlanta. cold temperatures, chilly temperatures through the peninsula of florida. 51 in orlando, 63 in miami. they had a couple showers today. he chilly for them. they are probably bundled up in florida. 15 in cincinnati. 21 in st. louis. snow showers in the ohio river valley of the great lakes earlier. on average, 1-3 inches of snow. the lake effect snows downwind from lake ontario and la

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 comes the second round storm system. this is stronger, the o

the mountains, a bit cooler. 46 in boone. 47 in boone. 47 and spruce pine, 52 in turns phil, 54 in sylva, 56 in franklin, 53 in columbus. 58 and rutherfordton. temperatures a few degrees above average. a bit of a breeze out of the east and northeast, or east and southeast, 5-10 miles per hour. 37 percent humidity in greenville, 45% in asheville. cooler air to the northeast, 42 in raleigh, four-day five in greensboro. as the precipitation comes in, the air is dry but i think we will be just warm enough, even in the mountains, where we will here is the broken line of showers to the west, lifting along with the warm front that will arrive later tonight. look at this storm system, sitting out here. there is bermuda right there. look at this huge storm system. it is almost subtropical in nature. more in detail about that at 5:30. here is the low coming out of the rockies. snow in western kansas and nebraska, heading up to minneapolis. something interesting, minneapolis, the seahawks come to minneapolis this sunday to play their playoff game. right now, it looks like it will be zero degrees or

in the mountains, cold temperatures. 23 in waynesville, 28 in sylva, 31 in brevard, hendersonville, and bryson city. 32 in franklin. cold temperatures across the area. we still have the winds out of the north-northwest at 10-20 miles per hour and gusty him time to time givingg us a windchill of 11 in boone, 18 in asheville, a wind chill of 29 in greenville. it is cold out there. it makes it feel colder when you are dealing with unseasonably warm weather the last month or so. when you get a cold snap, it is tough. 39 in raleigh. they had a few flurries earlier. even flurries going on right now. once the snow showers end, there will be lake effect snow, the first time this year. nine degrees in michigan, 21 in cleveland. 23 in boston. tonight, clear, diminishing winds except for greenville county with the north wind at the mountains, low in the teens. tomorrow, light winds, bright sunshine, cold. high 42 in the mountains. we will keep it cold, gradually warming up in time for the next storm system. thursday night late in the mountains could start off as a light winter mix, going over to a

it shows a good coating of snow in sylva and another accident, report of a weather-related vehicle accident in jackson county on u.s. 74 near exit 81 where a car slid off the road due to very slick conditions. you can take one look at the radar and see that yes, we are continuing to see the snow fall even into the valleys. here in the asheville area just light snow at the moment in our northern mountains from cherokee county and graham and swain county where we've heard reports all morning long and haywood county as well. down into polk county this model pulling in a little light snow as weel. please be careful if you are about to head out the door. it's not just this morning. it goes through tomorrow morning. this winter weather advisory, one to three inches of snow in the higher elevations. that three-inch mark march likely. dusting to an inch depending on the elevation in buncombe county. snow increase through >>> good morning, america. it's 8:00 a.m. we have jamie-lynn sigler's brave battle. >> i was diagnosed with ms at 20 years old. it was a shock. >> why she's revealing it now just d