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A man backs an RV down a hill on an icy, narrow road for more than a mile. Wayne May and his wife, Shirley Ann, made it to safety with the help of a service technician. (Video provided by AAA)

<p>Yeah. We're having a back up out of the mountains roads to I c can't get to our campsite. So we have to go home doing a good job, honey. Uh You're doing a good job. Thank you, baby. That's your job. So we're down towards more of the flatter sell. Making me a nervous, fricking wreck. Just want to go home. Yes. I won't be comfortable until run out of the mountains. I won't be comfortable until we're out of the mountains. Where's the tow truck guy? Well, look at all these people's Goodbye north Carolina. This is crazy. Mhm. Uh Back into it. Uh Across the road, pulled back up that way. So this road is narrow. Everybody tell me the way it's going to be that way, right? And keep going. I don't want to stop way very narrow. It's very narrow. This is scary. Slow down, honey. Yeah, I know those guys there. Is he telling you to turn around here? I'll play</p>

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Two Watauga County deputies and three members of a family were killed in a Wednesday shooting that prompted a standoff outside a Boone home that lasted for much of the day, authorities said.

<p>FIRST WE WANT TO GO TO KEELY ARTHUR WHO IS LIVE IN THE WAKE OF A 13 HOUR STANDOFF THAT KILLED TWO DEPUTIES AND THREE OTHERS. YOU ARE LEARNING MORE ABOUT THE VICTIMS TODAY AND THE HURTS LEFT BEHIND? &gt;&gt; Reporter: WE ARE. RAKING IN JUST THE LAST HOUR, AUTHORITIES ARE NAMING THE SHOOTER YES 32-YEAR-OLD ISAAC BARNES. HE IS BELIEVED TO HAVE KILLED HIS MOTHER AND HIS STEPFATHER AS WELL AS TWO MEMBERS OF THE COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT. THE SITUATION SIMPLY ROCKED THIS COMMUNITY. I WILL STEP OUT OF THE FRAME SO YOU CAN SEE THE MEMORIAL GROWING HERE AT THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE. WITH AS MANY CANDLES AND FLOWERS AND PEOPLE AS YOU SEE THERE HAVE BEEN DOUBLE THE TEARS TODAY. &gt;&gt; IT'S HEADING HOME A LITTLE BIT. &gt;&gt; Reporter: HEARTBREAK IN BOONE TODAY AFTER A 13 HOUR LONG STANDOFF ENDS WITH FIVE DEAD. &gt;&gt; I LOVE BOONE. IT'S LIKE A HOME OUT OF ME. WE DID NOT EXPECT THIS TO HAPPEN. &gt;&gt; Reporter: ISAAC BARNES, 32 SHOT AND KILLED HIS MOTHER AND STEPFATHER. ISAAC BARNES ALSO SHOT AND KILLED A SERGEANT AND CANINE DEPUTY WHO CAME TO THE HOUSE AFTER THEY WERE CONTACTED WHEN GEORGE DID NOT SHOW UP FOR WORK. &gt;&gt; I LOST SOME GOOD LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS AND SOME GOOD FRIENDS. &gt;&gt; Reporter: WHEN IRONS LATER DIED AT THE SCENES, AUTHORITIES HAVE NOT YET SAID HOW. &gt;&gt; TO FEEL SO HELPLESS. THAT THEY HAD TO TAKE THE LIVES OF OTHER PEOPLE. &gt;&gt; Reporter: THERE IS SO MUCH MORE HOPE IN OUR LIVES. THEN WHATEVER THEY FELT. IT WAS NOT TRUE WHATEVER THEY BELIEVED, IT WAS NOT TRUE. FOR THEM TO ACT THE WAY THEY DID. &gt;&gt; YOU KNOW. THE DEPUTIES, PUBLIC SERVANTS, I MEAN, THEY ARE PUTTING THEMSELVES IN HARMS WAY TO PROTECT PEOPLE. AND TO CARE FOR THE COMMUNITY AND BE GUARDIANS FOR THE COMMITTEE. UNFORTUNATELY, WE ALL UNDERSTAND SOMETIMES IT CAN COST YOU YOUR LIFE. &gt;&gt; Reporter: IT HAS BEEN HEARTBREAKING TO JUST BE HERE AND SPEAK TO ALL OF THESE PEOPLE TODAY BUT I DO WANT TO MENTION, ONE MIRACLE. THERE WAS A BOON POLICE OFFICER WHO WAS STRUCK IN THE HEAD, YOU ARE LOOKING AT VIDEO RIGHT NOW, HE WILL SEE THE BULLET HOLE GOING RIGHT THROUGH HIS HELMET. THAT OFFICER IS GOING TO BE JUST FINE. I THINK THAT ALSO SPEAKS TO THE FACT IT WAS NOT JUST THE COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT RESPONDING TO THIS IT WAS THE POLICE DEPARTMENT AND SO MANY OTHER LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES AND THAT IS WHY EVERYBODY HERE IN BOONE AND THE COUNTIES SEEM TO BE TOUCHED IN SOME WAY PERSONALLY BY THE TRAGEDY. &gt;&gt; IT'S AMAZING TO SEE THE</p>

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A North Carolina sheriff's deputy has died and another deputy has been wounded in a shooting that prompted a standoff on Wednesday.

>>> A DEADLY STANDOFF IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA IS OVER AFTER 13 HOURS. BREAKING NEWS AND WATAUGA COUNTY LEADS THE NEWS TO GO PETE WE KNOW THE SUSPECT THAT THE CENTER OF THE SAND OF SHOT AND KILLED HIMSELF JUST BEFORE 11:00 P.M. THAT PERSON SHOT AND KILLED SERGEANT CHRIS WARD. AND HURT ANOTHER DEPUTY DURING THE ENCOUNTER THAT STARTED

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Much of our lives have gone virtual these days. Such is the case with farm life, too. Scott Mason takes us to a llama and alpaca farm high in the mountains of Watauga County.

CHILDREN ATTENDING FIRST THROUGH SIXTH GRADE IN THE FALL. THE CAMPUS THREE HOURS LONG AND HAVE A MORNING OR AFTERNOON OPTION. YOU CAN LEARN MORE ON THE NORTH CAROLINA ZOO'S WEBSITE. >> FEW THINGS LIKE ANIMALS TO CALM AND RE-CENTER ALL OF US. MUCH OF OUR LIVES ARE VIRTUAL THESE DAYS AND THAT'S THE CASE WITH FARM LIFE TWO. SCOTT TAKES US TO A LLAMA AND ALPACA FARM HIGH IN THE MOUNTAINS OF WATAUGA COUNTY. >> THE MISSION IS TO CONNECT PEOPLE WITH ANIMALS. >> Reporter: CONNECTED NOW BY THE INTERNET. >> AND, TO GIVE THEM AN EXPERIENCE OF SOMETHING REAL. >> Reporter: REAL. >> GIVE KISSES? THANK YOU. >> Reporter: HOW THANKFUL SHE IS FOR APPLE HILL FARM, AND FOR THE LLAMAS AND ALPACAS. >> IT WAS JUST LIKE BOOM, AND I THOUGHT, THAT'S IT. I WANT TO RAISE ALPACAS >> Reporter: IN WATAUGA COUNTY, ON TOP OF A MOUNTAIN. >> LITERALLY ON TOP OF A MOUNTAIN, WE ARE AT 4300 FEET. >> Reporter: AND DISCONNECTED FROM ALL OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO USED TO TOUR THE FARM. >> IS AN INCREDIBLE THING TO DO, AND TO BE ABLE TO GIVE TO THE WORLD. >> Reporter: ENDED, SHE IS CONNECTED TO THE WORLD. >> BRAZIL, GERMANY, ITALY, VANCOUVER, >> Reporter: PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD ARE TOURING THE FARM FROM THEIR HOME. >> PLENTY OF ALPACAS HERE AT THE FARM, WE HAVE FOR LLAMAS AND WE RAISE THE ALPACAS FOR THEIR FIBER. >> Reporter: WHAT IS THE REACTION YOU BEEN GETTING? >> WE HAVE HAD A WONDERFUL REACTION. WE HAVE ALREADY DONE OVER 100 OF THEM. >> Reporter: 100 VIRTUAL TOURS. >> HERE WE ARE, AND IT'S SOMETHING WE WILL NOT GET RID OF, BECAUSE WE ARE MEETING PEOPLE WHERE THEY ARE, WHO COULD NEVER MAKE IT HERE. >> I HAVE LEARNED THAT I CAN GET THROUGH A LOT OF DIFFERENT THINGS. AND, I'VE LEARNED TO TRUST WHAT IT IS THAT HAPPENS AROUND ME. LOOK AT THIS. THEY ARE SO PEACEFUL. AREN'T YOU? YOU ARE SO PEACEFUL. >> STRESS RELIEF IS A BIG THING RIGHT NOW SO IT JUST GIVES A LITTLE RESPITE FROM THEIR REGULAR DAY TODAY, AND IS CRAZY UNUSUAL TIME. >> CRAZY INDEED. >> THIS WAS A LEAP OF FAITH, WASN'T IT? >> IT WAS TOTALLY A BIG LEAP OF FAITH. >> Reporter: BUYING A FARM, RAISING AND SHARING THEM, SELLING SOCKS AND SCARVES AND SWEATERS MADE FROM THEIR FIBERS. >> THIS IS ASPEN. >> Reporter: YET, SHE FEELS CONNECTED HERE. CONNECTED STILL. >> YOU ARE RIGHT HERE ON THE FIELD WITH US. LIKE, IT JUST DOES NOT FEEL LIKE THERE IS ANY HORRIBLE THING HAPPENING, BECAUSE RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW? NOTHING IS HAPPENING FOR US. >> SCOTT MASON, WRAL NEEDS, PANORAMA. >> BEAUTIFUL ANIMALS. AND A BIT OF PEACE DURING A HECTIC TIME. APPLE HILL FARMS CHARGES $10 FOR A VIRTUAL TOUR OF THEIR FARMS. CONTACT THE FARM TO RESERVE A