We werent, guys. We have to go through the overnight hours. Positive spin, we saw that rain advisory lifted early, but it was replaced with a Winter Weather advisory that includes richland county, aiken county. Along the i25 corridor and north, thats where we have the counties under this Winter Weather advisory until 2 00 saturday afternoon. Wouldnt be surprised to see this lifted before that time as were starting to see all of this tapering off. We do have a little bit of a mixture of snow and rain down throughout orangeburg. We expand the view out. Notice this counterclockwise turn. This area of low pressure is located right now just over northern georgia, tennessee and the western parts of South Carolina. Lift to the north. If you had travel plans throughout this weekend throughout the northeast, go on and just cancel that. Check the airline. Dont plan to drive. They are about to see 24 hours of pure snowfall up there from whats been bringing that cold rain to us here at home. As far as what well continue to deal with in the overnight hours, temperatures are in the 30s right now. Winds out of the northwest between 5 and 15 Miles Per Hour for many locations. It will be breezy tonight and as we take a a look for you third shift workers, low 30s going into the Morning Hours and a few chances of showers. Well talk about that later on. Parts of the midlands have already started to see the flurries. New bury county is one of the areas. People who live in whit mire dealing with that mix. Reporter i hope you guys are warm and cozy back at the studio. I tell you what it is freezing cold out here. This is the first snowfall of the year here in whit more and theres even a little bit of ice and slush on the ground. Whit more is under a Winter Weather advisory and its in effect until saturday at 2 00 p. M. Late tonight could result in even more patches of ice, especially on bridges and overpasses. This is going to make travel a little difficult for some people for most people. While it does look like a Winter Wonderland out here, officials stress to be alert between tonight and tomorrow if the weekend. From whit mire, wach fox news. Travel by air isnt much more than 6,000 flights have been canceled all around the weather. Charlotte. Flights outlet of charlotte grounded all day. Many flights out of columbia metro connect through charlotte. Airlines are waiving fees on flight changes, but that doesnt make the wait any easier. Before you even come to the airport, make sure you check your airline. I encourage people to use the app. They give you a text message, phone call. The airlines do try to do a good job of letting their customers know ahead of time if theres changes to their now, if you absolutely, positively have to be out of town this weekend and youre looking for an alternate route on your own, there are also delays and cancellations out of charleston due to weather. And no. And close to a thousand Maintenance Employees are actively out treating the roadways. Can to make the highways accessible. We use a variable of chemicals, salt brine so our cars and families can travel safe a aoss those areas. There were 884 d. O. T. Employees working on the roads. We do have closings to tell you about. Midlands tech is closing ought of its campuses. And sat testing for richland 1 and two will be canceled. For the latest closings, check out our website at wach. Com. Local shelters in the area have opened their doors for those that need a warm place to sleep. The Gospel Mission and than usual. For anyone that needs a place to stay, columbias Inclement Weather Center is open. Some schools in the county are on a twohour delay. Officials say they didnt have any problems. Theyre continuing to monitor the situation over the next few days to see if it could cause issues for schools on monday. A lot of shoveling at bank of America Stadium in charlotte. Workers doing their best to get it cleaned up for sundays championship game between the cardinals and the weather didnt stop the team from hitting the practice field this morning to get ready for the game. Stay ahead of the weather. But snow or no snow, they will be playing sunday night. Corey miller will have more on the match up and the weather impact coming up later in sports. That right there is a live picture of the nations capitol. They have it a whole lot worse than we do. Yes. They are seeeeg a whole lot more snow than we probably will see in the state. It may have felt like a mild beginning to winter, but that is about to change. Its going to change fast as well. Joel baldman has the latest from washington. Reporter more than a potentially historic snow storm threatening to shut down cities from arkansas to the carolinas to the Nations Capital. Storm. Implications and all the residents of the District Of Columbia should treat it that way. Reporter Gale Force Winds began friday. Air and road travel expected to grind to a halt throughout much of the weekend. I was hoping to go to raleighdurham, North Carolina and i just found out my flight was canceled. Reporter maryland, pennsylvania, are among the states who declared states of emergencies. The governor of North Carolina urging drivers to play it safe on the roads. Parts of i95 are very dangerous when youre coming to North Carolina and were asking people to please be aware. Just because there isnt snow doesnt mean the roads are not safe. Reporter the storms bulls eye is right here in the Nations Capital. You can always get up to the minute weather updates by downloading the sky watch weather app from warnings to advisories. Everything you need to know in the palm of your hands. Columbia police are investigating a barber shop shooting. Officers say a man with a gun walked into the next up barber shop and tried to rob the place. Thats when someone inside the barber shop shot at the suspect. I saw him face down on the ground and a few of the guys from the barber shop were around him. Like i said, right about the time i walked out and saw that, thats when the First Police Car pulled up. Right now, the wouldbe robber is in the hospital and police say there could be a second suspect involved in this. Anyone with information is a man is in critical condition. Police say the man you are look at was involved in an attack. It happened around 2 00 in morning on green street. The person you see here got in an argument with the victim and punched him in the head. Thats when the victim fell down and hit his head on the concrete and suffered significant injuries. If you recognize the person on the screen, call crimestoppers. Police chief is back to work tonight after being suspended without pay for three days this week. Tonight, the chief says that issue is an misunderstanding. He didnt notify the mayor he would be out of the office this month. Company saying in part, i do not believe the suspension without pay was warranted, however i look forward to resuming my duties as the chief of police. ] , mayor Steve Benjamin honored at the afghanistan African American heritage awards tonight. In their mission to seek, identify and preserve African American history and culture in the state. The cold weather not stopping some from drinking a cold one tonight. Wach fox getng a sneak peek at this years world beer festival at the convention center. Samples on tap tomorrow. You must be at least 21 years old to attend that event. Tough assignment there. While everyone was out in the cold. Its happening. Its inside. This. There you go. There will belenty to do inside. Still to come tonight, getting your zs. You always hear how important it is to get 8 hours of sleep. That more important for your children not only now but years down the road. Plus surviving the cold. No matter how healthy you may feel, theres another threat well explain straight ahead. Making health headlines, during the cold weather, keeping yourself safe from the elements has to be a top priority, even in South Carolina. You always have to be aware of the dangers of hypothermia because it can happen very quickly. People with chronic diseases are most susceptible. Be mindful of those particular groups. Zach explains things to watch for. Symptoms can be very vague. We can call nonspecific. From nausea to hunger, and then youll start to see loss of coordination, slight confusion, maybe a little less responsive, not talking to you quite normally. Those are the sort of early sisis. Also, the [ indiscernible ] only hospital has shut down. Patient services at Palmetto Hospital closed last night. Should an emergency occur for People Living in that area, the dhec will oversee the relocation of patients. According to jim beasley, two hospitals in South Carolina have permanently closed marlboro Park Hospital and William S HallPsychiatric Institute in columbia. Both of those were in 2015. Studies involving children and their weight are not yielding all that many encouraging results. Kids are setting themselves up for Health Problems later in life even earlier. What you can do in tonights health minute. Reporter in 2012, more than onethird of children in the u. S. Were overweight or even obese. A recent study found a contribute be factor is lack of sleep. Sleep is important for so many things ranging from good growth, helping your immune system, heart health, Good Behavior and the ability to focus and concentrate and learn well in school. Not enough sleep may mean not taking in more calories as well as carbohydrates in general. Too much eating eventually along with obesity can cause problems like heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes. So everything is interrelated. We want everything to be in balance. That includes your nutrition, sleep and exercise. We recommend kids get the right amount of sleep recommended for their age, at least an hour of exercise a day and a healthy diet. Reporter according to the cdc, newborns should be sleeping 16 to 18 hours a day. Preschool aged kids, 11 to 12 hours. And School Aged Children about 10 hours a night. And make sure to monitor what your children are eating. No amount of sleep can battle the bulge if theyre not getting a healthy diet. The price at the pump. Feeling much pain, but you are still paying for things that you arent even aware of. Were going to tell you about those later. And the grade is in. What the interim possess of the d. O. T. Thinks about South Carolina roads. And we still have some moisture out there thats causing anything from rain, mixture, Winter Weather advisory in effect for some tomorrow afternoon. Welcome back, everyone. We begin with sky watch doppler radar. Lets take a look at what is actually falling. Things are tapering off for us which is certainly good news. We still have a little bit of a mixture. This indicates that kind of sleet, freezing rain mixture or rainfall mixture. The purple more of a freezing rain. Most of this as its hitting, not problematic on the roadways right now. Little light snowfall thats now north of fairfield county. We did have a little isolated patch on i77. Problematic has been well to our north. Little bit of shower activity through parts of orangeburg. As we expand this view out, if you had travel plans, you need to go on and cancel them if they took you north this weekend. Especially if youre going to drive on 95. You dont even want to try and chance this and think they know how to deal with Winter Weather up there. This storm is going to drop from about a foot and a half to two feet of snow in dc. Thats hard for plows to keep up with. You want to stay off the roads if you had to travel to the northeast. Flights will continue to be canceled and likely into the monday time frame. All of that rain, theyre just getting going in the northeast and they have to get all of this moisture, the back half of it, to push through ere improve. Here at home, were starting to see this taper off as this northeast and were going to see the backside of it pushing through. Now, i want to show you some of our sky watch weather bug cameras across the country. Baltimore started with no snowfall, but that snow quickly moved in and filled up the camera lens. Maryland, golf course was green and shortly after, pure white. Nationals park, home of the washington nationals, snow falling there asas well and well break you down we dont have one at bank of America Stadium, but this is the motor speed way. Couldnt race tonight because the track covered in white and unfortunately that snowfall with ice underneath is going to remain for some time. This is in spartanburg where they saw snow push in this afternoon and really got heavy and cover the the roads. Rain and became snow this evening as you can see. As we take a look live at the new bury opera house camera, snow falling up there, but not sticking at 26 degrees. We have cold conditions at pearls oyster bar where its 30. 33 in sumter. Going to take you through the next 24 hours at least real fast. Notice we start to get all of this out by 9 00 a. M. Clouds lingering. I think we stay with this northerly wind upper 30s to around 40 degrees and that goes into 7 00 tomorrow night as well. Lets jump into the 7 day now. Windy to 52 on sunday. 60 by monday. Rain chances back by the middle of the week. Also worth mentioning, sunday charlotte. To 4 4for a high because theyll still have some of the moisture on the ground. That adds to the chill in the air, but dry. By then its going to be okay up there, but if you were thinking of going up saturday and have a good weekend, if you can wait until tomorrow afternoon, they gotta get the roadways cleared up. They have a lot of ice. One place in North Carolina that wasnt nice, asheville. It started yesterday for them. We have video from there. There it is. Having rough going on the roads this morning. Going the wrong way. That car is not supposed to be going that direction. Going the wrong way. If you have never been around a hill in snowfall, even if you have 4wheel drive and its just snow, when it packs into those tire treads, you dont want to be on that hill. Once you start sliding down, asheville is no stranger to snow, but people were ill prepared. You gotta wait for the plows to get through it. Its not like theres a plow on every street. Even for cities that are prepared. You know from growing up in boston. Corey miller, this is football weather. Thats what its all about. Cold weather, freezing rain, it dont matter. Its the nfc championship. Its going to happen whether people are in the stands or not. Were going to toss the football. Sunday at 6 40 is showdown. More coming up next in sports. Good evening to you. Hope youre having a wonderful friday night. Thanks for joining us here. The gamecock Mens Basketball Team coming off a huge win. Again. Good old rocky top tennessee is next on the docket. Tomorrow the gamecocks take on the team. Maybe not as good as in the past, but they have shooters that can score the basketball. Any time you play on the road in the sec, its a challenge. Michael carerra talked about the shooters in tennessee. They have pretty good shooters. Small lineup, so i think its going to be a challenge to guard the 5 and the 4 in the perimeter. And thats going to be a challenge and they have pretty good shooters. Do the same thing. Just keep playing our defense the same way and, you know, and and keep practicing, get better and just guard the ball. Don staley and the gamecock they get ready to take on mississippi state. Mississippi lost to georgia. She spoke with the media today. She talked about the match up against mississippi state. Its a big game for both of us. Obviously i think hes probably promoting his team to support their team, but i think youll see great basketball. Sec play has been very, very competitive. And anytime you go into a place in which hes got that program jump started, their fans deserve to see, you know, good basketball. [ indiscernible ] games are postponed tonight. Ermo won a game as well. Ridgeview, thats tbd. West springs valley, the battle of the twins, thats postponed and Midland Valley and airport, that is also tbd. You can go to our website. We have more of the games and when theyre going to be played next week. Check that out. To the National Football league, look at that. I remember that. It reminds me of back in the day at minnesota practicing in the snow. You gotta get the job done. The Carolina Panthers getting ready for the arizona cardinals. Theyre going to be without one of their key players. Allen will not play in the ball game. He was not happy about being out. He said he can play, but they put him on the shelf. But the cardinals, theyll fly in torrow. No snow there in phoix. Its nice and d degrees. Normally teams come in a couple days early when they go to a different coast, but arizona so theyll come into charlotte, get ready for the game. This is just another Football Game for them, regardless of whether its a championship game or not. It just feels like any other game, really. Ive been in this arena before as a coordinator, so its not new. Its exciting, but as far as the week of preparation, nothing ever changes. As big as this game is, you cant make it bigger than is, and this is a regular season game in my mind. Its win or go home. Theres a ton of implications behind it. But im not studying extra film or taking extra reps of practice or doing extra player meetings. We have a pretty good recipe that wins games. A group thats pretty confident to me. But when you leave one coast and go to the other, the weathers different, youre an indoor team, now youre outside. Well break it down for you later on in sports. Stay tuned. Wach fox news at 10 00 will be right back. Then voted for it. He supported his own dream act and then he abandoned it. Marco rubio. Just another washington politician you cant trust. Jeb bush. Hes a leader, so you always know where he stands. Right to rise usa is responsible for the content of this message. Hey, guys, its annie. Now, if youre anything like me, youre always looking for ways to save money, especially when it comes to your weekly grocery trip. Well, with walmart every day low prices, saving monon while keeping the pantry full. Thats easier than you think. In headtohead shopping, the total at walmart beat that of bilo. Columbia, the total amount saved at walmart vs. Bilo was 25. 61 on this weeks groceries thats 19 . So head to walmart and see what you well, you want to talk about a mess, janet. Thats the Nations Capital right now. You can barely see anything because of the snow falling there this hour. But its back there, i promise you. Thats just how bad the conditionsnsre up in dc. Not nearly as bad here. Parts of the midlands have seen some flurries. New bury county. People in whit mire dealing with the wintry mix. Little snow, little sleet, little rain. Its just a mess. Reporter still trying to be out here. Still trying to stay warm as whit mire South Carolina experiences their first snowowll of the year. There is still ice and slush on the ground. If youre thinking about going out on the roads, please be careful. Right now there is a winter advisory in effect. Later tonight could result in even more patches of ice on the ground, especially on bridges and overpasses. This is going to make traveling a little difficult for people. While it does look like a Winter Wonderland out here and very beautiful, officials stress to be alert tonight and Winter Weather advisory until 2 00 p. M. Saturday. If you have travel plans, be careful while traveling on the roads. Also tonight, the interim boss of the state department of transportation is not giving her agency a very good grade when it comes to taking care of South Carolinas roads and bridges. Giving the grade of d. Hall also saying most drivers in South Carolina are riding on poor pavement. Most bridges are in good condition, but there are areas that need attention. It will impact South Carolina when it comes to be economically competitive. The senate is scheduled to debate the state of road funding next week. Closed thursdays session by telling his colleagues he wants to debate the issue thursday. Tax has led to a heated debate. Governor nikki haley challenged lawmakers. Weve heard that before. Yes, we have. And the roads still need to be improved. Two straight years. Coming up, honoring the countrys bravest. Somber day in hawaii. The u. S. Military remembering 12 marines, one of them from here in South Carolina. Drivers enjoying the lowest gas prices in years, but there wouldnt know about. Tonight. Pay tribute to the 12 u. S. Marines aboard two helicopters that collided off the coast of hawaii. The status of the missing marines changed to deceased on wednesday after 5 full days of search and rescue operations. The search only found an empty life raft. Sergeant Jeffrey Sempler of woodruff was part of that accident. Gasoline is now selling for about the same price motorists were paying back in 2009. Standing at the pump, its hard to picture a down side, hidden costs to that cheap fuel. Reporter the free falling price of oil in the last year and a half has put an estimated 200,000 oil workers out of work. Most peoples reaction when i tell them is sucks for you. I like the gas prices. Reporter Energy Companies are getting pummeled with w gas prices, averaging about 185 sents a gallon. We had to reporter steep declines have driven crude oil prices to unprecedented lows according to billy cary. It slows our economic growth. It slows the u. S. Growth and global growth. Reporter and it has rocked Financial Markets to a degree wall street has never seen in the month of january. Behavior and were seeing that in spades now in oil. Reporter in states like texas, oklahoma, north dakota and alaska, tax revenue in some locations is down by as much as 50 . Economists say if crude oil remains below 50 a barrel we currently have a budget that balances at over a hundred dollars a barrel of oil. At the current price, it would not cover the cost of our k12 education. Reporter claire went back to college in her 40s to earn a degree in geology. Shes been out of work for a year. So many people were laid off about this time last year. They took a lot of the entry level geology jobs in other fields. Reporter in washington, im jeff barn reporting. Pay a few bucks, theres a lot going on. I dont think you need much gas to drive around town this weekend. At least thats what henry has to say. There. The grounds still wet from the rainfall. Of that mixture. With temperatures below freezing. The good news is things are starting to die down as far as whats falling from the sky. Returns. And welcome back, everyone. A much improved picture on doppler radar. Little bit of light activity. We did have a little bit of freezing rain and sleet throughout northern parts of richland county. It wasnt doing much on the ground, but that continues to fizzle out. Little cloudy across the midlands employ the bulk of this starting to spin to the northeast. Any travel plans to our Nations Capital, not a good idea. You have all this Energy Heading that way and this is just getting going. Were talking about a foot and a half, two feet of snow. So we really lucked out as far as keeping all of this moisture out of here. We want to look at temperatures in the midlands right now. Orangeburg showing 31 degrees. Calm wind at the moment. Those winds really expected to pick up tomorrow. That could cause Power Outages but not because of the Winter Weather, but because of the fact you get strong winds, can knock tree limbs down. Same thing happens when we get a high wind day throughout the area. 28 in ermow right now. 27 in soluta. 32 in sumter at this 10 00 hour. We are at 29 in ridgeway. Pine wood at 32 degrees. Keep in mind temperatures are very cold out there and slick spots on the roadway with these temperatures will freeze tonight. We want everyone to be safe going through the overnight hours. Snow falling in baltimore maryland. Take a look at all that snowfall. That rain for us, white stuff for them, its going to be problematic. Turned into a snow Winter Wonderland. And from the nationals baseball stadium in dc, snow falling throughout the area. I want to take you through the weekend. 5 00 a. M. To 6 00 a. M. , we get in the Southern Tier of the midlands, these will be quick movers, no accumulation expected. The models will be all over the place employ the only type of accumulation will be if you park the car overnight you may notice it on the hood. Gone by 9 00 a. M. When many of you wake up. Clouds linger through the day. Models trying to punch us up to the 40s. We know theres snow and ice to the north. Clouds will linger. Falling into the 30s as we head toward tomorrow night. Waking up for Church Sunday morning, a very cold morning. Were going to have temperatures in the upper 20s at that point, but a clear sky with us. As you get out, head to lunch, temperatures in the 40s. Before we jump into the 50s by the afternoon and fall back into the 40s sunday evening and eventually into the 30s 48 hours from now. Its going to look at what we can expect over the next three days first. 40 tomorrow. Down as far as what i anticipate seeing across the midlands when we make our way through tomorrow. Were going to have the 40 degree range and take a look at these temperatures. Not going past 40 degrees in the city. 52 degrees here on sunday. Thats our high. Were in the 40s by that kickoff. If you are traveling to charlotte, sunday should be fine. Clear and 44 for that 6 40 kickoff. The game can be seen here on wach fox. Rain chances are back tuesday continuing into wednesday. Temperatures falling back into the 50s, lows in the 30s for the middle of next week. This is it, folks. That Winter Weather scenario is now a northeastern factor. Stay with us. Brought to you in part by the [ indiscernible ] law firm. Dont scream, call akeem. Good evening to you once again. Thanks for joining you here. Corey miller now joined by the janet parker. I thought id get a little comfortable tonight because im looking to break down this game with you and talk about all the unique factors that are going to take place on sunday. It is a big game ahead of us. Were experiencing Winter Weather. The cardinals are headed here North Carolina, i should say. How is that going to play a factor for the team . Normally, janet, we travel two days in advance. If i was going to arizona, we would leave on a friday from new york. Get adjusted to the time change and that kind of thing. And even in this situation, the weather. Theyre an indoor team. I read the head coach said theyre going to get here a day before the game. With the weather. Its a little iffy for me. A lot of flights have been canceled. Especially out of charlotte. I imagine coming in is just as difficult. This is a corporate charter plane. I know that make special arrangements for nfl teams. I remember one story, we were flying to phoenix in a blizzard. That plane took off. Every other plane was shut down except for us and it was the worst flight ever. Grown men crying and yelling and screaming on the plane. You had the clinics. A lot of praying. Youre here, so you got through it. You mentioned arizona is used to playing indoors. How is that going to impact them come sunday when they are playing in these conditions . Were talking cold Winter Weather. Thats why im really you need to fly down, get acclimated to this weather. And the field situation. Last week, seattle had a lot of problems cutting and falling down. It was soggy. They got the tarp down and you can see in the video, you know, theres still snow there. I dont know. I think this bodes well for carolinas. Theyve been practicing in this weather. Theyve adjusted to the cold. Especially an indoor team you think carolina has an advantage . Home field advantage and theyre used to these conditions. Lets talk about the game now. Who do you predict is going to bring home the w sunday . I know your boyfriend and hopefully soon your fiance are carolina panther fans youre pulling for the panthers. I said before, the carolina the offense, they have one of the most potent offense receiving core. Larry fitzgerald, that play he made last week and the pass for the touchdown. Theyre going to have to play well on defense. Allen is not playing in the Football Game. Hes a veteran. That hurts the defense. Theyre going to have to put pressure on carson palmer, cam newtonon. Im going with the panthers because theyre more balanced and they have more explosive play makers. 310 and they came back. Im going go against you and look for the upset and hope panthers can bring it through. Its all about the home team