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WYFF WYFF News 4 6am December 29, 2015

Dale some places got over 1. 5 inches. When you combined yesterday and overnight, most sought over one inch. The event is starting to work its way out of our area, but another one is lining up for wednesday. We will have more rain in the forecast. Everybody is sick of it, but the good news is will improve toward the weekend. Upper 60s from greenville to greenwood, the 60s and asheville and high temperatures in the mountains in the upper 60s and we will hit 70 in the upstate. We will talk about the cold down in a few minutes. Mike thank you. We want to talk traffic. Richard edmund is in. Richard 85 from spartanburg to greenville, take your time. Lets start with 85. Road, highway 101 in the greenville area, of also extra driving time as you head in that direction because water is ponding on the roads. More so on the spartanburg side of interstate 85. Once you hit the puddle, you could get out of control. On landrum at highway 14 at interstate 26, flooding reported on highway 14. Traffic is moving through that area just west of landrum. Dot has been notified and they are trying to get that taken care of. Around asheville, obstructions from trees to debris to even water ponding. Most o oit appears to be south of asheville. Reports of clayton road right here and on glen bridge road where they are trying to get these areas cleaned upone accident in the upstate at donning road this morning. This direction. Ems and Highway Patrol on the scene of this accident. We will update you u th what is happening. We will take a look at the hiltongreenville skycam at 385 into Downtown Greenville where Traffic Volume is starting to pick up. Mike thank you. Asheville firefighters had to rescue two people early this morning on Swannanoa River road. Aly the areas roads are flooded in the area, in the charlotte area. The National Weather service will survey damage this morning after a confirmed tornado. This picture was taken in union county, North Carolina. Crews will determine the size and strength of that tornado today. Mike people across the nation are cleaning up after this same system swept through areas like this in texas. At least 11 people were killed and dozens more injured in multiple tornadoes over the weekend. The National Weather service says tornadoes in the dallas area destroyed more than 1600 structures. 2100 flights were canceled yesterday. Aly missouri is under a state of emergency after officials closed about 400 roads statewide due to flooding there. The high waters have killed at least six people in the middle of the state. Officials say more than a dozen homes are underwater in one part of the state. Mike this system also creating dangerous snow conditions. Look here in wisconsin where a gas station canopy collapsed from the weight of snow and ice. It trapped two cars beneath it, but no one was injured. The National Weather service has issued multiple winter storm warnings across the country as the snow, sleet, rainand wind will continue to wreak havoc this week. Aly the rain back home causing more problems for guyton road east of i85 in Anderson County. Its the third issue for neighbors in just three months. You can see the latest damage in this video. The first time, a sinkhole opened up in late october. Last week, a water main break. And now, neighbors say the road completely collapsed on christmas morning. The Anderson County roads and bridges manager says the issues rain. He estimates a fix will cost more than 230,000 and still needs fema approval. He says the repairs would take a year and a half. Mike you may also see more destructive potholes opening up from the rain. A big one here on Anderson Mill road in spartanburg county, a man who lives nearby says dot patched it, but it reopened after it rained. Employees at bolton james Wheel Alignment in spartanburg say they worked on three cars with pothole damage yesterday. You can report a pothole on the d. O. T. s website. And dont forget, when bad weather hits home, you can turn to the wyff 4 mobile app where we have latest weather updates, including live radar for you. The app is free in both apple and android app stores. Aly a wyff news 4 update now in spartanburg county. A man died after he was found hurt behind a restaurant over the weekend. The Town Administrator now believe its a case of hit and run. As brent tessnear. He was found unresponsive sunday behind the hardees in cowpens. He later died at the hospital. Call crimestoppers at 1888crimesc if you have any information. An update in greenville county, the coroner has identified a man who died in the sans souci area. The coroner says Nathan Crouch died from a gun shot to the chest during an argument. He ruled crounchs death a homicide. As a suicide. Deputies say his body was found sunday night in a home on perry road. Anyone with more information should call Crime Stoppers at 23crime. Mike no criminal charges will be filed in the 2014 Police Killing of 12yearold tamir rice in cleveland. An officer shot and killed rice outside a rec center last year as the boy apparently reached for a toy weapon. Investigators now believe was tamirs effort to hand over the toy, or show that it was fake. Police were made aware of the gun but were never told it might be a aoy. That the officers deadly mistste, while tragic is not , criminal under the law. The texas teen described as having affluenza while on trial for killing four people in a drunkdriving crash in 2013 has been arrested by mexican authorities. Mexican federal officials have confirmed ethan couch and his mother tonya were arrested monday in puerto vallarta. A man hunt began for couch and his mother after he missed an appointment with his probation officer. Aly and new this morning, no charges will be filed after president Barack Obamas motorcade was stopped momentarily in hawaii because of a nearby drone. The secret service says the pilot was completely unaware that the president ial motorcade was in the area. They say he immediately grounded the drone after being confronted by law enforcement, and the motorcade proceeded without further incident. Dale, i know they were a lot of drones given a christmas. Can they fly them today . Thursday, the orange bowl in can they fly them today . More rain on the way early tomorrow morning and last through the date on wednesday. It does look like that will be our last rain event for this year. We will get a chance to dry out on new years eve and day. temperatures this weekend. Can you imagine if we had the rain with cold temperatures in the mess we would be in . Thursday, the orange bowl in in the messy would be in . Most of Western North carolina starting to clear. We will be cloudy and a few spots dealing with isolated flooding in southern transylvania, pull county in buncombe county. Flood watches continue through thursday morning because of the potential of more heavy rain tomorrow that could lead to localized flooding, especially in flood prone areas. Todays event pushes through and another one developing overnight and early tomorrow morning [no audio] normally this time of the year, we see temperatures in the low 50s. Today is much warmer with the expected high of 70. Aly thank you. Frontrunners trading words. Nikole killion has more from washington, coming up. Mike the morning coming up underway on wet roads. We will look at traffic aly commitment 2016, the democratic and republican frontrunners trading barbs again. Mike but this time, donald trump is going after hillary and bill clinton. Nikole killion joins us from our exclusive washington newsroom. Nikole at a New Hampshire rally , donald trump continued his rant against Hillary Clinton. This time leaving out a controversial term hes come underfire for using. The billionaire candidate is also stepping up his criticism of bill clinton. Last night, trump tweeted the former president failed badly at helping his wifes campaign in 2008 and was called a racist. This comes as bill clinton prepares to hit the trail on his wifes behalf next month. In a statement, the Clinton Campaign says Hillary Clinton wont be bullied or distracted by trumps attacks on her or her husband. Killion. Mike a look at where some of the candidates are today. Hillary clinton, jeb bush and john kasich are in New Hampshire. Aly donald trump, marco rubio are in iowa and trey gowdy. Mike richard snow in boston but we are not dealing with that but we have flooding. Dale they have cold air and this moisture but we just had rain. Now, your live super doppler 4 hd forecast. Dale 6 16. Were getting a break from the rain as a look at from our skycams. Opera seven inches for the upstate, over eight inches for the mountains. That is before adding an overnight. We have seen more than double the amount of monthly rain that we typically look for in the fall and into the winter. It really came down last night and we expect another good event tomorrow or another bad event. Around of rain coming in tomorrow early morning. Most of overnight is working toward the east and the flood thursday morning because of the potential of more rain coming in tomorrow morning through the date wednesday. We could see another inch to add to the totals. After that, it will be drying up for thursday night, ride it, saturday and monday looking good. Pretty good rain event causing flooding situations in the mountains of north caroltemperatures are mild from 61 in asheville to 71 abbeville. Cap are 60 to 70 range this afternoon. Southwest wind at 10 to 20 for the upstate and not quite as breezy in the mountains. Colbert creating snow. We were showing you snow in boston, so some parts feeling much like winter. 12 in denver, 15 in billings and 20s and 30s for overnight lows come saturday, sunday and monday. Enjoy it mild temperatures while this event will have an isolated shower in spots and then we get a break this afternoon and the sun will come out for a while. Tomorrow morning, clouds and another chance of rain from 5 00 on on wednesday. It will be wet one more day. 71 the projected high for the afternoon. For the mountains, upper 60s expected highs. As we look toward the weekend, cold winter like temperatures, sunday, saturday and monday. The kids will need a warm coat as they head back to school on monday. Richard keeping you updated on the roads as you beat the traffic. We will check out highway 14 the between interstate 26 and into the advisor, traffic is moving slowly because of floods reported up to a 26. No matter where you go this morning, allow extra driving time. Interstate 85 earlier was a little dicey between greenville and spartanburg. Speeds on the interstate right now looking really good heading southbound at this time with 52 miles an hour. Back into the 60s as folks travel up to 385. Almost 70 miles at the interchange. Not a good idea with the water on the roads. Lets show you how it looks from our woodruff road skycam. Traffic on 385 and woodruff road looking pretty decent. As traffic picks up, expect to see a lot more accidents to get in the way. We will keep you updated. Mike were two days and change away from the orange bowl between clemson and oklahoma, and excitement is building from tiger town to miami. Players and coaches got a short practice monday, then headed to the beach. Clemson defensive players also spoke to the media. They played ten straight weeks getting a little banged up. They say the few days off theyve had before getting back on the practice field was much needed. That couple days were good for me. I got a nice little cortizon shot, put the medicine right in my shoulder. My shoulder is feeling good. The other thing bothering me was my collarbone. It feels better now. Thank, god. It was getting annoying. Mike the defense says its 100 ready for oklahoma thursday night. Before that time, were helping you prepare for the game with an hour long special called road to the title. It is airing at 7 00 wednesday night. You can also check out our live wire on wyff4. Com. Its a collection of posts about clemson football. Aly to basketball now, South Carolina remains the only Division One School with both undefeated mens and womens teams. The gamecock women remain number two in the latest Associated Press poll. Their next game is tomorrow night hosting Francis Marion in columbia. The gamecock men moved up one spot to number 24 in the latest ap poll. Year, hosting arkansas on january 3. Trending this morning in the nba, the mascot of the San Antonio Spurs getting some recognition for his bat skills. Before the game started, the coyote came out dressed as batman. His call, cash his goal, to wrangle in a bat that made its way into the at t Center Monday night. Fast . The caped coyote took just a bat with a fishing net. Mike our producer telling us that that happens a lot, so they have it on hand. I was going to say, either it was planned or they are really good with costume choices. Aly or a good seamstress in the back. Mike the Worlds Largest game. Aly a lot of teams have fun leading up to the big game. Mike Michigan State and alabama getting ready for the could hear Cotton Bowl Classic and they decided to get together the cheerleaders and mascots for a almost three feet by five feet and they weigh almost 6500 pounds. The cheerleaders went up in a blimp to throw the massive pain bags down to the board. It set a Guinness World record, smashing the old record there was an old record . The cotton bowl goes on at the same time of the clemson game at 8 00 on thursday. Dale that is a lot bigger than those dimensions. Mike an old record for throwing beanbags out of a blimp . Aly they took it up that notch. Mike an old record for anything. Dale lets talk about weather. We had a bunch of rainfall yesterday. It has sort of been an amazing fall and early winter with over twice as much rain as we typically expect to get. Four inches of rain is a good seen over eight inches in the mountains and with what fell last nig, probably over eight inches for the upstate, too, and more tomorrow. Most of the rain from last night coming to an end, pushing to the east and affecting your county into charlotte. There will be an isolated spot here and there for the foothills of the morning and clearing for the afternoon. These are counties experiencing minor flooding in parts of transylvania, pulp and buncombe county. All the counties highlighted in darker green under a flood watch because more heavy rain is tomorrow and we already have saturated around. They could run off quickly in areas prone to flooding. Starting early in the morning tomorrow and through the day tomorrow. It will be much like what we have seen overnight. One more rain event in the south and we will see a break for couple of days with colder 30s come saturday and sunday. Not like this morning where it is in the 60s. Temperatures right now from 61 to 71 and we are expecting low 70s in parts of the piedmont and upstate. The mountains will reach upper 60s. A live look here from our woodruff road aly a live look or my woodruff road skycam. A rainy night overnight and a foggy morning. In the relief in sight . Dale one more day tomorrow and then relief for the weekend. As you get ready to head outdoors, watch out for slippery roads. We appreciate the rain reports that came in. Right now, isolated showers over parts of the upstate and foothills of North Carolina but the bulk of the rain is making its way to the east. We do expect another one to develop tomorrow morning, bringing a small rain all day tomorrow. We could see a good inch of rain from the next event before it clears. That is why flood watches will remain in effect with the potential of more over creeks and streams. Be of the year. Thursday afternoon through the weekend, drier and cooler weather. We will talk more about that in a femike lets check traffic. Richard interstate 40, 26 and 240 looking good. The little slow down on highway 25 with speed about 20 Miles Per Hour. Flooding reported in lander and between 26, traffic moving slowly. We will continue to watch the weather and how it impacts your traffic. Back over to you. Mike thank you. Asheville firefighters have been busy. Aly two people were rescued morning on Swannanoa River road. Mike there are barricades up throughout Biltmore Village and various roads are flooded, a say to avoid those areas. Aly the National Weather service will be near the charlotte area this morning after a confirmed tornado. This picture was taken in union county, North Carolina. Crews will determine the size and strength of that tornado today. Mike people across the nation are cleaning up after this same system swept through areas like this in texas. Look at the damage. At least 11 people were killed and dozens more injured in multiple tornadoes over the weekend. The National Weather service says tornadoes in the dallas area destroyed more than 1600 structures. Airport Officials Say more than 2100 flights were canceled yesterday. Of emergency after officials closed about 400 roads statewide due to flooding there. The high waters have killed at least six people in the middle of the state. Officials say more than a dozen homes are underwater in one part of the state. Mike this system also creating dangerous snow conditions. Look here in wisconsin where a gas station canopy collapsed from the weight of snow and ice. It trapped two cars beneath it the National Weather service has issued multiple winter storm warnings across the country as the snow, sleet, rain, and wind will continue to wreak havoc this week. Aly the rain back home caus

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