What they were saying just a few days ago. We are seeing way, way colder temperatures than last week. Right now, our car thermometer is reading about 16 degrees. On friday, the ski area and Maggie Valley was not the progress and the chill came and started making snow. The snowfall from the sky makes everything look pretty, lets you think it is winter, but we have already skied 32 days this year and we would have had our stuff on the ground no matter what. Aly the cold is expected to stick around for a while. Im sure dale has been telling you, but his forecast calls for temperatures in the lower 20s later tonight. Hopefully, we will be able to have fun with that in a little while. Aly myles wyff news 4 live in Maggie Valley. Remember, when the snow hits, we have the latest updates. The app is free to download and available in apple and android app stores. Michael slager is out of jail and on house arrest. Hes the former North CharlestonPolice Officer charged with killing an unarmed black man. A South Carolina judge set his bond yesterday at a half a million dollars. Slager had to pay 50,000 in bail money to be released. The judge also set slagers trial to begin october 31. He will remain under house arrest until then. Cell phone video showed slager shoot walter scott last april after scott ran n om a traffic stop. Geoff an update in anderson county, for the First Time Since , they are working on a new law. Deputy Brandon Surratt had been with hyco for six years. He says he supports a bill in the works called hycos and fargos law. Fargo was a k9 killed in Richland County in 2011. The law would increase prison time and add a potential fine animals. We ask these k9s to go into buildings after bad guys, exactly what we do. We call them a deputy also. Geoff surratt also wants to thank the community for its support after hycos death. Allyson Pickens County will now seek legal help to fight having coal ash disposed there. Company mmr pickens agreed with the county in 2007 to allow construction debris to go into a landfill near liberty, but officials learned the company now wants to dump coal ash. The county Council Voted no to it last night, saying its not part of the agreement. Geoff the Oconee Nuclear power plant will undergo inspection today after the discovery of degraded power cables. The Nuclear Regulatory commission will inspect the power cables for two of the plants three units. The inspection will take several days. The plant is located near seneca about thirty miles west of allyson taking a look at the roads, i85 near highway 290, going nicely. Be careful toward yancy and a very counties. Possible icy roads, temperatures in the teens. It yourselves extra time. Give yourself extra time. Accident in spartanburg on southport road and canon church road with no injuries reported. 26 and 40 are smooth. Everything looking good. 85, 385 looking good. Lets see how we look around haywood road. Today, president obama is set to announce new gun control. Geoff Nikole Killion is live without he is being cheered and criticized. Note the prizes with this being a pretty polarizing debate. The president says he strongly believes congress should address the problem but he insists everything he is announcing this morning is legal and within his executive authority. This is not going to solve every Violent Crime in this country, it will not prevent every mass shooting, it will not keep every gun out of the hands of criminals. It will potentially save lives. Nikole the president actions will extend background checks by requiring anyone in the business of selling guns to obtain a license. He is also calling for hiring 230 new fbi examiners to help with the checks and more funding or mental health. Some critics charge that his actions are unconstitutional and infringe on americas Second Amendment rights. The president will go a lot more initiatives, including the town allyson any more news on how effective they may or may not be . Nikole that will be the big test, specifically because the administration has been vague on these new steps the president is taking. They do not specify how many guns a dealer must sell in order to comply with the mandate. Also, there are exemptions, including gun collectors. Geoff Nikole Killion live in our washington newsroom. Thank you. Allyson the president is expected to emphasize and control in his state of the Union Address. Geoff many of you are keeping and i on wall street after this. The three major indices all took significant hits, with the dow and the nasdaq slumping by triple digits. Its not the way wall street was hoping to ring in a new year of trading, part of a global selloff. Its officially the worst opening day in 84 years. The huge drop is blamed on new signs of weakness in chinas economy, and fears the escalating tensions between bring a spike in oil prices. But today, oil prices actually closed even lower. Many analysts saying the low price at the pump will get even lower. Allyson if you are just waking up this morning, dale, it is cold. Dale in the 20s in most of the area and a few teams. Teens. 27 degrees currently in spartanburg with the northeast breeze. A quick look across the area. Live super doppler 4 hd with no precipitation showing an unexpected for today. We did get a flurry or two of snow. Avery and Yancey County are on a twohour delay because of yesterday. Across the upstate, may 20s or greenville, spartanburg in anderson. Those temperatures will reach into the 40s for afternoon highs. Breeze is out of the northeast at five to nine. Feels like nine inin boone, 13 in asheville. 44 for high today in the upstate. In the mountains, climb into the upper 30s. We do have a chance of rain in the forecast. We will see thatathance of showers on thursday. A better chance of rain on friday. Geoff thank you. The huge backup in california after a police chase. The latest, next. Allyson a live look at our Lake Hartwell skycam with the cold morning. On the terrorist threat. Marco rubio was missing fundraising in california instead. Two weeks later, terrorists struck again in san bernardino. And where was marco . Fundraising again in new orleans. Over the last 3 years, rubio has missed Important National security hearings and missed more total votes than any other senator. Politics first thats the rubio way. Right to rise usa is responsible for the content of this message. Right when you feel a cold sore, abreva can heal it in as few as two and a half days when used at the first sign. Without it the virus spreads from cell to cell. Only abreva penetrates deep and starts to work immediately to block the virus and protect healthy cells. You could heal your cold sore, fast, as fast as two and a half days when used at the first sign. Learn how abreva starts to work immediately at abreva. Com dont tough it out, knock it out, fast. With abreva. Here in vineland, home of progresso, but just one kind of chicken. White breast meat chicken every time. So if youre not going to make your own chicken soup tonight, do what we do. Make it progresso. This moment is perfect in every way just like my kid gooey. Flaky. Happy. Toaster strudel. Announcer you are watching live, local, breaking news with geoff hart, allyson powell, and weather with meteorologist dale gilbert. This is wyff news 4 today in high definition. Geoff as he covered the nation, in oregon, antigovernment protesters are standing their ground in a fight over land. It now occupies a wildlife refuge in western oregon. Local ranchers from returning to prison in their roles in the burning of federal land but they want to restrict the reach over wildland and then do land transfers. The two ranchers turn themselves in on monday in san pedro, california. Allyson the Police Involved shooting shotgun all lanes for hours. The suspect is in Critical Condition and they led the Los Angeles Police on a wild chase monday. He is wanted for murder, carjacking, and robbery in two separate california areas. During the chase, gasparyan drove on the wrong side of the interstate and crashed into a car. Gasparayan was shot and wounded as he ran away from police. He was cut later in the night. Caught later in the night. Geoff that 93, a man has a goal of the different caliber than you would think. Dale a light breeze makes it you get a cold. You cant breathe through your nose. Suddenly, youre a mouthbreather. A mouthbreather how can anyone sleep like that . Well, just put on a breathe right strip and pow it instantly opens your nose up to 38 more than Cold Medicine alone. So you can breathe and sleep. Shut your mouth and say goodnight mouthbreathers. Breathe right its about time the taco. Came out of its shell. Give it a pop. That sound. Like nails on a chalkboard. But listen to this family talking thats a different kind of sound. The sound of the weekend. Unleash the power of dough. Give it a pop. Now, your live super doppler 4 hd forecast. Dale after a cold, windy day yesterday, they have calmed down considerably. A good bit of traffic on upstate roads. Avery and Yancey County roads a little slippery so they are on a no new precipitation overnight an unexpected today. Cold conditions around the carolinas. 24 and toccoa, 16 in franklin, 23 and asheville. Lyman at 25, woodruff at 27, caesars head at 22. 16 right now in Maggie Valley. Any breeze at all with a five to nine mile per hour breeze in the mountains makes it feel like Single Digits in boone and 13 and the greater asheville area. Dress warmly as you head off to work and school. Instead of an upstate higher 52 44. The Asheville Regional Airport average is 47, not today. About eight degrees colder in dry weather continues today and tomorrow and clouds build in on thursday with an isolated shower and a better chance of showers by friday. We are talking a chance for rain friday and on sunday. Here is a look at what we see for an afternoon high, low 40s, 42 to 44 may be the best the piedmont sees today. Asheville goes from teens and 20s this morning to upper 30s for highs today. Tomorrow still below normal, 44 to 47. Thursday, an isolated shower and temperatures get back to normal. , the normal on saturday under partly cloudy skies, 58 to 61. Sunday another chance for showers leave down and back to normal on monday with a high of 52. Allyson taking a look at the roads, everything is moving smoothly on interstate 85 get interstate looking good except in avery countntand Yancey County. Watch out for icy roads with schools the way to hours. In Spartanburg County, accident caps off port road and came in church road with no injuries. Working on removing that. Road closures in Spartanburg County today and tomorrow. Inserting new water lines, south pine street and palmetto street will be closed. Both of those closed 9 00 a. M. Through 4 00 p. M. Today and tomorrow. 85 looking at a smooth speed limit drive. Lets take a look outside from i385 and woodruff road. This was a mess yesterday. So far, looking good. Geoff thank you. This is video of the Golden State Warriors plane last night. You steph curry but one of his teammates. Draymond green, who got his Third Straight tripledouble. That i igoing for double digits for points, rebounds and assists. Green is the fifteenth player in nba history to string together three straight. Hes the second in warriors history. It helped beat the charlotte hornets. A 35th straight win at home. Allyson to the olympics, and olympic hopeful headed to the carolinas soon. This is 93yearold bill guilfoil from kansas city, missouri. Hes hoping to qualify for the 2016 u. S. Table tennis team. He plays daily rounds of table tennis in his 8h decade of the cash a decade of the sport, and soon hell head to greensboro, North Carolina, in february for the table tennis trials. Giulfoil will likely be the oldest athlete at the trials but says its the sport that keeps him young. I think table tennis is a contributor to living longer. We have to have better nutrition, better outlook on grudge. I think that all goes along with a package, love everybody. Allyson the olympic trials will run the first weekend in february in greensboro, North Carolina. The winners advance to the north american trials in ontario. Geoff there is a guy taking care of himself. He looks fantastic. Allyson doesnt that break some kind of record . Geoff that is great. What you missed on the tonight show. How jimmy fallon says he was awkwardly introduced to john thats next. Allyson if you missed the tonight show starring jimmy fallon, you missed jimmy fallon telling the story of how he met john stamos at a Paul Mccartney concert. Geoff stamos isnt so sure it actually happened, though. Take a listen. I was hanging out, and i had a beer, and i see you, and i go, oh, john stamos. And they go or johns there or something, and i go, oh, i wanna. And i turn around, but you already had your hand out to meet me, and i turned around and your thumb, your thumb went in my mouth. No, no, no. I would remember. That definitely happened. I know for a fact it happened. Do it on me, say im, no, i was sitting down, so im you, youre talking that way. Hi, alec turns around, thumb in mouth. See, like that, it was like that. Geoff soap he said fallon misremembered. Allyson i dont know how you would misremember someones thumb going in your mouth. Geoff there is something funny from every single show and our producer has done a great job. Allyson and we dont get to see late. Geoff we could, but we would be like this in the morning. Dale more than normal. Geoff cold temperatures. Dale yes, you could feel that cold wind yesterday and they have calmed down a bit, but any slippery spots in avery to Yancey County and North Carolina, causing it to our delays. Temperatures struggle to reach global it is in the upstate low 40s in the upstate. Upper 30s for highs today. Time for dales School Salute and we have buena vista elementary. Mrs. Huguets First Grade Class came back to school and made party hats and had noise makers to celebrate the new year. A happy new year, and a salute this morning to buena vista elementary. Geoff thank you. Its time now for your wyff news 4 timeline on this january 5. On this date in 2002, a 15yearold student pilot deliberately crashed a small plane into a skyscraper in tampa, florida. The crash came just four months after the 9 11 attacks. Allyson Charles Bishop was flying solo and died in the crash. Bishop flew the cessna over the air base that commanded the war skyscraper in my business i can count on my i. T. Guy bailing me out all the time. Im not the i. T. Guy. Im the desktop support tech supervisor. And my customers knowing right when their packages arrive. Introducing realtime delivery notifications. Ski resor allyson skiers resorts making snow this morning. Geoff this is from hawks nest from several devils from seven devils ski resort. The potential for icy roads has allyson they include a very, yancey and tricounty schools operating on a two hour delay. Lets check in with dale gilbert. Dale cold and breezy across the region. Not as windy as yesterday. A light breeze out of the north at 27 degrees and there are many places in the upstate colder than that. In the mountains, teens and 20s early. All the kids in need a warm coat as they head off to school. Dress warmly because it feels like winter today. The quick look at the map. Some of the temperatures, franklin 15, lets check in anderson county, parts of oconee in pickens where it has dropped to 19 in the city of pickens, 28 in seneca, 22 in temperatures will feel colder as the breeze blows that eight to nine in the mountains and the wind chill right now makes it feel like six in boone. Afternoon highs, low 40s about the best for the upstate and the mountains will climb to upper 30s. We will talk about our next chance for rain in a few minutes. Allyson parts of Western North carolina looking like winter. This time lapse behind us shows extra snow able to be made thanks to colder temperatures on beech mountain. Geoff a drastic change from last week where the ski area was bare. Aly myles is joining us live from iq valley. Maggie valley. Aly good morning. It is one of those days where i am literally doing jumping jacks to keep myself warm. The best news for all of you who love snow and winter, take a look behind me. You can see how beautiful that is for those of you who like snow. They have been making snow all night long. We were talking with the snow maker who came down the hill over there and he says it has been a rough season. They have only been open for about 10 days. They have made four feet of snow overnight and they are taking every second they can to enjoy just how cold the weather is and can make as much snow as possible. It is above tree line right now, the cloud of snow coming over there. He says it is about 120 gallons of water a minute. They will be open around 10 00 today. He says it still have to get all of the grooming done and everything else. I dont know if you can see it over here, but i will throw a curveball up my photographer. The groomers are right over here. He says when you actually go out to the mountains, make sure you always thank us know maker because it might be easy to mix milk someplace like you, but they are Walking Around into three feet of snow when they are out there on the mountains. He says it is a thankless job and difficult but he wants to see how happy people are when they are able to get out on the mountains. Aly myles wyff news 4 live in