in taylors, patrick hussion, wyff news 4. michael: the richland county coroner released to the name of a usc student found dead19-year-old rachel bandman of glen allen, virginia found unresponsive in her off-campus apartmthe complex called the hub at columbia. authorities are invested in the death as suspicious. they do not find any signs of trauma. the cause of death won't be known until toxicology reports are complete. carol: an easley man behind bars after he stopped another man i51 euros -- 51-year-old charles black faces attempted murder charges. he got into an argument with a man at the hotspot convenience he stabbed another man in the throat. the victim underwent surgery and to deputies. black is held at the detention center without bond. mi the man behind a well-known car dealership ran into the upstate has passed away. george coleman junior died at his home in travelers west., his family owned george coleman ford just off highway 25. coleman's father started the business back in 1930. coleman junior served the compan

mandy gaither, wyff news 4. michael: a beautiful view courtesy of the woodruff roa of larry's in the mountains. carol: john joins us now with the forecast. john: things are chilly outside. 39 in boone, but dry across the area. stuck with clouds backed up against the mountains in theupsystem, but the bulk of the precipitation remains to td east. watch what happens this evening. 7:00 p.m. tonight, clouds further northwest. clouds start to finally exit at 11:00 this evening, to the midlands and the coast line is the storm system heads out to sea. we start to cool down, but a fast-moving cold front comes in late tonight and early tomorrow morning. it could squeeze out flurries and maybe a few brief snow showers especially when the northern mountains of north asheville maisie flurries late tonight and early tomorrow morning. the windk up. we will talk whether more later on. michael: the boys are working hard. the panthers, gearing up for the supecarol: brad fralick is live and local in charlotte witbrad: michael, car

myra ruiz, wyff news 4, live in asheville. carol: icy roads kept some school buses from running regular routes this mo many families in travelers rest, and other parts of northern greenville county, had to drive their kids to school today on a two-hour delay. keep an eye on the ticker on the bottom of your screen to keep track of the school delays for tomorrow we have seen the runs but what if you rely on others, like meals on wheels volunteers? wyff news 4's aly myles with our report tonight. explains. >> hey, mr. quickfield. how are you today? hey, go panthers. aly: about 1500 people rely daily on these. meals on wheels volunteers do more than just provide a hot meal. >> it's amazing to hear the ones that say, "you know what? i don't want the volunteers to come out. its too dangerous. i'll be fine." aly: they might be the only person a client sees that day. >> how are you today? aly: the only one to check on them to know if they're sick or hurt. >> you know, you're doing something to help someone who needs help. aly: but whe

mike mccormick, wyff news 4, live in spartanburg. carol: construction crews part of business 85 in spartanburg for at least six days. bridge over train tracks. the department of tranor says crews closed the two southbound lanes of the highway between the state highway 56 exit and the new cut road exit today. a detour will be set up as crews replace part of the bridge. if the weather cooperates, d.o.t. officials say business 85 michael: you may wonder about the roads in the light of the greenville public works says there are no reports of any major damage. sc-dot says the same. one of two reasons this year, , for the first time, greenville used a salt solution, or brine, on the roads instead of sand. studies showed the sand, in the past, was causing more problems on the roads, and to the water runoff, as well. the agencies say the other reason is because the city has a plan in place to constantly fix roads as soon as problems are reported. >> we'll send a crew out. we have a pothole repair team. that's what they do all day long, every

live at bank of america stadium, brad fralick, wyff news 4 sports. marc: let's go back to chris for chris: the system that gave the northeast a blizzard, nearly two feet in washington dc, has moved out to sea. area. in charrtte, clear but cold at downtown. gametime temperature, 36. 30 degrees by the end. clear skies with light winds. tomorrow at home, 31 to start the day. warming into the 50's once more, partly cloudy across the area. in spartanburg, 30 to start the day, 50 two and it. blue skies in anderson, 44 by 11:00, 52 by 2:00. in asheville, warming up, 46 the high. should melt the feet of snow in some locations. mount mitchell had 66 inches of snowfall in two days. can you believe it? 41 inches in one day, yesterday. six inches per hour on mount mitchell. unbelievable. highs tomorrow across the area, 51 in greenville, 50 two in spartanburg, 53 in abbeville, low 40's across the mountains. the future plus shows we will see their skies all night tonight, a few high clouds tomorrow. the next system takes shape to the west around monday. it will he

wyff news 4's mandy gaither has the story. mandy: this is what's left of a home on forest drive, the homeowner so thankful her granddaughter woke up and got everyone out safely before the smoke detector had time to go off. >> this was the kitchen. mandy: the bricks and wood and most of what's inside, now chard, but what matters most survived. >> there was black smoke shooting through the floor, so i mandy: the smell of smoke woke taylor wilbanks. she helped her family to get to safehad the 16-year-old stayed asleep, >> it melted. mandy: the alarms may have saved their lives. >> you think you will have a lot of time, but you don't. >> the house was engulfed in flames in five minutes. mandy: in the past seven days in oconee county, five other fires have damaged or destroyed homes. the fire chief says none of those had a working ctor. week, we have been able to pinpoint or directly attribute to heating. both of those were portable heaters brought into the house that weren't normally used. mandy: the colder it gets, the more fires

gabrielle komorowski, wyff news 4, woodruff. michael: late this afternoon, authorities searching off hawaii said they found three life rafts that had been carried aboard the helicopters that crashed. carol: the coast guard said some were inflated, but it was unclear how they became inflated. the cause of the crash is not yet known. michael: a woman whose mother was killed in the charleston church massacre last summer spoke today in the upstate. carol: sharon risher helped honor dr. martin luther king by addressing the problem of gun violence in this country. college, and wyff news 4's tim waller was there. tim: michael and carol, risher's mother, ethel lance, was among the 9 who were killed last june at mother emanuel church in charleston. today, risher was the featured speaker at limestone college in gaffney, and she shared with the audience the horror of that day. risher, who lives in texas, received a phone call from a church member that night, who told her her mother was among the 9 people killed. today, risher condemned tha

lard -- live in charlotte, brad fralick, wyff news 4. mike: commitment 2016 coverage now, the democrats are getting ready to debate for the fourth time during this campaign season. for the first time, it's happening here in south wyff news 4's patrick hussion is live in charleston. patrick, what's happening there now? patrick: you can see it here, mike. the story so far tonight is the buzz. the energy a ad chanting here outside the gaillard center has been nonstop. they are chanting, i'm with her. they are chanting, feel the bern. we are still three hours out. we are in a three-day holiday weekend, so a lot of people are out here, celebrating martin luther king weekend. the supporters, as i mentioned, are energized. not missed by the democratic and republican party state chair people for the state of south carolina. >> it means so much, given that we're just a few blocks down from mother emanuel, to have the presidential candidates here in charleston, in south carolina, talking about their vision for america. >> well, tonight will be a w

this is wyff news 4 at 6:00 in high-definition. patrick: five american citizens held by iran have been released from custody. the announcement coming on the same day that the u.s. officially lifted nuclear sanctions against iran. nbc's ali arouzi reports from tehran on the release of the americans, some of whom spent years behind bars there. ali: as iran and world powers prepared to implement a landmark nuclear deal in vienna, here in tehran, five dual-national prisoners have been released. the timing probably not coincidental. out a statement saying the 4 -- the tehran prosecutors office put out a statement saying the 4 inmates were freed within the framework of prisoner exchanges didn't mention the names of any of the prisoners released. but iranian media has been rife with speculation, and now the state department has confirmed that amongst the released prisoners is washington post correspondent jason rezaian, former marine amir hekmati, and pastor saeed abedini. >> it's spectacular news. we're just so happy. can't wait to see h

charleston, patrick hussion, wyff news 4. debate live wire at the top of our mobile app and don wyff4.com for comments and pictures from the candidates and analysis before, during, and after the debate. now, take a look at the primary dates for our area. in south carolina, the republican primary is on saturday, february 20th, followed by the democratic primary on saturday, february 27th. in georgia, both primaries are on tuesday, march 1st. and in north carolina, both primaries are on tuesday, march 15th. michael: rain is moving in, and there's a possibility of flurries for part of our area. we have the two experts, chief meteorologist john cessarich and meteorologist chris justus. john, let's begin with you. john: chris and i were talking the last couple days about potential for snow. if we got some, it would be scattered snow showers. it does not look like the system will be too far -- it looks like the system will be too far southeast. flurries and may be snow showers for the mountains, and that would be saturday night lat

aly: aly myles, wyff news 4, at clemson. gabrielle: the clemson tigers are set to return to the upstate tonight. their flight should arrive at gsp in the next hour or so. that's where we find wyff news 4's john lyon. john? john: we are expecting the team plane to land in the next 40 minutes. as you can barely see behind me, there are nine buses waiting to caravan the team, the players, the coaches and the support personnel, back to clemson. as we wait for the team to arrive here, fans have been coming back from phoenix, from arizona, all afternoon. i met a flight from the next that was full of thompson fans, and they were easy to spot with their clemson gear on. i talked to people, who said they had a great time. here is what they had to say. >> they hit us in the gut. we had them back. special teams is where things didn't go our way. you can't look back at that. we think we represented well. the fans gave them a good response after the outcome was over and showed support there. we love our tigers. john: they are excited abo

myra ruiz, wyff news 4, greenwood. michael: south carolina lawmakers head back into session tomorrow, and topping the agenda is fixing the roads. last year, lawmakers seemed close to a solution, but opposition to raising the gas tax and demands for reform at the dot led to an impasse. this year bruce bannister of , greenville believes a road plan will come together. >> the one thing we know is, if you leave the roads like they are, it's going to be a negative effect on the economy. we know we have to do something, and figuring out what that is, is hopefully what we'll do this year. michael: helping matters is a $1 billion surplus in state tax revenues, and lawmakers say that could be used to fix the roads. >> now, your live super doppler 4 hd weather forecast. clouds will come in from the west from time to time. clear to partly cloudy, no precipitation. another cold day today, and night. what a way to start the week. we started off at 24 this morning, below average. that was at the greenville airport. 47 the high disse

corey davis, wyff news 4, in greenville county. mike: turning to commitment 2016 coverage now, one day after participating in a forum in columbia, in spartanburg this afternoon. rubio took time to meet and talk to voters at wade's restaurant. he was joined by congressman trey gowdy. you may remember, gowdy recently threw his support behind rubio. last night in columbia, and recently in south carolina, rubio has been interrupted by protestors, speaking out about his stance on immigration. there were no protestors at rubio's appearance in spartanburg today. an upstate woman will be the president's guest at this week's state of the union address. in 2007, greenwood county councilmember edith childs fired up a crowd during a campaign stop by then-senator obama by chanting, "fired up, ready to go." that chant would carry on through both of president obama's campaigns, in 2008 and 2012. as an invited guest by the president, childs will sit with the first lady during mr. obama's final state of the union address. in greenville,e, an islami

live in scottsdale, brad fralick, wyff news 4. patrick: turning now to commitment 2016, six gop candidates made a stop in the palmetto state with the key primaries only weeks away. they were here to talk about poverty, but the event wasn't without protests against one of the candidates. wyff news 4's corey davis has the story tonight in columbia. corey: it was standing room only here at the convention center in columbia. there was supposed to be seven gop presidential candidates here, but carly fiorina wasn't able to make her flight, so she did not attend today's event. but overall candidates spoke to a room of hundreds of people about how they plan to fight poverty. [applause] >> it's great to give people a chance to get a job, but if they don't have the skills to get a job, then that's the first step. programs i think need to be revamped and certainly our education systems as well. >> they're always going to be jail cells if i'm president for folks who are dealing drugs and committing violent acts. always going to be jail cells

mandy gaither, wyff news 4, live in clemson. carol: waiting for the team to arrive in the great southwest is a team of wyff news 4 reporters, including brad fralick and marc dopher, joining us at the phoenix airport waiting for the team to arrive. >> what to the desert, we are at -- welcome to the desert, we are at phoenix sky harbor airport. 6:26 is when the tigers will touchdown in phoenix. we are ready for a football game in just a few days. >> this is where this really starts to amp up. they will arrive to a very sunny valley. it has been raining for a couple days. finally the sun is out. the weather is about 60 degrees. weather and a lot of media as they land at the phoenix sky harbor. >> an entire row of media waiting for these planes to arrive. clemson arriving at 6:256, alabama arriving a half hour after that. for the rest of the day, not much they have to do besides getting settled in. tomorrow morning is media day, they practice tomorrow, sunday is a coaches press conference. finally we get to game day. the tigers sche

corey davis, wyff news 4, in clemson. carol: south carolina governor nikki haley laid out a plan to help fight domestic violence in south carolina. in columbia this afternoon, she says she is giving her task force more time to continue finding ways to deal with thth issue. she also is looking at how domestic violence cases are prosecuted in the state. >> in my executive budget, you -- we are putting approximately all, t te away domestic violence cases from officers and assign prosecutors. we will add 144 new prosecutors. we are going to put three more new judges into the circuit court, and we are going to have more money in there for public defenders. carol: governor haley created the task force a year ago. nationwide, south carolina consistently ranks among the worst in women killed by men. michael: flags in anderson county are at half-staff tonight, in memory of state senator william o'dell. the senator died in his sleep this morning. he became a state senator in 1989, serving district that's four. abbeville, anderson,

wyff news 4 sports. brad: thanks, ricardo. for the third time this season clemson is on the cover of , "sports illustrated," this issue ahead of the title game. and it is wayne gallman, who probably should be talked about more than he is. a little tease here. we will talk about wayne gallman in-depth. "road to the title," live from glendale. join us before the game for an college basketball, it is a full slate. south carolina at auburn, clemson on the road, furman and wofford on the road, usc upstate hosting north carolina at home. south carolina men and women, a combined 28-0. first time in sec history. tonight. michael: you are going to arizona soon. john: it will be in the 50's. sunshine, upper 50's all the way through early friday, saturday, next week. nice weather up there, brad. the game will probably be in the 40's. 47 the high tomorrow in the upstate, 43 in the mountains. bundle up. carol: thanks for watching. our next newscast is at 11:00. michael: we are always on wyff4.com and our mobile app. [captioning performed b

this is wyff news 4 at 6:00 in high definition. carol: the son of billy graham is hitting the road, holding rallies in 50 states and urging christians to vote. franklin graham has left the republican party and says he will not endorse any candidate. >> we are not supporting any candidates or any party. we want to lift up the name of jesus christ. carol: franklin graham kicks we're a week away now from thecollege football national championship game... and stores are cashing in...wyff news 4 was there when ashipment of orange bowl championshirts were delivered to mr. knickerbocker in downtown clemson... excited fans werewaiting around to get their hands on one... this store is expecting another shipment iweek... where were you 34 years ago?some of you might not have been born... others like us have a lot ofmemories... in 1981 ... i was in michigan...in thesecond year...you could say the sophomore year... of my tv career. it was also the first and lasttime the clemson tigers werecalled national champions... a michael: the tigers were

this is wyff news 4 at 6:00 in high definition. mike: in north carolina, a pastor says he confronted a man who walked into the church with a rifle and a magazine of ammunition during a service. this happened on new year's eve in fayetteville. pastor larry wright, who is also a member of the city council there, says he walked up to the man, and asked if he could help him. the man asked the pastor to pray the pastor says he took the gun and hugged the man, who then committed his life to jesus, and apologized to the small congregation. the pastor says the man told him that he wanted to hurt someone that day, but felt compelled to ask the church for help. police took the man into custody, and he voluntarily went to a mental health facility. the site o othe san bernardino shooting rampage that killed 14 people and hurt 21 others, is set to reopen tomorrow. there will be tighter security as the inland regional center's 600 employees go back to work. the center has been closed since the december 2nd mass shooting. in new mexico, police fo

in clemson, nigel robertson, wyff news 4. carol: let's check in now with meteorologist chris justus. you can feel a bit of a change. michael: chris, getting cooler, but we'll finally get to see more of the sun. chris: sunshine and no rain on the way anytime soon. it will get colder. it is 11 degrees colder than yesterday. that leaves us with a pretty cold night. in the mountains, it is getting into the 30's. asheville is already at 39. hendersonville at 43. it is 50 in spartanburg. overnight, expect clouds to clear. if you are going out tonight, it will be getting cold quickly. by 10:00, it will be 45. it will be 30's shortly after midnight. the mountains and will be below freezing after 2:00 a.m. i will have more coming in a few minutes. carol: right now, a teenage boy in anderson county is receiving treatment after a serious accident involving fireworks. as wyff news 4's corey davis tells us, this accident remind all of us to use caution when in join fireworks. >> emergency officials say the teenage boy was handling firewor