bringing in cold weather. things could get dicey. henry rothenberg is breaking down the forecast. what are we seeing outside right now? . >>reporter: we've got the cold temperatures out there. but there's one good thing, and that is the air is very dry. dewpoint may not mean a lot to you at home, but it means a let to me. this is indicating the air mass outside is pretty dry with these temperatures in the single digits, anywhere from 10 to 15 actual air temperatures in the 3 #0s. we'll see the numbers climbing. that means more moisture in the atmosphere to support anything that looks like it could be falling from the sky, making it from the sky to the ground. right now clouds for us but over the next couple of hours we expect that to change. future watch shows temperatures hovers into freezing. third shift around 3:00, the potential of a little bit of pink end kating a winter mix. still with us by about 6:00 going into tomorrow morning and still looking at some spotty

coming up in a bit, we'll break it down and tell you why we'llll see better news in this forecast than what we've been worried about all weekend. that and more coming up in a bit. thank you. staying warm and shelter is the utmost priority for everyone, especially those who don't have a home. melanie barden joins us at the shelters. how are they stepping up their . >>reporter: columbia's homeless population is more than 1600 people. and all those people obviously needing a place to stay tonight. i'm standing here on main street and columbia. our thermometer is reading 34 dooz. that number will drop overnight. those people without a warm place to stay, without a hot meal are very trang my that the city has provided those resources.

could i would have a place i could, at a hotel. >>reporter: with a potential for ice, columbia's homeless population is grateful to have somewhere to keep warm. >> i didn't see the inclement weather center. these people show a lot of love. >>reporter: when the temperature dropped below 40, the inclement weather sent opens its doors. it's also open during storms and freezing weather. care. if they didn't, they wouldn't be there for the little pay and all the stur u stuff they have to go through. >>reporter: the volunteers make columbia's homeless are able to stay out of these. there will also be various shelters open tomorrow throughout the day for people to

stick with wach for closings or possible delays. melanie barden, wachfox news. district 1 includes richland, lexington, kershaw and lee counties. scdot has equipment loaded up for emergency response if needed. they have pretreated the interstate routes and bridges. for the southern side of the midlands, the heavy equipment is ready and prepped there as well too. the best way for you to get immediate weather updates is through the skywach weather app. it's free to down lloyd and will keep you and your family safe as this weather rolls in. crime watch tonight, a woman behind bars charged with criminal domestic violence . richland county deputies responded to a domestic call this morning. 400 block of

vivian jeffrey was trying to cut the tires on her husband's eschar. when he attempted to stop her, she cut him. the victim has not life threatening injuries. columbia family grateful for their life after their home was engulfed in flames tonight. you may have seen it. the home is on luster lane and considered a total loss. according to the columbia fpt, once the hot spots are under control, they can enter the home to investigate the cause of the flames. the family was able to escape the home without injury. there is one pet, a dog, still on the potentially roaming around the area. it's a never-ending topic here. how to fix our roadways. senators preparing to debate how much extra money to give to the state's highways and bridges and plenty of options to choose

christy hall has given them a host of options. here are two of them. one, spending $65 million extra a year to get the pavement on the interstates up to good condition while doing no bridge work. the other option, spending $800 million in new money that would attack congestion, fix bridges and the senate started debay before adjourning for the weekend. new numbers in south carolina have 48 officer-involved shootings in 2015. that's the highest number since the state law enforcement division began keeping track in 1999. in 26 of 48 ins stances suspects pulled guns on officers. they show they're up 45% from 2004. 14 officers and 14 suspects were injured during last year's 48 officer-involved shootings.

subpoenas were killed. making political head lines saturday night's gop presidential debate now dwindled down to 6 comes exactly one week before south carolina voters head to the polls for the first primary of the 2016 election season. the debate turned to foreign policy and the bush's administration handling of the things got personal. >> we should have never been in iraq. we destabilized the --. >> while trump was building a tv show, my brother was building it to keep us safe. >> how did he keep us safe when the world trade center happened? the world -- i lost hundreds of friends. the world trade center came down during the rein. he kept us safe? that's not safe.

did not kill bin laden when he had the chance. >> the republican party primary. primary. coverage of all the kand dats leading up to saturday's primary. last night's debate start acknowledging antonin scalia. the battle is underway whether president obama should name a replacement. democrats say that's not the case. . >>reporter: the flag is set at half staff at the white house and federal installations all across the country and will remain so. the political water over the supreme court vacancy

the president last night singled the supreme court for advice and consent. >> i plan to fulfill my constitutional responsibilities to nominate a successor in due time. there will be plenty of time for me to do so and for the senate to fulfill its responsibility to give that person a fair hearing and a timely vote. >>reporter: mcconnell suggested he would be take up any supreme court nominees set up by president obama. rubio agrees. >> i think we should wait until after november before doing that. the president can nominate whoever he wants. we're not moving forward on it, period. >>reporter: even if mcconnell were to change his mind, it would most likely be fill bustered. >> does that mean you'll filibuster anyone that president obama nominates?

this should be a decision for the people, george. >>reporter: the loss of scalia means we're just one justice away from losing civil liberties for generations. democrats are furious that republicans are vowing not to take #u7 any of president obama's nominees. reed calling it a shameful advocation of one of the senate's most important constitutional responsibilities. it's going to be interesting debate for the next f f months. still to come at 10, valentine's day is a wonderful time to show how big your heart is. we join people who are giving back

continues. . welcome back. while most of us spent our valentine's day's with the special someone, one church family gave ba hungry children right here in the midlands. leigh has more. >> a lot of people wake up and take for granted they're going to wake up and not be hungry.

united on valentine's day all with one goal. doing what they can to stomp out hunger. >> we're kneed feeding 40,000 families. we're working with families to -- assembly line, as you can see, all these meals. >> if we have an abun dance, we share that to those who need it. . >>reporter: trenholm united methodist church spent their time making the food to send to harvest hope to send to children o throughout the community. >> throughout the many donations of people who couldn't be here today and wanted to help and through the donationings people who are heree donating their time and money to help feed children everywhere makes you feel good. >> we need to make sure they wake up the same way we do. >>reporter: without a trace of

leleh, wachfox news. the crowd was incredible. according to a survey by the national retail fred ration, 36% f will get their flowers for valentine's day. where do all the flowers come from? you may have received some today. the jrt of them are imported. wachfox news has more how the flowers got your door. >>reporter: sifting, picking, inspecting. the fresh cut flowers your valentine may be getting you are one of more than a billion in columbia and ecuador. they have to be hand picked as disease free. >> they will go through all of the samples. if they detect anything that could be harmful, they work with the united states

determine what is it and can the harm be mitigated through fumigation or does the product have to be destroyed. >>reporter: south florida is the hub for flowers being imported into the united s stes. 90% of the flowers make their first stop right here at miami international airport. >> the s. s. customs employees specialists from all over the country looking for illegal drugs to more than 1400 different types of pes. insects pinpoint. >> our special specialist highly educated. . some with ph.d.s. they're experts at looking for the kinds of pests and the kinds of diseases that would harm american agriculture. >> why so much work?

>>reporter: fresh flowers are a growing business. they report a 21% increase. if infected with pests or diseases, this blooming industry can quickly turn into a mare. >> that's why these inspectors take their work so seriously. >>reporter: couples spend $90 bying something for their sweetheart tote lg a projected 2 billion customers will be shelling out this valentine's day. in miami, florida, wachfox news. hopefully you went to a local florist. i've had flowers delivered that didn't arrive exactly like the picture. still to come on wachfox news at 10, we recap the weekend that was for frank martin and the gamecocks and the look ahead to their matchup. and the great american race is almost h

it's awfully cold and the clouds are overhead. we'll be talking about things falling from these clouds. your full

10:00 returns. . welcome back, everyone. mother nature delivering a little bit of a setup for us on monday morning. we brought in henry rothenberg to kind of break in down a little bit. it's cold oidz root now. >> incredibly cold. there's a lot of variables playing out in this system. everything that's happening on the news side with the politics and the campaigning and everything going on leading up to next week's primary, it gets going tomorrow. and that's what we'll break down. let's look at the temperature outside. you can see on the as you understand night in 10 hour we're freezing. 36 in columbia. also in lexington, freezing. in winnsboro, newberry, 34. we have 30s out there. the numbers will drop a few more degrees. the cold air in place and b bn in place a couple of days. i'll show you a number you don't see

the dewpoint is not 43 but everybody else is correct. cam ben den at about 10. this number helps me'd foi how much moisture is in the atmosphere. these numbers, while they are throughout the day, are still relatively low. that means any time we would get moisture overhead that would fall in the form of w resip between 4:00 and 6:00, these numbers will be high enough as the atmosphere has time to saturate to allow for anything to fraul fall to the ground. we'll looshg at all this in just a moment. winter weather advisory in effect to the north. as we expand the view, well to the north out can lie thats, here's the system. right here moving through the tennessee river valley into the mid south region at this 10 hour for us. and come back in a really bit. again, just the clouds right

change. things happening here. arctic high pressure to the north. that's bringing the cold air into place that we have been experiencing for a few days. storm systems to the west. what's going to happen and what looks like it's going to play in the favor toot be as significant of an impact is what we could have experienced, as this storm system pushes in, it kicks the arctic high out. the wedge pattern, if you will, sets up when the cold air wedges in on the backside of the mpts and keeping us chilly, not going to stick around for quite as long. 7:00 tuesday, temperatures above freezing and we start to see the system lift to go the north. the timing object moisture with this, we pause this at 5:00, a little pink here and there on this has latest what we call rpm future watch in-house forecast. as we roll through the day tomorrow, looks like we have a

rain but starts to see more just rainfall and eventually the surface temperature climbing above freezing. when the water hits the ground, it wouldn't freeze on contact by the afternoon hours. not the case for the morning rush so go on and set the alarms 30 minutes earlier at least to give yourself time. tune in to good day ka and download the weather app to stay ahead ofweather maybe a lingering shower on the the backside of this disturbance. next three days, 38 degrees. that will actually be for the most part during the day. we could climb a little bit by hide night with the warm front moving through. 58 by tuesday. so tuesday we know it's good. a lot of you have tomorrow off. the morning time until 11, 12:00 we have the chance of seeing freezing rain mixing in. once we get to tuesday afternoon especially, and beyond, we forget all about this.

you into the next week. lows will climb into the 30s and 40s. it's really just getting through about the next 24 hours, everyone. that's it for your forecast. stay with us. we have much more to colonel on

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. you could come up with dozens of words to describe usc's outing against kentucky saturday. the best, though, humbling. after coming off a tremendous win over lsu wednesday to put them in a three-way tie atop the sec, the wild cats handed it to the gamecocks saturday afternoon in a game that was seemingly over at half time.

the drawing board for usc as they prepare to hit the road. frank martin said it best after the loss. >> big black eye at school tomorrow. that's happened to me, get punched in the face. everyone knows you're willing to fight for what's yours, though. and we'll walk proudly with two big black eyes around school tomorrow and we'll line up on the tuesday and play and hopefully get back to doing the things that we have done pretty good most of the year. >> meanwhile for staley and the gamecocks, another monday providing another tall task for the second ranked team in the country. usc will hit the road to knoxville to take on the lady vols on big monday. isn't the typical power house on ten. the vols have struggled this season dropping five games in conference play. at the end of the day, it's a highly televised game.

can't sleep walk in this matchup. >> we know everybody plays their best basketball against us. that's probably not going to be the team that shows up on monday night. we're prepping for their very best and hopefully that's -- hopefully we're going to play our best. we want to get it rolling. >> look what we have here, wheels in daytona. what a day it would be for elliott qualifying for the 500 sunday. jr. looking for a big 2016 with hendrick motor sports. he'll roll off third next sunday. but the day belonged to the kid in the 24 car. elliott taking over for gordon who is now in the booth with fox sports. his lap earns him the poll for the great american race. he's the youngest driver in history to

>> special day a great way to start 2016 for our team. daytona 500 qualifying day is such a -- it's such an opportunity for the teams to really -- i feel like show what they've done in the off season ananthe kind of work ethic they have and the massaging they've put into these cars to find the seconds that are crucial on the race day. that's what it's all about.

after this. something is just fundamentally broken when african americans are more likely to be arrested by police, and sentenced to longer prison terms, for doing the same thing that whites do. ...when too many encounters with law enforcement end tragically. we need investments in education, health care and jobs, to counter generations of neglect. we have to face up to the hard truth of injustice and systemic racism. i'm hillary clinton, and i approve this message. we call ourselves the greenwood runners. the open water paddlers.