>> jason: what we get here in the mountains will be little and likely does not lead to any additional flooding. flash flood warnings have been extended until 9 this evening. the red color. you can see that flash flood warning for southern transylvania, i should say southern spartanburg county. seek higher ground if you haven't already in some of these low lying spots. we still have a flood watch out until 7 o'clock tomorrow morning. we still have a few of them left over. and of course the entire upstate under that flood watch for the potential of more flooding. right now the rain heavy and steady. here's where the rain has resided much of the day. south and east of i-85. you're starting to dry out a

spartanburg, greer, anderson, almost at three inches. your evening planner, upper 50s to mid 50s by 11. rain spreads farther to the east. we'll talk about your bigger changes for the new year coming up in just a bit. >> larry: crews estimate it may cost more than $100,000 to rebuild the road damaged by heavy rains. >> tammy: kim, how's it looking out there? >> kim: tammy, you can see creeks behind me like this across the county are full to the brim with water and a little bit of white water there behind me. we actually saw a crew out surveying a nearby bridge to make sure it wasn't damage as the heavy rain continued throughout the day around here. on a tip we received about a flood in rural polk county.

difficult. dot posted a sign road closed. we found these cones but couldn't immediately see why. just up the road, a major mud and rock slide. limbs covering the road as rain ter ran off the road and the mountain. within 30 minutes, a dot crew showed up. county maintenance engineer with the highway division assessed the damage. >> it just came down. >> kim: he says the damage by erosion on the road on the other side could cost more than $100,000 to repair. >> you can't really repair anything until the water goes down. this is the worst one we've had. >> kim: across the counties, creeks are full. >> it's happened once before. now it's happening again. there's a lot of land moving.

engineer tells me that they are documenting any kind of damage across the county to make sure that if they have that information they can then submit it for possible federal money for reimbursement as they begin these potentially expensive repairs. reporting live from polk county, kimberly king, news 13. >> reporter: thanks, kim. we're live right now at perhaps one of the hardest hit areas in greenville county. this road is causing some in the area to worry. by late in the afternoon, the rain stopped pouring. remains from this morning's heavy showers can still be found in some parts of greenville county. like here on warehouse court

submerged this highly traveled road. tollbert says he was concerned when the rain began to fall but he says it's not unusual for about half a foot of water or more. he says it could have been much worse. >> it had been worse than what it is now. it has come up halfway in to the backyard. >> reporter: the water may seem calm and shallow but the mystery of what lies beneath the surface is what has him worried. >> i don't see how you can get in there without drowning your car or running over something. you don't know what's in there. >> reporter: warehouse court is a two-way road. two cars passing by each other could also pose a threat.

blind. >> reporter: there's at least half a foot of water on this road. but it is still open. people should not go on this road or any road for that matter if you cannot see the bottom of it. one to two inches of water could cause your car to go off the road. darren botelho, news 13. >> tammy: people are still working to clean out washed out roads across buncombe county. flood waters stranding drivers yesterday morning. hope, you have a story of a man [ho acted quickly to help out one of those drivers. >> hope: tammy, if i was standing right here in the middle of this road around 3:00 a.m. tuesday morning, i would have water at the top of my head. that is exactly the situation justin tieg literally jumped in to. this neighborhood off of swannanoa river is still

night no one slept through. water still hasn't subsided. a glimpse of the danger that came so close. >> it's just all a blur. >> hope: justin tieg was up at 2:00 a.m. scrambling with his neighbors to get to higher ground. >> the water was up and within 30 minutes this water had risen 5, 6 feet. >> hope: that's when he saw a woman in her car below driving through knee-deep water. >> at first i thought they were passing through the water. then i heard the screams for help. >> hope: the water wasas colder than he thought and more deeper. >> i swam to her where it was more shallow. she started to get outside of the car and i just helped her. >> hope: everyone made it out safely. the driver declined to talk to us.

car. justin says he's thankful he was there even if he did just the opposite of what those first responders advise. >> if i were to do it again i would analyze the situation, remain calm. see where there was more shallow entry in to the water. >> hope: it brought at least one thing in to clarity, justin doesn't want to be in that situation again. >> we're buying a house and we're moving. >> hope: city crews came through moffatt road to scrape the mud away. you can see it's still quite a mess. several inches thick of mud on this road. reporting live in asheville, hope hanselman, news 13. >> larry: in other news, a bounty hunter in indiana is suspected of killing two teenagers who went missing. now he stands accused of

authorities say watkins suspected one of the boys was involved in a recent burglaries of his home. investigators are still looking for the bodies. >> tammy: five people are killed in a wrong way crash in miami. it happened on i-95. a pick-up truck was traveling in the wrong direction when it collided with several other cars. two people were hospitalized with unknown injuries. several lanes were shut down as authorities investigated. four on-duty secret service agents were involved in a crash in new hampshire. a man was traveling on route 16 when he crossed the dividing line. his car then collided head-on with a vehicle carrying the secret service agents. the driver of the car was killed. the agents suffered non-life threatening injuries. investigators would not say who

jaclyn, an earlier wreck is tying up traffic. >> jaclyn: all lanes are now open but there is stop and go traffic on both directions until holbert cove road. we have another closure to tell you about on transylvania county. nc 280 is shut down over near old 280 due to a wreck. there's no word when the roads will reopen. i-26 east bound -- west bound, rather, towards asheville is another problem spot. slow traffic between airport road and brevard road. that's a look at your on time traffic. >> luke: i'm live in sunny fort lauderdale, florida. this is the official media guide right here.

out on the >> larry: we're just a day away from the sttart of the college football playoffs. >> tammy: it's exciting, isn't it? there's a big time local connection. clemson taking on oklahoma in the orange bowl. >> larry: luke notestine joins us live from fort lauderdale,

>> luke: hey, larry and tammy. the excitement is palpable. and right now it's hard for the clemson fans to be anything but excited and happy. head coach dabo swinney there in the white shirt. he looks pleased. he should be. they've been very good on all sides of the ball. really, there's a lot to look forward to because it's new year's eve coming up tomorrow. we're in miamii and one of the most fan-friendly cities. within minutes, we were able to find a ton of clemson fans. some were tossing the football as they a lot of times do on the beach. some were tossing the frisbee and some were just chilling. >> i was born and raised a clemson fan.

no other fan to be but a clemson% fan. >> luke: so you've been a fan since you can remember? >> exactly. >> every week it gets better and better and better. watson is awesome. he's like steel. he doesn't get shakin' up. he's an awesome, awesome young man. >> luke: well this clemson team as i mentioned has been very good throughout this season. they will face a very good opponent in oklahoma coming up new year's eve. we're going to bring you even more coverage throughout the night tonight. including 11 o'clock on news 13. these clemson fans are ready to go. they just hope that dabo swinney and the team are. >> tammy: i'm jealous of luke the ball game. winner. >> jason: florida is the place to be. 61 degrees.

that we have had. 61 for the high. that put us way above average and way above average again on the low this morning. but that's the coldest low we've experienced in about a week. all right. we've picked up more than you 4/10 of an inch today. that gives us 8.76 inches for the month. almost to 9 inches for surplus.

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now your news 13 skywatch weather. >> jason: so asheville has the second wettest december ever recorded. those go back to the 1870s, folks. we'll add a little more rain when it's all said and done. we've also had the record warmest average temperatures ever recorded. that's in asheville, of course, too. what a year it's been. what a december, of course, too. showers still happening on the east side of 26. especially that's where some of the heaviest rain resides, union county, cherokee county, down through greenwood. east out of the upstate. this is great news. you're drying out. it's a slow process. additional rainfall shouldn't be

low lying spots typical places that flood. don't go near them. we do have a chance of isolated showers popping up. a lot of rain has shifted east and north of asheville. look at all this recent rainfall from the 21st all the way through today. we've had nine days straight of measurable rain. a record rain fall on christmas eve. 1.54 today. 4/10 of an inch of rain. almost two inches of rain. impressive. 62 degrees. it is mostly cloudy. now we're dry in asheville. humidity is still pretty high. the dew p pint is still pretty warm. the dew point is still pretty high in the upstate in the low 60s. but there is change coming. dryer air and certainly colder air. look at the 20s right now as you go to the midwest. that cold air is beginning to ooze it's way southeast ward. now it's not going to be 20s.

chill as we see highs in the 40s for friday and in to the weekend, too. much colder than the 70s and 60s we have been enjoying lately. there's that cold wind for the northwest. area of high pressure anchors its way to the south. it's just going to be chilly. believe you me, but dry. here's your future cast. a lot of cloud cover again. some of this will erode away tonight. i'm more optimistic you're going to stay dry mostly tonight. some sunshine tomorrow. but then right back in to clouds for new year's eve night and new year's day. so it's going to be a cloudy start to the new year. additional rainfall, not much here in the mountains. there are your lows tonight. 40s and 50s. it will be a little cooler tonight, especially in the upstate. tomorrow's highs will stay 50s in asheville. still getting in to the 60s over

40s friday. 40s saturday. only low 50s for the rest of the weekend in to next weekend. dry several days in a row. that's good news. also chilling down in the upstate upstate to 50 for a high by saturday. >> tammy: still to come, following the growing popularity

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program that incorporates mixed martial arts continues in popularity. >> larry: more people are trying mma for the new year. it's also turning in to a family affair. >> a lot of people think that mma is just for fighting and they think it's a brutal art. and it's absolutely not. >> reporter: if you talk to abby clark robinson and her us h band jeff who work together at this club, mma, the reason mixed martial arts is growing is you get more than a stronger body. >> you're going to learn a practical art. you're going to learn self-defense. and you're going to learn a skill. >> reporter: that skill is becoming more attractive to especially women. >> when i first started, there weren't very many girls. i actually had to wrestle with men. >> reporter: but not anymore, they may have started because they have a family.

shape having kids. >> reporter: but mixed martial affair. >> w w ask that we always get the kid in here first, and then mom and dad want to join. >> reporter: part of the appeal for the women is the self-defense part of training is about leverage and not size. if you train properly and mix the moves with martial arts, size doesn't matter. >> this is what she means by this. hands here. i'm going to grab you here. i'm going to lift this behind you. i just stepped on your foot. sorry about that. and then i'm going to roll you over and get the heck off you. >> reporter: the goal is fitness with a healthy respect for awareness of your surroundings. it's also, however, about realizing that you're worth it. >> i know i have personally lost a lot of weight. i've slimmed up. also i have learned so much from the people around me and from my coach. i've grown better as a person and as a young adult and

society. >> tammy: and there are plenty of fitness clubs that offer mixed martial arts across the country. >> larry: they say group classes are a great place to start. >> tammy: still ahead, staying

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learning, we made at stop at the western north carolina nature center to see what the kids are doing during the holiday break. >> now you and i have a squeeze factor of about 20 pounds per square inch. so we can squeeze about 20. some raptors can squeeze like 220. >> larry: well the rain did not keep visitors from stopping by this afternoon. some of them took part in an educational program called animal moments. >> tammy: the focus of today's program were an owl. those in today's program were excited to learn. >> one thing we like about this center is it brings animals that are indigenous to this region, to the appalachian region, in to the center. so it's not a zoo where you see exotic animals. but it's a place where you see indigenous animals from this area. >> tammy: it takes place every

afternoon.