the clemson tigers are on the championship down, the plane landed in arizona as they get ready for the title game against alabama. reggie joins us from the airport, reggie? >> reporter: thank you jr, the crimson tide a -- the clemson tied a 14-0 record. clemson, they're making out of the plane. arizona will be taking its first step. there's nick going for his fifth title in his career. he has three in the bag at tuscaloosa and he's going to be going at his 4th in the last six seasons.

his resume, it's no contest. he has nfl experience. his head coaching stop is at clemson. nick has worked for the likes of bill belichick and a coach at michigan state. now, he's in alabama looking to bring the crimson tide another national championship. clemson arrived at 6:17 here, and davo sweeney is a walk on. he was part of a national championship team for the player. the tigers are arriving here in arizona. tomorrow is media day and he'll have a walk through practice and before you know it will be time to kick it off in alabama at phoenix stadium. there's a big time connection on clemson's team and it spreads to the arizona locker room.

it's the recruiting coordinator for clemson. he led the bengals to the 2006 state championship. when he got to clinton, he went to bethel, come on and play for pc, we'll give you a scholarship and you can play football and he's gone to the working world of the nfl. cardinals. what does it me to have jeff scott back in town. and jeff scott was the guy who put him on the path to clinton and from clinton he ended up in the nfl. >> i didn't have many offers, i hadn't applied to many places, he left and got that job at presbyterian, i don't know who that was until he mentioned it and he's like, yeah, i was talking to the guys, the coaches and they really like you. if you come in, you have a good

freshman you a can get a full ride and an education. >> i thought getting a full ride and education, i can do something. i'll go and do that, yeah, i'm blessed, god put everything in place to get me to where i need to be. . >> all right another live look here at the sky harbor international airport, tarmac, alabama has arrived, and we see the alabama flag, they're parading and it will be a big time atmosphere for the, for this game. you've got a host of media here, it's a national championship of college football. it's the superbowl of college football and you're talking about a horde of media, 200 or so are here at the airport. alabama is in town, the first practice tomorrow here in

live from the valley of the sun, news 19, wltx. >> thank you so much. the self proclaimed biggest clemson football team is also headed to arizona making it his 433 game he has watched from the stands. >> i don't know if it makes me dedicated or just, you can do the math, the idiot for spending so much money in following clemson football. >> he said he was meant to and tiring. >> i didn't know there was another university. i grew up with orange blood and never thought of going anywhere else. >> he went to his first game at 10 years old. since then he's been to hundreds and collected memorabilia that's older than the tigers current players. >> these are my ticket stubs

the admission price was a hefty $15. this is the original tiger rag. >> this is my pride and joy, the 1981 scrapbook. the first one was 1976 and i've done one every year since. >> he's been waiting 34 years to create a book that rivals the last national championship win, he believes the time is here to many could. >> there will be one to beet that one -- the time has come. >> someone asked me the other day, are you nervous, what if you don't win, what if you have come this far and monday night, you just don't complete the journey, and my answer is, we've already won. we've already won to get to this point. >> colby gallagher news 19,

as you heard tickets to the 1981 championship game were $15 and now, they started at $450. the championship, they can't wait around to see who wins the game. they're waiting to see when the product was ready. this is here, if clemson wins it all, they'll be busy to make sure the church are ready to buy on tuesday. >> we'll be here monday night during the third quarter getting set to go, ready to go. we'll have stores picking up the shirts, monday morning, tuesday morning at 9:00 a.m. and we'll have shirts available here in the store at noon. >> that's being done at eat mor too. iz. the united states post office are offering limited envelopes of clemson, and those are limited to 3500 prints,

they'll be sold at anderson greenville and the main post office in columbia. there's a limit of five per customer. be sure to tune in monday night for the clemson special, reggie anderson will be live in arizona for the big game and lang -- alyssa lang sits down with t aj boik. today we saw clouds in the area and that kept temperatures in a narrow range. it was 45 in the airport and both locations warmed up to 50 degrees, and we still have clouds and the temperatures are holding at 50 degrees. winds are to the north at 5 miles per hour. we don't expect the temperature to change much tonight. i don't think we'll see anything, but an occasional light drizzle. 46 for a level tomorrow it will be cloudy, high temperature 57 degrees, i think most of our rain, if we see it tomorrow, is

the evening hours with a low temperature of 51. there's more on the forecast for the weekend, that's coming up in just a moment. >> thank you so much. the october flood damaged hundreds of roads and bridges all across the state of south carolina and put the spotlight on our state's crumbling infrastructure. most of the damage has been repaired but many more roads and bridges will need attention. that's something i talked about today with senator lindsey graham. >> most of our dams are well built. one, repair the damage to the homeowners and businesses who suffered to try to get money on the table and a fair way to compensate them. we got a multi-00 million dollar package in this appropriations bill to help people who suffered from the flood but the farmers didn't fair as well they should have. they got wiped out. i'll work in 2016 to help

generally speaking our roads and bridges, we, now, know where our fault lines exist and part of the responsibility of the federal government is to help a state like south carolina who we suffered in a thousand year historic flood. we'll work to make sure the roads and bridges that have been compromised are rebuilt safely. >> state lawmakers are expecting to address the infrastructure issues when they go back into session next week. it's the largest jackpot in any lottery game in history. if you have a chance to win the $800 million jackpot saturday night, you can see the drawing right here on news 19, we can get caught up on what happens if the winner comes from our state? >> we're counting on it. i can tell you, we are counting on the fact that tomorrow night, when those numbers are drawn, it's going to be our jackpot.

it would be wonderful. we talk about how that affects the economy, it's a trickle down. the department of revenue would get a wonderful amount of money. the retailer would get a wonderful commission and then of course, as is always the case, education always wins. >> well, you are being urged to play responsibly here, that's because the odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 293 million. >> the holly hill man is behind bars tonight. darien weeks charged with attempted murder, possession of a weapon during a violent crime and larceny. there was an attempted shooting, weeks shot his 53- year-old stepmother six times and left the scene in her car. he appeared for a bond hearing and asked if he believed his bond should be denied so he

>> i'm pleased with the victim advocate. he was in close contact with the victim and the family and the investigator that told the judge what was going on and i'm very much satisfied that they should have been and the judge granted no bond. >> the victim's condition is unknown today, but she was air lifted to a nearby hospital. columbia police are investigating after a man was found dead on the front porch of a home today. he died from a blood loss from a cut on his head. police are calling it a peculiar death. >> i thought maybe she may have gotten hurt, but i've been told by the neighbors that she is fine and it was my first impression, it was, an individual she used to call her grandson used to come by and he would ask, she would wash his clothes and feed him and he sometimes was a problem in the neighborhood.

if you have any information about who was involved in this, call crime stoppers, 1-888sc. the cause of death hasn't been determined just yet for this man. the department of corrections and the lead coroner continue to investigate. still ahead for you now,

have created a math le the last week or so...its been feeling more like winter...but some aren't . the last week or so has been feeling more like winter. some are not fortunate to stay warm. this woman is finding a -- sonia gutierrez is finding people without homes. >> reporter: richard flood knows what it's like to be cold and in the streets firsthand. >> i appreciate the gloves and the hat. >> he stumbled upon this on the way to the park. >> hats and gloves for anybody who wanted them. we've been putting them out every day. since then, until they run out, at this point. >> the reverand collected these winter bundles as part of a episcopal church initiative. >> we had a huge basket full

they were gone. >> she had no idea that this simple gesture would go such a long way. >> there's a need out there, and we've tapped into that and we are blessed that we can find a need that we were able to fill. it's exciting. >> the church is a block away from the homeless center. >> we do it in the daylight hours because a lot of the shelters close down during the day. many of the folks are out on the street. we thought that would be a good time to put them out there. >> but, we actually have the last of our goods up on the fence right now. this is it. you can see how sparce it is. >> i wish good to continue to bless them so they can spread their blessing. >> thank you so much. >> the church is taking winter donation force that fence.

of it visit our website. wltx.com. a math lesson was created using soup cans. this was created by luanne and george roy. students tried to figure out how many cans they'll have if they add bigger rows to the bottom. the thought is if you can do this, you can insolve increasing the amount and you can solve bigger math problems with the same knowledge. >> first he sort of showed us a strategy on how to do it. i started thinking about it and i finally understood it. i kind of built upon what she was saying and it helped me think of the right answers. >> both of the educators say they've heard from folks all over the country who are now using this new method. on today gamecock head coach, the gamecock head coach

sean elliott is staying on staff as o-line coach. the decision on staying or pursuing other activities wasn't automatic. >> when he was hired, he expressed interest on keeping me on staff. that was something i wanted. i wanted to be here at the university of south carolina. i believe everyone knows i love this state and this university and that was a great opportunity, and there was another option to go out and have a couple of jobs that i wanted to take a look at and see if there were opportunities in that area, after we visited and he got hired, he said i want you to be the line coach and i said i wanted to be here coach. >> staying with gamecock sports, the lady gamecocks back in columbia after their road depends bandy. they're playing against missouri, the team is back at the colonial life arena for

the men's basketball team are taking on bandy at the colonial life arena. their head coach frank martin has been honored. he was given a mid season honor today being named the top coach in the division 1 men's basketball. it's named in honor of jim pellen at mount st. mary's university. he led the men to the division 2 basketball championship. a lot of you wondering how the weather is shaping up for the weekend.

>> we'll see before he speaks, i do. let's talk about the weekend now. you teased us going into the break. we could see a little bit of rain. >> it won't be a lot of rain. generally less than a quarter of an inch. it will get things wet, but that's about it. temperatures won't be too bad. we saw a little light rain this morning. we picked up 7/100ths of rain and 400ths of an inch of rain in the city. we're seeing low cloudiness across south carolina, the showers are stationary along the coast. we saw in this morning, in the far southeastern part of south carolina. this is coming from the eastern

on the west side it's been surging northward in this cold front and you can see the rain in the parts of the great lakes. it's coming south to the nation's midsection. you can see it cooler in the carolinas. charlotte it's 45 degrees and everyone else generally in the 50s. in south carolina, the temperatures are in the 60s, it's 50 in columbia, 52 degrees in orangeburg. with the clouds over us, those temperatures will not change much tonight. seeing the cloudiness we'll see tonight and tomorrow as we head towards tomorrow afternoon that's when we expect to see showers popping up through the area. and tomorrow evening, the front will come through before daybreak on sunday and we'll start to clear out. we're going to be seeing colder air. here's our forecast for tonight.

newberry, 47 in orangeberg, 45 in sumter and then for tomorrow, we'll be seeing high temperature, 53 in newberry, and 56 in camden and aiken. maybe 60 for orangeberg and manning. here's our 7 day forecast, and for sunday, it will be a bit windy and we're expecting a high temperature of 62. the warm part of the day is likely to be early, and then sometime during the afternoon we'll start to see that colder air coming in, it will be sunny on monday with a high temperature of 48, a bit breezy on tuesday, with another front coming through, 54 for a high. but, then on wednesday, the cold air settles back in, 47 degrees, the high temperature down to 27 degrees thursday morning, and then we'll see clouds coming pack into the picture on friday, with a high temperature of 53, and we might see light rain coming in on friday. >> we had really chilly

week and i'm wondering how the affected garden is out there. >> it affected some things as we had mentioned before, things like kale and collards, they weren't affected by this. in fact, they needed it. particularly the collards because they get seasoned better like that. we had things that we had in the garden, we protected our covers right there. we had them out, and we pulled those today, it's warming up for the weekend and we wanted to check on everything, and for the most part, i think

the first well, here in south carolina, one out of every seven households struggle to put food on the table. they held a press conference to talk about it. they're trying to find ways to help people move out of poverty if in state. dreams will come true for underprivileged girls.

trying to provide everything a girl could need for prom without the hefty price tag, they're collecting gowns, shoes and accessories for girls who can't afford them. >> knowing their prom dreams are going to come true no matter what is going on in their family background or anything like that. they'll have the opportunity to go to the prom because we've made that possible. >> and you can drop off your donations right here at wltx. tomorrow you can pick up mulch from the and you'll grinding of the greens, all week long, folks dropped off their christmas trees to be recycled, they've been doing it a couple of weeks now. you can pick up your mulch in columbia and also out on the state farmer's market. again, it is power ball mania right now, $800 million is the jackpot, the estimated jackpot, it's expected to go higher.

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bo and sunny obama. what the suspect's wife is telling "inside edition." >> he's not thinking clearly. >> the secrets to winning the historic $800 million jackpot. >> people who rely on luck are fooling themselves. and the shocking moment as assassinate a cop. plus. >> get him out of here. no coat for you. >> don't give him his coat. >> trump throws a protester into the freezing cold without a coat. >> confiscate his coat. it's 10 degrees below zero outside. remember this little guy? the famous pizza rat. >> but was the pizza rat video all a hoax? >> is it real or fake. plus, wendy williams versus alyssa milano. fireworks over these photos. >> i don't need to see that. >> why? >> because i just don't want to. now, "inside edition" with deborah norville.

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