see some sunshine by this good affect. thank you for joining g us. we start off talking about the stormy weather we had yesterday. the national weather service has confirmed that yesterday's damage was not cause bid a tornado. instead, it was a microburst with winds of up to 70 miles per hour. the storm knocked over a tractor-trailer, brought down power lines and blew off a roof.

a logging company. the tornado, however, was confirmed in the dixieana area in southeast lexington county. cars and trees were damaged at that location. the question today is can we expect to see more severe weather. >> darcy, you will like this answer. the answer is no. a lot of rain still continues but for the most part, any kind of is he seer activity has dwindled down and now we are just left with a little bit of shower activity. it has been moving off to the east, and most of the rain has slowed down. temperatures right now, it is only in the others and that is pretty much where we started early this morning. you can see right now here in columbia, 57 degrees and we already hit our high. later on this afternoon, 53, sprinkles possibly left over. tonight, it will be cold.

36 degrees and then tomorrow, it is going to be a little bit chilly. 54 and a lot of sunshine. an energy company is expanding in the midlands. dominion resource is relocating their carolina gas transmission headquarters to columbia. the company owns and preallots nearly 1500 natural gas pipelines in south carolina and southeastern georgia. thraves a cake cutting morning at the columbia metro airport. the organization has a lounge at the airport for service members passing through. the south carolina chapter's volunteers and staff greet around 7,000 military service members every month. olympic figure skater

midlands today campaigning for hillary clinton. the two-time olympic medalist is spending time with college democrats at usc's darla moore school of business in columbia. the campaign says kwan previously served as an envoy for the u.s. state department. make sure you are watching us today for friends at 5:00. kwan will join us live during the show to talk about what she has been doing off the ice. hillary clinton and bernie sanders will debate one on one tonight. the candidates got a chance to show off their pitches last night at a televised town hall in new hampshire and separate appearances, they traded jabs on health care, foreign policy and who deserves to be called progressive. tone of the back and forth is becoming increasingly sharp this week.

four more debates to the primary season schedule including tonight. pharmaceutical chief martin shrekli has taken the fifth. he has been widely scorned for raising the price of a long- established and potentially life saving drug by more than 5,000%. he refused to steph before the house oversight and government reform committee. -- he refused to testify. the second anual fashion today. the event will be a colorful night of fun, family and fashion and in support of local cancer patients around the midlands. tickets are $35,678 the event runs from 6:6: until 9:00 tonight. you may not able to travel with the carolina panthers to the super bowl but families can

sport your favorite jersey and bring your kids to the richland library on st. andrews and broad river road. the library will host a super bowl mania event filled with food and fun and games. the event run 4:00 until 5:00. the richland library is showing off plans for their blythewood branch. this comes after residents passed a $59 million bond referendum to fund and enhance library facilities. the library is located at 218 mcnulty road. that is in blythewood. there is still time for to you help make a difference in the lives of a girl preparing for one of most special occasions in high school. now is your chance to help a girl go to prom with the annual cinderella project put on by

young lawyers division and alpha kappa alpha sorority. you have until february 4th in columbia and until march 9th in orangeburg to turn in the dresses, purses, happened bags, shoes. we have all the locations listed on our web site at wltx.com. and usc's women's basketball team will once again try to hold onto their perfect record. the team is now 21-0 overall and 9-0 in sec play. they will play host to ken quebec at the colonial life arena. tipoff is set for 7:00 p.m. the super bowl of caring will celebrate its ninth annual national day of service here in the midlands. it is saturday at 8:30 in the morning at spring valley high school. money raised will be going directly to food banks and charities to help those who are most in need. for ways to donate, head to our web site at wltx.com. the super bowl is almost

super bowl commercialal are starting to show up online. and it is 50 years, the super bowl has grown into one of the biggest events of the year and advertising rates have skyrocketed. this year, companies are shelling out an average of $4.8 million if a 30 second commercial.

still outside of some property damage, we did make it through yesterday without any loss of life. and this r and this is a very good thing. >> it is a very good thing and for a tornado warning and a confirmed tornado and a microburst causing significant damage, we got off a lot better than it should have been which is a great thing. another thing that we actually got was a lot of our communities got a lot of rain. >> did we? >> in fact, the total amount of rainfall that came down just yesterday alone up until before

bit under an inch and a half of rain at the airport. a hair under an inch and a half in the city. span. it was a good thing if that came and left because if if t. slowed down, we would have had a lot more. a lot of rain came through this morning but as we got towards noon, it started to slow down. over the last hour, a lot of that is concentrated in the south, on to the east, into the piedmont region right now, just a little bit more rain in orangeburg county into parts of extreme southern clarendon county. the further east and the further south you go, we got totals up to an inch. almost 2 one in. as we get just to the south of utahville. a lot of the rain is coming to an end. we need it to finally end here. here is something very interesting. at midnight, our temperatures for the most part were in the

by 7:00, we got down into the mid toll upper 60s. we haven't changed that much. it is 57 in lexington. st.matthews at 56. orangeburg at 54. here in columbia, we are sitting at 57 degrees. a lot of our temperatures have been going down. and this is all thanks to the area of low pressure and the cold front that has been in the upstate and as it pushes through with the cloud coverage, temperatures aren't going anywhere. at least all the rain is starting to move out and we'll finally start drying out. temperatures, these are not highs. this will be for the afternoon. upper 40s into the lower 30s. later this afternoon, columbia, we'll be about 53 degrees. the rain will come for an end later on this afternoon. overnight tonight, we'll have decreasing cloud coverage. it is going to be cold. all of our lows will be in the lower to middle 30s. as this area of low pressure and the cold front finally move on off to the coast, can you see a lot of rain, a lot of

behind it, clear skies and a lot of clear skies. updated forecast right now, we are looking at for tomorrow, 54 degrees way lot of sunshine. but the wind are going to be out of the north. 10 to 15 miles per hour. it will feel chilly. i've tape off the rain chance down to a minimal for overnight saturday into early sunday morning. outside of that, we'll have a lot of sunshine over the weekend but temperatures will still be in the lower to middle 50s. the better chance of rain comes in on monday. come tuesday and wednesday, we will start off wednesday 23 degrees for the morning low and even way lot of sunshine, we are looking at a high on wednesday of 41 degrees. noon. we'll be back right after thisis break.

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more than 06% of people like to eat their vegetables when going out. the veggie burger has been transformed from a cardboard patty into a best selling menu item. it has gone mainstream. even wendy's and white castle offer veggie burgers. michael whiteman says it is not just veggie burgers that have come a long way but people's appetite for them. >> they were not likeable for a generation or development they were awful things. now, you are eating as it a matter of pleasure because it is a different product. it doesn't taste ads if it were run over by a bus. scoit gq magazine claims that a burger at new york's superiority burger is the best burger in the worlrl i new beneficiary to make barbie's boyfriend look more realistic. the huffington post tweeted their idea for a new curvy ken doll. they are calling it dad bod ken.

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