perfect. the carolina panthers upset. highlights plus cam newton's reaction to the loss straight ahead. patrick: with wild weather across the nation. a blizzard is bearing down on texas, new mexico, and oklahoma. this after weekend tornados are blamed for at least 11 deaths near dallas. storms tore through a nearly 40-mile stretch across the area, damaging more than 1,000 homes. heavy rains also brought deep floodwaters to missouri and are blamed for at least six deaths there. myra: we will take a look outside. if you can see anything, that is woodruff road. conditions we are seeing throughout our coverage area. the same storm system over texas is heading east. dale: it will bring us rain. it is bringing severe weather to louisiana and mississippi.

now through wednesday looks to be wet. we will see mild temperatures for this time of year. right behind that front, cooler temperatures role in thursday through sunday. if you have been saying you are ready for winter weather, we will get it this weekend. not snow, but we will get cooler temperatures. light winds now. they will pick up this afternoon. the fog will linger until 1:00 across the area. patrick: to some traffic now. it is always nice to have richard edmund in the house. richard: way too kind. patrick: happy almost new year. richard: the fog is exactly what we are seeing. this is right around highway 101. you can see the fog developed in that area right now. that will have an impact on our travel this morning.

does not look bad now but it will get worse as we get into the morning. let's show you sometimes. -- some times. 85 a speed limit drive. that will continue to look good as you hit the highways right now. 70 miles per hour through this area. one accident to tell you about in williamston around maxwell midwest right. we will be back in a few minutes. myra: thank you. we are back here in greenville. officials are still searching for a hit and run driver who seriously injured a woman riding a moped nine days ago. patrick: wyff news 4's aly myles joins us live from where that accident happened. aly: we are here at the intersection of whitehorse and anderson roads. a very busy intersection.

happened nine days ago on decemberer9. we have been these are the new photos of what troopers believe that car should look like. it's thought to be a newer model ford focus or fusion, possibly silver or grey. orange paint on the road marks the spot where a witness says the moped was crushed. we're told that the woman had a bad head injury. >> i saw her on the ground, and when i knelt to her, i told her to stay calm. she started coughing up blood. >> i really would likehe people who are responsible to get caught and have justice applied to what they did. aly: troopers are looking for a newer ford focus or fusion thought to be grey or silver. if you have information, please call crime stoppers with this case. aly myles, wyff news 4, on white horse road. patrick: thank you. four people face charges following an amber alert in asheville this weekend. authorities issued the alert for

yesterday around noon. police say the boys were found safe about an hour later. these folks here, natasha cantrell and christopher carter of georgia, are both charged with abduction of children and kidnapping. chadwick agan, also of georgia, is charged with abduction, and trena weaver is charged with child abuse. investigators have not released any more information about the case. greenville county deputies want to find a missing man who suffers from alzheimer's and diabetes. 78-year-old doyle chism was last seen sunday afternoon leaving his home on green fern drive. he was last seen driving his 1995 ford f-150. -- 2008 black ford f-150. it has a south carolina tag of aud974. if you can help deputies locate chism, you are asked to call the sheriff's office. myra: greenville county deputies are investigating a man's death in the sans souci area. deputies responded sunday night to a home on perry road.

inside that home. they are not releasing muu information at this point. the spartanburg county coroner and cowpens police are investigating the death of a man found in a road behind a restaurant. investigators say someone found the man sunday morning behind hardee's in cowpens. at the time, he was not responsive. the coroner says brent lee tesneer died at the hospital. tesneer was from cowpens. he was 36. the coroner calls the death suspicious. patrick: crews responded this weekend to a report of a car seen rolling into the saluda river in greenville county. dispatchers say it was along holcombe drive near highway 8. by the time dive teams were able to locate the car, it had drifted into the west pelzer area. dive crews say the car was empty when they got to it. myra: a longtime anderson judge is retiring on new year's eve, but a celebration took place this weekend. the recognition program for judge ken mattison happened after the morning worship service at anderson's first presbyterian church. judge mattison got a letter from

the supreme court chief justice. he also got a black bath robe with the anderson city police badge and the anderson city logo on it. mattison has presided over thousands of cases since he became anderson's municipal judge in 1979. patrick: depending how you look at this, carolina panthers fans are waking up this morning with a bit of shock. a perfect season is over. carolina blanked atlanta 38-0 two weeks ago in charlotte, but a different story sunday in atlanta yesterday. the panthers strike first. cam newton running in for his score in the first quarter. the falcons in the third quarter, matt ryan escapes the pocket and who else? julio jones gets it. vic beasley strips the ball, and and recovers to seal the upset

20-13, the panthers' first loss since november 20 of last year. >> we got our -- kicked today and to a lot of degree, we deserved this, especially the type of way that we played offensively, defensively, and special teams. i'm talking with the mirror in front of my face. but yet, we know what we are capable of. we can use this as fuel to the fire. patrick: some editing there. the panthers still looking to capture the number one seed in the nfc. they can do so with a win next sunday against tampa bay. the falcons eliminated from postseason contention with the minnesota vikings beating the giants on sunday night football right here on wyff 4. dale joins us. that was in a dome yesterday, so they do not experience the weather. many outside, a warm weekend. dale: it has been crazy. not a chance to use your fire place? patrick: not yet. dale: today and the next couple

foggy weather will be the story until noon or 1:00 today so give yourself a little extra time because visibility will be poor, especially if you're traveling 77 or 20 62 columbia or 25 south -- or 26 to columbia or 25 south. heavy rain coming in tonight, tomorrow, and wednesday could lead to localized flooding. dense fog advisories until 9:00 this morning and perhaps longer. as we expand our view of the south with live super doppler 4 hd, we have a good bit of rain falling in the mississippi valley area. a tornado watch out for mississippi and louisiana. snow behind the system. we are not worried about snow where we live, but we will get colder temperatures behind this front. we will feel it saturday and sunday. mid 60's will climb to upper 60's this morning for the

upstate. mountains will reach 64 for the afternoon. fog will be around for lunchtime and perhaps even 1:00. heavy rain tonight. we will see drier weather starting thursday. new year's day should be fine getting up to 52. : mornings in the 20's and 30's with highs this weekend in the low to upper 40's on saturday. patrick: thank you. fire crews in southern california say they should make are making big progress in a wildfire today, but there's a new worry. that's next. myra: also, let's take a live look outside from our anderson county skycam. richard edmund will have much

announcer: you're watching live, local, breaking news with geoff hart, allyson powell, and weather with meteorologist dale gilbert. this is wyff news 4 today in high definition. myra: it is 6:12. officials in southern california say a wildfire that's scorched about 1200 acres along the coast should be fully contained on today. the fire started friday night when high winds caused power lines on an oil field to arc. authorities say their new worry is a landslide if rain pounds the charred hills. patrick: weeks of heavy rain caused major flooding in

northern england, damaging or destroying buildings and forcing hundreds from their homes. near manchester, a 200-year-old former pub was largely washed away. flood damage spread to major cities of york, leeds, and manchester. rescue crews used boats to evacuate flooded neighborhoods as hundreds of flood warnings remained in effect.dale: we have fog advisories in the area this morning. we will talk about how long this will last in a few minutes. myra: tahj boy is proud of his youth camps. we will tell you what he think

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announcer: now, your live super doppler 4 hd weather forecast. dale: good morning. for many of us, getting back into the swing of things. thick fog over a good bit of the area last thing until noon or 1:00 in some places. be careful and give yourself a little extra time. even though it may not show up on live super doppler 4 hd, it is widespread. heavy rain in western oconee county. more to come. this is part of the system that will bring quite a bit of rain to us tonight, tomorrow, wednesday, and then it clears out. a nice end of the week to look

forward to. flood watches out for the next several days because of the soggy ground running off quickly with heavy downpours. fog advisories linger into the morning over a good bit of the upstate and piedmont. if you are traveling south or anywhere across the region this morning, count on fog. heavier rain will arrive this evening. we will see maybe a quarter to one half of an inch of rain today and three quarters to one inch tonight. 65 in greenville. mid 60's in tigerville. 64 in reedville. very mild for this time of year when we normally look or mid 50's for highs. today will be much above that with 69 in the upstate and 64 in the mountains.

we don't have to worry about snow but we will get cold morning temperatures saturday and sunday. we put this into motion and heavier rain is expected late morning to the afternoon. tonight it will really be coming down overnight into tomorrow. wet weather for the first half of the week. dry weather for thursday, friday, saturday. for the mountains, it will reach to the mid-60's. upper 60's for the upstate. the cooldown starts for thursday. it gets into play on new year's day with 52 in the upstate and 44 in the mountains. richard: not going to complain about that forecast. taking a look around the area, we have an accident on it a 85 in cherokee county around the

travelspeeds in the 70's. 85 in the upstate right now between greenville and spartanburg. in greer, everything looking good. traffic in the 70's a little further south tupelo to hellpe lham road. that is where it slows down. an accident on midway road in williamston. fog not slowing you down much right now. 26 and 40 a speed limit drive. we are back in a few minutes with another travel update. looking now at woodruff road from the skycam. the fog will slow things down in rush hour traffic this morning. allow a few extra minutes driving time to get back to work.

patrick: thank you. the road to the title. the clemson tigers will be back on the field preparing for oklahoma and the orange bowl. that is three days away. but first, you can get prepared for the game with our hour-long special called "road to the title." tune in at 7:00 wednesday night right here on wyff 4. our sports team will be live from miami with a preview of the game and a recap of the clemson . don't forget to visit the livewire on our mobile app. myra: the last clemson tiger quarterback to win an orange bowl, tajh boyd, says he'll be heading to south florida for the game. but first, over the weekend, he held his youth football camp at the kroc center in downtown greenville. the second year for him to do this with his foundation. he hosted a camp right after christmas. the former tigers signal caller is proud of the growth of these football camps.

over and over again, i think that what we are trying to build do here is built something special. continue to give back to the community. some of the proceeds are going to the flood relief program in the state, and to be able to do that has been unbelievable in general, and to see the turn out, especially after christmas, has been great. myra: 170 kids were at this weekend's camp. it is still the spirit of giving. you can still donate to the virtual toy drive until the december 31. we are once again partnering with the greenville health system for the drive for the children's hospital. you'll find a link on wyff4.com. you can give any dollar amount you can afford. you can also donate other items that help in the care and treatment of children. patrick: we take a look back at some of our favorite photos from you last week in our u local rewind including a lot of festive

patrick: on this monday morning, we want to take a look back at some of our favorite photos you sent in to u local. myra: a lot of whether one's -- weather ones. flooding seen here on the

anderson county side of the saluda river on piedmont highway. patrick: it was christmas. a beautiful christmas sunrise on lake keowee. myra: duke, dixie, and daisy here with messages for having a golden christmas. they're golden retrievers. patrick: we're also told b here had a great time playing dress up as a reindeer. myra: convinced me she was a reindeer. happy hog-idays. patrick: pudding the pug as puddin the elf here with santa. myra:.in greenville breathtaking with all of the lights. patrick: pretty. josh martin's family caught the show at the sound of lights and sent this shot. myra: we were talking about how sad it would be to see that disappear. dale: it was weird with the temperatures this year.

winter, but this morning it is still mild. a quick look at live super doppler 4 hd. we have some light in rain. heavier rain coming in tonight through tomorrow. we will be under flood watches and dense fog advisories until late morning in the grey areas. keep the umbrella handy especially for this afternoon and tonight. patrick: thank you. it's time now for your wyff news 4 timeline on this december 28. in 1981, the first american test tube baby was born. elizabeth jordan carr was born in norfolk, virginia. myra: in-vitro fertilization is an almost commonplace process now. thousands of americans have been conceived by ivf since 1981, but it was definitely very rare then including more than

myra: in this morning's headlines, severe weather sweeping across the nation again country again this week. patrick: a blizzard is bearing down on texas, new mexico, and oklahoma. this after weekend tornados are blamed for at least 11 deaths near dallas, including an infant. storms tore through a nearly 40-mile stretch across the area,

damaging more than 1,000 homes. heavy rains also brought deep floodwaters to missouri and are blamed for at least six deaths there. myra: taking a look outside now, that same system is headed east. you can see how foggy conditions are along woodruff road. what can we expect from the storm system? dale: we will get some showers and maybe some thunderstorms this afternoon and this evening. not expecting severe weather, but we are under flood watches with a potential of heavy rain over the next couple of days. already saturated ground will run off quickly. dense fog advisories out. foggy conditions, cloudy. we are seeing light rain. heavier rain coming in this afternoon and this evening. two or three more days of heavy rain.

thursday through the weekend it dries out and cools down. myra: in for traffic this morning is richard edmund. always nice to see you. richard: there was talking about the weather and that will have an impact this morning. traffic starting to pick up near highway 14. you can see the fog coming off the headlights this morning. that will slow you down as you hit the roads this morning. allow some extra drive time to get to work as you get back on this monday morning. let's show you where the problem areas are. cherokee county near highway five, an accident there. 70 miles per hour. starting to slow down around greenville spartanburg right now. down to 50 miles per hour into greenville. 45 miles per hour southbound to 385. 385 looking pretty good inbound.

we will be back in a few minutes to tell you about accidents off this monday morning. patrick: thank you. covering south carolina, right now in greenville, the search continues for a hit and run driver who seriously injured a woman riding a moped. myra: wyff news 4's aly myles joins us live from where that accident happened. aly: this is where the accident happened december 19. that was nine days ago here near the intersection of whitehorse and anderson roads. very busy intersection in this part of town. troopers have sent new photos of what the car should look like. it's thought to be a newer model ford focus or fusion, possibly silver or grey. orange paint on the road marks the spot where a witness says the moped was crushed. we're told that the woman had a bad head injury. >> i saw her on the ground, and when i knelt to her, i told her to stay calm. she started coughing up blood. >> i really would like the people who are responsible to

get caught and have justice applied to what they did. aly: investigators have not released an update on how the victim is doing. once again, troopers are looking for a newer ford focus or fusion grey or silver. you should call crime stoppers if you have any information. aly myles, wyff news 4, on white horse road. patrick: thank you. four people face charges following an amber alert in asheville this weekend. authorities issued the alert for elijah joyner and harlee joyner yesterday around noon. police say the boys were found safe about an hour later. natasha cantrell and christopher carter of georgia are both charged with abduction of children and kidnapping. chadwick agan, also of georgia, is charged with abduction, and trena weaver is charged with child abuse. investigators have not released any more information about the case. greenville county deputies want to find a missing man who suffers from alzheimer's and diabetes.

that is him there. 78-year-old doyle chism was last seen sunday afternoon leaving his home on green fern drive. he was last seen driving his 2008 black ford f-150. it has a south carolina tag of aud974. if you can help deputies locate chism, you are asked to call the sheriff's office. myra: greenville county deputies are investigating a man's death in the sans souci area. deputies responded sunday night to a home on perry road. they say they found a body inside the home there. they are not releasing any more information at this point. the spartanburg county coroner and cowpens police are investigating the death of a man found in a road behind a restaurant. investigators say someone found the man sunday morning behind hardee's in cowpens. they say he was unresponsive. the coroner says brent lee tesneer died at the hospital. he was from cowpens and 36 years old. the coroner calls the death suspicious.

patrick: a longtime anderson judge is retiring on new year's eve, but a celebration was held this weekend for him. the recognition program for judge ken mattison happened after the morning worship service at anderson's first presbyterian church. judge mattison got a letter from the supreme court chief justice. he also got a black bath robe with the anderson city police badge and the anderson city logo on it. mattison has presided over thousands of cases since he became anderson's municipal judge in 1979. myra: carolina panthers fans are probably waking up a little disappointed and perhaps even shocked after the perfect season has ended. the panthers struck first in atlanta. cam newton running in the first quarter for his only touchdown of the game. in the third quarter, falcons' matt ryan escapes the pocket and heaves it up. julio jones outjumps luke kuechly and hauls in the 70-yard touchdown for the lead. newton and the panthers had one last drive, but former clemson tiger vic beasley strips the

sealing the upset 20203, the panthers' first loss since november 20 of last year. patrick: wow. sorry to see that, but they are heading to the playoffs in the falcons are not. for falcons fan, a little moral victory. richard:. back to work from the long holiday weekend and fog will bring them. -- greet them. dale: absolutely. you can see it from our woodruff road skycam.

announcer: now, your live super doppler 4 hd weather forecast. dale: good morning. the weather outside is warm and foggy as we look at from our woodruff road skycam. you can hardly see anything at all. light rain over northeastern georgia and western north carolina. we will see more of this spreading to the upstate this afternoon and tonight we will see light rain today and heavy rain tonight. let watches out for a goodwill of the reason and fog advisories until midmorning. we will see the fog lasting until noon or better today. the storm system is creating

severe weather possibilities in mississippi and louisiana. that is a tornado watch box area. snow generated as the cold the mixed in. we are not looking at snow, but we are looking at cold temperatures saturday, sunday, and monday. after a few more days of warm weather, but 60's will climb to the upper sixth is today -- upper 60's today in the upstate. it will cool down thursday into the weekend. we will show you that with our four-day plus coming up in a few minutes. richard: approaching 6:41 and checking the highways. we are starting to see slowdowns on interstate 85. the accident near 85 and highway 5. no injuries involved in that one. a disabled vehicle near pelham road. traffic down to 45 miles per

fellowpelham road. accident in powdersville. a car hit an animal in the area. no injuries but traffic is slowing down 123 into 153. watch out for that. amn==n accident in williamston. no injuries. the area right now. most part still looking good. 385 and 85 still a speed limit drive. back in a few minutes to take another look at your traffic. a live look at 85 as you see traffic pick up at woodruff road. myra: thank you. we're just three days away from the orange bowl, and clemson's already getting ready for the game but enjoying the south beach life in the meantime. patrick: of course.

has been poolside living the life in south florida and has more on the tigers. brad: practice number one in the books in south florida. they practiced earlier today at nova southeastern university. dabo swinney met with the media after practice was over and said they want to win this one because there is an opportunity to play one more. >> i think everybody knows the opportunity to play in january. but you have to earn that. 2015 will come to an end on the 31st regardless whether we win or lose. we want to have one more opportunity make them print one more ticket to see the tigers play. that's where our focus is. brad: tigers preparations will continue throughout the course of the week. lots of fun stuff planned along the way including a beach day and a dinner at a brazilian steak house. make sure you follow myself and marc dopher on social media. you can find us everywhere. #wyfforangebowl.

wyff news 4. patrick: thank you. we look forward to it. the tigers are back to the practice field this morning. we're also helping you prepare for the game with our one-hour special "road to the title." we look back at clemson's undefeated season at 7:00 wednesday night right here on wyff 4. myra: we are going to take a live look at the roads in the kansas city, missouri area. winter weather is complicating the morning commute. how the system there could

patrick: we are going to take a live look outside our anderson skycam. fog looks like it is letting up a little bit, but it is around at least for now so be careful. myra: the storm system is getting ready to move in, so we would check in with him to find the latest and stay ahead of that. dale: good morning. some areas will be more foggy than others but the advisories continue until midmorning and early afternoon. coming down in parts of oconee county and western north carolina. more action this afternoon, tonight, and overnight. flood watches are out and fog advisories continue until late morning across a good bit of the upstate in piedmont. heavier rain will come in tonight. the mississippi valley area getting hit pretty hard right

it will reach as later on this afternoon and this evening. temperatures still mile. -- mild. upper 60's in the upstate and mid 60's in the mountain this afternoon. tomorrow, a good chance of rain. then it dries out thursday through sunday. new year's day getting up to 52. 44 in the mountains. it starts to feel more like it should for this time of year as we head into the first weekend of 2016. richard: looking at it trouble on interstates, the weather will have an impact. slowdowns on interstate 85 as you approach highway 14. 38 miles per hour. a disabled vehicle at pelham road. it continues to stay under 40 until downtown. inbound is looking good. 85 near highway five blacksburg, an accident will slow things down a bit. highway 123 in the powdersville-easily area this

morning before you get to the 153 it slows down into downtown easley. still trying to get rid of an accident on midway road. no injuries so hopefully that will be gone in a little bit. this vehicle still in a way on 85 south at hello road -- pelham road. one more look at traffic when we come back. myra: in greenville, officials are still searching for a hit and run driver who seriously injured a woman riding a moped nine days ago. patrick: wyff news 4's aly myles joins us live from where that accident happened. aly: we are here at the intersection of whitehorse and anderson road. the accident happened here two saturdays ago, december 19. investigators still need help solving the case figuring out what happened here. they have released a new photos of what they believe the car should look like. it's thought to be a newer model ford focus or fusion, possibly silver or grey.

the moped was crushed. we have been told that the woman had a bad head injury. investigators have not released any update on how the victim is doing. again, they are looking for a newer ford focus or fusion thought to be grey or silver. they are asking you to call crime stoppers if you have any information. aly myles, wyff news 4, live on white horse road. myra: four people face charges following an amber alert in asheville this weekend. patrick: authorities issued the alert for elijah joyner and harlee joyner yesterday around noon. police say the boys were found safe about an hour later. natasha cantrell and christopher carter of georgia are both charged with abduction of children and kidnapping. chadwick agan, also of georgia, is charged with abduction, and trena weaver is charged with child abuse. investigators have not released any more information about the at this time. greenville county deputies want to find a missing man who suffers from alzheimer's and diabetes. 78-year-old doyle chism was last

his home on green fern drive. he was last seen driving his 2008 black ford f-150. it has a south carolina tag of aud974. if you can help deputies locate chism, call the sheriff's office. myra: greenville county deputies are investigating a man's death in the sans souci community. deputies responded sunday night to a home on perry road. deputies tell us they found a body inside that home. they're not releasing any more information about what may have happened. the spartanburg county coroner and cowpens police are investigating the death of a man found in a road behind a restaurant. investigators say someone found the man sunday morning behind hardee's in cowpens. they say he was unresponsive. the coroner says brent lee tesneer died at the hospital. tesneer was from cowpens. he was 36. the coroner calls the death suspicious. patrick: crews responded this weekend to a report of a car seen rolling into the saluda river in greenville county.

dispatchers say it was along holcombe drive near highway 8. by the time dive teams were able to locate the car, it had drifted into the west pelzer west pelzer. dive crews say the car was empty when they got to it. todd gurley adding to his professional highlight reel. check this out. >> todd gurley will break through. >> a special player. patrick: he is a rookie, remember that. he had 85 yards on 19 carries including a two yard touchdown to give the rams their first win in seattle since 2004. myra: looks like a track star, actually. deandre hopkins earned his first pro bowl selection. sunday, he showed why he should be on the squad. seven receptions, 117 yards, and a touchdown in a 34-6 victory over tennessee.

with a win next week. patrick: this is just into our newsroom. one member of the harlem globetrotters passed away this morning. he was from north carolina. he died sunday in scottsdale, arizona, at the age of 83. the paper confirmed the death of his wife cynthia. he was famous for his half-court hook shot and his no look behind the back passes. myra: an iraqi military spokesperson says a city taken by the islamic state group in may has been fully liberated. military officials announced they had we taken the capital, but other officials said troops had only be taken a strategic military confine and the city remain under isis control. the iraqi military lost a long promised campaign to retake the city but the progress has been hampered. patrick: it is the final push of

the year. we have been covering it closely. presidential hopefuls are hitting key states and going after each other in the last week of 2015. myra: aixa diaz joins us live from our exclusive washington newsroom with more. good morning. aixa: good morning. candidates are campaigning in new hampshire, nevada, florida, and iowa, where the caucuses are just five weeks away. polls show donald trump and hillary clinton are still front-runners in their respective parties. the two candidates have been trading barbs in recent days. clinton said last week her husband will be on the campaign trail with her. trump tweeted former president clinton has a penchant for sexism and called it so inappropriate. some of his republican opponents rivals have been criticizing trump's style, while others say they will suppororhim if he wins ends up getting the nomination. the next round of debates for both sides is scheduled for mid-january. myra: aixa, republican candidate

marco rubio is getting some extra help on the trail this week, but that's coming under fire from trump, too. aixa: congressman trey gowdy is going to support marco rubio and is expected to hit the trail in iowa. gowdy leads the congressional committee investigating the 2012 benghazi attack that killed 4 four people. trump jumped on the fact and said friends that he hopes gallery does a better job at that than he did at the benghazi hearings. trump called those hearings a total disaster. patrick: thanks, aixa. the gop debate is set for thursday, january 14. myra: the democrats take the stage sunday january 17. we will now go o richard, who is keeping an eye on the traffic. richard: that's right.

85 travel is slowing down right now. this is coming past highway 14 as we travel southbound on interstate 85. it is slowing down to about 35 miles per hour. turkey county near blacksburg, that is highway five. fog is slowing you down this morning. dale: thank you. fog will last until noon time for many areas across the mountains and parts of the upstate. dense fog advisory south of 85 to late morning. it is coming up pretty good in parts of georgia and western north carolina. this is a little advanced precipitation. the real rain from the next front will start to arrive later this afternoon, this evening, and overnight into tomorrow. we could see another inch of rain or more from the system. we have had 6.5 inches of rain already. we will add to it over the next couple of days.

after r e front pushes through, very mild temperatures come back to normal thursday, friday, especially saturday and sunday. light breezes today will pick up. tuesday and wednesday still mild with a good chance of rain each day. it clears up thursday. thursday through the weekend, cooler temperatures come back. 20's and 30's on saturday and sunday. daytime highs on saturday in the low to upper 40's. we start out the new year with some winterlike weather. patrick: thank you. this morning on "today," severe and extreme weather continue to impact the southwest this morning. texas is experiencing a triple threat with blizzards, tornadoes, and floods. all the latest information live from texas, next on "today." myra: make sure to pick up your copy of today's greenville news. you can read about how some high school kids are learning to be

patrick: i will see you in about half an hour for your first morning update. myra: great being with you. your regular crew, most of them on vacation. this is what you get. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its