including a four-year-old boy, and four of those deaths happened right here in upstate south carolina. two of those weather related deaths happened on friday night in greenville county. a couple was found dead in their home from carbon monoxide poisoning. the reason, a gas generator they were using in their garage. wyff news 4 allyson powell is live in greenville county with more on how you can keep your family safe this winter. allyson? allyson: the coroner believes it was a gas generator in the caused the carbon monoxide tilde. jason is the deputy fire marshal and he says this time of year is especially dangerous for carbon monoxidehe has a few tips to keep you safe. nurmi says they answer carbon monoxide calls quite often in the winter. >> a lot of times the symptoms , come out like the stomach bug or something similar.

allyson: nurmi says carbon monoxide can come from any gas fueled appliance. >> your vent pipes for dryers , heaters, if they become frozen, all of the carbon monoxide has no way to leave your house and builds up into house and stays in house. even chimneys, if you don't use them, the carbon monoxide backs up. allyson: the only way to detect the odorless, tastesless gas, a carbon monoxide detector. and you should install more than one in your ho >> install them per manufacterur instructions. each floor level, any where you have a fuel fire appliance. allyson: nurmi says don't assume if you have new smoke detectors, the carbon monoxide is built in. have inspectors check any gas powered appliance in your home annualy. another thing, the folks here at

remind you to warm your car up outside of garage. also, if you're detectors go outside appear -- go off, get somewhere outside in the fresh air and call 911, but don't ventilate your home. if it is ventilated, the fire department is not able to detect where the leak is coming from. allyson powell wyff news 4 in greenville. geoff: thank you. in north carolia now, emergency crews used a helicopter to rescue a man stranded in deep snow near the top of mt. pisgah. the department of public safety says the worker was using a cable car on the mountain near the peak when the cable car stopped working on monday. after resuce crews determined they couldn't reach the man on foot because of the th deployed the north carolina heloaquatic rescue team. the black hawl helicte -- black hawk helicopter crews were able to resuce th and school districupto announno as the list grows, but so far, spartanburg district five has added feb

anderson district one has added march 25 to the calendar year. pickens added february 26 and march 25 to the calendar school year. buncombe county has added a few days and turned an early release day into a full day. weather make up days have not be announced for erwin and north buncombe districts yet. you will find all of this information at www.wyff4.com and our wyff 4 moblie app. bailey was the chairman of daily automotive. he was active in the community, having served on spartanburg county council. died tuesday at his home, surrounded by his family. was 89 years old. an update to a story we brought to you in october. a couple charged in the accidental fatal shooting of a henderson county toddler has pleaded guilty to lesser charges and will not have to spend any time behind bars. 29-year-old heather ann brad stepp and 31-year-old james fuller stepp each received a

unsupervised probation after pleading guilty yesterday to misdemeanor negligent storage of a firearm. authorities say heather stepp was babysitting 2-year-old abagail newman when was fatally shot by a load shotgun that was on a table. in anderson county, the case against an upstate man accused of sex crimes against children is heading to a joseph patterson appeared in a courtroom yesterday for a preliminary hearing. the 57-year-old faces 21 charges involving nine alleged victims some younger than 12-years-old. ,minor league baseball in the upstate. the greenville drive announced they will continue to be an affiliate of the boston red sox for another four years. the drive team owner and manager made the announcement, along with drive manager darren

the drive open their second decade of baseball at home on april 7. turning to the lottery, one lucky lady who lives in cowpens, a resume that includes several lottery wins, and now a 200 $50,000 payday. she must know what she is doing. she says it was like christmas went to scratch stop a lprize while sitting outside the lil'cricket on chesnee high weight this week. commitment 2016 views, the wife of dr. ben carson is in the upstate, kandi carson spoke to students at langston charter middle school th morning. she talked about the importance of education and rdr. carson's early struggles to

carson answer th whenever you have a chance to let children realize their potential, because so often they if you can hato do wiyo she could not get to all the questions, but she took the stac so dr. carson could answer som his twitter feed. today, bernie sanders heads from the campaign trail to the oval office for a meeting with president obama. it will be the first extended meeting since sander's presidential bid fully transformed the democratic race to replace obama. the white house describes the meeting as informal, with no set agenda. this comes as sanders in iowa remarked it's probably unrealistic to match o extraordinary turnout in 2008 caucuses. on the republican side now, happening tonight, trump will be in gilbert, south carolina for an event starting at 7:00. this comes ahead of this week's republican presidential debate. that debate is scheduled for this thursday. and just last night, frontrunner donald trump said he will not participate in the debate.

hold an event raising money for veterans to rival the debate. >> they can't toy with me like they toy with everybody else, so let them have their debate and let's see how they do with the ratings. geoff: trump's reason for missing the debate, moderator megyn kelly. you may remember, trump criticized some of kelly's questions after the first republican debate. in a statement, fox news stood by its anchor and said trump can't dictate the moderators or the questions. testimony is expected to continue today in the voter i.d. trial. the trial is happening at the federal courthouse in downtown winston-salem. a statistics analyst who looked at voter registration and dmv records took the stand yesterday. he said african american voters are twice as likely as white voters not to have a photo i.d. the reverend william barber of the north carolina naacp also testified saying the new law is , an unnecessary burden on african american and latino voters.

run by the state board of elections about the law are confusing. the trial is expected to last all week. the presidential primaries are just around the corner. but in south carolina, two primary dates, one for republicans, the other for democrats. registered voters have the choice of voting in the republican primary on 20 or the democratic primary on february 27. the state elections commission says it's each party's decision to choose n the parties were in charf running their own elections. even though the state government has taken over, state officials are allowing t choosing their primary dates. we also have an important commitment 2016 reminder for south carolina voters. today is the last day to register to vote in the democratic primary. countdown to the super bowl, you have to know that fans at the

taking a lot of selfies and pictures with their sm right? that is obvious. , offers freh throughe. will also boost signals at the stadium. at&t, for example, says it's spent $25 million to make sure customers have coverage. there will be 75,000 fans at the super bowl but around a million , will take part in the events leading up to it. the carolina panthers are getting focused on super bowl the team will hit the practice l. field for the first time since winning the nfc championship, earning a trip to the super bowl in santa clara, california. sports director brad fralic will be in charlotte today covering panthers practice. look for his reports tonight starting on wyff 4 news at 5:00. , the team is expected to leave this weekend for santa clara, where they'll play the denver broncos on february 7. along with the players, fans and media, every single employee in

be at super bowl 50. from interns to executives, team owner jerry richardson is paying for all of them to travel. this isn't the first time he's done something like this. in 2004, he picked up the tab for more than 550 employees to go to super bowl xxxviii to watch the panthers play the new england patriots. well keep pounding. , it's a phrase panthers fans know well. but what do you know about how it started? the team mantra is in honor of late carolina panthers player and coach sam mills. mills first used the phrase as a coach during an emotional speec h to the team before their first playoff game against the dallas cowboys in 2004. at the time, mills was in the middle of a toug he talked about commitment, dedication to teammates, team effort and never giving up, and mills asked the players to keep pounding. mills died in 2005. the phrase is now something panthers players s every game as they come out of

stadium. you know about the keep pounding drummers. right after the coin toss in every home game, a drummer is chosen to hit it four times. you saw the owner doing that, jerry richardson, and many others, including steph curry, a big favorite and jerry richardson as we showed you there. and it's time to keep pounding with the panthers live wire. it's a collection of the latest tweets about the panthers and fun posts from our staff. you view the livewire by going to our wyff 4 app or wyff4.com and look in the right now bar. still to come, we have more information following a massive fire in the heart of new orleans. we tell you where two buildings are burning in the big easy. plus, it's one of the most popular vacation and honeymoon destinations, but could niagara

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geoff 4 noon, iefgeoff: a man who brought nascar to live for many for more than 50 years passed away. barney hall was an anchor for the motor racing network. his unique brand of storytelling earned him a p hall of fame in 2012. nascar is reporting he died yesterday, from complications after a recent medical operation. he was 83-years-old. fire officials have been on the scene all morning of a massive fire in new orleans historic french quarter. a commercial building caught fire early this morning, and it has now spread to the building next door. at one point, this was a six alarm fire. the state fire marshal says one person was in the first building, but escaped the flames without getting hurt. the crew's main concern right now is stopping the fire from spreading any further. new details this afterno a deadly turn in that weeks-long standoff in oregon. the fbi arrested eight

leader, ammon bundy. overnight, the fbi identified the man killed in a shootout as lavoy finicum. agents say finicum and bundy's brother refused to surrender. agents say they aren't sure who fired the first shots. all of the suspects are now facing federal conspiracy charges for the protest over federal land rights. a school principal is dead and two students are recovering after a bus accident near indianapolis. the crash happened outside beverland elementary. officials say the bus jumped a curb and hit the victims who were outside. principal susan jordan was killed. the students were taken to the hospital. the cause of the crash is under investigation. >> very, very sad that i have to report that the fatality was a great educator. ms. susan jordan, the principal of amy beverland was fatally

geoff: no charges have been filed but the bus driver did have to take a drug and alcohol test. a federal judge has ordered the release of hundreds of documents related to conviction of boston marathon bomber dzhokhar tsarnaev. he and his brother tamerlan placed two bombsth line of the race in 2013. the explosion left three people dead and more than 260 injured. tamerlan was killed during the manhunt, and his brother was convicted and sentenced to death. deputies in orange county, california, are now offering a $200,000 reward for information on three escaped inmates. immigration authorities say one of the inmates was supposed to be deported to vietnam in 1998 but stayed in the country. the three inmates were awaiting trials for unrelated violent crimes when they vanished from a dormitory at the county's central jail. deputies say they escaped by sawing through a thick wall and climbing through plumbing tunnels.

mystery going on in niagara falls new york. , an abandoned building in a trendy district has been playing the university song. i think that is the university of iowa fight song. residents and business owners say this has been going on for the past six m sick of it. they say the music plays for seven continuous hours starting at 3:00. dozens of calls have come into the police department to have the music turned off, but those complaints have fallen on deaf ears. >> the volume is too low for it to be a noise ordinance and it stops before 11:00 so it doesn't run too late. >> it's like brainwashing to me. it's the same song. 30 seconds over and over and over again. geoff: apparently, driving people mad. restaurants sa actually losing money because of the annoying song. a sight to see. niagara falls, but it could soon run dry. happening today, a controversial plan to temporarily shut off

discussion. state leaders in new york say two 115-year-old pedestrian bridges need to be replaced. to do it, the water on the u.s. side of the falls would have to be redirected to the canadian side while the work is done. tonight's hearing has been moved to a nearby convention center because of the big crowds expected. >> now, your live super doppler 4 hd forecast. dale: good afternoon. on this wednesday, as a look outfrom our paris mountain skycam, a good bit of cloud cover. mostly cloudy and 51. of breeze out of the north at 12 makes it feel colder. anderson already up to 53, so they will be some areas in the upstate, especially lower part of the upstate, that will push their mid-50's. low 50's in the mountains and

did not last long. here is a six-hour history with the line of showers weakening as it hit the upstate and it is now off the coast. that is it. looks like we will see sunshine breaking through the cloudtomorrow. warm-up. these are typical temperatures for this time of the year. they to upper 40's in the mountains and low 50's in the upstate is what we normally see. blowing. 10 to 17 mile-per-hour winds in the mountains and 10 to 12 plus in the upstate making it feel feels li3 and asheville, 23 and noon. -- in asheville, 23 in boone. 52 to 53 for today, so right where it should be. 1954.

th in asheville, 19 99, got up to 80. we are going to get warmer this weekend, not record warm but we will see it bounce up a good 10 degrees. most of the shower activity off the coast in the southeast, still some snow in parts of the country, that we don't have to deal with it for t next two days. we get a break from the winter weather and he will have chilly ni milder days come in for the weekend. if you're headed down to the beach this weekend, it will be like the upstate. 60 on saturday, 62 on sunday under mostly sunny skies. this afternoon, 54 may be the best we get up to and it drops to low 40's by midnight. asheville will see near mid 40's for this afternoon and dropping to low 30's by midnight. tomorrow morning, chilly, dreses in layers and back to upper 40's and low 50's tomorrow. same for friday. for a high. 63 on sunday. the mountains will be right in

warmer than normal weather this weekend. i think we deserve it after the snowstorm last week. i think so. we will look forward to that. ever spent time in an igloo? dale: i have not. geoff: neither have i, but there was one for rent in new york city. some residents spent nearly eight hours building the igloo during last weekend's blizzard. they advers winter igloo for two on airbnb. dale: and it actually got a lot of offers. when i was a kid, we made piles of snow, but we never thought about spending the night and it, but there were some people who took them up on the offer but the listing has been taken down. geoff: i know you lived in canada for a while. dale: we would pile snow against the house and hollowing out and canada is the right place to do that. dale: eskimos in alaska are saying, are you crazy?

hotel or an igloo. but some people would try anything.

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dale: here is a cute picture. he was a snowman with a pineapple on their head. this was sent in by a teacher who worked with the stcolombia from south america. they put a pineapple on there. [laughter] we appreciate all the pictures. geoff: great-looking shot at downtown greenville. mostly it was drinking, yeah, and opiates. i was pretty good at hiding it. >> now it has cost him three full years of "friends" memories. i'm billy bush. matthew perry's candid interview and the problems that returned