Stay on top of the weather near you by downloading the wisweather app. Its free; just search wis in your app store. Todays flash flooding has already left its mark in newberry county. Heavy rains caused several roads to be closed. Amelia street was cut off by the creek bed topped its banks. In many spots where water flows through the county you could see water levels getting higher. Dot and city crews have been working together to keep the roads safe. Officials hope the water runs off before the next batch of rain moves in. Just into the newsroom sce g will open one spill gate overnight at the saluda hydro facility. Thatll happen at 4 this morningan additional 18,000 cubic feet per second could flow into the lower saluda river. Officials are going to continue to montor lake levels over the next 48 hours to see if anything else needs to be donewell continue to monitor that situation. In missouri flooding continues to rock towns outside of st louis tonight bridges and highway overpasses are now completely under water in the town of valley park. 12 14 deaths caused by water sweeping away cars gov. Jay nixonstate of emergency activatedevacuation and safety. Rivers across the state are cresting no more rain in the forecaseofficials hoping flood waters recede. The Clemson Tigers are less than 24 hours away from facing the oklahoma sooners in the orange bowl. Although, today the team finds itself three players short. News 10s sports director rick henry joins us live from miami rick. The tigers will take on the oklahoma sooners a little short handed tomorrow. Head coach dabo swinney has suspended three players for the orange bowl for violating team rules. Wide receiver deon cain, tightend Jay Jay Mccullough and kicker ammon lakip have all according to multiple reports all three failed a drug tests. Cain a freshman has evolved as one of the tigers top receivers. Instead hes out for the postseason. Ame is a senior so he has graduated already and jay jay is not a senior but he will have an opportunity to come back to school next week, and he has a chance to graduate by the summer and he will have the opportunityty to move on. If he wants to play somewhere else next year, he will have the opportunity to do that. But he wont be back with us. Dion had the opportunity to come back to school and rejoin the team at some point if he grows up and does what he needs to do. If he doesnt then he wont so its pretty simple. Lakip was also suspended the first three games of this season following a june possession and dui. Mccullough also missed thseason opener because of an academic suspension. On the road with the tigers at the orange bowl. Rick henry. Wis news 10 sports. Columbia mayor Steve Benjamin is promising cooperation to move the city forward. Yesterday, two newly elected city council members, who have disagreed with benjamin and who benjamin did not support were sworn in. This could change things on the council where the mayor has managed to move big projects like the new bull street baseball stadium by narrow margins. Benjamin says the citys business will continue. We think big about columbia. The things we can get done here. We work to build consensus. And then we lead. The mayor says the city has made a lot of progress fixing Serious Problems including fiscal issues during his tenure. He says it required unity from the council. In the 2016 president ial race, month out from the iowa caucus but the real candidate fight may be right here in South Carolina will whitson takes a look at whats shaping up. The first in the south primary with almost the same amount of delegates as the first two primaries combined would be a strategic victory for any republican candidate and can serve to prop up or breath new life into a struggling campaign. The state was a valuable win for Newt Gingrich in 2012 but for gingrich it proved to be his only big win, also marking the first time in 30 years that South Carolina didnt pick the eventual republican nominee. But how the votes in iowa and New Hampshire go could determine how big a battleground South Carolina will be on the campaign trail in hilton head today, donald trump reminded the crowd he hasnt run any tv ads so far president ial candidate i spend no money. I mean, my plane costs money, but i have no ads. I have one radio ad in iowa, but the station was so nice. But according to midlands tv campaign, as well as cruz and carson camps are expected to court tv airwaves soon joining marco rubio and jeb bush, who have already funneled tens of thousands of dollars into South Carolina ad buys. Polls in iowas have trump either tied with ted cruz, or lagging behind him and both cruz and marco rubio have made recent gains in New Hampshire rubio also picked up a recent endorsement from South Carolina congressman trey gowdy and jeb bushs Campaign Staff were told wednesday to prepare for an onthe Ground Campaign blitz coupled with jebs wendesday night meet and greet in lexington. Trumps double digit poll lead in the palmetto state could be in the crosshairs for the next month. Ww, wis news 10. Still ahead progress afafr 2 months of two local nonprofits have been hard at work this week rebuilding almost a dozen week rebuilding almost a dozen homes affected by octobers flood. Betty sheltons house is one of the houses being repaired during the threeday rebuild together event. Its a partnership between the st bernard project and homeworks, funded by large donations from united way of the midlands and mungo homes. Mold is one of the biggest issues volunteers say theyre tackling in these homes. When we first got here there was mold on every piece of furniture, on her tv, on all of her books, its crawling up the floors, on the walls and on the ceiling. We recognize that its a very house with continuous funding the homeowners could be back in their homes in just a few months. Theres still time for victims of the october floods to apply for fema assistance and the Small Business Administration Says there is plenty of money to go around. In the pile. Charles a lot of this involves documentation, how important is it to have all this documentation, or can you just get your name in and provide the papers later. Carl absolutely you can register first. You can do it over the phone 1800 621fema. Online disasterassistance. Gov. The key is to get in by january 4th the deadline. The paperwork can follow later. Over the phone well ask specific questions. The owner of the house iiurance papers and that. But the documentation can come later. The key is to register. Charles have people been names in . Carl they have weve had over 98,000 registered in this area. Some 78Million Dollars has gone out to the area back to the homeowners to get ththr home and property back up to speed. But the key is to get the registration. Well follow up with the paper work later on. You can start the application process online at Disaster Assistance dot gov. Or by calling femas hotline at 1800621 fema. The flood watch remains in effect through thursday morning with several strong storms and the possibility of flash flooding throughout the midlands. On thursday the rain chance falls to 50 during the day and then down to 30 that night. High 70 new years day will be mostly cloudy with only a slight chance of showers and a touch cooler temperatures. High 60. The first weekend in january will be dry and break 2 days after the paris attacks, senators came together for a topsecret briefing on the terrorist threat. Marco rubio was missing fundraising in california instead. Two weeks later, terrorists struck again in san bernardino. And where was marco . Fundraising again in new orleans. Over the last 3 years, rubio has missed Important National security hearings and missed more total votes than any other senator. Politics first thats the rubio way. Right to rise usa morning with several strong storms and the possibility of flash flooding throughout the midlands. On thursday the rain chance the day and then down to 30 that night. High 70 new years day will be mostly cloudy with only a slight chance of showers and a touch cooler temperatures. High 60. The first weekend in january will be dry and possibility of flash flooding throughout the midlands. On thursday the rain chance falls to 50 during the day and then down to 30 that night. High 70 new years day will be mostly cloudy with only a slight chance of showers and a the first weekend in january will be dry and partly cloudy. A leesville girl who cant walk, will be able to stand with her classmates, thanks to some generous friends. A go fund me Fundraising Campaign has now successfully raised the money to get Alanna Thompson a mobile stander. Alanna was born with spina bifada and hydrocephalus. Shes paralyzed from the waist down and wheelchair bound. Now she can use her personal stander to get around at home and at school. Bring your own heat the capital citys new Years Eve Party is guarantee to be [text message alert rings] [texting keystrokes] around 2thousand coats were collected in this years coats the cooperative Ministry Tweet out a thank you to wis, jim hudson and tripps fine cleaners all in partnership for this years coats drive. At least 50 families in Richland School district one will receive coats after the new year. Columbia will throw another big. And famously hot new Years Eve Party tomorrow night. Preparations are ununrway for the capital citys new Years Eve Party at main and gervais streets. This years headline attraction is multiple grammy Award Winning artist lauryn hillwho will cap off a year the mayor says has been full of major challenges from the removal of the Confederate Flag at the state house to the october flood disaster. It was a wonderful reason to celebrate. And tomorrow night i look forward to spending some time celebrating with the people of columbia and the people in the midlands in a way that also helps create you know a few Million Dollars in impact for our Small Businesses mayor benjamin says the event helps the city with economic development. Partrtgoers can bring foodod donations for flood this weekend republican president ial hopeful will make a pit stop in lexington. Marco rubio will hold a meet and greet at hudsons smoke house at 4pm. Hehell also be holding e ents in hilton head and easley, the Clemson Tigers look to do a sports is next. The big story here in south florida the suspension of three players. Receiver deon cain, tight end Jay Mccullough will not play in the orang bowl tomorrow here at sun life stadium. Well have more on that in a moment. First lets talk about the rematch. Clemson head coach dabo swinney and oklahoma head coach bob stoops orange bowl trophy this morning. Last year the tigers stomped the sooners in therussell athletic bowl. Dabo doesnt expect itll be that easy tomorrow afternoon. Last years game just has nothing to do with this game. I mean, it really doesnt. We have Great Respect for oklahoma. You know, we talk about that all the time as far as last weeks tackles and touch downs and all that stuff, sacks dodot win this week. And certainly last years performance aint going to win this year. Different teams, every game is a this is not unfamiliar territory to clemson. With kicker ammon lakip being out of the fold. Lakip served a suspension over the summer and missed the first three games of this season. Following a drug arrest for cocaine possession and driving under the influence. His poor judgment. Opened the door for blythewood native greg huegel. When lakips arrest first made the news. Huegel. Thought maybe a spot opened up for him to be on the team. After all clemsons showed 2015. He waited a couple weeks. The phone never rang. He still kept kicking three or four times a week. Then he finally got the call he longed for. As soon as coach called me, he was like hey we have a spot for you if youd like it. I was like absolutely. On the phone i was trying to contain myself, but i was like sounds good. Alright sweet. But as soon as i hung up i went nuts, i told my parents and everybody. And its funny we showed a, i dont know who did it, but we do a little video of the day about every day,
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