Today is the last day to apply for fema flood assistance. You can register by calling them up till 10 00 p. M. Tonight or go online till midnight. We have their Contact Information on our website www. Wltx. Com. Flood recovery is far from over for many farmers and there might be money available to help. News 19s Sonia Gutierrez has information about the Community Development block grant that was passed. It include millions for home owners and farmers. At this point we are trying to get our financials in order. Only thing we received so far is crop insurance. Reporter he estimates losing 200,000 worth of crops to the october floods. Statewide the loss is closer to half a billion. I have a long ways to go. I have a lot of people i owe a lot of money to. That might be eligible for money passed as part of the federal spending bill. If the money is there, this is a disaster for all of us. There has been money allocated to help states that have been effected by natural disasters and South Carolina is one of the states. Right now we dont know how much will be available for South Carolina farmers who were affected by the flood. Reporter 300 million has been allocated to homeowners and farmers. How much each gets is up in the air. U. S. Department of housing and urban developmentler developmentler derment is in the process of making the department is in the process of making the rules. We will get through this. You cant beat a farmer down. Reporter Sonia Gutierrez, news 19 wltx. Farmers will also be water shed Protection Program and other programs. All now there you the department of agricultural. Now the most accurate forecast with chief meteorologist jim gandy. [ music ] [ silence ] wind chill of 38 degrees. All right. We are having technical difficulties jim gandys microphone. Reporter proposals to bring hundreds of apartments, restaurants and shops to forest drive. News 19s Janae Frazier is live from the site of the proposal project with more on what has residents upset. Voicing their concernsoon Facebook Page concerns on a Facebook Page, their major concern is an increase in traffic on forest drive which they say is already congested. The Beach Company is the developer of the project on forest drive. The development would include 298 apartments and 55,000 square feet of commercial businesses, restaurants and shops. I spoke with a woman who lost a Family Member on forest drive, he opposed to the plan because of an increase in traffic and the Development Manager said they took the traffic concerns and implemented them into their plan and believes the plan is a great one. I wonder about water, sewer, those things. We havent even gotten fix from the floods yet. Smaller commercial restaurants and the shops that will be attractive to the neighborhood with the traffic improvements it will be oo hugeperv for the be a Huge Positive for the community. Reporter the Planning Commission will meet tomorrow at 6 00 p. M. At the Good Shepherd church fellow ship hall. They will discuss the plans and talk about rezoning the area so that it could be used for a mixed use building. Now they will take the gatherings and then give them to city counsel in february and then city counsel will have the final say about their rezoning. Back to you. All right. Thank you. The Housing Authority has been given approval to tear down gonzales gardens. They are also asking leaders for a Million Dollars to do the job. Talk about it tomorrow night. The facility has 274 residents. The residents will be giverren vouchers for new housing. They hope to get funding to build rental, assisted and senior housing. Reporter tonightmist mls is set Michael Slager is set to be releaseond bond. Released on bond and he already paid it. The former Police Officer is charged with murder in the shooting dith of walter scott. Dash death of walter scott. Death of walter scott. The judge set a trial date of october 31. Attorneys asked for a speedier trial saying they would be ready in the spring but the prosecutor said the trial should be held in november since she prosecuting dillon roof for the Church Shooting in july. The first republican is the deadline to sign up to register to vote in it. You must make sure your registered by january 20. The democratic primary is a week later january 27. The gop primary is february 20 and the democratic primary is february 27. Republican president ial candidate donald trump will be in rock hill friday. There is no cost to attend but seats are limited. Jeb bush, ben carson, governor chris christie, mike huckaby, carly fiorina, john kasich and marco rubio will be in columbia saturday to take part in the president ial forum moderated by House Speaker paul ryan and tim scott. Each will be lowed to share their ideas. It is taking place saturday at gas prices are starting off low in the new year. The National Average is 1. 99. Statewide 1. 79. That is nationwide i should say. A slow Winter Driving season and a over supply of oil is the reason. In our state 1. 74 a gallon and the cheapest price in the state is 1. 43 in moncks corner. Powerball jackpot 400 million, which happens to be the 6th largest jackpot in powerball history. The previous six best lottery amount was in 2013. The Winning Ticket was sold in lexington. The director says while she is excited about the jackpot she is looking forward to the money we know every ticket we sell we are able to transfer 49 cents of every dollar to education so it is good for everybody when we have these jackpots. We dont have them that often anymore. When we have them we try to make sure we point out there are lot of winners. The odds of winning are one in 293 million so play responsibly. You can see the drawing wednesday night before news 19 at 11 00 p. M. And if you purchase a Powerball Ticket for saturdays drawing double check it, a 100,000 ticket was sold at the jp mart on lake murray boulevard. The Winning Ticket matched four white balls. Players have 180 days to claim we ever the winning numbers on our website www. Wltx. Com. I know it wasnt you because you are here today. You know, i would probably still be here today. So i am guessing you are not [ talking at the same time ] you would show up to rub it in. I would not. I would keep my mouth shut. Do we ever to say [ talking at the same time ] you dont have to. You would never know. You would never know. It is going to be very you are watching news 19 at 6 00 p. M. With jr berry and darci strickland. In missouri, returning to flood damaged homes in a week. In the hardest hit towns streets look like junk yards. Hundreds of structures damaged when the mississippi and the channels swelled to record flood stage levels. Our hearts and prayers go out to the people in missouri because we have what you are going through. We know what you are going through. Winter arrived. It was delayed. Right. A little bit. But now it is here and here let me show you what is going on. We had clouds from the north during the day. It is partly cloudy. Skies are clearing quickly across the area. Still clouds in the region but they wont last very long. What happened is we had a front that moved off shore, an area of low pressure off shore. Strong area of High Pressure over the midwest. This is feeding the cold air south through the eastern part of the country. Tonight we are feeling it. New orleans 54 degrees. Cincinnati 30. New york now at 23 degrees. Minneapolis 20. It is just this cold air, the coldest over new england, that will sink down the eastern seaboard. South carolina 33 degrees. 42 sumpter. 45 columbia. 45 orangeburg. Breezy outside. Winds at 10 to 15 miles per hour. Stronger in florence, winds at factor in the wind with the temperature, feels like it is 30 degrees in florence. 28 in rock hill. 38 columbia. 36 sumpter. 42 in orangeburg. Tonight we are expecting a hard freeze. We are expecting temperatures in the mid20s. Because of the wind midlands will stay up more there. 25 columbia. 29 in manning. Tomorrow high temperatures in the mid to upper 40s. 44 degrees for newberry and wince burrow. 48 in orangeburg and manning. Our sevenday forecast. Dry through the middle part of the week. Coldest day on wednesday, low of 23, high of 47. An increase in clouds wednesday. Cloudy thursday, high of 59 degrees. Showers on friday with a high of 62. With a high of 66. More rain sunday with a high of 63 and another blast of cold air starts to come in monday with a high of 55 degrees. Middle of next week might be colder than right now. Wow tonight is one of those nights where we need to get in the habit of dripping the faucet [ talking at the same time ] i dont think it will be that cold but your outside pipes need to be protected. Plants that are tender and pets. They are not used to this cold weather. We are not used to this cold weather. Thank you. They need protection. Lets check in with alysa. Good news for the gamecocks. The men and women remain undefeated. 260. Sec record and the only school in the country where both men and Womens Program are undefeated. We are talking about outside of columbia, because a basketball town is what columbia has become with the men and Women Holding the sec record with 26 0 and remaining the only School Programs undefeated. It does seem the work they are putting in is starting to show and as they prepare to head to auburn to open sec play the record doesnt matter but that the progress is nice to watch. It is pretty neat. A lot of people said you cant do that at South Carolina. No one cares there. Basketball is awful. You cant recruit there. And to know that she ever come that and had tremendous success on the floor and that we are trying to build, to find success on the floor and and and and we can add to that number, pretty neat. Pretty neat. Usc head football coach has announced the hiring of the co offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach. He joined the browns he brings in 19 years of experience on the college level, including 13 in the sec and helped his teams appear in 11 bowl games. Jimmy parker who served as head coach died this morning after battling heart related illnesses. He was 82yearsold. Ending a 62 year career as a college and high school coach. All the tigers are thinking about right now ais their Huge National title game tuesday. Now is their Huge National title game tuesday. Someone who has been in his with such a big game being new territory, cam newton said he would be pulling for the tigers to come away with it. Mobile quarterbacks. I think he is right for you know, being a person that could be the kryptonnite to alabama. With the season in the books the title hunt is on for the panthers. A solid 3810 win over tampa bay yesterday to put them in the number one seed and gave them Home Field Advantage throughout the playoffs. The road to the super bowl goes through charlotte. Thank you. Up ne you have till thursday to take part in the grinding of the greens. Remove all the lights, tenseles and ornaments from your tree. We have mcdonalds launched its new menu allowing customers to choose two items for 2 bucks. And it is replacing the dollar menu. Yes, this means the dollar menu is officially gone. Dollar menu is gone. But you can get two things for two things. Which means the dollar menu is strange how that works. Pelley the president does an end run around congress to restrict gun sales. Also tonight, armed protesters versus the feds in a dispute over private property. I want the federal government to abide by the constitution of the united states. Pelley a levee proves no match for the mighty mississippi. El nio storms are about to hit the west. And getting fit. Orange is the new way back. Its pretty powerful in