It feels like it. Chief f teorologist john farley with just how low the temperatures will go. Its cold across the midlands. Yeah, it is. Its an equal opportunity situation. Everyone within a come couple degrees the. The only place love freezing is lexington. Were dropping fast. The air is dry. Temperatures are going to plummet. Let me show you who cold it will how cold it will get. It will be a very, very cold night. Wind is continuing to off off next to nothing. It will be a very, very cold one, especially getting up for the kids in the morning of the get out the. Get out the warmest jacket they have. 2 2, 23 somewhere in that range. There wont be much in the way of wind. But again, a very chilly start. Going through the day, look at that. We close in on 50. Tomorrow will be nothing but sunny and no wind. The difnts. Difference. Today, the windchills never got above freezing. When i say windchills, it never got above freezing. It will be a different story tomorrow. More on the details on the weekend forecast, which is also cold, coming up. Tsunami,thank you, john. While you are snug in your house right now, please be sure to keep an eye on your pipes. They can freeze even burst. Be sure to keep your water running periodically. And also keep your garage doors closed tonight if there are water supply lines in the walls or the garages, very important to take important of that and open kitchen and Cabinet Doors to allow warmer air to circulate around the plumbing. And dont forget about the pets. Dogs and cats are in danger if they are left outside. The cold air can cause chached paws and flaking skin. Bring in the pets. Cover them with shelter, with dry straw, shavings or blankets to trap the heat. Keep the pups warm. Tonight, in maryland, Authorities Say a gunman shot and killed a sheriffs deputy inside a crowded panera restaurant at lunchtime. That same gunman also killed another deputy in a shootout. Officers managed to shoot and kill the gunman not far from the restaurant at a Shopping Center about 20 miles outside of baltimore. No bystanders were hurt. Police have not released a motive but investigators believe the first deputy who approached the gunman was shot because he was wearing a uniform. Weve also learned tonight the shooter had warrants out for his arrest in florida. Today marks the fouryear anniversary of a columbia mans murder. On february 10th, 2012, Warren Nelson was found shot to death at gable Oaks Apartment around 3 00 a. M. The police say he was talking fourdoor Buick Century moments before he was killed. Nelson did not hang around strangers according to family which leads investigators to knew. Robbery. If you have any information that can help authorities, you are asked to call crimestoppers at 1888crimesc. Kelvin washington on pled guiltypled guilty for farrelling to file a tax return. He was ordered to pay back 2500 in fines as well as 1,000 in court costs. He was also sentenced to probation today. Last month, the former city councilman also pled guilty to similar charges. These charges stem from an investstation into richland countys penny tax program. Attorneys for the men say the charges are not related to that investigation. Talking politics, a day the republican field is thinning out. Today, both Chris Christie and Carly Fiorina dropped out of the president ial race. Other candidates who did well in New Hampshire are looking ead to the next big vote. Dianne gallagher has the latest from washington. We are going to make america so great again, maybe greater than ever before. Reporter donald trump scored a bigtime win in New Hampshire with twice as many votes as the next closest candidate, a surprisingly strong secondplace finish from john kasich who wasted no time getting to South Carolina. I need your support. I need your help here. Reporter now question if kasich has the support in the southern state. His team has not focused as much on it like other candidates like jeb bush after coming in behind ted cruz is enlisting the help of his big brother. This is president george w. Bush. Reporter the ad is already airing in South Carolina. To hit the cam campaign trail before the next primary. Nearly every republican is set to spend time in South Carolina next week except for Chris Christie. And Carly Fiorina announced late today, she would would not continue running for president. After snatching you of up 60 of the vote the people want real change. Reporter Bernie Sanders celebrated his win in New Hampshire by heading to harlem to meet with reverend al sharp on. Ton. In washington, dianne gallagher. All right. Thank you, the gop primary takes place next saturday, february 20th. The democratic primary takes place the following week on february 27th. Stay with us for complete coverage online and also on a few hours ago, donald trump wrapped up a rally at Clemson University drawing a crowd in the thousands. His Campaign Says that they decided to hold tonights rally in the upstate knowing that part of South Carolina is considered to be a revitalization stronghold and aconservative stronghold. Marco rubio told supporters hes fit to be the next president because of his experience in National Security and foreign policy. Our team worked really hard. It didnt work out as well as we wanted to but this is a strong conservative state. Its up our ally in terms of policies. Rubio is trailing trump and cruz. South carolinians held a Panel Discussion on the usc state republicans spoke with students about immigration, a top priority on the trail. I say it often, would much rather have people fighting to come here than to try to leave them and we dont allow them to. We live in a great country. I think they are recognizing that. They see it and they are coming here. The former chairman of the primary served as the moderator. Bernie sanders is getting a boost in fundraising. His Campaign Says it raised more than 5 million in the 18 hours after polls closed in New Hampshire. Half of that was raised in the first few hours after being declared the winner. The haul is more than the 3 million he raised after Hillary Clinton edged him out in iowa. Well, after New Hampshire, campaign is planning an april an aggressive approach with Bernie Sanders. The clinton camp may boil down to a new person to coordinate her message. Word is the former secretary of state is looking for someone to make her ads and campaign stump speeches more complimentary of each other. The first day of the next phase of Clinton Campaign is tomorrow night in milwaukee on the debate stage. If you head north outof downtown, you will see empty buildings, overgrown lots. Revitalization starts with the street itself. Four years after the projects first phase, the city says its pulled together the mine to get money. Grace joyal has more. Reporter a main artery if you are having have an area that looks good, then people are more likely to be interested in 2. Reporter carrying traffic you have to make an area appealing so that other people and businesses will want toob part ofwant to be part of that community. Reporter it might seem like there are more empty buildings than full ones. If its beat up, people seem to shy away. Right now, its a grand exit. Everybody is trying to leave. Reporter but north main is about to get a wakeup call. At an open house on wade, the city talked to residents about the improvements and the streetscaping project. From the pipes to the sidewalks, 1. 7 miles from anthony to fuller is getting a total makeover. Using 30 million from richland penny, 10 million from the feds and 10 to 12 for water and sewer upgrades, they want to do it in three years. Weve seen with where weve put money into these projects where areas have blossomed and the growth is amazing. Reporter they say it the theyve factored in high drive times. Residents have other concerns. The most pressing wednesday night a median that d. O. T. Requires with new double left turn lanes at sunset and north main. Residents fear this willlimit limb limit access to nearby neighborhoods. Anything we can do to make it convenient to folks and not inconvenience in terms of the final design, thats important also. Reporter a first step in making noorkt main north main a destination of its own. Officials will nail down a contractor by early june and construction should start this fall. Grace joyal. Thank you. Coming up cheap fuel is flowing at gas stations across the united states. Prices dropped below how 2. How much lower can they go. And move over burgers, theres now hot dogs on the menu. On the heels of the primary, the democratic hopefuls are going head to head. What we can expect. Columbia all starting at 5 00. Beyonce supporters thanks for staying with us tonight. Beyonce supporters and opponents will hold competing rallies this month. The Hashtag Boycottbeyonce has gathered steam following the super bowl halftime show. Supporters say the formation fong is anticop. Now, they called her a racebaiting stunt. And theres protest escalled for in new york city. Thats spanned sparked calls for her toold a counterprotest. According to the energy addminute stration, the average administration for gas, its projected to be 1. 98 a gallon. Aaa says the current price is 1. 72. The National Average is expected summer driving season from june through august and then fall again. Might want to start calling it the hoot dog the hot dog king. Burger king will start to serve hot dogs. One executive called it the biggest launch since the 1970s when the company introduced the first chicken sandwich. They will serve the classic grilled dog and a chili cheese dog. Franchise started experimenting with hot dogs in five cities last year and decided to take the menu item nationwide. This years oscar gift bag is setting a record on swag. The items worth about 200. Items such as a tenday firstclass trip to israel and less expensive items hud a haze dual a3 vaporizer but the most interesting one might by the vampire breast lift. Its said to use bloodderived flood growth factors. Also, toy let paper said to be toilet paper, said to be the most soothing an be a and absorbent. The vampire breast lift. I dont understand hohoyou are able to give so many gifts to israel. I think that many gift bags. Hows that that work . I dont dont know. Theres rich people in hollywood. Maybe they are counting on were bracing ourselves for cold temperatures of the season. If you thought today was, well, felt like the coldest day of the year or the season, you are right. It got to 41. That ties the other coldest day, january 23rd. The issue was the wind and with the wind, the average windchill was 24 degrees from 6 00 a. M. To 6 00 p. M. It never got above 30. It was bitter bit bitter cold. The wind is dying down. Tomorrow will be a lot less windy, sunny. Much more comfortable as we get to the afternoon. We have the temperatures, except for lexington we are at or below freezing and we will continue to dive down tonight. The reason, big pocket of cold air in the middle part of canada is working its way down and is over us now and for thatatter, it will more or less stay put as we go through the week. There will be a second surge of this cold air into the weekend. That will make it about as cold especially on sunday. So yeah, its gonna be a little better over the next few days. Butas the wind dies off, very, very cold. Us. As we go into tomorrow, check it out. By afternoon, were around 50. And without the wind, you will notice it. Much more comfortable tomorrow. And again, the temperatures warm spot is right around 50. Looking ahead, well get some clouds in here on friday. Saturday, especially late in the day, you will start to notice the wind pick up again. Its going to usher in very cold air saturday night and sunday looks like well have a tough time getting out of the 30s. Pretty cold for us. Then you can see sunday night were back at it down in the 20s. At this point, it looks like well see rain monday night and then a good rain storm on tuesday. All right. Thats your forecast. I will send it over to you. John, thank you. Coming up the biggest week of basketball in thth frank martin era and the gamecocks respond in a big way. Yes, they did. Its time to dust off a title usc hoops has not held in a long sports is next. Warm gym. Hi, im tim hill. Cold weather, warm gym. Im tim hill. After not m ming the nas for more thanncaa for more than a to the start of baseball season. This year, carolina basketball is different. Usc fans packing the Colonial Life arena tonight. Usc in first place in the sec. Gave notice,dane notice. Up. Michael carrera scores 14 of his 16 and usc up 7 again. Then lsus ben simmons showing why he will likely be the number one draft pick. Cheerleaders even impressed. Top five in scoring, rebounding and assists. Sindarius thornwell continues to play well. Usc still up 7. Back comes sim sim min simmons. The gamecocks shoot better than 48 . 15 points off the bench. This one, tied up at 60. The bigtime freshman takes uscs high school all american, p. J. Dozier on simmons and the foul. Then seconds later, sim mon Simmons Simmons has to watch as p. J. Dozier does it again. 12 points on the game. The home crowd loves it. Gamecocks pull away. Thornwell ends up 23 points, a game high 24 tonight, six rebounds, five assists. Carolina, 9483. Gets the win. Usc improves 83 tied for first place in the sec. Mike gyp has more from gillespie has more from the Colonial Life arena. Reporter you would think after the win, the mood would be positive or like the music they are playing right now at Colonial Life arena. But frank martin coming out and addressing something serious. Neither one of these teams tonight was in the top 25. You have two teams that are and second place in the league and neither team is ranked. Thats the frustrating part. How how they are not ranked nationally. That makes no sense. What other league in the country, the first place teams playing the Second Place Team and neither is ranked. Thats frustrating to me. But i dont give that to the players. The players, its all about right now and the only thing that matters is the next game. Tonight is over. Tomorrow when we come in and watch film and get ready for kentucky, we dont celebrate. We dont do anything like that. Just come in and focus and get ready for saturday. Reporter and when i asked lsu forward ben simmons if he was affected by the crowd tonight, he looked at me, you could tell he wanted to say yes but instead he said, i just go out and play my game. The gamecocks hoping to have the same effect on kentucky on at Colonial Life arena, mike gillespie, abc columbia sports. And usc, lsu and kentucky, all at the top of those standings with 83 conference records. Saturdays game against the wildcats set for noon on espn. Kentucky coming off a crushing of georgia last night. Texas a m tonight, misses two freethrows in the final seconds, loses by a point to alabama. The aggies started with seven straight wins. Now have four straight losses and vandy cruises over missouri, 8671. Football now. Classwell see a few transfers between now and the start of the season. Chris moody announced his plans to leave last month. Today its shaq davidson. He started his freshman year. Reinjured his knee. Was a fourstar recruit. Gamecocks signed four wide receivers. Much better news for the pros. The panthers signing damiere byrd. Byrd on the practice squad. Now going into it as a pro. This was kearbls 7th leading receiver as a gamecock in his senior season. Excellent basketball news, a huge week certainly for usc starting off well for the men bouncing back after the women had the tough loss. Now kentucky coming in. It will be one of the most highly anticipated College Games weve seen here in columbia in a long, long time. I will be sitting right there. You have to love it. This is gonna be good. All right. Still ahead, john farley with one last look at that sevenday forecast. 11. Awfully cold out there tonight. But check out tomorrow. There will be no wind to speak of and the temperatures will recover to close to 50. Can we say spring yet . Oh. Not quite. There we go. Tomorrow night and friday night, not as cold by a long shot from what well see out there tonight. But over the weekend, were back at it. A nice plunge of cold air. That gets in here saturday night into sunday and the temperatures dip down to 20. The high on sunday, valentines day, how about 30s. Thats gonna be so much love for that. How about those gamecocks