Today but they say the hard work starts tomorrow when the house and senate reconvene at 2 00. Live in the newsroom, beth russo, abc columbia news. The president plans to highlight his successes in the two terms in office tonight. All eyes on south carolina. Governor nikki hailey will deliver the republican response to the debate. House Speaker Paul Ryan and Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell made the announcement last week. The governor is honored she was asked and plans to focus on the challenges and opportunities facing the nation. Henry mcmaster used the first day of the session to draw attention to a growing problem in south carolina, Human Trafficking. Mcmaster held a News Conference declaring the month of january Human Trafficking and month. The attorney general Human Trafficking task force released its findings in the plan to tackle the issue. If you see something, say something. You cannot leave all of Law Enforcement to Law Enforcement and the courts alone. The a average citizen has got to take a stand and make his or her mark against these criminals who people. In the attorney generals report in the past year, more than 100 people have received trafficking. A horrific crime. But a Richland County teen is back home with her family and a 22yearold is behind bars charged with Human Trafficking. The sheriff announced the arrest of datron hoeffer. They said she held a 16yearold girl against her will, forcing lott emphasized it is a growing problem in Richland County. This is for real and if we dont address it as a community weill continue to lose young girls laic like this 16yearold. Task force members say t ts is a typical Human Trafficking case but what is atypical is the work being done here in rich land county to prevent it. Tonight at 11 00 you will hear from a Trafficking Victim and learn more about what is being done. The former bird lake sheriff pleaded guilt request to d. U. I. Dewitt was sentenced to three years probation and ordered to service. The former sheriff hit another car from behind before speeding away. He says since then he has entered an alcohol treatment progm and has been sober for nine months. We are borderline winter there. Yes. Especially when the sun goes down. Yes. I know you definitely are. We leave the newsroom it is brutally cold outside. A look at the current conditions. Windy out there. Gusting over 30 miles an hour. The winds starting to drop back now. Columbia up to 15 and gusting to 2025 there. Droppeda little bit as well. The winds will die back. Blustery the next little bit. Here are the temperatures, low are all sitting. And in terms of this evening the wind, yeah, another couple hours back. Temperatures will also fall by the time we get to midnight in the range of the upper 30s. Overnight tonight into early tomorrow morning, well, a little on the cold side. Temperatures dipping down to the mid to upper 20s. By the time we get to dawn the winds pretty much gone. No more wind. Bundle the kids up as they head out the door. Chilly. Temperatures maybe degree or two less cold than today but still cold as you work your way into afternoon. Happen. Not as much wind but the temperatures dont recover quite as far. Tomorrow afternoon around 50. Rain in the seven day. Talk about when that he arrives coming up. Thank you so much. Do you have your Lottery Ticket . Maybe you actually have a few. The lottery is setting records with the latest jackpot. The request he is what would you do if the request he is what would you do if you won. I guess if you play better have a plan, right . Huge if. But that is not stopping people here in the midland. Everyone is day dreaming how would i spend the loot if my numbers hit. It is the Worlds LargestLottery Jackpot and continues to grow. Strong power ball ticket sales have the golden winnings now at 1. 5 billion and that could even increase. High end cars float through your mind, lets fast forward and say you won. Now what . All of the taxes and everything are taken out. I would donate to my church. My church. After that, i would help my family members. Need help. And for myself, a nice vacation and relax. My cause would probably be single mother. Help them out. Most would like to go back to school and find it gift to go back because they difficult go back because they. Reporter the prize will be paid in annual payments over 29 years or the winner could opt for a lump sum of 930 million. I would take the lump sum . Why is that . That would be better. The about igloo he reveal at 10 59 wednesday night. Continue to dream. I have been thinking about it. Too much to fathom. Continue to increase your chances. Everybody is rushing to come get them. The lines will be way back there. Like 500 at one time. 300 at one time. And just to understand your chances of hitting it big, well, the odds of matching all six numbers to win the jackpot are one in 292. 2 million. All right. So what should you do if you win more than a billion dollars . Here are a few tips. State farm insurance says to make sure to protect your privacy by changing the phone number or perhaps setting up a blend trust and about you the a Team Together if you win that money you will need the help. An attorney, an account and the and a Financial Adviser and dont quit the day job at least not until you have the money in your hand. Columbia news. Who would be on your post win team . You also need a friend and there is where weome in. We dont play but we are supportive. Friends and lawyers. Lots of attorneys. Up next, clemson fans are still celebrating a magical season. The tigers could be face agnew potent, this time in this time in the courtroom. So close, but so far away. Clemson tonight. So close but so far away. Clemson took the lead into the enough alabama. Im still proud of my tigers. The team is expected to arrive in the upstate later on this evening. Dont get too down, tiger fans, most early looks at next season favorite. It was so good i watched the replay today. It was good. The season is over but now fire. The freedom from religion plans to sue Clemson University over the role christianity plays in the football program. Swinney says nothing is forced on any of the player thes and no game decisions are based on participation in religious activities but freedom from number of University Athletic programs including the universityf south carolina. A dedication during the most important meal of the day. Martin luther king jr. Today isnt until monday but they are celebrating early. A breakfast was held this morning. Hate is a distraction. We must respond to violence with love and faith and hope for the future. This mornings breakfast was the first of the universitys keeping the dream alive events which honor the life and legacy of dr. Martin luther king jr. Up next, chief meteorologist sevenday forecast. Stay with us for more abc main and gervais. Welcome back. Quite windy out there today. And we caught a shot of the flags on the statehouse doing their best to hang on. Notice there is a bird on top. We believe this to be a red tail hawk. We cant completely identify that. But you think to yourself the bird must have been pretty good at navigating to get on top of that and sit there through all that wind. Talk about the temperature today. Despite the wind it do warm to 57 though it didnt feel that warm today after an overnight low of 26. Where do we go from here . Give you a peek. Dips down to the 20s and sunny for the next couple of days before some rain arrives on friday. Show you what is going on in terms of the temperatures right now. 40s. The rest of us low 50s. As the wind dies off the temperatures drop fairly quickly. One of the reasons is because it is dry out there. Chchk it out. The humidity low. Most of us down in the 30s. Relative humidity. And so as a result, the temperatures will be allowed to drop back again tonight for most of us down into the 20s. Now, what is causing the wind . Let me show you. As we go up farther to the north what you will see is the circulation around a low that is right on the eastern great lakes. Just in the range of buff le buffalo right in here is where the low is and wind gusts at buffalo today, 65 miles an hour. That is a whole lot of wind. For us, we were more like 30. They were double that. What goes on there is the intense part of the wind is closest to the low. But there is a front that drags down and it is just about got our winds out of the west southwest and that is where that came from today. As the low kicks out to the east so will the winds. In terms of the cold air here is the pocket of cold air tomorrow morning. It only stays with us really tonight, tomorrow night and then watch what happens by the time we get to friday afternoon. Notice the big pocket of warm air coming in because we get warm air coming up out of the south tied in with the storm system. As a result we get some rain out of it. It is going to bring up warm air. No cold air associated with this one. Tonight, 30s and 20s as the wind dies off and skies stay clear. For tomorrow what you will see it that the temperatures, well, a little cooler than today with less wind, though, probably a wash. Feel about the same. Highs tomorrow right around either side of 50. No where near as much wind with us tomorrow. A little wind out of the north and that will do it. A look ahead. The rain on friday. The focus of this will be later in the day into the evening and probably some overnight as well. But your weekend things do clear that takes until mondaytuesdayish before it returns. Over to you two. Nfl playoff game is happening just to the north this sunday when the panthers of host the he hawks. [laughter] the seahawks. Coming up, what rob thinks about the matchup. I was going going to say do you think i dont know that team. And hearing from the Clemson Tigers after the loss. We are very proud here in south mike is up next in sports. Oh, what could have been for the tigers. Clemson losing by five points to alabama in the National Championship game last night. Tim hill has a recap from glendale, arizona. Reporter the further and further clemson gets away from the National Championship disappointment the more the tigers will see the shining season that was 2015. 141. The most wins in clemson history and number two finish in the we had a great season. It was something that i think it was kind of the next step for us, you know, to get to we needed to win our league again and we did that. We wanted to get into the College Football plows and we playoffs and won the playoff gym and game and earned an opportunity to compete for the championship and had a chance to win it. Just came up short. I think we take great confidence from this season and a lot of things we can learn. A lot of guys are sad and disappointed but at the end of the day you learn from it, life lesson. It wasnt our time. But hopefully next year it will be. The season is a big plus. We showed a lot of people that, you know, clemson deserves to be here every year. So, you know, just proved a lot of people wrong. Will be back. It wont be 34 years before we are going to be back, i promise you that. Our team is built to sustain success. We have got the right ingredients from a toughness standpoint, talent standpoint, and then just again just the will to win and the culture that we have in our program. With a strong core of players led by Deshaun Watson coming back next season and a tremendous recruiting class coming to clemson yet again it is tough to argue that the tigers will be back competing for National Championships in the future. Thanks for checking in with abc columbia for our National Championship coverage. That will wrap things up from the university of phoenix stadium in glendale, arizona. Tim hill, abc columbia sports. Bama wins its 11th National Title. The most by a long shot. Clemson now lost 13 in a row to the tide. The last time the tigers beat if you were alive back then you would probably say he hawks. They havent won a National Title since 1981. The panthers hosting the seahawks in the n. F. C. Divisional round of the playoffs. A rematch from october 18 when carolina won 2723 in seattle. Ron rivera saying that win gives the panthers a blueprint for winning round three at home. Going there and being able to win helped validate who we are as a football team. We still have a long ways to go but the best part about it more so than anything else is we have proven to ourselves we can do it. That will do it for sports. More news coming right up after the break. The Financial Report on abc columbia is presented by Jeffers Mcgill located at 1421 atlas road where the best price, Jeffers Mcgill. Winds die off overnight and temperatures settle down to the mid to upper 20s. Tomorrow, 50 or so. And then it warms up a little thursday. More on friday with some rain especially late in the day. It stays there on saturday in terms of the temneway temperature, anyway. Cools back off this week. Making plans, friday night date is right around when we get the oh. You know. Probably a better date night anyway. Probably work on fridays. I found the perfect date, boxing. A great thing. Couples together. We did it last saturday. Not so much against each other but it is fun