Meteorologist john cessarich. This is wyff news 4 at 5 00 in high definition. Nigel more commitment 2016 coverage now, and more from that oneonone with current gop frontrunner donald trump. Carol wyff news 4s Patrick Hussion spent a lot of time with the real estate mogul this afternoon, and hes here now. Patrick . Patrick before leaving today, trump told us to be on the lookout for a new poll. And sure enough, that cnnorc poll has trump with a 16 point lead over ted cruz. We talked about that and much more today. In his first stop at the popular tommys ham house, donald trump made a quick stop before heading over here, where we talked about his campaign heading into the South Carolina primary on saturday. Look. Its politics. I understand. And ive only been a politician since june 16. Im almost embarrassed to say im a politician. But i guess thats what i am. Patrick has the transformation taken place . Its a big patrick behind him in the South Carolina polls is senator ted cruz, and on
And 50s for the upstate. We will talk about bad weather in just a few minutes. Allyson thank you. Taking a look at the roads. If you are driving, be careful. Highway 441 is closed due to snow and ice. You are taking a look at i85 around white horse road in the area. Everything looking good. We do have downed power lines. West washington is closed with issues from the storm yesterday around the greenville Water Treatment building. However lines down in Travelers Rest at Ebenezer Church road and old white horse road, so watch for those. An accident with injuries on ballard road near cherokee road in Anderson County, so be careful as you head out the door. 385 the speed limit drive that still some debris in the road. I have been 385, looking good. Our Hilton Greenville skycam geoff the wind was something yesterday. They battered our area and took down power lines and disable traffic lights. Allyson wyff news 4s aly myles with a look at some of the damage live from west main street in spar
Bit of snow in Cherokee County and Graham County and swing county swain county. The areas in pink are under a winter storm warning through thursday. It will come down tonight continuing through tuesday, wednesday. Asheville will see a little bit of snow. So will southern Jackson County and macon county, but it will be the Higher Elevations in North Carolina that will bear the brunt of this particular storm. There will be more closings and delays the next couple of mornings. 20s this morning in the mountains will climb to the low 40s. The upstate will climb to the upper 40s for the afternoon today. That is what is going on early. We will have more on this upcoming Winter Weather event throughout the morning. Allyson thank you. Patrick Peyton Manning with a big broncos victory yesterday but it was defense, defense, and more defense, in the panthers cannot overcome. Allyson they still have a season to be proud of. Geoff hart joins us live this morning from levis stadium the morning after.
As we look at from our woodruff road skycam, no precipitation showing in the upstate, but we expect it late morning into the afternoon. We have a taxi weather covers going on this morning. We will go to meteorologist chris justus in just a minute. As we take a look at the woodruff road skycam, nothing upstate. The mountains of North Carolina getting some snow. Have your snow where it shows blue on the screen. Knoxville is getting heavier snow. The entire area under an advisory of some sort. Freezing rain advisories for the upstate. Aviation advisories for greenville and spartanburg so check on your flights. Winter storm watches out for the mountains of North Carolina. Lets go to chris and get an chris we are watching for the west. The air is way too dry. We are watching this slug of alabama. It changes from rain to freezing rain. That is the concern today. It is the freezing rain. Impacted. There is going to be a wedge of cold air that sets up about like that. The low pressure system t
Studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Tuesday morning. Im savannah guthrie. This morning. The battle between apple and the government got more interesting. One of the Founding Fathers of silicon valley, bill gates, came out on the side of the government against apple. Weve seen titans line up on different times. Sides. Our top story is politics. Todays nevada gop caucus and, of course, next weeks super tuesday contest are looming large for both parties. Lets start with nbc National Correspondent peter alexander. Good morning. Good morning to you from here on the vegas strip. Donald trump is in the drivers seat in the race and, yet, his rivals have barely touched him. Today will pit trump against the son of the city, marco rubio, has more family here than in miami. Cruz is looking to sneak in second. Reporter its starting to sound like its vegas act. Trump, the inevitable. We have a big lead and dont want to blow it. We have to go all the way. Reporter venting his anger against