Predicts americans will spend a record amount on the holiday of love this year. Nearly 20 billion. Almost 2 billion of that on flowers. Another 1. 8 billion on candy, and even more on jewelry and going on that special evening. Much of that spending has moved to the internet. 28 of americans will shop online, an increase of nearly 12 since 2010. And consumers are also going mobile. More than 17 plan to use their phone to shop for valentines day. But how we celebrate is also changing, and its not just chocolate and roses. While the percentage of americans buying candy has remained relatively stable over the last decade, the number of consumers buying greeting cards has fallen off nearly 15 and the number buying clothing has increased by more than 5 . Many couples now celebrate the couple with a night out, which may include dinner to a restaurant or tickets to a show. 30 years ago, jim mccann was a what that term meant. He changed the name of his flower stores to a 1800 number. Today he l
North carolina. Madison county, north buncombe county area. Overnight, it is coming down over North Carolina. Sleet and potential of freezing rain over parts of the upstate. It continues through the day. Most of the snow will be in the mountains. We will get sleet, freezing rain potential in some spots in the upstate continuing into monday morning. We will be watching this closely and giving you more updates throughout the morning. Stay with us. Geoff turning to commitment 2016 this morning, the six remaining republican candidates for president all took the stage in South Carolina. Allyson the group squared of at the peace center in Downtown Greenville. Myra ruiz followed the debate. Myra there were big jobs in that the remaining six candidates took the stage last night in the cbs news debate in Downtown Greenville at the peace center. Last night was a verbal brawl candidates. Jeb bush i am sick and tired of him going after my family. My dad is the greatest man alive in my mind. [appla
That system near the coast pulls away. We are in the mid50s in greenville today. Quite nice, plenty of sunshine through the day. Becoming when the, and the same goes in the mountains were temperatures today are in the upper 40s. That is the warmest you will feel for several days. We will talk about the timing of snow, rain, and bitterly cold air that is yet to come in for the upcoming week. I will like about that in a bit. Myra Super Bowl Weekend is here. Kick off is a little over 18 hours from now. Allyson the panthers will be getting ready to take the field in california. To fight for the title of super bowl 50 champs. All their hard work leads up to this one moment. It seemed like nothing more than a formality. And it became official last night. Panthers quarterback cam newton is the nfl mvp. He guided carolina to a 15and1 regular season record. Newton won the award in a landslide. Receiving 48 of the possible 50 votes. Panthers coach ron rivera picked up the coach of the year award
Allyson the gop primary for South Carolina is over, trump wins but theres one less candidate in the race for the white house. Geoff we have your results from the gop primary, but first, lets take a look at the weather. We have a dense fog advisory. Pamela we do. I think we will see its think down into the upstate as well. The advisory is telling you widespread visibility is one quarter mile or less. We have rdc not across the area this morning. We will anticipate that until 10 00. The advisory is up for polk and rutherford counties and extending over to charlotte and up towards greensboro. It is quite foggy over the upstate. The moisture continues to increase. The temperatures have gone down enough that they are mashed up with the dew point temperature. Were seeing the moisture i expected to stay sick. Here we are mainly in the 50s in the upstate. We will make it into the 60s by 11 00. Very mild, even though we will have a lot of clouds around. Big changes for the work week. I will sho
Tapping into the gulf of mexico, that will increase our moisture in the coming days. We will look at our brain chances, but right now, i temperatures. A lot of sunshine, temps in the mid60s. We will warm up a good 30 degrees, or more. Spartanburg, 34 by 9 00 and in the low 60s this afternoon. You get a bonus february day tomorrow. We will check that out and see how march is going to march an in. Myra thank you. We go now to Greenville County, where rescue crews have spent the night searching for a missing 12yearold boy in jones gap state park. Greenville county deputies are searching for john quay, investigators say he was hiking he was missing during a head count. That was yesterday afternoon. Crews have spent the night searching for the boy on the ground and by helicopter. As everybody else is right now concerned about safety our , main focus is to try and find him as quickly as possible. Myra crews are also concerned search. If you see quay, or can help authorities find him you are