3 mostly cloudy today with a slight chance for a morning shower. Highs reach the mid 60s in the upstate and upper 50s in the mountains. A Flood Warning remains in place for the french broad, enoree, saluda, and broad rivers until this weekend. Slow clearing begins this afternoon and lows drop into the 30s and 40s. Dry, seasonably cool weather begins the new year and lasts through the weekend. 3 wrap up 3 hold hold were watching this in the Pit Crew Traffic Center. Southgate dr sc hwy 295deer accidentS Church St Ext north st styou are looking live at 3 the countdown is almost over the countdown 3 the countdown is almost over not for the new year but for the orange bowl this afternoon clemson faces oklahoma in the orange bowl a win today puts them in the National Championship game. Game. Sports director Aaron Cheslock is live in Fort Lauderdale 3 yeah, maybe the most remarkable thing about the tigers undefeated season so far is the fact they played 10 straight games to clinch their spot in the cfp. Cfp. 3 after a few practices down tigers say they finally have their legs back under them. The defense certainly showing it in the last couple games. Giving up 27 or more in three of their last four games. Theyll be taking another highpowered offense later this afternoon in ou. A team thats scored 50 or more in five of their last seven matchups. But head coach dabo swinney says after watching his team this week. Theyre revamped. Revitalized. Ready to roll. 3 3 3 3 3 i think were really really healthy were in great shape physically. Were gonna be a fast football team, i like where we are as far as our injury report. But i cant really quantify it. I know we that just you kind of go. You dont really worry about it. You just get ready for the next game and you do the best you can. But it certainly has been great having some time off, these guys getting their legs and i think weve practiced really smart, the guys feel good about the plan, now weve just got to go execute it. It. The tigers will however be without wideout deon cain. 1 of3 players suspended for the rest of the season for 3 now most expect this game to turn into a shootout. Which quarterbacks. Deshaun watson and baker mayfield. Coming up well take a look at the showdown between the two signal callers. 3 3 3 its also new years eve and if youre a mom or dad who wants to celebrate without keeping the kids uptheres a party just for you. You. Ashley minelli is live at the well this morning on the ice where they are counting down to the noon year. 3 chance for kids, families to enjoy new year. Without busting bedtimes bedtimes3 kids enjoy skating on the ice noisemakers to count down noon years eve also the last day to enjoy skating on the big ice 3 5 kids 6 and under 7 ages 7 bring your own for no rental fee 3 countdown begins at 10 this morning. Skating continues until 2 this afternoon 3 3 3 3 this morning many in greenwood are feeling the impact of all the rain weve seen seenemergency management workers says at least six families were evacuated from their homes in the wilson creek Mobile Home Park roads were washed out and some cars submerged under water. The us 25 bypass at burgess drive was closed because of flooding. And in 96 a man and two passengers were swept away in their car on paysinger road and had to be rescued by 3 3 3 i have a wife and a daughter and i cant get to them right now and it kind of scares me. To get to them, i mean it would be nice if i could go back there and get them, but it cant. Cant. I started rolling and the water started pushing the car sideways and into the creek and next think you known the car started filling up so we all crawled up on the top of the roof and we called for help. 3 both the phoenix and 96 Fire Departments responded to that rescue and all three people are okay. 3 and the midwest is also dealing with dangerous flooding. In missouri they are using sandbags to keep lanes open on interstate55. Rivers in the area also experiences historic flooding. The Us Army Corps of engineers says flooded water has spilled over nine federal levees in the saint louis area. 3 time for weather and traffic every 10 minutes with nicole. 3 mostly cloudy today with a slight chance for a morning shower. Highs reach the mid 50s in the mountains. A Flood Warning remains in place for the french broad, enoree, saluda, and broad rivers until this weekend. Slow clearing begins this afternoon and lows drop into the 30s and 40s. Dry, seasonably cool weather begins the new year and lasts through the weekend. 3 3 now to chris with traffic. 3 hold hold 3 were watching this southgate dr sc hwy 295deer accidentS Church St Ext north st st 3 youre taking a live look at 3 3 its. Coming up, the day bill cosby in court facing criminal charges. Whats next for the actor. 3 we head to break with a live look at. Uscupstateyoure watching the morning news on fox carolina. With the help of Comfort Keepers, im keeping my mom healthy im keeping dad on schedule. Im keeping my mom happy Comfort Keepers inhome professional caregivers can provide meal planning and preparation, health and Wellness Services and personal Care Services through custom care plans that can change as needs change, so your aging loved ones can 3 welcome back to the morning news on fox carolinawere taking a live look at. Downtown greenville. Countdown to noon years. At the well 3 3 covering our counties were hearing from a greenville mother who is searching for answers after her son was shot over christmas weekend. 3 3 trella hills son Marquavious Mcgrath was shot christmas night while out with friends and family in greenville. She says her son tried to get away from fighting that spilled out of a club and into a nearby waffle househills son was shot in his neck but remarkably survived. 3 3 3 luck is not the word. The he has never seen anyone survive without paralyzation or death. My son has neither one. One. Greenville police are investigating what happened anyone with information is asked to call crimestoppers at 23crime. 3 firefighters say they now know what caused a fire at an apartment in spartanburg county. 3 they Say Something was left on the stove at the Duncan Village apartments on wednesday. Firefighters say a woman who lives there was taking a nap but woke up when someone knocked on her door because of the smoke. They say one apartment was seriously damaged the red cross is helping that family. And one person was also taken to the hospital for smoke inhalation. 3 3 bill cosby once tvs most beloved dad is out on a Million Dollar bond this morning after being charged with a sex crime. Crime. Cosby was charged on wednesday in pennsylvania with a felony count of aggravated indecent assault. The alleged incident happened in 2004. The case marks the first time cosby has been charged with Sexual Misconduct despite years of allegations 3 us fugitive ethan couch is being transported to a larger immigration facility in mexico city. 3 Mexicos National Immigration Institute says the affluenza teen will be held in the Nations Capital during a judges temporary injunction that has delayed his deportation to the us. Authorities say the 18yearold who used affluenza as a defense in a fatal drunkdriving wreck fled with his mother to puerto vallarta. \couchs mother is now back in the us. 3 time for traffic and weather every ten minutes. 3 mostly cloudy today with a slight chance for a morning shower. Highs reach the mid 60s in the upstate and upper 50s in the mountains. A Flood Warning remains in place for the french broad, enoree, this weekend. Slow clearing begins this afternoon and lows drop into the 30s and 40s. Dry, seasonably cool weather begins the new year and lasts through the weekend, with highs in the 50s, and lows near freezing. Next week begins with sunshine in the 50s on monday and tuesday, but another round of rain could come lateweek. Mostly cloudy today with a slight chance for a morning shower. Highs reach the mid60s in the upstate and upper 50s in the mountains. A Flood Warning remains in place for the french broad, enoree, this weekend. Slow clearing begins this afternoon and lows drop into the 30s and 40s. Dry, seasonably cool weather begins the new year and lasts through the weekend, with highs in the 50s, and lows near freezing. Next week begins with sunshine in the 50s on monday and tuesday, but another round of rain could come lateweek. 3 now to chris 3 now to chris with traffic. 3 hold hold 3 were watching this southgate dr sc hwy 295deer accidentS Church St Ext north st st 3 3 youre looking live atpit crew traffic 3 sponsored by Kevin Whitaker chevrolet cadillac 3 3 time for news you need to know. All new years eve festivities in brussels, belgium have been cancelled after the arrest of two suspected terrorists. Authorities say the men were planning an attack inspired by isis but not directly 3 the friend of the San Bernardino shooters has been indicted on several charges. Enrique marquez is accused of conspiring and supplying firearms. He has not entered a plea. 3 authorities are trying to find the thief responsible for stealing tools from rebuild upstate the charity helps the disabled and elderly. The charity says they finished 120 projects this year. But dont know how to complete the other projects with their now minimal amount of tools. 3 we head to break with a live look at. Greenville county. Pelham road youre watching the morning news on fox carolina. 3 youre watching the morning 3 welcome back to the morning news on fox carolinawere taking a live look at. Clemson 3 Carolina Panthers star quarterback cam newton is sharing some big news. The dab daddy is now a real daddy daddy the proud father announced the birth of his son on social media wednesday saying quote my longtime girlfriend and i were son last week. Our family is excited and thank you all for the well wishes end quote. Newton said he had been keeping quiet about the news because he didnt want to create a distraction for the team and enjoy his privacy during this joyous time. 3 now to weather with nicole 3 mostly cloudy today with a shower. Highs reach the mid 60s in the upstate and upper 50s in the mountains. A Flood Warning remains in place for the french broad, enoree, saluda, and broad rivers until this weekend. Slow clearing begins this afternoon and lows drop into the 30s and 40s. Dry, seasonably cool weather begins the new year and lasts through the weekend. 3 weather hit 3 chris is in the traffic center. 3 hold hold were watching this 3 3 youre looking live at 3 its. Coming up, the orange bowl in miami kicksoff today. And if youre wanting to buy some gear watch out for fakes well explain coming up, 3 we head to break with a live look at. Greer. Wade hapmton at south buncombe road youre watching the morning news on fox carolina. After trying brookside crunchy clusters, carlybeyar tweeted at this point, i should just be a brookside chocolate ambassador. Well, i am sorry, carly. Its something you earn. Brookside. 3 the morning news at 5 30 starts now. Now. 3 thursday will peak in the mid 50s and mid40s under gradually clearing skies. Look to see dry conditions as the new year approaches. Approaches. 3 we only have a few hours left until the end of 2015. Im live in Downtown Greenville with how you can participate in a family fun event. 3 3 clemson fans . . Are you ready . . Today is game dayim live in south florida with all 3 good morning. Its thursday, december 31im lauren elisewith traffic reporter chris scott and meteorologist nicole papay. Thanks for joining us on the 3 mostly cloudy today with a slight chance for a morning shower. Highs reach the mid 60s in the upstate and upper 50s in the mountains. A Flood Warning remains in place for the french broad, enoree, saluda, and broad rivers until this weekend. Slow clearing begins this afternoon and lows drop into the 30s and 40s. Dry, seasonably cool weather begins the new year and lasts through the weekend. 3 lets send it over to chris. 3 hold hold were watching this in the Pit Crew Traffic CenterS Church St Ext north stgreenwood collision callison hwy w. County line rd 3 3 youre looking live at 3 happening now we are hours away from kickoff in miami the Clemson Tigers will face the oklahoma sooners soonerssports director Aaron Cheslock joins us live from south florida where hes been all week week 3 watson versus mayfield. The orange bowl matchup between the tigers and sooners sets up as a shootout. With two of the most prolific passers in off. A showdown between 3 the signalcallers with tigers heisman finalist Deshaun Watsons coming in as hot as anyone in the country. More than 35hundred passing yards. More than 800 on the ground. Coming off a record breaking acc championship performance. Then theres mayfield, whos a duel threat out of the backfield too. Leading the ou offense to the top of the big12. Which is full of good offenses. You just have to look at the statsheet when comparing the two. Completion percentage . Watsons 3rd, mayfields 7th. Passing touchdowns. Mayfields 6th, watsons 9th. And total quarterback rating . 3rd to 8th in favor of watson. Two of the countries best, the winner goes to the National Championship. 3 3 3 3 3 theyre very similar in that regard in that theyre both great creators with the ball in their hand, but mayfield is, hes a tough guy. I mean hes not a very big guy. But he is strong, especially with his lower body. Really difficult to tackle, you see a lot of people that you think have him. But they dont have and you cant cover guys 3forever. Forever. 3 3 people obviously thought i wasnt good enough to get an invite to new york. So im going to go out there and try to be great for our team and try to help them win. Win. Watson of course a heisman finalist. Mayfield using that as motivation heading into this one. And again, we just mentioned the stats. The ou quarterbacks got a case. 3 but its not the only great matchup in this one. In fact we can look forward to a really good one on the outside between clemson corner Mackensie Alexander and oklahoma wide out sterling shepard. Coming up, what alexander said to set social media on fire. Epic trash talk coming your way. 3 3 3 for fans in miami the collegiate Licensing Company is warning about fake merchandise. The clc says they will be patrolling shopping areas in miami for counterfeit products. If you shop online here are some tips to make sure youre getting the real deal. 3 officially licensed products should have a collegiate product hologram should also showclemson, oklahoma, or orange bowl. Trademarks. Trademarks. The tags on the clothing should be intact. Intact. The manufacturers name should be on the product. 3 3 as we get ready for the big countdown to midnight. Theres another countdown that your kids wont want to miss missfox carolinas Ashley Minelli is live at the well this morning. Where ashley theres a big party at 12. Noon 3 chance for kids, families to enjoy new year. Without busting bedtimes bedtimes kids enjoy skating on the ice noisemakers to count down noon years eve also the last day to enjoy skating on the big ice 3 5 kids 6 and under 7 ages 7 and up 3 to rent skates or bring your own for no rental fee countdown begins at 10 this mornini. Skating continues until 2 this afternoon 3 3 3 time for weather and traffic every 10 minutes. 3 mostly cloudy today with a slight chance for a morning shower. Highs reach the mid 60s in the upstate and upper 50s in the mountains. A flood the french broad, enoree, saluda, and broad rivers until this weekend. Slow clearing begins this afternoon and lows drop into the 30s and 40s. Dry, seasonably cool weather begins the new year and lasts through the weekend. 3 weather hit 3 now to chris with traffic. 3 hold hold 3 were watching this in the Pit Crew Traffic Center north st collision callison hwy 3 3 you are taking a live look at 3 3 its. One little girl in our area is giving back this year to kids in need. Well 3 we head to break with a live look at. The big apple. Time square. Nye. Ball drop. Youre watching the morning news on fox carolina. 3 welcome back to the morning news on fox carolinawere taking a live look a a. Ab tech 3 3 the family of a Greenville County man who was killed wednesday morning is asking for help from the community. Community. Troopers say 51 year old Ronnie Follett was crossing white horse road at highway 253 around 1 30 when he was hit by two cars. According to investigators the second vehicle stopped but the first one kept driving. Were told follett died about ten minutes after being hit now his family is hoping drivers in the area saw something. 3 3 its awful, that this is how he went out knowing the way he person had stopped. He was another human being, everyone deserves that kindness. And for them just to keep riding, you know you hit something. Theres no way you didnt know you hit something. Something. Troopers say theyre looking for a red or maroon colored suv possibly a dodge and it could have front end or drivers side damage. Call Highway Patrol if you have any information. 3 buncombe county deputies need your help finding a missing teen. Were told Jessica Crawford is fifteen years old and from black mountain. Shes described as five feet tal