pipe problems are a hot topic right now. >> the colder it gets, the bigger the threat. reporter: pipes expand in your homes could flood when the pipes thought. it is easier to plan ahead then react to the damage done. when temperatures drop below 32, let your faucets drip like this and leave the cabinet doors open to let him warm air. outside your home, you can install a five dollar faucet cover like this one. >> it can be a little aggravating to install, but not as aggravating as having to replace the plumbing or do without water. reporter: you can find it at a home improvement store. if you have a crawlspace, don't forget to close it. garage, remember an open door, even if it is just open enough to let a pat in or out can let enough cold air to freeze the pipes. don't forget to disconnect your garden hose. even your pipes the cold shoulder can put your home and your bank account in hot water. >> these are dire consequences when a pipe freezes. reporter: at 6:00, find out how lingering piles of fall leaves can cause trouble when it comes to frozen pipes. nigel: three churches vandalized within 24 hours of each other. all three churches in southern readable county. first, we went to rocky mile baptist church as they cleaned reporter: since he was born, robert sweeney has been here. this was his church, his sanctuary. >> you might have had a window broken out, but not this extensive damage. reporter: now he sees the silver lining to this vandalism. >> we are happy didn't nobody get hurt, but we are not happy that it happened. it shows we need a lot of prayer. reporter: it was horribly done by a pellet gun. for day care windows destroyed, the plexiglass damaged. two vans with windows all shot out. one of the vans was less than one week old. >> we were using it to pick up kids this week. it picked up kids for two weeks and is out of commission. reporter:: they save a have >> from the human side, i am somewhat disturbed because it happened to god's house. we also hold an operation here, so it has negatively impacted our operations. from a spiritual side, i am forgiving and that is the message i will be sharing with our church family, to forgive. >> we forgive those who did this, but let's get to bed their and do best -- let's get together and do better. gabrielle: bethlehem baptist church also suffered some damage. alon holdings. much the windows this morning. the church is not far from rocky creek. members and staff are wondering who did it and why. >> i have no clue on who would actually go out and shoot up a church. the only thing we are doing here is trying to save souls. gabrielle: she says they are fortunate the pellets only broke the outer pane of the window. nigel: the third church tell for a suffered some damage. they say their church has what looks like what holes in two of their windows. nothing else wasasamage or stolen. -- damaged or stolen. police are investigating. gabrielle: officials say discharged patient stolen ambulance was a paramedic inside. they say it happened after ems crews brought a patient in around 9:00. the person was brought into the hospital. in the paramedic was in the back straightening up when the patient took off. the paramedic was able to get grounds. investigators say the driver now faces charges. tonight, we are hearing from a 21-year-old man who says excessive force by police caused him to lose a tooth. greenville police are investigating. he said he was slammed to the ground while in handcuffs after a possession of marijuana arrest. he was pulled over because of an expired tag. the police order says he refused to cooperate and was cursing at the officer. police say williams was taken to the ground and he said the actions of the officer were wrong and now he needs to have dental work done. >> i'm not asking for a lot, just admit to what they did. i'm not trying to get hundreds of thousands dollars, it is what my dental work to get paid for gabrielle: police say they plan on releasing video of the incident on a later date. nigel: a greenville woman needs your help after she says two of her horses were shot and killed near her home. reporter: one of the employees here told us that one of the horses was killed on christmas eve. they found it just beyond this driveway near a barn. >> its backside was right here. reporter: she is devastated after finding two of her horses dead. this one was named april and her body was found on christmas eve. the other horse was found dead sunday. both horses were shot and appear to have suffered before they died. she said the animals were used for writing lessons and birthday parties. the company has other horses major sources of income, they were family. >> we feel like we have lost children. we patrol the pastors, we patrol the roads, not knowing is the worst part. is it going to be somebody's dog or a drive-by or what? reporter: she says her neighbors also have horses but were not targeted. she says her property is not easy to get to and she is not sure why someone killed her annals. she says they were probably worth around $5,000 each. she has a message for whoever did this and says the kinds of guns he believes the person use, we are putting that story together for you tonight at 6:00. gabrielle: a postmaster and north carolina is apologizing to a homeowner after the homeowner says his yard was repeated the postal drivers cut up the yard multiple times with their vehicles. here is a picture given to us from our sister station in the charlotte area. postal services they will address the problem with employees who deliver mail on that route. nigel: the countdown begins for the national championship. espn is paying a visit to the campus. espn has taken over the parking lot for broadcast. the club is open but as you may guess, the parking lot is packed. gabrielle: william of the refrigerator perry is in the hospital right now. he was in chicago sunday to attend the bears game against the alliance. he went to the hospitata to get doctors checked him and found a leg infection. he was allowed to go to the game under the condition he returned to the hospital after the game. nigel: coming up, three officers involved with the shootout with san bernardino suspects are talking about the incident for the first time gabrielle:. senator ted cruz response to donald trump us criticism about where ted cruz was born. >> all i can say about mr. trump is that he has run a very successful campaign, but he has no chance of winning. nigel: and that's not the only thing senator lindsey graham had to say. coming up, how he says south carolina voters have a real chance to reset the presidential race and the gop. john: pretty good football weather on monday night in glendale, arizona. i will be right back. gabrielle: here's a look at your days after the paris attacks, senators came together for a top-secret briefing on the terrorist threat... marco rubio was missing - fundraising in california instead. two weeks later, terrorists struck again in san bernardino... and where was marco? fundraising again in new orleans. over the last 3 years, rubio has missed important national security hearings and missed more total votes than any other senator. politics first: that's the rubio way. right to rise usa gabrielle: as investigators in san bernardino continue to dig into the terrorist attacks, three deputies are talking about the day they will never forget. they all came face-to-face with the shooters. the husband d wife terrorist team killed 14 innocent people. >> to look around and see all the officers around you, it was an incredible feeling. >> i got home and went to shower >> we are all brothers and wanted to make sure they all get home safe. gabrielle: the investigation into the attack has been massive. north korea is claiming to have conducted a successful hydrogen bomb test. if true, it would mark a significant and dangerous advance for their nuclear program. an early analysis of underground activity is not consistent with their claims. the white house spokesperson says the u.s. government is still learning more about the claims. nigel: senator ted cruz is trying to laugh off from donald trump regarding his canadian birth. in separate interviews, trump suggested his birth in calgary could create obstacles to being eligible to be president. he even told reporters that he he has refused to go for trump publicly throughout the campaign. >> what do you make of donald trump raising questions about your birth? >> i.t. did -- i tweeted out a response about my natural born citizenship. it was a link to fonzie jumping the shark and i think i'm going to let myra's wants say. nigel: legal experts say he qualifies as a natural one citizen to be president. john: you can see the radar, clouds continuing to stream in from the south as expected. the crowds -- the clouds will stream in through saturday. it's not going to be as cold. the clouds will hang with us and start to break up tomorrow afternoon. it is ready outside with the clouds rolling and. this. 43 in anderson. normally, we should be low 50's for highs in the upstate. 45 degrees in franklin. 44 in tekoa. dillard, you are 42. 50 degrees currently in elberton. cold temperatures across the area and this morning, very will wind to speak of. 16 degrees, so way below average, but far from the record was. i will talk about the record highs and lows. humidity levels, much lower in the mountains. temperatures in the south into metro atlanta, currently 44 degrees. high pressure dominates the eastern portion of the country. a batch of snow moving through iowa. almost all of iowa is looking at snow and another storm system out to the west is going to get better organized and bring showers to the phoenix area. if you are traveling out for the tigers game, you will run into showers and this system might even produce thundershowers around phoenix. half of arizona is the southern rockies. a lot of people think of arizona as the desert, but in the mountains, it is snowing. phoenix right now at 59 degrees. they should normally be in the mid-60's. they will be cooler all the way 35 right now in cleveland. 73 in miami and looking pretty nice.. cloudiness from time to time will keep us not as cold. 27 in the mountains, so not too bad. mostly sunny to partly cloudy skies, so that is close to where it should be for this time of year. seasonably chilly with high temperatures in the 40's. here comes the next storm system on friday. mainly on saturday morning, a little milder. a 30% chance of a few showers on sunday. mostly cloudy skies, windy and cold. tuesday with seasonably chilly temperatures and lows in the 20's. congratulations to hazel allen. nigel: coming up, he's the youngest coach to ever win a national football championship in college. >> you don't know how long this has been. >> a few years ago. nigel: wait until you hear who this coach will pull for. that's next at 6:00. nigel: coming up, why single sleep gabrielle:. and the risk for depression may be linked to the age a woman in tonight's four your health... gabrielle: having a twin with cancer could increase a person's chances of getting the disease in the future. researchers followed a large twins for over three decades and found that well above the third of those people developed cancer. those who did develop from the same heart lies day and about a quarter of those fertilized from two that had the same cancer a new study suggests people who suffer from heart failure with preserved ejection fraction may benefit some diet and exercise. it is more common among those who are overweight or overseas -- or obese. it's recocoend to diet and exercise for a. of five months. -- for five months. the risk for depression may be linked to the age a woman goes through menopause. researchers analyzed several studies represeseing a large group of women and found a longer reproductive time at age 40 world are decreased a woman's risk or depression. it is believed longer exposure to the disease. chances are you are a single parent. especially a single mom. 43% of single parent say they don't get at least seven hours of sleep each night and wasn't half of single mothers have trouble falling and staying asleep. they tend to wake up and not feel rested. sleep experts suggest avoiding electronic devices close to bedtime to get a better night's sleep. >> a trump nomination could be the end of the republican party as we know it. gabrielle: we ask people what a would do if they win one of thee biggest powerball jack hot in nigel: coming up, my one-on-one with senator lindsey graham.m. what he had to say but has decision to run out of touch to drop out of the presidential race and his comments about the trunk. gabrielle: and what delivering the response to president obama state of the union could mean for making really on the john: national stage. john:there is downtown greenville in the background. mid to high level clouds moving in pretty quickly. tonight. announcer: you are watching live local breaking news. this is wyff news 4 at 5:00 in high definition. nigel: let's talk weather first off. here's a live look at greenville . look at the traffic on 385. look how backed up it is and then going southbound, it's almost a standstill. gabrielle: certainly something to keep in mind if you are headed that way tonight. but let's talk about the weather. it has been a very winterlike day. any warm-ups on the way? john: it is hard to use the word running about five or six degrees below average for this time of year. in the teens on average in the mountains and warmed up only into the 40's. only reach the upper 30's in boone. 41 in asheville. 41 in spartanburg. 43 in anderson. normally, the high temperature is in the low 50's this time of year. you can see how much colder it is, but not as cold tonight and then the storm system arrives. nigel: for the first time since suspending his campaign, senator lindsey graham sat down and talked about his future with the presidential race. front-runner, donald trump.