Chris when we analyze these storms, we look for the temperature and that is the mains thunderstorms. Since midnight, we have gone fr lower 50s to lower 60s and at the 70s back toward elbertonps give fuel to the thunderstorms. Back toward the west, the lines set upe have Severe Threat index at a four out of the 10 with flooding being our mainwe are also watching for spidey wind damage. The timeframe is in now from 2 00. That quote move in through lunchtime. The robust line of storms moves into north georgia by 8 30 and pushing down to the mountains in counties and into Greenville County between 9 00 andthis line could produce gusty after that, but that fy wind to heavy rainfall and it continues through the heavy afternoon hours. Around two inches to three inches. We will detail how mso thank you. Happening today, the biggest day of tr some college athletes. Patrick these guys are hoping to get to the super bowl monday. Across the car georgia, High School Athletes will sta signing letters of intent to play College Sports and there are a couple of big athletes set to anallyson that signing day took her is runnie bottom of the screen along with traffiwe have seen aly myles about the morning and i think shheaded talberts county. She was showing us the conditions, but there e area. At the base a number two us guys o across the nation. Patrick he is looking at we will go to aly aly we are live in front of Elbert County high school. We drove from grnv around 3 30 and i dont know if you can hear it, but there is a lot of wind. We didnt pass a whole lot of rain tfor the most part, a pretty dry day. It is a good thing because a lot of folks want to stay dry in accounting when they will be here deal. Signing letters of intent all across the country. One of the biggest names in the country is righte at this high school, or the topratedathlete hardman has played football. He is choosing from a long list of schools, including clemson, you g8 and he will announce at a 30. He has quite the list to choose from. The number one prospect in the nation, gray sean carey from new clemson could ben his list. His announcement expected after1 00 this afternoon. Aly myles wyff news 4. Allyson thank you. We will keep you updated. Hundreds of athletes are signing national lenders, so stay tuned to our mobile app and a facebook for uptotheminute updates. Abt into push notifications to find out immediatepatrick to commitment 2016, senator ted cruz back in new hamp votes in next weeks primary, following his win in iowa, but he wanted to remind south carolinians that their turn is coming. Thousands packed the t. D. Conven he then spoke with wyff news 4s nigel robertson. When you look at the history of the r iowa, how did you do it . The grass roots. We had a great coming together. We had an incredib of pastors, republican women, young people, college students, of Small Business owners, of people just passionate to turn ou patrick the primary there is tuesday, february 9. South caroli february 20, followed by the democrats primary on the 27. Allyson ted cruz has an endorsement from congressman duncan. He says he is throwing his support behind ted cruzmeanwhile, a different candidate getting support from sender tim scott who is endorsing marco rubio. If youre curious how many delegates can win during thewen on www. Wyff4. Com and the mobile app. We have a delegate tracker as taking it easy to know who was winning. Patrick turning now to the super bowl. While it was a carnival atmosphere, as it usually is, for media night, it is time to get down to business have the latest from levi stadium. Brad there is certainly a lot to do in trthis stretches from San Francisco down to san jose, but the carolina panthsa tripma. M somea have said that the mediar oblc they have opening that come monday, press day, but they say this is a business we are here for one reason and that is to win a ballgame. We are not here to go down to san fran and party. Nobody has been down to san fran. Y understands that we are here to win the game. We came out here like it is a vacation and get our butts whoop anything. Nobody remembers who went to the super bowl and lost. Marc it is clear that they dont want their season to end like that. O something that no team has done in charlotte and that is bring ba lots of coverage ahead. Follow us on twitter, facebook and online throughou thank you. We will have a preview of the big game live from california just a few d geoff hart will join them or a special called chasing a championship at 8 00 friday night. Allyson taking a look at the roads, i80 five around highway 101 with traffic picking up. It is went on some roadways. Traffi on woodruff road and darlington road. An accident in greenhighway 221. Two areas to lockout four. Construction in Anderson County toward pendleton. The right lane of highway 76 looking at slowmoving traffic throughout the week. 26 and 40, 385 and 85 all looking good. Back to you. Patrick thank you. Dale joins us again and were looking at kerrys views. A lot of rain drops on the it will be a wet and windy day. Warm, too, unusual for this time of the yeareleases out of the south that 17 in greenville. Breezes out of the saw that 17 in greenville. More rain to come. Lets take a look at live super doppler 4 hd from the south. As you can see, some of the heaviest rain entering western h carolina, cherokee, graham, heavy downpours, frequent lightning in noa and there are flash flood watches out for northeastern georgia, western t short period of areas leadg to flash flooding, so if you live in flood prone areas, watch out for that potential today. We have tag coverage with meteorologiss justus in to give us an idea of what kind ofsee coming through. Chris we are watching that line back towards the west. It had a lot of lightning and that could be an indication of how potent a thunderstok at primarily the lightning with the line of storms approaching the atlanta area and turning more into a rain event. We had about 80 lightning strikes 30 m and now we have eight. We will watch that trend, but threats remain the same wi being the highest right the Morning Hours and the strongwind team second. We will be watching that isolated torna threat. Sometimes you can get that with line and it can rotate a little bit. We are talking about wind gust. We hav watch for asheville and hendersonville, oconee, pickens, salem, walhalla, anderson with upwards of one inch in about two hours. Flooding being the cy rain moves in the lunchtime. Allyson the South Carolina senate cannot wait to start live, locaws with geoff hart, lbert. Allyson georgia has executed its oldest to throw in may. The state department of corrections says 72yearold Brandon Astor jones was pronounced dead just before 1 00 jones was convicte shooting death of suburban atlanta store manager Roger Tackett during a robbery. Another man was also convicted and executed in 1985 in connection to the case. Patrick after trying to speed a roads bill to the senate floor, state senators are now hitting the brakes on a plan to get more money to South Carolinas highways. The Senate President pro tem told the finance committee on tuesday he wants to bring in the dot and the state Infrastructure Bank to tell the panel what they do. That would push the debate on the senate floor about how to raise more money for roads, cut to at least feb. 16. Allyson here is the question you may have n asked . Can you travel on the plane at the potb paid and do it for free . That is what the today show investigation is about. More on that, coming up. Now, your live super doppler 4 hd fordale good morning. We have had rain in laurens. 64 degrees and light rain in this time of the morning. Isnt that crazy . Breeze out of the south at 14 with stronger gusts, especially in theaihe have stronger downpours of rain as from tennessee back into georgia. From knoxville oblique to canton , it is really coming down in the mountains of georgia. South carolina, North Carolina and georgied rain and Higher Elevation counties and georgia, northern, greenville, pickens with a Higher Elevation and quicker not occurring. That is where we could see heavy downpours of rain in a short flash flooding. We are seeing rain now and heavier rain working into the upstate and mouns by 9 30 and 10 00 with pretty good thunderstormthis continues until work its way eastward. By 4 00 this afternoon, still some prettn not carolina, spotty across the upstate and more so south of i85 and clears out later this afternoon and evening. We have nice and sunny weather to look forward to for thursday, friday, saturday and sunday and temperatures get back to where we typthtemperatures right now looking like 58 in asheville, 63 in greenville, 71 in elberton and we will reach upper 60s for the upstate and low 60s for the mountawindy conditions will be the story today. That will be at weather maker. We will be watching for the potential of severe through early afternthe hind it, cooler temperatures are back in time for the weekend. Friday you will need the warm coat. 60s this morning and 20s and 30s by friday morning. Upper 60s, 60 six or better for the upstate this afternoon. Low 60s for highs in the mountains and dry weather for thursday through sunday. Make plans outdoors this weekend but plan on it be Morning Hours. Allyson taking a look at the roads, i85 around highway 101 is pretty muwe are looking at the wet roads, so be careful out th accidents for you in Anderson County at hidden code circle and old ss drive. Also one in greenwood on highway 221. A couple of traffic lights out on woodruff road. Miller road and darlington road gton 10road causing a slow down. Expect a little bit of a delay. 85 not delayed this morning. 11 minutm i385 tally 153. Lets see how it looks from our woodruff camera. Patrick thank you. In Greenville County, the coroner has identified the man killed after his dump truck overturned. Alvin toney of greer died yester of mckittrick and augusta roads. Toney was wearing a seatbelt. An autopsy will be performed to today to determine if a medical condition played a part in the crash. Now, to continuing coverage of the tucker hipps case. A judg lawsuits involving the clemson students death for efficiency and convenience. Tucker was 19 wh he died during a fraternity run in september 2014. His parents say he was forced to walk along a narrow bridge railing over lake hartwell. Each lawsuit filed by hipps three members of sigma phi epsilon, the national and local chapters of the fraternity, and clemson university. All defend responsibility for hipps death. Allyson an update now out of hawaii in the search of a missing upstate marine and his crew. Two military helicopte crashed off the coast of honolulu last month. Sergeant jeffrey sampler up woodruff was one of the marines missing. Dna traces were found during Search Operations that ended two weeks ago. S were notified and the cause remains under investig today is National Signing day and their big announcements today of where they will go to college, including highly ranathlete in the upstate. Coming u again again again again . Again again General Mills is removing artificial flavors and colors from our cereals. So you can love cereal. Again this morning on today. An interesting investig allyson this morning on today, an interesting people abusing the system to fly pets for free . Patrick jeff s are registering all kinds of pets as Service Animals and decides to try it out himself. First, flying with a dog. Now, were going to ramp this up big time. This is my producer lindsey and you are certifying a different sort of animal. What kind . I filled out all the same forms and certified an emotional support pig. An emotional support pig . A pig. Did you have to meet anybody . Did anybody call you . It was all online. Same as with the dog. Exact thing. Alright, so youre going to fly with a pig . Sure am. Patrick tune in to today starting at 7 00 a. M. To see what happens. Allyson an emotional support pig. Patrick i left my net home this morning. Did you . Youll need extra emotional supporhow about you, theyll . Dale . Dale good, even without the pig. Heavier rain on the way. There are watches upper parts of georgia, flash flood watches for the mountains for the downpours with already creeks and streams full could lead to locaat the bus stops, temperatures mild in the 60s. For the upstate, upper 60s for the aftetake rain gear because scattered showers are expect in the clearing up later this aftetodays School Salute goes out to brashier middle college. Last week was spirit week and they raised more than 18,000 for ablesc, an organization that supports independent living for people with disabilities. They say they had a lot of fun helping the cause. We salute you today. Allyson it is now time for your timeline on this february 3. On this day in 1959, it will forever be known as the day the buddy holly, ritchie valens, and the big bopper, j. P. Richardson died in a plane crash. Patrick the plane went down in a snow storm shortly after take from classic to contemporary, havertys. In this mornings headlines. Were watching for severe patrick we are watching for severe look at our woodruff road skycam where there is rain. Scdot cameras near highway 101. He will have the traffic report comifirst, chris justus is in this morning with dale gilbert, tag teaming it. Patrick the attack team in Severe Weather and lets start with dale. What are we seeing . Dale we have had rain all night an front that is working its way to the carolinas. Alrey impacting western North Carolina and parts of western georgia with heavier downpours. The system has the potential to create flash floodd bring windy conditions to the area. Chris justus has been doing some evaluation and gives us an idea could experience today. Chris we are watching a couple of thingthe temperature being the main thing. We have a Severe Threat index at last flooding and spotty wind damage. The timeframe is around until 2 00 p. M. Earlier around midnight, we were in the 50s and e warmed to the lower 60s. The 70s toward elberton. The more warmth is more fuel for storms. Back toward the west in atlanta, this could have gusty wind. That will be favored for areas south of i85. Look at how this latest computer model to picks picture by 9 00 with heavier lines moving into the asheville area, down toward henbetween 9 00 and 11 00, the line moves into Pickens County, Oconee County and for greenville and spartanburg, around 11 00. The windown threat goes up. Heavy rainfall until 2 00 or 3 00 and that increases are creeks could spell their banwe are talking about as much as two we will show you how much you could allyson thank you. Happening today, the biggest day of the of fote also some of the biggest days for colleges who get the athletes. They will start signing letters of intent to play College Sports. We have a signing day take a remnant the bottom of your screen, along with traffic ao have wyff news 4s aly myles joins us live from Elbert County high school in georgia. Aly a whole lot of the excitement but not a l greenville this morning. Didnt see much on the drive, but you can probably tell from my head that it is extremely it is a good thing letters of intentl be signed indoors today. One of the biggest names in the nation will make his intent known at elberh this is where the top rated athlete mecole hardman, has played football. He is choosing from clemson and you g8 and hell announce at 8 30 this morning and has quite from. The number one prospect in the nation, rashan gary from new jersey, also has yet to commit. Clemson could be on his list. After 1 00 this afternoon. Aly myles wyff news 4. Allyson thanks, aly. Were going to keep you updated throughout the day as hundreds of athletes around the upstate sign National Letters of intent. Stay tuned to our wyff 4 mobile app and Facebook Page for uptheminute updates all day long. Be sure to opt into push notifications from our app to find out immediately about all the big decisions. Patrick to commitment 2016 now, senator ted cruz back in New Hampshire lobbying for votes in next weeks primary following his win in iowa, but not before their turn is coming. Thousands packed the t. D. Convention center in greenville. He then spoke with wyff news 4s nigel robertson. Nigel as senator, did you unite the party . Ted cruz well, it depends where you look. If you look at the american people, absolutely, yes. Listen, ive said many times, the biggest divide weve got in politics is not between democrats and republicans. The biggest divide we have is between career politicians in washington in both parties. Patrick the New Hampshire primary is next tuesday. Then comes South Carolinas gop debate on february 13 in greenville. Thats followed by the gop primary february 20 and the democrats primary on the 27. Allyson cruz now has an upstate endorsement following his visit to greenville. Congressman jeff duncan says hes throwing his support behind cruz. Meanwhile, a different candidate has the support of a u. S. Senator from South Carolina. President ial race. If youre curious how many delegates candidates can win during this primary season, we have that information for you on wyff4. Com and the wyff 4 mobile app, and we have a delegate tracker on there, making it easy to know whos winning how many. Check it out in the media window patrick turning now to the super bowl, when the panthers and broncos meet sunday, it will be the first time two quarterbacks taken number one in the draft have faced off. But thats not the only historic matchup for cam newton. Wyff news 4 sports dir