THIS IS WYFF NEWS FOUR TODAY. THIS, OF COURSE, CAME AS A HUGE SHOCK. THE PRINCESS OF WALES ANNOUNCING HER CANCER DIAGNOSIS AFTER WEEKS OF RUMORS. PLUS, IT’S TIME TO BUY ANOTHER ROUND OF LOTTERY TICKETS BECAUSE THERE WERE NO WINNERS IN LAST NIGHT’S MEGA MILLIONS. THE NEW JACKPOT TOTAL IS COMING UP. GOOD MORNING EVERYONE. I’M PEYTON FURTADO. THANK YOU SO SO SO MUCH FOR JOINING US HERE TODAY. WE’RE GOING TO START WITH A LOOK AT OUR WEATHER. WE’RE GOING TO TAKE A LIVE LOOK OUTSIDE. YOU CAN START TO SEE THE SUNRISE THAT’S NICE. IT HAS BEEN KIND OF A RAINY MORNING. IT’S LOOKING PRETTY CLEAR RIGHT NOW. WE’VE GOT SYDNEY SULLIVAN IN THE STUDIO WITH US. ARE WE LOOKING ALL CLEAR FOR THE REST OF THE MORNING, OR DO WE NEED TO BE ON OUR TOES? I WILL SAY AT LEAST FOR THE FIRST PART OF TODAY, YOU WILL DEFINITELY NEED SOME RAIN GEAR FROM TIME TO TIME. MIGHT BE A GOOD DAY TO MAYBE CATCH UP ON SOME MARCH MADNESS, AS THOSE GAMES KICK OFF HERE IN THE NEXT FEW HOURS. BUT AS OF RIGHT NOW, WE ARE STARTING TO SEE SOMEWHAT OF AN IMPROVEMENT. STILL A FEW SHOWERS RIGHT TOWARDS THE TENNESSEE NORTH CAROLINA BORDER, AND WE’VE SEEN SOME PATCHY DRIZZLE ON AND OFF THROUGHOUT THIS MORNING. GOOD SLEEPING WEATHER OVERNIGHT AS THAT RAIN PUSHED ON THROUGH MOST OF US THIS MORNING ARE LOOKING AT NOT MUCH MORE RAINFALL IN THE FORECAST, JUST A FEW OCCASIONAL SHOWERS AND THEN IMPROVEMENTS. BY THIS AFTERNOON. TEMPERATURES ARE SITTING MAINLY IN THE UPPER 40S TO THE LOWER 50S. A FEW SPOTS, ESPECIALLY FURTHER SOUTH OF GREENVILLE. GETTING INTO THE UPPER 50S, PUSHING 60 DEGREES. THIS MORNING. SO A BIT OF A MILD START THIS MORNING. VERY DIFFERENT PICTURE FOR WHAT WE ARE GOING TO SEE TOMORROW MORNING. MOST OF US WAKING UP TO THE 30S TOMORROW MORNING. SO GET SET FOR THAT. NOW AS FAR AS OUR CONDITIONS GO THROUGHOUT THE DAY, ONCE WE BEGIN TO CLEAR ON OUT THE RAIN THIS MORNING, WINDS ARE GOING TO PICK UP OUT OF THE NORTH, GUSTING AS HIGH AS 25, EVEN CLOSE TO 30MPH. ESPECIALLY LATER THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING. SO IT IS GOING TO BE A BREEZY DAY AHEAD FOR US. BUT THE GOOD NEWS IS, IS THIS RAIN ISN’T GOING TO LAST ALL DAY LONG. A FEW OCCASIONAL SHOWERS THROUGHOUT THE MORNING TIME FRAME AND THEN STARTING TO CLEAR ON OUT LATER THIS AFTERNOON. HIGHS IN THE UPPER 60S, BUT COMING UP, WE’LL HAVE A CLOSER LOOK AT WHEN EVEN MORE SUNSHINE RETURNS TO THE AREA, AS WELL AS TAKE A LOOK AT WHERE OUR TEMPERATURES GO FROM HERE. THANK YOU. SYDNEY, WE’VE GOT SOME BREAKING NEWS THIS MORNING. THE SENATE HAS VOTED TO PASS A. MASSIVE $1.2 TRILLION GOVERNMENT FUNDING PACKAGE. THAT FINAL VOTE WAS 74 TO 24. IT CAME AFTER THE SENATE REACHED A LAST MINUTE AGREEMENT TO VOTE ON THAT BILL AND AVOID A PARTIAL GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN THAT WAS SLATED TO BEGIN JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT. THE VOTE ENDED AT A LENGTHY FIGHT BETWEEN BOTH SIDES OF CAPITOL HILL THAT’S BEEN GOING ON FOR MONTHS NOW. THE MEASURE WILL FUND CRITICAL GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS, INCLUDING THE DEPARTMENTS OF DEFENSE AND HOMELAND SECURITY, LABOR, HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, EDUCATION, STATE AND THE LEGISLATIVE BRANCH. THE LEGISLATION STILL NEEDS PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN’S SIGNATURE BEFORE IT BECOMES LAW. HE IS EXPECTED TO SIGN THAT TODAY AFTER THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES PASSED THE SPENDING BILL AND SENT IT TO THE SENATE, GEORGIA REPRESENTATIVE MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE FILED A MOTION TO TO OUST HOUSE SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON. SHE SAYS JOHNSON BETRAYED THE TRUST OF HOUSE REPUBLICANS BY PASSING THAT SPENDING BILL. JOHNSON HAS SERVED AS SPEAKER FOR FIVE MONTHS NOW AFTER CALIFORNIA’S KEVIN MCCARTHY WAS OUSTED AND HEADING NOW ACROSS THE POND, PRINCESS KATE OF WALES ANNOUNCED YESTERDAY SHE’S BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH CANCER AFTER SHE UNDERWENT A MAJOR ABDOMINAL SURGERY BACK IN JANUARY. MARY REY LLERENA HAS THE REACTION FROM HOME. IT HAS BEEN AN INCREDIBLY TOUGH COUPLE OF MONTHS FOR OUR ENTIRE FAMILY, KATE, THE PRINCESS OF WALES, ANNOUNCING HER CANCER DIAGNOSIS TO THE WORLD ON FRIDAY. SHE SAYS DOCTORS FOUND CANCER WAS PRESENT IN TESTS FOLLOWING ABDOMINAL SURGERY IN JANUARY. MY MEDICAL TEAM THEREFORE ADVISED THAT I SHOULD UNDERGO A COURSE OF PREVENTATIVE CHEMOTHERAPY AND I’M NOW IN THE EARLY STAGES OF THAT TREATMENT. THE EXACT TYPE OF CANCER HAS NOT BEEN RELEASED. WIFE’S NIGEL ROBERTSON WAS VACATIONING IN LONDON WHEN THE PRINCESS REVEALED HER DIAGNOSIS AND WHEN WE WERE EVEN IN WINDSOR CASTLE, WALKING AROUND, PEOPLE WEREN’T TALKING ABOUT IT. WE DIDN’T HEAR ANYTHING. BUT I’M SURE BY AS THE WEEKEND GOES ON AND TIME GOES ON AND WE HEAR MORE, DEFINITELY. YOU KNOW, MY INITIAL REACTION IS GREAT SYMPATHY FOR HER. CLEMSON PROFESSOR OF HISTORY STEPHANIE BARSHEFSKY SAYS THE ROYALS HAVE BEEN A STAPLE IN AMERICAN POP CULTURE. I MEAN, I THINK BECAUSE WE DON’T HAVE THINGS LIKE THAT IN OUR COUNTRY AND OUR COUNTRY SORT OF DEFINES ITSELF VERY MUCH POLITICALLY ON NOT HAVING THINGS LIKE THAT, THAT WE FIND SOMEONE ELSE HAVING THEM SORT OF FASCINATING. SHE ALSO SAYS PEOPLE MAY FIND MEANING IN THE PRINCESS’S DIAGNOSIS. AUTHOR MARY KATHERINE BACKSTROM SAYS SHE WAS DIAGNOSED WITH CANCER SEVERAL YEARS AGO IN A SIMILAR WAY TO THE PRINCESS. YOU GO IN JUST EXPECTING THE SURGERY WENT WELL AND YOU’RE OKAY. AND HERE ARE YOUR MARCHING ORDERS ON HOW TO HEAL. AND INSTEAD, I WAS HANDED A CANCER DIAGNOSIS. THE PRINCESS ALSO ENCOURAGING THOSE BATTLING CANCER FOR EVERYONE. ON FACING THIS DISEASE IN WHATEVER FORM, PLEASE DO NOT LOSE FAITH OR HOPE. YOU ARE NOT ALONE. THAT WAS OUR REY LLERENA REPORTING AND AS THE PRINCESS COMPLETES HER TREATMENT, SHE’S ASKING PEOPLE TO GIVE HER FAMILY TIME, SPACE AND PRIVACY. NOW TO LOCAL NEWS WHERE GREENVILLE COUNTY DEPUTIES SAY A MOTHER AND A FATHER HAVE BEEN CHARGED MONTHS AFTER THEIR FOUR MONTH OLD BABY DIED LAST AUGUST. DEPUTIES WERE CALLED TO POLLARD ROAD IN SIMPSONVILLE ABOUT A NON RESPONSIVE INFANT. THEY SAY BRUCE DOUGLAS, THE FOURTH, WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL BUT DIED. WARRANTS SAY THE MEDICAL EXAMINER FOUND BRUISES AND BRAIN HEMORRHAGING THURSDAY. BRUCE DUNCAN AND BRIANNA BROWN WERE ARRESTED AND CHARGED WITH HOMICIDE BY CHILD ABUSE IN GREENVILLE COUNTY. DEPUTIES ALSO SAY TWO PEOPLE ARE IN CUSTODY AFTER A STANDOFF. DEPUTIES WERE CALLED AROUND 330 THURSDAY TO BIRCH STREET AND WILLOW DRIVE FOR A BURGLARY. THEY SAY MATTHEW MCNICHOLAS CAME OUTSIDE A HOME WITH TIFFANY MERCER AT GUNPOINT BEFORE WALKING HER TO A CAR AND LEADING DEPUTIES ON A CHASE. DEPUTIES FOUND THE CAR ON TOUGALOO ROAD, WHERE MCNICHOLAS THEN ATTEMPTED TO CARJACK BEFORE BREAKING INTO ANOTHER HOME. AFTER A STANDOFF, DEPUTIES FOUND THAT HOUSE EMPTY. DEPUTIES SAY BOTH WERE FOUND WALKING ON WEST DRIVE IN MARIETTA THURSDAY NIGHT. WE’RE TOLD MERCER WAS A WILLING PARTICIPANT AND BOTH ARE FACING CHARGES IN GREENVILLE COUNTY. THE CORONER SAYS A MAN DIED AFTER HIS VEHICLE COLLIDED WITH A BUS. THIS HAPPENED THURSDAY NIGHT ON LAURENS ROAD NEAR PARKINS MILL ROAD, ACCORDING TO THE CORONER. 26 YEAR OLD MARCELO LOPEZ CRASHED INTO A GREENLINK BUS. HE WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL, WENT INTO CARDIAC ARREST AND LATER DIED IN ANDERSON COUNTY. WE NOW KNOW THE NAME OF A MAN WHO WAS SHOT AND KILLED AFTER A FIGHT. THIS WAS AROUND EIGHT THURSDAY NIGHT ON TRIPLE STREET, THE CORONER SAYS. CHARLIE DAVIS WAS SHOT DURING A FIGHT WITH ANOTHER PERSON. WE’RE TOLD HE DIED AT THE SCENE, SO FAR, NO ARRESTS HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCED IN ASHEVILLE, A 91 YEAR OLD MAN DIED AFTER A CRASH. POLICE SAY THIS HAPPENED THURSDAY NEAR SMOKEY PARK HIGHWAY AND ACTON CIRCLE. WE’RE TOLD A PICKUP TRUCK WAS TRYING TO TURN ONTO ACTON CIRCLE AND HIT A SEDAN. THE SEDAN THEN HIT ANOTHER TRUCK. POLICE SAY THE SEDAN’S DRIVER, LARRY BROOKS, DIED AT THE SCENE. HIS DAUGHTER AND SON WERE BOTH INJURED IN THAT CRASH. THE OTHER TWO DRIVERS WERE NOT HURT. COMING UP TOMORROW ON FOR THE RECORD ON WYFF NEWS FOUR, WE’RE DIVING INTO OUR LATEST CHRONICLE, GROWING GREENVILLE. WE TALK ABOUT HOW THIS AREA HAS EXPLODED IN POPULARITY AND HOW LEADERS ARE MAKING SURE IT GROWS SAFELY. THE GREENVILLE WATER COMMISSIONER JOINS US TO TALK ABOUT HOW LEADERS ARE MAKING SURE THEIR IS GOING TO BE ENOUGH WATER FOR EVERYONE IN THE FUTURE. OUR PIPING SYSTEM, ALTHOUGH OLD IN THE CITY OF GREENVILLE, WE’RE CONSTANTLY REHABBING AND PUTTING IN NEW PIPES THAT WILL LAST FOR THE NEXT 100 YEARS. SO I THINK THE WHOLE SYSTEM REALLY SETS ITSELF UP FOR SUCCESS. YES. SO WHY DOES IT TASTE SO GOOD? JUST BECAUSE IT’S PURE AS IT COMES IN, IT’S PURE WHEN IT GETS TO YOUR HOUSE. YES. AND WHEN IT COMES TO GREENVILLE’S GROWTH. YEAH. GREENVILLE WATER HAS A 100 YEAR PLAN. THAT’S THAT’S A THAT’S A BIG NUMBER. TELL ME ABOUT THAT PLAN. SO YOU KNOW AS YOU SIT ON SO I SIT ON THE GOVERNING BOARD ALONG, I’VE GOT A COUPLE OF COLLEAGUES WHO SIT THERE. WE’RE ELECTED BY THE PUBLIC. AND SO WHEN WE LOOK THE NEXT 100 YEARS, WE ACTUALLY GO, HOW DID THE FOLKS THE LAST HUNDRED YEARS PUT THIS IN PLACE? AND WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM IT? AND THEN HOW CAN WE PROTECT OURSELVES GOING FORWARD? YOU CAN WATCH THE FULL EPISODE OF FOR THE RECORD, TOMORROW MORNING AT 1130 RIGHT HERE ON W WYFF FOR ANGELA RODRIGUEZ, THE OWNER OF ENCORE REALTY AND GREENVILLE COUNTY SHERIFF HOBART LEWIS ALSO JOIN US. WE HOPE YOU’LL JOIN US NEXT FRIDAY AS WELL. THAT’S MARCH 29TH FOR OUR LATEST CHRONICLE, GROWING GREENVILLE. WE’RE GOING TO EXAMINE GROWTH IN OUR TRAFFIC, OUR SCHOOLS, HEALTH CARE, AND MUCH MORE. THAT’S GOING TO BE 8:00 RIGHT HERE ON WYFF FOR AND NO ONE HAS WON THE MEGA MILLIONS JACKPOT SINCE DECEMBER 8TH OF LAST YEAR. NOW THE GRAND PRIZE. IS $1.1 BILLION CASH OPTION 525 MILLION. THE MEGA MILLIONS DRAWING IS TUESDAY NIGHT AT 11. AND IF YOU’RE LOOKING TO WIN THE POWERBALL, THE GRAND PRIZE IS 750 MILLION WITH A $360 MILLION CASH OPTION. THE POWERBA