>>> Close to home and another local university offering incentives to encourage students to get covid-19 vaccine and this time francis marion university drawing weekly $1000 cash prizes. That's a few a week. It is for students already vaccinated and students getting the vaccine and all students have to do is submit a photo of vaccination card and entered to win one of three weekly prizes and this program will start next week and run 10 weeks. >>> As you know, ccu will have drawings for partial and full ride scholarships. >>> A new study from duke university called activ-6 is looking at whether existing medications would treat mild to moderate covid cases effectively and looking at whether these medications prevent long covid effects and also impact on covid three months out. Executive director of duke clinical research institute says it is important to tackle issues early. >> One of the lessons we've learned around covid-19 is that people may developed mild symptoms early on . It's hard to predict whether they will have worse outcomes or develop worsening symptoms. As we get into the hospital, the cascade really accelerates. People can worsen and wind up on a ventilator or other machines at icu . It is really hard to treat covid-19 at that stage. >> Aaron Rhody: data from this study will be collected two ways either directly from patients through online surveys or calling the patients directly to collect the same information. >>> Trough at the west and that's where we see the best chance for storms as we go throughout the day today and tomorrow the rest of the we >> James Hopkins: good-looking start to today and overlooking myrtle beach boardwalk. You can see lots of hazy blue sky out there and it is blue and not many clouds and we see clouds off and on throughout today and especially inland where we are more hot with more humidity as we go throughout the day today and for all of us which means we feel more hot this afternoon. And fox radar looking good and that's across both carolinas and also looking good with showers offshore and these will stay there as we go throughout today and that's much like yesterday and the day before and that trough is there. This is piedmont trough and typical at this time of year and at that area which is white does not move and just because of heat and humidity. It will, eventually, get replaced by cold front. That's well at the west and that's for saturday and keeping rain chances at our west. It should drift into our area sunday into monday and increasing storm chances. 77 at myrtle beach right now and 87 at lunch and 88 this afternoon. Lots of sunshine throughout today and looking at another dry day.a bit more humidity means 88 will feel more like hundred this afternoon. And there is the trough set up at our west which will stay there as we see that is the best chance for storms and showers the rest of the week. Eventually, cold front coming in and taking its place as we go into saturday and with saturday front stays at upstate and that's where best chance of