Thank you, nevada. Thank you so much. You know, i am so, so thrill and so grateful to all of my supporters out there. Some may have doubted us, but we never doubted each other. And this one is for you. I want to congratulate senator sanders in a hardfought race here. And i bank want to thank each and every one of you. You turned out in every corner of the state with determination and purpose. Hotel and casino workers who never wavered. Coming up we will have what the win in nevada means as she comes into South Carolina. Right now we want to check in with the South Carolina primary, our polls have just closed within the last couple of minutes. High school, and we will be moment. Right now we want to check in with the gop headquarters. Republican, this is a major race for them, we have seen a lot of back and forth throughout the iowa caucus and New Hampshire and South Carolina becoming a pivotal one for the republicans and jack kenzie is keeping a close eye on the party. Jack . Reporter the Columbia Convention center where we are right now has been set up, not so much as a victory location or a party headquarters, its really more of a filing place for the national and state media to put their stories in tonight about whats happening in the palmetto state. At this point we dont have a strong indication this will be a Gathering Spot for leadership, the candidates or the voters or some of them may stop by. But we will be watching the returns as they come in here and we have had a chance to speak with party chairman, matt moore who is very pleased with the turnout today, good signs for the gop, a recordbreaking requested, 59,000, which easily last president ial cycle. And while we dont know yet how the six candidates will do, its clear one of the most critical stories that plays out tonight is which of the candidates finishes second in the polls and they have indicated up took. Com news night the contest seems to be between senators cruz and rubio will help determine who emerges as the alternative to the supposed front runner, donald trump. Here is chairman moore, late this afternoon. Speak to South Carolinas importance in this race going forward, who ends up second and third place will have a lot of impact on what comes next, particularly southern states. We dont have very many indications of who is in second and third, its a jumpball, so to speak. I think both of the people will go on from South Carolina, but certainly you dont want to be too far past there. Here is what its all about, folks. It is the first in the south primary, and what happens tonight could very well the republican race proceeds as we move down into the southern primaries. The so called sec contests and the supertuesday voting in the south very much so. This might be the pace setter here in South Carolina for how that race continues to play out. We are live at the Columbia Convention center tonight, jack kenzie, wisews 10. Of course the breaking news a the this hour is no news. Right. The polls showing donald trump far out in the lead, leading up to the primary. Many people wondered if this race would be called by the networks or at least projected for a winner immediately after the polls closed. That is not the case. Nbc news is saying at thiss point it is too close to call. It is a threeway race between donald trump, ted cruz, and marco rubio. Of course donald trump has been the front runner for most of the Campaign Leading up into the primary. He was leading nationally. He was leading in South Carolina. Lets check in with the trump campaign. Chad mills is live in headquarters in spartanburg, hello, we have supporters behind us already in the room, actually just a couple minutes ago, they let out a loud cheer when the clock ticked down and the polls were officially closed in South Carolina. In terms of how they are feeling, its a range of emotion, i would say. Its some feel confident with trump will end up on top. Others are a little more nervous that the polls might come back a little closer than what was projected in all of the polls before this first in the south primary today. I actually spent time in West Columbia in two precincts there, in downtown West Columbia. The people i talked to, i talked to 8 or so, none of them voted for donald trump. They instead chose to vote for ted cruz, jeb bush, even one for ben carson. I just talked to a very small group, but again none of the people i talked to had voted for donald trump. However, im talking to some volunteers from the midlands and she was pretty confident that to vote for donald trump did get out to the polls today. Now, in terms of the people who didnt vote for trump, here is what they have to say a moment ago. I just think he is too loud and ocknous. I couldnt fathom four years of that. I just feel like after some of the redecent debates she has not shown his strength or his potential as much as he did in the beginning when he first started his campaign. I think donald trump is very good for the campaign. I mean, hes unabashed and he says what he believes. I believe he gets things done. And he raises a lot of good issues. I just the world of government is a bit different than the world of business. You cant just command Congress Like you can in the business and i think cruz is going to be a little bit better suited to do what we need. Interestingly all three voters casted their ballots for texas senator ted cruz. Of efforts on the palmetto state and campaigned heavily in the low country up in the grands and had a few campaign spots in the midlands and focused a lot of efforts here in the upstate. A lot of voters i talked to fist tell me that they enjoyed Donald Trumps style in the sense that think. And of course a lot of people like his views on illegal immigration as well. Obviously that got him into trouble with the pope and the pope said he doesnt believe in a wall but donald trump has been in the news and with the voters in spartanburg, they have eyes glued to the television for now. Live in spartanburg, chad for w. Wis. Thank, chad. Its 7 08. Technically the polls were closed until 7 00, but technically anyone in line at 7 00 will be able to vote. Our alice is at the polling place, what is the latest there, anyone in line tonight . Reporter cleanup is going on behind me. The polls have officially closed and the building is about to school. The people working here told me that what they saw was a great turn out and i can tell you we have been here since about 3 00 and it because very steady crowd the whole time. They said this morning started with a line from the tables behind me all the to the door. That dwindled up around lunchtime and then it was just a steady stream of people coming in, to cast their ballots. Now, a lot of eyes were on lexington county, because back in 2012, lexington county brought in about one third of the vote for the republican primary in the mid lands. Of course, we are still waiting to hear those final numbers but we know this precinct was very busy bringing in about 795 votes. Now, people who came here to vote tell me they were a little again, it is a saturday. So, there wasnt the normal before work and after work crowd. People filtered in all throughout the day. Now, they are just waiting to hear the final numbers and we will have those for you soon. Live in lexington, allie for wis news s. All right. Alley, thank you for that. For those joining us, nbc news saying this race at this point is too close to call. It is a threeway race between donald trump, ted cruz, and mar corubio. Donald trump was the front runner nationwide and in South Carolina but in the past few days, we have seen growing strength by both cruz as well as marco rubio. Meaghan norman is at the cruz headquarters. Meaghan, must be a lot of anticipation there . Charles and judy, absolutely. Right now its still mostly a Media Presence here, but there are still a few cruz supporters who have come in to watch the results come in. I have been told from his campaign senator cruz is in his come in and we will be coming here to the patch party once the results are finalized. But, back in South Carolina now, after spending much of the day in washington, dc, where he was for Supreme Court justice antonin scalias funeral, he said he had to be there to pay his respects. While, while cruz was in South Carolina, his volunteers were here hard at work making tens of thousands of phone calls for voters to get to the polls. Its been an exciting day after months of building up to this day. We have had thousands and thousands of volunteers out working the phone just yesterday, our volunteers made over 65,000 phone calls which is critical. Also, thousands of people knocking on doors. Most importantly we had ted cruz talking to south carolinians and talking to them one on one, which is something he loves to do. They appreciate the fact that he takes the time to meet with each reporter now, ted cruz is hoping his conservative message will resonate enough with voters to make a dififrence tonight. We will certainly keep you posted from the Cruz Campaign here at the state fairgrounds. From live in columbia, meaghan norman, wis news 10. Thank, meaghan. Cruz has seen strength from rubio, he had a couple big endorsements in the past few day, governor nicki haley came through and tim scott endorse and has been vigorously campaigning with rubio. We are seeing some strength in the polls since then, maybe some of what we are seeing this evening. Lets go to billy jean shaw, she is covering the Rubio Campaign and they are said to be thrilled aabout being in a threeway race right now. Meaghan and charles and judy, you can see they are cheering on senator rubio. You can feel the excitement in the building now. Now, of course, i spoke to rubios Campaign Manager asking about the endorsement from believes it will help senator rubio in the polls and i asked him what does he think about finishing in the top 3 if he considered it a loss or not, we will see what he says. We want to finish in the top 3 would be ideal. Ultimately we need the race to win. Its a big field, six people is unprecedented to have Six Competitive campaigns in South Carolina. We will finish in the top three, we leave South Carolina with more momentum its a good night forors. So senator rubio does mention in the top three, that will be good news for the campaign. And in just under 15 minutes i am told governor nicki haley and scott and go di will join riewb yes, i doer here where they will receive the supporters and its interesting to see how the endorsement will play out. Of course, we want the see to hear from ted cruz. And i also spoke to senator about the negative campaigning, and he says that is [inaudible] to create a bad name for rubio but he believes his supporters are seeing through it and seeing that he will be a good choice to be the next president of the united states. Of course we will keep you updated here, charles and judy . All right. Thank you so much. And, of course, with a threeway race at this point between ted cruz and donald trump and marco rubio, the question is where is jeb bush . He said he has read plenty of obituaries but he turned up the gas in South Carolina, bringing out his mother, barbara bush, his brother, former president george w. Bush for a big push in the palmetto state. It doesnt look at the moment its paying off, again, still too early to call. Lets check in with mike at bush headquarters tonight. Mike . Judy and charles we are at the Columbia Hotel behind me the jeb bush watch party will be starting shortly and doors open can see, there are several supporters out here and they are basing their support for the former Florida Governor and we heard at the top of the broadcast some people voted for jeb bush and certainly the campaign is hoping for every bit of support as they move forward. As for governor bush himself, he was in the Red Bank Elementary looking for every vote he can get, have a primary push [inaudible] he finished third in New Hampshire,. [inaudible] to make a big difference in tonights race. This county can shape the election, for sure. And South Carolina is always full of surprises. They make up their mind late, and they do shape elections. So, thats why we came here. We have been traveling we are going to travel the entire state, but we came to this precinct and this county because of its importance. He wanted to have a presence terms of Governor Haley giving her endorsement to rubio and the polls are not changing so much with the projections for bush. We have one poll from Martin University had him finished fifth place behind every other candidate besides ben carson. So, certainly, many supporters here, jim and charles, hoping the early numbers wont tell the whole story by the time is night is over. Thank, mike. We have word this is, at this point, too close to call of an election. Threeway tie at the moment between donald trump, marco rubio, and ted cruz. We will be in for a long night as we watch numbers come in. We have will have much more on wis 10 after this welcome back to the special election coverage here tonight at w. I. S. , we need to take a short break from politics to bring you breaking news. Police presence, that is what we have been told by witnesses at the scene at columbia on the mall in the columbia area. We have no confirmation about exactly what is happening there at the mall right now. We do have a crew on the way to the scene. There is a lot of scanner traffic but we dont want to report anything prematurely. So, again, we have a crew on the way to the scene reported a heavy Police Presence, 30 cars is what we have been told at columbia on the mall. As soon as we get details confirmed we will have them for you on wis news 10. If you question are joining us, a word from n. Nbc is that the South Carolina republican primary is at this hour, too close to call we will have to wait for those official numbers to come in. Here is what we are looking for. Officially coming in, so far tonight, at the top, we see donald trump with 36 of the vote, 362 votes for him. Not much, but thats what we have so far off the top. Again, early number, ted cruz with 215 votes. Mar cow rubio comes in third at this point with 18 of the votes. He has got 182 votes in and again gives you an idea of how early in the process we are. We need to come back to breaking news, we have confirmed with Police Dispatch that there is an active shooter situation at columbia on the mall. I have received tweets from people who said they heard what they thought were gunshots at the mall, that they grabbed their things to run out as soon thought were gunshots. We have a crew on the way to the scene but again we are now confirming an active shooter situation at columbia on the mall. If you have family and friends in that area, send them the email, give them a call. Tell them to stay clear. We are working to find out more about what is happening as soon as we can get information from our crew, we will bring that to t. V. Com. Lets take a look at where things stand tonight as we look across the state and decision 2016 and the first very, very carolina primary, sam is breaking down the numbers. Sam . You just saw it change on your screen. This is how it will work. On the left side here, you have your legend of our candidates here, so donald trump in red and as you can see, some of the precincts reporting donald trump is in the lead in these counties, that he is in red in here. Lets look at the initial numbers. We know lexington county with just 1 of the preseenlts reporting, donald trump is senator ted cruz as well as marco rubio in that 1, 2, 3 spot as we had been eck ing to see, with the recent polls that we have had. Now, also, up here in Fairfield County we can see that he is leading here. We dont have any exact numbers at this point, but this is showing up red for donald trump at this point. Lets go over here to the grand stands. We see in toarnlgtown county, again, some numbers not in yet. This is the initial reports at this point but we are seeing donald trump start to take the lead here in certain parts of the state and again these numbers are just rolling in. So we will keep you updated with the latest. Judy and charles . All right. Sam, thank you so much. We want to update you now an breaking news on columbia on the mall. We have confirmed with police that there is an active shooter situation at columbia on the center, im getting a number of tweets from people who are working at the mall, or who have family and friends at the mall. They are reporting that they have heard w wt sounds like gunshots. They grabbed their things to run out of the mall. We do have a crew on the way to the scene, as soon as we get Additional Details confirmed, we will keep you updated on air and online at wis t. V. Com. But again, just advising everyone to stay clear of the area until police are able to get that scene under control and going on. Of course, we are also covering the big news tonight, the South Carolina republican primary. Right now, in case you are joining us, it is too close to call. It is a threeway race between marco rubio. Joining us live in the studio, joel sawyer with Campaign Results and we wondered if they would call the race with the exit polling we heard about, what does it say that this race is too close to call is . Its what we expected from the race for a while. Donald trump is not running away with a big lead right now but we will see how it shapes up. I think he will win and it will be clustered closely with second and third. With a one vote win. What does it say about marco rubio and the weight of the governors endorsement when he was trailing behind. And he is in contention now. Yeah, he absolutely is. Ted cruz. Rubio has a leg up in endorsements creating momentum. Ted cruz has a good ground game. Tightly. Joel, we will check back in with you, i believe we have a live shot of columbia on the the breaking news. We cant see a whole lot but you can tell the blue lights there are flashing in the background. We have been told there is a heavy Police Presence at the mall from witness accounts, they are i cant doing upwards of 30 vehicles there. Which is no surprise, in fact, there is that active shooter situation. We have no idea about what part of the mall they are focusing on at this point, but we do have a crew on the way to the scene. As soon as we get more detail, we will keep you updated as we learn more from police. But again an active shooter situation, im not sure do we responding . I dont know if its rich monday county or Columbia Police . We are working to get more get them. We will keep you updated. Lets take a short break to gather more information and we will of course keep you updated on the election numbers as well. Night on wis 10 after this. Word of an active shooter situation now underway and a heavy Police Presence at the Columbia Mall in the city of columbia. We have broken down a couple crews who are covering the gop headquarters and the convention center. Jack kenzie was there. That crew has broken down and jack is on his way to the mall. He should be there momentarily to give us an update you but i can tell you we have confirmed with authorities and this is under the city of columbia jurisdiction, and i wanted to confirm that when we were asking earlier before the break, but it is an active shooter situation. That much we have confirmed. Witnesses on the scene have told us that they see at least 30 police cars on the mall p property out and around the mall. Im following people on twitter. People have been tweeting information about family members and relatives who are working at the mall. All that we know right now is that the folks who are there say that they heard gunshots. That they grabbed what they could and they tried to get out. Twitter who says that they are safe at the moment but they are locked in the back room of store. So, this is very much an active situation, a dangerous situation. You should avoid the Columbia Mall area at this point until we can learn more about what is going on. And, charles, you know, we cover these stories, it seems like more often these days. But you never think about Something Like this happeningn yoyo community and, in fact, here at wis, because of the stories we have been covering across the nation, we just did yes, we did. And the advise was when you hear gunshots you need to get out. You dont need to try to figure out where it came from and where it came from, look for immediately the near exexit and try to get out. We are looking at cameras put up by South Carolina dot which gives you the rough area around the mall. You can see that directly in front of us. But also in the fore ground and at the scene we can see the blue strobe lights of very heavy Police Presence there not just lot and as you can see moving along interstate 26, heading in that direction. Right there, you see they are moving up, a lot more police are still en route to the scene. All right. We want to go back to politics. Nbnb is predicting donald trump is the winner out South Carolina primary. As we mentioned a moment ago he tweeted a short time ago saying that he would be happy with a one vote win, of course, the official numbers are not in just yet. The numbers still coming in from the polling places but charles we will go ahead and run through the totals to let voters know where we are right now. And, in fact, our chad mills is reporting at the trump headquarters. Lets head over there now. Chad . Okay. Even though nbc reported that, what they are watching in here has not made that prediction yet. So, obviously, no one is cheering at this point. But, during some of the returns coming through, obviously, showing trump ahead of the pack. Many cheers as many people in go on to win this South Carolina first in the south primary. Its obviously such an important test for a president ial candidate, four years ago, that long streak of picking the republican president s was broken when nut ging rich won the South Carolina primary, of course, many of the people in the room are hoping that the streak will start again and that donald trump, after winning South Carolina, will go on to capture the republican nomination and become the next president of the united states. People in the room tell me they like Donald Trumps style. They like sometime his courseness and lang wamg, they like what he says, what he mean, and says what they say people are thinking. They like his stance on immigration and think he is the best president. They dont want another washington insider. People in the room who are watching the t. V. S and we can imagine when other news outlets start to predict donald trump as the winner we will hear many cheers from the room here in live in spartanburg, chad for wis t. V. Thanks, chad. Breaking news in columbia, word of an active shooter situation we have the Richland County sheriff offense, reports of shots fired as well as a possible description of somebody involved. Apparently police are looking for someone identified as a plaque man, five foot 10, wearing a black hoodie, red tshirt, possibly gold teeth, wearing blue jean, we also have word, however, no one actually having been shot. That, of course, is not yet confirmed. Very early in the situation, but we we have word of a very active shooter situation in the Columbia Mall and a heavy Police Presence this evening. We are also hearing or reading a lot of traffic on twitter from people at the mall. Thankfully, again, want to emphasize, no victims located within the Columbia Mall in the harvestton area. No victims located. This is according to police. The investigation is continuing as you can imagine for the people in the mall who heard what sounded like gunshots, it was terrifying. We are getting tweets from people in the mall. They are safe, they tell us, but they are locked up in the back room in their storage which is, you know, if you cant get out when you hear the gunshots to find a safe place, to stay until police can clear the scene. That is certainly the next best option. But again hearing from police that no victims have been located, hearing from people at the mall that some people are still on lockdown. They found a safe place to stay and to lock themselves up until the police can give them the clear. Our jack kenzie is making his way out to the mall. Im not sure if jack is able to get there yet because as you can see from the last picture traffic is backed up and i would imagine probably police set up a perimeter especially since they are now looking for a suspect. And we just received that information about a possible we want to give you the giving to us. So that if anyone is in the area, if you have any information or if you think you have seen this possible suspect, you need to call 911 immediately because it is an active investigation. Officers are evacuating the mall. Im sure people have been at the Columbia Center. This is going to take some time. It is going to be, i would imagine, an active scene until they can completely clear that mall. But, we are told they are looking for a suspect who is described as a black male, about 5 10, wearing a red hoodie and a red tshirt, gold teeth, and blue jeans. Again, this is the description coming to us from Police Officers. Are telling under the circumstances the good news right now is they have not found any victims, but they are still shooter. And of course we look from the South Carolina dot cameras toward the Columbia Mall. Is pretty much backed up solid. Actually, towards the mall itself, we are to looking back towards the mall itself where traffic is sitting still. Actually, we are also hearing in developments, the shooting as well as the primary in South Carolina, we have got word from trump volunteers about some insight into what is going on in the mall. Lets go to trump headquarters chad . Reporter charles, obviously, it is a small world. We are standing here next to the volunteer who is actually from the columbia area. This is a teacher in lexington, School District 5. She was telelng me, obviously, playing out that she frantically called her daughter on the phone. Her daughter called her and told her she heard what sounded like gunshots in a Columbia Mall, just a short while ago. Obviously, she was making sher her daughter was safe. Point. The daughter was apparently inside the food court when she heard the shots. Of the kitchens of the restaurants at the food court and is waiting until her mother she got out the back door and escorted by police to safety. Her daughter tells the mother she hasnt more than 50 police cars are at the mall at this point. But this is a mother at headquarters even after nbc declares donald trump the winner but the good news is that her daughter is safe this evening. Chuck . All right. Thank, chad. All right. Im getting some photos from inside the mall. Showing police searching. I will send this to the producers and we will take a more breaking news after this. We are following a developing story. First the results so far of tonights decision 2016 election, right now, nbc is projecting donald trump has won the South Carolina primary. Lets take a look at the results this point, 34 of the vote goes to donald trump with 6800 votes reported at this point. Ted cruz in second place with 4264 votes, 21 . Third place is marco rubio also with 21 . He has 4237 votes, that is a statistical dead heat and a difference of a few votes, jeb bush coming in fourth with 10 and then of course looking down the card. John kasich at 7 of the vote and ben carson with 6 at this point. But, obviously, a big night for donald trump. He was projected to be the winner but certainly big news that they were not able to call the race for at least 38 minutes. And we saw much closer race between rubio and cruz. Rubio showing a lot of strength in just the past few day, perhaps a big part of that being this past weeks endorsement from governor nicki haley. Unfolding right now is an objective shooter situation at the Columbia Mall in columbia, where word of police, dozens an dozens of police cars are on the scene and police there through the mall, looking for victims apparently have not found any so far. That is what we have heard as of the latest from the police as well as Richland County sheriff offense office and evacuation people inside the mall as the situation develops. You can see the scene looking from the South Carolina dot camera up over i26 towards the mall and a lot of the strobe lights with word of up to 50 Police Vehicles on the scene, and the search is also on for a suspect. Not a lot of information, but what they have is one person looking for is black, 5 10, wearing a black hoodie, red tshirt, possibly with gold teeth wearing blue jeans,. The announcement was made at trump headquarters he is the projected winner. We have a live picture there which we can show you quickly, shot, a lot of excitement there about trump being projected the winner in the South Carolina primary. This is setting up a big battle for supertuesday. Things will escalate between the top three campaign, donald trump, marco rubio and ted cruz. It will be interesting to see if marco rubio is able to move into the second spot on the heels of the endorsement from governor nicki haley. Lets go back to the breaking news because i just received video which again i will send to the producers and i dont know if they have the other photos yet, but the Columbia Police are working to evacuate the mall. There are still people working at the mall shopping at the mall who are sheltered in place, hunkered down in a safe place until theyeyet the all clear. We are making sure that we report the facts that we are getting on this case. What we can tell you now is it an active shooter situation. We are hearing a lot of reports about how many possible shooters there may be. We wont report that until we get it confirmed from police. Ambulance was just seen, i just received the video, leaving Columbia Center. Police told us they have not found any victims. But, someone did shoot video of an ambulance leaving with the lights on. We are working to find out more about that. We also have some photos from inside of the mall, showing Police Officers with the canines out searching. They are looking for a suspect. We have given the description and maybe we can get that up on the full screen so we can share that with our viewers and they will know exactly who police are looking for, exactly what the description is in any event. We are looking at what was going on in the scene. This is whabd somewhat mall saw, David Rodgers sent us this, this is from the Columbia Center south, you see this very large Police Presence that was beginning to assemble shortly after word of the the active shooter situation. The scene as we see it from the South Carolina dot cameras has changed in the past few minutes. Basically you are seeing an awful lot more of the blue surround the mall and move in. They are going through thehe entire facility, evacuation people and making sure they are safe. They have not reported finding any victim yet but yes we have heard of an ambulance pulling away. We have word of an objective shooter situation and one suspect being sought by police. We need to take a short break. When we come back we will give you the latest on the breaking news at Columbia Mall, the latest on the South Carolina politics as well. But in case you are just joining us, donald trump has been projected as the winner of the South Carolina republican primary. We are following the breaking news on wis and wis t. V. Com. We will get you update under the active is shooter situation at the Columbia Mall, at least one shooter, all the details when we bell welcome back, we have breaking news out of columbia, we are following developmentsen an active shooter weather normalization at the Columbia Mall, very heavy Police Presence and police as well as Richland County sheriff offense office are both now confirming an active shooter situation and the search is now on for one suspect as well as possible victims also police are going through the mall itself, evacuation everyone to make sure they are safe. The search is on for one man described as black, wearing a black hoodie with red tshirt, gold teeth and blue jean, obviously if anyone sees this guy around the Columbia Mall, call the police or 911 and they will want to hear about this. This hunt is going on and you are looking at the scene now. A lot of blue strobe lights very much in evidence as police pour into the scene trying to get the situation under control. This is on the night where we are following the South Carolina primary, of course, that is the other big story this evening. And we have word, nbc is projecting donald trump to be primary after a rates that looked a lot tighter this night even a week ago. Absolutely. Back to breaking new, i know so many of you live and work in the area, possibly have family members in the mall. We are hearing from people on twitter who are locked down in a safe place in the mall. I dont want to give specifics about where anybody is because quite frankly we dont know how many shooters they may be looking for and if they are watching t. V. We want to be very careful about what information we share on air, but we want to let you know as much as we do, especially for those concerned about family members. We have been told there are at least 50 police cars there at Columbia Center. We have been told they are jaclyn the mall because it is obviously a very large mall. The Department Stores and all the other stores up and down the corridor there, it will take some time this evening. We have seen pictures from inside the mall. They have what looks like the swat gear on. Also, the canine unites searching every inch of the mall everyone is safe. We can also tell you that, according to Columbia Police, they tweeted this out, and also confirmed with us just a short tomb ago that they have not found any victims, but we did also receive video showing an ambulance leaving with its lights on. We are working to get more information about what that involved and what may have happened. But, again, our crews are making theirr way to the scene. Traffic seems to have cleared up at least a bit charles. Yeah, i will say we are looking at the fore ground, you can see the strobe lights on the ramp to i26. The ramp may be closed we dont know that. We have seen a line of cars and that is no longer there. That might be an explanation for that. The presence continues there at the scene as police go through the Columbia Mall looking for people to evacuate and possible victims an one suspect. Taking a look at the situation now out on campaign 2016, donald trump is now the we are looking across the state as the results come in. Sam . We are watching the numbers come in county by county, on the left side of your screen we have the legend here and each candidate, if they are leading in the county the number will light up as you said. Donald trump the projected winner. So, im joined here by dr. Rolledden, the director of political science, he will help me break it down. We have been watching these numbers change and its no surprise here that trump is leading in most parts of the state. Right. He is the projected winner. And the in the area where its too close to call and threeway place, as soon ase with saw he was a winner, the race for second is really the important thing we should focus on. Right now it looks like cruz and trump are i mean cruz an rubio are close. And they both have reasons over the past few days to be encouraged, cruz with the more solid ground and then rubio with give them some momentum. It makes a difference who comes out second or third. If you are able to come out we finished second, that really helps you go into supertuesday. Absolutely. We saw the first thing that lit trump. As we have been standing here we have seen the down i thes light up for both marco rubio and ted cruz. These numbers are tight at this point sew with will keep an eye on these numbers here as they continue to come in, but of course very tight race we are watching for second. Thanks so much for being here. Judy around charles, back to you. Thank you so much. Michael higgins has been trying to make her ware out to Columbia Center, what can row tell us . Where are you . Judy, i actually was on i26 coming to the harvest exit and i can tell you there were more than a dozen Law Enforcement agencies in cars and all of them with lights on, siren going trying to get through the area assisting. We know lexington county are assisting, the highway and plumb the investigation. I can see a police car pulled up on the scene. They are making there they closed off harvest. You can not get over the freeway if you are heading toward the mall, they are making everyone turn around. They have to go back to pine grove. We were able to come back to the area and we are right by best buy where there are three or four ambulances, is what im seeing and three dozen police that im seeing right now. According to columbias Police Department twitter, they do have reports of shots fired at Columbia Mall in harvestton, they have not located any victims at this time. But Law Enforcement is searching the mall and the area surrounding the mall. Now, officers are evacuating areas inside the mall and talking to possible witnesses and gathering information. They are, again, requiring that assistance from the police partners. We are trying to make our way to an area where they congrom rated and the ambulances, right off of harvestton at the best buy. But, folks, there are a there is a ton of traffic in this area. They are trying to get folks turned around, but it being a saturday night around 8 00 at this point, there is just a ton of people. We dont know any other information at this point. When we got off the exit initially at harvestton there were police in the lowe, that was across the interstate. Now they are trying to blk off these roads. Thats got people in the area trying to get everything in place. I can tell you that hold on a second, actually. [inaudible] sorry, we are trying to get to an area where we can actually find out some information. Again we are at the best buy, right across from the Columbia Mall and there is dozens of police Law Enforcement here. So, we are, actually pulling up you updated. All right. Michael, you and your photographer make sure you stay safe. I see jack kenzie tweeting obviously everyones safety is the First Priority in a situation like this. But for those who may be tuning in, we want to update you on the breaking news we are covering at Columbia Center and an active shooter situation, Columbia Police officers working to evacuate the mall right now at last report we were told that they did not have any reports of any injuries, although, we did receive some video of an ambulance leaving the scene with its lights on. But we have no details about what they may have been about. You saw the picture go by of this Police Officer with a shotgun out. That was actually a state trooper. So, we have got Richland County sheriff offense office as well as Columbia Police as well as state Police Responding to the situation, actually, we have a tweet just out from mayor benjamin saying that the active shooter situation, urging people to stay away as well as harvestton boulevard nearby. We will continue coverage as well as tonight ongoing story, the South Carolina primary, with donald trump the apparent with more, harbison. S large mall. Also very large columbiana mall building each of stores then outbuildings as well as quite lot of parking areas almost 360 degrees around the building. And you got allies and access areas as well. So all of that area will have to be secured until police can be certain they have developed a safe situation there. Right now they certainly have not. There is any control over but there is very large Police Presence and as you heard from allie, it command center has been set up to deal with the situation. As i police trial first off make sure they gotten everybody that mall safe, and taken care of any one who might be hurt. Find any one who might be hurt. As well as track down whoever this shooter or shooters might be. We coming up. Lived columbia area for more 20 situation like this ever. In our community. I mean certainly we have covered active shooter situations across the country. This is something that people tweeting me rigig now saying they are hoping that this is not true we can tell you it is active scene. The good news right now is that Columbiana Police as the last report they told us this did the no have any injuries at this points. I am hearing from a friends who works at the mall who says that they havav been escorted out but they are sitting with another couple in car because they cant get to their car. So obviously, it is very active scene. Police officers are investigating working to get every one to safety. And i am looking at the Columbia Center went site. They have at least 880 to north more stores there. Nearly 100 stores out there. So this going take sometime tonight. For the Police Department to work through every part of that building not just the stores but