A Winter Weather advisory is now in effect in Newberry County. Chad mills is there. Chad, how are conditions there . My car thermometer is reading a pretty constant 30degrees here in whitmire for now. It appears spots are melting a bit, but theres still a good dusting of snow on the ground along with some sleet and ice on the roadways. Lets get right to some video from earlier. So, but people here in whitmire tell me the snow started a few hours before that. They tell me theyre enjoying the change in scenery, but of course, theyre trying to be careful too. Roads around whitmire and in other spots of northern Newberry County roads are pretty slick. Sheriff lee foster says, so far, there have been no major incidents. He tells me theyve had to respond to a couple accident, but thats about it, and they werent anything major. Scdot workers are hard at work. Theyve been treating i26 with a salt brine most recently. Theyve also treated some state roads with salt sand, including sc121, sc34, and sc56. They havent been able to treat secondary roads. Dots big priority is the roads. People here in whitmire tell me this town seems to always get snow before other areas of the county because of its geography. Im told the line was at about mile marker 66 on i26. Now, as far as trees go, dot had no reports of fallen trees onto roadways. For now, the precipitation has stopped, but more is likely on the way. Live in whitmire, chad mills, wis news 10. Breaking News Canadian Prime Minister says 5 dead, 2 others injured in School Shooting in saskatchewan. The grade 7 through 12 la Loche Community school in the Northern Saskatchewan community of la loche is in lockdown. The schools is remaining on lockdown. The suspect is in custody. The Royal Canadian police are working to figure out what happened. Well bring you more inormation our Rainy Weather has been adding to the strugles for homeowners rebulding from octobers floods. Conditions havent helped in areas around gills creek. Parts of Lake Katherine and forest acres have either been torn down or need extensive repairincluding the need for some houses to be lifted up higher to meet fema requirements. Well its not easy to do but since we have the house raised up its a little bit easier for my guys. With our workload now we have to workload. I do. Normally i do 35 projects and i have 15 going now. Q how many of them are floodrelated . You know about half of those are flood related. Contractor arthur suggs says the saturated ground has been a problem for some of his workers. Orangeburg county Officials Say theyre ready on the off chance dangerous weather moves through this weekend. They have four locations they call campsites equipped with motor grades, salt, dirt and other machinery. The sites are strategically bowman and orangeburg with operators on standby. The county administrator says its about being proactive rather than reactive. Orangeburg county, always ready for anything. Thats one thing i can say about our county and public works devision. Were we go through a lot of Different Things that weve been through, weve dealt with tornadoes, floods, ice storms, all kind of things so were always on standby. If bad weather hits or if there are power outages, shelters will open. Lawyers for the North Charleston policeman the American Red Cross is urging people to be prepared for Winter Weather and possible power outages. These are just a few of the items they say you should have in your emergency survival kit. Water one gallon per person, per day food nonperishable, easytoprepare items flashlight noaa Weather Radio first aid kit lawyers for the North Charleston policeman caught on video shooting a man now want to get a hold of the victims military records. Yesterday Michael Slagers lawyers filed a motion asking for Walter Scotts personell file from when scott was in the coast guard. Theyre also asking that those records be sealed to avoid identifying anyone else in them. Slager is charged with murder for shooting scott in the back as scott ran away from him after a traffic stop last spring. A bystander caught that shooting on cell phone video. Lookout for whoeer assaulted a man near five points the other night. Investigators are trying to identify the man who was caught on surveillance cameras. Hes is accused of punching a man in the head in the 2000 block of greene street early victim to hit his head on the concrete. Cpd says the victim was listed in Critical Condition if you can help investigators, call crimestoppers at 1888 crimesc. Investigators in two counties are looking for woman with a a ripped off credit card. The Richland County Sheriffs Office and the Cayce Department of Public Safety say an unknown woman, used a stolen credit card to buy gift cards at the rite aid pharmacy on two notch road and the bilo on knox abbot drive. If you have any information on who this is, call crimestoppers. Chapin police chief troy crump returned to work today and is telling why the towns mayor put him on a threeday suspension without pay. In a statement, crump says he attended a week long mandatory Firearms Training course and did not let the mayor know hed be gone from the towns work. The training caused me to be away from my office for the week of january 11. Prior to attending the failed to communicate my absence from the office to mayor skip wilson. In response, mayor wilson suspended me from my duties for three days without pay. Crump says he does not believe the suspension was warranted, but he looks forward to resuming his duties as police chief. A Midlands School is making it a little easier for some students to get and and its free plus, after the october floods, farmers across the state could soon be getting some help. He was rated a by the nra. Not for his promises, but for defending the second amendment. Hes a man of deep faith, who fought time and again for the right to life. He laid out a plan to destroy isis months before paris. Hell strengthen our border and use conservative principles to put washingtons broken fiscal house back in order. Jeb bush. Hes the conservative you can trust, to fight for our beliefs. Right to rise usa is responsible now, lawmakers are making a push to give them a little help. Will whitson explains. The Farm Aid Fund proposed by the house of representatives would help offset widespread damage from octobers devastating flood. The South Carolina farm bureau estimates the total amount of damage to farms directly, and to business depending on farms is close to 700 Million Dollars and what Crop Insurance farmers did have, only covered a fraction of the damage. You dont know the exact number of farmers who wont be farming next year if they dont get financial assistance, i believe it will be a considerable number of farmers. Richland what im going to try to push for, in an individual capacity is better disclosure on insurance, of exactly what is and is not thursday lawmakers in the house proposed the relief bill which would help farmers who lost 40 of their crop to octobers flood. The bill would create a board to determine how bad the damage is, and what the application process for relief will be. It gathered bipartisan support from both House Republicans and democrats but lawmakers say they arent sure how much support it will garner from governor haleys Office Richland it was good to see a bipartisan support there, but were hoping shell sign it and get some and means committee. Ww wis news 10 South Carolina farmers did get some help with the 300 Million Dollar federal flood relief bill still to come on wis news at 7, meet the moores were the moore family, and as you can see, we need an internet that can do more. We do more games, and more streaming. So we need more speed. Thats why we switched to Time Warner Cable. Now we can connect more devices, at the same time. Hi grandma and grandpa ha, look at that [laughs] Time Warner Cable even has an internet plan for us. Get the speed you need. Internet plans start as low as 14. 99 per month. Extended until 2pm for newberry, fairfield, kershaw and lee freezing line continues to sneak into southward into richland, clarendon and sumter counties, as a cold in from the northeast at the surface. The number of showers will start to decrease into the afternoon and evening but the possibility of freezing rain will continue overnight , and any rain left could refreeze as temperatures fall to the upper 20s and low 30s. Saturday morning expect a few snow showers that will move quickly through the central midlands and even make it into the lowcountry. Still to come on wis news at 7, a College Student is using his artistic skills to freezing line continues to sneak into southward into richland, clarendon and sumter counties, as a cold wedge of air continues to move in from the northeast at the surface. The number of showers will start to decrease into the afternoon and evening but the possibility of freezing rain will continue overnight , and any rain left could refreeze as temperatures fall to the upper 20s and low 30s. Saturday morning expect a few snow showers that will move quickly through the central midlands and even make still to come on wis news at 7 who doesnt like a little ice . Well show you his creative piece next. We;ll check out one ambitious students a frosty materpiece. Next. Four midlands counties free tuition beginning this summer. The free tuition will be available to qualifying students from clarendon, sumter, lee and kershaw counties. It will provide students two years of tuition for one program of study. The freetuition program does to qualify students must be admitted to the college and have at least a 2. 0 high school average. A Minnesota College hockey player is using his love for ice. And a recent cold snap to get creative and make. Art freshman mitch fritz says it took him about two days to build an illuminating multicolored igloo. He bought 500 bread tins and froze each brick inside with food coloring. He said it was a fun project coming up in sports. The usc women prepare for a top 10 showdown sunday. Plus. The usc men get set for a tough columbia dispatch confirms shots fired and hold up in 4400 hundred block of fort jackson blvd. That is the rosewood crossing shopping center. We have a crew on the way and will update you as soon as we know more carolina. The 24th ranked usc men play away from home for the second time this week on saturday. The gamecocks play at tennessee. Tipoff set for noon. Similiar to what usc faced at ole miss tuesday. The gamecocks take on another elite scorer. The vols kevin punter ranks second in the sec in scoring. The key to containing punter. Matching the vols intensity on both ends of the floor. Carrera they run pretty hard. Like i said they shoot very well. They run really hard. Cut. Do the same thing keep playing our defense. And just guard the ball. Takes the usc women out of town. Carolinas in a top 10 showdown on the road sunday. Second ranked usc visits 10th ranked mississippi state. The bulldogs are trying to pack the house to intimidate the gamecocks mississippi states making a social media push to draw 10thousand fans to the game. Usc though is used to playing in big crowds. And used to teams doing anything and everything to beat the reigning conferenc champs. Staley its the second year of being the hunted. They understand that. Theres no newness about it. Yes some pieces have changed, but the players from last year set the example how you handle those situations. Theyve done great so far. Like usc. The Carolina Panthers play on sunday. They battle the Arizona Cardinals in the queen city in the nfc championship practice ahead of the showdown went on as planned. In spite of the Winter Weather in charlotte. Today. They had to bring out the snow plows to clear off the turf field at the practice facility. Coach ron rivera was really happy with how the team worked despite the conditions. He said the team had great energy and focus. Rivera understands no one should be surprised with playing in the snow. Because. It is january. This is football. And snow and ice is to be expected and the panthers are ready for it. Rivera any of these grass fields throughout the league with the exception of arizona, because they have that indoor outdoor thing. Thats what is going to happen. You are going to play in these i believe if you wore the proper cleets. Proper shoes you should be fine. Husbands emotional funeral
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