Way releasing water from the lake murray dam. We have more on what led up to the decision and what it means for those living around the dam. Reporter sce g say it is due to upstream inflows. They will release water starting tomorrow morning at 4 00 a. M. Earlier today they were testing the sirens along the river. You may have heard sirens along the river as sceg did testing. Jenny jones said there is a lot of water level following the flood. We released water into the lower river. Who are boating or fishing or swimming know. They appreciate it. They took notice to the higher water level. We are always taking precautions. We never boat alone. This isnt for the beginner boater. In a statement they will open one spill gate. Residents will notice the lake level rise. The level set by the federal emergency commission. Concerns about the sirens. It is not designed for people to evacuate. Law enforcement would be in reporter during the october flooding sce g opens 4 and a half spill ways to release water. Tomorrow they are only opening one. All right. Thank you. Flooding issues were a big concern to residents in newberry county. 3 people had to be evacuated from their homes because of high water levels. There are barricades because of the heavy rain. If you are in a low lying area, you need to be aware and make a plan allowing you to leave if you need to. If you are driving and cannot see the pavement, whatever you do, dont try to drive through reporter good news isnt the rain diminishing. We have light rain ending ending in areas north of i20. As far as temperatures, as of 10 00 the low was 67 degrees. The high 75 in the city, 76 at the airport. Right now our temperatures are holding at 67. Thats the low so far. It is cloudy. Wind is from the south, southwest at 6 miles per ur. Tonight fofothe rest of the night we will see a little light rain coming through. 64 for a low tomorrow. We will see rain showers mainly tomorrow afternoon the high of 69. For the year in a moment. The search continues for 21 yearold henry dingle and 18 yearold william span and 2 others. Shots fired call after 4 00 yesterday on frazier street. They could be involved in other cases as well. All 3 men are believed to be armed and dangerous. If you see them call 888crime sc or 911. More boil water advisories involving West Columbia all the addresses you see here on the screen, lynn drive, savannah drive. Boil water before you cook or drink. The water line relocation had to be postponed. They will relocate the lines in Mineral Springs road. Customers will not have water during those hours. You will have to boil water for a minute before you use it. A couple of g. O. P. Contenders made it through South Carolina today. They were working on we are on the verge of the greatest time to be alive in this world. We have a government not working. Because of that our aspirations are held back. Whatever your ideas are about taxes, regulation, about fixing our entitlement mess, we cant be in denial forever or the next generation will not have possibilities of a life with purpose and meaning. All these things cant happen until you change the culture in washington. South carolina holds the first primary in the south on february 20th. The republican froro runner was in our state. Donald trump was in hilton head addressed Climate Change and foreign policy. He spoke about strengthing the military. He will build the Strongest Military ever. Let me just tell you. I dont think we will have to use it. I remember when jeb and hillary mr. Trumps tone is not nice. They are chopping off christians heads. Isnt life wonderful . We have to be tough, smart, we have to have heart. We have to take care of people and fix our health care system. Obamacare is a disaster. You people know. Trump spoke on his recent attack on bill clinton. Talking about past affairs. The major u. S. Phone carrier offering 2 year contracts, at t customers will get phones for paying for the phone or paying installments. Business customers who have qualified, some customers want to sell the device for full price. They would no longer sell contracts. Tmobile got rid of contracts 2 years ago. Bill cosby is free on bail Assault Charges 12 years ago. 50 women have come forward accusing him of sexual assault. He faces up to 5 to 10 years in prison and a 25,000 fine. His lawyers said make no mistake we intend to mount a vigorous defense against this unjustified charge. We expect mr. Cosby to be exonerated. A friend of one of the shooters in the San Bernardino shooting killing 14 people have been indicted on charges including conspiracy and previous planned attacks and making false statements buying guns. He a voids the need of standing he has not entered a plea. Mexican officials charge tonya and ethan couch. The pair has retained counsel and trying to stop deportation. It doesnt surprise them the family fought deportation. Just another chapter in a long book. I expected no less. They will fight every step of the way. They will not turn over a new leaf and say lets go to texas and face the music. Thats not how they have lived. An attorney used affluenza as a defense for a deadly drunk driving charge. All ght. The midlands ringing in the new crews didnt let Rainy Weather stop them from getting ready for the famously hot new year party. Nearly 30thousand people will weather stop them from getting ready for the new years eve party. There will be a hot celebration tomorrow night. Streets will continue to be closed preparing for the big event. We had the mayor on today earlier. He was grilling you, trying to make sure we would have nice weather. 40,000 people are expected in downtown colombia. Most of the rain will be over. There will be sprinkles and light rain. It will be cloudy and turning cool soon. Right now lets look at the radar. We still have light rain occurring in the eastern part of the midlands moving east. For much of the midlands the rain has ended. We will see a few showers coming in during the Early Morning hours. Rainfall. It is from half an inch to an inch of rain. In armo they received an inch and a half of rain. Into abyville, greenwood, newberry, the doppler is estimating 3 to 4 inches of rain. A thats a lot of rain to come down. That water is coming downstream. In colombia here are the totals. 92 of rain at the airport. The total for the month is 6. 4 inches of rain. It was raining up state. 76 in colombia. 78 in sumter. 67 in colombia and orangeburg. It is sagging a little in georgia. It will not come through until later tomorrow. Much of the rain has ended. We have another batch of rain in the florida pan handle. Behind it we have a lot of cloudiness. It is chilly. We are the lone hold out for warm temperatures. Right now it is cold in the nations midsection. Rapid city, south dakota is 6 degrees. We will see showers around day break coming through the area. It will continue off and on into the afternoon. By Late Afternoon most showers a slight chance of rain during evening hours. Most of the rain will stay south. It will be cloudy new years. 64 in colombia. Highs tomorrow generally in the 60s. 65 in newberry. It may get up to 74 in manning. It will be cooler new years day. Decreasing clouds. Another surge of cold air monday with a high of 55. With a high these patients could have received their cancer care at many hospitals. 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Appointments are available now. 3 starting with College Football and this time tomorrow night, clemson hopes to be headed i we are starting with College Football. Clemson hopes to hopes to ring in the new year with a win. Tomorrow we will know if the championship game. A photo op with the trophy. There are suspensions. That guy right there, dion cain violated rules. They failed a drug test. They were sent home. Cain was suspended for the miami game. He was sat down for attitude reasons. It was a 1game suspension. Sweeney didnt blink if they would accept him on the score board or the locker room. Why would it be a distraction . J. J. Mccullen doesnt have anything to do with chad lawson and the rest of the guys. Its not a distraction at all. It is a distraction for me. I have to answer questions about three guys that break i have to deal with it. That comes with my job. Those guys are focusing on what they do. The senior has graduated. J. J. Is not a senior but he will have an opportunity to come to school and graduate by the summer and move on. He will not be back with us at clemson. Dion can rejoin the team if he grows up and does what he needs to do. If he doesnt he wont. Its pretty simple. Usc ranked 20th in the country. Gamecocks moving the ball around. Browning the former Yellow Jacket won a title. There he is. Finishing with 14 points off a missed shot. The freshman taking the distance, finishing at the rim. Nicely done. He had 6. His most extensive action. Here is more from the gamecocks. Same result. The fmu head coach and, justin macky, good for long range. They remain perfect on the season taking on memphis at 6 00. You know the history 0 and 57. Of the week with the monster block for the tarheels. Tigers in the first game of the year. Jordan with 14 points on the night. Tarheels had 18. Usc wins. They are 0 and 58 in chapel hill. Former usc basketball player shannon johnson. They were in town taking on benedict. Looking to respond, merit to green playing irmo getting a bucket. More from the tigers, dorothy a final of 84 to 57. Lets go to greenville, championship green. The sky hawks looking for the 29th win taking on the airport eagles. They were looking to give them all they could handle. They would do just that. Daniel gillins knocking down the 3. Eagles with the lead. More from gillins. He gets the bucket, the steal, 1. Looking to end the winning streak, here come the sky hawks. Bombs away. Goodwin did not score a fieldgoal. It collapse odd 7. Hamon benching their rocking. Sky hawks within the 29th game in a row. Now they have another piece of 3 preparation continues across the country. Today officials at the Times Square Party flipped the the switch to light a 2016 prep preparations continue. Times square at noon prepped the ball. It moves up a 130foot pole. 200,000l. E. D. S and 2600 waterford crystals. I love the confetti test. It works. Pick everything up. We will do it all over again. I wouldnt want to be on that committee. We are having a huge celebration here. We will still see some high of 69 degrees