3 a bill limiting state thanks for being with us. I am j. R. Berry. Limiting refugees is coming forward in the center. The Senate Passed the bill and laura thomas has more on what the bill entails. The it has no desire to assembly with us. Reporter people for and against resettlement of refugees in South Carolina spoke in front of the subcommittee. Were called to love our neighbors which is not defined by ethnicity. Reporter more than 20 people spoke including the director of refugee services. All countries that have signed and ratified the u. S. U. S. Obligated to grant the same human rights and assistance to refugees that they grant to their citizens in other legal residents. Reporter several cut up to ask if ththbills on the table which would limit reinforces to refugee programs not be passed. A majority who spoke out were for them including head attorney. Its a program that cannot be vetted property for lack of accessibility integrity at the National Security level. Reporter senators combined to move a full bill to the committee. The bill will take away state funding from refugee programs, allow programming to track refugees and put civil liabilities on refugee settlement organizations. Liability once they get here. In the public is concerned and they have a right to be concerned. Reporter senator Kevin Johnson voted against moving the bill forward. We have always been a country of opportunity who has helped people who are less fortunate than us. What i heard tonight, i was really disappointed. This is the most absurd piece of legislation i have been involved with. Reporter the bill was move forward to the full senate committee. That committee is expected to hear the bill tomorrow morning at 9. So for 11 Syrian Refugees have settled in sc since december. Lawmakers want to spend more time working and less time reading folks. The proposal advanced today that would increase worktime by limiting random introductions of school groups, beauty pageant winners and others. Minute time slot for special introductions with each limited to 90 seconds. Recognition of Winning High School teams who take the floor twice a week would be unaffected by this. Representative says he is frustrated by the interruptions. On the senate side, a bill that advanced specifically. Two people have the right to film officers without the threat of arrest. Judiciciy Committee Approves the measure today. It is drawing attention on both sides. The current law says anybody can film as light as long as they are standing on public property. This would keep you from being intimidated by the police. You can film if you are in a place where you have a legal right to be. That is in a public place. For a private place where you you dont hinder as it relates to a police officer. Opponents argue bystanders could get too close to a scene. The bill comes after the death of an unarmed man. The officer was charged with murder after a bystander video shows him firing shots. Tennessee State University represented their budget to lawmakers today. Joyce koh was the highlights of what they are asking for in this report reporter we have been following this situation for the last year. As reported, they are still on track for a balanced the budget but they are still under probation for accreditation. In order to with that, they need to get their finances on track. They are asking the General Assembly to forgive them of 12 billion of loans that was money the budget also included 14 million for maintenance projects. At the end of the meeting, representative said they needed to begin their search for a permanent president. I want somebody permanent. With permanency comes a different level of decision making. It is not fair in my opinion for a president to come in the latter part of the third year and be saddled with whatever decisions have been made. Reporter i talked to vice chair james clark and he said their number one priority has been to fix the financial situation at tennessee State University. It is on their Property Party list to find a permanent leader. Reporting at the statehouse, joyce koh. Last months School Leaders say the university was fiscal budget but still remains on probation. Upstate lawmaker who want journalists to have direct with the state replaced mike pitt filed a bill and he got immediate attention across the country. Critic say it would be unconstitutional restriction on freedom of press. Pitts told reporters the bill was to call attention to what he sees as buyers and recent events that prompted it. The presidenenproclamation on registry, a National Registry on guns. I have not heard the press scream at all about that. But i sure as hell heard the press cream when it affected the First Amendment rights. He says the bill would require journalists to do the same thing to practice First Amendment rights that people have to do in order to practice their Second Amendment right to bear arms. He says the bill doesnt have a chance this year but thinks educate the public. We are seeing clouds through much of the evening but no rain. Clouds are keeping temperatures up. We are at 540 with the winds under calm conditions. We may see a few showers toward daybreak with a low of 490. Tomorrow, rain coming through with a High Temperature of 540. It will be cooler as we go into thursday. We are expecting a mild, drive dry weekend. Reporter tonight columbia mayor presented the state of the state adress. He presented on unemployment, revitalization efforts and green initiatives to improve sanitation. He also took a moment to thank during last octobers flood. A disaster like that can bring out the worst in people. We have seen it before. In columbia, South Carolina, mething amazing happened. I saw a worldclass city become a city of heroes. Please stand, every first we ponder responder every volunteer, every man woman and child who gave something. No matter how smalal so that we as a city might rise above those troubled waters. Stand so we can say thank you to you. The mayor finished by saying he is proud of the work done to improve the city and says there is more to come. Karzai deputies along with police are investigating car breakins. Those breakins happened early ransacked unlocked vehicles. Among the items stolen, guns, wallets and purses. If you have information call crimestoppers. Some scary moments on a Sumter County school bus. The bus burst into flames following an engine fire at this happened around 8 am this morning just off highway 15 s. Near apex tools. According to spokeswoman, the bus was taking students to Lakewood High School when the engine caught on fire. Galloway says once the drivers for the smoke, she immemeately pulled over and evacuated students from the bus. Nobody was hurt. The students were eventually taken to school on another bus. The cause remains under investigation. In june 2013, brett parker was convicted and given two life sentences for the murder of his wife, tammy and his the mortarboard to light an illegal gambling operation that was run by parker and his father jack and his Business Partner doug taylor. The man was found guilty in 2013 of gambling charges. The convictions were thrown out after determined that the prosecution failed to disclose evidence in a timely manner. After a retrial, parker and taylor were found guilty for a second time. Jurors deliberated for an hour before finding both men guilty on federal gambling charges. The defendants did t take the stand. Here is what the prosecutor and Defense Security District Attorney told us after the verdict. Clearly disappointed in the verdict today. Still maintain jack parker and doug taylors innocence. The jury has spoken and we will respect that decision. We will continue to fight for our clients and hopefully justice will prevail. We are pleased with what they were gone for an hour and came back with the right verdict. There was substantial evidence and they held jack parker and doug taylor accountable. Sentencing will take place in the next few weeks. The governor wants to sue the with Energy Department for the failure to get january 1 nuclear fuel deadline. The savanna riverside project is intended to turn weapons grade plutonium into commercial Nuclear Reactor fuel. It is years behind schedule. Since it is not operating by what the government was supposed to remove one metric ton from the South Carolina by 1 january. The governor has told the state attorney general to proceed with legal action to collect a 1 million daily fine. Republican president ial frontrunner donald trump has night import i would debate. The reason . He says he is unhappy with the way fox news is treating him. He accused the network of playing games. Instead he will be hosting his own event and i what raising money for veterans and wounded warriors. Trump is scheduled to attend a Campaign Rally in the lexington county tomorrow night. If you were concerned about the project funded to the countys penny tax program, tonight was a chance to be heard. I came out tonight to see what the plan is for columbia. Reporter this was one of the many people that met to learn more of the bikeway project. I love the fact that they are looking at bike infrastructure. I want to make sure they do it the right way. It seems like they just reviewed the mac and talked about the different lanes with reporter david beatty says details will come later. Right now its too early to tell what the ultimate fix it will be along any of these routes. Reporter he says that there are three options. Separated bike lane, dedicated bike lane or sign in share. Reporter scott and other bicyclists hope a shared roadway does not become the main choice. The most people dont know what that is. As a bike lane, people know what a wide line is. Just throwing those down everywhere isnt going to increase safety. I would like to make sure there are specific a bike lanes. Reporter he also said many want to see progress. We havent seen implementation yet. Reporter beatty says those planning process waiting on permits. We should get those going to construction and 46 weeks. If you didnt get a chance to make it to the meeting, you can voice your opinion online at richland you can voice your opinion ononne richlandpenny. Com. Nearly 4 months after the flood it looks like columbias returning to normal. Character actor abe this time its real. Actor a pagoda has died. Four years there had been rumors of his demise. He was perhaps most popular for two fish as Barney Miller and his role as the godfather. Miller the marathon hey, guys, its annie. Now, if youre anything like me, youre always looking for ways to save money, especially when it comes to your weekly grocery trip. Well, with walmart every day low prices, saving money while keeping the pantry full. Thats easier than you think. In headtohead shopping, the total at walmart beat that of bilo. Columbia, the total amount saved at walmart vs. Bilo was 25. 61 on this weeks groceries thats 19 . So head to walmart and see what you 3 great news for those of you living and working around columbias five points area. Great news for those of you living and working in columbia. Five Points Post Office has reopened after damage from flooding. Residents with the po box his has been having to pick up mail at another branch. The office on green street is open. Precautions were taken to protect the building in case it does that again. Now they are flooded with customers. The water wasnt welcomed. It made it hard for people ving there. I was in downtown sumter. It was nice. Talk about a january thaw. We are still watching that area of rain that has been to our west. The front has been moving slowly. The rain has been moving toward the northeast. The rain has been from new orleans to atlanta into the appellations we have clouds over South Carolina. You can see the front from northwestern georgia. It may take longer then thinking for this front to come through the area. It is cooler and it is drying out through the nations midsection. Whats you get into central appellations it washes out as far as moisture is concerned. Here at the High Temperatures. 600, columbia. 66, sumter. 67, orange park. B to 49 in anderson and greenville. 54, columbia. 55 along the coast. Tomorrow we will see rain which tapers off. Tomorrow night we will see a chance for showers. Clouds will persist thursday morning. By thursday afternoon, back to partly cloudy skies. Tonight, though temperatures down to 46 in newberry. 49, columbia. Tomorrow we will see High Temperature in the 50s. 51, candid. 54, columbia. Sevenday forecast. Dry weather thursday. 51 four a high. Friday, High Temperature of 580 by sunday 68. Tuesday with a high o you like being picture perfect. You should want your banking to be too. Stop into td bank and well help set you up with picture perfect banking. New customers, open a checking and savings account and you can get a polaroid cube its been ten days since the its been 10 days since the usc meant has taken the court. Looking to get back in the win column. Frank martin and gamecocks take on the bulldogs. Both coaches and assistance were wearing sneakers for coaches versus cancer. He gets to have court and find michael career at later in darrius. He had 15 in 24 minutes. Dozier driving to the bucket. File, bilger has six. Frank awards team lead 3334 at the half. Justin mackey swings it and noticed the 13. Gamecocks hit five threes. He finds carrera. He had a careerhigh 34. Just as effective. 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