Extended forecast. We will talk about that coming up. Thank you so much. We understand there is still Power Outages in the Coverage Area tonight. Specifically batesburg, leesville. That area of lexington county. News 19s joyce koh is live from the community with more. Joyce . Reporter that area that we are standing on was hit very hard. On the property of tracy lodging company. I am joined by the owner. Tracy. You have never seen anything like this . Never before. There was i have heard of some coming through had area before my time but never in my life time. Reporter i know it destroyed a lot of your property back there nat we showed but that we showed but it made its way down here. Exactly. We have two Office Buildings and a shop building. And it came right by and no reporter and all of your employees were okay . They are in the building . All employees were fine. And actually [ talking at the same time ] the buildings that were not hit were the ones the employees were in. That is a good thing. Reporter there is a lot of destruction. Can you explain what it looked like earlier and after the tornado ripped through the area. Well, i havent seen it look like that in a long time. Kind of flat. I am used to seeing my first of all, my hay shed, we store hay for the horses back there. It was devastated. Flattened. The other was a tractor shed. It was half of it was blown away. The roof was stripped off of it and then it went up and hit one of the other houses on the property. Your home . Actually, it did. Yes. And then it jumped across the road and that is where it got my house. Windows blown out. Sun room blown off. Metal and debris blown into the house and across the house and behind the house. In the trees and everywhere. Reporter all right. We are so glad everyone is okay and all employees are all right. A miracle that no one was touched by this other than the physical property. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. Live out here. Back to you guys. Thank you. The storm was also felt in the lower richland area. Drivers say they saw a sudden down pour that was so bad they couldnt see the road. She was on the phone with her husband when the storm began throwing debris in front of her car. Her husband told her to go back i cant see how to turn around. So i find a place to turn around. I tried to rush back. It wasnt nothing but debris falling. And i was so afraid. When i got back at work i ran into the building. She says as she watched the storm she couldnt help but be brought back to the october flood. We would like to see your photographs. Send them to us and keep up with the latest on the weather, we are tweeting the latest information, stay up to date not. The suspect in the Sexual Assault near the usc campus has 22yearold carlos jovany today. Officers say it took place last weekend. He is held at the Richland County jail on a 300,000 bond. If he makes jail he would be required to wear an electronic monitoring device and have no deputies say a husband and wife are facing charges accused of stealing money from the celebrate freedom foundation. Frederick miller and terry miller. They stole 15,000 from the organization in 2014. Terry miller had been a paid independent contractor with the organization until 2014. Fedric was a volunteer at the time. They are in jail tonight. Judge granted a delay in the trial for joey meeks, the friend of the man charged in the church shootings. He wanted more time to review evidence in the case. Meeks failed to tell police all he knew about dylann roofs plan to shoot at Emanuel Ame Church last june. The department of social services is rolling out a new they say they will do things differently. Families looking to be foster parents can expect to go through two proses. The first is a 4 month process for licensing and the second will be support unity for follow up needs. We have already implemented the system so aswy do our so as we do our Recruitment Program we will have a new system. [ indiscernible ] the next meeting studying the agency will be looking at ow they deal with at how they deal with Domestic Violence situations as the have been problems in the past. It is National Signing day. Sports director Reggie Anderson joins us now with more on how good of a day it has been for the gamecocks and the tigers. Uscs will, not in the books in terms of getting the final player on board but 99. 9 of the guys are on board. He was hired in december, 7. Had major head winds putting the class together. Trying to build new relationships with coaches. He locked down some guys and he is pleased with this. His first group of signees. H evaluation evaluation, doing a great job with the film, summer camps. Recruiting process of selling a great place line South Carolina and now in the developmental process. Development them as Football Players on and off the field. Student athletes to a certain degree. We will know in two or three years. That is when you find out about your development of what they do and how productive they will be. Clemson missed out on the going a michigan. They put together another top 10 class. They got simpson and mullein. Head coach taking the momentum of a 14 win season and bringing in a class filled with more impact players. Just real simple. We got better today. That is what we are trying to do as a program. Improve, get better. I thought we did that today and the thing that always excites me that never gets old is when a young person chooses to come be a part of our program. I love that because i dont think there is anybody that is more transparent in the recruiting process than we are. We try to be very thorough. We try to lay everything out as far as who we are, the way we do things, the expectations and dont like surprises. Unless it is the good kind. Later in sports, wednesday, news 19 player of the week and more on National Signing day. A big day across the country. All right. Thank you. The gop race for the white house smaller, rand paul dropping out today. He says he is returning to the senate and will run for reelection. Former president bill clinton in columbia trying to rally support for his wife hillary clinton. He is at Allen University tonight. Earlier today he met with lawmakers over at the state house. And tomorrow Michelle Kwan will be speaking to students at columbia sledge and usc at 4 00 p. M college and usc at 4 00 p. M. And then speaking speaking to democrats at 6 30 p. M. At the school of business. Still ahead tonight on news more on the Severe Weather you are watching news 19 at 6 00 p. M. With jr berry and darci strickland. Because of the tornado warnings today richland one, Kershaw County schools and sumpter Public Schools had a late dismissal. Caught [ talking at the same time ] that wasnt good. But the fact that they delayed letting the students go was the absolutely. With wind as strong as they were we didnt want the buses on the road. We had rain, though, it will be with us for a while. The heaviest rain moved into i 95, the worse of the weather moved through the midland. It continues to move. There are no warnings at this time. But the other part of this is now that we are seeing rain, to the south, some of the heavier rain might lead to ponding on the roads. Be careful if you are out driving this evening. On over view. A line of thunderstorms from eastern North Carolina through i95 corridor into southern georgia. Some producing heavy rains. Pushes to the east. The front is behind that and it moved into the upstate but hasnt come through the midland. I dont expect it to come through till later on tonight over view of the system. You can see the lowpressure system is up in canada with the cold front trailing along the eastern seaboard. And it is the rain that we are experiencing. Behind it once we get there it will be a cooler and drier air mass coming in. Temperatures cooled off. 65 degrees in columbia. 64 in sumpter. 65 orangeburg. Warm in charleston 72. Upstate 60 degrees. A look at our computer model, tonight we will continue to see the rain for a while here in the midland. But it will be shifting to the coast over night. Tomorrow more of the rain along the coast. A chance of a shower around the area. It will [bleep] cloudy tomorrow it will be cloudy tomorrow. Friday the clouds clear out and we will see plenty of sunshine. Put there are some changes in the forecast. Night tonight, lows of 50 in newberry. 53 columbia. 55 sumpter. Tomorrow High Temperatures kept down by the clouds. Mainly in the upper 50s. 59 in columbia. We will see sunshine on friday with a low of 37. High of 54. Mostly sunny on saturday. 55 degrees. But then the clouds move in saturday. A chance of showers and 54 degrees. But we will see colder air starting to come in sunday night into monday. Still mostly cloudy but look at this. 45 is what i am going for now for monday for a why temperature and on tuesday a High Temperature of 40 trees and by wednesday morning down to about 25 degrees. That might not be cold enough. Really . Wow talking really cold air welcome back winter. Exactly. Thank you. Day, plus news 19 player of all right. Despite all the nasty weather hang on. Let me turn my ear piece down. Despite the nasty weather we honor another thete now. We to. Athlete now. We do. A busy wednesday. We are able to squeeze that in today. A panther who excels on the mat. Reporter an outstanding wrestler for the panthers this week won the region championship in the 170pound weight class. Great asset to the team. Concned about being a leader. And model behavior. Good behavior for the students. We has discipline and integrity and that is shown throughout all three years of coaching him. Great athlete. You have to work over the years. I tell the new guys my first year record was 737. It was horrible. But it adds up over the years. You have to be selfdiscipline. Reporter he takes the drive and transfers it to a classroom, 3. 8 great point average. Math and science are my weak points so i have to make sure i am working harder in those classes to make sure i dont drop too much. Reporter eve time he gets an honor he every time he gets an honor he tries to stay news 19 player of the week. I try to stay humble. Not get a big head or anything. Or content. We will keep on working. Keep on working. That is a good philosophy. Now National Signing day. Will, his First Recruiting class. A number of players already enrolled in school. Came on board in january. Neat deal today. What he did for those guys, they had a signing day ceremony. Photo op. Let them have their picture taken. The quarterback out of pennsylvania. His family couldnt make it so he stood in as they were able to take part in their little ceremony on this National Signing day. They dont get to have a signing dada i think it is good for them to get recognized. Being here at South Carolina. Midyear guys, i take as many as we could. Situation, they are finishing senior english. If they have their credits down, it is beneficial for them to come midyear. Clemson put on an outstanding recruiting class. Could have been better if they landed the number one prospect but they landed that guy. John simpson. He is an u. S. Army all american. In a few years his name will be on the depth chart. Honestly i wanted to be more like family. I like the atmosphere at clemson. Love it. Love it. I feel like coach, my recruiting coach, he will make sure i am right and turn into carolina, head coach popped up to talk to then commitment tj after being recruited. He decided to call it home. Played a part in bringing them to a win in the first playoff game since 2008. His First Official visit played a role in his decision. Shows how serious he takes his job. You know, he wants to win. I mean, plain and simple. He wants to win. That is that is that made a mark for me. How seriously he thought of me. A possibility that newberry quarterback might land at usc georgia southern. I am more comfortable with the ball in my hands. That is what i do. [ indiscernible ] what i am saying . I feel like i made the right decision. And quarterback logan bailey went with the southern conference. He will start out as quarterback and excited and here he is. Hopefully a fierce competitor. Give them a chance to keep mays alive and put them in the best scenario in the fame. The citadel had what i wanted to study and they matched my with t tonight a woman is 250,000 richer tonight thanks to the state lottery. We won the money playing the 10 scratch off game maximum money. She had a rough day. 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