Why are we putting three complicated bills into one . If the governor vets, what more can we do . You have to have the other components. You have to have significant reform at that teenage ofix the roads agency to fix the roads agency to fix the roads. I shook the hive. I may be stung or get the honey. The senate present urged them to attend had session with d. O. T. Next week. Well, it has been four months now since the october floods. The water exposed just how fragile South Carolinas roads are but the South Carolina department of transportation since then says they have learned several lessons. Here is a closer look. Reporter one of those especially when facing a understood and having to react to it and that is when the transportation of secretary is proud of. Her teams communication was a highlight to the department response. She said she is happy with the speedy recovery of the roads but knows there is still challenges. How do we deal with these privately owned dams and working through that process and do you spend public dollars on privately owned facilities facilities and what is the process [ indiscernible ] reporter the d. O. T. Is working with dhec and the dam owners to come up with a resolution. And i asked about a roads bill, she would love to see one make its way through because the roads and bridges need it. News 19 wltx. Thank you. We are on your side tonight with information about phone scams. Customers need to be aware scam artists are posing as employees. They call the customer and tell them about a late utility bill. They will threaten to turn your service off. They instruct the customer to purchase a prepaid credit card. Never give your information out over the phone. If you think you have been a victim notify Law Enforcement immediately. Disturbing story out of Kershaw County tonight. Deputies arrested a teenage boy who Sexual Assaulted a young boy and young girl. He is 17yearold richard dewayne hendrix. Deputies say january 17 the family of a 13yearold girl told officers their child had been sexually assaulted by richard dewayne hendrix. The next day the family of a 12 say he sexually assaulted their son. There may be other victims out the. Anybody with information on other victims should call Crime Stoppers 1888crimesc. Police arrested a woman who lied about being attacked by her exhusband. She is charged with filing a false report. Police say she contacted them last october saying her ex husband sexually assaulted her. Investigators say they were able to determine her ex husband was nowhere close to South Carolina at the time of e alleged incident. Orangeburg county, deputies looking for a person of interestane breaking and entering case. The suspect stole from several cars yesterday morning. Multiple items were taken including an ipad, gps and a hand gun. Most of the vehicles were unlocked and the suspects just opened the door and got in. Deputies are asking owners value in their cars and also always lock those doors. If you have any information on what may have happened, who may be responsible for this call Crime Stoppers 1888crimesc. Now, the midlands most accurate forecast with chief meteorologist jim gandy. Well, a cold front came through the area over night but the rain was slow to move out. This is a time lapse over the last three years. The rain continues in the coastal region. Live radar now. The rain moved east of i95 now. Moving out of the midlands for the first time. The south eastern part of the midlands got a lot of rain. Temperatures kept down by the clouds today. In the 50s. Right now 50 degrees up in raleigh. 59 augusta. 50 degrees over in atlanta. It is cloudy here in columbia. Temperatures 58 degrees. Winds from the southwest at 5 miles per hour. Tonight those clouds will stick chanan for a shower, low temperature of 38 degrees. But the clouds will be moving out before day break. Expecting sunshine tomorrow. 52 degrees. It will be colder tomorrow. And tomorrow night we will be dropping down to 28 degrees. Now a look at the traffic around the area for this afternoon. We will start with an over view of the traffic right now. Really around the cici not too many problems except in the northwestern part of columbia. Leaving columbia, through malfunction junction, first of all, there is an accident here on the westbound lane of i20 and just bout the broad river, extending all the way over to highway 378. It is slow in the westbound lanes and also slow through malfunction junction. Another accident on broad river road. Slow through that area. Southeast side of town. Things moving smoothly on the sumpter highway. Northeast side of town. A slow down here on clemson road heading over towards the village at sand hill. However from downtown uplight wood it should take you 15 minutes. Downtown to clemson road 13 minute. Once you get to clemson road it is slow from there. Now back to you. Thank you. Judge rejected bill cosbys request to throw out his Sexual Assault case. Bill cosby is accused of drugging and assaulting a tormer Temple University employee in 2000 former Temple University employee in 2004. He says the encounter was consensual. He be back in court next month. 13 Million People signed up for Health Insurance for 2016. That is 4 million new people. It highlighted the the company highlighted 2. 7 million which represented more new young enrollers than last year. The man who many point to as the face of run away drug prices was on capitol hill today for a hearing that looked into that price gouging. Embattled drug entrepreneur Martin Shkreli was subpoenaed to testify today but it was a tense meeting because he refused to speak. He is facing charges for securitys fraud. Shkreli hiked the price of a lifesaving drug from 13. 50 to 750. 00. Lawmakers didnt let martin pronounced shkreli. Yes, sir. Some questions. I want to make sure you are not all of your answers will subject you to incrimination. Do you understand that . I intend to follow the advice of my counsels. Not yours. Well, Martin Shkreli never answered any questions and afterwards tweeted that congress was full of imbeciles. Florida governor says the state has three new cases of zika virus and he is adding a fifth county to the emergegey declaration. They are from people infected with the virus when they traveled to other countries. She said the state is preparing like it would for a hurricane and wants residents to know florida is safe. Officials are still evaluating the first known cases transmitted in the u. S. Through sex. Hillary clinton and bernie democratic debate tonight from new hampshire. The nations first primary next week. Yesterday they traded jabs over their progressive values. On the republican side donald trump and ted cruz are locked in a war of words following the iowa caucuses. The faa is looking into what forced Donald Trumps jet to make an Emergency Landing in nashville yesterday afternoon. He made a brief stop in tennessee after he and members of his Campaign Team had to leave the plane and board a smaller tyke complete their trip from new york to arkansas. A spokesperson says the delay was caused by a minor mechanical issue. If you drive a honda listen up. Honda recalling 2. 2 million vehicles because of faulty air bags. They could explode with too much force. It inclouds from 2005 includes from 2005 and the 2015 there is a new push to make barbies boyfriend look more realistic. They tweeted their idea for a new curvy ken doll. Calling it dad bod ken. They reloosed new looks for barbie. Dont released new looks for barbie. Dont downtown on ken soon. Realistic barbie is real, ken is not i will go with that. That outfit [ talking at the same time ] i cant even get with this [ talking at the same time ] listen. Put on a couple pounds. Kids, pregnancy [ talking at the same time ] color [ talking at the same time ] the shoes. Everything about that outfoot is wrong. Out fit is wrong. I want him to carry beer and a toddler. That would be more or wifes purse [ talking at the same time ] diaper bag [ talking at the same time ] today may be the first time they heard the term dad bod. Would you like to explain . I dont know how to explain it. A tweet, started as a tweet and then went viral. The arms get softer. Less toned. Belly gets softer, less toned. Slouched down [ talking at the same time ] flat bellies yeah. The new ken versus the old ken [ talking at the same time ] guys who matured i am good with the dad bod [ talking at the same time ] seseoned. Seasoned. Seasoned. Like us. Do you like the dad bod ken . Tweet at us. Before we do this tease we have huge news of who will be on the show today. World champion, u. S. Champion, olympic medalists, Michelle Kwan. Tune in. She will be coming up later on. Coming up next, 4 million pressure is on for super a new study is out about where the fastest seeking people are in the country. Where do you think we fall in South Carolina . Well, according to a study re according to a Study Released from oregon take the lead for fastest talkers. Minnesota come in second. They analyzed 4 million calls between 2013 and 2015 and measured the rate and frequency speech from calls placed. According to the data the slowest speaking states are in the south. The only two slower talking i dont think we speak slow. Yes, we do. We do . We listen even slower. [ laughter ] you got to listen dont talk too fast [ talking at the same time ] you have to listen to the rate i think we speak slowly. You do . Yeah. Yeah. You would [ talking at the same time ] [ laughter ] i think we i dont know. I dont know. But but i wouldnt change anything. No. No. Not at all. I think we are more thoughtful and that is why [ talking at the same time ] when i go to other parts of the country i say what did you say . Say that again . One more time. That happened earlier today. Laughter ] okay. All right. Jim, speak very slowly and deliberate and clearly so we understand what happened. The rain is moving out. Say that fast. That is good. What is going on. 95, moving out of the midland and finally we get a chance to dry out but not before we saw rain. This is a estimate of the rainfall over the last 36 hours. All of yesterdays rain. The least amount of rain in the northwest and midland half inch to an inch. In the columbia area we saw between an inch and a half and two inches of rain. Orangeburg to manning, sumpter area 3 to 4 inches of rain common. And a Flood Warning has been issued for the north fork of the edisto river, orangeburg, that goes into Effect Tomorrow morning and lasts through weekend. Here is where the rain is. Along the coast. The front cleared the coast. But the clouds persist. High pressure is building into the South Central state. It cleared out through the south east. We have colder air moving in. Right now temperatures are jurally in the 50s. Cooler in sumpter and florence. 52 degrees. 53 orangeburg, 58 in columbia as well as greenwood. Tonight it will stay cloudy and we might see showers develop late tonight, early tomorrow morning before the clouds move out. There is still a threat of a shower but we wont see more than that. Tomorrow it will clear out. We will see sunshine. Tomorrow night it will be clear with light winds. It will be cold. And then saturday we will see high thin clouds moving across the upstate and the piedmont. Sunny for the midland. Tonight low temperatures of 33 newberry. 40 sumpter. 41 orangeburg. Tomorrow high temperatures in the low 50s. 50 in camden and bishopville. 52 columbia and orangeburg. And 51 in aiken. Our sevenday forecast looks saturday it will be sunny 55 degrees. We have taken any chance of rain out of the forecast for sunday. It will be partly cloudy. 57 degrees. And we are still expecting it to turn cold next week but it may be delayed. The cold air comes in on monday. It will be breezy, 56 degrees. More clouds coming in for for tuesday. Not expecting precipitation but it will be windy. And cold. 45 trees the high on tuesday. But degrees the high on tuesday. But with the wind it will field goaler than that. Colder than that. 25 degrees thursday morning and we warm up from there with a high of 53. Now back to you. Thank you so much. Super bowl 50 is three days away. The broncos and the panthers is part of the show. Commercials are the other and over 5 million for a 30 second spot. Reporter it is sports among advertisers to create super bowl ads. Commercials are splashed across social media weeks before the big game. Reposted and retweeted to get more bang for the buck. Fantastic idea. Reporter it takes a lot of bucks. A 30 second commercial fetches 4. 8 million. At super bowl one that cost less than 38,000. But he says it is worth it. We saw or heard data from our dealers saying that people saw the spot, came in, test drove the vehicle and bought the vehicle. Reporter car and beer ads dominate but women are the focus. [ music ] in my face. Celebrities push a varietetof products but animals never fail. [ music ] appointment tv. One time everybody in america is watching. Reporter and in celebration of the super bowl anniversary stars of this classic commercial mean joe green reunited after 40 years. [ music ] reporter cbs news, san francisco. Well, the super bowl is getting ready torank to rank their favorites. Students ranked the commercials every year. They cover advertising principals and the relationship between culture and advertising. They discussed and received instructions about the viewing. Student watch games together with the winner receiving the cocky award. Most exciting of the year. We had alumni behind it themes, creating the commercials and they come to camps to get the award. Which is amazing. It needs to have a solid message to it. Flows nicey. Am not for nicely. I am not for sappy commercials. A good commercial could come without any emotion too so i will look forward to seeing what the companies show this year. This is a cool class because it is the only three credit class dedicated to super bowl ads in the country. Still ahead today on friends five a debate that owners who is more loving dogs or okay. An age old question, who loves a human more . The cat or the dog . Thanks to a new study done by scientists we have the answer. To me this is no surprise. Dogs proven to love their humans 5 times more than the cat. The professor took blood samples before and after they played with their people owners. He checked the samples for the level of oxytocin. It is a chemical we produce when we care about somebody. The attachment hormone. Dogs produce 57 more. Cats on the other hand only had 12 . Half of the cats produced any oxytocin at all. Half of your cats out there that you are petting dont even not only do they not give a hoot they probably dont like it. Dont like it. [ talking at the same time ] feel goods. Warm and fuzzy. Cats like, i dont care if you pet me. Who is this lady. Get your handoff my head. How about that . Get a dog. Still ahead today she captivated audiences around the world and now 5 time world hear what she you are watching news 19 friends five with andrea mock and darci strickland. Welcome back to friends five. Talking about the floods in october. The floodwaters are gone but the impact of the storm is still being felt. Some families are now homeless. News 19s jumay f has more their fight for stabilities. Reporter organizers at a shelter for families say they need the need for housing is more urgent than they have seen before. The president and ceo sodes she has says she has never seen a Natural Disaster Effect People in this way. Families are living in their cars. We spoke with a mother who became unemployed because of the flood. She never thought this would be homeless. From the shelter to the hotel, from the hotel to the Family Center, from the Family Center to here. Bam, bam, bam, bam. A good bam. Show me how strong i am. Because the strength through reporter she is staying at st. Lawrence place with her two children. She is working on getting financially stable so she could buy a house. Thank you. Columbia has 10,000 for Business Owners effected by the floods. The program is designed to assist Small Businesses that suffer damage, loss revenue, reduced revenue or customers unable to reach the business. Applicant must be located in columbia, t qt been in business two years and suffered losses from the flooding not covered by influents. The deadline to insurance. Now, the midlands most accurate forecast with chief meteorologist jim gandy. Cloudy outside. The good news is the rain moved out at least for now. Just a few light showers left, that is it. But right now we still have the clouds in place over the midlands and here in columbia. Our temperatures are 58 degrees. Winds at 5 miles per hour. Tonight we will stay cloudy and we will see a chance for showers but that will come after midnight tonight. Getting down to 38 degrees for a low temperature. The clouds will be moving out around day break and we will see sunshine tomorrow. But with the breeze we are expecting a high of 52 degrees. Now looking ahead, it looks like it will be dry this weekend. Mostly sunny on saturday, high of 55 degrees after a morning low of 28 and on sunday 57 degrees. Beginning monday, though, a strong cold front will be coming how it the area. It will be partly cloudy. It will be breezy. 56 degrees with cold air monday, monday night, tuesday. Mostly cloudy. Windy and we are expecting a now lets take a look at the traffic around our area. And actually things are moving, in good shape, particularly on the south side of town. Problems in the northeast side of town. An accident here, north bound i 77. Killion road. That is backing up the interstate there on i77 and fair road it is slow. A slow down here on 2 notch road as well. Now on the Northwest Side of town we have problems here. It is slow in the westbound lanes of i20 here. Before you get to the broad triver the lexington river to the lexington highway. Slowing down through malfunction junction. If you are going from downtown to harveson boulevard it will take 11 minutes. If you are goininfrom downtown on 378 to lexington it will ladies, back to you. Thank you. Today is a big anniversary. The uso was founded 75 years ago today. This morning the organization held a celebration at columbia airport. The uso operates a lounge the for Service Members who are passing through city. The South Carolina chapter volunteers and staffed greet thousands every month. When we first opened, we have been here six years. Now we are up to 8,000. That is a lot of recruits we are e welcoming them in. The uso was founded at the urging of president roosevelt in 1941. The mission is to strengthen americans military Service Members by keeping them connected. The classroom with paper, pencils and a teacher in the transform South Carolina wants to see digital and face to face learning. They hosted a meeting today discuss blended learning or personalized education. Every student would interact with a device at their own pace. Moving ahead only when they are ready and with constant feed back. Not just once a semester or report cards. Not every skid doing the same thing at the same time with the same stuff. Not expected to be there is personalization. There is everybody has their own path. Transform sc believes in project based learning, blended learning and the next meeting is in march. There is still time to help make a difference in the lifef a girl pre life of a girl preparing for a special night, prom. Now is ur chance to help a girl go to prom through the the South Carolina bar association. Loss of different locations that you can drop off your dresses. Including right here at news 19. The deadline is coming up, ough, february 24. And march 9 in orangeburg. We have the locations on our website and we are taking purses, jewelry, anything a girl might need to make sure it is a special night. Up next she captivated audiences around the world and now 5 time world figure skating hear what she has been up to donkey sound elephant sound theres a big difference between making noise, tapping sound and making sense. elephant sound donkey sound when it comes to Social Security, we need more than lip service. Our next president needs a real plan to keep Social Security strong. elephant noise hey candidates. Enough talk. There is more mozzarella drama for mcdonalds. They are facing a lawsuit. A california man claims they are misleading cheese lovers it came a day after position issued an apologize when twitter users posted images after showing out the hollowed out sticks that appeared no cheese at all. It accuses mcdonalds of using a starch filler with mozzarella. These items are 1. I wonder how much his lawyers retainer is. 1 cheese sticks. Dont worry there are plenty of restaurants where they will put plenty of cheese on your plates. News 19s Colby Gallagher is down for the count where there is plenty more. Reporter ladies, we are at fancy that in downtown columbia this is harvey, the owner. You have been six years . Yeah. Six years in april. Reporter you had an interesting career change. Yes, i was in sales for 29 years and catered for hobbies. And in 2009 i decide i was going to go for it and so i booked 12 weddings that year and i had to have a place so we found this small spot and we have been here ever since. We feed 100. T restaurant and 25 to 500 catering a day. Reporter that the a lot of search from sales to cooking. I understand service from sales to from sales to cooking. I understand there is a theme here . Reporter you are next to the hub. How has that played a role in your business . It was real slow at first but now it is doing well. We accept the carolina card. Reporter one thing i noticed, you have a ton of food first of all but the prices are priced so well for everybody. We try to make it affordable for everyone. Including students. Reporter that is a good thing. Something you can afford. A good meal that you could afford. How did you decide to make the menu i just wanted a variety things. Something that everybody would have a chance, salads, fish tacos to hamburgers, cheeseburgers. A fried green tomato blt. We have a daily special every day of the week. If you go away for two years years and come back you will roast beef on tuesday, reporter we do cakes and brownies and cookies. Reporter is there anything you dont do . [ indiscernible ] all the different catering events. I look up recipes on the internet. Reporter if somebody wanted to cater how far in advance do they need to give notice . We like a 24 hour notice for lunches, corporate events. A big wedding or big event we like a couple weeks. Doesnt matter, we wont turn down anybody. Reporter fancy that, 1212 hampton street in downtown columbia. Colby gallagher, news 19 wltx. Thank you so much. All right. The excitement in the news room is growing because look who just stopped by the wltx studios. We will find 5 time world figure skating champion Michelle Kwan is in town campaigning for Hillary Clinton. This is video from Columbia College where she left before stopping by news 19. Her big event tonight at 6 30 p. M. We are so thrilled to have you. It is almost like a live studio audience. If the people at home could see how many people are in the studios right now to see you. This never happens. So many of us feel like we know you. We were huge fans of your performances. Thank you. Thank you for being with us. What motivated you to jump in to the political race, and throw your support this year . When i finished skating 10 years ago, hard to believe 10 years already, i ended up going back to school, focused on international relations, political science. Went to get my masters and had the honor ththwork for former secretary of state Hillary Clinton. I said i am ready for hillary. Her experience, dedication in public service, her whole life has been dedicated to fighting for women, children and families and her experience as secretary of state, first lady, senator from new york, make hers the most experienced makes her it most experienced. Get things done. Move the country forward and build on the progress president obama made. The interesting thing about you going around today and talk to students, i thought this was funny, you reflect on your life experiences, some of these students are too young to remember [ talking at the same time ] [ laughter ] she was the alternate. The students they were born much [ talking at the same time ] so they did play an old youtube shop of the 1998 olympics. And some are like i was two years old [ laughter ] education, in your personal life, after you won 5 world chips you knew that edge chips you championships you knew education was so important to you, why did you decide to go back . To me, i was very, very fortunate to have had a long skating career and just like my goal to make it to the Olympic Games my goal was to get my education. I finally at 26 ended up finishing. I had one year credit at ucla and i was determined. I said i am on a 10 year track. Not tenure. 10 year. I went back to school. Question of when. My experience, i was appointed as the first Public Diplomacy envoy. That led me to be inspired to go after my masters degree. Here it was just learning. We are all students of life and we into learn. When you think back on your time on the ice, what is the one incidence that stands out to you . Because i am [ talking at the same time ] us watching you [ talking at the same time ] good or bad [ talking at the same time ] [ laughter ] all good things right now. You know, i have to say being so thankful for all the support over the years of all the people who cheered me on, shed tears when i fell, laughed with me, i think it would have to be being, you know, representing the country, being ceremonies with mymyeammates, having team u. S. A. Uniform on. It was that feeling like wow i am here. I am representing the country. Lets do this and have fun. You skated with every big name out there. Who would you say is your favorite personality of people people watching in South Carolina gracie gold, ashley wagner. They are fabulous. I didnt skate much with them older [ talking at the same time ] [ laughter ] i grew up watching brian boy tono. He was an incredible role model. I was on tour with him and he became a mentor. I was very lucky that my role model became my mentor and somebody that was just through and through a great champion on and off the ice. Final question, can we if you will race with me [ laughter ] [ talking at the same time ] i have seen Hillary Clinton on the ice before. How good is she . I havent had a chance to witness it, i saw pictures [ talking at the same time ] when it is all over and when she is president of the United States i will say lets go ice skating. All right. Thank you so much for joining us. We appreciate it. You have to head back over to carolina. Yep. Thank coming up tonight on wltx the Big Bang Theory at 8 00 p. M. Hyphand pieces 8 30 p. M. Mom at 9 00 p. M. 9 30 p. M. Angel from hell. 10 00 p. M. Elementary. And keep it here for news, weather and sports for news 19 at 11 00 p. M. Team is looking to beat sec rival kentucky at 155 on the season. Kentucky leads the series but the gamecocks have a 169 edge in columbia. Tipoff is 7 00 p. M. We will have the highlights tonight at 11 00 p. M. And the mens game is on saturday taking on texas a m in texas. The aggies won last season in columbia. Saturdays game is the fifth game between the two schools and third in college station. Game time is 4 00 p. M. And Michelle Kwan got to the same time ] [ laughte reporter at 6 00 p. M. The face of education is changing. Protecting those who act out of selfdefense. A bill at the state house would give judges s e ability to grant immunity in some deadly cases. Gamecocks fans this is your spot to get a fresh cooked meal. Coming up on restaurant report card. News 19 at 6 00 p. M. Starts right now. From the station that is on your side, you are watching news 19 at 6 00 p. M. The classroom with paper, pencils and a teacher might become a thing of 9yc6 wc4q . \t. Being with us. I am jr berry b and i am darci strickland. Members of the group met today and news 19s Sonia Gutierrez was there and joins us now with more on what this classroom would look like. Reporter well, every device with guidance from a
comparemela.com © 2020. All Rights Reserved.