Has town halls planned in chapin, aiken and Mount Pleasant today. Following his stop here in columbia, jeb bush is set to make stops in beaufort, summerville and myrtle beach. John kasich will be in bluffton. Donned trump will be in walterboro and sumter today. The democratic kanld dates are staying just as busy. Bernie sanders was in columbia yesterday hoping to grow his support here in the capital city. Sanders spoke on criminal Justice Reform and highlighted his plans for free Higher Education and decreasing student debt. A College Degree is the equivalent in many respects to what a High School Degree was 50 or 60 years ago. For our economy to do well, we need the best educated work force in the world. Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton is also determined to win votes with youth and minorities. Clinton spent yesterday in new york speaking with civil rights leaders about breaking barriers. And former president bill clinton was in greenville the South CarolinaDemocratic Party primary is february 27th. And its still too soon to tell governor nikki haley who she expects to decide to be her pick for president going into saturdays primary. Governor haley saying shes not ready to endorse any of the g. O. P. Candidates. In fact, haley may not endorse anyone. I dont know yet. And, you know, im doing what i think a lot of people in South Carolina are doing which is i watch the debate. Im trying to go through all the situations. Im looking at the different candidates that are there and im trying to figure out who that person would be. So no, im not at a point yet. Haley says it would be very unlikely she would endorse donald trump. Remember, abc columbia is your home for South Carolinas first in the south primary. As the results come in saturday night, well have live reports from the top candidates and uptotheminute coverage on air during the news at 11 00 and on line at abccolumbia. Com, twitter and facebook. About putting a vote in on the weather. Looks like weve all won with a pretty sunny forecast for most of today. Lets turn things over now to meteorologist Jonathan Kennedy who gets an a for the day. Jonathan . Thank you, eric. Were seeing some nice sunshine. A little bit cloudy for us at the moment. Thats kind of been the rule so far today. Kind of in and out cloud cover. Temperatures are still warming up. Bouncing back to kind of mid 50s this afternoon after seeing a little bit of cooldown earlier this morning but it looks like were shaping up overall to a nice day. Winds out of the north at 12 miles an hour and that will probably keep things a little cooler than what we saw yesterday. I dont think we quite make it to 65. I think most everybody are on pace to climb into the lower 60s by the time its all said and done today. Were seeing mostly sunny skies but a little bit of cloud cover over the downtown area at the moment. But that should be kind of in and out throughout the day today. I think well see a nice forecast come our way for the remainder of your wednesday. Temperatures pretty much right where they should be this time of year. Average high around 60 degrees. Well see that for the forecast this wednesday into wednesday night. 36 tonight. It looks like well see some much warmer air on the way. When will we see it . Details coming up in a few minutes. Jonathan, it might be sunny today but some Small Business owners are still picking up the pieces from octobers flood. The citys office of Business Opportunities is giving locations a chance for a loan. Eligible applicants must be located in the city of columbia, having applied to fema assistance and been in business for a minimum of two years. To apply, call 8035453259 or go to columbiasc. Net obo, the deadline, by the way, is today. Columbias City Council Voting unanimously to end the process of transferring money out of the citys water and sewer fund to support other projects. Mayor Steve Benjamin says the city will commit to finding a source of funding that would offset any previous transfers from the fund. Last september, the state prohibiting the city from using the water and sewer fund for unrelated projects. And speaking of money, South Carolinas senators are set to start their extensive debate on road funding today. Among the proposals being debated to fix the state roads, raising the gas tax by 12 cents a gallon over three years. Senators may have a long way to go this week to find more money for those roads. They spent nearly five weeks in session already discussing this same issue. Also out of the statehouse this afternoon, a resolution declaring june 17th as mother emanuel nine day. Its advancing in the senate. The proposal would encourage south carolinians to reflect on Race Relations on the oneyear anniversary of the massacre at emanuel a. M. E. The house approved the resolution three weeks ago. Police say confessed shooter dylann roof wanted to start a race war. The resolution shows how the community instead responded with an outpouring of love and unity. To wait for hours after their school bus breaks down. And a handful of parents were left wondering where their children were. The Sumter CountySchool District claims the Transportation Office was unable to let the parents know about the bus delay because of a miscommunication. Thats because there was a substitute driver who did not have a bus roster with parent contact information. But this excuse, not enough for one parent who says monday nights breakdown is part of a larger problem of an unreliable bus schedule for her special needs child. I want them to be consistent. Make sure these kids get to school on time and drop them off at a decent time. Just have common courtesy if stuff happens, let us know. The School District has sincerely apologized to parents who were not properly notified. The superintendent was unavailable for an interview with abc columbia due to time constraints and an employee did tell us, though, theyre are hajd handled to ensure a roster always accompanies the bus route. From special needs to special help. More South Carolinas motherstobe will get parenting help through a statewide collaboration. Governor nikki haley unveiling new details of the Nurse Family Program during a News Conference yesterday. Under that program, nearly 1,200 families on medicaid will be paired with registered nurses. Those nurses will make home visits from a mothers pregnancy through the childs second birthday. Now, the goal is to help reduce preterm births and child hospitalizations. One Basketball Team calling for a timeout as they look for ways to rebound after a pretty tough defeat. Were going to explain next. News at 12 30. Hoop dreams for carolina basketball come to an end for the first time this season, the gamecocks are dealing with two losses in a row. Tim hill has the Sports Minute to win it. Gamecock basketball back in action looking to bounce back from that big kentucky loss over the weekend and stay a game out of fst place in the sec taking on last place missouri. Differentcolumbia, same poor results early on for u. S. C. Down 15 points to the tigers. Cutting into a double digit lead in the second half, though, michael corera and darrius thornwell hook up on the alleyoop. Missouris only senior ryan rossberg leads the tigers with 18 points. Still a double digit ballgame michael corera getting hot at the right time and he has 14 points on the game. Here comes carolina. Off the bench, dwayne notice, game high 21 and ends up with the offensive rebound here. Gamecocks take their first lead in the ballgame with about three minutes to go. They need a big stop late. And cant come up with it. U. S. C. For the first time this season losing backtoback ballgames falls to 85 in the sec. Now tied for third place with florida who comes to town this saturday. Im tim hill, thats the abc columbia Sports Minute to win it. Hope it gets your wednesday off to a good start. Tim, thank you. From the hardwood to the gym. The ymca is launching its annual campaign. The chair of this Years Campaign is jerri spurrier, Steve Spurriers wife. The goal of the campaign is to raise 400,000. Thats to ensure everyone in the midlands has access to Vital Community programs and resources that support youth development, Healthy Living and social responsibility. Support the ys cause, you can visit columbiaymca. Org give. Theres also a new headquarters coming to the capital city for this years midland gives. The 24hour giving challenge will be headquartered at the new Spirit Communications park. The park is also the new home to the Columbia Fireflies baseball team. Midlands gives orringers are giving local nonprofit organizations until february 29th to register to receive donations during midlands gives day. With this weather shaping up to be a great day to get out and play some ball. Meteorologist Jonathan Kennedy from main and gervais. Welcome back to abc columbia news at 12 30. Mix of sun and clouds for us right now. But generally sunny skies for your afternoon on this wednesday. 56 degrees right now. So temperatures are warming up. Still, not overly warm by any means outside but by february standards, not that bad. Winds out of the north five to 10. See the clouds here as we look out towards our south and west. South and east as of right now. Temperatures in the mid 50s. Pretty much everybody between 55 and 57 so nobody overly cool and i expect us as the sunshine becomes a little more common place, well see more sunshine and warm air come our way as we head through the afternoon. Highs in the low to mid 60s. We did get up to 65 yesterday. I dont know if well see that much on the top end today. Quiet for the time being. Obviously a few clouds and nothing to worry about in the way of rainfall or anything like that today. Stick with the dry conditions. Couple of rounds of High Pressure, one to our south and west and one to our south and east. Should keep us mostly dry today. Some substance in the atmosphere. We still have cloud cover and we still have winds out of the north right now so thats going to keep us a little bit cooler for the time being. But i do expect us to stay nice and dry throughout the day today. Theres some cloud cover pretty much scattered around the southeast and the Tennessee River valley, ohio river valley still seeing a few snow showers. For us in the carolinas, entirely different story. Dry for us and were relatively locations as well. Heres the lows stirring up some stuff around the great lakes. Seeing some winltry implications for that area there. High pressure over the Rocky Mountains and High Pressure over the Mississippi River valley and High Pressure off the coast of florida should be bringing us a nice dry forecast. If we can get the winds out of the south, that will help to significantly warm us up. Good news is we wont see anything besides sunshine the next couple of days. Well see a lot drier forecast come our way, even drier than what were seeing right now for our forecast into thursday and into friday. A lot of sunshine, a little bit cooler tomorrow. I dont think were quite into the 60s tomorrow. But still will be a nice pleasant day for most of us. As we head later into the weekend, it should be better for us. I think were on pace to be around 70 degrees. Were still seeing a few more clouds come our way as we get into saturday and into sunday. 70 to 73 there. Gamecocks have their first home series to open up the baseball season for 2016. Should be a nice weekend to get to the baseball field. Friday night being opening well likely see a nice warm forecast as we head through saturday and sunday as well. Some rain chances coming our way later that week. Temperatures stay relatively warm. 67 on monday and down to 58 on tuesday. Rain to look forward to there. Its been dry for us. We have a lot of sunshine coming our way and thankfully temperatures dont dip too much. Were counting down to the oscars and to refresh your memory, our movie reviewer is taking us back through the best of the best. Main and gervais. Welcome back. Calling all car enthusiasts and this set of wheels may be just what youre looking for if your pockets are deep enough to pay for it. James bonds most recent ride is set to go up for auction this week. The aston martin db10 supercar was created solely for the latest bond film spectre. Its expected to sell for as much as 2. 1 million. But before you go break the bank, you may want to pump your brakes. You should know this beauty doesnt have the necessary certifications needed to actually be driven out on the open road. The 88th Academy Awards, a little more than a week away and were counting down the best pictures. Today, movie reviewer matt perron gives us the skinny on the big short. Welcome to the oscars review. Up to the oscars airing here on abc columbia next weekend, i will review one of the best picture nominees. Normally, i have a formula as to how i do this. And since we havent an even split this year, ill stick to last years formula which means four of the movies are based on actual events and four are works of fiction. I will alternate between the two types every day leading up to next friday. So without any further adieu, lets get started on the big short which tells the story of the 2008 economic and Housing Market collapse. Our film begins with michael bury played by christian bale. Hes an exphysician turned Hedge Fund Manager with a remarkable ability for predicting numbers and stock market turnings. He notices something is off with the Housing Market and after doing research realizes the entire market is on a bubble backed by subprime loans preparing to defat. He approaches the major banks and arranges to create credit default swap markets where he bets against the bonds. Since the Housing Market has always been stable, the banks are quick to accept his bets. Actions two other separate groups begin to do research on the market and realize his predictions are correct. These two entities also begin to buy up bank swaps knowing that if the market fails, they will make billions. With every person they speak to, they become more convinced at how doomed the Housing Market is to a level they could never imagine. As the movie progresses, we see the Housing Loans begin to default. Even though the mortgages are losing tons of money, the Housing Market continues to become stronger. The three respective groups are baffled at how corrupt the entire system is. They continue to buy more swaps but do so somberly knowing their eventual huge gain will be the result of an entire economic collapse that will affect millions for which some will never recover. Eventually it happens. In 2008, the entire economy fails. Eight Million People lost their jobs and six million lost their homes. The three groups make billions but lose all faith in the economy especially when the government starts bailing out the banks. Process may be beginning to start all over again. So the nice thing about reviewing a movie thats based on a well known true story is you really dont have to worry about spoiling the ending. Everyone knows what happened in the late 2000s but what makes this movie fascinating is being able to see how these groups of people were able to predict it happening. The movie is a little confusing but in a fun twist of movie making, they bring in well known celebs like margo robbie and selena gomez to explain whats going on in laymans terms. The acting is superb with one best supporting actor nod. But the entire ensemble cast is just fantastic. And you get to see some of these actors in roles that youre not used to seeing them in which is usually pretty fun. Im not sure if this movie is going to get the statue some critics are predicting it will. Regardless, its definitely an interesting look at this particular economic pitfall. This has been your oscars overview. Be sure to tune in tomorrow for our first fictional movie back to you. Thank you, matt. As we get closer to the 88th Academy Awards, the movie reviewer will continue to review all the biggest blockbusters that garnered oscar nominations. You can catch his take on each of those films every weekday as we count down to the lights, the camera and all the action of the red carpet. The 88th Academy Awards only airs right here on abc. Thats sunday february 28th. And today, the winner is yeah, you guessed it. The weather. Final look at the forecast next. Mostly sunny with a few clouds for you this afternoon. Look for highs around 60 degrees. A little bit cooler for us tomorrow. Well be back in the 60s for your friday forecast. But all and all, nice and sunny and nice and warm for us especially as we head into the weekend. Partly cloudy skies for saturday into sunday. Well see highs around 70. Rain early next week but well enjoy the dry weather and warm weather when we have it. Thanks for making abc columbia your news at 12 30. Abccolumbia. Com. Get ready for the coolest and hottest party in town. Its the chews fire and ice ball. Mario and michael are getting the Party Started with a duo of delicious dishes thatll heat things up in no time. Then brace yourselves for a decadent frozen chocolate dessert with empires tarhonda jones. Plus, were taking daphne on a birthday adventure. We have cleared your calendar. Weve taken care of child care. And here comes our ride. So lets all have a ball, yall, right now on the chew. [ cheers and applause ] good afternoon, and welcome to the chew