Seen on the fountain in downtown greenville. A good sign of just how much you need to bundle up this morning. We will see above freezing temperatures later today. As of right now, not anywhere close to that and when the wind comes through, it is bitter cold. Experts tell you that these are the temperatures, if youre not layer that properly, you will be dealing with hypothermia or frost bite. We are a couple blocks away from the bus stop and we will be getting to election coverage in a couple of minutes. That is around the corner at the peace center when the candidates will be on saturday. Once again, bundle up before you head out. Aly myles wyff news 4 live in downtown greenville. Allyson thank you. Shifting our focus to commitment 2016 now, with the focus on South Carolina. Candidates continue making stops in the upstate looking for your vote. Geoff that includes gop frontrunner donald trump, whos boasting about his poll numbers in the state. By the way, the original theyre through th
Kennedy. 33 we want to give you a quick traffic update as you head out and about this morning. And good news. There are no trouble spots to report in or around the capital city. But as always. We are keeping our eyes on the road and will continue to update you if anything changes for your morning commute. Abc columbia wants to help you jump start your day. We have a quick rundown of your top morning headlines. Today is super tuesday. Its the biggest day of competition for the remaining president ial hopefuls. One that could there are plenty of delegates up for grabs. In the 13 contests taking place today. For the republicans 595delegates. Out of the one thousandtwo hundred37 needed to clinch the nomination. While democratic president ial hopefuls Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton are left vying for 865 of the twothousand threehundred83 delegated needed to win the democratic race. The stakes are high going into todays vote. But a new c nn orc poll shows republican president ial hopeful
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And if any project that we should do this and it is a lot of money, but i think that it is money that would be well spent for the community and we will see that, you know, it takes time simply, and that is the frustrating thing about it. But when it does get done. But also to your question, the whole process of these violations that are outstanding, beefing up our Code Enforcement division is helpful because it provides more staff to actually look into these things. And i think that if you look at the budget they have suggested adding people there. Okay. I think that that will help a lot. Because you know, when you take people away from permitting and inspecting it effects those divisions and so focusing really specifically on code endivorcement is really the way to widle down these outstanding violations. In the current year there were two building inspectors added effective january first. They think that we could not fill them until january and that is correct. And we. And the board
Assessment against their property tax so that they cant and that is if you are already broke, there are, you know, if you are already in bankruptcy, it is difficult to get any more. They can also result in being referred to the City Attorneys office. Sometimes is that after several years, brings in funding and that essentially offsets the City Attorneys work to get to that. I dont think that it is a money maker or set up to be that way. But, it is, you know, part of of our mission, and based on your concern and the board of supervisors concern we are trying to putoer resources into that. Okay, thank you. Thank you, Deputy Director. Commissioner lee . Yes. I have a question on the over all budget plan. And workforce. I was wondering if the budget takes into account any additional employees that are needed when they are mandatory retrofit Program Starts and if it does not, i am wondering what we are going to do, do we need more employees when that happens. The commissioner, we already in