Breezy with highs in the lower mid 40s. Dry weather is expected as we continue to the end of the work week. Thursday and friday temperatures will struggle to reach the upper 40s and low 50s. This weekend expect the arctic blast to continue and highs to continue in the 40s. Happening right now. City of columbia water crews are repair a water main break near the 11hundred block of st. Andrews road. This is near the st. Andrews commons apartments. Overnight we received calls to our newsroom about residents not having any water there. Utility crews are actively working to repair the water main break now. Well let you know when those repairs are complete. The polls predicting the projected winners in the New Hampshire primaries proved correct. But there was at least one surprise last night. Karin caifa reports from manchester with the primary results, and whats next in the president ial race. Winners here in New Hampshire. Both of them coming off of losses in iowa last week. Bernie sanders
Best on four legs compete for best in show. Nightly news begins right now. Announcer from nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening. As he laid out the ground today for a major battle with Senate Republicans over a Supreme Court nomination, president obama also waded deep into the race for president at a News Conference late this afternoon taking on donald trump and other republican candidates saying job. Its not hosting a reality show. His remarks come just four days away from the next major test in the race for president with trump maintaining his National Lead among republicans in our new nbc News Survey Monkey poll and jeb bush lagging behind, some wondering if South Carolina could be his last stand, and for democrats the focus remains on winning over africanamerican voters. We have all sides covered alexander in columbia, South Carolina. Hello, peter. Reporter hey, good evening to you, lester. Tonight the president is weighing
Already pledged their support. While that count is close political experts say South Carolina has always been Hillary Clintons firewall. Among African Americans clinton is polling at close to 70 percent which gives her a solid base for a victory here in the palmetto state. We have Team Coverage of the primary this morning. Our Caroline Patrickis is at Brookdale Elementary School in Orangeburg County. And our Michal Higdon is at Dent Middle School in michal how are things shaping up there . Steady was the word we kept hearing last week about the amount of people who were casting their vote in the republican primary. And we saw record numbers. Now turnout today for the democratic primary is not supposed to set new records but officials do expect a decent turnout. If youre headed to the polls, make sure to check your polling location on certain precincts might have changed. Also, on the side of your screen you can see a list of things youll need to bring with you. The Democratic Candidate
Leon avoided prison time in that case, however he received one year probation. He is currently in jail awaiting a bond hearing. Its been a cold and dreary day as we take a live look over downtown columbia through the wis skycam. Meteorologist ben tanner is in the First Alert Weather Center with the latest. The air is fairly dry and needs to moisten up for us to have any action with this system from a winter perspective, look for light amounts of freezing rain and or drizzle with up to a midlands to a touch more in the advisory area through the afternoon. This becomes a rain event by evening into the overnight as a warm front passes through, look for showers and scattered thunderstorms ahead of the cold front tomorrow morning, then 70 stay with wis for the latest weather updates by downloading the wis weather app. Its free just search wis in your app store. The latest on decision 2016 coverage. This is a live look out in camden where ted cruz is currently speaking. The event started at
Will rise to the lower 50s by late this evening into the overnight as a warm front passes through, look for showers and scattered thunderstorms ahahd of the cold front tomorrow morning, then clearing skies by late afternoon. Much warmer by late week with highs in the upper 60s to near 70 while road travel is not expected to be a major issue this morning, sc dot has treated some major routes in our northern midlands night. There will be periods of very light freezing drizzle and light freezing rain developing this morning and lastiti until around noon. Freezing rain advisory remains in effect for lancaster and chesterfield major routes in our northern midlands counties as a precaution. That includes i77 running through Fairfield County and parts of newberry county. Dot crews put a brine s sution down sunday in the event any frozen precipitation falls. State Officials Say local highways in those counties have also been pretreated along with bridges and routes that run close to hospitals.