Morning at 50 degrees. As this rain continues, 47 for the afternoon, clearing skies overnight, 35 degrees, and windy conditions. 49 degrees, but wait till you see the weekend weather. Your forecast coming up. The department of transportation is proposing eight 725 million plan to widen i26. This is 480 million to widen the interstate in charleston and north charleston, and they plan on widening between richland and newberry county, and they hope to cover 80 to 90 of the cost. This could take six years for the design, planning and construction. Resident in Richland County can expect to see more construction on the roads this year, according to the new expecting to complete more than one dozen projects. Since the beginning of the program, 127 million in sales tax collected to complete these projects around the county. 31 million went to construction last year, and the green streak is expected to be completed and the next few months. A tire plant opening in spartanburg county, unveiling t
They saw foot print and they heard somebodyane wooded area. Somebody in a wooded they are and in the they found dixon bleeding from an injury he got running from the woods and deputies found a blanket he was using to carry the items off he stolen. He was taken to jail. Three teens arrested with a fatal drug related shooting of a 19yearold victim. He was shot saturday night. Two 19yearold boys were charged with murder and a 15 yearold girl was also charged in connection with the deadly shooting. Ficers say it wawasupposed to be a Drug Exchange that turned into an attempted robbery. Expanding operations in South Carolina. The laboratories is building a new facility in lexington county. New jobs. The company has been operating in South Carolina since 2010. Now, the midlands most accurate forecast with chief meteorologist jim gandy. Today we saw plenty of sunshine. We have also seen clouds increasing. We had rain coming in to the western part of the state. Much of it was not measurable but
Talked to. Performed. Emily performed the study on the speaker system. Her company will install. The noise levels will be quieter than the ambience. It meets the city noise ordinance. Reporter she is more concerned with noise from concerts and other entertainment. The big problem seems to be a possibility of great possibilities, too much of the wrong kind of noise from entertainment. Reporter some neighbors had concern about the amount of light coming from the stadium. Barry performed the study. He says properties should not be effected by the light. Once you get out to a thousand feet there was no light levels at all. After the that was all that was all within the property. Minimize the light and sound on the neighborhoods. But she says she is skeptical. I dont believe that. I dont believe that. You know when the fair came, i could hear the fair. Reporter tonights city counsel meeting started moments ago. Community members will be at the meeting to make sure they are able to voice the
On darci strickland. Lets turn to efren afante for the weather. A lot of us are starting off with no rainfall, but we do have wind upstate. Specifically in the western part of midland and saluted county. North of saluda pockets of heavy rainfall are moving through into newberry. Right now a lot of warm air is coming in from the southwest and we have warmed up. And aiken. Cooler where the rain and clouds have not settled in. Camden. We are expecting showers and storms that could be on the strong side with gusty winds at 25 Miles Per Hour. A high of 75 and a low of 53. Showers continue at least through tomorrow morning. The wind will be at 510 Miles Per Hour in a high of 59. As far as the roads, getting ready to head out on the roadways, give yourself extra time. No issues on i26 between piney grove. There are two incidents on the road right now. The first incident is are not i26 westbound near alpine road. Then another accident has been reported in lexington on Mineral Springs rd. Right
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