Democratic hopeful Bernie Sanders has hit the ground running in the palmetto state. Caroline patrickis was at a stop in sumter this morning. Good afternoon its the beginning of a new week and all eyes are on the South Carolina democratic race. Its was just this morning when president ial candidate Bernie Sanders made his way to sumter to rally his supporters ahead of the democratic primary this weekend im here at serendipity cafe in sumter, it was a very intimate event between sanders and his supporters today just a few in attendance at this last Minute Campaign event in the midlands as he heads into the first in the south democratic primary this weekend. Of course he spoke on topics like jobs and education, raising the minimum wage and asking south carolinians to go out and we look around for other to people to make that. Thats why im running for president thats why im asking for your support i spoke aside from family and my job, my life is dedicated to getting bernie elected it would
Centre over the weekend. Columbia police say they are continuing to review surveillance video, but at this time they have no material evidence to go on. Officers say they did however locate a book bag while searching a wooded area next to the mall on saturday night. They found several air soft guns inside. At this point they are working to figure out if there is a connection. Witnesses tell police they saw two black males armed with handguns, however they cant confirm seeing the suspects fire. Also, no shell casings have been found. I f you know anything that can help investigators, call crimestoppers at 1888crimesc republican president ial candidate ted cruz is asking for the resignation of his communications director, rick tyler a day afer tyler distributed a video falsely depicting candidate marco rubio discussing the bible. The video misquotes rubio a suggesting the bible does not have any answers Spokesman Says he actually said the bible has all the answers. Heres what senator ted
Its the calm before the storm outside this morning. Nice warm temperatures right now. But we are in for a nasty day. Yeah. Youll want to be very cautious out lets turn things over meteorologist 33 we want to give you a quick traffic update as you head out and about this morning. Good news. There are no trouble spots to repopo in or around the capital city. But we will continue to keep our eyes on the road and 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. So, lets get started. Severe weather is sweeping the deep south. The National Weather service has confirmed reports of tornadoes in louisiana, mississippi, alabama and florida. At least three people have been killed. This is the system that meteorologist Jonathan Kennedy will be tracking throughout the morning. Stay with a bc columbia for the latest and any Severe Weather updates. Turning our attention to vote 2016. Don
Thats since tapered off. We are still seeing a lot of wind outside. If youve been outside in the last couple of hours, youve certainly noticed the wind picking up. Now, were also seeing lots of sunshine. Thats not necessarily working in our favor. That more sunshine means there will be more heat and more fuel for the storms to get going and we have some pretty strong line of storms just to our west. Lets take a look at our High Definition radar here, our radar scope. Were looking at this really strong line almost hugging the 77 corridor right now going down from charlotte all the way up to concord and those areas all the way down just west of columbia at the moment. Here. That is Severe Thunderstorm Warnings from those locations. We are under a tornado watch until 7 00 tonight. Thats a tornado watch until 7 00 and were watching. Ill zoom in a little bit for you here some storms just to our south and west. These are on a trajectory to come our way. Upwards of 60, 70, almost 80 miles an
About 75 people were in attendance at the Elko Convention Center on Wednesday night to see Republicans vying for their chance to move ahead to November’s general election for Elko