3 a bill limiting state thanks for being with us. I am j. R. Berry. Limiting refugees is coming forward in the center. The Senate Passed the bill and laura thomas has more on what the bill entails. The it has no desire to assembly with us. Reporter people for and against resettlement of refugees in South Carolina spoke in front of the subcommittee. Were called to love our neighbors which is not defined by ethnicity. Reporter more than 20 people spoke including the director of refugee services. All countries that have signed and ratified the u. S. U. S. Obligated to grant the same human rights and assistance to refugees that they grant to their citizens in other legal residents. Reporter several cut up to ask if ththbills on the table which would limit reinforces to refugee programs not be passed. A majority who spoke out were for them including head attorney. Its a program that cannot be vetted property for lack of accessibility integrity at the National Security level. Reporter senato
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
Still tracking rain. That could be a concern. Here is that line of showers and thunderstorms, east of raleigh, northeastern part of the state, east of columbia, all the way down into southern georgia and you can see how the thunderstorms are lined up along here and that is what is producing the heavier rain. Lets focus in on the midland right now. You can see rain. The bigger concern, to the south of columbia, this area, down to orangeburg, it has had a bowing feature and that is associated with strong gusty winds. There is a Severe Thunderstorm Warning for Orangeburg County till 5 30 p. M. This afternoon and Calhoun County. They could reissue this to the east and sumpter and Calhoun County but they havent done that just yet. In the meantime temperatures cooled off. 75 degrees here in columbia today. Right now 65. 65 in augusta. 60 atlanta. 62 raleigh. Warm ahead of the line of thunderstorms. We have rain still falling here in columbia. We have seen an inch of rain now. 65 degrees curr
Limiting refugees is coming forward in the center. The Senate Passed the bill and laura thomas has more on the assembly with us. Reporter people for and against resettlement of refugees in South Carolina spoke in front of the subcommittee. Were called to love our neighbors which is not defined by ethnicity. Reporter more than 20 people spoke including the director of refugee services. All countries that have signed and ratified the u. S. Refugee invention including the u. S. Obligated to grant the same human rights and assistance to refugees that they grant to their citizens in reporter several cut up to ask if the bills on the table which would limit reinforces to refugee programs not be passed. A majority who spoke out were for them including head attorney. Its a program that cannot be vetted property for lack of accessibility integrity at the National Security level. Reporter senators combined to move a full bill to the committee. The bill will take away state funding from refugee p
This used to be a shed. It is completely destroyed after the tornado ripped how it the area. Destroying much of this and destroying little parts of this property. Again i said this is a logging company, which means they harvest timber. The hay was used for the horses and you can see how the walls collapsed in here. And there used to be four polls that head ulthis building and all but one fell poles that held up this building and all but one are fell over. This truck damaged by it as the wall fell. Back there, the roof of the shed is on the ground. To the left side of it. As we have been walking through the property we have seen a lot of damage in addition to this. Trailers with hoods flipped up because of the powers of the wind from the tornado. No one got hurt earn this. I hurt in this. I talked to the owner who said no one was hurt, not a single employee or person around this area. That the the biggest part of this. No one got hurt which is the most important thing. Joyce koh, news 1