South carolina is. Texas senator ted cruz started his day with lunch in seneca. Before heading to spartanburg this afternoon. Cruz says despite the war of words between the front runners. His focus is on South Carolinas voters. 3 3 3 i think the people of South Carolina deserve a focus on issues, on substance on record and positive optimistic vision for this country and thats where im going to keep my focus. Focus. Coming up. The battle heats up between ted cruz and donald trump now trump is threatening to sue cruz. Over an abortion ad. Just wait til you hear cruzs response next half hour 3 later tonight. Ted cruz. Marco rubio. And ben carson will be taking center stage in greenville. Theyre participating in a town hall meeting. G. Put on by cnn. Cnn. Earlier today. Carson campaigned in newberry. He spoke to voters at the grille on main. Carson told the crowd there needs to be more focus on the issues. Not fighting between the candidates. Carson says thats his goal in tonights town hal
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
Eric weisfeld. And im rochelle dean. Were live times now 5 00. Its another warmer start to the day. And more good news, were halfway through the work week. Thats right. Things should be nice as you head out your door this morning. Lets turn things over to meteorologist Jonathan Kennedy for more on remainder of todays forecast. 33 we want to give you a quick traffic update as you about this and good news. There are no trouble spots to report on the roads in or around the capital city. But well be sure to keep and eye on the roads and keep you updated for your morning commute. Abc columbia wants to help you jump start your day. We have a quick rundown of your top morning back town halls for the republican president ial hopefuls. Ahead of saturdays gop primary. Tonight. Marco rubio, ted cruz and ben carson will gather in greenville for a town hall. Thats at eight tonight on cnn. And tomorrow. Donald trump, jeb bush and john kasich will take part in their own town hall. Right here in colum
Speech was slurred. Washington was given the gase test as part of a field sobriety test and showed multiple signs of impairment. Washington refused to give a blood test. They were able to get the symbols they knew that after obtaining a search warrant. It was more than five hours after the accident. Washington is out of jail on a 25,000 bond. After another chilly start to the morning, we have warmed up significantly. It is 70 degrees in newberry, 70 in winnsboro. A little bit cooler if you want to call it then orangeburg at 72 degrees. The winds have been picking up a little bit. Right now and the capital city we have a lot of sunshine. It is 74 degrees. We should be but a low gap by winds are out of the southwest at 10 miles per hour. We are on track for high as 76 degrees. We will have a low of 54. Tomorrow we will have a high of 65 degrees. We will take a look at the forecast up in a few minutes. It is the most important day so far the 2016 president ial election. Voters in a dozen