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
Grace, what can we expect to hear from the candidates this evening . Reporter alicia and ben, first i want to show you the clinton and sanders fans fathering down the street. They are courting drivers in rush hour traffic on assembly street. They have gotten quiet but lots of clinton fans, a few bernie fans. The hillary fans have been louder this evening after suffering defeat in new hampshire, clinton gained back her momentum in nevada this weekend. The challenge for her now is to keep it going. Clinton did very well wi black voters in nevada thats a key point here, ahead of saturdays democratic primary. In 2008, 55 of the states electorate was black. Sanders has pulled out all the stops courting our states africanamerican voters but will it be enough . Since saturday, hes started hitting clinton hard calling her out for not releasing the paid speeches she gave to big wall street firms. Voters tonight will get the themselves. As we saw last week with the republicans, these town halls
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
Today as the team travels to auburn to face the tigers. But this is the first season in over 80 years that they head into sec play with an undefeated record. Despite the success the team is having so far, head coach frank martin said that the team is sticking to their principles. 3 3 that game will tip off at 7 oclock tonight on the sec network. 3 meanwhile. The National Championship game is a little less than a week awaythe Clemson Tigers will face alabama. In glendale arizona next monday. Clemson earned a spot in the title game. After beating oklahoma in the orange bowl. Our sports director. Reggie anderson. Week. Looking ahead to the big game. 3 3 the Columbia Housing Authority has been given permission by the federal government to tear down gonzales gardens. They plan to ask city leaders for a Million Dollars to do the job. City council is expected to talk about that later tonight. The facility currently has 274 units. The residents will be given vouchers for new housing. This is a
3 our clemson championship bowl coverage continues in just a moment. But first. It was a cloudy and rainy weekend for most in the midlands. Lets get a check of your forecast for today with meterologist efren afante. Good morning efren. 3 not many people grow up saying theyre living out their dream. One lexington man is putting on his uniform and preparing to do just that in front of thousands at the National Championship game but he wont step foot on the field. News19s Colby Gallagher has his story. 3 ralph mayer he wanted to fly so badly that one day he said dad, can we make some wings . and i said, heck yeah so we went in the garage and we got some cardboard and some rope and we made some wings and he would run across the backyard and flap those wings as hard as he could trying to take off. He said dad, i cant get off the ground i cant get off the ground i said well, son, ybe this wont work, maybe you cant found a way to but two sets of wings as an ralph mayer he got his wings as a w