Trouble spots this afternoon. The sun is out. Temperatures are warming above freezing as ingrid mentioned. That is helping things. The shaded areas like this one right here. They are not seeing that there are still icy patches. As you can see, evidence of the ice has weighed down trees along these roads, forcing them just to break. Butler bridge road is is where icy conditions remain with evidence of an accident last night and another crash in the same spot this morning. We know one person was taken to the hospital as a result. Dispatchers with the Henderson County afters tell me they have received 160 calls related to wrecks in the county since 8 00 yesterday morning. A combination of Highway Patrol or local police have responded to those crashes and even more are occurring this morning. Conditions have made it difficult for even the officials we are short handed everywhere in the state. We just try to get to everywhere as fast as we can. Ice on interstate 26 early related in multiple
Rescinded its water conservancy notice. Town leaders say based on the basically reservoir levels, the mandatory conversation notice was lifted. We are looking forward to a nice afternoon. Here you go. That sunshine, the Skycam Network does show that we have Clear Conditions pretty much everywhere. Radar and satellite showing a few clouds in our northern zone. Notice nothing on the radar, no rain to worry about. It is chilly in a couple of locations. Well get to the 40s. Lester, 42. Same thing in robinsville. Going to be less breezy overall today. 2 00 p. M. Back in asheville, close to that 50 degree mark. By 4 00 p. M. , 51. Dinner time is still comfortable and sunny as the sun sets around 6 15 or so, 48 degrees. Headlines do indicate a nice afternoon. Forecast, ill talk about how warm we will turn and our next best chances for rain. Back over to you. With two days before the South Carolina republican primary, president ial candidates are campaigning hard in the upstate. Yesterday gove
Between Hillary Clinton and bernie sanders. The state caucus today. Within the past hour weve learned Hillary Clinton has come out on top with nearly 70 of precincts reporting its 52 for clinton, 48 for sanders. Today was the first test of the candidates appeal to minority voters. The bottom more than 25 latino. Immigration reform is a major concern here. I wanted people to come out of shadows under comprehensive immigration reform. I want them to register. I want them to be on a path to citizenship. If congress does not do its job we will use the executive presidency. The democrats have an eye on South Carolina which holds its saturday. South carolina exactly where republicans are focusing on today. Todays primary there will likely be a make or break race for jeb bush some analysts are calling this his last stand. Meanwhile in an interview with cbs news front runner donald trump says hes sticking to his strategy of being real with the american people. One of my problems is im straight
So far nearly 300 people have showed up at Carolina High School to vote any democratic primary. Thats more compared last week with about 100 Republican Voters coming in here all day. We also stopped by the sears shelters, next to Mcpherson Park in downtown greenville. Were told they had a steady turnout with no major issues. Over at the scrolling school the Sterling School in the area of the Phillis Wheatley center. More than 30,000 people voted before 4 00. Just last week for the republican primary, only 25 people voted there all day. I voted for Hillary Clinton, not because shes a woman. But ive heard all of the comments and everything and i think shes best suited for the job. She will try to finish what president obama has started. All of her resolutions are superficial. But i will vote for hillary right now who do you support . Im supporting Bernie Sanders. Corey we spoke with that sanders supporter here at Carolina High School. This polling location is also a traditionally democra
We have not a cloud to be found in its beautiful throughout the southeast and nice and dry. Temperatures going from 30s this morning, jumping close to 60 by noon and we will top out in the low to mid 60s across the upstate. Look at this spectacular sunshine in anderson. Temperatures are in the low 60s and even in asheville, we will find low 60s today. We have some big changes for the week ahead. I will show you rain chances coming up throughout the morning. Myra thank you. We begin this morning with a developing story in Greenville County. Rescue crews have spent the night searching for a missing 12yearold boy in jones gap state park. Greenville county deputies are searching for john quay. Investigators say he was hiking with a group of boy scouts in the park. The Group Discovered he was missing during a head count yesterday afternoon. Crews have spent the night ground and by helicopter. As everybody else is right now, we are all concerned about safety and our main focus is to try and