Course this could not be a more important or timely conversation that we are going to have today since the death of george floyd m Police Custody last month we have seen National Wide unrest weve seen protests on only here in america but internationally. We have also seen a certain narrative take hold. It starts with the assumption that the only way to properly view george floyd is through a racial lens. In fact all encounters between police and black suspects are increasingly viewed this way. It is a narrative that assumes the behavior thats typical Police Behavior towards black suspects and it assumes george floyd is a sort of black every man in america. That would happen to him happens to black people all the time that black essentially leave the house each day worrying that theyre going to have a violent encounter with police. The media has run with this narrative which faces very little pushback very little skepticism. It leaves us that the biggest problem facing black America Tod
We have a kind of moisture having our way. We expected to eventually change to rain for some of us. Ellis like a we head into the afternoon hours. For every is north of i85, cold temperatures will versus. It is getting bad out there. We will see that moisture increase, especially about i85 north not into henderson county, northern greenville, and Spartanburg County. By tonight at midnight, the warmer air, the moisture should overwhelm the cold air. It should change to all rain. There are going to be some pockets here just at the foot of the mountains that may never change. That could lead to significant icing. We will have more on that forecast in a few minutes. Geoff thank you very much. With Allyson Powell in the traffic center, myra ruiz in northern Greenville County, Mike Mccormick in Spartanburg County. Is live in Greenville County in bitter windy conditions. Aly chains on, trucks prepped. Other than that, just kind of hoping for the best. Aly now, we wait. If we need to call in e
Between it, this is the wedge of cold air that runs all the way back into northeastern georgia. When the rain is into our area, it will move into temperatures in the upper 20s around greenville, spartanburg, and anderson. That could cause big problems for us or this evening. Chris will talk about that. Chris when did the temperatures warm above freezing . Do they warm above freezing before the heavy stuff moves in . We think it will be half and half. Some of the moisture will arrive over the cold air that will fall as freezing rain. Then, we will warm up. We were looking at the models, and area right in here will warm up above freezing by 10 00. A lot of moisture will move in between now and then. Around 11 00, an area like this northbound warms up above freezing. We will watch this closely. Our eye on the area is through our skycam network. Wonderland. A coat of ice on our skycam. The roof on the golf course, completely covered in ice. Go towards downtown greenville, we have a light m
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