Northern portion of the viewing area near the nc sc border. The opportunity for the wintry mix is from 3am 10am, afterwards a cold rain will continue on and off until early tuesday afternoon. Starting tuesday, daytime highs will climb to the low and middle 60s to end the week. A university of mississippi senior volleyball and track 23yearold ty laporte was killed in a car crash thursday near holly springs. Raycoms rose eiklor has details on the crash that ended tys life and more on her standout career at ole miss. Sot i feel like the game is clicking more everyday. In practice,everyday, im learning more 23 year old ty laporte was killed in a horrible accident on thursday night. Mississippi Highway Patrol says laporte collided with an 18 wheeler driven by a 63 year old from alabama. He was not injured but laporte died on scene. Skid marks, car parts and even these shoes were at the scene on friday. Sot 8 10 42 anytime someone in the ole Miss Community passes away especially someone like she was it really hurt all of us as a family we come together on the ole miss campus, about an hour from where the accident happened, her teammates and friends are mourning her loss. Sot 8 11 08 i cant put into words how it makes me feel laporte was a volleyball and sot 8 10 55 she was a star she was from South Carolina and total blocks. Sot 8 09 43 she had big dreams and big goals students say now is the time to pray for laportes family and the volleyball team. Sot 8;11 55 its more than a bond of players it hurts. It hurts rose oc ole miss Athletic Director ross bjork released a statement expressing his sympathys to friends and family members of laporte. He said this athlete touched many with her amazing and an Orangeburg County man accused of attacking and choking a nurse is now facing burglary charges. Investigators say they linked dna from a 2014 burglary, to bryan pierson. Hes the guy accused of attacking a nurse last month while he was being treated. Pierson is also the suspect who broke into a business in neeses and stole a four wheeler and electronics. A pair of Sumter County residents have been charged with animal abuse after one dog was found dead and another starving. Monica daniels and Patrick Simon were both arrested and charged with ill treatment of animals. A Sumter County deputy was helping to serve an eviction notice last month, when he spotted the malnourished dog feeding off the remains of another dog. Animal control was called to the scene and they found no food or shelter for the dogs. Meanwhile, the surviving dog, known as sugar, is alive, well, and will be available for adoption soon. A dog in Fairfield County has a Second Chance at life thanks to some generous people. Emanuel is an 11 month old shepherd mix. Late last year he was found abandoned and badly hurt at carolina adventure world. Doctors at fairfield Animal Hospital concluded, emanuel had been dragged by a car and was badly malnourished. His rescuers created a go fund there they say the support took off. We initially asked for 4,000 just to cover the first month of treatment. Hes bene here for two to cost between 3,200 and 3,800 for the left knee. A Fairfield County man was arrested and charged in connection with emanuels abuse. The fairfield Animal Hospital is hoping to get the dog into a new home once hes fully recovered. The Newberry CountySheriffs Office needs your help identifying a man that robbed a local pharmacy. It happened just after noon on friday. Deputies say the suspect walked into the peak pharmacy with what appeared to be a pistol and robbed them. If you have any information about the robbery contact the Sheriffs Office. A reward is being offered leading to the arrest of the suspect. Deputies in Orangeburg County are looking for a person of interest after they say someone test back. Employees of aa again auto sales on five chop road in orangeburg tell investigators last week a man drove off in a silver 2005 trail blazer. Deputies say the man arrived in a blue audi and a woman drove away in that car. If anyone has any information on a man wearing a blue hoodie sweatshirt or the blue audi is asked crimestoppers at 1888crimesc. A 16 year veteran of the Columbia Fire Department has been arrested accused of inappropriately touching one of his coworkers. Columbia fire captain jeffrey rish is charged with Second Degree assault and battery. Rish is accused of inappropriately touching a male firefighter on october 5th of last year while working on blume court. Chief Aubrey Jenkins says captain rish is on suspension pending the outcome of these charges. Rish turned himself in to Columbia Police on friday. His bond was set at 5 thousand dollars. Volunteers will be going door to door in irmo today as part of the the Home Fire Campaign volunteers from red cross, usc and firefighters will be knocking on doors and meeting with families to test and install smoke alarms and Carbon Monoxide detectors. They also want to make sure you have an escape plan in place in case there is a fire. The smoke alarm blitz is happening in irmo from 9 am until 1. Also happening today the Columbia Fireflies are hiring. The Baseball Team is hosting a job fair at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention now until 2 oclock. The team is looking to fill more than 300 seasonal and parttime positions including ticket sales and merchandise. To apply, you can download an application from the Columbia Fireflies website. We have a link to that site on wis tv dot com. It is a busy basketball weekend for the dozier family. It started last night with a brother versus brother showdown. That story and more coming up in another cold blast has settled in and this weekend will be sunny and dry with highs in the 40s and lows in the 20s. A system will approach late sunday night early monday and produce a cold rain for most of the midlands and, a brief wintry mix for the extreme northern portion of the viewing donkey sound elephant sound theres a big difference between making noise, tapping sound and making sense. elephant sound donkey sound when it comes to Social Security, we need more than lip service. Our next president needs a real plan to keep Social Security strong. elephant noise hey candidates. Enough talk. Give us a plan. 40s and lows in the 20s. A system will approach late sunday night early monday and produce a cold rain for most of the midlands and, a brief wintry mix for the extreme area near the nc sc border. The opportunity for the wintry mix is from 3am 10am, afterwards a cold rain will continue on and off until early tuesday afternoon. Starting tuesday, daytime highs will climb to the low and middle 40s and lows in the 20s. A system will approach late sunday night early monday and produce a cold rain for most of the midlands and, a brief wintry mix for the extreme northern portion of the viewing nc sc border. The opportunity for the wintry mix is from 3am 10am, afterwards a cold rain will continue on and off until early tuesday afternoon. Starting tuesday, daytime highs will climb to the low and middle 60s to end the week. The final six gop candidates are gearing up for tonights debate. The latest from the campaign trail coming up. Break 2 the dozier brothers battle on while some candidates suck up to trump. Or run away from him in fear. Jeb bush isnt afraid. Jeb bush that is downright wrong. He stands up to trump for his liberal democratic positions. Calls out trump for insulting women, attacking the disabled. Even trashing a decorated war hero. Trump i like peoplethat werent captured. Jeb Bush John Mccain is an american hero. Jeb bush. The better man. The real conservative. A commander in chief. Right to rise usa basketball. Well. They were actually on the sideline. Because they werent playing. They were coaching. Terry is the westwood head coach. The redhawks needed a win tonight to win the region title. Their mother paula was in the terry dozier well, weve been so i told my brother when we ourselves in a bad situation by losing a couple games that we care of beating terry on this just want them to keep it close. I dont want anybody to get out. First quarter. Tommy bruner blows past the defender for the lay up giving Westwood Xavier dobey for the three. Westwood down 8to7 after one. Second quarter. Westwood takes the lead here as Jordan Watson weaves thru traffic for the the half strong. Zayquan grant gets the layup on the fast break. And Spring Valley goes on to win perry played for the gamecocks point guard for the gamecocks. Dozier goes on a run. Scoring 83. Moving them into a tie for first place in the sec. When it comes down to late game situations like that, we have the utmost confidence in anyone of us to take the shot. Martin ive said this from the beginning. The best thing about him is that he wants me to coach him. He wants me to help him and when you coach talented kids and thats what they want. Its refreshing. Break 3 8 shrimp, peeled, cleaned smaller pieces 1 tbsp slap yo mama seasoning any 2 corn tortillas method season the shrimp with the the republican president ial hopefuls are focusing on South Carolina. And next weeks critical primary. Sunlen serfaty reports. Donald trumps pledge to stay above the fray in South Carolina. Shortlived. Trump blasting rival ted cruz on twitter, writing if ted cruz doesnt clean up his act, stop cheating, and doing negative ads, i have standing to sue him for not being a natural born citizen. Suggesting he was ready to go positive. President ial candidate i wont use foul language, im just not going to do it. Im not going to. Theyre all saying, do it, do it. No. Im not. But trump couldnt stay out of the allout fight breaking out in the South Carolina trenches. Theres nothing conservative about giving money to the clintons. Theres nothing conservative about donald trump. The airwaves. Plastered with negative ads. Ted cruz voted to undermine our National Defense and weaken our ability to track terrorists. The attacks between the candidates flying back and forth with a dizzying pace. Maybe you should vote for more than just a pretty face next time. But that ad backfiring on cruz. His campaign is pulling it off the air. After it was revealed that actress is also an adult film star. Cruzs team is refocusing today with a new ad. Directing fire instead at hillary clinton. Damn it feels good to be a clinton. In a spoof of the movie office space a server full osecrets aint no thang. Many of the candidates today. Jones university in South Carolina. Making a big pitch. To woo coveted evangelical voters. President ial candidate i do not believe that you put your faith in a lock box when youre in public life and say well thats only for my private matters thats just not. It is totally wrong. Jockeying over who has the most conservative credentials. President ial candidate if you disagree with people, for example, on the definition of marriage they call you a hater and a bigot and whats the next step . Ted cruz. Trying to cast his rivals. As out of touch with the conservative base over the supreme courts decision legalizing same sex marriage president ial candidate seeing my two leading competitors in the republican primary, both publicly say, following that decision, that the decision is the settled law of the land, we must accept it, surrender and move on. You have another chance to hear the republican candidates face off before the you have another chance to hear the republican candidates face off before the primary. The final six will hit the stage in greenville at 9 oclock tonight. Well have live reports from wis Charles Molineaux starting on the news at 6. Lowwage workers are planning to march outside the debate as part of their campaign for higher pay. Workers are also planning to walk off the job at a local Fast Food Restaurant before the debate. They are protesting for 15dollars an hour in pay and the right to organize. On sundays meet the press chuck todd will be interviewing several republican candidates including donald trump, senator marco rubio and governor john kasich. You can watch meet the press with chuck todd on sundays at 9 am right here on wis. New poll numbers released friday are pointing to good news for donald trump. The poll shows trump with a nearly 20 point lead over his closest challenger ted cruz. Cruz is polling in the teens as is jeb bush and marco rubio, who came in third respectively. But more than 1 in 10 voters polled by the gop caucus say they are still which means there is still room for the numbers to change over the next week. The republican primary is next 20th. The democratic primary is the february 27th. You dont have to wait until the primary to cast your ballot. You can vote absentee. The Richland CountyVoter Registration and Elections Office is open today from 9 am the building is on hampton street in downtown columbia. Absentee voting is open for both the republican and democratic primaries. Former Virginia Governor jim gilmore has dropped out of the race. Throughout the campaign, gilmore has gotten hardly any support and qualified for undercard debates. He got 12 votes in the iowa caucuses. In an official statement on friday, gilmore says he will support his partys eventual nominee. Looking ahead, former president bill clinton is returning to South Carolina to stump for his wife hillary ahead of the democratic primary in two weeks. Clinton will speak at Francis Marion university in florence tonight. He was in columbia last week. The event starts at 7 30 at the Smith University center on campus. Republican president ial hopeful senator ted cruz will be making a stop in the aiken area next week. Senator cruz will be joined by television personality, radio host and author glenn beck. The two will host a Campaign Rally on monday at the Etherredge Center on University Parkway in aiken. The rally starts at 11 on monday morning, doors open at 9 30. Its time now to wish a very happy birthday to every celebrating today on february 13th. Happy birthday good morning, thanks for joining looking live over downtown columbia right now. Lets get a check of your first another cold blast has settled in and this weekend will be sunny and dry with highs in the 40s and lows in the 20s. A system will approach late sunday night early monday and produce a cold rain for most of the midlands and, a brief wintry mix for the extreme northern portion of the viewing nc sc border. The opportunity for the wintry mix is from 3am 10am, afterwards a cold rain will continue on and off until early tuesday afternoon. Starting tuesday, daytime highs will climb to the low and middle 60s to end the week. 40s and lows in the 20s. A system will approach late sunday night early monday and produce a cold rain for most of the midlands and, a brief wintry mix for the extreme northern portion of the viewing area near the nc sc border. The opportunity for the wintry mix is from 3am 10am, afterwards a cold rain will continue on and off until early tuesday afternoon. Starting tuesday, daytime highs and middle 60s to end the week. Breaking news into our wis newsroom breaking news into our wis newsroom two Police Officers in louisiana and one suspect are in the hospital for gunshot wounds after a confrontation in baton rouge. Officials say the officers confronted the suspect after a 2mile vehicle chase this morning. After the chase, the suspect got out of his vehicle with a rifle, firing at the officers, hitting both of them. The officers returned fire and hit the suspect. The officers are in stable condition. No word on condition of the suspect. Died in a shooting at a high school in a phoenix suburb. Officials say both victims were 15yearold girls and were shot once. Authorities are not searching for any suspects and say a weapon was found near the bodies. The students were found near an administration building. Police say they received a call of a shooting just before 8 a. M. On friday. Authorities have identified the man they say attacked people with a machete during dinnertime at a columbus, ohio restaurant. Police identified the man as 30yearold mohamed barry. A Police Spokesman says an attempt to stop the suspect using a stun gun was not successful. An officer shot the man when he lunged at them with the machete and another knife. Three men and one woman were hurt in the thursday night attack. The u. S. And south korea are taking steps to prevent missile attacks from north korea. An additional Patriot Missile battery is being deployed in the south in response to north Koreas Nuclear test and a long range an even more sophisticated Missile Defense system could be set up following talks next week between seoul, south korea a