Let me tell you, this is a big deal. First, this is an elected official. He has held this position for three decades now and he is tasked with the responsibility of protecting citizens and the 11th county which covers a few different counties and this is a big deal because this is not the first time this has happened. Lets start with what happened last night. We are hearing this happened before 8 pm. The Highway Patrol says someone in a lexus was trying to make a left on beech creek road and they drove off the road and hit a utility pole. So the troopers got there to check it out but no one was there. The driver wasnt there. So they ended up going to mr. Myers home and interviewed him and were able to determine he was driving the car and he was under the influence at the time. They brought him to jail. He blew a. 09 . He was booked into jail. The South Carolina law states that. 08 is the legal limit. This is not the first time this has happened and not the first time he has been in trouble with the law. In 2005 he had another dui and in 2012 he was cited for having an open container of alcohol in his car. It will be interesting to see what happens here now. At the time of those other charges, he said he took full responsibility for that. We will continue to update you on air and i went to social media as well so continue to follow us at twitter and on air throughout the morning. For now we will send it back to you at least you do. Savannah levins live for us. Thank you. Now the other big story is a weather. Jackets and your umbrella. We are doing with light rain at least early this morning. But a couple of thunderstorms started with the through the southard and eastern portions of Orangeburg County but now but scattered showers from santee to western Sumter County and deliver the rain in Clarendon County moving to holly hill, utah bill utahville, lake marion. Half a mile and camden less than a mile in bishopville. Sumter in manning has a few more m mse. Temperatures are starting off mild with 57 in lexington and cooler of two newberry at 48 degrees. The kids will probably need the umbrella with 54 degrees as they start to head off to school. Have a chance for a sprinkle. By 12 00 and 1 00 in the afternoon we are looking at 62 degrees with light to moderate rain and up until 6 00 into the evening. As far as the roads, take a look at i26 between Saint Andrews traffic is light with no accidents being reported but it is starting to pick up with no incidents anywhere in the columbia area. If you are coming down from harbison you are looking at eight minutes and from price blythewood to jackson boulevard about 15 minutes. Rain is expected today with significant weather tomorrow. Myers . Deon . Which and deputies need your help finding two suspects wanted for student from a good people you see on this video stole a wallet from the victims car while he was helping others affected by the historic floods in the North Bridge Road area. Investigators say the been used the victims credit card several times at businesses and a number of restaurants making 600 worth of purchases. For somebody to capitalize on the vulnerability of us in an emergency situation, i really cannot fathom it. If you have any information that could help identify the two people you see on your screen you are asked to call crimestoppers at 1888crimesc. Start it is been almost 3 days since the shoppers at the columbiana mall reported gunshots. Officers believe two people pulled out guns. Shell casings. Witnesses say they did not see the suspects fire the guns. At least four guns and a knife were found. Experts say while the incident was scary, it is important to go back to the mall. If you have some apprehension, you reallylshould try to go back soon, because the longer you actually wait, for the apprehension will potentially grow. News 19 did richard to columbiana mall to see if theres any change reach out to columbiana mall to see if there is any change to security procedures. They said they are working with police to find the suspects. If you know anything you are asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1888crimesc. We are on your side in lexington county when police say there is a warning about a a man calling people telling people his name is Matthew Colson and he is working on a federal criminal investigation. The phone numbers called from from a 706 number and a 903 number but police add other numbers could be used as well. They said to avoid being a victim do not give out your personal information. If you are looking to rent out your home in the city of columbia you may soon have to pay a new fee. They talk about change in current laws to hold landlords more accountable for their property and tenants. Yesterday they went over an 11 page ordinance would would require Property Owners to buy a permit. Council members say they hope to have the ordinance passed and take effect july 1. Another public hearing will be held have not set a date yet. Questions were raised last night after a proposed sewer line permit that would run dhec held a meeting for neighbors. Many people say they couldnt afford the thousands of dollars needed to tap into the new sewer line. Dhec that the cut the application for Marshall County last month, but neighbors say they have been fighting back about this since 2014. One person says she is concerned about this. The statements dhec made were very concerning because they basically said to us weve done no Environmental Impact study. Weve done nothing to indicate this is a it is mandatory and we are asking the county to do it. Dhec is giving neighbors until march 9 two submit their comments before they make a decision to approve the project. No one from Richland County council was at that meeting. Belcher mom today is ella belger. Dale said his mother is always a happy, smiling, positive person. She find the good in everyone. She is a rock in our church and our doubts life. Congratulations to you. If you would like to nominate a mom for the moment of the go to our website at www. Wltx. Com and click on the banner to send in your nomination. It is not time for our word of the day todays word is hale. It means healthy and strong. Could sleep be affecting your heart help . New Research Says not enough sleep is a high risk of heart attack. We are sitting down with an expert to tell us how we are watching the weather state health news this morning. Research says not getting enough sleep puts you at higher and Jeanette Williams appeared to give us ideas on how to protect our heart. Lack of sleep connected to the heart attack. We all here we should get 7 to 8 hours of sleep. That is that we should focus on. 7 to 9 hours is what we should focus on. Those are the those getting less than seven and more are at high risk without any other Health Problems of having a heart disease. Why is that . They are not exactly sure. It may be because their Blood Pressure is not regulated that the night. There are many theories of why it happens. Full disclosure. We were talking during the break. I think i am guilty of this because of the crazy schedule working this shift. Splitting my sleep and you see that is not a good idea. You want to get good quality sleep so making sure you are not tired. Some symptoms is that you are tired during the daytime, you might say i am falling asleep while i am driving, you may notice dozing off in meetings. So being able to push sleep together is the ideal thing. Of course theres always the exception to the role. s but otherwise most americans should be getting 7 to 9 throughout the entire night. Also eating too close to your bedtime can have an effect. If you want to get good quality of sleep there is good sleep hygiene. Most people have not made a good sleep position. Data physician. Limiting caffeine and one of the big things that most people do is the Electronic Devices. We cannot live without them. But interferes with your so most people buy Electronic Devices to keep their attention so doing that too close to bedtime can interfere with sleep. And the blue bloods triggers are bring to not sleep well last night. So put them away. You can learn more at a free class that is monday february tonight from 6 00 to 7 00 at Palmetto Health at 400 bottom out Palmetto Health hospital. It is going to be a rainy day with a big story this one. Here is efren afante. Weve already seen some light to moderate showers to the midlands with rainfall pushing off to the north of the northern midlands. Do a lot of activity toward the southeast with light to heavy rainfall on right now the eastern portions of Orangeburg County has led scattered rain, t more rain has been moving through a social issue the east and on top of lake marion. All of this has been moving along i95 at 30 milesperhour but we are dealing with quite a bit of fog with visibility to the north a mile or less. 2. 5 mile visibility in sumter now developing toward the western portions of the midlands. We are starting off with relatively mild temperatures. It is cooler in newberry and 57 in columbia and lexington avenue 65 degrees in st. Matthews. Our computer model shows we will be dealing with ght to moderate rainfall throughout the morning with a break by midday. Some of the light scattered showers will continue to will continue into the afternoon. Today, 62 degrees with likely rainfall continuing as highs today will be in the upper 50s to the lower 60s but in our southern communities he could see temperatures as high as 68 degrees in orangeburg. Tonight it will be mild with rain continuing the 257 in sumter to 5757 in sumter. The deep south is expecting significant severe storms today. By tomorrow, it will move into most of not all of the palmetto state for the possibility of damaging winds. Modern to heavy rainfall and a lot of lightning. These storms will be coming through starting in the morning. As we start overnight into the Early Morning hours, the western part of the midlands will have the line moving storms possible through lunchtime and into the the storms will come down. 74 for a hike tomorrow with windy thursday and asked the client skies clear out, temperatures will warm up 256 saturday and 64 by sunday. To 56 saturday and 64 x 20. I20 eastbound is pretty much a clear shot as to come across from i77 straight across the fairfield road. There are no issues at all been reported on our roads. From Shaw Air Force base it is you are looking at about today the Richland Library has a big announcement. Joelle rhein cook are here to make the big announcement. Before we make the big announcement, how long has this been in the works . Wow. I think since last fall. We had a to put applications in since last fall. But we have known and have to keep quiet for a couple weeks and it has been canis so we are really happy to be today. So you guys are really good at keeping secrets. We are. Lets get it out right now so you dont have that pressure. The big announcement is the Richland Library and are great friends the Columbia Museum of art have both independently for the National Medal from the institute of the museum and library service. It is the highest out of that i library and museum can receive. The highs National Honor for this federal agency. So we didnt even know each other had applied so we saw the list of finalists so columbia is the only city in the country that has two finalists. So the application process there were how many applicants . 125. Around the country. And we have two in our backyard. So there is 30 total finalists. 15 museums, and 15 libraries. Out of those finalists, they will pick five that will receive the medal and have a ceremony at the white house. Usually the first lady is the one who gives you the medal. When we find out if it were to happen . It is a couple weeks from now. It is not too far away beginning of march. So fingers crossed. Right now we are celebrating just been nominated as it were. And we are among some really great competition. And some of the people who we really admire, dallas public library, madison public library. Very innovative libraries. And i think this award one of the most important things is we do our work well but within the community and that you are stewards of the community and the community is engaged in the work that you do. And that is key because these guys here are all about the community, and just opening your doors to the community. Exactly. That is what the award actually recognizes. So we had to show how are we meeting the information and who are not ready to go to school, so it highlighted a lot of the work we do around getting children ready to read and ready to learn. We talked about the work we do with our social workers to get people signed up for the Affordable Care act. It was looking at innovative approaches to Meeting Community needs. We are very focused on Community Outreach to a number of strong afterschool programs and some great teacher programs and educucion programs at the museum. And then just in general we want to spark conversations where art can get is talking about our share of humanity, do that. Congratulations and thank you for making the announcement here. Best of luck. We are just days away from South Carolina. Coming up on news 19 this morning and look at what the polls are saying interstate we can find both candidates tonight. One of woo when you love seafood this much. Back again . I hope its just a clumsy phase. Its gotta be ds. Anythings worth it for our new homestyle flounder meal or double dozen shrimp. Also, try our grilled menu featuring new tuscan tilapia. For full meals starting at just 4. 99, good morning to you i am deon guillory. It is tuesday, february it is tuesday, february 23 and you will wowoumbrella as you head out the door. We have efren afante tracking rate this one. Had a little bit of rain interrupted community, deon and this continues in the southeastern portions of the to the north of orangeburg going into portions of western st. Matthews into parts of Clarendon County and eastern hundred county. It is like an scattered at nature, but we are expecting more rain. Visibility is the major issue right now with less than half of a mile in camden and bishopville as less than a mile. Be aware we have visibility issues in the northern half of the midlands right now in Columbia City 7 degrees with overcast skies and winds out of the east at 7 milesperhour. You will need the umbrella this afternoon. The 4 degrees as they had our fiscal. We are looking at a height of 62 degrees with scattered showers through out the day. Continuing showers with tomorrow the big story looking at strong gusty winds and strong storms. We are looking at 74 degrees and the storms could be around the midlands a lot. At the traffic. You can see a little bit of fog out there along i26. This will be on the lefthand side as you are approaching i 20. Traffic has been picking up with no accidents are being reported anywhere in now that taunia. Coming out of harbison boulevard and from blythewood head into fort jackson boulevard about a 15 minute commute. We are looking at strong storms tomorrow and we will look at the pinpoint forecast coming up in a few minutes. Deon . Efren, thanks. The Republican Caucus has selected the nominee in nevada today after putting the primaries from both South Carolina and New Hampshire, donald trump is looking to beat rivals ted cruz and marco rubio again. Cruz is going into the contest without one of his top aides after firing him over in rubio insulted the bible. On the other side of the aisle the democrats are gearing up for the palmetto state primary this saturday and the latest cbs news survey Shows Hillary clinton leading Bernie Sanders by 28 points. Sanders appears to be giving up on overcoming that lead after campaigning in our state today sanders will leave the campaign and nationwide sanders is connecting with younger voters. He is getting a very High Percentage of the younger voters. He did it in iowa and New Hampshire and it appears that will be the case in South Carolina. But when you look at the people turn out on saturday, that youth vote is a relatively small percentage. So he estimates has to make sure they turned out in record numbers. Hillary clinton isnt taking anything for granted. Scheduled in our state each day between today and friday. Tonight she will continue her breaking down harriers forum that happens at Central Baptist Church in columbia. Both sanders and clinton will take part in the cnn tonight. For complete coverage of of all news head to our website at primaries full coverage youll find that under headlines. Around the nation this morning or details emerging about the night a gunman in kalamazoo, michigan shot and killed six victims chosen at random. Investigators say jason dalton admitted carrying out the attack but any hint as to why remains elusive. The 45yearold appeared briefly in the court and was charged with six counts of murder. Demonstrators are excited to across the country and that the ongoing encryption battle with the fbi. Apple is refusing to comply with a court order to provide a backdoor for the fbi to access data from the iphone of the San Bernardino terrorist. The pentagon submits a plan to congress to close