Of health and Environmental Control approved the company last year. The facility would be a Crushed Stone plant in the area. In the area. You cant afford to have Something Like that in a mace where people are try in a place where people are trying to make a living. Reporter they are concerned their water and air will be polluted and appealed the decision. We get a lot of shouldnt effect you. Maybe wont effect you. From the beginning we said we want to see numbers. Reporter we reached out to the company the case will be heard ginning on the 16th of february. And given that the case still hasnt been heard and they will make a determination on the case, i think we would refrain from comment till after the hearing. Reporter residents have been fighting since 2014 and to save their neighborhood. Too many adverse side effects. The people wont want it. Reporter janae frazier, news 19 wltx. They man to look into the issues february 16. They will hear from the residents and the quarry to determine what happens in the future. Spirit communications ballpark is causing controversy. Residents who live in the area worry about the amount of light and noise that will come from had stadium. The Company Performed a study on how far the light could be seen and found is less than a thousand feet. The thousand feet. The closest neighborhood is 1600 feet and away and the sound will be below the sound ordinance. Still residents are not happy about. We would have liked more wont sides of what the ram on both sides of what the ramifications are. I think that disturbs everyone that i talked to about it. The city did hold an open to 2 00 p. M. But nobody showed up. As we speak people are getting another chance to voice their meetish right now. Meeting right now. Mese are looking for a man police are looking for a man connected with a shooting. He is wanted for attempted murder after he robbed a man and a woman. The male victim was shot before the suspect got away in the victims car that was found wrecked on walker street. Theivism is expected to be okay the victim is expected to be okay. Crime stoppers at 1888crime sc. It is against the law to leave your car running in South Carolina. A lot of people crank up their cars in the mornings, they let them warm up while they go inside. Again, that is against the law. Deputies say from nuary 15 to today 13 cars have been stolen while sit idle. The increase of crime concerns them because thieves speed away when students are waiting for the school bus. Now, the midlands most accurate forecast with chief meteorologist jim gandy. We have been watching an area of rain coming in from georgia. You can see the rain approaching the augusta area. But also notice in this time lapse of the radar some of in the is be some of the rain is diminishing. All way may see is plight rain showers light rain showers that is it. We warmed up to 73 in the city and 74 degrees at the airport. Right now cloudy skies. Temperatures are 62 degrees. Winds are from the east at 9 miles per hour. I am not sure how much further it will go. We are projecting 60. Could go below that. We are expecting a chance for some showers tonight. More thunderstorms are expected fofotomorrow. And that is when we will see most of our rain in the afternoon with a high of 72 and rain is ending tomorrow night with a low of 52. I will have more coming up. Thank you. After trying to speed a road bill senators are now hitting the breaks on a plan to get more money to fix the roads. He wants to bring in the departrtnt of transportation and the state Infrastructure Bank to tell the panel what they do. That would push the debate on how to raise money to the roads to february 16. Floor and some of our members dont understand exactly what goes on with d. O. T. Or at d. O. T. And that is it. Trying to edgeicate us thinking. The senate is working to send a complete package out with transportation reform, a tax cut and gas tax increases. New study shows an alarming percentage of jobs are jobs are low wage making South Carolina number 45 in the country in a new analysis. 34 of South Carolina workers were employed with the way lessss of 24,000 a year. Pay increases are coming for the directors of public state. Today the Agency Head SalaryCommission Voted to give the increaeas. Evaluation showed they met or exceeded expectations. The president is getting the biggest raise. Increasing the state pay to 313,000 dollars. Usc upstate is expanding their cams. They are getting campuses. They are getting a nenelocation in Downtown Greenville in addition to university center. The plans will be out lined next week. A midlands family has become embassadors for the march of dimes. Early. Gave birth to their child the hospital. The family says it is because of Research Funded programs like the march of dimes that she is still alive and doing well today. A lot of the break throughs function and develop her function and developed was funded by the march of dimes so we think it is important to give back to the organization. A special Service Today to honor the victims in the maine m Church MotherEmmanuel Church shootings in charleston. Family member of those victims came in and talked to the students. They told them where they were when they heard about the shootings and what it meant to them and talked about how they forgive dylann roof and how their faith gave them strength. It has been rough. I wont life. It is been rough. My mother and i were best friends. When i get down i read scripture. I go to church. Maintain my same routine and the message today was unity. And last years understood uncovered flood uncovered coming u how you charge your phone could be draining your wallet. Tomorrow on 378 this morning a gadge on news 19 this morning a gadget that will help and what you are not doing that could be making your pessick everything you need to know for you are watching news 19 at 7 00 p. M. With jr berry. An historic mansion has been closed since an ice storm two yours ago. The found two years ago. A foundation is donating to museums in columbia. The collection includes furniture, glass, porcelain, art burke, books, photographs. Some of the items date back to partnership with the foundation. For some jobs the flood marked the beginning of a new assignment as forgotten sites were uncovered by the water. News 19s Colby Gallagher explains. Mimes it is a blessing. Sometimes it is a blessing. You can see what is there. And it could be destructive as well. Reporter it could be a step forward and backwards all at once. The timbers were exposed and sticking out under the water. Reporter once the flooded water was pumped his team discovered a road from the late 1800s or 1900s. We think it is part of the Transportation System where the road crossed in historic times. Reporter though the road may not be a significant find it could give insight on the engineering used during that time period. Reporter while it preserved history the, he says 100 yards away it damaged it. It has been all washed away and some are up in the tree line as you can see. The water was moving forcefully here and did have an impact on the site. Reporter since it is a mililiry base they are required to assess the sites. The work goes beyond an assignment and telling the story of our state. People are attached to their history. Especially here in South Carolina. It is a good thing to go ahead and try to regard those things while they are record these things while they are still here. Reporter Colby Gallagher, news 19 wltx. They hope to be finished pie tomorrow. It will take by tomorrow. It will take time before they have all the answers. If they will be doing this tomorrow they may have to look out for hit and miss rain . Yeah. The afternoon it if you are going to head down i20 tonight the right and centers will shut down from highway 378 to bush river road, they have work to do well according to the groundhogspring is coming groundhog. Has failed to usually well, who needs a weatherman when the ground hog spring will come early. Yep, that happened this morning. Punxsutawney phil seeing his shadow. I guess the legend says spring is coming here and right here we have had a couple nice spring days but it will get stormy and cold again. This is a preview of april. Okay. Believe that . Maybe. Unfortunately reality is coming back. But we have light rain out there. We are watching this area of rain through georgia. Live radar showing light rain moving across the Savannah River into South Carolina. Most of this light rain will be moving through the piedmont area. Might see showers make their way into columbia. It is probably a couple hours down the road. Further to the west we have some serious weather taking place in the midsouth. From alabama and mississippi the storms west of birmingham, tuscaloosa, extending into alabama, these have had a history of producing some tornadoes this afternoon. The main storm system is centered near kansas city, missouri. Here is the front along the mississippi river. That is pushing to the east and the thunderstorms occurring ahead of it. Warm, moist air north and the colder air, snow now north of the storm system. In our area the hunt for slide it the south and front slid to the south and through columbia, to the orangeburg area. I dont expect it to go further to the south. Tonight. You can see the effect it had on high temperatures. Rock hill 78 degrees. 74 in columbia. Augusta 79. Which tied their record for this time of year. Here are the current temperatures. 62 columbia. 58 degrees rock hill. 69 orangeburg and 73 in augusta. Here is our computer model. Clouds tonight. Not much in the way of rain. Thunderstorms moving through alabama and georgia. Approaching the atlanta area in the morning. Approaching us during the afternoon, coming through around midafternoon and it will head towards the coast, we will see clouds tomorrow night and into thursday. But most of the rain will be off shore. Here is our forecast for tonight. Expecting a low of 56 in winnsboro. 58 in bishopville. 60 columbia. 62 orangeburg. Highs tomorrow 68 saluta and newberry. 72 columbia, sumpter and orangeburg. 70 manning. Our sevenday forecast, once we get to thursday, partly cloudy, 59 degrees. Colder into friday. 52 degrees on friday. Saturday morning we will drop to 29 trees. Temperatures will degrees. Temperatures will moderate. 55 for a high. 59 degrees on monday and a cold front coming through, a dry frontal passage, but on tuesday sunny skies and 51 degrees. And it will gret colder for the middle of get colder for the middle of next week. For highs, Carolina Panthers a wager between anchors and you have to look at him the countdown continues. J all right. The count down continues. 5 days away till super bowl 50. The only place to see it, right here on wltx. Sunday night. Around 6 00 p. M. Or so but pregame starting earlier in the day. Tonight at 8 00 p. M. See the super bowls greatest commercials in the last 50 years right here on news 19. And the day before the super bowl see more football action as the nfl salutes its best players and players from this season in a show called nfl honors. It is at 9 00 p. M. And it is this saturday night. Again 9 00 p. M. This saturday night. For full super bowl coverage you can head to our website, www. Wltx. Com. 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