Center with more. Well be down close to freezing. You see the wind. Ive zoomed in on the flags. These are flags on top of the state house. They are blowing out of the west. That will be in place tonight and tomorrow as well. Lets give you a peek at the temperatures. Were getting down in the 30s. It wont take long to get to the mid 30s and low 40s. Factor in the wind it will feel cooler. 30s. Plenty of sunshine but breezy. Thats gonna be the theme as we go through the day. I say breezy, i should be using the term windy especially the middle part of the day. Well see gusts even as high as 30 especially at lakes. It will grab your attention. When your temperatures are in the 40s, you throw a 30mileanhour wind on top of it, its cold. Thats where were going tomorrow and this wind is gonna be in play not only tomorrow but as we go through the week. So winter has not left us by any means. I will explain more about that up in a little bit. Hundreds at South Carolina State University honor and remember lives lost on this day in 1968 during the orangeburg massacre. Its part of our history on abc and belt rousseau Beth Rousseau has more. Reporter its been 48 years since the orangeburg massacre but its a memory thats ever present on the minds of the families, the victims and the survivors who are now looking to a new generation to continue the fight for justice. February 8th, 1968, i can remember vividly everything that transpired on that particular night. Reporter a sentiment that rings true for so many of the 200 activists on South Carolinas state campus that evening, protesting a bowling students were upset, city officials were upset and it was just kind of a situation where we realized that something negative was going to occur. Reporter nine state troopers opened fire in the crowd, fatally wounding three protesters and injuring 27 others. Not only was i in pain from the gunshot, but it was pain from the injustice that was perpetuated mon unarmed un upon unarmed students. Many were shot in the back. Reporter while joining together in song and prayer, civil rights eighth visits activists called for a more thorough incident. Those are the type of things that are still kind of a festering wound on our state. Reporter reverend joe darby will reignite passion in the fight for civil routes. The young people really put their lives on the line to to do what was right that should inspire this generation and succeeding generations. Reporter Beth Rousseau, abc columbia news. We have more on on at abccolumbia. Com. The Chapin Police department is under new management tonight. Seth ziegler is the new police chief. He spent almost two decades climbth ranks with the West Columbia police department. A top priority for the new chief is building a strong relationship between the department and the residents of chapin. I think visibility is the key. Reducing crime is one thing but reducing the fear of crime is also another. Pore senthperception is reality. And i want everybody to know that the Chapin Police are here to help them. Ziegler replaces troy trump. He retired following a threeday suspension. On the crime beat, a 17yearold suspect who briefly escaped over the weekend is back in custody tonight. According to the Richland County deputys office on saturday night, a handcuffed tony gilmore was able to break away from deputies outside of Palmetto Health richland. He was captured the next day. Hes facing two counts of attempted murder. Police say a suspect bloke into a Mattress Store ma break intobroke into a Mattress Store. This is from mattress land. Back on february 3rd, police say the man you see right there who broke into the store stole a laptop. If you can help investigators you are asked to call investigators at 1888crimesc. A pair of dui arrests have kershaw deputies breathing a sigh of relief. The deputies narrowly avoided headon collisions on two separate occasions. Deputies say Cecil Townsend driving the wrong way on highway 601 in lugoff. They say thms mock thms mccray came close to hitting a deputy in rembert. Both are charged with driving under the influence. Were happy to report tonight that the fight against Breast Cancer just got a little stronger. The city the columbia donated 8,000 to the Palmetto Health foundations bosom buddies fund. Bosom buddies is the foundations Breast Cancer patient support group. If you or someone you know is living with Breast Cancer and needs someone to talk to, the bosom buddies meets the second tuesday of every month at 6 30 p. M. At Palmetto Health baptist. All right. President obama is asking congress for 1. 8 billion to help fight the zika virus. The request comes as the World Health Organization calls it a Public Health emergency. The administration wants the money for Emergency Response in now, its also targeted for cdc research of the virus. Zika is transmitted by mosquitoes and is tied to birth defects, newborns. The virus has spread to at least 29 countries. The Obama Administration says 50 americans have returned to the u. S. Infected with zika. The Health Officials are urging all pregnant women returning from the affected countries to get tested. After years on the decline, new South Carolina moms experienced an increase in preventable birth defects last year. That rise is caused for concern for the Health Professionals who work to make sure this doesnt happen. Grace joyal covered the story and is in the newsroom. Doff we know whats be do we know whats behind the rise and whats the message tonight be . Its very difficult to know just what is causing this, but what im about to tell you is not just crucial information for women looking to get pregnant. Its relevant to any women of childbearing age. You are about to meet, its better to be safe than sorry. Eight years ago everything was fine. I had a healthy pregnancy. Reporter adele dixon gave birth to her third child. A baby boy. They called barry. We knewing is was wrong knew something was wrong because the doctor kept flipping him over. Reporter barry was diagnosed with encephalocele. If he su vied, the doctors said he would most likely be severely disabled. Its funny, you always think i want a healthy baby but for us, i just want my baby. Reporter after brain surgery at two weeks, barry defied the odds. You never know. I did all of the right things, i saw the doctor, took prenatal vitamins, had a healthy diet. Reporter this program was started 24 years ago to help moms. Birth defects like encephalocele down 60 . A steady decline until last year. Our rates have gone up particularly in the midlands and coastal area. Reporter if mom wasthe centers for Disease Control says taking folic acid before getting pregnant and early pregnancy lowers your risk of having a baby with birth defects. Dean says they are taking the rise very seriously. Because its become an increase we we are alert and education. Reporter to drive home a simple message. Eat healthy and taking that multivitamin every single day. Reporter reaching more people like dixon who has been part of the Program Since after barry was born. Gonna be a good girl . Reporter she welcomed a now, this story did not touch on any specifics about how much folic acid all women of child bearing age should be taking. I will include a link to the website in the online version of this story at abc columbia news. I will include the number you can call to get any questions you might have answered. Live in the newsroom, grace joyal, abc columbia news. All right. Thank you. Its do or die time for some of the president ial candidates. Well take to you you to New Hampshire. And get out to vote. Efforts on campuses throughout the palmetto state are urging students to get involved before thats next. Former new york city mayor thanks for staying with us tonight. Former new york city mayor Michael Bloomberg said hes considering all of his options when it comes for a run for president. The media mogul said hes listening to what the current he also took aim at the overall tone of this years campaign, sayth public deserved saying the public deserved better. He admits he would need to get his name on the ballots by march. Hes worth 39 billion and is expected to selffund any president ial campaign. Its a race to the finish in New Hampshire tonight. President ial candidates making their final pitches ahead of tomorrows primaries. Of course, after New Hampshire is South Carolina. As scott mclean reports, candidates are going on the offensive. Reporter for republican president ial hopefuls, its a race for second place. Latest poll shows donald trump with a commanding lead. For the rest of the pack, it could be do or die. Rubio, cruz, kasich and bush, all battling for second and the 30 of gop voters who are still undecided. Were blessed to have a talented field. Its made for a very messy process. We do have a couple of pretty i wont name them because i dont want to tell them now. The fact is that you need to have some experience in doing this. You know, its nothing lik the United States senate. The crises come in when you least expect it. Reporter on the democratic side, the polls put Bernie Sanders 14 points ahead of hillary clinton. But shes into the ready to concede the not ready to concede the state she run in 2008. I know i have an uphill im. Im asking people to consider this a job interview, who is ready to do the job. Reporter her husband bill bill clinton attacked Bernie Sanderss record, Healthcare Plan and accusing some of his supporters of besexist. People who have gone on the line to defend hillary and explain why they supported her have been subject to vicious trolling. Anyone who was supporting me doing sexist things is we dont want them. I dont want them. Reporter in manchester, mclean. An oscarnominated actress will be in orangeburg urging people to vote. Angela bassett will headline a get out the vote rally between 2 00 and 3 00 in the Martin Luther king auditorium. Shes endorsing when. She will make stops at claflin. If you are around the lake murray area around lun of time lunchtime, you will likely hear sirens. The sounds will last for about three minutes. Coming up, john farley has your sevenday forecast forecast. Good point. Thanks for staying up with us late here tonight. Lets give you a look whats going on outside. Here we have a quiet night in the vista. Not much going on. Its cold. A little on the windy side and i will show you whats happening here on the radar. Check this out. Were getting nothing over here for us but i did want to point this out. My sister lives north of atlanta, she was all excited. She got a couple of flakes of snow and sent me the pictures. I will tell you that. No accumulation for her. None for us or even in South Carolina. There may be a couple of brief showers that go by north of us. But in terms of accumulation, nothing happening. She was pretty excited earlier tonight. Lets show you whats going on, breezy overnight. Thats gonna upgrade to windy tomorrow when you consider the temperatures in there. And then its gonna set us up for a cold week. Its been a while since weve as i mentioned in the 6 00 news, weve had six days where the temperatures have not gotten out of the 40s. This week, for the next seven, well have trouble getting out of the 40s on every one of those days. Its a cold patch, colder than weve seen this winter. This arctic blast, this air originates in the middle part of canada. We get this thing a couple of times of year. Whats going to happen, this whole jet stream is gonna come down and there will be a couple of waves, reinforcements of this. And that will last for the next seven days. Get ready for kind of a chilly week as we go forward. Here we go, tomorrow morning, look at the purples. Thats the real cold. Thats subzero. We wont be in there. Were in the blue. Healthily in the blue. Plenty of blue. As we go through tomorrow, we never warm up and then we go through wednesday again we dont warm up. Even thursday, nothing. Were still on the fringe of the blue. Feel like winter all week long for us. Lets give you a look at the temperatures. Clear and breezy. We get down to around 33 or so that. Will happen around sunrise which is right after 7 00 tomorrow morning. Then we get going on the commute. There you go. It will be clear. No problems. No rain, no anything like that. But breezy, dont forget your sunglasses as you take care of business and get to work. Now, lets get you through tomorrow afternoon. Wind gusts, 25 at least. Maybe as high as 30, especially on the lakes. It will be a cold one. When you factor in the wind with temperatures in the 40s, it will feel more like the 30s. Get your warm jacket out and have it with you all day. At times, the wind will be biting and carry us through. In fact, it will be windy again on wednesday. Notice the temperatures here. Were struggling to get anywhere near 50 degrees right on through the sevenday forecast. Now, the coldest nights at least the way it looks right now, of course, this could change depending upon wind and such. Coldest nights look like morningge and morning morning morning and then saturday night into sunday. The cold 1309s will be in the teens. When you you Start Talking about teens for several hours, you have to start worry about the pipes. These two nights this week, well have to focus on those potentially. Well fine tune the forecast and update those. Over to you two,. Very cold but on the upside, no rain. I guess you can look at the glass half full. [laughter] there you go. Coming up a report from Colonial Life after a tough night for the Womens Basketball team. And clemson hoops against notre dame and highlights from sc state. Well rehappen a busy night in well key cap a recap a in sports. Big boy team right now. Not the biggest big boy team in sport, not boys at all. Women trying to knock off the most dominate team of all, threetime defending Champion Uconn beating by an average of 40 points. 18,000 plus at a packed Colonial Life arena. Both teams come in undefeated on the year. Usc, 45 straight wins at home. Uconn, 59game win streak. Huskies out to a got start. Tuck to the hoop. Carolina down 9 after 1. Aja wilson shows off the jump start. Wilson, almost all of the early offense but breanna stewart, the twotime defending National Player of the year does it from all over the court for uconn. 13 for her in the first half. Midday through the second quarter, wilson makes it 9 of the gamecocks first 15. She goes back down the floor. Clearly hobbling. Cantplay the layup. A lower left leg injury for aja. Its the same injury that caused her to miss two games earlier this season. Gamecocks go into halftime down 10. Never really challenged in the second half. Uconn never trails in the game. The huskies give the gamecocks their first loss, 6654, the final score. Arena. Reporter for the second straight season, carolinas 2game win streak comes to a stretching halt at the hands of the huskies. This one stings a little bit more, though, at home tonight. Carolinas 45game wont win streak comes to an end. That was previously the longest in the nation with both coaches acknowledging after the game, South Carolina has come miles from last yearary lost. If you can feel good about a loss, i feel good about how we handled how we handled, you know, uconn. Uconn, the better feel you have for them. Its just gonna take a matter of time. You dont build these things overnight. No matter what anybody says. You have to start somewhere and you have to keep making that next step, next step, next step and thats exactly what they are doing. They got a great fan base. We couldnt get in the arena today. People were lined up, like, from here to atlanta, it seemed like. It was amazing out there. Never seen anything like that. After the game tellth media that theyve scheduled a home and home with South Carolina for the next two years. So carolina will play uconn in Stores Next Year and uconn will come back to the building in 2018. Sports. Thank you. The men drop out of the associated presss top 25 despite winning with a number 8 usc ranked number 20 in the coaches poll. Big week for usc men hosting lsu wednesday night with first place on the line. Kentucky comes to the Colonial Life arena on saturday. Prowl up in greenville. Tigers Brad Brownell Brad Brownell in. And jab leading all scores. Noter game all five starters averaged double digits. Tonight all five get double digits. Clemson loses the first game of the seat son. Noter game, 8983. Tigers drop to 1410 overall on the season. 75 now in acc play. Sc state in action. Bulldogs hosting Murray Garvin tied with the meac. Thats ed stevens. Eric eaves continues his season. Team high 22. Darryl palmer provided a big spark. First onehanded. How about following that up, eaves misses just before the half. Bulldogs beat the buzzer and go on to beat morgan state, 8278. Stay on top of the meac now, 92 in conference play. That will do it for sports now. News at 11 00. Okay. This winter has not felt a hot like hot a lot like winter. But thats changing. It will be cold every day especially tomorrow around wednesday. 40s for highs generally. 20s for lows and even low 20s at that wade night thursday morningge and even saturday morning morning. Its still winter its dry all the way through there. It will be cold. So walking out at 7 00, 7 15 with the kids or the dog you are feeling every bit of it. Just like you are feeling it when we leave the studio. Its very cold. Thats all of our time. Thanks so much for joining us tonight. Push
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