parents were left to wonder where is my child. well, our grace joyal tracked down one of the parents. i understand this mom had to call police to find her son. >> that's right. 4-year-old nathon's mother said she's devastated by the lack of communication here. her son is autistic and does not speak. so he cannot express to her what he was feeling last night. nathon's ride home usually takeses an hour and a half. >> i was very worried. i was -- i can't really describe it. >> reporter: the 4-year-old is autistic and does not speak. he was one of 17 children with special needs who got stuck on a broken bus monday night. >> he was soaking wet. he was tired, hungry. didn't get home untnt 7:13. five hours on the bus. >> reporter: his mother, shakerra wiley, called the school and the transportation department. no one answer. ner virus and nervous and i called the police. and they had to find the bus. >> reporter: they said the transportation office could not let the parents know because the substitute driver didn't have a roster with the parents. the superintendent didn't have time for an interview with abc columbia news this evening. the district said the bus broke down just after 3:00 near highway 378 and st. paul church road. a mechanic couldn't fix it. a second bus arrived. around 5:45 a third bus arrived and the parents were taken home. 8:30. the district said the students were never without heat. >> they could have handled it a lot better than they did. i under stuff understand stuff happens but let me know. >> reporter: the district said the superintendent is reviewing >> no contact from the school. no contact from the district office. no contact from the transportation office. >> reporter: monday night's breakdown, she says is a larger problem of an unreliable bus schedule for her special needs child. >> i want them to be consistent, make sure the kids get to school on time and drop them off at a decent time. have common courtesy. >> reporter: nathon was picked up for school thursday morning at 7:36. his school starts at 7:30. do have an interview set up tomorrow with dr. frank baker, the superintendent. i will be bringing up shakerra wiley's concern about her disabled concern getting a ride to school. stay with us for more on this story. back to you. >> thank you. deputies have charged be a at keenan high school. the 18-year-old was arrested on monday wititut incident. deputies say robinson is not a student at keenan hospital. deputies confronted her in the parking lot where they say she had a gun in the parking lot of the street. the first in the south, 2016 presidential primary at least for the fop is gop days away and and a new cnn shows trump and hillary clinton with big leads. trump has 38% of the votes. ted cruz, 22%. they say trump is the best candidate to hand recall the economy. immigration and isis. on the democratic side, clinton is 18 points ahead of bernie sanders. still, anything is possible come saturday, as about half of south carolina's expected voters say also undecided our governor. she said she may not endorse anyone ahead of the primary but she said if she did, it will not be donald trump. >> she says trump represents everything a governor doesn't want in the president. haley says trump doesn't know what he's talking about. she says governors want a pred who -- want as pred who will -- president who will work with and fight for them. bernie sanders picked up an endorsement from eric garner. >> she's the man shot by new york city police two years ago. he was black. the officer who administered the chokehold is white. garn we'reer wither's daughter >> i believe he's the best candidate that will ensure that this happens. i hope you will remember this passion and his leadership on this important issue when we head to the polls february 27th. he stood for the people even when it he wasn't popular. >> to be clear, garner was choked by nypd officers. he made the introduction -- his daughter made the introduction on stage at the university of south carolina. sanders' campaign featured her. sanders and clinton have opinion competing for the support of plaque voters ahead of saturday. barbara bush is hitting the campaign trail stumping for her son jeb this week in south caroli. bush is expected to attend campaign events tomorrow and on friday. abc columbia is your home for the primary. as as the the results come in, candidates and up-to-the-minute coverage at bums, on abc columbia news, twitter and facebook. we saw temperatures in the 60s today. i would even venture to say it felt a little like spring. >> okay. >> almost. >> accept for you. >> you -- >> i wasn't trusting. i should have trusted john. >> the stransicks. >> all right. a little rain is pushing into the upstate. chief meteorologist john farley joins us live in the weather center. >> we have a little bit of rain after the warm temperatures. you see it coming in from the upstate. most of this is evaporating before it gets here. we may get a sprinkle or two. that will do it. no problems or the morning commute. temperatures not that cold. we're still at 50. 50 in columbia at almost midnight. let's give you a look at the morning commute. there it is. a few clouds. temperatures in the low 40s. no problems. no problem at all on our morning commute. especially toward the end of the commute. for today the forecast should be just fine, after those morning clouds give way to sunny skies. the temperatures will climb to the hoe 60s. would avenue been talking about this -- we've been talking about this for a couple of days. there are 70s in the seven day. we'll go over specifics when they arrive -- coming up. club mayor steve benjamin is calling a unanimous vote by the council a proud moment. they voted to end the process of transferring money out of the water and sewer fund to support other projects. he says the city will commit to find a support of funding that would offset previous transfers from the fund. last september, the supreme court issued a ruling from using the fund for unrelated projects. president obama has pledged to nominate a supreme court candidate to replace justice antonin scalia. antonin scalia died last >> during a news conference with leaders with seethe asia, he says the constitution demand a president nominate someone for the court. >> i need to do my job between now and january 20th of 2017. i expect them to do their job aswell. >> i think we have more than enough time to go through regular order, regular processes. i intend to nominate somebody to present them to the american people, to present them to the senate. i expect them to hold hearings. ive expecti expect there to be a vote. >> obama says his nomination will be with someone with an outstanding legal mind who cares about tee mockcy and the mock -- democracy and a legal law. a resolution to declare mother emanuel nine day day is advancing. this is for the one-year anniversary of the massacre at the house approved the resolution three weeks ago. police say dylann roof wanted to start a race war. the resolution states the community responded by an outpouring of love and unity. roof's trial starts in july. south carolina is speaking the death penalty. more of south carolina's mothers to be will be getting parenting help through a statewide collaboration. >> under the nurse family, more than 1200 families will be paid with registered nurses. the nurses will make home visits from a mother's pregnancy birthday. the geal toll reduce pretermict aboutspre -- the goal is to reduce child hospitalizations. >> this will lee dues reduce on >> south carolina ranks fifth worst in child poverty. the announcement means 3200 additional mothers will receive help over the next four years. in health news, a major breakthrough in the fight against cancer. tonight, at seattle's fred hutchinson center it was announced that a potential new treatment based on immunotherapy it helps fight off cancer el whys. in 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wraps up his trip tomorrow when he's expected to who have died trying to cross in the united states. adele returned to the grammy stage singing "all i ask" but the performance had many asking if she was a little off her game. the usually frauless singer sounded flat, at least on tv. fans took to twitter to express their outage. adele herself cleared up the mystery after the show. she tweeted the mics on the piano fell on the s sings. that made it sound out of tune. she said because of it i'm treating myself to an inin' out in 'n out. take a look at this diamond. it's a 400 400-carat diamond recently discovered in an go law. it's about the leanth of a credit card. experts say it's virtually flawless. the company that found the diamond said it's transparent valuable and rare. it could be worth $20 million. it's the 7th largest diamond ever recorded. somewhere beyonce, kim car dashtion are kardashian -- >> not kim kardashian because kanye is having problems. >> are they? >> i don't think so. >> oh. weather forecast. wasn't today a welcome change from yesterday? yesterday, we were in the 30s all day long. the coldest day all season. today, mid-60s for many of us. a beautiful day outside. and you are thinking, all right, where do we go from here? tonight, we have cloudses in play as a result, the temperatures won't go down that far. it will be plenty sunny tomorrow. by the time we get to the weekend, we'll be in the 70s. beautiful this weekend. now, let's show you what's going on on the temperature front right now. i will show you, still relatively warm. mid-40s, even 50. what's keeping the temperatures from falling that far, we have a pocket of clouds moving in. in the clouds, there are a few showers. but not many. don't blink as this thing goes through. look at this. here's a five-hour loop. notice as everything gets closer, the whole thing is shredding. there's nothing left to this.we may get a sprinkle but that would do it. but what will be left over in the wake is a pil of -- pile of clouds. what's then, any heat on the ground tries to escape and gets it won't get that cold overnight. as we go through tomorrow and on into friday, we're gonna get a high setting up in the north. breeze. that will set us up for about two, two and a half days where the temperatures will stay in check. once this thing goes away, we'll climb in the 70s for the weekend. tonight, plenty of clouds. not that cold, 42. that's as cold as we'll go overnight tonight. all right. will be lovely. a little bit of wind out of the north. temperatures low 60s generally. as you get closer to the north wind, temperatures in the upper 50s. now, looking ahead, there you see the temperatures pretty comfortable but maybe a little cooler than you might like. the thursday one, 58 degrees. as we get into friday, the winds out of north will weaken and into the weekend they will be gone which will allow the temperatures to climb. 73 saturday. 75 for your sunday. beautiful. lows, they climb as well. next shot of rain, that's about late monday into tuesday of next week. at this point, it doesn't look like a huge rain event. we have several days here we'll dry out and temperatures will be trending up and alicia, i know you like that. >> oh, yeah. sunday looks really good. maybe you should come out an lake murray. >> okay. >> 75 degrees. >> i'm there. i will bring my swim trunks. coming up -- >> the polar plunge. a chance to get back to feeling better about themselves. gamecocks look to bounce back from the kentucky loss. >> you would think that this would have frank marten in a highlights are next. and still very relevant. hi, mid-february still very real -- relevant. the last few games for gamecock basketball. six games left. going into tonight meaning a whole lot. possible sec championship, usc one game out of first heading into the night. taking on the last-place team in the sec. tigers just snapped a nine-game losing streak. michael carrera turnover, p.j. dozier can't find the rim. laimonas chatkevicius. yuck. what's worse than losing the ball out of bounds? yeah. that. different columbia tonight, same bad results as last game for usc. mizzou jumping out to a 15-point lead after this three goes down. carolina does cut into the lead just before the half. duane notice o the bench game high 21 points. usc down just 8 at the break. it up. the gamecocks two leaders hooking up on the hoops. missouri's ryan rosberg, the tigers' only senior, the big fellow with the team high 18. the lead gets back to double digits but carrera, thornwell hook up. carrera with a big second half. carolina big comeback takes the lead. carrera scores 14. the defense needs to stop. can't get a stop. missouri takes tee-point lead on this play. the gamecocks shoot just 33% in the ballgame. for the first time, usc loses back-to-back ball games. mizzou wins two straight. 72-67, the final score. carolina drops on the season. florida coming to columbia saturday. the gators at georgia tonight. kenny gains and the bulldogs gains, we're tied at 47. florida new coach but the gators getting it together at the right time this year. allen, game high 19 points. florida wins it 57-55, the final score. gators and gamecocks both 8-5 now in the s.e.c. texas a&m makes it a three-way tie. aggies win the game tonight for the first time in six tries r 71-56 over ole miss. vanderbilt's tourney hopes take another hit. they give up 3 at the buzzer. lose by a point at mississippi state. and dawn staley continues to take the women's basketball program to new heights. she makes it three in a row. aja wilson's 25 points leading the way to win the second game in knoxville last night. 62-56. that final score. carolina now clinched at least a share of the regular season championship. >> i'm very happy for, you know, i am happy for the start of it, all she although it was tough to come to work every day. we got players, great players who understand what south carolina b bketball is all about. and they play to that retch pewtation every time they step on the floor. >> i feel pretty good. a lot of people can't say they have done that in college. it's a great feeling. >> and dearl can clinch of the title with the win in the next game at home on thursday night against georgia. wil muschamp will make his debut of the summer circus right outside of birmingham. and kirk botkin, he's close to landing a deal as the new sec he coached line backess at backers at kear. shawn elliott is on staff at usc. steve spurrier, ga mangus and verette sands still looking to land new gigs. overall, a tough night for basketball for sure. >> all right. thank you. chief meteorologist john farley is up next with a look at >> keep it right here. whenever there's rain we break out the radar. notice what's going on with this rain. not a lot. it's really fall out, fall apart we get get sprinkle. as we go forward, look at this forecast, pretty nice. tomorrow low 60s. thursday a little cooler. then friday we turn the corner and we really start to crank it up. by saturday and sunday we're in the 70s. notice the overnight hoes. they go from the 30s up to the 250s. so my -- unto the 50s. my wife was asking me, she said are we turning the coner on corner on this. the way it works, we can give you a good estimate, seven, ten days out. it's not like lie we've seen our last 30-degree night. >> hopefully that's not what you said. >> i said i love you, honey. >> there you go. i trained you well, john. >> honey, whatever you want. >> i said yes. >> i think it's important. explain to people why you cannot predict more than seven days. >> because there are too many moving parts in the atmosphere. it's this huge st. louis that's there's so much going on that we have a handle out so far. but we yand that, even though you can get the forecasts, the science just isn't there yet. >> that's all of the time we have for john. captioning provided by captionassociates www.captionassociates.com >> 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