Cloud cover locked in. We are seeing some wintry precipitation to our north. We have a wintery mix for some of our northern counties. You got some snow to the north as you get into North Carolina. Well be watching from afar thankfully for a lot of these locations here to the south towards columbia and especially everywhere south of us. Some snow up towards the upstate and greenville. Saw some snow this morning into the afternoon. Saw some flurries for an hour or so in charlotte as well. Some of that moving off to the east and lifting off to north as well. Moving to the north and east. So that should go away from us. Looking at cloud cover but some clearing back to the south and west. That will come our way later on this evening. Cold night tonight. Ill let you know what to expect for the rest of the valentines day weekend coming up. Thanks. That cold apparently spreading over to the campaign trail. Hillary clinton and Bernie Sanders giving each other the Cold Shoulder last night. Sparks flying during their final debate before the first in the south primary right here in South Carolina. I do have a disagreement here. The differences were substantive but subtle in last nights democratic debate. We agree that wall street should never be allowed to wreck main street again. But heres the point i want to make tonight. I am not a single issue candidate and i do not believe we live in a single issue country. Hillary clinton trying to reset after being walloped in New Hampshire. The demographics now changing. Voters more than 90 white in iowa and New Hampshire but in of democratic voters could be africanamerican. When we have more people in jail, disproportionately africanamerican and latino, than china does, heres my promise. At the end of my first term as president , we will not have more people in jail than any other country. The fireworks really coming at the end with this contentious moment. The kind of criticism that about our president i expect from republicans. I do not expect from someone running for the democratic nomination to succeed president obama. Madam secretary, that is a low blow. One of us ran against barack obama. I was not that candidate. And Hillary Clinton was also asked about how she managed to lose female voters in New Hampshire. She responded that she has worked her entire career to empower women to make their own choices. Even if that choice, she said, was not to vote for her. Lana zak, abc news, washington. On the heels of last nights debate, clinton is headed right here to South Carolina. Shell be in denmark this afternoon for a corridor of opportunity town hall. And then tomorrow, former campaigning for his wife in florence. Faith taking center stage for four republican president ial conservative leadership project says former Florida Governor jeb bush, ben carson, ted cruz and marco rubio will be in greenville for the faith family forum. That event started more than an hour ago and run until 5 30 tonight. The event will be held at the founders memorial amphitorium. Forum comes a day before all of the g. O. P. President ial hopefuls take the stage in greenville for a debate and thats going to take place at the peace center at 8 00 tomorrow night. Ahead of todays forum, the candidates are hard at work continuing their campaigns in South Carolina. Indeed they are. Jeb bush is vying for votes right here in the capital city after stops in florence and sumter, bush held a townhall yesterday in columbia. Hes hoping to build grassroots support in South Carolina following disappointing performances in iowa and New Hampshire. But id love to have your support. You have the chance to make history in this primary. You have the chance to reset the race. And in an attempt to turn brother, former president george w. Bush will be joining him on the campaign trail. The two will appear together monday night in an event in north charleston. John kasich will be crisscrossing the midlands today as well. Kasich kicked off his appearance in columbia addressing the South Carolina chamber of commerce a little more than an hour ago. That event just wrapping up. Were getting ready to get to wrap up and the event to host an event at dukes barbecue in orangeburg later on this afternoon. Thats set for 1 30 and then kasich will end his day along the South Carolina coast at a sun city hilton head town hall. Well, with the race heating up here in the palmetto state, it is important to remember that every vote does matter. Yeah and its important to remember the republican president ial primary is set for next saturday. Thats february 20th. The democratic president ial primary is the following saturday, february 27th. Now, if you cant make it out to the polls those days, dont worry. The Richland County voter from 9 00 in the morning until noon for absentee voting. We do have an update on the Charleston Church shooting this afternoon. A federal judge has granted a delay in the trial for accused emanuel a. M. E. Church shooter dylann roof. U. S. District judge Richard Gergel met with attorneys yesterday in charleston. The delay centers around whether or not the federal government will seek the death penalty. Attorneys for roof say hes prepared to plead guilty if Capital Punishment is off the table. Criminal charges, meanwhile, against a former university of South Carolina running back and hall of famer have been dropped. Thats right. According to attorneys for harold greene, a judge threw out charges that greene inappropriately touched five female students for lack of supporting evidence. Greene worked as a volunteer coach for Spring Valley high school. And now, greene wearing number 22 that you see in this video here, was one of the great running backs for the gamecocks between 1986 and 1989. And Columbia Police have police discovered his 5yearold relative wandering in the middle of gervais street. John larry toole is charged with unlawful conduct towards a child. He told investigators he drove to columbia from kennesaw, georgia with the little girl to attend a meeting in downtown. The child was found by a local worker and was by herself without a coat, without socks or shoes. The child is ok and has now been reunited with her mother. If you have what it takes to be all that you can be, you now have a perfect chance. Fort jackson is inviting you to its special up close tour of the base and its soldiers in training. Thats right. General Roger Cloutier jr. , fort jackson jacksons commanding general is hosting the eight hour come see your army tour. Now, this is a chance to give local citizens an opportunity to see and experience how soldiers train. Its also to provide insight into their daytoday operations. Reservations, however, are required by today. The tour is open to people ages place next friday at 7 30 in the morning. That will be pretty cool. Well, the perfect valentines day gift can often be priceless. It often be pricey as well. How much is being shelled out for one day of love . Find out next. Gervais. Welcome back. Big week of basketball at Colonial Life arena continues its an sec first place showdown for the carolina men with kentucky. Tim hill has that and the latest on u. S. C. Women in this Sports Minute to win it. The u. S. C. Womens Basketball Team looking to bounce back from loss number one on the season. That was monday against number one uconn. Thursday night against florida. Asia wilson played through pain, 13 points, nine rebounds. Tiffany mitchell leads all scorers with 22. Elena coats adds a doubledouble. Carolina goes on to cruise over 16th ranked florida 8671. U. S. C. Stays undefeated in the sec and bounces back big from that first loss of the season. You know, theres some residual feelings of, you know, losing and how we lost and wanting to play better. Thats natural. But our players know that, you know, this is the league that we want to we want to win. And with a win in their next game, monday night at tennessee, u. S. C. Can clinch at least a sec championship game. Monday nights game, 7 00 on espn2. Im tim hill. Thats the abc columbia Sports Minute to win it. Hope it gets your weekend off to a good start. Take me out to the ballgame. Before you run to those peanuts and the cracker jacks you have a chance to step up to the employment plate. Columbia fireflies is hosting a job fair tomorrow. Theyre looking to fill multiple positions, ticket takers, to a mascot to name a few. It takes place tomorrow at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention center in the richmond meeting room from 9 00 in the morning to 2 00 in the afternoon. Theyre actually looking for a mascot as well. Find that perfect gift for the special someone could be worth every penny and new numbers show that its going to cost a lot more than that. Yeah, indeed it is. As it turns out, all the flowers and candies are costing americans a recordbreaking amount of cash. Federation, americans will spend an average of more than 146 each this valentines day. Nationwide, thats a grand total of more than 19 billion. A survey high for the National Retail federation. One thing you wont have to pay for is a free ride. Uber is offering columbia residents a free valentines dream date to the big apple. Pack those bags. In order to win, uber riders must take the trip before 8 00 tonight. Click on the promotions tab from the app menu and apply the code dream date. The three lucky winners will be picked up in a special uber vehicle. So thats pretty cool. Absolutely. Now for those of you who want to stay a little closer to home, you have a romantic option actually right down the road. Trip advisor has named the wentworth mansion in charleston the number two most romantic hotel in the u. S. But that valentines day budget is going to cost you about 350 a night. Better be nice, right . Better be nice. Billion thateople are spending nationally for valentines day. You may not fall in love with this weather. Definitely not. Well have a reason to cuddle, though. Next live from main and gervais. Good friday afternoon. Hope youve had your jacket with you all day today because it is not a cold one and with cloud cover, dont expect temperatures to move a whole lot more than where were at right now. 42 degrees downtown. Overcast skies, winds out the north at five to 10 miles an hour. We look towards the statehouse and you can see gray everywhere including the statehouse. Afternoon. Were starting to warm up a little bit to our north as that wintry precipitation starts to slide away from us a little bit. I noticed 42 downtown. 42 over at the airport in lexington. As you move a little bit further to the north, camden is at 37. Darlington at 36. You get up towards dillon and been bennettsville, those areas there, semifrozen precipitation with that freezing rain. Winds out of the north. Thats where were seeing the cool, cloudy conditions. That will keep things rather chilly through the afternoon. Thankfully not nearly as cold as it was earlier in the week. Closer to home than we have been the last couple of days. Notice the snow that was seeing some nice snow squalls in the greenville area up towards North Carolina line. As you get towards spartanburg, those areas there towards charlotte, halfhour to hour of snowfall. No accumulation really associated with this. Very minimal impact. Now, some roadways certainly probably a little slick outside but nothing for us here at home. Well see this system continue to move to the north and east. See pretty much the snow line lining up anywhere north of fayetteville and towards the raleigh area. Thats also there to the south. Starting to see that wintry mix with that pink and then the green out towards those areas there around cape lookout. Heres your low. This is the troublemaker here stirring up all this action. This will continue to move to the north and east and suck the moisture with it. Look at the cooler air and the dry air to the deep south. That will come our way. Look for clear skies for much of the upcoming weekend. Once this system moves through, not a lot behind it to worry about. Us as theyll get the models here. Nothing but sunshine for us for saturday. Carry that into sunday as well. Temperatures are going to be bitter, bitter cold. Maybe even colder than what were seeing at any point earlier in the week and we certainly saw some cold temperatures, wind chills in the teens for a lot of locations so for your day today, we wrap up another work week. Mid to upper 40s. A lot of spots will end up in the lower 40s. Well see high near 49 tomorrow. I dont think we quite get to 50 with more sunshine in the forecast. That will help us a little bit and then as we get into sunday, valentines day, that warm valentine, highs of around 41. Very cold start to your sunday and then actually nice little warmup as we head into next week. We will see some rain monday and tuesday. Implications of potentially Winter Weather again with that system but i think for us here at home in the columbia area, just rain. You go up towards the upstate in charlotte, those areas may be a wintry mix. Right now, just looks like a rain scenario with temperatures in the mid to upper 50s and then after that, nice sunshine and look at that, temperatures and thursday. Yeah, getting ready for the 60s. If we could just flipflop them for valentines day. But at least it will be dry. If you dont have a special person to spend your valentines day with, we have an option chocolates. Welcome back to the corner of main and gervais where im joined by elizabeth from the clyde is very vocal. Amazing disposition. What a sweet little boy. Yeah. This is clyde. He is a 2yearold hound mix and he actually came to us with his sister. So we named them, theyre very close. We named them bonnie and clyde and they are very sweet. Very loving. You can tell, he thinks hes a lap dog. Hes great. Hes very sweet. Does really good, you know, with other dogs. Very playful. If you could adopt them together, because they are very close. They are very attached. Bonnie was very upset when i took clyde this morning. So she they do really like being together. And yeah, so were looking for someone, you know, that wants to bring a dog and adult dog into their home, into their family. So if you want some more information about clyde and bonnie, give us a call or go on our website. Not too far from now, well be bringing dogs to the park. Yes we have kicked off planning for finlay park. It will be saturday, april 9th and so we it will be presented by mcdaniels subaru, big partner of ours and we have a bunch of great other sponsors. Its bark to the park. Com. Easy enough. Make your team. Go ahead and get that set up. In april, it will be a warmer obviously. Its important this time of year to point out that dogs outside out in the cold. Right now, its really cold and really windy. If your dog doesnt have any shelter, you need to bring them in at night or any of your pets. Its very cold. So that clyde agrees. He doesnt want you leaving your dogs and your animals outside in the cold. So get them some shelter or bring them in. All right. Cover your ears, clyde, well talk about cats and were still talking about spaying those cats. Yeah, for the whole month of Petsmart Charities grant for 20 cat spays. Bring your female cat in. Call us on your clinic line. Its 4659100. And set up your appointment to get that done. All right. Clyde is definitely doing his best job pleading his case. He says please, take me, take my sister and me home we want a forever home. We are coming right back live come get bonnie and clyde. Cloudy and cool for your friday afternoon. Dry for your friday evening plans. If youre heading out for some valentines plans a little early, its going to be cold aul all weekend. More reason to snuggle. Youve been watching abc columbia news at 12 30. Thanks for making us your choice for news. 6 00 and as always on line. Just around the corner, so were bringing you an hour of two times the fun, and two times the food, with our dazzling duo delights. Carlas getting the Party Started with her date night snack thats perfect for valentines day. Then, forgot to buy a gift for your sweetheart . Its the chew to the rescue. Clintons showing you how to make an amazing lastminute craft that will look like youve been planning for weeks. Plus, michaels in the kitchen with the fabulous tamar braxton. 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