Covering our commitment 2016 this morning. The South Carolina gop primary is over. And five candidates remain standing. With donald trump in the lead. Jeb bush. On the other race. Heres another look at those gop primary results. Donald trump walking away with the vote there. Ted cruz and marco rubio practically tied here in South Carolina. John kasich and ben carson finished lowest. But again. It was jeb bush who announced hes dropping out of the race. Lets talk with wyff news 4s myra ruiz now. Myra. Its no surprise that donald trump won. Thats right geoff. It was pretty much expected that donald trump would take South Carolina. During his speech last night. He said he expects to gather more votes as his gop opponets drop out of the race for president. A number of the pundts say well if a couple of the other candidates drop out if u add their scores together its going to equal trump. These genises they dont understabd as people drop out i am gooing to get a lot of thoses votes also. U
Wave after wave of snowy weather making its way across tennessee and impacting the North Carolina border. Higher elevations along the tennesseeNorth Carolina border continue under a winter storm warning. Anytime you get 3, 4, 5 plus inches of snow, it makes for tricky driving conditions. Cold wind advisories for the asheville area, transylvania county, southern jackson, Winter Weather advisorys continue in western North Carolina, too. Most of the snow falls in the Higher Elevations. Low 20s in boone, 26 in asheville, 34 in greenville. That would be cold enough that you take a tenfifteentwenty mileperhour wind, it feels like five in greenville, teens and hendersonville and asheville. Dress warmly for today. Temperatures reaching 41 for the upstate and low 30s at best for the mountains today. We will talk more about the rest of the week in a few minutes. Look now at those areas already covered in snow. Patrick video that shows more of what it looked like in waynesville yesterday and over
Seen on the fountain in downtown greenville. A good sign of just how much you need to bundle up this morning. We will see above freezing temperatures later today. As of right now, not anywhere close to that and when the wind comes through, it is bitter cold. Experts tell you that these are the temperatures, if youre not layer that properly, you will be dealing with hypothermia or frost bite. We are a couple blocks away from the bus stop and we will be getting to election coverage in a couple of minutes. That is around the corner at the peace center when the candidates will be on saturday. Once again, bundle up before you head out. Aly myles wyff news 4 live in downtown greenville. Allyson thank you. Shifting our focus to commitment 2016 now, with the focus on South Carolina. Candidates continue making stops in the upstate looking for your vote. Geoff that includes gop frontrunner donald trump, whos boasting about his poll numbers in the state. By the way, the original theyre through th
Arrested a couple weeks ago. Ammon bundys father was arrested by the fbi late last night and taken into federal custody. So far no word on what charges clive faces. To politics, where the republican president ial field is shrinking after some poor performances in New Hampshire. Carly fiorina and Chris Christie both announced theyre suspending their campaigns and donald trump is taking his momentum to South Carolina. Where he declared quote youre next and a win would propel him to run the tables the rest of the primary season. He over pushed his general electability saying he could even win states like new york and michigan. Peter alexander spoke with john kasich fresh off his strong second place finish in New Hampshire. Reporter how do you navigate im not going to let somebody pound me. Reporter watching the results come in tuesday night, kasich was more reflective. We plugged away and plugged away. The little engine that can. Reporter but he faces a steep uphill climb in a state with
We have a kind of moisture having our way. We expected to eventually change to rain for some of us. Ellis like a we head into the afternoon hours. For every is north of i85, cold temperatures will versus. It is getting bad out there. We will see that moisture increase, especially about i85 north not into henderson county, northern greenville, and Spartanburg County. By tonight at midnight, the warmer air, the moisture should overwhelm the cold air. It should change to all rain. There are going to be some pockets here just at the foot of the mountains that may never change. That could lead to significant icing. We will have more on that forecast in a few minutes. Geoff thank you very much. With Allyson Powell in the traffic center, myra ruiz in northern Greenville County, Mike Mccormick in Spartanburg County. Is live in Greenville County in bitter windy conditions. Aly chains on, trucks prepped. Other than that, just kind of hoping for the best. Aly now, we wait. If we need to call in e