The suspect is in the hospital in critical condition. The slides caused some serious damage to the area. The largest rock this came down was the size of an suv. Repairs are expected it to cost 2 to 5 million. Full repairs to i70 should take up to two months. We will update at 9news. Com. A lot of money to fix that. We are learning just how strong that windy weather was this week and the figures may blow you awith a. Winds reached 148 Miles Per Hour on monarch pass on thursday. Thats the strongest gusts ever recorded in our state. That record gust was enough to pass the record 147 Miles Per Hour set in boulder in 1971 when gusts that strong are what you during a category 4 hurricane. Unbelievable. Leon. Anything like that this belen . Not at all. Those winds have died down and we are going to see a forecast around the foothills and front range. We are looking at a nice shaping up. Mild. The high today 63 degrees. Not as windy. Afternoon. You will notice the winds from five to ten Miles
This morning to give us an idea when this will start impacting the upstate too. Chris we are watching a matter of moisture moving from northern alabama into georgia right now. It is starting to produce some freezing rain back to northwestern georgia. That will head our way. We will see freezing drizzle and freezing rain developing over the next few hours. Here is a look at the highest impact areas. You can see the foothills all the way to the northern part of the upstate. The change from last night is the low pressure system now will not move over the mountains, but it will likely scoot right around this boundary. Cold air from the northeast. That will lock in the cold air in these areas. The higher impact areas in red right here may even see a slightly higher impact. That could be scooted down just a bit north of Travelers Rest. That is the area we that will be locked in. 61 humidity. Anything that falls now is likely to actually hit the ground. What i want to urge you is the roads ma
As we look at from our woodruff road skycam, no precipitation showing in the upstate, but we expect it late morning into the afternoon. We have a taxi weather covers going on this morning. We will go to meteorologist chris justus in just a minute. As we take a look at the woodruff road skycam, nothing upstate. The mountains of North Carolina getting some snow. Have your snow where it shows blue on the screen. Knoxville is getting heavier snow. The entire area under an advisory of some sort. Freezing rain advisories for the upstate. Aviation advisories for greenville and spartanburg so check on your flights. Winter storm watches out for the mountains of North Carolina. Lets go to chris and get an chris we are watching for the west. The air is way too dry. We are watching this slug of alabama. It changes from rain to freezing rain. That is the concern today. It is the freezing rain. Impacted. There is going to be a wedge of cold air that sets up about like that. The low pressure system t
Expect for the rest of the year coming up. Rochelle thanks, jonathan. Rochelle this rain is causing some concerns in Newberry County as officials anticipate more rain and monitor current runoff. Officials say they plan to release water from the lake at greenwood Buzzard Roost dam along South Carolina highway 34 into the saluda river as a precaution. Crews have shut down the bridge on roof bottom road until it can be inspected to see if its structurally sound because of high water. Another problem with water. A relocation project could affect dozens of residents in west columbia. A boil water advisory is in effect for more than 20 streets near leapheart and Mineral Springs roads. Residents in those areas could lose water from now until 7 00 tonight. Once water is restored, affected customers will need to boil their water for one full minute before drinking or cooking. A complete list of affected areas are on our website abccolumbia. Com. Rochelle were not the only ones dealing with some
Williams. Good evening. It has already crippled a big company. Its cost a major studio a major motion picture. And its had a terrible cost to privacy. And while the electronic attack on Sony Pictures goes on, federal officials are pointing right at the source. They say the attack was launched from inside north korea. It raises huge questions about vulnerability and national security. And its where we begin tonight with our justice correspondent pete williams. Pete, good evening. Reporter brian, good evening. U. S. Officials tonight say they now believe the attack was launched inside north korea then rooted through computer servers in taiwan to take advantage of faster computer surrogates in the outside world. But theyre still unsure about whether there was outside help in designing the attack. Security analysts say even though north korea has a force of nearly 6,000 people assigned to do cyber attacks, its previous attempts have been primitive. Now they say the nature of the attack and