Details. Jennifer . Eric. In many neighborhoods in newberry this afternoon. Police and firefighters were both on the scene to block off flooded and dangerous roads. In addition. They also helped evacuate. 3 in 3 addition. Officials remind motorists during the floods that if they do run into a barricade. Blocking off the road. Not to drive through or move the barricade for your safety. From the newsroom, jennifer ready, abc columbia news. Comedian bill cosby is facing Sexual Assault charges in pennsylvania. Prosecutor announced this morning. Cosby has been charged with felony aggravated indecent assault. The 78year old actor was arraigned this afternoon. Those charges stem from a womans accusation that cosby drugged and abused her at his philadelphiaarea home in 2004. More than forty women have come forward to publicly accuse cosby of assaulting them over the last four decades. Cosby has long denied wrongdoing. We have new information tonight on a train accident that left one man dead t
3 3 the deadline to apply for individual assistance fema has been extended again. You now have until monday january 4th to apply. It originally was the third. But because that falls on a sunday. Fema officials will be accepting registrations through monday. President obama has declared all midlands counties a federal disaster. Which assistance. The money would cover losses not taken care of by insurance. If you have already registeredyou dont need to reapply. 3 faith based 3 the rain continues to fall in most of the midlands this morning. But we could be in for some relief. Before we ring in the new year. Good morning and thanks for waking up with us on this new years eve day. Lets toss things over to meterololigst. Efren afante. 3 with what we can expect to see the rest of the day. Efren. 3 3 sce g officials are monitoring water levels at lake murray. And the lower saluda river. After they released water into the river from the dam. They decided to let water out after heavy rainfall a
Continue into the evening, vocational thunderstorm but it will diminish after midnight. Tempter 64, tomorrow occasional light rain showers but it will taper off in the afternoon without temperature of 69, still hopeful during will be out before tomorrow evening. More in a moment. What everyone is talking about, the rain. It wont stop raining in the midlands and and is affecting all of us. One businesses forced to show its workers in and out of work because their cars cant make it in the water. Chuck has the story. Reporter the roads im standing on at the treatment plan is flooded. Msu of the heavy Utility Vehicle or truck it is impossible to get to and from work. Management says it isnt affecting operations in the plant. Whenever there is a rain theres a lot more water coming in, but we are able to keep up with the demand. Viktoria kramer is the Utility Communications manager at the plant, she says the facility created protocols and is still using it today. Our staff can park in a seco
To newberry to the north. Fairfield county and approaching winnsboro to the west of blythewood and ridge wood and light scattered showers into west irmo. Starting off more mild than yesterday. 63 newberry. 64 winnsboro. Sumter, 66. Columbia, 67. Well be experiencing light showers, but temperatures to stay in the upper 60s into the afternoon. Better chance for light to moderate showers into the Late Afternoon and early evening. If you are heading out now, youll want to give yourself a lot of interest time because extra time because the roads are wet. I26 between piney grove and st. Andrews road, traffic is very light right now. But the roads with wet, so give yourself extra time. Only delay in lexington across augusta road from main street sunset boulevard across i20 right now is clear. From i26 lake murray to the williamsbrice stadium, 21 minutes. Well look at your sevenday forecast coming up in a few minutes. Mary. Thank you, efren. Sce g officials are monitoring water levels at lake
A you will still see up the brake lights out there and had a passing grade for him to boulevard. He will still have the traffic there other than that the rest of five sixty four west is clear head to naval station norfolk a bit of good news there keep a close eye on an upbeat you throughout the morning and then coming up at six ten will head to sixty four and will to traffic around the battlefield in greenbrier out and to speak and breaking overnight it was a close one but a Democratic Caucus winner has been announced and i were Hillary Clinton takes it with just point three percent of the lead over Bernie Sanders both sanders and clinton declared the night a success as they spoke with voters love i will have some very profound message to the political establishment by the time and keep doing what ive done my entire life i would be standing up for you i will keep fighting for you the clintons was not as hoped and sanders is strongly favored in next weeks New Hampshire primary now as fo