I cannot expect i cannot express how much that means to me and my boys. Going home again. A midlands flood victim back in her house after an amazing effort. The news at 10 pm starts right now. Live from the wach fox studios. This is wach fox news at 10 pm. The stage is set for the democrats in South Carolina. Hillary clinton and Bernie Sanders putting in the final push. Part of the push is reaching out to africanamerican voters. They are a critical part of this saturdays primary. Both groups made up the majority of voters in the 2008 primary in South Carolina. While that is a big advantage for clinton, it is also a big problem for sanders. According to a recent cnn orc poll, clinton has the support of 65 of black voters in the in 2008, 55 of democratic primary voters were black. Both clinton and sanders when the midlands today. Lectin speaking to alpha kappa alpha. Bernie sanders was also reaching out to black voters in what was his last scheduled visit to the palmetto state before sat
Dodged a pine tree. Back over in columbia, this home on gordon street near c. A. Johnson high school wasnt so lucky. Needless to say, sce gs been busy. Weve been working since knowing that the storm was coming to get our crews ready. And spokesperson ginny jones says there have been plenty of outages to fix. There have been a number of particularly hard hit, and weve been working all around the state to try to restore outages as theyve come up. Jones says the company has rerouted crews from other counties. She says some from sumter will be headed here thursday morning. What youre looking at is a lot of single incidents at different homes, so some of those outages will take some more time to repair than, jones says thats why sce g trims limbs throughout the year to reduce the damage in windy situations like were seeing right now. Now taking a look at the current outages from sce showers and a few storms will give way to clearing showers and a few storms will give way to clearing skies a
Storm system continues to move away from the east coast. Be on the lookout for any tree limbs or debris on the roadways this morning as you head to work. Lets get your Early Morning started with a look at your forecast. Tim miller is in the First Alert Storm Center with your wake up weather. Get ready for a nice stretch of late winter days ahead with dry conditions, Cool Temperatures and mostly sunny skies as High Pressure builds in through the first of next week. Winds will still be an issue today as well see some gust up to 30mph. Today, mostly sunny, continued breezy, highs middle to upper 50s. Winds west 1520mph with some higher gust. Tonight, clear lows lower to middle 30s friday sunday mostly sunny, highs middle 50s to near 60 with the wind continuing to tear through the midlands, sce g linemen have been working hard overnight to restore power to temperatures and mostly sunny skies as High Pressure builds in through the first of next week. Winds will still be an issue today as we
Those high winds today caused some minor damage in parts of lexington countywhere there were several reports of trees down. Our mike desumma is live along Mineral Springs road where a downed tree is still causing some problems. Here you can see crews are still busy trying to fix what the tree did. It fell across the road landing on some power lines causing lines causing them to droop. At one point the road was closed but now its back open. At last check there are more without power. Traffic is down to one lane out it was a close call for a taxi driver this afternoon in columbiawhen a large tree limb broke off and smashed into his windshield. This happened along millwood avenue near the epworth childrens home. The driver said he believes the high winds caused the branch to break off. He says hes lucky to be aliveas that branch left his cab a wreck. Crews were out cleaning up and removing the branch a short time later, and the car was towed away. Caught on camera near the North Carolina
Waking up with on this thursday. Im deon guillory. And im 3 savannah levins. Lets get a check of the weather with efren afante. Good morning efren. 3 3 3 3 today in lexington. An antidrunk driving rally will take place in front of the judicial center. The event is expected to highlight the latest dui charge against 11th circuit solicitor donnie myers. The long time prosecutor was arrested monday night after a single car accident off old chapin road. Rally organizers are expected to call for myers resignation. Saying he is no longer credible to prosecute dui cases. The rally is set for noon in front of the lexington judicial center. A panel on the impact of policecommunity relations tonight. The panel will focus on the role of police, the impact of policing in communities and ways to improve relationships with police. It will take place at 5 30 in the law schools auditorium. 3 homeless helping homeless of columbia will present ilent voices,an evening of music, theater and visual arts at