From the crash scene, but myers said he didnt know who the person was. Myers was eventually taken to jail and charged with dui. Solicitor myers has so far not commented on mondays incident. But it raises several questions about the future of the office hes held for 40 years. Jack kuenzie is looking into that issue and joins us with several new developments. Dawndydonnie myers has a reputation as a fierce and highly effective prosecutor. Even those now calling for his resignation admit that. And it is a major reason hes had virtually no challengers for reelection over a very long period. But now for the second time in four years, we are seeing Highway Patrol dashcam Video Connected to the solicitor and the problems hes had with alcoholrelated driving offenses. The latest video shot monday nightas the patrol investigated circumstances that took myers lexus off old chapin roadand into a a trooper at that scene not only found the abandoned carbut a loaded handgun on the drivers side floorb
Updemocrats down. The trends for the two parties since 2008 in this state show a significant drop in democratic voter participationwhile gop voters continue to turn out in greater numbers. 2008 of course, a good year for the democrats here with the first contest between Hillary Clinton and a relative newcomer named barack obama. About 23 per cent of democrats go to the pollsalmost 20 per cent of republicans. In 2012thenpresident obama firmly in command and there was no democratic primary here as he sought and eventually won his second term. South Carolina Republicans managed to grow their turnout by a couple of pointsin the year they chose former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and snapped their string of picking a candidate who went on to win the partys nomination. This year, continued expansion of gop participationa sharp rise of almost four per cent with just over 25 per cent voting. A level of enthusiasm likely driven in some part by the trump candidacy. Democrats meanwhiledropped dram
Resumed driving on assembly. He was tracked down after police looked at Surveillance Video and talked to witnesses. The victim was treated by ems at the scene. Columbia police say carpenter later gave a statement and has been fully cooperative. There are no indications he was under the influence of anything. Carpenter appeared in city court this morning and is free on a 5 carpenter at age 26 is the nations youngest medal of honor recipientsuffering severe injuries and undergoing multiple surgeries after saving a fellow marine in afghanistan from a taliban grenade attack. Hes been unavailable for comment. Jack kuenzie wis news ten. There are several strong storms moving towards sc from ga, therefore the flooding remains a concern today. Thursday the rain chance falls to 50 during the day and then down to 30 that night. High 70. The front will cross the area and settle along the coast by late thursday night. New years day will be mostly cloudy with only a slight chance of showers and a t
Real disaster, or two. They are struggling, working as hard as they can they may be working two jobs. The fact is there should be equity between people receiving government assistance and though striving to live an independent life. Work needs to be the single biggest requirement. No more waivers, as this a administration has done. There should be real work eligibility. That means we have to transform our education and Training Programs. Right now, we have a skills gap. If they do not have the skills to get a job, that is the first step. All of our workforce programs have to be revamped. Imagine a system where you were starting from scratch. Not the one we have today. If you have the same amount money, but could deliver these programs to help people get out of poverty a different way. You would reward marriage, not penalize it. Ou would reward work you would promote, in a genetically different fashion, education so that more and more of our young people were college or career ready. An
Say in the inner cities why are 50 of the kids dropping out of high school . Those kids are observant and they look around and say im not getting educated anyway. Wese are situations that have to avoid. We only have 330 million people. We have to compete with china, india. We have to develop all of our people and for everyone of those kids we can keep them going on that path of selfdestruction, thats one less person we have to be afraid of, one less person we have to pay for in the welfare system, one more productive number of society who may discover a new in Energy Source or a cure for cancer. We cannot afford to throw any of our people away. [applause] the single most instructive force for Public Education in this country is the Teachers Union. [applause] we got a lot of reforms done. We reformed teacher tenure in new jersey. We set up a Public School choice program. We increased our charters to the largest number we had bad in history we have had in history. People really enjoyed i