Remarkable the unique donald trump the next president of the United States of america. The Lieutenant Governor throwing his support behind donald trump speakinto a standing room only crowd in lexington county. It is one of several storylines following trump. He says he will not be showing up at tomorrows fox news debate. Reporter donald trump is definitely definitely had the crowd going in gilbert tonight that he did not speak about the fact that he wont be participating in the next to beat. The only thing that he did tell rally goers was he felt that he wasnt treated fairly. In front of a massive crowd at harmon street farm he focused on issues like Border Security a stronger military and repealing Trump Supporters are all in on the billionaires decision to skip the debate. They think it will only help him by keeping him in the headlines. He is turning up the heat as we get closer to the iowa caucus and the palmetto state first in the south primary. It is getting to be crunch time. Weve got to do it. We are led by people that dont know what theyre doing. We have no idea. It is embarrassing. This has become the equivalent of woodstock. Are you ready for this america. This has become trump stock. He is a freethinker hes refreshing and i dont like what i see that we have going on right now. I think he could tone it down a little bit his rhetoric is a little bit loud but i believe his heart is in the right place and he says what he thinks like all of us do. Trumps next stop will be in iowa he says he believes its republican nominee in the race for president. Earlier this month Many Political gurus said governor nikki haley was targeting prep trump when he she spoke after president obama. This afternoon the governor taking time to clarify her statements. Whether it is groups that are riding writing in whether its to those wanting the ban on religions whether its i ithose those that get upset in a way they are signaling or singling out a Certain Group that were talking about. Trumpet may not be facing off with other gop hopefuls tomorrow that there is another challenge that is out there tonight. Stop its coming from his closest rival ted cruz. Hes a throwing down the gauntlet tonight. Stop the senator wants to go oneonone with the real estate mogul. If hes unwilling to stand the debate stage with the other candidate than candidates and i would like to invite donald right now to engage in a oneonone debate with me anytime between now and the Iowa Caucuses. Anytime anyplace. So far the Trump Campaign has not commented on the cruise invitation. Candidates are spending time in iowa as they are preparing for the caucus next week. They are gathering in churches and schools to vote for their president ial preferences on the democratic size side at supporters tried to get others to join a group. Experts say iowa matters because of their first test for candidates. Whatever the first primary is candidates are going to spend an undue amount of money theyre disproportionate to weather spending and other places because if they lose their they lose momentum they lose a bit of a little bit of face and it you just heard from a political professor they are he says he doesnt think the iowa results will have any impact on the South Carolina primary. As for South Carolina there are more than 2. 9 million registered voters before nex months s imary in the state that 200,000 more than there were heading into the 2012 gop primary. If you want to vote in next months republican primary next month you are out of luck if you arent a registered voter as of now. The deadline has passed. However you still have about an hour and 15 minutes or so to register for the democratic primary which is february 27th. That deadline is coming up at midnight tonight. You can register on online and we do have a direct link to a can as we take a look outside the radar we do have some light showers but most of us to just seeing clouds right now. We will see some shower chances overnight. A lot different than earlier today we had a few showers that were pushing through it could be heavier at times. All tied in with his frontal boundary today. For us just to some rain in the sky that we have but neighbors to the south especially run the West Palm Beach area just south of that in Coconut Grove they dealt with a Severe Weather today. Take a look at this courtesy of youtube and breaking whether this is moving through the florida turnpike. This is an actual tornado that this truck driver not only captured but he was in. Take a look you can see some of the cars are starting to spin out a bit there at the times you can see some debris that is blowing around. Fortunately all of that weather staying south of us while our weather here at home is to remain,. Were in the 40s ririt now. Showers are scattered it not widespread so not everybody saw some rainfall today. Fortysix at midnight and 45 at 3 00 a. M. And 44 degrees at 6 00 a. M. Were gonna talk about a great thursday with more rain chances but quite the warmup in the final weekend of january details coming up later on. New developments in the dylan and bruce case tonight about 600 potential jurors will be called for that trial later this year. The judge issued an order today laying at the size of the jury pool that the Defense Attorneys and prosecutors will choose from. Stop its twice the size of a typical pool. He is facing nine murder charges. New information on a loaded handgun found in the passengers carry on at columbia metro. The passenger has not been with the weapons violation. It carries a maximum penalty of 1,000. Airport Officials Say the man did not contain intend to conceal and carry the weapons but forgot to take it out before arriving to the airport. This morning South Carolina congressman jeff duncan and Nick Mulvaney held the e senate to midi that the federal government isnt doing enough to look into refugees backgrounds. The proposal would also hold sponsors liable for any act of terrorism the refugee could potentially commit. Three democrats voted against this today one of them blocking a ban on the issue. It does have wide support from we want to know who they are where they are and two have the decision whether to bring here because without the groups the system a spokesmans Foreign Organization focused on protecting the civil rights of muslims says South Carolina is the first estate he knows of who has proposed a register like this. Lawmakers say its all but incremental progress although no real road plan is in place. It has been debated for well over your near. One thing is certain it will packet carry some type of the tax reform and restructuring the dot. Lawmakers say two things need to be changed and that is how the dot commissioner appointed and how the dot districts are configured. One configured. One major Sticking Point to this comprehensive bill is in fact tax reform. We were at the statehouse all day today and finding out how lawmakers are restructuring a law to find out how South Carolina will restructure the infrastructure. Lawmakers are spending Hours Wednesday figuring out how to put together a package that will not only funded south department of transportation create new revenue and put money back in taxpayers pocket. If were going to have tax relief how do we spread the tax relief. Tax relief could be coming from a new source in the roads debate. A senate panel talked about lowering the states 5 sales tax but each penny on the dollar raises about 800 million so it offsets so to offset that some senators are looking for new revenue. Here is what we need. The gasoline tax. Member of a senate panel agreed that raising the gas tax by 12 cents over the next three or four years will be the primary source of new revenue for the state to fund roads. If you think about it its only a fee for those people that are buying gasoline. If you take mass transit or goober okay it wont cost you any more. License fees registration fees on vehicles. We can talk about this issue and we can talk about what is needed. Here is the simple answer we need to fix the potholes. The roads debate continues thursday at the statehouse. Lawmakers say they need to continue working out of the details of the road plan including dot and tax reform. Senators are optimistic they will get a bill to the senate floor in the next two weeks. A new staff a new look. Columbia fire showing all the teams uniforms modeled by local High School Baseball standouts as for the field they will support them on they said the Spirit Communications ballpark is on time and on budget to open april 14th. The ballpark has now reached a point where we have been able to take towards with numerous people and groups we have members who put on their deposits and they are selecting their actual seats so a lot of these things now the ballpark the season all of it is starting to feel the reality. It will host a job fair on february 13th for anyone wanting to work the games. Progress there. Opening day is coming. Yes it is. Hard to believe its almost time for baseball. Only about two or three weeks away for the gamecocks. Than the fireflies with their goal that are cats. Still to come how prepared are you for aging. Some of the surprising things experts say about getting older. Freedom of choice parents teachers and students fighting for what they want in South Carolinas classrooms and they one. 40 of Older Americans surveyed in a recent survey think they are prepared for the aging process. Professionals who work for sees with the seniors say very often seniors find out too late. While waiting for crisis could force families into some bad decisions. Marlene hamilton is making lunch plans at epic house. Epic stands for elderly people in community. They dont have the family to help them out. Marlene worked with folks who didnt have the resources to plan for retirement. She did plan. She had a four o one k and a good financial advisor. The stocks went down and i was one of the victims who lost pretty much all of their investments. Marlene had to go back to work. Friends stay healthy by looking out of the worker working out at their local senior center. They admit there are survivor surprise its. I cant do the things i used to do. I remember years ago we would leave friday and come home sunday. A survey shows a big gap on perceptions but the aging process. While Older Americans top concerned with the physical and Mental Health doctors Financial Planners and others who work with seniors is hitting you be planning that are for Affordable Housing and for protecting their money. They underestimate how much longterm care is going to cost. They even are in a somewhat even need care and they underestimate the housing costs their health needs. Laura petrie speaks to people all the time the preparations for aging. Which he most wants people to remember is they have to make choices about how and where they want to live and how to pay for it before there is a crisis. Its important to research to things likikliving options and longterm m re before you need them. Think about consulting with an expert so you make good decisions if there is a crisis. Even more important family conversations. That doesnt cost a thing. Being upfront and honest with each other about who is going to do what who is going to take. Care of mom. Senior centers are a good place to look for resources to help of the conversations not to mention finding a purpose. I thought i would be sitting in my sunroom have a cup of tea every morning reading the paper but actually it was kind of boring. Marlenes financial crisis led her to a job she loves helping seniors which is helping i think its important that you have a reason to get out of bed in the morning. A lot of people dont. I think if you can get up in the morning and say good morning god rather than good god its morning that is a start of a good day. The p pof proof that attitude is everything and age is just a number. Even a young families should have a will a living will and power of attorney documents and keep them updated as you get older. Stay with us theres more ahead including the latest with Donald Trumps feud with fox news. The fight for schools of choice parents and educators sending a loud and clear message to lawmakers today. Some of you seeing shower activity today as we make our r way through the overnight hours taking a look at our forecast in sumter we will stay in the 40s light rain fall. We will talk about who else will see the rain fall plus sky watch weather out in the Community Today find out where when we return. Another day with sky watch weather today we went to late carolina upper campus and spoke with the fourthgraders of their and certainly a great day with all of the fourth grade classes at lake carolina upper campus. He did not realize recently that there were two campuses but some great kids Beautiful School as well as they had a lot of wonderful questions about not only the recent weather weve seen the cold weather but also talking about tornadoes hurricanes and again as i mentioned the snow that some did get to experience last week. Lots of questions about that and of course things like the rain gauge that we talked about as well. How can we come to your school. We you can be a civic group we that includes older ones like myself. You can reach me to set up a visit. Lets talk about the weather and now we do have is we have some shower activity working some cloud cover from everybody else and im gonna slide off screen just for a second because i want sky you where we are seeing some of the if you will heavier showers. Right along i 20 core door in aiken county getting toward the belvedere area where we picked up the 520 outer loop there that can take you to the airport in augusta but thats really as far as anything heavy goes. A little bit of drizzle and parts of lexington county right now. Just north of hollow creek that is all that we are experiencing at this time. Let me expand the view back out across the midlands you can see again just with the shower activity not expecting too much throughout the overnight time. Tomorrow of the models are now sweep to the area and then once this pushes out by around 6 00 or 7 00 we start to see that dryer air pushing in and that takes you into tomorrow night. Through the day tomorrow models still showing a lot of inconsistency we will keep the rain chances in the peak time being from about 10 00 a. M. All the way up two about 5 00 p. M. It will be some rainfall and then things will improve. We are in the 50s right now relatively comfortable with the exception irmo at 49 and rembrandt at 40 degrees. But everybody else low 50s. Realtime conditions he could only find here and watch fox and the numbers not moving or tonight. Will be down the mid 40s with a few showers expected throughout the company area. With the kids had to School Tomorrow please make sure they have something to stay dryry because we will have a few light 43 at 7 00 and 8 00 a. M. Sunrise at 7 24 likely recess inside and rain chances lingering around it will be prettytyamn. Rara chances scattered not widespread during the big day hours as you run out to lunch not exactly the day you want to find your favorite restaurant and have a patio and enjoy lunch outdoors on it because it will be gray and damp out to their and as the kids had home from school you could have a few light showers around with temperatures around 50 degrees. Tomorrow evening 6 00 still the chance of light showers in the 40s that should be gone i about 7 00 with a cloudy sky in 45 degrees and in the by 8 00 still in the mid 40s and again the cloudy sky still with us. Here is the next three days temperature start a nice warming trend how about mid 60s by saturday taking you to the final day of january 68 we start still a slight chance of rain but we will up the temperature to about 70 degrees and the rain chances really starting to pick up in the middle of the week. Which is probably when i will need this. This is not a sword like janet thought earlier its umbrella. I will not open an umbrella indoors it to superstition i dont want to do. It is think you for visiting lake carolina upper campus and it was a very good gift to have on a rainy day like today. This could be an umbrella for corey to keep them dry on the golf course. I love to be in the golf course. Super bowl is looming and today talking to some Panthers Football and a practice some familiar faces some on the operating table but the ready play. We have panther talk coming up next plus the womens gamecock Basketball Team feeling good and they are back at home. Coming up next in sports. Good evening. Corey miller here with you Basketball Team excited about being back at home a couple of tough road games but they were victories they are keeping the streak 19 and 07 and zero old miss rebels run into town tomorrow night they will use the speed and athleticism and try to get their digs the compromise of their size. You talk about it today at practice. Fastpaced get up and down the floor they like to dribble some of our biggest and they like to drive it at the biggs. We just have to stay down and stay disciplined and know that we have to create layers to hehe our defense. This team shoots a lot of threes and make a lot of threes and they are able to attack the basket so they can kill you one or two ways. We just have to make sure that we are in front of them. The biggs will have to guard sec player Adrian Wilson who has been phenomenal this year talk about doing it excitement of being back at home. We are were taking a game by game is sec everyone is coming to play i think we have a great conference. Every night its a great team. Plus with us they bring their a game no matter what. Said i think we are ready for this game its good to be back home right now even though it just back out. I think we are very prepared. Last night a big win for the their opponent. 34. 15 rebounds when you talk about passion when you talk about energy he is the guy that gets the basque will team going. Frank martin acknowledges his passion and his desire to win in this press conference after the game. Im ecstatic for mike. Because he has worked so hard and he cares about our team and this program like it is his family. And im ecstatic for his willingness to lead and to take on the responsibility of doing what good players do. He doesnt get any reps yet anything i call when he is at the floor he knows what to do. Two years ago i couldnt get him to do anything. Now he does everything and he doesnt even practice on the floor. It is unbelievable courage by that young man. What a great teammate. Practicing with some familiar faces thomas davis senior was back after surgery on his arm that he was back ready to rock n roll allen was back expected to play as well. We knew this question would come up cam newton a lot of theatrics a lot of antics. Ive said it since day one. I am an africanamerican quarterback that may scare a lot of people because they havent seen nothing that they can compare me to. Here i am im doing exactly what i want to do. How you want to do it. And when a i look in the mirror it is me. Nobody has changed me nobody made me after this certain type of way and im true to my roots. And it feels great. People will say whatever they want to say and if i am in this world living for that person this person as good as it is can newton or Cameron Newton most people. Coach he talks about that as well about cam newton being a successful africanamerican quarterback. Somebody might play think they should bes cared about quarterback with that skill set than anything else. Hes a tremendous athlete a smart Football Player the list goes on and on. Thats what they should be concerned with more than anything else. I dont think he wants to be known as an africanamerican quarterback i think you want to be known as a quarterback. Totally agree. Coming on desk coming up later on frank garcia my former friend. Will talk about the panthers in the next in sports segment. Back. Parents educators and state leaders taking to the statehouse today. Many argue when it comes to education it is a one size fits all in a way that clear during hundreds gathered in columbia wednesday to celebrate National School choice week. Its part of more than 16,000 events in the country. The annual School Choice rally celebrated the options parents have about where their children are educated. It is about you. Its but the kids. When you look at the jobs in the 21st century is not a one size fits all model so its not a onesizefitsall education for the kids for their jobs in the future. Whether its charter magnet private or Public Schools advocate say not all students learn the same. We focus more on hands on stuff at her school and if you give them the hands on stuff that they need its all good from there. The choice where parents can send their with were parents send their kids to school has been a topic debated for years. Weve always had note two children are like and we want to have as many options for parents empower children School Choice is the best way to do that. We all need to continue together to make sure that every student in South Carolina has a school that is right for them. I hope state leaders and these parents and teachers plan to keep fighting for. The house passed a bill ensuring the state would pay for High School Students and the unemployed to train for jobs. The bill expands dual enrollment opportunities for students that take courses that count towards their diploma as well as a technical certificate or degree. What you have seen is a strong advocacy for jobs is now moving over to say yes we will continue to recruit quality jobs yes will continue to partner with our companies but if we want to be a really good state to do business in with got to make sure that everyone that wants a job get a job and with to make sure that we work to make that happen. Grants for the statement states unemployed so they can train for a job in their area. Straight ahead we get a president today. Bernie sanders at the white house today to visit the president. Ming up we look at what his meeting with mr. Obama means the oval office. A war on words what donald out of thursdays gop debate. Bernie sanders meets the president today in washington. The meeting was closed to the press. President obama has maintained he will not endorse a particular candidate in this race but he did appear to show a preference for front runner Hillary Clinton during a recent interview. Donald trump rallied in gilbert tonight. He told a packed house that he hasnt been treated fairly. However he did not get into details about his decision to skip tomorrows debate on fox news. Instead his Campaign Manager says trump will hold an event and i would to raise money for wounded veterans. This culminates a month long feud between medic and kelly. August 6th 2015 at megan kellys very first question to donald trump a question that started all. One of the things people love about you is you speak your mind and you dont use a politicians filter. However that is not without its downsides in particular when it comes to women. You have called women you dont like fat pigs dogs slobs and disgusting animals your twitter account. Only rosie odonnell. August the seventh patrol full fueled by what donald trump calls unfair questions by the moderator. She gets out and asks me ridiculous questions and you can see there is blood coming out of her eyes. Blood coming out of her were ever. Trump says those comments were misunderstood nevertheless that did not sit well with women viewers especially megan kelly thought the question i asked was unfair and felt it was attacking him i felt he was asked a tough but fair question. Mr. Trump did interviews over the weekend that attacked me personally i have decided not to respond. Trump who was the front runner will not apologize and i certainly will not apologize for doing good journalism. After a delusion of insulting tweets against megan kelly and fox news trump announced the boycott of the network tweeting on september 23rd fox news has been treating me very unfairly and i have therefore decided that i wont be doing any more fox shows for the foreseeable future. That future. Stop that boycott lasted all of six days when he appeared on the oreilly factor. So youre back. October 7th megan kelly opens up to charlie rose about this ongoing feud. Neither of us wanted any sort of worth donald trump and we didnt think that benefited the channel we didnt take can to get benefited me and we dont think it benefited donald trump. After another round of december 15th feet debate on cnn by airing his fox grievances with bill oreilly. Youre back how does it feel. It feels good. You have always been fair to me. Which brings us to this week megan kelly and donald trump is set to come facetoface again in a primary debate just ahead of the Iowa Caucuses but it seems that there will be no bearing of the hatchet so to speak. Im not a fan of the megan kelly i dont like her she probably doesnt like me and thats okay. But you have to be fair. Mr. Trump also had interview with fox today and he said i just dont like being abused so there you go the feud continues. He wont t on the stage tomorrow. Know he will not. Henry rothenberg has the no politics just temperatures. We have rain in the forecast at least for the overnight hours sumter you will wake up to light shsher activity as well we are in the 40s tomorrow not to the best of days if you will but a beautiful week for those of you hoping to get outside. Outside. We return. Some of you seeing some rainfall earlier not necessarily everybody but more chances for the overnight hours. Aiken county right along i 20 seeing some light but heavier isolated areas of drizzle that we have north in lexington county and then as you continue to work your way up to parts of Newberry County along with the 26th core door. I want to expand the view out and you can see the front that was stalling the range off to the east and while just brought some rainfall to us we can see a lot more in the way of heavy showers and Severe Weather throughout florida. In fact if youre with his earlier we showed you some video of a truck driver catching a tornado we have video of not only the tornado coming outside caught here by helicopter but unfortunately some of the damage done as it turned over coors cars numerous vehicles flipped over on this busy intersection as well the National Weather service has rated as an ef at 122 as you can see this tractortrailer has flipped over. Things are quieting down as we look at sky watch Doppler Radar showers pushing out to sea for the night and here at home just a few light showers but again it will be the story as we head into the day tomorrow. Weather bug network some of you have seen rainfall its 51 in columbia 49 in irmo. Overnight we see the clouds linger we see the chances for showers meteorologist lauren for future watch here looking to have a showers to help you dodge the morning commute. So go on and set the alarm 30 minutes early now so that we can get the showers the road will be what you wont be late to where you need to get in the morning and fortunately lunchtime the latest model runs a good amount of rainfall right over to watch fox 57 at the Coverage Area and then we start to see things slowing down by the time we head into three to 5 00 hours. We could be dealing with some rain and temperatures still cooler and you pick the kids up from school by 5 00 rush were still looking at showers in the eastern midlands and then we the time you had to dinner at 7 00 may be taking the kids to Dance Recital or practice rehearsals all kinds of those afterschool activities we see those skin things improving forecast wise. Fifty tomorrow but after that 50 degrees it gets nice heading into the final days of january and the weekend of sunshine and 56 on friday we have a feeling a lot of folks will have a lot of stick call into friday morning i just have a feeling it will happen. Sunshine and 65 saturday how about 68 in january that we start february at 70 degrees but that will bring the rain chances of back same for groundhog day and tuesday. Groundhog day under a week away 68 rain chances on wednesday. Stay with us when watch fox news at ten returns we check back in miller with sports. Today and spent the afternoon in charlotte because i wanted to feel the buzz of the panther nation. I wanted to the buzz of what it means to keep pounding. Frank garcia played for the panthers and i wanted to feel the buzz. I want to know the panthers and nation did you guys get a vision with the season the panthers are having. I dont think anyone could envision what this team has done. I really dont think that if you were realistic with your expectations it was going to be and one. When you look at the injuries that taken place in preseason with calvin betjeman not really sure where cam newton was going to develop not sure of this were going to gel a lot of questions about Michael Moore a young group in the nucleus of guys been together for the first time not having a star wide receiver that was going to really make an impact the questions were how is cam newton going to operate how will this team execute you still knew we had defensively. Even comes davis you had some pretty good defensive players i dont think we could have even expected the season that josh norman had the kind of all came together and i think that thats really where you started seeing may be after week five against the seattle coming off that i going up to seattle coming back from the 14point deficit in the Fourth Quarter is where this team started john. Thomas davis comes in every tuesday and weve great conversation of where these teams are at. And you can notice a difference after those first ones. Its a different thing is something about this team that special i didnt realize it was going to be that special