Soututcarolina gun owners. First, Meaghan Norman is looking at the measures announced by the president. Meaghan . Dawndy and judi, president obama says the nation has become numb to gun violence. He urged congress to enact gun reform but says their inaction has led to his own executive actions. First expanding background regardless of where you purchase a gun online, at a gun show or at a store you background check. And if you are in the business of selling firearms, you must be licensed and conduct background checks. The president says the fbi will work to streamline the process making the system more effective. Of gun laws, by hiring 200 new atf agents who will also help track illegal online firearms trafficking. And requiring dealers to report any lost or stolen guns. Third investing 500 Million Dollars in Mental Health treatment. And allowing for relevant Mental Health records to be reported to the background check system. Of Gun Safety Technology by finding new ways to help curb gun deaths. The president was emotional when he recounted the lives lost to gun violence especially the children killed in newtown, connecticut. Every time i think about those kids it gets me mad. And by the way, it happens on the streets of chicago everyday. So, all of us need a congress brave enough to stand up to gun lobbys lies. All of us need to stand up and protect its citizens. The president says these executive actions are not infringing on anyones Second Amendment right but making the process smoother for lawabiding gun owners and protecting lives. In the studio, Meaghan Norman local gun owners are reacting to the president s comments. Sam bleiweis joins us now with what shoppers and employees at palmetto state say. Sam . Judi, many people i spoke with today say as long as arent being infringed upon, they dont mind stricter regulations but, what theyre taking issue with is the way the president is introducing executive orders and bypassing congress. Many saythey have nothing to hideand none of this really affects them, as long as they have the right to bear arms. As it is, some places, like Palmetto State Armory have their own stricter policies when it comes to background checks. If a background check doesnt come back within thirty days, Palmetto State Armory begins the whole process again. They also dont follow the three day waiting period rule which allows a gun dealer to sell to a customer even if their background check hasnt come back yet. Employees say that with all of the buzz surrounding guns they expect sales to go up. People dont like to be decided as a whole, as a country, that they wanted to regulate firearms a little more stringently, then they will. And people will support it. But, when one man is making the decision for everybody, unfortunately you have a little bit of resistance. When it comes to online sales, ruonala says theres a common misconception that if someone orders a gun online they may not go through the background check process. Not true he says anything serialized, whether its a gun part or a gun itself, requires thh buyer to go through the exact same process. This executive action doesnt change the process itself but what it will do is help hire additional examiners and other staff to assist with expediting background checks so nobody falls through the cracks. Live in the newsroom, sb wis news 10. Burrrr cold start to this tuesday with temperatures in the 20s abundant sunshine today will look pretty however, it wont help much with the temperature as well only see highs in the middle to upper 40s. Winds will subside during the middle 20s. Increasing clouds for wednesday, high near 50 rain returns to the forecast by thursday afternoon through friday with highs rebounding to near 60 rain chance 40 thursday. 60 friday. A former Columbia City councilman has avoided jail time after pleading guilty returns. Brian Dequincey Newman entered the plea this afternoonhours after he and a sitting member of the Richland County council appeared before a judge on similar charges. Jack kuenzie joins us live from the Richland County Judicial Center with more. Dawndy and judithe county councilman is kelvin washington. He and former city councilman newman both according to the department of revenue had failed to file state tax returns. Washington for three yearsnewman for two. Newman pleaded guilty to failing to file state tax returns for the years 2012 and 2013. He told a judge he thought hed filed for those years. His admission involved back taxes totalling a little more than 98 hundred dollars which he has agreed to pay along with prosecution costs of an additional thousand dollars. These charges came about as the state department of revenue was looking into the backgrounds of connected to the penny tax effort. Newmans attorneys said this afternoon his problems were in no way related to misuse of tax revenuessimply a personal oversight. This simply came out of the civil side of the department of revenues investigation. They turned it over to the criminal division. They consider it a misdemeanor. Theres not any huge conspiracy here. Newman has been given a suspended sentenceand probation. He will repay more than 10 thousand 800 dollars including court costs. Suspended sentenceand probation. He will repay more than 10 thousand 800 dollars including court costs. Washington facing three counts of failing to file for the years 2012 through 2014and the amounts are much larger. His income for those years added up to almost 427 thousand dollars and he has not entered a plea as county Council Chair torrey rush issued a statement this afternoon saying the council will not uphold or perpetuate any serious violation of the law or betrayal of the public trust. The National Action network is speaking out after a former North Charleston Police Officer was released on bond yesterday. Michael slager is charged with killing walter scott during a traffic stop last year. The National Action network says he is a threat to the community. We also believe he is a flight risk because anybody who has as much money available. To put up 50,000 in jail a murderer. Slager has been ordered to remain on house arrest and not contact the family of in a couple hours, longtime joe riley will officially end his 40 years in office with a farewell address. Riley is expected to address the 7 pm. He has served as mayor longer than anyone in the citys 345year history and is credited with leading charleston through an urban renewal that has made the city one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world. Well look back on his career tonight on the news at seven. Monday cant get here fast enough for fans of the Clemson Tigers. Still ahead on the news at five, how the team is getting ready for the National Championship game against alabama. Break the Clemson Tigers are chasing a championship. As the tigers prepare for alabama. 2330 3141 4246 51 23 30 jordan Leggett Clemson 31 41 Wayne Gallman clemson running back 42 46 Artvais Scott clemson wide receiver 51 Dabo Swinney Clemson head this week, as they prepare for the biggest game of the year. Arizona. Before the trip out west. Players and coaches met with the media. Today inside the west endzone to talk about this dream opportunity. To earn the games ultimate prize. Players 23 30 jordan Leggett Clemson tight end its definitely a surreal feeling, i just have to pinch myself everyday and tell myself that youre going to the National Championship game. 31 41 Wayne Gallman clemson running back emotions are real man, just to be here is a blessing. Weve prayed so much, weve done so much and its really good to see hard work pays off 31 41 Wayne Gallman clemson running back 42 46 Artvais Scott clemson wide receiver its a great opportunity, most players dont get to play on this type of stage and were just blessed to get to go out there and play on the 51 Dabo Swinney Clemson head coach we want to be the best, so lets go play the it done, well get it done and facing in alabama. The crimson tides won three of reporting from death valley joe gorchow. Hundreds of dollars go up in smoke, as a hoverboard bursts into flames with a man on board in los angeles. He quickly jumped off and turned his camera on showing the smoking, then flaming board last week. Hes had the hoverboard for a few months with no problems until last week. He says it was recently charged, and not over charged. Thats sixhundred dollars down the drain. A dramatic sea rescue off the coast of norway yesterday after a fishing trawler ran into trouble. Norways coast guard 3 attempted to pull five crew members safely from the floundering boat. During the rescue, the boat was halfway underwater. Forcing the crewmen to cling to the side while they awaited rescue. All five were safely plucked from the ocean. The boat has since completely sunk burrrr cold start to this tuesday with temperatures in the 20s abundant sunshine today will look pretty however, it wont help burrrr cold start to this tuesday with temperatures in the 20s abundant sunshine today will look pretty however, it wont help temperature as well only see highs in the middle to upper 40s. Winds will subside during the day. Clear and cold tonight, lows middle 20s. Increasing clouds for wednesday, high near 50 rain returns to the forecast by thursday afternoon through friday with highs rebounding to near 60 rain chance 40 thursday. 60 friday. Coming up on wis, its day four in the armed occupation of a federally owned remote oregon. And authorities are taking a less aggressive approach. Break one Us Service Member was were hurt during an operation is southern afghanistan today. The department of defense has not released the names. The dod did say it happened in the helmand province. In recent weeks, the taliban has been focusing efforts on retaking the area. American defense officials have said Us Special Operations forces were involved in a Counter Terrorism operation in the region. One u. S. Official said a u. S. Helicopter was sent to evacuate casualties but did not immediately take off because a mortar landed nearby. It was not clear whether the mortar damaged the helicopter. A small group occupying a wildlife refuge in oregon since saturday, is showing no signs of leaving. Authorities are keeping a low profile as they look for a peaceful end to the situation. Nbcs leanne gregg has the latest. 1632 3742 1 1419 antigovernment protesters continue to control buildings at a federal wildlife refuge near burns, in remote eastern oregon. Leaders of the occupation, now in its 4th day say the group has no plans to leave until theyve implemented a plan. Where the community will begin to participate more in that and begin take that over and so they can claim their own rights so they can begin using them and they can stand Strong Enough to defend them themselves. Digging in, despite a direct plea from the local sheriff. Its time for you to leave our community. Go home to your families and end this peacefully. They call themselves citizens for constitutional freedom and think much control over western land. Some local ranchers agree in the generations old debate between government and those who make their living off the land. It feels like were getting pinched out. The occupiers are rallying behind ranchers dwight and Steven Hammond who reported for prison monday after being convicted of starting fires on federal land, the occupation has closed schools for a week, unsettling law enforcement. This includes measures to fix what some call the gun show loophole. In a dramatic move to go around president obama today issued executive orders to tighten gun laws requiring background checks on many more gun sales in our nation. Steve handelsman has details and reaction. 4750 581 04 1 1216 nats cheers president obama ordering the changes was cheered by gun control activists sot president 06 08 because people are dying and he got emotional wiping his eyes 1999 citing the Mass Shootings at columbine 2007 at Virginia Tech 2012 and sandy hook elementary sot president obama 17 21 everytime i think about those kids it gets me mad. Wipes eyes obama executive orders require more background checks hire more examiners for 24 7 and banning anyone on a nofly list from buying guns at many gun shows now, no states. From now on. The obama order says. Nats gun range firing if youre in the business of guns you must do background checks. Support from Hillary Clinton sot Hillary Clinton president ial candidate 47 50 because i called for some of those measures a couple of months ago. Support from the mother of reporter Alison Parker whose killer passed his check and bought his one life. It may not have saved alisons, but thats not a reason to do nothing https the nra tweeted president obamas executive orders will do nothing to improve Public Safety marco rubio agreed sot marco rubio president ial candidate 1 121 16 because gun violence is committed by criminals and criminals dont care what the law is Rubio Ted Cruz and other gop candidates vow to roll back the tougher gun rules that president obama is ordering into effect on his own handelsman, nbc news, washington. Gop leaders have tapped South Carolina gov. Nikki haley to give the republican response to president Barack Obamas state of the union address. House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell made the announcent selecting haley today. The governor says says the cocontry has great challenges but she intends to talk about both. Of indian immigrants is our states first female and first she is also the countrys youngest governor and the first south carolinian to deliver a response to the state of the union. You will be able to watch the president s address and haleys speech tuesday night, right here on wis. Lows will drop down into the lower mid 20s and even the upper teens in a few locations to start the day wednesday. Despite full sunshine, highs will again struggle into the mid upper 40s wednesday afternoon. Lows return to the 30s thursday and the 40s to finish the week with clouds on the increase thursday. Expect a 60 chance of showers friday and highs near 60 degrees no jail time for a former Columbia City councilman who today pleaded guilty to brian newmanalong with Richland County councilman kelvin washingtonfaced tax return charges that surfaced during a state investigation into the use of penny sales tax revenues. Newman pleaded guilty to failing file state tax returns for the years 2012 and 2013. He told a judge he thought hed filed for those years. His admission involved back taxes totaling a little which he has agreed to pay along with prosecution costs of an additional thousand dollars. Hes not involved in the sales he pled straight up to two counts of failure to file taxes and what its telling us is that theres no plea agreement that he was involved in some conspiracy that they were still all of those things that you would see in other statewide period. The case against councilman kelvin washington will take longer to resolve. He is facing three counts of failing to file for the years 2012 through 2014and the amounts are much larger. Attorney general alan wilson just released his personal response today to president obamas he says in part quote too often, this president attempts to govern with his pen instead of working with the legislative branch. Under our system of government, president s do not have the power to trump the rule of law with a signature on a piece of paper. Kings may have that power. President s do not. Wilson says under our system of government, president s should not trump the rule of law with a signature on a piece of paper. He says while kings may have that power, president s do not. The Columbia City council met this afternoon to talk about the demolition of one of the citys oldest housing developments. Allie spillyardsust returned from city hall. Shes live in the newsroom. The Columbia Housing Authority presented the project to city council asking for 1 Million Dollars to help with the demolition of gonzales gardens. At 75 years old, its one of the nations oldest Public Housing complexes and according to cha, extremely outdated. Huds already given them the green light to demo the complex and relocate the more than 200 families who live there, but that proposal did not include funding. The demolition and relocation Million Dollars total. The relocation portion is already covered. Chas asking for funding to cover the reast. The council wont discuss whether or not it approves the requested one Million Dollar until its regular budget cycle. But theres clear support for the project on council. Cha has been working on the plan for the new complex to replace gonzales gardens for years. While theres no timeline for that project yet, they estimate it will cost about 60 Million Dollars. Some great news for the real carolinas. Both north and South Carolina are ranked as two of the top states in the country into which people are moving. The 2015 National Movers study by United Van Lines reports South Carolina is the 2nd most popular a spokesperson says many people are moving into the carolinas from the north to enjoy the warmer climate. Oregon was the top moving destination. Its finally feeling like winter in the midlands. But could things be getting even well check in with meteorologist ben tanner next. Break a look now at your first alert traffic. Days after the paris attacks, senators came together for a topsecret briefing on the terrorist threat. Marco rubio was missing fundraising in california instead. Two weeks later, terrorists struck again in san bernardino. And where was marco . Fundraising again in new orleans. Over the last 3 years, rubio has missed Important National security hearings and missed more total votes than any other senator. Politics first thats the rubio way. Right to rise usa burrrr cold start to this tuesday with temperatures in the 20s abundant sunshine pretty however, it wont help much with the temperature as well only see highs in the middle to upper 40s. Winds will subside during the day. Clear and cold tonight, lows middle 20s. Increasing clouds for wednesday, high near 50 rain returns to the forecast by thursday afternoon through friday with highs rebounding to near 60 rain chance 40 thursday. 60 the Mount Soputan volcano in indonesia erupted monday evening. Witnesses reported seeing lava flowing down the eastern slope. The alert level in the area has three on a fourlevel system. The volcano is s e of the most active in the area, having just erupted last march. French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo marked the First Anniversary of the attacks on its paris offices with a special edition its been nearly one year since terrorists stormed the office of satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo. Killing 12 people, including some of frances most famous cartoonists. Five more lives were lost in subsequent attacks in france in the following days. Security is still tight in paris, particularly in Shopping Centers and supermarkets, following terrorist attacks over a month ago. Authorities said some 25hundred soldiers are still deployed on the streets. Some came from serving in countries like mali, where they worked as part of a Foreign Police force. France remains under a state of emergency, following the november 13th in the capital that killed 130 people. Coming up on wis, president ial candidates from both sides of the aisle are reacting to the president s gun control demands. Find out which candidates support obama and which tuesday january fifth were 46 days out from the republican primary in south from the democratic primary and less than a month from the first big vote of election season the iowa caucus. The big topic on the campaign trail today action on gun regulation and background checks. Republican candidates were heavily critical of the move Mike Huckabee called the move a blatant abuse of power, jeb bush said it trampled the Second Amendment and donald trump said in a speech hed veto any executive gun regulation proposed by president obama on the democratic side though all and with less than 30 days to go Guantanamo Bay keep every rotten, dangerous terrorist whos there and never let them go. Ted cruz pokes fun at the immigration debate i understand when Mainstream Media covers immigration, they dont always see it as an economic issue ted cruz you want someone to read you one helluva bedtime story, ted cruz is your guy and both santorum and cruz announced today theyd join attorney general alan wilson next week for conservative leadership project forum in columbia. Donald trump also released his travel schedule, which includes a stop in rock hill friday. Im will whitson with your white house watch. The Us Department of agriculture issued a recall for more than 89,500 pounds of ground beef patties. Sams choice black Angus Vidalia onion patties made between november 19th and december 9th may contain wood materials. The products affected has use by dates of may 17, may 29 and june 6th. If you bought the patties, you can return them, theres something consumers may no longer find on the packaging of red meat. Just last month, congress repealed a labeling law that required retailers to include the animals country of origin on packages of earlier in 2015, the World Trade Organization ruled the us labels put canadian and mexican livestock at a disadvantage. The law was initially written at the request of us ranchers who compete with the canadian cattle industry. Its said to be a major victory for the meat industry, which had fought the law in congress and the courts since the early 2000s. The problems continue for german automaker volkswagen. The epa and Justice Department are suing the company over its emissions cheating software. Volkswagen is being accused of violating us environmental rules. The agencies are seeking up to 18 billion dollars in civil penalties. Volkswagen has admitted that its diesel cars had Illegal Software installed to cheat emissions tests. About 500thousand volkswagen and audi vehicles in the us are affected by the scandal. Is it a tablet, a giant cell this fourdoor smart fridge is the latest invention from samsung. The Company Released photos of this new gadget at the Consumer Electronics show in las vegas. It includes a twofoot touchscreen. Its equipped with internetconnected cameras that let you view whats inside without opening the doors. The concept fridge doesnt have a price tag yet. Samsung currently sells one model with an eight inch wifi connected lcd panel for about 36 hundred dollars. Five lebanese teenagers have reinvented the traditional suitcase. They designed a smart suitcase that follows its owner. Its named the follow me suitcase, and the teens say it could mean that lost luggage and carrying heavy bags will become a thing of the past. It has an hd camera and sensors that enable it to follow its user. And the user can control the movements through a mobile app. The students hope to attract product to market and secure a national and international patent. Check out this sweet ride its not a futuristic batmobile. Its an electric sports car prototype. They helped negotiate a billiondollar commitment by faraday to build its fst manufacturing plant just north of las vegas in 2017. The Company Plans to hire 45hundred people and put a car on the market within a few years. Coming up on wis, you can say one dog is feeling warm and fuzzy. Thats after he made a cold break into one very icy situation. The fastacting fire crew that saved him and the treat they were given in return. Rumors have swirled that the oscarwinner might be expecting a child. Hathaway posted a picture of herself in a swimsuit on instagram. Ufc star ronda rousey has signed on to host nbcs saturday night live. This is after rouseys devestating loss to holly holm back in november. It takes place on january 23 in new york. Rousey will be the first mixed martial artist to serve as host. Hosting a festival of chinese lanterns. The tradition of the shining lanterns was born some three thousand years ago. As the first full moon after the Chinese New Year appeared, colorful silk or Paper Lanterns were hung out of the windows of each house. The event takes place in monza near milan. The 32nd Harbin International festival will open tonight in china. Its expected to amaze tourists as nearly 53 thousand tons of snow and more than 63 thousand tons of ice have been used to build ice the event is regarded as one of the worlds most famous snow festivals. Some of the animals at the oregon zoo got to enjoy Winter Weather today. Snow fell on portland. And some of the zoos harbor seals were out enjoying the weather. We cant really tell if they were trying to make a snow angel. But they looked like they were having fun mikhail the tiger was also out the snow. Looking pretty chilled in the cool fire crews in utah got a special thank you for a dog they rescued after it fell through the ice at a frozen pond. The dog, tucker, fell through the thin ice while being walked around noon monday. The dogs owner attempted to get tucker out by using a rope but called 911 when it failed. Fortunately, the nearest fire station happened to have a waterrescue suit. Once tucker was home and had a hot bath, firefighters got a photo to say thanks thanks for joining us for the news at 5. Well be right back. And Governor Haley will be the voice of the republicans when president obama gives the country the state of the union. Plus, the president is now taking his own steps to crack down on guns without going through congress. Good evening and welcome to the news at six. Im judi gatson. Thanks for joining us this evening. Im charles molineaux. Two prominent midlands leaders are facing tax charges. Excolumbia councilman brian Dequincey Newman and Richland County councilman kelvin the state
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