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High pressure build in for sunday and monday. Mostly sunny highs in the middle to upper 50s. Next rain chance arrives by wednesday. Stay with wis for the latest downloading the wis weather app. Its free; just search wis in your app store. Standard data rates may apply. The first snowfall of the season left a brief dusting on cars and the ground. Wis carolina patrickis has more on how parts of lexington looked this morning. Well this evening things have been pretty calm here in lexington. Take a ...

Little touching for me i just got off that g. O. P. Retreat where there was a train crash. What strikes you on the train is there is no seat belts. Ed thankfully most people were safe including you and your family but one person did died in that crash as well. Rachel 50 people injured and two dead. Today. Todd these numbers. We have both been through this ed and obviously rachel was literally just in it when u. Get these numbers early usually a harbinger of not good things going forward. Ed they...

Passengers on board and eight crew members. This was route that ran between new york and miami. Lets bring in now derek becker, the Public Information officer for South Carolina Emergency Management. Derrick, good morning to you. And what can you tell us about what youve learned about what caused this crash and, of course, the injuries and fatality . We would not the agency to determine the cause and that would be the transportation investigators with the federal government. Right now, what i ca...

Predicted to create catastrophic flooding. Already the coast of the carolinas are understood several feet of water, and tens of thousands of people are without power. That number could climb into the millions. In the coming hour, we will take you live to some of the regions directly in the hurricanes path, and we will show you by forecasters are warning us the worst is yet to come. This is a powerful storm that can kill. Jon we began our overnight coverage of Hurricane Florence in north beach ca...

In FEMAs decision to ration disaster aid ahead of a government shutdown, $8.8 million worth of funding will be delayed to South Carolina. This will only affect new projects that

As Twitter became knotted with turmoil, Rachel Terlep, the Washington DNR intersperses cheeky banter with wildfire and weather warnings

As Twitter became knotted with parody accounts and turmoil, Rachel Terlep, who runs an account for the Washington State Department of Natural Resources

It underscored the challenge for the people tasked with getting public safety information out to communities. Now, they don't only have to get information out quickly. On the new Twitter, they also have to convince people they are actually the authorities.

Amid the slew of changes at one of the world's most influential social media platforms, the public information officers who operate government Twitter accounts are cautiously waiting out the turmoil and urging the public to verify that it really is their accounts appearing on timelines.

Across the country, government agencies, especially those tasked with sending messages during emergencies, have embraced Twitter over the last decade.