Will rise to the lower 50s by late this evening into the overnight as a warm front passes through, look for showers and scattered thunderstorms ahahd of the cold front tomorrow morning, then clearing skies by late afternoon. Much warmer by late week with highs in the upper 60s to near 70 while road travel is not expected to be a major issue this morning, sc dot has treated some major routes in our northern midlands night. There will be periods of very light freezing drizzle and light freezing rain developing this morning and lastiti until around noon. Freezing rain advisory remains in effect for lancaster and chesterfield major routes in our northern midlands counties as a precaution. That includes i77 running through Fairfield County and parts of newberry county. Dot crews put a brine s sution down sunday in the event any frozen precipitation falls. State Officials Say local highways in those counties have also been pretreated along with bridges and routes that run close to hospitals.
And florence today with senator tim scott by his side. This is a part of his 5 Campaign Stops across the state. 3 ted cruz will also be in florence. Hes holding a rally at the Southeastern Institute of manufacturing technology. The rally starts at 6. 3 former Florida Governor jeb bush and his brother. Former president george w. Bush. Will be in the lowcountry. They are hosting a rally at the North Charleston Performing Arts Center. From 6 to 7. 3 and leading gop candidate donald trump will be in the upstate for his rally. Its starts at 7 tonight. At the Td Convention center in greenville. 3 for all things related to the primary and where the candidates are going to be in our state. Just head to our website. Wltx dot com. And click the National Politics tab to your left. 3 the body of the Late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is being transported back to the Washington Area today. Yesterday a justice of the 79yearold died of natural causes. After he suddenly passed away during a hun
3 3 columbia parks and recreaton will host the black history extravaganza today. The event is for all ages and will include live entertainment. Vendors and lunch. Activities begin at ten am at Greenview Park on david street. Tickets are five dollars a person and can be purchased at any recreation center. 3 the number 2 usc Womens Basketball team will take to the court again tonight. Theyll face off against number 25 tennessee on the road in knoxville. This is the gamecocks fifthstraight nationally ranked opponent and its seventh in the last nine game games. Tip off for tonights game is at 7pm. 3 3 with the South Carolina primary in less than week. Gop candidates will be hopes of winning voters over. Up first. Marco rubio. Hell be making a trip to lexington and florence today with this is a part of his 5 Campaign Stops across the state. 3 ted cruz will also be in florence. Hes holding a rally at the Southeastern Institute of manufacturing and technology. The rally starts at 6. 3 and for
Scalia is sending shockwaves through the capital. Efforts to control the senate bill 18replaced simply for the president leaves office. The democrats are accusing the gop of playing politics. Rejoined professor kirkland does up with what this all means for politics. On the one hand we know we just lost him but on the same token you have to look at the political side now. What does his death mean . Its a blow to the entire country because Justice School he is one of the champions of the conservative legal movements and certainly leaves a tremendous the court. Trying to fill that vacancy, as you said, is not going to be an easy thing. Theres a lot of drama and opportunity to shape the court notches for a couple years but potentially decades. With his death that means eight justices, four nominated by republicans, four by democrats, and that is where we find ourselves in this political struggle on both sides of the aisle. Thats right, not just four republicans are the record because two r
Christina coleman has been tracking it very literally since the first coronavirus cases we knew about in wuhan and now joins us from our west coast news room. Hi, leland. Health officials in oregon and Washington State are concerned about the possible Community Spread of the virus and the c. D. C. Warned here in the u. S. Clusters of the infections are likely in communities. There are four new presumptive positive cases since yesterday. Three unexplained. Health officials in washington believe one case was travel related, but the other may be that states first instance of Community Spread. A High School Student from everett, oregon may have the first spread case, too, and california may have a second instance, an older woman from Northern California with Chronic Health conditions. Now, globally, around 85,000 people have been diagnosed with this illness and theres been more than 2900 deaths, most of them in china. Major stock indexes around the globe posted another round of declines an