The democrats are now turning their focus to South Carolina, while the republicans head west to nevada. Democratic hopeful Bernie Sanders has already hit the ground running in the palmetto state. Our Caroline Patrickis was there for a stop in sumter this morning. Good afternoon its the beginning of a new week and all eyes are on the South Carolina democratic race. Its was just this morning when president ial candidate Bernie Sanders made his way to sumter to the democratic primary this weekend im here at serendipity cafe in sumter, it was a very intimate event between sanders and his supporters today just a few in attendance at this last Minute Campaign event in the midlands as he heads into the first in the south democratic primary this weekend. Of course he spoke on topics like jobs and education, raising the minimum wage and asking south carolinians to go out and vote. We look around for other to people to make that. Thats why im running for president thats why im asking for your su
Centre over the weekend. Columbia police say they are continuing to review surveillance video, but at this time they have no material evidence to go on. Officers say they did however locate a book bag while searching a wooded area next to the mall on saturday night. They found several air soft guns inside. At this point they are working to figure out if there is a connection. Witnesses tell police they saw two black males armed with handguns, however they cant confirm seeing the suspects fire. Also, no shell casings have been found. I f you know anything that can help investigators, call crimestoppers at 1888crimesc republican president ial candidate ted cruz is asking for the resignation of his communications director, rick tyler a day afer tyler distributed a video falsely depicting candidate marco rubio discussing the bible. The video misquotes rubio a suggesting the bible does not have any answers Spokesman Says he actually said the bible has all the answers. Heres what senator ted
Investigators first revealed what they see. The table was with wads of cash, we did, cell phones. Only we were able to see this on friday. Mike Brian Hamrick leading the way on this developing story. Reporter they call themselves rap artist. But police call them killers and drug dealers. They named a bout a halfdozen of them today. This is a significant drug bust. We were the first to show you what police seized. Including drugs, guns, large sums of cash. Police, atf were involved in this investigation. This into deming was called fdd. A may through november. Including drug trafficking, even though fdd members produce rap videos and are locally known rap artists, they are also dangerous criminals. At least five others have been arrested now. They say that they have other people in custody. Some charges are still yet to come. They believe that more arrests are yet to come. Reporting live, Brian Hamrick, wlwt news 5. Mike a hacker group that put officers personal information into the soc
The northeasterly breeze will lock temperatures in. About the best for the upstate will be low 50s this afternoon for highs and upper 40s for the mountains. Stormy weather starts overnight tonight and into tomorrow morning. Allyson thank you. A live look now outside. Be careful on the roads this morning. If you come across water and all, give yourself 20th of time to make your commute. Geoff surprised to see how many people are on the road already. Now, to a deadly crash in spartanburg. A moped collided with a tow truck. The coroner says the wreck happened yesterday afternoon at the intersection of north pine street and east Daniel Morgan avenue. Keith harrelson was killed in the wreck. He was riding a moped. Police say a tow truck stopped in front of him to make a turn. They say harrelson rearended with the tow truck. Allyson to Pickens County now, the autopsy results were released on a woman whose body was found by fishermen. Near saluda lake off buckskin road. Officials now say afte
Morning, here comes a line of heavy thunderstorms a will march across the area. They could be severe, depending on how fast we actually erode this wedge on top of us, the cooler air, because these two friends mean we could see severe thunderstorms across the area, especially south of i85. Nigel donald trump was the clear winner in saturdays gop primary. However, some would say governor nikki haley was, as well. Her late endorsement of marco rubio, as you are about to hear, may have played a big influence in the senators secondplace finish. On saturday night, while marco rubio was celebrating a secondplace win in South Carolina, standing beside him was governor nikki haley. She, just two days before, gave rubio a big endorsement. Politics, much like comedy, is all about timing, and certainly, right before the election, its in all the news cycles. That was a stroke of campaign genius. Groover, the head of the Greenville County gop, is talking about. He was not a rubio supporter. I did en