Now . Fortunately a lot of the rainfall has started to taper off and he can see a little bit of clearing in the western and southwestern parts of the midlands at a big line still has to come through. Its right now and central parts ofofeorgia, even though the rain has start to taper off, we have been noticing, on radar that a lot of the freezing rain and even sleet now in the central and northern part of the state from rock hill all the way to sharad, the cold air is starting to drag through and that freezing rain could start affecting our community. We still have a freeze rain advisory for newberry, fairfield, kershaw and lee counties in effect right now through 12 noon today. The temperatures right now, it is cold, 36 newberry, 43 saluda, 39 lexington, 39 columbia and a bishopville 30 for degrees. As of 6 oclock, the wind chills are starting to affect the northern half of the midlands. It feels like 25 winnsboro, even camden 26, here in columbia feels like 32 degrees, point where the
Freezing line continues to sneak into southward into richland, surface. The number of showers will start to decrease into the afternoon fall to the upper 20s and low quickly through the central midlands and even make it into the lowcountry. And remember, you can get the and remember, you can get the latest Weather Information on the go by downloading the wis first alert weather app. You can get instant notifications right on your phone. Its free for android and iphone. Just search wis in your app store. Kershaw county has been seeing a good mix out of this storm. County Officials Say ice began forming in towns east and north of camden late this morning. Our mike desumma joins us now live from bethune with more on how conditions are right now. Mike. Dawndy, charles you take a look at this tree behind me and you can see just how cold its gotten out here. In making the drive over here from camden it was hard not to find a tree that had its branches caked in ice. County Officials Say they
That mercedes, walking up to the window to write his citation but as hes got his head in the window of that car that he pulled over, watch what this car does. May have seem him earlier. Walks up, fiddling with something. He quickly noticed hes fiddling with a gun thats jammed. The officer has no clue he has a gun, the officer steps up points point blank at the officer. Takes kov ss cover and then returns fire. The suspect takes often. The officer goes after him. See right here on his right shoulder, thats a bullet hole. Oh, my goodness. Wearing a protective vest but this is the remarkable point of the video. The officer walked back to the car and continues with his initial citation. Oh, my goodness. That guy is cop of the year. Youre absolutely right. He did get an award. Officer of the year shortly before this incident happened. He got cop of the year. Whats above that . Do you promote him . I would say retirement is probably a nice option for this guy. You might wonld e whatder what
Interstates in the midlands. Interstate 26 is temporarily closed both ways in orangeburg county. The roadway is closed at the 145 mile marker and 149 mile marker due to ice on bridges, according to the South Carolina highway patrol. I95 southbound over lake marion is also closed because of ice. Drivers are asked to avoid those areas. Sc dot trucks are salting and brining the affected areas. Places that saw snow yesterday in the midlands are continuing to see it t this morning. The town of whitmire got a fresh coating just within thats where we find our mike desumma. He joins us live now with more. Snow has been falling on and off the last few hours this comes after the area saw snow yesterday Newberry County Sheriffs Office says several cars went off the road last night due to slick conditions drivers are urged to take it slow especially on bridges and overpasses county crews are continuing to watch the weather and treat roads accordingly as we continue our winter storm coverage this o
A Winter Weather advisory is now in effect in Newberry County. Chad mills is there. Chad, how are conditions there . My car thermometer is reading a pretty constant 30degrees here in whitmire for now. It appears spots are melting a bit, but theres still a good dusting of snow on the ground along with some sleet and ice on the roadways. Lets get right to some video from earlier. So, but people here in whitmire tell me the snow started a few hours before that. They tell me theyre enjoying the change in scenery, but of course, theyre trying to be careful too. Roads around whitmire and in other spots of northern Newberry County roads are pretty slick. Sheriff lee foster says, so far, there have been no major incidents. He tells me theyve had to respond to a couple accident, but thats about it, and they werent anything major. Scdot workers are hard at work. Theyve been treating i26 with a salt brine most recently. Theyve also treated some state roads with salt sand, including sc121, sc34, a