To newberry to the north. Fairfield county and approaching winnsboro to the west of blythewood and ridge wood and light scattered showers into west irmo. Starting off more mild than yesterday. 63 newberry. 64 winnsboro. Sumter, 66. Columbia, 67. Well be experiencing light showers, but temperatures to stay in the upper 60s into the afternoon. Better chance for light to moderate showers into the Late Afternoon and early evening. If you are heading out now, youll want to give yourself a lot of interest time because extra time because the roads are wet. I26 between piney grove and st. Andrews road, traffic is very light right now. But the roads with wet, so give yourself extra time. Only delay in lexington across augusta road from main street sunset boulevard across i20 right now is clear. From i26 lake murray to the williamsbrice stadium, 21 minutes. Well look at your sevenday forecast coming up in a few minutes. Mary. Thank you, efren. Sce g officials are monitoring water levels at lake murray and lower saluda river after they released water from the river from the dam. During the october flooding sce g opened up four. Now just one is open. You may have noticed the flooding surrounding the metropolitan Wastewater Treatment plant in columbia. It was soaked during the flood, and now the water has nowhere to go. The facilitys management says the water has affected operations and adjustments have out of the area. Our staff are able to park in a secondary area and we use city vehicles to traffic, carpool them in so that they can get to the plant and keep it operational. To stay uptodate on the latest on the weather, you can sign up for text alerts at wltx. Com. Newberry county residents continue to see flooding issues. Three well had to be evacuate people had to be evacuateed from their homes yesterday on wheeler street. Foster says if youre in a low lying area or near a creek you need to be aware of the water levels and make a plan that allows you to leave quickly if you need to. If youre driving and cannot see the pavement under the water, be sewer to turn around. After the floods, saluda decided they needed to help others. Their county didnt have much damage like others in the midlands did. News 19s Colby Gallagher has the story of how one woman was helped by strangers who just wanted to make a difference. I was still there for people when i needed to be, there for my squad when i needed to be, but all that stuff was in the back of my mind, insurance, not living at home now. Reporter deputy kim mcgregor makes a living helping others. But she needed help during the floods. The entire first floor was damaged, done. I couldnt salvage anything. I had to rip up all the carpet up, everything. Tore the walls out. Reporter Flood Insurance covered the structural damage, but she has to pay out of pocket for the contents she lost. The goal was to get money to flood victims, 100 . So we didnt know exactly where when we started other than we wanted it to go to South Carolina flood victims. Reporter maggie wills thought of the benefit that raised over 15,000. Mount Pleasant Lutheran Church was one of four dominations to help. I was excited to hear about the final number for a community this size, thats i think a tremendous response. Reporter the donations were split in 3,000 increments. The exact number mcgregor asked her parents for. Everybody needs help. Even if they dont ask for it, Everybody Needs help. Reporter Colby Gallagher, news 19. One of the churches involved was flooded, but they said they wanted every penny raised to go needed it. Speaking of the flooding, you have four more days to apply for individual assistance through fema. Originally was on the 3rd, but that falls on a sunday, so theyll be accepting registrations through monday. President obama has declareed all midlands counties a federal disaster, which means the entire middle is eligible for individual assistance. If youve already registered you dont need to reply. We are on your side this morning with some boil water advisories you need to know about. First, theres an advisory issued for all addresses in the 400 through 600 blocks of old barnwell road. Also all addresses on lynn drive, bel air drive and anyone in the savannah woods subdivision. Boil your water lest a minute, one full minute, before you use it to cook or drink. There will be an advisory in place this saturday, the water supposed to happen tuesday had to be postponed because of the weather. They will relocate the lines on saturday from 9 00 a. M. To 8 00 p. M. , near lee park and Mineral Springs road. You wont have water during those hours, but once the water is back on youll need to boil your water for at least one full minute again before you use it. The search continues in sumter as police there look for three suspects in connection with an attempted murder. Theyre looking for henry dingle, kevin smith, and william spann. Four other men have been arrested in connection with this particular case. Police responded to shots fired call on fraysure street shortly before 4 00 p. M. Tuesday. Detectives think the three men could be involved in other cases as well. All three are believed to be armed and dangerous. If you have information that could help, youre asked to call crimestoppers. Authorities say a husband and wifes fight over a Chicken Dinner landed them both in the hospital. It happened on ranch road near decker boulevard. Deputies say the wife wanted to get chicken at churchs and the couple got into an argument. Thats when deputies say the husband punched the wife knocking her out. He said that when the woman came to, she grabbed a knife and stabbed her husband in the upper body. Authorities say both were taken to the hospital but expected to recover and they say charges will be filed against the couple. With the help of smartphones, plenty of people are leaving their cameras at home. But what if you could have the help of a professional photographer anywhere you go . Reporter solo traveler nicole has a serious case of wander lust. I have a bucket list and im checking them off. Reporter but selfies arent enough to document her magical moments around the world. Sunset and exploring from above in a hot air balloon. It reminds me that i have been on some marvelous adventures. Reporter these memories were captureed in photographs taken by tracy swift. Were photographers but also want to be a part of the experience. Reporter its a personal photographer who meets the clients at their destination, and they also become tour guides too. The Company Employees 300 around the world. Marriage proposals and honeymoons are the most popular assignments. But swift has done all sorts of shoots. In ethiopia she took these images of a canadian woman picking up her newly adopted daughter. It was incredible. Shes still my friend to this day. There. I feel like shes a great friend. Reporter she also provided the illustrations to go along with her stories of a lifetime. Theyre available in 150 cities across the world. Packages start at 250 for a half hour photo shoot. Its time for our mom of the day. She is rose lynn gunter. She is the mother of four. Her daughter says her mother is special because she has a kind heart and spirit and loves to help out others within the community and has done so much for others, she says. Shes doing an excellent job raising her children and they love her so much. She is a super mom. Congratulations to roslyn. If you would like to nominate your mom, go to wltx. Com, click on the banner to send in your now for our word of the day. Todays word is probity. We have a break this returns, but the day is here, its time to celebrate the new year, and nearly 30,000 people will pack downtown columbia for the state house for the famously hot new year tonight. Megan rivers is in studio to tell us what we need to know. Im joined with ms. Barbara rex who is with famously hot new year. Tell me what all is going to be happening downtown today. Today will be the really big day as we prepare for the gates to open at 6 30 this evening. Well have a number of streets closed. People need to be conscious of the fact a lot of the downtown areas not easy to get through, so they should fix their routes appropriately. Downtown, but not nearly enough for the 30,000 people were excepting. We have six park and ride, at most of the walmarts. People can buy a 3wrist band, go back and forth safely and not have to worry about parking. Then the gates open at 6 30 and were ready to go. You said some of the garages downtown will be open for free. What are some of those that will be open . All city opened garages are open. There are some private garages as well. Theres a garage at taylor and assembly street. Another one at taylor and sumter street. Theres one on lady street. Theres one refer to it as behind the marriott. A lot of people think of it as the marriott parking garage, but its city owned. Theyre all free as of 4 00 in the afternoon. I understand youll be can you explain what thats about . Yep. We are working closely with the 1 sc flood fund to help we made a lot of contributions, everybody made a lot of contributions when we had the flood in october. But those same people are going to take a year or years to recover. So were taking donations of nonperishable goods at all of our gates. Were taking cash and checks at each gate as well. Well have a text to give flashing on the screen throughout the evening. We encourage everybody to remember that, while the floods themselves, i dont know, it seems rainy now, but the floods themselves are over. The damage that has been done to the survivors is not over and we need to continue thinking about how to help them in the new year, which is coming up. Right. Youve told me before we came on camera that rain or shine, this is still going on . Absolutely. It is a rain or shine event. Bring your parka just in case. We have bag checks so dont bring anything that you shouldnt be bringing. Rain or shine, well be there with our three local bands, or our three South Carolina bands. Mislauryn hill our headliner. The most colossal fireworks in the two carolinas coming up over the state house grounds. If you havent seen it before, be there. Well see you rain or shine carolinas main street. Thank you, barbara for coming in. Again, the festivities are all day long and if you want to catch the coverage here onair, you can tune in. Well be live from 11 00 p. M. To 12 30 a. M. And im going to send things back to you. Thank you, megan. Lets toss it over to efren for whether we are going to need tonight to the famously hot new year. Festivities there start at 6 30. Considering the fact weve been dealing with the rain the last several days, if you dont have the umbrella in your vehicle yet, youll want to put that in there. Now the temperatures, a lot milder than we had over the last several mornings. 66 sumter. Manning at 63. Bishopville at 65. Newberry, 63. Lexington 66. Columbia at 67. Over the last several hours weve had light to moderate to heavy rainfall moving through parts of the western and northern midlands. Heaviest concentrations in the quite a bit of rain prosperity, jenkinsville and chapin. Be aware we are still under a flood watch, but now its been extended. National Weather Service has extended this until 10 00 this morning. Still for the same counties along interstate 20 and points to the north and western midlands, because a lot more rain is coming through from central and southern georgia moving to the northeast at about 30 miles per hour. Our computer model shows all throughout the morning and by midday well still continue with light to moderate showers. As we get into the afternoon, the showers will start to develop and unfortunately now it does look like along i20 and points south we could be looking at moderate to heavy rainfall, especially the southern midlands and lowcountry. By midday and afternoon, clouds will stick around but not the rain. Forecast upper 60s lower 70s. In columbia, a high of 69 degrees. The rain will continue not only but we still have that chance of rain to continue into the overnight hours. 54 in columbia, as all our lows will generally be in the lower to middle 50s. Still chance of rain, by midnight for famously hot new year, 56 degrees. Then the temperatures start getting to where theyre supposed to be, with some sunshine coming back on saturday and sunday. Highs in the middle 50s. But as we get into monday morning, only 35 degrees for morning low. 29 possible by tuesday morning. But the sunshine will return. If youre heading out now anywhere in the middle, give yourself a lot of extra time. Here on i26, headlights are heading from piney grove road to st. Andrews, traffic is light but wet roadways. Well be looking at the wet bit of a delay, north on 321 from airport road to knox abbott, the only delay now. Shaw air force base to fort jackson, 40 minutes. From i26 and i77 heading to fort jackson, youre looking at about 11minute commute. It is almost that time of year again, and im not talking about new years, but girl scout cookie season. The second year in a row theyre doing digital orders. Know a girl scout to order online. They invite you to the web site so they can get credit. Sales begin here next week. Southern coffee drinkers turned to the gingerbread latte, the most ordered holiday drink at starbucks in several southern states. Alaska, washington, oregon the eggnog. Texas liked the chestnut praline. Northeast liked the holiday spice. California liked ice coffee. The ordering habits were tracked by the beverage orders sold per 1,000 customers. Coming up on news 19 this morning, some yearend mistakes money man matt gra good morning and happy new years eve. Thanks for waking up with news 19 this morning. Im mary sturgill. We are in for another round of Rainy Weather today. Hopefully it will be clearing up before tonight. Meteorologist efren afante joins us now. Efren, im hoping we can put the umbrellas away. Maybe. We wont be able to put away the umbrellas, not today. Im sorry to say, we still have light to moderate to even heavy rainfall moving through the midlands. Its been primarily in the northwest and northern midlands. Heaviest concentration the northern midlands with a few eastern Fairfield County, now the far western parts of kershaw county. Thats where the heaviest is, as most of us are dry for now. Still mild temperatures, 67 aiken. Bishopville at 65. Columbia 67 degrees. Our temperatures are not going to deviate by much. Middle to upper 60s throughout the morning, with a chance for light to moderate rainfall. Into the afternoon as we barely get to 69 degrees, moderate to perhaps heavy rainfall and that will continue right through until about 6 00 this afternoon. As you get ready to head out to the door, head out if youre doing shopping, getting ready for new years eve or heading to work, give yourself extra time, because traffic has been picking up on i26 between st. Andrews and piney grove. Roads are wet. No incidents reported. Further southeast part of moving along on garners ferry crossing i77. From i26 and harbison, 13 minutes. From i77 and blythewood heading to downtown, 23 minutes. Well look at your sevenday forecast and the most important famously hot new year midnight forecast in a few minutes. Thank you, efren. Going to lexington county now, where a gaston man is behind bars charged with helping his wife commit suicide. Hes 63yearold randy gene jones. Deputies say his wife, karen jones, was found dead inside a hotel room on burning tree drive. Officers say they believe jonesfully assisted in her suicide between the afternoon of december 20th and the morning of december 21st. The deputies found her body inside the room with mr. Jones when they arrived around lunchtime december 22nd. In response to what was originally dispatched as a civil dispute. A bond of more than 32,000. A judge also ordered jones to undergo a mental evaluation. The case remains under investigation. Meanwhile, in the upstate police have alreadyed a woman think the death of her husband who was found dead behind a hardees restaurant over the weekend. Police say her husband was found behind the hardees and died later at the hospital. Wright is charged with hitand run resulting in death. She is now in the Spartanburg County jail under no bond. Taking a look at your usa today headlines, bill cosby is free on 1 million bail this morning, until his next Court Appearance in january. The 78yearold comedian was charged with Sexual Assault yesterday. The charge stems from a 2004 encounter at cosbys home with former Temple University employee andrea constan. To 10 years behind bars. His Attorney Says the charge is unjustified and cosby will be cleared. Up to a Million People expected to ring in the new year in times square tonight. Theyll be joined by nearly 6,000 uniformed and Undercover Police officers. The head of the citys counterterrorism unit says new york city will be the safest place on earth to be this new years eve. At least 21 passengers board an air canadian boeing air 77 were sent to the hospital after their flight encountered severe turbulence. Officials say the injuries were nonlifethreatening neck and back injuries. 332 passengers and 19 crew members were on that flight, which was diverted to calgary. Turning to politics now, a couple of gop president ial contenders made their way through South Carolina. Jeb bush hosted a meet and greet in lexington at the last night. The former Florida Governor spoke to a packed house there on russias relationship with the u. S. And how to empower working class americans. One of the things i know to be true is were on the verge of one of the greatest times to be alive in this world. But we have a government not working and because of that our aspirations are being held back. Whatever your ideas are about taxes, about regulation, about fixing our entitlement mess, because it has to be fixed, we cannot be in denial forever or the next generation will never have a chance to be able to have any possibilities of living a life of purpose and meaning. All those things, how we regulate, all those things cant happen unless we change the culture in washington. South carolina holds the first primary in the south february 20th. The republican frontrunner was also in South Carolina. Speaking at the westin there. He talked about climate change, foreign policy. He got one of his biggest applause when he spoke about strengthening the countrys military. But were going to build the strongest, most powerful military ever, and let me just tell you, let me just tell you a little secret, the cheapest thing we can do, were never going to have to use it. I dont think well have to use it. Dont forget, they talk about my tone. I remember when jeb and hillary the same day, mr. Trumps tone is not nice. Theyre chopping off christians heads in syria and other places and they want me to have a nice tone, isnt life wonderful, okay . Look, weve got to be tough, weve got to be smart. We got to have heart, too. We got to have heart and take care of people. We have to fix our health care program. Obamacare is a disaster. You people know. You people know. Trump also spoke about his recent attacks against former he once again implied hillary is a hypocrite for claiming he is degrading to women, considering president clintons past affairs. Were on your side with boil water advisories. Theres an advisory issued for all addresses in the 400 through 600 blocks of old barnwell road. Also all the addresses on lynn drive and bellair drive and anyone in the savannah woods subdivision. You should boil your water for one full minute before you use it to cook or drink. Also an advisory this saturday, the water line relocation that was supposed to have happened tuesday had to be postponed due to the weather. So they will relocate those lines on saturday from 9 00 a. M. Until 8 00 p. M. Thats happening near the lee heart and Mineral Springs road. Customers wont have water, but once the water is back on youll need to boil it for at least a minute before you use it. Year again, Girl Scout Cookies season. The second year in a row theyre doing digital orders. There is a catch, though. You have to know a girl scout to order online. They invite you to the web site so they can get credit for your order. Sales begin here in the midlands next week. Lets toss it to money man matt granite now for ways you can save this morning. That countdown is ticking. Great to be with you for your flexible spending account. There are all sorts of rules and regulations that restrict not only how much you can roll over, but in most cases use it or lose it with no more than 500, this year able to go to next year. One of my favorite resources, the nsastore. Com allows you to put that account to good use. Look at your key to using it on essentials. These are items that you use on the beauty, Home Health Care and many of the items that you your life. What would i buy . What could i use . 70 off prescription lenses is a great perk you can find. Theres a full list of fsa perks as well as fsa eligible items. You can search by category. Keep in mind, if your account will not work for you next year and you need to put those resources or cash to better use, this is your key fsastore. Com. Back to you. All right, for more information go to wltx. Com. Still to come, all this rain weve had is causing flooding issues. Well have more on who that affects. Though we have showers rain from central delays are starting to showers and storms welcome back to news 19 on this new years eve morning. We are starting off once again with showers, some of them storms moving through the midlands. Heaviest concentration is well into the northern part of of the midlands as we see showers developing. We had a few thunderstorms earlier, about an hour ago, i77, Fairfield County moving into pretty much the heaviest concentration in extreme northwestern kershaw county. We are watching all these, no lightning strikes. But do expect heavy downpours throughout the morning. Columbia, 67 degrees. Winds are calm. Overcast skies. Rain hasnt fallen so far this morning. But our computer model shows throughout the morning we have a chance for light showers. As we get into the afternoon, different story. Some light to moderate showers could develop. But sadly, towards midnight, along and south of i20 into southern midlands in the lowcountry were expecting a little bit more moderate to heavy rainfall continuing into the early morning. But midday into the afternoon, only thing left over is cloud coverage. 65 forecast high in columbia. Midnight, chance of rain. 56 degrees. By new years day well start to clear out. Into the afternoon high of 58. 53 saturday. 55 sunday. As the sunshine returns, so do the winter temperatures. 30s. Most of you are going to be heading out this morning for your last day of work before starting the holiday. Traffic conditions on i26 between st. Andrews and piney grove road, traffic picking up, but light and roadways are still wet. No issues on 321 from the split past pine ridge to i26 other than southbound 321 by fish time now is about sce g officials are monitoring water levels at lake murray and the lower saluda river after they released water into the river from the dam. They decided to let the water after heavy rainfall allowed significant inflow into the dam. After the october flooding they opened four spill ways. Now they just have opened one. The rain were seeing today is going to make one situation in particular worse. You may have noticed the flooding surrounding the metropolitan waste water Treatment Plant in columbia. The low lying area was soaked during the flood. Now because of the consistent rain, the water has nowhere to go, and blocks the main entrance into the plant. The facilitys management says the water hasnt affected operations within the plant, been made to get workers in and out of the area. Our staff are able to park in a secondary area and we use city vehicles to traffic, carpool them in so that they can get to the plant and keep it operational. To stay uptodate, follow news 19 on social media and sign up for text alerts. You can do that on wltx. Com. Richland county deputy is a step closer to getting home. Kim mcgregor was rescued from her home in irmo during the flood. Though she has Flood Insurance for structure damage, she has to pay out of pocket for all the contents. She had just asked her parents for 3,000 to help when she was presented for a check for that exact amount by salud da residents. They teamed up with churches in she said it allowed her to continue construction without stopping. A big help, because i needed that second draw for them to continue work before the flood money came back, so that continued the work instead of being put off in general. The Saluda Community says they were lucky to not have much damage from the flood. They raised over 15,000 during their event. Still to come, a fight over Chicken Dinner lands two people in the hospital. Why they may be facing charges on top of the injuries. Well talk with bill cosbys lawyer about his charges, and whats next in the case. Fighting Fake Olive Oil in italy. One sip at a time. Report on the thanks for waking up with news 19 this morning. Its thursday, december 31st. Happy new years eve. Its 6 55. Lets get to todays top stories. The search continues in sumter as police there look for three suspects in connection with attempted murder. Theyre looking for 21yearold henry dingle, 20yearold kevin smith, and 18yearold william spann. All three believed to be armed and dangerous. If you know where they might be youre asked to call crimestoppers. Richland county Authorities Say a husband and wifes fight over Chicken Dinner landed both in the hospital. Punched the wife. When she came to, she grabbed a knife and stabbed her husband in the upper body. Both are expected to recover. Police say charges will be filed against the couple. Lets toss it over to efren for a quick look at our traffic. Right now were looking at i 26, this is by mile marker 105, heading towards Saint Andrews road, traffic is light, but has been moving steadily and no issues on i26 and no issues heading to columbia. Divine street looking good to downtown. Both directions of 321 and sunset boulevard from lexington or West Columbia both directions moving pretty good at this time. Here in columbia were at 67 degrees. No rain as of yet. Overcast skies. The winds are calm. But Doppler Radar shows weve had rain activity in the northern midlands. Heaviest in the northern part, kershaw and all that continues to move to the northeast, generally at about 30 miles per hour. Flood watch in effect, until 10 00 this morning for most of our countys in the midlands because a lot of rainfall central georgia. All this continues to move to the northeast. So rain chances unfortunately will continue. Our computer model shows as we get into the afternoon, more showers will start to develop, but unfortunately by midnight along and south of i20 we could see moderate to heavy rainfall. All of that will be out of here by tomorrow and well have pretty much cloudy skies. High today, 69 with a chance of rain throughout the day. As we get ready for midnight, were looking at 56 degrees, bring the poncho. Slight chance of rain. Mild and muggy. By tomorrow afternoon, 58 for a lie. This weekend the sunshine returns, but so do the winter temperatures. Looking for temperatures in the the 30s for lows. Mary. Thank you, efren. The big event is tonight, famously hot new year celebration begins of course. Grammy Award Winning artist lauryn hill is headlining this year. Famously hot new year is free. Of course, just like last year, if you would rather watch it from home, news 19 will be broadcasting the event live from 11 00 p. M. To 12 30 a. M. For you. If youre planning to go out tonight and will be drinking, cab rides will be stationed near the fountain at 5points, tin roof vista and corner of lady and sumter streets downtown from 11 00 p. M. To 3 00 a. M. New years day. First ten dollars is covered as long as youre going to a residence or hotel in richland or lexington counties. You must call prior to the ride or let you know youre a kw and usc will be collecting donations for harvest hope. Volunteers will be at all the entrances. Theyre collecting caned goods and of course monetary donations as well. You can take a little and give a little. Adventure Childrens Museum has a count down starting at 9 00 a. M. Theyre hosting a kids party and before noon theyll have a countdown. The matter is party is free with museum admission. Lots for everyone to do. Festivities start downtown at 6 30. Until 12 30. All fun for everyone tonight. Thanks, efren. And thank you
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