he suffered a defeat in the primary tonight and announced he is suspending his campaign. >> here is a look at the up to the minute numbers. donald trump is coming in first with a solid lead at 32% of the vote. >> before we go to decision 2016 coverage we are continuing to coverage the breaking news of a shooting at columbia centre in columbia. we have team coverage out there jack kinsley. let's get the latest. >> reporter: charles and judy, as you can tell, there is an active and police first responder presence out here in the columbia centre mall where. we are in the parking lot of best by across from the mall. this is where the command center has been for much of the evening.

inside and outside of the mall. it started shortly before 7:10 this morning with a first fight that led to shots fired. there were multiple gunshots extremely loud and sounding like explosion explosions. but the shots were firee into the air and not at each other. no one was hit. that confirmed again just within the last hour by the police chief of columbia. no reports of anyone seeking help at area hospitals and no innocent by-standers suffering injuries. shoppers were screaming and running from the store. they have two suspects. here is the description. >> two black males, ages 20-25, both 5-10 and 150 pounds. onon was wearing acid wash genes

with a red t-shirt and armed with a black handgun. the second suspect was wearing a dark hoody, unknown pants and armed with a black handgun. >> reporter: the chief gave that description within the last hour. there is surveillance and video but it has not been released. law enforcement has a lot of work left to do. forensic experpts are under is the mall collecting evidence and that will take some time. it is not entirely clear if the mall will reopen on sunday or some portions might be off limits to the public. traffic is getting back to normal. two supects remain at large. we are live in the columbia centre area with wis news 10. >> people inside the mall say when the shots range out it was very scary.

>> reporter: judy, we know it will be a busy night inside the mall as the police continue to process the scene. here outside of the mall on the perimeter a different picture than the command center. it has calmed down out here. there was a heavy police presence earlier with the officers blocking offffhe entrance were most of the night. just in the last hour they finally left. and of course many of these businesses have been quite for several hours tonight. many were forced to lock up as the police encouraged them to do so and out of their own fear for safety inside the mall was an even more frightening situation and two people described the very dramatic scene. >> i was crying. i had my baby in my hands.

the store because they thought someone was running in the store with a gun. i was ready to get out of there. i was ready to get my baby out there there. a bunch of people ran outside of the door but they would not let us go out. >> it was the worst experience every. >> reporter: those trying to meet up with loved ones who became separated during the shooting were directed today the toys-r-us parking lot. that parking lot has been empty in the last couple hours so that has cleared out as well. so we are hoping all of those reunions have been made. as for all of the businesses here we have been told they have been cleared. there are police patrolling the area and they should be able to open tomorrow morning we are told. live in columbia, wis news 10. the 2016 presidential race

to beat after taking south carolina's important primary tonight and did it by a decisive margin. chad mills is live in spartanburg. >> reporter: the supporters of trump are calling this win a decisive victory tonight. he won all but two counties in the state of south carolina and in fact nbc news was able to call this primary for donald trump only after about 35 minutes after the polls closed at 7 o'clock this evening. when he took the stage here at the marriott he did not speak about the other candidates in the race. he didn't even mention jeb bush's decision to suspend the campaign. south carolina has been an insurance policy for donald trump after the first stop in

expressing frustration with the federal government and talking about issues like the illegal immigration. he doubled down on the immigration issue and said he will build a wall as president and mexico will pay for the wall. he took a jab at governor nikki haley. take a listen. >> we have a wonderful lieutenant governor who backed us early in the process. you know henry, right? the current-- i will take him over the current governor any time because we won. >> reporter: trump's next stop is in atlanta before he focuses all of his efforts on the state of nevada where the next test is for the republican candidates who expect to do well in nevada

the super tuesday series. he had nothing but praise for the voters here in south carolina. >> as for the democrats, hillary clinton earned a victory in nevada's caucus tonight ujing out senator bernie sanders following days of intense campaigning. she gets a much-needed boost following her 22-point blowout lost to sanders in the new hampshire primary on february 9th. >> i am so thrilled and so grateful to all of my supporters out there. some may have doubted us but we never doubted each other. and this one is for you. >> clinton and sanders will face off here in south carolina in the democratic primary one week from tonight. marco rubio is celebrateing his performance by a tight

place candidate ahead of ted cruz. we will go to billy gene shaw with more. >> reporter: a huge night for marco rubio. he gave the speech and you can hear the momentum tonight of the supporters. you can see the energy and excitement coming from on and off the stage. he took the stage with the governor's support and tray gaudy. the rubio camp said it was their goal to finish in the top three. it was a close call between the senator ted cruz about 1200 votes. rubio told his fans history was

>> if it is d's will we should win this election history will say that on this night in south carolina we took the first step forward from the beginning of a new american century. thank you, south carolina. >> i have faith in his plan of innovation for the united states of america. go marco rubio. >> i feel like some of the other contenders got out early on so i feel like we could make more headway >> reporter: marco rubio took time to acknowledge jeb bush saying he was one of the best governor's that the country has ever seen. and something that has been on everyone's mind since senator rubio has made what we call a victory in south carolina what does that mean for governor

is he considering her to be the next vp? i spoke to campaign head quarters and he did not say yes but he did not tell me no. he said that everybody should be consider governor haley because she is a great leader. wis news 10. >> ted is in third place but he is declaring success tonight. megan norman is covering the campaign. >> reporter: judy, senator ted cruz used the words remarkable and extraordinary to describe tonight's third place finish which was a close race between he and senator marco rubio with just over a thousand votes separating the two. he spoke to a fired up crowd tonight that seemed riled up after donald trump had had been declared the winning and rubio was quote pulling ahead. he said he is the only

only candidate who has beaten donald trump and can do so again. he believes he said he is the best candidate to compete with the democrats in november as well. >> in iowa they said it couldn't be done and we won. [applause] >> in new hampshire they said a conservative, a bible believing christian, cannot compete. and we defied expectations. [applause] >> and tonight despite millions and millions of dollars of false and nasty attacks despite the entirety of the political establishment coming together

given us another remarkable result. [applause] >> reporter: now during his remarks he also paused for a moment of silence to honor the late supreme court justice antonin scalia. the next stop for ted cruz for is nevada and then off for super tuesday which he and others call the sec primary. >> more politics but let's check on the forecast first. >> dawn has a look on that. >> right now we have clouds in place because of the clouds temperatures have been held into the 50s for most of the evening. clouds are starting to push in from the west because of that we will have to deal with clouds off and on throughout the day tomorrow. temperatures 74 tomorrow

75 in north and orangeburg. another cloudy day. we will have another round of today tomorrow. we will have clouds and decent temperatures. not too bad. most of the day the clouds are moving in. the rain is not until early monday morning. we will see the rain moving in about 8 o'clock on monday morning. we have a line that is pretty much coming prom myrtle beach to agusta the waves are in place. they advance north and they will dump a decent mount of raining us. as we go through tuesday, the issue is it is going to be much, much cooler. the temperatures with down to 50 for the day time high. when we have highs around 50 we

place with the wedge in place we will see dreary conditions out there. rain totals monday, tuesday, wednesday, and even into thursday morning. this particular model is showing us that we could see 1.86 inches in columbia. once you look at this model it is showing us a tinea bit above an inch. so not a whole lot of rain expected by that particular model. here is a look at the seven-day forecast. 74 degrees tomorrow. that should be the last warm day. 60s and 50s moving back in with the rain in place. 63 mon these lil' chickies and lil' doggies are small, -but they're intense. -yeah. -it's like my niece, hannah. -and you, uh, take karate? show him how intense you are. -yah! yah! ah! -(karate sounds) y! now finish him. big flavor in a little package. new lil' chickies and lil' doggies. -(click)

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was calling off his campaign. >> reporter: many jeb bush supporters are disappointed. in the end, only 8% of the votes around 8:45 he took the stage joined by lindsay graham to announce he would suspend the campaign. in the end the voters in iowa, new hampshire and now south carolina have spoken. >> i congratulate my competitors in a race that has been hard fight. i have today my dpround refusing to bend to the winds. we put forward details and innovative plans to address the mounting concerns we are facing. despite what you might have heard ideas matter, policy matters -- >> i feel like he handled it very well.

and united us. i thought he did a great job. >> i really felt like there was something to jeb's relationship to america. i really thought all of that was the heart of the speech. jeb bush dropped out and people who are supporting trump and

she says their names. trayvon martin shot to death. dontre hamilton unarmed. sandra bland... did nothing wrong. and makes their mothers' fight for justice her own. she speaks for a city poisoned by indifference. we need action now. and stands with the president against those who would undo his achievements. just like she's always...stood with us. hillary clinton.

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all come to look for america i'm bernie sanders, and i approve this message. >> welcome back. i am joined by republican strategist. we are seeing the state of south carolina turn red for donald trump which is what we expected. the big thing was the tight race between ted cruz and marco rubio and that will set the state going forward. >> there is a tight cluster between cruz and rubio. with jeb dropping out and going into the super tuesday who do the votes go to? who has room to grow? joul you will see decisions made going forward.

here in richland county and charleston. trump took the whole state. that is a big deal for rubio. >> unfortunately the way it goes in south carolina is trump gets all 50 delegates. if we get to a delegate battle trump has the leg up. >> tight race. judy back to you. >> democratic strategist from p mp strategy. big win for hillary clinton in nevada. >> huge win. we were expecting it. she got her swagger back tonight. that speech tonight was one of the best in the cycle. >> bernie sanders didn't pull off the main vote but he won some groups. >> he got the latino vote which is showing she ishe can get the

>> do we think bernie sanders will continue the strong ground game? >> he said. but in the speech we heard him

super tuesday he didn't mention we want to update you on the shooting at columbia centre. the investigation is continuing but the columbia police said the mall will open at noon tomorrow. >> more warm and cloudy tomorrow? >> it will be warm but it will be a bit cloudy. just try to remember that it will be the last dry day as well. 63 on tap for you on monday and monday is the day we start tracking rain. we will track rain and cooler temperatures on tuesday and 58 on wednesday. we see the cooler temperatures

it is dry. >> thank you for joining us. >> i'm hillary clinton and i approve this message. her church taught her to do all the good you can... for all the people you can... for as long as you can... after law school, she could have joined a high priced law firm... but instead, she worked to reform juvenile justice in south carolina... exposed racism in alabama schools... registered latino voters in texas... and provided legal aid to families in arkansas. her life's work has been about breaking barriers. and so would her presidency. which is why, for every american who's not being paid what they're worth... who's held back by student debt or a system tilted against them- and there are far too many of you- she understands that our country can't reach its potential unless we all do. together.

>> live on the fox business network, it's the sixth republican debate. [ cheers and applause ] >> hello, and welcome back. i'm fox business rock star neil cavuto. >> and i'm maria bartiromo. a reminder -- we've lost a few competitors since the last debate, with only seven joining us tonight, so remember, candidates, if at any time tonight your poll numbers drop below 3%, you will hear a loud gong then be escorted off the stage like showtime at the apollo. at which point you'll take a seat in the audience next to that sweet rose of the carolinas, senator lindsey graham. the next question is for our front runner, donald trump. >> thank you, maria tony romo.