access.wgbh.org . well, it is another bitterly cold night here in the midlands. temperatures below freezing already and the temperatures will be dropping into the lower 20s by sunrise.

being with us. i'm jr berry. >> and i'm am andrea mock. get the kids ready for a cold morning at the bus stop. >> we are expecting another cold night and another cold morning. we saw cold temperatures this morning as well, columbia hit 20 degrees. we won't be quite as cold this morning but still very frigid outside. a few clouds moving into the upstate, across the midlands right now clear skies but a cloud or two had move into the picture. in the short term, 26 in columbia, 23 in camden, and sumter, 27 in newbury. some of us may hit upper teens, partly cloudy skies tomorrow, a small chance for a light shower, maybe even a sprinkle. then tomorrow night, 33 degrees with increasing clouds. but we do have 60 degree

here in richland county public hearings are being held for residents affected by the flood. >> the first meeting was held at st. andrews park. chuck ringwalt was there. >> i want to know about the creek because it's in my backyard. >> reporter: marie phillips came to the meeting. her home was damaged during the october flood and each time it rains the creek inches closer to her door. >> it turns from something i used to sit out on a back deck, drink a cup of could have ooon coffee on a sunday morning to something that worries me every single moment of every day. >> reporter: it's big problem for these residents. >> this is a creek that we maintain. the public has been out there several times and we're trying to make sure we address that as much as possible. >> reporter: the county hired

the company was hear to listen to recommendations and gather information. we use it to develop project ideas and can septemberualize and projects and costs for and rate the projects and secure funding to implement them. >> we cannot be everywhere, but they can be identifying and follow up with the questions and make sure the requests and make sure the requests are being addressed. >> reporter: they hope to have the requests before the council in the next two months. >> to know people are out there and thinking p it about it and want to do something and are going to figure this out gives us a hill sense of ease -- little sense of ease. >> the council will hold another meet ongoing this tomorrow from noon until 2 at gadsden park. . lawmakers in the senate talk about their road plan. one group is lobbying against

senators from both parties are trying to reach a compromise. d.o.t. reform and an income tax cut. but the group americans for prosperity are against the gas tax saying they want to focus on reforming the transportation system in the state. they're calling on lawmakers to transportation under the governor. >> they support a plan that includes more gas tax hikes. sending more money to the same dysfunctional corrupt transportation system that has let our roads crumble to where they are right now. >> its a not because legislators don't care or they're ignoring the problem because it's hard. there are philosophical divides on this. >> tomorrow morning at 7 americans for prosperity will be at the exxon in lexington.

pay 45 cents of every gallon of your gas as they talk to you about opinions on improving our roads. car dealers from hay cross the state attended a senate judiciary committee today because members were debating a bill that centers around the legality of car dealers charging a closing deal. there if approved, this measure would prevent them from receiving refunds. part of the measure debated would require car dealers who charge those closing fees to pay a one time registration fee each physical year to the department of consumer affairs. the bill was passed out of committee and headed to the full senate. in a general subcommittee meeting senators listened to testimony on the syrian refugees in south carolina. they're looking to limit the number of refugees in our state and the state resources that are used to help those

news 19's loren thomas explains. the purpose of the resettlement program is to help refugees admitted to this country gain economic self sufficiency. >> karen wingo with the dment of social services along with representatives of the carolinas spoke out about their rolls in the resettlement program. >> so we see what we've gone through and the trauma they've experienced and then have them come here and have backare backlash, it's discouraging . >> reporter: requiring information like their new address and job status. these bills stem to not place refugees in south carolina following recent terror attacks in france and germany. this is a security concern say some senators.

needed. i would like to see a halt to the program. we're trusting the federal government with this program and i don't want to have a situation where people are harmed in south carolina and we didn't do something to keep it from happening. >> we have 1500 refugees here who are hard working people trying to raise their family and none have caused a criminal problem so i think there are misconceptions out this and i think a lot of people will feel as i do that these bills are not necessary. >> reporter: two syrian refugee families have been placed in south carolina by the federal government since december of last year. loren thomas, news 19, wltx. the subcommittee is expected to report back to the full senate tomorrow for further discussions on the bill. well, a republican lawmaker apparently unhappy with the way

watts the state of south carolina to determine who can be a journalist. they have introduced a journalist registry bill. which would require a journalist to be approved before working in south carolina. pit says he filed the bill to see how he sees second amendment rights being reported by the news media which he says isn't good. the attorney jay bender says it will never pass. >> the only thing i would check to see if there's a full moon tonight. this is lunacy. it happens every year in the general assembly, usually somebody wanted to impose a tax on newspaper readers thinking that's going to hurt newspapers or wanting to impose a tax on it's absurd. on the title alone, it's

i don't think this deserves a dignified response. >> michael pits is the same lawmaker who put 60 amendments on the bill to take down the confederate flachlth -- flag. to a day marks the first day of tax filing season and scammers are trying to take advantage of taxpayers. the biggest phone fraud is growing and now the government is launching a public service announcement warning taxpayers about the phone scammers who chamber to be an irs agent. >> they are a just ruthless criminals, and they don't care about people, they don't about anything other than trying to intimidate you into paying them money. the tip-off is if you don't pay immediately, you're going to go to jail. that is the tip-off. the irs will never make a telephone call like that. >> well, if you do get a call like that, the irs advises you

job seekers in lexington you want to listen up tonight. tomorrow the dss is sponsoring a job fair from 9 in the morning until 2 in the afternoon. four local businesses will be looking to hire new employees. the job fair will be held in the community room in the hexington county dss office located on south lake drive in lexington. . tomorrow is the deadline to register to vote for the first presidential primary. it is set for february 20th. meanwhile, to register for the vote on the primary dead line is a week from tomorrow on january 27th. the democratic primary is february 27th. if you have moved, make sure you are ready to vote by updating your recommendingstration information or if you have moved from one county to another, you must register in your new county by the deadline to be eligible. tomorrow night the governor is going to give her sixth state of the state address. it is taking place at 7:00.

upcoming budget as well as flood recovery efforts in south carolina. mandy noral is going to give the democratic response. can you you can watch it here tomorrow on news 19. our golden football contest is underway. earlier today we went all around the midlands placing 19 golden signed wltx foobls in different public land landmarks across 11 counties. the clues leading to their locations have been posted on the instagram and facebook accounts. if you find one of the golden foobls you have to grab it and bring it to our studios to get you $50. you are registered for a grand prize of $519. we have five winners come forward already, the grand prize will be announced on january 26th on friends at 35.

>> i wouldn't say they -- were hidened. hidened,den, per se. we've hit below freezing temperatures, it's going to be

daniel is . this is pretty cool. if you want to see something in the sky that hasn't happened in ten years, you're going to want to go to bed now because you have to wake up in a few hours because five of our sole plan et cetera ets are going to be behind up, if you miss it tomorrow morning because they are going to keep in that formation about three february 20th. the best time to see them, though, is right before dawn. of course, that's barring any chowed cover. this is the first -- chowed cover. this is -- cloud cover. >> you might be able to see one more, too. >> i remember it from seven. [ laughter ]. >> you know, though, we have to be sure there's no clouds in the sky and you have to get up at dawn. >> the coldest part of the day.

>> and make sure you stand in your bath rub in robe in your driveway. >> bundle up because it's going to be cold tomorrow and the next 48 hours. 41 degrees this afternoon. made it up to 22 or down to 22 in the city. 42 was our afternoon high. normally we'd expect a hoe of 34 and a high of 54 degrees. our record hue was 76 set in 2001. 26 in columbia, 28 in orangeburg, got an e-mail from cedar creek, 21 degrees. 21 in rock hill, slightly warmer in greenville at 31 degrees, a little bit of cloud cover moving into the upstate. wider view of our temperatures

states, minnesota in the single digits, 17 degrees in omaha. this is what we have going on. we're watching two systems, this system hear producing a little bit of mixed precipitation mainly in arkansas. that will be the system that had swing through the area tomorrow. and this system up here near idaho, that will produce rain by friday. we'll zoom in a little bit closer and can you see the clouds building into the upstate and as that system, that first system approaches, you may see snow in the upstate of south carolina. i think our forecast model does a good job of showing exactly what we expect. the clouds increase tomorrow. a little bit of snow in the upstate. not a big deal for us here in the midlands, maybe a sprinkle, maybe a light shower, but not expecting much in the ray of rainfall. clouds build into thursday. an opportunity for some showers. but right now our best chance for rain comes in on friday. the rain moves in on friday and you can look towards our north,

carolina line and parts of charleston and raleigh, they're expecting rain. traveling up the east coast friday and saturday may be tough times. 22 degrees columbia, 21 in winnsboro over to aiken. highs tomorrow better than today. topping off in the mid to upper 40s. 33 degrees thursday morning, a chance for showers. 50 degrees during the afternoon. better chance for rain comes in on friday. as that system gets better developed. 53 our afternoon high. chance for precipitation early saturday, afternoon highs around 49 degrees. mid-50s by sunday. and right now we're looking for highs in the lower 60s by monday and into tuesday with a small chance of rain on tuesday afternoon. so -- >> i just got an e-mail from a viewer wanted to know what the six lth planet was. >> it's earth. >> that's it. >> because you'll see it when

sorry, i . last season the gamecocks got win number 17 in march. today frank martin tied his

coach and we have a lot of season left to play. tonight's game didn't come easy, quite the opposite, actually. in the first half, gamecocks with the heed. notice draining the three at the buzzer but ole miss would storm back. moody that guy we warned you about, he's going to knock one down from the parking lot. the rebels had a n 11-point lead over the gamecocks but you can't hold these guys down. that will be on sports center later tonight. gamecocks would chip away at the heed. last minute, carrera with the tying bucket, 66-66. ole miss trying to take a shot, no good, gamecocks try to steal the deal but but overtime we go. gamecocks take the lead in overtime but ole miss tie it up

carrera gets a basket and makes it with less than 10 second left. ole miss fighting for a chance, he makes his three flows that ice this one and south carolina escapes t they win on the road 77-74. . and the clemson tigers were trying to add to their own history tonight by beating four ranked opponents in a row by it came to an end as they fell to number 13 virginia on the road by a score of 69-62 in chartsville. charlestonsville charlottes ville. girls in action against augusta christian and they're working in the paint to get the putback two and have no trouble tonight at all as they dominated on their home floor.

and the boys were in action, shortly after this one. hoping to move the facility win streak to two. christian jones here for three. getting the cards off to a good start. cards back in the paint fighting for it, no good, no good, but finally chico carter with the putback. this time it will be dunn lap driving to the basket and sink that one. the men are victorious winning 75-55. and of course nfl fans are counting down the days to sunday, particularly panthers fans as the team had host arizona in the nfc championship game this sunday. it's game they haven't been in since back in 2005 for the first time in franchise history they get a shot at it on their own home turf. >> i think for the hard work and everything this team, this organization has tried to do, to finally have it come to frew uition would be neatment and then for our fans.

tremendous. they've grown with us. and they most certainly have shown their appreciation and it's been neat. >> and that will be a 6:00 game. sure to be a good one. more news out of charleston as ron rivera banned hover boards from the practice facility. >> were they having so many of them that it was necessary. >> some players were drag racing in the lockerroom.

good move on his part. money.

colbert is coming up next. hich children are at risk and then tracking them for years for evidence of injury. >> these children are going to be injured for life. they're going to need remedial education, educational enrichment programs, there are kids who may be prevented from functioning at their full level. >> reporter: there are no known drugs to reverse environmental damage caused by lead. a therapy can remove lead from the body, but so far it has not been helpful in treating the behavioral or neurological problems caused by lead. >> dr. jon lapook. thank you, doc. >> the water crisis in flint spilled into the presidential campaign. and nancy cordes has that. >> it is a civil rights issue. >> reporter: hillary clinton started sounding the alarm last week sending two top aide to

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