provide living wages for working people, ensure equal pay for women. i'm bernie sanders. i approve this message because together, we can make a political revolution and create an economy and democracy that works for all and not just the powerful few. good afternoon. thank you for joining us on this thursday for news 19 at noon. i'm darcy strict lapped. we start off with a look at your forecast. another cold day here in the midlands. it looks like we could be seeing warmer weather as we get closer to the weekend. >> we started off cold once again this morning but a lot of sunshine and far less windy conditions.

in the 30s and 40s right now. 49 in saluda. 42 in lexington. camden at 39. here in columbia, a lot of sunshine. 46degrees. winds are calm. so no wind chill to talk about. we do have a slight change in the forecast. for today, we'll see a lot of sunshine. 51 for a high with increasing cloud coverage for tonight a low of 32. then we could have a chance for some sprinkles tomorrow with variable winds of five to 10 miles per hour. we'll have a high of 49 degrees. there is a meeting tonight to discuss the future developments in one of the hardest hit areas during the october floods. the public is invited to listen to plans and share their own input on the proposed greenway. the watershed association wants

katherine to the congery river. that meeting is tonight at brennan elementary school. you may see smoke in several areas today. there are three prescribed midlands. the nature conservancy is kurkting a burn at the peachtree rock preserve in lexington. -- conducting a burn. the state forestry commission is conducting a burn at harbison state forest. it will reduce the amount of wildfire fuels and reduce the spread of pests, insects and disease. and fort jackson is conducting another burn. they are burning 301 acres in the interior of the post today. a hearing is scheduled in charleton stud for dylann roof. police say roof confessed to killing nine people attending a bible study in june of last year. in december, a federal judge delayed his trial after his attorney said they still need more time to review evidence in

he will not appear in court for today's hearing. meanwhile, the state's case against roof continues. the trial is set for july. you valentine v. until tomorrow to sign up for fort jackson's come see your army tour. at an eight-hour tour that will give residents an opportunity to see and experience how soldiers train and provide insight into the day to day operations. visitors will be assigned drill sergeants. they will learn to shoot in a simulator, eat lunch with the soldiers and get answers to questions about the army. the tour is open to those ages 13 and older to. sign up, call fort jackson's community relations office. bmw exported almost $10 billion worth of vehicles from its plant last year. more than 280,000 vehicles were

that is 70% of more than 400 how made at the facility. the plant exports bmw x model vehicles to more than 141 markets worldwide. bernie sanders and hillary clinton are preparing for another debate tonight. the first since sanders' overwhelming victory in new hampshire. the republican candidates are battling for votes here in the palmetto state. we have the latest in this report. >> reporter: marco rubio rallied early this morning in south carolina. he is trying to rebound from his disappointing fifth place finish in new hampshire as the alternative to donald trump. >> it is my hope if elected president, when elected president, to try to unite this country as much as possible. >> reporter: jeb bush also attracted the frontrunner's inflammatory rhetoric. >> it is downright divisive and ugly and mean spirited. >> i've spent less money than one.

2/3 of gop voters describe themselves as born again or can win. >> the only candidate would can beat donald trump is me. >> reporter: john kasich is expected to have a tougher time conservatives. >> democrats love to spend. republicans do too. they just -- but they feel guilty when they do it. >> reporter: there are also questions about how bernie sanders will do among minority voters in the south. but the difficultyic socialist told scott pelley wednesday he is confident. >> change always takes place when millions of people stand up and fight back. >> reporter: hillary clinton received a boost thursday morning with an endorsement from the black congressional caucus. >> hillary clinton wants to turn the page. she wants new story line to emerge after this debate. >> reporter: between the endorsement and the debate, she is looking to put her new hampshire defeat behind her.

candidates are in our state today. marco rubio has campaign spots in hilton head and myrtle beach. former florida governor jeb bush has two campaign stops in sumter and also a town hall meeting in columbia at 6:30. texas senator ted cruz is scheduled to campaign in rock hill today. the kasich campaign is riding high after a second place finish in the new hampshire primary. he has campaign stops in georgetown, north myrtle beach and florence. democrat hillary clinton plans to host what she is calling a corridor of opportunity town hall tomorrow in denmark. it will be at denmark elementary school at 3:00. the public must rsvp to attend. bernie sanders does not have any south carolina events scheduled over the next several days. federal and state authorities have reached a $3.2 billion settlement with morgan stanley over beavering practices that contributed to

the nationwide settlement says the batch acknowledges it increased the acceptable risk levels for mortgage loans sold to investors without telling them. morgan stanley said it previously reserved funds for all settlementments. - - settlement amounts. u.s. markets have opened sharply lower following market concerns around the world. batch stocks were hit hard as invemptors worried that interest rates in the u.s. and elsewhere would remain low. the dow industrials were more trading. more than 40 prison guards and officers in jim moran have been indicted on charges of trafficking. a majority of those charged are accused ever agreeing to protect the person they believed was a high level drug trafficker. they worked at nine different prisons. investigators are looking into why a 68-year-old gunman shot and killed two sheriff's deputies in a town near

shot one deputy in the head at a panera restaurant. the second was wounded during a shootout. the gunman was killed in the he can change of fire with police. the son of the gunman says his father was a heavy drinker with emotional problems but never spoke poorly of police. a mexican governor says 52 inmates were killed and 12 injured in a brutal fight between two rival factions mexico. officials believe a group of prisoners set a fire to distract guards while other inmates tried to escape. . south carolina men's basketball team beat lsu last night. the win earns the gamecock as a share of first place in the southeastern conference. the final score 94-83. we'll tell you more about the

against kentucky. saturday. we'll hear more ffjsgyabout that in sports tonight at 6:00. a local nonprofit is expanding offering even more services to midlands residents.

thrift store 1j and more the first job of a president is to protect america. our next president must be prepared to lead. i know jeb. i know his good heart and his strong backbone. jeb will unite our country. he knows how to bring the world together against terror. he knows when tough measures must be taken. experience and judgment count in the oval office. jeb bush is a leader. he'll keep our country safe. jeb bush.

. welcome back to wltx news 19 at noon. we'll start off with the ifxx_kgz`zf,s me3*%9 nk because it is nowhere near what we've been dealing over the last two days. winds right now in the central midland are calm. anywhere else, we have winds that are light, up to eight southwest and the temperatures right now are rather chilly but these are the actual temperatures, not the wind chills. 39 in camden. get down to orangeburg, 46 degrees. 49 in saluda. a little bit cooler in newberry at 41. here in columbia, we are sitting at 46 degrees. very dry air. dew point at 17 degrees. humidity, only 31%. the winds are calm.

cold front that has moved through. it is now hugging from the grass down into the southern lowcountry. a little bit of cloud coverage. -- from the grand strand down into the southern lowcountry. light wind out of the southwest. it will still be cold, 32 degrees and all of our lows will range from the upper 20s to the lower 30s. here comes the change in our forecast. as you go throughout the day tomorrow, what we are watching is an area of low pressure that is right now out in the central plains. it will slowly move its way along the deep south and this will head towards the palmetto state. what it will do though, and this is a change in the forecast, we put a little bit of a chance of precipitation because right now, models indicate that, as we go throughout the evening and overnight, we'll have the increasing cloud coverage. by tomorrow morning, a little bit of precipitation may start

of the midlands and into the update. we could see a rain, possibly even a light sleet mix to our northern communities but this will be in the morning. if any of this precipitation sticks around, as we get into the afternoon, they will finally go #@ clearing skies blowing into saturday. for tomorrow, with that slight chance for a wrinkle or two, 49 for a high. 47 on saturday and valentine's day, cold to start. # 1 degrees -- 21 degrees in the xjcmorning. we'll have rain chances coming in on president's day monday. and on tuesday, a high of 62 degrees. darcy get ready. it looks like weekend will be sunny. for the fourth time in four years, a local church is reaching out into the community in a way unlike anything that we have seen before. good to see you. >> good to be here. >> fourth time in four years. word of god church has opened another thrift store and this one is what you guys are

store. >> the superstore. >> talk to us tomorrow. >> this is a charity we launched over four years ago to create a community hub so that our work could expand into the community and could be a network where everybody could come together and work together. we use a concept called social entrepreneurship where we invest in businesses to recycle resources back into the community. >> we were in the store yesterday. i'm telling you, i was incedey impressed with the fourth store. -- incredibly impressed with the fourth store. it is the old marshall's location. talk to me about what happens in this store outside of being able to shop for some nice labels. >> it gives us an opportunity to employ very difficult to employ people, ex-cons, ex- addicts. but we all have a program that we are helping individual whose have gone through breast cancer treatment, burn treatment where we've donated wigs because we

esteem that has a lot to do with it. that is embedded in the store. we have a jobs center. there are a number of things. we also do a voucher program where local members of the churches in the community can volunteer time that turns into dollars for vouchers for the church. >> we know how much -- how benevolent our viewers here at wltx are. talk to me about the difference when someone gives to god's care or gives to another charity like goodwill. what is the difference in when you guys are doing and what an organization like goodwill might be doing. >> one is the voucher program. we create dollars that go back into the community. we offereded a family of 15 children, prisoners that are released from jail, we give them three outfits and a pair of shoes to get them started back into society. we have a thanksgiving drive

we do december coats for kids. we adopted sick schools and gave coats for kids. it goes breakly back moo the community. >> the store opens tomorrow at what time? >> it opens until #: -- it opens at 9:00 in the morning and goes until 9:00. store. >> thank you. >> no problem. more news 19 at noon coming up after the break. .

special for valentin something is just fundamentally broken when african americans are more likely to be arrested by police, and sentenced to longer prison terms, for doing the same thing that whites do. ...when too many encounters with law enforcement end tragically. we need investments in education, health care and jobs,

we have to face up to the hard truth of injustice and systemic racism. i'm hillary clinton,

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get the recipe for cupid's love pies so can you whip up a batch and start sharing the love for valentine's day or any day. i'm howard with patty in the mr. food test kitchen where today, we found a heartfelt way for you to say ooh, it's so good. delicious.

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society others point academy is celebrating the chinese new year. students began celebration way parade this morning. that was followed by an assembly featuring chinese themed dancers and singers. here is something that most of us probably won't understand.

detected gravitational waves. the ripples in the fabric of space and time that yep stein predicted a century ago. scientists say that finding opening a new way of observing the cosmos. an international team of scientists observed the wave from the distant crash of two black holes. one theorist says the feat rank as long galileo taking up a telescope and looking at the planet. coming up today on friend at 5:00, are you still trying to decide what you are going to do with your sweetheart on valentine's day? we are on your side with a list of the world's most romantic hotels and one is in charleston. the details when you join us today at 5:00. >> all right, guys. you heard that. better tune in at 5:00. you are going to need it. >> if you have not done it yet, you are going to need to make sure you make it down to charleston for that hotel because then after that, i

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