i don't know where it came from. all i know is i am thankful that i am alive because i could have died. >> the driver is okay as you just saw. he was checked out by paramedics. he wants to send out a big thank you to the good samaritans who helped him. we had traffic light issues, power outages. jim gandy 8,000 power outages right now. are the wind going to be dying down? >> reporter: well, they will die down a little bit but the wind will be up through tomorrow. so i think we will be dealing with some -- some issues on wind right on through tomorrow afternoon. now right now i am at kroger at the intersection of two notch road and sparkleberry lane. this is our weather fest. we have been holding this today

you to go to any of the kroger, the academy stores, sports stores or walgreen's where you can pick up your weather alert radios. we have them on sales at the store here at kroger. you can come out here this evening. you n come out here anytime and pick your radios. they will be on -- on a discounted sale price through mid-way. even after we leave you can still pick them up. today was a good example of why you need a weather alert radio because of the potential for some severe weather and the weather alert radios work even when the power goes out. that is important. today fortunately we did not see some of the severe weather that they have seen in north carolina and virginia because the line moved on through. when the front came through that is when we saw the high winds.

us this afternoon. wind gusts 53 miles per hour. and we will continue to see windy conditions through tomorrow. but we will look more at our forecast coming up a little bit later. >> all right. thank you very much. few weeks after the october flood our sonia gutierrez was in clarendon county checking out the bad road conditions that people worried about emergency vehicles getting through. they came out to fix things but now they created another problem. >> every since the flood it went down hill. a couple weeks ago -- >> couple weeks ago residents had to park out of the block. >> never thought i would have lake front property. >> reporter: the county fixed the road. the roads are now dry but the problem is, the yards. >> fixed one problem. >> reporter: this is what his yard looks like right now. >> they come out here and added

better to gret in -- get in and out but there is no drainage. >> i get tired walkininthrough all the water and mud. pulling my leg up out of the mud and stuff. >> reporter: his biggest fear is slipping out of his prosthetic leg and falling. >> with all the rain and no drainage, just -- the water is piling up. >> reporter: we asked the county administrator what they can do about it. >> the county is looking into a program to deal with the drainage and the ditches. >> reporter: he says they are hoping to roll it out mid- summer. >> we are working as fast as we can based on the amount of staff we ever, the contractors. and also funding available to work on the roads. >> reporter: there were 400 roads damaged by the floods. the county fixed about 100. >> for the citizens and the public to know, not like we are not doing anything.

>> reporter: sonia gutierrez, news 19 wltx. >> lot of you reached out with similar problem. you need to figure out who owns the roads and go from there. a senator continues his filibuster of the states road bill today. he is speaking out against raising a gas tax to fund roads. saying $2 billion is already going towards roads. he wants to change how many is being spent. there is a commission that controls road products. that commission works off political interest and wants to do away with it. he wants the governor to hold the power. he would not be willing to compromise with lawmakers who want to raise the tax. >> i think there is funds that were already collected. 15% increase in revenue over last year is extraordinary.

increase, $1.3 billion, how can you say despite that increase in revenues we are still going to raise your gas taxes. >> he is expected to filibuster another day and then a senator will relieve him. a new effort to protect your personal information online. a new program housed at usc and volves the national guard, chamber of commerce and the citadel. large and small businesses will send employees to columbia for specialized training in protector protecting your information. in addition to training it will be a hub for research and development for new technology. a high school student has been charged with threatening to shoot his teacher. he is 18-year-old cameron mose oreglia. he sent a message on social

he threatened a teacher. the message was found by a parent who monitors their child's social media and passed the information along to the school's resource officer. cameron mose oreglia is now in jail awaiting a bond hearing. tonight hillary clinton is campaigning in sumter. she is at a rally at morris college. however earlier today she was in columbia at the baptist church conference center. afterwards i caught up with her and we talked about a number of topics, including the possibility of detainees from guantanamo bay being sent to charleston and the affordable care act. hillary clinton says changes need to be made to obama care. >> i think it is a great accomplishment that we have 90% of americans covered but we will have to improve it. we will have to make changes. i want to get the cost down. make sure there is more

i want precipitation drug costs down. i will try to make it better and we will get to 100% coverage and i hope to come up with incentives to persuade the state government to expand medicaid. a lot of people in this state who are not able to afford healthcare at all. they could do well on medicaid and i hope the state will join the many other states that decided to do that. >> reporter: an issue that has been in the news in south carolina, president obama talking about closing down guantanamo bay again and moving the detainees from guantanamo bay to the naval bring outside of charleston. governor nikki haley said that is something she will fight. what is your position on moving detainees from guantanamo bay to south carolina? >> i know the president hasn't made any decision about where anybody would be moved to. he has to work with congress. he has to pay attention to what

i hope he can. i hope he can cooperate to get this behind us because i do believe keeping guantanamo bay open provides a propaganda argument for isis and the other terrorist groups. we should work together to find a way to close it. and i know that it will come with cooperation from congress and states. >> former president bill clinton will be on the campaign trail tomorrow and friday for his wife. he is going to rock hill, spartanburg and winnsboro and on friday aiken and bluffton. bernie sanders was in columbia today holding a news conference. he spoke about the poverty rate in the country and attributed the increase to a 1996 welfare reform bill supported by hillary clinton. he said something needs be done to help the poor and powerless. >> i believe we need welfare reform but the goal is to get people to stand on their own two feet, to help them, help

the child care they need so they could work. help them get the healthcare they need. not to punish. >> bernie sanders left south carolina to campaign in missouri ask oklahoma today -- and oklahoma today. he plans to return here on the campaign trail on friday. a day before the democratic primary. and for all things related to the democratic primary just head to our website www.wltx.com. you can click on sc primary under headlines. on your side tonight answering your questions about heart health. we have a group of doctors here chatting online with you. andrea mock is standing by with the details on our webinar. >> thank you very much. surviving a cardiac event is the first step and then the big question after they take care of you, what happens, how do

the second phase of it. you are a rehab cardiologist? >> cardiac rehab manager. >> what program do you start patients on? >> once they get out of the hospital and are able to start with a combination of exercise, healthy nutrition, dealing with stress, stopping smoking, relaxation techniques. all of those to help them recover from their event was, heart attack, stent, by-pass, also helping to prevent any future events. >> we were talking, so many people have stents. how do you make sure that is it? that is as far as it goes? >> one of the most common questions we hear is how long is this going to last? it comes down to how long do they stay exercising, healthy

how well they have a commitment to that. >> give us tough love here. the worse mistakes we make here in south carolina, you see your patients make, are what? >> other than smoking, nutrition. it is important to avoid fried foods, barbecue, sweet tea. eating is the biggest things. >> thank you very much for volunteering your time to answer questions. these experts are no closer than your nearest computer, just go to www.wltx.com and you can speak with them live right now and ask them questions about your heart health. back to you. >> all right. thank you very much.

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you can see to say it was a windy day, it is a huge understatement. >> yeah. we had a gust of 57 miles per hour in columbia. a breezy day. that will be the trend for tomorrow as well. it was a warm day across the midlands. ate degrees before the -- 80 degrees before the cold front. 65 degrees columbia right now. 67 orangeburg. 49 degrees greenville. low 70 in charleston.

24 miles per hour in columbia. 25 in orangeburg. 30 in sumter. winds are still strong. that will be the trend tomorrow as well even tonight we are expecting winds out of the west 15 to 25 miles per hour. the severe weather is towards the north and east. midland the rain ended and the clouds continue to move out through the rest of the over night hours. forecast into motion. 7:00 p.m. clouds move out. thursday, looks like we will see sunshine and then into the last day of the work week we should see a lot of sunshine and it will be dry. good news there. quiet weather on the way. although it will be breezy again tomorrow. as far as tonight goes, lows in the upper 30s. low 40s. a chilly start to your thursday. thursday afternoon high temperatures in the mid- to upper 50s. 58 degrees orangeburg. 56 degrees columbia. camden. 54 winnsboro and newberry.

winds die off a little bit by friday. 56 degrees. weekend, pleasant. especially by sunday. 65 degrees. few more clouds on monday. tuesday and wednesday expecting temperatures to climb up into the lower 70s. looks like plent weather on the way -- pleasant weather on the way. now to jim gandy at the weather expo. what is going on out there at the kroghers at sparkleberry lane? >> reporter: our weather fest goes on till 8:00 p.m., kroger, two notch road and sparkleberry lane. one of the people wanted to bring in and talk to, bruce jones of midland radio corporation. you are the reason we are having this because of the weather alert radios. >> crazy that we have severe weather on the day we are here. we planned this six weeks ago. >> not the severe weather. the fest. it has been a good response

we sold out of the desktop radio. kroger has plenty of these, $29.99 at this store. we want to thank news 19 for your support of the noaa weather radio. official voice of the national weather service. >> that's right. they were going to be out here today but they have been busy at the national weather service because of the potential of severe weather today. these right here, they sold out but they are still available in the midland. >> academy sports and walgreen's stores carry the weather radio as well. buy one, have it programmed. it helps you recharge your cell phone. >> yeah. they are amazing. they have advanced so far from my first weather alert radio. >> noaa weather radio has been

the -- operational for 50 years. . [ talking at the same time ] >> thank you very much. now back to you. >> thank hillary clinton: wall street should never be allowed to wreck main street again. americans haven't had a raise in 15 years. but i want to go further. whether it's racism holding people back... big financial interests, drug companies, insurance companies, big oil companies... the indifference, the negligence. that's what i want to take on. to root out all of these barriers... and together we will make progress. i'm hillary clinton,

all right. time to give another honor out. >> yep. back on the hard wood. wednesday. outstanding student athlete. this senior played a role in the basketball team ending a long, dry spell. >> reporter: there the first time ionization. >> reporter: for the first time in 7 seasons they won a playoff game and they can look back with pride. one of the seniors, kenny simmons. >> a good player. hard worker. a leader.

>> i want this to be the best season i had. >> hard working kid. does all the small things on rebounds. makes sure all the other guys are in place to run plays. they happened they jobs. they jobs. grades. those are the things we look for. >> reporter: he is get nothingtrust nothingtrust -- interest from universities. which ever program lands him will get somebody that takes care of business on and off the court. >> i try to be a young man. >> they see guys like kenny and they think, you know, you can make good grades, have a 3.5 and be a great athlete. i am proud of him, proud of him being a role model.

most popular players at the high school. he has a burning desire to succeed. kenny simsons a news 19 player of the week. haight great thing. -- >> it is a great thing. i am proud. keep doing good things. >> all right. college football news. steve spurrier, jr. may be returning to florida. ,he will work at florida at a offensive quality control assistant. he was on the support staff for the gaters in the 1990s. he also coached at arizona, oklahoma and with the washington redskins. >> south carolina state kicks off practice march 14, the former usc linebackers coach will join the staff at south carolina state. they were trying to get

have done just that. it was confirmed today. this will be his first stent as a coordinator. he had stops at jacksonville state and arkansas. star power on the football staff in orangeburg. >> nice addition to the team.

when we come here is what is coming up tonight, 8:00 p.m.

black >> the reality show southern charm will be returning for a third season. including thomas ravenel. he and his ex-girlfriend will be a big part of the season as they try to figure out how to co-parent. it returns april 4. >> haven't seen one minute of it. not one minute. >> you haven't missed a thing. [ laughter ] >> i didn't say it.

we are back at 7:00 p.m. there are those who say we cannot defeat a corrupt political system and fix a rigged economy. but i believe we need to lift our vision above the obstacles in place and look to the american horizon. to a nation where every child can not only dream of going to college, but attend one. where quality healthcare will be a birthright of every citizen. where a good job is not a wish, but a reality. where women receive equal pay and a living wage is paid to all. an america where after a lifetime of labor, there is time for rest and grandchildren.

but no longer carries so much of that burden alone. i know we can create that america if we listen to our conscience and our hearts and not to the pundits and the naysayers. i'm bernie sanders. i approve this message,

& >> pelley: tornadoes bring death and destruction to the east after a string of deadly twisters in the deep south. >> i saw something coming at my face, and i said, oh, my god, i'm going to die. >> pelley: also tonight, trump with the victory of the night and the quote of the week. >> we won with poorly educated. i love the poorly educated. >> pelley: a jury awards millions for a cancer death linked to talcum powder. and driving down racial barriers. >> for me as an african american from a diversity standpoint, i'm definitely carrying on that legacy. >> this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: this could be a dangerous night in the east. a tornado is blamed for at least three deaths in virginia today. twisters were also reported in north carolina and florida.