into aiken county northeast at 35 miles an hour. the areas south of interstate 20 will see rain through a good part of the evening hours. as far as rain until 5:00 we received .72-inch of rain at the airporor for the month over 6 inches of rain at the airport. right now we have light rain falling. temperature 68 degrees. winds west, southwest at 3 miles an hour. for the remainder of tonight chance of rain. the thunderstorms are winding down. 64 for a low. tomorrow we'll see showers during the day. it will be tapers off by afternoon. 69 for a high tomorrow, tomorrow night dropping down to 53. i'll have the rest of the >> rain is everywhere in the midlands, now folks in newberry county are watching flooding problems. evacuations and road closures, time in the county where caution is the key word. >> once again heavy rainfall pours on newberry county, jack brooks has seen the neighborhood flood. >> it's going to be bad. i'm going to make sure water doesn't get in the basement. >> three people were evacuated because of the high water le

northeast at 35 miles per hour. and towards the end of the loop we have a few showers in aiken county and they're heading for orangeburg county and calhoun county. and we've seen rain in columbia. at the airport, 24/100ths. 17/100ths in the city. that brings the monthly total to 4.5 inches in the city. today's rain pushed us up to 62.61 inches of rain, the 5th wettest year on record for columbia. currently, we have cloudy skies, and our temperature is still up there. 73degrees and it's humid and winds out of the southwest at 6 miles per hour. tonight we'll see a few showers more likely towards daybreak. 65degrees. and tomorrow we'll continue to see rain off and on with a high of 75 and the rain is going to continue into tomorrow evening with a low of 64 degrees. there's dry weather headed our way. we'll talk about that a little later. >>> the elgin light christmas show has been bringing holiday cheer to many in the midlands for 18 years. this year, the creator has been 40,000 lights because of his own battle with cancer. he tells news 19 his treatment is not going well but that's not stopped him. and so far they've rai

northeast from the southwhwt to northeast, what we call entrtrnment, or contininng rain showers over the same areas. the heaviest is moving far to the far eastern aiken county into western orangeburg county. continuing rain in richland county, especially lower richland county, and moving to kershaw, sumter and lee counties. temperatures starting off very warm. almost 35 degrees warmer than where we should be. 72 in st. matthews. 70 camden. 70 aiken. 72 lexington. columbia now at 71 degrees. rain is still falling. winds out of the south at 10 miles per hour. we're expecting the rain to continue this morning, but possibly start breaking up into the afternoon. could be looking at a record high of 79. it will be windy. 65 degrees tonight. continuing light rain showers and other than fog tomorrow morning, we'll have rain continuing with a high of 74 degrees. now as we look at the traffic conditions and beat the traffic, i-20 eastbound at mile marker 66, you can see a lot of rain has continued to fall. traffic now is slow. but it has been picking up. give yourself extra time. little bit of a delay heading north towards knox abbott on 321. shaw air force base to t