charleston just went through the whole process a few years ago to add 5 feet to the harbor's depth. why spend all the time and money all over again? >> we believe the process can be done faster. that's the operative message. we need to move as long as fast as we can or the region will suffer. >> the other problem is funding. there was no money in the president's 2012 budget to study the port's deepening, so lindsey graham cut a deal to put more money in the omnibus spending bill. >> we're a red state in south carolina. it's no accident we weren't in obama's budget. >> south carolina officials complain that the administration has dropped the ball on improving america's export capacity, particularly with the renaissance in manufacturing here. the panama canal expansion will be completed in two years, yet we still don't have a national strategy for how to take advantage of it. in atlanta, john roberts, fox news. >> as businesses and consumers depend more and more on computers to manage their finances, hackers are taking advantage of the dependence to further their causes. here's one ex

charleston cuts the lead to three. andrew lawrence for the deep three.eston went up 37-33, in the half. chris smith to russ smith for the three. louisville cut the lead to two. later on, matt sundberg for three. cougars back up by five. they go back and forth. finally, payton siva, finds kuric in the lane. louisville takes the lead, 60-59. a couple of plays later, siva to chris smith. drain it, cardinals. they win 69-62. >>> kevin durant and the thunder taking on dirk nowitzki and the mavs. nba, preseason action. first quarter we go. nowitzki, the post. a little fadeaway shot right there. remember seeing that in the nba finals. finally an nba champion. mavericks tie it up at 7-7. later in the first, lamar odom. mavs take the lead to four. second quarter we go, james harden, putting it in reverse for the thunder. third quarter we go. okc up by eight. russell westbrook, nifty with the left hand. thunder up by ten. later on, nowitzki, leading the break. and kevin durant with the steal to westbrook. now, to kendrick perkins. he jams it home. thunder win, 97-

the charleston's mayor told me the longer this takes, the more the ships continue to bypass charlestonthe southeast is going to be. >> what happens if the harbor isn't deepened is that the economy in this part of our country really suffers and our nation suffers because charleston is the most cost effective harbor to deepen. >> this needs to be stream lined and there needs to be a national strategy for deepening harbors for the size of ships being built. >> the army corps of engineers would actually do the work has its hands tide by regulation it has to study all the environmental impacts of port deepening and have it all peer reviewed. ed chamberland who heads up the local district told me he hopes to shave a little bit of time off of that time line. he says it's imperative to get this right. >> it makes absolute sense that we need to move as quickly as we can and be as thorough as we can with this process. we want to get it right the first time. if we don't get the feasibility study right we may never get the construction. >> the other issue is money to do the feasibility studies. pr

earlier this year a local paper, the "charleston post and courier," used the state foia law in south carolina to ask that state's governor nikki hailey for some documents. governor hailey is a republican, she's serving her first term in south carolina. and the "charleston post and courier" asked the governor for records, records about how south carolina was going to implement the federal health reform law. governor haley's office responded to the newspaper with stuff that the "post and courier" describes as irrelevant. they gave them some press releases and public schedules but really not much. the charleston paper, though, also made the same request for the same type of documents from another agency in south carolina's government. they also asked a different agency. and that office did hand over a lot of information. they in fact handed over information that governor haley had withheld. and that is how we know something that governor haley wishes we didn't know. now that we know what it is that that other agency was willing to give up that the governor's office wasn't, we can see wh

. >>> george mason at the college of charleston, and the seniors on fire, 35 points, 14 rebounds, george mason cruises over charleston, 84-76. >>> interesting finish to the armed forces bowl, be why-byu trailed tossup, he fakes like he's going to spike it, and and talk instead tax with cody hoffman. byu falls. >>> university of virginia head football coach mike london got a contract extension through 2016 and will receive a salary increase $2.1 million preparing to cavs for their first bowl game since 2007, facing all burned tomorrow in the aaa ball. >> you may doug hill happy talking about towson. >> he was beaming. >>> the top trending stories on wjla.com -- facebook's feature timeline, and some argue that it unpacks privacy, plus the top stories of 2011, and are campbell's top movies of the past year. >>> a set of twin polar bears are about to make their public debut just in time for the new year. they will meet visitors for the first time at the aquarium home in northeast china. they were born two months ago. they have been growing well, and it will soon be able to walk on the rhone.

"the charleston post and courier" asked for records. governor hallie's office responded to the newspaper with stuff that the post and courier describes as irrelevant. they gave them some press releases, and some public schedules, but really not much. the charleston paper, though, also made the same request for the tame type of documents from another agency in south carolina's government. they also asked a different agency and that office did hand over a lot of information. they handed over information that governor hallie had withheld. that is how we know something that governor hallie wishes we didn't know. now that we know what it is that that other agency was willing to give up that the governor's office wasn't, we can see why her office was probably hoping that newspaper would never know this thing existed. this commission to convene the stakeholders and build trust and consensus. that was how nikki haley presented their work to the public. but thanks to the tenacious bulldog reporting of the "charleston post and courier" and thanks

. >>> paul hewitt and george a match on the road facing college in charleston. the dropped pass to ryan pearson, an easy layup plus the foul. patriots led by 8 at the break. 2nd half mason up by 2, pearson double teams, spins, a wild shot somehow goes in, just his game, pierson a career high 35 points and beat the college of charleston 84-76. elsewhere 23rd ranked virginia hosting, evans slimmed the defense here to a wide open sammy zaginski. 24-16 at the half. 2nd half, the cavs running to harris, he 17. >>> don't go way. we've got more sports news coming up like some bright spots in an otherwise lackluster season for the redskins. don't run away. we're talking the run game after the break. it's the perfect time to find great deals on the 4g lte devices you love. like the droid bionic by motorola for $199.99. or the pantech breakout for $49.99. our lowest price ever. get the technology you love, on the network you deserve. and for a limited time, get twice the data for the same low price. verizon. >>> we can't stop talking about the roger mason flub, but we are

the southeast, that's where we are watching a little rain, atlanta, charleston, savannah, jacksonville shower in orlando, too. miami is one of the warmer spots in the country at 81 today. much warmer than many other areas. if you're doing any traveling over the next two or three days, the stormy weather, if we have airport problems, maybe even in phoenix, l.a., this is where the storm system is currently. it's going to sit here and linger. we'll see mountain snow. eventually that storm will head out into the plains. there's really no cold air to work with so we'll just watch rain moving into areas like kansas city and st. louis as we go throughout tuesday and also wednesday. no snowstorms this week. >> but we want snow for christmas. >> a lot of kids do, yeah. >> bring the snow, bill karins. >> shreds are collecting dust. >> so christmas. make note of that. >>> this weekend everyone lost at the box office. plus alec baldwin apologizes to himself. we'll explain. your first look at entertainment is straight ahead. you're watching "first look" on nbc. ♪ it's nice to see you ♪ in my bed ♪

brian hicks, a columnist for "the charleston south carolina post and courier." mr. for joining us tonight. >> it's good to see you, rachel. >> let me ask you first if i got anything wrong in the description of what's going on in south carolina politics. you watch it from a much closer vantage point. >> it's a great day in south carolina if you're a political columnist. but i don't -- >> let me just ask you, if as a political columnist if you could tell me if this is sort of unique in south carolina politics right now or if it is always this great. >> well, every year it's abundantly clearer that these are the descendants of the people who started the civil war, but they're really raising the bar this year. it's, the lunacy is off the charts. >> when mitt romney announced his endorsement by south carolina's governor, nikki haley, the first thing that made me think was, oh, i bet newt gingrich is annoyed by that. newt gingrich described south carolina as his must-win state. the second thing i wondered is whether or not an endorsement by governor haley goes very far wi

the south, 50 hatteras. 60 charleston. that's where the air is coming up, surging in our direction.warm air and energy, see convergence as we have a couple of streamers out of the gulf of mexico and this pull out of the atlantic. sources of warm moist air, that's going to feeds in to the storm. there will be strong thunderstorms and a slight risk of severe weather, southeast virginia. low pressure passes to the northwest and that keeps us on the warm side. the old air is there, it gets suppressed by the storm track for us. closer to home, all the cold air and snow across the parts of the ohio valley. for us we get in on the rain action, the rain spills in, through the afternoon and heavy now. rumbles of thunder. this cuts off overnight. we may get clearing before midnight and clouds roll in by day break. snow showers in to the mountains and little disturbances roll through new year's day. the forecast winds here, southerly push, really going to be this strong wind, we have a coastal flood advisory in the chesapeake. 30, 40 miles per hour winds, shifting to the west. 49 today. heavy

george mason plays the college of charleston tonight, and virginia to stop. am i i'm drinkin' dunkin' k-cup packs. it's my coffee when i want it. you press a button you have great dunkin' coffee. i got my coffee for the morning, i got my dunkin' k-cup packs for the rest of the day. only available at dunkin' donuts restaurants. america runs on dunkin' coffee. >>> a bit of a warm new year on the way. >> new year's eve and new year's day will be in the 50's, and tomorrow night, partly cloudy, mild and dry with temperatures falling to the mid-40's to about 40 or so when the midnight hour strikes. >> wow. great. cold champagne on a warm evening. >> that will work. >> that works for me. >>

you can see this back into the west and we can see some milder air into charlotte and into charlestonat the future trend, we're seeing the fact we'll see a few more clouds. we she storm trying to move in from the south. it should be a few more clouds as we go into tomorrow. the cold front makes its way saturday. we'll be left with very chilly temperatures. tonight 29 degrees. we will become calm in terms of the wind. by tomorrow the temperature will be 49, seasonably cold. then tomorrow night the temperature will befá around 31, partly cloudyÑi and here's aqchk of theÑiÑi forecast. as the breezes will continue as we go to saturday, with the temperature around 43, the ravens game willçó be a chilly one. we will go up from there. kelly? >> great football weather. thanks a lot. >>> in tonight's democracy 2012, mitt romney is facing attacks from democrats as the recent polling suggests the path is not as easy as it once seemed. troy, these are things we have heard before and probably will hear again. >> reporter: another thing you heard is mitt romney being described as a flip-flopper. th

if carl stopb can'if charleston can't accept them until a decade later it will due damage to the economy. it is enormous in the state of south carolina, direct or or in directly supporting one in five jobs. the port of charleston is at risk of falling behind. >> if the port loses the competitive edge and loses its ability to accept shipping as shipping is going to change then our whole economy comes to a standstill. >> reporter: it is racing to deep even its harbor to prepare for the container ships. the army core of information told them if it even gots the green light the project won't be finished until 2024. >> we said we need to do it faster. >> reporter: before one bucket of mud is dredged the army core has to study all the implications, and that process could take eight years. >> we need to move as quickly as we can and be as thorough as we can because we want to get it first the right time. >> reporter: charleston just went through the whole process a few years ago to add five feet to the harbor's depth. >> we think it can be done faster and we need to move along as we can or the

back to the west, charleston, west virginia, down to roanoke. already a few pockets of moderate rain. and pretty heavy rain moving through eastern georgia right now. could be flight delays around atlanta, georgia, today. chicago, it's snow now east of the area around ft. wayne, indiana, and that's where the colder air is wrapping into the system. here's a look at the future weather by noontime, 1:00. these areas of yellow, there will be moderate and heavy rain. winchester, gaithersburg, d.c., manassas, culpeper, and virginia too. quite a few neighborhoods. and that continues until we get to 5:00 or 6:00 when the rain starts moving out. again, a very fast moving system for us, that area of low pressure and the cold front coming through. the snow will continue out west. the high spots in western maryland, west virginia, maybe one to three inches in a lot of locations there until we get to early wednesday morning, that snow out west. for us, no snow at all. it's all rain for us. in fact, again, itted can be heavy at times. 45 to 52 degrees. wind ou

if you're watching us on wsaz news channel 3 in charleston, west virginia, see christmas trees designed by local artists, model railroads and original artwork at illumination holiday of light at the clay center. that's your early event of the day. >>> thanks so much. here's an early look at this morning headlines in entertainment. megan fox has been grinding her teeth and has nothing to do with michael bay, the "transformers" director who fired her. she say she's wearing a sports mouth guard because her tattoo removal session to laser off marilyn monroe are incredibly painful. apparently she's clenching her jaw so hard she's endangering her teeth. >>> youtuu2 was the top grossinr taking in $156 million. country princess taylor swift tour was a distant second with $97 million. katy perry photographed in hawaii without russell brand and her wedding ring is fueling rumors of some trouble. "us weekly" quotes a source saying a mega fight, not just a fight, a mega fight, between the two led the two to spend holidays apart with brand heading to england. >>> e news reports bradley cooper is inv

what does that off-season it means we have to modernize the port of charleston. [applause] and it also means part of that process that we have to modernize the port a little bit north in georgetown. people have known this for years. our red tape -- and this requires a fundamental reform of the army corps of engineers, which is why i've worked with the people at strong america now who want to apply the strong manufacturing to government that we apply in our manufacturing companies. it takes longer tooed to plan the modernization to have port of charleston than it's going to take to modernize the pan ma canada. that is amount of bureaucracy that's ground down. we taught the entire second world war from 1941 to victory over japan in august of 1945. it is three years and eight months in 44 months, we defeat nazi germany, fascist italy and imperial japan. it recently took 23 years to add a fourth runway to the -- airport. this is humanly created in competence. i'm running for president to cut through the red tape to get a lean, effective corps of engineers, second to

but down towards the west of us, charleston starting to see some shower activity. most of this is on the lighter side. all of this coming from that monster storm that was outs to the west. blizzard conditions. this storm was super strong. but now it is really weakening and just kind of going away. it is going to continue to make its way our way. you can still see bringing up moisture from the south. that southern moisture will make its way in here during the night tonight into the day tomorrow. expect shower activity tomorrow. do not expect a washout. here is the frontal boundary across the area. it moves back to the north as a warm front overnight into the day tomorrow. and very mild air ahead of this and maybe rather windy conditions, upwards of 20 to 25 miles per hour winds during the day tomorrow. that will help to produce temperatures into the low to mid 60s. we will see shower activity. maybe even rumble of thunder two. once again, this is not going to be a big deal. thursday we will start off dry. look at the rain starting to come in around 5:00 in the after

it's 65 in hatteras and charleston. 62 manufacturing yesterday's high currently the temperature in charlottent golry. get the idea this is warm -- montgomery. you get the idea this is warm stuff. freezing in chicago is warm but that's when you step back into wentry type air. you will notice a couple streamers and old boundaries off the coast and we have the resurgeent moisture out of east texas that's great for them. southern arkansas getting in on the heavy rain and there's going to be storms erupting out ahead of this thing. there's the old front off the coast. but it stalls to the south and that will be the track at least initially for the storm. once this gets cranking and it's going to pass again to the northwest. we will be on the warm side and it pulls in warm air. and yes, we will have a lot of rain. cold air is to found back there. you have to go west young man and find the stuff back across the northern plains great lakes and colorado gets the fun and we will get in on cold air behind this storm. we will resurge the moisture. heavy stuff comes in this evening. heavy downpours and p

look at the heavy rain approaching charleston east of west virginia.ehind that is the snow where the cold air is wrapping into the system. ft. wayne, indiana, champagne, illinois. chicago at this time may miss most of the snow. moving through the area today starting around 9:00 a.m. some showers. the yellow, that's moderate rain and even heavy rain. that's going to hit us in the short period of time between noon and about 6:00. we're going to get a lot of it. that means low visibility on area roads. the snow continues out west. winter weather advisories, oakland, maryland, cumberland, maryland, right down the spine of the mountains in west virginia. one to three inches of snow there. rain again heavy at times and nasty afternoon. the morning, again, not so bad. we get up to around 50 today. for tomorrow 45. we're windy but sunny for the remainder of the week. friday, we could hit 56 degrees. i'm loving the weekend around 50 degrees with just a few scattered clouds. so dry conditions as we bring in 2012. carol, what's going on on area roads right now? >

. >>> the patriots visiting charleston. patriots in transition. leaving it for pearson gets the bucket and one. mason up 46-38 at the break. cougars on the inbounds pearson finishes with the dunk. but he wasn't done. george mason up by two. check this out. doesn't matter throws up the wild shot and it goes. the senior finishes with 35 points and 14 rebounds. george mason wins. the patriots are 9-4. >>> virginia defeats towson 57-50. the cavaliers won ten in a row and the tigers lost 32 straight. towson is hurting big time. >> but they only lost by 7 to virginia. >> they almost upset them. it's the perfect time to find great deals on the 4g lte devices you love. like the droid bionic by motorola for $199.99. or the pantech breakout for $49.99. our lowest price ever. get the technology you love, on the network you deserve. and for a limited time, get twice the data for the same low price. verizon. >>> face night stuff. nasa announced that a volcanic eruption caused a new island to form in the red sea. it is to the west of yemen's coast. fishing boat

look into the interior though back into pittsburgh and also charleston, almost 60 degrees now.nce that cold front moves through we're definitely going to be feeling the cooler weather. so right now mild ahead of the cold front, behind it the cooler air will move in. the cold front will traverse the area, as we go through the rest of today and so will this rain as we go into the afternoon. you see how brilliant it is or how together it is, it's going to be more scattered as we go more into the afternoon. so everybody is not going to get wet. take the rain gear in case because you may be one of the ones that do get wet. look at future trend. i'm going to put this in motion and you can see what i'm talking about. how it breaks up a littlele as it goes into the 3:00, 4:00 time frame. that doesn't mean your commute home is not going to be a wet one. a drop of rain could bring to it a halt. so definitely take it easy out there on the roadways. as you look back though as we go into saturday, blue is indication of snow showers in the higher elevations or if your travels take you to nor

after a 17-year run as the favorite city, a san francisco is no. 2 to charleston, south carolina. the expansion will attract media and -- attract media and help us retain our edge with other great cultural destinations. we expect it will garner much media and coverage for san francisco. this will be great news for our hotels and other cultural institutions, restaurants, and the tax base. thank you for supporting the expansion. supervisor mar: thank you. next speaker? >> ♪ moma, how i love yo, my dear old moma ♪ ♪ captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- ♪ iw ould give the world to see you again ♪ ♪ moma, how i love you ♪ ♪ the districts north, east, west, and south will see you some more is decline ♪ when you relocate ♪ ♪ you are the moma i always dreamed of musicaf ♪ ♪ you moved and that's the last i've seen aof my art heart ♪ ♪ it is the way you look like he smite are located there. ♪ you are the art work right brand of musical and -- artwork i have dreamed of ♪ supervisor mar: thank you. is there anyone else from the public who would like to speak? plea

out to the west, you'll notice the rain already in southern ohio and cincinnati, charleston, west virginia. this is moving toward us as we get probably toward the early part of the evening. temps, 68. 68 in norfolk on the first day of winter. 40s though in ohio and much of western pennsylvania. loaningly, we're up to 59 in vienna. 58 in lovettsville. baden at 60. 509 already in washington -- 59 already at reagan national airport. high, thin clouds. still a decent amount of sunshine. winds have been calm. we expect light winds all day. the dew point is holding in the low 40s. the moisture, there is a lot of it down in the carolinas and southeastern virginia. that's going to be surging northward thanks to this storm. a lot of snow in the central and southern rockies but the severe weather going on this afternoon across areas of the deep south. you see the heavy rains, louisiana, mississippi, alabama, that's tonight's rain for us but this afternoon, this red box is a tornado watch box until 5:00 local time. severe weather coming through new orleans headed toward mississippi, gulf coast and th

irish people, germans, lithuanians joined in black people had moved in charleston and washington and connecticut. it was soldiers and sailors. and in the south in places like knoxville, tennessee and other places. it was mostly white mobs that include a run from a judge, sitting judge down to the local farmer. in austin, texas, the timeline theatre at the naacp visited in the summer and was beaten by a white mob that included a sitting judge and then the governor the next day absolutely defended and said these troublemakers shouldn't even show up in this town. so, briefly onto talk about two kinds of racism that were permeating american society at the time. one is the one we all know, the long-standing view from the time people were brought over as slaves, you know, black people are lazy and simultaneously threatening. this confused view that is still around today, that is standard bigotry. there's also this new kind of racism that had evolved, which is based loosely on darwin, this idea that the world was divided to ethnic groups in these races are competing in that white people dom

we see 58, 57 to charleston. and these temperatures are just going to get higher from there.as we check out what we have for the rest of today. the showers are definitely going to be moving in throughout the day with the temperature coming in around 57 degrees. as you head out and about this morning take the rain gear, if you can't get back home to grab the rain gear. >>> angela has traffic. good morning. >> good morning. this thursday morning, we've been talking all morning about the serious accident on route 2 solomons island road at polling house road. we're now getting reports that pole and wires are down across the roadway. a couple of alternates you may want to try. harwood road orroute 255 to get you around this incident. in the meantime, we're still looking pretty good making the drive on u.s. 29, no problems to report here at maryland 108. also, a live look at u.s. 50 at the bay bridge. no problems on 50 coming from the bay bridge all the way up to i-97. and, if you are making the drive on the beltway we're looking pretty good here at greenspring avenue. back to you.

charleston close to 60 as well as pittsburgh. that milder air ahead of that cold front back towards the west there, cooler air on the back side of that, that is going to be pushing into our area as we go into the weekend. in the meantime, future trend picking up on that line of showers back twawdz the west. it starts to become a little more scattered in here as we go into the afternoon. so not a washout by any means but just take the rain gear as you head out. you're not sure if you're going to be one of the ones that get wet. so your today forecast looks like this -- 57 degrees, mostly cloudy, again, very mild. with those afternoon and evening showers possible. temperature by tonight coming in around 42 degrees. it will be cool, not cold and then by tomorrow, 49 degrees, mostly cloudy, the big story for tomorrow is the fact that it's going to be a little windy. your 7-day forecast, well, things are going to get colder as we go into saturday and sunday and then by next tuesday that will be another chance for showers in the foreca

but 45 in charleston and a sign of the warmup. we expect to have the clouds beginning to increase and we have been counting for that. we are overcast and hitting a good rain. low is 52 on this purple friday. last one of 2011. it's 5:40 on the clock. now the roads with angela. >> reporter: all right. on the roads as you mentioned, getting reports of icy conditions to be aware of that traveling this morning. especially in the westminster area on the low lying roads in the back roads use extra caution and reduce speed out there this morning. now another live look at traffic flow on i-95. we are looking pretty good here in great shape northbound on 95 from 175 up to the beltway. and here's what you will find on i-# 3 between -- 38 between middletown and belfast a calm and easy drive for you this morning. charley, back to you. >>> a new year brings new laws. coming up a run-down of the key laws going into effect around the nation and they start on january 1st. >>> and a 4th grader in anne arundel county is accused of creating a kill li

space walk was this is space walk and morse or was it like a route around the spaceship goes in charleston which can tell for space work while when you went out and spent we'll work on something interesting to see if it is somewhat nation or for. mars source face on the sort of his mercy but we use. or for us or mounts. we need to use and. they were designed for the moon landing and saw him on landing and were using them was quite cool. for new instruments. prepared in special special forty six ok now one of the one of the main subjects that was discussed when you were going to five hundred years was women i think got to be any women where well actually is first i know women were excluded from taking part in the crew in order to i quote to avoid the possibility of sexual tension or competition. well looking back was this a justified decision where they right now you would have preferred if you had a couple of years of i don't know so far so far as far as i know there were some there were some candidates along with me in this election so i don't know the reason why be excluded them are howe

. >> charleston i read your column. you said he was not channeling teddy roosevelt as much as hugo chavez. >> yes, he talked about how we got here. he gave a nice historical rundown accepted that it left out a critical three years -- his presidency. it is as if it did not exist. like we jump from 2008 to today. if his speech was a tense -- intended to say that everything that happened the past three years had nothing to do with my administration or policies -- economic stagnation, high unemployment -- it is the result of the malice of the rich. he talked about that at length. a classic example of how little it takes to sturdy erogenous zones of liberals. you give them a speech with social justice, a little bit of class warfare, you wrap up in the patina of intellectualism. essentially, it is a speech that exonerate anything he has done an obviously not done. saying all of our problems today are the result of the plutocrats. that is why he is more like hugo chavez then teddy roosevelt in this speech. >> sterling v erogen

showers toward pittsburgh and charleston, west virginia. watch what happens as we head toward the lunch hour. showers will be pretty much on top of the metro, especially north of town trying to pass through in the afternoon. the front still to the west. that doesn't come through until thursday night. by friday, a cooler air mass starts to settle in. that next wave for friday night looks like it will slide south of us. we'll get the chillier air as we head into saturday and sunday. so, the forecast breaks down like this. today, around 50. mostly cloudy. i guess there is a slight chance of seeing a shower west to north later on. a better chance of showers tomorrow. tonight, we're in the 30s to around 40. tomorrow, upper 50s with those showers especially middle of the day into the afternoon. friday, we're cooling down to only near 50 with partly sunny skies and your weekend, a chilly one with mid-40s saturday and sunday. near 50 monday and another system late monday into tuesday could bring more wet weather to the region. it is 4:47. monika is

it turns out the south carolina port of charleston exexpansion won't be finished until 2024, ten yearseople are dependent on the ports and so are the extra large ships expelgted to drop anchor therexpected to tropical anchor there in a few years. >> reporter: 2014 is the new date for the panama canal to open. because of federal regulations it may not be until a decade after that that charleston's port is ready to handle the ships on a regular basis. it means if they can't get it done sooner, it may do more harm to south carolina's struggling economy. >> reporter: this directly or in directly supports one of five jobs, but the port of charles son is at risk of falling behind. >> if the port loses its competitive edge and loses its ability to accept shipping as shipping is going to change, our whole economy comes to a standstill. >> reporter: charleston is rushing to deep even it's harbor. state officials were shocked when the army corps of engineers that would do the work told them, if it even got the green light the project won't be finished until 2024. >> we need to do it faster. >> r