sonja gutierrez joins us live. we learn the name of the homicide suspect who died at >>> 42-year-old damon james wanted for murder his ex- girlfriend in houston, texas back in october 2014. the corner said it's looking inflicted gunshot wound to the head with a houston task force received a tip that james is in columbia for the notified the task force a couple of weeks ago in yesterday. they moved up. investigators say james fired first and officers returned fire. during that exchange is what james shot himself inside the vehicle. it james killed his ex- girlfriend more than a year ago and now says they are happy to finally get some closure. >> i am happy it's over. justice was not served the way we wanted it to be withheld facing what he did to her. it's overpaid living without my mother watching the heart from our family. our family will never be the same again. >>reporter: the family said they will visit her grave suit and we don't know why he back to you. >>> a man has been convicted of scam a federal agents ou

sonja gutierrez spent the day they're talking to residents. what did you find out? >> reporter: the roads look a lot like dirt track with lots of bumps. it's in an area where most of the residents are seniors were disabled. there's about 20 trailer homes all along a dirt road that looks like this. residents tell me that they have called the county multiple times but feel ignored since they have only been out there once. since the floods resident randy tells me his truck made it out to his home just twice that had to park in a grassy area by the main road and walk home because the cars can't make it. tonight we have answers from the county they are expecting to nail down a contractor within the next couple of weeks but they are afraid those roads won't hold. >> say if somebody was to have a heart attack, they would pass get there. receive permanent repair once we have our private contractors on the ground which we hope to do within the next couple of weeks.>> reporter: just to give you an idea of the residence i met one recently had a heart from an accident, and i me

. >> news 19 sonja gutierrez looked into the -- it will have on our roads, what they plan to do about it in case we get frozen stuff on the road. >>reporter:ladies, that is right, there are several tons of salt that is ready to be spread on our roads if need be. sc-dot has been preparing for this all day today. the south carolina dot loaded up with salt and getting ready for the evening storm. they are looking specifically at bridges, although we are not expecting much rain or snow accumulation. the potholes might also be getting worse tonight. >> bridges will tend to freeze a lot quicker with the air, traveling underneath it causing we do not anticipate too much roadways. there may be some places in rural areas that will get colder, as we are notified and we become aware of those we will certainly come up there and address those. >>reporter: now, the sc-dot is empty right now because they have 40 trucks out on scene, ready to respond to any area they may need to. ladies back to you. >> we appreciate that. >>> we here in south carolina are on deck to help out our neighbors during the