tillman was a violent racist. this is the namesake of benjamin tillman, the former governor, u.s. senator, one of clemson's founders, a trustee there. he was also a self-proclaimed white supremacist in the 1800s, violently called for the death of african-americans. there is a little bit of a troubled past and that's where the controversy comes in, especially among students and factity. this was a mar thatch i covered back in september of last year. they were shouting reclaim old main that used to be what tillman hall was called before it was renamed in the 1940s. many students and faculty after the charleston shooting, in fact, coming forward and saying we should rename tillman hall. >> let's talk about the timing because you have obviously now with the football game coming up, and so was this strategic? are the police thinking that the timing of this vandalism was strategic? they're not saying at this point. that would make sense, of course, being on the national platform, but it is really too soon to speculate.

tillman. tillman was an avowed white supremacist, which has stirred up a lot of debate on the campus. the building was also vandalized in july. the same week the confederate flag was removed from the statehouse grounds. >> i suppose it's unfortunate that someone felt the need to take that particular course of action. aly: a university spokesperson says they hope this crime doesn't take away from efforts history. right now, the university is looking to charge the person responsible. again, you see the signs that were put up to cover the graffitti. signs supporting the football team as they head national championship game. happening this morning just down the way at the westzone on centinnial boulevard, the athletics department invites you to help send off the players to arizona. the gathering starts at 11:45 and the buses will be loaded about 12:30 en route to the national title. clemson. geoff: thank you. a wyff news 4 update in simpsonville, more cases of vandalism are being reported. the gre

but down below, these messages, "stop honoring tillman" and "rename tillman hall," are now spray-painted on the building. expressing their opinions this way? >> i don't think it's the right way, but they're getting a lot of attention over it. corey: campus police covered the graffiti near the building's entrance with this sign thursday morning. >> disappointed, very much so. corey: the university police chief says a staff member reported the damage on the way to work. >> i think it is unfortunate that student voices can't be organized in a more productive way. corey: students rallied last year on both sides of the argument, over whether to change the name of the building. ben tillman was a known white supremacist, and that has stirred up emotions on campus. here's a look at graffiti that was painted on the building in july, the same week the confederate flag was removed from the state house grounds. >> i guess i understand the frustration behind the name, and who the guy was, but i don't think that's the way to go about it. corey: a university spokesperson said in part, quote, "we unders

rename tillman hall."maintenance workers have since covered up the graffiti while they work 3 3 3 3 there's a better way to get your message out than defacing state property it is a crime and will be handled as such 3 3 3 i dont think that was necessary i think there are better ways to show that agree with something someone has to clean that up and thats kind of a burdan on the school to do that so i think there are better ways to solve problume than that that 3 initially, clemson's board of trustees said the name would not be changed...but the school eventually launched a task force to look at the university's history and consider an official name change of tillman and other buildings on campus.that task force has yet to come to a decision on what comes next. next.officials say the vandalism happened sometime overnight or early this morning.it remains under investigation. 3 three people are now in custody in anderson county after a chase that ended in a crash! crash!the sheriff's office says the chase beg

these messages, "stop honoring tillman" and "rename tillman hall," were spotted by a staff member thursday morning. this building was also vandalized in july, the same week the confederate flag was removed from the statehouse grounds. ben tillman was a known white supremacist, and that has stirred up a lot of debate on campus. a student who helped organized rallies in support of changing the name says vandalizing the building wasn't the right way to spread a message. >> i suppose it's unfortunate that someone felt the need to take that particular course of action,

rename tillman hall."maintenance are working to remove it. 3 critics of the president's gun control policies are hoping their arguments are being heard. heard.the president spoke at a town hall thursday at george mason university that was moderated by cnn's anderson cooper.he promoted the executive actions he made on tuesday affecting background checks.analysts say they were surprised by the respect both sides had for each other. here's some of what the president had to say. 3 3 3 "if we could combine gun safety with sensible background checks and some other checks, we're not going to eliminate gun violence but we will lessen it." it."president obama says he wants to politicize mass shootings to stop them.taya kyle -- the widow of american sniper chris kyle says the president's gun laws will only hurt crime victims.the president also reassured gun owners that he's not going to take away their guns. 3 gun control is also expected to be a major talking point in president obama's final state of the union.he w

police said the two messages read, "rename tillman hall," and, "stop honoring tillman." by afternoon, crews had covered the graffiti with banners in support of the clemson tigers as they take on alabama at the national championship in arizona. if they get caught the vandals could be charged with illegal graffiti vandaluism we now know the name of a shaw air force member killed in an accident near the base. he has been identified as 31 year old staff sergeant dallas pauls. officials with the 20th fighter wing say the ollision between a vehicle and a motorcycle driven by pauls happened around 7:15 yesterday morning near the sumter gate on highway 378. plans for a memorial service on base are being 17 salt miners in new york are ground and safe tonight. they spent nearly ten hours stuck in an elevator, hundreds of feet underground. nbc's chris pollone reports on the rescue. :17 :35 slowly, but surely they emerged. two and three at a time. 17 miners who were reporting for work wednesday night in a salt mine south of syracuse, new w rk. their elevator shuddered to a stop abou

rename tillman hall."maintenance workers have covered it up and are working to remove it. 3 3 critics of the president's gun control policies are hoping heard.the president spoke at a town hall thursday at george mason university that was moderated by cnn's anderson cooper.he promoted the executive actions he made on tuesday affecting background checks.analysts say they were surprised by the respect both sides had for each other. here's part of what the president had to say. 3 3 3 "if we could combine gun safety with sensible background checks and some other checks, we're not going to eliminate gun violence but we will lessen it." it."president obama says he wants to politicize mass shootings to stop them.taya kyle -- the widow of american sniper chris kyle says the president's gun laws will only hurt crime victims.the president also reassured gun owners that he's not going to take away their guns. 3 gun control is also expected to be a major talking point in president obama's final state of the union.he w

geoff: clemson university's tillman hall once again tagged with graffiti. allyson: wyff news 4's aly mylele joins us live from clemson with more. aly: good morning. someone spray-painted tillman's name behind me, but at this point, it has been cleaned off. yesterday, clemson had covered up the graffiti with a sign that says -- thompson the bama -- but it has been cleaned off -- clemson beat bama -- but it has been cleaned off. this video shows the messages painted on the building, calling hall and stop honoring ben tillman. tillman was an avowed white supremacist, which has stirred up a lot of debate on the the building was also vandalized the same week, the confederate flag was removed from the statehouse grounds. >> i suppose it's unfortunate that someone felt the need to take that particicar course of action. aly: a university spokesperson says they hope this crime doesn't take away from efforts to tell the school's full history. right now, the university is looking to charge the person responsible. you cannot see the graffiti, but you can see clemson be

we have learn there had the graffiti reads rename tillman hall and stop honoring tillman university. the police are saying they got this call about 7:30 this the building name after the school founder, the former u.s. senator benjamin tillman who was also a white supremacist. last year the students and factity called for the bill building to be renamed. >>> more about last year's crash that killed four upstate college students. the driver was responsible for the october accident. they say james campbell was behind the wheel and speeding 40 miles over the posted limit when the car ran off of the road and crashed into a tree. that wreck killed campbell and three other usc upstate students. spartanburg county says speeding is a brig problem near where that wreck happened and that's why the county is pushing for changes from highway 9 all the way to valley falls road. >>> in fact, the county leaders are telling us they have been trying to do something to improve the safety there and they have been trying for years now. >> and if the county has been looking at this problem for so long, wh

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. >> hear more about the work of charles tillman of the field. >>> plus, a man who is blind in mountain high in the sky of a free county. >> nice and cheerful music to get us started off on a cold, dark wednesday morning. >> i think they are talking about snowflakes it will be coming down there at grandfather mountain, probably going to add a couple of inches to what you saw on the ground in some of those pictures. around here we are less likely to see a committing snow. there might be a couple of pockets late this afternoon and evening where we just the ground or coded in spots. take a look at what we've got on the life sweep of dual doppler 5000. not a lot covering the area, most of us have clouds that are at least 10 and in some places 20,000 feet off the ground. where you see radar echoes to the southwest, precipitation aloft in the radar beam is encountering those 5000 or 6000 feet off the ground. haven't seen reports of flurries on the surface. as we get into midday, we'll west and central parts of the state to see a flurry or to get to the ground. late in the day, that chance of

it happened on tillman hall. rename tillman hall and stop honoring tillman were spray painted. anyone with information on the police. >> frank: today a woman turned herself in to face animal cruelty charges after seeing herself on the news last night according to court officials. >> darcel: a disturbing case county. >> frank: ashlea, she abandoned these animals? >> ashlea: one of them is in very bad shape undergoing surgerii at an animal hospital. we should warn you some of these images are graphic. calls came in about a dog with extremely matted fur. at the home on landrum road, no one answered the door. but on the property, sergeant michael herman discovered little dog wiener. later shaved 8 pounds of fur off his little frame. >> i went to the mobile home and was tangled up in a phone cord. >> ashlea: that was snoozy. calling with bugs. a tendon was exposed. >> first thing i did was i cut the cable to take pressure off the leg. she knew we were there to help her. she was happy to see somebody. >> ashlea: t t dogs are being taken care of. but snoozy is in bad shape. that leg m

rename tillman hall."maintenance workers have covered it up and are working to remove it. 3 time for weather and traffic every 10 minutes.we'll send it back out to nicole in phoenix.. phoenix.. 3 3 mostly cloudy today with scattered showers sticking around throughout the morning. this afternoon rain will taper off as highs peak near 50 degrees area-wide. overnight lows will fall into the low 40s and upper 30s under mostly cloudy skies. wet weather will likely return on saturday. 3 chris is standing by in the traffic center: 3 we're watching: watching: 3 here's a live look at the s.c.d.o.t. cam on-- 3 clemson tiger fans are getting pumped for monday's national championship.if you're not headed west with the team.. we've got info on how you can give them a proper send off.. that's coming up next. 3 here's a live look at gsp airport -- you're watching the 3 you're watching the morning news with lauren elise, ben hill, meteorologist nicole papay, chris scott with pit crew traffic. 3 welcome back to the morning

the words rename tillman hall and stop honoring tillman were spray painted on the building to the front entrance. >>> an explosion caused a fire at a warehouse in caldwell county. this happened at a business that recycles plastic bags. the explosion happened at the rear of the building while a trailer was being unloaded. the owner tried to help put out the fire. >> i went and made sure my guys fire extinguishers. >> how many? >> 20. >> larry: well the fire marshall is still looking in to what caused that explosion. >> darcel: several students and a bus driver were involved in a crash. the bus was heading to school this morning when a driver of an suv ran a red light slamming in to the bus. the bus crashed in to trees in front of an apartment complex. the suv caught fire. witnesses say everyone can learn from what happened. >> you need to pay attention. because she never applied her brakes. she couldn't have seen the bus. >> darcel: bystanders used fire extinguishers. a number of kids and the bus driver was taken to the hospital to be checked. they're expected to be okay. >>> new at 11,

after spending five weeks in icu lydia tillman was transferred to a local rehab hospital. a long, slow recovery began. >> hi, lydia. >> i showed her a video of my kids saying hello to her because they missed their aunt lydia. >> i want you to get better soon. >> and she got to the part where my 4-year-old started to talk. and she laughed and said hi, lydia. >> hi, lydia. >> it was the first time i got to see her laugh, and i went, she's got memory, she can laugh. >> reporter: but detective gurule's murder case against travis forbes and his search for kenia monge had both stalled, nearly five months after kenia but one day he got a call from the crime lab, requesting another dna sample of travis for the fbi. dna. i walked in, laid down my recorder. he didn't want to talk to any of the detectives, in fort collins, anywhere. but he always talked to me. >> what's up, nash? why are you here? >> i am here because i have a warrant for you. >> reporter: for the next two hours, like a couple of old college chums, the two shot the breeze about philosophy and books and religion and o

rename tillman hall."maintenance workers have since covered up the graffiti while they work to remove it. 3 3 3 3 there's a better way to get your message out than defacing state property it is a crime 3 3 3 i dont think that was necessary i think there are better ways to show that agree with something someone has to clean that up and thats kind of a burdan on the school to do that so i think there are better ways to solve problume than that thatinitially, clemson's board of trustees said the name would not be changed...but the school eventually launched a task force to look at the university's history and change of tillman and other buildings on campus.that task force has yet to come to a decision on what comes next. next.officials say the vandalism happened sometime overnight or early this morning.it remains under investigation. 3 following a u-s supreme court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage...two upstate lawmakers are working to ban the practice in south carolina. carolina.representatives bill chuml

threw rocks through the front door and window running away when tillman came out of a side office. >> i didn't know if they were gonna come back and finish me

clemson police say someone vandalized tillman hall overnight. someone spray painted rename tillman hall on the side of the building. police are investigating, and the school is trying to figure out the best way to clean the old brick without damaging it. the school released a statement saying -- we understand that there are strong opinions about tillman, but vandalism of a historic property is a crime and we have to treat it as such. we hope that this incident doesn't take away from the positive work that is being done to better document and tell the full history of clemson university. greenville police tell us an suv rear-ended a bus. the driver of the sb was charged with driving too fast for conditions. first told you about this morning. all 17 new york miners who were stuck hundreds of feet below ground have been rescued. they were trapped in an elevator at the deepest salt mine in the western hemisphere. a crane lifted the workers out. they were stuck for nearly ten hours. the company says the crew was never in danger, and no one was injured

rename tillman hall and stop honoring tillman were spray- painted on the building. they are trying to figure out the best way to clean the brick without damaging it. they are also trying to figure out who is responsible. >>> autopsy results have been released for a five month old baby who was found dead in a creek in november. grace also known as baby grace drowned. the baby was reported missing before her body turned up in a crate. the mother sarah toney has been charged with homicide. they say she made a statement saying she was trying to find she is being held in jail without bond. >>> orangeburg county, animal control officers have seized nearly 2 dozen sick horses. the director says his agency did not find the horses they actually responded to a call from a woman who owned the animals she told them she couldn't take care of them anymore. all of the horses were underweight and all have medical issues. out of the 22 horses surrendered to were put down, 15 other have been taking two rescue shelters. the other veorangeburg animal control, but they too will eventual

tillman speech is so disgraceful he brings up the civil war. he installs every northern democrat. he excoriates cleveland and he calls it a sectional argument. senator jones of arkansas stands up and says i wore the color of the south during the civil war. this is not a sectional argument , this is an argument of mankind that is national in nature. for one brief moment the silver man and the gold man stand together basically cheering john zahn because they hate then tillman so much. finally what happens is the goldman are running out of time and they have one more speaker to give a speech and he's complaining about not having enough time. he says to fill the leader of the gold forces when we give each side to more minutes and that gives brian at chance to give not a 20 minute speech but a 30 minute speech in his brilliant piece of work that he delivers without a single note having outlined in his mind having played up the final moments of it several days before and had a debate in nebraska that he literally left chicago to pick up a speaking fee and create nebraska. he gives the c

they had an accident street road at tillman drive. a crash involving a car and septa bus win chester avenue taking a a lane at at this point. we have an accident 422 eastbound at egypt road, traffic has been squeezing by. you're barely squeezing by a broken down tractor-trailer 295 southbound to 561. >>> crash clementon avenue. and one in delaware i-95 northbound i'll have details on that in just a few minutes. >>> an 8-year-old is among four people in delaware being treated for exposure to carbon monoxide. they got sick from high leaves of the gas inside the home in bear, new castle county. neighbors are being checked out. so far no reports that the carbon monoxide have spread to the other homes. delmarva power is investigating the cause of the leak. >>> new this morning, a second series of threats on social media targeting people in chester. this time they warn bliss about how -- this time they warn police about how they arrested a teenager for the original threats. annie mccormick is in chester to sort this out. >> reporter: a stra

someone spray painted stop honoring tillman. it happened either late last night very early this morning. tillman hall has been the center of controversy many have called for it to be renamed it is named after former governor been tillman who was a known white supremacist. this is not the first time that it has been vandalized. some of south carolina's top court is getting its first new leader in more than one decade. hour. he has been an associate justice on the high court since 2000, his replacing gene toll, turn 72 last year and had to retire because of her age. but, is actually going to turn 72 next month and can only spent one year south carolina's top judge. he had said that he would like to make the bar exam two days instead of three, and have a push to have legal fire out -- files electronically file. >>> billy o'dell has died at the age of 77. harvey peeler confirmed the death. he died of a heart attack he was the first -- he was first elected in 1989 and represented district 4 which covers abbey wood and great would cou

mcclain says tillman may be out of the line-up but his presence is still being felt everyday and it 's much appreciated! mcclain: "he helps me out everyday. talking about certain routes and combinations. certain checks we make in our defense. he helps me literally everyday on the practice field i come to him. and ask him a bunch of questions. he's you know a then plus year vet. a guy like that i'm always going to try to pick his brain. see what he sees.

tillman hall once again tagged with graffiti. geoff: this video shows the messages painted on the building, calling for the university to rename the hall. tillman was a white supremacist, which has started a lot of debate on campus. the building was vandalized back in july as well. >> i suppose it is unfortunate that someone felt the need to take that particular course of action. the university spokesperson hopes the crime does not take away from effort to tell the school's full history. the university is looking to find the person responsible. allyson: dale joins us again. i was putting my makeup on very early this morning and i heard dale: were you driving as you are doing this? allyson: no, i promise. i wasn't driving. dale: it is a little slippery outside with light rain beginning. most of this action will continue up until noon. and then, we will have another wave of showers late morning into tomorrow. watch out for possible slippery roads. 47 degrees with light rain in greenville as we look out from our paris mountain skyca

they call for the university to rename the halaland stop honoring ben tillman. he was a white supremacist, which has stirred up a lot of debate on the campus. the building was also vandalized in july, the same week the confederate flag was removed from the statehouse grounds. >> i suppose it is unfortunate that course of action. aly: the university spokesperson says they hope this crime doesn't take away from efforts to tell the school's full history. responsible. again, you will see signs that were put up to support the football team. the national championship game is happening this morning. the athletics department invites you to help send off the players to arizona. the gathering starts at 11:45 and the buses will be loaded and on their way by 12:30 two the national title. geoff: i am assuming there will be a big crowd there this morning. we are hoping they will pull it off monday night. allyson: will they be standing in the rain? dale: we will see another chance of showers tomorrow. a quick look out from our skycam network. we have light rain falling. watch

connell police are working with col flagg to get that rug on the water and were told trenches against tillman are pending. i've written a thank you to well put self driving cars on the road the renault nissan alliance said today it plans to build ten drivers models by twenty eight teams right now engineers are fine tuning the technologies company managers wrangle with regulators over safety concerns. renault nissan plans to put its first batch of self driving cars out later this year. a congresswoman is fighting to have female world war two pilots ashes lay to rest at arlington national cemetery yesterday arizona republican martha met sally. while the legislation for women airforce service pilots or wasps. congress granted veteran status in nineteen seventy seven and the women were allowed to have their ashes placed in arlington but last year the secretary of the army rescinded their eligibility. well you are not a fan of the cooler temperatures we do have some warmer air that will be heading our way especially as temperatures back into the sixties will talk about all of it coming up with a s

charles tillman has two tickets up for grabs for sunday's game. section 100 seats, you have to benefit the charles tillman cornerstone foundation. if you win, along with the tickets, you'll get an autographed tillman football, parking pass and allowances for travel and food. you have until 10:00 tomorrow to enter. we have a link to the online raffle on our site on the home page of abc11.com. we have plenty of panthers fever this afternoon right here in the eyewitness news room. i have my salt and pepper shakers with panther pride. anna: this is really cool. great for a football party. also this is a stiletto that actually holds a bottle. i have two big water bottles. check this out. see. it's a nice thing right there. very cool stuff. we're getting so pumped up for the game. we'll be watching on tv and mark armstrong will be at the game to give you reports on what's happening on and off the field. seahawks vs. panthers. interviews after the game. follow along on social media so you're connected to everything happening. mark armstrong is so fun, es

safety charles tillman will miss the panthers' playoff run after he suffered a torn acl on sunday. tillman played with a partially torn acl in the right knee against new york in week 15, before completely tearing it in the season finale against tampa bay. despite the bad news, carolina in good spirits after wrapping win over the bucs sunday. the panthers not shy to have fun during a game, even posing for this group photo in the final minutes of the contest. head coach ron rivera said today, the team got its swagger back after suffering that loss to atlanta. >> going to atlanta and not playing as well as we are capable of, and then playing as well as we did yesterday, it's exciting. and it's great to see the guys enjoying it, and it's great to see the guys with theirir confidence, and i think that is something that is part of who we are. ricardo: taking a look at the nfc playoff bracket, the panthers will enjoy the bye week, and will face either seattle, washington, or green bay. the division round game will take place sunday, january 17th, at 1:05 p.m. the south carolina men's bask

the words "rename tillman hall" and "stop honoring tillman" were spray painted on the building near the front entrance. crews are evaluating the best way to clean the old brick without damaging it. >>holly: the spindale fire chief will be in arizona to see his son play in the national championship game. jamie guyier mow's son jay is the starting player for the clemson tigers. jamie says his son started playing football since second grade but was carrying the years old. >> as they are in high school you don't know if they are going to a big school or a smaller school and for him to get to play division i football was a dream for him. but, to play in the national certainly even bigger. >>holly: the game will be televised nationally on espn and, don't forget our clemson special is coming up this sunday at 7:00 on my 40. >>> learning to ski and snow board month begins and what better place to do it than cataloochee ski area jai that's live. lauren, you are about to try skiing for the first time ever? >>holly: peer pressured into it? >>lauren: exactly. peer pressured but you know what, i'm o

somebody spray painted renamed tillman hall and stopped honoring tillman on the building near the front entrance. crews are now evaluating the best way to clean the old brick and campus police there are still working to figure out who is responsible for the crime. >>> in columbia, police need your help in finding the drivers of the truck they say was used to steal $3,500 worth of fireworks. take a look. officers say the truck was seen in the 4800 block on december 28. police believe that this car is a black 1992 or 1993 extended cab pickup truck with black rims and a silver stripe down the side. anybody with information that could help investigators have to call crime stoppers. 1-888-crime-sc. >>> governor haley says they are making progress in fight against violence. they have 50 recommendations to tackle criminal domestic violence and 10 have already started. she says that the group spent exactly what domestic violence victims go through and how sensitivity sometimes is lost. >> i was mortified when i heard that law enforcement were the ones that were prosecuting these cases. there is

and watch her prek tillman had to be rescued after crashing his truck into the chesapeake bay he was reportedly trying to pass a slower moving vehicle truck got stuck in a sinkhole in miami causing a water main break out tow truck removed but the water main break caused some severe flooding in the area. one man reported hearing a big explosion and saw water coming out of the ground the water got into the mans auto shop and cost about fifty thousand dollars worth of damage. there's a high surf warning in effect for most of southern california look at this both surfers and spectators head to the beach to take advantage of it. the huge ways followed storms this week the cause flooding surfers rode waves that were thirty to forty feet high in mavericks and the only good thing the car regina space in my town. i don't why rats a little by little brain a little break to break for me either way i was hugged by the temperatures because i wanted a trip down memory lane. we had highs in the thirties on tuesday four days on wednesday and today our high temperatures were in the fifties even see w

carol: clemson university's tillman hall, once again tagged with graffiti. police say someone spray-painted messages on the building, against the man it's named after. ben tillman was an avowed white supremacist, and that has stirred up a lot of debate on the campus. the building was also vandalized in july, the same week the confederate flag was removed from the statehouse grounds. >> i suppose it's unfortunate that someone felt the need to take that particular course of action. carol: today, a crew covered the graffiti with signs supporting the football team as they head to the national championship game. a university spokesperson says they hope this crime doesn't take away from efforts to tell the school's full history. right now, the university is looking to charge the person responsible. michael: the university of south christmas gift, the hoverboard. no more hoverboards on campus. usc officials say the ban went into effect january 1. it bans the device from all campus housing buildings. an official issued the following statement, saying in part, quote,

so watch that area closely, street road, tillman drive. might want to avoid this area if you can. 422 eastbound, there is a dent there, just the off ramp to even up the drive. that's the next spot we're looking at here, that's what it looks like there, off ramp 422 eastbound partially blocking the rap p. i95 at cottman, volume is building tapping the brakes there, slowing down, along i95. >> we say that every day, i95 near cottman. >> true. >> time to slow down. >> 6:32, police are investigating to see if two attempted child luring incidents in new jersey are connected. >> it is really seems like they are, jenny joyce. she is in evesham township right now. what happened? >> reporter: yes, definately seems like they could be. there is a strong connection. car is similar in bows incident are the descriptions of the suspect, so, evesham township police they did release some surveillance video, because they want everyone out there to take a look and see if maybe they have some information that might be helpful to police in this investigation.

that ramp is partially block there an accident at street road and tillman drive-in bensalem. police and fire departments are on the scene and part of the road is block if you take it. there is a disable tractor trail other partially blocking off ramp from i295 southbound to route 561. >>> well, it seems these days you can get anything on demand, right. from restaurant meals to baby formula. now you can add gasoline to the list. it is one the of the growing number of companies that will come up and fill you up but for a fee of course. contact launched its app in the california bay area, we fuel is co founder say they have a special plug in device that sets them apart. >> you just put in your vehicle and we can read tank level, know exactly the position of the vehicle and we can open up the fuel hatch to deliver the the gasoline. >> you may wonder just how much does it the cost to get gas without going to the station. we fuel charges $7.49 delivery fee plus average price per gallon in your zip code. so abot .50 dollars to skip that trip. >>> niagara falls is a wonder of the wor

but it does this versus tillman. he fights over the issue and how much time each side will have to close to make their final argument. he wants the longer time to speak so he takes the opening argument 50 minutes and gives the closing 20 minutes over to what is supposed to be 30 minute but gets cut to 20 minutes over to william jennings bryan. the final action however occurs just before brian is ready to speak to knows that where the gold manner closing, silberman opens the debate, goldman speaks, goldman speaks, silberman closes. what happens is he stands up. it is so disgraceful. he brings up the civil war. he insults every northern democrat. he excoriates cleveland and he calls this a sectional argument. senator jones of arkansas stands up and says i were the color of the south during the civil war. this is not a sectional argument. this is an argument of man kind. this is national in nature and for one brief moment of silver men and the bald men stand together and basically cheering jones on them in making the ar

from watched a parade virginia beach police department marine patrol unit pulled tillman out of the water he had injuries to his arm head and chest medic flu sentence in terrible for general hospital there is no update on his condition tonight. right now charges are pending and the an accident investigation is still underway. a preliminary investigation finds that tillman may have tried to pass a slower driver before the accident and let's take a look at the roads right now starting with traffic trouble in hampton and that's going to be making a way six sixty four northbound headed up to the sixty four interchange give you a live look now at the very heavy traffic out there's a little bit earlier today we had an accident involving a tractor trailer littered literally wrapped up a few minutes ago it was on the left shoulder as you can but the backups very much still in place with this point expect about two and a half mile back up starting a pallet in and is going to be that slow go all the way to the sixty four split on that rapid network maps and speaking of sixty four very heavy t

tillman climbed a window and left the correctional facility there in a court-ordered drug treatment program. >>> meantime in akron six inmates had to be treated for drug overdoses. officials rushed three to the hospital. the house works with felons who are addicted to drugs and/or alcohol. the four are suspected of using synthetic marijuana. >> don't say one other word. don't tempt the court. >> angela stokes rants like that one led to the judge losing her law license. more than a year of expensive litigation paid for by city taxpayers. today she formally agreed to step down. paul orlousky first reported the agreement had been hammered out last month. now it is official. >> don't roll your eyes at this court. i gave you a warning. will you will not conduct yourself like this in a court of law. >> reporter: it is official judge angela stokes is now former angela stokes and agreed to resign and not run again at this hearing in december. all that remained was a three-judge panel hearing evidence against her to prove it. that happened today. >>> in return for her stepping aside the panel droppe

charles tillman will miss the -- the panthers playoff run after he torn acl. he played against new york in week 15 before tearing it in the season finale against tampa bay. despite that, carolina is in good spirits after wrapping up home field with a win. the final minutes. ron rivera said today, the team that its swagger back after the loss to atlanta -- got its swagger back. >> playing as well as we did yesterday, it is exciting. it is great to see the guys enjoying it. it is great to see them with their confidence. i think that is something that is part of who we are. ricardo: the panthers enjoying a bye week. they will face either seattle, washington, or green bay, and that will be sunday, january 17 at 1:05. carol: thanks for watching. we hope to see you at 11:00. michael: we are always on wyff4.com and our mobile app. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] all: milk! milk! milk! milk! milk! okay! fun's over. thirsty? they said it would make me cool. they don

paramedics took mariah tillman to the hospital where she died days later. an autopsy revealed injuries to the little girl's head and chest. tracee wilkins is working this story for us and she'll have a live report coming up. >>> police are investigating bomb threats made to three different looks and someone called in the threats to carter school, a junior high and d.c. police headquarters. police aren't saying which schools are involved and one of them was evacuated and the student his to be sent home early and investigators say these threats are not credible. >> for the first time attorneys general for maryland and virginia met. the men discussed what their jurisdictions are doing to reduce the number of illegal funs and to keep them from criminals. they decided that working together they could do even more. >> we believe that working in cooperation with our friends in the district of columbia and virginia we can make a difference in enforcing laws, in stopping gun trafficking and in stopping gun violence. >> the group is planning ways to share their strat

tillman is here, she says the idea to fix all of this broken glass, by monday. denise rosch, ba back to you. >>> a killer is on the run tonight. we told you about the murder as breaking news last night on news today metro says the victim calvin johnson was standing next to his car in an apartment complex near fell list and -- nellis and cheyenne when he was approached by a man wearing a black hoodie. that man shot johnson several times. and he got into a white suv and was gone before police arrived. if you know anything about the murder, you could be enjib -- you could be eligible for a cash reward. call crimestoppers if you know anything. 702-385-5555. >>> and a helicopter makes a hard landing. news 3's antonio castelan is live for us. what exactly what do we know about the helico it? >> reporter: jessica, the pilot is said to be doing okay. the helicopter received -- had some sort of mechanical proob me we are right next to the doral/durango detakes off kyle canyon road. witnesses say after 2:30 this afternoon, the crash happened. metro police say there were n

mandy: tillman hall, bowman field, memorial stadium just some of what will be seen without stepping a foot inside. right now the project is still being tested. there's no timeline yet on when it'll be available to the public. mandy gaither, wyff news 4 in clemson. >> now your live super doppler 4 hd weather forecast. john: heading into the weekend, clear skies. high pressure continues to dominate. clouds earlier. they squeezed out some flurries this morning. the clouds dissipated, as excited, this afternoon. plenty of sunshine. a whole different animal in the upstate weather-we in the mountains. 33 this morning. exactly richard b this time of year. warmed up nicely seven degrees above average. the northwest win in the mountains gusting to 30 miles per hour. even though it was seasonably chilly, the wind made it even colder. high 47 should be this time of year. the wind every cold. still very breezy. the branches swaying a bit. this is a live shot in asheville. still very breezy and cold. 40 in asheville. 33 in boone. 62 in alberton. much laser threat the upstate -- much nicer througho

. >> reporter: a scary situation for kenneth tillman's family is leading a group of mckinley tech students to create a high- tech solution they believe will save lives. >> when everyone heard his story, they thought it would be a great idea. >> reporter: they are designing an app called g fire. your smoke alarms connect to your phone through blue tooth and when there is a fire? >> lit tell you that you are going to have to exit your house in a certain manner and how to get out like which exits are blocked off by fire, you know, based on the smoke alarm data and then which exits are safe to exit from. >> reporter: this is part of the verizon app challenge. their team has won for dc. now they take on the rest of the nation. if they win, students from mit will come an build the app for them. their goal is even bigger. >> i still have my family but a lot of families are losing people to fires. >> reporter: they need your help to win the challenge. text g fire 2, to the number 22333. you could help save some lives. stem is cool in school. mike hydeck, wusa9. >> once again, you can text be fire

matthew kiln and went over the guardrail last week after police say he tried to pass a slow driver tillman was rescued and charges are pending against two local schools just receive some cash thanks to the brainpower and creativity of their students princes and for science and technology received checks for five thousand dollars from the verizon foundation student teams were awarded for their work in the app challenge they're now competing for best in the nation a chance to earn an additional fifteen thousand dollars for their schools a lot of heavy rain around the area earlier but now it's moved out of most locations you can see it hanging just off shore after watching from the eastern shore. he certainly have some heavy rain right now just about the line there between mac mac in northampton and especially up into areas of north canton sort of the southern app that'll continue to move up toward the northern areas like the gun and cocked and that it stretches offshore in the last little bit here is still some heavy rain down across extreme northeastern sections of north carolina but that'l

the punishment for vandalizing tillman hall could be a fine of up to $1,000, or 90 days in prison. corey davis, wyff news 4, in clemson. carol: south carolina governor nikki haley laid out a plan to help fight domestic violence in south carolina. in columbia this afternoon, she says she is giving her task force more time to continue finding ways to deal with thth issue. she also is looking at how domestic violence cases are prosecuted in the state. >> in my executive budget, you -- we are putting approximately all, t te away domestic violence cases from officers and assign prosecutors. we will add 144 new prosecutors. we are going to put three more new judges into the circuit court, and we are going to have more money in there for public defenders. carol: governor haley created the task force a year ago. nationwide, south carolina consistently ranks among the worst in women killed by men. michael: flags in anderson county are at half-staff tonight, in memory of state senator william o'dell. the senator died in his sleep this morning. he became a state senator in 1989, serving distr

godfrey says the team tried to show as much of campus as possible from each vantage point, including tillman hall, bowman field, sikes hall, and memorial stadium. the project is still in the testing phase. there's no timeline yet on when it'll be available to the public. mandy gaither, wyff news 4 4n clemson. gabrielle: an nfl star returned hendersonville today. sam gaston won a super bowl with the baltimore ravens. today he returned to hendersonville high school to present the school with a golden football. this is happening all around the country as part of the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the super bowl. >> i wanted to show that football is important to the community. it definitely helps people. the nfl has brought a light to the importance of it in the communitgabrielle: more than 2,000 high schools and roughly 3,000 players and coaches will be recognized this season. nigel: coming up, the obama administration confirms for the first time that major classified information was contained in emails on hillary clinton's private home server. nigel: live shot down clemson boulevard in

the incident started at noon near reet road and tillman drive. the detectives tried to question 37 year-old michael britain s driving a silver di. lice say britain sped off striking an officer and two unmark police cruisers. from there iin hit another car, on ter dre. the irfh vehicle a and police fer suffered minornjuries. the britain fes crges of aggravated assault. >>> these are newest mrs of the the philadelphia police force, sworn torotect and serve. 309 recruits officially graduated today after eight months of training at e philadelphia poce academy. the the ceremony for class number 374 was held on the campus of the tple university the first unr commissioner richard ross leadership and he luted and shookhe hand ha of eh new oicer of t law. >>> the new officers will be on patrol, starting on mday. >>> police officers in delaware county will be the the first in the r to carry n fmf the e heroin anecdote known as narcan. this is a nasal spray. the it is easiernd faster to administer, nasal narcan is being distributed by adapt pharma of drnd j

cam newton probably going to be so they will be without charles tillman. it is a blow for the defense. next man up. >>> a week from tonight. there is going to be college football action. the tigers of clemson. what clemson has to do to stop the running game. that's coming up later on in sports. stay tuned wach fox news at >>> you're watching wach fox news at 10:00. cheer meteorologist henry rothenberg and sports with corey miller. this is wach fox news at 10:00. >>> thank you very much. thank you. >> the presidential candidates bringing out the big guns. hillary clinton. former president clinton warning students that the progress on environment and health care will be reversed. hillary clinton was the best candidate to move the country only on wach fox tonight a major shake up for ben carson's campaign. >> the question now can a few attitude and a new campaign manager can return him to the top of the polls? >> are we looking at ben carson 2.0. >> maybe 6.0. who knows. >> we have revamped the organization to make it much more user friendly. i myself am goin

police say he admitted to fatally beating a 6-month-old mariah tillman of landover, on january 6, and she died three years later. an autopsy revealed that she died from blunt force trauma to her head and her chest. he is now behind bars awaiting extradition back to prince george's county. >>> our other top story, wall street, where the dow continues to plummet right now, minus 410 points. the experts believe concerns about the global market and then lack of growth, and low oil prices are what is fueling this decline. nearly everyone of 30 stocks on the dow jones was down before the opening bell. the s&p and the nasdaq are also declining right now. >>> and we are in for some equally gloomy weather to start the weekend. showers are moving in tonight. and triggering today's yellow alert. good afternoon. and thanks for joining us for the news at noon. i'm mike hydeck. when are the showers moving in? more importantly, how will they affect your weekend? meteorologist howard bernstein has the weekend forecast. >> friday night date plans, that is the biggest concern. toward sunset, the shower