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IT’S TIME FOR NEWS TO GO. WE HAVE A LOOK AT TODAY’S TOP NEWS STORIES, TRAFFIC AND WEATHER ALL BEFORE YOU HEAD OUT THE DOOR. WE BEGIN WITH CONTINUING COVERAGE OF FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP’S GUILTY VERDICT THIS MORNING. WE’VE BEEN KEEPING A CLOSE EYE ON THIS AND THE FORMER PRESIDENT VOWS TO APPEAL HIS FELONY CONVICTION OF FALSIFYING BUSINESS RECORDS TO INFLUENCE THE 2016 ELECTION. A JURY IN NEW YORK CITY FOUND HIM GUILTY ON 34 COUNTS OF PAYMENTS TO KEEP QUIET NEWS OF AN ALLEGED AFFAIR WITH AN ADULT FILM STAR. WASHINGTON BUREAU CORRESPONDENT JACKIE DEFUSCO JOINS US WITH MORE. ERIN, THIS CONVICTION DOES NOT LEGALLY PREVENT DONALD TRUMP FROM RUNNING FOR OR SERVING AS PRESIDENT AGAIN, AND HIS CAMPAIGN IS ALREADY USING IT TO TRY TO BOOST HIS WHITE HOUSE BID. TAKE A LOOK AT HIS CAMPAIGN WEBSITE. THE CAMPAIGN REPORTED A FLOOD OF FUNDRAISING DOLLARS WITHIN JUST HOURS OF THIS VERDICT, REPUBLICANS LIKE HOUSE SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON RUSHING TO TRUMP’S DEFENSE, SAYING, QUOTE, THIS WAS A PURELY POLITICAL EXERCISE, NOT A LEGAL ONE. IN A STATEMENT, PRESIDENT BIDEN’S CAMPAIGN SAID THE CONVICTION SHOWED THAT NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW, BUT EMPHASIZED THAT THE ONLY WAY TO BEAT TRUMP IS AT THE BALLOT BOX. AND A NEW NPR MARIST POLL, RELEASED JUST HOURS AHEAD OF THURSDAY’S VERDICT. MOST VOTERS SAID A CONVICTION WOULD NOT SWAY THEIR DECISION IN THIS RACE, ABOUT 17% SAID IT WOULD MAKE THEM LESS LIKELY TO VOTE FOR DONALD TRUMP, WHEREAS ABOUT 15% SAID THEY WOULD BE MORE LIKELY TO SUPPORT HIM IF HE WAS FOUND GUILTY. TRUMP’S SENTENCING HEARING IS SCHEDULED FOR JULY 11TH, JUST DAYS BEFORE HE’S EXPECTED TO FORMALLY ACCEPT THE REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION IN WASHINGTON. I’M JACKIE DEFUSCO, WYFF NEWS FOUR. WE’RE ALSO HEARING REACTION FROM SEVERAL LOCAL LAWMAKERS THIS MORNING, U.S. SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM OF SOUTH CAROLINA POSTING ON X AND SHARING A STATEMENT WITH OUR NEWSROOM, SAYING IN PART, QUOTE, I EXPECT THIS CASE TO BE REVERSED ON APPEAL. AND FOR DONALD TRUMP TO BE ELECTED PRESIDENT IN NOVEMBER END QUOTE, REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR HENRY MCMASTER POSTED ON X, QUOTE, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THAT THIS TRIAL WAS NOTHING MORE THAN A POLITICAL ATTACK ON PRESIDENT TRUMP. WE WILL RESPOND DECISIVELY AT THE BALLOT BOX IN NOVEMBER AND RETURN HIM TO THE WHITE HOUSE. END QUOTE. SENATOR TIM SCOTT POSTED HIS SUPPORT FOR TRUMP ON SOCIAL MEDIA AFTER THE VERDICT WAS ANNOUNCED. THE SOUTH CAROLINA REPUBLICAN IS WIDELY VIEWED AS A LEADING CONTENDER TO BE TRUMP’S RUNNING MATE. SCOTT CALLED THE VERDICT A, QUOTE, HOAX, A SHAM AND AN ABSOLUTE INJUSTICE. I CAN’T BELIEVE THE HOAX. THIS SHAM, THIS ABSOLUTE INJUSTICE, JUSTICE SYSTEM, DEBRIS AND THE JUDGE SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF THEMSELVES. THIS ISN’T JUST RIDICULOUS. THIS IS ACTUALLY ERODES THE CONFIDENCE THAT AMERICANS HAVE IN THE JUSTICE SYSTEM. AND SOUTH CAROLINA’S ONLY DEMOCRATIC U.S. REPRESENTATIVE JIM CLYBURN POSTED ON X, QUOTE, THE JURY HAS SPOKEN. JUSTICE HAS PREVAILED, END QUOTE. A BOIL WATER ADVISORY HAS BEEN LIFTED FOR NEARLY 10,000 CUSTOMERS IN GREER, AND THAT COMES AFTER A WATER MAIN BREAK ALONG HIGHWAY 14 AND GREER WEDNESDAY MORNING. OFFICIALS SAY THE CAUSE WAS A BROKEN VALVE AFTER CREWS FLUSHED WATER LINES AND FIRE HYDRANTS. WATER SAMPLES WERE SENT TO THE LAB JUST AFTER SIX YESTERDAY MORNING. IT TOOK 24 HOURS FOR THOSE RESULTS TO COME BACK, AND THIS MORNING