LIVE: Gov. Henry McMaster holds press conference on Tropical Storm Debby

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCBD)- Gov. Henry McMaster will hold a press conference in Columbia regarding Tropical Storm Debby, which is expected to bring potentially historic rainfall to the South Carolina coast.

Officials from the South Carolina Emergency Management Division will join the governor at the briefing.

McMaster declared a State of Emergency on Sunday, enabling state agencies to coordinate resources in preparation for the possible impacts of the storm.

Debby was downgraded to a tropical storm Monday after making landfall near the Big Bend region of Florida as a Category 1 storm.

The storm will trek across Florida and into southeast Georgia where Debby will reemerge over the Atlantic and off the South Carolina coast at a slow pace.

Forecasters say potentially historic heavy rainfall across southeast Georgia and the coastal plain of South Carolina is expected through Saturday morning, which will result in considerable flooding.