Native jeanfrancois flechet. nats hes been monitoring whats happening back home all day while trying to work at the same time. Jeanfrancois flechet beglium nativeits really sad and upsetting, its not something you really expect to happen in a place like brussels. His family and friends are safe, but his parents have concerns. Jeanfrancois flechet beglium nativemy parents are a bit shaken because they were suppose to be in brussels tomorrow, so with a 24hour difference that would have been a very different situation so they are very fortunate that it didnt happen to them. While keeping up with the news of the manhunt for the terroists, hes reading all of the editorial cartoons. He says, its the way belgians cope, with a bit of artistic humor. Jeanfrancois flechet beglium nativein belgium there is almost no topic that is too serious to make fun of or laugh about it, its kind of an escape. So theres been a lot of characatures online by different belgian artists, characaturing the suicide bombers and basically capturing the reaction of belian people and at the end will prevail and not them. Flechets love for his home country goes deep. Deep enough that he encourages others to go visit when the get a chance. Jeanfrancois flechet beglium nativemake sure that you go there and visit the city dont listen to the nay sayers in the media, its a beautiful city and on average its very safe. What happened today is an isolated incident and its really really sad. For now, flechet gets back to work, and waits for justice. Tony mirones 9 on your side, overtherhine in a show of support the taste of belgiums rookwood location will show an animated version of one of the political cartoons tonight. And stay with nine on your side and wcpodotcom for the very latest on these attacks. Tonight at six we check in with tristate Law Enforcement to see how they are combating any threats right here at home. There will also be a special hourlong edition of world news tonight with david muir followed by nine on your tonight is the first Madison SchoolBoard Meeting since last months shooting. Shooting. Four students were hurt and a 14 year old student has been charged. On thursday the School Begins a three part Parent Training Program called stress response and crisis intervention. The district has implemented other changes since the shooting like security wands and a checkin program for students. Its a terrible thought but organizers of Easter Egg Hunts to take a minute to look for syringes in the grass. Grass. Thats rightwith the heroin epidemic such as it is police and organizers of Needle Exchange programs want adults to take a minute and do a sweep of open areas where the eggs will be placed. 9 on your side reporter jay warren has more on the story from over the rhine a simple caution from those on the front lines in the fight against heroin before you send kids out looking for eggs this weekend make sure yourself looking for needles before the grass here at Washington Park is dotted with eggs and kids looking for them there will be a check for foreign objects before hand the same goes for Buena Vista Park in newport where kids will also be searching for eggs this weekendnewports police chief tom collins explains the risk is that after someone shoots up the needle gets discarded chief tom collins Newport Police department when people pull up and they use the needles they discard them and they really lets be honest they dont care about themselves someone else. Neighbors near buena vista say theyve noticed a dramatic decrease when it comes to the presence of drug users at night but nonetheless egg hunt organizers will do a quick check here too and thats good news for families who will be down here this weekend jake colwell parent that seems like a good investment a little bit of time to make sure that you dont have to spend a lot of time dealing with a lot worse scenario. tim lee grandfather its important that we check at this park when we do have the Easter Egg Hunt and im glad that you guys are here so that now that everyone knows so check your parks and check where your neighborhood and everywhere you do your egg hunts you dont know. And so before your kids take to the ground to find those eggs make sure youve done a little looking too sot its something that you hate to think about its one of those things you dont want to address but the reality is that these things are out there what we need to do is plan for them. Jay look liveso again for parents and the organizers of these events youre urged to just take a little bit more time before sending the kids out there looking for eggs. Jay warren 9 on your side over its back to the drawing board for a promarijuana group. Group. Grassroots ohio will have to rephrase the petition and resubmit it before the measure can appear on a ballot. Ohio attorney general mike dewine found at least two issues with the language. Grassroots ohio plans to resubmit its petition to dewines office later this week. Dewine has already approved one medical marijuana ballot proposal and will make a decision on a third measure by friday. The istep student exam is almost officially a thing of the past. Past. Indiana governor mike pence signed a bill into law this morning repealing the indiana statewide testing for educational progress. Exam. 2017 will be the last year students will take the test. The state legislature approved the measure earlier this month. The bill also lays out a plan to study other testing options for indiana students. Kentucky attorney general andy beshear is suing volkswagen. Volkswagen. The lawsuit was filed today. It claims the automakers vehicle emission cheating scheme violated the states Consumer Protections penalties and restitution for the nearly 4thousand volkswagens registered in the state. Four other states texas, new mexico, new jersey, and West Virginia have filed similar suits. The tenth annual Northern Kentucky veterans job fair is tomorrow. Tomorrow. Job seekers will be able to apply to over four thousand positions at the receptions banquet and Conference Center in erlanger. It will be open to veterans and spouses from noon to 1pm. The general public is then free to attend from one to four pm. Next on nine on your side at 5 30. President obama wraps up his historic trip to cuba. Cuba. Well show you how he made a symbolic jab at the the cuban president before hopping on air force one. And starbucks has a plan to help the hungry. See how the coffee giant hopes to tackle the countrys hunger problem with the help of its baristas. Dont like those new credit card readers at kroger and other tri state stores . You may change your mind when you see your old credit cards are. Coming up. The only helicopter bringing you breaking news in the tristate. Chopper 9 taking a live look at the roads this evening. Im dan carroll in chopper 9. Youre watching 9 on your side president obama is on his way to argentina after a historic trip to cuba. Cuba. The highlight of the day was a nationally televised speech to the cuban people. The president also met with political dissidents many of who were imprisoned for speaking out against the castro regime. It was a symbolic gesture. Just yesterday cuban president raul castro falsely denied his country was Holding Political prisoners. I have come here to bury the last remnant of the cold war in the americas. [ applause ] i have come here to extend the hand of friendship to the cuban people. President obama will hold a town hall meeting with young latin american leaders in argentina tomorrow. Starbucks may soon donate all of its leftover food. Food. The company is looking at ways to donate onehundred percent of its unused food to food banks across the country. Its currently looking at how safe until it is consumed. The Ceo Howard Schultz says the idea actually came from baristas behind the counter. Your nine first warning forecast is coming up. Card skimming shocker. Card readers . John matarese shocking Surveillance Video sot theres been no technology and we dont anticipate that there will be nat . The local this international crisis. Youre watching 9 on your side at 5 30. So youre not too thrilled with those new chip credit cards, that slow down the checkout line . You may change your mind when you see consumer reporter john matareses story on just how vulnerable your old credit cards are. But first. Getting banned from amazon for making too many returns craig. Every Amazon Shopper has returned things. But tonight comes a report about a shopper banned for making too returns british News Agencies report that a man in england had hit amazon account shut down, after making 37 returns in a very short period of time. Amazon is not commenting. But with any store, be careful how much you return or exchange. While apple has Just Announced a new, smaller iphone, samsung is launching its new galaxy s7. S7. And tonight our partners at Consumer Reports magazine say it may be the best smartphone ever the magazinejust completed its testing of the s7 and says it is great in low light, has a super long battery life, and best of all is almost waterproof. Wondering why stores are making the switch to those clunky new chip card readers . You may wonder no more once you see this next report. Which shows just how vulnerable your old credit card is to scammers. Its now been two weeks since on their new chip reader terminals. Shoppers are relucantly making the switch to the new chip cards. Even though many people find the new card readers much slower than swiping. Swiping. I do not like the chip card card theyre a little inconvenient but youll understand why stores are making the switch to chip when you see this amazing video. Just released by the Miami Florida police department. Watch the man on the right, as the clerk turns around to grab a pack of cigarettes. He snaps an illegal credit card skimmer on the top of the stores card reader in just 3 seconds from that point on, he is secretly recording every customers credit card number, until he comes back a few hours later to remove it. It. You see, once everyone is using these new chip cards, those credit card skimmers will become useless. And thieves will have one less way to compromise your card. Card. Theres been no successful hack or breaks in technology and we dont anticipate that there will be. Randy vanderhoof is with the group of us banks, businesses and make the switch. He says the new cards cannot be duplicated by card skimmers. Shopper Melissa Sipples says while the new cards are slower, shes ok with it if it prevents this. This. I think a lot of people are upset about that, but they need to realize its for their own good, and its more security for them in the long run if you still have old style cards, you should recieve new chip versions by the end of this year. Finally, our wcpo. Com insider deal of the week this week. Is buy one get one free golfing at any cincinati Rec Commission golf course. Youll find details to that and other insider deals on wcpo. Com so you dont waste todays gusty winds will continue to give us an elevated fire risk through 8 p. M. The counties included are highlighted below but all of the tristate should avoid outdoor burning regardless. Wednesdays forecast will be warm and breezy again. Temperatures top out at 640f with partly cloudy skies. Then our cold front arrives on thursday. This will bring in chances for showers and isolated thunderstorms during the day. Right now, it looks like our better rain chance is in the Morning Hours with a few more spotty showers behind the front that afternoon. We are also keeping an eye on the easter weekend ahead. Right now, it looks like we could see rain showers on sunday but the timing is still a little split in the extended weather models with into monday. Check back as we this lot is set to get a makeover. But youd be surprised whats coming to covington at six. Why a remind you of a barnyard. A big night on 9 on your side. Heres tonights a texas man is thanking several bystanders for pulling him out of his car as flames. The driver slammed into a tree and the fire shot high into the air. Good samaritans saw what was going on and quickly ran to his rescue. They were determined to do anything to get him out all while the driver was passed out at the wheel. The door was jammed. The rivers seat was jammed and the only thing i was able to do was bend part of the door down and thats when we were able to pull him out deputies say alcohol may be a factor. The driver suffered severe burns to his legs and was flown to the hospital. He is expected to recover. No one else was injured. Terror in brussels a concern for folks in the tristate. Tristate. Nine on your sides Carol Williams shows us who you might know thats in belgium right now. College students business professionals. The tristate has several connections to the terror attacks today. Today. At six what students brussels just days ago are saying tonight. A fight caught on camera at a Northern Kentucky school but tonight the student who captured the scene says shes in trouble what the school is saying about this tristate students and teachers close to terror. Go the messages from parents and a uc faculty member after deadly bombings the capital of belgium. Caught on camera. Students at a Kenton County school fighting in the hallway why one parent says the teen behind the camera is being treated unfairly. Farming in the city. Produce and dirt in an unusual place the benefit its providing to tristate shoppers. Nine on your side at six starts now. At least 34 killed in brussels belgium by terror atttacks. Chaos at an airport and a subway station. Station. And tonight belgiums interior minister says police knew something was going to happen in would be there. Belgium sits north of france. The capital brussels is centrally located in the country. The airport and subway station where the attacks happened are about four miles two explosions went off in the departure hall of brussels airport. These images showing a checkin counter destroyed. And flames still visible as people try to get away in the moments afterward. An hour later one explosion at the maelbeek subway station. Cant explain. It looked like war. Its unbelievable. Its really hard. And tonight president obama is ordering flags in the us to be flown at halfstaff through saturday. And as so many mourn Belgian Police are looking for one man. Hes on the far right of an airport surveillance image thats being circulated across the globe. Were safe. Send prayers. The collective words of nearly two dozen uc students and faculty who are in belgium. Belgium. Theyre miles away from the terror. But its certainly a frightening experience for them. Them. Nine on your sides tom mckee has been in contact with them. Hes live with what