No traffic issues, minutebyminute updates on breaking news. A Fairfield Township woman and her daughter are dead. And Police Believe it was a murder suicide. Suicide. Investigators are now searching for the reasons why, Jordan Burgess is live with what were learning this morning. Right now police here in Fairfield Township are calling this a family matter. But what that matter might be they havent gone into any detail on yet. At this point Police Believe that a Family Member showed up at this home on springcrest drive sometime between 7 and 9 last night. What they found down in the basement was a mom and her daughter both shot to death. They say there arent any signs someone had broken into the house. And at this point they believe the mom shot her daughter and then took her own life. Right now might have led up to this shooting saying only its very sad. Well be working throughout the day to find out who that mom and daughter were and how this story had such a terrible ending. Reporting live Jordan Burgess. 9 on your side. Also breaking. Westwood northern boulevard is open again after a crash earlier this morning. Crews had shut it down near hopple to deal with live elecrtical wires that were in the road after a car hit a pole. Police say the driver crashed and flipped the car. Which then caught fire. They believe alcohol may have been a factor. Early this morning a Driver University of cincinnati Medical Center. After hitting a recycling companys sign in hamilton. Police say just after midnight they responded to the crash on route 127. Where they found a driver trapped in their car. The driver had veered off the road and hit the sign for cohan brothers recycling. The Medical Center and is expected to be okay. Four of the remaining republican candidates took to the debate stage last night for the last time before ohio voters head to the polls. And we were tracking their statements with politifact. donald trump discussed the economy. And pointed to lifeless Business Growth as evidence why america isnt great anymore. Listen to how he breaks it down. Gdp was zero essentially for the last two quarters. If that ever happened in china. You would have had a depression like nobodys ever seen before. Before. Politifact says trump is wrong about gains in americas economy. The bureau of Economic Analysis shows Gross Domestic Product grew at an annual rate of onepercent in the Fourth Quarter of last year. It also made a two percent gain in the third quarter. It rates trumps zerogrowth claim is false. Read more of politifacts factchecking right now on wcpo dot com. Epicenter of the battleground between trump and Governor John Kasich. And now the g op frontrunner is planning on making his case in person. Person. Donald trump will be in dayton saturday for a rally at ten am. And then downtown at the Duke Energy ConventionCenter Sunday at noon. Ohio Governor John Kasich will be dayton today. And sharonville saturday morning. Nine on your side will cover those for you. Marco rubio and ted cruz dont have any events planned in the tristate. Democrata Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton are focusing their efforts in other parts of the state. Sanders will be in toledo tomorrow. Both candidates and clinton will take part in a cnn forum at ohio state sunday. And will also speak at a democratic fundraiser in columbus that night. The trial dates are set for four men accused in the deadly shooting of a teenager in west chester. Chester. According to our partners at the journalnews, demarcus staley, rodney foster, jibril willingham, and justin koch are all charged wth murder, kidnapping, aggravated burglar, aggravated robbery, and tampering with evidence. They will be tried prosecutors say theyve made incriminating statements against each other. The suspects are accused of botching a robbery and killing 18 year old tyler kassow inside his home in january. We are on our way to a fabulous friday while we start out with cloudy skies, those clouds will be scoured away later this morning as a dry east wind is ushered in and High Pressure to the north nudges closer. Highs today will remain unseasonably warm in the lower 60s. The normal high this time of year is 51 degrees. Next on good morning tri state. New details in an ambush at a back yard barbeque that killed left 5 people dead. Nancy reagans funeral is today. How americans are paying tribute to the former first lady as shes laid to police now say the shooting in pennslvania that killed five people and an unborn child was a caluclated ambush. Police are still searching for the two gunmen who attacked the group near pittsburgh. Jessica shelton planned the backyard cookout because it was a nice day. Three of her children are among those killed. She left the party before the gunmen arrived. Right now i have no choice to be strong, because i have grandkids that lost their for. 15 people were in the backyard when the men opened fire. Police found 48 shell casings in the area. Investigators say they dont have a motive yet. Former first Lady Nancy Reagan will be laid to rest today in california. Reagan died sunday at her home at the age of 94. Thousands of people have visited her casket to pay their respects. She will be buried next to her husband. President ronald reagan. At his president ial museum in simi valley. Nine on your side and abc news will carry the Funeral Service live for you starting at about two oclock. Todays episode of General Hospital will be moved to monday. We are on our way to a fabulous friday while we start out with cloudy skies, those clouds will be scoured away later this morning as a dry east wind is ushered in and High Pressure to the north nudges closer. Highs today will remain unseasonably warm in the lower 60s. The normal a dogs tale. This pup survived a firey wreck. Now her rescuers are trying to reunite her with her owners family. You wont want to miss this. Then. Testing our smart s the scripps regional spelling bee is this weekend. Weve got a preview of the contest plus our own good gmts animyoure watching good morning tristate at 6 on 9 on your side were learning this morning there is a Silver Lining to this deadly semi crash in indiana. A dog was in the cab of that truck when her owner died in that Early Morning crash. Rescuers say the pup was trapped in the wreckage for almost six hours until firefighters came to her her say the pup likely traveled everywhere with the semi truck driver. Because the cab seemed to be set up for her comfort. That was home to her. She needs somebody somebody the pup is now being fostered by a firefighter until she can be reunited with the Truck Drivers family. Henry ford once said anyone who keeps learning stays young. And a 93 year old woman in northeast ohio is proving him right. Dorothy houston just earned her high school diploma. Diploma. The superintendent of akron Public Schools presented dorothy with her diploma on her birthday this week. 74 years after she should have graduated. Shed been kicked out of school just weeks before graduation. Because shed married her sweetheart when he was called to serve in the army. This year her daughter wrote a letter to the school explaining what happened and asking that her mom be allowed to graduate. Its important to me. Feels wonderful her daughter says dorothy is the mentor to her grand children. Great grand children,. And many neighborhood kids in fairlawn. Who now have one more reason to look up to her. The spelling bee champs are descending upon the tristate tomorrow for the scripps regional spelling bee. We had a little fun with a spelling bee of our own and found out some of us need a dictionary dictionary riva lets go with rhythm, rhythmicly sherry rhm thmically we are on our way to a fabulous friday while we start out with cloudy skies, those clouds will be scoured away later this morning as a dry east wind is ushered in and High Pressure to the north nudges closer. Highs today will remain unseasonably warm in the lower 60s. The normal high this time of year is 51 degrees. An area of low pressure and warm front will advance from the south tonight so skies will become partly cloudy with increasing clouds and a chance of rain and springlike thunderstorms by daybreak. We are not expecting severe weather. Rainfall totals saturday will be minor,. 10 to. 25. Expect. 25 to. 50 sunday. Our weather will become unsettled with all the moisture and warmth accompanying the system so expect an increase in rain and storms sunday. Highs remain in no traffic issues, minutebyminute updates on wcpo. Com and at the bottom of are you leaving money on the table . What you need to know if youre behind on your taxes. Before your money disappears forever. Helping with a familys major expense. How the white house wants to help struggling parents get one big necessity talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, scream. Only one guys done more than talk. Kasich. Hell do for america what hes done for us. Create jobs. Four hundred thousand jobs here in ohio. Brought em back from mexico and china. Turned our deficit into an america that works . Lets loan em john kasich. New day for america is responsible for the content of this advertising. We are on our way to a fabulous friday while we those clouds will be scoured away later this morning as a dry east wind is ushered in nudges closer. Highs today will remain unseasonably warm in the lower 60s. The normal high this time of year is 51 degrees. Wmax full if you have not filed your 20 12 federal income taxes the government is preparing to pocket your refund. More than 950Million Dollars in tax refunds will disappear after the april 18th deadline. The feds say about onemillion americans have refund checks of at least 600bucks waiting file a 2012tax return by the deadline, you may also be losing out on the 2012 earned income tax credit. Thats worth nearly sixthousand dollars. The white house is launching a new initiative to make diapers more affordable for lowincome families. It would save families up to 25 percent. The white house say about one in three families has trouble affording diapers. And theyre not covered by federal assistance programs. The Program Launches at the end of next month. President obama says online retailer jet dotcom, cuties diapers and several nonprofits are collaborating to make this initiative a reality. You might want to take a look in your freezer. Ther are a couple of frozen food recalls to be aware of. All are made by nestle usa. They include digiorno thin and crusty spinach and garlic pizza and stouffers chicken lasagna. As well as several lean cuisines. Nestle says there may be small pieces of glass inside these foods. You can return these items for a refund. Getting your hands on a nice affordale suit is going to be harder. The Parent Company of bank is closing hundreds of stores after a rough 4th quarter. Sales are down 32 percent. Which means 250 locations will close. No word if that includes any in the tristate. The move should reduce expenses by about 50 Million Dollars. Breaking news were following this morning. A murdersuicide in Fairfield Township. New details were learning at American Workers brought us back from the crash. Now, lets move forward. We need jobs that provide dignity and a bright future. New penalties to stop companies from moving profits and jobs overseas. For businesses that create manufacturing jobs, a new tax credit. And lets invest in clean energy jobs, with 500 million solar panels her first term. Weve gotta create new jobs and industries of the future. Im Hillary Clinton and i approve this message. A murdersuicide involving two Family Members. Were live in Fairfield Township gathering the latest breaking details. It looks awful. But the driver in this overnight wreck survived. The road that just opened up to traffic. Good morning tristate. Heres a live look outside. Outside. Nice and clear for your friday commute. Heres Sherry Hughes with a look at the forecast. We are on our way to a fabulous friday while we start out with cloudy skies, those clouds will be scoured away later this morning as a dry east wind is ushered in and High Pressure to the north nudges closer. Highs today will remain unseasonably warm in the lower 60s. The normal no traffic issues, minutebyminute updates on wcpo. Com and at the bottom of this morning in Fairfield Township. Right now police are trying to figure out what led a mom to. They say. Shoot her daughter. And then turn the gun on herself. Police believe another Family Member found the two bodies in the basement. 9 on your sides Jordan Burgess is gathering new live update in 30 minutes. Also breaking. Westwood northern boulevard is open again after a crash earlier this morning. Crews had shut it down near hopple to deal with live elecrtical wires that hit a pole. Police say the driver crashed and flipped the car. Which then caught fire. They believe alcohol may have been a factor. The breaking news from the live alert center this morning the us embassy in berlin, germany is open again after Police Arrested a 23year old man claiming to have a bomb in a suitcase. This was right at the front entrance of the embassy he did not he struggled with security before making the bomb claims. The area was inspected the luggage. They determined it was just clothing inside. New this morning. The heroin epidemic is putting the tri state at risk for another of hiv. A new study shows that some of the most atrisk counties are in Northern Kentucky, southern ohio and southeast indiana. Due to sharing needles9 on your sides timyka artist joins us now with a closer look. The results of this report has many Health Professionals and lawmakers trying to find a way to quash what could soon become a healthcare disaster. The centers for Disease Control looked at 220 counties. Most at risk for an aids outbreak becasue of needle sharing among heroin users. We can show the map. They found the largest concentration is right here in the tristate. With a portion of Northern Kentucky having one of the highest concentrations of hiv cases. The study does not name specific counties, but we know from earlier reports that last year 190 people in scott county indiana contracted hiv. Thats compared to just 5 reported cases in 2014. The report says a lack of education and inaccessibility to Affordable Health care are primarily to blame. Strong argument for Needle Exchange progams. Mostly there is growing concern that this trend could across other parts of the us as well. To read this story indepth, log on to wcpo dot com now. Timyka artist 9 on your side. For some of you, the mere mention of the word heroin and you turn away. Away. But a teacher in indiana hopes youll listen to one thing. Within hours of losing his son to an overdose this father writes a letter to his 8th grade students. 23124147 heroin wrapped itself around his neck like a python until it eventually strangled the life out of him. Him. Tonight on 9 on your side at 11 anchor craig mckee talks with this father. How the message he read to his class has gone beyond the classroom. Thats on 9 on your side at 11, right after a special 2020 heroin special at 10. A woman accused of lying about being kidnapped and helping to severely injuring her 10 judge today. Them her boyfriend, neal royal, held her and her kids at gunpoint, and injured her baby, inside a reading apartment. A swat team was called to that situation. Now prosecutors believe they both took part. Neighbors tell 9 on your side the whole situation is hard to believe. 06 01 29 its bizarre i dont understand it i dont know if she would do it or not, i wasnt there, but from what i seen from her shes always been good the babys grandmother tells us hes out of the hospital and doing ok. She says these new developments are traumatizing for her family. Also in court today, a tri state teens much older boyfriend, whos accused of beating her unconscious. Police say 34yearold William Arnold beat the 16yearold girl outside the inner circle nightclub on february 29th. Family friends tell nine on your side the teen is still in a coma. We are on our way to a fabulous friday while we start out with cloudy skies, those clouds will be scoured away later this morning as a dry east wind is ushered in and High Pressure to the north nudges closer. Highs today will remain unseasonably warm in the lower 60s. The normal high this time of year is 51 a huge building goes up in a ball of fire. When firefighters were finally able to get this under control. Around, dont drown some people still dont heed the more than 150 los angeles firefighters finally got this huge commercial building fire knocked down overnight. We brought this to you live last night at 11. Huge flames were shooting from the 70thousand square foot building. No one was hurt. And investigators are still looking into how the fire started. Autopsies are planned this mornng for two men who died in a murdersuicide at a plant in indiana yesterday. Yesterday. Theyre identified as ward edwards and qing chen. Police say chen was the shooter and edwards was his direct supervisor at the Cummins Seymour engine plant. People ran in panic when the shots were fired. About that time thats when they were saying shots have been fired time to evacuate the building and get out safe as quickly as you can canindiana state police is right now we dont know what the motive may have been. Youve seen the drones that fly through the air. Air. Boeing just unveiled one that can go underwater the echo voyager is 51 feet long and capable of running on its own for months underwater. The drone can dive down to 11 thousand feet. Developers hope it can help with ocean exploration, and things like searching for missing aircraft. We are on our way to a fabulous friday while we start out with cloudy skies, those clouds will be scoured away later this morning as a dry east wind is ushered in and High Pressure to the north nudges closer. Highs today will remain unseasonably warm in the lower 60s. The normal high this time of year is 51 degrees. Wmax full we have some breaking news just coming into the 9 on your side newsroom from hamilton. Dispatchers say someone has been shot. We have a crew headed to hamilton now to get information for you. Well finally, a small repreive for the people of flint. Flint. The break theyre getting amid a water catastrophe. What was this person thinking . What not to do during gmts animyoure watching good morning tristate at 6 on 9 on your side a stunning sight in argentina. Watch as this big chunk of a glacier just tumbles into the water below. This glacier is called the white giant by phenomenon that occurs about every 4 years. Flint, michigan, residents are getting a little relief from their water bills. At least for a month. Month. Flints mayor is suspending water billing. This comes after michigans governor approved a 30 Million Dollar credit, following the discovery of lead in the water. Its a welcome reprieve but some residents say they want more. Edward Mccarrick flint resident we cant wash, we cant bathe. We cant. What are we supposed to do . Then theyre talking about how many years its going to take to fix it. It. That angry resident adds no one should have to pay for water until its safe. Flints mayor agrees that the credits are a good start but more needs to be done. Watch this. A texas teenager lost control of his skateboard he ended up with a lot of scrapes and bruises but somehow didnt break any bones. After that i just slid on loose gravel and dirt and some cactus the rest of the way down, thankfully. He says he wont be able to skate for 2 months because of his injuries. But he plans to get back to it as soon as he can. Weve been covering the flooding in the south for the past few days. Take a look at what happend when a driver tried to make it across a flooded road. This is in north mississippi right outside memphis. The woman drives tries driving through, but as you can see she doesnt make it. She tries just get worse. Shes stuck, but someone nearby helped pull her free. Parts of louisiana got more than 18 inches of rain and heres one of the side effects fish swimming in the flooded streets. This video is from the university of louisiana monroe, which is in the northern part of the state. Toss to weather weather we are on our way to a fabulous friday while we start out with cloudy skies, those clouds will be scoured away later this morning as a dry east wind is ushered in and High Pressure to the north nudges closer. Highs today will remain unseasonably warm in the lower 60s. The normal high this time of year is 51 degrees. An area of low pressure and warm front will advance from the south tonight so skies will become partly cloudy with increasing clouds and a chance of rain and daybreak. We are not expecting severe weather. Rainfall totals saturday will be minor,. 10 to. 25. Expect. 25 to. 50 sunday. Our weather will become unsettled with all the moisture and warmth accompanying the system so expect an increase in rain and storms sunday. Highs remain in no traffic issues, minutebyminute updates on wcpo. Com and at the bottom of the screen Northern Kentucky is well represented in the girls state basketball tournament. Both Campbell County and holmes high schools play in the round of eight today in the kentucky sweet 16. They play at b bandt arena on nkus campus this afternoon. Campbell county takes on Franklin County at noon. Followed by holmes and Mercer County at 1 30. Covington schools will be dismissing early and Campbell County schools are closed. So students can support the team. The xavier musketeers advance in the big east tournament bill murray was once again on hand to watch the muskies face marquette. His son is an assistant coach at xavier. The muskies got out early and marquette, 9072. They now face seton hall tonight at 9 at Madison Square garden. Breaking news at. People in Fairfield Township are waking up to a murdersuicide investigation. What weve hour. Did you watch tgit last night . Night . Did you see this . Was it part of the show . Was it a political ad . Well tell you we have some new information on some breaking news in hamilton. We are now getting some conflicting reports from dispatchers as to whether police are investigating a shooting, or a crash there. 9 on your sides timyka artist is headed to hamilton now to get information for you. Well update you as soon as we know more. Police in Fairfield Township say a mom killed her daughter, then herself. Herself. 9 on your sides Jordan Burgess is live with what weve learned since 6. Right now police are trying to asking at this point. Why . Right now all they can say is that it was a family matter. Police got to this home here on springcrest drive sometime after 7 last night. They say a Family Member had made a gruesome discovery at the home. A mother and her daughter both shot to death down in the basement. Police believe the mother killed her daughter and then shot herself. Right now theyre investigating what led to that terrible ending. Were working to get answers as well. And to find out more about just who this mother and daughter were. Reporting live Jordan Burgess. 9 on your side. Also breaking. Westwood northern boulevard is open again after a crash earlier this morning. Crews had shut it down near hopple to deal with live elecrtical wires that were in the road after a car hit a pole. Police say the driver crashed and flipped the car. Which then caught fire. They believe alcohol may have been a factor. Early this morning a driver univercity of cincinnati hitting a recycling companys sign in hamilton. Police say just after midnight they responded to the crash on route 127. Where they found a driver trapped in their car. The driver had veered off the road and hit the sign for cohan brothers recycling. The driver was aircared to uc Medical Center and is expected to be okay. This morning a man whom police say sold a stolen gun. Will be in court. Court. Police say donald cox stole the handgun from his uncle on march third. And sold it to someone in camp washington. They say cox admitted to the theft and told them he couldnt get the gun back. A warning if youre ehaded downtown today. Elm street between 14th and liberty will be closed from 9 to four today while crews perform streetcar tests. Crews will be testing the braking and Propulsion Systems of one of the four streetcars thats been delivered to cincinnati. There are detour signs for drivers so be alert if youre planning on being in the area. a new political ad has morning. You might have seen it during scandal last night. Shonda rhimes and the women who play her most famous characters got together to support a president ial candidate. Candidate. I make television filled wiht the kind of characters i imagine we all can be. The real world has Hillary Clinton clintonthe spot, in support of Hillary Clinton aired in ohio, florida and illinois. Which have primaries tuesday. It was directed by scandals tony goldwyn. Who plays president grant. Abc says this is a paid advertisement from clinton and isnt an endorsement by the network. A virginia mans phone wont stop ringing. Ringing. He has an online prank to thank for that. That. A craigslist ad asked readers to call blake webb with their best impression of chewbacca from star wars. The ad promises the caller with the best impression will win webb never posted the ad. Hes never even seen star wars. Turns out webbs friends posted the craigslist ad as a prank. He says hes received dozens of calls since the ad went up last week. Most of the time they would just go hey is this the guy from craigslist . And i was like what, and then theyd be like imitates chewbacca and i was like hello theyd be like is that good . And id be like yeah that was pretty good. Alright my name is so and so dah, dah, dah. Dah. Webbs being a good sport, saying hell keep the ad up until may the fourth. Star wars day. When fans greet each other with may the fourth be with you. Hes also planning a revenge prank for his friends. Now lets get another check of the roads. Roads. Ally has your nine first warning traffic. No traffic issues, minutebyminute updates on heres a live look outside this morning. Here is another look at your forecast. gives 7day forecast we are on our way to a fabulous friday while we start out with cloudy skies, those scoured away later this morning as a dry east wind is ushered in and High Pressure to the north nudges closer. Highs today will remain unseasonably warm in the lower 60s. The normal high this time of year is 51 degrees. Thats good morning tristate for this. Were back in 30 minutes Good Morning America is next. Next. And you can kep nine on your side. At your side have a great weekend. Good morning, america. Donald trump lines up another big endorsement from a former rival as republicans ditch the personal insults at last nights debate. I cannot believe how civil its been up here. Marco rubio and ted cruz frontrunner. Anything he wants. To you. Trump faces new questions rallies. When they see whats going on in this country they have anger thats unbelievable. States of emergency. Deadly floods drown the south. The National Guard rescuing more than 3,000 families