More than 200 homes in mentor without power after heavy winds and rain toppled trees and ripped up our allies to. It happen on mentor avenue near garfield wrote across the street from the James GarfieldHistoric Site as Roosevelt Leftwich is there. Tuesday termini here this is the tree in front of the faith avenue. This was a large tree. It missed the Fellowship Hall , are trying to clean it up also to clean up power problems. Lots of power crews upanddown mentor avenue. Right across from the garfield site as they try to restore power to people who have high heat humidity and start out rainfall then became heavier than lightning and thunder and then the power went out. We thought that the house was on fire, there was a huge explosion and it was all redo i a room and we could see that th tree was completely covering mentor avenue with sparks flying. Large branches from a tree a power lines from the long mento avenue , transformer blew as he lines were ripped from the top of the polls and twisted apart. Reducing traffic to just one way east and west boundnd, 200 homes lost power 10 00 p. M. Tuesday with high temperatures the outage cannot come at a bad time. The worst thing is that it people brought out generators to try to get through this, eve with a generator powering some fans and the fridge is still ho inside of the house the power covey said it could be several hours or a day before he gets power restored, he said d this sometimes the price you pay to live on a treelined street. Neighborhood weathers a lot of old trees, a good storm , usually there is a problem of one sort or another but hopefully this will be the end of it. This is mentor avenue, the garfield site is down the street. Here, most of the day it has just been two lanes, eas and west bound on the north sid of the road. First energy tells people here that they could hav for some people, where it goes from the pole to the house they take longer so power may not be restored until tomorrow. Cleanup underway in Cleveland Heightsts which was hit hard by last night storm. I trees blocking roads and damaging houses and cars as tha right has a look at the aftermath. Damages pretty much everywhereh, at Lutheran East High School winds toppled to massive trees. The storm came through around 10 00 p. M. Yesterday with strong winds and pounding rain, with winds gusting up to 80 mph in Cleveland Heights part of a microburst downing power lines and cutting power to about the wind knocked down branches and toppled trees some damagin homes. Very startling it felt like the house was lifted upup like they lifted the roof. At the school not damaged by the large all entries, fire chief reminds everyone to bebe very careful and keep your distance from down pwe and i can charge the surroundin ground, and first energy said power should be restored here b 10 00 p. M. Tonight, this time, about 6,000 are without power. Local Police Officer speaks out with a survivor story, recovering after being hit by a gallek is here with the courageous message ga. Cuyahoga falls officer tensing suffered injuries including a fractured pelvis. Today, for the First Time Since the july 23 crash, he was back at the department. Sundays are good and some bad. E of the crutches are temporary,y, dead diva says the smile is permanent. Thankful to be able to walk because just 18 days ago it was something he was not sure that he would be able to do again. There were two surgeries, entered diaphragm, the dr. Said that everything was pushed up into the chest cavity had a couple of broken ribs and broke pelvis. D on july 23, police say that of akron purposely rammed his pickup truck into davises cruiser. Police say that watson made this 911 call threatening to kill Law Enforcement officers. Shortly before he crashed into several hard cruisers and the Department Parking lot. Then fled the christ into davises vehicle. The guys at work with were have to care what they needed t andnd everything fell in place. 90 continues to recover with his friends and family at his side were worried that will not be able to see him up and running as he is looking. Is great that he gets a chance to see some guys, this is his home away from home. Many working and living in gouda file save their hearts nationwideh who have recently been attacked and brings you close to home, the support that we have seen is just really helping the officer. Said he will be grateful to his family, officers and the community. We start our ship, we know that we could be in my position so that we are just one great big family spentt it has a long road of recovery but says that wants to return back to work by thanksgiving. Some breaking news, going to call him suction cup guy, he is climbing up the trump tower in new york city. As far as we know, the bus in that window so he cannot go any higher. At this. He moving side to young, but perhaps experienced . Is going to be arrested. Alanna said that he started climbing when he was on the sub roof garden. You can see that window to the left is broken out. He knows what he is doing. Dont know if hes protesting something or just wants to get publicity. Iteam tracking developments and the struggle of three men t clear their names afterind conviction of murder and imprisoned 0 years as ed galle your with what happened today. Step closer to have in the case thrown out, today lawyers metos and sources close to the kc that next week it will likely b dismissed t walked out of prison last year after 20 years for murder that they said they did not command,a judge nancy russo ruling they should get a new trial, there were problems with the casesei after a witness recanted and they found that their had been evidence without so a trial set for monday but sourcesn say that at that time the charges will likely be dismissed. The hearing today was to go over possible testimony fromth a witness in the case was recentl tracked down, since we hear from multiple sources of plastic of the case f reached out to the county prosecutor office, all they will say is that the trial is set for monday sooun we will watching greet a better relationship between police and local warehouse to accomplishy through a public demonstration, he talked about plan with dave nethers joins us from the fox 8 studio at the university of akron todayydi. We are aware of the tensions betweenaw police and the tragedies that have gotten the attention. Since then ambush of police in dallas and new orleans, in recent weeks the support received has been overwhelming at roll call the officers get almost daily messages of support from people who wanted to know that they have their backs,d there does remain some pockets of distress andin james thomas a activist hopes to erase that expecting t get policea and paper in the neighborhoods that they patrol for a bike ride next month, to help further erase any divide like to see bunch of people from the neighborhoodod to come together with the police and Th Fire Department and join forces to help each other because i know that sometimes that if a crime does happenha, i want peo to be able to help out the police to help solve a crime. Has been interacting with the police departmentwi about the r which is expected to take place in september. They see the job is sometimes ugly, and happy to participate in the event to sho thosed who may not trust them that, to show who they really are. As we showed earlier, Severe Weather here can strike fast an harde. The impact can be devastating, even if you have in new york city, is causing quite a stirir dont know what you would call him perhaps the suction cup climber the daredevil climbing up the side of a, the facade of the trump tower and has been there for quite some time. Blaser tied to talk him down and we know that the spiderman who climbs buildings without suction cups he does it for trump tower, it is news. Is a muggy day today. Doesnt take much of a trigger you get this much atmospheric moisture it does no take much going as it would when you have lower dew points. All you have to do is go out there and you could just , start the thunderstormrm like that, but n really. This is from Mayfield Road and 271. At 2 00 p. M. , youll see a quick shower that occurredu. Watch how quickly atmosphere dried up. See how all the moisture will back into the atmosphere. No thunderstorms since have occurred. Theyve all been to the south and west you can see that line. That is partially responsible for the showers storms and the triggering mechanism has been a light breeze. With the moisture it is not tak much i have drawn thehe imagina line with a light northeast breeze, a lot of the it is with thunderstorms basically developing and then travel alon , a good indication of where the cluster are locateded this one moving o of sandusky. This one south of lorain elyria this one near aurora and another cluster in youngstown. These are electrically charged. It is a hot muggy afternoon most places 90 degrees toledo, they were at 97 thats without the heat index, 91 degrees fort wayne. The dewpoint of 75 is about as moisture laden as you can get. The temperature will do a comparisontu. Tonight 73. Eve storms and then tomorrow near 9 and then take a look at the percent, and then 50 percent into the weekend, 60 percent and it looks like the potential of between one and 4inch rain falls across much of ohio. I know it is the weekend, but im looking forward to that and it will dry out early next week. Do you remember some your first job was . I was really good, but it was Newspaper Delivery or sales for a paint store, the social media store has everybody digging dee into their job resume. Might be surprised at the lets get going, we are tight on time, before we start, i wan to be honest thate i cannot be bothered to read the entire article because according to a new study, it is a good thing. The study supports the theory that intelligent people spend more time via lazy then s who are more active, it shows that people with a high iq get borededit less easily, that leads them to spend more time thinkin rather than doingn conversely active people tend to be less lazy because they need to stimulate their minds with physical activitiesbet, either because they want to do less thinking or because they get bored fast theres a new trending, festa do with your past to cynically employment, it is the first seven jobs and without that we would join in the fun today. Heres bill martin. I was a Grocery Store stocker, i like the girl in the bakery section i was fired from tuxedo rentals because i was horrible. I was phenomenal shoe salesman. I worked for Montgomery Ward but in together bicycles. I worked at mcdonalds and then i started off as a radio disc jockey. I was a babysitter early on. Stop making fun that was a serious job, that was my summer job i was a corn picker. The came in and gave them one of 10 percent. Ve i worked at acres mall. I worked as a color coder who didnt know those folders you see at the dr. s office i on those and then i w a waitress. Was a warehouse they call me by my brothers name all summer, i wa a dishwasher a was a paint stor salesman was demonstrating how to stir paint but do not have the cover on tight enough i was a radio dj minot very good i worked in cedar rapids iowa, some other place here in town. Some 20 thats it. From a wide variety of backgrounds we all met together the same place. F i was a great corn picker. Pen to paper and shotot some students will not be allowed back to School Without a very like to send tracy mccool out to get a video of her picking that storms can attract bad contractors. Lorrie taylor is a vice keep from being taken in the call for action Consumer Reports enjoins us with some great info tonightc start teachers are known sho upup on peoples doorsteps to m shoddy repairs or no repairs while taking money, we got some advice. After a bad stormrm damages you property, most are not prepared to remove trees and repair rifts,r hiring the first person knocks or allow them to fix the problem before contacting the Insurance Company can create expensive problems. Its okay to cover a hole in the roof of the tarp, but dont allow repairs that correct or eliminate the problem until the insurance adjuster has signed off. Storm can help you prove the claim,he department of insurance and Insurance Institute recommend that you get several instruments and dont sign a contract that prevents you from presenting your own claim to th company o. Be present for the inspection, you dont want someone claiming damagey that does not exist or to create a know you are dealing with, research the contractors reliability by checking the Better Business bureau for complaints. And also search Court Dockets and surrounding counties to see if any lawsuits have been filed against the company and one or two may be nothing but a long list is a sure sign of unreliability or even downright dishonesty. And do not pay in full until you can reduce the odds of being taken by asking for recommendations from people tha you know call the Billing Department inner city asking wh is licensed to work in the area thats good place to start. You can now talk about some storms that were pretty rough last night. N does not take away from the damage in those locations. Today it is spotty the bigger danger is ready for looking dow very heavy, and concentrated in southern geauga and northern Trumbull County that are now gone but there are more bubblin up there could be some localize flooding. Show you what it looks like in 3d. Some tall thunderstorms in you whats happening. We have what appears to be a lake breez boundary along the line that they been moving. There is a batch approaching cedar point you can see this batch in northern portage county, is what it look like looking north which is not been much going on. Looking at the webcam time lapse out of burke lakefront airport you can see the latest batch looks like it will be coming providing rainfall in for cleveland. Thi is Cleveland Hopkins airport pantene 90 degrees, thunderstorm a bit of a cool down this one is superimposed o top. That is essentially Orlando Florida it looks simila to what we had they had a thunderstorm that called them off from 91 down to 77. So who needs Orlando Florida . When we northeast ohio. Tonight 73 should die down pretty quickly. Look how quickly that this dies on the vine, if we have 90 tomorrow the chance of late day thunderstorm. Heat dome is in place it will begin collapsing as the jet stream squeezes out lots more moisture this will be saturday sunday. With this imposition looking for showers storms and potential of heavy rainfall, that may put a nice event and the current drought. Not severe drought bu moderate. And 86, 83, saturday and sunday with lingering showers monday morning before w see a dry stretch early next to Police Officers credited with saving the life of the elderly woman who was trapped i a burning building. Jack shea joins us with the story. Took courage and strength according to their supervisor was another day at work for the two Police Officers. Amherst firefighters and police go to the pinecrest apartments on middle ridge road two Police Officers realize a disabled woman is trapped on th second floor of the burning building,t Sergeant Mike rosebeck, 16 year veteran , and patrolman brian griffin, run senate 3yearold woman, the police chief in amherst who witnessed the rescue and also agreed that they save her life. They do not think about that or themselves. They saw that there was a person who needed assistance. And problem witho thinking, their first instinct was to go up the stairwell on the second story and carrier across to the parking lot. Was amazing. This is the typical police mentality does not matter who you are part it is not matter your walk of life if you need assistance, theyre willing to put themselves in danger assist. The chief recommending that they be honored with the accommodations were told that the victim andh fix his family are grateful for the officers actions. Childrens health this year students and the ninth and 12th grades must receive meningitis vaccine. But somene of the parents sa theyre not aware of the change as Jennifer Jordan joins ussa w details. Ohio senate meningitis mandate signed by the governor last year is an effort to keep students healthy, some schools began informing parents about the new end of the last school year, bu not everyone got the memo. The new law says all incoming seventh graders must have one dose of the vaccine and all incoming 12th graders must have a second dose, will be the First School Year that it will be in place in some School Districts will allow students t attend class on the first day i the shot has not been administered, f the given a gra she was given a clean bill of healt during her backtoschool physical at the Cuyahoga County but her mother was unaware of the new law that will affect h daughter in the near future. Dr. Stressing its importance. 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Private eyes, are watching you, the new hightech gadgetar claims that it can do to keep traffic westbound is not good, thunder and lightning is booming out west. Andre bernier will track that also Melissa Myers later if you word about losing your dog orif child in a crowded place. Phoenix with that you use a personal track device to keep they unveiled a new piece of tech to clip onto the panel or child to give realtime information at all timesd they say it would be useful for pet owners. If your dog gets out you get an alertrt they have a route 2 school. Yo get an alert if they deviate from around. It is a small price for a big piece of mind. Surveying the damage, we are all over as homeowners pick up the pieces from last nights storm. Ne 19 investigating after a family not get help at 911. A suspect slams his cruiser into him as a local officer gets thankful for. Is called a microburst they say thats the cause of the damaget in some areas like Cleveland Heights. Not a tornado but it produce Straight Line winds reaching 80 miles per hour. As they clean up and another round of storms heading our way. C we have Live Team Coverage as want to know just how bad the scattered storms are for tonight, Melissa Myers has a first look at the forecast. Is gwen wright to storm fox sho you earlier, we had a Severe Thunderstorm Warning for about 15, 20 minutes for geauga county. At this. We have no watches warnings, w has some strong storms producing heavy eastnortheast between 20 and u to 40 mph. Taking a look at the one hour lyubov showers storms and a closer look to some into some areas near cedar point had an interesting time lapse. Por clinton getting a downpour. We have some showers storms near strongsville and 77. North olmsted, near the mall with rainfall and heavy rainfall therel twinsburg and cuyahoga falls. More than 5,000 lightning strikes about two hours ago. Indicated that there are some heavyvy rain producer do not concern of severe storm. We have showers storms last night that produced Severe Weather especially east with heavy rainfall mission to late late show andvy we will have the showers storms around but expected to quiet down appeared to have several chance of rainfall throughout the next several days. You have sev3ral chances to get rainfall over th next several days will break that down coming up. Last night storm causing widespread damagei in Cleveland Heights. People spent the day cleanup