We only have a few things to talk about, we are accidentfree. We do have a break for folks who take columbia parkway. We have two lanes currently closed of columbia parkway, where we had the mud slide, in torrance and taft. And we have one lane open in the westbound direction. You will be able to get through, but you will see congestion will start to occur as soon as the morning rush occurs and at 9 00 they will close both directions of the columbia parkway as they start to clean up the mudslide issue. We will have one lane closed on the airline cropper bridge northbound later today during the daytime hours, right now things are fine. You are quiet, you will see northbound lanes closed, right now the interstate is just fine. Parties. Last weekend, more than 20 student ep ended up in the hospital for drinking too much. And they other fraternities are going to be facing charges for hosting parties. Involved. From a medical perspective we can manage ta easily. One of the things that we are doing is working collaboratively with the university. They have a program in place for the those type student. The university is not releasing the names of those students who may be disciplined. Parents are scrambling to finding out why children are taking their lives. More parents are asking for support for children who are its tied to a face book challenge that says, will they miss me when im gone. We want parent to challenge their kids to say i shall live and not die. So we need every child to make a video saying that. Were trying to protect our children one by one. And there are a number of programs and forums planning to deal with this issue, including a Suicide Prevention teen summit in march. Happening now a youth pastor a us couped of raping a child is still locked up. They charged jason nemiar abusing a child under the age of 12. The abuse went on for three years. It apparently happened in his home not the church. You still have a chance to get free pizza. Its the last day of an all campus blood drive. For a free pizza from dominoes. Two local dental offices are offering free care for families with children. Lifetime smiles and the Springdale Dental Center are taking free appointments you through the program. You want more information go to local12. Com. And today is National Weathers persons day, and brandon orr is out in the snow this morning. And good morning, brandon. Sheila. We have a snowstorm going on. This is actually a late fallsnowstorm, because inside this exhibit theyre mimicking conditions in the antarctic, and down there its summertime, while its winter up here its summer down there. Its a nice chilly 34 degrees in here, rick. Thats right, its a nice 34 degrees, the snow is falling, and we are expecting more sun later on today. It should be a good weather day in the subatmosphere where the reporter in the 5 00 we had appear appear african penguin that would not like the weather here. They like temperatures between 40 and 100 degrees. These guys go into a temperatures with sometimes a dip down in the minus temperatures below zero, but we try to keep it at a good balmy 34 degrees in here, and it fluctuates during winter and summer. Reporter it looks good in here, but let me tell you the smell, im not just talking about fish, rick. Okay, so when you have an enclosed spot and feedlots of fish its one of those things, its one of our opportunities to really share with people how, what it would smell like if you were in a large colony of penguins, so what they eat is a lot of fishes, and what you know, food in and food out, and it comes out in the other end. We maintain, hygiene is very big in our exhibit. We have keepers that work in here three times a day coming in here cleaning everything up. The Water Quality is excellent. The fresh snow, the penguins love eating the fresh snow, and its just a great opportunity for people to come and see a really diverse population of penguins here. We have six species of penguins found around the world in the southern hemisphere. Our african penguins, we got the king penguins, which is the second largest penguin in the world, the gentu, which is the Third Largest pen penguin, the macaroni pen bin, and theyre all amazing animals. They will live together, so this is a great slice out of Saint Georges island where you see the multiple species of fen begins penguinsliving in large colonies. Reporter im just 15 minutes. That is 200 poops an hour. Theres a lot of pooping going on in here. Thats like a baby. People are eating breakfast. Stop this. Best live shot ever, brandon has got math skills. I love it. Thank you, brandon. He brought it home from a sensory experience for me now. Now i get it. Penguins is one than more than 65 exhibits. Food in and food out. Were at 19 degrees, guys. Its chilly. A new place will open tonight, inside the a 19th century 6 6 10 this morning in cincinnati refine. Why you should spend the night. It stands a 19th century mansion, with a restaurant and bar not to be missed. Keep in mind the restaurant only serves food when theres a music show. The bar hosts jazz live music on the weekends and theres one the decorative includes huge four poster beds, sill ken linens. The Symphony Hotel was cool before otr. You can check it all at cincinnati refine. We are at 19 degrees, but we will get warmer today as we edge into the midat noon, low 40s, a few clouds will push in late day. The weekend is looking a lot warmer. We will detail the warmest weekend and talk about how things are going to change for the colder into early next week. That ising come up in minutes, reporter were accidentfree to start the morning, the interstate look great out there, we have an issue that could cause big problems for folks, and take columbia parkway toward West Downtown in the northward direction. Its down to one lane. Two lanes are blocked at the torrance task entrance exit ramp there. So keep that in mind, its going to cause some congestion during westbound. Close both directions between bane and torrance. Right now we are look at interstates, no major delays out there. All right, going meat less, but its a 6 15 and teams of mosquito sprayers are across florida right now. Florida climate puts 20 million of residents at risk for the z ika virus. The senator is asking the cdc to rush zika tefght and testing kits. Social media is buzzing about a capitol hill meeting looking at high priced drugs, and the man who made a spectacle of it. He tweeted that they were idiots afterwards. He was subpoenaed to testify before congress, he took the 5th but then refused. He is known for hiking the price of a drug for a par dick dick tick infection by more than 500 . They are covering the water 3 facing a contaminated water supply. The water would include drinking water. The democrats wanted to double the money so residents would be fully credited. Meet conception is down in the u. S. Here in the but they want to still, more than a third of americans say they eat vegetarian meals once a week, even white castle and wendys have veggie burgers on the mean uright menu right now. Most people dont watch the game, its about the commercials. They will sing all the big hits, and promises beyonce will perform, but the number of any surprised guests, Lady Gagawill perform the National Anthem on sunday. Time show. Valentines day is approaching, and the search is on for love and romances. The on love dating site dash dot company. Cam. Comis releasing a few tips. Going for sushi increasing the likelihood of a second date by 170 . A an expensive restaurant boosts your chances and talking pos ticks ups your chances of another date, and when texting or the use of lol and that hikes your chances of 45 . What never to do. Using the term on greek, reduces your chances by 25 . Were on flick. Youre 107 less likely if you skip dinner or drink. And matt says the first dinner should last at least 2 1 2 hours. Had you are you going to get to star wars in time . Not that i was ever food at good at dating. I dont i ever had one good date. I couldnt do it now. Do you know how glad i am i dont have to do that anymore. I couldnt do this stuff. Sushi on the first day. 255 . Give me the fish, lets go. I dont know. Everyone behind the cameras they must clear and brandon is shaking his head. On point, why not just say on point. That is not cool. That was cool 30 years ago. Okay. The rap songs from 30 years ago. Im going to knock you out. Im going to knock you out if you dont let me do this spot. Looking the at roads this morning we do have issues going on at columbia parkway. Were talking about a mudslide that happened while were still dealing with the issues. Two lanes are blocked on the westbound direction headed toward downtown, right now near torrance and taft. At 9 00 a. M. They are going to shutdown both directions between bane which is closer to downtown some clean up. Right now you can get through, but that can cause some congestions. As we look at 275 near the Carol Cropper. Right now things are quiet, they will shutdown one lane northbound at the 275 at the hours to do construction. Dont worry its just temporary. Volume of traffic, down near kyles lane, were not seeing any major delays, but the interstates other than columbia parkway. Its smooth sailing on a friday morning. Its cold, when you head out the door layer up, we will be in the low 20s and upper teens throughout the morning. Later today, they are just a little bit warmer. The weekend will get a lot warmer. Theres a view downtown, the a drum atrium, and were looking at a cold morning with warmer weather expect into the afternoon and the weekend is going to feature a nice warm up. In fact, tomorrow we get in the upper 40s, and near 50 degrees on sunday, but soak all of that up, because earlier next week, an arctic blast of cold air is coming and that will be coming with a touch of snow. Southsouthwest making for a windchill of 14 degrees. We will be in the low 20s at by then, sunshine will fill the skies early today. By noon, were in the mid30s, we will make it into the low 40s by late day. The afternoon will turn out warmer than what it was yesterday. Expect a few clouds to arrive late this afternoon into the evening as we dip back in the 30s, 19 at warsaw, harrison at noon degrees, and middletown at 21, and the 19 here in cincinnati, 13 degrees colder than what it was yesterday morning. You will note the skies are clear, yesterdays clouds had moved east. We do expect a few clouds to move very late this afternoon into this evening, but all clear across the region, radar is quiet as you might imagine. And the radar is quiet as we take you through the day. Lots of sun, some clouds will arrive later in the afternoon as we get up to 42 degrees. Upper 30s as we head northeast of cincinnati. Tonight some clouds roll in. Tomorrow morning, were back in the 20s, tomorrow afternoon, we will see a blend of sun and your saturday. Temperatures rise into the midand upper 40s saturday afternoon, and taking through through saturday night, some clouds will roll back in, sunday morning lows, close to the freezing mark, sunday afternoon we get a little warmer, but temperatures in the upper 40s to near 50 degrees areawide. Sunday is looking excellent. As we take you through sunday night, theres going to be an arctic cold front coming from the west in early monday morning. That is going to be a game changer, enjoy the 50degree reading on sunday. As the arctic front comes through, we will see rainshowers, eventually snow showers on sunday, monday, and even wednesday, and temperatures are going to be a good 10 niven degrees below normal. That will 1015 degrees below normal that will put the highs in 50 degrees. Increasing clouds late not as cold and tonight mid30s at 8 00, 35 at midnight and we will see partly to cloudy skies, sunday and then its downhill from there, monday 40, thats a morning high, temperatures falling through the day, so morning rainshowers changing to snow showers and we will see scattered snow showers around tuesday and wednesday near freezing for a high tuesday, wednesday, we wont even make it to freezing. A high of 27, and we will finally start to clear the morning snow showers on thursday as temperatures edge back close to the freezing mark. Back to you. Its 6 23, and the favorite super bowl moment today on facebook, were talking about a retired popolicece 6 26, were talking about moments. On facebook, we want to know was it your favorite half time show, favorite commercial game moment. Whatever. In favorite game moment, they admit up front. Not favorite but certainly memorable. Mr. Lomax, you mentioned this. If youre eating breakfast right now, you are going to get this image in your head, brian said not my favorite moment, but the one thing that got stuck in my mind. That injury kept us from winning the trophy and its one of the most. Likele says love the little vader. The commercial. The little darth vader. I love that one, too. They got the automatic starter. That was a great commercial whether you Like Star Wars or not. And this was just a wonderful, wonderful moment. For the country, i think when Whitney Houston sang the National Anthem. No one has ever done it as well. You know what, i think, you think about lady gaga i think she is going to nail it. She is going to plant a voice, but we will see. She can handle pressure she might wear a meat suit breaking news a he lerts on a alerts onthe hour by hour forecast. It should be our right to treat our children with a promising medicine that is showing effective, its showing to be effective in 23 other states. Demanding medical marijuana, now at 6 30, a local mom pleads her case to ohio lawmakers. Were in over the overtherhine this morning at the sign of what will be a Brand New Grocery store. We will have details coming up. Representing it the tristate, the local commercial and local stars you dont want to miss on sunday super bowl. That is such a great story. Good morning, thank you for joining us on friday. You have made it until the end of the week. Its cold, you better bundle up this morning. We will be in the teens. We can get through this. Were going to warm up, right john. Power through the weekend, and friday morning is bringing the coastest temperatures in of the week. And hamilton has dipped to 18 degrees. A cold start at warsaw, 19 there, 18 at sardinia and west union, 20 at oxford, and here is our downtown cincinnati. The weather cam where its 19 at the airport, a little bit of a breeze making for a windchill of 14. Radar is qai et, we quiet. We will end the day with a blend of sun and clouds. Low 20s later this morning, as a bit of a rise later after sunrise, by the rush hour mid i 30s were edging with the lower 40s with a few clouds arriving later, and we will step you through next week, because next week be prepared for an arctic blast coming our way. Its going to feel like february, even colder than temperatures coming up. Right nowlet check the morning drive, here is jen. Reporter we look good out there. Volume of traffic is still light. Not seeing any major congestion. Its a problem we have to deal its a headache for folks who have to travel toward downtown westbound, two lanes are enclosessed one lane is open so you can get through at torrance and William Howard taft, tou to the slow lanes they have had to shutdown two lanes at the westbound direction. At 9 00 a. M. Today, they will actually have both directions closed between bane and between taft so doaght directions will be closed after the morning rush. Right now you can get on westbound columbia parkway. A lot of folks use that to head downtown this morning. You may want to think about an alternate route. Unfortunately we dont have cameras so i cant show you if were congested i71sphaif not too heavy. We have construction going on at the Carol Cropper bridge, but for now back to john. 6 30, and the issue of making marijuana legal in ohio they are Holding Meetings about legalizing it for medical reasons. Luci has pawlsy palsy, and epilepsy and the medications she takes now have you ever thought of moving to another state . Well, of course, that is one of the extraordinary choices in front of families like mine. Uprooting our Fragile Families to legal states like so many others are doing. I mean its a phenomenon called cannabis refugee. Right now medical marijuana is legal in twee states. Happening tomorrow, friends and family will get the streets for a ghost ride in honor of a man who was killed while bicycling, a vehicle hit him and left the scene. Melinda woodall is accused of tomorrows ride will leave at the parking lot at 2 00. You might notice we are wearing red today. A lot of people will be, because february is american heart month and todays national go red day for women. The American Heart Association want to raise awareness approximate Heart Disease and the toll it takes on women. Heart disease and strokes kill a woman every 80 second. Local hospitals encourage you to schedule a well visit the today. Well, a new urban Grocery Store backed by a local chef is said to open in overtherhine as early as this fall. The plan is to sell fresh and local ingredients and megan moore is live with all of the details. Good morning, megan. Reporter you know, thats right, if you are at findlay country, you can know you can go there and get fresh foods there all the time. And they hope this Grocery Store is going to compliment that. Right now the 1800 block, this for a full service Grocery Store here for a little while now. Of course, it doesnt look like much now, but its going to look very different come this fall. Im here with meredith, youre the owner of fresh table, good morning. Good morning. Reporter this is your idea. We talked earlier just a little bit about how this came to be be but we want to talk a little bit more about what this is going to look like come september. Well, the whole facade were going to keep, and its got a great italian kind of facade. The store will reflect that inside. Its kind of a post industrial feeling, but with some really modern touches such as ipad ordering in the restaurant lunch counter on the back of the store. Checkout will be speedy with mobile ipads as well, you know. So within keeping the historic nature of it, and the market district, there will be pretty you will be really surprised, i think. Reporter definitely and for anybody used to going into findlay market, this is going to compliment what theyre already doing. Absolutely. We will have different types of things, maybe some fresh flowers, bread, so some things that you cant get all the time, and will be open on mondays and in the evenings after the market closes at 6 00 and at 4 00 on sundays. Reporter and coming up in a little bit, were going to talk about just how this is going to help with some job growth in the area as well. Absolutely. Thank you. Of course, we will send it back to you, guys. The epicureaned america entile epicurean mercantilemarket. And big brothers and big sisters will feature in a commercial during the game. Features then and now stories of littles matched then. One of those littles is grown up and happens to be the president of sales at tql. Still when i look back at my personal development, i look back at the mental and guiding conversations we had back then. They are announcing of theyre donating 40 nowdz to big 40,000 to big brothers and big sisters. The spot is scheduled to air some time after 8 00. Isnt that great . Yes. It is 6 37 now and then there were two. Whap what happened as bernie battled it out during a dede 20 minutes until 7 00, the coldest morning of the week, 19 right now, but its going to get a little warmer this afternoon, at least compared with yesterday. 36 at noon, low 40s late day. A lot of sun, the clouds end the day. The weekend is looking a lot warmer and then our attention is turning toward frigid air, we will have details coming up in the Weather Authority forecast, jen. Reporter we only have one issue and its the lanes blocked lanes blocked at torrance taft, headed toward downtown. The issue of mudslide, they still having issues with that. At 9 00 theyre going to shutdown both directions at bane and torrance. Right now you can get to both directions, we have eying volume of were seeingvolume of traffic, but nothing major on our roads. Back to you. A retired Police Officer finally getting his wish. After weeks of back and forth, the marietta officer will keep his canine partner. And he only had to pay 1. It turned out that he only had to find one statute. When the police department, when at the disband a k9 unit, the k9 unit gets the first chance to buy his partner. Fundraising to raise more to keep his dog a jack, the money is not going to go to waste, its going to charity. A lot of that money is going to help other canine officer. To protect the of dogs. Its a win for the dog, its a win for mr. Hickey and its a win because all of that money is going to get donated. Find that statute. You know, were going to have puppies here in the studio, real puppies, stick around and hear how can you get up close cuddle with puppies here in cincinnati. Some say thee welcome back, new this morning, maurice white, the leader of the band earth wind, and fire is dead. He died in his sleep. One of the band you know, wednesday, shining star, and sing a song. White was a drummer in chicago as teenager playing on songs for people like, tell us fast, and eddie james. Got on see him in concert at river bend. Incredible group. This morning, two new york city officers are recovering after being shot in a bronx housing project. Three officers were on patrol in the project when they ran into two men. One of the men started shooting at them. Arrived to find a gunman dead of a gunshot wound. As fireworks between the democrats, Hillary Clinton faceoff and their first debate without martin omalley, they fought on tackling wall street and fro progressive values. Right now clinton is trailing the vermont senator in new hampshire. I dont think it was progressive to vote against the brady bill five times. I dont think it was progressive to vote against lawmakers. Its dividing american democracy and allowing congress to represent wealthy donald trump will be back tomorrow night as 7 of the 9 remaining gop candidates faceoff. The grammy winner is putting out a new gaming app. We dont know much, but the app blue mobile made the kardashian mobile app had a that made millions. Taylor swift is a money making machine. Should the monday after the super bowl be a national holiday. 45 of workers know someone who came in sick, or came up with some kind of excuse to miss work that day. A consultant was 170 million in lost productivity. Rather than focus on work, employers are often discussing the game from the night before or theyre less motivated to work, because they had too much to drink or too much to eat. There was a push to turn the day after the super bowl a national holiday, but the petition only got 25,000 signature. A survey say that most are in favor of moving the game to saturday night which makes sense that makes more sense. It gives lower tv ratings. Theres no way. Its a destiny. Its appointment television. Sleep saturday night. Yeah, you do. Party. But into its sort of our job to talk about it the next day. Its hard when you go to bed at kickoff time. I look to getting sucked into the game. These two, however, will be up until 11 00. I will, because its my husbands birthday on sunday. Happy birthday and he does get monday off as a holiday, because he gets a day off for his birthday. You will fill us in on monday. Jen is going to fill us in on what is happening. I did. John, happy birthday john gumm, i think he will miss it his birthday is today, its National Weather first day. Its try fect. Its great. Looking on the roads, i do im hearing that one lane has owe represented reopened on columbia parkway, and only one lane is open. Two lanes westbound is open. You will see flashing lights near taft and torrance, because of the mudslide issues we have been dealing with all week. At 9 00 a. M. , theyre going to shutdown columbia parkway in both directions between bane and torrance, and that is going for threne up in the area. That will be after the morning rush. You can get through but you will see congestion right now. As we look at interstates, were starting to see the typical delays, i71 i75, and 275 heavy as well this morning. The Carol Cropper bridge is not heavy right now. Starting at 9 00 a. M. Or after that, after the morning rush in the morning, theyre going to be doing construction, just temporary. They will have one lane shutdown northbound, temporary construction there. The cold were having this morning temporary. Great. Its going to warm up in the 40s and the 50s. Lets checkout the weekend forecast, it will get you through the cold morning, upper clouds. Partly cloudy, close to 50 degrees on sunday. An excellent weekend not as warm as last weekend but still abovenormal. Theres the view in downtown, we have clear skies and its rather cold, 19 at the airport with a very light breeze from the southsouthwest that is making for a windchill of 14. You will need the big coat this morning. We start in the low 20s, by midday were in the mid30s. By noon as warm as it was all day yesterday, lot of sun through the start of the day, clouds arrive late day that will edge into the low 40s late this afternoon. Its about 6 degrees armer than the high was yesterday afternoon. Back in the 30s tonight with clouds working through the area. Lots of teens on the map, 18 in and 19 in crittenton, and ver ailes in the teens. Clear skies around here, High Pressure moving in. That is going to keep the weather quiet through the weekend. Cloud back in illinois and missouri will arrive late today. Other than that, were looking at quiet weather conditions through tonight. 19 degrees here in cincinnati and that 19 is 13 degrees colder than what we had this time yesterday. Despite that, we will get warmer this afternoon, theres the clouds arriving late day and passing clouds tomorrow night. By tomorrow morning were down in the 20s, not quite as cold as this morning. Tomorrow afternoon, upper 40s as we get into sunday. We will hit a High Temperature close to 50. Late sunday, 9 00, showers developing west of cincinnati. This is an arctic cold front that is going to move through late sunday night, early monday morning bringing some rainshowers as colder air spills in late sunday. We will see rainshowers and flurries and next week temperatures anywhere from that is going to put highs in the 20s and 30s into next week with scattered snow showers monday, tuesday, even into the wednesday timeframe. Things will be getting colder. Today were getting warmer up to 42 degrees, increasing cloud late day, not as cold as yesterday and in the mid30s late tonight. We will dip around 31 at midnight. Partly cloudy to mostly cloudy overnight, a low of 25, upper 40s tomorrow into sunday, and lets take a look at what happens next week, because we have to. 40 monday, that will probably be a morning high, temperatures falling through the day monday with those Early Morning rainshowers changing to snow showers, and then scattered snow showers around tuesday. Tuesday night into wednesday, low 30s, barely above freezing are. Wednesday we wont make it above freezing and we will get around the freezing mark into thursday of next week as the snow showers start to move out. Lows theyre going to dip down into the teens into the middle the trend is to eventual lee get eventually get colder. Attracting the snow showers, its been updated in the app store, and google play. Just search for wkrc. Guys what have you got over puppies. This is the a look when you dont get a puppy. We will tell y y welcome back, everyone, sometimes in life you have need to ride somewhere, and sometimes you need a puppy, and sometimes you need more. And you can get all of that done thanks to uber. We got casey here from uber, general manager of uber uber here this morning. Thank you, bob. We heard this puppy uber thing at different markets across the country. Talk to people who need puppy love. Everybody needs puppy love every now and then. Today from 11 00 to 6 00 p. M. In cincinnati, can you open your app and instead of normally connecting you with a vehicle like we normally do. You can get connected with a puppy for 15 minutes of smuggle time. It goes from 11 00 a. M. To 3 00 p. M. , and the puppies come from the league of animal welfare. Great opportunity to mention that the league for cincinnati is having a special event. Interest and in other markets, we have had over 70 animals get adopted through the course of the year. That is happening right on valentines day so you can find more pet food. Com. Demand will be very high as you might imagine. For 15 minutes you get a cuddle time. You cant adopt on the spot. No, but you can get it later. In all the market this has gone really, really well not just for adopting the a animal, but the reaction of people who have had puppy time. People go nuts. They go nuts. Its our absolutely most pop ular thing thing that we do. Its the magic of uber plus puppies. All you have to do is open the app, and theres a puppy reflex at the bottom of the app, theres a special puppy button. That gives you 15 minutes of play time. Go to star 64. Thanks, casey