Thanks for being with us. We will get you back to rio in just a little bit. Imagine being put away for almost 20 years. Three men who spend more of their life inside prison walls been outside them were exonerated. A judge dismissed their case. The reaction of reporter they are known as the East Cleveland three and served 20 years for a crime they did not commit. They knew they were wrongly accused and they never gave up hope. Eugene johnson, derek weeds annemarie slaughter all woke up today bracing for the possibility of a new trial. One that could potentially overturn their 1996 conviction in the shooting death of clifton hudson. A judge decided to dismiss their case altogether. They freed th the court rooms applause spoke volumes. The wrongfully accused spoke next. I think god that he said us free. Im sorry my parents cant be here to see this day. I know they are with me. They are looking down from heaven. I knew this day would come. Reporter the men were released from prison last year after the Innocence Project brought their case to life. An unfair conviction. He had written a letter to police urging them to conceal Certain Records while key witnesses were kept from the jury. A primary witness had also changed her testimony. These men are just trying to get their lives back together but you can imagine that is a very difficult things to do after all of this time. We have a little bit more about what we learned their experiences were like wine bars and how they dealt with all of this. What kind of restitution or compensation comes with this . That is unclear. Reporter that will be coming. People who are wrongly sent away are entitled to some compensation. The fbi said they now charged in anchorman accused of shooting a young woman in the Cuyahoga Valley National park. Hikers found the young woman shot and barely alive along the path last month. A man drove her to the park and said he wanted to try out his gun before robbing someone. That is when he shot her three times in the face and head. Investigators were able to track you like through facebook posts and phone calls. Eli is facing attended murder charges. He was the passenger going through a lorraine taco bell last night when he was killed. The person behind it was is still out there. Authorities have identified the victim as robert to me zach. This appears to be a case of an attempted robbery that escalated. Police are not saying how he was killed. It is an incident that has some neighbors in the area scared your seeing this made me think otherwise of this town. I will still live here because i think this town will boom again. The suspect left the scene on foot and was wearing yellow dangerous. Thousands were stranded on the turnpike yesterday after a deadly accident near sandusky. A sevenyearold girl was killed. Seven others were injured. A truck driver came flying into the traffic way too fast and crashed into six cars. Carter has been charged with vehicular assault and aggravated regular homicide. The man appeared in court this morning. The young girl who was killed has been identified. She is Madison Creek and from new york state. A new twist in the fate of the gazebo where to erase was shot. A Chicago Museum official says they have no agreement to display the gazebo. A cleveland councilman says it is expected to be displayed at the stony island arts bacon chicago. A museum spokesperson says despite discussions, no decisions have been made. It is the latest twist in the speculation of the structures future. Last week, we were not know what it would be or how it would do. Any break from that pattern . I think everybody wants to know how they have to dress. It is more of the same. We just cant quite get a break from this unsettled human pattern that we are humid pattern. Humid pattern that we are stuck in. There are still some isolated sprinkles before the most part, the heavier rain and thunderstorms are to the west of us. A development over southern ohio that we are keeping an eye on for the night tonight. That will continue to move north. The rain that is out to the west of us has to make it through northern ohio. That would be wave one. We will have another wave of Rainy Weather that comes through with the latter part of the we will continue to have sprinkles this evening. We will keep an eye out for the thunderstorms that could make it here. We will be getting into nighttime cooling rather than daytime heating. That will help to temper things. That is the way things have gone for us the last several days. At least that is some good news. We need some dry rather to perk our spirits. We still need more rain. It is a game we will play in the forecast. T republican president ial candidate donald trump spent the afternoon in youngstown today delivering his speech on foreignpolicy. He was introduced by Rudy Giuliani and his running mate mike pence. Trump called for a policy shift. Critical of president obama and Hillary Clinton, calling their decisions are running the iraq policies led to an expansion of isis and threats the peace around the world. Incidents after incidents prove again and again that Hillary Clinton lacks the judgment, stability, and temperament and the moral character to lead our nation. Spectrum continued his call for a more stringent immigration in the cold war, we had an ideological Screening Test. The time is overdue to develop a new Screening Test for the threats we face today. I call it extreme batting. More and these are problems like we have never had. Trump laid out a plan that calls for partnering with any nation willing to fight islamic terrorism, specifically mentioning russia. Such partnerships would involve joint military operations, says trump. It was a day to remember. Steve latourette served northeast ohio through three different decades. Today, his life wa as you know, he died two weeks ago after a battle with pancreatic cancer. The funny congressman was known for reaching across the aisle on issues important to the region. He Left Congress frustrated with the mounting gridlock in 2012. He was 62 years old. The coast guard unveiled new video of helicopter rescues this weekend as the historic edwards announced that the federal government declared a major disaster. Four parishes fall under the declaration including east baton rouge. The governor says he expects more to be added. They are warning people to stay inside and not go sightseeing. We dont need you to be out if you dont need to be out. It is not a sightseeing thing. We are asking you to stay in your homes place for you at this time. Officials said more than 20,000 people have been rescued from their homes. 10,000 are currently residing in emergency shelters. 18 curfew in effect as protests turned violent for a second night on sunday. One person was shot overnight and one fire was started not demonstrators gathered after officers killed an armed 23 yearold who fled police at a traffic stop. It has been 24 hours since we learned ryan lochte and three of his teammates were robbed in real. All four are okay. The suspects posed as Police Officers and only took wallace and money. Ryan lochte says at first he refused to cooperate and in the gunman put a weapon to his head. Today, he and mil showed his reaction. I said, excuse me . I could not believe it. Every time i travel internationally, we always make sure everything is very secure, no matter where i am going. I have a team who is personally looking out for everything. Usa we are is protected as we can be. For me, i have been to brazil multiple times. The athletes will be interviewed. Rio police say this has been a largely crime free olympics. Akron is preparing to shine in real. Rio. Is one of the darlings of this game this is day 10 of the summer olympics. We have been waiting to see this. You will see them in primetime tonight. Sara shookman is live in rio. Reporter it is time to get pumped up about tonight and i competing tonight. Clayton murphy and shawn barber and they needed to come together tonight as they go for gold. Clayton murphy one hit one of eight men running in the mens 800 m finals tonight at 9 30 pm. In the semi finals, he ran his personal best. He will have to do it again and may be better to go home with a goldmedal. The university of akron is one of 12 competing tonights finals. He is part of an elite group known as the 6 m club in pole vaulting. Only 19 pull walters have ever reached at tight. He lives in akron but followed in his fathers footsteps, competing with team canada. I got a chance to talk to the 19 masterminds that specialize in olympic shoes to shake any possible moments that tinker and Toby Hatfield have a race at all. Coming up at 6 pm, i will show you how seans shoes could give him the edge he needs to win tonight. Another ohio athlete moved forward. Toledos erik canard the next fifth, high enough to finish to qualify for the final a high jump. He won silver in the 2012 games. We will be following him in the final tomorrow all about akron. I am heading to the track and i will get to talk to clayton and shawn as they finish up. We will have good news to send back to you after tonight. Do those shoes come in high heels . Reporter i think that would be too much weight. We have to keep it simple and keep the spikes as small as possible. Then i will stay on the how do you introduce this segment . I feel like we should single segment from white christmas. Interestingly enough, you have a purple tie. You had one this color in your desk, didnt you . Sure. Do you want to join on this . I think three is a crowd. The green on the radar does not quite match with the purple. It is one of those opposite things. Here is a look at your radar. Novel what is happening. There are some sprinkles across the area. To the west, this whole plug of moisture will miss us. It is going northeast. Ohio. A lot of times that gets the atmosphere amped up. With this humidity going on, there are plenty of moisture for us to work with. That will continue to the northeast. We will be keeping an eye on that later tonight. The big picture shows this. An incredible amount of moisture in the eastern half of the country. The one thing you have to look at is how all of this is moving northward. It is basically golf moisture that is coming in from the deep south, th happening in louisiana. It is feeding into this pipeline through the midmississippi valley and into the lower great lakes. It is not only what we see on the radar but we are talking about upper parts of the atmosphere. This is known as water vapor. This is a satellite product. It is sensing how much moisture is in the middle layers of the atmosphere. When you see these bright colors, there is a ton of ton of moisture at the bottom of the atmosphere. It is literally a pipeline of moisture that continues to feed northward. That is why we have been in these incredibly humid conditions. That is why it has been so rainy and cloudy as well. We have been on the lucky side of things. We have 30 inches with historic flooding. They have had a lot of rain in that kind of cuts off as we get to northeast ohio. We have many areas that have picked up a halfinch to upwards of 3 inches of rain in total over four days. We were spared from a lot of the really nasty weather in the form of flash flooding because a lot of that ends up falling off to the west of us. We stop temperatures in the 70s and we still have scattered daytime temperatures will start in the mid70s. It will be more of the same nastiness. We will probably see some peaks of sunshine as we go through the day tomorrow but once we get into the peak daytime heating, we will see scattered thunderstorms developing and those could become likely as the front starts to make their way closer to us. As we go through the day tomorrow, we are just going to be more susceptibl southeasterly winds at 10 miles per hour. Waves are at 2 feet or less for tomorrow. Your Window Nation 7day forecast takes us into the mid 80s tomorrow. That is banking on some sunshine and scattered showers. Finally, if you look at monday, now it is time for access to tonights summer game schedule brought to you by ohios number one hospital, Cleveland Clinic your part of nbcs primetime coverage includes track and field where we crown a champion in the womens 400 m. Gymnastics and the mens apparatus finals plus diving where you will see qualifying in the mens 3 m lets look at what is trending today. Gabby douglas has had a rough road in rio. She is heartbroken over what she is calling online bullying. She did not put her hand over her heart during the national anthem. Gabbys mom says people criticize everything from her hair to accusations that she there was a crabbing after the spotlight went to simone biles. In one interview, gabby said she had to stay away from the internet because the comments were so hurtful. She has no regrets on returning to the olympics. You think life is perfect for some people. The nightly show with Larry Willmore on Comedy Central has been canceled after a disappointing 19 month run. Willmore was a regular on the daily show with jon stewart and was given his own spill spinoff show. The network was pi traction with the recently finished political conventions. They fell flat. Chris hardwick at midnight will shift to a half hour earlier to take its place when they get going in the fall. Still ahead, it is the biggest win of your life and you own your gold medal. Did you know who wants a piece about hardware . Uncle sam. Y ryan lochte and the crew will be tearing big checks because of those metals. Tens of thousands of kids got back into the swing of the a month after 9 11, i got a call from david and he told me he was going into the national guard. He was sent to iraq to be a gunner on a humvee. A car pulled up in the driveway and three soldiers got out, and the sound of their boots as they came up those stairs will, its a fate that i would not wish on anybody, not anybody. When i saw donald trump attack another gold star mother, i felt such a sense of outrage. Wife, she was standing there, she had nothing to say, she probably. I would like to tell donald trump what it feels like, the sense of emptiness, that only losing a child can bring. Those people should be honored and treated with kindness for the rest of their life, priorities usa action is responsible for the contents of this advertising. Now it is time for the big three. Were taking a look at the top three stories trending in avon. A construction worker was hit and killed while on the job in avon today. We will get you a live picture in the construction zone. Police tell us a worker was directing a dump truck when the dump truck hit him and killed him. The name of the victim has not been released. We know that j cox road is closed between chester and detroit. This could affect the evening commute. Declared for louisiana. Flooding this weekend has left tens of thousands without a home. There were multiple helicopter rescues pulling people from rooftops and cars. At least 2 feet of rain fell over a 48 hour period following a dry spell for southern louisiana creating the disaster. Experts say this is a once in 1000 years weather occurrence. After winning those gold medals at the olympics, uncle sam is reaching for some gold for every goldmedal american athletes, they are taxed 9900. The goldmedal comes with cash, 25 grand. Uncle sam wants a piece. It is known as the victory tax. Michael phelps comes out to 55,000 just this cycle. We have no information from streetsboro where hazing alti director and the assistant band director of the job. We told you about the story last week. Now we have learned those allegations include pushing underclass students into a lake at band camp, mocking underclass students and wrapping students in plastic wrap. In an update posted online, the School Superintendent said he is aware that many are disbanding the actions online calling a tradition and teambuilding but wants people to know that the behaviors suspended but the school is looking to hire an interim director. 40,000 students in the cleveland area headed back to class today. Carly flynn morgan joins us now with a look at how things went on the very first day. It is hard to believe that summer flew by and we are talking back to school. Reporter we talked to some parents who said it was rough getting out the door this morning. Things are looking up Graduation Rate has increased 14 over the last 80 years and enrollment is up also. We talked to the district ceo. Erica gordon visited a dozen schools today. Things went well and kids were in their classrooms. We also ran into some parents shuttling their kids to and from school. Today has been crazy. It is the first day back. It was pretty excited. We are excited. Reporter today is a very important day. Administrators are looking ahead to november. That is when voters will decide if they will renew a tax levy generating millions of dollars for this school district. I will have more on that story coming up at 6 pm and 7 pm. Live in cleveland, carly flynn morgan, channel 3 news. Just seeing you in your rain jacket makes me k find my gloves. You may be watching and thinking my kids are not back yet. We have some news for some of you. Pediatricians suggest parents get kids in bed earlier during these last few weeks of summer. If your kid has allergies, be sure to speak to the administration and school nurse and develop an action plan before the year begins. Dont forget to see a doctor to update all vaccines, get sports physicals and test for potential vision or hearing brecksville has a new option for emergency healthcare. This is metro helps a new emergency department, just opened this morning. It is along a major artery. It even has its own helipad so lifelike choppers can land there. The Emergency Care facility will operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Most women will tell you that they value their hair as part some loser due to heredity. For those who are losing for no reason, it can be frightening. Monica robins joins me now to talk about a personal experience and what you learn from it. Reporter just a few weeks ago, the fda canal the consumer alert about when. A lot of people were complaining that their scalp was itchy. They were losing their hair and they were getting rashes. Ive been using this stuff for a long time and i was having information. I found jeffrey paul hair restoration salon in a fairview park. They do something there called psychology. When i learned is everything i have been doing my entire life with my hair had been wrong. If you would have asked me if my hair is dry, i would have said yes. I dont know about you, but in my shower, when my hair felt dry, i used this one. If my hair fell normal, i used this one. I was using this two or three times a week. My hair was falling out. My scalp was itchy. What i learned was i did not have dry hair. The root of my problem was my scalp. I found out that the itch was from oily scalp. That blew my mind. How can you go through that process . There is a scalp check. They check the ph in the hydration and dandruff on your then the thing that really got me was they put a camera on their. I could see the oriole and what looked like a gel like material on my hair. The other thing they did was put a black light on it where you can see bacteria. We all need some oil on our hair but the problem is that some of us make more than we should. That is my case. One of the things we are going to show you tonight is i went through a treatment process to help me get this back together. My mi cu i have a lot of work to do. What i learned that everyone can follow is to make sure you are using a very mild detergent when you wash your hair. Make sure you really got in there and scrub your scalp and when you dry your hair, get a really good chamois sham. Dont rub, just squeeze the water. So you set a process and analysis. That sounds pricey. 75. It was an eyeopener. These are for someone who was really having a serious problem and they are not sure what to do and they cant figure out a cause. To go through the entire treatment process, if it comes to that, it is pricey. It can go from 500 700 at the entire treatment process is designed for your individual need. Depending on what you need is how much it co using the wrong shampoo . Are the words i should look for . I wish i could tell you. There is nothing. The most important thing you can do is talk to your hairstylist. At them what is the mildest detergent you can be using on your hair and then when you pour the shampoo in your hand, make sure you are multiplying it and you are getting in there to clean your scalp. Think of it as a facial for your scalp. We do this for our basis. It is just as important for our very important for anyone having hair loss. Needles and the olympics. The start of controversy but a new trend called dry needling is legal and helping athletes in pain. Mens volleyball with a the gold medal finals, the womens golf, simone biles does it again. She wins for their gold medal in rio, an average of 15. 966 to clinch the top spot. She becomes the first us woman to become an olympic champion on bolt. Lets olympics and day 10. We go to mens volleyball where the United States continues to play very well. Usa, mexico, the americans sweep. Three sets to none. An Overall Record of 41. The United States earns a trip to the quarterfinals. Womens 3000 m steeplechase, emma colburn broke the american record and won a bronze medal. Broke her own record. She is the First American to win in spiegel chase. The United StatesMens Basketball Team last night, another tight game. They beat france but only by three. 10097. It is their second straight win by three points. They finished up 50. They play in the quarterfinals on wednesday. I dont think i should be here. I love this game. I love to compete. I love those types of situations. It is great to be a part of it. Clayton murphy from the university of akron is in the finals. He grew up in new paris, ohio on the border of indiana. His first ever appearance in shawn barber, university of akron. He is competing for team canada. He won gold in the pan am games and world championship. His first ever trip to the olympics. On the olympics zone, a profile of nathan brennan. He is competing for team canada. Uconn Womens Basketball with a strong connection between their Basketball Team and the players you see in rio. Domima will join me as we continue to watch womens gymnastics. Let me just say, there is no problem with your shampoo or your conditioner. You are looking good. [ laughter ] remember that . I have a tingly feeling on my right side. I have no shampoo. [ laughter ] the newest form the grass is getting greener. We are talking about the what Olympic Games olympians can plan for is the aches and pa more competitors are turning to dry knowing dry needling. It is a natural way to take some of the hurt away. Reporter the us womens Volleyball Team doesnt for their aching shoulders. Distance runners do it to ease the pain as training miles pilot. It is dry needling. It is used to change the way the muscles are firing. Sometimes you have tight muscles and it can help the distance running a few years ago. Then, she developed pain so severe she could not climb a flight of stairs. She went to see matt briggs, a physical therapist. In combination with massage and exercises, i did not realize how knotted my legs were and how much deeper and needle can go rather than just you massaging yoow nonmedicated needles are inserted into muscles or connective tissue. Unlike acupuncture, this practice is performed by a physical therapist and the purpose is not to redirect the bodys energy flow and placing needles at certain points in the body. Instead, needles are placed directly in problem areas. You can put the needle in and manipulated and pulled out pretty quickly. Might be times where we leave the needles in for up to 30 accommodate to that. Reporter a word of caution. Dry no needling for pain therapy is under the microscope. Not enough research has been done. The ohio state Western Medical Center is studying the practice to figure out if it really works. Countless olympians are believers. It made a big difference as far as relaxing the muscles and helping them restring than themselves. In some cases, insurance may cover dry needling for physical therapy patients. Outofpocket costs can range between 30 and 60. Are more information, visit www. Wkyc. Com. Lawns around the area are looking less brown. Mine is weeds. We are feeding the weeds at this point. I think everybody has been in the mode of put your plants out. We will take it. It has not been enough. High today. 70 in mansfield. The average high on this day is 81. We are right there in the ballpark. Interestingly enough, i took a look back and if today were the last day of august and all of this was holding true, this would be the warmest august on record, shattering the previous. It is previously the warmest on record was 77. 8 in 1947. We are averaging 79. 6. That is nearly 7 degrees above average. You can see all of the days that we have had so far this month in the orange colors. Yesterday and today were the only nearly or at average days we have had. We will see how the rest of the month fairs we are off to a warm start. We are way behind for rainfall. We have a few sprinkles out northward. It holds together, we could have some thunderstorms. They have to come through columbus first. We will have some nighttime cooling that will help to temper things. Dispatcher bring to the west will stay to the west. It is a harbinger of what will be coming. The pipeline of moisture continues south and you can see how it is funneling northward. Eventually, this will clear out but it will take a lot of time once this round clears out, there will be another surge that comes our way. We are in an unsettled pattern. Temperaturewise, the rain cooled there is off to the west of us but it has been warm and muggy and we are still sitting in that territory with temperatures around the 80 degree mark. 70s further west where the clouds have been more prevalent. As far as your forecast goes, tomorrow will start off with mostly cloudy skies and some fog will be around. Chances early in the day. We will start to see more in the way of rain and thunder chances as we head through the afternoon becoming more likely as the day goes on. It will be another warm one. We will make a back into the mid80s. Your Window Nation 7day forecast shows 84 degrees for tomorrow afternoon. Once we get into the day on wednesday, we will be on the backside of that main batch of rain. That means some scattered showers chances. Another big push of heat and humidity will be coming as we head into the end of the week mid 80s on thursday with isolated late day storm chances. Hot for the day on friday. Very humid and partly cloudy skies. I would not be surprised if we touch 90. Scattered showers and thunderstorms chances will come back late saturday into early sunday. That front that is coming this weekend is the one that will be a game changer. It will bring in much cooler and drier air by the time we get now it is time for access to tonights summer game seen rob portmans ads saying hes leading the fight against opioids . Well heres what hes not telling you rob portman actually voted against the funding needed for the program. Thats right, portman voted against the funding. And as heroine ravaged our communities, rob portman voted twice for budgets that threatened cuts to drug treatment programs. Rob portman cant trust him to tell the truth, cant trust him to be for ohio. We want to go back to rio. It was a slow start for team usa. The hunt for more gold is kicking into high gear this evening. There are several winning opportunities in track and field and simone biles is on her way to another milestone. Brian moore is live in olympic park. Reporter maybe getting spoiled with all of this gold. Today seemed like a bit of a slog. Emma kohlberg became the First American woman ever to make the podium. It is something i never dreamed would happen. Reporter the mens triple jumpers took a few leaps closer to a metal of their own. Im happy with what i am doing. I think it will go good in the Reporter Team usa cruised through the prelims in the womens 200. All three americans will move on. Reporter there were plenty of hurdles. As other nations through their weight around in the field events. She will take on the goldmedal. Reporter the Womens Water Polo Team continued its dominance of the pool, and Haley Anderson made a splash in the womens open water swimming. Still, this dance is far from over. Tonight, Allyson Felix takes off on the track while simone biles and lori hernandes hit the you have to tune in tonight as simone biles goes for her fourth goldmedal. She is hoping to leave rio with five. The United States is awesome. We are doing really great. We also know you are a big fan of northeast ohio. This sounds like the beginning of a joke. Your mom called. We are not kidding. Your mom called to make sure this is not the first time. Hi mom, i am on tv. [ laughter ]my mom is awesome. She deserves a shout out. That will do it. Thanks for being with us on channel 3 news at 5 00. Stop in our own backyard. Champion. He is ready down to his toes. In every sport. Tinger and toe by hatfield break down sports to its soul. The fast her you are, the higher youre going to pole vault. You might not know their name, you would know their design. The man that made jordan and his younger brother have one collaboration to their credit, pole vaulting shoes. Pole vaulting technical. Youre sprinting but not in the stature of a sprinter when youre running. We knew there was some differences that we needed to put into spike. The hatfields both pole vaulted in college. University of akron sean bar we barber. He is one of those that has great technique. We were trying to help him be faster off the ground so he can