Us with the firstalert forecast. Its chilly out there, sam. Samantha it sure is. Windy and chilly and snowy in some spots. That big batch of snow from early this morning is gone. But, some light snow still remains. I want to take you outside and show you exactly what you can expect as you step out to lunch. This is in cleveland. You can see if you look really closely at your tv screen, theres a little bit of snow flying around. The most impactful thing as you step out to lunch is that windchill. Whew, it is brutal out there. And of course weve got the snow showers still moving through parts of our forecast region. Medina county off to the south. Most of us are just seeing scattered flurries and light if you are out in Carbon Monoxide or lake counties, you have already started to see some light snow coming off the lake and then we are also watching this band of snow in the middle of lake erie and if that holds together, which shortrange model guidance does indicate will impact all areas along the lake shore into this afternoon. So, we are closely watching that. Now. And jeff will be here watching it all afternoon to get you ready for your evening drive home. All right. Now, i can stand here all day and tell you its cold outside. But, im not out there. There is someone out there, though. Our own meteorologist jon loufman. Hes tracking the chill and hes got all of his winter tools handy. His wind gauge, his anemometer and his thermometer. What are you dealing without there . Jon im trying to deal with what everybody is out here dealing with. Anybody who is out at the bus stop, kids at the bus stop, people walking the streets of cleveland are dealing with the cold thats out here. Got the thermometer. The temperature of the snow right here is 31. So, we are just above freezing. The actual temperatures as you pointed out in the mid 20s. Winds have been gusting down here. I got a high wind gust here at nearly 23 miles per hour. Now, ive only been out here for im bundled up, got the hat, heavy gloves, layers of clothing. But my cheeks even with the light wind thats flowing here right now, are now registering, what do you got there, kevin . Jon 72. So my body temperature typically would be 98. 6. Im at 72 and ive only been out here for a couple of minutes. Just for fun, im going to take a look here one more time. Now im down to 64 in just a matter of a few seconds and it doesnt take long to be outside in weather like this to get exposed flesh very, very cold. So, bundle up your babies, your loved one was, as you head on out today. Be careful because the temperature is only dropping and the windchill is going to continue to go down. Thats the weather story outside with a few flurries flying by. We will turn things over to you, q. Q jon out there with all the equipment he needs to tell the forecast on the streets. Now, as always, you can get information like this from our weather experts if you download our firstalert weather app. App store. Now, we also have a sad story to tell you right now. A deadly house explosion out of summit county. Family of four killed when their home exploded overnight. Laura tragic story. Investigators are become on the scene right now. Brian duffy joins us with the brian . Brian laura and q. , the the investigation. We found investigators inside the home trying to figure out what caused the blast. This is what daylight revealed after a terrifying night in this Northfield Center neighborhood. The explosion on sky haven road shook the neighborhood just before 9 00 last night. Firefighters found the mom and her two daughters ages 8 and 12, in the front of the house. The fathers body was found in the back near the garage. Neighbors watched helplessly last night. My moms like hey, did you hear that . Im like no. So sigh walked outside. As soon as i walked outside the garage, all i saw was this big fire ball. But right now, they dont suspect that it was gas. There was no trace of a gas explosion. Brian right now the key to the investigation is figuring out if it wasnt natural gas, what caused this house to explode . Was it just an accident . Or was there more at play here . The eightyearold little girl who lost her life was a student in the nordonia schools northfield elementary has grief q. . Q all right, thanks, duff. Well, three fire stations are closing in canton today. Fire stations on west tusc, harmont and vernon avenue will no longer be open. The closings are due to a lack of money. The people working at those stations will be moved to other departments. And, nearly 28,000 so far has been raised on go fund me after the death of jethro. The Canton PoliceDepartment Says its canine was shot and killed during a burglary over the weekend. The money will be used to purchase new bulletproof vests well as pay for jethros vet bills. The extra money will be to purchase vests for other canines and oxygen masks. Jethros funeral is at the laura president obama is likely using these last few hours before the state of the Union Address to polish his speech. Heres what you can expect to reporter president obama is just hours away from his final state of the Union Address which aides say will folk ounce the future of america for generations to come. Jon dickerson says the president has probably spent a lot of time contemplating his legacy and can use tonights speech to highlight his accomplishments. When his storeians start to look back, if theres something in this speech that frames the obama years, thats probably his best chance at doing something useful tonight. During an interview on nbcs he regrets the divisive nature of politics. President obama if we can get our politics right, it turns out that we arent as divided on the ideological spectrum as people make us out to be. Reporter but the divide is evident in the president s Approval Ratings which a new cbs News New York times poll shows is split with 46 approving and 47 disapproving. Tonight will be the first time congressman paul ryan will sit behind president obama as speaker of the house. He says hes keeping his expectations low. This president has continued to kick the can down the road and i see no change in his behavior. Reporter the white house says it is still interested in finding areas where it can work with ryan and the Republicancontrolled Congress during the president s final year in office. You can watch live from anywhere tonight at 9 00. Coming up on cleveland 19 news, state legislators look at how to overhaul our unemployment system. And it could mean taking money right out of your wallet. We will explain the proposal and why unions are dead set against it. Q and, 1. 5 billion will definitely get you noticed. The largest lottery prize in history has thousands of canadians pouring into the u. S. Are company should treat you [phone rings] Operator HealthCare Customer Service patricia ramirez. Colleague when is she getting marr its about time, lady this is the real question hows that man youre dating . Wheres the ring . We mean more like this. Operator we can do this together. Ill schedule an appointment with the diabetes specialist, ok . Member thank you. You deserve compassion. You deserve molina healthcare, your extended family. Medicaid. Medicare. Marketplace. For more information, laura unlike some states, ohios Unemployment Fund is employer funded so employees pay nothing. Ohio is looking for a way to reflectish the Unemployment Fund by reducing benefits and cutting unemployment taxes on employers. But this plan is being met with opposition. Kevin landers explains. I got laid off from a local company back in august of last year. Reporter Steve Eddington is a married father of two. I have had a couple of interviews but not very many. Reporter hes an electrician who who was approaching the end of his Unemployment Benefits. For the people in my field, it is not good right now. Right after right before christmas, everything just dried up. Every day, he says, checks the states website looking for work. I am to the point now where i would even accept a Customer Service job. Reporter he says he doesnt want to think what will happen when his benefits run out. Its a big hardship. My wife works full time, but the house to pay all the bills. Reporter house bill 394 is aimed at replenishing an Unemployment Fund thats broke. Part of the bill would reduce weekly Unemployment Benefits from 26 weeks to 12. Eddington says that would be a financial blow to his family. Right now, i would be no money. We would probably file for bankruptcy. The bills sponsor is representative barbara sears. This bill does not make it more difficult to get a job. Employers have been paying a substantial amount in penalties and fees in order to keep the system where it is now. With employees contributing nothing. Reporter the group, advocates for ohios future, says the bill would dismantle antipoverty program. It called on lawmakers to scrap it and start over. It would have more barriers to people obtaining Unemployment Benefits than any other state in the country. As for steve, he says the i dont agree with it at all. Like i said, think the employers need to be held accountable for laying people off. He says the stress of finding a job isnt only felt on him. I talked to my son the other day and i was like, so should daddy play with you guys or find a job . He says daddy . You should try and find a job. Hes five. Q sad story there. House bill 394 is expect to be voted out of the house and could head to the senate in february. Laura well, straight ahead on cleveland 19 news, people are teaming up trying to win more than a billion dollars in the powerball lottery. I cant blame em. We should, too. But this isnt your normal office pool. See how an entire Community Came together hoping for a really big payoff. Sam . Samantha well, i have a weather alert for you. Want to go straight to the maps. We are tracking a snow band out over lake erie and, as this moves on shore from vermilion to cleveland out to mentor, we could see brief whiteout conditions. This moves inland around 1 00 to 1 15 is when we will be seeing the bulk of that snow. , so if you are going to be out during that time, drive carefully. Ill break everything down for s. 1. 5 billion dollars. It bent up in the last half hour. The frenzy is on to get tickets as the drawing is tomorrow. A lot of people are doing any and everything to increase their odds of winning the jackpot. Now, theres a powerball pool going on in plainview, new york. A group of playview moms wanted their community to cash in. Its 10 a household it buy in. Hundreds stood in line in a Community Park to sign up. I did it at work, at home and as a community. Goat to win somehow. Maybe we should buy 584 million tickets and we are guaranteed to win. If the pool wins the 1. 5 billion jackpot, each person could get 752,000 with a lump sum payout of 903 million. Hey, i would take that. That would work for me. All right. Jackpot is drawing international interest. Thousands of canadians are pouring over the border to try their luck. Well, millions of americans think they are lucky enough to beat the unimaginable odds, so, too, do canadians. Im going to take my chances just like everyone else. Sherry says she drove nearly two hours from her ontario home for a chance to become the worlds next billionaire. We come here and drop a lot of money on a regular basis. We shop in the u. S. A lot. So, we give to you. Its time you give back. Our neighbors to the north have been traveling across the border from cities like vancouver, toronto and montreal. The canadians are coming like crazy here for the lotto. Reporter which, they are legally allowed to do. You do not have to be a u. S. Citizen to buy a powerbaltic et cetera. As long as you are buying your tickets at an authorized retail location, thats fine with us. But winners outside the u. S. Can expect more taxes. The federal government can with hold 30 of gambling wings paid to a foreigner winnings, paid thats 5 more than a u. S. Resident. No matter which side of the border you are on, theres no escaping the nearly one in three hundred million chance of winning. Even though the odds are totally against winning, somebody has to win. So, we can dream. The 1. 4 billion jackpot converts to 1. 9 billion in Canadian Dollars and thats a long way from canadas comparable lotto max game which now stands at an estimated 50 million. Samantha Niagara Falls it kind of looked like cleveland. Right . Hes got the big hood on, its cold out there. You got the snow falling. All day long. You can see weve still got a little bit of light snow from dover. This has been moveing in from the west for quite some time. So heads up youngstown, ravenna, youve got more snow on the way. Lake and ashtabula counties, weve seen some additional snow here along the lake shore out in ashtabula and then south into lake county. Mentor, madison, all areas seeing at least some light snow. But you got more on the way. Heres that band we have been tracking for you since 12 00 when we came on. You can see that extends all the way through the lake down into erie and almost into huron county as we get a little bit deeper into the 12 00 hour. So, this is drifting off toward the east southeast and it will impact areas along the lake shore as we go through the afternoon. The High Resolution shortrange model handled it really well. I just showed you whats happening now and, now i want to take you through time and help you plan out your afternoon. Plan to run into some snow. Weve got the snow showers to the south, those will continue. And then that big band out of the lake will move in early this afternoon, as well. I would say 1 00, 1 15, we will be seeing additional snow showers in the cleveland area. Heres 3 00. Weve still got some lakeeffect and then tonight, that continues, but shifting just a little bit out toward mainly the snowbelt areas. But even through cuyahoga county, northern Medina County and the near west side, we could be seeing snow showers through tonight, very early tomorrow morning, heres 4 00, still got some snow out there. And then by the morning commute, yes, more snow. Not quite as widespread as what we were dealing with for today. By that time tomorrow, its mainly going to be in our snowbelt areas. But it will still be a tricky commute in those spots out to the east. So, plan accordingly. I think by late morning early afternoon, that lakeeffect will start to shift off toward the north and then we get dry conditions late afternoon. But look at this. This is wednesday night after sun desmond set. We get another after sunset, we get another disturbance to give us potentially another quick coating of snow. Winter escalated quickly. Into two weeks after a very mild december. So weve got morning snow tomorrow. Then a break. Then snow again at night. Thursday, drizzle and flurries. Cold here, look, 18 tomorrow. 33 on your thursday. And then here comes the good stuff. 45. We will be dry during the day. Are you ready for this, though . More moisture coming in at night. Now, its going to start off as rain friday night well have rain showers around. And then we will start saturday with rain, but its going to be chillier saturday. So, we will be mixing in some snow and well have snow showers again on your sunday. Maybe even monday. Q you know what . I cant remember ever well i shouldnt say ever i cant remember the last time i experienced 18. Samantha yeah. Its going to be cold and will feel even colder because it will be windy. , so we were warning you last week, i heard jeff talking about it and i was talking about dry cleaning your coat, get ready, its going to be cold. Q get your car ready, too. Car ready. Q speaking of that, heres laura. Laura all right, we had a lot of accidents and broken downs. This is a good time to think about the Different Things to get your car winter ready. We are talking about kits you should have in the car, things you should have in your car heaven forbid anything bad should ever happen. Here are some tips. First off, blankets. Warm clothes. Cloths, flashlight, sand and shovel. Also candles, matches, food. Firstaid kit. Now we have an emergency roadside kit right in front of me that has some of the things you should have. I also added a blanket in here thanks to good old samantha roberts. She has these every day. These are great to have in your car in case anything should happen to where you get broken down. Always before you hit the road for a longer drive, check the weather. Big thing. Of course have our cleveland 19 weather app. That will give you everything you need to know about what the conditions are. A full gas tank. This is very, very important. If you should ever get broken down, you want to have a full tank and you can leave it idle gala gas an hour when the car is idling. Clear the area around your exhaust pipe to make sure theres nothing you can get all of that bad air out. And then this is a biggy. Have i it in white to blow it all out. Stay with your car. This is going to be your safest place. You do not want to be outside of your vehicle when there are a lot of cars that are driving by you quickly. Q thank you very much, laura. Well, listen. We have a lot more in store for you this noon on cleveland 19 news. A thief caught on camera stealing a snake. Laura all right, a crook swipe as snake and its all caught on camera. Q yeah, this guy tried to be sneaky and creative but didnt realize there were cameras everywhere. Watch as the man reaches into the snake tank. Hes brave to do that for starters. Takes the 200 black python. Pants. Yeah, thats what you do. A short time later, you see him waddle out trying to act like nothings wrong. Day. Feeding days are mondays. And they are very hungry. Q now the pet owner says that if and when this guy is caught, this thief you are looking at right now, shes definitely going to file charges. Laura im not sure of that willing to put a snake in their pants. Its no place for a snake nipple way listen, thank you for