Were getting our first look this morning at a Wyoming High School graduate who was detained in north korea two months ago. Ago. That 21yearold took part in a press conference where he confessed to trying to take a political banner from a north korean hotel. Jordan burgess is live with why many believe he was made to confess by north korean authorities. One of the bizarre parts of that confession dealt with Methodist Church in wyoming. Otto warmbier claimed someone from the church put him up to taking the banner by offering him a 10thousand dollar car and money for his family if he got caught. But the pastor says warmbier is not even a member of this church and hes never met his family. Warmbier was escorted into the press conference by two guards. He appeared to be in good health. He read from what looked liked a prepared statement. In it he supposedly admits to trying to take a political banner from the hotel where he was staying on his trip to north korea over new years. Then he goes
Severe storms, but still has the slight risk for our southern and eastern counties. Highs reach the mid 50s by 2 p. M. And then temperatures fall quickly this afternoon. Well eventually see a rain to snow transition overnight. A few isolated snow showers will come down as we head into wednesday morning with little to no accumulation. This means no worries on the roads for the wednesday morning rush. Thursday will bring yet another chance of light snow but it will change over quickly to rain here in the tristate. We are still tracking this system, so well let you know if anything breaking news about what happened before a 14 year old student opened fire at Madison High School yesterday. Our partners at the journal news say authorities have learned that James Austin Hancock showed another students his gun and as that student was alerting officials. Shots were fired in the cafeteria. Hancock faces six charges including attempted murder. He pleaded not guilt to those charges in Juvenile Co
Roe take a look at this. This is 2000 gallons of water that had to be driven in and its taken already 15 thousand gallons of water to put this fire out. Itll make sense in a just a second. This is whats left of the fire firefighters had been working on this for hoursthey say its a total loss. Pkgthe whole house was pretty much on fire. Fire crews from kenton county, piner and other departments responded to this it was fully engulfed when we got here. There was another house that was in danger we made sure to protect it at that time. Fire crews say the fire happened around 6south campbell and falmouth brought thousands of gallonsin total 4 tankers full. You got to have a lot of water. Theres no hydrants. No city water out here all the water had to be trucked in. This time everything is under investigation. We dont know anything at this point. Firefighters say one person was sent to the hospital for smoke inhalation. They say he was the new homeownerthe guys just bought the house yesterd
Expect that one of our family members would be involved. You can read the entire statement at wcpo dot com. Meantime today was the first day back to class for madison local schools. There was extra security extra counselingb ut also a sense of hope as students and staff tried to get back on track 9 on your sides butler and Warren County reporter jay warren is live for us this afternoon from madison townshipjay . . Jay . . In talking to madison local schools superintendent Curtis Philpot this first day back went about as well as it could have the Butler County Sheriffs Office had an increased presence here today and counselors were available for kids who needed to talk today an orderly dismissal as kids filed out the front of the schoola far cry from what it must have been like as kids ran out in the confusion of mondays gunfire perhaps the most difficult time today was the 8th grade lunch which is when the shooting happened came down to eat with the 8th graders in the cafeteria there w
Person has died. An investigation is underway. Well pass along more on this shooting as information becomes available. The family of a murder victim is waking up with a small sense of relief this morning in their search for answers. The father of brittany russell. Who was found shot and killed in her car with her daughter in the backseat. Is speaking out after an arrest in his daughters death. 9 on your sides John Genovese was in middletown with his reaction. After weeks of waiting01 02 20 this is like an up and down roller coaster dont know whether to throw your hands up or grab your stomach Montgomery County prosecutors now charging 37yearold Curtis Burdette with murder a man who they say is responsible for middletown mother brittany russells death 01 01 28im not fully satisfied but at least theres progress with one of them Billy Russell believes there are others who need to be held responsible 01 01 41 id like to see the next one get charged and if theres anybody else involved them