Jonathan plus, focusing on school safety. New security measures soon to be put in place at madison schools after a student opened fire on one of his classmates. Also, today will be the pick day of the weekend. Rains on the hor zahn with a little color at this moment. Miriah turner has the details. Its saturday, march 12, 2016. This is news 5 today. [captioning made possible by wlwttv]. Jonathan good morning. Welcome to news 5 today. Thanks for joining us on this saturday morning. Good to be back with you. Im jonathan hawgood. Miriah turner has agreed to fill in for jennifer schack. Citycam 5 has a light purple hue. We had more color earlier. This is a subtle feel. Miriah a little lavender. Jonathan almost like a bath. You say rains coming, but just a sprinkle or two today. Overnight tonight. Around. Though today is the pick day, tomorrow looks more wet. So we really cant rule out its not a washout. Thats the good news. Today. Its springlike, if anything. Increasing clouds, as you saw,
To moderate rain. I expect this line to fill right back in. Most of us will pick up an inch, inch and a half of total rainfall. 59 degrees at cvg. Harrison, 54. It is a mild but wet start to the day. Temperatures do not change much through your thursday. 59 degrees and rainy. At 4 00, 63. Low 60 s and soggy through the afternoon. Slightly heavier rain east of cincinnati after sunset tonight. Expect rain through the day. Let s get you out on the wet roads safely. Kyla we are dealing with the wet conditions and a closure in care is a look at the interstates. Extra time is going to be your friend. 71, 75 at 42 northbound, things are getting happier in this hour. 71 at victory parkway is still moderate north and southbound. We are dealing with some problems and this is in springfield township on summit road near edgemont road, a car went into a pole. It is still completely shut down on summit. If you re heading to the interstate, you need to avoid this. It will stay closed for some time. S
As the president of the freedom center, i am pleased to welcome you to this treasure in our nations life having to do with teaching and promoting and advocating for freedom. Museum is tof this reveal the stories of freedoms heroes from the era of the underground railroad up to contemporary times, challenging and inspiring everyone to take courageous steps for freedom today. In short, our mission is to champion freedom so all people everywhere shall and will live free. 2004 ineum opened in this building. The initiative to create the museum started in 1994 as a project of the local chapter of the National Conference of christians and jews who were celebrating the 50th anniversary. They asked themselves what they could do to memorialize cincinnatis great role in promoting the cause of the , freedom,d railroad and the abolition of slavery. They came up with this beautiful concept called the National Underground Railroad Freedom center. The underground railroad was a network of African Amer
Cincinnati observatory to learn how it became the first public observatory in the western hemisphere. John this is the Cincinnati Observatory Center, situated in the city of cincinnati, approximately six miles east of downtown cincinnati. We call ourselves the birthplace of american astronomy. The founder of the observatory, ormsby mcknight mitchell, was essentially what we call the call sagan of the day. He was the popularizer of astronomy at that particular period. The first observatory of significance in the country and definitely the first public observatory at that time. He was a west point graduate and he was teaching at the Cincinnati College and in 1842 there was a group in town, the society for the promotion of useful knowledge. They offered to mitchell an opportunity to lecture the citizens. He started his lecture in this lecture hall, overflowed that, so they moved it to a chapel that seated 1200 people and does they ended the lecture, they said, why couldnt we, the citizens
We have Team Coverage on the heat. Nbc bay areas Christie Smith live in San Francisco. But first lets go to meteorologist rob mayeda. More of the same tomorrow . Especially for the valleys, its going to be hot again. Temperatures as warm as 93 in downtown san jose. In the mid90s closer to san jose. 102 in livermore. A few of our records broken. Richmond about 96 degrees today. Gilroy 104. And we had temperatures around oakland and san jose in the mid90s. And a very interesting day in the north bay where you needed a jacket this morning for temperatures in the mid50s. Almost 50 degrees of warming topping out actually up to 102 degrees in healdsburg for the afternoon. So the other side, strong High Pressure acting like a lid on top of the bay area, trapping air pollution. Unfortunately, another spare the air day tomorrow for the east bay. Thats where were see the highest areas of ground ozone levels. Outside right now, it is after 11 00, its still 75 degrees in san jose. And in San Franc