Network direct jack hetrick and the reassignment of dr. Barbara temeck. Our investigation looked into allegations dr. Temeck was prescribing drugs to hetricks wife when she shouldnt have been. A subsequent va investigation found issues with that. But concerned veterans for america is upset hetrick will get his full retirement and temeck is getting her same salary. Also the va says it didnt find issues with the quality of care. But veterans think there are still problems and are rallying for changes. They should expect to come and fight in a great, mighty army of other veterans that are in ohio and in the cincinnati area that can make a potential huge dent in the system of the va. We really want to take this place by storm and hold these people accountable. That meeting is set for 11 this morning. Here in the grand ballroom of the to here what those veterans have to say. Reporting live. Jordan burgess. 9 on your side. Power outages will cost a loveland couple dearly. New video our crews shot just this morning shows hundreds of fish dead in their basement. The couple uses this area to breed fish. Kelly lewber says the power was off from about 3 30 yesterday afternoon to 3 30 this morning. In that time, the temperatures in the tanks dropped dangerously low. Lewber says Power Outages seem to be happening more often. Its fristrating because its not hte first time its happened. Its happened several times throughout the year. Periodically without any type of storm or anything. Anything. So far the lewbers say they have lost close to 25 hundred or more in fish. They were able to keep several large fish kept upstairs warm using their gas fireplace. Donald trump is refusing to back down this morning. Repeating overnight that he wont release his tax returns. It dominated last debate. With marco rubio and ted cruz repeatedly taking aim at the issue. The candidates hounded trump all night long. Once again attacking his controversial immigration plan. Rubio accused the gop frontrunner of repeating himself on the campaign trail. Without offering any real specifics. Cruz also took his own punches at trumps conservative credentials. With trump firing back at the tea party favorite. donald trump r president ial candidate if youre talking about the polls, im beating him awfully badly. sen. Ted cruz r president ial candidate but youre not trump r president ial beat her, youre really going to get killed. Kasich tried to stay positive. Saying he hopes viewers see that executive experience matters. Hes promising that he will hit the ground running and we will get america moving again. 9 on your side is once again teaming up with politifact. One of the most respected factchecking groups in the nation. Cutting through the rhetoric and holding these politicians accountable. Accountable. The debate turned to international politics. Senator cruz said both trump favor of the us helping libyans oust dictator muammar gaddafi. He said i was in favor in libya. I never discussed that subject. I was in favor of libya . We would be so much better off if gaddafi would be in charge right now. The ruling from our Fact Checkers trumps pants are on fire trump denying he ever discussed supporting us intervention in libya is patently inaccurate. Our team found an online video from august 2011. Showing trump urging the us to go in and take gaddafi out of power. A new report finds ohio is one of 10 states where millennials could sway the election. Why . The state has a large number of colleges. 385 to be exact. Of those 10 states, ohio has the highest ratio of young people with kids meaning issues that matter to young voters in ohio may be more diverse. Its a fabulous february giveaway on 9 on your side. From 6 t0 7a for your chance to win a 100dollar prepaid gift card. Five chances to win every weekday watch for the weather word of the day and win. Cloudy and cool again today and well continue to see a few flurries this morning. Highs only hit the mid 30s today. But dont worry, warmer air will arrive this weekend. Highs jump to 50 on saturday and 62 on sunday. He yelled hey, and then boom, boom, boom and proceeded to go into the building. Building. Fellow employees of the shooting suspect in kansas talk about the man at the center of the shooting rampage. A local emt has gone missing and his family cant understand why he would suddenly disappear. The call the search is on this morning for an aurora First Responder who has been missing since monday. Craig whitham was last seen at his aunt and uncles home in rising sun. Hes been an aurora emt for over two decades. Police say the 42 year old left his cell phone and wallet behind. Craigs friends started a Facebook Page to spread the word. Prayers for craig whitham, help us bring him home has nearly 250 members. Angel adams says her cousin is the most dependable person she knows and his disappearance makes no sense. Angel adams cousin 05 24 its just a whole range of emotions. One minute its we know hes okay, hes probably just somewhere taking some time and hes going to be okay and then we are sad. 37 37police say whitham may be journey. They dont have a lot of leads and need your help. If anyone has any information, call the Rising Sun Police department. This morning witnesses describe the moments they watched a man shoot and kill their coworkers. Four people including the gunman are dead. The shootings happened thursday in and around the excel Industries Plant in the town of hesston, kansas. There are at least four crime scenes, including the excel plant, the facilitys parking lot and two roadway intersections. Employees identified the shooter as a coworker cedric ford. The county sheriff described what happened as a horrible incident. He also said the investigation will take some time to get through. Federal, state and local authorities are investigating. Excel industries makes lawn mowers and other turf care products. Cloudy and cool again today and well continue to see a few flurries this morning. Highs only hit the mid 30s today. But dont worry, warmer air will arrive this weekend. Highs jump to 50 on saturday looking for a robbery suspect in grant county. The pictures just into our newsroom and how you can help police. Think spring. The home and garden show is back in cincinnati. What you can expect gmts animyoure watching good morning tristate at 5 on 9 on your side pictures just in this morning to our newsroom from the grant county sheriffs office,. Office,. They need your help finding these suspects. The pictures are from an attempted Armed Robbery on february 25th at the corinth marathon. The men pointed a gun at an employee and customer outside. At that moment an employee inside was able to move quickly and lock the a silver car. If you have any information call police. Happening now. The us is sending a specially equipped plane to rescue 30 researchers trapped in antarctica. This time lapse video of the Australian Research center was taken over a period of months. The icebreaker that is supposed to bring the team home from there ran aground in a blizzard. The american plane has skis for landing on ice. Almost 70 people are left behind on the ship. Theyll will wait out the blizzard. And set sail when its safe. There are new concerns about the zika virus and the summer olympics in brazil this morning. A business woman says she got the virus two miles from the olympic park. That woman isnt pregnant. But. The the virus can cause severe birth defects when a pregnant woman is infected. Many female athletes. Including some from the united states. Have said they are concerned about going to the games because of the threat of getting zika. The Olympic Organizing Committee says there will be no danger to a weekend warmup is on the way. And youll get a chance to prepare for spring this weekend at the annual home and garden show. Show. It opens tomorrow at the Duke Energy Convention center and runs through the weekend. Before returning on march 2nd. This is video from last years. Youll get a chance to browse everything from flowers and landscaping. To gazebos and hot tubs. You can catch the show on saturday from 1030 am to nine pm. Tickets are 13 dollars for adults. And children 12and under are free. Let get your latest nine the close of our workweek will be cold, but i promise you, warmer air is coming over the weekend temperatures drop into the upper 20s this morning with cloudy skies and flurries across the tristate. Skies stay cloudy to mostly cloudy all day long and this will really hold back our temperatures. Highs will only reach the mid 30s this afternoon. If you are heading out to a fish fry this evening, bundle up the family. The weekend is looking flat out fantastic High Pressure moves into the ohio valley and it ensures that both days are mostly sunny. Temperatures improve to 50 on saturday. Winds increase from the southwest on sunday and this helps pump in warmer air. Temperatures should top out in the low 60s on sunday. A quick moving cold front rolls through the ohio valley late morning. Well have a few linger showers for Early Morning drivers but the majority of monday will be dry. Highs on monday only hit the low 50s but thats considered mild for the end of february. Morning rushovercast flurrieslow 27fridaymostly cloudy to overcastslight chance flurrieshigh 35friday nightcloudy early clearing overnightseasonallow 26 saturday mostly sunny skies warmerhigh 50saturday night fair skiesnot as coldlow 35 sundaymostly sunnybreezy warm traffic 142 at the conoco on north locust avenue in lawrenceburg 167 at the marathon on reading road in cincinnati177 kroger on pavilion in newport for the lowest prices head to our websitewcpo dot com and made in the tristate. The local club were highlighting today and how theyre helping others in the community. And heres what youll see a group of students at Harrison High School is building these robotic wheelchairs as an after school activity. Activity. They are making them for Cerebral Palsy patients at cincinnati childrens hospital. Hospital. The Robotics Club started the project at the beginning of the school year. The students design and build the entire robotic chair. It takes everything from engineering to Computer Programming skills to build them. The special chairs even we wanted to try and fill some of that gap with something that is cheap, easy to replace if broken and made on the fly, something that can be made up if they identify someone and ready in just a few weeks. This story just published on wcpo. Com moments ago reporter bob driehaus explains teacher tom popes motivation behind the idea. Photographer Emily Maxwell also posted the entire video story from the harrison high youll want to stick around cancerfree nightsome 1 thousand High Schoolers are getting ready for a big night. Joining the battle to knock out pediatric cancer. 9 on your sides timyka artist joins us live now from the Cintas Center where the 4th annual night for the fight event will kick off later on tonight this a highly anticipated event. Something that students look forward to all year long. This year 35 high schools in the tri state will participate in the will participate in this all night here is some video of last years night for the fight. The event is organized by the group cancerfree kids. Students get to participate by raising 100s each. To help fund Pediatric Cancer Research and to hopefully one day knockout cancer altogether. Students will pull an all nighter to do this. Starting at 7 tonight and going for 12 hours straight. Students will play games, dance, eat food and listen to more than a dozen heartfelt stories from cancer survivors themselves. The survivors come and tell their story i think a lot of High School Students dont really realize that cancer can happen to them their peers and siblings and so that is a favorite part of the event again this all starts here tonight at 7 pm. Theyve been doing this for 4 years now and each year the event gets bigger and better. The goal is raise more than 100 thousand dollars this year for happening today. The tri states heroin epidemic will get the full attention of local law enforcement. Enforcement. Sheriffs from several tristate counties will meet this morning to ask to public to help them take down drug dealers. Theyre asking you to report Drug Trafficking in your area. And they say you can do it anonymously. More from this meeting on nine on your side at noon. New information this morning on that recall that cleared store shelves of bagged salads salads three more people including two in ohio have gotten sick in the listeria outbreak linked to bagged salads made at the dole plant in springfield ohio those new cases were diagnosed just a few weeks ago. 18 people in 9 states have gone to the hospital in the outbreak since july of last year. A dog named blue is recovering from surgery after a month of ups and downs. A few weeks ago the 1 yearold pitbull wandered through the woods to robert Inhumans Mount airy home. Broken leg. Robert tracked down blues owners, who said they would have to put him through the record label he owns and raised the 13hundred dollars needed for blues surgery. Now this special dog is looking for a special home. Hes a really good dog hes not aggressive, he hasnt shown aggression toward other dogs, hes really something. Anybody who ends up being the forever home for this pitbull can guarantee it for now blue is staying with the i have a dream animal rescue. using a drone to spy on someone could get you in legal trouble in kentucky. The Kentucky House has passed a bill that would let Police ChargeDrone Operators with harassment or voyeurism. The bill is in response to a kentucky man who shot down a drone last year that he said was spying on his teenage daughters on the back porch. The bill does not apply to police use of drones. Making history. This week. Surgeons performed the first uterus transplant in the us. The hosptal says it was on a 26yearold woman. Using organs from a deceased donor. Cleveland clinic says the surgery would be used to help women born without a uterus. Or with abnormalities that block pregnancy. An elderly woman is treated like a queen for the day by elementary children. Children. Doris vehar waves hello to the students on this school bus in mentor every day. She started doing it when her own grandchildren rode the bus and hasnt stopped the tradition. She goes out each day for the past 5 years. The kids love it. They even call her grandma. Dustin Carthen student at fairfax elementary grandma, she just on holidays she gives us candy and stuff and we say we love her and stuff when we pass her. Her. This week she turned 88. And the kids decided to wish her a special happy birthday driveway. She says it was such a nice gesture. And as long as she can miss the bus. Move over meat. And get ready for a menu switchup at arbys. The fast food chain is going vegetarian. Vegetarian. But only on monday. Leap day. Heres a glimpse of what youll see. See. A roast beef sandwich bun only a smokehouse brisket sandwich minus the brisket. An angus philly sandwich minus the steak. And a crispy fish sandwich. For all you meatlovers. The normal menu hop in the garden dont literally hop in. Its the hop like in beer. The new spa shaking things up. And where you need to go to experience the fun. Waddle off the fat. The new experiment that has penguins new video just into our newsroom this morning. The surf california this week. And its catching man off guard. Including a baby sea lion that had to be rescued by seaworld employees. The animal got stuck near a pier, and was too weak to battle the high waves. Hes going to be okay. From the warm ocean. To the chilly antartic. Thats where researchers are heating things up by putting penguins on the treadmill. Its a new experiment to study, measur and this is serious how fat penguins waddle. They want to see how penguins move. They are trying to figure out if their body weight influences how they walk and see if humans are set up similarly. There are spas of every kind. But this morning. Theres one thats catering to men. Using a special ingredient. Ingredient. This one is being called americas first beer its called hop in the spa. And you can find it in sisters, oregon. Its owner says a bath in brew is good for you. Spagoers soak in a proprietary blend of beer, hops and barley. And its already expanding. Hop in the garden which will be our beer garden and then hop in cup which will be a new coffee that has hops in it. It. For those hoping to get tipsy off the tub. Some bad news. You can not get drunk soaking in beer. Miss, how nice they were to me. Todd frazier opening up to our own ken broo while at reds spring training. The things he has to say about the finding a new home can be bittersweet. Former red, todd frazier is now a white sox. Sox. Ken broo sat down with him yesterday in arizona. And the Reds Organization meant to frazier. Chyron frazier finds new life with white soxglendale, arizona 006 broo track todd frazier wants you to know that hes ok, and happy. I know this because i spent part of thursday with the former and beloved ex red, now with his new team, the Chicago White sox. But he already misses youchyron todd frazier now with Chicago White sox 1623sot up full frazier thats the one thing ill miss, how nice they were to me. And you know i took pride with those guys, tried to give them as many autographs as i could. You know, just be one with the fans and id like to thank them for sure. broo track baseball transcended from sport to business the day admission was charged to watch games. In the last 40years, players like frazier have underperform, theyre traded. If they become too expensive, theyre traded too. Frazier fell into no mans land in cincinnati someone affordable now, but too expensive and too old when the reds finally emerge from rebuilding. Sot up full frazier. Its one of the worst businesses in the world not that much loyalty going on with it to be honest with you. Chyron ken brooken. Broo wcpo. Com 101108 broo stand up frazier told me he thinks this is a lot like second grade and getting yanked out, going to a new school, having to to