Two Top Veterans Affairs leaders in cincinnati are out this morning. But a Veterans Group is saying thats not enough. The officials were at the center of a four month investigation into mismangement at the va done by wcpo and the scripps News Washington bureau. Bureau. 9 on your sides Jordan Burgess is live with why veterans say they still have concerns about the care theyre getting. In just a few hours veterans will gather here inside the Millenium Hotel in cincinnati. Organizers say to expect to hear a lot of anger and outrage. The reason for that . The va announced the retirement of 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 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. When you unfold one blanket, what happens when you unfold the next sheet and the next blanket . Theres probably a lot more that we need to discover. That meeting is set for 11 this morning. Here in the grand ballroom of the Millenium Hotel. Well be there to hear what those veterans have to say. Reporting live. Jordan burgess. 9 on your side. Breaking developments are coming in overnight in another deadly mass workplace shooting. This one in kansas, where investigators are trying to determine a motive this morning. At least 4 people are dead and more than a dozen people are recovering. This morning, were hearing new accounts from witnesses. One woman says she watched her coworker shoot a supervisor in the back as he tried to run from the employees identified the shooter as cedrick ford. Investigators say he drove all over the town of hesston, near wichita, yesterday evening, taking shots at people before walking into the factory where he worked and opening fire. Police shot and killed ford, a man neighbors and coworkers never suspected would be capable of Something Like this. Sot josh tucker, coworker he was a really nice guy and uh seemed not this kind of person thats for sure sot jennifer, neighbor i just cant believe the guy that shot people up lived across the street from us. Us. Kansas Governor Sam Brownback ordered flags to be lowered today in honor of the victims. In a couple of hours, well get an update on what local Law Enforcement is doing in Hamilton County to fight the heroin epidemic. Epidemic. Theres a News Conference at the Sheriffs Department at 9 30. Sheriff jim neil, Newtown Police chief tom will reveal what their strategies are to fight heroin in our community. Everything from education, to arrests, to business involvement. 9 on your side will be there, so look for an update at noon. The search is intensifying 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 driving a silver 2014 dodge of leads and need your help. If anyone has any information, call the Rising Sun Police department. 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. True, false, or somewhere in between . Our Politifact Team checked the republican candidates debate claims overnight. Were on your side to help you sort out the truth. And it was touch and go for hours for a loveland couple. Theyve been up all night, trying to keep a basement full the republican president ial candidates faced each other in a debate for the final time before the super tuesday primaries. Primaries. Things really got heated last night when senator marco rubio accused donald trump with hypocrisy. He says trump hired undocumented immigrants for real estate projects. Instead of american citizens. Just listen rubio this is important. Trump you havent hired one person in your life. Rubio he hired workers from poland and he had to pay a one Million Dollar judgement. Rubio and youll see a Million Dollars for hiring illegal workers on one of his projects. Googling is exactly what politifact did. Then they delved into court documents. Our Fact Checkers found rubio is half true. A contractor trump hired. Not trump himself. Brought in 200 undocumented polish to demolish a building in new york city. Trump claimed at the time he didnt know. A lawsuit later sought oneMillion Dollars in damages. A judge ruled trump had to pay 325thousand, plus interest. It went to appeal, but trump settled out of court, so its unclear how much he ended up doling out. Democrats Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton have one more fight ahead of them before super tuesday. Tomorrows primary in south carolina. Power outages will cost a 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 frustrating to hear theyre on their way, their on their way or that somenbodys already been out here working on it and then theres nobody around, duke energy in any of the neighborhoods. Neighborhoods. So far the lewbers say they have lost close to 25hundred or more in fish. They were able to keep several large fish kept upstairs warm using their gas fireplace. 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 made in the tristate. Some young engineers are using their skills to make life easier for kids at childrens hospital. To the rescue when sailing through a blizzard doesnt gmts animyoure watching good morning tristate at 6 on 9 on your side a group of students at Harrison High School are building 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 come with a superhero theme. We wanted to try and fill some of that gap with something if broken and made on the fly, something that can be made up if they identify someone and ready in just a few weeks. 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 SchoolRobotics Club. Toss to weather 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 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 sunday night and into monday 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 we want to invite you to join us on facebook now. We are on with our live chat. Look i have it pulled up on my ipad. You can see whats happening off camera while the news is happening. Its on the wcpo Facebook Page now. Theres a war of words brewing between two cover models this morning. Morning. But its creating conversation among regular women. And Johnny Manziels latest issue is not going away. The push from dallas pd, in the alleged assault of the 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. A specially equipped plane will soon be on the way from the us to antarctica to rescue 30 researchers trapped of the Research Center was taken over a period of months. The icebreaker that was supposed to bring the team home from there ran aground in a blizzard. The american plane has skis for landing on ice. A philadelphia man is taking a different approach, when it comes to the people burglarizing his soontobe business. Business. Thieves have hit his coffee shop under construction twice, stealing the copper from the site. So before they can do it a third time, the shop owner left a note, telling them how much the thefts are hurting him and even offering them a job. He hopes, at the very least, the burglars will realize theyre affecting a real person. Dallas police have asked the District Attorney to present a domestic vioence case against Cleveland Browns quarterback johnny manziel, to the local grand jury. Jury. The misdemeanor carries a maximum punishment of one year in jail and a 4 thousand dollar fine. Manziels ex girlfriend accused him of assaulting her at a dallas latest in a string of trouble for manziel. Now to some controversial comments about body issues, coming from one Sports Illustrated swimsuit model to another. Another. Former cover model cheryl tiegs told e news in an interview that fullfigured women should not be glamorized. Glamorized. She was referring to this years cover model ashley graham, the first plus size model to grace the cover. Tiegs later took to social media to clarify her comment, saying she just wants everyone to be as healthy as they can be. But her comments are trending this morning. Also trending this morning. A bold kidnapping attempt in ohio. Out of her bed, early in the morning morninghow the 10yearold was able to escape her wouldbe kidnapper, and who police are terrifying new images this morning a woman comes face to face with an armed robber only a piece of glass keeping them apart he tried to pull a young girl from her bedroom window im terrified because hes still out here, whoever he is. Is. How the girl got away and what police are doing to track this suspect down changes on the way were seeing flurries right now. When that will switch to t shirt weather flurries, and then a warmup. Good morning tristate. Im here with meteorologist jennifer ketchmark. She has the 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. In the live alert center this morning with some new pictures of a couple of attempted robbers the Grant County Sheriffs Office is looking for. These are the two men who went to the corinth marathon last night. Their faces were covered. One of them pointed a gun at a customer outside. Screen. The other went to the here, a brave employee got there in time and locked it. When they werent able to get in, the wouldbe robbers took off. Call the Grant County Sheriffs Office if you know who they are. Some 1thousand High Schoolers are getting ready for a big night. Joining the battle to knock out pediatric cancer. 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 tonight. This is an event some that these students look forward to every year. They each had to raise 100 dollars to be able to participate last years group raised a lot of money for Cancer Research and as you can see they had a lot of fun doing it. This year some of the participants held bake sales, went door to door for donations. Others type the easy way pitbull just asked their parents for the money. They did whatever they had to do to get in in the night for the fight. Full of games, dancing and good food. Last years moment of reflection and honoring lauren hill lbrought many to tears we give each of the students glow sticks. Lot of fun all night night the event gets bigger and bigger each year. This year they wanna raise 100,000 dollars for cancer free kids. The event starts at 7 pm goes police are looking for the man responsible for terrorizing a family up in elyria, ohio. They say he tried to snatch a 10 yearold girl right out of her own bedroom window window just before four in the morning yesterday, the girl ran into her parents bedroom screaming. She told him a hooded man woke her up, grabbed her legs, and tried to pull her out of her bedroom window. He told her to be quiet, and no one would get hurt. She kicked herself free, and the man got away. Its the scariest thing ive ever been through in my life. Its important he gets caught, so no other kids try to get taken. Taken. The girls father says the wouldbe kidnapper appeared to have taken a ladder from the familys yard and leaned it underneath the window to get to the girl. 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. Blue was freezing and had a broken leg. Robert tracked because of the medical costs they would have to put him down. So he spread the word 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 is gonna be a lucky family. I can guarantee it for now blue is staying with the i have a dream animal rescue. 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 you can catch the show tomorrow from 1030 am to nine pm. Tickets are 13 dollars for adults. And children 12and under are free. 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 misses us former red todd frazier opens up to our ken broo at spring training. Hear and the latest spa treatment forget seaweed wraps. Hot stones and deep tissue massages. Your next luxury spa treatment may include bubble bath. Bath. So this is hop in the spa. And you can find it in sisters, oregon. Its americas first beer spa. Spagoers soak in a proprietary blend of beer, hops and barley. Its owners say their phones are ringing off the hook. And its such a success 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 too. Too. For those hoping to get tipsy off the tub. Some bad news. You can not get drunk soaking in beer. 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 hes switched teams. But todd frazier is still gushing over the reds. Reds. Thats the one thing ill miss miss what hes telling our own ken broo out in arizona right gmts animyoure watching good morning tristate at 6 on 9 on your side finding a new home can be bittersweet. Former red todd frazier is now a white sox. Ken broo sat down with him the two talked about how much the Reds Organization meant to frazier. 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 you chyron todd fraziernow with Chicago White sox 1623sot up full frazier tha