Were talking about the incinerator here at the little miami wastewater reclamation plant in the east end. It will be out of compliance with eps Emissions Regulations in a few weeks. Solutions are in the works tjat will keep it from being trucked across town to another incinerator in lower price hill. Were talking about the incinerator here at the little miami wastewater reclamation plant in the east end. It will be out of compliance with eps Emissions Regulations in a few weeks. Solutions are in the works tjat will keep it from being trucked across town to another incinerator in lower price hill. We can do that with a brand new incinerator that is going to cost the ratepayer 120 million a year. We can have a bioanaerebic disgester, which is the solution we propose that an investment of about for 25 years of about 60 million. Million. Msd is asking the epa for a one year extension to finalize plans. In the meantime, the incinerator will be shut down march 21st and in the short term the slugde will be taken to a rumpke landfill. Coming up new on nine on your side at five, area businesses react to these new developments. Tom mckee, nine on your side, live in the east end. The Hamilton CountyHeroin Coalition says theyve arrested a man whose drug dealing led to an overdose death in the tristate. Tristate. Yesterday Hamilton County sheriffs fugitive unit arrest vance morgan on six charges. Including involuntary manslaughter, aggrvated trafficking in heroin, and aggravated trafficking in fentanyl. Police say morgan supplied a user with a deadly heroin and fentanyl mixture that led to his death last october. If you just looked outside, outside, and it was delightful. Will the spring weather continue all week . Heres chief today were expecting the Mechanics Union to go public with new safety concerns about allegiant airlines, which flies out of cvg. While we dont know exactly what the teamsters aviation mechanics report will contain, there have been issues as recently as saturday. Thats when a flight was aborted in fort wayne because of smoke in the cabin. Ahead of the reports release, allegiant released a statement saying that its planes are safe. And that this report is in response to stalled contract negotiations with one of the unions that representing many of its employees. Ohios primary is just over a county is still facing a major shortage of poll workers. Now theyre asking High School Students to pitch in. And asking local businesses to give their employees a paid day off to work the polls. Polls. The board of elections says theyre about 325 poll workers short of being able to fully staff the polls next tuesday. The country hires roughtly 27hundred poll workers every election. If youre interested in becoming a poll worker visit the Hamilton County board of elections website. Boe dot hamilton dash co dot org. Right now Ohio Governor john kasich is making every second count in his campaign for the republican vote in tomorrows michigan primary. And following his trail is wcpo political and goverment reporter amanda seitz. She sent us this video here of volunteers getting out those last minute calls. And we checked in with her to hear more about what shes seeing on the campaign trail. Hi julie, im here in lansing, gov. John kasichs campaign hq here in the wolverine state. Now were following hundreds of volunteers who hacve come up from ohio to michigan to make one last plea for voters to cast their ballot for gov. John kasich in tomorrows michigan primary. Kasich hopes to have a very strong showing in the primary here, ahead of the ohio primary next week. Well be here following volunteers all day and then well be at kasichs Campaign Rally tomorrow. Amanda is documenting her travels. And giving you a more indepth look on wcpo. Com. Become an insider today to get exclusive, localized content from the campaign trail. Well check back in with amanda tomorrow. Hillary clinton is among several candidates visiting the Buckeye State this week. Shes will be in cleveland tomorrow. Gop president ial front runner donald trump will hold a rally this saturday in cleveland. And Governor John Kasich is the keynote speaker at a gathering of republicans in sharonville saturday. Races may be overshadowing another local race. Were talking about the race to fill the seat of retired House Speaker john boehner. There are 17 candidates. And 15 of them will be taking part in a Forum Tonight at the parrish auditorium on the Miami University hamilton campus. It will begin at 6 30. This is from a forum a few weeks ago. Again, the 8th congressional seat. Boehner held the seat for nearly 25 years. Voters will actually be voting twice for this seat. On march 15th. One vote for the candidate to finish boehners term this year. And another vote for the candidate to take over or maintain the seat next year. The winner of the special election primary will face a democrat and Green Party Candidate in the june 7th special election and the winner of the general election primary will face those same candidates in november. Theres a new partnership aimed at helping inmates return to the workforce once Warren County jail, ohio means jobs and the Warren CountyEducational Service center are all coming together to get soontobe released inmates the skills they need to succeed on the outside. The inmates have to meet certain criteria for participation in the program. A big ruling today from the Supreme Court, upholding samesex adoptions. The case at the center of the debate involved an alabama woman. She sued after alabama refused to recoginze the adoption she and her then partner were granted in georgia. Georgia. The Supreme Court ruled that one state cannot ignore the judgment of another state simply because it disagrees with the reasoning. The case was considered another legal test about whether gays and lesbians should be granted adoption rights. The now cincinnati checked in with the lgbt Legal Organization lambda legal to see what this could mean for samesex adoption in ohio. Ohio. According to the groups website. In ohio, unmarried adults who identify as gay can adopt children. If a person is married. The spouse must generally join the petition to adopt the child. Gay and lesbian parents who into enforceable agreements to share custody of their children. Coming up on the now cincinnati. A real danger. Or an empty threat . Threat . What north korea is threatening to do to the us. And how americas military might is responding. And. Mush mush the harshest, coldest race in north america is underway. Well take you to the starting line of the iditarod. And tell you why el nino could have an impact on the results heres a story thats developing right now. Today, north korea threatened to make a preemptive and offensive Nuclear Strike against the United States and south korea. Heres why why helicopter nats shoots ammo, jet shoots ammo, explosions. Military exercises like these. 17thousand american soldiers have joined 300thousand south korean troops, for eight weeks of drills on land, sea, and air. North korea says the training is a practice happens every year. This time around theres already heightened tension. Todays threat comes less than a week after the United Nations approved new sanctions against north korea to prevent it from developing nuclear weapons. North korea claims it tested a Nuclear Missile last month. Already this year, 135 thousand refugees have flooded into europe. The crisis showing no signs of ending. These refugees are waiting right now on the border of greece. Today, European Union leaders are holding an emergency summit, to once again try to tackle the problem. An estimated 5hundred refugees have died trying to escape syria in the past two months. The national Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating the safety of the nations most popular vehicles. The agency wants to see if brake fluid is leaking in 2013 and 2014 ford f150 pickup trucks. There have been 35 complaints and four accidents reported. About 420thousand trucks with six cylinder engines are part of the investigation. Drivers are feeling some pain says the National Average for a gallon of regular gas is up six cents over the past week. To a dollar 81 a gallon. Analysts blame growing demand and climbing crude oil prices. Talk about the worst kind of thief. Police say an ohio man stole nearly six hundred dollars from a group girl scouts. Selling cookies. the troop was wrapping up its sales at a walmart near columbus when they realized the money had been stolen. Their cookie profits were supposed to help them take a trip to tennessee. Luckily their community has stepped up to support the scouts. Two thousand dollars has already been donated to a gofundme page set up to replace the stolen money. A string of storms smashed along the california coast this weekend. Heavy rain and powerful winds triggered flash floods and left some buildings along crumbling coastlines in danger. El nino is blamed for the wet weather. Drenching San Francisco and the surrounding area. And leaving these buildings along a rocky bluff in danger. The one, two punch included strong winds that one. You can see it punched through the back window of this car. Across the bay area, crews were busy clearing downed trees. The unusual downpour stretched to southern california, where nearly a half dozen people were rescued from rising waters along the la river. And up the coast, in oregon, a coast guard helicopter rescued three surfers, caught in rough seas. Another place affected by el nino. Alaska thats where the iditarod dog sled race got underway this weekend. And mushers were wearing as little as long sleeves as their dog teams took off for the one thousand 49 mile race under blue skies and warm temperatures. There are seven former champions among the 85 teams competing to conquer the toughest terrain race in the United States. Organizers dealt with a lack of snow at the races start in anchorage. They had to truck in snow from were tracking the delegate count in what seems like an anything can happen president ial race. Race. If you were watching 9 on your side this weekend you know that trump won the Kentucky Republican caucus. The first time in decades the state has picked a president ial nominee with a caucus instead of a primary. So heres how the weekends races are shaking out. Right now, donald trump has 384 delegates. Ted cruz has 300. Both candidates are now asking marco rubio to drop out of the race. He is third with 151 delegates. John kasich has 37. On the democrats side, Hillary Clinton has just more than 11 hundred delegates, including super delegates. Bernie sanders is one shy of 5 hundred. There are primaries tomorrow for both parties in both michigan and mississippi. 166 more delegates are stake for the democrats. The republicans also have primaries in hawaii and idaho tomorrow. They will be fighting for a total of 150 delegates. Coming up. Could jurassic true . What a discovery millions of years old could tell us about life on planet earth. Next on the now introducing longhorn s big, bold, steaks. The only way to make em better was to make em bigger. Our new center cut 10 ounce filet. Our perfectly seasoned 16 ounce tbone. And our fire grilled 18 ounce outlaw ribeye. Big, bold, steaks. Only at longhorn steakhouse. You can t fake steak. For lunch, try our steakhouse burger or any steakhouse lunch yet another idea from science fiction, is on the verge of becoming science fact. The pentagon is developing what could be the first cyborg. Cyborg. Its hoping to create a small implant that would allow people to interface directly with computers. But before you picture reallife terminators in battle, the Agency Behind this Research Says its not intended for military applications. Rather, its aimed at helping injured soldiers who are dealing with vision, hearing, and other disabilities. A lot of us use apple macs, because computer viruses have always targeted Microsofts Windows platforms. But thats apparently no longer the case. For whats believed to be the first time, someone launched a Ransomware Attack on apple. Ransomware basically hijacks your computer, holding the data hostage until you agree to pay one bitcoin. Or about 4 hundred dollars, to get your data back. Apple took quick after it first started showing up this weekend. His invention keeps us connected like never before. The man who created the email. Has died. Ray tomlinson was 74. He first came up with direct email messages back in 1971. He also came up with the at symbol in order to simplify email addresses. Even gmail is paying tribute on twitter saying thank you. Tomlinson was inducted into the internet hall of fame in 2012. You remember the mosquito trapped in amber from the movie jurassic park. Its how they brought the dinosaurs back. Movie nats this fossilized tree sap, which we call amber, waited millions of years, with the mosquito inside. Inside. Now scientists have discovered lizards that were preserved in the fossilized tree resin over 99 million years ago. These are images of their amazing find. They found 12 lizards in all, in the jungles of what is now myanmar. Surprisingly, several of them are very similar to modern day lizards such as geckos and unlike anything known today. Researchers are not planning to bring back a prehistoric lizard. But they are looking to these specimens to better understand how lizards evolved. Weve been telling you about the ongoing tests on driverless cars. Newsys ryan biek shows us how it could impact the trucking industry. Watch newsy 247 on your tv or download the newsy app for on the go updates next on the now cincinnati. A bizarre find find what firefighters discovered in a mount airy mans apartment this morning. And why it means. Hes going to have to find a new place to live welcome back to the now cincinnati. An apartment in mount airy had a close call this morning after an aquarium housing several snakes caught fire. Fire. As the nows Kristen Swilley shows us the reptiles werent the only things that left tenants rattled. kristen looklive only the smell of smoke lingers in this building. But earlier today it was slithering with excitement. Vo the owner of this apartment on Chesterfield Court doesnt allow dogs or cats. But this man says he never mentioned snakes his ten ball pythons likely still a little hissterical after their aquarium caught fire this morning. The snake owner also has several all rescues. But they needed saving again this morning. The fire didnt hurt the animals but left the building filled with smoke. Sot denise sheerer, 4 seconds im like okay, somebody overcooked something, didnt think nothing of it. And that left neighbors fuming. Sot denise sheerer, 3 seconds im leaving today. Vo about a lot more than the reptilian residents next door. Sot denise sheerer, 10 seconds im like why the smoke alarm didnt go off . Did not go off. I just took mine down, didnt have a freakin battery in my smoke alarm and i been here since july. Denise shereer lives across the hall. She smelled smoke but was surprised to discover a missing fire extinguisher and empty smoke alarms. Scarier she says than any snake. Sot denise sheerersomething told me denise come back to the house and thats when i got greeted by the firemen. And they told me dont even go the apartment because theyve got too much smoke in it. Vo meanwhile that apartment owner, who didnt comment on the smoke alarms, says when it tenants, theyll have to go. Meaning this snake savior may also need a new home. kristen looklive none of the units are a total loss, but the apartment where the snakes were kept is damaged. In mt. Airy. Kristen swilley. For the now cincinnati. This is video of Cincinnati Northern Kentucky International airport concource c. Taken back in 2008. Its been closed since. And as of this summer. It will start disappearing for good. Airport Officials Say demo begins in august. Officials expect itll take about a year to complete the demolition. Which will see the former delta and comair concourse turned into a deicing pad and a parking lot for airplanes. Sun was peeking through the clouds todaty on what was a lovely march day. Were still months away from electing the next president , but our neighbors to the north say a political migration is already in the works. The nows andy choi is crossing the border into canada, to see how Donald Trumps early success is the talk of the town. Or should we say, country. [nats of us at the border] americans joke about moving to canada for all kinds of reasons. But it seems every four years lot for bush and obama . Sentiment reaches a fever toasty seems our friends to the north are watching one mans political rise very closely. 5. 42. 33we feel like were going to have a lot of americans immigrating to canada. 5. 24. 58trump has a tower here so youre not really escaping much. In fact just outside trumps toronto tower 5. 36. 59andy choi is actually with American Media the nowwe found our canadian broadcast colleagues working the exact same story. Not a surprise, though, after google saw a thousand percent spike in the search phrase move to canada just hours after super tuesday. 5. 25. 33your countrys immigration website crashed after our super tuesday primaries. 5. 25. 38that speaks and our infrastructure in lot of inquiries about americans immigrating to canada are seasonal, theyre cyclical in nature. Immigration