Officials here at the cincinnati zoo say the polar bear managed to escape her enclosure this morning, but at no point in time were any of the zoos visitors in danger. Just after 1130 this morning at the cincinnati zoo rumors began to fly. We just got kicked out cause theres an animal loose. Polar bear got loose they said got out of its enclosure. And soon enough those rumors were confirmed. Zookeepers discovered a female polar bear named berit was not in her designated exhibit and had wandered away. Steve meyers visiting cincinnati zoo from indiana we were watching the polar bear chat and the presenter was kind of surprised both bears werent out. The bear had escaped to a separate part of its enclosure and as a precaution zoo officials took action. Thane maynard director, cincinnati zoo because its a very big dangerous animal we got all our guests to go into building were we knew they would be safe until we were really aware of the situation. Cincinnati police zoo veterinarians had to tranquilze both the male and female polar bears to properly secure the area. A safety process zoo visitors say was quick and effective. I thought they were very professional. At first we didnt know what was happening but it was very calm and orderly. Zoo Officials Say for every animal exhibit there are multiple levels of containment. But how exactly this polar bear managed to get out is still unclear. We will have a very big debriefing situation to see what door got opened and how and make sure that is secure in the future. Its a wild experience visitors werent expecting. And wont soon forget. Matt campbell visiting cincinnati zoo from indiana scary for us. We werent too close to it but close enough. Again zoo visitors were safe for some time how long . . . Find out but has since reopened. Nonmembers who may have ended their zoo visit early today were offered Complimentary Tickets to come live Briana Harper the now cincinnati. Breaking news we have just confirmed that a Dearborn County emt, charged with theft, has surrendered. The Dearborn CountySheriffs Office confirms Craig Whitham surrendered within the last hour. An indiana prosecutor charged whitham with left accusing him of taking more than 106thousand dollars from his the aurora Emergency Rescue team while he was its treasurer. Police say he confessed then skipped town. Right now Recovery Efforts are on hold on the ohio river. A semi crashed into a car launching it off a bridge yesterday. Police say it could be days before they can get to that car and confirm if anyone is still in it. The crash happened on i275 on the combshehl bridge. Jordan burgess takes a closer look at you see the ohio river here. Its the current and rising river level that have made getting that car back impossible right now. And that means still no answers as to whether anyone was killed by happened. A 12 car crash. Captured from above in chopper 9. But its one missing car. Thats captured everyones attention. Police say reports are the car may have been red and a grand prix type vehicle but they stress those arent confirmed. Theyre not exactly sure what caused the car to go over the barrier of the combshehl bridge on interstate 275 during the crash. It floated a short distance before falling to the bottom. Crews spent hours searching for the car tuesday. They found it. Only to be held back from getting it off the bottom by the swift flowing river. Without having the car. Police say theyre not sure who owns it or whether anyone was inside. Theyre asking people to call if they have family or friends missing. Crews hope to get the car on sunday or monday dredge up along with it the answers everyones waiting on. On. Road crews were back on the bridge today shut down for about 7 hours yesterday. They did some work. But the interstate remained open. Jordan burgess. The now cincinnati. Cincinnati. Right now Governor John Kasich is calling for a College Student being held in north korea to be released and returned to his family in ohio. Ohio. North korea sentenced Otto Warmbier to 15 years hard labor for crimes against the state. Warmbier is accused of trying to steal a propaganda banner from his hotel. He was arrested january second. The north korean government claims he was manipulated into taking it by the united states. In a statement kaisch said quote his detention was completely unjustified and the sentence north korea imposed on him is an affront to concepts of justice. Justice. Continuing to hold him only further alienates north korea from the international community. End quote Pretty Spring like day. Winds will be coming in from the westsouthwest today at 1520 mph, gusting to 30 mph. And temperatures will not as a warm. The cold front that passes early this morning will start ushering in cooler air. Highs are expected in the mid 60s today. Temperatures fall a bit more tonight, dropping into the mid 40s. While this is still well above normal for mid march, its a bit of a change from the last few days. Skies will be partly cloudy overnight. Thursday is a partly cloudy and mild forecast. Highs will end up near the 60 degree mark, which is again on the warm side. Friday is another dry day but its definitely going to be cooler. Highs will stay chilly only near 50 degrees. In fact, this weekend highs drop to the upper 40s with a chance for it turns out 136 people voted tuesday after the polls in hamilton, butler, clermont and warren counties were ordered to stay open an extra hour. Hour. The order was because the accident on the combshehl bridge tied up traffic for hours and prevented some people from voting. Federal judge susan dlott issued the order, but the secretary of state didnt hear about it until a minute after the polls closed. Elections boards werent notified until 30 minutes later causing confusion in clermont countys 66 polling places. We had a couple of calls from some of those precincts that were closed down and we told them to come to the board and we would let them vote here, even though we had not had that direction from the secretary of state and that call could be made later. But, we didnt want anyone to feel disenfranchised. Disenfranchised. Voters in that extra hour were given provisional ballots that will be counted in 10 days unless judge dlotts order is appealed. After wins last night. To be working in favor of Hillary Clinton and donald trump. 9 on your side anchor look. It wasnt long ago our newsroom was busy calculating results from last nights elections. Elections. Hillary clinton just needs about 780 more delegates. Bernie sanders needs about 15hundred. On the republican side, donald trump is now about 590 delegates short. His closest competitor ted cruz needs 840. John kasichs win here in ohio gave him a boost. But hes still pretty far behind. Marco rubio had more than 160 delegates before he dropped out last night. Those people will now be free agents. That means they can support any candidate they want. That is unless rubio tries to resurrect his campaign if a contested convention happens. Today donald trump warned what will happen if hes a few votes short and that contested convention happens. Name i dont think you can automatically. I think it would be i think youd have riots. I think youd have riots. Im representing a tremendous many, many millions of people. People. One of the names brought up for that contested Republican Convention is House Speaker paul ryan. Former Speaker John Boehner backed fellow ohioain kasich in the primary but has said he would back ryan. But today ryan says hes not interested and believes the nominee should be someone who ran this year. The republican president ial debate scheduled for monday is now canceled after donald trump and john kasich both say they wont be there. There. Trump says he plans to give a speech at the American Israel Public Affairs committee instead of debating. And kasich says he wont debate without trump there. Trump also says he thinks the republicans have held enough debates. Republicans debated 20 times during the primary in 2012. For this election there have been about a dozen so far. A big upset near cleveland during last nights election. Cuyahoga county prosecutor tim another term just months after leading the investigation into the shooting of 12 year old tamir rice. Rice. Mcginty has refused to release the testimony heard by the grand jury. That grand jury did not to indict the officers involved with the november 2014 shooting. Rice was shot and killed while holding an air riffle in a park. Cameras caught the entire incident, start to finish. Mcginty lost to his challenger in the primary race by about ten percent of the vote. More trouble for the former subway pitchman. Hes now under attack in jail. What Authorities Say happened to jared fogle behind bars. And a road sign intended to warn drivers of an influx of deer. Is now starting a controversial conversation former subway pitchman turned convict jared fogle has reportedly been attacked in jail. Jail. Tmz reports that documents show fogle was jumped in the Recreation Area of the colorado prison. The january 29th. Fogle is serving more than 15 years in prison for having child pornography and traveling across state lines to have sex with minors. He was sent to the englewood prison in colorado because its close to a sex Therapy Program he began just before reporting to jail. Some people in dc are calling it metromageddon. With thousands having to find another way to get around. Around. Right now crews are doing an emergency inspection on the washington, dc metro rail system the entire thing is shut down until tomorrow morning. So far inspectors have found about six damaged cables or connectors that need to be repaired. There was an electrical fire on the metro earlier this week. Dc leaders say the same electrical component malfunctioned last year. Take a good look at this road sign. Suicidal deer that sign was recently put up in a small town in iowa but it has people around the country talking now. 20 its true i mean, they just dont stay off the road, theres all sorts of them, youpeople who live in st. Ansgar admit that deer in the area are a problem. Many run into oncoming cars. And thats the issue, according to the county supervisor behind the now controversial sign. Stan walk | Mitchell County supervisor 53 so were concerned about the safety of people driving here and we dont want anybody injured or killed. We just felt that this would be an attention getter, and it has been. Been. But others think the sign is offensive since it references suicide. County leaders say they got the idea for the sign from facebook. A similar sign recently went up in illinois. Relief efforts are pooring into the south after a week of catastrophic rain and historic flooding damaged parts of louisiana, texas, mississippi and beyond. Now we takes a look at the latest numbers on the damage. And how volunteers from right here in incinnati are hoping to make a difference. Na22tuthis drone video shows a unique but devastating water levels have reached in louisiana. Re25mo 09 sot pat dans resident i guess you get a little worried and anxious maybe is the big word. Just when is it going to recede and when am i going to get back to normal. Normal is a long way off 4,958 homes have been reported damaged in louisiana and more than 42hundred people have evacuated. As clean up begins in some areas volunteers heading that way say timing is everything. 19. 57. 55 we wanted to make sure we get in right afterward. 19. 57. 58 when they are trying to clean back the mud they need some safety items so what we give them is those items. We give them things they dont think about like paper towels, toilet paper, toothbrushes, things like that 19. 58. 09a team from matthew 25 ministries in cincinnati is deploying truck loads of supplies and volunteers who plan to help out near shreveport for a week. 19. 57. 34 so the team can get in just as the people get back into their homes and get them a little normalcy as they next theyll head to texas. Where a state of emergency has been declared in 20 counties. And the worst is yet to come. Heavy rain subsided monday, but just this morning 12 Million People were under flood warnings across the south and scattered thunderstorms are expected this week. The Insurance Institute estimates damages will exceed 2billion dollars and despite the potential for yet another blow from mother nature, the sense of hope and help volunteers from near and far are bringing. Is keeping spirits afloat. Se007tu 50 we just feel it is our responsibility to help people in our community. So far the storms down south have killed six people. If youd like to donate, contact matthew 25 ministries in blue ash or your local red cross. Taking a look outside a lot tanya and steve chat about weather winds will be coming in from the westsouthwest today at 1520 mph, gusting to 30 mph. And temperatures will not as a warm. The cold front that passes early this morning will start ushering in cooler air. Highs are expected in the mid 60s today. Temperatures fall a bit more tonight, dropping into the mid 40s. While this is still well above normal for mid march, its a bit of a change from the last few days. Skies will be partly cloudy overnight. Thursday is a partly cloudy and mild forecast. Highs will end up near the 60 degree mark, which is again on the warm side. Friday is another dry day but its definitely going to be cooler. Highs will stay chilly only near 50 degrees. In fact, this weekend highs drop to the upper 40s with a chance for for the first time. A current first lady is speaking at the south by southwest music festival. Michelle Girls Learn Initiative today in austin, texas. Its goal is to break barriers for the millions of girls around the world who do not attend school. Michelle obama and Kelly Clarkson also teamed up before todays event to make a song about empowerment for women. Nat sot full music music money from the song will go so the let girls learn inititive obama talked about today. Millions of people are dying every year for a reason you may not expect. Newsys melissa prax explains. A World Health Organization study says unhealthy environments are linked to an estimated 12. 6 Million Deaths every year and that countries arent doing enough to stop the problem. According the mediacentre news r sattributabletounhealthy environments en exposures, Climate Change and soil are to blame. The reports data is from 2012, but the organization is using it to represent a yearly trend. Air pollution was linked to the most deaths, especially in Southeast Asia and the western pacific. The department of Environmental Health chair at Harvard University said pollution comes from combustion, and were burning fuels to produce energy, to produce heat, to drive our cars. All the things we think about in terms of our daytoday life contribute to this. Air pollution is happening both indoors and out and is linked to cancer, Heart Disease and other respiratory diseases, which cause 8. 2 Million Deaths every year. This is higher than other organizations previous estimates. Certain fuel types commonly used to cook can create residue inside a home. And Secondhand Smoke is also contributing to poor air conditions. Who is proposing solutions, like improving commuter transportation and banning tobacco. However, malaria and other Infectious Diseases are declining thanks to Better Health care and water access but are still killing hundreds of thousands of people. Newsy on your tv or favorite streaming device. Device. The average person searches google about 40 times a month. Month. But could those searches be making you a target for hackers . John matarese has before contemplating the many choices on steak n shakes 4 dollar menu, one must calm the mind in our zen garden. Focus. The garlic double steakburger meal. Reflect. The taco salad meal. Zen the original double n cheese steakburger meal. Oh the 4 menu. Where all meals are under 4. This is a big move impacting your money. The Federal Reserve isnt changing Interest Rates today. And it says it expects fewer hikes than originally planned this year. Back in december. The fed had projected four hikes in 2016. Now its just predicting two. The Federal Reserve is also cutting its expectations for Economic Growth and inflation. As the debate over security vs. Your privacy online continues. This is a first for google. The company is revealing how much of the traffic to its Search Engine is being protected from hackers. 9 on your side consumer reporter John Matarese breaks some good news if you worry about other people seeing what you search for google says encryption shields 77percent of the requests sent from around the world to its data centers. Centers. That means the majority of your information is scrambled so no one can read it if they get access to it. Google says its encryption is up from 52 percent at the end of 2013. The things that are most encrypted are its email, maps and advertising. Google says its still trying to overcome some of the technical issues with encryption. Some older devices cant handle the current standards. This is a hot topic right now with the fight between apple and the fbi over unlocking the phone one of the San Bernardino shooters used google is one of the Major Tech Companies suppo