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WEWS News 5 At 5pm September 29, 2016

Reporter betsy is aware of her nephews past. Report show in wyoming he picks up a woman sexually assaulted her and left her on the road. He push her out of the car and left her. She froze to death. Reporter the victim was the mother of one of the man who killed matthew shepard, a college student, case that gained national attention. Menefee got 49 years from Involuntary Manslaughter but was paroled after less than he was arrested wednesday while working at a construction site. Betsy suspects drugs played a role. Err he is the kind of fellow that would know if a drug would make you feel funny, he would take it. Reporter menefee will be back enjoy jail tonight. Bob jones, news five. Menefee was arrested in Lancaster County and went before a judge today. The judge set bond at 1 brought back. That could happen at any minute. New developments in the case suspected serial killer. Sean great, a man accused in the murders of three women, pleaded not guilty. He was arrested after a woman called 911 telling the dispatcher she was being held against her will. And that her captor was asleep next to her. When police arrived, she directed them to the bodies of two women inside. Police say great later confessed to killing two women, one this year, one in 2005. They are investigating a connection to a fifth womans murder. Mark johnson tracking rain this afternoon. We have a nice little bow of rain. Yellows and oranges and reds stretching from just to the east of canton and louisville and lions up in the downtown akron swinging in towards this band is going to swing north and westward and will dry out for a little while before more rain a lives arrives later on. Zooming in on after akron, talmage, lake more, that is steady moderate to briefly heavy rain, up towards sew en route eight. Temperatures in the 60s everywhere you go. Some embedded thunder on overnight towards tomorrow mornings rush. I will tell you what will when it will finally dry out coming up. It happened right here, a powerful message cleveland had been seeing about Human Trafficking. The problem is so serious a Response Team is doing everything it can to get the word out. Dominique rigs is live on just learned 55th where one of the billboards is getting the word out. Reporter you have probably seen these billboards take notice whenever they see them. It caught my attention, it happens here too mac. I said what is happening . It was Human Trafficking. Reporter xavier works in marketing and works passes by the spill more every day. A lot of people dont know about it. It gets peoples attention. Reporter he sees the signs all over. I see them on the side of buses and things like that. People say ive seen those signs. I recognize them. Reporter karen walsh is the president of the collaborative to end Human Trafficking. The person behind the sign. They are inside and outside the rta buses and they are also in each of the concourses at Cleveland Hopkins airport. Reporter Human Trafficking is its a global problem, is National Problem and is happening right here in northeast ohio. Reporter walsh hopes folks Pay Attention to the website where people can find resources about what trafficking is and what to do if they recognize it. It is the human rights issue. No one should be denied their fundamental right to freedom. Reporter coming up at six, we take another collaboration to in trafficking. What medical professionals are prepared to do. Dominique rigs, news five. New developments out of sound dusky county. Retired judges have decided the county sheriff should be suspended while facing charges. Sheriff Carl Overmyer is accused of stealing prescriptions from drug drop painkillers. This term expires at the end of this year and he is running for reelection. Lets go to the cincinnati area where a heroin dealer will play for his crimes for the next 15 years. John wade got sentenced for selling heroin cut with fennel last year to a man who died from the overdose the same day. He pled guilty to distribution of a can substance in may. May. A Football Player died after being injured in a High School Game last friday. We wanted to know how the injury went undiagnosed. It is a one in 1000 to 10,000 kind of injury. Reporter last friday night, Andre Jackson was injured. His coach says it was a think they intersected. Reporter jackson walked off the field on his own. He was brought to the Medical Center conscious and alert and was released saturday. On sunday, jacksons brother found him not breathing and he died at Rainbow Babies and childrens hospital. The cause of death, peritonitis, a massive infection due to a small bowel laceration caused by blunt impact to the abdomen. How was business . I can see that happening. Reporter head of the department of surgery for akron childrens hospital, dr. John crow, says it is difficult to diagnose. Sometimes it comes on in a delayed fashion. Or it leaks a little bit. A healthy 16yearold or 17 yearold patient may not really show many signs of this. Reporter a cat scan is the dr. Crowe says its not a good test for seeing a small bowel leak, most often caused by a seatbelt injury in an accident. Is a rare problem. Usually you have something to go on like this about mark or the mechanism, and its just sometimes can be miss. Its really a tragedy for all. Reporter dr. Chrome said diagnosis is often made only after a patien having systems symptoms, fever, vomiting, abdominal pain. It can become an overwhelming infection very quickly. A Community Train in new jersey commuter train in new jersey leaves several dead and hundreds injured. Rob powers is tracking the investigation from the newsroom. Reporter investigators from the ntsb are on the ground in we had video showing the aftermath of the deadly crash moments after it slammed into the station. This happened after 8 30 this morning. Witnesses say a train was approaching the station at incredible speed. The train didnt stop. It was bumperto bumper block basically through the air. After 40 feet it came to arrest when it the wall. Besides those killed and injured, this also caused major structural damage to bent and twisted steal and debris everywhere. The woman killed in hoboken was not even on the train. She was standing on the platform at the station. Conductor in stable condition. His account of what happened is going to be central to the its investigation. A medical helicopter had to crash land outside a hospital in oklahoma. Four people were on board. The chopper lost power this morning. The pilot was able to safely guide it to a road near the crew member. No patients at the time and none of their injuries serious. The power losses under investigation. A kindergartner fighting for his life. A teenage boy behind bars. We have the latest out of South Carolina where shooting unfolded on an Elementary School playground. Thats the sixyearold conditions and what the teen gunman did before the violence began. 40 days and counting. Both president ial today. Thats straight ahead. Should you be allowed to take a selfie in the voting booth . The legal challenge against ballot selfies and what the new information about the South Carolina school shooting. Sixyearold boy is still in the hospital in Critical Condition after police say a teenager opened fire on an Elementary School playground. A volunteer firefighter was the first person to respond is that rushed to the kids side and the firefighter took on the shooter. Before crashing the truck into the playground fence shooting a kids, police say the teen killed his own father. One child was then hit in the foot. Jacob was hit in the leg. The bullet struck a main artery. He had to be revived twice. There will be more surgery once he stabilizes. The fire chief talked about that boy today. Please especially remember to keep little jacob who continues to fight for his life. He is a hard little fighter. Investigators also revealed today the 14yearold suspect called his grandparents in tears before the shooting. When they went to his house they found his father, their son, dead. Right now police are still trying understand why the gunman targeted those school gets. His family released a statement saying they, too, are saddened day. Clinton and trump working hard to win over voters in swing states. Reporter with less than two months ago, both candidates are going through as many musquin states as possible. Err we are starting to vote and i would today. Reporter Hillary Clinton is in iowa. We have 40 days to win an election that is going to affect the next 40 years of our country and you, everyone of reporter rallying voters after a showing of unity from her team yesterday. From Michelle Obama Bashing Trump in pennsylvania. The president cannot lash out irrationally. We need an adult in the white house. Reporter Bernie Sanders now standing by her side. It is imperative that we elect Hillary Clinton as our speaking for himself, firing back at a Campaign Stop in New Hampshire. Their this will be the year the American People say finally enough is enough. Its going to start with New Hampshire. Reporter trump is trying to push forward but he cant seem to escape the backlash from this weeks debate. What every single vote was taken, i won the candidate himself says he is to blame for his rocky performance. The campaign has plenty of time to prepare for the next two debates. Abc news, washington. None of the candidates are in ohio today but both candidates will come back next week. As conventional wisdom goes, as county goes. The county that contains port clinton and putting bay has been called the states president ial picker. It has chosen the winner during the last 13 elections. Abc news reports there are concerns that this year saw many people dispirited by the contest and they may just stay home, not even bothering to boat. Your right to vote . Go ahead. Snap that selfie. An Appeals Court found that 2014 bands on ballot selfies in New Hampshire is unconstitutional. Lawmakers argued the pictures could be used to help buy votes. The court said there was no evidence of that. Voters can now snap away and share on social media. Ballot selfies. The new trend. Theres a little bit today. Reporter thunder, we have fog, heavy at times. Its a potpourri. Reporter first of all . First of all i want to start out with was breaking in the weather nationally and internationally. We have a new hurricane, hurricane matthew. That is our infrared satellite showing the cold cloud tops 70 degree cloud tops. Thats the center of matthew. Heres what we expect matthew to do. He is going to slide spend a couple of days out here and then take a turn towards the north and into the bahamas by tuesday. He may be a cat to or cat three hurricane. Where matthew goes from there, anybodys guess. Could turn towards the coast or it could slide out to see. Something were going to watch very carefully. Locally, we have this band of heavy rain sliding up through cleveland, akron, now moving look at this. Liebling is cleveland is getting light rain downtown. Ohio city all the way to lakewood, that is heavy rainfall impacting the travelers going west out of downtown. Parma, heavy rain, garfield heights, that area to the north and east, we are seeing the heavy rain. Yellows and oranges and reds, heavy rain just out almost into ravenna. It will slide north and east. Canton getting moderate rain. There is rain out there. Should dry out for a little while. Another round comes in towards adric 9 00 tonight. 62 degrees raining in elyria. Akron, 63, 61 in fremont. 60 degrees in ravenna. Here is your hour by hour, bit. Look at the next round coming in. More heavy rainfall where you see those yellows and oranges. Cleveland, madonna, lorraine, wurster, canton, akron, dover, new philly, under the gun for good rains. Look at our rainfall expectations. Tomorrow mornings rush, this is 8 15 a. M. Friday. Between now and then, look at these impressive rainfall totals. Dover new philly, to a half inches of rain potentially. Cleveland, almost ravenna, 1. 6. Keep an eye out for ponding of water. Some flash Flooding Issues for highways and byways. There is the low. As long as it hangs around we will see areas of rain in wheeling up around it. The low is going to go into southern ohio tomorrow. Guess where it is going saturday. Heres where it will be it gets out of here and takes off by monday. Thats when we will likely dry out. Sunday the threat for rain is slim. Sunday can be your day to get outside. 60 overnight, rain likely, into now, maybe some thunder, rain heavy at times. Tomorrow, upper 60s, showers likely with isolated thunder. Wet weather, guys. Next at five, president obama open for questions. What he had to say when a Service Member asked him about Colin Kaepernick and the prott. Talking about a product you heard about first on five before the government makes it was so much focus on his potential replacement, president obama wanted to make sure he is still accessible to town hall with a chance for the audience to ask questions. The president copied covered a wide range of top text, from terrorism to veterans health. At one point the president carefully explains why he refuses despite criticism from the gop to use the phrase islamic terrorism. The way it is heard, the way it is received by our friends and allies around the world is that somehow islam reporter the president weighed in on one topic. Colin kaepernicks decision not to stand during the national anthem. The emotional impact it may have on our armed forces. I want mr. R mr. Kaepernick to listen to the pain that that might cause. I also want people to think expressing. The president touched on the expanded role for women in the military saying anyone who can do the job should be able to get the job. Russia is potentially trying to tilt the election. An urgent warning and a call for action. Whats being done right now to make sure the results reflect your vote. Both candidates taking some strong claims about one another. We put their statements through the truth back with our top stories, linked to the killings of four women, sean gray entered a plea of not guilty this afternoon. Prosecutors will see the Death Penalty if he is convicted. He faces kidnapping and rape charges connected to another woman who called 911 from ashland home saying she had scheduled for october 31. A Family Member of accused child rapists medhi says she is not surprised by the charges. His aunt told us she thinks metafee is probably guilty. He has a criminal record dating back to 1999. Today news five investigated the death of a high school Football Player in euclid. Andre jack was released from the hospital after an injury and later died from a lacerated bowel injury. Today a doctor told us this was a rare injury that would have been very difficult to diagnose. Turning back to the race for the white house. With 30 days to go, some voters have their say with the future of our nation. We are learning new information about the number of state voter john kosich is live from the tech center. John, there are many more targets that we thought. Is ohio one of them . No. Abc news has learned 20 other states of being targeted. The hackers are working on behalf of the russian government. They are working to make sure ohios guard is up. In the chain that is the election process, the Voter Registration databases the late. There is no doubt that sebag actors have been poking around. Reporter last month, more than 20 states were targeted ohio was not one of them. Weve been working with the department of homeland security, the fbi, the national guard, the state it Security Team and private Security Experts on this issue. Hacking of a Voter Registration databases different from the voting system. It is so clunky. The Voter Registration systems are. Reporter there is physically a paperback paper ballot for the votes cast. Each one of those machines has a verified paper trail. For 100 of there are verified paper trails of those votes which add to security of that process. Reporter while no one knows the intent of the hackers, its generally identity left. It all may also be to undermine confidence in the election system. There is still plenty of posturing after monday nights historic debate. Donald trump is claiming he was correct in saying murderers in new york city are up. Clinton invited to hack on american emails. Under the current mayor, crime has dropped including murders. You are wrong. Murders are up. Reporter the two new yorkers mixing it up monday night, aspiring over new york citys murder rate. Donald trump says its up. Trump and clinton debated the effectiveness of stop in first policing. Nypd themselves tried to correct Donald Trumps statement. They set for 2016 were looking at one of the safest years on record for crime. They said murders are down significantly. Reporter for virtually any timeframe to let a fact look like, murders are down. Trumps claim is mostly false. I was shocked when donald publicly invited putin to hack into america. Reporter hack away us emails including the more than 30,000 emails that vanished from clinton server in the midst of a federal investigation. Russia, if youre listening, i hope you are able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. Reporter trump says that remark was sarcastic. Yes, his words matter. You did use those words. That was not the

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