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WEWS News 5 At 5pm November 3, 2016

For critters. It was bad. They just kept coming. In my 22 years doing law enforcement, id never seen anything like it. Michelle porter was the first one to go inside jeanines house, after her neighbor called the health department. She was the first to see what the animals had gone. For the last two years, its been a playground. Everything was destroyed. They had brought trash in from the outside. What michelle could see was the aftermath of what jeanine could hear and smell for years. Animal as was the scent of animal droppings. I figured. Somehow or other, i was going to have to have some kind of help. Jeanine got that help. Animal control workers took out 25 live raccoons. Seven dead ones. Eight possums and a feral cat. Michelles team and a group of volunteers cleaned up her entire home that she and her late husband had built, back in 1969. Well, they cleaned out of what the animals messed up. It looks lots better, dont it . Now, jeanine had to move out of her akron home for five months while crews cleaned and sealed it. She is back now, all of the animals are gone. And michelle, says she is checking on her office. A man threatens to shoot an elderly couple in westlake. Well, today, he learned the punishment for his crimes. News 5 had the only camera in the courtroom when william keener was sentenced to probatio aggravated menacing and criminal damaging charges. It was back in may, when keeners hit that couples car, three times on purpose. Near crocker and detroit. Then, keener, who had a ccw grabbed his gun and threatened the couple. Citizens have the right to get their weapons permit. But you have to be in fear of your life, in order to actually utilize that weapon. Well. No one ended up pulling the trigger. Right now, a jury is deciding between life and death. A man is accused of shooting of a barber shop, murdering three people. That jury is on the trial of douglas shine. He start deliberating today. And if they decide hes guilty of the warrensville killings, he could face the death penalty. The shooting happened in february of last year. Three other people were hurt in that incident. Another story youll only see right here. Imagine being alone inside your home. Youre scared. Wait for police, holding your breath. And they hand you a bill. It is a scenario, being considered in lakewood tonight. Because too many homes and businesses are keeping police busy with false alarms. We sent news 5s paul kiska to check out how it would work. Well, lee and frank. Lakewood city Council Plans to vote on the false alarm ordinance in just the next few weeks. Burglar alarms are meant to lakewood city leaders are considering a nuisance ordinance, to find residents and businesses for too many false alarms. Alarms that tie up police and must check windows and doors. Lakewood looked over the numbers numbers from 2014. And this is what they found. There were 1,654 alarms, only french were valid calls. That means 97 of alarms were false. Hundreds of hours of police time spent false alarms. So this begins a process of looking at how we can eliminate those false alarms and a waste of police time. After a second false alarm, a warning letter would be sent out. After a third one, the resident or Business Owner would be fined 200. The fine could be appealed to a citizens review board. And the goal would be to have the operator of the alarm, fix the problem. Generally, its operator error. Employees. Or carelessness. Sometimes equipment malfunction. It really is a burden of the police force. John signs has an alarm system at his house. He said they pay police to handle serious calls, not false alarms. False alarms is just a its a waste of their time, waste of their efforts. And its just not good for the community. They could be out there serving the Community Better than having to deal with false alarms. Now, a Jewelry Store owner who didnt want to go on camera, told me he thinks the 200 fine is, reporting live from the Lakewood Police department, paul kiska, news 5. Now, to the race for the white house and believe it or not, we are down to the final hours of campaigning. And rob powers, not only are the candidates stumping hard, their surrogates are as well. They sure are. Lets go to florida first. President obama held two rallies there. Melania trump took the stage in pennsylvania. It was her first speech since taking the stage in cleveland. Gave a speech that was widely michelle obama. In todays speech, mrs. Trump focused on women and children. Women will advance and achieve, with opportunity. But some women have been left behind. I see that. We cannot call ourselves a fully developed or advanced nation when 50 of our women live in poverty. She also said her husband knows how to shake things up. On the other hand, president obama slammed trump donald trump is uniquely unqualified to be president. [ laughter ] no, im not joking. You laugh. Im not joking. He is temperamentally unfit to be commanderinchief. Both donald trump and Hillary Clinton will once again focus their attentions on our state. Tomorrow night, right here in cleveland, jay z will hold out a get out the vote concert in support of clinton. And trump will be in wilmington gohio remains a key battleground state in this president ial race. Theres a lot to be learned by looking here in northeast ohio. News channel 5s john cossic is here with a look at the latest breakdown of Cuyahoga County. Ohio is often looked at as a whole. But the reality is its a melting pot. More like a melting pot. But the biggest, right here in Cuyahoga County. Reporter voters will head to the polls in all of 88 counties. Results of a handful will likely tell us how the state will go. The question is the margin of victory that Hillary Clinton can claim in cuyahoga will stay a lot about her chances of winning ohio. Reporter a new poll look at just Cuyahoga County and included a breakdown of those who have yet to vote and those who already have. Those who voted already. We saw 70 voting for clinton. 24 for trump. But those who had not voted, 58 for clinton and 37 percent vote for. Said margins are greater than what romney had four years ago. But in the numbers, there are two caveats. Overall turnout and enthusiasm. Its the amount of countiesly wins by. Not the percentage. Thats really what Hillary Clinton is going up against. Reporter said other is, this is a nonscientific poll with a sampling that favor the clinton. 72 had bamp lors degree. Thats way more than percentage for this state and Cuyahoga County. So theres a big percentage of voters not even represented in this poll. Reporter yesterday, they gave trump a 5point lead. Another has portland leading strickland for senate. John cosick. News 5, cleveland. Com. Is your source for election coverage. On election night, we will have live results and interactive will host our webcast. And your voice, your vote election night, 2016, begins at 7 00 p. M. Of course, well bring you local results throughout the evening, as well as on news 5 at 11 00. Tera, i think the weather is kind of mirroring the way a lot of us are feeling. It is. I think we all need something to pick us back up. I know i cant turn around what happened late last night. But i can try to improve the we even here and now, noticing some higher level cirrus clouds. Blue skies. Sunshine. Hopefully that makes you feel a little better. We do have temperatures on the chilly side. Pretty much widespread. Its going to get even cooler for your friday. 59 here and now. Northern wind at 10 miles per hour. Keeping the cooler temperatures in place. Jackets certainly needed here for evening plans. Theres our lonely 60 degrees in akron. 57 for us in cleveland. From yesterdays temperatures. But were recordbreaking in the afternoon hours. Were 15 degrees cooler in worcester. But thats one of the smaller changes. Notice here in cleveland, 19 degrees cooler than yesterday at this time. Same story for ra vina. 17 degrees cooler in mansfield. As far as temperatures go, were going to see a dip again because of two fronts. That first passed but the second, hanging to the north. Well see if we can find any more rainfall. And then the change. Thats all mi two white officers, each accused of killing unarmed white men. Both going to trial. Next at 5 00, an intense murder trial, unfolding right now, right here in ohio. What jurors saw today in the trial of officer ray tining. About the killing of samuel dubose. And in another highprofile trial. The video of a man shot in the back. While running away from an officer. Day 1 of the Michael Slager trial next. Have you seen it . What you need to know about the misleading memes being shared on twitter and how to make sure your vote really counts. Plus, we havent really mentioned it. But of course, were aware the indians did not win the world series last night. But never fear. Leon bibb is here to show us today the jury heard from in Cincinnati Police officer at the center of an intense order trial with ray tensing charged with the death of an unarmed black man. Today they watched the video of him being interviewed. He claims he was dragged killed but the prosecutions forensic video analyst broke down the own body cameras video of tensing and says there were no squealing tires and the car moved only a foot or so. It shut down the claim of tensing of being dragged down the road. Yesterday the jury heard from five witnesses and one of them was just feet away from the shooting. The victim was driving a car license was suspended. Next to take the stand will be the supports expert and criminal investigation expert. I trial in a similar case is underway in South Carolina with Michael Slager accused of killing a man during a traffic stop over a broken tail light. He shot walter scott last year. Today a man with slager took the stand. Pierre fulton testified he has he did it when is the shooting but heard the gunshot. Another officer in oklahoma taking headlines for a different reason today. It was caught on a dashcam after he pulled over a speeding truck. Officer jordan jones stopped a speeding truck. He quickly learned there was an emergency emergency insight. Was going on you dont have a lot of time. Reporter she is unresponsive on the ground. With her family in a panic, jones stays in command. We are trained as far as handling people who are emotionally distraught. You cannot let that doctor into your judgment. The veteran continues to perform cpr bringing her back slowly. It was different when i was told. Reporter the hospital was 15 minutes away. I was doing cpr and then First Responders out there. Reporter the woman was taken to the hospital where she is recovering. Jones was overcome with emotion. The adrenaline slows down and it was surreal. That was petty santos reporting. Also they helped save the womans life. A story weve been following has been developing out west with the Dakota Access pipeline. This week police had dozens of protesters with pepper spray. The group was going through water trying to get to the Property Owner of the developer. I kept telling them no we are not going to leave. Just like you, we will stay he was just in my face. Two of the protesters were arrested and some had to be treated for hypothermia. Earlier state regulators slammed the Pipeline Company for waiting 10 days to report the discovery of American Indian artifacts along the route of the pipeline with the potential for damage to an American Indian site. Water sources have been a the weather we have enjoyed was perfect for those games. It is over, isnt it . It is all over. We have a little bit of a better singer for the weekend but it will go down a little bit more for your friday. For now lets focus on the positive with a little sunshine coming on in. It is helping us for the drive home and 57 for you in downtown. 56 for Chagrin Falls and 55 if you are charting and 56 in north carrollton. We have middle 50s heading south and it is a little warmer with a little 64 akron. We do have it little bit more 60 action southwest with 61 in killbuck. Notice the difference in colors here. He west siders are seeing a little bit more sunshine and there is still a good amount of cloud coverage as we await cold front number two continues to push the warmer air and the beautiful 70 degree temperature that we saw is now a distant memory and the blue is expected toward friday. I think youll notice the chill in the afternoon tomorrow. Part of that is from the second cold front. The first cold front is south of exactly pass right here at home , but it does get close enough to send us another small chance of rain fall. It also would send High Pressure to the west and as it slides to the east we will see those temperatures rebound. This may be the bottoming out period and this is what we were just talking about. We do have some added clouds to the evening in the overnight hours and the front bringing in not impacting anyone to the ct scan tonight. It will mean to the cavs game tonight. It will mean daytime highs in the low 50s. So it is quite chilly. As far as rainfall goes, we are looking at 1 100 precipitation in the overnight hours. He sunshine is coming back. If you need something to put a little pep in your step, the cavs are taking on the 52 as you head on in and it should be dry and chilly in downtown. When it comes to your power of 5 sevenday forecast we do have some beautiful weather toward the weekend. Mother nature is trying to make us feel better with 60s for saturday and 62 on sunday. Loving monday and tuesday as well with no problems you are trying to get out and vote. Into wednesday. That may be our one and only shot at rain. It is very light again tuesday night into wednesday dropping the temperatures back down. For friday we had a high of only 52. Back over to you. It is a good thing basketball is indoors, right . Next it seems obvious to not leave your keys inside your car but it turns out on this dubious reputation. Dramatic video of a high speed chase raising new questions about police chase policy and whether they are right now more than 4000 acuras and honors have been chance of exploding. Now the national Highway Traffic Safety Administration is ordering the company to hire private investigators to find owners to have the cars fixed. It is hard to believe it is already a member and many of us would like to warm up our vehicles. Authorities are reminding drivers not to leave those keys in the ignition. Ohio ranks fourth nationwide for auto theft when owners leave the keys in the car. There are more than 8000 reported in a threeyear span with more than 2000 right here in cleveland metro. Dont need your keys in the car. Only on newschannel5 downtown is looking for a major makeover, but will it be worth the tax dollars being funneled into the project . And today we have another a look at our top stories now. Lakewood is fed up with police wasting time on false alarms. The Police Department told us 97 of burglar alarms in 2014 or false alarms caused by operator errors, equipment malfunctions, and the city is now considering charging 200 same location. A jury heard from a forensic video analyst of the shooting when he said he was being dropped the car when the five. Doing yesterday said the on body cam ethernet of tensing indicated no schooling tires. And jury deliberations are underway in a highprofile murder case. Warrensville heights. If convicted shine could face the death penalty. Lets check in with meteorologist tera blake it was good to sleep in. If you have those evening plans, we expect the weather to corporate for the most part. It is a little chilly as we wait with 57 your currt wind at mount milesperhour. In northeast ohio the rain has been shut off. You have a straggler or two. The Morning Hours only had about a 10th of an inch in total. It look like if not, but it was quick and it should take easy with the second batch only dropping a quarter. In total we are awaiting the chance for an additional stray showers date tonight. Temperatures are holding into the 50s for the most part with 55 in wooster and 55 leery and 60 in akron. Today we notice the chill and tomorrow i expect to stay in the lower 50s for the entire day. Friday night Football Games will definitely be on the chilly site. We will take a look at any rate potential for those weekend plans and have some good news in the new church you. Only on been a bit of an eyesore in Cuyahoga Falls with the empty street city they cant pick the major changes to come with a price tag. James riley is live from downtown. Reporter this was once the center of a busy downtown Cuyahoga Falls. Now not so much. But for 11 million in taxpayer money we are looking to change things here. The popcorn shop is one of a small handful of businesses tucked into an empty, isolated front street in downtown Cuyahoga Falls. As it is right now, the Business Owners that are looking at space are probably seeing zero traffic. Make it with an amphitheater attracting concertgoers in the summer and iceskating rinks attracting snowbirds in the winter. A Major Development is aiming to change that and bring a new phase to this old downtown. We are working on early stages. Reporter the mayor don walters had businesses feeling packing the sidewalk. That is why he is happy the city council signed off on an 11 Million Investment putting the road back in and making major upgrades to store fronts. We are up in the 12 million range. It has not been finalized because we are still doing the design work now. There will be no increase to taxpayers and we can pay with our own funds. It will likely take years to pay off this is worth it. It is going to reinvigorate the downtown area that has a ton of potential. Reporter plans for this project are still coming together, but ground likely be broken in may. It is expected the project will be completed in summer of 2018. I am James Gherardi with news 5. Right now po

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