P. J. Ziegler is in groundfox. We are on the innerbelt towards cleveland, to try to get west towards the westlake area. We are stuck in some traffic this is normal about this time of day. It is snowing, visibility is less than 1 mile, traffic is crawling along. The Road Services are just let there not snowcovered. Be advised to and extra traveling distance. Future wipers and your headlights. As of now, no traffic worries, other than the normal about this time perked up. Lorain on high alert after Police Search for a Child Predator who is on the loose and dangerous. Lorrie taylor joins us. This began just after 6 00 a. M. When the first of three young girls was approached by a young white male, in each case the girls were able to get away, so did the the suspect and catch him. Ran schools on lockdown thursday after three girls, to an elementary, won the middle school aged, reported the end grabbed by a young white male while walking to school, the first attack happened at washingtontngth and west ninth street not far from admiral ernest j. Key elementary. He grabbed her from behind, the juvenile tried to get away he made a threatening comment she was able to get away. Neighbors heard the girls screamingng and saw the suspect running towards west eighth street. They believe the same man struck about one hour 15 minutes laterer in the area of oberlin and west eighth following a girl into until yard exposing himself. U 25 minutes later, the suspect made another attempt to grab a elementary. L she says that her son texted her from school about the attackser asking her to keep a close on his two sisters. Today and pick them up and pick these up to because not taking any chances. Classified by the news of what happened, and she says that her 13yearold cousin and her a friend were approached last monthsa. Try to force it into the car, they screamed and ran into this store and then the cops came. Please ask in the public pay close attention to thek suspect description, a young white male in his midtwenties 20s mid 30s, andtw five at 10 inches 6 feet tall wearing a blackin of a jacket, was in a his face. The girls were not were not answered confidently say injured , police say that they were not injuredotsw despite one of them being punched in the face, the good news is that they are home with their families tonight. Please ask you to be alert, and if you cant then watch and watch your kids to the bus stop for School Sweetheart the safest place would be inside theld school they spoke to a parent who needed to go to the school toto drop off another said that they would not let her in, it was lockdown, you can see Police Cruisersn, near the school zone, and this guy, approached them for close to elementary elementary school, remain alertdy. Police are looking into a possible connection to another attempted induction nearby elyria after yung ro says a man tried ton take her from her bed in the middle of the night, matt wright spokesman at spoke to the victims father who will come to her screaming, her screaming for , he is at the Elyria Police headquarters. Tonight the man zinan police say tried to grab this little girl is on the loose. They say that he tried to pull her out of the bedroom window, fbi removed evidence from the home, they say they attempted abduction happened about 3 45 a. M. He said his 10yearold daughter ran into his room screaming that a that the vandal and when i get hurt she ran for help, he says he discovered a small stepladder under the girls window, he got away leaving footprints in the snow. A hope that the kitchen, how is your daughter doing . Okay. How are you feeling . Rough, very rough. Please describe the suspect as a white man in his 30s, brown eyes wearing a black city, please remind everybody to remain vigilant as they investigate a possible connection to the lorain attempted abductions, if you have information call the police that last night around 1030, there were no no injuries to police are still trying to figure out what happened on they say that while there were empty dzhokahar the herd shots firedurigt the area of the gas station which is directly across the headquarters. The police pursued the suspect arrested in a short time later a sixyearold boy was taken into custody with a gunshot wound they say that the it is gunshot wound, no gun was recovered the Police Union Says the shooting has officers concerned. Pon this is not an unusual occurrence the amount of gun deaths and violence is at a recordsetting pace the sad part is that whether as a uniformed officer oror a citizen it is indiscriminate everybody is at risk. A the 16yearold is at the hospital and hasat not been charged asking for the audio of the Police Radio Traffic andg body camera video of the incident but have not received them. They say that his gunshot wound to the site looks like it could have been selfinflicted are trying to determine when that happened if hehe fired the shot being investigated. Bernie sanders promised to take the big money out of politics and put the needs of the middle class into the forefront,t, message gave at a Campaign Stop at Baldwin Wallace university this morning as Roosevelt Leftwich joins us. Depending on the pole poll, vermont senator byrd Bernie Sanders is d winning or losing. But his base of support seem to be the same young people who want Something Different about 4,000 people attended the vermont senator and his antiestablishment message he games, of his themes, free college tuition,s criminal justice reform, legalization of marijuana and wall street reform in and did what he calls the impact of big money on the political system he says his campaign will not take corporate fundraising records without it. What we said is that were not going to raise millions of dollars are going to ask middleclass working families in the country for help and what happened the last nine months . Received over 4 million individual contributions. He said the average contribution is about 27 , that is roughly a war chest of more than 108 million, he sat down with stacey frey about his campaign this campaign and what makes it tick have more about that at five of 6 00 p. M. Hillary clinton visits South Carolina todayy the republican challengers are in texast, the last debate before super tuesday, tonight in houston as tracy mccool joins us to talk donald momentum scoring three straight primary victories and you can bet the rest of his challengers will go after him tonightr republican operative who is who is leading one of the antitrust movement says there is still time to stop them but not muchchad, marco rubio and ted cruz have so far shown little willingness to take take on trump take on trumpet and a high profile settingtt, but tonights debate could be especially crucial for ted cruz since he is in his home state, texas is among the 15 States Holding a primary or caucus of super tuesday berkeley he has her question about why he is still in the race but says he is moving forward. N im curious how many reporters ask marco rubio after losing four states in a row , so when you drop a benchmark to have to keep winning states who got to win delegates. Donald trump is alluded to obamacare are pretty good. People have not done very well against me so far everybody whoho gets me has got down. Mitt romney, is calling on donald trump to release his tax returnsi, suggesting that maybe there may be something fishy,ti trump responded to him in between calling him one of the dumbest and worst candidates in. Plenty of snow and reduced visibility. The skyline is Getting Better in northwest ohio the last of it is moving through ,i is still under a any advisory for the next two and a half or three hours. Yesterday, between virginia and north carolina, and florida about 20 reports of tornadoes and some sandusky, huron county quieting down this should be gone around 6 00 oclock. I think a minor lake effect event tonight and then left with highpressure. Tomorrow, well be partly sunny with a nice last weekend of february. 30 hopkinsville spiked 20 with winds between 30 and 35 mph. Just a shock to the system and tomorrow will be even colderk. Look at some of those narrow bands of lake effectse a highpressure will stave off any moisture tomorrow heading into saturday and sunday nights at around 20. Tomorrow upper 20s looking at partly sunny sky. Average high of 40 on saturday and 50s on sunday the. And then march on fox 8 the official School Closing station with closings local school had has a goal to return to excellence. Curriculum aligned with todays educational nature is wayne dawson with this weeks fox 8 coolschool, Warrensville Heights middle school. Win team vision and goal is the mindset for the sixth and seventh graders aton Warrensville Heights middle school, returning to excellence,vi the curriculum with a any emphasis on realworld application, a Distance Learning program in partnership with the Cleveland Clinic gives students interested a way to learn about Health Science and medicine from doctorsray. The people of the program talk us and we take notes, and we ask questions and they give us answers. This year is the progressive parts of Alliance Program incorporating science and math with hard they made kinetic sculptures. And is a form of art. Like this better i like this better than textbook learning becausett you do handson things you learn a lot more than just reading that Book Technology has replaced the lessons of chrome books and ipads. Read 180 is a Language Arts website to do readingl spelling and writingad. From the visual to the performing arts, they find ways to express themselves, dances a popular elective. I believe believe Warrensville Heights is a coolschool because wee get to have so many opportunities we have ballet classesee band then we have multiple sports regis get to do multiple things and Wayne Dawson Fox 8 news Warrensville Heights. Taking a trip to stark county next week, the next fox 8 coolschool is Glenoak High School and canton. When a car drives away from lot clear out . Can tell that you allow the weather today. Its going to get a lot better. It we have the visor is till 7 00 p. M. For Cuyahoga County, and the snowbelt. Want to emphasize a minor eventn. Along the turnpike and 90 and two. By 6 00 oclock most of the snow will be gone but still reduced visibility. If you live from cleveland to points south west and south will today, about 30 with winds between 15 and 25 gusting up to 30,we so, it feels colder it feels. Go to p. J. Ziegler who is in groundfox. This afternoon, to describe the weather, it is clear and clean as we enter the roads here on monday west from downtown. Doing about 60 mph we have increased visibility since leaving downtown. Anybody leaving downtown on the way home , heading west should have a the roads are clear, and everything is moving smoothly. Two Police Officers recovered after they were hit by the driver of a stolen vanh thick fog dave nethers joins us from fox 8 studio at the university of akron. There are lengthy Akron Police Department and route 2 the call of a fight with a gun was fired outside of an apartmentf where a little girl was killed by stray bullets in 2011 but they never made it there. N the officers and the Police Cruiser were southbound on arlington when they dodge them the cruiser in ended up in a parking lote on the side of arlington,f and and the van and a parking lot across the street it was reported stolen fromp tribe falls, the driver took off. N 25 yearold Akron Police Officer karl lessman and William Culver suffered minor injuries, both the vehicle sustained significant damage. Ot two officers were, it is amazing there were no major injuries. The police say they have developed a suspect but no arrests have been made. Assessing damage after deadly nick struck storm system on the east coast killing seven, damage from the seven tornadoes that touched down in severe, Virginia Governor declared a state of emergencyin the town of waverly was hit the hardest, a 2 yearold child and two adults killed the storms went from the carolinas all the way up to new england, thousands of people remained without power power tonight thed virginia tornadoes red states first deadlyvi february tornadoes on record in part and prior to this year just 15 were recorded in the state since 1950 so this is unusual, the worst is over, there is a massive cleanup ahead. Fbi director told congress the current dispute with apple is the hardest question he has seen andt government dealings, hearing about worldwide threatsja when asked about the the fbi request that apple cracked the cell phone one of the San Bernardino terrorist, said as part of a broader issue he told lawmakers the central question is who do we want to be be in hell do we want to govern ourselves, apple has refused to comply with the request to decrypt the suspect cell phone theyre expected to file an objection tomorrowt. Uber driver accused of going on a shooting spree in michigan was depressed before the shootings a lawyer forw jason dalton revealed that day on good morning america, says that his wife asked him why he was acting differently he said he was tired tired, he admitted to the shooting spree that killed six and injured two but the police have not revealed a motive. Release information about a toy recall coming up 3 million could cut cut passengers crashing outc recall was prompted by a Committee Investigation into the crash that killed two people who were inprhe the rear seats while the driver survived, toyota says dealers will add plastic covers to the seatbelt frames. Co looks like colorado visitors are indulging in too muche legal marijuana, and the new england journal of medicine, er visits related two pot use are up since colorado legalize marijuana marijuana marijuana in 2012 many involving people from out of state, andua this are stretched to the er of nearly 110 percent, for colorado11 colorado residents oppose increasing 44 percent they say thato education is more education is needed for consumers and pot retailers. O fox 8 news traffic is moving along nicely, shortly so far so good. I do see a little bit of sunshine, this weekend, superheroes Tyler Lawrence and secret agents come two cleveland this weekend and you can meet thems. The wizard world comic con is center of cleveland. A exhibits on everything from movies, comics and video games as well as celebrity guests. Ies. We have a different programming panels everything from q a with celebrities, are artists giving tips, lots of superman stuff, lots of fan programming a lot to learn about the industry and to learn about your favorite celebrities. It also features some big names in comics and movies including i chris hemsworth, matt smith from doctor who and Chloe Bennett from agent to shield. It begins tomorrow and runs through sundayay for more information on wizard world comic con, go to fox 8. Com. Target is unveiling a new line clothing for girls and features re female superheroes like wonder woman focus on the wind comes after the new star wars action figure line did not feature any women included the star of that movie movie, the new class of superheroes will be into stores next monthart. This is a new camera thanks to Andre Bernier at burke lakefront airport are looking at the video noticed, at the tail end, some writing in the skynd so sunshine your toledo, Bowling Green is the father is god tomorrow against colder last weekend of february is going to be not badl with 40s 50s. Winter weather advisories for snowbelt in Cuyahoga County over the next two hours till about 7 00 p. M. Looking at the heavier snowfall on richland in ashland on 71 and to the north it is some pockets of snowfall. To the west things from the south and west that will begin to call it down tomorrow, currently about 30 in cleveland, mid 30s near columbus with winds gusting between 20 35 mph so that windchill is a factor today. That windchill is what matters because that is what it does feel like to your bodyi despite the thermometer. Tomorrow get ready for some sunshine, a quiet evening quite evening commute for your friday tomorrow,i waking up to about 20 degrees with aw wince slowly , itll be called a upper 20s. Then its the weekend, near normal by saturday and sunday looking at a warmer weekend. And then march, low 50s the chance of a shower and then falls back into the 30s chance of a rain snow mix but nothing significantly cold and getting closer to the vernal equinox being coming of spring. Rounds at the nfl combine in indianapolis quarterback front john telich is in the newsroom more. Browns executive Vice President in charge of football operations, sashi brown is dealing with, trying to hang on onto selected free agentsh in attracting others, also, the talented receiver josh gordon could return this season after a fouryear suspension, he is going through the process of trying toto be reinstated by the nfl, brown gave an indication that gordon can be a sight for sore eyes this year,ica if the link lets him back in. He understands that he had made some past mistakes i think he hasp been held accountable, everything we see, hishe representation and others in quioccasin at seven that he is eager to get back and contribute and who feel that there could be room for him on the roster. Spotlight moment, the carson wentz and jared goff have more on that tonigh