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WJW Fox 8 News At 6PM August 10, 2016

High school looking at the aftermath which much cleanup to be done. Everywhere here you see expensive damage especially in front of the high school. After toppling to large trees. People been coming here all day to tak photos. The rifle came with a vengeance in Cleveland Heights things were going everywhere. Winds gusting up to 80 about 10 00 p. M. Tuesday night. The microburst knocking down a tree branches a brooding trees. S. It crashed into this house. It felt like someone lived i treelined streets, is cleaning up branches, as went into her car . Trees are the answer. The storm cutting power to Traffic Signals at about 10,000 homes. A downed power lines, it was a common theme the fire chief reminds everybody to keep a safe distance away. You do not want to get wires because there are tangled around it t in a can charge the entire area. There is debris blocking several roads. I try to get down very streets and not able to gett anywhere. Despite all the damage, no injuries reported. Couldve been a lot worse. Cleanup these giant roots about twice a tall as i am, first energy says about 6,000 people remain without power, expect to have power restored by about 10 00 p. M. Tonight. Mentor took a direct hit, more than 200 homes are without power. Roosevelt leftwich there wit the storyry they have quite a story to tell the power restored tonight. Thats what theyre hoping, you can sayh that there are pow crews on mentor avenue. We are at the parking lot of the saint lutheran church, many people trying to cope with the high heat humidity. The power crews power, while things that they hope is thatw this will be over sooner than later. R. s daughter has just rainfall got heavier than there was thunder and lightning and just as they thought, the hope that the power to not go out and the it didha and then the sky lit u without the house was on fire there was a huge explosion it was all red and we ran outside to conceive that the tree wasd covering mentor avenue and there were sparks and cable lines down. Large branches from a tree a few houses down fell along mentor avenue transformer blew as power lines were the power poles, traffic was reduced in one lane just east and westbound 200 homes lost power about 10 0 theyre saying is we have no ac in our house is like 900 degrees in our house. They bought out generators to get through it but even with a generator that powersrs the fan and the prejudice still hot the power couple says it could be several hours or the entire day to restore power he says that this is sometimes the price pai to live on a treelined street. In this direct theres a lot of old trees, a good storm, usually there is a problem of one sort or another but hopefully this will be the end of it. As you saw, the other part of the puzzle is to clear up the debris this is in the faith lutheran parking lot. F i am on part of what is left of this tree. It fell away from the of this. There was no damage t the building, first energy tell people that some should have power restored tonight but for some people, with downed power lines between the house and the power pole in tomorrow before the power is restored. Lots of cleanup to do and the next few days a. Exactly. That is one thing to is to do the cleanup, he said that he has been called to do this cleanup and then there are still more jobs. Do thank you from mentor. Iteam investigates why family called 91111 for an ambulance but paramedics never got there. Is probably far asasgo ed gallek is here with what he has found out. There was no ambulance family for over half an hour, yet she was asking city hall wh does this keep happening square you down 911 for an ambulance and expected to arrive within minutes. Dont count on what happened tuesday night after registering blackout from a seizurere and his sister called for help. Nd i expect him ambulance, immediately ambulance a and th the firemen came they were the only ones who arriveded, em i guess they kept calling and they kept dispatching them and guess they were just too busy. First responders, the firefighters came from a few blocks awayir helping to revive himlo and began to check them out but there were no paramedics or ambulance atat w east 140 secon kinsman. Said that there was no ambulanc available. This is unheard of a never thought that this could happen. They just told mel to call y guysme to fight it was taken so long for the image to see about my child. Wa dive team shows that this ha happened before, this child had a seizure and waited 31 minutes forad and amulets with no ems available,nd sources and the Safety Forces say that they hav run into the problem oftenehe sometimes daily, this case is not unique. Even 12 hours after the light with the 911 call,r yacking got word about the city struggled t put amulets is on the streets c. On wednesday at least one crew was forced to use an suv. They were not able to take patients to hospitals. The sister took him to get help, we took a series of questions to city hallwe about why does this keep happening . And what is being done . Ou we also told city hall that we wanted to speak to someone o camera, aboutsoy that they cannot say much, the city is looking into this and. Out that this latest case was not lifethreatening. Not lifeanddeath but not what taxpayers pay for. Talk about this over and over, so the question isis how long is long enough to get the action needed . It is not a new problem we ob assume this from time to time paramedics but that has not resulted in more ambulanceses o the street. Local officer speaks out with a powerful story, recovering after getting struck by an outofcontrol driver, peggy gallek is here with the officer message. Cargo falls officer ted davis suffered injuries including a fractured pelvis today for the crash was back at the department. A has it been difficult . Just sore, sundays good some bad. These crutches are temporary officer ted davis says that his smile is permanent garlic out for me that night. Says hes thankful to be abl to walk because just 18 days ago, it was not something he wa sure he would be able to do again. W there were two surgeries, the dr. Said that everything was pushed upe into the chest cavit they had to pull everything back down with a couple of broken ribs and broken pelvis. W on july 23, police say that 46yearold Donald Watson juni of akron purposely grandpas pickup truck intoto the cruiser officer davis. They say watson made this 911 call, threatening to kill law before he crashed into several parts cruisers in the departmen parking lot then fled and then crashed intoh the cruiser of davis. The guys were there, the firemen did what they needed to and we got to the hospital andd everything fell into placed. And our officer davis continues to recover with his friends and family at his side. We were worried that may not be able to see him up and running as well as he is looking. G. P is great that he can see the guys, i know that he has supported home but this is his home away from home. Many here say that their hearts break for other law enforcements officers nationwid who have recently been attacked happen close to home, it really tears at your heartstrings, but the sport we has seen in people really helps the officer. To his family, to officers and community as we start a shift we know that that could be us in m position and wee are just one great big family. Y. Has a long road ahead but says that his goal is to return to work by thanksgivingal. Says he is still receiving food and donationsns, hes aski people to give him fruit instead of all the sweets because hes given some extra weight. People here around the country are showing tremendous support for local Police Officers recently,t within communities there is pockets of distress so a local man sees that and shares with dave nethers plans to bridge the divide. Emanation of police in dallas muchry on the minds of officers around the country including an akron. Ff we are in the, the forefront of our minds is for someone could be out there trying to harm us. F but heres an akron they say support have seen is from people who want theb to know that they have their backs. Almost daily, we come into the rollcall room there is cookies and cakes in all kinds of different expressions of support from people, from the publicki are touched by thisll. James thomas sees a side of the qt in which there is distrust and wants to change thati w. Like to see a bunch of peopl from the neighborhood come together with the police and Fire Departments and join force to help each other because i know that sometimes if a crime does happen, i want people to b able too help the police to sol theyre working on plans for a bike ride, ride for peace in which officers andri citizens r sidebyside to bridging the divide. Barrier to help us if we need them i think that all cops are trying to save a life that they couldps, sometimes, some of the take their authority to the ne level. Akron police in that they are all in. Sometimes police work is ongoing, some thingsii that are not prett whenwo those few incidents occurred, we have that support from people. Mount viasu slowdown, not just slowdown but stop. Dave nethers fox 8 news. Bike ride is expected in september. R. Still ahead, cameras rolling as a couple of officers rescue woman from a burning building. Go oneonone with president obama you can send a house. E. Watching the sky for over one hourur that continues to be a breaking news out ofat nyc, the man in the picture is attemptin to scale the trump tower by this contraption is made up of five suction cups. He has been scaling the ct Story Building for at least one hour starting on the fifth floor and now at about the 20thhe, they have broken out some windowpanes, it appears that th police and rescue crew are trying to kill kate hoping to get him inside once he gets to the open window. We will keep an eye on this to bring you any significant reports on social media that perhaps he wants to get a chanc to speak with donald trump. This probably not the way to accomplish it. A 120 said he told First Responders that his name is steve from virginia i want to talk to donald trump who is in virginia today. T well see what happens we will be keeping a close eye onwe this suction cup in time, worried about the dark ominous skies we do have some showers storms, last night they were s severe later in the even currently no watches warnings, looking at cedar point. Earlie today at 3 16 p. M. It was a beautiful day, hot humid, at 5 00 oclock just a deluge o rain. And then suddenly it cleared off for a second. The shaw high today 92 degrees means we are now at 20 days in the 90s for the year so far and still counting. F in hopkins o seen an inch or two or more sense last night with now more showers storms, since it will at 8 33 p. M. Looking at some storms near port clinton, sandusky. The showers near port clinton is now pushing up northeast between 20 and 30 mph. And in someme raindrops also parmatown 77 to newburgh height and south to Broadview Heights also richfield. All the way south into summit county. Al macedonia getting a downpour. On the turnpike from streetsbor to twinsburg looking at some what we know is a weakening of the Energy Status about two hours ago there were about 5,00 so show you some of the areas with rainfall. Will be several chances of rainfall in the next four days o. The lowpressure areaea downpours from the deep south and a friend here. It wellhead in our direction latching onto subtropical moisture so now until friday with afternoon storms. For the weekend that front could be showers storms and potentially very heavy rainfall two days in a row. Whether 1 inch of rainfall at these are official reporting stations, one half inch new philly in mansfield threequarter inch. The dew points are the 70s so the hot humid air at times felt lik between 95 and 100 degrees. No watches warnings for us some excessive heat across the midsection of the nation. Tomorrow near 90 maybe the number 21 and showers storms likely for the weekend and then less humid tuesdaythursday nex week. Just a couple days from the first exhibition game, with the john telich response, howard dean is doing and the capital and how is Terry Francona doing. Talk about francona checked out tuesday night after experiencing chest pains at the the tribe faced the nationals. The tribe is just trying to get the act of going there is terry the dugout and doing okay. It is a time getting at fourfour with Daniel Murphy the fifth an he cannot make the play. Then five to four nationals and then a double down the leftfield linene t bringing ho is sevenfour nationals. In the unions are running out of atbats. E about the browns . How are they doing . Today Terrelle Pryor applied ice to his calf, and Corey Coleman do not practice also hopkins have been ruled out for the game in green bayy not that Tashaun Gipson a Donte Whitner and safety,e neither is with th team, joe haden is coming back from surgery and others like jordan poyer try to make their mark, he does not take kindly t suggesting that the group has lost much withdl gipson whitner gone. I know that our group is i believe that on the team that with joe haden and were going to increase the level of play, mine included. Im excited to play with those guys. Has asked me about this, how much more do we have to wait fo friday night touchdown . Will try to answer that, it will be in two weeks and two nights, big news regarding the holy war, the yearly scrum first energ stadium saturday october 29 the boast a total of 14 state playoff titlesth of the wildcat have 11 and the eagles, who hav one two straight have three. Expect a huge crowd for the battle as chuck kyle and the catsch face the eagles and coac tom lombardo. For the willoughby south rebels quarterback Michael Federico some skill guys who can make plays, coach matt duffy hopes that some of the younger player canma grow up fast as they look to make lots of noise at the schoo onpof shankland today spoke about the strength of the rebels came. We have veterans on defense fill in spots and hopefully they can grow up quick. F its almost time for season 20 of friday night touchdown in just two weeks, join us for the premiere on friday august 2611 00 p. M. On fox 8. The damage is done after the storm but what do you do . . Can protect yourself from scams but it looks like all of our today, lastst night storms knocked out power and cause trees to fall overer ont some homes. Here at west 11th, homeowner heard a loud noise an it was not the when the caused the problems. That was the lightning. It was a big crash in bright. It was not the wind. She says that is also not a meter off the side of the house we wake up to amass money back on this tended to accept help frommk anybody who comes knocki that can be very expensive. Lorrie taylor joins us to explain. Have to be careful comes to contractors who show upup after a storm, some may be legit but a lot of them are not,m, but how handle situation can save youbu heartache and money. Is easy to be overwhelmed after a storm damages your property. Most was not prepared to remove trees and repair roofs, ep but harm first person who knocks on your dooror or allow them to fix the problem before contactingo the insurance agenc can create problems. It is okay to cover a hole in the roof of the tarp, but do no allow repairs that correct or eliminate the problem until the insurance adjuster signs off. Ohio Insurance Institute and Ohio Department of insurance recommend you get several dstimates. Dot ability to sign the contract that prevents you from resenting your claim to the insurance company. Be present for the inspection. You want someone claiming damage that is not exist its important to know who you deal with, research the contractors reliability by checking ther bureaubbb for complaints and search the Court Dockets and surrounding counties d see if any lawsuits have been filed, one o two over the years maybe nothing,a but a long list is a sure sign of unreliability or dishonestyon u but whatever you do , do not pay in full until the you can reduce the odds of being takent by a contractor asking for recommendations, i like to call the Billing Department and youre sitting asking for recommendations of work that has seen and mike and i can be very helpful. And talk about the weather situation, last night the stars were calling Cleveland Heights and also mentor. A lot of cleanup today and we have those dark skies and potential of mor stores tonightnd there are no severe warnings now, take a loo at the one hour lipo radar, in Ottawa County and near sandusky some heavy rainfall approaching ceda pointro. Looking at independen Garfield Heights a downpour approaching Newburgh Heights approaching 77. And through macedonia and twinsburg and getting close tod cuyahoga fall, streetsboro hem some light showers continue to see asim minimal amount of lightning strikes compared to about two hours ago it was double. Show some weeding of showers storms. We zoomed out, whats happening is lots of the storm cells as we go into the evening will come to a halt. And then tomorrow it will be dr again with more storms on radar tomorrow afternoon and evening. Then tomorrow could be dana 21 in th 90s with more afternoon storms. We got plenty but nothing severe like on the east side. Will be the potential and th next couple days, with more widespread heavy rainfall into saturday sunday. Iteam is tracking developments in the case of thesets men known as the East Cleveland three, convicted murderer then released after rearly 20 years than last year, granted new trial, questions abouttr withheld evidence an more,e sources close to the case say that the charges will likel be dropped on monday , the day prosecutors are not saying. To Police Officers in wayne county credited with saving an elderly disabled woman who was trapped in a burning Apartment Building as jack shea has the storyryisg. Amherst firefighters and Police Rushed to a fire at the pine Crest Apartments on middle ridge road tuesday afternoon. Two Police Officers among the first to arrive, realizing th disabled woman is

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