Im todd meany. Any. Not just any thursday it is saint judeu thursday. A special special day here already at 9 00. Thanks to all of you. 9 00. Thanks to all of you. Im Stefani Schaefer. It is friday eve. Thanks hector. Coming up on fox8 news in the morning a young c comihild goes missing in the freezing cold weather all the snow. Just a little pj outfit happened last night stacey frey is live with more on how she was rescued how all tfit happenedof that came to be thank god. A mile from her home. What the family is saying. Thank you so muchhat ca generouserous viewers you guys are the best 96 minutes we sold out of our dream home tickets 18,888. 8,888. Find out how you can still help such a great cause. Thanks guys. What did you give up for lent did you give up meet some people do for sure on fridays b ut even through the entire 40 days. Chef rocco is sharing some of be a family favorite maybeci something perhaps you can make tomorrow. Fish fry all of them going on around town. Fry all of them going on around town. Check in with scott sabol for a look at our forecast on this thursday are we going to get warmer. Taking a wiitook at our focastld for that to happen temperatures all over the place this morning theres the ice cover starting to see some breaks and it. Due to the three reasons heavy snow cover clear sky and lack of ndhe three rns hea wind. Called the spot we could find was pierpont nine below read theyre close to the line. Six below ashtabula and peggy turners picture of her thermometer check it out on my Instagram Page one below still in rocr check itut on myk creek. Bainbridge at to Chagrin Falls at six. Look at the temperatures to the west middle teens from valeria to brunswick look at medina seven. Bounced around ari little bit by afternoon should all climb back up into the lower 30s. That huge range in temperature will quickly even out and we will have a pretty good nicee the looking at lower 30s. Lower 30s tomorrow. Jump right to it. Take a look at the warm front starts to push north increase the winds tom orrow it will increase the temperatures most of us will make a run at 50. There is a warm fronest will talk about whether or not we see rain or snow from that coming up in a little bit. Back to you. Thanks. A lorain family is counting snow little a lorain family is counting their blessings, after they were reunited with a toddler whote wandered out of the house last night. Unbelievable story so many questionsel to about how that could happen. It was a harrowing few hours. Harrowingw h fox 8s staoucey frey is live in lorain with the story. X 8s stacey frey good morning again. Good morning. Lana lowther was only wearing her pajamas when she wandered out of the house last night. T. Her family realize she was missing before 9 00. She wasnt found until a little after 1a. M. In those hours in bund untilittletween a lot of panic and a lot of people looking for her. Family, friends, neighbors, thermal imaging on a wooded lana was eventually found near the corner of missouri andking foce, firee fbi. Area. Cleveland avenues, about a mile away from where she was last seen. Lorain police say she was in good condition, but was brought mileehe was las her to the hospital to get checked out. Er to tital to get checked out. We talked to the man who found her. She seemed a little bit out of it. Her. Ittle bit out of it. Like she was able to say sit, like she wanted to sit in the car. N the and i could tell she was really i could tell she was really cold so she had to have been out there for a long time cause she was shivering when i picked her up. The second i put her in the a long up. The second i put her in the vehicle she was just relaxed and started to close her eyes and sit down. A 30 pound girl to live out inarted to cse her e this cold for this length of time and the hundreds of people thngth ofat were, and shes laying right there in the snow. I mean, hundreds of people m looking for her for hours and she was right there in plalain sight basically. Up so far from home. Brought to Mercy Medical center but seuartransferred to Rainbow Babies and Childrens Hospital overnight. Spoke with her mom briefly shetransferred to rain said is a message this morning she is table being treated at the hospital mom says she is safe and very thankful for the people who went out to look for her a little girl last night. God bless botha people and the man that founder i bet he could it believe it. He seemed a little emotional. Absolutely. Absolutely. Thanks so much. Facebook was a huge part of that social media being sspread and people showing up out of nowhere thats where they got those volunteers. Amazing. Are other top story this morning. The head of the Teachers Union is strasburg is asking for a state investigation, into anan alleged grthade rigging schemeats ere theyeyeng for a ed grade rigging scheme involving the superintendent. Despite the controversy, the school board has agreed to extend the superintendents contract. All right soo take a listen here. Exte the all right so take a l im disappointed obviously thatisten here. Its reached this point, and i work with the staff, thek students, the community, to give our kids the best education thathe they deserve. The school board for the Strasburg Franklin local schools said they support cindy brown, and they extended her contract last night for three more years. D more than two dozen teachersn teachers signed a resolution, seeking an investigation, accusing brown of changing students grades to artificially inflate student performance. Many parents at the meeting spoke up in support of the superintendent. I feel strongly, though, veryg ign gradeate stup strongly that the strasburg board of education got it right when they hired mrs. Brown to lead this district applause. At teachers are trained to evaluate students and give grades based on wistrict applaushers are trined that they earn, not on what the administration is telling them that they should earn. The president of the Teachers Union says they do not want brown to resign or be fired right notheyllrn. The pw. The School Board President says they will cooperate with anyet now. State investigation, but adds, the board has no plans for its own investigation. Dewine is planning to act as aine is planning to act as a special prosecutor to look into the death of a cleveland woman who died in police custody. Tanisha anderson died ince custody. Tanisha anderson died in november of 2014, while struggling with officers when they tried to take her for a mental evaluation. Her family claims she died after an officer slammed her to the ground. The medical examiner ruled her o death a homicide, but adds heartide, but adds heart trouble and Mental Illness were factors. Cuyahoga county prosecutor tim mcginty asked dewine to take over the case, to avoid any conflicts of intere cahoga c mcgst. Earlier this week we told you aboutrlier th the attack on a Security Guard at an akrony guard at an akron hospital is now the focus of an investigation by the Us Department of labor. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration will look into the stabbing of an unarmed Security Guard at akrons Saint Thomas Hospital tuesday night. The 54 year old guard was working in the hospitals psych guardthomasspital tuesday night. Ward. Hes expected to be okay. The suspect 33 year old andrew felonious assault. The Ohio Supreme Court will hear arguments before considering if convicted serial killer Anthony Sowell should get a new trial. Sowell is on death row following his nting if con a2011 conviction for killing 11 women at his imperial avenue home. Defense attorneys argue he did not get a fair trial, because his jury selection was doneiis imp behind closed doors. The high court will hear oral will hear oral arguments from sowells attorneys, on april fifth. Ikea is pulling plans to build a new store here in northeast ohio. Attor the Swedish Furniture giant hadhad been looking at a site in brooklyn just off i480. But the army corp of engineers says the area is part of at a site i i protected wetland, and construction cant be done there. Ikea is not looking at any other locations in our area. Ikea the company is now focusing on opening a new store in columbus, in the summer of 2017. All right. We are so excited and proud tooud to announce that once again ourthat o fox8 viewers have gone above and sport us as we support anport incredible cause. The Fourth Annual. 18,888 tickets sold out in 96 9 minutes and thank you because we couldnt do this without you and you guys are so good and we appreciate that. And goo the sd an tory i was telling somebody about it last year somebody saidabout i was saving uit lyear sp my money since christmas so i could buy a Prepaid Debit Card so i can have thne hundred dollars to buy a ticket. It shows the power of saint jude and how great of an organization it is. The phone bank the phones lit upntnt it is. The phone bank the phones lit up at 6 00 a. M. Until 730 when we had to shut everything down. Nick abraham automall donatingat that car. What an amazing day it was as it always is. We have to wait and see who wins. Its exciting ys i e to wait and we see the house being built and people take the tours and bacon whenple other great prizes and the they really come out there d and help support it because as weve talked many times to the owners they truly believe in this cause and they get behind it in their excited to be part of it. Theyve toured the hospital they know the impact indin t tt has and how great it is. We have two. We have two. Its a special place. Its amazing. You are awesome. You bring u are us to tears every year. Very emotional you see everybodys being so generous. Ero we raise 1. 8 million. Overall about 5 million thank you once again it is awesome. Check in with Kenny Crumpton speaking of the house out there the nce red tail Golf Course Community and avon a nice sunny day good to see that. Good to e that. You and stephanie talking about how beautiful it is and how thew the humanity of cleveland comes about. We are watching a really cool example of it right now hanging out with jeff from cleveland custom homes and they have taken on a cool responsibility of teff from clevelandhe dream home. Morning people have been inut the charitable spirit what is going on here. Tell the folks whats happened in the past 45 minutes out here. Its truly amazing. You guys we have seenks whats ened past 45 m the generosity with the tickets sold not too long ago and now we are seeing a real example of it with ourg a realexamp framing crew. They are out here donating there time today to the saint jude cause. All of this for free. In addition they called up there pain company and they said will going to come out here and do this lift libyans up on the foundation at no cost as well. The frame company. That wasnt even the plan. These are just two of manyo of ma examples of the spirit of generosity that is following through this entire project. That is just great tuesday project. That is just great tuesday because it really does boil down the goodness of people it really does. We are blown away by it. E i our subcontractors vendors and suppliers are really just pouring themselves into this we are so blessed to have them a part of this entire effort with us. So awesome and you wanier theinto tt to give a shout out to your family. Myt to to. To hello lexi and addison and my my wife christine. Theyre also huge supporters. Very cool we appreciate it welcome aboard. E my pleasure. Appreci it. Its an honor. Will come out when it is warm. It is cold but well come out when we get some sun. Sounds good to me. Wersoue going to go back to you in the studio another couple a few stories of just the spirit of giving thats in the cleveland area of ride out here with jeff and cleveland custom homes its a great day you guys. Back to you guys. So nice that he is on board. Great to have that. Ayat. We love the sponsors. Great. Remember one of our patient ambassadors middle carsonf our patit higgins. He wasnt here this year theres a reason why he is back at saint jude there he is. Photos now w wasnt e thie talk to him about his new health fight and how really important today is for him in all of the patients at saint jude Childrens Hospital. We have a skype interview withthe paties at he and his mom in a few moments. More study or more play how many recess breaksew m should kids get during school. Some students are getting for. Do you think that might be too somdo you think that might be too many. At the story in your comments next inn todays download. Good morning check it out fox eight our outlook shows pretty chilly air by the tempe rature starte go back up low 30s regionwide and i know we had below zero readings but just the beginning well have a pretty good look at tomorrows forecast and the weekend in just a few it took Joel Silverman years to become a master dog trainer. But only a few commands to master depositing checks at chase atms. Technology designed for you. Some north texas schools say are benefiting from their kids having more recess time. The Elementary Schools are letting students enjoy two 15 minute breaks in texex the morning and two in the afternoon for a total of one hour of recess a day. Thmorning and thats three times longer than they used to get. It used to be 20 minutes. Imes longthan teachers say it is working. The new recess schedule makee make kids are less fidgety and more focused in the classroom. Is it too much. I think its great i think studies have shown you and i talked about this especially with boys they really need that time to just let looseust let lo have fun and then they can focus better. N obviously they say its working theyve seen an improvement the kids are behaving better theyre learning more that goes i think it is terrific. An i it is rr work toific. Wards that goal. If i focus right now 10 minutesmi were going outside. We get you know. And our altogether. Geth and parents are serious they think that is too long the kid should be. His the books. Kids arent getting the exercise that we all l thagot when we were young coming home. I think that is a big part of it to because home. They need all of thatey need al socialization the running around. We say that we are to sedentary kids are obese. This is a way for them to run around in there focusing it is a winwin. In our not on theirr o runsi ipad. Theres no debate. Lets see what you guys think lets see what you guys think rebecca says on our Facebook Page yes because kids cant focus for hours at a time so giving them page because kidbreaks allows for them to come back ready to start. Tricia commentedbreakllows on our Facebook Page kids need to run and play Research Shows the longterm benefits of play for children makes sense to let train educators dictate what kids need as opposed to politicians. Sandra wriri edutors dtes it does seem with the computer activity at home the only stretching they get is with some action so moremore activity at school makes sense. And king writes they are recess recess thinking about the recess at afterschool programs better at lunch and more security i n our schools. Recessed please. Amy says she commented this would have benefited me big time until high school 30 minutes was never nearly enough time for me. R me. We want to know what you think do kids need more recess breaks kids need more recess breaks during the school day head over to fox8. Com vote on our web full let us know what you think. I think its schooday headfantastic. I think its a great idea. 15 minutes and us time to geteadea. 15 minutes and us time to get out that. They need it. Get the bugs out of wiggle it all out. Mentally get yourself ready. Mentally get yourself ready. School days are eight hours. Seven or eight hours. 6474 elemm chool entary school. Thats a long time. Especially for elementary kids. Pec moreially eleme recess for everyone. Even for us. Im going to recess. Taking my recess breakk i will see you later. Going on the monkey bars. We probably have those somewhere. I ll thank you. Already wherere g oointhgan to check in with scott sabol taking a look at our forecast for us. Sounds good im sure you would feel the same way with youru would feel the same way with your kids. He likes that half dome type of of thing that you would climb on. Remember that thing back in the day are those even around anymore. Ive seen thememember tht thing b b da on a couple of playgrounds. Good times back in the 70s and. Good times back in the 70s and 80s. The things that we used to spin on. The merry go round. I dont think they have thosee anymore. So dangerous. Now i do that im all thrown off and i cant drive home. Check it out cold this morning some spots out in Geauga Ashtabula county techat were wellthat w below zero. Because of the snow cover thethe lack of wind and the clear sky thats usually when we get those wide range and temperature. Range and temperature. All right seasonal snow up to 21 inches thats at hopkins a little more in the snow belt. 54 inches last year tha through today 622 years ago and threeday and four 622 y ago years ago notice how the snow numbers werent nearly as impressive in those winters mentor 1119 and brunswickwick starting to climb back out of it now ravenna at 15 painesville at six. So sullen at six canton at 15. So nine be suln at low this morning now back up to zero. We climblow tis mor back up to the lower 30s. Click this afternoon under mostly sunny skies. The warm front which will beunny skies. The warm front which will be responsible for not only triggering a few showers but increasing the ponsiwinds and the warmth is still off to the west. We cloud over cant rule out a quick showers and i 25 the front will pass to esr the north real fast and by tomorrow look at these highs well aalbove 50 tomorrow. Start to melt off some of the snow and keep that when going when goi through saturday nas we not only increase the temperatures but also keep it relatively dry. Show you the forecast now 40s over the weeketurd emnd not much rainfall for this next front. We do tread cooler next