Im stefani schaefer. Hope you had a nice we can. Governor john is blocking planned parenthood fromi from receiving any state governmentrnmen money the latest on this controversial move plus will hear reaction on this monday. S michigan accused of killing half a dozenn you plan a series of of shootings picking up people ine between with his route more one the victims and how one man who was one of his m client said het knew something was wrong. They do such a big background bi check but he didnt havehave anything prior on that background check. Anythin should gun manufacturers be held responsible for victims of gunf g violence. Debate is taking center staget today the story and your comments in this morningsrning download. Everybody wants to know what thewan wets tather will be for this week as we had a beautiful saturday. O i have flower starting to come up. Have f i cant believe it in february. February of course may be more snow on the way. Meen. The way. 67 degrees on saturday. Definitely nice but what ahat a beautiful sunrise this morning. Mrning look at that some clouds s decorating the skies and of course decora color of there. Fog inland quarter mile visibility this morning akron canton down to almostis zero at a mansfield. Temperatures in the upper 20s lakeside we are close too freezing. Freezin westlake 31. Hudson 28. 29 in alliance and west salem sal and across the state dry airair trying to take hold right now most of the snow is still well to the north and well have s i would say a dry day today. Tomorrow the same thing. The next weather system already forminge hing. T over the rockies and ad will pick up gulf of mexicoxi moisture heading our directionec well will have the details coming up. Thank you. In the news this morning. A controversial move by ohio he has signed a bill thatcomove by defunds planned parenthood in our top story today. Today. Fox 8s stacey frey is live with more on the legislation and reaction to it. Tacey frey i i good morning again. Good morning. This was a move that wase that s expected by the governor but the govnor its one that critics say willbutl endanger womens health. While planned parenthood isnt specifically named, the new law prevent money from going to places that perform abortions. Ortion thats more thans. A millionlio dollars in state funding money planned parenthood usedn not forf abortions but to play for Health Screenings hiv testing testing contraception and care for expectant mothers and newborns. That money will go to other Health Clinics in the state,e,ex organizatiopens critics argue, are that ill equipped to handle all these services. Anizations critt ill equipped the head of ohios democraticic party said in a statementin a stment rather than listen to the majority of ohioans who oppose defunding planned parenthood, kasich decided to take sides sides with radical extremists who were recently indicted on felony charges. Adics under kasichs right winghs r win leadership, ohio is nowow competing with texas andting with texas a louisiana for worst state in the as youve been hearing allal morning long people we talked to we alked to viewers very mixed feelings about this. I believe women have control ofomen havntro their bodies and should be thel ones to control their bodies. Ofthtrol thdies they shouldnt be legislated. Even if hes a republican or aif hes a democrat, you would think hes still human. Republic i think planned parenthood does a lot for reproductive health, but the abortion issue weighs it down. Abortion for trace himself as a moderate as hes campaigning for president signs this bill intol law on sunday the day after he came in a distant fifth placeac and South Carolina primary. Stacey live for us in cleveland thanks. Sti a michigan man accused ofn clevelan killing six people in a seriespeople in serie of random shootings is expecteds charges today. M shootings i to face a j nd he dropped off some passengers between shootings. Pick the shootings took place in ti kalamazoo saturday night. Officers say 45 year old jasonyear old n ap Cracker Barrel restaurant. Le a 14 Year Old Girl was amongr old g those killed. Irl was a father and son were also were also gunned down at a car dealership,ip, while a woman was shot outsideman was an apartment complex. A man who took a ride fromk a ride fro dalton earlier in the night saysier in he coul d tell something wasnig not right. We got a mile from my house and then he got a telephone call and after he got that telephone call he started driving reallyly erratically. Y. Errati we were running stop signs. This guy was not on anybodyscall radar for any reason. S guy s no he didnt have a lengthy criminal history, he wasnt a known troublemaker, and yet here he is having shot eight people my goodness. My goodness. The Community Held a Prayer Police are still trying to the trying o morning. Oook m at what is just in. In. Good morning. Good developments out of Middleburg Heights right now a fire shuts down thebu emergency room atom at southwest General Health center. Enter. Fire broke out around 8 00 last0 night in a cleaning utility roomity r outpatients and emergency move to another section of the hospital indolence also beingei diverted to other hospitals as well. Good thing no body got hurt. No word on when the er will reopen this morning. Ning. Thats whats just in. Back to you guys. Uy thanks. In the headlines today. Cleveland police have released new information on a crash thatt in the he cle killed one person. It happened at east 30th streetppened and Community College avenue at last evening around 5p. M. Around 5p. M. Police say a 14 year old drivingyear old driving a stolen minivan was speeding when he went through a red light and crashed into two other vehicles. Ivan speedg light a 17 year old riding in the minivan was thrown from the vehicle and pronounced dead at the scene. Icle the 14 year old and another passenger were taken to metro severe injuries. Vehicles were not hurt. Not hu. Investigators are trying to figure out what sparked a fire that caused extensive damage to a house in north royalton. Firefighters were called to the n the a house on drake road, around 2 30 this morning. House got out safely. The homeowner told us it started four peoide the ho to the house. Fire departments from north royalton, strongsville and Broadview Heights helped battle the flames. Several cats inside the home, were unaccounted for. Investigators in Summit County are trying to identify the person whose body was found in e home, t the back oforsin a garbage truck this weekend. Summitn whos body waback of a Republic Waste Services driver noticed the body saturday andbody saturd called police. 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Ed w the families are suing because the gun is marketed as a military style weapon tostyle we civilians. This is also an issue on the campaign trail for bothcampai republicans and democrats. A judge will consider that argument later today. Tuesday joining us now with your comments. Mments in this. Mornings download. I hate to read one of the mosti disturbing stories ive ever hader had to cover. Just makes me sick to my stomach but lets get to the commentsthe coments michael writes on a facebook faceook page suing the gun manufacturerufac is as dumb as doing a car manufacturer because someone was killed in a car accident that had nothing to do with the car. Feels there is no one particulart i gun and a more or less dangerous dang than anye other. He its the Person Holding it. It. Robert commented a gun is theis tool used by the individual whoo chooses to carry out acts of violence. E. Could be a gun a avi nice a leadle pipe for theyre own bare hands not the gun its the person. B david writes on a facebook pageag there is only one use for a gunfor a that is to kill. Ill weather it be for protection reasons or just murder using theg the word responsible is just anan excuse for anybody to own a gun. N. Kim says a gun by itself is notel dfangerous never heard of or seen se a guey and a walk or pull its owns trigger. Sick and tired of the anti gun law and lawsuits. We want to know what you thinki should gun manufacturers be held responsible for victims of gungun violence head over to our webur web pull boat and head over to fox8. Com and leave your comment. Comm seems like because it was a military weapon. And marketed that way. Should those be marketed access to a militaryould you e weapon. Apon theres no need for that. At. Is involved with this lawsuit. Half of notfamilved withlawsui nine of the 26. 26. Not sure if they opted out of it it or only brought up by theset nine. E. Interesting to note as we talk about the situationre maybe notybe it at a time. Me. 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And it will interact with couplec of different weather systems the stationary frontal boundary thats down to the south and and also some upperlevel energy asl energy well. Will show you the maps as we goe go through the rest of the day d today and into tomorrow. They are in motion highpressurere slides to the east here. Sthe keep as dry today and tomorrow looks likee as a couple of systems converge. Of coursesy the main system is the th one that finds its way into the ohio valley right now callingight al for railinng. Rain. Look at right behindigh t thats is them a stripe of veryver heavy wet snow from st. Louis on north and east through chicagowet snow and up to detroit. Roit that low tracks a little bits a li farther to the easttt we could c find ourselves in a veryery interesting situation ill leaveituation i l right now one or 3 inchesr 3 possible on thursday. We could certainlyy be adjustingad jus that number most likely upwards. Wa cold air in place as we get toet the weekend. 37 partly sunny. Clear. Dry. Tonightr temperatures mid 20s. 20 winds will be light out of the northeast. Clouds on the increase. Temperatureson 44 not too bad. 5 degrees. Here comes the ra5 in will get wet on wednesday some computer models cranking out overn a half over an inch of rain. Rai thursday a different story. Low track will definitely dictate how much snow is coming but cer tainly the west part ofart our viewing area and northwestt ohio will have the best chance for picking up heavy wet snow t. Getting called into the weekend. Kend. Fox8 your official schoolch closing station probably wontwon need those as of right now. At least cleveland east with with keep you posted. Well look for it. It. Thanks. Still to come 9 19. Been called one of the most powerful storms on record to hit in the southern hemisphere. To how about this. Mega bus on fire. T hear what passengers they happened before they heard anrd an explosion on board. 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