Up as the ball comes back football come back to cleveland with the home opener down at First Energy Stadium and the tribe is on the other side of ninthdi street so we have a whoe bunch of sports going on in cleveland today. Good morning everyone. Lets get right to it. Aj has a look at your Weather Forecast now. A little sun and not only down at First Energy Stadium in the fox eight front yard, but at the corner of carnegie and ontario at the ballpak so good. We will see if we can keep it that way. Still a possibility for a shower or thunder shower today and there is enough instability around to keep that going at least through the early afternoon. Storm fox showing a couple of showers moving out of ashtabula, also down toward warren, and that is it. Trumbull county looks like there may be some stuff going to get lets see if it manages to keep its to work its way toward cleveland. To you can see by this webcam time lapse a highlevel clouds that mixe with lowend midlevel clouds earliero on we were basically overcast so we will call it an interval of cloud and sunshine sky they are today. Passing showers still possible. Kick off at 1 00 oclock is the browns and ravens go at it at First Energy Stadium. T 76degree kickoff temperatures. Choppy out at the lake this morning and then expected to quiet down for tonight and off to the westht it looks like it once to break up for some sunshine. Its 74 74 lakefront. Viewpoint still way up there in the sixties so it feels a little on the stuff stuffy side with just a little bit of a brief that you can see clear skies off to the west. The forecast is to keep any of south and east. Coming back in the day forecast to conclude the include the last few days ofst summer and we aren the last weekend of summer right now. Lets see howow it all shakes ot coming up. A it is a busy day in downtown cleveland as the Cleveland Cleveland indians host the Detroit Tigers and abounds ofun their home opener against e Baltimore Ravens. Is the official start of the josh mcallen area for the 2015 josh is the starting quarterback replace a replaces robert griffinrt the first who is replacing out a minimum of eight games. The veteran will it a very young brown rods to roster into First Energy Stadium. He won a baltimore last 10 loss atb night on the special teams play that we all remember so well. Alth the offense moving forward today is sustaining drives, something they have struggled with last weekend again in the preseason. We are going to drop a ball here and there but it cant be as much as we did, especially on theec downs. Its very important third down thirddown obviously and thats howpor you make the play and sustain the drives. Browns have some good history and in home openers the last they have won their last two home openers. They beat the Tennessee Titans last year and we will see if they can make it three in a rowd today against the Baltimore Ravens can. Pj one of the things that a lot of fans were talking about is that we just really couldntu get the browns game going during the preseason and this first game. Any hints that we will start seeing that ground game really get going this time . They certainly need to get a ground game going if they going to establish that passing game and spread out fat defense a that defense a little bit. E you would like to see more of that. It is interesting to note during thehe preseason when the browns had these drops theyhe werent sustaining the football very well the questions came up about howbo different will it be now that we were seeing the regular season but it hasnt been much different difference been then different and we have seen in the preseason. Er we will see how it progresses but certainly we have to get the the afc north. Were back with josh mccowan again also. The team knows him and they really know his style. And a lot of people believe he gives the browns a good chance a to win. He is a better quarterback. He does not have a very good record in terms of winning football games, but based on the experiment at the rg three project was they feltik against the Baltimore Ravens the same team year ago and we will see if we can duplicate that same success today. Also topping our news this morning, we are remembering a Fallen Police officer. The body of ohio state highway trooper can velez state highway trooper can velez was escorted to his hometown into his hometown of lorraine. As the procession arrived his family and friends gather to say goodbye to the 48 yearold trooper troupe wed been planning his retirement at the time he was struck andee killed by car in lakewood on thursday afternoon and on friday nights Community Came together a High School Football game. Trooper velezs son took to the field first. The stadium was a sea of blue honoring the trooper who was always in theue stands cheeringn his son. Both marching bands united for the National Anthem before a tearful moment tearful moment of silence. E. The driver accused of hitting and killing trooper velez on i 90 has a history of traffic citations. Joshua gaspar based a judge saturday morning. Reporter Joshua Gaspar was in court for the first time saturdayin morning, charged with after investigators say he hit and killed 48 yearold state trooper kennethst velez thursday afternoon while he was conducting a traffic stop. We do understand that there is an allegation that my client was under the influence. We dont have any test results. The judge that a field sobriety test set a field sobriety test was given at the scene. According to Cleveland Municipal Court records gaspar was under the influence of drugs at a time he is currently on probation for a drug case drug case in alabama. N several years ago he was indicted in Cuyahoga County for drugs. We ask for reasonable bond your honor. Obviously we would object to 500,000 bond. That was denied. This sergeant specifically asked for sergeant specifically asked for high bond in this case. Cad heres a closer look at the sergeant stating the defendant was quote driving recklessly. Gaspar iss ohio driving record eight for speeding, dating as far back as 1997. Almost all the speeding tickets docked points from hiss license at the time. His license was valid when police say he hit and killed trooper velez who leaves behind threele children, his youngest f 15 yearold sophomore and Football Player players marion field high school. To rally around the family is just the way this hes one of the best kids ive met and it is tough that this happened to him. Visitation will be held for trooper kennethll velez wednesdy flooring county Community College from 3 00 p. M. Until 8 00 p. M. M. Services will be held at the same location thursday morning at 10 00 a. M. Ath for more information go to www. Fox8. Com. Could have more victims . That is the question police are ashland man. Oo sources tell us police are investigating therc possibility that sean grate who is already targeted killing two people and as a suspect in the a thirdar homicide may be responsible for additional death. Onon enforcement officers are sd to be lookingt into at least to additionall cases, one dating back to 2007. S, the other case comes up from mansfield. Grate was arrested tuesday after police say a woman who was hold withholding hostage was able to get to a cell police. Officers arrived and found the bodies of two women. Rs police say grate led them to a site and in Richland County where theya found the remains of a third victim. He came closer to beating Hillary Clinton and the democratic primary thann most observers thought possible. Now Bernie Sanders is on the campaign trail in ohio trying o rally people to vote for clinton and keep tromp trump out of the white house. Children and your grandchildren. That is what is at stake here. A lot of young people turned outo for sanders appearances ths weekend, including here at kent state. Nc recent polls have shown trump of the fly. On clinton flight. On clinton in sru ohio which isy sanders says the state will be very pivotal. If secretary clinton wins here of secretary clinton wins here in ohio, ialec believe shel be the next president of the united states. [cheering] recent states former governor trailing incumbent governor rob portman to in the senate race in ohio. And donald trump will be back in ohio soon. His campaign will roll into toledo wednesday september 21st. He will speak at strap at the stratton theater they are. Doors open at 9 30 a. M. And the events get started about three hours later. 11 11 a. M. And still ahead, city and injures dozens of people. The latest on the investigation of. Till ahead october is still weeks away but one of the biggestst beer drinking festivals on the plant well, actually the universe, is well underway now. New line good morning everybody on this game day. Itn is sports galore. Will the weather cooperate . Thats the big question and our forecast keeps of clearing afternoon. There could be a few showers around. Wewe will talk about that and ad a day forecast that takes us will come back at 11 15 a. M. At least 29 people had been injured after an explosion in new york b city on the streets near street near the chelsea neighborhood. Re a box placed on the street blowing out windows of nearby building. Rere there are also investigating another device at another location said to be a pressure cooker. Er the victims injuries is said to be minor. New york citys mayor says there is no indication it was a terroy act but they say it was intentional. We will continue to bring the latest here and at www. Fox8. Com more than 40 people injured in a charter busj crash in north carolina. The bus c believed to have been carrying Football Players andve coaches. The team had been traveling to faithth utc when the bus struckn overpass on interstate 74. The state Highway Patrol says the bus likely had a tire failure causing itt to go into the median and hit a guardrail. The victim victims names have not been released. R to 10 yearold vermonton boys share a special bond for but itbo grew tighter this year when one saved the others life. Earlier this month at that you fifthgraders walking to school a short time later the we am started choking when his friend jumped over his fellow students in the area and with no trainig and no practice atra all save te boys life with a heimlich maneuver. Hes getting a lot of praise for his quick thinking. To the ms team even presented him with a lifesaving award. I put it in the side of my cheek andid the melt carried it down. I didnt know what he knew. I was just really scared. I jumped over abo t people and did the heimlich. Thank you. Thank you so much. He has my eternal respect and gratitude for what het did. Once again, he is getting a lot of attention. The city ems team gave him am lifesaving award. What a great kid. It may still be september but in germany it is time for the mayor of munich cap in at the annual Party Rolling saturday with the official tappan of the tapping of the first keg. E annual festival runs through october 3rd. Lots of lederhosen. I wouldnt know. I dont wear them. We got like you said if fort of sports. If you are a sports fan of cleveland sportsr fan youve got to love if you cant get to the gamma couch hammock. Tivo one why youre watching the other one live as of right now things are looking great out here. Look at the blue just to the north. We are getting a decent amount weve got a higher resolution area image that you can pick out the features and you can see ho the clouds have been scouredca away by some stability and even to they west there is more in te way of peering herring. And its easier to get a shower to pop up. We havent dragged in youve got to drag in some of that more stable and have you noticed the sunshine decreasing . It has and the average monthly sunshine peaks here in june and july right here. This is percentilee. So would gt 67 percent of our possible sunshine and that was just back in july. August 63 and it drops to half in october. Look what happens between our cloudiest month in cleveland so every sunny day we can squeak out in that month is aca blessi. Storm fox Doppler Radar picking up on some showers that one went away. Trumbull county just about any time we could have a shower pop up. One. 7inch it is truly a miracle. Period variable sky with an afternoon shower possible. I most of us stayed dry tomorrow. Sun is coming up tomorrow saturday is the earliest probability that it will make it better chance sunday. Faller arrives this week and the autumnal equinox thursday and more son 74 right now, 73 in akron and we are headed for 80 today with spotty showers everyone clearing patchy dense fog tonight near 6 feet. Near 60. Generous amounts of sunshine tomorrow. Temperatures right around 80. Toasty temperatures. 73 degrees and a little bit above. Fall begins thursday and we are still pleasant and mild and dont really see any chance for appreciable rain until sunday of next year. Everybody takes the week off. It is 1121. Still ahead on fox fox eight news fox eight news, finding a new home. One dog Second Chances he moves Firefighting Department here in. Some from homeless to hero a fourlegged friend heading to a local File Department helped lift spirits there. Smokey is a rescue dog from the kill shelter in utah. He is part of a program that works with agencies to place dogs where theyre needed the most. When two toledo firefighters dieddo battling an apartment fie their chief knew they could use something to help the morale and healing. Smokey was sent to phoenix for trainers got him ready for his new job as an emotional support. Dot. When firefighters go on call some of them are w pretty horric and then they have to immediately turn around and go back to work. Wo there has got to be something to help as soon as they get back to thata station to kind of change channels, kind of decompress. For this dog. Smokey is now in ohio where he will live at the Fire Department fullre time. Good idea. Always a good very nice temperament dog for that. I have one i had one years ago. I still miss him. A greatat dog. We are hoping that it stays dry. We still have a smallta chance r af popup shower or thunder shower. It will be passing briefly kind of the fleeting situation. 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