For the weekend, we are also tracking a little snow as early as tomorrow morning in the authority forecast. Let get a check on traffic, with jen. Reporter we have no problems to report on the interstate, volume of traffic, it looks pretty typical as we would see at 6 00, 7175 year areas like butter mill pike, Loveland Madeira along 275, we are not seeing a lot of issues on the interstates. We do have issues on the kenwood road. Overturned vehicle will. I will show you in just a second. Its on its side, it hit a pole and it split the pole. They have closed the kenwood road. The 1,000 block, its closed. Theres a picture from the scene from the photographer adam roberts. You can see it flipped the pole, road, but they have closed kenwood on the 1,000 block. We will let you know when this area will reopen. Police need help to find a killer who shot a middletown mother with a baby in the back seat of her car. Britney russell was found in the back seat her car. The 6 month baby girl was in the back seat and healthy and is with the her brother this morning. Russell convinced the babysitter to take the baby. Baby haven is okay. Whenever i didnt hear from her, i was completely freaked out, because i didnt hear what was going on with her or my kid. When they called and told me that they found my baby. I was overwhelmed with joy. If you know anything that can help call Crime Stoppers 2523040. Changes, cincinnati already has a three foot passing law in place, but a bilk discussed in columbus would expand it statewide. The local Cycling Community is still mourning the loss of a father who was killed along u. S. 52 while biking next week. The ohio bill is in the committee this morning. The stow passed away tuesday at the anal of 80. He was with the reds for nearly 70 years. The visitation will be on sunday from 3 00 to 7 00, and his funeral will be on monday morning at 9 30 on west 8th street in east price hill. 6 03 and happening today, john kasich takes his positive message to south carolina. Chris christie, and Carlie Fiorina dropped out of the race today. Meantime Bernie Sanders, and another debate tonight. An event that people may not have circled on their calendars, but they do, now, a lot of focus on what will be a debate between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders getting all that much more important where Bernie Sanders beat Hillary Clinton, andlet keep in mind that was a state she won over candidate barack obama in 2008. As a result, san betters received a record 18 million of since the they closed in new hampshire. Clinton saw a doubledigit lead in several polls is doing well in the next primary states, and is doing well on a path. Its not an easy path. Something that was thought to be a bit of a cake walk, has turned into a competitive race, now, spring if not that. We will have a look at the debate, throughout the day. Make sure you stay with local 12, and local 12 tonight, we will bring you the latest updates on the debate, and we will have highlights here tomorrow morning. Of course, new this morning, guys, the head of that debate in wisconsin, Bernie Sanders, he swung by the late show. Sat down and got a shot of stephen colbert, those are the next two states voting, they are focusing effort in south carolina, colbert, being a carolina native offered some advice to win over voters there. Eat and love boiled peanuts. Theyre damp, arent they. This should win south carolina. This, yes, it does. If you like boiled peanuts, it will give you a leg up in south carolina. He people up here when i offer them this food, they oh, here [ laughter ] you can always get the late show here on he local 12 after local 12 news live. Special billboards are up all around the tristate to feature a special group of people. They are called heart heros and are transplant recipient. Asia warner is one of the heroes. The 16yearold got a heart transplant when she was ayearold. Now she is in the marching band, plays indoor soccer and is a straight a student. She is not sure if she feels like a hero. Sure . Because i guess im i dont know, im 15 years old and i know perfectly well that that is uncommon, and fantastic. So that is probably inspiring. Some people say that. I guess, its true, i dont know. [ laughter ] asia is joining other survivors in cleveland this and you saw, he did the story where she is only 2 years old. Right. He has known her for that period of time, and is just a wonderful teenager. She is very refreshing. She is refreshing and our hard core guy, soft and gooey right there. [ laughter ] coming up on new shopping option is expanding in the tristate. 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Kentucky 17 is currently closed at the pendleton, Kenton County line because of a fatal accident involving a semi that is fully involved in flames, we will bring you scenes from that as soon as we can. Bahama paris, and colerain have a new one at the butler, warren road, near mason, near the outlets, and kenwood road being closed currently between, and overturned vehicle that hit this pole. Back to you. Hacking the irs, thousands of social securities and they set to actually find. Thousandnds of dodo welcome back, everyone, the u. S. Justice department is suing ferguson, missouri. The decision to file the lawsuit against ferguson comes after the City Councils conclusion that it will cost too much to comply. This stems from the violent protests 18 months ago when a White Ferguson officer killed Michael Brown and an unarmed teenager. Health experts are asking congress for nearly 2 million in emergency aid to deal with the zika virus. 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We do have issues to let you know about. Kenwood road reportedly open, between kenwood and zigzag. We do have an accident on am hamilton avenue southbound and one at Bahama Terrace, and near mason road. We have an accident not far from as we look at the interstates, they are fine, we have no problems to report. Volume of traffic is just he fine, john. We are not seeing any major delays, crew on the way to kentucky 17 right at the bendleton, Kenton County line, its closed in that area. It could be up to several hours that it may be closed because of a fatal accident and apparently a semi is fully engulfed in flames. As soon as we get pictures from that we will bring them to you, but kentucky is close add the Pendleton County line. We have many spots in the single digit. Theres a look at temperatures as low as 4. 9 in wilmington, sabine a down to 9 degrees. And the biggest wildlife refuge, vevay at 9 and we have a lot of teens showing up. Love land at 14 degrees, 11 there, versailles at 10. We have seen some clouds over the area. Those are beginning to move out. That is the atrium weather lookinged from the radisson into covington where we have clouds hanging on. Bitterly cold temperatures this morning. Quiet weather for today. We will see sun today breaking through those clouds and as we get into friday, a little more snow on the way, it doesnt look like a lot, though, Colder Weather as we get into the start of the weekend. 13 now, a west wind at 5, a windchill of just five degrees at the airport. Still low cloud cover hanging on over there. You will notice windchills will be as low as 1 below in wilmington, 9 the current windchill in hamilton. Temperatures close to 10 by 8 00, most areas, partly cloudy skies to start out, we will be in the teens at noon, and we will make our way in the low 20s by Late Afternoon with a blend of sunshine and clouds. Its going to be a cold day, although warmer than what he saw yesterday. Nothing on radar. Snow has moved out of the picture, cloud cover starting to break as well. We will begin to see some sunshine today, we want to expand the view things quiet theres a weak disturbance that is going to work in here tomorrow morning bringing a chance for a little bit of snow. 13 in cincinnati, 8 up in columbus, indianapolis, at 12 degrees, and when you add the windchill into the mix, 4 below the windchill in columbus, 6 in indy, and the windchill sitting at a bitterly cold 5. Notice the cloud covers, and breaks and we dont see the snow over the area, a quiet day on tap for the area. Tracking the disturbance coming out of the dakotas this morning, this is a weak disturbance that will ride into the area tomorrow morning 7 00 a. M. , were on the edge of this one, so a few scattered snow showers, its going to be a little more as we head closer to louisville, and those move out, but by late day an arctic cold front begins to push in, and that will kickoff more snow showers late tomorrow afternoon into tomorrow night. Those will start to end on saturday morning as bitterly cold air moves into the area. Less accumulation, that will continue to keep the advice on that, and the weekend forecast which is featuring bitter cold air, saturdays high only 17, we will get a look at the single digit on sunday morning, and clouds thing, a chance for some snow coming back in the mix sunday night into monday. 23 the high today, we will see a blend of sunshine and clouds, and the low 20s this evening going down to 19 at midnight. Clouds thicken overnight, we will head for 16 degrees for a low and up to 28 for tomorrow with snow showers early and again late in the day. Early snow showers saturday, 17, and again checkout the low sunday morning, 5 going up to 24 there sunday, and a chance for snow depend sunday night into monday, still a lot of discrepancy with the computer models, theyre all over the place on this, but at least you know theres a chance for some snow which could accumulate on monday. We will continue to keep you updated. A warming trend, we will get into the midupper 30s, and near 40 wednesday with rain and middle of next week. I just updated the Weather Authority forecast, on the Weather Authority app, brand new and its in the app store and fogle play. Back to google play. Making new friends we are talking about tips to do that. No, its not the trending now, harry potter lives on. A book is coming out on july 31st. And bob is going to read it to all of his kids and going to make his daughter. Its not quite a traditional book, its a hard back version, and harry potter. And the book will be first harry potter publication in eight years. I we i would love to read it, too. People magazine is giving high honors to him and his wife reynolds, they had a daughter. The 39yearold actor says having a daughter is a dream come true. You wont be saying that when she starts dating, im sorry. Just make a friend. What tips you have, because we need help making new friends. I love it when people do it. Its so good how people respond to our questions. The bottom line is jane says be yourself. Much of the same thing, but theres other takes, always wear your star trek tshirts under your thermals, dont talk so much about the classic star wars collections and dont discuss which super power you wish you would have, no matter how good of an idea you think it seems. That is for you, bob . Thats why i dont have any friends. Talk politics and religion. Yeah, that usually works. Not. Im going to leave you with this one you because i love it. Rick gets us, he says the easiest way to make friends is turn on channel 12. They have on all the information you need to know, but most important dont put a smile on your face. Thank you, rick. That means to us truly, truly we are feeling kind of down before you did that, now were like lifted. We will go to commercial break with a hug. And watch out after 6 30. [ laughter ] we want to you joint a Pretrial Hearing will be held this morning for ray tensele, and will a trial date be set . We will learn that today. Laugh. A reunion in the making. I love to hear them giggle. His wartime sweetheart just in time for valentines day. I love this so much. A few weeks ago. A couple of months ago, they tracked each other down, and they were communicating on skype. So good. Good morning, everybody, prepare for a cold, cold day out there. School de lays out there this morning, make sure to check on those before you get the kids out the door. We have spots in Single Digits. Look at this, its 3 up at port william, owenton at 9, vevay at 8 degrees. A lot of spots running in the teens, and International Airport where its 13, cloudy there, a little bit of a breeze, not as windy as yesterday, but a little bit of a breeze is producing windchill of 5 at the airport. One below the windchill in wilmington this morning, and theres nothing on radar. We dont have any snow, and cloud cover starting to breakup somewhat, but were still getting cloud cover over the tristate this morning. Today, layer the kids at the bus stop. As we head out the door, we will average 18, and 10 at the lunch hour. Low 20s, low 20s for the ride home. At best with a blend of sunshine and clouds. That means it wont be quite as cold as yesterday afternoon, but still plenty cold this morning. Things get colder going into the weekend, and we have a little more snow tracking which could be in here as early as tomorrow morning. I will have more in the Weather Authority forecast. Let get to jen with a check on traffic. We have a big problem out there. Reporter we do have a couple of issues out there, john, one of which is a big problem, and that is kentucky 17 is currently closed at the pendleton, kenton, county line, because of an accident revolving a semi and a truck, one fatality is reported. The semi is fully engulfed in flames, fire is out, that does remain closed and it could be for a while. That is kentucky closed at pendleton, Kenton County line, only a couple of accident flora, an accident at Bahama Terrace, and 10 road, so you can get through that area, an accident reported there, and as we look at the interstates, volume is picking up around town, but no unusual delays at this time on the interstates. Sheila. 6 33, firefighters are trying to figure out how a car wash was destroyed in an overnight fire. It started at 11 30 at the batavia car wash at hospital drive. No one was hurt. A trial date could be set today for the former uc Police Officer charged with shooting and killing dubois. A Pretrial Hearing is scheduled for this morning. Megan is joining us live with details. Good morning, megan. Reporter it was back in december when a trial date was supposed to be set, and that is when they gave more time. And more time was allowing potential evidence. Tensing is charged with attempted murder, and last month the cincinnati of university reached dubois with family. They will fey pa his pay his family nearly 5 million as well as offer free tuition to h