Freeways very quickly. We are accidentfree. I71 i75 down near the cutinthehill particularly in the 75 direction, we have been showing you this is one spot where traffic is picking up. If you look closely at the camera you can see the light snow flakes that are flying out there, but nothing that is going to cause any commute problems. Again traffic picking up in both directions but so far no de lays, and we are accidentfree, john. Very good news, we are looking downtown where we find clouds and a few snow flurries considerably colder, were 25 at the airport. Of 13. The bottom line make sure you are ready for the cold today. We are not going to make it out of the 30s, none of this is going to stick, the next couple of hours, you will see flurries moving on through the tristate. Part of that local center that worked through yesterday, you will see clearing later on. 25 at 8 00, mostly cloudy, stray flurries, 32 at noon, becoming partly cloudy and look at that, we only make it interest the upper 30s later this afternoon, clouds will roll back in late day. A day that is going to feel like winter. That is going to change, though as we work into next week. A big warm up is in store for the tristate. Im going to be back with more on that. This is the time of the year we can see dramatic weather swings, some of those swings can give us Severe Weather at times. And today its a special anniversary, here is brandon orr for that. Reporter you remember it march the second 2012 when we saw as many as nine tornadoes touch here in the tristate. Three of these were large, with excessive winds of 360 miles per hour. The Storm Prediction Center outlining our area, and forecasts have improved with more accuracy and theyre out laning tornadoes in a 48 day forecast. These photos were given to me by one of our production a dift ants. You can see a truck was thrown up against a tree which has bark stripped from the side another one from a home with walls missing and still standing. The people in the photo are bundled up in winter jacket and hats, snow even fell on the damage, a little more than 24 hours after the tornadoes. This was a late winter tornado outbreak showing how Severe Weather can happen at anytime the year. But there was Severe Weather for our local area coming up after it switched to star 64 after 7 00, i will tell you more about the Severe Weather system when it begins and what the state of its coming up after 7 00, guys. Developing now, the group working to legalize medical marijuana in ohio is sharing its valid language. The language calls for a large growers to pay a licensing fee of 500,000 to the state. The product plans to turn in more than 500,000 signature in june to get the issue on the ballot. They will vote on march 15, some are already voting by absentee ballot but not as many as four years ago. In the november election, there were problems with new electronic polls and that caused an extension of vetting hours. Voting hours. And they are getting more training and prep time before the primary day. The board of elections is trying something that is new, more young people. We have a program called the youth at the booth and 17 and 18 seniors can come and work the polls, and 75 of them worked last november and they received a lost praise from their adult counterparts. If you would like to work the polls we have a link at local12. Com. Opening day is about one month away and were getting a new look at a new rooftop deck planned for Great American ballpark. They are building it above the left field corner. It will be available for those who buy tickets from section 10, and its designed for fans to mingle together during the game. A movie film here in cincinnati will be in local theaters, mild at hit will arrive in theaters on april 22nd. Provoters hope to organize a special premier for march 26, and chido may attend. It got positive reviews at the Film Festival in october. If you saw it during our saw where a new york critic, writing for Forbes Magazine and was talking about carol and said that it opened his eyes to a lot of things are available here at the queen city. He thinks that theres other films going to be done here. He has a travel writer. Something we all know, we live in the best place on earth. Its aint secret anymore. President , and congress 9 minutes after 6 00, 25 degrees, a windchill in the low teens, theres a cold, we have snow flurries out there, too. We will see gradual clearing going up to the freezing mark at noon. We wont even make it out of the 30s today. Prepare for a cold day. 37 the high late this an. Tracking rain and snow and even actually colder weather, and then warmer weather. The Weather Authority forecast is up and down, we will have more in minutes. Luckily traffic has not been up and down this morning for us. We are very quiet. We remain very clear, and down to i71 i75 and the no major delays, and traffic is moving long just fine across the tristate. Trending now 6 09, mcdonalds unveiling a Virtual Reality headset made by from a happy meal box. Theyre made by folding up the happy meal box, and inserting a lens cap, and the price for this is 4. 10 and mcdonalds has created a ski thing Virtual Reality game for you called smoke stars. Right now only 3500 of the happy goggles are available in stores in sweden. Im going. Yeah, we need them here now. This is like a version of what google does, the google goggles. The google glasses, but arent they like a 1,000. No, theres a cardboard thing, but they have done it at school where they had a guy come in, and they were in the rain forest. You put them on and you look around, its like you are and its just a piece of cardboard, a thing that you fold up and you put your phone in it. I want to try it. 6 10, and turning passion into money. My spire new this morning, donned trump and Hillary Clinton are both much closer to the their partys president ial nominees. They both secured seven states and secured hundred more delegates. And Bernie Sanders did pick up four wins. Wins. His came in oklahoma, texas and alaska. Cruz says its time for republicans to rally around him to beat trump. As long as the field remains divided, Donald Trumps path to the nomination remains more likely and that would be a disaster for republicans, for conservatives, and for the nation. I am a unia phier, once we get all of this finished, im going to go after one person and na is Hillary Clinton. The next big test is march 15 that, is when voters in five states including ohio head to the votes. Two republicans are breaking senate should consider president obamas no morey no nominee for the Supreme Court democrats say it would be the fist time since 1975 that a president Supreme Court nominee has not gotten a senate hearing. This after a Class Action Lawsuit in 2013 when a teenager posted a picture of his sandwich that was only 11 inches long. As part of the chain it will Institute New measures to make sure that their bread is 12 inches long. Thank goodness, taking care of problems in the world. If we gave you a few minutes, im sure you could name a handful of jingles that are 5foot long. [ laughter ] thats right, two northern kentuckians are hoping their catchy tunes will be one of them. Theyre competing in a National Jingle competition and theyre counting on your votes. Kyle schultz, and andy gillispie are well versed in the business of jingles. When i won the b way contest, things have kind of bloomed from there. Im a entered ihuge contest for safe auto, and i was really blessed that i got to win that contest. Contest winners with a nabbing for getting a knack getting in a tune trapped in your nothing noggin. I always wanted to sing jingles my entire life since i was 5 years old. Now they are fighting in for a shot at the spot in the jingle contest. Kyle getting creative, tackles selves. Have fun. Angie is focusing more on producing the jingle, the actress is kyles girlfriend alicia, but the voice work and guitar, that is all angie. Oh, my word, did you see the other group of center and theyre pretty good. Oh, my word reporter and rightly so, that 30,000 top prize is nothing to sneeze at. The price money this time its a lot. Its 30,000, and im not going to lie, im a single mom and i dont know too many, know, Single Parents that couldnt use an extra 30,000. A big urchg when of change kyle says he could also put to good use. This would mean so much to me to win this, plus i got tons of Students Loans to pay, and lots of things to pay, and so this would really help me. Both hope you cant forget. Call 877cash now. [ laughter ] theyre both good. They are. And the fact that his girlfriend is sort of milley van illly her song, you know what i mean. Its kind of hilarious. Its cool. You can see how passionate they are. They have a split up plan if one of them wins. I dont think so. It takes a special talent to sing and perform, because you have to have a certain brightness in your voice. It may not work. Can can see, singing how do people know. The voting ends march 11th so you got to get on there and even vote easy get a chance to earn some cash. Every week someone will earn 500 for voting on 5 for voting online. Vote for both. Yes. During 5th and 6th place. 500 if you vote. Ideas. Lets take a look at traffic. We are great this morning. No problems to report at all. I will give you a couple of construction notes let you know about things that are going on later today. Later, not at 9 00 a. M. , we are going to have columbia parkway down to two lanes near kemper, that is going to help remove the debris, and became a problem a couple of weeks ago. Starting at 9 00 will be down to two lanes starting columbia parkway, but theyre waiting until after the rush. 71 north route of 32, you will see intermittent closures, they are working on culverts. You will be able to get through, but seeing some delays, i71 i75 looking great. And i75 no problems on the interstates look great out there this morning. Down on my way in and see them on the cameras. Dont panic. Not sticking although we have a little snow on the way tomorrow which may stick. We will talk about that in a second. First checkout the temperatures, theyre a lot colder. Were sitting in the mid20s at the international airport. 13 the windchill, its colder 12 degrees colder than this time yesterday, we are in for a cold winter day. Take a look at downtown. Clouds, flurries on the atrium weather camera. We are going to see winter return today and tomorrow snow and rain return to the area. Could be a little accumulation with some of that snow, things will start to warm up, and warm up significantly next week, were right at the time of the year when the temperatures can take wild swings. We will see that in the planning forecast coming up in minutes. 25 now, a west wind at 15 and a windchill of just 13 degrees, clouds even flurries around for the start of the day. We will see the clouds gradually increase, to around the freezing mark at noon and we will top out around 37 by 4 00 this afternoon, some more clouds will roll in late day. You will see a fair amount of sunshine out there through the afternoon. This is a look at precision doppler 12hd. Snow flurries, they are more numerous as you head to the north and east of cincinnati, none of this is sticking over the next couple of hours, we will see flurries continue to dot the area, but again no problems for most snow flurries, its part of an area of low pressure, came through yesterday, brought the rain, the wind last night, its moving away the backside of this thing. We still have a few flurries flying, a few things clearing in illinois that is coming our way. We watched this system its in montana, producing rain and snow showers up here. This particular upper level system we highlighted there, its going to dive down to the south tomorrow. That is going to be enough to produce some rain and snow showers around here tomorrow. So lets put everything in motion, morning clouds and sunshine for us, disment clouds thick en and in the clouds thicken again late tonight into tomorrow. A chance of snow showers early tomorrow, around 7 00, and notice, rain and snow dotting the area tomorrow afternoon, we go north of cincinnati primarily some wet snow, south of cincinnati, well, mainly some rain here so its going to be quite the mix over the area tomorrow evening a lot of folks will end with rain and drizzle as the system pulls out and quiet weather comes on friday as we return to the low 40s, but another system coming friday night there in illinois will drop down over a saturday, a chance for more snow and rainshowers for the start of the weekend. It doesnt look like much snow from the ohio river south but as you go north of cincinnati i cant rule out a slushy inch or two of accumulation during the day tomorrow. We will continue to watch that, a lot of it depends on exactly how cold it is. Theres still a little uncertainty. 37 the high too temperature today. Sun through the clouds tomorrow. Down to 29 at midnight. Clouds roll back in during the overnight hours, a low of 28. 39 snow and rainshowers tomorrow, quiet friday, 41 and more snow and rainshowers, 49 on saturday. Sunday a Beautiful Day up to 54, and next week the 60s return to the area with spotty showers monday, a chance even if tuesday for a few showers to be warm into the upper 60s by tuesday of next week. The warm up is coming. We may touch lomax lands if were lucky, 70 within reach. Oh, my god. How do you feel about that, sheila . I love lomax land. Yes n its 6 23 now and an understanding a friend. A group of kids is going out of their way to communicate. And one big thumps 6 26 and trending, target is using barbie to promote positive body image. It started with the barbie as the face of a plus size swim ware line. Its part of a plan to acceptance, and mattel released version of the the dual this doll this year. Scott kelly gave a thumbs up moments after landing in kazakhstan. He carried out countless experiments to study the duration of the effects of a long trip in space. Of course, this is all in preparation for an eventually trip to mars, or what i think will be an eventual trip to mars. That is what theyre saying. They want to see the effects on the body after i long time in space. He presented a unique challenge, because he is an identical swine, twin, and his brother is also an astronaut. They were monitoring him. The whole thing fascinating and the emotional thing, too. When you come out of that thing, and you have not many people you have seen in the last year. Now he is back home all the time . When are you going back up there. 6 27 now coming up. And dont celebrate too early. Turned into the agony of two days after a School Shooting sends four student to the hospital, class is back in township. I will tell you what School Administrators did to put familys minds at ease as we come up. Donald trump and Hillary Clinton sweep super tuesday, what it means for rest of the changing ways, how you can voice your opinion approximate the university of sin about the Cincinnati Police force. Its a chilly wednesday. Its downright cold. Mid20s and snow flurries. Winter is back. We expect temperatures to climb into the upper 30s, were in the 20s now. Windchills in the teens. Outside. 25 at the airport. A west wing at 15 making it feel colder, 13 the windchill now, and yes, we have some snow flurries flying throughout the area. Nothing here that is going to stick, but over the next couple of hours, we will continue to see some flurries especially to the east of downtown cincinnati. You will notice here cloud cover pretty extensive too, with the snow flurries that we are, indiana, we will get into some of those breaks later on today. But for the morning, flurries, cold, windy, 20s, as the kids head to the bus stop. We will be at the freazing mark. Freezing mark. Up to 36 degrees with a blend of sun and clouds on the way home today. Were tracking another weather system that moves in tomorrow. Its going to bring snow, and rain, maybe even a little accumulation for some of us, more on that and a look ahead to some warmer, springlike weather coming up. I will checkout traffic with jen. We have developed an accident that is going to cause some headaches for folks out near the harrison area. Campbell road between Production Drive and west road. Theres an accident there with injuries, and im hearing that they may have to close that area. That is campbell between Production Drive and west road, you will want to avoid that area because of an accident with injuries. While were out that way, 74 at morgan road. Not much to see on that camera. Traffic picking up in volume but nothing to worry about so far this morning. Seeing heavier traffic, i71 i75, you are heavy from kyle to the ohio river in the not unusual to see. That 71 picking up near phi fer, pfeiffer, but none of those are unusual areas of congestion for this time of the morning. Student at madison township are about an hour away from returning to the scene of slighting that left two teenagers shot. Classes are back in session today. And add many clement joins us back, at why School Administrators felt the urgency of getting the things to return back to normal. Reporter he was candid with me, he said the number one priority is to get the students, the teachers, the faculty and staff in a position where they can feel safe, where they can move on. Not an easy thing to do, but the sooner everyone moves forward, the better everyone will feel about returning to school. That is why last night they had an open house, allowing and staff anyone who is involved with the school. They were invited to come in inside, and walk the halls and even the cafeteria. Things have been chaotic in this tightknit community, going back to monday morning, that is when Justin Hancock walked into the school cafeteria. He had a loaded 380 caliber handgun and began firing. Two student were shot, and three were hit with shrapnel. Hancock took off running, but he was tracked down and arrested almost immediately. Most stud student agree, that last nights walk through is what they nee