And Hillary Clinton looking to hold off the surge from Bernie Sanders. Local 12 has todays live coverage. We begin with Hamilton County. Joe webb is talking to workers and voters all day long. Hello, joe. Hello, brad. Im at saint Lawrences Church in price hill, where three precincts vote every election day. And they are projecting turnout in Hamilton County at around 40 percent. You pointed out, you and paula, theres obvious reasons for that. A whole lot at stake. We have a sitting governor running for president. Theres a race in butlers county. Even the Hamilton County race is last november, Hamilton County voters faced long lines and county lines statewide. The troublesome routers that had mechanical problems last fall had been replaced. Getting people through with few delays. We have provided additional training to the poll workers, where they have hands on experience. We have deployed 116 trouble shooters out in the field. Now they put a lot of savvy teenagers in the polls, to help deal with new technology. Its called the youth and booth project. We have more coming at 6 00. The latest results, the one thing thats interesting, in the election, with the epoll books, the ones that cost a little trouble in november, they get a running total in the board of ballots are going out. 2 30, last time we were able to check with them, 110 thousand people in ham milton county. 44 thousand democrats and by 2 30 this afternoon, brad. As many people voted in the county. Turnout would be good. No surprise a lot at stake. As soon as we have results, the people. Brad. Spectacular. The weather never hurts. Joe, check back with you. And local 12, dan hurley is at the Hamilton County. Coverage. Ive got shelly pollen, director of the board of directors. Whats happening in price hill, joe was saying, the turnout has been heavy compared, especially compared to four years ago. Going back to 08. What are we seeing here. He mentioned, you could get counts in here by 2 30. You actually have numbers . We do. The new epoll books system last november, gives us the ability to attract voter turnout. We are approximately 130 thousand voters that have cast ballots. 135 thousand. How is that splitting between republicans and democrats. Its heavy on the republican side. Last count, we were close to 80 thousand on the republican side. One of the reasons you could get that count was because of the new epolling books. We know the last general election, that became our story. Whats happening this year . Everything is running smoothly. From poll voters and voters. The health desk is relatively quiet. When i went to vote this morning, in my polling place, there was a younger person. I dont know if they were high school or college, seem totally comfortable with the tablet. Thats part of what youve done; right . Weve really reached out to our younger generation, with the youth at the booth program. We have quite a few High School Senior programs manning the polls out there today. Want to remind people, theres still over three hours to get out and vote. Plenty of time. Both democrats and republicans, contested racing, good weather, means good turnout. It should be interesting. I know. Its like the olympics for you tonight. The high voter turnout. Im actually thrilled. The county by county break down. If the voting is we should have the absentee results coming back; right . Whats the situation with the absentee. Up, down, where are we. Higher than we were, compared to 2012. We were still down compared to 2008. President ial years, when theres nonincumbent. Go back to you, thanks dan. Look at how the president ial candidates are spending the day. And stay with local 12 news. We will stream your voice, your future election special, with reports with the primary states. Angenette levy will talk to voters and youre welcome to stop by and join you there. Well update you with the president ial election, at star live at 11 00. Interstate 10, back open. Did you get caught . I got caught. It was shut down so crews could do an emergency repair. Police shut down a highway around 11 30. Lanes open around 1 30 p. M. In a tweet, odot, Construction Equipment hit a sign trust. Crews had to close the sign crust. Closure had traffic closed for three miles. Kentucky state police say, another 16yearold girl was driving in owen county around 11 30. It appears she lost control. Times. Two passengers were thrown out. The scene. An 18yearold man was taken to the hospital. The crash is still under investigation. High School Students were evacuated after a written threat around 11 po. And School Officials said the allclear was given around 12 30. The district hasnt said anything specific about what the threat was. Uc professor has been arrested on child porn charges. Agents arrested on charges and distribution of receipt of child porn. Hes also charged with destruction of property to prevent seizure. Park ser a professor of class ex. Uc Vice President says parker has been suspended from his position, barred from University Property and is to have no contact with students. Middletown police are searching property along cincinnati dayton road. And investigators are acting on a tip of lindsey bow began. Police searched the property of transcape landscape supply. And 2500 wheel of justice with any information. This is it. Man, i hope you got outside today. Especially because i would love to say, its going to last. I have a feeling its not going to last. There will be one in the road. Late tonight and very, very early tomorrow. That will give us isolated showers and storms. While most of us are sleeping. For much of tomorrow, a partly cloudy day in fact, were sunny to mostly sunny now. Well stay clear to mostly clear through mid evening. Clouds are beginning to increase as we near 11 00, midnight and well have a wave of showers and thunderstorms coming through. I believe these will be isolated. Overall threat for thunderstorms, including severe storms will be low overnight. Temperatures fall back to the 50s, ultimately down to 5354 degrees by early tomorrow morning. No rain to track yet on precision doppler hd. That will have to wait until midnight. 7075. Were quiet but windy tomorrow. Shower chances have come down as we have reviewed the latest data. Will rain chances affect your weekend plans. Well discuss that in the planning forecast am coulding up in 10 minutes. Set to implement a. Members of the Hamilton County s. W. A. T. Team kept busy in norwood. Norwood, assisting them in a drugrelated. City leaders adopted october. Uses a mix of off street parking. And residential parking. They installed three parking kiosk in the large lots along fifth street. Sixth additional kiosk on main street and west main street. And boldly go where no man has done before. Of cincinnati. Exhibit opens today. All kinder of memorabilia. The exhibit will be opened through mid 23rd. Raining cats and dogs in the studio today. Also ahead, first at 4 00, pope francis sets a date for Mother Teresa to become a state. Precision doppler Hillary Clinton you know, in america, if you work hard, youre supposed to be able to get ahead, no matter who you are or where you started out. But too many barriers hold back our families. Instead of Affordable College we have skyrocketing debt. Paychecks barely budge, but ceo pay keeps rising. And instead of good paying jobs, millions of americans are stuck. Wall street and big financial interests, along with drug companies, insurance companies, big oil companies. The indifference, that s what i want to take on. Im running for president to root out all of these barriers, because i think america can only live up to its potential american has a chance to live up to his or her potential. Im Hillary Clinton, pope francis announced today, Mother Teresa will be cannonized. And she died in 1997 and beautified in october of 2003 by now deceased Pope John Paul ii. Mother teresa received a peace prize. We have a threesome here. We do. Work and these guys seem later. Bobby, female of litter. Ive got ricky and ronny. Mixed. 8 weeks old. And bobby has some peace. Working on them. Eight weeks. Youre going how big . About 4550 pounds. Bulldogs are a lot of pets. These are cuteies. Go kittens. Prince, prince is about fourmonth old. Hes been done. Hes taking it easy. Hes resting from his adventures today. Fantastic. Bobby, has some sharp ones, going on my thumb. Well be bleeding on this one. Well be going on tomorrow. 3949 corain avenue, in the good old heart old side and whats your normal line and noon. Anywhere between 1020 people there. These dogs tomorrow, will probably draw a bunch of people. Well use the lottery system for adoption. All right, pick your lottery numbers wisely. Hamilton county sbca. Scott, are you ready, my friend . Im ready. Putting the finishing touches in the voting forecast. I dont want to go to early. I want to make sure its right. We have a lot of people going to the polls. The sun is out, we have no rain, no snow. No frozen precipitation to get in your way. Very simple voting forecast. The temperatures are around or 70 degrees. Well drop to 68 as polls get ready to close. Sun will be up. Enjoy the sun we have this afternoon. Clouds will begin to increase late this evening. And overnight, well have isolated showers and thunderstorms. So were mostly clear to start off the evening. Clouds increase late this evening and then well have a brief wave of showers and thunderstorms overnight. Outside chance for some heavy rain, gusty winds, some occasional cloud to ground lightning. Severe wealth ser low overnight. Basically midnight to 4 00 in the morning, we have an opportunity foreseeing thunderstorms. If you hear a bump in the night, suspect there will be thunder. And temperatures will be falling through the 60s this evening. And eventually in the 50s overnight. Temperatures 72 in the atrium weather cam. Wind currently out in the north. Dryer air has moved to the tristate. It will take some time to add low level moisture back in the air. As a result, were quiet this evening. As low level moisture returns after midnight, showers and thunderstorms will come through. So were quiet this evening. Well have a quick wave and some and the overall chance of rain late in the week has gone down. 7075 from sharonville to cleaves. From sabina to versailles, now cincinnati, one of the warmest day of the year. And all the warmth and eventually low level moisture means the showers and storms will be developing for the west. Everything that develops will coalesce with the showers and storms this evening. Whats he had of the trihp low chance for thunderstorms. Lines of equal pressure, more tightly packed. As a result, the wind speeds will pick up. Lines of equal pressure. Webs, will be a windy day. Best chance for rain in the next 48 hours will come overnight between 1 00 a. M. And 4 00 a. M. Winds will relax. At best, widely scattered showers for the last day of the workweek. Simple forecast tonight. Temperatures falling through the 60s and eventually into the 50s. Clouds increase around midnight. Be partly cloudy force the day. Highs in the 40s. I know. And bad news bears. At least the sun is out and people are happy nfl preparing to prepare for the soccerfield they boreied at the super bowl. Like having my kids in my yard withh i hope we have a buyer for the house. Me too bill hey come in i didnt know your home wifi the same time. Internet. Crazyfast. This place. Cool possible. Get internet with unlimited data starting at 14. 99 per month. And ask about free installation. Call now. phone ringing you cant deal with something, by ignoring it. But thats how some president ial candidates seem to be dealing with Social Security. Americans work hard, and pay into it. So our next president needs a real plan to keep it strong. elephant noise donkey noise hey candidates, neighborhood in oregon has a bit of a rat problem. It appears, a woman who likes to feed the birds and squirrels may be to blame. Amy frazier has a look at the problem thats fitting neighbor against neighbor. The rats, they will be running around, chasing each other in the bank and going in their holes. Kelly nightingale had to guess how many rats are living behind her south salem home. Probably at least 100 or so. Dug holes in her yard and tunnels under the neck. Not to mention, their dropping. Its gross. I dont like the kids in my yard with rats. Sh noticed her later, kelly took the inside the gate was dried corn in the feeding. And kelly contacted the city of salem. Public works responded and eventually asked for more help from Code Enforcement. Supervisor tells me the situation qualifies as a public nuisance, which could mean courts in a fine for a homeowner providing the food. Been doing Code Enforcement for 14 years. Havent seen and Code Enforcement officer spoke with the homeowner last week, says shes agreed to clean up any food on the ground. Off camera, i also spoke with the homeowner. She says she only wanted to feed the birds and squirrels. Lesson, if you have bird feeders, keep it up off the ground. Hopefully that combined with the h. O. A. Hiring Pest Control Company to come out and take my kids, could pay in the yard. Nightmare. President ial candidates working hard. Looking for a big win. First at 4 00, the angry slash mountain lady. Take a look at her there. Shell explain whats behind her expression. And liz bonis. What do the candidates to stay we will tell you, f welcome back at 4 30, president ial candidates from both party. Who is casting ballots and whats being called, super tuesday number 3. It seems like every week, this is the big one. I promise you today, really is the big one. And donald trump is starting off with the win. And on this super tuesday, for the republicans, you may want to call survivor tuesday. Can anybody stop donald trump . Thats the question the billionaire opponents is asking. Illinois, missouri, ohio, and john kasich is looking for a win in his home state. We will win ohio. I feel good. Trump who is leading everywhere else, is taking notice. Ohio is going to make America Great again. Kasich cannot make America Great again the latest poll shows marco surprise. My hope, america, with fear and hope. Thats what we will offer tomorrow in the month to come. Senator ted cruz sitting second, trying to win over rubio. And we welcome you with open arms. Only one campaign has beaten donald trump. Former secretary of state is banking on continuing the southern streak and hoping to add to the delegate count with wins in the midwest, too tomorrow that could set a dramatic message. Senator Bernie Sanders says its his message that will pull off an upset. I think we will win in ohio tomorrow. The polls are open and people are voting in the five states remaining. This is a look at charlotte, north carolina. One of the polling cases, many delegates up for grabs. In washington, diane gallagher, back to you. And 12 has you covered from 9 00 to 10 00, local12. Com. We will stream your votes, election special. Angenette levy will talk to voters. And the public is welcomed to join her there. Go see angenette. Well update you tonight. On star 64 at 10 00. Also tonight, jeff hirsh is with and larry davis, hes in Butler County. And Brad Underwood hes falling pg sittonfield in the Cincinnati Fire museum. Dan harley following things at the board of elections. Were covered from price hill to the northern marianna islands. Somewhere in the pacific. Somewhere in the pacific. Sometimes, cast a balllot. And its called strategic voting. It will be happening a lot with the primary. Well ask you on facebook. Kathy sees no sense. What has voting come to . The voters are not going to be adults. Didnt have kathys quote. Donna asked strategically, they wasted the vote, their time and everybody is entitled to vote whatever they wish. Whatever strategy to make their vote count the most. Theres a lot of things. Vote ing is with your brain. And coming up, we have to look at weather. Its good weather. I have my coffee outside. And then i got stuck in the traffic, on 71 south for a half hour after drinking coffee. Need i say more. I literally had to pull in a retail store. And ill make your day a little bit better. I love this view from the weather cam in college hill. No clouds in the sky. If you love snow, you hate to see a view like this. You probably wont enjoy what we have in the planning forecast. Week. We have enjoyed sun for much of the afternoon. Showers and storms will be developing well to the west of the tristate, so clouds will be carried with upper level winds later this evening. Eventually what develops will come in a weakening mode. Temperatures falling to the 60s and 50s overnight. Looks like the best opportunity for showers and thunderstorms will center between 1 00 and 4 00 in the morning. Outside chance for stronger storms, heavy rains, occasional lightning. Doesnt look like to be a high threat. At best, see some strong storms with gusty winds and lightning. Most will see showers. No rain to track, with no clouds in the sky with precision doppler hd. 72, the current temperature at the international airport. Plus, well discuss the hourbyhour timing of storms overnight. Tomorrow, and thursday. How high the wind will get where you live coming up in 10 minutes. Staying in shape is hard for all of us with busy lives. What it takes when you are on the campaign trail. Not sleeping. Liz bonis has details in a medical report she joins us. Liz. This comes from a recent poll conducted by health line. They found nearly 8 out of 10 americans, found the future of the United States should have good health habits. We have some good example. Cameras often caught bill clinton and george w. Bush out jogging. President obama says he works out six days a week. And so, that begs to question, what do the current candidates for president do on a regular basis to try to stay well . Running for president about their current habits. Mainly about eating and exercise. Quite a variety o