picture made all a major milestone today in the battle against the heroin epidemic. a Graduation Ceremony at the Cuyahoga County drug court has more than two dozen seeing the possible. Monica Robbins joins us live from the Justice Center with more. good evening. reporter good evening ross. the court has been active since 2009. and today it celebrated its 300th graduate. 300 of them took control of their now sober lives. the majority of these dependent. the goal of the program is to break the cycle of recidivism g drug dependency, putting them through treatment and holding them accountable. only those assessed as drug dependent are allowed into the program and this year included the safe first graduates of course. those who not only suffer from addiction but also Mental Health issues relating to and while this is certainly a the fight, there is still a lot of work left to be done. we are on pace for one of the highest overdose death rates in years because of the rise in fentanyl cases. one mother is painfully aware of those casualties. i want to hear his voice. and i want this to go this is an epidemic. people are dying every day in this city. reporter one week after his death, cathy phelps continues to mourn her soon, ryan. he is one of eight people who it county in the last week, all from suspected overdoses. they knew ryan was addicted to heroin and kept narcan in the when they found him, it was too late. his addiction was so powerful it took over his soul. it is so hard to waffer like that. reporter ryans drug use where he injured his back. it began with pain pills and when those didnt work, to heroin. he overdosed back in october and was revived using narcan and back in december 2014 he wrote about his struggles in ing will. ryan called adoryx a vicious rinse and repeat cycle he addiction a vicious rinse and repeat sickle he couldnt get. he did know eventually this was going to kill him. reporter ryan leaves behind his parents and two sisters. they have a message for anyone out addiction. you need help and there is help out there. you need to want it though. reporter in akron, brandon el 3 news. our hearts go out to dozens those families just like his. and there is hope on the horizon and drug court is one of. coming up at 7 00, ill graduates, and how she turned her life around and regained her family and. back to you. problem across the world and right here at home. ohio now the first state to require Truck Drivers and all raw enforcement to be trained to stop the trafficking. channel 2s Hillary Goldston went to a class. good evening hillary. reporter good evening at ohio see, an had i highway city has been ranked number four for human trafficking. it is toledo. ohio state Highway Patrol told me very personal class, many of them leaving a victim, saying thank god what saved me was that e said if you go home, your dads going to beat you. im believing this. at the age of 16 told her. exactly. that is what they did to this young lady. they cut her feet. reporter the realities of modern day slavery laid out. she leaves the house because she got in a fight with her up next to her. reporter story after story. lets rescue them and that is why we are asking to get this message out. that is the main reason. it comes in handy. like i said you can be in ohio today, you can be nebraska tomorrow. reporter they can watch for trafficking signs at stops and along highways. ohio has been ranked as high at fifth in the u. S. For the cases. i cant say on tv what i or had the chance to get my hands upon that person that abducted my child. reporter more than 1000 children in highway highway are victims of human in ohio are victims every year. on average prostitution beginning sometime between 11 and 14 years old. his friends said take her to the truck stop. take her to the truck stop. that is part of why lawen forcement knows eyes trained on truck stops question make a difference here. kasich said sometimes she would be at a stop for two days at a time. at 11 00, a oneonone with kasich and how her trafficking at these truck stops went on for years. plus numbers that indicate truckers can really help here in bringing these victims home to their families. changing directions now. it is deal day in the nba. one of the most popular your social media below on the screen. jim donovan joins us now on the trade of anderson. a lebron favorite. lebron liked having him on the team to the tune of about 19 million on his last contract. but he has been traded away. so the trading deadline hit at 3 00 and i can tell you kevin love is a cavalier, but anderson was trade ad way. the player we have been telling you about the cavaliers had targeted was channing fry. they got him from orlando. he is 32 years old, a three point shooter, only averaging a little over five points per game. his contract. he can play out on that wing. he becomes a depth player for the cavaliers coming off the bench for them, a guy that can behind kevin love. anderson leaves cleveland and goes to portland as the cavaliers had to make it a three team trade to get the deal done. he has been here 12 years, but because of injuries, he has lost a lot of times. he has been on the bench a lot this year, in fact he sat the bench in 8 of the last 10 games. he is probably going to be cut right away by portland but will be picked up by another team. there is interest in that coming from the clippers. this is a deal russ for the now, and certainly for june. this is all about the cavaliers tweaking that roster. not to beat teams in the eaveern conference, but they are eatern conference. but they are trying to eastern conference to go against san antonio and oklahoma city. bench to match up against those teams. not a building for the future move . no. it is now. im really hoping the girls understand that they can do what they want. ahead at 6 00, meet the newest inductee into sarahs circle. inspiring girls to shoot for the stars and follow their dreams. as far as the forecast goes, we have a whole lot of wind we are going to be talking about, and not just by talking. it is also going to be a lot warmer as well. we will talk about it straight in your forecast. pope francis has strong words against donald trump and pope francis takes aim at donald trump and trump fires back the pope, on his way home after a visit to mexico said a person who would build a wall on the u. S. Mexico border is not a christian. trump responded saying quote for a religious leader to question a persons faith is disgusting. the vatican called trumps comments very strange. hundreds gathered today to honor the life and legacy of lewis stokes during the Second Annual stephanie tubs jones black history celebration. the reverend andrew young was a keynote speaker at the event. the luncheon was named in her hon nor, the first African American prosecutor in Cuyahoga County. 65 degrees from st. Louis, 73 further west. in this case we are going to get the good with the okay. we can deal with it. lets look at what is going on. we had beautiful clear skies today for awhile, and that allowed us to get a fantastic shot of lake erie. the ice is breaking up. we have had a lot of near shore ice but winds are beginning to change around and about the winds switch to the south that begins to push all the ice back out to the lake. we have open water closer to the lakeshore and areas from cleveland west are beginning to see that break up, although the west end of the lake, shadowlower colder end of the lake has a lot more ice cover. you can see this is a big shift. remember last year we had like 98 , 99 coverage and it was thick ice. temperatures going to be holding here in the upper 20s with the southeast breezes starting to kick in. and as we start the day tomorrow, temperatures will once we pass the midnight hour i think we are going to see temperatures cruising up into the mid30s. russ mentioned st. Louis, 59 right now. 68 in memphis. warm air off to the west of us, beginning to lift northward and in this transition from the cold air to the milder air, there is a lot of cloud cover. we may get a little line of freezing rain and snow. ill show that you in a moment. but there is a lot of wind coming along with this too. we have seen the high thin clouds. i think well be dealing with high thin clouds as well. sustained winds 20 to 30 Miles Per Hour at times, and wind gusts upwards of 35 to 40 Miles Per Hour. heres the key. we get into the early morning, and you can see that those winds out of the south will be sustained 20 to 25, and that means any of our east west roads, so 90, 480, you are going to be dealing with a cross wind. same for u. S. 30, same for i 76, and 224. with a cross wind that could be problematic, especially if you drive that big 480 bridge. that one is going to be a fun one tomorrow morning, so two hands on the wheel for sure. we have clear skies that have been seeing some of the high, hymn clouds filling in. well continue to have those high, thin clouds filling in. well continue to have those through the night. notice this is at 4 00 in the morning. by the time the big rush starts in the morning commuted that should be outside of here. so im not concerned about icy roads for the morning commute, that should not be too much of a problem. winds out of the southeast to start the day. temperatures already mid to upper 30s. through the afternoon, cruising up to 50 degrees in northern ohio. we have snowpack on the ground, so temperatures will be varied, i think upper 40s for akron, canton and mansfield. better than that friday in cleveland. saturday partly cloudy, temperatures in the mid50s. what a beautiful start to the weekend. 7day forecast brings in a rain snow chance on sunday, which is the leading edge of another cooldown. but by mid february standards not so bad, we can handle it in and we stay in the 30s through next woke. the east coast storm system looks like we could just get brushed by the edges of that. so we are keeping an eye on it. coming up, see how the newest member of sarahs circle is using her passion to be a champion of Science Education. and in sports, jimmys back with more on the trade. one of the most liked players in cavs history. the trading deadline came and it went past at 3 00 p. M. today in the nba. the cavaliers did make a deal, perhaps the biggest deal of any kind of note in the entire league today, but it wasnt a whopper although they take a hit in the locker room as anderson is dealt away as part of a three team trade. the guy the cavs had targeted and he was a favorite of gm David Griffin and that is channing fry. 32 years old a wing player. he can stay out on the wing left or right and shoot the three. although he has been on the bench this year, only averaging he has got three point shooting prowess. he has two years left to go on his contract and so he fits with the cavs. anderson is gone, trade ad way to the portland trailblazers. so it is the cavs magic and portland involve involved in the deal. a favorite for mylan years. he had a lot left on his contract. expected to cut him but he is expected to be picked up by another team. so the people are asking can the calves oz pick up . that is against league rules. they would have to wait one year to get him again. the details the cavs get fry, the magic get ajared cunningham and a second round pick and the blazers get anderson. but heres the expensive part. the cavs give up a first round heres David Griffin on channing fry. we envision he is a complementary piece, a floor shooter he can guard four and his fives, his length will enable him to play some fives we may not have been playing currently as well. as the cavaliers basically trade a real good friend of lebron james. when lebron james came back and made the decision to come back, one of the guys he was thrilled to play with again was anderson. but injuries and the contract made him expendable for the cavaliers. lebron james was not consulted whether or not the cavs would trade him away. now to the bulls game tonight. fry probably will not be available for the cavs tonight but he should play sunday in oklahoma city. the cavaliers start with 30 games to go before it is go time in the playoffs, so they have that remaining. they are 3814. best record in the east. they havent beaten the bulls yet this year but chicago is a injuries as they have lost four in a row. heres help. we know what we are capable of. he want to we want to continue to improve. reporter the browns made roster moves today. they cut tight end jim dry and randy starks is gone. starks did not play well last year. look who is back in town, ray horton is back as the defensive coordinator of the browns. i asked him today from what you did a couple years ago running the defense and what the browns have done the last two years without you, how much work do you have to do to get playing good defense . there is going to be change no matter what happens in there business and we have to find a way to become a suffocating championship defense and that is what we are trying to do. on do we have work . yes we do. suffocating is the word right there. intense. she believes girls can do anything they put their mind to. how she is promoting girl power in the field of science. next in this weeks sarahs every thursday we are meeting women sharing their trade and tricks to make things happen. these women are carving out a Better Future for northeast ohio. tonight we welcome Kirstin Ellen boeingen to sarahs circle. if you want to go to mars, you have got to go through cleveland. reporter nasa glenn is one of the citys science element she geek out over. geeked out over. reporter Great Lakes Science Center president and ceo just started year three. the detroit native is living across the lake, the latest stop on our Cross Country career as a champion of Science Education in and out of the classroom. to really feel like i can understand science. and maybe that affects you as or the next time you are in a grocery store. if the Science Center plays a little role in that, im very happy. reporter how did you choose science . was it always your first love . i grew up loving science. my mother loved chemistry. she kind of liked to blow things up. reporter but mom, mary lou, a proud Lords Academy grad, didnt have the options. options that are still improvingering what would be key in helping girls move forward in stem careers. im hoping girls understand they can do what they want. they can do what they are passionate about and that they are going to create careers that i never even dreamed of. some of the extraordinary things that will be happening for my daughter, who is 11 years old now, it is a whole different kind of future. reporter and as for 11year old zoe. they are growing up at the center. reporter the byproduct of two educators, her husband is a metropolitan schools. charles teaches english. course opposites attract. so if i cant help the kids with the homework then surely charles can. one of the great things about studying many different families is to realize everyone does it different and that, that is perfectly okay and people get to some of the same wonderful outcomes of having happy, legal any children through many, many happy, healthy children through many, many different paths. reporter one thing that feels right, settling down in cleveland. from the focus on the lake front to the places our city goes. im going to be very happy if i pack my kids off to college some day and charles and i move to a lake front condo. reporter we are so glad she does. the Science Center has big plans when it comes to lake front developments. she is so cool. we are big fans down here. absolutely. thank you to her. and we thank you so much for watching tonight. jimmy and betsy back at 7 00. the nbc nightly news starts right now. 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