strict new standard when it comes to lead, one that could end up costing a lot of money. channel 3s Andrew Horansky is in sebring tonight which is about 70 miles southeast of cleveland to explain the change. reporter students here in sebring returned to the classroom today for the First Time Since high levels of led shut down their schools late last week. things certainly looked a lot different and will likely continue to. just hours before the school they started sebrings superintendent said she got a call from the state telling her the buildings lead levels had to be better and what would have been okay just a week ago wasnt anymore so the tape that was supposed to come off the fountains stayed amid strict new guidelines from the Ohio Department of health forcing the school to now tape off 23 fountains in two of its buildings because of a threat they could possibly still pose to pregnant women and very young children. until now, just two were taped. the superintendent says its districts across the state will be forced to adopt the same standard or if they are being singled out. while residents scratch their heads and others hope the village can turn things around. i feel like they can. out. out here, people mistrust our government. they dont care about it. i said i can understand why. reporter the superintendent says each fountain costs about 750 to replace, leaving them scrambling for cheaper options such as filters, while wishing they could have known about this a long time ago. and we learned that today officials from the state department of health were here in sebring as it turns out, there were less greetings here at this school over this past weekend and five children tested positive for lead. what officials want to know here tonight is whether that came possibly from the water or Something Else like lead paint. in sebring, im Andrew Horansky, channel 3 news. today because of a deadly house explosion last night. the village is about 100 miles south of cleveland. Authorities Say one person died in a house explosion on beaver street last night. it not only destroyed that home, but it damaged neighboring homes as well, columbia gas officials believe natural gas was a factor. the newcomers Town School District cancelled classes today because its so close to the site of that explosion. it has been a big week for Ohio Governor john kasich. he is surging in New Hampshire president ial polls and picking up several big endorsements. senior Political Correspondent tom beres has the latest on our Governors Campaign and his strategy. good evening, tom. good evening, jim. Governor John Kasich could be an honorary citizen of New Hampshire. hes spending so much time there. now, the Iowa Caucuses are monday and hes in iowa taking a couple of days to be there but mainly for thursday nights debate esprit indicting what he is predicting what republicans will decide on a candidate before conventions campaign finds a way to make that him. Governor John Kasich declaring he thinks republicans will decide on a candidate before the convention. hes working hard hoping its him. focusing on New Hampshire, striving to hold 100 town Hall Meetings there, hes had three in iowa. you know, theres only so many resources to go around for us and we are very comfortable here. reporter kasich basking in the glow of his big boston globe endorsement. honestly like little old me, the you know, the boston globe . were he and other republican candidates hoping to get a boost from thursday nights fox news debate, donald trump will be a no show. he thinks moderator megyn kelly would be unfair. lets see how much money fox is going to make on the debate without me. okay . reporter kasich backed campaigning back campaigning in New Hampshire on saturday. he will be all in until the february 9th primary. what happens february 10th . see where we are and make an assessment as to whether we should move on and i expect we reporter kasich reports laying groundwork for the next primary state, south carolina. not everything so cheery for kasich. the New York Times reports a conservative Group Spending 1 million on attack ads in New Hampshire calling him out for expanding medicaid and supporting common Core Education standards, labeling him not a conservative, but an obama republican. live in the newsroom, tom beres, channel 3 news. before you go, have there been any republican president ial polls lately here for ohio . you know, there havent been for a while. actually not since last october or so where the republican order was trump, carson, kasich, i bet the next one looks different. now a followup to a story we first told you about last night. a member of clevelands police union has started a fund raising for the six fundraiser for the Six Police Officers who were fired yesterday. the Online Campaign seeks money to help the officers raise their families as the union fights to get their jobs back. so far people have donated 100,000 goal. a local vet is giving an abandoned dog a new leash on life. heres the story. wiz is the dogs name. his family wasnt a fan of his shedding so they left him to be euthanized. but he is still in great health so a group called secondhand muts over in tremont took him in. they are working on getting him to a family that wants him. if you dont act now he could be gone by the weekend. stories like this one often spread quickly on social media and wizs story is no exception. most people that adopt a dog or rescue a dog or, you know, even those that tend to buy dogs, you know, these are dogs that are brought into your family, you take care of them, they are not tied outside, and so theres a human and emotional connection with dogs and thats probably why the story is, you know stories, you know, connect with people. if you have any interest in adopting this senior dog wiz or any other dogs from secondhand our website at wkyc. Com. whether youre going to go to college or looking for a career change, one industry seeking qualified candidates is information technology. hundreds of i. T. jobs are available across our area. channel 3s Brandon Simmons visited a local Software Company to see what you need to know to get one of those jobs. reporter looking for a job in i. T. . well, now is the time. its an industry expected to grow 20 over the next 10 years. we have a number of physicians available that we are looking to fill, more than before. reporter here at highland, creator of on base in westlake, there are hundreds of i. T. jobs to fill over the next year from entry level to some that are much more advanced. what we are looking for from an entry level candidate is someone with a base understanding of technologies, the coding languages that we use. reporter dont have that kind of training . month problem no problem. universities exactly what they are looking for. ask us what type of technologies we are using so students with. my role typically is installation of our software and getting it set up and configured. reporter phil is a technical consultant here at highland but across northeast ohio there are jobs similar to his available at more than 200 companies, including progressive insurance, Cleveland Clinic and highland. theres general i. T. , some help desk studies as well that various places here. reporter if youre looking for a change of pace, now is a good time to give i. T. a shot. for more information, be sure to visit our website, wkyc. Com for links to useful information. in westlake, Brandon Simmons, channel 3 news. time to talk baseball and baseball food. ballpark hot dogs are about to get even tastier. when the Cleveland Indians next season begins Progressive Field is adding customizable hot dog options from the also on the menu, a burrito bar designed by ohio city burrito and a big selection of sandwiches from cleveland pickle. and the great food options arent the only thing that will look different over at the ballpark. renovations include a huge new scoreboard. when we come back on the news at 7 00, some of clevelands top athletes are scoring big. the big occasion thats bringing them all together and the cream of the crop will be there all in one room. plus, wow, the strange event that prompted dozens of people to scream at the top of marijuana in ohio, whats being done now to get medical marijuana on the ballot . we are talking baseball. the teams big plans for the fan. tomorrow on channel 3 news today. well, past winners include doug dekalben and the great bernie kozar. the sports awards banquet tomorrow night at the renaissance ballroom. it is a whos who in northeast ohio. i think its one of the great nights not only in cleveland sports but in cleveland, every time it happens and this is its 16th year. and it happens the awards are presented from what went on this past year. nick vandomar joins us. youre number 16. i remember when this began and David Gilbert came over here, said we are going to do this awards program and its going to be a big thing in the middle of winter and bob costas was the emcee and boy it took off. 16 years later, big names, costas, dan patrick, roy cool moments and a big night for cleveland and cleveland sports. we are all hibernating and its the winter but we get out and we honor top pro athletes, top College Athlete, High School Athlete, amateur athlete, and theres a courage award and i want to thank the commission so much for giving award. that was one of the great phone calls i got when they asked me to accept the award. we are certainly honored to have you share a special night for us every year and hopefully its a special night for you too. but it really is great when you see the amateur athletes and the High School Athlete and the College Athlete and, of course, the courage award is always very gripping story. everyone knows the pro athletes in town and its great to recognize some of our other outstanding High School Athletes, College Athletes, amateur athletes, we have a lot of great olympians, College Athletes playing all over the country that deserve recognition and a lot of cool kids that deserve recognition through in terms of medical hardships and thats what the Cleveland Clinic courage award is about. if you emcee this event, the bar is always high and imagine this, this is when you know youre getting old, nick, Desmond Howard is the emcee this year, he is the host. he does a terrific job now on espn on college day. i remember covering Desmond Howard when he was a basketball and Football Player over at st. joes over on east 185th. we are pumped to have desmond here. its going to be an entertaining night. he definitely knows how to work a room and work a mike and thats what you need for this event and weve been blessed to have great email sees over the emcees over the years and we think desmond is over the top. the city. it was a part of his life. can people still get tickets . a few Tickets Available if you hurry to cleveland sports awards. Com, we have a couple individual seats here and there in the room. its sold out. we are expecting a crowd of around 1200, 1250 to pack the the Sports Commission so it helps us do our job which is to bring sporting events to cleveland that impact the economy and the quality of life and image here in town. if you have a ticket, youre going to have a great time tomorrow night. i look forward to seeing you. and thank you for being a lifetime award winner and i believe there are some people here from the station that have some congratulations as well. hes probably one of the most energetic people i have ever met and besides that, hes a consummate professional. he always believes in getting things right and doing the best that anybody has ever done and hes accomplished that in his career. i mean, cleveland is very fortunate to have somebody of his standard and while the product is not has not always been good on the football field its always been in the booth with him. he works much harder than people realize he works and he cares much more deeply than perhaps that fun personality would lend you to believe. jimmy, congratulations, well deserved. about. youre tough, youre honest, youre professional and you are jimmy, all i can say is we are incredibly proud and happy for you and excited for and cheryl and megan. this is well deserved and you are awesome. congratulations. well, thank you so much. thats great. i thank you very, very much. what a night tomorrow night. absolutely. all right. nick, thanks for joining us. thank you. still to come on the news at 7 00, robots are taking over at least one store. the only job left for humans as the Software Company begins relying more on robots. betsy is looking at when rain will move in to northeast ohio and when we will see a big the best woman says winning was easy because she always heres something you dont see at home, a store run by robots. Telecom Giant soft bank group will open a oneofakind store in tokyo coming up in march. the robots will greet and show customers around using tablets to run the store but dont worry, human Staff Members will help the robots handle cash, credit cards or sensitive information. back at home, ohioans are drinking a record amount of liquor. in 2015 liquor sales topped 1 billion, exceeding last years total by 70 million. thats so you wonder what is the most popular . jack daniels whiskey with customers buying nearly 380,000 gallons. fireball whiskey comes in second, followed by crown Royal Canadian whiskey. ohioans bought 13 million gallons of liquor last year. what a segue. heres betsy. you got to stay warm somehow. wow. yeah. youre going to be here so youre going to pop over there for cocktails and hors doeuvres, come back and do the 7 00 and then go back over there and get your Lifetime Achievement award, right . absolutely, yes. we are going to keep it real for you. absolutely. ill call uber to get me back and forth . maybe we will get somebody to give you a little ride. wisk me over there. we will get you a bike. thats it. take a look at whats going on as far as the forecast goes. it is tough to park there. youre going to have to ride fast, though, ride like the wind, jimmy. that will help you stay warm. temperatures in the 20s overnight tonight, snow showers may start to sneak in as we get toward daybreak and associated with a clipper system thats coming through the great lakes, you can see the snow showers now coming through chicago off toward grand rapids, Traverse City and points north. this will continue to move in overnight, probably not going to bring us a lot of snow, maybe you will just see some random snowflakes but visibilities especially east of cleveland could get dicey tomorrow morning for some of the commuters and then the backside of this will stir up afternoon, so its a brisk walking kind of day. you like that graphic . temperatures in the 20s to get the day started and we will move into the 30s for the afternoon, very average once again as we are anticipating seeing a lot of cloud cover, morning flurry chances passing through and late morning, midday temperatures peaking in the mid30s for the most part across northern ohio. sun peaks kind of peeks kind of like today, cant be completely ruled out, i did see a few peeks of blue but gray out there as well. Late Afternoon into the evening we will have snow showers spreading across the area. we are not looking for a lot of accumulation, maybe a ground coating or so on areas that dont have any snow remaining but it does look like it will stay less than an inch as far as the accumulations. so mid and upper 30s for the day tomorrow, a lot of cloud cover around, maybe a few peeks of sun and temperatures that will only make it back to around 30 degrees for the day on friday in your Window Nation sevenday forecast, snow leaving, phi peeks of few peeks of sun coming out by late day. 40s, even a 50 by tuesday of next week, and that means we trade rain chances or excuse me trade snow chances for rain. when we come back, lebron james fires back at the media after some have called him a coach killer. heres his response to that criticism, thats next. heres whats coming up tonight on nbc brought to you by mercedesbenz of bedford, well, there is breaking browns news, the browns have found their man to be their Vice President of player personnel and there he is, andrew better we berry, he spent the last seven years in the last four of the seven years as their pro scouting coordinator. hes a harvard garage watt, like sossi brown. bachelors degree in economics and masters degree in computer science, he played football at harvard, a four year starter there. he was a three Time First Team all ivy league corner back and he is now coming to the cleveland browns. so thats interesting. lebron james is not a happy guy as the calves get ready to take on the suns. lebron being labeled a coach