Ashtabula county, south into youngstown. Around portage county, weve had rain. Its been all rain. In fact, as youve been asleep, snow has been melting. As we take a lock at the system, the cold front is moving through midtolate morning. As that happens, temperatures are going to start to fall. In the meantime, were still so mild. You look to the west, and you see the cold air. As we zoom in, were all still 40s waking up. This is a little deceiving. You will want to make sure you back maybe an extra sweatshirt to put under the coat that youre putting on the kids today at the bus stop. Although its mild as can be at the moment, its going to become quite cold through the day, plus, its really windy. Thats going to help as temperatures drop into the 30s later. Dani, wet roads . Wet roads, yes, but were still dealing with normal drive times. Thats what you want to hear at last hour, you saw he try to track this accident. I was figuring out if it was before 3 or before 76. Thanks to the help of joshua on twitter, we finally figured this out. Two lanes blocked at exit 222 just north of 271. Youre only getting by using the right lane. Here is a picture in the area. If this is not cleared up soon, you can expect delays on 71 south near 271. John and lynna, back to you. All right. Dani. Thank you. 6 02 there. s big concern after 10 people were killed in cleveland since the start of the year. Not good. Following this upsetting trend, what is city council doing, maureen, to try to prevent this . Reporter well get to that in just a second, what theyre proposing, but they painted a picture last year. A 5yearold killed in the city of cleveland. A man beaten to death at a bus stop. By the end of 2015, everybody was saying enough is enough. And then 2016 happened and it appears to be happening again. Lets talk about some of the numbers. In the last four years, city of cleveland averaged 100 homicides. In the past two years, the city exceeded that. City councilman zach reed painted this picture at the meeting. He went on to say 65 of these murders have been in retaliation, and that the number one war in downtown cleveland are these murders. And that all the development and money being pumped into downtown is not stopping the violence. Heres what he had to say following the meeting when he presented the plan. For the last two years, weve had 222 homicide in the city of cleveland. We stand here tonight with 10 homicides already. At this pace, were going for the third Consecutive Year of homicides in the city of i think weve finally come to the realization that the status quo is not acceptable. This plan. Give 250,000 to the peacemakers, the violence disrupters in the city. Then he wants officers to have dash cameras. Also body cameras. As many people may be wondering, how are we going to pay for this . Reed wants to increase the city tax by 1 . This will be discussed next week when council gets the budget. Back to you in the studio. All right. Something needs to be done. Thank you, alyssa. Now, an announcement overnight that will affect the banks and their employees. Huntington bank has acquired they said they will lay off some employees but they hope to keep as many as possible. The deal reached last night will create the Number One Bank by deposits in ohio. There are more questions in the northeast ohio town where high levels of lead have been found in the water. Sebring is a village about 70 miles southeast of cleveland. Weve now learned the person operating the water system has been put on paid leave while the state looks into what went wrong. Ohios epa is alleging the water Plant Operator wasnt doing his job and may have falsified reports. Residents are afraid. Were very afraid. Were just taking one day at a time. Instant fear. We dont know what to do. Were told the lead levels in the water are falling, and only a handful of homes and a fountain at the high school are still testing high. Today in flint, michigan, families concerned about their exposure to lead can get tested for free. The test is available for children up to six years old. Offered next month. The National Guard has been assisting the people of flint by providing bottled water. A new report on Human Trafficking in ohio. Last year, investigators found more than 200 potential victims, most young women. Seven of them, 13 years old or younger. The collaborative and Human Trafficking held an event at tower city to bring attention to the crime. The attorney generals annual report said authorities made over 100 arrests in sex trafficking and convictions. Maryville police say this speed chase reached up to 100 Miles Per Hour. Dog out of the van. Look at the booking photo of david moore. This started when he tried to lure a teenager into the van, but she ran home and called 911. The tax short approved an eightyear tax credit plan for the project. They will expand their chip manufacturing plant and add nearly 4 million in new annual payroll by 2018. Now, heres maureen with your news feed. A texas Court Indicts the planned parenthood accusers instead of the group. The video allegedly showed the group illegally selling fetal tissue. They say felony charges of tampering with government records. Planned parenthood said the videos spread lies to discredit the group. Has stopped along the east coast, theres a flurry of travelers still dealing with the airlines backlog. Flights and traffic accidents created a nightmare situation at la guardia. Youre seeing area footage for miles leading two and from the airport. Travelers had to walk to the terminal with their luggage so they didnt miss their flight. So beards get a bad rap for being unsanitary, but we might be wrong about that. Researchers looked at 400 bearded hospital workers and found their facial hair actually protected them from carrying dangerous drug resistant bacteria. Now, mrsa is something it doesnt mean someone had that illness, but moral of the story, beards are not gross. They may help keep people heatlh think. I did that. It was not pretty. But, you were sanitized. Well, thank you. I guess thats one way to look at it. Its 6 09. One player for the Columbus Blue Jackets scored three goals. Thats a big deal, right . What it meant for a little girl who was watching the game in the stands and the sign she was holding. A Birthday Gift you wont forget. Cant wait to see that. Plus, areas socked in with feet of snow are getting help. Just how fast a machine can make snow disappear. Holly . Were seeing our snow does appear overnight. Its windy. Weve got scattered rain showers. You need to grab those heavier coats, even though its feeling quite mild at the moment. Ialert has you covered. Theyre instant. You see them on your tv, wkyc. Com. Were going to track the rain, snow, winds, a whole lot of stuff in just moments. Isnt this a nice thought to ponder on. Progressive field. Were not too far away from it is 6 13. This el nino weather is really taking a toll along the california coastline, prompting a state of emergency. Check out the video taken by a drone, showing just how dangerous the situation is. The bluffs along the Pacific Coast line are crumbling. Been deemed too dangerous for residents. Its left a trail of destruction. On the other side, relief is on the way to snow stricken areas along the eastern seaboard. Take a look at this big machine. It can melt 60tons of snow per hour. The massive snow melter was requested by the department of Homeland Security to help with the massive cleanup. The snow melt left indianapolis yesterday morning and the next arrival is washington, dc. Where do you haul it . Throw it in the ocean. Some will find lakes or rivers to dump it in. But thats another problem. But if its freezing, you have to deal with the water, right . Yeah. Okay. Were dealing with water. Once again, grateful around here. A lot of the snow that was on the ground has started to melt away from rain overnight and into this morning. Were going to get a look at your bus stop forecast. Its mild. A little bit deceiving. You have to have an extra layer i know its warm this morning for a heavy winter coat and hat and gloves, but i think youre going to need those later today and happy to have them. Around 40 is what well go with. 45 degrees at hopkins. About 10 degrees above normal. 6 15 is your time. Weve got the scattered rain this morning. Temperatures are falling. Scattered snow is Something Else we discuss, especially for tomorrow. For some of you. But today the big story is going to be temperatures going backwards as your front passes through. Well be 30s, plus its really windy. Winds 15, 20 Miles Per Hour sustained and with gusts as high as 30. Wind chills will also become an issue today. Cold air behind the front. Were seeing temperatures in the 20s and 30s. Were all still in the 40s as were waking up. Low to mid40s, pretty common. But, as you look at the winds today, notice the wind gusts. Even now, wind chills are in the 30s when you take that into account. So its one of those days where youre going to be happy to have an extra coat or layer. Believe me when i tell you. Weve got the rain showers moving through. It is just rain. Temperatures are too warm for anything but. Scattered showers to the east. We have a break to the west. Cleveland, akron, youre dry right now. We had rain last night and earlier this morning. Be careful as youre commuting around. Wet roads with the snow melts, still slick spots and things like that. I think once we get past this mornings rain, well see a pretty uneventful rain. Then tomorrow some lake effect snow will be possible for some of you along the lake shore, especially cleveland areas east. A lot of you wont deal with that, but its going to be cold tomorrow through the end of the week. We get another little system in here thursday to friday, more snow shower chances, but then were talking well into the 40s. We may hit 50 degrees by the end of this weekend. Its 6 16. Here is a check on your commute. Good morning to you. Hope youre having a great start to your tuesday. Here is a picture of i90 on west 34th street. It gives you a pretty good picture of road conditions. We want to watch for wet roads because of the rain showers holly is tracking. Were seeing a little bit, tiny traffic on the inner belt bridge, but its not adding time to your commute. Were green to the north and to the south. If you take 71 south approaching 271, two lanes are blocked because of an accident involving two semi trucks overnight. Youre only getting by using the right lane. So far, no delays, but give yourself extra time if you travel in this area. John and lynna, back to you. Thank you, dani. Winners and losers today at 6 17. Both come from the world of hockey. Lesson for all of you hockey dads. Watch what you say around your children, or you may have to pay up. Look at this from columbus. A little girl says dad says if number 13 scores, we get a dog. He had three goals in the win over montreal. For that, the little girl should get a litter of puppies. Similar sign was held up in ottawa, and that player scored too. So two doggies have new homes thanks to hockey. The pee wee hockey team that just got back from a hockey tournament in lake placid where they won the bronze metal. They won two of the games. Great effort by the boys, and the coaches were proud of them. What a trip to play on the same ice as the miracle. If you would like to nominate your allstar, take a picture and email them to me or tweet them to me at john wkyc. We had so much fun. Thats great. In lake placid. Congratulations to the boys and coaches. They did a fantastic job. Great. Lets check in with greg. He got a cool behindthescenes look at nasa. Amazing Research Going on in cleveland. Coming up, im going to tell you how nasa is planning on getting people to mars with the force generated by this sheet of paper. Stay tuned. Greg, thats cool. So are you. Weather at your window, 6 19. Mike from canton sent this picture in on your tv. Its a woodpecker, in case youre curious, pecking away at i hope thats not outside your window right now. You know, we love to see them, but the noise. Hope youre having a great start to your day. Welcome back. Nasa Research Center is celebrating its 75th 75th anniversary. To celebrate, theyre work. Yesterday. They used our connection to their space vehicles. Earlier i showed you the actual rover lab where they systems. Any next stop was the electric nasas 75th anniversary. Check out this place. Its filled with these gigantic basically put a lid on and can vacuum suction all the air out of and drop the temperature to near absolute zero. Basically what they can do is generate deep space conditions inside of these canisters. Now, the reason they would want to do that is so that companies and other nasa properties that are developing things for space can actually test them without sending them out to space. That turns out to save them a lot of money and a lot of time. In this case, what youre looking at is a Power Generation system, almost a minireactor that they can test in space flight conditions right here on earth. This is a one of one of a kind lab manned by an extremely talented group of people that Companies Really come to from all over the world to use right here in northeast ohio. I was very excited to see this thing. This thing is huge. There are several of them throughout the electric propulsion system laboratory. Very important to this laboratory are these. They dont look like much. Theyre called ion drives. Basically these things use electricity generated from solar power from the sun to make enough force as this sheet of paper is putting on my hand right now. They will need a rocket to launch the orion space craft to send it to mars. Once it gets to deep space, theyre going the use one of these drives to slowly increase the speed of the craft until they finally get it fast enough to get men and women to mars in about six months. This is all coming from research right here in northeast ohio. And some of these big canisters and vessels theyre using to generate deep space conditions, amazing work going on outside of cleveland. Its important to our heritage. Well give you more information because im going to be telling you how you can have a chance to actually visit nasa and see yourself. Yeah. I thought you were going to say how we can visit mars. A time here. I can see why you had that face, that look on your face. This place is pretty cool. Holly in. Lucky we are that this is in our backyard. Yep. Field trip. Well be back in about a week. Temperatures are going to end up getting colder and colder throughout the week. Were 40s and mild and breezy now. Its real obvious theres a front approaching. It will be pushing through over the next few hours. Well have scattered rain. Fall back through the 30s and were talking wind chills, teens later on this afternoon. On the map, you can see the cold front pushing through. John and lynna and maureen, well be talking about snow, mo, as we head throughout the week. Holly. Thanks. Coming up on your news feed, flint families will Start Testing their kids today to see if they have high lead levels. And now we know what americas comfort food is. But men and women reach for the food for very different reasons. Holly is tracking a little bit of rain in her forecast. Im lynna lai. Federal officers in the washington, dc area are closed today. Federal offices are closed in washington, dc area today. Leslie police are looking for a woman accused of taking another womans wallet and racking up thousands of dollars worth of charges. Investigators say she pick pocketed a woman dining at crocker park. The victims credit card was used to buy more than 5,000 worth of items. This includes 1,900 worth at game stop. If you recognize the woman, call police. The Canton Police officer who recently lost his k9 caninescanines for cops donated a new partner. He said hell rename the canine after he is introduced to his new family. Weve had the High Temperature for the day. I dont want to be the downer of your day. What are you going to say . Oh, know. Were good. Embrace it . Yeah. Even at the lowest point, well end up seasonable today. We had the high. In fact, earlier this morning we were 47, 48 degrees. Well get those official numbers in. Weve been falling a bit since. Mid40s is pretty phenomenal. Its going to be really blustery. Zooming into radar. Scattered rain showers. Snow has been melting. If youre just waking up, theres not as much snow out there in your backyard. Weve got wet roads. Its very hit and miss as far cleveland has really dried out since earlier today. Its a spotty drizzle. Tracking snow. Im going to let you know what to expect answered how cold we do get. First of all, dani has a check on your commute. Good morning, holly. Hope your day is getting off to a good start. In terms of traffic. 71 at 271, weve been monitoring this camera all morning long because you still have the two lanes blocked on 71 south, which means youre only getting by your right lane because of a crash involving two semi trucks. Were not seeing any delays on 71 south approaching 3 and 271, but, again, you might want to give yourself extra time so you can slow down as you pass that crash. Other than that, were looking pretty good on the traffic map, even though were seeing wet roads in the area. We have our slow traffic on 71 north before the inner belt bridge, but that drive time in just under a week, the official primary season will kick off when voters head to the polls in iowa. John kasich is getting new momentum. This could help boost his campaign. Yeah, john, pretty big endorsement for the kasich camp. The boston globe backs the governor. While the endorsement may not do anything to swing voters in iowa who start the voting process for the country on monday. New hampshire is where kasich has been focusing his attention. In its endorsement, the boston globe called kasich a latest poll out of New Hampshire has kasich tied for second. New hampshire which typically serves to narrow the field has a lot of narrowing to do. The boston globe says the gop take the fight to trump and kasich is the best bet. Other candidates have swarmed to iowa ahead of the caucus, but kasich has only been there twice. Its clear hes focused on New Hampshire. This endorsement should help him there. Emergency lines for Cleveland Police and Cuyahoga County ems are back up. Were told the lines were down 25 minutes because of upgrades. N