pack something lunches, laying out the outfits packing some lunches, laying out the outfits. wind chills in the 20s. thats the more important number as youre grabbing the winter coats. some scattered light showers to the east. it has been really light. were expecting only about an inch if that. well talk specifics coming up. checking your drive with danny, see how things are so far. were green and clean. no major delays are for those of who you travel. detroit is getting by just fine. if you take i90 between 490 and 83, its your normal 17minute commute headed west and 16minute commute headed east. the latest from will ijek at east 71st and superior . reporter thats right. this happened about 11 00 this morning. this is where it all happened. they have the concrete barrier set up, and one of them actually knocked over by the car. that just gives you an idea of the impact that happened this morning. cleveland ems said one has died and one taken to the hospital in critical condition. the extent of the damage with the entire right side of the car mangled from the impact with a poll. the front of the car shattered into pieces after colliding with the gate. one witness recalls hearing the brakes very loudly before the impact. when i hit the corner i heard the brakes. it hit so hard, then he must have left the brakes alone and went straight into the poll. Reporter Police not yet sure what led to the crash, but theyre continuing to look into you know what they find out, also over at wkyc. Com, guys. a willoby man will be sensed for a bike accident. prosecutors say he struck mindy mano, who was trapped and dragged under his car. polices of the car left at the scene led to his arrest. his brother frank still faces charges for covering up the crime. and a family of four was left dead. a new report shows the husband, Jeffrey Mather, had signs of smoke inhalation, but his wife and daughters did not. his wife, cynthia and their two daughters, all died inside the home on sky haven drive. investigators believe the explosion may have been a murder suicide. a repeatedly retired ohio way to keep his k9 partner. he was offered to keep the dogs if he works as an unpaid eilary officer. hes considered exhilary. and hes considered community property. and our nbc station showed pictures of this tractor that got wedged at a mr. Fuel in weathers field. no one got hurt, but it took a couple hours to unload the trailer and tow it out of there. heres lynna. and the interim Revenue Service temporarily stopped accepting electronically filed a hardware failure forced a shut down of several tax Processing Systems including efiling. the efiling portion of the i. R. S. web site will be down for at least a day. if you use an outside company to do your taxes you can still send your info to them. but theyll need to wait until the system is back up in order to file. nine out of ten taxpayers will get their refund within three beaks. a sheriffs deputy is shot serving mental commitment papers. the homeowner opened fire, hitting the officer in the arm and chest. the deputy returned fire and shot the home opener whose condition has not been released. reports say the deputy came out of surgery and hes alert and talking this morning. it was a close call for a when they narrowly missed a drone. they spotted a young man on the grouped, who had a Remote Control and said it was supposed to be on a pre programmed flight path and a report is being sent to federal investigators. well, ben and jerrys is back at it. they are jumping on the vegan bandwagon with a new line of dairyfree ice cream. the company says it has finally come up with an almond milk base that is jump as rich as the regular pints. chunky monkey, and Chocolate Fudge brownie will be rolling out in the next 4 to 6 weeks. its worth a try. and a ruling in the only criminal case against bill cosby, whats next for the greg . reporter the average user has about 30 apps they use at least once a month. can actually make you money . ill show you one of my favorites coming up. cannot wait to hear about it and are you ready for february . its back. your commute forecast, and slight showers this morning, much, much colder. we degrees for the high. new record at hopkins, and were going to be steady in 33, scattered lake snow showers, well see if it adds up. with closings and delays those are instant, so no worries for you. just relax and enjoy your coffee. let us take the stress away. 6 07. . 610 time. the case against bill cosby will move forward. attorneys for bill cosby lost their bid to get the Sexual Assault case against the a judge in suburban philadelphia rejected the testimony of a former prosecutor who said ten years ago he promised cosby and was promised he would never be prosecuted on the assault. he will have a preliminary hearing on march 8th. season ten of the voice will return and muley cyrus revealed shell be a key advisor on the miley cyrus revealed shell be a key voter on the show. past advisors include chris martin, and miley cyrus. the voice returns february 29th right here on channel 8. shes had a float of good songs. theres no doubt about it, she knows to you to work the industry. its going to be interesting, thats for sure. most of us are looking for ways to make some extra money but what if we could use our smart phone . greg desoto has some of the best money making apps out there. all this mop, on thursday mornings, im going to be showcasing some of my favorite ways to make a little bit of cash on your smart phone. many of have you apps on their phones but there are a couple that can actually help you make some money, and this first one is really just for android. google has not released this for ios and its called let me get to the right slide here google opinion rewards. so this is an app released by google that basically asks you questions. it could be anything from your buying habits to places youve been, using the Location Services since your phone. download the app for free from the Google Play Store and you start answering these questions. now some of these may be general questions about how do you feel about the united nations, when are you planning buy your next car. some of them may are more specific. for instance, the phone bills track where you go. if you walk by a cvs, is may ask you, did you go to cvs and weight your experience. the app is going to give you a money so this is money that you can use in the Google Play Store to buy music, apps, movies, represent movies, maybe some in App Purchases for your kids. ive had this app installed for about two years and look at the amount that ive earned. 69. 29, the credits do expire in a year. seon you have one year to use your money. ive got 35. this is great for parents that are always downloading games or they want to buy extra levels on your tablets and phones. what a great way to pay for that, maybe youre representing a lot of movies, doing a lot of traveling for the car. another great way to get some of those purchases covered by google and this is a good year to download it by the way because they often ask political questions and with the candidates running this is going to be a great year to get a lot of google play credit. its called google opinion rewards. you can seek out questions or do you have to wait . you just have to wait. the app follows you along and if someone wants your opinion or youve been to a place or a business that wants your opinion, they will let you know via notification on your phone. absolutely. i like that. youre seeing dollar signs all right. lets talk some weather. what a difference today is. today, parkas. we had the confetti going, holly. youre going to see snowflakes outside today. we have to fight the change from yesterday. and some agree different. we were talking all kinds of record highs including 63 degrees at hopkins as john and lean a mentioned. at the bus stop kids you need your winter coat and yesterday you barely needed a coat. one extreme to the next and were even throwing a few snowballs. were going to see some scattered lake effect snow through the day much colder as 33 degrees at hop kidnaps. it is 6 16. we have the lake snow in the forecast hopkins. we have perhaps up to an inch. but were 401 k ing the potential of those lake effect snow showers forecasting those potential for lake effect snow showers. temperatures are in the mid30s and the colder air has taken over. cull see the milder air we have in place along the east coast where its 57 in new york city compared to the 30s weve got going on, low to middle 30s but those feelslike numbers are in the 20s so thats reality, walking out the door. make sure that youve got the winter coat, hats, gloves and we may need boots again with this lake effect snow in the forecast. heres whats happening on radar. its really light as you mentioned, its not amounting to much at this point, and mainly east, as we do track on future morning and were seeing some hit and miss snow showers, west suburbs, east suburbs of a little more organized as we get into the afternoon, so perhaps as youre getting the kids from school and work there will be some scattered lake effect snow and as i mentioned, some of you could see some light accumulation, even a quick coating is going to cause some slick spots. your Window Nation sevenday forecast, 30s today, upper 30s tomorrow, its friday, going to be a dry day, good looking start to the weekend. were close to 40 through the weekend itself, with just a few flurries here and there. low 40s scattered rain monday and much colder by wednesday of next week. hes only in the 20s. . it is 6 16, lets get a check of your traffic. announcer get a great deal at b south bass ford. and 62, they are all looking picture. for those of you who travel to 71 at state route 8, heres the picture in masedonia where you see the construction zone. if those of you who travel 271 for those of who you travel 271, when you hit the roads, tune into wtam 1,100 total traffic, theyll have traffic updates every ten minutes, back to you. all right. danny thank you. 6 17. weve already had a ground hog tell us about the weather. holly is here every day with the forecast and now were letting animals pick the super bowl. were going to start in memphis, where lay lay, the giant panda was given two seats with the panthers and broncos logo, the panda picked the panthers, started wailing around in it and is that really her choice, then we have ozzy the grizzly bear. and the broncos, were all to assume hes picking that. ozzy, in the last ten years has when he picked the broncos to beat the seahawks. and i love panthers so im going to eat it. i was going to embrace my predator. were in trouble. my biggest winners won the championship of the midwest basketball league. the boys pretty excited. why not . theyre the champions and that he took the photo with the team. thanks to kelly for sending in the picture. if youd like to nominate your champion, your allstar or animal thats going to pick something, email them to morning show wkyc. Com, or tweet them wkyc. 6 19. ready to debate. tracy pots updates us on the hey, holly. hi, lynna. this is a pretty awesome whether from karen. check out this wood pecker getting ready to have a little seat, a little morning yummy rocky river is where the picture 6 23. tonight is the democrats final face off before the New Hampshire primary election on tuesday. and things are heating up between the top two republicans. trace selive from washington this morning tracy is live from washington this morning, tracy. reporter the top three seems to keep switching around. donald trump has a double digit lead and Bernie Sanders is calling himself the underdog but thats not what the numbers are showing. tonights msnbc debate is the sanders before New Hampshire votes on tuesday. if its about our record im going to wind by a landslide on tuesday. sanders has a double digit lead here hammering clinton on her six figure speeches. i do not know any progressive who has a super pack and takes 15 million from wall street. thats just not professional. her response . i dont know, thats that they offered. the leading republican, donald trump is claiming he could have won iowa if ted cruz wouldnt have sent out questionable mailers and spent false rumors ben carson was dropping out. these politicians are brutal. they are brutal. they are a bunch of dishonest cookies. i wake up every day and laugh at the latest thing donald has tweeted, because hes losing it. marco rubios going after cruz, too. hes a close number 3 here. back to what i said and that is the willingness to say or do anything. Rick Santorum dropped out and endorsed donald trump. fewer in play, but it is getting interesting. thanks, tracy. 6 25, yeftss a yesterday was a trick. that was a treat, not a trick. and the reality with the cardinals behind you. that bird is so happy. hes back in his winter element. now it really feels like february again. temperatures are in the 30s and staying there. wind chills are in the 20s. weve got some scattered effect they do set up, organize, persist, we could see up to an inch of accumulation. cold front that moves through and brought this reality to us today is along the east coast. still pretty mild to the east. in fact, as you take a look at some of these forecast highs today, philly and new york city, all in the 50s, to even near 60 degrees. theyll get their taste of february by tomorrow. good morning, tiffany. reporter good morning, holly. the question this morning is the president at the university of akron fit for the job . coming up ill let you know how today. welcome back. 6 30. coming up, hollys got the forecast. what a change in 24 hours from 63 degrees and is a record, to seeing snow and cold. shell have the outlook for us, but heres what else is going on. one person is dead and two others injured after a car crash on clevelands east side. the car crashed into a fence near east 71st and superior. the people who were injured were hospital. well have the latest report at 6 51. later this morning were expecting to learn more about a woman found dead in her brooklyn apartment. it happened at this apartment on ridge road. police say a man called them and said he shot his female roommate pronounced dead. the 21yearold roommate was taken into custody. more than 1,300 jobs are coming into ohio. home depot will hire Seasonal Workers in sales, cashier, and all departments, and says its looking for new Merchandising Team members. head to wkyc to home depots web site. after a record highest, morning. pretty typical. what day and month is this . thats what we were asking like february. it is indeed february the 4th, through the day. were forecasting some light as john and lynna told you we have had a 30 degrees past 24 hours. thats pretty darn significant. as youre waking up this morning, its the winter coats that you need to grab heading to work and school. wind chills are in the 20s. thats what it feels like. ive got you some really night snow to the east right now. well continue to see these on and off snow showers into the afternoon and evening drive, so just be aware of it. like i said, accumulation, only expected to be around an inch if that. were going to track the weekend coming up to see whats ahead for you, 1 tracking your drive, its been a really quiet morning. yes, it has. 6 32, because its great and thats what you want to hear when youre waking up saying, ive got to get to where i need to go, whether its work or school. we are seeing a little bit of slow traffic on u. S. 20 east, as well as 71 north into the downtown cleveland before the inner belt bridge. 1 or 2 minutes. heres i90 at dead mans curve and as you can see, a little bit no problems for those who of you who commute on the east shore between the e eshgsuklid curve. and a wayne county family is safe this morning thanks to a man who stopped to alert them after he saw their barn and home on fire. samantha was home with her two daughters on portage road when a neighbor who happened to be driving by came knocking on their door. they were upstairs and they had no idea what was going on when jesse walker got there. they were just in shock. they dropped to their we dids when they came out. they had no clothes or nothing. a go fund me account has now been set up for the family. head to wkyc. Com for the link to donate. Cleveland Police need your help identifying this man. they say he robbed a 70yearold woman at her apartment on fair hill road two weeks ago. he asked to use her bathroom, when he went into another room her purse. heres about six feet tall, 150 pounds. if you have any information, give them a call. today, two northeast Ohio Children who had to be revived using the opiote for that can, could be released from akron childrens hospital. the mother of the 9 and 21monthold is the main suspect of the case, but hasnt know been charged yet. her boyfriend took the children to the hospital after finding them unresponsive. its believed they ingested drugs but not sure how. and tiffany joins us live from akron this morning, and tiffany, its a no competence vote that is being considered . that is right, lynna and john. a quick check of the web site and the faculty plans to have the meeting this afternoon. according to cleveland. Com today is when theyre going to discussed this apparent no confidence vote. that have been made here at the university of akron, the administration is calling it a 60 million financial problem that they had, and of course, these changes arent sitting too well with some faculty staff. weve been reporting on this for months. akrons Faculty Center will consider that no confidence vote, expected against president scott scarboro, who began the job in 2014. the resolution cites reduction in key services and discord within the university, among others to name a few. coming up at 6 50, lynna, im going to let you know what this may mean for the president moving forward. all right. well see you then. thanks, tiffany. weve been talking a lot about the Super Bowl Ads well see on sunday. now a local university is getting in on the big game. kent state bought ad time for here in northeast ohio spending spot. its okay to be undecided but unacceptable to not have purpose. here, our people welcome you with open arms but push you out with an open mind because open minds lead to broken boundaries. in the cleveland area, in erie, pennsylvania, the ad is part of their new campaign called undeniably kent state. heres john with the morning news beat. heat been called the most hated man in america, and today the former ceo of touring pharmaceuticals, will testify