weve got an update on the officer injured in the crash. but first, lets get a check of the forecast. for that, heres holly. okay. lighten it you will considerably here, guys, and talk about what is going to turn into a much quieter weather day. happy friday. tgif. today. i think thats probably the biggest headline. we still have light snowfalling this morning, which will transition to just a few leftover flurries by 9 a. M. , sun peeks, and hopefully more and more of those as we get into the afternoon, but we are only highs. on radar, we continue to see light snowfalling. a lot of you yus reporting flurries. let us know what youre waking up to chl its always great to hear from you on twitter. we appreciate the reports, but, if anything, this would be a quick little temperatures in the low 20s, as youre waking up. bundle up for the bus stop and for work today. wait till you see the warmup i have for you. well see how warm it gets this weekend. and check on your drive. happy friday to you. good morning to all of you. we take a look at the traffic map. we are all green to the south so normal drive times. no crashes reported down there, and in streetsboro, though, we still have state route 303 closed at jefrson street because ice on the road because of yesterdays flooding. you can day 303 bypass to get around that. just add a few minutes to your drive because of the icy conditions in that area. to the north, were all green. crashes. here is a picture on the east shoreway at east 185th street. everyone getting by just fine so for those of you who come in to downtown using the east shoreway, dead mans curve, its a tenminute commune. john and lena, back to you. thank you. breaking news, a Cleveland Police officer crashed right into a pole trapping the officer inside. tiffany joins us live, and, tiffany, icy roads are being blamed here. just within the last half hour or so, we saw another truck roadway here. this is east 71st near lawnview. this is the road where the accident happened. that officer, hitting a tree around 3 00 this morning. he was trapped inside, and there were a lot of people out here. of course, rescuers were here trying to free him, and others were watching just anxiously waiting for him to come out of that cruiser. at some point, they were able to get him out. we saw as he was wheeled to the ems vehicle and then taken to the hospital, he was sitting upright and talking. there was another officer out here, as well. we believe it to be a sergeant who was injured. he fell out here on the ice and jired his knee. of course, we see this morning that accident investigators were out here trying to recreate the scene to figure out exactly how this happened, but as weve been saying all morning, very icy out here, and we were told, lena, he was not responding to a call when this accident happened just a reminder everybody right now to developing news, four people including a gunman, are dead after a shooting inside a plant in kansas. the sheriff there says the gunman, whose name has not been released, was an employee. the first shot was fired in the parking lot outside excel industries, then the gunman went inside the plant and started shooting. he was later shot dead by police. 14 other people were wounded in the shooting. kansas Officials Say they think they may know the motive but are not ready to give details. we will continue to follow this throughout the morning. today, two Police Departments in county continue to investigate four attempted abduction cases. there were two reports of a man dprabing a girl. there was another report of a man exposing himself to a girl chl a representative says there will be increased police presence. earlier, abman went through a window, grabbed the leg of a tenyearold girl, and tried to get her to leave request him. she was able to get away and get we spoke to her dad. she came in the room screaming, dad, someone is in my window pulling my leg trying to get her out the window. the suspect got away, but police did gather a description in all four incidents and they say its a white male in his 30s with brown eyes and possibly acne scars. the driver in a crash that killed two bicyclists and injured three others has been found not guilty. cleveland. Com reports Defense Attorneys said sun glare contributed to the crash. local Cycling Group bike cleveland is expressing outrage over the verdict, along with Defense Tactics of blaming the victims for the crash all right chl john, more people have been sickened by a listeria outbreak at parts of the country, including ohio. the centers for Disease Control into a multistate listeria outbreak lipged to dole package salads. three more people were sick. two from ohio. that brings the total to 18 people across nine states. all were hospitalized. one person in michigan died. the salads were produced in a springfield, ohio plant, which stopped production. a former fugitive on the run for more than 50 years has been granted parole. the Ohio Parole Board ruled frank be released april 24th, about a week after his 8 0th birthday. he was arrested in florida last may after escaping a prison farm back in 19d 59. he originally pleaded guilty to manslaughter charges after a deadly crash in akron. conditions for his release include five years of supervision. sea world is involved in yet another controversy. the company admitted thursday that employees have posed as Animal Rights activists in order to spy on the opposition. the admission comes right after sea world san diego worker of infiltrating the group to get intell and rile up members. the employee was placed on administrative leave but was later reinstated to a Different Department still ahead, a medical breakthrough performed right in our own backyard. how the Cleveland Clinic is giving new hope to women with infertility. will. got some good news here announced by ford that actually coincides nicely with the cleveland auto show. 145 million worth of news. what it means for the cleveland area coming up, holly. okay. i just threw it out on twitter. it makes sense. we asked the question. temperatures in the 20s this morning, and we are not exiting 20s today. going to be cold. some leftover snow is falling for this mornings drive, but i do think well see sunshine before the day is through. forecast. i will tell you all about it coming up. i alert closing delays instant. been a busy week here. 6 07. 611 toim time right now. a medical breakthrough right here in northeast ohio. the Cleveland Clinic has performed the very first uterus transplant in the united states. a 26yearold woman in stable condition now after the medical team worked for nine hours to implant the organ from a deceased donor. this is video provided by the hospital. the clinic announced it was looking for candidates to participate in Clinical Trials late last year. the lans plant is meant to allow women without a yut rous or those with a damaged womb the ability to carry a baby and give birth. amazing work. good news for the ford plant in brook park. the company says it will make engine plant that will keep or create 150 jobs. improvements are for production of the new engines for the 2017 ford f150 trucks. employs about 1,500 workers. all right. lets talk about fancy cars now. the cleveland auto show begins tonight from the ix center. will got somehow he got inside the building this morning. what are we going to look at now . were going to talk about just what you talked about. perfect segue, john. this announcement by ford. this eco loos engine produced here. theyve announced 145 million up dprad to the cleveland engine plant so they can make this new eco boost engine. talk about this here. best thing about it is its built here. this engine is actually going to be in the 2017 rap tore. ut produces more horsepower out of a v6 than the old v8 that was in this. it was 411 horsepower for the boost is going to produce more horsepower to run this truck. so you are getting more horsepower out of less cylinders . yeah. less cylinders. more fuel efficient. it has just as much torque to move this unit. youre looking at a new rap tore. i could see these tires on this. this looks like you could drive over a mountain of snow if you really needed to with this. winter. at this point, we can get through anything we need to. its a beautiful truck. the great news about this, 145 million being invested here, creating and retaining 150 jobs. thats always an issue. every place wants to keep the jobs they have and create more jobs so more coming into the cleveland market here. thats always dpraet new us. it is great news and what ford has done for the northeast ohio market is tremendous, especially with the engine plant right around the corner from the auto show. its something that we can shout about, about cleveland, and whats great, what we can do and industry. other cool things we are seeing down here all over the place is the move to hybrids move to electric vehicles. we are seeing Companies Come autowith all electric. talk a little about that. are we there yet where people can feel comfortable jumping in . a lot of people before were like what if sng goes wrong with this, anybody know how to fix this . any time you have brand new technology, it takes some time, you know, to get to a point where theres a comfort level. something thats thrown a little bit of a wrench into it now is the low fuel prices. when people are looking at that, the prices of those type of vehicles all electric alternative fuels have come down, but at the same time, if fuel prices are down, people are sometimes looking at suvs, some of the larger vehicles. so right now, we are in a period of whether those decisions are right for certain people, but theyre all out there. theyre all here. we all know the gas prices are going to go back up. something to check out down here. check back in one more time, where i think they got the terrain there. i love that thing. yeah. its fun. thank you, will. all right. lets talk weather. yeah. i mean, maybe some people going to the auto show to escape some of this. we have some flurries out there right now. we do. some light snow showers. u think well continue to see at least a few leftover snow showers this morning then things should start to clear up a bit, but its going to stay cold today. bus stop, were in the 20s, and we will not climb out of the 20s. high fives for friday. last weekend at february. march arrives next week. march a big month. weve got easter the month of march this year. st. Patricks day coming up. the start of spring and all kinds of things to have fun with. a warmer weekend is on the way. 50 plus by sunday. even though we are below normal today, things are really going to reverse again. we are upper 20s for our highs today. we will see sun peaks, i think, into the afternoon and evening. light snow showers. the idea. all awe kroz the great lakes, weve got light snow. it is literally more in the air than anything else, sort of that fluffy light snowfall, and not really impacting driving conditions or anything like that. though. always nice to hear from you on twitter. if you are waking up to maybe a dusting, let us know. reports. as we look ahead on future vushgs we are seeing things dry out by midmorning, and we start cover, too. so i think itll be kind of that mix of clouds and sunshine for the afternoon. upper 20s, about the best we will do. 40 is the normal high on this day. we are going to improve, and watch what happens as we get into tomorrow. High Pressure builds in, so well start partly cloudy skies. by afternoon, it is mostly sunny. this is tomorrow, 4 30. we are in the lowtomid 40s. its going to be a beautiful saturday, and sunday is looking forecast. by sunday, 52 degrees. it will become partly sunny again sunday late in the day ahead of another system that has an impact early monday. well see rain and maybe wet snow mixing in. mild as we start next week, temperatures 40s to near 50 then colder again but thursday. 6 17. here is a check on your drive. wkyc traffic is brought to you by mike bass ford. get a great deal and a great deal more at mike bass ford. good morning to you. thank you for allowing us to start your day. we start your commute. we are looking pretty good. normal drive times throughout northeast ohio. however, i would say take it slow out there because we are getting reports of black ice on the roads and icy conditions. we had a number of accidents earlier this morning. now, rebecca reached out to me on twitter and said is it still closed . i love answering questions on twitter. where it was closed earlier because of an accident. here is a picture. its all clear so you are good to go 71 north and south. in fact, here is 71 close to downtown at west 25th street. even though we are starting to see the slowing just before the innerbelt bridge, 71 remains normal drive times. 14 minutes headed north and 14 minutes headed south so, john, we are good to go. sounds good. thank you. 618 time type. today, a special flashback friday edition of biggest winners. this all started 15 years ago when i had a segment on the morning show called fish friday. you catch a fish, send me the picture, and i would show it. thats when i met todays biggest winner, bryan. i knew threeyearold bryan was a real fishing pro when he sent me this picture of his first catch so i wanted bryan to give me a lesson. okay. okay. now, you got to tell me how to do this. okay . uhhuh. how do you fish . sgli mean, if you push this whip it. whoa. very good. how long do we have to wait . waut about this long. that long . uhhuh. oh, i caught one. you got one . im just kidding. oh, look at you. we didnt catch any fish, but we had a good time and came up with good fish stories. did you notice, we even dressed alike. same navy shirt. the khaki shorts. we had a great time. this is bryan today, and i want to send him a big congratulations because he was just named an eagle scout. oh, yay. numerous leadership positions here in 22 merit badges and organizing completed a Service Project for his hometown. trail. he led the effort to fix the old observation, three benches were built, and the trail now has new marker signs. oh my goodness. bryan will be honored on march 6th, and i just want to say, great job, buddy. im proud of you. that is wonderful. we had so much fun fishing that day. oh my goodness. we ended with a box of donuts. that day. well have to send him some we will. great honor and the work youve done for the community, youve done outstanding work. good job. all grown up. you still have your hair. but yeah. work on that. all right. it looks fabulous. lets check in with greg. we are talking about phone security today. your iphone is already encrypted. coming up, im going to tell you how to make that encryption even more secure. good morning there, holly. hi there, greg. you got to look at your tv for this one chl this is creativity at its best. sent this in from snow we had several weeks ago. wasnt good packing snow so she decided to make a flat snow man. why not . totally worked. thank you for this weather out your window. absolutely fabulous. 6 24 right now. smart phone security has been top of the line lately as the fbi and apple battle over accessing secure information. greg is here now with more about the encryption options we have on our phones. now, lets talk about those iphones. iphones go a little step further. if you are using ios 8 or higher, your phone is automatically encrypted. thats 94 of all iphones out there. the way the data is encrypted, its put in that safe, and the only way to unlock it is by making a password. that code is generated by hardware in the phone and your usergenerated pass code. its the code you use to unlock thats important, and that means that that pass code that you use to unlock your screen should be very secure. now, this is information for those of you who are extremely who see your data very important on your phone and want to be very careful with it. you want to go with touch id and pass code under the settings app and click on change passcode. when you do that, click on passcode options and change your passcode from a fourdigit knew numeric code to a custom alphanumeric code. that will make your encryption more secure and krour data more secure with it. go back to that touch id and pass code setting and then scroll to the bottom and also make sure that erase data is checked on. this will actually set the iphone to erase your data if someone enters your pass code incorrectly ten times. after the tenth attempt, your phone is wiped. that you remember, but that will really keep your data safe. now, you can go one step further. if youre really concerned about your data getting in the wrong hands, you want to make sure you are not backing up your iphone to icloud. go into the settings app, click on icloud, and make sure backup is off. why . when your phone is backed up to icloud, it is put into apples servers, and that information can then be accessed by authorities, both apple and google have allowed authorities to access data off their servers. so if you really dont want your dau that out there, do not back up your phones. wow. i guess little warning all the time. your phone has not been backed up, you know, i mean, it happens every couple of days. greg. thanks, greg. lets send it over to holly. a few flurries out there. tgif. i think well see the flurries fade, along with any light snow thats happening, then well transition to a few peeks of big thing on the travel map is all the clear skies to our west. High Pressure builds in. wait until you see the weekend warm warmup. ill let you know how warm in just minutes. 6 26. Again r again again again again . Again again General Mills is removing artificial flavors and colors from our cereals. So you can love cereal. welcome back, everyone. im john anderson. weather and traffic is coming up in just a minute. first, a number of developing stories to get to. lets begin in cleveland where a Police Officer crashed his car the crash had the officer trapped until rescue crews could get him out. he was rushed to the hospital with lower leg injuries. hes in serious condition this morning. icy roads are being blamed for this crash. another officer outside of the car was also when he fell on ice. also developing this morning, police in kansas are looking for the motive behind a shooting spree that killed three people and injured more than a dozen others. police say an employee at a lawncare plant, excel industries, shot three people on his way into work and opened fire inside the plant before he was shot and killed by police. this morning, schools say there will be extra police at all schools, this after two attempted abductions thursday and then another report of a man exposing himself to a girl. this prom