The Weather Department. Its a chilly start this morning. Temperatures in the 20s, 23 in mansfield. Factor in the winds that feels like 12 degrees in mansfield. So bundle on up before you run out the door. Sustained winds junly from the northwest between say 15 to 25 Miles Per Hour. However some of the wind gusts this morning over 30 not as strong as yesterday which actually helped to toel a couple trees and power lines. But still Strong Enough where you need the windbreakers. Most of us most, nice and dry with the exception in parts of stark county you will notice west of kent and west of 77 from lawrence down towards tuscarawas seeing a couple flurries out your way. Not expecting any accumulation but if you have friends or family in upstate new york, look at what they are dealing with off lake ontario. Effect snow coming down lake effect snow coming down at a rate of several inches per hour. Heading out and about today again temperatures still chilly numbers in the 30s perhaps touching 40. We will breakdown your Holiday Weekend forecast straight ahead. Danielle. Thank you so much, 6 02. We put the weather map on top of the traffic map and we have snow flurries. Michael is talking about it but its not impacting the commute and an accident free ride and pr watching for a little bit of wind on the east shore way. That drive into downtown between euclid spur and dead mans curve. 11 minutes out is normal. For those coming in to downtown from the west on 71 north southwest 90 east on generalings they are normal drive times 13 minutes on 71. 16 minutes on 90 east and the generalings 5 minutes from i 480. And 77 into downtown looks and i90 and heres what 77 looks like south of 90 perfect commute in the west and the west shore way is great. Normal drive times. John and lynna back to you. Thank you. Its 6 03. Lewisville teachers are starting another week on strike. They have been on strike since november 2nd and they are asking the community to come out for a rally tonight. Lewisville Education Association post on the Facebook Page posted on the Facebook Page it would start at 6 15 at metzgerpark. Board of education with the teachers since the strike started. Its unclear if the board will have their regular meeting tonight. Lewisville teachers says the strike is not about money but language in the contract. A bedford family is safe after a garage fire spread to their home four Fire Departments had to respond to this one. The garage is destroyed. It is still not clear what started the fire. Fire Officials Say that with the first real cold snap this have their furnaces checked and serviced. Check your smoke detectors and be careful opening chimney flue. A palma heights woman will be in court accused of driving into a concert crowd killing 2 people. The 74yearold has pleaded not guilty to aggravated vehicular mom side. Her Attorney Says homicide side. Her Attorney Says she was confused and hit the gas instead of the brake and plowed into commons. 6 other people were seriously injured. This week begins one of the busiest shopping seasons of the year. So do you plan to do more of your Holiday Shopping online or in the stores . Head over to wkyc. Com votenow to take part in our instant poll. The results are at the bottom of the screen. Do you still need to wait for will ujek is live with more on how the stores are looking at this. Hi will. Reporter good morning guys. Experts are saying really this is spreading out. A lot of the millennials prefer a longer christmas or Holiday Shopping season and dont like to go for one specific day. So black friday maybe more of a gray friday. Cyber monday spreading out both a little earlier and a little bit later. You probably are seeing this maybe in the inbox and email getting people saying hey, es deals are now or Cyber Monday Deals are going on now. Theres no reason for retail to panic because november, december expected to tally 655. 8 billion dollars. Thats up over 3 from last year according to the National Retail federation. Men expected to outspend womenduring the First Official weekend. And half will be doing Online Shopping as well. A lot of it coming in so heres a way to stay safe if you are get packages off the porch. Pick it up or have it delivered on a day you will be home. Also to protect your info when you are on there. Make sure you try to go to a desk to or laptop dont do it on the phone that doesnt have a fire wall. And make sure that you are using a specific site you know of. A lot of times you begin from a site you dont recognize and check that out before you use that. Matt granite has tips as well and he checks everything out for you. C 68 of our instant poll says they will be doing more shopping online. All right same story for the browns they lose and lose a quarterback. Cody kessler was lost to a concussion after taking a nasty hit. And it was the nasty game for the fans to watch. Kessler was injured on the play in the third. He threw the pass and was hit late the by a steelers linebacker. We will show you the replay and the head banged against the ground giving him the second and earlier reports is he could be done for the season. Josh mccowan led the browns to one touchdown but fumbled away this chance late in the game. And that was it. Steelers win 249. Kessler will be in observation this week and we will wait and see who starts sunday against the giants the browns are 011. Maureen. Stopping your morning news feed a st. Louis Police Sergeant is fighting for his life after being shot in another ambush style attack. Sitting in traffic and his in his marked police car when another car pulled up alongside. Someone fired two shots hitting the officer in the face. Police say he was able to speak after the attack. The suspect led police on an hours long manhunt and was fatally shot after opening fire at officers. Today president elect donald trump will meet with rick perry its rumored he is under consideration for the head of agriculture or veterans meeting with trump. The president elect is expected to announce the economic landing team later today. And. And for First Time Since 2005 a nfl game will be played in mexico. Tonight for monday night football, the nfl cheerleaders were in mexico city yesterday and put on a yoga display for the public in city square. Why . Reporter why not. Cheerleaders practiced yoga pose and posed with ph game. Texans 63. Raiders 72 and apparently they might hop in on the yoga to trech the stretch the hamstrings glue wondered because they showed the list of rules the texans gave their players no drinking water. I think thats overall rule in mexico. No outside meals no going out unless you are with security no atm usage or computer usage. Why go . There. Yoga john. Its cheerleaders but. To see them do yoga. I mean why are we playing this game in mexico city . I dont know. Holiday deals. They just keep coming. Yep we now know walmarts plan for Cyber Monday Deals. Heres a hint you wont have to wait until monday to get them. And americas got talent auditions are coming to cleveland and you can help us pick who gets to go to the front of the line. Michael. John and lynna its a ch you hit the roadways. Temperatures in the 20s. Wind chills in the teens with a couple flurries. 30s later this afternoon with a lot of wind. We are warming up into thanksgiving with a chance for more precipitation. We will talk about the form coming up after this. But fares live look outside in 6 13. Walmart kicks off cyber monday a few days early offering web onlydeals on black friday and they said they would boost online inventory by 50 . The move is as black friday is losing importance as early discounsels and Online Shopping keep people from the stores. All sabra hummus is recalling hummus. It includes garlic and red pepper with best before dates from today through january 23rd so if you have products they say throw them away so far no reports of any illnesses. All right we know the big news america has talent is coming to cleveland the search for talent is coming to the Huntington Cleveland Convention Center on december 10th. Front of the line. How about that. And you can vote on who gets the passes. Our first entry is from hayden grove. . Teach time each time i do . The thought of you makes me stop before i begin . Because ive got you under my skin . Very nice. All right. Now we have a second entry to watch will be your crying shoulder . I will love suicide. All right. So who should get todays front of the line pass for americas got talent. Head over to the wkyc Facebook Page and you get to vote. Good luck to contestants. You gave big thumbs up vote to theh because you like it cold. I am ready for the snow fan of it too to be honest with you. I mean i enjoy the summer hike heat on friday but you know a couple novelty flakes put up the Christmas Decorations and its a chilly start this morning. Temperatures in the 20s. Bus stop forecast looks like this bundle up the kids before they head out. A couple snowflakes being seen. We will show you where in a second. And if you are thinking to yourself i want to do something completely different, if you head downtown to Public Square th place with slider from the indians and it starts at 10 this morning. Temperatures in the low to mid 30s. Highs today at about 38 degrees. Keep in mind the 48 is the normal high. This morning a chilly start. Mansfield feels like 12 degrees when you factor in the wind to that 23 degree temperature. 26 in wooster feeling like 15. 35 Miles Per Hour. Most of us dry but you can already see just west of captainon there in stark county, we are tracking just a few flor yeas lot more snow back towards upstate new york. Whats off towards the west . This is where we look to see whats heading in our general direction its this area of low pressure. It does not get here tomorrow but does roll in on wednesday and with it, we see so and keep in mind wednesday just before thanksgiving, one of the busiest travel days of the year. So we can expect some wet roadways here through the Morning Hours temperatures again only in the 30s. Wind chill temperatures through the afternoon in the 20s so it will be a cool day today. And it will lead to a chilly night and chilly start to your tuesday morning. Tuesday afternoon, however, looking for temperatures in the lower 40s with more peeks of sunshine so a welcomed break. Reiterating the 42 degree temperature tomorrow with more sunshine and then as we cruise into the thanksgiving holiday temperatures low 50s feeling good i think we will see a couple of early day turkey day showers but, thanksgiving afternoon, danielle looking great here in northeast ohio. Yes. I love how that turkey is going to shimmy on the top of the thursday graphic but either way into the upcoming weekend we will call it mostly cloudy with tempsp in danielle. Wkyc traffic is brought to you by mike bass ford get a great deal and great deal more at mike bass food. Welcome to your monday. Hope its getting off to a great start. So far, so good on the commute. No problems to the south. We are all green. No accidents. Really same picture to the north as you move farther north but you have a little bit of slow traffic 224 west as you approach 77. Thats adding a minute or two to the commute. All good. No problems. We are seeing the flurries to the east but as you look at the picture here 271, at Mayfield Road you can see its not impacting your commute. North and southbound sides of 271 look great so normal drive times and so far no accidents of the and dont forget when you hit the roads tune into the partners at wtam, 1100 total traffic. They will have updates every ten minutes. Back to you. All right danielle thanks. This week we are sharing some of our special family maureen is here you are you up first with the cookie recipe and i love it comes with a cookbook. Reporter it comes with a cookbook and we talked about this as this and that is Holiday Christmas cookie but these takes so long like this is my these are migrate grandmas cookie recipes my mom put the book together. Its all of our holiday traditions and all the recipes we make for every holiday and i think its lemon cookie and this recipe takes days to make. So this is just the cookie part of it. This is theres a picture of some of the holiday recipes that we have there. So this is one of the craziest just doe recipes so it is 10 eggs and 2 cups of honey an old recipe but it takes days to make because the frosting on top is just the confectioners sugar water and lemon juice but then to decorate it its the cannedied cherries that are red and green and you have to slice them to make them into holly and thats why we start now. We start thanksgiving week to cook all of these and this is just one of the cookies. So i am sure a lot of people have those old family recipes you are more than welcome to but i can bring in decorated ones once i dont have you know two kid hanging off kids hanging off me. Yeah . Its a little different. How much does this yield. Reporter i was cleaning flour out of my kitchen you know 6 months later he. It was all over the place. And thats just one of the cookies. So. All on the website. Reporter we have that on the website and if you are german let me know if its in your recipbe thing. The lemon taste is like a burst its so good. Reporter the frosting usually on it. You read and i will eat. I will read. 6 20. Note to tv crews get out of the way when the teams run out of the tunnel. Oh. Oh. Biggest winners and losers are coming up. Michael. That looks like it hurt by the way maureen i gained 10 pounds looking at those cookies over there. That looks delicious. From kenton. Two swans swimming as we are over a month away from the christmas holiday, we are breaking down your thanksgiving day forecast coming up after says it wont let up for a while. The cadillac xt5. What should we do . Tailored to you. Wait it out. Equipped with apple carplay compatibility. . . Now during seasons best, get this low mileage lease on this cadillac xt5 from around 429 per month, macys thanks giving day a paid. Parade. Today they will unveil a plaque marking the official starting line. Watch the parade right here on channel 3 starting at 9 a. M. On thursday. All right time for my biggest winners and biggest losers today in sports. One of the toughest hits yesterday he was not Football Player on Football Player was defense versus testimony v guy. Look tv guy. Fox sound guy got caught up in the middle of the vikings running out of the tunnel. Bernity sound guy thats what they say bernie, the sound guy thats what they say his name is he took a nasty hit he was smiling afterwards. His glasses. Yeah glasses a little messed up. But those are big guys. Dressed in pads delivering thehits. Sound guy doesnt check a doesnt stand a chance listed as questionable can you imagine the sound of that hit . Wow. Good job. Good job bernie. My biggest winner is this young lady named isabella listen to the story she is 10 years old and just won the northeast ohio girls on the run 5k race. Her goal is to finish in under 25 minutes and she did it. Even more amazing is her mom melissa tells me isabella at age 3 had no use of her right leg and they didnt know if she through physical therapy and look at her now. She is winning races. Congratulations to isabella. Amazing amazing story. Great. I love that. Won the race. Yes. How about that. Love that. Aid great story. Its a great story dhoo way to go. 6 story. Way to go. 6 26 how is it going to be today michael. It will be a chilly afternoon but heres the thing i think we will enjoy more peeks of sunshine today and tomorrow and tuesday. Enjoy it while it last because at least locally by wednesday, as you can see, more rain in store and if its just a little too cold for you, then of course take a trip towards the south. 50s in nashville charlotte also in the 50s and 60s down towards hot lanta. Florida in the 70s. Guys. Michael thank you. Rubber bullets tear gas and the Public Square ice rink opens today. We will tell you when you can right now 6 30 welcome back. I am john anderson. I am lynna lai michael is in for hollie and will have the forecast in a bit. But first this is what we are weekend double shooting that killed a woman. It happened on the east side saturday night on east 149th south of lake shore boulevard. The survivors is a survivor is a 36yearold man. He and his girlfriend were getting home and unlocked the door to the house when the shooter opened fire. Lewisville teachers starting another week on strike. They have been on strike since november 2nd. Community rally set for tonight 6 15 at metzger park the board of education has not started. The teachers say the strike is not about money but language in the contract. A live look quite now outside live look right now outside at Public Square. They are opening up the new ice skating rink later today. They are kicking off the first skate in a big way. Our favorite indians mascot slider will be one of the first to take on the ice. That starts at 10 a. M. Have free skating and free skate rentals thanks to the cleveland foundation. Slider. Going out there to skate. Yeah. Those will be big skates. Yeah. Hello, michael. You Better Believe that. Joy know it was a chilly you know it was a chilly start. The fireplaces are going and you have the candles lit and all. And its just a spectacular feeling. Feels like the winter season right . Certainly this morning that 23 degrees in mansfield with the wind chill at 12, it s woods as wayne county and back towards akron canton. Winds outside they were mighty yesterday and we will hold onto stronger winds today. Sustained between say 10 to 20 Miles Per Hour gusting at times over 30 especially closer towards the lake. Most of us nice and dry. But you will notice that just west of interstate 77 in stark county from lawrence through tuscar awas and towards bruise a few