Then Warren County. And in extreme parts of hamilton county. That is where the heady the blue is where the heaviest snow fell. It is a very localized band. We had some fairly hefty snowfall. 4. 7 around Westchester Mason around four. Even towards the metro cincinnati severs. Notice though on either side of really dropped off. Only two inches up in Middletown Downtown cincinnati only an inch and a half. You can follow that into Warren County here. Over two around martinsville. We still have some flurries and snow showers a let you know when this will finally wrap up outside how much snow to expect tonight your drive home will be looking a lot better so far. There is a nice amount of snowfall in here Jennifer Schack is driving for us here the roads look really good for us luckily we are going to be with Jennifer Schack throughout the 90 minutes of news are newscast tonight. Now to a developing story. Sheree alcohol and three teenagers in side only two would make it out alive the teenager behind the wheel admits his guilt in front of two grieving families karen there were a lot of tears for members of both families. The 18yearold who was driving pleaded guilty to aggravated do you plead guilty. Yes or. The 18yearold who was driving vehicular assault. Wearing a cross around his neck holding a bible 18yearold Tristan Lacey stood before a mr. Lacey is it your ll be pleading guilty to the one count of aggravated vehicular lacey, yes sir. The west chester teen admitted car on Beckett Ridge boulevard just hours after christmas. Blood alcohol level. 106. He was involved in a Motor Vehicle wreck which caused the death of mark valentine. Mark was tristan s friend, neighbor and back seat passenger. Court as he listened to the mark s family joined hands. Back, that mark s brother, was also in the car that morning. He was a funny guy. He was a funny guy. Just a great guy to be around a charismatic personality, lit up the room just a fun guy to be around all the time. Cincinnati christian schools. Letter to ohio state, where their son hoped to study mail. They hope their tragedy serves as a lesson to other teens think you may regret. S parents also want to reach out to young re not invincible. They say their son is not a bad he made a mistake that s had devastating consequences. Reporter Tristan Lacey will be sentenced next month. He faces 2 to 8 years in prison. Live in hamilton, karin johnson, wlwt news 5. Sheree thanks karin. Lacey, is also facing a lifetime driving suspension. A racial death threat. In a note found at Middletown High School. Tonight a student is in custody and charged with inducing panic. Wlwt news 5 s john london is live at the Butler County juvenile Detention Center where the student is being held. Reporter he s fifteen. Appeared here in Juvenile Court this morning, making no plea. Offering no explanation for the note which spoke of threats on today was a snow day in middletown where authorities acted quickly to identify and intervene. On monday afternoon, a student alerted the High School Office about a raciallytoned, threatening note. It involved racial slurs and a threat to africanamerican students at middletown high. Police and School Officials swiftly and jointly secured the note, arrested a student deemed responsible for it. And determined no other students were involved with him. It s ridiculous. Every child should feel free to go to school and not feel threatened in any way. So, my daughter is friends with everybody. Reporter this woman s daughter is at the middle school. This woman has a grandson at the high school. I just think it s a sad situation to begin with when the kids do this. But, i think that, i would like to think that the administrators are doing everything they can do to protect our kids, you know, when a threat like this takes place. Reporter on his blog post adkins wrote i try to show us at our best, but there was nothing pretty about the language used and the threats made. They were ugly. The teenage suspect being held here faces a felony prosecution and perhaps a learning experience. Again, the manager. My hope for the juvenile arrested is that the community can show this young person a better way to live life and approach relationships. It would be a true shame if this young person learned nothing from the incident. You never know if these kids are just, because of the age, you never know if they re just it they re playing as joke but it is a serious matter because of the things that have been happening. Reporter middletown School Officials say they will have additional security when classes resume in order to allay any concerns families might have. Inducing panic is a Second Degree felony. On the low end, there s but, on the high end, one year locked up in a state juvenile facility is possible. It ll be another nine days before the 15yearold has a preliminary hearing. Live in Butler County, john london, wlwt news 5. Sheree the zika virus is now in ohio. A 30yearold. Cleveland woman has been diagnosed with the disease. She reportedly contracted it while in haiti recently. There s also now a case in indiana. That person. Was also in haiti. Health authorities. Have warned against travel to Southern States in the u. S. And to latin america if you re pregnant, or want to become pregnant. They re also advising women, to abstain from sex while pregnant. Owens the recommendation is that each individual has to say to themselves do i want to roll the dice. I would not roll the dice. I want the best healthiest baby that i can have. Sheree the zika virus is primarily transmitted through a mosquito bite. There s one confirmed case in the u. S. That was transmitted between for donald trump we have 2. For john r. Kasich we have 3. Sheree the first primary of the u. S. President ial election. Kicked off just after midnight, in New Hampshire. Including in the most famous town of Dixville Notch. It only has nine voters total. But Ohio Governor john kasich, beat donald trump there. After winning two of the first three midnight polling places. Kasich has been the talk of the town all day. Mike dardis is covering his campaign, he joins us live tonight. From concord. Mike. Mike they are used to having more voters. Now it is down to nine. 32. Donald trump. Dixville votes are not a good but a good predictor of who is the nominee for the general election. Since 1698. There have been a couple ties but the prediction has been held true. Governor john kasich when you win big in Dixville Notch like i did, i mean, what else can you say . I mean, it was huge. I just saw trump, i said trump i crushed you. he goes, yeah you did. You killed me. kasich. Mike governor kasich final push at a polling place in concorde. It is time to trade in the snow boots forefoot flops. He Shows Confidence that he will head out to south carolina. His buses already heading out there. This morning he was at the red arrow diner in manchester hoping that will win over those undecided voters. Coming up at 5 30 p. M. We will take us inside the diner and talk to the folks from the campaign tro. You will hear from governor kasich in this final message to some of the voters. In concord, New Hampshire. Sheree ever wonder. Just how much a president ial candidate is worth . According to forbes, governor kasich s net worth. Is more than 10 million. For each of the candidates go to wlwt. Com, and look under features. On our home page. A construction crane at the banks topples over. Were going to take our time, investigate this, find out what happened. What was going on when the accident happened. And we ll tell you if any damage was done to the parking structure. Kevin we have got more flurries and snow showers across the area this evening. I i will in a how much more snow we have. Sheree caught on camera. A little panda perseverance. With a little help from mama bei bei the panda cub. Finally got to the top of a pine tree. At his home in the smithsonian s national zoo in washington. He s been trying to reach the summit of his personal everest. For days now. The u. S. Government pays about a half Million Dollars a year to host china s giant pandas. In the smithsonian. You re watching. Cincinnati a crane accident part of the project is shut down tonight as investigators try to figure out what went wrong. Morning, wlwt news 5 s brian hamrick. Is leading the way with the story, and brian, this was a dangerous situation. Reporter very fortunate no one was injured, or worse. This was an active site with lots of construction workers. You can see now, all after the off the ground. Even if no rules were broken, this morning we had a crane incident. Reporter there was a clear violation attempt of the laws of physics. There were no injuries which is paramount. Reporter phil beck is banks project executive, he says this part of the construction on the banks project is shut down for now. We never want to stop work but got a slow week this week anyway because of the weather so were going to take our time, investigate this, find out what happened and as you say, make sure it does not happen again. Reporter beck says the crane was unloading steel from one side of the parking garage to the other, a distance of about half a football field. With the boom fully extended, something went wrong and the crane toppled. It had a Ripple Effect beyond the workers. Now i can t even get to the the crane. Reporter martha cruse is a Delivery Driver who s dropping off something at the work site. I went down to our normal delivery spot and the police said they have it all blocked off for me to come up top and when i got up top that s when i seen the crane tipped over. Reporter we ve learned, the crane operator is experienced and this was suppose to be a routine job they had done before. Investigators are still trying to determine why it didn t work this time. And a crane, became more like a plane than it ever wanted. They just now got this thing back onto the ground here. This may have been much worse except it all happened in slow motion. The weight on one end was slightly more than the weight on the other and it tipped like a set of scales. Live brian hamrick, wlwt, news 5. Sheree banks managers say. There was no damage to the whether you are plowing your driveway or just trying to clear off your car chances are you had some clean up to do today. Areas to the north and east. , t woke up to more snow than most. And on the roads this morning s snow was enough to leave drivers slipping and sliding. No one was hurt in this fender bender at snider and tylersville, but it was a serious enough crash to slow people down on their way to work. And snow appears to be a factor in an accident involving a train and a car in walton. One person is hurt. This happened on the tracks across maher road near dixie highway. Police believe the driver was stuck on the tracks because of the snow. Kevin lighter snow showers accumulate across the area. It looks fairly impressive. But is not going to accumulate this evening. Unlike yesterday evening we saw the snow have a uptick as the sun went down. As we speak across the area we see some darker blues especially east of interstate 75 some of you are seeing that parts of clermont and clown county. Clermont and brown county. It will be enough it will be enough for a few of us to put down some acute elation. There is a weather advisory viewing area. That includes the snow that has already fallen across the area as crews try to catch up to getting those streets clean. Overall what should we expect, snow showers at least over the next couple of hours. There could be an isolated spot that will pick up a additional inch this evening. Again is of the fact that temperatures are in the 20 s right now there could still be a like holding coming down. I would be on the lookout for i do not think travel issues will be a big concern as they were this morning. I want you to pay very close attention to what happens across counties. The blue expanse. Enhanced snowfall last night. When we approach 10 00 and go to the midnight hours notice the east to west band of darker blues that sets up right on the northeast side of Greater Cincinnati metro area. If you are southbound towards the ohio river you notice that they have decent snow across the area. The hefty snowfall totals going from fairfield to the mason area. Also through the southern parts of war in and clinton county. You ll see some big snowfall if you are on either side, you got half that amount of snow. Right now we have 24 degrees at the airport. We are southerly in the 20 s. With winds remaining on the blustery side remaining between 10 and 15 miles per are that is going to be the nextdoor a overnight tonight the wind chill. As a reproach 00, so showers begin to decrease i do not expect travel concerns or issues that we had last night. For tomorrow morning ill be a nice commute. Expect cloudy skies. There may be some passing flurries but expect some son of by late tomorrow afternoon. Here s your forecast for tonight. We dropped to 15 for low. Tomorrow, there s bitter cold. Only 23 as afternoon high. Here is a look at your seven day forecast. I m keeping my eye on the snow chance on friday. Again bitter cold remains right through s weekend we love seeing what you are seeing in your neighborhood. In middletown. Candice Fletcher Kelly sent us this great picture of a backyard winter wonderland. Sheree and in mason. You may need to specify to the kids that you want the whole driveway shoveled. Thanks jenny lomax guache. For the picture her kids kenzie and jackson, might have some explaining to do. Parked at the pumps, be careful of what s happening above you. A canopy collapses with workers on top. What happened next. He does stuff like this because he thinks it s funny. Burger, fries, and a live alligator. Through donkey sound elephant sound theres a big difference between making noise, tapping sound and making sense. elephant sound Social Security, we need more than our next president needs a real plan to keep Social Security strong. elephant noise hey candidates. Enough talk. Sheree the ship was hit with hour passengers are told to stay in the cabin. It is like 30 degrees. Florida senator bill nelson. Wants to know why royal caribbean, would sail right into a storm. That was forecast four days in advance. After what passengers were put through, the cruise ship turned around. A california gas station canopy collapses on two cars while maintenance workers were on the roof. Incredibly. No one was seriously hurt. The men were up there inspecting cracks in the awning when the cracks suddenly got much bigger. He suffered minor injuries. A florida man is facing Assault Charges after police say. He threw an alligator through an open wendy s drivethru window. Take a look at the 3 and a half restaurant, in royal palm beach. The florida fish and wildlife is far from amused. They used a credit card receipt from a pop 23yearold joshua james purchased to track him down. His parents say. The incident was a harmless prank that has been blown out of proportion. They said, will he cooperate . i said, absolutely. He s not a bad kid, he s a stupid kid. He did a stupid prank. he had no problem with turning himself in. Sheree Officials Say james admitted to picking up the gator on the side of the road. And bringing it to the fast food restaurant. He s charged with assault, with a deadly weapon. Sheree voters are grabbing coffee in New Hampshire. The proximate the paparazzi going hundreds of miles to go to the diner. Plus neighbors fight for a Farmers Market in their city. Why the city moved it and the for a new location today. It took Joel Silverman years to become a master dog trainer. But only a few commands to master depositing checks at chase atms. Technology designed for you. You are watching cincinnati s wlwt news 5 leading the way. Sheree it s make or break time. It is make or break time for s using every last minute. To try and win over voters in the New Hampshire primary. Decision day in New Hampshire. 90 minutes from now. The polls close. And governor kasich finds out. If his campaigning paid off. Many of the candidates have spent a day making the last grab in New Hampshire. Sally kidd as a look at their push from manchester. I am life here in New Hampshire. Mike covering governor k6 rally in New Hampshire. There are about 12 million in the state of ohio because of the fact that this is the first primary state. The candidates are spending a lot of time here. One of the hotspots is the red arrow diner in manchester. The people who work in this iconic diner have seen and heard plenty. You have a unique spot, do you try to stay out of the argument . Yes i do. People take it very seriously. You have to stay out of it. What i found was this lunchtime crowd was more out of state and local. Like this new York High School teacher who tells us why he wrote should tear with 108 students. To experience what is like to be in the first primary state. From a father s perspective, and has been magical to watch. Reagan is from morgantown, pennsylvania. It motivated her the president of the bait motivated her to make the drive. Your meeting someone, you can you can see if you want them to be in a position of power just on seeing how they interact with people. That is fantastic. Mike not only are the locals getting out and being part of the process, people are driving from all of the northeast and