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WLWT WLWT News 5 At 500 March 21, 2016

The Building Made it more challenging to find and shut off the 2inch gas line. That time frame did not contribute anything to the additional loss to the building. So, we re grateful for that. Reporter chief bennet says considering the circumstances, things could have been worse, they stopped the fire before it spread beyond five units. When it comes to damage Mike Meredith says he is grateful. A little bit relieved. I mean, my family s safe. That s what s important you know. As long as my wife s and my dog s safe, i m happy. Everything can be replaced. It s just stuff. Reporter people from 12 apartments were pushed out by fire or smoke damage. The red cross is helping those families. No one was injured. Natalie clark wlwt news 5. Courtis mike Fire Departments from springdale, forest park and west chester helped fight the fire. A series of threatening facebook posts from a Dater High School student set off safety concerns he even joked about the panic. Saying look i m on the news. Wlwt news 5 s andrew setters has the charges and potential consequences the teenager now faces. Reporter the teen suspect appeared in court this morning, but his parents were a noshow. That means the hearing will be held again tomorrow. Threats on social media set off concerns about violence today. Facebook posts said things like i m going to be the new osama. Nobody come to school tomorrow. And being a terrorist sounds fun. After seeing the post, i immediately called the security well as calling the s office, and they contacted the police. Reporter the 15yearold is a 10th Grade Student at Dater High School. Dater was mentioned by name in the posts along with west high, aiken, withrow, woodward, and walnut hills. Districts outside cps like colerain and Mount Healthy were also mentioned along with every other school in the cincinnati y it s not clear that the student had the means to attack the is a crime, and he is now charged with inducing panic and telecommunications harassment. This, i believe, was almost certainly a hoax, that being said, when lives are at stake we have to take it very seriously and many, many hundreds of parents and students were reacting on facebook to his comments. Reporter along with the criminal charges he is facing, the student is also facing a recommendation for expulsion from school. A statement from the district reads quote whether actual harm was intended or not, this is a very serious infraction. It caused a lot of angst among parents and students and its being taken very seriously. From mount auburn, andrew setters, wlwt news 5. Mike if the parents of this teenager don t show up again tomorrow morning, the court will appoint a guardian to represent him during the legal process. Cincinnati isn t the only School District dealing with threats of violence. In Campbell County, what one student said sent more than a thousand students and staff scrambling to another school building. News 5 s todd dykes is live in alexandria, kentucky with more reporter add Campbell County middle to the list of schools that have had to evacuate students because of a potentially dangerous situation. And for students and parents this has been a day of disruption, fear and frustration. It s not a video game. We are not playing a game here. Reporter that police chief describing what prompted the evacuation of 1300 students and Staff Members at Campbell County middle school. We had a child that made several threats that he had an explosive device in a backpack in his locker. Reporter chief mike ward says the 14yearold told a handful of classmates about the backpack. Some of those students alerted School Leaders. As a result, students were bused to Campbell County high school, the teenage suspect was taken s bomb squad determined the backpack was harmless. But students like alex clark say the impact will be longlasting. It i don t want to go back in i mean, i don t want to have to deal with the whole messed up schedule. I don t want to have to deal with the possibility that another bomb might be in there and blown up. I don t want to have to deal with that. Reporter alex s mom is grateful her son is safe. It s terrifying. You know, you get a text from your kid, and you can tell he s obviously scared. Reporter but she wishes the School District had notified her sooner. The ordeal began at 10 a. M. Kristina clark says she didn t get an alert until after 11 30. Assistant superintendent kerry hill understands miss clark s concerns but says safety comes first. Then it s a matter of messaging. We want to make sure we report facts, as timely as we can, but we definitely don t want to report misinformation which can create more problems for you as a district. Reporter when i talked to chief ward this morning he said the student accused of making the threats was being very uncooperative, even laughing about the situation. We spoke again this afternoon. The chief telling me the student is finally talking about the incident in a more serious todd dykes, wlwt news 5. Courtis mike School Leaders credit First Responders for handling today s scare so quickly. They re also grateful other students were willing to speak up and let teachers and the School Resource officer know about the threatening statements. Funeral arrangements are now set for a Kenton County woman, who died while hiking outside of lexington this weekend. 22yearold Katie Stewart fell from a cliff at a popular overlook at raven run nature sanctuary. She went to Notre Dame Academy and was set to graduate this spring from transylvania university. Katie is being remembered as one of a kind. A joyful daughter, and twin sister, with a crazy sense of humor, and an unmatched love for life. Visitation for katie is this wednesday at 3 30 at saint agnes in fort wright. Her funeral mass will follow at 7 00. A body found in the parking lot of a cvs on vine street in hartwell. Police say there are no signs of any trauma to the body. Relatives so the person s name we are told it is a man known in the area. New details tonight, on a fire overnight at an Apartment Building in paddock hills. We are told the fire started in two basement level laundry room storage lockers. This is on reading road. Firefighters were able to quickly put the fire out. All of the people were able to safely get out of the building. No word what caused the fire. New developments in the crash that sent a vehicle plumeting 100 feet off of the combs hehl bridge. Tomorrow marks one week since not been able to recover the the current in the river is still too strong, but that is changing. The ohio river is beginning to that is changing. Boone county water rescue is lining up professional divers to take on the mission. The plan is to bring in a platform with a crane and lift the vehicle. Meanwhile, we re getting a new perspective on the crash from someone who saw the car go over the edge. She says the car was pushed over by the momentum of a crashing semi. Once it hit the left side of the wall these other cars were getting into accident and then of the wall and once it hit the right side the car just plunged right over. Reporter mike police have not said who caused the crash, the witness thought it started somewhere in front of the semi. Wlwt news 5 s Brian Hamrick will have the latest on the crash and the effort to identify the victim coming up at 6. New details on another deadly crash on 275 on the combshehl bridge. Police say, 41yearold Scott Petredis was killed when he was rearended by 35yearold cory lippmeier. Police say excessive speed and impairment contributed to the crash. And they have now charged lippmeier with. Vehicular homicide. He is still in the hospital tonight listed in serious condition. History is unfolding today in havana, president obama. Ending almost 90 years of silence between cuba and the u. S. , as he sat down for talks with cuban president raul castro. President obama s first full day in cuba began in revolution square, he laid a wreath at one of the nation s most important poet jose marti. Then, he walked three blocks to the revolutionary palace where he was officially welcomed by cuban president raul castro. During the reception one of the most stunning sights and sounds the cuban military band played america s national anthem. Wlwt president obama for more than half a century the sight of a us president here in havana would be unimaginable. But this is a new day. Mike tomorrow president obama will address the cuban people during a speech on staterun television. New developments tonight on the november paris terror attacks. Authorities say the prime suspect. Has told investigators he was plotting more violence from brussels. Meanwhile, new video footage released today. Showing the police raid in which the suspect was captured last week. He was europe s most wanted terrorist. As heavily armed officers a run for it. He s caught. And a second man is brought out wounded in the leg. It s not clear which is the prime suspect police were going after. Authorities now believe more than 30 people were involved in the planning and preparation of the paris attacks. Still ahead. Apple s big unveiling. A smaller cheaper iphone. But is it really new . We take a closer look. Plus. Buzzer beaters. Ruining your brackets. Leaving local fans in disbelief. We have new reaction from xavier players. Erik it may not kevin it may not feel much like spring right now. Temperatures are beginning to hedge into the right direction. I ll have your full forecast coming up. Mike caught on camera. A juvenile joy ride. In minnesota. And there s concrete proof of the crime. Swiped the cement truck from a contractor then side swiped a police cruiser, while cutting through yards, witnesses say they saw the child drive around the neighborhood 6 or 7 times hooting and hollering, having a good time before Police Brought his fun to a end. You wlwt news 5. Mike you hear a lot about the cincinnati curse, if you weren t a believer before after the way u. C. , and now xavier are both eliminated from the ncaa tournament, maybe now it ll make you think. George vogel is in with the muskies, the day after the buzzer beater, george. George it is unreal. Xavier is feeling a lot of u. C. s pain today. The muskies thought they were on their way to the sweet 16. They were up three of 15 seconds to play. That is when wisconsin s koenig shoots a deep 3 to tie the game. Then it is a offense of foul call on Edmond Sumner baird then the defense was good but they shot was better. Wisconsin shock savior with 6663. The senior try to have some perspective after the game. It was good time while it lasted. I will get over it. I would chairs is moment. , it is all good. We had a final goal but we do not get. George there was reason to think bigger things are ahead when they want over villanova. The highest seed ever for a in the ncaa tournament. That first final four in School History was a goal. That will have to wait another season. Mike the offense of foul call was terrible. What about this curse. George these late game finishes going the wrong way make you think there is something with this. This goes way back 20 years. This kind of stuff has been happening. This happened with you see with kenyon martin. Andy dalton got hurt. It is going to break though. At some point. Mike we are going to celebrate. George i hope i am still around. Mike thank you. Apple unveiled the newest addition to its line of tech gadgets today. A new, four inch phone. Packed with many of the features found in its larger iphone 6. We are calling it the iphone se. The new phone starts at 399. Critics call it a scam, saying this is just a revamped iphone 56 also unveiled a smaller, 9. 7 inch ipad pro. As well as colorful new bands for its apple watch. A new, iphone 7 is expected in the fall. The first lady is keeping an eagle eye on her offspring. In the nation s capital. We re talking about this first lady. She and her partner, known as mr. President. Are nurturing their two eager eaglets hatched at the national arboretum. You can follow the feathered first family. You can fall them with a live eagle cam at eagles dot org. They are the first bald eagles to nest in the arboretum since 1947. Cincinnati s certified most accurate forecast. What a beautiful spring day it is turn out to be across the area this afternoon. That mid march 2 sunshine. If you look at the edge of your even more work over toward st. Louis. Temperatures running 15 degrees warmer. That is where we will be tomorrow. Highs tomorrow are going to be warmer than they were today. Our wins on our their weight are on their way to switching south. Temperatures will continue to can to climb. The winds will climb as well. Tomorrow into wednesday is going to be quite breezy. Temperatures regionally speaking, notice that 40 line 49 in columbus. If you get closer to Hoosier State near indianapolis and bloomington. Officially here at the airport we are holding at 52 degrees. Preclose to where we should be for this time of the year. Look at this, look at the dew point. At 25. Sun goes down, it will turn chilly this evening. It is going to cool off after the sun goes down after 530. 5 30. Look at this very quiet on the weather map. Along the ohio valley. Other than a few clouds, not much out there to really speak of. It is going to be like this for several days before we talk about significant weather around here. If you look at futurecast, it is quite to now, it is quite tonight quite tonight. Even our wednesday is going to start off on the quiet side. As we headed towards the middle the week will hit some clouds as a get into the day on wednesday. The next opportunity for rain of any real significance does not get here until thursday. 35 for low tonight. Tomorrow is going to have plenty of sunshine. We ll will have a delightful spring day. A little bit on the windy side. Look at those temperatures. Back up there in the 60 s tomorrow. We are in the 60 s on wednesday. A be even pushing closer to 70 out there. It will not be quite as chilly. There is your rain chance on thursday. We call down on friday. Right now everything works out as scheduled. We should have a very nice easter weekend around here. Maybe a little bit of a chilly start on saturday. By saturday afternoon we are in the 60 s. It will be on 7 around 70 on sunday. So those easter egg hunts should be in good shape. Mike we will take it thank you. Two high school students. In a rented plane. When the engine fails. With a 17yearold at the girlfriend. Hamilton bartenders something to sing about. The tip she left. Theres a freedom about asheville. An unspoken invitation to discover who you really are. Here, the world is a big, beautiful place filled with adventure. Take it in. Come up for air. Discovery, inside and out. [content sigh] ah, excuse me . Mr. Jones . Hi. Already . You booked an appointment. I just started cookin. We at Time Warner Cable need to apologize to you. I havent even started to bronze yet. We no longer give you an excuse to work all day perfecting your tan. Starting to even it out. Were making a bunch of changes at Time Warner Cable. Including onehour arrival windows. Well also tell you how long our visit will take this customer is running to get her deposit in today. Too late. Branch is already closed. But she could make the atm. Still wont beat the cutoff time. Really . At huntington, with atm and mobile deposits, you have up till midnight. We call it all day deposit. Midnight . What are you, a bank or a Convenience Store . Ive got to make a deposit you go, girl shes got no chance. Deposit hours that make sense for you, not the bank. Welcome to huntington, mike a teenage pilot forced to save himself and his girlfriend when the engine fails on their rented plane. It happened in wichita, kansas. 17yearold Christian Dell doesn t remember landing the plane. Or crawling out with a broken nose and cheekbone. He says his engine conked out as he and his girlfriend were headed home from nashville. We were trying to restart it, but yea it wasn t, it didn t restart. Mike the Emergency Training kicked in as he missed homes and power lines clipped a tree and crash landed the plane on the 14th hole of a golf course. His girlfriend walked away with a concussion and some minor scrapes. Be careful what you ask for. A uk Research Council wanted the public s help to name a new research ship. It is a stateoftheart 300 million vessel. And so far the number one. The Research Council did specify the names are quote suggestions only. A 9yearold fresno, california girl, is hoping to shatter a world record with the number of books she s collecting. Danay ferguson, spearheaded a 24 hour book drive. To fight illiteracy. Danay and hundreds of volunteers collected more than 280,000 books. All while 360 cameras caught all the action for Guinness World records. We did it. We are tired but we are excited and running on adrenaline. My first goal was to share my passion of reading. ,my goal now is to make sure every kid has a book. Guinness is still reviewing the books to see if it qualifies for a world record. Mike comedian amy schumer showing her heart is as big as her smile. She and a group of friends got tickets to see hamilton in new york. At intermission they ordered a round of drinks for 77 and that hit with a real showstopper. They paid with a credit card, card clip, and it said amy wants to make sure you get a. M she used to bartend back in the day. Hysterical and smart, but she s incredibly generous. Mike a thousand dollar tip. Split among the bartenders. Not a bad way to bring down the curtain. A victim remembering a fallen you re watching cincinnati s wlwt news 5 leading the way. Mike the family of a st. Bernard man, beaten to death in his home, is not happy with the sentence for the man s attackers. Carl engel suffered for at least 3 hours before he died, and his children wan

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