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WLWT WLWT News 5 At 600 February 6, 2016

Ghostwrite took off today ghost ride took off today. Tammy has more. Tammy hundreds of people in the Cycling Community came out to honor Michael Prater. The ghostwrite took off from Lincoln Airport and ended here. In 600 cyclists came out. Everyone was gathering and after the ride a white ghost bike was near where Michael Prater was killed. It is a reminder for drivers to share the road with other people. The 42yearold worked here at the rookwood store. Investigators say melinda detectives found Drug Paraphernalia in her vehicle after the crash. There is nothing michael could have done. It could happen to anyone at any time. A gofundme page has been set up to help michael s wife and children. We have more information on our website. Courtis thanks a lot. The driver now faces the nuclear homicide charges. Let s turn our attention to whether and get a check of cincinnati s most accurate forecast. Erik not a bad day. We saw a bit of sunshine and temperatures above average for a change. Not so many clowns around. This evening we continue with mostly clear skies. The milder air is going to fade s. 42 in batesville. 44 in georgetown. 41 in hillsboro. This evening temperatures in the s, mostly clear. Sundays are looking quiet. A lot of cold and yes even some snow. I m not going to work at all. M traumatized. This is the man i sit at the bus stop with every day. Courtis a federal crash Investigation Underway after a pedestrian is hit not far from Covington Catholic high school. Richard chiles has more. Richard the Investigation Continues after a pedestrian is struck and killed on dixie highway. To the victim. Deceased. Investigators were to determine details of the dead. There is a crosswalk but it looks like residence walked down the street and a shortcut , people wait for the bus stop there. They are always jumping in some ways way in someone s way. When he sees the bus down there he crosses over. That is what he was crossing over four, to get on the bus. Reporter he says this tragedy could have been much worse. I could have been down here with him. I m lost for words. It could have been made. Courtis the driver was treated for minor injuries. No charges are expected to be filed. Fire, the fire may have started from a space heater. Crews were called to the home on fairfax avenue. This is video sent to us by a viewer on the scene. When crews arrived the fire had spread to the attic. Because of the fire is under investigation. Damage is estimated at 50,000. It is tearing me down. It is killing me. We don t know what to do. Courtis searches continue for a mother who was last seen almost a week ago. The family says she was with a friend last sunday. He claims he dropped terror off tara off near the highway. Her father says she has not then it is highly unusual, he says. She s on her phone every day. We have a lot of family members involved. A lot of people think the worst. Courtis the family has started searching the area. The Service Office is asking anyone with information to give them a call. Anchor a push to lower the blood alcohol legal limit from. 08 2. 05. The ntsb says it will reduce the dui related deaths. We talk to local folks who say it s easy to grab an uber designated driver. Driver on route 128 while on her way to work as an emt. Her mother said she supports lowering the limit because every little step can help. Quite something has to be done. It happens every day. When it hits home it s bad. These are people s lives. They lose their lives because somebody else was stupid. Courtis the group mothers against drunk driving says they currently supports the National Standard of. 08 blood alcohol concentration. While continuing to strongly recommend those who drink alcohol not drive. A mother is now being held on a 10,000 bond accused of overdosing in a kroger parking lot with her daughter in the car. The syringe she used to shoot heroin. She will not be allowed contact with her daughter. Word of that arrest comes as Warren County is taking a visible approach to fighting the heroin epidemic. A new billboard offering cash in the name of catching here when traffickers. Heroin traffickers. It encourages tips and Text Messages to combat a growing epidemic. They experienced a 42 increase from 2014 to 2015. The project is privately funded and anonymous. Roger bacon high school is showing off its new fine arts center. It is been under Construction Since june of 2015. It features a new thrust stage, there is a 62 foot mural which contains 400 photos from your books dating back all the way to 1929. The open house for alumni and friends is until 7 00 this evening. Not too chilly outside for hundreds of people taking a polar plunge for the special olympics. Joe s crab shack posted hosted this plunge. 800 men and women turned out. Very creative costumes to show their support. This weekend it is do or die for many of the president ial hopefuls. The republican candidates are ready to rumble on the debate stage. Days before tuesday s primary we erik even the majority of tomorrow we will keep quiet but we do have showers building into tomorrow evening. That is going to change everything through the work week. Winter is hard on your nose. From first sniffles to endless runny noses. Puffs plus lotion is soft. They help soothe irritation by locking in moisture better so you can face winter happily. A nose in need deserves puffs indeed. Ive been a turkey farmer my whole life. And i raise turkey for honeysuckle white. We dont use growthpromoting antibiotics, thats just the way things should be done. Thats important to me. And im an independent turkey farmer. female announcer honeysuckle white. No growthpromoting antibiotics, just honest, simple turkey. Three days to go until the New Hampshire primary. Tonight the republican candidates face off in their arnold debate before voting begins. Sally kidd is outside the debate hall in manchester with a preview. There is a lot at stake. It could help New Hampshire voters make up their mind or change their minds about which candidate to support. We have a debate tonight in New Hampshire area with hours to go the lastminute campaigning. I feel good. Looking forward to it. We are making a sprint to tuesday where the ground game takes over. Donald trump will be back on the debate stage. Marco rubio is likely to be a tonight. The debates are going to matter. I will encourage voters to tune in. Reporter with so much on the line, so many voters undecided. Christie and rubio are my top two. Any debate could produce a Game Changing moment and tonight the timing couldn t be more crucial. Donald trump has this or of being number one. It is difficult to think of him as number two. He will not last long that weight area reporter not included, carly fiorina, who didn t qualify. I ve tied a couple guys on that stage. I m leaving in the polls. The game is rigged. Reporter Bernie Sanders says he is feeling confident about tuesday s primary. Hillary clinton is asking voters to give her campaign another look. Courtis tonight s gop debate airs at 8 00. New hampshire could be crucial for the Kasich Campaign moving forward. He will be live in New Hampshire monday and tuesday right here at news 5. For the month of february the downtown Cincinnati Public Library will be hosting a special series on africanamericans in the media. Today i and other colleagues help kicked off the series. The National Association of black journalism was formed in 1975. Part of the discussion was how do you make this industry look like america . Courtis the discussion was one of many sessions that will he the next one, february 20. We had a lot of fun. It will focus on newspapers in Cincinnati Black press and genealogy. Right now , we have a special section for black History Month under the features section. Cincinnati s certified most accurate forecast. Erik it s amazing how nice 46 degrees can feel when the wind finally dies down and you have some sunshine out there like we did today. Temperatures backing off. 43 at cincinnati. 39 dropping in clinton county. 40 in batesville. Not bad for this time of year. Downtown we are seeing mostly clear skies. Things are looking nice there. Miles per hour. Dew point in the 20 s. Most of us in the upper 20 s. Lower 30 s by morning. As you can see, not too much going on. We are going to stay quiet the majority of the day tomorrow. Quite across much of the midwest. This is an alberta clipper. They tend to be moisture starved. It s going to be quite a bit of wind and bring in colder air. We have blizzard warnings across north and south dakota. They may be extended into iowa. Now the beginning of the pull down. This is the heart of the cold. Most of this not heading our way. Every system that moves through is going to tap into this air and nerve and urgent further south. No deepfreeze here. A nice amount of sunshine to start the day. You shouldn t have any issue getting there. Heading home after the game i don t think you are going to see problems. We are talking about rain. Temperatures will be above freezing. Late night that is when we will see temperatures dip below freezing and see snow showers mixing in with the rain. Clear skies, tomorrow morning we see clouds starting to thicken up. Some snow. Temperatures drop below freezing. Right now tuesday is going to be colder. Wednesday, even colder than that. Your forecast, 32 degrees. Your sevenday forecast, snow showers monday. Flurries on wednesday. When i say snow showers you can can cause problems but they don t last long and generally if temperatures are above freezing you don t have issues. Courtis can i trade in my hand and try another month . X in action . Anchor they are a fun team. An actual game. Second half. Sfx car driving. Sfx engine revving. Sfx car engine. Sfx car speeding away. Anchor welcome back. The sin talks center was rocking before marquette and xavier tipped off. There were 10 scouts who also show. Xavier looking to sweep. Hard to do in the big east conference. Trayvon, he had a careerhigh. That propelled them to a 35 lead at the half. Savior at 22 points. These two by jt gave them the lead. Edmond sumner had five assists. It was 72zero. They set up this beauty. It wasn t finished just yet. Next position next he had a careerhigh 20 points. That kid is fearless. The word that comes to mind is fearless. That is one of our core values. We want guys to play without fear. He tied on purpose to make another three but he just, whatever it is, he got it. He is not the only guy. We have a lot of guys like that. Anchor of all the stats, rebounding and threepoint shooting, marquette rebounding. The ability to score lifted them past the goal. 65 from beyond the arc. Marquette did not have a bad day. Memphis is a tough place to play. The tigers came out ready to play. They are down nine. No sophomore slump. 15 points for team rebound. Under two to go, down for. They connect on the three to make it up, a onepoint game. Tigers have an immediate answer. Memphis beat cincinnati. The sex scandal surrounding the louisville Basketball Program led to a postseason ban. The cardinal to best players transferred because they wanted to play in the ncaa tournament. Here is what they had to say when they found out there term we were heartbroken. Thankfully we have these guys behind us. They are here to pick us up. This is another thing that happens outside. We have nothing we can do. Nothing we can do about that. Anchor one day after announcing their postseason ban louisville was hosting boston college. First half, he comes up with the steel. The second half is Clinton Snider with an alleyoop. Louisville up 15. Donovan mitchell with the three. He finishes 10 points off the half. With florida without alex injured during warmups. More from murray, this time he is five up from the wing. Tyler euless contributing, the pull up jumper. He finishes the doubledouble. He dominates the court with an 8061 win. Courtis the selfimposed ban, i get a sense we are going to hear more fallout from this. Anchor i m expecting to hear more about that as well. Interesting next few months. Courtis a deadly crane collapse still under investigation. Why the cleanup will be no easy [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 courtis welcome back. The Cycling Community came in a hit and run crash in Anderson Township last weekend. A Michael Prater memorial ghost ride took off today. S ride. We re having a little problem. Hundreds of people in the Cycling Community came out for this ghost ride. There is video. It took off and ended at kellogg park. 600 cyclist came for the ghost ride. After, a white ghost bike was placed where michael was killed in the hit and run. It is a reminder for drivers to he worked at the rei. Workers from the columbus store came down to man the brookwood store. That is how his coworkers could take part in the ride. Melinda hit prater and ran away. Detectives found for now yet in her suv after the crash. It is empowering to see this many people come out for someone they may not have even known. Courtis a go fund me page has been set up for his family and children. We will continue to follow this sad story. Let s turn our attention to whether. Not a bad day here in cincinnati. Another check of the tristate s most accurate forecast. Erik any day above freezing the made up to 46 degrees. To mature dropping back into s. Get ready for a nile another mild one tomorrow. 42 in mason. Temperature starting to drop. Went out of the southwest. If those subway wins get us into s, beyond that february is back. Developing now. A crash Investigation Underway after pedestrian is hit near Covington Catholic high school. This happened before 7 30. Police have not released any names. They say the driver is cooperating. More injured after a 6. 4 magnitude earthquake hit early saturday morning. More than 200 people have been pulled from the rubble. Hundreds more are missing. This is a very sad incident. We have lost a life. If you go out there and see what happened here, thank god it was not worse. Courtis officials are working to determine what caused a construction crane to collapse and kill one person in new york city. The construction crew was directing people away from the area while the crane was being lowered. That is when it collapsed and smashed through several cars. A pedestrian was killed. Crews now have the task of removing the mangled equipment without hindering the investigation. The main point is to get them in locations that doesn t compromise the forensic value so we can have experts study how the pieces failed. Courtis inspectors say they have found no problems with the crane itself. They have not determined the cause of the collapse but believe high wind speeds could have played a factor. The coast guard is searching the Pacific Ocean after it says two small planes collided off the coast of los angeles. The midair collision happened around 3 30. Divers have found a plane tail number and partial number from a second plane in the water. It s not clear how many people Edgar Mitchell , who walked on the moon, has died. Five years later he was part of the crew on apollo 14. He died after a short illness. Nasa s administrator called him one of the pioneers in Space Exploration on his shoulders we now stand. His death coincides with the 45th anniversary of the apollo 14 mission which lasted from january 31 to february 9 in 1971. Mitchell was 85 years old. Let s talk politics. In New Hampshire it is the republican candidates turn. They debate three days before the primary their donald trump is looking for his first win. Despite polling first in New Hampshire he has not campaign much. Marco rubio support has surged. He all eyes will be on john kasich. He spent the day working a restaurant. He is tied for third with ted cruz. New hampshire could be crucial for the Kasich Campaign. Our very own mike will be covering his bid for the white house live in New Hampshire monday and tuesday right here on wlwt. Tonight you can see how good Bernie Sanders imitations are. He ll make his debut on saturday night live. Larry david will host the episode. Expect to see david burney faceoff with the real thing. A super bowl mistake , what a security detail underway and california as football fans get ready for super bowl 50. How officials plan to keep the cloud safe. And a viral photo of a mother and twin daughter. Which is the mom . Anchor temperatures dropping to the freezing mark. How cold it is going to february is huge for us. All our handcrafted classic footlongs are just 6 each, even our subway club and chicken bacon ranch melt. 6 footlongs are a big deal. But the media is going a little crazy. I am in the heart of what is now being called submageddon. With an incredible amount of accumulation inside. That now seems to be spilling out on the streets. I have never seen anything like this before. Enjoy all our delicious classic footlongs for just 6 each. Courtis this just in, we now know the name of the person hit and killed in a park kills in part hills this morning. Roger lee stephenson. Police are assisting in the investigatio

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