Not knowing. Jonathan a family searching for answers after a mother of two goes missing. Where she was last seen and where the search will pick up today. Also, temperatures back on the rise for the weekend. Enjoy it while it lasts. Meteorologist Jennifer Schack will tell us what well see today. And talk about the Winter Weather on the horizon. Its saturday, february 6, 2016. This is news 5 today. [captioning made possible by wlwttv] jonathan good morning. Welcome to news 5 today. Thanks for joining us on this saturday morning. Hope yours is going well so far. Im jonathan hawgood. This is meteorologist Jennifer Schack. Hello. Jennifer good. Good morning. I said good. You didnt ask how i was. I said hi. Jonathan its one of the things you flow with. Normal conversation. Jennifer doing well, and pretty good outside this morning. Temperatures not as cold as jonathan i walked out with the dog this morning. Not bad. Jennifer did you wear a coat today . Jonathan no. Jennifer you usually dont wear a coat. If its really cold, sometimes you do. Jonathan i put on the red fleece with a big collar. Jennifer temperatures nice this morning. Dont need a heavy coat later today. With the sunshine, i feel like it helps out with the light wind. Jonathan takes the edge off. Jennifer partly cloudy today. Light winds. This morning, temperatures in the 20s. Visibilities are down around five to seven miles. We dont have the fog concern widespread. There may be some patchy fog spots. High humidity and light winds this morning. Valleys in usual suspect locations. Temperatures in the low to mid 20s. Currently, weve dropped off one more degree down to 24. Overall, steady the last couple hours because of scattered clouds. Dry conditions, wlwt radar. Nothing out there for the morning, expecting a completely dry day today. Scattered clouds will stick around into this afternoon. A pretty nice saturday shaping up to start the weekend. Well be above average. We still have sunshine like yesterday. Maybe a couple more clouds. The winds will be light today as well. Heading into our sunday, quiet for sunday during the day. But theres a strong, late weekend cold front, rain and eventually snow and colder temperatures. Well go through the timeline coming up. Jonathan. Jonathan thanks, jennifer. New details on an Early Morning fire in evanston. Its believed the fire may have started from a space heater. The fire started in the 1800 block of fairfax avenue, just before 4 00 this morning. We have video sent in by a viewer on the scene. Thank you for doing that. When crews arrived, the fire spread to the attic. Extra crews had to be caught in to get the flames under control. The fire is out. The official cause under investigation. Its tearing me down. Its literally killing me. Were lost for words. We dont know what to do. Continue this morning for a Pendleton County a week ago. The family of tara turner says she was with a friend sunday. He claims to have dropped tara off near the california marketplace along the aa highway. Taras father says she hasnt been in contact with her children or anyone in the family. Her phone has had no activity since she disappeared, which is highly unusual. Shes on her phone every day. Every day. Weve got a lot of family members involved in it. A lot of them are breaking down, thinking the worst. I tell them, try not think the worst yet. Jonathan the family will search the area around the california marketplace at 10 00 this morning. The Pendleton CountySheriffs Office is asking anyone with information about her whereabouts to call them. Police are looking for the suspects who sprayed several middle town homes with bullets in recent months. Someone fired at least eight rounds in this home on yankee road thursday. Another house a few doors down members of the Community First expressed concern to wlwt in september when three bullets hit a home on eighth avenue. Three children, ages 7, 4 and 1, were inside at the time. We need more Police Officers running back and forth over here. Basically. It will make me feel more comfortable. Jonathan the police chief has spent the last year meeting with churches and groups to build stronger neighborhoods. The city has added Neighborhood Watch groups. Middletown city manager says total calls for police were actually down from 2014 to 2015. Theres a National Push to lower the legal blood alcohol limit the ntsb says it will dramatically reduce dui relate the deaths. Emily wood has local reaction from both sides. Reporter grabbing a drink or two after work is common for some. Recent ntsb recommendations to people drink before getting behind the wheel. I dont see any real benefit there, because i dont believe that theres going to make its going to make much of a difference going from 0. 08 to 0. 05. Reporter for social drinkers like james and john, they say its easy to grab an uber or designated driver. An issue. It should be left to the doctors and not the transportation board. Reporter for the family of lisa hasting, the debate over dui limits is a personal story. Hasting was 22 years old when she was killed by a drunk driver on route 128 while on her way to work as an emt. Her mother, karen, says she supports lowering the limit because every little step can help. Something has to be done. And when it hits home, its bad. These are peoples lives. They lose their lives because somebody else was stupid. Jonathan in a statement, mothers against drunk driving says m. A. D. D. Currently promotes the National Standard of 0. 08 blood alcohol concentration while also continuing to strongly recommend that those who drink alcohol not drive. The trouble continues to grow for browns Quarterback Johnny Manziel. The latest accusations against the Football Player and his status with the team. Neither are good. A big night for a local basketball team. One squad earned their first gmc title. Weve got the news 5 sports crew in with details in morning sports. A live look outside. Lady liquid. I saw purposing, i see red, a what if the sweet stevia leaf was discovered. Before the sugarcane. And everything had fewer calories. Skincare now becomes skinactive. New Garnier Skinactive introducing clearly brighter. A new active daily moisturizer to brighten dull skin. Packed with antioxidant vitamin c, e and active lha. It does more than moisturize, it actively smoothes, boosts radiance and protects with spf 15. Clinically proven. See brighter skin in just one week. New clearly brighter the active way to better skin. Jonathan welcome back. Edgar mitching, the sixth man to walk on the moon, has died. He joined nasa as an astronaut in 1966. He died thursday night after a short illness. Nasas administrator called him one of the pioneers in Space Exploration on whose shoulders we now stand. Mitchell was 85 years old. His passing coincides with the 14 mission, which lasted from january 31 to february 9, in 1971. Flowers were placed on the hollywood walk of fame saturday above the star of maurice white. Founder of the r b funk band, earth wind and fire. He passed away thursday afternoon after battling parkinsons disease for more than 20 years. They sold more than 90 million albums, known for hits like shining star, boogie wonderland and september. Thats the way of the world, perhaps my favorite. Maurice white, what a voice. Lets talk local weather with jennifer. Jennifer a nice start to the weekend. We have availability down around 5 to 6 miles. Its not high at ten miles, but no big problems reported. We may have patchy fog possible plenty of sunshine. Yesterday, we started at 18, ended up at 43. The comparison today, higher starting around 25. Current observation and then dropping back 46 degrees, the forecast high this afternoon. Climbing up nicely. We should end up a few degrees warmer later today. Satellite and radar showing scattered clouds overnight. Well see sunshine with clouds this morning. Dry conditions despite some overnight clouds on the wlwt radar. That radar will stay dry all nicely. We have sunshine this afternoon. Were in the low to mid 20s. A variation this morning from our colder spots. Harrison 21. Batesville, 19. We have temperature, 24 degrees. Dew point at 21 with high humidity. A couple of spots may have a touch of fog this morning. Satellite and radar showing quiet conditions for the ohio river valley. Nothing obvious to push in today. Keep out the sunshine. Temperature, higher than yesterday with partly cloudy skies. Dry and quiet today. Tomorrow, a cold front is zooming down from the Northern Plains. As it gets closer tomorrow afternoon, a little bit more of a southwest wind out ahead of it. Should help our temperature bump up to around 50 for the high sunday with scattered clouds. Its still a dry day. But note that cold front gathering moisture in the midwest. It will send a line of showers in. Looks like timing after 9 00 tomorrow evening. A band moving through, late to the evening, a start to overnight. A thin band of showers. Late for the weekend. Then the cold front. Temperatures are falling back into the mid 30s by monday morning. Looks like moisture is being squeezed out. Snowflakes, raindroplets. Nothing too organized monday morning. Its been waefrg vering on when the monday morning, a little bit in the way of wet snowflakes, but air temperatures above freezing. Note behind this, though, we have snow showers moving in from the northwest late for monday. It does look like monday afternoon, we get into a period of a northwest flow. Periods of snow showers monday, tuesday. Trying to move out wednesday. Any one of the snow showers, a dusting, maybe upwards of an inch in spots at times for monday, tuesday. It gets more active. Temperatures will be struggling in the 20s. Wind chills in the teens. Were definitely going to get back into a cold couple of days with snow showers. 46 today. Tonight, not as cold. Nice recovery sunday at 51 ahead of the front. Cold front comes in. Well be falling back on monday. More of them tuesday. Light snow still possible wednesday. Highs in the 20s, but strong we stay below average through friday. Jonathan Cincinnati Reds outfield prospect juan duran has been suspended por performance enhancing substances. Hes the first player penalized since stanley cody in september. Hes spent eight seasons in the minorers since signing with the reds in 2008. Dallas police are opening a criminal investigation into a reported assault by browns Quarterback Johnny Manziel on his exgirlfriend. One day after reporting no charges would be filed, Police Received a Domestic Violence complaint against manziel. Police were called to manziels exgirlfriends apartment last weekend. Manziels exgirlfriend claims he struck her and has now filed a restraining order. The Cleveland Browns are expected to release manziel next month once the league rules allow it. Hue jackson says hes not staying here. A great night for high school win. Title. Weve got details in your morning sports. George welcome to the blitz on a saturday morning. Im george vogel alongside elise jesse. Big news. Coming out of the great miami conference last night. Elise masons Basketball Program hit the 140 mark with a 6750 win over princeton. The comets win their first outright gmc title. George meanwhile, indian hill in madeira. The braves looking for their 17th straight win after losing the opening game of the season. Madeiras Cameron Mccullough trying to make it close. Heres indian hills sophomore marco fiore, kicks it out. Eichholz, three ball is good. This time, fiore scores. The braves leading by double digits most of the night and win their 17th straight, 5445. Contest at kings mills. Kings junior guard tyler mitchell, his first three threes of the game. Finished with a career high of five from beyond the arc with a career high of 21 points for the night. It seemed like he wasnt going to miss at all last night. When he eventually did miss, teammates like dan shiederman were there to clean it up. Kings gets a home win over loveland, 6950. George the aiken falcons leading the metro athletic conference 70 going into last night. They have taft tonight. What a weekend. Hughes came first friday night. Elise its not surprising when you factor in carlik jones. At 511, hes not the tallest on the court, but one of the smartest. He has a basketball iq and averages 22 points a game. George one of the best in the city. Now we go to aiken. The falcons hosting hughes. Israel griffin to simante griffin. Three. Aiken with the lead at the half. Big man, durrell dominic. High off the glass. Aiken loaded with talent. Heres the aforementioned carlik jones. To lonly berry to isaiah liles for the layup. Jones finds berry in the corner for three. Aiken rolls to the win, 7549. Elise elder and moeller in the middle of the gcl pack. The crusaders beat the panthers by eight in mid january. The guys who bleed purple not going to let that happen again. George that was not the plan. Frankie hoffmeyer was on fire. He wasnt going down without a fight. It ended up being a pretty good night for frankie. Zach wells with more. Zach pretty, pretty, pretty good. Frankie hoffmeyer channeled his inner Jimmy Chitwood from the movie hoosiers on his 18th birthday. It was an emotional night at the pit on both end of the spectrum. Hoffmeyers marksmanship and the prospect of a moeller senior knee injury. Pancs zki eating contests on the west side. Elder relied on the threepoint shot like this one from deshaun mosley. They came back from a sevenpoint laugh time deficit. Mo led down the stretch. The gift wrap off the bounce to sam mccracken. The tomahawk at high altitude. 22 points and 13 boards. Nate georgetons knee gave out on a fast break. He wore a brace and needed crutches to get around in the second half. The birthday boy, hoffmeyer, all seven of his field goals were threepointers in a 4843 home win to make that price hill chili taste all the better after a win from purple nation. That was an awesome win. The crowd was crazy. Thats 19 in a row at home. We just dont lose in the pit. It was awesome. It was a great game. I dont think theres a kid in the city that deserves more to finish the senior year to play basketball than nate hes a great leader. He loves the game. Every day, everything hes got, to be a great player. Zach when asked for more details about the knee injury, coach said well know more later today. It doesnt look good. This is moellers floor leader, a senior and practically a coach on the floor in his own right. George and elise. Elise all right. Newport inducting their latest hall of fame class last night. The camels getting down low to matt wilson. The 69 senior throwing it down. Newports keenan davis in the paint a 360 spin leads to the basket and a foul. Campbell county beats newport, 6157. Mcdonalds of Greater Cincinnati is proud to present the mcdonalds blitz 5 george jake bedding haus is a senior at King High School and is a member of the football team. Hes been first team all ecc, first team all district and an all state honorable mention. Hes been part of marvin lewis foundation, matthew 25 foundation. Jakes gpa is 3. 88. Ellie jelinek is a senior and a member of the lacrosse team. Shes been recognized for an ap scholar award, all conference academic award and a quadruple threat athlete. Ellie is active in young life, fca and is the spanish club president. Her gpa is 4. 18. If you know someone who deserves to be the next mcdonald studentathlete of the week, drop us a line at 1700 young street, cincinnati, 45202. Or email us, blitz5 wlwt. Com. Jonathan mardy i gras season is in full swing. The events happening tonight and what you need to know to get involved. What if the sweet stevia leaf was discovered. Before the sugarcane. After people were enjoying truvia in their coffee and everything else. Sugar would come along and go, hey, im sweet too. Sure, sugar, youre very sweet, but weve already got sweetness minus calorieness. It would be kinda awkward. Truvia. Life with less its about time the taco. Came out of its shell. Unleash the power of dough. Give it a pop. That sound. Like nails on a chalkboard. But listen to this family talking sound. The sound of the weekend. Unleash the power of dough. Jonathan welcome back. Mardi gras season has kicked off. No one does a celebration quite like new orleans. Thousands filled the streets for last nights parade in the big easy. This isnt even the biggest party. Mardi gras officially starts the mardi gras celebration has begun in covington. The 20th celebration kicked off in mainstrasse. Tonight is the grand parade, including floats, big heads and plenty of beads. Organizers say the crowds are a blast. Theyre a blast. They just go from bar to bar, spirit. Its no trouble and its always been a good time. Jonathan the parade steps off at 9 00. Of the bars. And there will be a mardi gras masquerade fundraising event in oakley, being put on by the head and neck cancer foundation. The event will feature wine and craft beer, as well as music, taro card readers and a costume contest. There will be a silent auction and raffles. Its at 20th Century Theater from 7 30 p. M. To midnight. Joseph Gordon Leavitt is getting a roast with his pudding. Selected as Harvard Universitys hasty pudding theatricals man of the year. The collegiate Theatrical Organization says they chose the walk actor because hes a talented actor and a visionary entrepreneur. Previous hasty pudding winners include Clint Eastwood and harrison ford. What about saturday night live . You know, tonight you can see how good Bernie Sanders imitations are. The democratic hopeful says hell make his debut on saturday night live tonight. Larry david is hosting this weeks episode. So could there be something . Those two look a lot alike. Expect to see davids bernie faceoff with the real thing. Watch snl on wlwt after news 5 at 11 00. Theyve been using larry david to do the Bernie Sanders imitations. Belushi, back in