Cleveland 19 news sponsored by National Carpet mill outlet. Ohios flooring superstore. Asking questions and getting answers. Cleveland 19 news starts now. Romona a heartstopping moment in new york city. Police catch trump tower with suction cups after two hours of a game of cat and mouse with police removing windows and vents to get to him. We want evans. We want evans. Dan a wild scene at a local School Board Meeting. Parents and teachers outraged after the board removes a very popular superintendent. Romona the go veer bow where tamir rice was shot and we have answers on where it is going. Well have those stories. First, a yellow alert in the first alert forecast with rain and storms through the weekend. Dan beth mcleod has the answers on apparently what caused last nights damage. First things first. It is nice and quiet out there. Doppler max is taking a brake from the showers and storms we cant rule out the storms and shower although we are seeing light drizzle and rain showers move through canton, it will stay on the quiet side. With that said the rain totals the last 24 hours, some areas toward sandusky, two inches of rain. A big thunderstorm is set up this afternoon over middle field. Almost three inches of rain. Hopkins got a half inch of rain. But down south of twinsburg, we will be keeping an eye on. The temperatures as we head overnight those of you without air conditioning, it will be a muggy, sticky night. The storms came through at 10 00. When the storm started kicking up it was called a wet microburst. It is something we cant track. It is a localized storm and it is usually the big thunderstorm cells. You can see the clouds getting high. In the middle is the core. When the core becomes heavy and wet and saturated with hail and rain and when the storm starts to lose power the core comes plummeting to the earth. When that happens, thats when we get the microburst out. It does create the powerful wind and rain. 150 miles an hour and thats what caused the problems last night on the eastside. You guys . Dont ever get caught off guard by a storm. Download the free cleveland 191t alert weather app. Get down to the street level on the radar and have the forecast right there in the palm of your hand. Romona it is going to take awhile to clean up the storm in the suburbs. Harry boomer is live in one of the worst hit areas. Ha reporter in Cleveland Heights off Mayfield Road off the campus of Lutheran High School east. This tree was on the front lawn yesterday. That is a tree ball, a root ball, and another one you can barely see because it is so dark right now. Those trees like many others fell down causing all kind of damage all over Cleveland Heights. All of a sudden the sky at a tremendous rate. There is evidence just how powerful limbs were. The whole street covered in downed branches. You can see us halfway hanging there. Roselyn collins pointed out a branch above our heads. She had just finished entertaining friends and family when the storm hit the street. I am worried about the people that just left. There were 12 people and they left before everything happened. The high winds left this car buried in the debris, so much so that we walked past it at first. I didnt see that car. The power line is down. Yeah, i think there are a couple power lines down. Be careful. Unsuspecting drivers on the scene. They were forced to turn around and get to where they were going. She lived on derbyshire and she has never seen anything like this. I think a lot of people dont want to see it again. Look at this giant root ball and this is massive. It i deep. It is probably three feet deep. But the tree that is there, it will have to be cut up and taken away. Harry boomers, cleveland 19. Dan in mentor, workers hope to have all lanes open by midnight. It has been shutdown to one of the storm debris. Also freshmen should report to the middesyl middle School Library from noon until 2 00 to file their schedules. Lightning hit a transformer at the high school causing a fire and it knocked out power. Todays sophomore session was canceled. Well let you know when it is rescheduled. I have been following the power outage situation all over northeast ohio throughout the day. I would like toav news for you, but i dont. First of all lets start here. At 6 00 i was watching these numbers and they were up to 16,000. They have made substantial progress if you are a first energy customer. Here is downtown cleveland. It is mainly an eastside problem. There are problems in rocky river. As we click on the interactive map, you can see we are talking 20 and a hundred households affected. Power back until 3 00 a. M. Where harry was in Cleveland Heights, just off university circle, we can click on some of these. These people all day have been seeing these estimates at 10 00 tonight to get their power back. Let me go down to this one. You kwan you can see the estimates have been pushed to 6 00 p. M. Tomorrow night. Thats a long day, a long, hot night of trying to sleep and then maybeot to pow wi in up to power in the morning. They have extra crews and they are trying to get the power back on, but it is a lot longer delay. One of the Cleveland Police officers fired over a chase and deadly shooting shooting in 2012 is trying to get his job back. He was one of the 13 Police Officers who fired a total of 137 bullets into a car after the chase killing Timothy Russell and melissa williams. As we told you at the top of the newscast, Cleveland CityCouncil Voted to take down the gazebo where 12yearold tamir rice was shot and killed by police. We learned it will be dismantled next month and eventually will go on display at a chicago for the past year rices mother told cleveland 19 news that she wants the go gazebo removed and the park remodeled. Dan a wild School Board Meeting in the suburbs and that ma i be putting it mildly. Parents furious after the removal of a superintendent. Dani carlson finds out what is going on. They tried to get the Police Department to make the citizen ises stop talking. She was told the man is not doing anything illegal and it went on from there. Hundreds of people packed tonights cuyahoga School Board Meeting. A meeting held out of the district in independence for no publicly stated reason. The complaint were wide and varied, but focused on the actions of the board like suspending the Public Comment from board meetings. And i will recommend suspension of Public Comments as long as the board of education business continues to be interfered with. Reporter and on last weeks suspension of the School Districts superintendent. The suspension enacted without a publicly given reason. We want evans. We want evans. Reporter the meeting lasted an hour and a half and when adjourned she quickly left and escorted to her car by her husband and the chief of independence Police Department. This is what happened when we tried to talk with her. I doubt she would talk to me, but if she did she would say i am an elected official and i was elected to make decisions. She was elected to make decisions that is best for our students and she is not doing it. Once her children graduated, she didnt care i have requested the personnel file. The superintendant is the one who handled the public request requests. Dani carlson, cleveland 19 news. Dan charges are pending against a man who tried to climb trump tower. The 20yearold from virginia used suction cups to scale the building. For nearly three hours he dodged police as they smashed him. On the 21st floor they were able to grab him. He posted a video on youtube titled message to mr. Trump and in it he asked for a personal meeting with the president ial candidate. At no time did he express he wanted to hurt anybody. His sole intention was to meet with mr. Trump. Trump lives in the tower, but was campaigning in virginia. Police tookim for a psychological evaluation. Romona we are getting answers on a dangerous problem. Dirt bikes. And then is your Drinking Water safe . The easy way to find out ahead on cleveland 19 news at 11 00. How you can protect yourself from storm damage scammers. And there are more storms it is gorgeous out there. If you have air conditioning you are looking at this picture. We will be steaming it back up. Live from clevelands news center driven by Don Joseph Toyota in kent, this is cleveland 19 news. To build a park for dirt bike riders has come to a screeching halt. They proposed a multimilliondollar park after complaint of bikers in neighborhoods. Carl monday was the first to ebbing to expose the dirt bike dill lem ma. The push ran out of gas. They are loud and dangerous. Atvs and dirt bikes and the engines are roaring up and the citys solution is a 2 million motorcross track at the playground knees east 73 near east 73rd. The dirt bike legislation was in for a rough ride when it went before city council. Before the city invests two million in the new park he wants assurances. Riders who use the streets will be ticketed. I would like to see some commitment from the recklessness of people riding atv and dirt bikes on our city sidewalks and streets jay he is not ready to surrender his vote, not when they failed to fix a rec center. The for these babies to be able to recreate when it is 90 degrees outside and they cant go in a water park. They need to hire a consultant to clean up the industrial waste that sits beneath the we first brought the dirt bike issue to light last yary and even discovered the grandson was riding illegally. The mayor with all due respect it seems like he knew he was doing this. He has since been arrested twice. Councilman zach reid said these are not choir boys. These are grown men and women that are driving up and down our streets and up and down our communities and causing havoc and causing chaos in our wards and in our communities. Around the idea for three years. The administration will have to wait longer. It will be addressed by council at a later date. Getting answers, carl monday x cleveland 19. Dan if you drink straight out of your tap is it safe . New Research Says ohio is one of 13 states with the most pfa chemicals. The chemicals are used in products like pizza boxes and popcornag and then they leach into the water supply. They were linked to high cholesterol and obesity and cancer. To find out if your water supply has high levels, con account tay the county health department. They may be able to help you test your water or contact the state laboratory. We can also forecast there will be scammers around trying to take advantage of 350e78 answers on how to protect yourself. Storms brought the tree limbs crashing down in this Cleveland Heights neighborhood and as you can see the road was blocked out for the post for the past 24 hours. They need to choose repair companies carefully or they could get scammed. Tuesday night storms hit the neighborhood hard. My daughter said mom there is a train coming down the stright about 10 00 last night and things were going every which way. They scattered across north saint jam fell on the car. When you are looking for help to repair your home or clear your yard, scammers could be standing by ready to strike. You want to watch out for someone who comes knocking on your door offering a free roof and offering a onetime deal, you have to sign the contract now or the price goes up. Sue mcconnell says be on the lookout from out of state or even here locally who swing by offering to help when you online. Check them out carefully. Dont be intimidated and scared and anxious and too quick to sign a contract with someone who comes knocking on the door. Get an estimate and a written contract. You want to watch for someone who might be coming around saying that tree looks like it could be rotted and maybe it could come down in the next storm. She will be watching out for her neighbors. Protect thy look out at who is who and question people. She hopes the clean up wont take long. It is hard because life goes on and you have to keep chugging along. Stay safe, everybody. Another thing you want to check is make sure the repair company has insurance in case anything goes wrong. And you can check the companys ratings on the Better Business bureaus website. Getting answers, cleveland 19 news. Back at hurricane sandy, one of the things the neighbors did, if you saw the repair men and they had license plates from out of state, that was a sure sign and those trucks were everywhere. A little heads up. Romona we will have a few more storms to possibly more damage. Beth at least the latest run of the models show a little less force. First things first. I felt like we should have a party. We should have 20 days at normally we see 9, but unfortunately we have a few more to come and we havent broken records yet. We lost the heat of the day and everything settled back down. It doesnt mean you cant see isolated showers. You will see fog if you are an early riser. You may have to deal with some patchy fog. A mostly cloudy sky. It wont be comfortable sleeping weather. Although there is a chance of showers and storms, it is just looking a little less for tomorrow. Not a lot less, but future view has not picked up a lot. Just like today mostly cloudy skies and fog in areas. As the heat in the area gets going so do the showers and storms. What you are noticing is you can see all green colors. That means rain showers. Hopefully we will be calmer tomorrow. Friday, guess what. We had the same thing happening again. A mostly cloudy start, heat and humidity and then end up with more showers and storms. Currently we are 76 degrees at hopkins and 77 in lake county. 78 in mansfield. Everybody will drop a degree or two. 75 and just watch out for the patchy fog in case you have to tomorrow a lot like today. Clouds to start with some sunshine. By lunchtime it is 89 degrees or even at 2 00 the 89 degrees will feel so much hotter. Even if you dont see the storms lets talk about the heat index. 79degrees is what it feels like. At times it is going to feel like 100 degrees. We saw that pop out a couple of tim if you are heading to the tribe game it may just be 88 degrees. Identical days in the low 90s. Saturday and sunday, more identical days. We have a cold front that comes through on saturday president on saturday. It will bring a bunch of rain and potential for flooding. Monday and low 80s. Monday is transition day. There will be a slight chance of showers and storms. Tuesday that will be the day im off. Jeff tanchak will be board out of his mind and bummed he missed these storms. Thank you, beth. Preseason game, first one is two days away. What does bernie cozar have to say about them . Get breaking news and weather on the cleveland 19 today, lets get to the heart of the matter. We now have even better access we can click to chat with Cleveland Clinic heart experts online call today, for an appointment today. Or, if its urgent, walk in to our emergency departments, 24 7. Its access, anytime, anytime. Anywhere. 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Thats why hes fought against every bad trade deal from nafta to to most favored nation status for china. Now Ted Strickland is running for the u. S. Senate. Callinr until we can prove theyll create american jobs. For an Infrastructure Bank to repair roads, bridges and water systems. To protect medicare social security. And for a 1000 tax cut for middle class families. I came from a working class family. I will always fight to make sure that working people. Have a fair shot. Ted strickland ohio, heart and soul. The heat and the humidity are here to stay. We get no relief from that. The chance of showers and storms on thursday and friday and all day on saturday and sunday. Thats going to be a problem. Dan thank you for joining us at 11 00. Cleveland 19 news this