Transcripts For WOIO Cleveland 19 News At 5PM 20160129 : vim

Transcripts For WOIO Cleveland 19 News At 5PM 20160129

Dan first we want send it to jeff tanchak. We had snow today but is she sunshine on tap for the weekend. Jeff sunshine and a big warm up. You will be nowhere close thinking of winterlike weather over the weekend here. Lets get to the trend here as far as temperatures go this evening. Still be on the chilly side and the wind dies down dropping to the low to mid20s and we start to rise in temperature through the 20s overnight. We are at 28 currently. Wind is starting to go down. West wind at 12 and blustery on the lakeshore and 12 in the akroncanton area. We have a lot of sunshine out there. Look at that. Sunset time is at 5 39 now and warming overnight and big weekend warm up and an alert for light rain on sunday. I will also let you know how long this warm spurt will last coming up at about 5 17. Dan we want to tell you california right this afternoon. One of the three violent inmates who escaped from the Orange County jail is now back behind bars. 43yearold dong was arrested by police in santa ana where the three made their elaborate escape. He flagged someone down on the street and said he wanted to turn himself in. Two escapees are still out there. Denise also an alert for shoppers. After a woman was robbed at gunpoint in north olmsted. This happened as she was walking out of the Great Northern mall wednesday night. Take a good look at some of the surveillance video. A clear picture here. The suspects police tell us the suspects tried to use the victims credit card in cleveland shortly after the robbery. We just got pictures of the suspects vehicle. This is a silver or ford gray taurus and ohio license place if you see the car and recognize the suspects please call the police. Denise we are still waiting to learn the identity of a person found dead inside a burning building in mentor. Firefighters were called to the print shack on Eastern Avenue at 5 30 this morning. It took more than 20 minutes to get the fire under control. The victims body was found under some debris that collapsed. They still dont know how the fire started. The elyria woman badly hurt from trying to save six puppies from his home has been upgraded to fair condition. Cindy redel is at metro and got out of her Burning House wednesday and went back inside to get the dogs on the second floor. Then she got trapped by the flames and went out the window. Her fiance is treated for smoke inhalation. The fire is under investigation. Friends say they lost everything in the fire including 6 of 9 dogs. Help them. If you would like to help we have a seenon section of our web site. Dan the water crisis in flint, michigan was a topic that took center stage at the g. O. P. Page and john kasich asked if he has an answer and a lot of us are saying hold on, governor. The fact is every single engine of government has to move when you see a crisis like that. I have had many situations in the state of ohio when we have had to move, whether it was storms or Horrible School shooting. There are many crises that come. A water crisis in toledo. You have to be on top of it and go the extra mile and work with the communities and federal government and you realize people are depending on you. So you go the extra mile. But people have to be alert. They have to be alert to problems. When you see a problem you must people at home are saying they have a problem, listen to them. Because most of the time, they are absolutely correct. Dan governor kasich did not make any mention of ohios own water crisis happening right now in the town of seabring. People have been donating bottled water after ohios e. P. A. Issued the water advisory alert for pregnant women and children last month. A local school even had to shutdown two days this week while water was tested for lead and cnn is reporting they knew about the water problem and didnt notify people until december. We want to know why governor kasich didnt address seabring last night and we contacted the Governors Office today asking for a response. Nothing so far and we have learned Lieutenant Governor mary taylor is also on the campaign trail. She was in New Hampshire this afternoon for the governor. We have contacted our crews in iowa looking to talk to the governor directly as he you know we will keep you posted denise act activist was on colbert talking on the colbert show. Can i tell you the flint, michigan water situation is a crisis. We are not getting ready to face it, the crisis is here. Since flint hit the National Stage we found out seabring, ohio has the same problem and realized they have been delivering their customers lead. Denise after finding lead in the water in seabring and Chagrin Falls, it had us wondering if other area schools have their water tested. We headed to northeast ohio to get some answers and we will tell you what we learned coming up. Dan we saw it in the case of tamir rice what police thought to be a real weapon turned out to be an air soft gun all too often kids are using fake guns to commit real crimes putting themselves at risk and also us. Shanice dunning is here to tell us about a new policy leaders have put on in Cuyahoga County to make the kids accountable. Reporter dan, for kids, getting a fake gun and tricking people into thinking it is real to commit a crime happens so much. Now the courts are sending a warning to them saying if you abuse a fake gun, you will face real consequences. Three weeks ago police say a 14yearold took a toy revolver and managed to rob almost three people in one day. Someone will rob an individual using a gun for all intents and purposes it looks real and because it is not they will face less consequences than if it was real. Reporter duane is chief prosecutor for the juvenile division in Cuyahoga County and says more kids are turning to way to rob, steal and intimidate. Bbs guns, pellet guns. They make them look just like the real thing. Reporter today the Cuyahoga County Juvenile Court announced they are cracking down on replica guns. From now on juvenile defenders in the system caught using a fake gun to intimidate someone will face tough penalties including being locked up here at the juvenile detention center. If you are on pretrial release, the court f appropriate, can revoke your release and take you into custody. If you are on probation to the court from an existing offense and found in possession of one of these guns, gun, they can take you into custody and if appropriate revoke your probation. Reporter the court believes focusing on teens that already committed crimes will be most effective because they are more likely to abuse replica guns. Deskins hopes the initiative will send a warning to young people and their parents about it is a way of preventing crimes before it happens. Reporter we reached out to the county to find out how frequent robberies with fake guns are. We dont have that information yet. But when we get it, we will give it to you. Denise all right sharks niece, thank you. Cleveland Police Officers will soon have dash cameras in their police cruisers, Cuyahoga County set aside 500,000 to buy dash cams for cleveland once the vendor is selected. Right now they are in the trial phase with the same company used to purchase body cameras for cleveland Police Officers. The city says their goal is to have those dash cams in the field by the second or Third Quarter of this year. Dan we are staying on top of a story we brought you earlier in the week. We want to know where is marty flask, the former Cleveland Safety director. We have sent several freedom of information act requests trying to figure out what the executive special projects actually does. Denise dani carlson joins us now with some answers. Dani . Reporter you know what, we started out and we want to know that marty flask and mayor arent available for an interview today. We are told the mayor is out of the office and marty flask just isnt available. We got some answers to the freedom of information act request like what is marty flasks salary and what does he do in a way. We are not sure what projects flask is working on and what he completed since appointed to the new position in 2014. We are waiting for them to fulfill that freedom of information act but flask got a pay bump from his new gig. In 2013 he took home just more than 123,000 a year and jumped to 126,000 a month after he was appointed to his new job. And the salary climbed to 128 as far as his schedule now, we got a chance to look at it, the only thing consistent is inconsistent, hours he is in varies and as do topics of meetings he participates, everything from talking to the doj about the Consent Decree and organizational structure at hopkins airports to talking about parking violations at specific buildings. Obviously, the big question we are waiting on, what projects has flask participated in and has he completed and working on as the executive assistant for special projects to the mayor. We are waiting on that freedom of information act request. As soon as we get the answer we will update you as soon as we learn more. Live in cleveland dani carlson, cleveland 19. First alert traffic on cleveland 19 news is sponsored by ford. Denise we will take a live look at traffic right now in and out of downtown cleveland. This is 77. Smooth sailing and the sun is shining. Clear and an accident near dead mans curve and 92 at the split. Apparently a vehicle is disabled there and we have reports it hit a wall there is a traffic tie up near dead mans curve westbound. Remember, you can download the free cleveland 19 news app and tap on the traffic tab to get realtime updates on the go. We decided not to risk it. Dan coming up families are scrambling to change travel plans as a virus spreads. Live from clevelands newscenter driven by Don Joseph Toyota in kent this is cleveland 19 news. Dan apple is recalling millions of power adapters because they could cause electric shock. The twopronged wall plug was sold in the apple world travel adapter kit and were designed for use in countries outside the u. S. , apple says it will exchange faulty plugs for free ones at any apple store or authorized Apple Service provider. Denise this sunday is the last day to sign up for Health Coverage under the Affordable Care act also known as obamacare. You will be shut out the rest of deadline unless you have an event that qualifies you for a special enrollment period. People that dont get covered have to pay up. The penalty 695 for adult and 375 per child under the age of household income. We have been telling you about the zika virus spreaded new people through mosquito bites. Zika is showing up in the u. S. , and the illness is widespread in south america and caribbean. Pregnant women are told not to travel to those affected areas and that has moms to be canceling trips. Dan including women who plan to take a babymoon, sort of like a honeymoon, a sort of vacation before their little one arrives. Reporter stephanie is 24 and pregnant and plans to go to puerto rico. News of the zika virus forced her to cancel. Know, something were to happen. Mosquitospread zika causing fever, rash and joint pain. The virus appears to be dangerous for pregnant women and those trying to get pregnant linked to babies being born with abnormally small heads. The Major Airlines are offering pregnant women and travel companions traveling to zikaaffected nations a refund or rebooking and uniteds offer is for customers who are pregnant but customers attempting to become pregnant jetblue and delta will accommodate any customers with concerns. Major cruise lines say they will also try to accommodate pregnant women. Usa today travel reporter jones says so far the virus has not had a major impact on the travel industry. Theres not a big fear this will cause widespread travel cancellations. It is not airborne and wont go from passenger to passenger. We kind azided not to risk it. And switched her babymoon from the Dominican Republic to disney world. It is an odd choice for babymoon but we will have a good time. Reporter it is difficult to look at the babies. The World Health Organization announced they will hold an emergency meeting monday to determine if the virus should be declared a International Health emergency. Denise thats scary stuff. All right. Lets talk about our weekend. A warm and sunny start. Jeff what a change today. We started with snow showers and most areas got less than an inch and a few spots in the sun belt got a few inches of snow and clouds are getting out of here. We have full sunshine in cleveland. Sandusky, norwalk, mansfield and it will be a clear start to the night and eventually, the clouds in the snowbelt will be clearing out for a time as well. That will be replaced by this cloud deck coming in here later this is in advance of that warmer push of air. Right now we went to 28 in cleveland. Note 40s and weve got 51 in st. Louis there. Thats an indication of things to come for us tomorrow. Shift. All of a sudden you will want to grill out tomorrow, just like that. Watch the temperatures go up overnight. Low to mid20s this evening. The wind is starting to die down. Thats good. Watch by 7 a. M. There around 30 32 sandusky. Still 20s inland. I went with around 30 with increasing clouds in cleveland tonight. Akroncanton 28 by 7 00 a. M. And mostly cloudy sky. Tomorrow, increasing clouds during the afternoon and i will keep it dry. 52. South to southwest wind. How about that. And then by sunday we will see some light rain, 58. Sunday scattered showers with the front. It will be windy as that happens. Monday well drop in the 30s by afternoon only to rebound again tuesday 46. Overall very warm pattern here. Light rain your first alert sunday that could mess up your outdoor plans just a little bit there. 58 for the high. A front like i said will come through sunday night. Monday, a clearing sky. Tuesday 46. Wednesday morning and falling thursday, 25 and lakeeffect snow there. Denise. Denise all right, jeff. Thank you. Check out this view of the day guard. A lovely picture of the bristol bay on lake erie. The coast guard kicked off ice breaking on the bay. We continue to follow the we asked several local schools if they are testing their water. What we found next. Denise meet diesel. This little guy was badly hurt and now needs help. Denise we told you earlier in the newscast we contacted local School Systems to find out the last time they checked the water for lead and we are waiting to hear back. But we have an update on Chagrin Falls gurney elementary where tests showed elevated lead School Superintendent robert hunt says in spite of alert still on the ohio e. P. A. Web site a test in november showed gurney was in the clear but they spent today making sure bottled water is available to students and staff there and staying in touch with the e. P. A. , and they another round of testing next wednesday. And of course we are staying on top of this story for you and report to you as soon as we hear back from other local School Systems, on rare, online and palm of your hand on the cleveland 19 news app. Dan the Northern Ohio spca is asking for your help to keep deese toll keep on trucking. The public suffered a spinal injury after pinned under a broken porch nearly a week. He needs surgery for a chance at a normal life. Animal clinic emergency agreed to do the surgery at a discount and it could still cost 5,000. If you would like to help with diesels medical costs you can donate to the sbc parma shelter. Denise look at that baby. Clinic. They saved my gabby. Continuing coverage of campaign 2016 is coming up next candidates are making a lastminute push before the caucuses. Jeff feazel roof camera, here you go. Clouds getting out of here. Nicelooking sunset. We will keep on warming up the temps throughout the weekend. I will tell you about it denise the marathon turned into a sprint. Dan only days remain before voters caulkous monday. Denise ryan nobles is in iowa with how the candidates are pulling out all the stops. Ryan . Reporter denise and dan, to an extent you have to work at not running into the president ial candidates. They are all over iowa. With the race so close in both make they could have a big impact on monday. It is crunch time in iowa. If you stand up for me monday night and i will stand for you. They hold two dozen different events across the state hoping to convince voters still making up their minds. Think hard about what you want in the next president and commanderinchief. The economy. Tim is still undecided. What are you deciding over . Which candidate has less hate and more hope for the country. Reporter a strong showing in the nations first showdown could be a momentum builder and candidates realize it working overtime to close the deal. I believe it is our campaign generating the excitement and interest for large voter turnout. Reporter the iowa caulk success an investment meaning candidates like Hillary Clinton have to hold as many big rallies their supporters up to get out and vote. Reporter lauren is one of them. It is nice her being a woman, she has our perspectives and just really strong county. Reporter a mad dash across the first voting state with the campaigning of many hanging in the balance. No question candidates are spending a lot of time in iowa but have not taken their eye off New Hampshire. Some candidates will split their time between here and New Hampshire in the next couple of days and some republicans abandoned their efforts in iowa and focusing completely on the granite state. Denise . Denise how about mr. Trump . Has he split town and whats the fallout for him not showing up at the debate. Reporter donald trump is one of those candidates splitting time between the two states and spent the bulk of the day in New Hampshire after making a big splash with his co

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