Offender convicted in 2010 for raping a child under age 13 living right behind his property. One of our uniformed officers observed an individual hiding behind the tree inside the wood line near the Elementary School. It turned out to be the wanted fugitive earl edington. Edington was wanted for failing to register his address with authorities as a condition of he had been living in the woods and his campsite is in plain view of the playground. Todd lives up against the playground and he says this area behind the Elementary School is too often a place where questionable things are happening and he worries about some of the kids. The darkest place is right there at that swing set. If they lit that place up like daylight maybe half the people would stay away. Reporter earl edington was marshalls and Lorain CountySheriffs Department and he is tonight in the Lorain County jail. North Ridgeville Police are asking anyone out there and any parent who talks to their child if they have had contact with earl to contact them immediately. Reporter asking questions, getting answers, denise zarrella, cleveland 19. Thank you, denise. There are ways to search for convicted sex offenders. Can you even check to see if any are living close to your home. We will show you how coming up in the next Chris Cleveland 19 on west nile watch after several local mosquito traps tested positive for the disease. The Ohio Department of health says traps in bentleyville, brooklyn, parma, south euclid and strongsville all tested positive. The agency is urging people to get rid of standing water on their properties. You should also keep children inside an hour before and an hour after sunset and make sure you only use bug spray with sending a message to lawmakers in columbus. Denise city hall is filing a lawsuit to block a state law from taking effect. Paul orlousky is getting answers on the potential impact. Reporter with the bust of fanny lewis in front of them the mayor detailed the lawsuit aimed at what is known as preserving the fanny lewis law. Contractors in the city doing work in the city to hire city residents. House bill 180 would mak lewis law illegal. Cleaved has the right to preserve our local authority and provide and protect clevelanders with the opportunity to work on construction jobs where there is city investment. Reporter the goal is to provide a path to construction work. The mayor says it is working from 2009 to 2015. 730 million of public projects and 855 contracts. 23 of the workforce 1 billion known as home rule meaning certain local laws like contracts are decided by locals. The state does not have a right to take away Home Rule Authority unless the city is in conflict with the constitutional provision. Reporter the city believes it is on firm legal ground. The lewis law was named after fanny lewis who worked tirelessly for years and feels residents were short changed. Residents o tantamount, the city itself wasnt getting the benefit of money of residents being spent and the city. Reporter the city filed now. The state law was to take effect at the end of the month. Reporter asking questions, getting answers, paul orlousky, cleveland 19. Denise the lewis law is supported by the Contractors Organization and u. S. Labor. Chris deputies looking for an escaped inmate. Deputies say he and another inmate posed as trustees and escaped in a van. One got away. If you see them call 911. Denise a chemical leak at a business creating a cloud sending 8 to the hospital. The Company Makes brass musical instruments. No one was seriously hurt and the business is back open again. What hope you got outside and enjoyed it. Chris metro parks for a picnic lunch. Two for two so far. Yeah. Next time i will be happy to join you for the picnic there. It was fantastic again today. Warmer than yesterday. We made it above 80 with a few clouds around and a comfortable night and tomorrow the humidity goes up feeling comfortable as the afternoon wears on and and thunder on the way and here comes the next system. Afternoon storm threat on thursday. Thats when we could be dealing with some of the storms containing heavy rains and gusty winds. Theres the next opportunity. 80 degrees right now and it is beautiful. Again, high thin clouds and 82 dover new philly and 79 mansfield and ashtabula and across Cuyahoga County and cooler on the lakeshore and 77 in so the next few hours keeping it around 80 or so at 6 00, 7 00, down to 79. If you have the softball game going on this evening, 76 and mostly sunny sky next few hours. And what to expect for the weekend coming up as well. Thank you. You can track the latest conditions with cleveland 19 news first alert weather app and get it for the smart phone or tablet. Louisiana. President obama touring the region hours ago. He surveyed the disaster firsthand. Any pledge to help the victims there. Manuel borkees reports from baton rouge. The president toured East Baton Rouge Parish one of the hardest hit communities. Floodwaters damaged or destroyed about 60,000 homes. Peoples lives have been up ended by the local businesses suffered terrible damage. Families have in some cases lost homes. Reporter the water in this house came up to their shoulders and they tore out damaged wood and soaked carpet and tossed it on his lawn. Your whole world is gone. All the clothes, bed stuff and baby things and everything is gone. God has a reason for us and we will listen to what he says. He will provide for us. Reporter more than 106,000 federal aid. 80 of people in louisiana do not have flood insurance. The president says the government is beginning to distribute 127 million in federal Disaster Relief to those who have had to flee their homes. I need all americans to stay focused on this. If you are watching this today, make sure that you find out how you can help. Can you go to volunteers louisiana. Governor. Reporter prent visit follows trump on friday and he criticizes him for not cutting short the vacation. And trump tweeted the visit by the president was too little too late. Reporter baton rouge, louisiana. Denise Hillary ClintonsCampaign Says she will visit the region in the future. Right now her presence might disrupt Emergency Response efforts. There are also dozens of fourlegged victims of the for themselves when the storms hit. More than 2 dozen puppies are in northeast ohio. Shelby miller getting answers with one of them tonight. She is in geauga county. Shelby, looks like the pup is happy to be here. I know. I think this is the favorite here. This one is rascal. About 25, 27 puppies all the way from louisiana are here in geauga they are so precious as you are seeing. Some are only four months old. Some are older dogs, too. A lot we want through stress that the people in louisiana are going through. A lot of people have been asking me how they can get their hands on these little guys which is of course is the question i am asking, too. They have to be vetted and chill out here. They will be 225. This one is running away with my phone. Can i have that back . Thank you. Come here, dude. I mean whats not to love about them. 225 for the puppies if less than six months olds. Thats what a lot here are now. They are cute. They went from louisiana over to atlanta. Its been about a week and a lot of car riding and they made it here. We were live with you guys when they pulled up in the parking lot. They have gone through so much. It is amazing how calm this one is, all o i did a facebook if you want to see other videos please go to our web site. You can check this out on there, too. Guys, we will stay out here and post pictures. Make sure you join us at 6 00 for a package and talk about what these guys went through and it is important for the shelters in the country. Reporting live Shelby Miller cleveland 19. Chris if you want to adopt one of the puppies head to rescue village and Geauga Humane Society the address and phone number are on the screen or story on the homepage of cleveland19. Com. Denise they do good work there. First alert traffic on cleveland 19 news is sponsored by ford. Denise lets take a live look at things outside now. Not too bad. Is that chester, guys . I think it is chester downtown near Cleveland State anyway. You about. We were looking at odot site and things are pretty smooth out there maybe somebody in a berm but nothing major to report. You can get the latest on traffic conditions by downloading the app and clicking on the traffic tab. Chris coming up on cleveland 19 news. A Major Medical milestone. 8yearold boy is making history live from clevelands newscenter driven by Don Joseph Toyota in kent, this is cleveland 19 news. What that i was going to die. If i didnt call the cops right away we would be dead. A dramatic rescue in new jersey. A 12yearold girl lept from her burning home. Officers caught and broke the fall of another. They all got out safely. No word what started the fire. Denise that thing was up in flames. Chris an 8yearold boy to undergo a double hand transplant. Denise this little guy is something. He is talking about his progress. Brooks has the details. Reporter its a busy year for zion harvey and mom patty rae as they adjust to his new life with his hands. It still feels i am living my dream. It is his dream but mine, too. Reporter last summer zion was the first child to undergo a double hand his rapid recovery allowed him to write in his journal and zip his clothes and threw out the fist pitch at a Baltimore Orioles game. The only limits seem to come from his mom. She will not let me try out for football. No. We will start with baseball. Why not. Too dangerous. Zion lost his hands and feet due to an infection when he was twoyearsold. His new hands transplanted from procedure here are designed to grow as he does. The team of doctors and therapists say through rigorous physical therapy he trained his brain to communicate with his hands after not having any for six years. He was seen five days a week for three hours of Occupational Therapy a day for 10 months. Squeeze. Hes learned to bake, play with toys and even passed out the cake at his 9th birthday party. Who didnt get one . Whats leftn list . Convince mom to let me play football. Brooks sylviabraga. Im sure in time zion will be playing football. They issued a statement saying they are happy part of their son could be a blessing to another little boy. Now a cleveland 19 news consumer alert. A warning for anyone planning to travel. Reports say airlines will thousands of delta flights earlier this month. The reason the report says is because major carriers havent spent enough to update reservation systems. In some cases they are based on 1960s technology. A new survey is out on the new Wireless Service and verizon once again on top. This study looked at speed, data, reliability and text performance in all 50 states. Verizon beat out for the 6th straight year. Denise scientists developed a new kind of Food Packaging and it is actually made from milk protein. They say the biodegradable wrap will be up to 500 times better of protecting food from oxygen. Get this, you can even eat the packaging. They hope the new wrap will cut down on food waste. Something for chicken lovers. Lotion. The stuff smells like fried chicken. Jeff thats why i got it. Denise it has and 30 and they are giving away 3,000 bottles as a promotion. Theres george. Nice tan going there. See that . Chris i will be honest that would get me to kfc. Denise i dont know. The thought of slathering on stuf chicken. Jeff why not . It is fantastic. You might have a pack of dogs following you away from the beach. Denise i worked at mcdonalds as a kid and you cant get the smell out of you. I dont want to smell like a fast food chain. Jeff great sun protection. You needed it stayed. More cloud cover in the mix tomorrow and can you get the sunburn this time of year. This pretty much tells the sale. Muggy meter tonight and tomorrow and look at this on thursday. Whoop. Oppressive. It will feel uncomfortable for one day while tomorrow night and through the day thursday until we get the next front going through. High clouds out there now. Can you see a strip of high thin cloud cover and this is a sign we do have a little more moisture beginning to try to build in whenever we see the cloud cover like that. And this cloud deck will move i i still think we will be quite sunny at least early tomorrow morning. Some showers and storms trying to get their act together and looks like they will be more organized tomorrow night. We have a yellow alert for rain and thunder by tomorrow night and then another wave thursday afternoon with the front. Out of the two waves thursday afternoon thats when it will be muggy and some storms could contain heavy rains. The rain we have coming in dry morning on future view and in the afternoon clouds increase and here you see showers and perhaps a rumble of thunder by tomorrow evening. We will have rain in the forecast tomorrow night and again some thunder. Could see a break thursday morning and thursday afternoon we start to develop more storms. The actual front comes through thursday night. Looking better friday as we get some drier air in here at that foot on the lake northwest to east wind 813 knots and us dropping to 60 and becoming clear. Akroncanton dropping to 59 with a clear sky. Pretty pleasant tonight. 85 the high tomorrow and increasing clouds. Rain and thunder Late Afternoon and more likely in the evening 62 at 7 a. M. And 84 at 5 00 and thats when i have rain and 86 on thursday. Afternoon storms. Look what happens after that friday partly cloudy 79. Susan g. Komen race for the cure saturday morning will be in the 60s. Some high clouds. 82 sunday mostly cloudy warm and 85 and spotty isolated showers monday morning and 81. Denise . All right, jeff. Coming up on cleveland 19 news streisand versus siri. The performing legend is taking we have been having a little fun with siri in the commercial break. She cant say dufala. This is big trouble brewing for barbara streisand. Sir simis pronouncing her name on the iphone. Chris dont mess with iphone store when they have trouble, but she went to c. E. O. Tim cook smiles we gave to one another. . Chris my goodness. The legendary performer not smiling. She complained siri was pronouncing the second s and streisand sound like streizand. She called cook and got action. The next iphone update will actually include the pronunciation. I am like, i got on my power suit. Chris tyra banks going back to school. The supermodel and reality show star headed to stanford. Banks told the wall street journal she will costich a course next year. The class is about building and extending your personal brand. Microsoft founder bill gates worth 90 billion according to the bloomberg billionaires index. There is such a list. That makes gates the richest man in the world by far. A spanish retailer is second with a measly 76 billion. Pauper. A pair of cowboy boots worn by former president Ronald Reagan will go on the Auction Block next month in new york. 700 items from his private collection are up for bids. Proceeds will president ial library and museum. Jeff 83 the high today. Quite comfortable. That will be changing and watching out for the rain and thunder in the next couple of donald trump facing new criticism he appeared to mock a reporter with a disability. You gotta see this guy. uhhhh i dont know what i said, i dont remember. hes going like i dont remember. Putting a wife to work is a very dangerous thing. I dont want to sound too much like a chauvinist. You have to be wealthy in order to be great. Im sorry to say it. Hes a war hero because he was captured. I like people that werent captured. Priorities usa action is responsible for the content of this advertising. Welcome. Continuing to hold a strong lead in most polls and donald trump pushing back hard on the email controversy. Denise mrs. Clinton not talking and did appear on a tv show and ryan nobles covering campaign 2016. Reporter Hillary Clinton tried many times to move past the scandal of her private email server during her time of secretary of state. Would you explain the emails. My em i am embarrassed by that. The f. B. I. Recommended against charges being filed and the fall out from the controversy provides ammunition for Donald Trumps attacks. The Justice Department is required to appoint an independent special prosecutor. Because it has proven itself to be really, sadly, a political arm of the white house. The state department was ordered to release 15,000 emails by the end of september. That the emails wont reveal much. We have released, i dont know 30,000plus, whats a few more. Clintons emails to this point have given plenty for critics to question including interactions with the Clinton Foundation raising millions of dollars from donors from around the world. The clintons made this state department into the same kind of pay for play operation as the arkansas government was. Theres no specific that clinton gave privilege to Clinton Foundation donors, the email issue shows she will not outrun voter skepticism. When theres negative News Donald Trump would seem to step up and overshadow that message. We are not seeing that now. They are focusing on Hillary Clinton. In washington, im ryan nobles. Ryan says the change of focus could make an impact on the sprint on election day. Stay with continuing coverage of campaign 2016 and cleveland19. Com on twitter and facebook pages. Kids headed to school and folks want to know about the weather. Will it rain . Not the morning. But maybe Late Afternoon kids will be out of school tomorrow. Thursday you might run into an issue during the afternoon. We are 80 degrees sandusky 84. It is great. Akroncanton 79 mansfield and