Clevelands finest directing traffic keeping things moving smoothly and can you see the crowd at the corner, george can you get them there . They are headed to the stadium. Ones coming this way headed to the indians game. Beautiful night. Traffic is thick, no surprise. Folks headed home from work and a guy on a skateboard crossing the street here. Maybe thats the quickest way to go. We will keep an eye on traffic which seems to be movingsm night. It will be a great night in cleveland keeping an eye on traffic here im jon loufman cleveland 19. Romona thank you, jon. To help navigate the roads download the cleveland 19 news app and will you get traffic updates. Mark with all whatting in our city business is booming. Shanice dunning has the economic impact. Reporter tonight Paul Mccartney headlines at the q. Theres an indians game. Plus the browns preseason owner of the restaurant on west 9th he is looking forward to it all. Many businesses here including his didnt see as much traffic as they hoped during the rnc. We can make more in one browns game in our restaurant than inspect 10 republican conventions. The city says there will be an influx of visitors in the streets with the festivities. Marin is one of them. He came from china. His firstp visiting my hometown ohio. Reporter lebron james is your idol . Certainly. Tonight is a drop in the bucket compared to what the city has seen this summer. Getting around may be difficult. Especially parking signs like this were up downtown by lunchtime today. If you want to avoid the hassle and high prices rta reminds everybody to use Public Parking meters on many downtown streets. Reporter shanice dunning, cleveland 19. Mark shanice, thank you. Much more on clevelands busy night coming up. Live in the muni lot down there s. Our city still a browns town . Really r we all in for the cavs and indians . Coming up in sports tony breaks down tonights game against the falcons. All right, jeff. How is the weather looking. Jeff my take, whoever is winning out of the three teams thats the town we are in. Thats mye. Lets look at the numbers 82 cleveland. We are rainfree right now and i think we will stay that way. 86 by the way in akron as we take the graphics. Dover new philly. Okay. We can take weather one whenever you want. There we go. All right. Lets look at the hour by hour here. 7 00 bit time of the indians and 80 and Paul Mccartney and the 9 00 we are at 76 degrees. Dry tonight pleasant, warm and muggy through saturday. Best risk of storms come saturday night. Thats the big front and cooldown sunday. Details on that coming up. Mark and romona, back to you. Romona a deadly crash on the jennings. Paul orlousky was on the scene getting answers after a driver veered off the freeway into the back of a Cleveland Water Department truck. Reporter traffic slowed but never stopped investigated. On the face the accident looked simple. A van off the side of the road into some weeds. It was far more serious. Pieces of the van littered the highway in an explosive collision. The van hit a Water Department dump truck. It youth weighed the van. Reporter the water truck was on the side of the road and the van ran into it in the book, hitting virtually an i. M. Truck and look at the significant damage of the cab into the face of the driver. Many questions remain why was the Water Department dump truck stopped on the highway. No information on what cause the the driver to veer off the road. A medical condition or distracted driving. A Cleveland Police accident investigation is taking over the probe in the cause. Reporter digging for answers paul orlousky, cleveland 19. Mark another hazing allegation to during a Lake Catholic High School football camp last month taking place on John Carroll University campus. A report was filed two weeks later. Parents received a letter. No details are released. We have a statement from the diocese on our app. The Ashtabula County coroner released new details on Michael Martins death. Investigators say martin robbed a teen at gunpoint tuesday when deputies found him they say he pulled a gun. We know democrats shot martin twice in the leg, once in the no word yet if all three shots were fired from the same gun. Romona today the Cuyahoga County medical examiner released a Public Health warning about the deadly animal sedative, 100 times more deadly than fentanyl and 2500 more times than heroin. Fentanyl and heroin kill 300 people this year. We are headed for double the nu doctorate goes on to say the detection of carfentanil is ongoing in the illegal opiate crisis. Small amounts are fatal. Turning to campaign 2016. Nominee donald trump will be in akron monday speaking at the university of akron at 7 00 p. M. We have a link to register on tuesday. Hillary clinton was in cleveland yelled. Romona back to our busy day in cleveland. The browns play their first home game of the preseason. Mark we wonder is this still a browns town or champion cavs and indians change feelings. Shelby miller is live at the muni lot now. Shelby . Reporter hey, that is a great question. We went around town and asked people. First i want to show you ti it is getting more crowded in the muni lot. A few more motor homes came in and people are tailgating and some are parking and walking over to the stadium. That gentleman there you see he has on a cavs shirt. Browns. So the question is are people still rooting for the browns above all over teams . Yes. Thats not what everybody said. A diehard. The tribe in first place. Now a fresh start for the Cleveland Browns. I think if you think the parade was big for the cavs, if the browns ever win, hold on. Twice as many people show up for that one. Diehard browns fans came to the muni lot to tailgate ahead of the preseason home opener. The rest of the lot was empty through the morning and afternoon. Even though browns are disappointing us, people love the browns. Now that the cavs brought it home for us, people are when we ask people around downtown cleveland who they support here is what we heard. My Favorite Team cavaliers. Second, the indians. I am a diehard indians fan. Oh, the cavs havent disappointed and indians are following. So i like them both. Cavs, indians and what about the browns. This, after all is considered a football town, right . The browns had been so i think now we have turned the corner. A new Coaching Staff and fresh team will help and browns fans told me it is good to get the team out of the spotlight. It takes pressure off the browns. Everybody loves the browns and indians and cavs and allows browns to rebuild themselves and become the team we know they are capable of. I like that, right t. Keeps the pressure off the browns. We will also, i did a poll on twitter for who is your Favorite Major League team here in cleveland. It is the same consensus. The cavs and then the indians and browns are tight there. At least in the muni lot there are some people who are diehard fans who got here at 10 00 this morning. The group behind us in the huge bus got here at noon and everybody trickling in after work. Game. And not are browns playing indians are plague. Reporting live in downtown Cleveland Shelby miller, cleveland 19 news. Mark i want that bus. Romona i am a sucker for the underdog. Browns will show us something. Mark i think so. 88. Making my call now. 88 is great. Romona thats an improvement. Up next the latest from louisiana and an alert so you are not taken trying to help the flood victims t. Jeff . Jeff we have an alert, yellow alert later saturday, saturday night as we track the big weekend change. This will be a storm threat. Details on that coming up. Mark cedar point made the announcement. Find out what will be new for 2017. We want you to join our team for the susan g. Komen race for the cure. Head to cleveland19. Com. The race is on august 27th. Get breaking news and weather now on the cleveland 19 news app in love again with your home. Live from newscenter driven by Don Joseph Toyota in kent this is cleveland 19 news. Romona the red cross now says the flood devastating louisiana is the worst Natural Disaster in the u. S. Since Hurricane Sandy four years ago. Mark at least 13 people died across 5 parishes. We lost everything Hurricane Katrina came here and 10 years later lost everything again. Mark with more rain forecast the destruction could get worse. Louisianas governor says 40,000 homes suffered damages. It is not clear how many are uninhabitable. Romona Ohio Attorney general provided tips so you dont get scammed trying to help people in louisiana. Do your research on donation requests. Use web sites like ags Office BetterBusiness Bureau and charity navigator. Signs of potential charity scam includes High Pressure tactics and requests for donations made charity. Mark this week we have been traveling to cleveland hot spots to introduce to you the newest member of our team. Tonight is a rock hall visit with Denise Dufala and chris tanaka. Denise mark, i know you are jealous, we are in your turf at the rock hall. Mark knows this place like the back of his hand. Big music fan. Denise this is your first visi jason was here to tell us all about it happening annually and happening now with some of the new exhibits. It is a treasurer and icon and landmark. Denise it is amazing. They have people from all over who come and people in town for the Paul Mccartney concert talking about rock power and politics exhibit going on there. The Music Masters of course and johnny cashs bus is here. They have summer jams and free concerts to the public and the up Labor Day Weekend 21 years. Chris incredible. 21 for rock n roll hall of fame. Denise a big party. We will take cleveland 19 news on the road tomorrow to crocker park. We hope you join us then. Back to you guys. Thank you. One in four young women live without their biological father. Thats why a local program is showing the importance of a dads impact on his daughter selfesteem. We found the kids in lyndhurst former Cleveland Browns probowler josh cribbs. He kicked off the Fourth Annual him and me fatherdaughter dance earlier this month sponsored by the group alive and on purpose. The bond between a girl and siegman in her life raises the girls selfesteem and makes suicide less likely. Special to me. Five years ago hi five young ladies who wanted to commit suicide because their fathers were not in their lives and the dance is making sure dad will be there and dont fall to negative effects. Romona it is a fun event. These dads know they have a powerful role in their daughters lives and better communication will make those growing up years a lot smoother. Thats a great idea. So impor. Today. Yes. Thats what i am told. Is that true, jeff . It is true. And mark was exactly right on that. The humidity has come down a little bit. Thats why it is not as muggy as what its been. It does go back up tomorrow and saturday and monster change is on the way something we have not seen in quite sometime going back over a month. I have future view with spotty tomorrow afternoon and basically dry tomorrow night. When we get to saturday dry in the morning and during the afternoon by it 2 00 we start to bubble up a few showers and storms and kick in mainly saturday night after 8 00 and rain getting intense as the front comes through containing high winds and as i mentioned heavy rains. Here is what i have going on currently. Partly we are watching the storms keeping an eye on them. As it stands now, these will fizzle and stay out of our area. That is good. Dry along the lakeshore northwest to 8 wind 8 to 13 knots. Beautiful night down to 66 for the low partly cloudy sky pleasant akroncanton and down to 64 later tonight and tomorrow 86 with isolated storms during it will be more humid tomorrow 68 at 7 00 a. M. And 5 00 is 85. Spotty storms around and weekend, 89 to near 90 saturday and few afternoon storms and better opportunity saturday night. Whoa, right around 70 on sunday with some scattered light showers. Comfortable time monday. 75 partly cloudy. Tuesday. 78 and partly cloudy and to 83. Mark, there you go. Good run very good. Cedar point expanding its outdoor water park changing the name from soak city to cedar point shores. Among the additions point plummet. Sixstory tall body slide connecting into the starboard surge and starboard plunge with fivestory tube slides and Lakeside Landing to the family mark i am choked up over that report. Exciting . Straight ahead browns in preseason action against atlanta. We are going live to firstenergy stadium. Sports director Tony Zarrella now this is the serpentini chevrolet sports report on cleveland 19 news. Mark game 2 of browns preseason is tonight first of the year at firstenergy stadium. Yep. Open for business Atlanta Falcons will be here for 8 00 kick off. Sports director Tony Zarrella is covering the game. I get the feeling the guys want big game in green bay. Tony no doubt about it. Lets go to the 35yard line. Will you see rg iii. You get a shot of him, wags . Will you get one half out of him and he will probably talk about it. For our talk about browns income a work in progress, joe brown with an interesting take. He is not selling a three to five year plan he believes browns could be a playoff team this year. I am definitely optimistic we are a young team. Inexperienced in a lot of positions. I think what that means we will see growth and progress throughout the season. He has been here and cornerstone of this organization. It thrills he thinks that way and feels that way. I hope it burns a fire in all our players and coaches. Thats what we are chasing and what we are all about. A lot of time these teams veteran teams together a long they are as good as they will be and maintain that level. For us, i feel we can improve every single week and get better. I dont see any reason we cant be a playoff team this year. Tony mark, if you allow me to quote our Favorite Movie miracle, it is a lofty goal and he wants to pursue it. Good for the browns. They should think that way. I dont know how many receivers we will see but good guys for a shot out there. I think team u. S. A. Was Getting Better odds. Indians will try to shake off the 9th inning loss last night and get a win against the white sox. Danny salazar activated. Out with elbow issues, inflammation and no structural issues and hopefully get back to being the dominant starter. And carlos has never lost to the indians. Other than that, theyre in great shape. The playoffs this year. Jeff pleasant night 86 tomorrow. Better opportunity saturday night. 89 saturday and 70 sunday mark thanks for joining us pelley meddling with the truth. Ryan lochte and three other u. S. Olympic swimmers are accused of robbed in rio. Police say this video proves it. Also tonight, the spread of zika. Florida reports two more cases, apparently spread by local mosquitoes. The Chicago Police superintendent wants seven officers fired, accusing them of a coverup in the Fatal Shooting of a black teenager. And maybe this child can get the worlds attention. Hes the new face of syrias civil war