I was assured nothing like this would happen again. Again. But it did this past monday to stewarts 10year old fourth grader. He got on the right bus, but fell asleep, and woke up when it went through the intersection of madison and red bank roads. Seconds later, he sleepily got off. Off. He realized as soon as he stepped out into the sunlight this aint where im supposed to be. By this time the bus was gone. Gone. Luckily, another Good Samaritan came along and took the boy home to call his parents. Stewart called First Student again. Again. My words were in fury, if you cant do the job, im going to need for all of you to shut down and go flip a burger or clean some toilets. Toilets. First student spokesperson chris kemper says the driver a substitute has been given corrective action and retraining. And, all drivers have been reminded of their duty to make make sure students get on the right bus stop. Kemper says the company has apologized to stewart and taken an unusual step. For the immediate future, whenever his children get on or off the bus, the driver will call the dispatcher and the dispatcher will call stewart to say everythings ok. Plus, with daylight savings Time Starting next week, drivers will be checking buses for sleeping students. Tom mckee, nine on your side, live in pleasant ridge. Dramatic video tonight of an ohio trooper using his car to stop a wrongway driver. Dashcam video shows the car coming right at the trooper on interstate 77 in stark county in january. Sergeant david garber then turns around. And starts chasing the driver. The driver refuses to pull over. So. Garber uses his cruiser to slam the red car. Causing it to spin out of control. Confronted by at least two other troopers. The driver finally pulls over on the side and surrenders. Trooper say times the legal limit for drunk driving. We have had a steady rain falling for much of the afternoon and evening. Nine first warning chief meterologist Steve Raleigh is here with your outlook for the rest of tonight. Steve. Expect rainfall totals between. 75 to 1. 5 or more by the end of the day. Rainfall totals will likely be greatest from cincinnati and Northern Kentucky westward. Some lowlying and poor drainage areas may experience minor flooding. Friday, well have an Early Morning chance of showers. Clouds will decrease, and well see some sun return a local veteran says he was the victim of cost cutting at the cincinnati va hospital. 70yearold art strum served two tours in vietnam. When he fell and broke his arm last year, he thought the va would give him a quick fix. He was wrong. 9 on your sides jason law spoke to the retired marine about growing concerns at the cincinnati va medical center. Art strum fell down and broke his left arm in july. Six months later this was what his arm looked like. You can several pieces. For months strum said he complained about the pain and couldnt figure out why no one at the cincinnati va could get him the help he needed. Its not the scar that bothers art strum. It was very frustrating. Frustrating. It wasnt even the pain, although that was bad too. Like i said, i kept telling them that there was bone grating on bone. Bone. What bothers this retired marine is how long it took for the cincinnati va to properly fix his arm. When this happened and nobody was really doing anything about it, thats when i got aggravated. Strum said he complained about the pain for months. What he didnt know when he first went to the va was that all five experienced orthopedic surgeons were on their way out the door. Last month scripps news and wcpo spoke to hospital workers who said va officials cut staff and compromised veterans care. Many services are being devastate and are incapable of carrying out their necessary news wcpo investigation led to the replacement of two senior va leaders in cincinnati. In january the hospital told scripps and wcpo the surgeons who left orthopedics did so for personal or family reasons. The hospital also said it recently brought on an orthopedic spine surgeon and a general surgeon and in the process of hiring an additional orthpedic spine surgeon. But no one answered specific questions about whether cuts in orthopedics caused substandard care for strum. Do i expect anything special . No. Im a person. But i would expect the same kind of care at the va hospital that you would get if you or your wife or child went into a civilian hospital. Thats all im expecting. Strum finally had corrective surgery on his arm last month and is now living painfree. For weeks hes been trying to reach his local lawmakers, brown. He says he also wants to meet with Veterans Affairs secretary bob mcdonald if when he visits cincinnati. Nearly all the streetcars are now in cincinnati. And testing seems to be going well. But one big question remains. How to cover all the costs of running the system. Tonight. The city seems to have an answer for that. Nine on your sides julie oneill is covering that for us tonight. Julie. A report in december said funding for the streetcar could be as much as one point four Million Dollars short of what is needed. The city called that report a worse case senario. The agreement announced today is designed to make sure the city system running. Under the plan. The Haile Foundation would provide 900 thousand dollars in funding as needed by the city. It had the streetcar. This clarifies parts of that agreement. In addition. The city would spend up to an extra 680 thousand dollars the first year. And 518 thousand dollars the second year. Running the streetcar is expected to cost four point two Million Dollars in its first year. City offficals say if streetcar revenue comes in below estimates. They reserve the right to start cutting costs. Including cuts in service. I asked city manager harry black what services might be cut. Well we dont know. Its not a problem right now. The system will Begin Operating in september and funds have been identified that we believe will be able to support the operation but again we have to wait and see how these Funding Sources actually materialize black says the city is funding they need. Well all have to wait and see. Meantime, four of the five streetcars the fifth and final car should arrive later this month. One companys expansion will bring hundreds of jobs to the tristate. How you can apply. Jury tampering. The accusations being leveled in a major drug case. And the mountain of cash prosecutors say was offered. More than just a school project. The fundraiser underway right now that will help save the lives of other this is a letter from someone whos here. She has to take a brand name drug. Been taking it since the early approximately 180 for 10 shots. The latest refill was 14. 700 for the same 10 vials and the company is called valeant pharmaceuticals. Im going after them. This is predatory pricing and were going to make sure it is stopped. Im Hillary Clinton and i approve this message. A Hamilton County man tonight is accused of bribing a juror and tampering with evidence to help a major drug offender. Investigators say 33yearold daryl bullocks offered a jurors husband ten thousands dollars in exchange for his wifes vote in his jamar hamilton. He was tried last year on heroin and trafficking charges. If convicted, bullocks could face up to seven and a half years in prison. Better news in the job front from macys. It could add as many as 200 jobs at its call center in Warren County. The company is expanding its call center in deerfield township as part of a National Plan to consolidate those facilities. Ohio recently gave macys a seven year tax break. That tax break depends on the comany creating at least 175 new jobs in deerfield township. Macys is already hiring for those openings. You can apply on macys jobs dot com. Talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, scream. Only one guys done more than talk. Kasich. Hell do for america what hes done for us. Create jobs. Four hundred thousand jobs here in ohio. Brought em back from mexico and china. Turned our deficit into a surplus. More jobs . An america that works . Lets loan em john kasich. New day for america is responsible for the content pennies. Nickels and dimes are on the minds of kids at Mason Middle School school theyre raising money for the leukemia lymphoma society. 9 on your sides butler and Warren County reporter jay warren shows why the kids always know who they are fighting for. It was a test of strength in Lauren Richardsons class todayas these students tried to hoist four hundred dollars in coinsbut there are other examples of strength sitting and walking among the students here at Mason Middle School seventh grader maya collins was diagnosed with accute Myeloid Leukemia four years ago maya collins cancer survivor i would probably describe it as hard but everything will be ok because you can get rid of it and it positive attitude is as bright as her blue hair is featured with classmate Ben Terribilini who also has blood cancer in a new school video shot by richardson Ben Terribilini cancer survivor i had a bone Marrow TransplantRadiation Therapy and chemo. Maya and bens classmates watched their video in class today and will march out this weekend with a boost of motivation for one more fundraising push Lauren RichardsonMason Middle School teacher last year when we started pennies for patients we really werent sure what the school was capable of in the past we raised three thousand four thousand the School Record was eleven thousand and last year we broke it. These kids plan to break last years record by reaching fifteen thousand dollars and both maya and ben are living examples of what Research Dollars can do sot i would say yes its definitely ok to donate because it would save somebodys life if you donated money. sot this helps children stay alive and live longer. sot if you donate two pennies to a cause then youre living for something and i i think if theres anything i can teach my kids its that and ive been talking to them a lot about that this week and through these videos so thats what i hope i hope that throughout this week we realize we can make a change whether its with five cents it can happen. Weather summary expect rainfall totals between end of the day. Rainfall from cincinnati and Northern Kentucky westward. Some areas may experience minor flooding. Friday, well have an Early Morning chance of showers. Clouds will decrease, another rey of sunshine for the bengals today. Free agent linebacker vinny rey has reupped three years, eleven and a half Million Dollars. But this is also official now wide receiver Mohammad Sanu falcons today. 14million of his 32and a half Million Dollar deal is guaranteed. And george iloka was talking today about the deal he signed to stay with the bengals. Trt 14outcue . And it all worked out. iloka they have their way of doing things around here. I would say up until a few days ago things didnt heat up. I had no clue if they even wanted me. Silent about their business. And they handle it how they handle it. And it all worked out in less than a hour, xavier is on the court for its big east tournament conference opener. The muskies open against marquette, with a cautionary tale from their head coach. Trt 09outcue . Thats all youre guaranteed. mack every team we playis 00. The only thing were guaranteed is two games. One in the ncaa tournament. Thats all youre guaranteed. and out west today, the reds are playing the rockies in an exhibition game. Its to , in the. Brandon finnegan went two out into the third, five hits, two runs. And one of the best amateur hockey teams in the tri state gold. They are the under18 cincinnati norse. broo track on a cold night, its even colder in here. But one of the best teams on ice this winter, has been the under18 team nicknamed the norse, about as close a hockey teamsot up full 4 06 384 06 42 bentley yeah, its just a family. Were all brothers. We fight. But we make up broo track most of these players have skated together for the last ten years. And to great success. Last year, this team won the bronze at the national championship. The year before that, the norse won the silver. In a couple of weeks, the norse skate off to buffalo for this years nationals. Sot up full 4 06 42 dagostina so wed like to come and finish first broo track so would their coach. This is matt dunne, for years, an on ice official in the echl. The cyclones league. His son chris skates for the norse, fending off questions from his mcnick High School Buddies about all the fights they think hockey players get into. Sot up full 4 09 524 09 58 dunne thats the first question i get asked. And i say well not many. Cause its not allowed in our league broo track as any parent of a hockey a cheap sport. Paying for ice time and equipment is expensive. And the norse travel a lot on weekends. Sot up full 4 10 47 dunne its a lot of missing friday night football games, friday night basketball games. broo track but if the norse skate home with the gold in a couple of weeks, now that would be a terrific payoff. And now heres julie dolan with a look ahead at what well have for you on nine on your side at seven. Just into the newsroom. Two Northern Kentucky men are behind bars. 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