Pressure from congress this week. Week. Talking about nepotism, lack of cleanliness, mismanagement and just one day after president obamas press secretary weighed in. In. This is a situation that the white house is aware of. The agency also substantied misconduct by the cincinnati vas acting chief of staff, dr Barbara Temeck the Agency Suspended her medical privileges, and transferred temeck to another role pending potential further discipline. The va announced the sweeping moves, in response to a joint investigation by the Scripps Washington Bureau and wcpo. In a statement, it said the misconduct by both hetrick and temeck related to temecks prescriptions and other medical care to members of hetricks family. Its Inspector General accepted the agencys referral for potential criminal greenblatt, scripps news, in washington. Veterans are responding this morning to our joint nine on your side iteam and scripps dc bureau investigation. Investigation. Members of concerned veterans for second floor ballroom. Theyll demand accountability after our investigation raised questions about misconduct at the va. Leaders tell nine on your side not enough is being done to correct the problems. Steve burkhalter concerned veterans for america local leader123522 they get to keep their retirement packages and they get to keep their paychecks and their job and the veterans are the ones that dont get any care. Care. Nine your side will be there for this mornings rally. Well bring you our Coverage Later today. Starting on nine on your side at noon. Donald trump is refusing to back down this morning. Repeating overnight that he wont release his tax returns. It dominated last nights gop president ial debate. With marco rubio and ted cruz repeatedly taking aim at the issue. The candidates hounded trump all night long. Once again attacking his controversial immigration plan. Rubio accused the gop frontrunner of repeating himself on the campaign trail. Without offering any real specifics. Cruz also took his own punches at trumps conservative credentials. With trump firing back at the Tea Party Donald Trump r president ial candidate if youre talking about the polls, im beating him awfully badly. sen. Ted cruz r president ial candidate but youre not beating hillary. donald trump r president ial candidate hey, if i cant beat her, youre really going to get killed. Killed. Ohio Governor John Kasich tried to stay positive. Saying he hopes viewers see that executive experience matters. Hes promising that he will hit the ground running and we will get america moving again. 9 on your side. Once again teaming up with politifact. One of the most respected factchecking groups in the nation. Cutting through the rhetoric and holding these politicians accountable. Accountable. Attacks continued on frontrunner donald trump throughout the debate. Ted cruz. At one point. Claiming trump and him agree socalled obamacare should end. But for opposite reasons. For decades, donald has been advocating socialized medicine. What he said is the government should pay for everyones health care. And in fact, a couple of debates ago, he said if you dont support socialized health care, youre heartless. Heartless. Our Politifact Team false. His pants are on fire. Trump did not say those words. Or anything like them. In any recent debate. Trump has advanced the idea of more Competition Among private insurers. And says the government should take care of those who cant afford insurance. Nothing trump supports comes close to cruzs statement. Politifact will be working overnight checking statements for you. Well have their truth ratings for you on good morning tristate starting at four30. And on wcpodotcom. And our 9 on your side mobile app. The search is on this morning for an aurora First Responder who has been missing since monday. Craig whitham was last seen at his aunt and uncles home in rising sun. Hes been an aurora emt for over two decades. Police say the 42 year old left his cell phone and wallet behind. Angel adams says her cousin is the most dependable person she knows and his disappearance makes no sense. Angel adams cousin 05 24 its just a whole range of emotions. One minute its we know hes okay, hes probably just somewhere taking some and then we are sad. 37 Facebook Page to spread the word. Prayers for craig whitham, help us bring him home has nearly 250 members. Happening today. The tri states heroin epidemic will local law enforcement. Enforcement. Sheriffs from several tristate counties will meet this morning to ask to public to help them take down drug dealers. Theyre asking you to report Drug Trafficking in your area. And they say you can do it anonymously. Well bring you highlights of this meeting on nine on your side at noon. Cloudy and cool again today and well continue to see a few flurries this morning. Highs only hit the mid 30s today. But dont worry, warmer air will arrive this weekend. Highs jump to 50 on saturday and 62 on sunday. Picking up the pieces. Their community was devestated by a freak tornado. How theyre start the rebuilding process. New zika fears. Where the latest case was discovered. And why it could mean big welcome back. And check out this close call for a Police Officer in missouri after his patrol car was sideswiped by a big rig. The officers dash cam captured the accident. Luckily. No one was injured or killed. But the car is totaled. Theres no word on what happened to the driver of that big rig. The cleanup continues this morning just to the east of us in pennsylvania. After a amish countryside. The tornado ripped a path of destruction five miles long in lancaster county. Tearing off roofs, leveling barns and destroying a schoolhouse. Members of the Amish Community are already rebuilding the damage. They dont have on their fellow man. They help each other out. Their families will be assessed if need be. To help pay for the cost and they just do the work themselves. The good news. There are no reports of any injuries. Happening now. A specially equipped plane is on its way to rescue nearly three dozen researchers stranded in the Australian Research center. Where those researchers are stuck. The icebreaker thats supposed to bring them home ran aground several days ago during a blizzard. The american plane has skis for landing on ice. There are new concerns this morning about the zika virus. And the summer olympics in brazil. Brazil. A woman says she got the virus two miles from the olympic park. That woman isnt pregnant. But the the virus can cause severe birth defects when a pregnant woman is infected. Many female athletes. Including some from the united states. Have said they are concerned about going to the games because of cloudy and cool again today and well continue to see a few flurries this morning. Highs only hit the mid 30s today. But dont worry, warmer air will arrive this weekend. Highs jump to 50 on saturday and 62 on sunday. The tristates generosity. On full display this morning as total strangers come together to help an abused dog. How you can give it a happy ending. That was really not nice to clap at only a 7 year old. Its a story sparking outrage this morning. Who a family is gmts animyoure watching good morning tristate at 4 30 on 9 on your side its a story youll only see on 9 on your side. An injured the help of so many. Getting the medical attention he needs. 9 on your sides John Genovese with his amazing recovery. It was the coldest night of the month it was about 9 degreesand out of the woods came a guest robert inhuman wasnt expecting saw that there was like a pitiful freezing to death couldnt move, couldnt walk at our back porch 1yearold blue came wondering through the woods gave info to friends put it online rescue sitesrobert tracked down blues owners the outcome wasnt good the news was he needs surgery, i cant pay for it, were gonna have him put to sleep but that wasnt an option im a vegan anarchist with a very strong belief in Animal Liberation so any opportunity to help innocent animal life is the core of my life philosophyso with the help of around 50 people through the record label he owns they raised nearly 13hundred dollars to treat blues broken femur and get him the dental work and neutering he needsit was incredible already coining a new name his name was blue but we think grey matter might be a suitable name too because it implies a lot of brains and hes got a pretty big headwith roberts schedule keeping him isnt an option. He hopes someone else can. Anybody who ends up being the this pitbull is gonna be a lucky family. I can guarantee it check this out. Tristate police are looking for this bald man. Caught on camera stealing rogaine. This is video from a store in florence. Police say the man usually takes rogaine and prevegen hiar growth supplements. Worth thousands of dollarshes hit other Stores Across the midwest. Investigators believe hes the university of missouri professor caught trying to intimidate journalists during a campus protest is now out of a job. Job. The universitys board of curators voted yesterday to fire melissa click. Click was seen on video last fall asking for muscle to get rid of a video journalist. Shes also charged with thirddegree assault. Its going viral this morning for all the wrong reasons. Were hearing from a family that was kicked off a plane. As passengers clapped. Jorge alvarado. Whos fighting stage four throat cancer. Says his sevenyearold son, giovanni, had an allergic reaction to a service dog. He says a Flight Attendant making snide remarks egged on the passengers. Who cheered as they walked off the plane. That made me sad when my dads dying of cancer and really not nice to clap at alvarado says he wanted to take his family on one last vacation before he passes. Allegiant says it stands by the decision to deboard the family. Quite a surprise for a pennsylvania high school. After one of its honor students turns out to be someone else. Else. Police say Artur Samarin used the name asher potts. Claiming to be a high schooler. But hes actually a 23 yearold man. From the ukraine. Police say he created the ruse to stay in the us. Hes now under arrest. Its a fabulous february giveaway on 9 on your side. Watch good morning tristate from 6 t0 7a for your chance to win a 100dollar prepaid gift card. But youd better jump on it. Because today is your last chance to win win watch for the weather word of the day and enter it at now lets check in with with your nine first warning weather. Weather. Long the close of our workweek will be cold, but i promise you, warmer air is coming over the weekend temperatures drop morning with cloudy skies and flurries across the tristate. Skies stay cloudy to mostly cloudy all day long and this will really hold back our temperatures. Highs will only reach the mid 30s this afternoon. If you are heading out to a fish fry this evening, bundle up the family. The weekend is looking flat out fantastic High Pressure moves into the ohio valley and it ensures that both days are mostly sunny. Temperatures improve to 50 on saturday. Winds increase from the southwest on sunday and this helps pump in warmer air. Temperatures should top out in the low 60s on sunday. A quick moving cold front rolls through the ohio valley late sunday night and into monday morning. Well have a few linger showers for Early Morning drivers but the majority of monday will be dry. Highs on monday only hit the low 50s but thats considered mild for the end of february. Morning rushovercast flurrieslow 27fridaymostly cloudy to overcastslight chance flurrieshigh 35friday nightcloudy early clearing saturday mostly sunny skies warmerhigh 50saturday night fair skiesnot as coldlow 35 mostly sunnybreezy warmhigh 62 hes lobbed some big insults on the campaign trail. But donald trump isnt in trouble this morning. The political statement that landed some students in hot water. I used it and my pains went away and i slept great. Great. A new spa treatment. Making men forget their aches and pains. Where the glass. And tub. Are both cloudy and cool again today and well continue to see a few flurries this morning. Highs only hit the mid 30s today. But dont worry, warmer air will arrive this weekend. Highs jump to 50 on saturday and 62 on sunday. To prepare for spring this weekend at the annual home and garden show. Show. It opens tomorrow at the Duke Energy Convention center and runs through the weekend. Before returning on march 2nd. This is video from last years. Youll get a chance to browse everything from flowers and landscaping. To gazebos and hot tubs. You can catch the show on saturday from 1030 am to nine pm. Tickets are 13 dollars for adults. And children 12and under are free. Its a political rally of a different kind. Donald trump is causing some controversy in iowa, but its not what you think. Think. Donald trump, donald trump trumpthats Youtube Video of a High School Basketball game in iowa. School Officials Say the home crowd started chanting trumps name because the opposing team had several hispanic players. Of course. Referring to trumps call for a border wall with mexico. Administrators say the chant was inappropriate and casts a using a drone to spy on someone could get you in legal trouble in kentucky. The Kentucky House has passed a bill. That would let Police ChargeDrone Operators with harassment or voyeurism. Its in response to a kentucky man who shot down a drone last year that he said was spying on his teenage daughters on his back porch. There are spas of every kind. But this morning. Theres one thats catering to men. Using a special ingredient. Ingredient. This one is being called americas first beer spa. Its called hop in the spa. And you can find it in sisters, oregon. Its owner says a bath in brew is good for you. Spagoers soak in a proprietary blend of beer, hops and barley. And its such a success that its already expanding. Hop in the garden which will be our beer garden and then hop in cup which will be a new too. For those hoping to get tipsy off the tub. Some bad news. You can not get drunk soaking in beer. Reds season is getting even closer. Tomorrow. Single game tickets for reds home games go on sale. Starting at nine am. That excludes opening day. Which is april 4th. The team is bringing back fireworks fridays this year. After every friday home game. Super saturdays. Which include a premium giveaway every saturday. And sunday family days. Power problem. A tristate family says its out thousand of dollars. And hundreds of fish. After their power went out. The questions they have this morning for duke energy. Cancerfree nighthundreds of tristate teens. Joining the battle. How theyll spend the Early Morning hours raise money for tristate cancer its fristrating because its not hte first time its happened. A local couple is blaming duke energy this morning for something that could cost them thousands of dollars. We made it through the snow this week and now were looking forward to some warmer weather. Weather. It will feel like spring is here. A little windy but we can handle that. Lets get the details from 9 first warning meterologist, jennifer ketchmark. Cloudy and cool again today and well continue to see a few flurries this morning. Highs only hit the mid 30s today. But dont worry, warmer air will arrive this weekend. Highs jump to 50 on saturday two Top Veterans Affairs leaders in cincinnati are out but a Veterans Group is saying this morning its not enough. Enough. The officials were at investigation into mismangement at the va done by wcpo and the scripps News Washington bureau. Jordan burgess is live with why veterans say they still have theyre getting. In just a few hours veterans will gather here inside the Millenium Hotel in cincinnati. Organizers say to expect to hear a lot of anger and outrage. The reason for that . The va