Breaking right now. A Clermont County house fire. 145 ruth lane. House is said to be unoccupied. Via neighbor who called it in. We have a crew on the way. Live pictures as soon as we get there. We expect to learn more today about whats next for three cincinnati officers who opened fire and killed a man. Police out of his waistband. After reports he was waving a gun in the street. Street. 9 on your sides timyka artist has the latest. Lt Steve Saunders pio 700 its no one ants to use firearm this morning were learning weather is to blame for a ship nearly crashing into people the crazy scene all caught on video but before we play it for you this is where you have to look. These are the people directly in the right now this ship is sitting in port getting repairs. Its all because of this wreck. The ship just crashes right into that walkway. There are those people i pointed out running for safety. That nearly 500foot ship smashing statues, even concrete in its path. Incredibly no one was hurt. New this morning. A man is recovering from serious injuries after police say he drove off the road and hit a power pole. Pole. Investigators say he was trying to beat traffic go get onto an on ramp to roosevelt boulevard from university in middletown last night. The impact of the crash left him trapped in the car. He had to be flown to the hospital by helicopter. Police say they believe speed is most likely a factor. Relief in the lorain area, near cleveland, overnight. A toddler, missing for 5 hours, has been found. Found. 2yearold lana lowther before 9 last night. Around 2 this morning, she was found alive in the snow in somebodys front yard at least 10 blocks away from her home. She was taken to the hospital to be checked out. A williamstown woman wants justice for her dog who was shot and killed within minutes of her letting him out. Out. Sarah austin let her dog, vader, out of the house before she took her son to school yesterday. Moments later her neighbor came to the door and said a black and white dog was found dead in his backyard. Austin says when the neighbor brought her dog over in a box, she noticed the bullet hole. Austin says she called several police agencies. But according to her no one was helpful. 7 43 when i lifted his face you could see it right above his eye. 45 09 41 animals breathe and walk and feel just as humans do. They need the same rights. They need the same respect. 46 austin already cremated her dog but she would like police to interview her neighbors. She also wants stricter punishments and laws for animal cruelty. For the first time in months, a new national does not have president ial frontrunner. Frontrunner. The survey gives senator ted cruz a two point lead over trump among republican voters. Senator marco rubio comes in third. And Ohio Governor john kasich is fourth. The gop candidates came together in a town hall last night in south carolina, which will hold the nations next primary. There was some extra focus on marco rubio, who picked up an endorsement from that states governor, nikki haley, before the town hall. I got the endorsement of a governor of indian descent, who endorsed a president ial candidate of cuban descent, and tomorrow well be campaigning alongside an africanamerican republican senator south carolinas primary is on saturday. If youre young and looking for work. A job fair in Northern Kentucky is focused on you. You. Its this afternoon in newport. At the Campbell CountyPublic Library in newport. Employers from more than a dozen local companies are looking for workers theyre hoping to fill part time, fulltime and summer positions. Supreme court battle. The conservative whos breaking ranks, and telling president obama to go ahead and make a nomination. This mom is furious with American Airlines this morning, after she says the airline basically lost her 11yearold daughter to bring you wendy s North Pacific cod sandwich we send guys like this. In weather like this. All the way up here. For wild caught fish like this. That we panko bread like this. For a sandwich that s light, crispy and crunchy. Today where s the beef . Means something different. Some use beef frozen from far away. But wendy s believes the juiciest hamburgers are made from fresh beef raised. Right here. Land of the beef, home of the retired Supreme CourtJustice Sandra day oconnor is disagreeing with republicans this morning, urging president obama to fill justice antonin scalias newly vacant seat quickly. Quickly. Oconnor is calling the partisan chatter over the nomination unnecessary, and says the president should get on with the job at hand. Oconnor was the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court, nominated by president Ronald Reagan in 1981. She retired from the bench in 2006. Scalia died of Natural Causes over the weekend. Mexican authorities are investigating a laser attack on the popes airplane. The flight crew taking the pontiff a laser at the plane just as it was getting ready to land. If a laser is pointed in the eye of the pilot it can blind them. Its a felony to point a laser at an aircraft here in the united states. A North Carolina mom is furious this morning after how American Airlines handled her 11yearold daughter, who was flying alone. Follow along with me here. Here. The girl was supposed to fly back to charlotte monday night. The flight was delayed due to weather. Then, hours later, at 1 30 in the morning, the girl calls her mom and says shes been rerouted to columbia, south carolina, about an hour and a half away. Mom starts driving to columbia. Then american calls mom and says the plane is on its way to charlotte. Mom turns around. Then american calls back and says the girl is still in columbia i dont want another parent to go through this. They need to look at this system they have in place. Theyre charging people 300 for and they need to examine where it failed because it failed drastically. Shes referring to the extra charge you have to pay for the airline to accompany a minor flying alone. Her daughter was on the plane a total of 9 hours and was never fed but shes doing ok. So far mom says she has not heard back from american about what happened. New this morning. Toyotas recalling nearly 3 million suvs. The problem that could put your backseat riders at risk. And before you pick up that morning latte listen to what gmts animyoure watching good morning tristate at 6 on 9 on your side a us congressman says a controversial Birth Control device has caused hundreds more fetal deaths than the fda has publicly reported. Were talking about essure, which is a device implanted in the fallopian tubes. Tubes. The congressman says an independent report reveals that essure has caused more than three hundred fetal deaths. But the fdas public database has only cited 5 deaths related to essure. Now the congressman wants the fda to take a serious look at that discrepency and he wants essure taken off the market. If you think youre being healthier by skipping the soda machine and going to starbucks. You may want to think again. The group action on sugar tested 131 hot drinks from coffee shops in the uk. Including starbucks. Some of those drinks had up to 25 teaspoons of sugar. Thats three times the sugar in one three times the maximum adult daily intake recommended by the american heart association. Toss to weather weather its a mostly cloudy start with cold temperatures in the mid to upper 20s through the morning rush. Temperatures today with highs in the low 40s. Skies will be partly cloudy, so well finally have more sunshine to enjoy during the day. Winds shift to the south on friday as a warm front lifts over the region. Strong southerly winds will gust near 30 mph and push temperatures to the upper 50s and low 60s to end the work week. Skies will be partly cloudy and no rain is expected so it will make for a beautiful but breezy friday forecast. Saturday is the best day of the extended forecast. Highs will be in the low 60s with partly cloudy skies throughout the day. Temperatures this high are 15 degrees above normal and more like late march levels. Scattered rain showers will be around on sunday, so it wont its a 40 chance for rain during the day with highs in slowly cool behind this rain passport backlog. Why you need to start getting yours renewed now. And which celebrity takes the perfect passport photo. Plus take me out to the ballgame for its 1, 2, 3. Pitchers wmax full and dont forget to join me right now on my facebook page. Two people have now been fired over the high levels of lead found in the water in sebring, ohio. Ohio. Those people were ohio epa employees. An internal investigation found testers found the high levels of lead last summer. But the people of sebring werent told until january. The water there still has not been cleared. Toyota is recalling nearly three million suvs worldwide because some of the Rear Seat Belts could fail. Fail. The affected vehicles are the toyota rav4, toyota rav4 ev, and toyota vanguard. Most were built between 2005 and 2014. Toyota dealers will fix just contact your dealer. Get ready to pay more when you book your next flight it started last week, when jet blue raised ticked prices by six dollars per round trip. Now, three more airlines are raising their prices delta. United and American Airlines. Those same airlines, also raised air this picture of prince is being called the perfect passport pic. He just tweeted it out. And it meets all government regulations. Its the right size 2by2. Taken on a plain white background. With no smile. Still, he looks pretty good. If you have a passport thats expiring soon, youre going to want to make like prince, get your picture and get it renewed. Nearly 50 million passports will expire in the next 3 years, and authorities are expecting a backlog of renewals. A deadly wreck caused a lot of problems for drivers this time yesterday. Yesterday. Whats next for the driver accused of going the wrong way and causing all this. And youre looking live at Great American ball park. Reds buildings bombed and 28 dead new video in this morning of what turkey is calling a terror attack road rage arrest arrest hes coming right towards me. Hes gonna kill me. Me. A Truck Drivers excuse after Running School buses and good morning tristate. It is the start of spring training. Training. And some more springlike temperatures are on the way. Lets check in with meteorologist jennifer ketchmark. Its a mostly cloudy start with cold temperatures in the mid to upper 20s through the morning rush. Temperatures return to seasonal levels today with highs in the low 40s. Skies will be partly cloudy, so well finally have more sunshine to enjoy during the day. Winds shift to the south on friday as a warm front lifts over the region. Strong southerly winds will gust near 30 mph and push temperatures to the upper 50s and low 60s to end the work week. Skies will be partly cloudy and no rain is expected so it will make for a beautiful but breezy friday forecast. Saturday is the best day of the extended forecast. Highs will be in the low 60s with partly cloudy skies throughout the day. Temperatures this high are 15 degrees above normal and more like late march levels. Scattered rain showers will be around on sunday, so it wont be as ideal to head outside. Its a 40 during the day with highs in the mid50s. Temperatures slowly cool turkey says its arrested 9 people in connection with this attack overnight in ankara. These are breaking pictures just coming into the newsroom. At least 28 people died and several others were hurt when a suicide bomber targeted military personnel. The turkish premier says that bomber was a syrian national. The wrong way driver accused of killing a man on i71 will appear in court in a few hours. We brought you this story as breaking news yesterday on good morning tristate. Police say taryn chin admitted to them she had been drinking before getting behind the wheel. Shes accused of killing 47 year old jose arenas perez in the headon collision just south of the dana avenue exit this for hours. Chin suffered only minor injuries. She is now charged with aggraved vehicular homicide. Also in court today today this man here. Christopher laugle. Is accused of pointing what looked like a real gun directly at the face of a Mount Healthy officer. Police say that gun turned out to be fake. He was arrested on adams road near perry street. A tristate man arrested in a deadly shooting more than a year and a half ago will face a judge. Police say this man. William smith. Killed Michael Hopkins in july of 2013 in the 900 block of delhi road in sedamsville. Another person was also injured in the shooting. Smith will enter a plea this morning on murder and assault charges. A happy end to the search for a pair of missing tri state men this morning. Breaking overnight. 83year old James Harrison and 77year old Roger Roettele were both found safe. Investigators say harrison drove away from his home in franklin. And roettele disappeared from his house in cincinnati. But again, they are both okay this morning. Baseball fans pitchers and catchers report 9 on your sides Jordan Burgess burgessis live at Great American ball park. Mother natures been throwing us snowballs. Now were going to get some fastballs. But this is unlike any other reds spring training in a long time. Well see how it goes when pitchers and catchers report in a few hours. This is a look at last years spring training in goodyear arizona. This year will still be warm. Its supposed to be in the 80s there today. But much else will look different. A lot of new faces. No Aroldis Chapman or johnny cueto. Instead youll have as many as 10 starting fighting to see who the be. The reds are their worst season since 1982. So back. Check out wcpo dot com for stories on what to expect in goodyear. Position players tuesday. First exhibition game is march apple will likely file an appeal this week, against the fbis request to unlock a terrorists iphone. Phone. The phone in question belonged to one of the San Bernardino shootings. Apples ceo tim cook says if the government prevails, it could set a dangerous precedent. Oq bad guy guydigital rights advocates also say it would be an invasion of privacy. The charges against an ohio man accused of stalking actress Gwyneth Paltrow have been dropped. The actress broke down in tears when she took the stand dante soiu scared her but the jury says it wasnt stalking. He testified that he just wanted a pen pal, and didnt mean to hurt or harass paltrow. He has spent time in a Mental Institution after sending the letters. Us bank arena is changing its security measures. Starting tongiht. Blake shelton peforms tonight. But if youre planning to gopack lightly. Large bags will not be allowed. All bags must be smaller than a ruler in height and length. And everyone will have to walk through a metal detector when they walk through the door. Fans are being told to come early. Of a 40ton big rig goes on the warpath. Warpath. He could have hit the have happened. Happened. The scary 911 calls from drivers. Caught in his rampage. Fighting back to save their store. A family teams up against armed attackers inside their pizza parlor. The damage that was done. To more drivers. After police say the driver of a 40ton timber truck turned his bigrig into a lethal weapon. Weapon. It happened near louisville. Danny gonzalez told police he just snapped before he ran cars and a school bus off the road. Road. The road rage was finally brought to a stop after gonzalez got the tractor trailer stuck in the mud after missing a curve in jefferson forest. Terrified drivers called for help. That person is on drugs, i hope nobody gets close to him because he could hit anyone o my goodness. Oh oh the good news. No one was hurt. But officers found a tiny dog with a glued tail inside the big rig. Gonzalez is charged with wanton endangerment and criminal wmax full pizza brawl. Caught on camera. A family doing whatever they can to stop a trio of thugs from escaping. Escaping. The scary struggle that landed them with serious gmts animyoure watching good morning tristate at 6 on 9 on were getting a look this morning at a wild brawl. Caught on camera inside a texas pizza shop. Shop. Once they went inside to make the order. The three of them jumped the counter and came back and put a gun to his head. Head. Thats the daughter of the owners. Saying her family fought back against the gun wielding robbers. Swinging chairs and whatever they could find. The bad guys broke the owners shoulder tackling him into a chair and punched a woman in their escape. Theyre still on the loose this morning. A houston woman is threatening to sue her doctor after she went in to have her baby belly removed. And woke up without something. Something. What happened to it . Did you throw it in the trash . Where is it . It . Thats lori jones. Who says she wanted to quote summer. But she woke up without her belly button. The renowned surgeon who performed her tummy tuck says not so fast. He says he told her before the surgery that hed rebuild her navel. After she recovered from the original surgery. Toss to weather weather its a mostly cloudy start with cold temperatures in the mid to upper 20s through the morning rush. Temperatures return to seasonal levels today with highs in the low 40s. Skies will be partly cloudy, so well finally have more sunshine to enjoy during the day. Winds shift to the south on friday as a warm front lifts over the region. Strong southerly winds will gust near 30 mph and push temperatures to the upper 50s and low 60s to end the work week. Skies will be partly cloudy and no rain is expected so it will make for a beautiful but breezy friday forecast. Saturday is the best day of the extended forecast. Highs will be in the low 60s with partly cloudy skies throughout the day. Temperatures this high are 15 scattered rain showers will be around on sunday, so it wont be as ideal to head outside. Its a 40 chance for rain during the day with highs in the mid50s. Temperatures slowly cool behind this rain surprise patrol time we just love the reactions of people getting free money. Money. And today its a neuroscience student with a side job at the newport aquarium. Aquarium. Have a long road ahead on the education and thats going to take a little extra. So heres what wed like to do, im with the 9 on your side surprise patrol today and i want to give you a hundred dollars. Morganoh my goodness thank you so much, thats awesome. I really appreciate that thank you. You. Our surprise patrol is handing out 100dollars a day at random every monday through thursday in february. On fridays, we are picking a special someone and giving them a 500dollar surprise. You can catch another surprise patrol report tonight on 9 on your side at 6pm. Hold onto your seats there is a new ad Campaign Based on president obama. Obama. The first pictures just hitting the internet this morning. Morning. Thats right it focuses on the president s smoking and thats not even the worst part texting turning deadly the new Health Advisory out this morning on something you new this morning an ad campaign taking a stab at our president. One. This poster popping up on the streets of russia is supposed to discourage smoking and it makes president obama the example that russian text reads dont smoke dont be like obama. Worse than that it says quote smoking kills more people than obama. Obama. Not clear this morning who is behind this ad campiagn. We should point out the white house says the president officially kicked the habit in 2010. Lots of Unanswered Questions this morning. Even eyewitness are giving different accounts of what they saw and heard. It began when the suspect crashed his truck in front of this this gas station it ended with three Police Officers opening fire on this 36 year old man. There were reports that the man stammered away from his car after a gun. Others say when police found him on cheviot, he appeared to comply with Police Demands to stop and surrender. Marty haynes had just walked out of walgreens on harrison. And right into gunfire and bloodshed. All three officers are on leave pending further Investigation Police say they will have an update for us later on today. You can count on 9 oys to be there and bringing you the very latest when they do with breakins and home invasions in the news almost every day anymore. Many of us are getting a bit nervous about our security at home. Home. Chances are. A home burglary may have happened down the street from you, or to someone you love. So you would like to make your house or apartment a little bit safer. But dont know where to start, and dont have thousands of dollars for professional surveillance systems. So tonight at 6 on 9 on your side. Consumer reporter John Matarese shows how to build a diy home system for just a couple of hundred dollars. Hell show you high tech kits anyone can buy, and tristate homeowenrs who are using them to feel safer. Diy Home Security tonight at 6 pm on 9 on your side. One tristate ballplayer is already back on a hot streak. Middletowns Kyle Schwarber smashed a fans car windshield with a home run yesterday. Outside the chicago cubs stadium in scottsdale. Schwarber set a cubs postseason record with five home runs last year. People in australia dealing with more than just high temperatures. Tumbleweeds have overrun the town of wangaratta. Where truckloads of the stuff fill streets and yards. Its summertime down under. And dry conditions have led to a bumper crop of the annoying plants. Locals there are calling it the its more than just an annoyance. Researchers now say texting and walking is becoming a Serious Health hazard. According to the wall street journal. Emergency room visits involving distracted pedestrians went up 125percent between 2010 and 2015. As much as 10percent of pedestrian injuries are now blamed on portable gadgets. And a halfdozen deaths last year. Now lets get another check of the roads. Roads. Ally has your nine first warning traffic. This morning. Here is another look at your forecast. With cold mid to upper 20s levels today with 40s. Skies will be well finally have shift to as a warm front lifts strong southerly 30 mph and push temperatures to the 60s to end the work no rain is expected beautiful but breezy friday forecast. Saturday is the extended forecast. Highs will be in the cloudy skies throughout the day. Temperatures this high are 15 degrees above normal and more like late march levels. Scattered rain showers will be around on sunday, so it wont be as ideal to head outside. Its a 40 chance for rain during the day with highs in the mid50s. Temperatures good morning, america. Dead heat. A brandnew National Poll shows ted cruz and donald trump tied as trump takes aim at jeb bush. This guy, why doesnt he just give up, go home. Go home. Go home to mom. And Hillary Clinton trying to avoid another upset striking a pose in vogue just two days until the next big showdown. Breaking overnight, president obama will travel to cuba, the first president to visit in more than 80 years and the huge events in the works in havana from from Major League Baseball to beyonce. The 18yearold arrested posing as a doctor accused of treating patients now out on the question that made him do