Thats the good news. We have been seeing gully washers, heavy downpours, i lake to call them super soaker cells. A couple of us got caught in those coming in to work. As you are driving we are seeing minor flooding on roadways, no warnings or advisories issued. Hydroplaning, take it slow. You can see the overcast skies, a little bit of rain still area. A bulk of this moisture is towards eastern locations, right now, a little bit of lightning is falling towards northern Geauga County, the sheridan area in to lake county. The darker greens, the yellows, theing ons, those are heavy downpours the oranges, those are heavy downpours, ashtabula, geneva on the lake. Dayton, about to hit mansfield, route 30 corridor, you are getting ready for round two. We are not going to call this a complete washout. We are going to see a little bit of lull in the weather pattern where we see scattered showers throughout your afternoon. We are going to see the eastern track of this storm system make its way in to northeast ohio, causing you to see more wet weather. Today is not the its almost a repeat make of last weekend when we were tracking the storms. By tomorrow, the good news we start to dry out. Today the man charged with hitting and killing an ohio Highway Patrol trooper will be in court. Ahead of, that we are seeing heartfelt tributes to a father taken way too soon. Reporter in a couple of hitting and killing kenny valez will stand before a judge, he is being charged with aggravated vehicular homicide. According to court records, he was on drugs at the time of the crash. Take a look at this photo, this is the man im talking about, joshwa gas per, he hit the 27 year veteran trooper as he was monitoring traffic on thursday. One day after this terrible crash, the community of amherst pulling together to show their support for the valez family. His son, christian, playing in friday nights Football Game for amherst. He said playing the game would have been what his father wanted. The crowd showing support with 1000 blue balloons. We spoke to a parent that grew up with valez, they played baseball together. I couldnt help but think that now their dad is gone. Its an un fortunate incident. Reporter gasper is set to appear if court this morning at 8 30, i will be in the court this morning at 8 30. I will give you the latest information once i can. So much emotion as we learn about the man behind the uniform involved in this horrible story. We know the name of the second woman found dead in a home in ashland. We spoke to relatives of Elizabeth Griffith. The man accused of killing Elizabeth Griffith and kidnapping a woman, held on 1 milliondollar bond. Shawn great appeared in court via video for bond hearing saying he had no money or job or home. He confessed to killing a woman in rich land county where another body was found. He has not been charged in that case. Cause of death. A Cleveland Police officer facing negligent homicide charges. Officer allen by Beaufort Police claim jones charged at the officers with the weapon. The officer could spend extended time in prison. Two east Cleveland Police officers also facing charges this morning, they are accused of beating a prisoner they had in custody. The name Davidson Dixson and charges of kidnapping and felonious assault for the beating of nickerson. The officers were fired after the incident. Charges against nickerson have been dropped. Members of the black community and supporters will gather for a march. The organization blackty vis is organizing the unity march. The goal, raise awareness for the struggles black mens face everyday. Begins at 1 00 p. M. , featuring promotion. Ohio Health Numbers are in. Abortion rate at the lowest since 1976. Department of Health Reports only 20,000 pregnancies were terminated last year. There has been a steady decline in ohio. Half a dozen abortion clinics closed over several yearses. In akron Homeless People will need to notice before their belongings are removed from public policy, part of a movement and because of a lawsuit brought with the help of law students. The students stepped in to help after many Homeless People lost belongings during sweeps of homeless camps. Akron is paying 20,000 in damages and court costs to set it will dispute. Health and fitness day at the summit mall. The Childrens Hospital is hosting the event which will and information for the parents. Its happening in the food court from 11 30 to 1 00. Also today , the Cleveland Museum of arts annual chalk festival is back, expected to draw 15,000 people and 3000 artists. They will give a square to decorate with chalk. Community members can reserve squares to chalk as well. This years theme, spheres of influence, examining how artist inspire each other. It runs from 11 to 5 today and tomorrow. Stay within your square. Thank you for starting your saturday with us. Im nick foley, coming up this morning, we reached the home stretch in the inner belt bridge construction project. The outline of the closures coming up next. Plus a Guantanamo Bay prisoner, making a connection. Looking in to his claims ahead. Widespread rain, i will give you exact timing when the second round hits us. Thank you for starting off your morning with us. You are seeing rain across the board, its in eastern locations. I want to show you your hour by hour, see the rain picks up county and Greater Cleveland by the noon hour we will see a slight break, in and out throughout your afternoon. By the 5 00 hour, we start to see things rev up once again. The big question today, will the tribe play at 4 10ing temperatures are going to be in the lower 70s. Still that warm air in place. This one is going to be sketchy. We will see rain flowing through. Might have a delay or possible cancellation. We will keep our eye on that. We are nearing the end of the inner belt bridge construction project. A little late at the end of the tunnel. There is last minute work to be done. Interstate 90 east over the bridge was closed overnight. It wont reopen until 10 00 this morning. Closed until 10 00, the left lane of 77 northbound, at i90. Watch for detours if you are headed in those directions. As we head to break, here is a look at last nights new from overnight, two Police Officers and four civilians are recovering from a wild shootout in philadelphia. The suspect was shot and killed during the shooting but not before wounding 6 others. Times but miraculously still alive. It started around 11 30,s the suspect walked up to a squad car and opened fire. The suspect started shooting in to a bar, he was chased in to an alley and shot and killed. A denver hospital placed on lockdown. Police searched every room for a suspect after report of shots fired. No one was ever found. The lockdown has been lifted. Lookin obama is preparing to make his final appearance in office before the United Nations general assembly. He will speak before next weeks session in new york. Obama plans to review military strategy against isis and press countries to admit more refugees and leaves for new york tomorrow. A guantanamo prisoner linking the saudi royal family to the september 11th attacks. He is accused of making bombs the saudi royal family was part of the effort to recruit him ahead of the 911 attacks. The Commission Found no evidence that the saudi government was involved in the attacks. North carolinas governor says he will consider repealing the controversial law hb2 only if charlotte repeals its ordinance that grants lgbt People Protection from discrimination. Charlotte passed before the state implemented the law that requires transgender people use the bathroom of their gender on their birth certificate. The law forbids other cities from passing non discrimination ordinances. Many lawmakers are asking for hb2 to be revealed after the ncaa decided to pull championship events from the state. The u. S. Floor service apologizing for destroying a portion of the trail of tears. A 3 quarter section was ripped Cherokee National forest. This land is considered sacred. A second typhoon headed towards taiwan in china, right now, comes days after another typhoon killed 15 people in main land china. Another 14 are missing. Officials are working to repair damage and get ready for the next round of storms. Its that time of year, unsettled weather throughout the world. Here for us, maybe a couple of oh thunderstorms this morning, its not going to stay throughout the entire weekend. We will dry out by tomorrow, the weather story is the rain and a few storms popping up here, they are not going to be on the severe side. Thats always good news. Just one day, 24 hours of tracking that rain. Maybe we still need some of the rain, too. After the summer we had, we had a hot summer. The rain is needed. We were under a moderate drought. We have seen heavy duty rain lightning. The power of tv, we slowed this down to show you lightning in the Greater Cleveland area. Has been widespread, and lightning fireworks show. Lit up the city. That was round 1 that we are currently seeing, the brunt of the moisture is moving through the ashtabula right now. I want to show you from the radar , the move system. Currently in eastern locations. This is about to hit geneva, ashtabula on the lake, excuse me, geneva on the lake, ashtabula you are currently seeing heavy moisture. Not too much lightning, even northern end of Geauga County to burton, we are seeing moisture tracking back in to summit county, also madina, isolated activity. You will see a break from avon cells are making their way back up from rich land county to the mansfield area in the next 10 15 minutes. If any of the storms go to severe status, i will track them throughout the morning. This is a warm front, so you probably noticed the warmer air tracking in. 71 degrees and our dew points did go up overnight in to the lower 60s. Definitely warmer air in place. 68 72 kill buck in to millersburg area. Hour by hour, not going to call this a complete washout saturday but the rainmaking appearance throughout most of your morning, 10 00 a. M. , we will see mostly cloudy skies. Thats for lake shore communities but inland and southern communities you deal with the rain. The cold front will allow for widespread moisture throughout your evening behind that, sunshine about to enter going in to your monday afternoon. I want to show you exact timing, hour by hour, see we dry out a tad bit by the 11 00 hour, but the brunt of the moisture works back in by 3 or 5 00. The heavier bands from mansfield, temperatures still in the lower 70s. I want to break this down even more, this is summit county, 9 30, these are the heavier bands. Not much lightning associated with that. By 5 30s route 30 corridor to mansfield to worster, we are going to be keeping our eye on you. Accumulation totals under an inch for most spots. Going to be rainy afternoon across the area. Daytime high of 80 degrees, still warm air in place. Tonight, 65, keeping the rain in the forecast before tomorrow dry out. Brown sunday, game time folks, aokay, 76 and nick, this is uphill from here. Look at that, monday through friday of next week, we are talking about sunny sky, temperatures in the 80s. A lot of sunshine on that board. We are talking about the indians crossing our fingers, they need to get on field. They are off to a great start as they begin a pivotal series with detroit and the magic number now down to Single Digits for the tribe. Another week under the ligh football teams. Indians opening up a pivotal series against the tiger, cleveland 111 against detroit coming in. Mike naply hits one high, where is it . I cant see it. Lost it in the lights. Browned on the warning track, indians crush tigers 114. Check out the sign, you have been destroyed by the tribe. Magic number, down to 9. Good morning, hello, welcome to week 4 of mcdonalds 5 on your sideline. A pair of unbeaten matching we start with bedford visiting warrensville heights. Tiger mascot, he is doing the dab. Third quarter bedford up 2014, michael, climbing through the crowd. Takes to it the house, 18yard touchdown run. Bedford says we are going to go for 2. We are going to convert. We are pretty good at this. Jones picked up cloud. Warrensville heights not going possession. Norris speedy young man, gone. 56 yards for the touchdown, tigers down 2820, bedford hangs on to win it 3532, bear cats improve to 40, another battle of unbeaten between avon and mid view. It was avon beating mid view on this night, avon down 217 at one point. They malloy keeps to himself. Good decision, 64yard touchdown. Avon 40. Madina heading in to their game last night with a 30 record taking on malaria. Third quarter after a long run, ma madina got close. Elyria not knowing how to fight trails 3514, the handoff and once again, takes it in for the score. Madina takes this one 5214. Brunswick marching out on the field last night with the American Flag in happened. They are the team that had a player kneel. This one, joe finds sinclair who tons on the wheel, makes a nice move and he is going to the house. Conversion. Claire showing off his speed off a punt. He finds his way through. No one can catch him as he heads to the house once again. They missed the extra point. Stolen up 210 when brunswick gets their offense going, jacob martin fighting his way in through the end zone. They cant compete the come over to parma, patwa, hosting maple heights. They got first quarter, bruins down 7 0, peterson, hangs left down the sidelines. Brad hall comes down with it. 23yard pitching catch. 1yard touchdown run by cramer. Trent cramer getting in cheer for as they hosted. Smith in the first half with a beauty for the first touchdown of the game and they did not stop there. Kennedy pummels his way through for the score. 5413. Lets go to north ridgeville, rangers hosting bulldogs. Olmsted falls outside of the red zone. Ball goes to the 244pound full back. Have a day, kid, rumbles in for 6. Bulldogs proved to 31. Browns exec, brown, kicking off the festivities for the dedication ceremony at the kids stadium. Browns p jfk hosting john marshal. Nice defensive play by the eagles. Devon matthews making the tackle. Very next play, a little more where that came from. This time its tanner with the stack. Jfk getting it done on the offensive side of the ball as well. Goodson making his way through for the score. That will do it for your morning sports, week 4 in the in the books. Cleveland company admitting the way it sprayed for bedbugs could have been making people sick. Pokemon is taking over the Science Center , the party for pee ca chew and all his time is 6 30s we start this half hour with a live look outside from our earth cam once again, the lights of cleveland shining bright as you begin your weekend across the shores of lake erie. Rain in some place, thunderstorms as well. Busy morning weatherwise. Welcome back edition of good morning cleveland. Several developing stories for you including the man accused of killing an ohio Highway Patrolman while high on drugs expected to be in court this morning. First a check on the weather with janessa webb. Good morning, nick, busy in the Weather Center this morning as we had storms that have rolled through right now they are in eastern locations, lake geauga, ashtabula is the main threat. Another round on the backside and composite radar, they moved through and look really light, folks, when you step out this morning, be cautious of minor flooding, these were gully washers that tracked to the east right now. I want to show you wherist currently hitting Ashtabula County, exiting lake county and northern portions of geauga. We currently. Also, out towards summit county, you are seeing isolated activity through hudson, twinsburg area. This is our next line, most of this moisture, folks, is tracking to the north, about the touchdown from rich land to mansfield area, you are going to get another round. Temperatures warmed up. This was a warm front, probably have the ac cranking once lower 60s. 71 now, good morning, Greater Cleveland, towards dover new philly to millersburg, 72. Definitely the warm air in place, we are looking at daytime highs returning to the lower 80s. Hour by hour, how to plan your afternoon. I think today is an ideal movie day, indoor activities as we will continue to track storms, knot tong severe side but heavy downpours by air here, 7 79 with a 7 w9 a few scattered showers 79 with a few scattered showers. A man on drugs accused of killing a Patrol Trooper will be back in court. Meg shaw is live at the Justice Center this morning. Reporter it was an emotional night in amherst as hundreds of people came fallen trooper, kenny valez. It happened at a friday night Football Game. His son, christian, number 43, playing in the high school Football Game. He said its what his dad would have wanted. Valez was hit and killed thursday afternoon on i90 west after this man, 37 year old joshuah gasper hit valez. He time of the crush. At fridays game, 1000 blue balloons were released in honor of valez. Amherst generally we are a small town. We recognize when people are suffering and we pull together. We are able to come together and support one another. Reporter by the way, amherst went on to win that straight games. Clearly his father was there with him that night on the field. Gaspar is due in court at 8 30. I will give you the latest information once i can. Meg shaw, news channel 5. Columbus, less than 48 hours after a 13yearold was shot and killed by a police officer. It happened during a robbery investigation wednesday. A town hall meeting was held last night with the columbus mayor, police chief and Safety Services director to answer questions about the death of tiere king. She was escorted out. A disgusting disease is growing in ohio. There are over 700 cases of crypto in the columbus area. Described as a parasitic disease that brings on bouts of diarrhea. People sick are asked to stay out of the water. Health officials expecting the outbreak to get worse before it gets better. New information about a distemper outbreak , the dog shelter in with a respiratory disease and halted plans to euthanize animals after a judge granted a temporary restraining order restricting which animals could be put down. The dog shelter has euthanized 84 dogs because of distemper outbreak. The company seen here spraying a pesticide to kill bed bugs in the Social Security office in cleveland is responding. They admit the way the and chairs instead of cracks and crevasses and may have made some people sick. Any other pesticides found were likely from equipment used in other jobs. The technicians have been retrained and they brought new equipment or bout new equipment that will only be used for bedbug treatment. On a much lighter note, no bug sprays to worry about as part of cleveland experience all the city has to offer. The spark city hop, 11 to 6, hop on free trolleys between the treemont festival and play house square. There is october fest going on at Public Square this weekend and the trolley drops you off in the middle of all the action. We have heard so much about pokemon go. Here is an event that welcomes all players to join in. Between 11 to 4 today. Layers can catch the characters as well as learn about the Science Behind virtual reality. They will have the pokemon battle demo and a life sized display as well. We know pokemon go can be a distraction for people playing it. We are help how dangerous it can be. Researchers looked at 4000 tweets during a one third indicated a driver, passenger or walker was involved with a car, while distracted by game. Some tweets mentioned accidents or near misses because they were so focused on catching pokemon. According to news reports, over the same 10 days, it was linked to 14 car crashes. Not smart at all. Donald trump says Hilary Clinton is the one who started behind the claims. A change of season brings a new freshness in the air. Leon bibb takes us to a special place where you can soak up all the season in its glory. Storms and a few rain showers on the power of 5, i will show you my sevenday forecast when all the sunshine and the 80s return, all that is you can see the rotation of the storms, making their way throughout the Greater Cleveland, nothing was on the severe side but these were stronger storms. I want to show you the latest, Ashtabula County, you are seeing the brunt of this moisture, thats the heavier downpours from jefferson to Ashtabula County. The great news is the storms are moving out fairly quickly. We are seeing another round mansfield area, and that will continue to uplift to the north so you are going to continue to deal with some isolated rain drops throughout your morning. We will see a lull in the weather pattern, tracking the scattered storms potential for a few thunderstorm activities as the front starts to make its way through. Look at the daytime highs, they are very warm, folks , the lower 80s, upper 70s, degrees today. The clouds in place for akron and canton. Look at that, 84. Its going to be wet outside, you will want to brave the rain for these events happening around cleveland. The 10 . 9 annual dragon boat festival is taking over the high ho Cuyahoga County river , the winner will take home the cuyahoga cup. Races start at 8 00 this morning and continues until 21st annual head of the cuyahoga regetta. 2000 club collegiate and high school rowers will compete in the race. See the finish line at river gate park. Races runs until 4 00. If you see news happening, let us know, text or email us, 5 tips at newsnet5. Com, or tweet us at wews, well be with under 2 months before the election , the push for ohio continues for Hilary Clinton and donald trump. When the candidates are not here, you can be sure the campaigns are hard at work as well. This is the case for clintons camp today as senator Bernie Sanders will open a weekend push in canton before moving on to speak with College Voters and millenials in akron at 11 and kept at 12 30. Targeting Younger Voters on clintons behalf at ohio state today and here in cleveland tomorrow. On the other side of the aisle, more backlash on comments made by donald trump. He said quote, i think her body guards should drop all weapons, disarm immediately, take their guns away, lets see what happens to her. Clintons Campaign Manager responded by saying the comments were unacceptable and should be out of president ial candidate for a president ial candidate. Our partners at politifact checked trump on the birther issue. Listen to what trump said. Hilary clinton and her campaign of 2008 started the birther controversy. I finished it. Politifact zeroed in on trumps accusations that Hilary Clinton and her campaign started the birrer movement. They said some clinton supporters circulateed the rumor in the last days of the 2008 primary after clinton concedesed the democratic race to prak brack, politifact says there is no record Hilary Clinton or anyone within her campaign promoted the birther theory or started it. It was noisy for some of you waking up or sleeping a little bit. Good sleeping weather for your saturday. Dont want to get up when you hear that. We are going to track the everybody is talking about getting prepared for tomorrows game. First energy stadium, great shot, nick, for game time, we are going to be dry. Stood going to be one of those wet conditions. I want you to be inside, have the storm shield application handy. Be with us all morning long. I will show you where the storms are currently brewing. The clouds are in effect for the Greater Cleveland area, but the bulk of this moisture right now, we are in Cuyahoga County to madina, a few isolated rain dropses the bulk of the moisture sitting in Ashtabula County about to cross over to erie pa, lodi to madina, isolated rain drop. Im watching the lines of storms that is about to move in to erie, huron county, potentially in to lorraine county here, these are strong storms, not much lightning associated with it but heavy minutes. A warm front that tracked to the north, you have noticed the dew point, they have gone up here in the mid60s right nows that will cool off as the cold front is behind it. Greater cleveland, 71 degrees, good morning dovernew philly lower 70s, upper 60s for lake to Geauga County. This is an up and down weather pattern. By 2 00, tracking the rain, we we could have a delay, might not play that game, we are going to continue to track storms throughout your evening. As this warm front lifts to the north and east, a cold front is behind it, thats going to produce widespread rain for your saturday evening behind that front, all goodness here as we go in to next week, we are talking about a ton of sunshine. 11 or 12 00, upper 70s and 80s degrees. The next wave by 6 00 p. M. Tonight and on the sporadic side, isolated rain drops, accumulation totals under an inch for most spots. Some of these could be heavier downpours. I want to show you my sevenday forecast coming up when the sunshine returns. With temperatures starting to drop consistently, we know summer is loosening its grip and fall is on the way. You can see leon bibb takes us to one of his Favorite Places to watch it all unfold. Reporter nature is like a model along a fashion runway, strutting an easy step, showing off seasonal wear, the model is slowly shoving summer wear for autumns wardrobe. In the Cleveland Metro parks , the season rks one piece at a time, will be fully dressed for fall. Those who work these forests and waterways of the cleveland seasonal change is coming because know full well seasonal change is coming because nature talks. Night starts to turn some things like trees in to a mode of self preservation. Here comes a long cold winter. Reporter jen brumefield is excited about nature. Her job as a metro parks naturalist is her passion. This land reflects natures mind set, jens too, now that autumn is slipping we hear these katie dids and black legged meadow katie dids. Remind us of that time, summer is over. Reporter we humans are not alone noting the season, animals and plants feel it. What we learned in Elementary School about all that still holds true. In ohio, we see noticeable changes in our four seasons. Lucky us. It has come in, the metro park exiting, autumn is on the way. At fall time its absolutely gorgeous,ly bring a camera and take pictures. Reporter the Cleveland Metro packs 18 reservations are likened to an emerald necklace ringing the city. Long before there was a cleveland, or a recorded human history, this landscape had been carved out by glaciers, scouring the land. Ice moving slowly, creeping along, powerful the land and till certain areas and just make this landscape what it is that we know today. Reporter as summer loosens its hold, the animals of the forest and waterways respond, they are settling in for autumn. The toad from the Rocky River Reservation squeaks the season. He and all the creatures make ready for autumn preparing to us for a spell. Running my hand but offer nothing comment. They will build these amazing webs, the complicated webs, they are unbelievably fast. We need spiders. Reporter metro parks naturalist speaks for all the creatures. As is the case if all the naturalists, her passion is these woods and waters and all of natures unfolding in its inevitable way. Reporter as looking at that, your eyes were glowing. He is waving. He threw up the flight feathers. Reporter one season in to another helps steady me. Maybe i count on the comings and goings, as life as the babbles of the rivers through something when they marked the lands and waters to be set aside for all of us and all who follow us, the old rocky river, cuts a watery path through the metro parks, the metro parks has been here for almost 100 years, this scene has been here way longer than that. If you went back several thousands of years, this is exactly what you see right here. Stacked along beside us are layers and layers of our another. Reporter we hold on to it, you see, this is part of our natural history. In his famous poem, the author wrote whose woods these ares i think i know. He would have said, they belong to the people. They do, and of course, to the wildlife, which know as home, these woods and waters of the late summers early autumn, put Good Morning America is next, good morning, america. New overnight, disarming comments. Donald trump calling for Hillary Clinton to be stripped of secret service protection. She doesnt want guns. Lets see what happens to her. This just hours after his birther backtrack admitting president obama was born in the his campaign was founded on this outrageous lie. Pain at the pump. The Pipeline Leak causing price spikes from texas to new jersey, gas shortages and lines around the block. Six states under a state of emergency. How much more you could pay to fuel up. Undercover video. Abc news obtaining new police video from the investigation into the murder of a wellknown fsu professor