Coverage. Its very cloudy out there. We might even start to see some fog. Lets get a check on the temperatures because it is going to feel significantly cooler today. 38 degrees to start in cleveland. 41 in akron right now. Heres the thing as we head throughout the day were not departing much from the 40s, we will stick around in the low to mid40s. The good news is no rain. We do have some sunshine coming out. How are the roads . We do have an rta Traffic Alert for everybody. The east side rail service replaced with busses this morning. Were talking blue green red lines east of tower city. Theyre under repair this morning. So that will impact your rush hour if you do take the trains. On the east side were also checking on. 71 looking very comfortable this morning. Lot of cars out there. You guys. The Wayne County Sheriff is asking for your help finding this missing girl here. 14year old Leah Ferguson is missing. A man in the hospital after being shot at a bar in cleveland avenue. Two men were treated at the scene. The shooting victim taken to the hospital but the second person treated at the scene for an apparent arm injury are and police investigating. Weve watched the videos over and over. It is still terrifying, a blast shaking crocker park with intense flames. Firefighters rushing to battle the blaze but its not the only fire they take on. Just hours later the same departments were called to a deadly fire. Were joined from bay village and these First Responders are have been through a lot in the last 24 hours. Reporter they certainly its been a very stressful 24 hours for the bay other area mutual aid crocker park was quickly followed by dealing with the fatal fire last night. 6 departments responded to that fatal fire in bay village and several other agencies assisted with personnel as well. Officials tell us that two people were inside the home at the time of the fire. One manmade it out, the other person did not. It was devastating news coming after the same departments spent the day fighting flames and containing hot spots after the massive explosion. Ive done a number of fires like that but they all leave a sinking pit in your stomach. Its sad to see no matter how many times youve seen it always has an impact on you. Reporter you can imagine it would. Identity yet on that person found in that home. Again, neighbors tell us though that it was an elderly couple that lived in that home. Back to you. And we still dont know how the fire in crocker park happened. What we do know is it was near two propane tanks outside the American Greetings headquarters in westlake that exploded. Everyone got out safely, and a nearby medical office a nurse says she felt the building rock. The explosion was very loud enough that i mean, you definitely knew it was some type of explosion. The shaking was enough to make us the patient and i were walking next to each other side step a little bit. Some businesses and restaurants closed early yesterday. We understand most will reopen this morning. And the explosion just the latest in a series of construction crews have slice need gas lines three times in the past few years. The first was in 2014 and 9 months later in may a line was hit, and workers at a line at the corner of detroit and crocker. First merit bank is getting ready to close some branchs. Good morning. Reporter nearly half of the 107 branchs expected to close in the cleveland, akron and canton areas. This branch just off of transportation boulevard is on that list. According to cleveland. Com there are 15 first merit branchs in Cuyahoga County expected to shut down. The closures not expected to happen until the new year. The ceo employees will be offered a job. The 3. 4 billion deal still has to be approved. Its predicted to be finalized in the summer. Thank you. New this morning for you the operators of an akron restaurant now used of tax fraud. A grand jury indicted the four men who run the royal buffet and grill for underreporting 9. 4 million in sales resulting in a loss of more than 3 million in federal income taxes. Last may they were indicted on charges of harboring undocumented workers. Well a new outlet mall is coming to cleveland. A real tee group plans to build the outlets at the site of the abandoned brung u crossing thats north of i480. Construction is expected to begin next year and that mall will open in 2018. High going back to class now that their school has been cleared of bed bugs. It was determined there was no infestation just a few isolate bugs. Also today Cleveland State students helping with led contaminated water. Theyre sending 20,000 pounds of water to flint, thats about 800 cases. Still ahead for you in a critical debate the republicans clash, well have a look at the biggest moments. And this morning youre not alone and your drooping eyes affecting your job, details next. Ive got something thats going to wake you up, this cold thats moving into northeast ohio. Keep watching good good morning and welcome back. Heres a look at your its starting off pretty cloudy out there. The good news is all the rain is gone. The temperatures mid40s. We will see some sunshine coming out but we are still going to be on the relatively cool side. For now over to you. In health news this morning nearly 200 cases of the zika virus have now been reported here in the u. S. And all of those cases have been trace today travel abroad. Health officials pleading with congress to provide one billion dollars america and help prevent it from spreading to the u. S. Well, do you chug cups of coffee. Theres a new study that says three out of four of us tired on the job. It can have a big impact on your job performance. And the study says manager should make sure employees not overworked, make their schedules more flexible. One company even has a quiet room. We help create environments where people can reach their full potential and we think that this place a role for our employees to help them be recharged. Like they care all over again. One doctor says its up to workers especially shift workers to make sure theyre getting well, next, scandal at one of the biggest veteran charities. Then the final face off, we have the late night highlights from the west coast. Waking up with good morning cleveland. Former cleveland and Chicago School ceo Barbara Bennett sued by the board of ed. The lawsuit seeking 55 million in damages from her and other defendants. This stemmed from a massive bribery scheme. She pleaded guilty in october to one count of fraud. Well, this morning prosecutors calling a mass shooting in pennsylvania planned, calculated and brutal. Still on the run. Police say one gunman drove by the home where dozens were cooking out and targeted them with a pistol. They pled to the backyard where one was waiting. Two top executives for the Wounded Warrior project have reportedly been fired. The two men were were allegedly let go in the wake of criticism about how that organization is spending its donation money. The project is said to have spent a much larger percentage of that money on operating costs. Today abc news will bring you live coverage of the conferses for nancy reagan this average. The first lady will be in attendance while president obama is expected to have an event in texas. More than 5,000 people have paid their respects over the last two days. Expected. Todays episode of General Hospital will air monday. President obama is scheduled to give the key note address this afternoon and many concerned about a threat here a prominent open carry advocate posted his event. The post was deleted five minutes later. Ben carson expected to throw today. Trump confirmed this news at last nights debate. The retired neurosurgeon plans to hold a News Conference this morning. And last nights debate much different from the one we saw a week ago. Those nasty exchanges almost nonexistent. A number of issues were covered from the economy to isis to common core and the environment but they also talked about the state of the rate. Trump and cruz said they are the only candidates that can win at this point but it doesnt tell the whole story. The great thing about politics, the reason why we watch it is because whats true today is not necessarily true tomorrow. All the candidates looking ahead to next week to whats being called do or die tuesday with many states voting. Well several of the candidates will make stops here in northeast ohio this weekend. And apparently were welcoming them with baked good. President ial cookies being sold. Theyre selling about 10dozen a day. So which ones flying off the shelves faster . The trump. What is the trump. Nailed it. All right. Lets go ahead and take a look right now outside. This is not outside, youre looking right now at the satellite and radar, the rain that you saw looping through moderate rain falling. All the white is clouds. It is a very cloudy start to the day. As the winds continue to lighten and become more calm well get the opportunity for fog to develop. So well keep watching that. Lets talk about temperatures because that is whats going to take you off guard today. 38 degrees in cleveland right now. Heres a look at your hour by hour forecast heading through the day you notice we start off in the 40s this afternoon. By this evening rounding off into the upper 40s. We will start to see some sunshine coming out so that is the good news, but rain is still in the forecast. Looking at the future cast here 8 a. M. Today were dry, cloud coverage we start to see the sun come through as the clouds continue to dissipate and then we head into your saturday. Temperatures will rise into the 60s so thats a nice difference. Cool for too long but check it out here comes the rain. Sunday is going to look a lot like yesterday. 7day forecast here it is temperatures bouncing back this weekend, nice rebound by monday. Im taking us to 70 and tracking a cool down for Saint Patricks weekend. I was hoping that we were going to have a warm up. I am seeing one accident on lancaster road on the east side. Not a lot of cars out there right now. 71, 490, 77 you are flowing just fine. And zoom in took not seeing any problems. Lets check on akron showing us we are very calm, into the lot of cars out there flowing fine in both directions. Check this out we see you lebron, amazing slam dunk, facing the lakers last night. Of course james sharing the retire after the season. After starting with a pregame chat and a hug the two played an entertaining fair well face off and of course the cavs went onto victory. Even with them out of town this weekend the q will be packed with basketball fans. The mac tournament wraps up this weekend and that leads to march madness and the tournament bracket will be put together on sunday. Well you might know her as elaine from seinfield. She is watching the big ten tournament. She was tweeting and instagraming all night about how excited she is to be there. Well the entertainment girl levine. Theyre expecting his first kid. He put a ring on the model and now shes reportedly three to four months into her pregnancy. Well, yesterday canadas Prime Minister Justin Trudeau topped all headlines when he met president obama. But at the state dinner it was all about the first ladies. Check out Michelle Obama rocking floral gowns and sofie is wearing one by a canadian designer. And you see ryan renolds there. Also mike meyers was there. Silver fox now. No drake, no canadian entertainment. Well, the president s not a who want safer gun laws and who are disappointed in leaders who stand in their way to remember come election time. I share president obamas outrage. Its time we had leaders with the courage to stand up to the nra. Im p. G. Sittenfeld. In the senate, ill fight for commonsense gun safety, criminal background checks, ban assault weapons. I approve this message because Ted Strickland will never stand up to the nra. Good morning, were starting with your forecast. Starting off mostly cloudy today but the good news were going to see some sunshine this afternoon. Heres a look at some highs today along the lakeshore in the 40s, here it looks a a little bit more accurate 43 in westlake, 44 in cleveland. So again, were off to a cooler finish today, and i know this doesnt seem that cold but think about how spoiled weve been. We were in the 70s this week, okay. So we are going to be cooler today. Canton, akron a little bit warmer still 40s now, weve got some rain in the weekend forecast. And then the other question is we going to be staying this cool for much longer . Ill let you know in a couple minutes. For now over to you. New information this morning surrounding an fbi raid. Officers from the fbi and Bay Village Police investigating this house on lake road. Told the search is part of a case out of michigan that spans multiple cities across the country. Well keep you updated. A commit sex offender arrested this week for kidnaping a cleveland teen. This is a story we told you about earlier this week and brown is a tier 3 sex offender who has violated parole twice before. He spent two years in prison for sexual battery, he violate his probation which can warrant jail time but instead he was given heightened probation. A legal expert tells news channel 5 that the courts should have taken brown off the streets long ago. Brown should have sent back to jail until he had a hearing in front of a judge or he should have had very limited ability to move around after those violations. Well, we reached out to that judge who decided on the heightened probation instead of prison time and he has yet to respond. Denver police expected to announce information they received on a murder of an unsolved murder. A woman was found stabbed to death in her apartment and her boyfriend was charged but later founding. The reward has been upped to 10,000 for more information. Ahead at 5 for you a teenager forced into a life of sex offender turned him into a thief. Casting their first ballot could 17year old actually vote tuesday. Well look into the debate ahead at 5 on good morning cleveland. Come on back. We built our factories here because of a huge natural not the land. The water. Or power sources. It s the people. American workers. They build worldclass products. And that builds communities. And a better future. For all of us. Because making something in america means so much, to so many. Weathertech. Now, at 5 bank branch s branchs to be shut down. Half of those in our area. And the explosion that rocked westlake after a fire. Lets start your morning off with weather and traffic together and take it away. Its going to be a colder day today. Take a look at these feel like temperatures this is when you factor in that wind chill. 32 in elyria, 38 in medina, 36 in akron right now, 35 in wews. So chillier the more farther north you go. Is a look at the radar and satellite. You see that rain push through overnight now were just left with a ton of clouds out there. Throughout the day the clouds will clear giving way to some is sunshine. Highs will be in the low to mid40s. Its going to vary depending on whether you live north or south of u. S. 40. High as little closer to lakeshore will be around 48 degrees. We need to let everyone know who rides the rail if you do take the train youll be taking the bus east of tower city. East side Rail Services replaced with busses. The trains under repair right now. So not just rush hour all day long. Drive times 13 minutes for you 90 eastbound crocker to the inner belt and 271 northbound richmond to 90. Heres 71 and west 25th, a few more cars out there than before but still very quiet
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