Side until the 10 00 our. I will be here at noon as the storms start to track in once again. It was an explosion and then we waited a minute and there goes the transformer and then all of a sudden there went again. 3 times it exploded and then the power went out. We will check on traffic but this morning so many people still dont have electricity because of those nasty storms. A lot of power lines down on the westside. Were of the hard hit areas. What is the latest from the Power Companies . With thousands of people still waiting for powers to be restored in the eastern communities, Mother Nature has helped those right here in westlake. We have lots of trees and branches snapped on the side streets making it difficult for these crews to get things back take a look at what we are seeing off of first street and columbia road. Were at the entrance of the rta park and ride in the road is blocked by downed trees and branches. The parking lot to a nearby plaza is also covered with debris, and then there are the down power lines. Some of these polls are broken. It was definitely a powerful storm that pass through with strong winds. This is one of the hardest hit areas that we have seen. It will take quite some time to get things cleared in the area. At , just over 11,001st Energy Customers still without power this morning. That is in Cuyahoga County alone. Some estimates have power that even being restored by the end of the evening and maybe beyond that as well. In westlake, the good news is no roads are blocked because of that storm damage. Also called police they are in no streets are blocked. However, the situation is different in bay village. Will be a road had issues earlier this week because of storm damage. It is still closed. Because of last nights storm were dealing with closures north of the train tracks all the way to wolf road. You will notice some slick spots on the highway because of the rain. Right now were moving along 5 find. The cars are getting by without issues. One person sent us this picture. Look at this incredible cloud formation. You can check out our app for all the photos viewers sent into us. Some people in Cuyahoga County has not have not had power since tuesday. In Cleveland Heights, that area saw 100 foot tall trees come crashing downs. This shows you just how strong the winds was. The heat and humidity arent things back to normal. Definitely, the weather is slowing us down. Were taking a lot of breaks to try to keep hydrated. It is definitely a factor in our work. They say they are also being slowed down because of live power lines and. They have to be removed first. Now we have to get 2 news breaking overnight i am making calls on a swat situation on the side of cleveland. This happened i want east east 110. Hostage situation. All we know is a man was shot in the chest and he was taken to the hospital. Were working to get more information. This is west 43rd street. It was a house fire. Everyone got out safely thankfully. This is a touching moment, firefighters giving that cat a little tlc, some oxygen. The cause of the fire being investigated. Police arrest a man they this is a video of the crime. He walked in to the store and then 6 minutes later walked away with 6000 worth of designer frames. 2 adult and 3 teenagers were responsible for damage in all 5 were arrested. Police arrested one man and is still looking for another. The 2 were seen breaking into a barn. They took items of highvalue. One man turned himself in and both are facing felony breaking in charges. Were learning more about her northeast ohio mom on a mission. Mrs. Carter gathered thousands of signatures in an online petition. She is demanding the governor take action against ohios heroin epidemic. She lost her 25yearold son last may to an overdose and now declaration hoping it will free up money for underfunded Treatment Facilities in ohio. If we are going to leave the country in the amount of opioid and heroin deaths lead the country in the amount of opioid and heroin deaths , we need to lead the country in a solution and let it happen here. Her petition now has more than 7000 signatures. Our state is taking steps to help the epidemic. Were studying drug use prevention in ohios schools. Teachers will have a report in 3 months that will suggest changes to the way school talk about drugs schools talk about drugs in every way. Tonight the browns officially opening there preseason play against the green bay packers. We have you covered. It all begins at 7 tonight. Kickoff is set for 8 00. We on news channel 5. Were tracking more storms throughout your afternoon. Look at our daytime highs. By the noon hour, most spots upper 80s to lower 90s. This is tropical moisture lifting up across northeast ohio once again. The storms really start to spark up around the noon to 1 00 our. We will see the more widespread into 5 00 for your evening commute. This is going into the weekend. More storms but cooler temperatures. The time now is 5 07 on your friday morning. We have made it ladies and gentlemen. Pack your patience before you hit the road this morning. Many cases of road rage across the nation. One driver taking drastic action after being sprayed by winchell wiper fluid. And traffic warnings from other countries. Citizens to avoid a trip to the welcome back, is 5 10. Investigators are returning to the scene of the deadly apartment explosion in maryland. A killed at least 2 people and left 30 others hurt. Crews are still searching through what is left of that smoldering building. Firefighters and neighbors were working together to reach those trapped and pull them to safety. It was horrific and then you add on the known injuries and what we already know was fatalities. The cause is now under investigation. Officials say residents called 911 weeks ago to report the smell of gas. This morning were waiting on up date from officials on an up date from officials after another tragic accident. A 3yearold boy fell from a wooden coaster. He was writing with his older sibling. He was conscious and talking before being flown to the details about what happened. This is the 3rd Amusement Park ride accident just this week. New details in the murder case of a google executive in massachusetts. 27yearold vanessa market was found saturday night after going for a run. The District Attorney believes she fought back against her attacker. Police have seized video footage of a cut and bruised man. They say hes especially turned up suspiciously turned up at a resort just 10 minutes other countries are telling there residents to avoid taking trips to the us. Despite the advisories, a deputy spokeswoman says the United States remains the first rate destination. In case you are planning to travel to disney world you can count the electrical parade out here there pulling the plug on the nighttime tradition which includes half 1 million 1972 but will go dark october 9. They are also discontinuing another nighttime parade, paint the night. They have not said what if anything will replace those parades. I have so many Good Childhood memories here. Im not happy about this. That is okay we will just make new memories. Were still tracking hot weather and storms throughout your afternoon. Folks, were looking at a heat index the ambient temperature combined with humidity of 100 to 105 degrees this afternoon. That sweltering heat is taking over northeast ohio once again as the moisture is in place some of those storms could possibly go to severe status once again. Temperatures across the board, norwalk 77. Lake county upper 70s. More spots this morning near 80 degrees. Where is this they are dealing with a lot of rainfall and some of this moisture is lifting to the north. That is why we have been dealing with these popup storms throughout the last 3 days. We are also tracking a cold front that is going to mix in with that tropical moisture for your saturday afternoon. This will allow for, unfortunately a washout saturday. As the front your sunday afternoon. Future cast for today, we are dry right now. For most of the morning we have a little bit of cloud coverage. By the noon hour we start to see some storms making its way to portage county. It is sagging more to the south throughout your evening commute. The storms will continue to roll through as daytime highs are still in the lower 90s. Thing sort of calm down overnight around 4 am tomorrow morning. We will start to see accumulation totals throughout the last 48 hours, over an inch of accumulation. We will pick up an inch of rain this afternoon. 5100th of an inch. Closer to 2 inches of rain for later Greater Cleveland. Expect a little bit of minor flooding. We will definitely be checking that. Today, 91 degrees. Tonight is still toasty with i have been talking to a lot of different Area Police Departments especially on the west side where we saw a lot of storm damage. They say the Police Departments took care of the debris clearing a lot of those streets off. Were not seeing any roads left besides this one in the village. Columbia road you are closed just north of the train tracks to wolf wrote. Just south of that and north of 90, that area right at columbia road you are going to see a lot of different heading outside for our odot view, not seeing any messes on the highway. Cars are getting by just fine. Exciting news to tell you about for drivers cleveland. Com is a reporting is reporting gas prices to fall after labor day. Prices could hit below 2 a gallon this autumn. The average price is 2 05 2. 05. Just this week several cases of road rage reported all across the country. The new video shows things can escalate really quickly. Checkout, first in la a driver of said that an suv sprayed windshield fluid on him. What did he do . Fired a gun. You can see the gun sticking out of the black honda. Inside the white vehicle, a woman and child. Both are thankfully okay. Involved in this road rage incident. The black pickup followed the victim into the gas station. One of the women pulled out a gun and pulled it on the other driver. The incident escalated from port hunky porn honking. Not done yet, a man in the minivan in st. Louis got out to yell at the driver of the red car. He tried to open the door and even kicked and punched the vehicle. Luckily the driver had those doors locked. The driver of the red car was an elderly man who appeared shaken up by this whole encounter. Since 2010, road rage has been blamed for at least 1500 deadly crashes. Donald trump has been hit with another lawsuit. Several are in suit right now. A judge has ordered him to pay almost 300,000. Miami golf resort. It is also accused of owing refunds to at least 60 members of the golf club. The case goes to trial monday. Hillary clinton is laying out her economic agenda. She explains how she will stabilize and improve the economy. She says tech breaks will only benefit millionaires and billionaires. Donald trump would give trillions in tax cuts to big organizations, wall street and big money makers. That will explode our national debt. She says instead of giving tax breaks to multimillionaires she would add new tax and close thank you for joining us this morning. New this morning, strange news from around our city. Cleveland. Com reporting a man skip University Hospital yesterday that led police on a foot chase through little ability. Vendors were setting up italy. Vendors were setting up at the time. He was only wearing boxers. Why he was in custody or how he escaped. The feast of the assumption kicks off tonight at 6 00 in historic little a little he italy. It runs through monday night including a fireworks show. A features carnival rides, live music and of course all of that food. They have sausage, lasagna, spaghetti, meatballs and those yummy canales. Do you have lots of choices. The food is good but the weather im really. The weekend forecast not looking too good. Many people one of the outside but unfortunately we are going to be tracking around of storms. I suggest indoor activities. If you here lightning, the first thing you need to do is russian side. Today, 91 degrees. The sweltering heat rush inside. Today, 91 degrees. The sweltering heat is taking to the lower 80s for this weekend. We will get a slight break tuesday afternoon, but temperatures are on the cool side. Lets remind everyone about those ramp closures in the akron area. We had these 2 that go off to 76 westbound. One more to tell you about, 77 76 eastbound to 76 southbound another one. Lets go to our odot view. To are moving just find. Not seeing any issues on the highways. I will let you know as soon as we see an accident. The king will continue to rain over cleveland. Lebron james has plans to re sign with the cavaliers. According to espn you signing a threeyear 100 million deal pick he is the highestpaid player in the league with a 31 million salary this year. Upcoming schedule their upcoming schedule. They will host the next on october 25. They will plan Christmas Day against golden state but this year they will be at the q. Michael phelps swam to victory again in the mens 200 meter individual medley winning his 4th gold medal at the rio games. This is 22nd overall. He is the only swimmer to win 4 straight gold medals in the same olympic event. Time a swimmer earned at least 3 gold medals in 4 different Olympic Games. Last time golf was paid at the Olympic Games it was 1904. Yesterday britains justin roads make sure it didnt go unnoticed. He hit a hole in one , the first ever recorded in olympic history. Is not easy to make a shot like that especially when you are dealing with extreme conditions in rio. It is rio. Apparently golfers are being warned about critters on the turf which include boa constrictors,. This is the least a felice muller. She will be competing for gold in womens rowing this morning. After 38 usa has the most metals, 3816 of them gold. Japan has 22, russia 19, great written 16. Trying Great Britain keeping your kids safe in cool school what cleveland is doing to keep your kids safe through this car just missing a 12yearold by seconds. Power is still out for thousands. Were live at west lake. Nick, he found a whole lot of trees down there. A whole lot of damage. We knew the 2nd round of storms were coming but they still caught many offguard. Long after the storms are gone the impact is still being felt by many of these west lake. I want to show you where were standing. I am in the middle of the road of firstrate. This is the entrance to the rta parkandride. As you can see, huge trees and branches are blocking access. At last check, more than 8001st Energy Customers are still without power this morning and that is in Cuyahoga County alert 8000 8001st energy Energy Customers are without power this morning and that is in Cuyahoga County. As we speak, crews out this morning still trying to repair the damage but they are scrambling to do just that. It is a process because first we have to clear all of this debris before we could get to the damaged por damaged power poles as well. Again, a Long Time Coming for a lot of these people still being affected. It could be much of the day into the evening hours before they get the power restored. Now, we want to get a check with power 5 meteorologist. Were not getting a break today from the storms. As nick said, people are but we only have about 5 to 6 hours before another round of storms start to enter. We want to show you on the power of 5. We saw them enter late last night and they will definitely continue to roll through this afternoon. Temperatures were definitely on the hot side, lower 90s. Any storms that were seeing through erie, pennsylvania are severe thunderstorm warnings right now the radar is not picking up any moisture but it is coming very quickly. Right now in southern portions of ohio as the system starts to creep toward the north it will spark up more storms. Also, were checking our next cold front that will enter saturday afternoon. Hour by hour by the new owner noon hour we will start to see more storms roll through. Were really seeing roadblocks because of that storm damage. Village. Were closed northbound riper for the train tracks all the way to columbia road. This is where nick has been reporting for us this morning. We have no issues on the highway. That is the good news to tell you about. 480 is looking just fine. Those nasty storms created a terrifying moment for a family visiting the city. A light pole ap slapped into the car. They were trying to get back home to kalamazoo michigan and a strong gust of wind sent the poll crashing down right through there back windshield. We were just driving and i was just on my phone again and i see this coming toward me and im like oh no. Another car. A black bear crashed into them in michigan. Fortunately, both times everyone made it out without a scratch. There is a swat situation on the east side of cleveland. This is at east 110th and miles avenue. Initial calls were for a possible hostage situation. At this point a man was found shot in the chest. He was taken to on the west side and overnight hospital house fire. Thankfully everyone got out safely. It is a touching moment firefighters giving the pet cat some tlc, some oxygen. The cause is under investigation. Kids head back to school in cleveland on monday and the district wants to make sure theyre safe. They are testing the water from lead in all of there buildings built before so far they have not released the results but they are turning off all classroom faucets and water fountains. Instead students will be using water coolers. If you want to know if your Childs School was tested you can catch that information on our app. The money problems keep popping up for East Cleveland. They are 30,000 behind on there water bill their water bill. It forced them to shut down service to some of the citys 3 days later East Cleveland paid off most of the bill. Now they want explain how it happened. Cleveland water found a meter that they didnt know was there. They had this bill just like that because they didnt know the meter was there. That is how the water got shut off. That payment means East Cleveland wont have enough money to pay other bills. New information on the rash of heroin overdoses in firefighters treated 14 overdoses in just one day. 13 of those in just a 7 hour period. Fentanyl mixed into the heroine is possibly to blame. Just to show you how much the heroin epidemic has grown, ohio state troopers say they have already seized as much air when this year as they did for all of last year. Between january and june they collected more than 53 kilos valued at about 8 million. Looking ahead to the weekend, changes are coming sunday they will raise prices and cut services on several routes. Bus and rapid rates go up . 25 for a single right. Several stops are being eliminated or the hours are being cut back. For more information go to our app. Ohio did you know we have goldmedal champ. Kayla harrison won her womens judo division. She also won gold in the london the only repeat judo champion this year. Heres a fun fact harrison used to train with ronda rousey. Illyria is getting patriotic as one of its own gets ready to compete. The square will be paid in painted red white and blue here they have this woman in the womens 100 meter, long jump and the relay. We will be looking out for how she is doing. And the browns begin the season. The first person you will see is . It is out with a hamstring issue coleman. He is out with a hamstring issue. Coverage starts at 7 clock but the game starts at 8. We will have postgame coverage after it is all over. Still ahead another child hurt. This time on a roller and are you getting burned out by all your work emails . The new reason you should just were checking more storms throughout your afternoon. A very quiet morning with mostly cloudy conditions. We will be sitting in the lower 90s tracking up storms coming from the south. You can see them widely scattered throughout your evening hours. I know many people have plans. It is looking to be a washout saturday unfortunately for the weekend. No issues or accidents on the highway the venture Bigger Picture behind a showing 480 right now. I will talk about your drive times in just a few minutes we have to get to some health news. Kids in the us are not making the grade when it comes to her health which could put them at risk later in life. More than 9 out of 10 kids have poor diets. Those bad habits can stay for life putting them at risk for Heart Disease as adults. Are you feeling a little burned out . Maybe you are not spending put on your phone new study says checking work email is putting stress on employees to stay in work mode and that eventually leads to exhaustion and lower productivity. It is so bad there is a law that tends checking work emails on the weekend. What are the consequences if you violate that law . How do they enforce it . If you need to miss an important emaiso still ahead a us swimmer making olympic history and just how much do gymnasts leotards cost . We have that for you and the biggest stories out of rio severe turbulence forcing a jetblue plane to make an emergency landing. 24 people hurt and taken to the hospital. One passenger says there was a sudden drop then people just went flying out of the seats. Medics on board are putting a neck brace on that woman there. The flight was going from because of weather. The rest of the passengers were put on another plane to sacramento. Another child hurt in an accident at a an Amusement Park. A 3yearold fell off of a roller coaster. It happened on a 78yearold wooden coaster. Our affiliate say he has head and chest injuries. It is the 5th child hurt on a ride this week. Kansas sunday than 3 girls fell from a fierce will in tennessee monday ferris wheel from in tennessee on monday. 2 people died in a deadly explosion and about 30 people injured. There are still several people unaccounted for. Officials believe a natural gas leak is to cause for the out to the area hours before it happened but they couldnt find anything so they left. ; clinton facing new controversy. This time surrounding her Clinton Foundation. 3 offices wanted to investigate the foundation for corruption. They found suspicious transactions from foreign donors, but the Justice Department stopped it according to cnn. Right now the Clinton Foundation and the doj are not commenting. Donald trump creating more this time he says he will support trying americans charged with terrorism in military tribunals. He told the miami herald, they should be tried in civilian court. Instead he will push for them to be tried in guantanamo bay. The proposal could be unconstitutional because us citizens have a constitutional right to fair treatment at trial. Dayton was supposed to host the first president ial now were learning they have no intention on paying the state back for the cancellation. They were given 220,000 to be used on security upgrades. Secondly, they dont have to give the money back because it was given and spent in the last fiscal year pick were going to take a look at some of the headlines we will be following. Jerry sandusky expected to take the stand for the first time as part of his appeals hearing. The former penn state coach says his lawyers were ineffective in his 2012 trial. He was sentenced to at least 30 years in prison today also Alec Rodriguez s last game with the yankees. He will play 3rd base one last time. He will be the designated hitters hitter against the rays. After tonight he will become an advisor for the team. If you got out before the evening hours last night you mightve caught the media the last outburst like this was back in 2009. Time now 5 47 lets talk weather. This is the vision we are saying all over west lake right now. West lake, Cleveland Heights does it matter where you are across northeast ohio. A lot of damage and people are really picking up the pieces. Unfortunately we are going to see another round into this afternoon and into the weekend. People are trying to get it together, but unfortunately the storms are very persistent along with our temperatures. These are the feel like right now appear Greater Cleveland 82 degrees. 75 wayne county. This is mixing in with that humidity that is already pretty oppressive at this hour. Daytime highs and humidity levels will bring a heat index this afternoon to 100 to 105 staying hydrated throughout your afternoon. This will be the last day of temperatures in the 90s. We are probably going to see a little bit of moisture. This is the tropical moisture pushing to the north which allows those storms to pop up. This will mix with the cold front. Tomorrow afternoon you can see widespread Severe Weather making its way already across chicago to wichita. This will mix in with the tropical moistur heads tomorrow allowing for more storm coverage to really take over. The he will start to calm down due to the cold front. That southerly flow today, were back in the lower 90s. We will show you the exact timing on our future cast. We are aok for your Early Morning commute. At the 10 00 our we will notice those high clouds working there way in and then we will check moisture for the start of your lunch hour. It will be continuous and pretty sporadic throughout your afternoon even for your evening storms to the west. Once again, they will be on the scattered side. Our storm shield app will be here to keep you safe. Lets had to our maps right now. I want to show you what this looks like. The purple line you are seeing on your screen that is columbia road in bay village. It is blocked because of storm degree debris. Only area were seeing storm damage. As we zoom out the highways look okay. Look at the Bigger Picture. The Greater Cleveland area of you look fine. Lakewood you are looking okay too. 480 you are starting to get busy. I am looking at drive times and will have those for you in just a few minutes. These guys they cruise to a 14 . 4 when win. Were keeping an eye on carlos santana. He was hit by a foul ball. He was checked out by trainers before being sent home. We found out he was okay. He will be checked out again this morning for any signs of a concussion. Both teams will be playing again tonight at progressive to lure fans using pokimon go. Today is catch them all friday at the stadium. The team is placing spots around the city of before the game the stadium before the game. So go, catch them all. Lets talk about the Olympics Team usa continuing to dominate in the pool and we are making history. Last night the first africanamerican to win gold in an individual event. Apparently it is good to be named simone in rio. Simone biles won the womens gymnastic all around. She had the top scores on the ball, balance beam and floor exercise. She got to share the win with her teammate aly won silver. She was left disappointed in london 4 years ago. She missed out on a metal because of a tiebreaker. Team usa so impressive. The gymnast look pretty good and raked in those metals. But, youre not going to believe how much those uniform cost uniforms cost. Each leotard can cost between 7 and 1200. Each gymnast get several suits worth 12,000 are worth 12,000. Were all wondering what makes them so expensive key . The swarovski crystals. One of the suits has 12,000 crystals on it. Talk about some bling. There is a crazy connection between 2 of biggest stars of this years games. Simone biles and Katie Ledecky were born within 3 days of each other. The coincidences dont start there. They both started the career at the young age of 6 and they have a similar number of world metals. Simone biles at 10 and Katie Ledecky at 9. We will come back back trying right back into a half minutes leaving you with a you with a beautiful look at good morning everyone. Were seeing scattered showers across the area this afternoon. They will start to pop up around noon and will continue throughout your evening commute. Were looking at another day of temperatures in the lower 90s. The good news today over the heat and humidity, we are going to start to lose that as the cold front makes its way through. Overnight lows tonight still cranking up the ac. 76 degrees. From our 7day forecast, things start to not really die down but they are on the cooler side saturday and sunday. We are calling for a washout weekend. Lets look at those drive times as promised. Looking okay on 90, 77 and 480. Interchange right to 90. Heading outside, not seeing any accidents. You are looking just fine on the highways. Replacing the Justice Center cost almost double initial estimates. They are saying it will be more like 1 billion rather than 500 they are saying it will be more like 1 billion rather than 575 million. There looking at upgrades to the complex and replacing parts of it but not the cost of knocking it down and starting footage calculations in the report were wrong and values were lowballed. We told you to expected. Some football fans taking the nfl in the hall of fame to work. They filed a classaction lawsuit after sundays game was canceled. That suit speaking of more than 5 million in damages. The league called off the game because of the wrong paint being used on the field. The nfl was concerned about the after more than 100 break ins, police finally have the man. They say alexander is responsible for the string of car breakins. Investigators believe heaves a taxi to commit his crimes. Police did an oldfashioned stakeout to catch him using an Undercover Police cars bait. They were following this person. They watched him get into that bait car and they approached him. It is not the crime of the century when you think of an individual car before mm breakins, it becomes a concern. They were covered dozens of iphones, ipads, laptops and even a snowboard. They are now trying to get it all back to the rightful owners. 48 hours without power parts of Cleveland Heights still in the dark so what is slowing down power crews . And to police have a suspect in the murder of a massachusetts jogger . The new information coming out this morning. Damage and darkness strong storms causing more down trees and fallen power lines. First up we want to go to our meteorologist who is tracking more storms for today. Unfortunately, were not we have about a 4 to 5 hour time span. Right now were sitting under mostly cloudy weather. By the noon hour were tracking more storms moving across our viewing area. Right now our radar is not picking up the moisture, but we are seeing the coverage of the storms well to the south right now already affecting parkersburg. This will continue to lift for the north. Also, for the weekend checking our next cold front. This will coolest back down to the lower 80s but that is going to mix in with that tropical moisture sparking up more storms throughout your weekend. Hour by hour, right now mostly cloudy weather but by noon as you are headed to lunch, you will start to notice the dark clouds rolling back in. Daytime highs begin in the lower 90s. It was like an explosion and then we waited a minute and