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And didnt have to. Built in the 70s it it exempted from that. You are saying sprinklers could have saved lives in this matter . Absolutely. How can i help new. There is a fire at Beverly Hills drive in hickory his apartment complex. It will be weeks before an official cause is determined but chief barber says something as small as disguarded cigarette could be the culprit and reoccurring issue. Over the past probably ten years, i think there is someone in the neighborhood of 15 milliondollar losses between north royalty and strongsville and brunswick with improperly disguarded cigarettes on the balconies. I spoke with award 3 councilman. Sprinkler issue with the city and work to make sure that apartments like this have working smoke detectors. Live in brunswick megan hickey, newschannel 5. The fire in brunswick left dozens of people without a home and it has inspired people in that community and beyond to step up and help out. Today we went to st. Ambrose church that donations poured in after the news spread through the community. We saw mountains of clothes and diapers and toiletries brought in to help. Those that lost everything are besides themselves and overwhelmed with gratitude tonight. It was a great commune. Im amazed that they came together like this. Organizers of the donation drive said they have plenty of clothing and household items. They need gift cards and cash donations. You can find out how to donate on the news net 5 app. House. Chris flanagan is live from the newsroom and it is all about michigan. It certainly is. Polls close at 8 and with a huge number of delegates up for grabs the stakes could not be higher. Donald trump leading the republican field according to the latest polling average. Mitt romney who won michigans primary back in 2012 has recorded a robo call asking michigan voters to vote for marco rubio in todays primary election. Governor john kasich has the least delegates. The wolverines have focused on his campaign and trailing donald trump in michigan and hoping to use that state as a springboard. Have the state of michigan send a message and launch me into the state of ohio where we have a whole new day in american politics. And on the democratic side the new nbc wall street Journal National poll Shows Hillary clinton topping rival bernie primary voters. Clinton had the big league according to that pole among republicans will vote in michigan and idaho and hawaii. By the way Hillary Clinton is campaigning in cleveland. Community college about two hours from now. Those planning to show up at the rally need to rs v p. We have a link on our app. And donald trump is planning a rally in cleveland for saturday afternoon at the ix center. Reservations are required. And president ial candidates are welcome to campaign in north canton but its going to cost them. Mayor david held said candidates need to pay for visits up front including overtime wages for police, fire and street services. North canton has 11,000 in unpaid bills for two visits by the Mitt Romney Campaign back should not have to foot that bill. Well today two candidates in ohios democratic primary for the u. S. Senate scored major endorsements. Former congresswoman Gabriel Gifford is former her support behind ted strickland. Calls him the best candidate to protest the rights of law abiding gun owners and stepping up to the gun lobby. He is young and on the issues and make a very forceful senator. The gun control issue is also why star wars Actor Mark Hamill is supporting his opponent. Pj sitten feld. He cited his stance on gun safety in the Youtube Video endorsement. Cincinnati occupational therapist kelly prayther is whoever wins one week from today will face rob port man in the general election this fall. Can we bottle this up . It is outstanding. March last time we have seen temperatures in the 70s in march was in 2012. Look at this beautiful live shot. Sun coming down. We got high thin clouds. Cleveland right now 71 degrees, akron 72. Canton at 70. Same for astubula. Outstanding anywhere. And no worry about any rainfall during the evening. We are dry on the live 5 radar. Notice we have rain trying to work its way up towards the northeast. We may see a few of the rain showers for wednesday. In the meantime lets enjoy this. 65 to 70 at 6 00 p. M. Still in the 60s for the most part at 8 00 p. M. And by ten p. M. Upper 50s. Just get outside and just take in a deep breath. This is what spring should be. More on that if it is going to hang around coming up. Thanks. Bb guns and notebooks and electronics. Some of the items taken from a southwest ohio teenagers bedroom after police say he shot four of his classmates in the school cafeteria. Today, what else police found and what charges two other students are facing. Newschannel 5 continues to see lawmakers taking action after the exclusive investigation into firefighters battling cancer. The resolution passed anonymously in akron next at gave. All new at five, man versus bat in a heroic battle after two south youth land Police Officers were called to take care after bizarre problem in one home. Plus, imagine returning home to earth that is. After an entire year in zero gravity. Readjusting to our planet. New developments out of southwest ohio. Investigators there say they from the home of a 14yearold accused of opening fire inside the Butler County school. The teenager shot and injured four students inside the Madison School cafeteria. According to the affidavit 20 witnesses have now identified the student has the gunman. He is being held in Butler County juvenile detention and several charges including attempted murder. Two students knew the teen brought a handgun to school and charged with failing to report a crime. Lee. New concerns tonight about ohio students test results. State School Board Members found large discrepancies in grades for tests taken online compared to those taken on paper. School districts that tested online received s grades nine times as often as districts that used paper and pencil. The Ohio Department of education disputes the notion that different testing formats led to different results. New development is akron lawmakers are speaking out about a proposal to help firefighters battling battle cancer. City Council Passed this resolution last night. The resolution urges ohio elements to give benefits to firefighters with cancer. Our exclusive investigation revealed ohio is one of just 16 states that fails to recognize the link between fighting fires and cancer. A link documented by numerous studies conducted in ohio and around the globe. Since the story aired the state senates Insurance Committee held a hearing on this and voiced their support but this resolution is the first time lawmakers in a make ohio city have said they support changing the law. One reason, a councilmember told me today an unusually high number of firefighters in the akron area have been diagnosed with cancer over the last few on your side im investigator sarah buduson, newschannel 5. And new information about Cleveland Police reforms and how much it is costing taxpayers. A federal judge ordered cleveland to pay 80 grand to the citys independent monitor. Thats for his work in january. The monitor and his team oversee reforms mandated by the department of justice. The total cost of reforms is expected to be ten million dollars. New developments out of baltimore. One of the officers charged in the death of freddie gray has been ordered to testify against his colleagues. Officer porter was the first of six officers to go to trial for grays death. It ended in a hung jury. Gray died last april a week after suffering a spinal injury while being transported in a police van. Handcuffed and shackled but not buckled in with a seat belt. We want to take to you a live look at the ohio cat look at the folks packed in there where john kasich is back home holding a campaign rally. Facing an uphill battle as donald trump continues to rack up victories. He is confident to win the home state and became the gop nominee this fall. Right before walking on stage the governor sat down with john kosic. Among the reasons that cleveland landed the rnc is the number of new hotels being built. One opens today. The stemton ski feel hotel at the corner of euclid and east 9th street. We got a sneak peek. The 122 boutique hotel. Reason about job growth. A new report says we are leading the way in comparison to other cities of spectacular size and makeup. Kristen volk joins us live. Reporter this will last because the driving force of our local growth here is health care. There are more patients coming to cleveland for care which means more buildings like these at the Cleveland Clinic going up and more doctors and staff too. All of that is creating a Ripple Effect that is affecting economy. It was five years that abby stewart tried to get a hospitality job in cleveland but she tells me the market was down right dismal. So she left the state and returned to a resurgence of the city recently and the on the horizon. And some brand new to the hotel industry. Stewart one of 45 employees at this Brand New Hotel and its places like these adding to the job growth according to this study authored by this man of Cleveland State the director of the center for dynamics. Indicating that the cleveland area gained 23,000 jobs from december 2014 to december 2015, the largest year over year job growth in nearly a decade. Keeping people alive is not going to go out of vogue so cleveland is in a good position to be competitive advantaged in the health care field. Most is coming from health care as places Like University hospital continues to grow doubling revenues and hospitals over the last 20 years. We need more ph. D. S and lab folks. In turn that is benefiting the construction, finance, industry. Which certainly helps people like stewart and her co workers. Take a look at this graphic on your screen. The cleveland area ranks 4th in job growth in comparison to other regions of similar size and makeup. The one area where growth may taper off post convention a bit is the Construction Center according to the reports authored but dont expect it to taper off too much because health care buildings go up and Health Care Companies expand. Live in cleveland. Im Kristen Volk Newschannel 5. Pretty nice out there today for everybody. As you slide in. Excellent weather everywhere you go and we will keep the mild air in place and add in rain. No. A little bit. A little bit tomorrow. It will be a good golfing day. Are you a golfer . Tiger woods. Yes, lee jordan golfs. Only in the loosest sense of the term. Lets take a look at what is we got 74 degrees in downtown cleveland. 74 degrees exceptional weather if you are going out and about through the evening hours. Lets enjoy this weather in march. Have not seen weather this warm in march since 2012, four years ago. 72 euclid to bedford to ohmsted or Chagrin Falls and 72 in west Lake Cleveland and hopkins at 71, same for brunswick. Lower 70s towards jackson and canton and alliance and massillon and akron. Outstanding weather. Ravenna, we will bring up the screen, 70 at the courthouse. Dew point at 53 degrees and calm winds, the barometer 30. 00. If you have a home barometer set it. 74 in millersburg and 71 in fremont. Gusts and same for cleveland the gusts in canton. Breezy. Hit and miss breezes should not slow you down if you are going out for a jog or firing up the grill. It should be a good night simply because we got clouds in and out but the rain will stay away until most likely tomorrow afternoon. Now look at the flow coming in out of the south. 70s over ohio and 60s towards chicago. And heres the cold air. We can draw a front right in here. There you go. Cold front there but its going to take its time moving in and it will probably drop in briefly thursday night and friday. Friday will be the coolest day of the next 7 or so and then well warm you back up as we head to next week. Here is the hour by hour. Notice 9 a. M. Still dry. The wednesday morning rush comes up. Notice in the afternoon isolated light rain showers coming in at one p. M. For the evening rush, maybe a akron, canton youngstown and wooster looks good with temperatures still warm. 55 degrees overnight. A few clouds, breezy. It will be mild. Tomorrow lets do 69 degrees. Mostly cloudy, isolated showers. Akron, canton, i think you could easily touch 70s. Thats what we are going to go for. 70 and mild. Mainly cloudy tonight after a low of 54. Love it. Thursday, rain likely. 61. Friday a few showers. Could there be thunder . Southern portions of the viewing area . Yes. But its chilly. 49. The rest of the we think, here you go. 65, 59 and back in the 60s as we begin the daylight savings time sunday morning two a. M. We spring forward one hour. Umm. Must be a sign of spring. Lee and frank. Love story and a final wish. Theaccomendations being made husband right now the world is remembering nancy reagan, first lady when president reagan was in the white house. She became an advocate for Alzheimers Research after her husband was diagnosed. Brandy hick has more from the california. Ronald and nancy reagan were inseparable. Constantly Holding Hands in a love story spanning five decades and that connection was of the utmost importance to the former first lady even after her death. Is there one thing nancy reagan her most important request which was to be laid to rest as close as physically possible to ronnie so when her casket is lowered in the ground she will be as close to him as though they could hold hands. This was the last time they were close in 2004. When the former president was laid to rest at the Ronald Reagan library. Among the 1,000 invited guests that will attend her private service. Former president bush and laura bush and president and first lady obama. The public will get to pay its respects when mrs. Reagan lies in repose wednesday and thursday. Thought i was ready. I knew the day was coming of course but i wasnt ready. In this interview with diane sawyer she recalled this conversation with the reverend billy graham. When i go that ronnie is going to be there waiting for me. And he is oh, yes. Absolutely, nancy. Tens of thousands are expected to attend the public viewings here and if there are people still in line when the alotted time is up President Library will remain open thats what nancy reagan would have wanted. New information on the story you saw first on 5. We have an update on a 6yearold girls condition after a bullet came flying in her home. Pedestrian deaths sky we explain one reason why it may have happened. Live on 5 continues brought to you by National Carpet mill outlet floor super store. Top stories at 5 30. President ial candidates make a last minute push to win ohio voters before next weeks primaries. Rally and Hillary Clinton will be here two hours from now. The cause of an apartment complex that killed a 4year old girl is undetermined. Hickory apartments went up in flames last night. More than 50 people are displaced. Donations are being collected at st. Ambrose church. Police seized bb guns and knives from the home after 14 yearold student. Four were injured in the shootings, the accused gunman has denied this. A 6 yearold girl recovering from a grandchildren wound after she got caught in the crossfire. She was hit by a bullet and paul kiska broke that story in lorain. You spoke with her family. How is she holding up . Her living room. The safest place in the world until last night. Can i help you. Theres a riot on g street. They have guns. People called 911 and reported hearing up to five gunshots during a fight between two groups and cars on g street in lorain last night. One of the bullets pierced this metal door striking 6yearold anigha turner in the leg. These people dont care who they are shooting at. The little girls grandmother said if the door didnt slow the bullet down her granddaughter could have died. You put my children in harms way for what because of an argument. Her little brother usually sits in this rocker. All i could think about is my grandson. He sits in front of the door because i dont use the door gal. Watkins says. The bullet slowed down to where it lost velocity and instead of penetrating the high. Austin says they no longer feel safe in their own home and plan to move out. Yeah, i am moving out of here next month. I am getting out of here. Its too bad. Now, so far Lorain Police have arrested one man but they say they expect to make more case. Live from the Lorain Police department, Paul Kiska Newschannel 5. Thanks, paul. A grand jury decided a former Euclid High School counselor after an investigation revealed she was having sex with a student. 36yearold rene smith is charged. Her relationship with an 18 yearold Euclid High School student began in december. She was placed on administrative leave in january and resigned a short time later. Guard is searching lake erie for a missing boater, 35year old brent burton an toledo launched his boat yesterday morning but relatives say he never came back. An overturned boat was found today near turtle island. Crews have not confirmed if it belongs to the missing man. There are more pedestrians dying in traffic accidents and ohio has an alarming number. We need to be aware of this so we sent Jonathan Walsh digging for answers. We have seen a huge jump in the deaths. A sizable increase. In ohio we saw the largest increase in pedestrian traffic deaths than every other state in the country. Take a look at the numbers from the governors Highway Safety association. They show in the first half of 2014 ohio had 25 people died and in the first half of 201556 people died. Thats a 124 increase and the largest again of its kind for all states. Woods in northeast ohio . I requested records from the ohio state Highway Patrol for all of 2014 and preliminary numbers for 2015 some of the main counties saw increases. Cuyahoga went from five to ten and lorraine from one to five and portage one to three and summit two to four. You may be asking why . Across the country people are using cell phones so much that they are distracting walkers and drivers and experts say that is partially to blame. Other reasons, a better economy with low gas prices is allowing more miles behind the wheel. Overall deaths are still to jump and there were 20 more traffic deaths last year. I did find good news. Three counties had fewer people dying from 2014 to 2015. Investigator Jonathan Walsh. Newschannel 5. More layoffs coming to lorain. The u. S. Steel plant is expect to idle operations. That plant is slated to shut down march 27th and remain closed until orders increase. Steel mills by the way across the country have been hit hard by the downturn in oil and gas. What is the word, mark . Warm. 71 currently in cleveland. Warm everywhere you go. The good news is that we got dry weather with high midlevel clouds floating by. So your evening thumbs up. Excellent weather as we track in partly cloudy skies all night. Temperatures will drop in the mid50s. This is a it. So just a spring coat. You may not need it as you go out and about and leave the umbrellas at home at least for now. Rain to traffic and some heavy and i will tell you the wettest will need the umbrellas coming up. Ill get back to 100 here soon. Back on earth after a year in space, astronaut scott kelley opens up about readjusting to life at home. A Bizarre Police chase that seems out after cartoon. What happened when police your winning lottery numbers. In my world of weather today it is the all about the warm weather out there. This coming from Patrick Burke via twitter. A chunk of rainbow in the serous clouds we call them sun love the crocuses beginning to bloom coming from punster one. Finally, oh, oh, what is this . An unidentified flying object over ashton. Yes, its a buzzard. Not in hinckley. That comes on march 15th but they are getting closer and closer. Now moving up to Ashland County on their way in. Another sure sign of spring. Mark johnson on twitter. And we will see you on tv tomorrow. We are back with new information from nasa astronaut scott kelly and he shares what it was like spending so much time away from his family and readjusting to gravity. His muscles are still sore getting ready to earth and still things are painful to the touch. For a number of days, sensitive like burning feeling almost because my skin didnt have any pressure on it for so long. Its kind of like maybe now i understand why babies cry when they come out of the wound, right . Before he spend a year in space he had impressive resume serving as fighter pilot, space station commander and shuttle commander. So what does one do next after accomplishing so much . Finding that next meaningful about. And rewarded by is something about. Kelley says he would like to write a book but in the immediate future just chill on the couch. March is womens History Month and today is International Womens day. The first day celebrated in 1909 after a strike for horrific working conditions in new york city. While women have come a long way since then information from the unite the nations show that we still have a long way to go. Take a look. One in three women around the from an intimate partner in their lifetime. Six women are at risk of undergoing jenna tal mutilation every minute. Another starting reality check a girl after 18 gets married reevery two seconds. Achieving gender equality around the world. Scuba do mystery machine impounded by police. Listen. What was that, mark . It wasnt saggy or fred. Thats mark, guys. A woman made a run for it during a routine probation check. More officers joined in needing they were supposed to be chasing. It is almost a tea green 90s Dodge Caravan with paint. Looking at scuba doo. The woman varnished like one of the goals from the cartoon series. There is a risk that too much loud music can take a risk for our hearing. And now that has come to affect acdc. The band has just suspended its tour. Brian johnson has been told if he doesnt stop he is on the verge of going completely death. He is 68 and with the band since 1980. This year marks the 1 thunderth anniversary of the National Park service. The cost of insuring access to the parks for all of us to theres a backlog of 12 billion dollars in maintenance on roads and other projects that includes five hundred million in repairs yosemite National Park. This gets mt. Rushmore wrong. You can see the new plate on the right. Compare the new plate to the actual monument. You can see George Washingtons face doesnt face off to the left like it does on the plate. Oh, oh. Well, maybe the monument is wrong . Thats the assistant chief of interpretation from mt. Rushmore says the plate is not viewpoint. So there. Several different viewpoints. They got the wrong one. It is called artistic license. George, turn this way. There you go. Just an approximation. Thats george taking a selfie. Check out what is going on in akron. A nice sunset. Dry weather and high thin clouds traffic moving well in downtown. And it is an excellent day, just a step outside and breathe in this warm air. A surge of warmth to detroit. 70s. Cleveland, 71. Even chicago, yes, 69. 62 in minneapolis. Notice the chillier air here. This will return. This will pay us a visit thursday night, friday and maybe even linger to saturday. Before more warm air pushing back north. A temporary cooldown but not until later this week. In the meantime this is your evening. We are at 70s in medina. Akron 72. Canton at 70. Same for astubula. Still gusty winds, nor walk at 19 Miles Per Hour the gusts. Cleveland 24 Miles Per Hour. Hit and miss with the winds. Off through the evening and overnight but we will be dry. You can see on the satellite map, dry weather and rain showers here. They will stay to the north. And as again the flow is coming in out of this south and west. We are watching the chill but its not going to get here anytime soon. We got a couple more days to enjoy the warmth. This high doing its job, bigger than all of this. So it is stronger than all of the systems. Holding them back. It is going to take this high to move a little bit further to the east before we actually see a front drop in and that will happen on thursday night. But tomorrow, we will add a few isolated rain showers into the forecast. Mainly the northern most counties of ohio. Overnight, lows in the smaller boxes. In the lower and middle 50s tomorrow. Maybe not quite as warm because of an isolated shower. And more clouds around. 68 and ashland 67. Greater cleveland, 69 after a low of 55. 67 in solen tomorrow, outstanding. Canton and akron 70. Alliance lower 50s. This is when more like may. We will take it. Your sevenday forecast, a few showers isolated showers tomorrow near 70s. Rain likely on thursday. A little cooler, 61. Front drops in thursday night. It will be on the cool side. Temperatures friday 38. A few lingering showers if there is thunder southern portions of the viewing area. Showers more rain on sunday. Wet, 59 and we are flirting with 50s and 60s into monday and tuesday of next week. No complaints here. Remember it is still march. We do have more cold coming but not in the next 7 to ten days. Tomorrow a decent day. Most of you will stay dry. Frank and lee. Thank you, mark. Here is what is coming up at six. The car be longing to the top cop has been found. But what is missing from the car has some people concerned. We will have the latest. A live look at governor john kasichs campaign in ohio. Were hours left in the latest round of voting. We sat down with an interview. That interview and what other candidates turning their focus to ohio had to say. A different kind of intrude intruder gave police a run for that is going viral next. A bat kept Police Officers in south euclid on their toes. The cape crusader was too busy for this one so instead it was south euclid police. I think there may be a bat flying around in my house. Armed with sheets Police Responded to the 1500 block of may wood to help get this bat out of the living room. They posted video of the crusade on facebook and apparently it wasnt the first time. I dont know for sure what it is but i had a bat in the house one other time. If you open up the doors you are going in and out a bat could fly in. Reporter the video was unique but police chief batted uncommon. Believe it or not we have a lot of calls that most residents would not imagine. These real life bat men were able to remove the winged villain. In all seriousness no one was Police Source they are looking at the joker as a possible suspect. Derick waller, newschannel 5. The winged villain. Thats it for live on 5. Lets go to chris and danita. Following the investigation into that massive fire in brunswick. A 4yearold killed and dozens more displaced from their home. And tonight we are learning what may have started the fire. We are live in brunswick coming up. Parents on high alert in elyria after another attempted newschannel 5 at 6 starts in two minutes. Newschannel 5 at six brought to you by mr. Hero get a roman live always investigating. Always on your side, newschannel 5 starts now a family in mourning tonight after their 4yearold child died after a massive fire broke out in an apartment complex. The dozens forced from their homes as a result. Today with the help of community, those evacuated from their home trying to pick up the pieces. A Sprinkler System could spreading. Megan hickey has been digging through inspection records. What do you know about how the fire started. Reporter investigators have not determined a cause but a disguarded cigarette could be to blame. It may have started on the ground floor outside the building. An annual Safety Inspection was performed in june and found no violations. Detectors but not required to