Reporter the North Eastern section of the city, dozens of streets are closed down. There is so much debris out here. The heavy rain didnt help crews restoring power to 2,000 households that dont have electric residents in Cleveland Heights feel it could have been worse. They thought they were in the midst of a tornado. It was frightening. It sounds like a train. It was 15 minutes of terror. What will you do without power . We are staying with friends. We have water. Thats good. Me that they will have it down to 1,000 within the next few hours. Could be 24 hours to get everyone up and running. 5 on your side, joe pagonakis. Thank you. Frank, you were in the western suburbs and found a similar story of trees down and power out. Reporter i did. Moments ago there were lightning strikes. The problem so bad people sitting in their homes with candles. Candles and signals seemed complicated. The slowing down. Reporter the rain did not. Transformer and pow again. It went 3 times. Busy times for clean up crews. Emergency vehicles were cleaning up littered debris. You could see some. Bill and his friend stood in line behind thousands more who want power who have to wait. 19600 people sitting in the dark tonight. Meteorologist, kara, are we not yet. It is impacting downtown for the tribe game tonight. Another round of wet weather is in place in cuyahoga. Picking up on rain in mayfield heights. Strong thunderstorms on they will use the wind shield wipers on full blast. The darker red will have heavy rainfall. 4 22 will be slower. We are watching this move there are lightning flashes with light activity south and away from akron and canton, which is good news for those that were trying to enjoy the luke brian concert. Scattered showers. Additional rain headed our way friday, saturday, sunday, maybe into monday as well. When the jumped into action showing us pictures. Really amazing pictures. You can see more like these on news net 5. You can see the clouds and rain moving over the sky line until simly finally the storm brought down a pole right on top of a car. We have confirmed cleveland schools have been working all summer to make sure children stay healthy. Cmsc is testing for lead. They turned off fausets built before 2002. That is 69 in all. They are testing. No results released. If you want to see if school was tested, go to our news net 5 app. One of our high profile cities dealing with lead is flint, michigan. Children were left with sores after bathing. Out of the 162 homes tested, there was no sign of lead in half of them. That is a good sign and more in line with other cities. Why lead is a concern. It can cause a variety of health problems. It takes less lead to cause symptoms, stomach pain and memory less. It can be passed to babies leading to miscarriage. It can also come from paint. A mom is on a have ohios heroin epidemic a state of emergency. She has a petition demanding action. She is keeping her late son with her. Rj parker died at age 25 leaving behind a 2yearold son. His mother has turned her Grief Program for drug addicts. It would free up money for under funded Treatment Facilities leading the country in heroin overdose and deaths. If we are going to lead the country in heroin deaths, then we need to create a solution. Let it happen here first. The is closing in on 7,000 signatures tonight. Taking steps to fight the epidemic. The group of law makers, doctors, police, and teachers will have a report in 3 months. They will suggest changes about drugs in every grade. An exclusive investigation, dollars behind in water bill payments. Joe pagonakis shows us it is another sign of trouble in the community. Negotiating payments owed to the city of cleveland. Four separate accounts totaling 30,000, how this massive bill got so high, a delinquent bill closing down city properties. They found a meter they didnt know was there. They had a bill. They didnt know the meter was there. Thats how it got shut off. Days later East Cleveland the president said it wont have any fund facing short falls. The following year is another 2 millions wheeler and king believe East Cleveland can survive on its own. They commissioned to see if cleveland can sustai itself. To give us an opinion. East cleveland is paying for the study with grant money. 5 on your side invest gator, joe pagonakis. New details about a story we brought you last month. A man is behind a burglary. More than 6,000 of frames. A close call in cleveland. A pole is down on a car with a family inside. There as they get rescued. Snakes on a plane, what about a monkey . Stunning a flight crew. Why the animal was allowed on the a scary case of road rage after being sprayed by wind tens of thousands are without power. This new video shows what happens. You can see clouds rolling in with damaging winds and the storm caused a pole to hit a car. The family waited to be rescue. They got very lucky. Reporter they really did. The pole missed their daughter by inches. Everyone is fine. This isnt the first time this family has been hit by a freak of nature. She ha can. I see it coming toward me thinking no no no no. The family was making their way back to kalamazoo, michigan. Storms moved in and everything went wrong. A burst so strong it snapped a light pole. They were about to get on interstate 90 when it came she was resting there moments before. She has reflexes of a ninja. Just no. Not today. I am thankful she is okay. Two weeks ago a black bear crashed into them. Photos showed it on its side. A state trooper had traffic going around us. It was fortunate. Fate was on our side. It was. They were trapped for an hour. The city is trying to figure out what happened with the an accident at a pennsylvania amusement park. 3 hours from here, initials reports are that a boy fell from a rolo coaster. He was alert when paramedics got to the park. We are learning about poisoning at wimbledon. A player caught rare illness. He could have only contracted it by poisoning. They are waiting for test results. We told you to expect it. A fan filed a lawsuit over the nfl game cancellation. The class action seeks 5 million in damages. Leaving conditions so poor there were concerns about player safety. If the skies clear, look up at the stars. You just might see the best show of the year over night. The Perseid Meteor Shower will peak. 200 an hour. This will be the best since 2009. What are the odds of seeing that over night . Right now observations looking in ashland county, you have the best chance of seeing the meteors or go to toledo not what you were hoping for. Notice ashtabulas biggest number over 3 inches from you had a flood advisory and flash flood warning. An average of half an inch to an inch. Northern portage, summit. 8. Half an inch in huron county. We had strong shower and storms and expect more for friday, saturday, sunday forecast. Flooding, a majo days to come. Diving deeper. Lighter rain on the east side. There were orange and reds. It is weakening. On the lighter side. Toward munson. Hours rounds ever rain traveling from erie to huron. It is shifting east with light rain over in ashtabula. I think that trend is possible leading to Early Morning rainfall to start friday. There is marginal weathe moving cold front with the storm chances. More about the wind as well and possibility 60 percent for storms tomorrow night. The luke bryan concert, you may have problems. A little activity in the morning hours. It is a better chance of pop up showers in the afternoon. Watch that line up. Problems with more and here in northeast ohio situation. We have 4 additional inches headed our way. Overnight lows hot and steamy with storms at 90 degrees. A scary case of road rage. Just how quickly things can fluid sprayed on him. He pulled out a gun. In the white vehicle a woman and child in los angeles. An extreme problem happening. Road rage has been blamed for 1500 deadly crashes. Tonight new video after a monkey was on a plane. It was thought the monkey smuggled on board. It is a service animal. The passenger had the paperwork to take it on the flight. They released this video showing that little monkey. Up next in sports, lebron james is staying home. He had a message for fans. Up for the lay up. Lebron james with the rejection. The king will continue to reign over cleveland. Plans to resign with the cavaliers, lebron signing a 100 milliondollar the highest player in the league. The king has a message for fans. Last year was a magical, inspiring, all the words you can come up with, season. The team, franchise, everybody, the fans, without your passion stackic. Ecstatic. They will host the knicks. Browns playing tomorrow against the packers. One brown will be having a homecoming of sorts. Good from the fox river thats the home of joe thomas. He said he it tears in has eyes. He has more than 20 tickets for tomorrow nights game. Thomas knows it is a special treat especially with an emerging offensive line. You want anytime you put it together thats kind of our search. We are getting closer to finding those. Hopefully comfortable in week one. There have been battles especially right tackle. You will tomorrow nights game for your cleveland browns. Back to you. Thanks, andy. We have you covered. 7 00 p. M. Kick off set for 8 00. Watch it on news channel 5. Indians starting their home stand. Check. Indians up 143 in the top of hopefully a quiet night. A few storms. . Dicky from hollywood, its Jimmy Kimmel Live tonight andy garcia benhurs jack huston from mr. Robot, rami malek and music from the gogos with cleto and the cletones. And now, by all means heres jimmy kimmel [ cheers and applause ] . Jimmy very nice. Im jimmy, im the host of the show. Thank you for watching. Thanks for coming. Thanks for joining us. Another big night of politics in