Eastbound heading out into the sunshine as you head towardswa broadway and 71. For 80 eastbound a 16 minute ride we are back to you. Our ba top story our nation mourning the loss and paying tributey to former first lady first lady nancy reagan. She passed away at at here home it at her home in bel air. We go live with more on how she will be remembered. Absolutely. Nancy reagan was known as the indispensable partner ofs president Ronald Reagan one ofne the most influential first ladies of the 20th century. She was 94 years old when she passed away yesterday. 94 president obama released a remain grateful forre her guidanceid and pray that she and her beloved husband are back together again the onetime actress championed the national na just say no antidrug campaign in the 1980s. She also had a lot of other causes in the white house f she was a passionate advocate for lifting theti restrictions on stem stem cell research. There was a Campaign Stop in columbus yesterday, president ial candidate governor casey can Arnold Schwarzenegger disgusted. And i know she would join in on heaven. She made sure the people around her were with the people committed around her she strong and in a total class act mrs. Reagan will be buried next to her husband on the property. We are just over a week away from the primaries here in ohio and the candidates are making their final push for the vote in the state and then we have governor kasich coming into town you are righto we just found out donald trump will be coming to the i ask centermp in about Bernie Sanders this coming weekend Hillary Clinton will be in town tomorrow john kasich right here rally. And this weekend and with the terminator. They went to the two rallies on sunday kasich told the crowd who want more power away from government ahead of education. We need to connect to one t another because that is the spirit of americao that is where the spirit lives. Being here tomorrow at 5 00 p. M. Hillary clinton will be at try stadium where wem. Knowwe the i ask center at 2 00 p. M. Sunday. It is definitely a funy a time here in ohio. For sure. Jessica reporting live s this morning. New this t morning battling a blaze on the citys west side just after 4 00 oclock this morning. The west 100 30th and cross Burning Police say they actually discover the fire thanks to an two teenagers are behind bars this morning connected to a string of robberiesars to stem from a woman they were arrested saturday with a stolen vehicle while the other two got away in a 2009a white mercury milan. They say, no one was hurt, they want to catch the suspect before someone is hurt. Foxing is keeping tabs on news all this morning. Doctors at the Cleveland Clinic say they will hold at News Conference this morning discussing details about the first firstever uterus transplant heree we talked about ited last month they performed a ninehour surgery under 26 rolled woman who did not have a uterus the hospital provided. Few details about the patient patient had to undergo ivf it came from a deceased order organ donor. The hospitalcea is doing this part of a clinical trial. We are learning this will happen at 10 00 oclock today. Le what democrats said about the toxic water crisisd. Plus, going out on top dash a look back on Peyton Mannings nba career as he prepares topa hang up his cleats. Good morning, scott. Good morning, everybody the the 40s featuring a dayar wew have a look at that when we come back. W hanging out this morning when we come back we are talking about National Pancake day. Who good morning, everybody we want to thank our group for being here today. Check out the a cappella concert coming up this saturday, march 12a pretty eventful morning so far no rain will push back up and temperatures continue to climb we mention the strong southwest wind at that will drive us with the temperatures by noon. Here is where the warm front is located stillw look at the rain pushing into illinois and indianaa and warm temperatures the next several days we should be very d close to around 60 degrees later today look at the lower 60s south of akron with high clouds. Showers tonight. The coverage will be pretty smallt here is the warm front then we start to increase the temperatures tomorrow weve not had a 70 and almost three months it was december 12th. Incredibly warm december that we look at the wide spread warmth. What has been concerning we will have one moving in here thursday and friday. And then going south with the warm sector that means temperatures go up with them eight day forecast now. And then we talk about maybe a 70 the middle of march here it ish hopefully that holds true rain thursday and rain over the weekend fox eight news is your official School Closing statione monday morningng it will launch a Nuclear Strike with the aggression on the part of its enemies state media says the National Defense spokesperson says it shows the nations military might. And he is ready to plead guilty to Drug Trafficking his real name he moved before he was reading great arrested back in january. Y. I would have a full new what and onein rick snyder says it wants to talk about taking responsibility after climbing for 18 years Peyton Manning will retire today at holding a News Conference at 1 00 oclock today to announceho his departure he was picked in the 1998 nfl draft he spent 14 years to coat and Miles Per Hour with with the broncos he wentho to the super bowl twice winning once with each team and asked as a fivetime mvp we are talking basketball. Drama. I rereading too much into it . That is the other things about 45 minutes ago chi read comes off with a tweet to make it even more crazy last night after tweeting something early inas the week constructional consistency creates the eighth the state which means da vinci code some say they really comes out saying that sounds so cliche but it isat the bald truth good morning. Again by itself it sounds great butd when you go back to this the season what is going ono im sure this is going to be the gameth tonight too. But hours know. You can use voicemail the man can do and say suitably he wants to sit the rest of us. Mark sayshe he is all business when it comes was were convinced i believe this is for the players to wake up. Lebron as a right to treat whatever he wants to treatgh and should be honored he came back here. Shaking the team to get them motivated and focused swift are all long way to go. I dont think he is holding back on at all artificial so it is just so weird when youre trying iol to get the Team Together for the playerset play but you can y help analyze us for analyzers for us. Text and voice mail maybe we are reading too much into this. I hope that is what it is. Are just so weird its not what you do underneath us what you do that to us find you picture p lebron wearing a batman costume saying that. A we will talk about it. What the heck. We are not spreading rumors we are just curious. We will find out after practicece 18 minutes after 8 00 oclock is the time on a monday morning. Still to come dash is your job making you sick . . Unhealthy professions. Find out if yours is on the list. Eight a. M. We had done him is rushed to the hospital. With the actors andsh authors revealing about her condition this morning coming up. And rememberab to head over to fox8. Com to vote for the next fox eight cool school. They will announce the Winning School walking on sunshine we want to think these talented students for coming in. You can t get all the info coming up on great performancee speaking of danielle do your thing. To your thing. We are here previewinge National Pancake day which is tomorrow. Benefiting the Childrens Miracle Network hospitals. Rainbow babies childrens and hospitals all the ihop located around the community will support the baby smile by offering you a frees freeze short stack of their buttermilk goingk from aunts and uncles to research. The pleasure and beauty of childrens miracles is hospitals know best the really allow each to make the best decision for them Rainbow Babies goes to all patients help patients and their families g g and patients that are otherwise not traditionally coveredie and they can receive up medical treatment of fault children that walk through ourgh door it is a wonderful thing we encourage you to enjoy a yummy free delicious plate. And you are the owner of the ihop. I guess traditionally it would beop. Great for you. It is. It is actually our busiest day of the year. I would imagine with free pancakes. The average across the that is right. You build them to though of about 17 miles into space as many pancakes as we get give away do staff is motivated and ready to goo giving Something Back you will find outil the police and fire at it is all about supporting our local childrens hospital. Up well done. Well done. When you guys for thell studio as a give up a big competition. Why dont we do that . Anything you need just bring it on, kenny. About you . We will see that later. It is all very true. At coming up on fox eight news in thein morning dash we are remembering the amazing womanorn nancy reagan. Absolutely the former first ladys death continues to pour ina a look at her life and legacy when we return. And governor k6 gets hot kasich gets hot support on the roadts and in his home state. Good morning. Good morning, guys. Look at this beautiful with highlevel clouds streaming and details on the the sun is out look at that. Beautiful day in northeast ohio. Ast oo. Who should we thank for this. Is aj is on the clock now. Ock now. Thank you aj. Who is the other guy you work with. Wih. Maybe that guy said it up aid it up a little bit and aj knocked it outked of the i park. Rk your very kind i will defer tokin the fourth way. I think scott sabol deserves atabol derves least that much. Mu happy birthday to our friendday t scott sabolo otourday. A great day to celebrate. Eb it will be gorgeous out there. Er no precipitation to speak of and a winds are picking up out of the te south. That is dragging not only those highlevelgi clouds and but also very tuesday temperatureseratur expected for this afternoon. Ern rain showers out here parts of scooting to the northeast maymay clip us. A chance of a brief showeref sho especially late tonight or mayma be a passing sprinkle. It is 60 degrees in st. Louis. In st. Thats impressive. Into the 40s now Elyria Brunswick and mentor the 40s currently. And there we go the update my dina now up to 40 degrees. 39 at cuyahoga falls. 42 strongsville. Painesville 44 this morning and madison at 42. Todays hike 60. Mostly cloudy. And those clouds will move in for tonight as well. 47. Tomorrows hike 60. 0. Br 4 th deg3939 todayhike 6 flirting with 70 as winds blowb vigorously out of the south and that is not a misprint. Rint. Look at a wednesday. A high near 70 degrees. Breezy and mild turns wet on o thursday and we are back in then 50s although that is not tooot bad heading into the weekend. Eeken 60s and we spring ahead. Head. Spring forward when and where wh Daylight Saving time. Fox8 your official school School Closing station. Back to you. O all right. Thank you very much. Tk yo all right. L right. Americans are reacting to the reacti to the death of former first lady nancy reagan, the wife of former president Ronald Reagan. Gaga preparations are underway for presir her burial at Reagan National b library in california. Uria fox 8s stacey frey is here with more on her passing. Ox 8s stac stacey. Good morning. Good mng. Nancy reagan died of congestive Heart Failure at her Los Angeles Home yesterday. Cy reagan diedeses she was 94 years old. The former first lady is known for deep love for her husband,e former the 40th president of the United States and the causes shetes advocated the fight against and alzheimers an d drug abuse witht the just say no campaign of the 1980s. Hevocated the fight so, on the count of three. Lets practice saying no. One, two, three. Three no. Nancy davis reagan met her Ronald Reagan while working as an actress in hollywood. Ld reagan he of course was an actor as well. E she was known as a fierce protector of her husband boths personally and politically. D politlly. When Ronald Reagan was shot in a 1981 assassination attempt, sheention atempt never left the hospital until he did. The first family released a statement that reads, in part our former first lady redefinedhe first f the role in her time here. Ro later in her long goodbye withle in he president reagan, she became a voice on behalf of millions of families going through the secamee h the depleting, aching reality of alzheimers, and took on a new role, as advocate, on behalf of treatments that hold theheimers, andew role, potential and the promise toe to improve and save lives. Friend and former cnn host larry king talked about her final days. Nd and formeme very sad at the end wolf, she was confined to a wheel chair. Y sad ahe couldnt speak very well. I think she was ready to go. In fact, she was saying she was ready to go years ago. Go years a but i think she was really ready to go. Husbands grave at his residential library in california. Nancy reagans funeral arrangements have not yet been finalized. She survived by her two children and a child by president eside reagans first marriage. Iage. L she if you demised first lady. You have to smile when you seeou se her she was darling. L i it a lot of great memories. Emor a lot of criticism how close she was to him sometimes but at the the same time so many people sayingp including him he couldnt havehave been president without her. Ut her. I believe that. Ve she was the source of his strength. S good stuff. Thank you. O we are getting closer and closerthank closerand to ohio primaries and thecloser oh candidates on both theio rimarie republican and democratic sidecratic sid are campaigning hard for yourour vote. Thats right. One of those making a visit to our area this week is governor john kasich. Tt. Hose makinhn kasich. Thats right. Ts rigt. Jessica dill is live in Broadview Heights with more on kasichs newest supporter. Je broadview h as many of you know him the terminator. O good morning. Throwing his name behind johnthats rht the kasich. Former california governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, former california governor joinedvernor ine d kasich in ohio sunday. Kasich ohio the two faced an enthusiastic crowd of supporters at the sun the Franklin Park conservatory and conserv Botanical Gardens in columbus. In the battleground ohio rally kasich reminded the crowd that he knows how to balance budgets and knows how to build a team knows h willing to get the country on a strong fiscal track. Al track he told the crowd he wants to shift power away from washington to local governments. The crowdd sh Arnold Schwarzenegger stood beside the president ial hopeful as kasich vowed to win ohios republican primary and go on towe grab his partys nomination for president. I ladies and gentlemen, welcome mys partyation fo very good friend governor john kasich. A positive message and raising the bar for our kids will win, well move america forward. Thank you all very much and god bless yall. Hank you all all of the candidates focusingtes cusing on ohio before next tuesdays primary. Y. Kasich will be here at the ohio will cat for a rally tomorrow. Hell be brushing shoulders with Hillary Clinton who is also in town tomorrow she will be holding a rally at tric. Bernie sanders was in town over y tomorrow s ws also n this weekend it we found out donald trump will be coming this comingthis weekend at 2 00 p. M. On on saturday. Y. That will be interesting. S on a saturday. Maybe not. T. Dont get too excited. Thanks just. Still to come this morning. Hulk hogan heads to court. Plus m and ms are getting am an makeover ahead of a major milestone. Well take a look at the changes headed to the iconic candy. D ms are gettg d good candy. Of a iconic andy. And would lebron actually leave the cavs again . Woul former coach Mike Fratello isd lactuallave th [music playing [music playing] could it be a little trouble in paradise. A a ra d rumors are swirling that lebronising thatleb is unhappy with the wine and gold. Roni and the king is only fueling f those rumors with a series of cryptic tweets. Uelingtweets. All right. Mike vitello is here this morning a lot has been happening since u been gone. On get out of town for a weekend look what happens. Ehat why dont we deal happ with first of o all lebron going to work out in that was aa media makinga mak something out of nothing at all. Hes entitled to that extendedxte to 80 days. Go when youre done witht the we we can do what you want when youhen yo come back finish strong. So what if you worked out to mee trying to sneak in other places. La has that ever happened before. That makes sense. Best friends. End Kendrick Perkins teams upset that theyre getting resigned now we have to tweet problem taking place. Now we hce. 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The most genuine nice person young man and he understands allderstan of these young kids are lookinglook at him saying i look just as oldas old as he does. I can do the same and he takeskes the time to work his balla handling magic with them beforeth t the games and puthem b on the shooting display because thinki about it possible is a one gamega 6570 yearold guys still go out go o in the driveway and try and the driv shoot baskets and makeeay and try baskets. Ke a foul shot just like he does. Sometimesl you pull tendons whens thank you mike. You m mike will be with us once a week for the rest of the cavalry andike will be wit more to talk about as we head into the playoffs. Back to usbe. There you go. Appreciate it. Welcome back. Ac thank you. Kenny crumpton is eating pancakes this morning. Does it get any better. I tell you what guys. Not even about us gettinggettin in for tomorrow. W. This ioms iot. The super bowl andy 500 olympics nothing. 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Tomorrow National Pancake day and lets talk about supportingpo Childrens Miracle Network. And people get a free stack ofac buttermilk pancakes all we aske a contribution. Ex youre acgtloingy. To be enjoying a delicious short stack oft s buttermilk pancakes at yourtour local i harp tomorrow fromr 7 00 a. M. To 7 00 p. M. And we are aski7ng 0 you to make a donation to help babies and childrenen hospital tomorrow. Al tomor awesome. Ro tomorrows National Pancake day. Will there be a competition justjut like this for people to see. E to s not tomorrow but will be having another one shortly betweens police and fire departments. Between you and your colleagues and family and friendsds come oute o and in support the kids at rainbow. W. An okay. Y. 100 percent of your donations goes to help the familiespercent and okay. Okay all right. Lets look at ttheseforks d plates. Plaes. Oh my goodness. Oldschool is real school i not going to ask you to talku t because your eating. Our e i was going to. At all right. Thank you. Al what happened. Gave me a little bit less pancake. E the youngest cat here. Trying to represent. St. What happened. Beat you. Too big of a breakfast before i came. Woo awesome. Thank you guys so much you have been great sports. Rememberh operative spittingve spit ihops tomorrowti National Pancake day. But the contest againe is when. Whe doing it a little bit later on this morning right here your locall ihop. Op. Come down and join us. Congratulations. And thank you very much. Welcome back. Opening statements begin todaystatemen hogans 100 Million Dollar trial against gawker. Hogans 100 m the news website published 41 seconds from one of hogans sexan tapes, back in 2012. Hogan is suing for invasion of privacy but gawker claims since hogan is a public figure, the tapes, ba a now a jury of hogans peers will have to decide. Publi figure,e is newsworthy. The man credited for inventing email has passed away. Ray tomlinson passed away at the he invented email messages back in 1971 but at the time, many he inve in 1but at theny his invention took off in thetion toff in t late 80s and early 90s when computers and Online Services went mainstream. M. Late 80s and he was inducted into the into th internet hall of fame back in 2012. All right. Al believe it or not your jobl right. Can sometimes be hard on your but a recent study determinedimd certain professions wear us down according to the american heartr wear us dn association 90 percent of police rt officers and firefighters are obese. Red ov 35 percent had high blood pressure. The outlook for people in sales positions isnt much better 68utlook fo percent of them have poor eatinghem have habits and high cholesterol levels. If youre concerned your job iso taking a toll on your healthncerned experts recommend sensible changes, like packing a lunch a lunch and taking a walk on your break. Okay. One in five people suffer from dyslexia and a new simulation isation showing you what its like for them. Wing y the lifelong condition affects reading, writing, spelling and even speech. Ing and and while dyslexia is seldomom understood this simulation you see here is making it easier to see how reading with dyslexiaerstood u see here is ma might feel. Researchers say that while this video is a good representation, not everyone with dyslexia experiences it this way. Aye this ideo is a good barnes and noble is banking onnd the comeback of the bookstore. Noble is its been more than two years since the chain last opened a new store but the book retailer launch four new prototype stores. Stores. The first one is expected to open this summer. R. The f the announcement comes one monthth after it was reported amazon is planning to open hundreds of physical bookstores. After it waephysica all right. Bookstor they are one of the most of tht recognizable candies in the world and now m ms are getting a makeover as they mark a milestone. Miles first produced back in 1941 the iconic candy turns 75 this week. Some of the changes coming toto uced back in the chocolate snack include new colors, flavors like coffee and 1 the chaes comiac honey nut new textures and fillings and new package designsli made for on the go eating. Mars also says they arengs and new pacao says the transitioning from artificial to natural colors. Areitioning as long as the same ones are still there. G ther all right. A cringe worthy moment from the miami heat game last night burnie, the heats mascot, was worthy om the trying to set the world recordd the h masord for the longest mascot jump but he failed miserably landing on a few of his fellow mascots in the process. Y you can see burnie feels good mascots who got crushed arent feeling the same way. Okay. Youre fired. The trampoline to get him over a little bit more. Well. Costumes. To protect anything that neededeeded protecting. G. 8 55. 55. Still to come on the big show this morning. Its lady gaga like youve never seen her before. St find out about the cause thatill the bive neve sent the pop star into freezing chicago waters this weekend. And we would like to thank synergy the Acappella Group from Nordonia High School for being here today. Ordonia high their 6th annual nordonia acappella festival concert is coming up this saturday at 7p. M. Theyre website quires. Com if you want more information wellmation w have the linke on our website as as take it away guys. R [music playing] s that make the biggest waves. Conventions. T indoor waterparks. Resorts. Com if youre doing everything right but find it harder and harder while our people work longer hours for lower wages, almost all new income goes to the top 1 . My plan make wall street banks and the ultrarich provide living wages ensure equal pay for women. Im Bernie Sanders. I approve this message because together, we can make a Political Revolution and create an economy and democracy that works for all and not just the powerful few. [music playing] [music playing] pop star lady gaga earned applause this weekend for taking thank you todd. Hank you t a polar plunge. Odd. The singer and her fiance Taylor Kinney braved the cold waters ofe braved th lake michie gan saturday as partld water plunge benefiting the athletes of Special Olympics chicago. This was gagas second time participating. Is would you ever do that i dontdon think i would. I wou mayld be for a good cause likee that. T okay. You can do it for both of us. H thats why we are teammates. Mmates. Take one for the team. Right. Actress and author lena dunham ake one for the tea is hospitalized this morning with a ruptured ovarian cyst. Her spokesperson tells people rupt magazine dunham was admitted on saturday and she will have to undergo surgery. N the girls star has been open about struggling withirls endometriosis. Last month she updated fans about her battle with the reproductive disorder on updated fa facebook, saying she was taking all right. Thats it for the 8 00 show. Thats it for us. Our time is done. See you later. Ate no kardashian know kanye story. Boring. Boring. Really. Ally. Thank you guys. U guy morning hope youre having a good start to the week march 7. Im todd meany. Od mornia good sta good morning. Good m im stefani schaefer. Orni remembering nancy reagan the nation mourns the loss of the former first lady that everyonetve just adored. Jador they did. D. They did she is missed that is for sure. Cleveland becoming a bigecoming a g Stomping Ground for president ialsidential candidates who was here this here th weekend who will be in town this week. All right. L r going out for a niicghte relaxing. Relaxing meal. L. What d o you do with your kids ifr k they are young should childcare. Well hear what else one newse one restaurant is offering and yourd yo comments in this morningsrni nloa that would make it convenient. N wouldnt have to pay a babysitter. Bysi check in with a. J. Colby for aolby fora look at our forecast what a beautiful start to the day. Even warmer temperatures on theeratures right now though on theres nothings no going on on storm fox we areare likely going to track a few