The police tell us the cracks is heroin related and among those killed are not among those in the car. And traffic heading out of kentucky is down one lane before the bridge near coney island. The drivers are backed up for miles on i275 and i471. Were following breaking news alert out of elmore place. The police are responding to a man, who may be armed inside a building on hasler lane. Members of the uc crisis team have been called to the scene. We will keep you posted on that as the details continue to come in. Were tracking a local breaking news alert in cincinnati at police headquarters. Elliot isaac about to share new information on a major drug bust. Agents with the burro of alcohol, tobacco, firearms, recovered piles of money and a lot of drugs while making arrests friday night. It involves an entertainment officers say may be behind a lot of recent crimes in the west end. Angenette levy is covering the news conference, which should be beginning any minute. We will take you there when we begin. A woman who died in a School Bus Crash in highland county. She lost her life when she slammed into the back of the school bus. Rescuers took five students from the bus to the hospital. Injuries. Crash happened shortly after 7 00 a. M. Outside mily town. The Bright Local School bus had broken down to students when driver rearended it. Could have been worst. Its not enough considering what happened. I feel sorry for the family of the lady that was killed. Its tragic and expects someone in the school bus. And witnessed it. Kids waiting to be picked up. Its a tough one. There are about 12 students on the bus. The district brought in another bus to take the students not hurt to white oak school. Sr 341 finally opened about three hours after the accident. Cincinnati police are holding the person that held up the bank in clifton. It happened around 11 00 this morning. Officers released surveillance photo. In the 20s, 61 and weighs 200 pounds. His face was covered with what appears to be a plastic bag. If you have any information about the robbery, youre asked to call crimestoppers. Leaders are suing the city of cincinnati on who is in and the county has final say on you sewer operations. And the city leaders responded this afternoon. The fact, the county has raised the rates exhorbantly. All the regulations the last couple of weeks, things that happened prior to the administrations efforts to change procurement were discovered by the city, not by the county. I think that to compound their rate increases with litigation expenses is not good use of taxpayer repair money. And while it may seem like legal process, it impacts you because sewer rates were increasing rapidly in recent years and who is in charge, will affect who you pay. Lots going on this afternoon. In the newsroom, theres a lot of light mood because of the nice niceness sticks with you. The niceness sticks with us a little longer. Thats not the case. And thats going to be a good guy for at least a little while longer. Temperatures in the 40s. 50 now in the international airport. And there are areas of fog, especially in low lying River Valleys tomorrow morning. Temperatures will drop down between 3035 overnight. Were as cold early tomorrow morning, as we were early this morning. Well still be dry. Precision doppler hd showing no rain. Even though we have mid and upper level clouds through the evening, everyone will be staying dry. Enjoy the break from the rain. We will have widespread soaking rain to the tune of 13 inches of rain on wednesday. The possibilities there for some not tonight and tomorrow, thats for wednesday. Last check, were at 47 degrees in batavia. Middletown, 52. And coming up, clouds increase and thicken tomorrow. We have rain and some storms coming for wednesday. No risk for severe weather. Well investigate a wet mid week and snow as the system pulls out on thursday in 10 minutes. Brad. Scott, thanks very much. People in a local neighborhood coming together tonight hoping to fight some crime. P house. Me too here . Bill hey come in i didnt know your home wifi the same time. Dad, its Time Warner Cable internet. Crazyfast. Dad you can get wifi all over this place. Cool possible. Get internet with unlimited data starting at 14. 99 per month. And ask about free installation. Call now. Press conference we promised you early on. They started with Cincinnati Police after a drug bust. Lets take you out there now. While at the same time, developing community developing community relations, Community Partnerships and trying to include the overall quality of life, folks who live here in cincinnati. Again, i will turn over to mr. Bosswick who will walk you through the incident. Good afternoon. We wanted to bring to your attention the results of a arrest the last offense marked in the time line, november the 1st that involves the kidnapping and shooting. This is a map, gives you some idea of the spread across the city. You could see the west end is a focus area for us. An area in district 5 as well, going out into district 3. And so this is impacting the city as a whole. Its not just concentrating in one area. In the course of the investigations, i said, there was a common denominator. That common denominator, its a music entity. We know it as ftd. Focus, discipline and location. And many of the individuals we are seeing in association with artists. Im going to play an excerpt of the video here. Im sorry the speakers are not very good but we try to rig something up here. I wont play the whole thing. I will warn you, there are some course language as we go through. Word of a major drug bust after an arrest on friday. They think its linked to a lot of violence and crime in the west end. Fdt. Focus, discipline, rap artist. And we will have more on the group and the impact the drug bust will have moving forward. We will continue to follow that as well. Other news today, fire causes more than 100 thousand in damage. The troopers say it started in the garage on clint bluff around it quickly spreadot other floors. One man escaped. And the fire also destroyed two vehicles. City leaders are hoping to get input on ways to reduce crimes in cincinnati. People living and working in college hill. They invited to a community leaders. Cincinnatis mayor along with the head. And broadway in cincinnati discusses next years season. And broadway will get a chance to see the hottest shows. Beautiful the carol cain musical, will be part of next seasons shows. Family music, like the will round to the season, are something rotten. Bonus shows, return of the phantom of the opera. Go to local12. Com. Click on the get it button. Carol king musical. Im very excited. I saw clips of the woman. Shes wonderful. Her list of accomplishments is absolutely ridiculous, isnt it . Workplace program, is common for companies to make us healthier. Many initiatives involve giving away something we all love, and that would be cash. Is there Something Better to go about it . New study today in the health minute. Employers want healthier employees. As a result, Workplace Wellness programs are hot. According to the study studied to the anals of internal medicine. 80 percent of the companies are offering some kind of financial initiative. Looking at how some programs could be effective, researchers thousand step goal to keep up to a 13 week challenge. The study participants are broken into groups. One got 1. 40, for each day they hit the 7 thousand steps goal. The other participants were entered into the daily rally. And the fourth, the participants lost 1. 80 for each day they lost the 7 thousand. One physician involved in the study, its how the reward is framed, adding the brains are wired to avoid losing things. We want the delayed gratifications, of getting the money upfront. It works. You could bribe me into it were looking into a live picture. This is an accident on 275. Were learning two people are in Critical Condition at this point. We know we have confirmation of one dead at this point. And we will continue to give you yo. I think weve had two 1 2 days of wows. Sunday, it was really a pleasant surprise. We had the rain early. 59 for the high yesterday. Some rains and storms. Weve had all kinds of springs. You could work on a few of those . Quiet tomorrow and the sky unloads on wednesday. 13 inches of rain. Then we have snow coming on thursday. Too early to get really throwing totals out there. Not what were looking for. Its february. Its going to snow from time to time. Lets take you outside with the Weather Authority forecast. At least the quiet stretch continues through tonight and tomorrow. Temperatures will fall through the 40s and 30s in the next several hours. 37 by midnight and ultimately, well drop down to 3035, early it feels like the temperatures will drop down to 2530 at the bus stopful well have high overnight. Ive updated the forecast. The Weather Authority app. Forecast has been updated. If youre on the move late in the afternoon, and this evening, making the most of the dry stretch. Take the Weather Authority with you on your mobile device and on your tablet. Temperature now 49, in the weather cam. Up in oxnard, glorious sun. Temperature 49. The windchill is 38. High clouds will be moving through especially the southern half of the tristate this evening. Clouds will thicken and increase tomorrow. We have widespread soaking rain, forecast on wednesday. 13 inches of just rain wednesday. Some thunderstorms in the mix as well. They will be widely scattered. Of rain and snow wednesday night and all snow on thursday. I gave you the totals for rain on wednesday. Its still too early in the game. Theres too much uncertainty to discuss how much snow well see on thursday. But, no, were still watching it. Were still looking over data. Way too warm for snow now. Light wind out of the northeast. Spring windchill in the 40s. Down to 20 degrees to get to the overnight low, just about 30 early tomorrow morning. Heres the high clouds. As we mentioned, live at noon, high clouds not just the afternoon, but the evening. Forecast has held true with the latest data coming in. Its courtesy of showers and thunderstorms raking the deep south. The winds tear off the south and thats what we have filtering in the sun now. No rain with the clouds. We have high clouds this afternoon. And clouds increase, especially tomorrow afternoon as the area of low pressure strengthens down over the text, mid south, deep south and eventually, weve seen the increase in cloud cover and also plenty of rain for wednesday. This is potentially heavy rain. At this point, were not concerned with severe weather. Im concerned were having pockets of heavy rain and additional flooding concern. Possibility of accumulating snow that melts in the weekend. And youre going to have a saturated ground. 32 by 6 00 in the morning. 52, the forecast high. Plenty of forecast shows were warm and relatively quiet in the short term. We get rain and thunderstorms on wednesday. Its back to february, as we get to the tail end of the week. The warmth returns for saturday and sunday. Set for 48 for a high on saturday. And snow, potential of flooding and even in the weekend, when the precipitation goes away. More on that in 15 minutes. Thanks. Paying a big price for illegal fishing. Going to start, and. Indonesian navy assisted in the operation. Illegal boats came from another of country including vietnam and malaysia. Tennessee, car bursts into flames and a dramatic rescue saves the driver. Car is burned and one outside came out in one piece. The story of what brought witnesses to tears. Once you hit the poll, it went up in flames. Jeep completely up in flames in the exit up 385. Started going, and i said the car. And witnesses say the jeep was driving eastbound on 385, when he was sideswiped with another car. Pushing him into a hill and into the poll. Moments later, flames came to the hood of the car. Find anything but a gallon of water. If the fire got it wouldnt burn him as bad or keep him as moist as he possibly could be. They tried to find a fire extinguisher but was unsuccessful. Moments later, man ran over a jackhammer. And trapped in the driver seat because the Steering Wheel was pressed. And moms later, live popping noises came from the car. A noise they say they wont forget. And laying out here. The driver was taken to regional one in nonCritical Condition. Site that brought these to many, was this bible. It completely burned up vehicle sitting in the front seat. You dont believe, i dont know what to say. Powerful. Will be okay. Serious injury and a nasty crash. Shooting rampage in crash on i275 left one in Critical Condition. You are looking at the scenes, live on i275. Investigators expect the driver control. Dead. Two women and the 7month old were thrown from the car much one woman was on her feet when First Responders pulled up. You could see the video now that was sent from this scene as the crash happened. The other woman and the baby, now listed as Critical Condition when they were thrown from the back seat. Traffic down to just one lane per drivers, leading kentucky and heading into ohio. The backup stretches was quite some distance on i275 and i471. Stay with local 12 news. We will bring you the information and update the traffic information as soon as we can. Gunman fired in three the mans First Court Appearance is this afternoon stated of michigan, versus jason dalton. Jason dalton appeared before a judge two days after a shooting spree in kalamazoo. You understand the charges against you, maximum sentence. Yes, sir prosecutors are charging dalton with six counts of murder, two counts of assault with an intent to commit murder. And police say dalton opened fire in three locations in a case of seven hours, picking up uber bears in between shootings. I said, youre not the shooter, are you . He said, no, are you sure . He kind of said, no, im just tired. Hours. The first stop is at an apartment complex where a woman she remains in Critical Condition. Several hours later, dalton opened fire in a car dealership where he shot a fire and son. Minutes later, five people were shot in a parking lot of a restaurant. The only survivor, a 14yearold girl who remains in Critical Condition. Dalton was arrested two hours later. Monday, a mass was held. Condolences came from president obama. He addressed the shooting during the governors conference saturday, another one of our community members. And it carried a mandatory life sentence. Two teenagers are shot, they hit a poll and knocked around 7 00, in new aven road near dry fork road. Police believe the 16yearold driver was impaired. The girl is expected to recover. Woman was ordered jailed after leading police in a chase and heading the Police Cruiser this weekend. Aiysha harris, on charges of robbery, felonious assault, resisting arrest and failure to comply. The police say she stole a uhaul. And police dog bit her after harris got out of the van and tried to run away. I think it was for you to get the bad news and come to me to say, things are not too bad. Im the bearer i was thinking sunny today. Weve had a good stretch. Were going to have one patch in the middle of the week thats going to be nasty and well get over it. Will we go to scott for a little more. Fill it in pretty much did it. I dont like rain. Oh,. One to three inches of rain forecasted on wednesday. Flooding is concern later this week. First, we get the rain and then we get the snow and it melts this weekend. We will discuss that more in detail coming up in less than 10 minutes. Just note for tonight, well have high clouds around. No rain or snow. Temperatures will fall in the 40s and 30s in the next several hours. 37 by midnight. Start of good morning, cincinnati. I expect the temperatures will be down. Wind chills will settle in the mid to upper 20s. There will likely below clouds or areas of river valley fog. We start tomorrow with echl it tures similar to what we had earlier this morning. When we were in local 12 news, live at noon, there is high level clouds, especially for areas south of cincinnati. They are still here and they will be with us in the evening perhaps thinning out as we get close to sunlight. Rain or snow to go along the clouds. And the temperatures is 50 in the international airport. And coming up, dry tomorrow. But clouds increase. We have plenty of rain coming for wednesday. And then snow coming for thursday. Well discuss why the weekend looks bright and sunny but flooding concerns will continue through the weekend in 10 minutes. Paula . Thank you, scott. Every year, tens and thousands of americans die from infections they pick up from hospitals. And how to protect yourself and your lufz ones from the next hospital sprit. She knew something was terribly wrong. Minutes. She picked up a lifethreatening infection while recovering from the hospital. Youre not eating, dehydrated its estimated one in 25 patients contract an infection from the hospital. Tens and thousands die every year from the infection. Pick up bacteria. She founded a committee. And she says patients needs to be proactive and protecting themselves. Make sure you wash your hands. Patients are intimidated by the white coats and nurses uniforms. You could save your life. Doctors should wipe their stethoscope in between examination. Wiping down the surfaces could reduce infections. Wipe the hightech surfaces. By that, bed railings. The television clicker. Other stuff patients could take, choose hospital insurgeon with low infection rate. And remove harmful bacteria that could be on your skin. She called her experience a big wakeup call. I think hospitals are giving an effort. And she says sh patients needs to be their own best advocate. Cbs news, New Hyde Park new york. And patients on antibhot ticks. Antibiotics kill off three different bacteria. One in three pick up an infection in the hospital. Thats alarming. Yeah. Fortune, out with the most admired list of companies. One of them is. Yahoo could be in the market. They can enforce buyers. Including verizon, comcast and at t. The fate of melissa mayor is still unclear. She took over back in 2012. The company had a hard time competing with google and facebook. Fortune is out with the most admired companys list. The winners are a trio of tech giants in the tech spot, apple. And followed by alphabet and amazon. The list is compiled with corporate reputation. Coming at 21, procter gamble. Energy stocks, as the price of crude oil surged. S p 500 climbed 27 points. To the moon and beyond. More than 18 thousand people applied for nasas next astronaut class. That would be the record. Triple the number applied to the previous class. 18 thousand for 14 spots. The future astronauts could be tapped for a mission to mars by the time they get through. Yet i want to be in the simulator, where you get to float around. I wouldnt want to get to space. 18 thousand people applied to be an astronaut. I happen to catch this live. And martin swiss, jr. , by 11 100th a second. The closest in history. Whole way down the stretch. And enforced the only thing were close counts is in horseshoe definitely not in recovery. Only one winner. You guys know lead in Drinking Water has been in the news a lot lately. The good news, cincinnati has some of the safest in the nation. When the water leaves the plantation plant, its any lead. Depending on the age of the house or business, you may have to do Something Else to protect your family or employees. Jeff hirsh will tell you about that at 5 00. Tools to a school bus mystery. Deputies are trying to solve it for the father who counts on the tools to make a living. Thousands, from the tool box that splits. Police found it, but all of a sudden, it disappeared. Well have more at the story at 5 30. We continue our investigation to childhood poverty. Often, success starts small and grows. Thats whats happening in lower price hill. At a time and without any federal or state city tax dollars. Deb dixon will show us live at 6 00 and the tool box, not andy daltons truck, was it . I know his luggage was missing a lot. Taking a look at a live picture as we told you about an accident, fatal accident. Too ejected from the car there as well. They are in Critical Condition, including a baby. We will continue to keep you uptodate at 5 00, 5 30 and 6 00 tonight. It is clear for the rest of the commute this evening. Scott. And just be wear, theres going to be some sun glare but roads will be dry. Not just this afternoon, but all the way to tomorrow. Well start with tomorrow, 1535. Adrian weather cam. The sun is out. If you want snow and you want cold, its coming back later this week. Dont worry. On college hill, shows an abundance of hill and upper level clouds. Theyll be around this evening, too temperature 49. Even with the abundance of mid and upper level clouds at last check. Were quiet this evening with mid and upper level clouds drifting through the ohio valley, especially Northern Kentucky, areas around the ohio river. Tomorrow. There will be no rain or snow tonight or tuesday. But late tuesday night, rain begins to overspread the tristate. It could be heavy at times. Occasionally mixing with thunderstorms on wednesday. For just the rain part alone, late tuesday night through wednesday evening, thats 13 inches of rain. Not snow but rain. And then we have snow to deal so saver this dry time while it lasts, youll probably be begging for dry time before we get close to the weekend. Georgetown is at 50. Were 50 at the international airport. Not the 72 that we had on saturday. Its still above average. 510 degrees above average for most of the tristate now. Deep south is under rough weather tomorrow. Here, no thunderstorms, no rough weather tonight and tomorrow much thunderstorms cant be ruled out and you will see rain on wednesday. So for the time being, precision doppler hd is on but all is calm the time being. Notice in the forecast model, some clouds around, mid and upper level clouds for the evening and overnight. Clouds begin to thicken up. Late tonight and early tomorrow. Especially tomorrow afternoon. Notice in the forecast model, sun to start, more clouds in the lunch hour. More clouds come in during the afternoon. But we will stay dry tomorrow for the ride home, were up between 5055 degrees on tuesday. Rain becomes a possibility late tuesday night. And they say, okay, we have rain wednesday. Snow thursday and all is well, because the sun will return for the weekend. This is a double edge sword. We get 13 inches of rain in the tristate wednesday. That saturates the ground. On wednesday night, thursdays snow, you melt it down, it equals an inch of liquid. Supposed we get an inch or two of snow. Two tenths an inch of liquid to further sat rate saturate the ground. Even when the snow moves out and later this weekend, the warmer air will melt the snow and further saturate the ground. We will have rain. Thankfully no rain, no snow tonight. Tomorrow, 48 at lunchtime. 52 by 5 00 in the afternoon. Planning forecast shows, tomorrow, were quiet. Were also quiet for the weekend. Have rain and snow tucked away for monday. Rain and isolated thunderstorms wednesday. Thursday, we have snow. The wind will be up later, too. We have it later at 55. Between 3035 on thursday. I know, it looks rough. Lets focus on the weekend. Mostly sunny saturday. Isolated sunday. And ten inches of snow, huh. You have ten inches of snow and you melt it down. On average, about ten inches. Not the case on thursday. As we reported. Theres an activist group that claims it released information, 52 officers, following an officerinvolved shooting. Most of the viewers, sup pores the officers supports the officers. If the group is righteous, why dont they identify themselves. They are tied to several cases of hacking, which is illegal. Get ready. This group should be ready. And pretty sure its safe. They say they would take care of donald trump. Could talk the talk but not walk the walk. People use the relief addresses to send thank you gift cards. Whats meant for harm could be used for good. You could add your comments, by going to the facebook page. Give us a like while youre there. From the terrorism alert desk, im jonathan elias. Saying foreigners may be target for attacks. Australian terrorists, may be planning attacks in and around koala limpur. And deal hinges on sir yat president s Bashar Assads groups accepting the deal. Members of the 105 fire squadron. And from the terrorism alert desk in washington, im jonathan elias. Times. donkey sound elephant sound theres a big difference between making noise, tapping sound and making sense. elephant sound donkey sound when it comes to Social Security, we need more than lip service. Our next president needs a real plan to keep Social Security strong. elephant noise enough talk. Couple in washington state. They said their i dos during a flight. As jamie thompson, the wedding was a favor to the childs mom. They are still on cloud 9 after saying i do on friday. Will be together for the better part of five years. How they say i did is making sparks fly on social media. Before we landed on social media. And two love birds landed 32000 feet in the air, coming from l. A. To seatac friday night. Christy is a Flight Attendant for the airline. She and her hubby, had a big shabang fighting cancer. My mother means the world to me. She always wanted to see where christy lives and is always hoping to see who christy marries the one she loves. She wanted to come to seattle and see our house and have a visual what our life was like up here and it really touched me. Planeful of passengers looked on as christy made her way down a different aisle, wearing accessories she designed herself. A plan of fancy not to be forgotten anytime soon. Really overwhelming and really exciting. Glad were able to share love and joy for people. Make our flight a fun experience. Sounds like theres some random people. Part of the wedding. That would be fun to pass the time for sure. Live at 5 30. Rob and cammy, local 12 news, crisis in flint, michigan. What you need to know about the pipes that bring water to your home . 17 people fighting for the same thing. Meet the candidates vowing for the seats. For a homeowner, we think theres an average price of 20003 thousand or so. It may be costly. Getting rid of any led water lines into your house could be the best money you spent. Good evening, everyone. We will have more on the story in just a moment. Were keeping an eye on the deadly interstate crash affecting the evening commute. In Northern Kentucky in the border of highland heights. Theres only one car involved. They think the driver that was killed was doing heroin. It happened around 2 30 in the eastbound lanes of 275, past traffic is backed up for miles we just found out the car rolled several times throwing a woman and the 7month old baby who was riding back seat out the window. They found another passenger Walking Around the scene when we got there. We will let you know when we learn more. I spent the last several weeks to learn more about the particular problem of drivers on heroin, specifically in Northern Kentucky. And ill have a special report for you thursday at 6 00. Theres also Police Activity in Elmwood Place to tell you. An s. W. A. T. Team is involved in a standoff in heckler lane. Officers say a man in the building, that may be armed. Story. To the other story we talked about earlier. Cincinnati water works is suggesting sh you get the lead out. Replace any pipes that lead to your home or business. They stress, its nothing like what is happening in flint,