Anderson, the eastern loop, will continue to the effect of 71. A little bit of 75. You will have to watch the roads around 275. We have overpasses now becoming bursts of snow. Other areas that are seeing a few flakes, few light snow showers, the roads are fine. In this area, to felicity, i will watch in places like brooksville and in washington and in paysville. Clinton county, maze county, and were going to get into the heavier snow in the next half an hour or so. That will continue to climb north and heavier snow, northeast of oxford. That will continue to move north as well. Winter weather advisory, until 11 00 this evening. I want you to be aware, especially bridges and overpasses, will get snow cover and slick under heavy snow. We will detail when the snow expect, coming up in 10 minutes. Back to you. Thanks, erica. It was three tenths hours of searching, worried after her mothers car was reported stolen. The little girl is safe tonight, but as local 12 joe webb reports live, the infant was never in any real danger. Joe, odd story, isnt it . Its really an odd story. The 3 week baby girl, was never in the car. She was never away from her mother. She is now. Because 28yearold Nicole Benton is locked up, for a misdemeanor for making this whole story up. Why . What we know, she put an entire city on alert this morning for no reason. When Nicole Benton showed up with the baby, neighbors for 2 1 2 hours, police searched for their car, thinking the baby was in it. They say it crashed and they searched a west side walmart, acting on a tip. They went door to door. And Cincinnati Police contacted the fbi. The assistant, ml1cl0coll lynne was the Police Departments top priority. I was put on alert status to hold on nonpriority runs to completely focus their efforts in locating the child. All total from the beginning of the event at 7 00 a. M. Until 9 30 a. M. We did just that. All for what appears to be a big fat lie. Benton is charged with obstructing an official business, making false reports and inducing panic. Two juveniles have been charged that part, it appears, to be real. They are charged with the way she pulled it all off, is after making the phone call, around 7 00 in the. He would not let him she snuck out, went a few. Came back with the baby pretending to be reunited with the baby. It didnt add up to most people. But we didnt know and everybody was glad the baby was okay and apparently the baby is okay tonight. That baby and two other, 5and 7yearold, are with Childrens Family services. We never know what happened weird for me, she wouldnt let police in her home. Regardless of what, men and women, for the Cincinnati Police, to try to find. And they were dieped. They are not taking any chances whatsoever. You could understand the need for quick action, when you talk about which school . Thats, of course rg, a shooting. And Butler County sheriffs deputies found a man asleep in it was about 1200 feet they saep. And investigators say they dont know what millers intentions were but they have not found any evidence linking him to the madison corn. And the Mount Healthy junior. When police found him, they say he had an aer soft pistol and a cup of wine in the courtroom, Ohio High School student an. The 15yearold lawyer dein. Three year investigation into money missing from a local Police Department will not lead that decision from the claremont county prosecutor. Almost 16 thousand disappeared from the Goshen Police eve. The procedures, Hamilton CountySheriff Office conducted independent investigation. You could call it. Thats what as in. Two Police Officers are charged with covering up the off duty car crash of a fell. A key witness gave dramatic serm jesh. One of two cops charged with covering up an accident im looking at him right here. Cant miss that man, at all. Cotterman and the supervisor sergeant solstice are charged deril electic duty. They allegedly let mitchell off the hook after mitchell crashed while off duty. His friend stopped and called 911 as i was going in my turn going to my left, talia said, watch out. Here out of nowhere, flying. The defense tried to take the testimony apart. What he said about the crash and what he said today do you have any trouble speaking english . Do you have any trouble hearing. The bench trial before the judge continues tomorrow. Familiar and the other defenses are there crosswell rings a bell too, with special prosecutors last year. And mitchell, who had a car crash pled guilty with a couple of traffic violations. He remains on duty. Donald trump once endorsed him. Its clear mitt romney is not all right, 3 15. K, you better watch out boys, im on a hot streak today. Whats that . Wait. Whats that . Truck. We got time. You dont got time. Ive got time. 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And the remaining candidates have the candidates on how to stop him. Marco rubio appears to be splitting votes. And when people says, its pleased. They will keep the front runner if we are going to beat donald trump, the field cannot remain fractured. Cruz and the remaining candidates will take its part in tonights g. O. P. Debate. 2008 nominee, also. He took exception to some of kellys questions. And hear how trumps success in the race, so far, is dividing local republicans as well. And hes finally back. Hes not the same as when he left. The obvious impact the year in the community l like. Nasa astronaut scott kelly is back with his family. Kellys girlfriend and two daughters, ages 20 to 12, rushed into is arms. Brought him to the u. S. From kazistan early this morning. Kelly carried experiments on the long effects of Long Duration hes paving the way to the mission to mars. The countrys space program, but its not the last. There will be more. Its in our dna, to explore and we must never stop. Nasa wants to put astronauts in the red planet in the 2030. Nasa doctors will examine kelly to see what kind impact they have to its health. By comparing him to the identical twin brother, mark, former astronaut, as you remember, won obvious and temporary change, scott came back, to inches taller. Because of a lack of gravity. Im told because of gravity, will compress again meantime, could lure to his brother. And i think we can use a little lift. And bridges. Maybe some exit on and off, throughout the evening. And thats what you want to pay close attention. Moving north near the local viewing area. Its that area, where we can potential pick up a quick one or two inches of snow. And this will last through about 7 00 in our entire viewing area. This will be moving into portions of northern warren and Clinton County around between 6 30 and 7 00. You have pictures of the roads. Live look at state route 32. We have still some big, wet flakes moving through. Thats the overpass, kind of slushy. It was kind of snow covered much its less snow covered now. We already picked up 2 1 2 inches in corinth. And bb, we picked up over an inch 1 2na. Three tenths, five tenths an inch of snow and most roads are just fine. The good news, the main roads are above freezing. Where you have air temperatures, 32 and below, the overpasses and bridges that will freeze up and allow the snow to stick. Especially under the heavy snow, we can see the warm roads, still have accumulating snow on him. Once it leaves, will see drastic improvements. This is 71 at red bank road. We have snow coming that way as well. Little heavier at times, moving up 71 in the next hour. Roads are just fine around 71. Definitely watch overpasses. You could see, were in the 20s and 30s pretty much. Where we have air temperatures, close to freezing and below. Most of the snow moving out of cincinnati. Were seeing the back edge pull out of downtown. That will continue to move north two. Were pretty much done with the precipitation, as you look south and west of here. Versailles, you may nab a couple of the flakes, into northern dear borne. Heavier snow in dear count he a. Please be careful if you have friends and family travelling home from work. They will probably take longer because we have heavy snow from ripley. Heavy snow toward northern brown county, to williamsburg and west of owes nsburg. And mount represento to milford. 275, the eastern half of 275 loop here, where we will have issues, bridges and overpasses. Blue ash being loo ash were under a Winter Weather advisory. Thats where we have the lighter snow and Old Washington to mazeville, heavier snow shower activity. Butler, warren and Clinton County. Mainly light to moderate snow. And most of 71 and 75, are just fine in the main roads. Watch the bridge, jeremiah bridge may have impact on it. The impact, in the next two hours, looks like this. The heavy ban of snow is working through. In the next few hours, looking at lower visibility. Watch for rapidly changing conditions. Were anywhere between 31 and 33 degrees. Were dropping slowly to the 30s tonight, getting rid of the snow and turning to flurries later this snow pulls out. Its 6 00 in the evening, by k k 11 00. And temperatures, do top out above freezing tomorrow afternoon. I think well be just fine for that. Well watch it pull out of the area tonight. Few flakes, temperatures near 30. Top out near 32. Warmer for saturday. Saturday, were looking at a chance for rain and snow. Most of the precipitation will be rain or dryer and were warmer on sunday. Then were back in the 60s for monday, tuesday and thursday. This is pretty much the worst of the next 7. Thats the good news. Theres problems on the roadways. This is some reports. This is live picture of 275. In the east gate area, its old 74, between ronkey road, we have report of two cars. If you are travelling in the east side, near the east gate area, any of the roads, going to be especially careful. I see the heaviest snow push out by 7 00. Thats in areas like lebanon and wilmington. After that, looking at improving road conditions. Some lingering slick areas are possible. And the slush could turn to isolator tonight. Thats what well be wary of. Thanks a lot. Coming up, do you consider yourself a photography travel and how hes getting childld heres a hightech job if you love travel, television and instagram. Netflix is looking for grand masters. They will be paid to visit plays films. If you would like to apply, tag the best pictures on instagram, grand marshall sunday. And ahead on local 12 news, mitt romney comes out swinging on donald trump. What the split on the candidates means for the republicans party, locally. And owners of Problem Properties are forced to make big changes. Its good news for people would trips good evening, have you looked outside lately . Big snowflakes have been falling in the tristate for most of the day. Means paula cant go for coffee. They will continue for a while longer. They continue to cause problems in maybe some areas. Heres erica collura. The good news, the back edge of the snow is through downtown cincinnati. Flurries later tonight and early tomorrow morning. Where my concern, the focus, through hamilton and claremont county and moving through portions of Clinton County, thats where the heaviest of snow is reported. Heaviest snow, this is around 275. And instead of bridges and batches. The heavy snow will move to loveland. And watch the jeremiah bridge in the next 24 minutes or so. 22 all going to possibly have hour. And close to 645. Heres the impact, and in the yellow, thats where you want to through Hamilton County. And the roadways, instead of bridges and overpasses. And areas east, will you have to. Some of the issues, were seeing, have been smoke detectors, at that offer leaky windows, broken fire doors. Federal inspectors come down hard in the buildings owner. And hundreds, are seeing issuing an ultimatum. A story you will only see on local 12. What could be around the corner. For yes, the properties, have been the kind of places, no reasonable person would want to live. Were talking about places, the scene of drug deals, murders and miserable living conditions. You name it. And the tax dollars are paying for all of that. All of that is starting to change. And inside, i found shes living up to her name. Theyve done in the highway. And in the last year, the new owners of the building. That i gave me all the cabinets up here, thats because coming to get my stuff and and then, they gave me carpet. And they gave happy a medicine cabinet. And fixed the leak. Making happy very happy. The building is one of properties that recently gotten a new roof. City officials arent as happy. You need to see some change. And as i indicated earlier, National Company with lots of resources. This situation, turns up, needs to get adegrees. And they brought 618 miserable apartments and 28 building. This one, has the largest in four of the city. Fur of the buildings. Code violations and more than 20 thousand in fines. Recently, hud and the city, dropped the hammer on the owners, telling them they want the buildings fixed or sold and progress has been insufficient to address the full level of stress and know that we are responsible for doing better. Weve taken the inspection results seriously and making repairs to make sure the properties are decent, safe and sanitary. Hud requires the company to set aside 20 thousand aside for repairs much the city wants to inhale and ridge way tenants and the bridge way demolished. And tcd, under pressure, under improvements done in the next couple of months. The city asked, all of the players come back in front of april 11th for the status update. Tcb is clearly hoping to do enough of the conditions in the unit. Rich jaffe, local 12 news. Some say they are cautiously optimistic much and are hopeful the company could become a model for other property owners. The judge declares a mistrial, in the case of a man, accused of stabbing a woman in the wheelchair. After jail records showed, andrew has been off the medication for several months. And he pleaded not guilty in the january 15th stabbing. He killed patricia in rose lawn where he was living. A man was also stabbed and seriously hurt in the attack. Kimbro will go to a health and a man is going to prison for sex charges involving children. Police arrested harry, after a butler grand jury indicted him on seven counts of gross imposition. He faces charges of performs sex acts with children. And he pleaded guilt last month, the judge gave him five years in prison. Police have a few clues when it com toifying a man to robbed a man downtown. This man handed at the key bang on 4th street. The suspect has a tear drop tattoo under his left eye. Other tattoos on his neck and the knuckles of his left hand. If you could help police, call crimestoppers. And remember, you dont have to leeb your name. Still ahead, surviving the zika virus. An ohio woman, how he was p seriou proposals, dealed with wide range, come with ted cruz, marco rubio and john. Ohio woman is sharing her story after being diagnosed with she was infected on a trip, and trying to help others. Not everybody has been to haiti 25 times. Im a volunteer to haiti. Shes part of a smaller pool. Shes one of five ohioans testing positive. And joints are painful. Kirkos travel to haiti, twice a year, since 1987 she began in her words, spreading hope. She knows a thing or two. And had mall aria at least once, probably twice. On her last trip, she, like the rest of us, havent heard much about zika. She didnt do much from preventing mosquitoes from biting. We were out in the ocean, it was a chance for the mosquito from doing what they wanted to do. The. And eight days later, yep, new years eve, kirkos says, she had what felt like a flu, with one difference. I thought there was a rash. And almost in the front of the body. Eight days after that, saw a doctor in her hometown. Thursday, she learned it was zika that made her so sick. Photographs taken when she developed to illness. Dont frame negative thoughts. We can handle what happened. Its a luxury to say that. It wasnt not the disease that affected me longterm party politics. What lok allege republicans nd an ericka tracking all across america families are coming back to Time Warner Cable for a whole new experience. Pwe came back for internet speeds so fast even the kids are impressed. Oh shes impressed. Were catching up on movies and shows on demand just as fast as we can watch them. Twcs home wifi is so strong we can use all our devices at the same time. Come back today. Youll get 30 meg internet, tv, phone and more for 89. 99 a month. And ask how you could get a 300 reward card. And if we republicans choose donald trump as the nominee, prospects for a safe and prosperous future are greatly diminished. The recent nominee for president , launches an allout attack for a man poised to be the next one. Mitt romney spoke to the university of utah, he called he lacks the temperament and integrity to be president. Trump says, romney choked during his president ial run. And larry davis, talked to people in Butler County, who are familiar, to see if the divisiveness is also being felt here. Commissioner woman. Shes running for a seed in the Ohio Republican county committee. Party. And the fight for the g. O. P. President ial nomination has put the spotlight on the ideological split within the republican party. Theres the socalled established candidates. Marco rubio and john kasich. Ted cruz is a tea party favorite. On those who are hardcore on issues such as immigration. Becker supports cruz. I worry donald trump because he identifies the right problems. We have a debt problem, immigration problem. Im not sure how hes going to solve the problems. Whats happening nationwide, is whats playing out. And 15 candidates are held by the congressional seat. Miami university, science professor dr. Thorren says its a fight for republican control. Republican party has strength in numbers. They have numbers, even if they divide, its unlikely that they will lose a majority or anything like that. And as anne becker campaigns in the snow and cold, shes confident, come november, the party will unite behind one the republicans needs to set their principals more in order. I think thats part of the reason, why theres an uphefl here. Nd a why she favors ted cruz, becker says she will be okay as the party nominee. She wonders whether members of the socalled establishment would embrace the man who has stirred up so much controversy and Party Leaders are stopping to fight him. Larry davis, local 12 news. Thank you, larry. A worker with the board of elections, early voter turnout has been light up to this point. Its expected on election day, as votersit what until the last minute to make up their mind s s. Hourbyhour forecast. Good evening, to you. East of loveland, you could see vis ilt is very low. Under heavy snow shower activity. We have snow following here and moving okay. It is 275, state route 272. Overpass, pretty much covered an hour ago. Then it became slushy. Now it became fairly clear. Temperatures hover around the freezing mark. You want to watch out for the bridges and overpasses throughout the night and even through the Morning Hours of tomorrow. Road temperatures right now, we have road temperatures above freezing. Everywhere you look, main roads are just fine. Its the bridges and overpasses, cold spots at 32 or lower, where we see the roads stick in the roads and we have big wet flakes falling in oxford as we look live. The roads around oxford are pretty much okay for a majority of them. Heavier snow falling in adams and now moving in southern between moro and mason area. We have heavy snow at west union. And eventually towards peebles. Georgetown, heavy snow, toward mount orb. We can see a quick, one inch of snow, where you see the light snow showers. And this snow is falling at almost 2 inches per how hour. We saw a quick inch. This will continue to move north through loveland, through mainville and affect in places 71. Watch out for isolated slick spots, some snowy or snow covered roads. That continues to move north toward lebanon. northwest we go, and connors, liberty and areas in northeastern franklin county, seeing a few flurries. Heres the highest snow totals. As of 4 00, weve picked up an inch. Quick inch of milford, 2 1 2 in corinth. We can see a quick one inch in the heavier know bursts and maybe up to 2 as we move to southern moro county. The good news, this system, if you were with me, the place of it, low pressure system, a little bit south, will be colder eastward. We have the Winter Weather advisory with the southern tier, robinson county included until 11 00 this evening. I want everybody to be cautious of isolated slick or slushy areas through the evening throughout tomorrow mornings commute you could see air temperatures flirting through freezing, 32 degrees. Later tonight, temperatures fall. We get rid of the snow much and lingering flurries will be possible later this evening. And by 11 00, most of us pretty quiet, under cloudy conditions tomorrow morning. Were looking at a chance of flurries probably 9 00 or 10 00. The rest of the day on friday, it will remain mostly cloudy as temperatures top out in the lower 40s. I want you to watch for slick roads. And then we dry out in the afternoon, highs near 42. 48 on saturday. Another disturbance, bringing us a little bit of snow and mostly a few showers. Dont expect issues that day, other than wet roads. Warmer on sunday, and into the 50s next week. Thats going to be next week, and were looking at heavy rain. Temperatures stay warm pretty ericka, thanks. Call the fashion police. She was busted for rob banks. And always wore the same thing. Ahead at 6 00, the punishment for the crime spree. See the Big Bang Theory at 8 00. Video. The group of men, pulled the front store, large pick up truck, attached chains to the doors to pull them off. The truck took off. And hinges. Ten people rushed to the store, hammers. Sackful. They got away with 50 weapons on the robbery. South africas highest Court Dismisses an appeal on former track star. A a oscar pistorius. And the judge could reduce the sentence for what the law describes as exceptional circumstances. Hes currently under house arrest. Uncovering the truth. Charges the mother is facing after reporting her car was stolen with a newborn daughter inside. At first, thought to be an accident. Why a young mans death is solving the. Good evening, everybody. Winter is making a return. Leads to a weather advisory. Erica collura. Snow is moving out in someplaces, including cincinnati and here, where we have issues on the overpass. And especially where the heavier snow came through. And we had isolated events, where we picked up one to three inches in that heavy ban of snow, that moved through the southern viewing area, now thankfully, is breaking apart. And will continue to watch bursts of snow within the line still. West union, youre in line, see an inch very quickly. If not a little more