Transcripts For WKYC Channel 3 News At 11 20160123

now at 11 00, cavs shake up. david blatt is out. G tonight. we have a forecast that i dont think weve had in 90 areas. Rts shut down, cars at a standstill and heavy snow and wind with no relief in sight. At could be a historic storm. water concerns. residents in one ohio city on lead levels show up in their Drinking Water. this is channel 3 news at 11 00. Decision is made and brought out you have a lack of connectiveness i see in our team. Ins than losses. im focused on a Bigger Picture championship . i think it was a reaction to that. it was a super big loss. Nk he would bring someone in higher up. maybe a bigger name around the league. good evening. Hell. david blatt fired. we have coverage inchaueding how fans are taking the news. S surprising to a lot of people. not the firing per se, but certainly the timing. had they gone to the finals gandhi lost, maybe we wouldnt be shocked like we are to do. Has showed up before if he doesnt think its going took to work with what aid to make a change. today its the move of firing david plat. griffin said it was a lack of nnel and vision. coming. E the box when david blatt was hired. now theyve firing him. if we go back to the day in cleveland, is a surprise . a gurience in the nba was brought to turn things around. Ed. wasnt worried. the game is not so different as people think it is. Playing baseball and so soccer. its the same game. James was coming home. what no matter what blat th done before he never coached the best player on the plant. Times did you watch and wonder who was coaching the blatt or james. To the playoffs in chicago, he told blatt they were going to run a different play and told the world he did it. At was drawn up, i scratched it and i told coach, just give me the ball. reporter it wasnt an about luck. a good luck. the iron any, lebron helped save it. the wins kept coming in season. 30 in fact most in the east. but given though lebron publicly supported the coach, it never felt leak the entire team did. griffen was watching and concern grauchlt its championship or bust and you can only win a title if 23 is here. isnt he running the show . lebron isnt running the organization, hes of the community but this narrative that show were taking direction from him, its not fair to him in particular but frankly its kind of not fair to me and our group anymore. there you have it. did he call lebron and say, sha i call david blatt . probably not. did he know what bebrawn was thinking lebron was thinking, absolutely. we have some things coming up you dont want to mis. mis. if lebron james wanted him to be the head coach, he would still be the head coach. we heard from players and how blatt took the news but how about fans . reporter the cavs as we sit now are the fourth best team in the naeb so they wanted to make changes because they say theyre not as good as some of the teams ahead of them. players now, theyre changing the coach. the cavs have won 11 of 13 but that wasnt enough for david blatt to keep his job. im shocked. we were at the game last night they looked decent. hes a weber, im sad to see a winner. im sad to see him go. reporter he was a winner. their last two losses are the teams theyll likely face in the finals. do you think it was an overreaction to the warriors lost or something that needed to happen either way . it needed to happen either way. its a rush decision to win now. reporter what do fans think about the replacement. now one of the youngest coaches in the history . brought in someone bigger up. hes a good pickup. he knows what hes doing, hes talented. i lake him. tyrone has a connection, he already has a connection with the athletes on the team they respect him, they understand. tyrone has experience on the court. he has experience as a coach and its time to bring in some new coaches to give them the opportunity to help the cavs achieve their goals. reporter thats the question now, what will they achieve . the options are to see bigger named coaches out there. mark jackson, who used to coach the warriors, they went with tyrone luck. two decades as both a player and coach. here in cleveland tonight. tomorrow night the cavs take on the bulls. developing now, the Advisory Panel of the michigans governor is recommending the state the steps the steps the state needs to take to resolve the water glises flint as they try to get Drinking Water back to the city. water its been linked to the flint river. the city made the move to cut costs. a city in ohio is on edge after lead high levels of lead turned up in some peoples home. reporter mountains of bottled water at the Community Center in sebring because search warned not to drink the tap water. if this water is tainted, how long did the state epa know before everyone else did . the first of the with the epa reporter thats city manager richard. but not so said the epa who listed an advisory warning december 3rd and sent this letter to him dated december 3rd. they tell channel 3 quote while the village of sebring has a clear water source, it appears lead is drinking in the Drinking Water in the Drinking Water of certain homes. they need to take steps to alert its customer. when that did not occur, we issued a notice of violation. restaurants stopped serving water, schools were closed at a precaution. crystal miller has four kids. her 1 yearold drinking formula with tap water through november. if they knew for, montana, didnt tell anybody and knowing the precautions they could have took, its kind of irritate reporter crafting a letter to the state epa asking for answers. we want to know where the ball was dropped, whether the local community or the state epa in terms of notifying people here in the community. reporter theyll be back here tomorrow handing out bottled water at 8 00 a. M. the city manager said they may know tomorrow as well. 48 hours at the most the results of the new samples taken today. you can log only to wkyc. Com if you wasnt to read for yourself that letter from state representative john. we wanted to know if was there any reason for concern in cleveland Drinking Water and they said theres no reason to worry. the water comes from laker rae which is not a problem. they perform daily test. the water is treated to make sure any lead in old water what they drink what we drink. many of the lead is in home plumbing. there was brass fittings and such, all those things are potential sources of lead this coats everything and sales in it and prevent the lead getting in the water. the water is safe, tom, number one the bottom line. were not detecting lead in the Drinking Water we put out. tests show clevelands water is 99 lead free going back 1997. coming up, how the monster storm is paralyzing traffic causing blizzard conditions in the northeast. a salad linked to listeria. what is being recalled and what to look out for if you have a package in your fridge. with rekeeping antibiotic eye on we are keeping antibiotic eye on the winter storm. here in ohio weve getting lake effect not where you think b. it mean for your weekend scrutiny tonight. pack anged salads produced at the dole facility in springfield is linked to one death caused by a listeria outbreak. a person dade in michigan. dole stopped production of the salads and recalls all packages made there. check the label. the effected packages begin with the letter a. now to the winter storm which is bearing down on parts of the east coast tonight. taking a live look at i95 and philadelphia. its been snowing since late afternoon. the nbc affiliate said two feet are expected to fall. in d. C. , a beautiful picture of the capital building. theyre expecting 14 inches of snow eefrntd up to two feet by than 6,000 flights through tomorrow. that storm took a path up the eastern seaboard and places further south dealing with sleet and ice. brian moore has the story from d. C. reporter it was a virtual white out at the white house. and the u. S. Capital was in a cloud of snow. washington, d. C. Under siege in the bulls eye of epic proportions. they say its a potent perfect storm. we expect two feet at least of snow in washington. and the snow is coming down wet and heavy. which mean that is we could see trees, power lines down and a loss of power. reporter as the snow began to pile up, Virginia National guard troops were called into action. himv tires. him hum v tires. reporter with thousands of flights cancel if you havent gotten out, they wont. ripple effects are reaching airports far from the blizzard zone. it could bring more than two and a half feet of snow and 50 mileperhour winds. it threatenings to become washingtons worse snowstorm ever. the snow is expected to continue through sunday evening. before its all over with, this storm could blow itself into the record books. brian moore nbc News Washington the worse storm on record in the record books, daunting information. and very nice to watch it happen over there. but its still a big concern. this kind of a storm system even though its every there, were getting effects of this storm. commanding force of the eastern half of the country. for tomorrow for us, its going mane a chance for flurries. well have a lot of cloud cover around. temperatures will start off in the 20s. but we wont make it out of the 20s. a couple areas could hit 30 30 degrees. there it is, theres the storm system. at least as seen on the National Weather service nex rad radar out of Hop Convention airport. a couple things to note. this snow, thats lake effect. yes, that going west of cleveland. everything usually when you think lake effect is coming the opposite direction but this case were on the backside of that storm system. its pulling a brisk northeast wednesday across the leak. its cold enough were seeing light showers in portions of lorain county. were not anticipating this to accumulate to anything. you still have snow on the ground from the previous shower and snous weve had. thats not a concern snow showers weve had. thats not concern. new commercingst commercetown into car roll ton getting snow showers, canton getting in on that. of over sugar creek passing this is part of the storm system. the larger system is drives force for pulling the winds around. at a brisk clip, well stay breezy through tonight and a good part of the day tomorrow. its a beautiful storm on radar. its a nasty storm to have to deal with however and we have an area of low pressure thats sitting off to the south of us. this is what it looks like now in washington, d. C. cling. the bridge. you see the snow on the bridge deck. in downtown baltimore, chris posting this on our weather warriors Facebook Page you can see the snow coming down. for now, it was still in the pretty phase. its about to get ugly as this storm system is beginning to have its full impact felt in areas of washington, d. C. And into baltimore. the area of low pressure i was talking about is going to change a little bit. theres a second area of low pressure coming up the coast. all of the energy is going to transfer to the coastal low and that means very interesting setup as far as the meteorological side of things. the central side of maryland gets in snow and stay in snow. thats the transfer of Energy Taking place. the heavy snow band is going to pif vot over the washington, d. C. Metro area up into baltimore. that continues saturday evening. by sunday, things are going to be letting down. watching it all unfold. look at this, 24 plus inches of snow for washington. nor man a foot of snow anticipated philadelphiaing and new york city. blizzard warnings extend up the east coast. as far as our snow accumulations go, not too bad. just flurries and maybe a dusting of snow. high temperatures tomorrow will be in the upper 20s to near 30. as far as the next several dayses go, you sea temperatures in the see temperatures in the low 20s. 40s on monday and your window day nation forecast but a clipper system will bring us showers on tuesday. coming up, more on the shocking move by the cavs today as coach david blatt gets fired. what the owner had to say about the move. another day. just another day. with all the teams weve got this down. we know how to handle coach firings and hairings, dont we . and the cavs proved today if youre a head coach in the nba, you are never safe. 30 wins and the best record in the east not enough as they fire david blatt. doesnt make it a two full seasons. two wins away from an nba title not enough. hes the first coach to be fired when the team has its best record in a conference. in a statement, he thanked the what they accomplished. clearly something was not right. David Griffen confirmed that today. im in our locker room a lot. i knew that theres just a disconnect there right now. theres a lack of spirit and connective thanks i couldnt accept. but we were 30 in 11 with the schedule that was reasonably easiest and im judging a lot more than wins and losses. cavs owner gilbert thanked blatt for his work and said over the course of my business career, i learned that seems to the hardest thing to do is the hardest thing to do. we support david dprifbs decision. griffen didnt talk to anybody before the decision. it was all his. not lebrons addition is. decision. remember, blatt was hired before james came back to the he had no say in it. the relationship has been scrutinized at it was better this season. hoblt this one. a tweet saying david blatt told friends in israel this week quote, its either me or kevin love. just surprised lebron didnt decide sooner. that is eye opening. a lot of reaction to that news today. the convictions taking heat for it including a reaction from mavericks coach. hes the president of the nba coaches association. he feels the decision is bizarre leaving me with an empty feeling saying platt did a great job. im em barred for our league that em barszed for our league. david blatt is going to be a sought after coach. Brandon Haywood with the cast last year saying they were hesitant to challenge lebron being a rookie head coach last year. they gave him special treatment want correct him. blatt and lost the team. tyronn lue the new head coach. fourth head coaching change since 2010. hes been the associate coach since 2014. highest paid consistent in the as at that particular time in the lead. he saved david blattt calling the timeout. i tell you now, the cavs players love him. hes 38 years old, first head coaching job. hes a former player first round pick with denver traded with the lakers, won which wereships with the lakers and coached won championships with the lakers. ping it up in the second. wild cath stover strong wildcat stover strong. daniel chambers taking it strong. bringing the eagles within two. this game would go to double overtime. russ there you have it. you know its a big game when he said would hoo wooh oo. going to be a busy weekend. today at five today. have a fantastic and safe weekend