We are live at 5 00 and take a look at the skies over downtown cleveland. Very active. It is a storm rolling and over the lake and video from the last few minutes. Park of course now downtown people can hear the thunder. We have thousands of people without power at this hour. We want to get straight over to betsy who has been keeping an eye on these storms. How serious is this . A lot of people are looking at this and social media is blowing out. It is a very impressive looking storm and it is a seve first energy is reporting more than 32,000 customers in tioga county alone without power. Here is the thunderstorm as it continues to march to the east. Torrential rain coming with this as it continues eastbound. 5 16 garfield heights, 5 22 for you click, 5 32 for east lake and this would be a heads up to move to the east. It is beginning to weekend a little bit and i do say a little bit, we are probably getting some hail. Take a look right now, this is hail potential. It was over an inch and a half and it is now down to one and possible hail. The star of this show and as the storm continues i mentioned the possibility of some went just as well. Here is the went we are looking into the thunderstorm as far as the rain is moving and as we take a look at some of these pixels and you can see a 60 mileperhour wind gusts. This is all off the ground. Within the thunderstorm what it is propelled by gravity. That was yesterday. A lot of rain came down in a small area. It will continue to ease with the storm as well. The winds will likely do the most damage. Rocky river including is fantastic and you see downtown cleveland is picking up some wind gusts. This is not a twisting when. This is Straight Line and i command was impressive, but keep in mind scary looking clouds do not immediately mean tornadoes so this is not a tornado threat at this point this is high winds whole lot of heavy rain and also lightning and thunder with the possibility of hail. You can see the lightning strike. I will query this and we will get a count because we have seen some unbelievable lightning. This is a sign that this 10 minutes ago or 15 minutes ago when this world in the downtown cleveland. Impressive low hanging clouds. The current number of strikes within the last 15 minutes, 628 strikes. We still have the storm go very as that happens that could be when the down burst went becomes a big threat we could have a high wind threat with this particular storm. This is also going to be impacting traffic quite a bit. We have cameras throughout and i want to get a quick scope of downtown midland traffic. You can see the road and how slow it is right now not only on 90, but also 71 at four 480. Im going to try and grab some sky cam. This is i71 and clark. You can see the very heavy rain and backed up traffic. This is just before the 490 split. We also come closer to we will take a look at this. We have a very heavy rain and this is west 25th so you can see that traffic is running pretty slow. This particular lane as always problematic and you can see the spray that is coming off. See that big splash . Very heavy rainfall and that can be slow to drain f this is only one thunderstorm. We have a number of thunderstorms that are ongoing. Any thunderstorm today will produce torrential rain. You cannot help but feel at and we have a lot of heat as well. Heat and humidity get left in the atmosphere anytime you have listing you have the potential for rain and thunder. The thunderstorms will concentrate the humidity and rates today at times for upwards of 4 in. h so if the thunderstorm sits in one area and lays down the rain it would put 4 inches of rain. That would cause flooding and that is why southern portions of Ashtabula County are under a flashlight morning. That is from earlier thunderstorms and they have the next batch coming in. We have thunderstorms firing up heads up for southern Geauga County. You have a rest of thunderstorm from cleveland and these are going to continue to move to the northeast as well. It will be a threat or heavy rain and could cause localized flooding. Burton would also be an there. Those thunderstorms are in lets go farther south the very heavy rain that is coming down. This thunderstorm has been holding its own and is not been fading so i think we are just going to have to keep an eye on it to see if this starts to get some growth. As of right now the leading s wadsworth that would cross over into madonna county. You would have to raise a red flag for places like norton and copley, fairlawn, bastion, Cuyahoga Falls and akron as that continues to move to the north. The southern flank blowdry and seville is into wadsworth and you get into Summit County unfortunately this same process that we saw today will be repeated tomorrow. I dont think we will have the dramatic shot out pictures, but certainly this heat and humidity is not going anywhere. The Bigger Picture is fighting this out, going on. This is very important because this is the cold front that will come through this weekend and as this cold front comes in it will help to focus the humidity and rain and unfortunately it is going to be slowmoving so the incredible humidity that is producing very heavy rain right now, you add a cold front that is moving slowly and we will have widespread potential for several instances already and other races of the country where they have been inundated and flash flooding has been the result and this is basically the scenario that is setting up now and for tomorrow and into the weekend. Incredible to see that shelf cloudy coming in this afternoon and it is literally going up social media. Keep in mind, clouds can look scary and it doesnt mean anything necessarily. In this case i explained the whole thing and and asked Facebook Live facebook. I explained some things and pointed out storm structure. These thunderstorms that are coming in are coming over areas that are still cleaning up from the thunderstorms we had in the past couple of days. We will have a live report essentially from the east side and in the meantime we will we are a far cry from real, they have been enjoying a great day of games. We have all of your coverage coming up through the 5 00 hour and six, seven and 11 00. The games have been very exciting. I know we have some good news for our athletes are from northeast ohio we are getting a live update from sarah in a minute. There is a live look at the olympic torch. Halfway through the first week. Cuyahoga county is bearing the brunt of this right now, some very heavy lens. We will be back with her in just a minute. The story and rio, we have not had a great batting average for our local olympians. Today we have some good news to share on that front as well and some new ti and rio. An exciting day for us as the first olympic medal winner and the taste of gold. That is always great news. Two more ohioans are on the verge. Sarah is in rio and we will have her in a moment. We will take some time out because the weather that is happening is superseding our story and rio because the radar continues to be incredibly active over the most densely populated part of our viewing right in the heart of Cuyahoga County, as we came on air we heard thunder and we saw the shelf cloud emerged. Take a look at exactly what that is. The thunderstorm is still in Cuyahoga County and the thunderstorm warning has expired and that does not mean that we dont still have a strong storm. This is a far cry what the radar has looked like. This has just fallen apart. As we go back in the last hour this is when it fired. This is in westlake, we started to get a lot of reports of trees down and that storm started to build down toward the strongsville area and Middleburg Heights and continued east through parma right through downtown cleveland and lakeville. You can see how it is falling apart somewhat. A couple of cool things to white house as this is kind of an evolving. As this falls apart you can see that we are getting a little bit of growth on the leading edge. Right here in the eastern part of the county. You can see how it begins to pop up and that is the shelf cloud. What happens is you get the cold air coming out of the thunderstorm and it raises out ahead of the thunderstorm and it becomes a mini cold front and begins lifting the air. And we get popups and thunderstorms very quickly. These are along that shelf cloud and that will continue to move out to the east. Two things to remember through the evening. Thunderstorms that we get will have torrential rain and the thunderstorms will be coming and going settling down later tonight and we get to do the whole thing all over again tomorrow. Like the hokey pokey. And it gets right at rush hour. Lets reporter it has been an exciting day here because ohio finally has a metal and guess what, it is gold. Kayla harrison i told you about her yesterday a twotime olympian. In just the last hour or so she defended her 2012 olympic judo gold and won her second gold she finished on top in four matches today and now she is getting the chance to enjoy it. I have been fighting number one for a while and i have been dealing with that pressure and at the end of the day this is what i wanted. I wanted to be number one, i wanted to be champion. The only pressure is the pressure i put on myself. Reporter we got to talk to map and he said she told him the second one was even better than the first. We will keep following this and ill send it back to you. That is the kind of news you want to work. Speak we were sitting her yesterday showing you video about the downed trees and people without power they barely had time to clean up and todays storms it. It was worse on east side of Cleveland Heights and there will be more people climbing the tree and trying to get through this. A reporter is live. Reporter we are on yellowstone road in Cleveland Heights in the middle another storm through after tuesday night the storm knocked out power. People down the street have not had power for close to 48 hours and southwest of here in parma they are feeling the effects of recent storms your dozens of fans attempting to drive things off at the School District a sewer backed up and water had no place to go but inside the building. We are told the water was 12 inches high in some parts and three quarters of the building had some kind of water damage. They are assessing and the rest of the week they will check for mold and monitor air quality. The Central Offices will be closed for the rest of the week. Employees have off tomorrow and school sign up will resume on monday. Back here in you can see behind us there are crews working to restore power and put the lines back to normal. Hopefully people will get their power back before another storm like this closed through and causes some potential damage. A lot of my friends on the west side say they are without power and have trees down crews are out there helping. Whenever this happens, betsy, during the rush hour it has a domino affect. If you are expecting to be home by 5 30 it might be a little later. Things are backing up as the storms continue to roll. There is a look at the radar and you can see this is the storm that caused all the albums and that storm has triggered more storms and when we have humidity any little bump will get the storm going and the storms that are firing are producing a lot of heavy rainfall. You can see this line that is forming alongside 71 and that will continue to move to the east and this might trigger some more storms. Areas farther to the west, this could help a little bit. Our friends at Progressive Field that are watching and hoping to get a weather update, that is the best i can tell you is there is nothing due west. Storms. Lets zoom in on eastern county. It is getting into the manner, will it be Willoughby Hills and toward chardon we will start to get some of this heavy rain. Chagrin falls you are in the line of fire. This thunderstorm that we just had it really collapsed and now you can se lightning that is holding together. That will continue to move to the east and we will have the concern for hail and high wind. I just checked first Energy Update and there are more than 48,800 customers without power just in biotech county. As the storms continue to move to the east we are trying to get it solidified. This could be a sign that it humid. Big heads up, things can get a little cantankerous and a farther east the southern part of the county is under a Flash Flood Warning from storms earlier today. Southern portions of Geauga County right along the county line we are still seen those thunderstorms up to the northeast. Farther south wurster getting rain as that move up through orville and midstill into wadsworth, deville and Summit County. This will continue to grow and intensify moving to the east. Have to point out that the big picture shows the cold front that will bring an end to this is clear out here in the plains. We have exactly the same set up for tomorrow that we had today. The exact thing will happen. Temperatures of around 90 tomorrow and rain and storms likely saturday with flooding the good news is we will try to cool and dry things next week. Time for access to tonight summer game schedule. Brought to you by ohios number one hospital Cleveland Clinic. Tonight on prime time we crown a womens does gnostics all around champion. Swimming with the finals in the mens 200 m individual meter finals. That is sure access to tonight summer game schedule. Providing you with ss the number one taher anytime thank you for being with us. We want to keep you informed and save as we have severe storms rolling through. About an hour ago we started to get the reports of very Severe Weather. We have our twitter friends who sent us some pictures. This is one of that shelf cloud rolling through rocky river. That is one a viewer sent in and you can going so wild about this and excited. You can see where that line of storms came from. We were talking about Cleveland Heights and today it is the downtown area seeing a lot of this. Folks might be heading to sure way and looking out over the lake was the most dramatic image. One of our viewers captured this from one of the high rises and this is just the first of a firing up moving from the southwest to the northeast throughout the viewing area and we look at stuff through mansfield all the way to the state line. We love to see what things look like in your backyard. You can post them on our Facebook Page or twitter account. Betsy is tracking it right now. We have over 47,000 customers without power. Lorain county is repog in this hot and humid weather that is a big concern for a lot of folks. You cant cool off very quickly. Here is the complex now and it is kind of an evolving into a bit of a complex as it moves to the east. You can see it being propelled east and as it does so we see at firing up and using the heat and humidity in the area. We also saw this line that fired in northern portage to the northeast and at that juncture where we have the outflow from the previous storm and the boundary we have a core that is forming and that would be an area that we would keep an eye on for the next round of storms as far as hail potential. You can see that the lightning is going strong. You know we will have torrential rain, also high wind gusts. That will be a big heads up fo track that for you and get zoomed in. A look at exactly where it is. You can see along to 71. We are getting this huge accumulation of lightning and that will continue to move on to the east. We will put a track on this. As this is going to continue to move to the northeast it could flooding and also the wind gusts. That will continue eastbound out toward areas around burton and the middlefield area getting and on all of that. Lets move farther to the south as we have more of these thunderstorms that are going farther to the south as well. As far as the winds go we are not seeing anything to high speed. 45 mileperhour winds up. I mentioned farther south you can see this line extends down to ridgefield and sharon township and the wadsworth, load i and into creston and wayne county. That continues to propel to the east and we are starting to see some lightning firing up. A heads up along that. Out to the west if you have coming. That will scam right across the peninsula so we could have some ride stoppage. I mentioned that all of this is just starting, more to come, moisture streams and there is a cold front to the west that will be here this weekend. That is a major concern because it will be very slowmoving and we have a lot of moisture in the air. That could be the combination to get the very heavy rainfall amounts. That would mean flooding. The forecast has us up around 90 degrees for tomorrow. We will continue with the 80s on sunday with storms in the forecast. It will be cooler and we will try to dry things out next week. The star of the show from the weather perspective was the very impressive shelf cloud that moved through downtown. We got a lot of pictures that came through on social media and of course our own employees page and it is about five minutes and that we take a look at that cloud and go through some of what it is. A lot of worry folks. We have not had any tornadoes, this is not a tornado day, but certainly this type of cloud structure gets a lot of peoples attention and you can literally see the clouds lifting into the storm as it moves and. This is the cold air coming out from the thunderstorm and that humidity to left and we have so much moisture that it keeps it in perspective and you can see it lifting and condensation taking place and that feeds into the storm and becomes a perpetual motion. As that continues to the east and the storm continues to be fed that will then cause more thunderstorms and that is exactly what we had happened here in downtown cleveland with the thunderstorms that fired up and moved through. Traffic because i think we have a lot of roads that are probably having big problems and the folks on the lake maybe they are back and. As i said, we get to do it all again tomorrow and we have to keep an eye on the weekend for greater flooding potential. That humidity it seems like the rain was inevitable. Betsy has been on it. Thank you. As you saw the west side got clobbered first. It has been breaking up as heading east. We have a live picture from the lake metroparks. You can see where that shelf cloud it has been breaking up and heading east. They are getting some sunshine and some rain. It all depends on where you are. You can see that line in the sky, the folks on the west side are figuring things out. The library is without power and east. We are keeping an eye on it. More after this. Portman voted to give tax breaks to companies that shipped our jobs overseas. And get this he even gave them a tax break to pay for packing up the equipment and shipping it to places like china. Rob portman certainly isnt going to get a lot of votes from here in ohio. Welcome back to our continuing coverage of this weather system that has made its way through northeast ohio in the last 90 minutes. As we come up on the 6 00 our there are thousands of people without power from the islands from cleveland down to canton. This is one of those systems even right here, right now we are hearing thunder and some blooms outside and up above. At see, i am hearing from friends that have been to businesses on the west side that are without power. No matter where people are going definitely be safe. There will be a lot of areas that dont have power especially the western side. The northwest corner that is where we have a big wind burst at our storm is now extending from up around the harbor through Chagrin Falls and farther south toward the wadsworth area. We get closer and you can see this is starting to get some more growth on it. Watch the lightning in these types of situations. You see the lightning picking up and that is a sign that the storm is intensifying as a continues to move to the east it is certainly doing that. Clear over here. What a mess we potentially have with traffic. A lot of slowdowns. Keep in mind we are in the heart of the commute and there are typical slowdowns, but downtown i90 is dead mans curve a pretty solid backup and also southbound out of the city south of grand avenue folks headed from cleveland down to the akron area. We are slowdowns and eastbound we will see some slowdowns on this stretch of road. As these thunderstorms continued to moved to the east and it is not just the thunderstorm it is the rain that is coming out and rain that will put a lot of puddles on the roadway and you could hydroplane. They problems can result. We have this line through the wadsworth area. Lets get a check of this this is where we start to get the up growth and that is going, that is farther south, silver lake in there also. Heads up for a row and into bainbridge as this moves in. Lets zoom out a little bit we will try to get the Bigger Picture going and you can see there are some isolated areas and wayne county with rain and he county we will have this thunderstorm that stops the rides at cedar point. They have a lightning policy there and will likely start to shut down some rights. As far as the line goes, lets put this on and get this going on lake county, and if i will stop this thing from going. This particular part of the thunderstorm we are starting to see all of this growth especially on the leading edge. This will continue eastbound toward ashtabula. In an hour or so we could be looking at heavy rain. This is running right alongside 90 so north madison, geneva and farther south as well, of course, central portions of keokuk county. That will continue to move eastbound your we mentioned the stms sandusky area. We have this same scenario setting up for tomorrow with all of this heat and humidity that will trigger more scattered thunderstorms the possibility of Severe Weather is better and more than likely it is not a major Severe Weather threat. The threat of flooding could see a bigger problem. We will have some placements that get wet and some streets the flood. On friday with the scattered weekend we have a slowmoving cold front that will come through and inundate the area with a heavy rain. I know we need the rain, this is not the kind of rain that we need and it certainly does have it with the rain on saturday that will continue into sunday. We will try to drive things out monday and tuesday and wednesday , but right now it looks like we are stuck in this very unsettled pattern. The humidity will finally break once be on sunday. As far as tomorrow goes i think unfortunately we just have to expect the exact same thing that we have today. Time for access. Brought to you by ohios number one hospital Cleveland Clinic. Tonight in prime time on nbc we crown a womens to monastics allaround champion. Swimming with finals in the breaststroke and that is her access to tonight summer game schedule. Brought to you by the Cleveland Clinic bringing you care anytime anywhere. A month after 9 11, i got a call from david and he told me he was going into the national guard. And the sound of their boots as they came up those stairs will, will stay with me the rest of my life. 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Right when the storm hit the newsroom some other big news that at that is lebron james signed a threeyear contract with the cavaliers worth 100 million. He could have made more, but what we see with this is that have a little more money. He said he could not be more excited and that he is ready to defend the championship in cleveland. The breaking news is that lebron james has formally signed the document or will momentarily to say stay three more years. We have more information on wkyc. Com. Posted on instagram. A reporter has the story. Reporter one local business is working around the clock after lebron james posted a picture wearing this hat on his instagram. It is a picture worth hundreds of thousands of likes on instagram. Lebron james sporting a new version of his favorite hat this time kermit has a crown on his head and a trophy. Wanted it to look. I got on the computer and started doing it and it came out nice. 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Rob portman certainly isnt going to get a lot of votes from here in ohio. Welcome back, more drama in the pool tonight in rio with one final barrier between Michael Phelps and the history books your plus Katie Ledecky dominating in the pool. It has been exciting to look. We are also watching simone biles. Brian moore joins us live from olympic park. Reporter last night together on the rely and tonight they are showcasing the competitive side of their friendship. Today call teed off as an Olympic Event for the first time in 112 years. With the slimmeddown field, the zika fears and the schedule. You will see the players who do play this time thinking differently about it. Reporter Michael Phelps swear he will not be competing in the next games. This is a great way to finish. Reporter he had some Unfinished Business including an epic showdown with ryan locke d. Katie ledecky after injuring last night comefrom behind relay victory set an olympic record today. The undefeated Womens Water Polo Team lookout china as it looks to defend its title and tonight simone biles is going for the gold again in the gymnastics individual all nd assuming phelps gets his 13th individual metal tonight that breaks a record set 21 years ago 2100 years ago. He had a run in a full suit of armor. That would be a little easier. Ryan, before you go we want to know more about simone. She is aiming for the gold. Proud she has a columbus connection and really she is looking to be in very good shape to get five gold medals out of these games and i wont tell you i know what happened, but i know what happened and you should too nan. He also knows tonight winning lottery numbers. Thank you. A lot cooking on a thursday nigh some real and some weather. Lets go to the radar and now we can certainly keep an eye on all of this for you. The thunderstorms generally moving off to the east and as they do so we will continue to see the possibility of development of these storms and as they continue to move eastbound, the possibility of eventually leave into Severe Weather as well. We are seeing a lot of upgrowth right now out of the storm moving through lake county and Geauga County. Moving east at about 25 Miles Per Hour and we will track this. Well go first from the lakeshore down through the newbury eastward and into madison, ashtabula, north kingsville, conneaut, you will be in there as well. Very heavy rain coming with this. We have seen a lot of upgrowth this line is intensifying once again, and as it continues to move to the east youre probably going to see scary looking clouds on the leading edge. Theres a big shelf cloud that rides on the leading edge of this and that is basically just upward and moving air and its condensing into clouds just above the surface. Its very impressive looking. A lot of people get really freaked out by it, but i think a lot of people will actually be happy about it because it will bring in a nice, cool it comes in. Now, further south down into central portions of Geauga County, i want to take a quick look at the wind. Thats what were doing here. The wind is going away from the radar and at a velocity of about 45 miles an hour. Thats up off the ground but we can see some of those downdraft type situations setting up with the possibility of hail or, excuse me, wind damage as that comes in. We also have a little hail that is riding in there so this is certainly our most intense it is right along 322 near munson township continuing to the east. That hail is now producing the potential for 1. 5 inch hail but it does melt as it comes down. And youll notice that that particular hail core is in the exact same place as where we have a whole lot of lightning and that is they go hand in hand. When we get good hail and upward motion of that hail, youll have a lot of lightning and that is certainly what we have in that particular area. Further south into streetsboro, twinsburg, hudson and into Cuyahoga Falls, we are getting a lot of very heavy rain and lightning, of course, that seems to be kind of still growing. This, too, will continue to move to the east and as it does so it will be impacting areas of northern portage county, including stow, mantua, kent, park man and ravenna. And then farther south we do indeed have that heavy rain that will come into the akron area, too. I want to get a quick check