Victim or vandal . In just the past 48 lochty has fallen from gold medal olympian to lyin ryan. They say he was the one doing the crime and may have the evidence to prove it tonight. We start with Team Coverage of ryan lochte and his fellow olympian swimmers made tup. You could have never forecast this and he was one of the lynx of the olympics so so many attention compounds it. Ryan lochte, this is a big ti the video, but his own teammates admit there was no gas station robbery. He feared he would get in trouble for vandalizing a gas station bathroom and made up the story hoping to cover his tracks. Rio said this video showed ryan and his fellow swimmers werent security guards when they vandalized the bathrooms. When lochte first told his story early sunday, questions about what really happen. He left brazil tuesday but swimmers jack and gunner tried to go home last night. They were pulled off their flight for questioning. Rio cops looked for the fourth swimmer james. Late this afternoon video was released showing the olympic swimmers returning to the village a short time after they were robbed. On the video it appears theyre jo tonight, brazilian Officials Say this investigation is far from over. At the Police Press Conference the police chief said one or all the swimmers could face charges for false communication of the crime and damages they caused to the gas station. All will be face today pay a fine and say theyre sorry and apologize. Not have to return to rio but looking at endorsements. Many including speedo could drop him. Its embarrassing. I have a feel this can is what hes gonna be remembered for, not medals. You brought up phelpss. He had two duis in the past and bounced back. Could we see the same thing from lochte . Sometimes its not somewhat you do but what hes obviously people are gonna consider him a lier. Theres that to look at plus, hes have to come back and swim again and he kind of left it open. He could possibly be back, if he doesnt get back in the pool, theres that again. The coverup may be worse than the crime. Exactly. See you later on. Continue on the the sports feed, the profootball hall of fame today announced refunds and incentives to make up for heres how this all ends, a full refund ux including processing fees, handling fees, shipping fees, parking and even hotels refunded. They also get four free tickets to the hall of fame museum, discounts on merchandise and they get the right to purchase future hall of fame game and travel tickets before the general cedar point is saying the silk city will be a thing of the past. Ryan explains how something knew is making its new is making a splash. Say goodbye to soak city and hello to see dear Aaron Rodgers point sores. They made a big announcement. It was made on instagram earlier today that shows off this new water slide complex thats part of the expanded and rebranded water park. Starting next year, soak city will be no more and known as cedar point shores. This features an all new water slide complex. Four of these slides, all known as point plum met, place riders into a pulse pounding chamber before the floor drops out from under their feet. A very similar drop side earlier this summer and these things look intense. Two other thrill filled slides through an enclosed tunnel as well and a new family splash ground. This is known as lake slide landing. What about all those other slides as soak city that are currently there . Theyll receive makeoverrings as well with most getting new names, all to highlight the Lake Erie Beach side location. Other highlights include a new restaurant or redeveloped main changing rooms. So much more coming with this rebranded water park, we cant tell you all on television. So go to wkyc. Com for a null break down. Eutexias of hazing to tell you about in another case of hazing at lake catholic. All thats being reported is hazing did occur during football practice. The Cleveland Catholic diocese said action was quickly taken to investigate and the families affected and corrective measures taken as the investigation continues. Three men sentenced for robbing four people in clevelands little italy including pistol whipping a priest. They saul pleaded guilty to the armed robly last year. The priest was beaten in the parking lot of holy rosary church. They spoke emotionally before that night before the sentencing. They backed up and in my squad and i thought i was gonna be executed. I think inaudible . Newton and phillips sentenced to two years and harrison to six years for his involvement in the robbery. Turn our attention to battleground ohio staying true to National Reputation in a week where Hillary Clinton and donald trump were in northeast ohio and trump coming back next week. Its scheduled to stop in akron. Monday night at the james a roads arena. No word yet on what his agenda or topic will be. Ohio as you know is one of only a few battlegrounds states where trump remains in striking distance of clinton in recent poles. Country is coming to the banks of the kiahoga river. We find brandon tonight at the flats. Hows it all setting up over there . Reporter everything is going well. Its hot bootlast a great way to enjoy art and come out why its warm. One of the artists will be cleveland art. If youre gonna come to clevelands art festival, check out cleveland art, theyve got hand blown and things you cant find at well. A lot of other artists here as well. We came out and see them getting everything set up for people to come this evening where theyll have a Preview Event in about an hour and a half. Hundreds of artists here from all other the country participating in this annual event. Theyre taking over a majority of the flats. Little bit of everything for everybody and now just down the road, down i71, they have a to come out and a lot of the artists who are there come here to cleveland to show off their work. As a matter of fact, that columbus festival is part of the reason why some of the artists did choose cleveland. I came back to ohio because a lot of the people there, they always have a lot of repeat customers and a lot of them say they were gonna come see me here. They come from across the United States to show art in a newly air oaf the flats. Its a great opportunity and weekend. That last artist you heard from, hes also from cleveland as we said. Now, tomorrow is the day thats gonna open up to the public and get things started at 11 00 p. M. And go till 10 00 p. M. Tomorrow night. Same hours saturday. If you miss saturday, come out sunday from 11 00 a. M. Till 5 00 p. M. So again, warm weather and lots of art out here and they say its priced well where anybody can get something. Brandon, no excuse to miss coming up next on the news at 5, go from the banks of the kai hoe game warden to the shores of consistency of effort pa cabana beach. More on the olympic athletes with local ties bringing home gold. More sunshine and cloud cover and not a whole lot of rain on the radar. Take a look at that and your weekend. Have you seen rob portmans ads rob portman actually voted against the funding needed for the program. Thats right, portman voted against the funding. And as heroine ravaged our communities, rob portman voted twice for budgets that threatened cuts to drug treatment programs. Rob portman cant trust him to tell the truth, cant trust him to be for ohio. Hue. Welcome back. Its a condition that doesnt just first show itself but a big effect on the quality of life. Were talking act autism. How one man with autism is working to raise awareness and make cleveland a better place. Reporter hi, everyone stephanie. Our digital team has been working on our cleveland rising project where were trying to tell the story of clevelanders working to make a difference and improve our city. I was lucky enough to meet a man name john whos working to raise awareness to autism in downtown, check it out. If youve been to a major event in downtown cleveland, you may have seen john. He stands on various street autism because he has autism and wants people to have a better understanding of it. He pays his own bills, does his own shopping, and works for than 40 hours a week at dave and buster ands a car details company. He has autism but it does not have him. Once i began doing this, people have asked me, youre really autistic . My response is, yes. They say you dont look autistic. My response is what does an autistic person look reporter its taken flight on social media using the hash tag help with autism. Lebron james, i hear he does a lot of charity work. I wouldnt mind him helping me out with this. He got a ring in cleveland. Him helping me out would be another thing that he could put on his list of great things hes done for cleveland. Im stephanie metsger. Thank you very much, stephanie. Head to the rio olympics where theres been a lot of news. We started this newscast with the ryan lochte story that continues not many people that dont have an opinion on it. You have the story of ryan lochte, did he fabricate something. Does it give the United States a bad black eye and the ot crime wasnt as dramatic as he made it. Its a shame that thats distracting from the gold medals and events that still remain, especially for the runners. It has been a really interesting twelve hours. From winning gold to being snuck out inned myrtle of olympic in the middle of olympic controversy. Hey, cheryl. Ohio medal and this ones gold. Today started off good with tiana starting off with her personal best in long jump and winning gold. 7. 71meters. She came to rio for three events, the long jump her standout. A gold medal has proved positive to never stop striving forward. No matter what obstacles come up or who tries to stand dream, stay the course. Keep your head down and keep fighting for it because itll be worth it in the end. Never give up on yourself. She hasnt quit yet. To celebrate even. She was back at the track defending team usas title from london in the four by 1010 relay. In the handoff in the second she claims a brazilian athlete knocked her over when she was about to hand off. They appealed and they won. Tonight the women will race a time trial at 7 00 p. M. They have to break the eighth best time. That time interestingly enough is a tie between the chinese and canada at 42. 70 seconds which could mean those two teams might have to race again as well to see what eight teams can move onto nate brannen moves onto the 1500meter semifinals tonight at the track. This is his third olympic competing for team canada. Hes a Cross Country coach as saint eds in lake wood. Well will cheering for him tonight. We told you last night, it was win or go home for team usa in mens basketball, and i guess team usa decided to turn it on. Over argentina. They advance to play spain tomorrow night. Kyrie had 11 point ins that game. Theyre drawing a lot of attention to basketball in brazil, so is the nba house down in rios port. We found lots of cavs fans at the popup basketball carnival. See how the league is trying to grow basketball popularity with brazilians ahead at 1 00 p. M. Take you 6 00 p. M. Take you in there around. Kyrie, the cavaliers that everyone is thinking act here but a lot of basketball fans we found in lebron jerseys and anderson vershaw. Thank you, and see you back here at 6. About tianna bartalona and how far she jumped, i loved your reaction. Give or take three feet per meter so she jumped like 22 some feet. Right. Not calculating anything else. Its amazing. It is. Her best and world best right now and as far as our forecast goes, were doing really, really well. We not the best but close. Temperatures in the 70s in ashtabula. Everyone else in 70s. As far as downtown cleveland goes, this is the place to be. Theres the indians game, we have the browns playing, paul normal for this time of day. Dead mans curve cuts off right there. Heres the city in the distance and see were starting to see traffic lining up in the right hand lanes, which is the lanes that will take you to First Energy Stadium, the home of the browns. The outbound shore is moving along nicely as well. Not anticipating too much problems other than what weve seen. Region wide and megalopolis areas our normal slow downs on the beautiful thursday radar is clear across much of Northern Ohio. Go to western or central ohio to get any rain action popping up. We stray dry through the rest of the night but keep an eye out for chances of popup showers tomorrow. Another warm one tomorrow with popup Storm Chances but the real nasty humidity moved to the south of us. Interesting to note, a surge of moisture working out of the of the north and that will converge over Northern Ohio this weekend. Shower and Storm Chances backing more and more likely late saturday into sunday. As far as tomorrow goes, well start off with partly cloudy skies, low 60s, upper 7 os. Temperatures will be in the low 80s. 307up chances around. Mid to upper 80s for the afternoon. Little humid but have any friday night Football Games to attend, dodge a few ra other than that, fine for the evening and looks like as for the late evening and overnight, mostly dry conditions as thing cool off. Forecast up to 87 for the day. Repeat that again on saturday but as you can see, whoa, dont sure why thats flipped afternoon around. As you can see, rain chances coming for friday. We got to fix that. Let me do this. There we go. Upper 80s for saturday. Low humidity, lots of sunshine. Time now for activities access to tonights summer game schedule brought to you by cleveland clinic. What youll see on nbcs program time coverage. In track and field, the finals in the decathlon. And the mens 200meter finals and the finals in the mens shot put. Thats your access to summer game schedule brought to you by access to the number one care, david was proud to be an american soldier. And i know im prejudiced because he was my son, but i dont think he had a mean bone in his body. There is not a day that i dont think about david. She was standing there, she had nothing to say. If donald trump cannot respect a gold star family, then why would anyone in america think he would respect them. Priorities usa action is responsible for the content of this advertising. Take a look at whats trending on a thursday, take you to texas where a seventh grade teacher was buying notebooks for her students at a local walmart. Behind her in line was pastor brunch he had been Walking Around with a 100 bill in his pocket and planned to help somebody in need. When he saw all of the school supplies, he knew what he had to do. He paid for all those supplies. Her classroom to meet the students he helped. Notice a lightning bolt that made a crazy shape. This one looks like a trex. It was shotted in blue mesa in arizona. Some Facebook Commenters havere ideas like a heart shaped balloon on the end. Or an overall snake. Im team trex with everybody else. Now trending. Browns games. What youll notice tonight and every game thats ensuring safety inside the stadium. A month after 9 11, i got a call from david and he told me he was going into the national guard. He was sent to iraq to be a gunner on a humvee. A car pulled up in the driveway and three soldiers got out, and the sound of their boots as they came up those stairs will, will stay with me the rest of my life. You have moments when you really dont want to live anymore, its a fate that i would not wish on anybody, not anybody. Saw donald trump attack another gold star mother, i felt such a sense of outrage. Wife, she was standing there, she had nothing to say, she probably. I would like to tell donald trump what it feels like, the sense of emptiness, that only losing a child can bring. Those people should be honored and treated with kindness for the rest of their life, welcome back. Its time now for the big three. Take a look at stop three stories trending in your neighborhood, around the country, and online. Three men sentenced in they included a pistol whipping of a local priest. Ive had nightmare ands a bet of a set back after i learned that one of them had kill add priest. The breast beaten in a parking lot of holy rosy church. They all bleed guilty to the armed pleaded guilty to the armed robbie. Two seasoned to two years and the other 16 years. Ryan loch story of being robbed at gunpoint in rio. Confrontation with armed men did take place when lochte and three teammates had to deal with two security guards who pointed guns at them after they damaged a gas station bathroom. The station manager demanded money to pay for the damage and the swimmers handed over cash. Powerful images out of syria showing a young boy rescued from rubble after a devastated air strike. Sitting there with blood on his face. It was widely shared on social media today. Take a look at that young buy. The video comes from opposition media group after what they say was a strike from russian war planes. We found out his family did survive that attack as well. That image has a back story if you see it. Back here at dozen store robberies in two months have folks in the akron area asking if its safe to go shopping. Is it enough to buy a piece of mind . Jasmine monroe reports. Reporter workers at Family Dollar and Dollar General are fulltimely relieved to hear that the suspects involved in the rash of robberies are finally off the street. Give me everything right now. Reporter a string of 24 hock 22 yearold shaquille and 25 yearold jeremy are behind bars. Anything with a dollar in it, dollar store, dollar tree, Dollar General getting hit. They hit a couple fast food and mobile stores where you can buy cell phones. Reporter last night Police Spotted a car used in recent robbery ands had to chase down the suspect. He was ee running red lights until he crashed into a utility pole on south jenkin boulevard. Reporter the suspect took off on foot and akron pd caught him. Workers at the Dollar General couldnt go on camera but could see evil in their eyes. Surveillance video from the two crimes show both one, one in a heavy white coat and the other in dark clothing waiving a gun and the pair empty the cash scene. Theyll be charged in connection with six out of the 24 robberies. As for the other 18, those are still under investigation. Channel 3 news. In the fight against heroin, local Law Enforcement took one more step in cleaning up the streets. Five loyal viewer rain county men lorrain county men fentanyl involved with overdoses. Its called car fentanyl. Its four times more deadly than heroin. It comes after a rash of overdose outbreaks in lorrain, summit, and franklin counties. Cleveland. Thousands expected downtown in the next two, three hours alone. Youll find a sold out crowd for paul mccartney. The tribe is hosting the white sox and First Energy Stadium is cracking open the doors for the first time for the browns first home preseason game and browns fans packing the lot and look whos decked out in orange. Its our own don soaking up the sunshine. Hey, dawn. Reporter hi, chris, its beautiful out here. Get down here early because crowds are expected to be big. Down here early, my friend richard, who ive known for years and see him every year this time, he got here early at 11 00 a. M. This is his Motor Transportation from will be. He rides that bike for every single home game. Since 1995, no matter the weather. Like the weather man. Reporter today is a great day to ride your bike. The lot are gonna want to head over to the stadium a bit earlier buzz theres a new screening process. Theyll have to go through a metal detector instead of being wanded. Being asked to carry your phone and camera above your head when you go through those detectors. Leave your change and keys in your pocket. Anything that doesnt fit in your pockets has to be carried in that plastic bag. With all that excitement going think tickets are hard to come by but a look at how you can get tickets to all three for less than 50. Im dawn reporting, channel 3 news. Awesome, good thinking, see you lack here at 6. The calendar says august, the thermometer says mid 80s and most School Districts say back to class. A local lawmaker thinks starting before labor day just isnt right. This is how students at charles of air conditioning and plenty of water breaks. This is just one reason why senator dale manning is proposing a bill that would man dade the start of school to the mandate the start of school till the tuesday after labor day. She says its hotter in august than it is in june but Cleveland Public School administrator say an august start is necessary for teachers to prepare ki mandated testing. Parents we spoke to say they dont want a later start, longer hours in the classroom for their kids. For me, the perfect plan is ten weeks school, two weeks off. Im ready to get them out. You need to go to school. This has a ton of you talking on social media. We had dozens of comments on our facebook page. Heat is a big issue for many. With no air. She thinks going back after labor day is good for the kids and getting them outside and hold up indoors. Jessica has those concerns as well. Went to a School Open House on tuesday and wanted out of the building after an hour. Brenda thinks too much breaks during the school year and school should run from labor day through memorial day. Sound off on our facebook page. Dreading that next dentist trip . Fear not, the new tool a local local feelings. The u. S. Womens Volleyball Team looks to get back to the gold medal match for the Third Straight time. Dave steps in with that but say hi to betsy. Hey, there, Beautiful Day in Northern Ohio. Not a lot of rain but warmer and still have a chance of rain this weekend. Straight ahead. Womens 200meter gold medal final, american torri boey takes takes bronze. The 25 yearold takes her second medal. Fall classes start august 29. Hi, everyone. It is now day 13 olympics. Huge upset in womens volleyball. Top ranked unit versus serbia. The u. S. Won the first set but serbia came back and won the match. The u. S. Fails to get back to the gold medal match for the Third Straight time. The u. S. Has a 60 record in rio. Theyve scored over 100 points in five games. Two wins away from their sixth straight gold medal. If the americans win, theyll play spain for the gold medal game on saturday. Mens 400meter hurdle, american karon takes home the gold. His first gold medal in a individual event. The 2008 olympic silver medalist is a model and r coming up in prime time, the mens 200meters gold medal final usain bolt seven time gold medal won his final heat, ran a season best for a third consecutive gold medal in this event. Coming up tonight the olympic zone at 7 30 as we feature elyse, and bob. A day in the life with osu well. I was looking for a day in the life of moreen and chris. Maybe hes more exciting. Yeah, you doing all right with this change . Yeah, getting lots of sleep. Nice to see you in the evening. I was not going to talk about myself. I cannot get enough of usin bolt. Anybody else . Ever out his height and the way his body moves is the greatest athlete of all times. Im hooked on the way he runs. I go back to sunday and when he comes out of the gate, maybe hes not. Incredible to think hes a human being is incredible. I think youre onto something there. Owen to a rainy forecast weekend right after this. Have you seen rob portmans ads saying hes leading the fight against opioids . Well heres what hes not telling you rob portman actually voted against the funding needed for the program. Thats right, portman voted against the funding. Treatment programs. Rob portman cant trust him to tell the truth, cant trust him to be for ohio. Are you afraid of the dentist . Are you . No. Im not. The hygienist can get after me if im not flossing enough. If you are, youre not alone want its the second most highest fear people have. Trying to alleviate that concern by replacing the old dental drill with hightech lasers thats virtually pain free. Tom has never been a needing novocain at the dentist. I had to get through it but miserable. I have no idea what novocain is. But 11 yearold didnt know what to expect for her first cavity. I was kind of scared at first. Both are patients where the old dental drill has been re pleased by laser. Keep waiting for a bit of pain, nothing ever comes. I thought it was a water richardson sensation because i used for it and its not just den industry. Its awaiting approval on a variety of other procedures. A snoring procedure. It gets to the cellular layer and tightens tissue. Thats not all. Our patients are using botox order ma fillers to plump up their lips and now we can with the laze ere. It can last using it cosmetically on patients. Monica robins, channel 3 news. Thank you, patients. You educate us but not always a pretty picture. He says its slightly cheaper than other esthetic procedures on the market but price is determined on a case by case basis. What everybody missed was right before this story came on, these two having a dental theyre in your mouth and ask you, how are the kids . I was saying, yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, now i did that on tv. Thank you. Everyone can blackmail me. As far as weather goes. No worries this evening. Beautiful out there. Partly cloudy skies. Find the temperatures fading from the 80s where theyre back in the 70s and have a cooler start tomorrow than what we had y. The mid to upper 60s and back to upper 80s across Northern Ohio. A beautiful afternoon and above average. Sitting in the 80s across most of the area. Thanks to a westerly breeze, traffic has not been too bad as of yet. On a normal pace as far as the evening commute goes. A whole lot of people coming into cleveland. Inbound on 90 coming in toward thats slowing down a bit. Dead mans curve, this is typical for this time of day. This is a look at 90 coming into downtown from the east. Dead mans curve is right here. You can see these left tulanes of traffic makes that left turn and first emergency said yum is right here. Not a whole lot of cloud cover, beautiful afternoon and evening happening. Seeing Ryan Frederick clouds in the right tulane and those will go toward the stadium so folks can get into that area. Now, as far as 90 on the south end Progressive Field is right here and you can see that traffic is flowing smoothly. This is the eastbound traffic in these tulane two lanes. We are beyond that ninth street exit here. The big picture shows no rain to worry about want the rain is well off to the south and the west of us and the even Bigger Picture shows that there is even more rain off to the far interestingly enough, its a cold front from the west that will combine with another surge of moisture from the south to bring us chances for rain showers. Not only tomorrow, i think itll be more hit or miss for the day tomorrow. About a 30 percent chance of popup storms in the afternoon. Late day saturday, saturday night, and into much of sunday, well have to contend with scattered showers and thunderstorms till that front goes through. This is one for the last several days in your nation forecast. Gonna feel chilly but hearers the beautiful thing when we get rid of cloud cover and that humidity. Time now for access to tonights summer game schedule brought to you by ohios number one hospital, cleveland clinic. What youll see on nbcs prime time coverage. In track and field, the finals in the decathlon. The mens 200meter final and the finals in the mens shot put and thats your access to tonights summer game schedule clinic providing you with access to the number one care david was proud to be an american soldier. And i know im prejudiced because he was my son, but i dont think he had a mean bone in his body. There is not a day that i dont think about david. When i saw donald trump attack another gold star mother, i felt such a sense of outrage. She was standing there, she had nothing to say. If donald trump cannot respect a gold star family, then why would anyone in america think he would respect them. Brazilian police set the record straight today on ryan lochtes claim that he and three swimmers held up at gunpoint. Joeboat bottom line, the swimmers were not victims. Unfold. Reporter you cannot make Something Like this up. Oh, wait, yeah, apparently you can. There are security cameras literally everywhere here in rio so its no surprise what happened was caught on tape. We know police say this gas station video show ryan lochte and three fellow swimmers not held up at gunpoint as they claimed. The by security guards after they trashed a gas station bathroom and forced to pay for damage. Since he first told his story, theres been questions about what really happened. He left rio tuesday and jack and hunter tried to go home last night, they were pulled off the flight for questioning. This investigation is not over. As the competition winds down, in volleyball. Beach volleyball carrie walsh is happy with their bronze. They won an appeal to run again in the 400. The path seems clear for usain bolt as he runs for his fourth straight olympic gold. If anyone can outrun this lochte after his Third Straight gold. Thats unprecedented triple three pete. Back to you. Well done. Safe to say that the olympics has been keeping everyones attention with the events then off the events. All right, thankers so much. Thats gonna do it for us here on the news at 5 00 p. M. Challenge 3 news at 6 starts right this story ryans story and other swimmers was an embarrassment for brazil. Brazil was not going to take that lightly. They have a lot riding on the olympics. Coming out tarnished with a reputation untarnished with a reputation as a safe place what their idea