correspondent is here to explain the discipline that the officers face. hi. we all remember this tragedy started with the cars back fire mistaken for gunfire. most people know michael breelo fired after being found not guilty of manslaughter last may. five others are canned too because they broke basic safety rules about shooting in cross fire. police with gunfire sound from a dash cam in the shot by shot sequence which showed officers firing in what order. that could have been deadly for Cleveland Police officers too. the safety director fired officers michael breelo, diaz, michael farrelly. brelo jumped on the hood of the suspects car, reloaded the of 137 shots thinking the two were shooting at him. the city calls the process and investigation thorough and fair. it was very difficult. very difficult for all of us. there were General Police orders. there are manual rules and regulations that we expect officers to comply with. if they didnt comply with those particular General Police orders or manual rules and regulations, i sustain the charges. i am worried about us doing what we do right and being fair and transparent in what we do. i know that we have done that. six other officers were suspended from 21 to 30 days. one of the 13 retired. officers get extra training and hopefully the Consent Decree brings discipline and accountability the force has been lacking. the city already paid the russell and williams families 3 million to settle a civil coming partly because of this, a very painful costly lesson for the city and now the punished officers. it happened three years and two months ago. why did discipline take so long . it may seem unbelievable. the city decided the criminal justice process had to workforce, officer brelos trial and decision not until may. so many players and such a complex incident the city wanted to be thorough, fair, precise and that explains it. many think perhaps it could have been done sooner. thanks. what is next for the officers . police will contest discipline and ask for cases to go to an arbitrator. their punishment could be overturned if that arbitrator rules against the city. city officials acknowledge they have no idea what will happen once an arbitrator is involved. the mayor has been critical of the appeal process saying it ties the citys hands. police union to respond after hearing six would be fired and the others disciplined. the Police Union President called the rulings insane and says the city ignored the facts. experts we are paying tons of money to can prove it. i will go get their jobs back. i promise they will get their jobs back. to the family of russell they sent their attorney instead of attending today, he says it is frustrating its taken this long and called the actions a step in the right direction. the familys ultimate goal is to have closure. people are reacting on social media. producer danielle is with us to show us the varying opinions. some have sympathy for russell and williams. others side with the officers. administration. a well Trained Department would not have been involved in that. judy says the actions put the public and themselves at risk. it was a mess and beyond irresponsible. i am not comfortable knowing such a group is still on the force. heather has a different perspective. she says i have little sympathy. last night they were flashing lights behind me. i pulled over and spoke kindly, no ticket and no warning, just a reminder on the speed limit and have a great day. your Actions Create your destiny. this is obviously still bringing emotions out. absolutely. and opinions come from different areas. thanks very much. to keep the streets safe juvenile offenders can no longer have fake weapons. the Juvenile Court and Prosecutors Office are launching an initiative coming up friday. Authorities SayYoung Offenders use pellet and air guns to intimidate people. earlier this month Police Arrested a 14 year old using a this will let the Juvenile Court detain youth offenders or put them on probation for using look alike weapons. police captured a man who stole a womans bike and car this morning. marshall pressman returned home from walking her car to find Brandon Clark riding her bike out of her driveway. so she followed him in her car and cut him off. clark opened her car door and dragged her from the vehicle and punched her. he drove away crashing the car at west 32nd and frankly. Police Caught up to clark and as he was trying to plea pressman sustained nonlife threatening injuries in the incident. big news on the financial front will affect thousands of employees and customers. buying first merit for about 3. 5 billion. the deal will not be finalized until late fall. huntington will offer jobs to unclear what will happen to the 2000 who work at the akron headquarters. huntington will honor first merits charity donations. huntington has offered to fund a very substantial new foundation in akron, funded with 20 million which will be used to support those in need in akron and the excellent not for profit communities who serve the community. so if you are a first merit customer, they promise a seam less transition. branches will not change over until next year and there is a chance some will close if theyre in close proximity to huntington bank. those details still need to be worked out. fords ohio si Assembly Plant adding a truck to the production line up. the avon lake plant will make the Ford F Series super duty cab. the f series is americas best selling truck for 39 years straight. there is no word on whether it employs nearly 1400 people and is one of the largest employers in lorain county. the Canton Police department is welcoming a very squad. officer ryan davis brought k 9tuko home this afternoon. davis and others will train him as a full fledged officer. tuko comes to northeast ohio a of another four legged officer died in the line of duty. remember jethro. k9s for cops in houston heard about the tragic story and reached out to help. officer davis went down and picked a top three out of dozens and then he landed on tuko. as it went on, i would have been comfortable with any of the three but tuko kind of separated himself and stood out. so he picked you . pretty much. he seems to be adjusting nice into his new police cruiser. he should be trained and on the pavement with his partner by mid april. confident about his president ial run on the campaign trail. john kasich touted endorsements by boston globe and concord monitor. he is heavily focused on the campaign in new hampshire. he doesnt plan to have much attention in iowa but he hopes new hampshires primaries helps him in South Carolina and beyond. when we come back on the news at 7 00, imagine pedaling down lake erie or cuyahoga with a beer in hand. what it will take to get this giant rent able party boat on the water by memorial day. my heart dropped. the chance encounter that reunited a father and daughter after 20 years of searching. sure lake erie is beautiful to look at but it is better when you are cruising on it. a new Company Wants to take you for a paddle boat ride with bergs in hand. it is called brew boat cle. its already getting lots of traction online. joining me is the man behind the boat freddie coffee, the father and chief leisure officer of brew cleveland. what a cool title. thank you. leisure officer. thats what i do everyday. you are talking about a paddle boat on lake erie with beer. right and beverages. this is a 14 person paddle wheel cycle boat. you sit around a bar and pedal away. we have a captain on board that spencer reports the wheel. up and down the cuyahoga river. how did you come up with the idea . i was looking into the pub cycle business. there is one in cleveland but in other cities they have a lot of pub cycles that drive around. as i was looking into that, i found cascade cycle boats, this company in oregon, where they created this paddle pub boat. yeah. ive had a background in traction marketing and all of it kind of clicked. absolutely. you have lake erie out there. so this is the brew boat. yes. okay, now we said earlier that you are looking at target date of memorial day. whats it going to take to get to memorial day and be out there paddling and pedaling . the construction schedule of the boat is two to three months. all we have to do is make sure our funds are in order and we are coastguard certified in time to launch by memorial day. weve got a Campaign Going right now. there is a button to click. thats where you get your pre sale tickets. you can get tickets at a discounted price. whats the response been like . its been great. we are already 16 or 17 funded after six days. thats great. yeah, thats really good. whats the question you get asked most . people want to know where theyre going to go to the bathroom. i thought you were going to say people want to know where we will go in the lake. that too. but the big issue is people want to know, i am on the water for two hours drinking beer. it is an hour and 45 minutes or so. where would you start from . we are looking at two launch locations. rocking dock behind the rock hall is one we have looked into and also the west bank of the flat. i have to ask because we have so many local breweries all over. what are you going to do with that . sure. we have been talking with some local breweries and we are somewhere we can do tasting tours. people can buy a ticket and come on board and learn about different microbreweries, different specialties. where can people go for more information. brewcle. Com. see you on memorial day on lake erie. thats where we will be. good luck. thank you. another revelation on the water. some scientists call the big bang theory, the new way to bring life saving supplies thats cheaper and better for the virtue. betsy tells us which areas can see snow showers over the next couple days. a chance encounter between a store clerk and shopper has changed both of their lives. brian hencely senior stopped by a store in idaho and the homeless man asked a clerk the balance on his food stamp card. when she read it, she could not believe her eyes. my heart dropped and i said whats your middle name . he goes eugene. i hit my knees. i said you are my biological father. i have been searching for you for 30 years. how about that. the reunion was tearful and joyous. both never expected to find one another and brian wants to do whatever it takes now to be if all goes well she plans to invite him to live with her. a big bag theory could help people around the world in need of freshwater. he has nears in spain are testing an affordable way to transport it. they created a floating plastic bag with special zippers that hook to a tugboat. the water bag is flexible when facing big waves, naturally floats on surface when traveling on salt water because freshwater is lighter. costs two times less than tanker deliveries and has less environment. today i was on Cleveland Browns daily, a very popular smash hit radio show 1 00 to 3 00 every afternoon, and i was going a call about should we draft a quarterback. she wanted to know how is betsy seriously . absolutely. wow thanks for listening. usually i get questions really as tall as you . no. no. not in his dreams. cloudy and breezy with tonight. we have a chance for flurries and late snow showers may whip up east of town. the big picture doesnt show much happening yet. this wave is along a cold front thats dying out. as it comes in, it may be enough to stir up flurries and lake effect snow showers early tomorrow. we are not expecting massive amounts of accumulation. i think you would be hard pressed to find any accumulation. isolated snow chance will linger. we will see drying conditions but not a lot of clearing through the afternoon. temperatures will start in 20s and only end in the low 30s. clouds are pretty much locking us in. at 7 30 you see our chances for snow showers to the east. we have temperatures in the 20s but wind chills will be in the teens so its pretty much as we head through the rest of the morning into midday, temperatures hold in the 20s and then peak around the 30 degree mark midday. you can see the noon time temperatures there. isolated snow chances will linger east of town. later in the afternoon, we may start to get clouds breaking up enough to see some glimpses of sunshine. i think thats about the best we will be able to do. we are going to stay on the cool side. i mentioned the snow. dont get excited about it. i dont think well find an inch of snow accumulation even in the snowbelt where we are only anticipating a half inch on are so. the coming days. likely. minor if any. the rest of your Window Nation sevenday forecast says a little bit better chance for snow thursday, trace amounts, maybe up to an inch or two. well keep an eye on that. thats not much of a big deal. through the rest of the week we stay on the mild side, even getting to the 40s and bringing it doesnt look like we get a clear break of dry weather any day except saturday. i said to caller, this is Cleveland Browns daily. the team is in search of a quarterback and right tackle. betsy kling is handled, in place. jimmy. even with the cavs first place in the east the new head for improvement. we will tell you why next. all right everybody. cavs are off tonight. tomorrow theyll play phoenix. theyre expected to but it was a big night for this guy. a first win as a head coach in nba. he is taking over as cavs head coach after david blatt was fired friday. lue was happy with the win. theyre 3112, best record in the eastern conference. he still thinks cavs need to be in better physical shape to play the way he wants them to play. they need to be in shape going forward. we definitely dont want to lose games. i am not saying that. we might play more guys until we are in the shape that we need to be in to play the style of basketball we want to play. well see how they do tomorrow night. i would like to say big congratulations to this guy right here who is getting the Lifetime Achievement award. that is very nice. it means you are old when they say that. cleveland sports commission. i am so proud to be a part of the programs over the years with him. thats a top Notch Network quality guy we are talking about. he is the most versatile, passionate, talented talent there ever was that i have ever worked with. he can do anything. congratulations, jimmy and thanks for everything. wow i cannot think of anybody that deserves that recognition more than jimmy does. congratulations. aint that the truth. oh that is nice. thank you very much. thursday night is your big night. thursday night. really great. are you wearing a tux . i am not. now you got me thinking. do i have to wear a tux . thank you very much. entertainment tonight is next. russ and sara are back at 11 00. i will have wearing a pump i believe for the sports segment at 11 00. that will do it for us. well have updates on our app and at wkyc. Com. have a great night everybody. thanks. thanks for watching channel 3 news. take channel 3 news and weather with you