To near 34 at 5 00, plus, with those winds today, it will feel even colder. Taking a look at whats happening on radar. You can see some scattered rain showers moving through. Weve got a line of showers from cleveland, west and east suburbs. Its raining downtown today. South into akron. As we get even closer yet, you can see rain is just moving out of strongville. On the east side, its pretty rainy. Light to moderate. Its going to slow you down, places like Mayfield Heights and shaker into south russell. Were all seeing the showers. Once the showers pass, the roads will still be wet because of the slush. Our biggest Traffic Alert remains on i70 southbound after state route 3 where only the right lane is open because semi trucks. This is going to be closed for a couple of hours. Were not seeing delays in that area. If you travel after 6 00 a. M. , you typically travel in that area and this is not clear, you can expect some delays. But other than that, we have normal drive times. For those of you who travel 271 south and get off in macedonia, odot has planned to close that ramp until 6 00 a. M. , but i just spoke to macedonia police, and they say the ramp is open. No longer do you need to take that exit ramp 8 north to 82. Again, theyre going to be closing that ramp each night because of noise pannal installation. Were learning Huntington Bank is taking over first merritt bank. Maureen kyle is following impact this will have on there will be layoffs. Huntington bank will try to keep those layoffs to a minimum. There are more than 2,000 employees with first merritt in akron area alone. Now, the newspaper also report reports some Branch Locations will close. It will create the Number One Bank by deposits in ohio. Rumor increased their shares. Steve steiner, huntington ceo will meet with employees. He said theyre committed to the legacy of first merritt in the city. John and lynna, back to you. Cleveland surpassed 100 homicide. This year ten people were killed in the first 25 years of january. City Council Members once again discussing what can be done. Alyssa raymond joins us live about. Reporter good morning, john. Something about this want people to know this is a personal problem, and they dont want people to get numb to this. More often than not, when we go out to talk to people on the street, people say, not another one or theres another one. Theyre starting to lose track of how many. The past two years the city exceeded the yearly rate. 65 of these homicides are in retaliation, and murders are the number one war in downtown cleveland. All the development and the money being pumped into downtown, he says, is not stopping the violence. Heres what he said after presenting his plan at last nights meeting. For the last two years, weve had 220 hd in 220 homicides in cleveland. Were going for the third i think weve come to the realization that the status quo is not acceptable. Reed presented a threetier plan. Give 250,000 to the peacemakers alliance. Thats the violence interrupters in the city. He also wants all officers to have dash cams on Police Vehicles as well as body cams on every officer. The other thing he wants to do is install surveillance cameras in all the neighborhoods, not just downtown. And in the next couple of weeks, city council will be getting the budget. If things dont change in that bunt, theyre not going to get anywhere. Back to you in the studio. All right. Thanks, alyssa. There are more questions in the northeast ohio town where high levels of lead have been found in the drinking water. Weve learned that the person operating the water system has the state looks into what went wrong. The Ohio Department says the operator wasnt doing his job and may have falsified reports. Residents say theyre still afraid. Instant fear. Were very afraid. Were just taking one day at a time. We dont know what to the. Were told that lead levels in the water are falling and that only a handful of homes and a fountain at a high school are still testing high. Now to central ohio where a case of stranger danger led to a fiery High Speed Police chase. And it was caught on dash cam video. Speeds topped 100 Miles Per Hour until the van caught fire. We showed you the booking photo there of david moore. The police began when he tried to lure a teen to his car and she ran home and called 911. 130 new fulltime jobs thanks in part to a new tax break from the state. The Ohio Tax Credit Authority yesterday approved an 8year project. They will add nearly 4 million in new annual payroll by 2018. Time right now is 5 07. To all the moms who could use a few extra hands, how about a stroller you dont even need to push . Wow. Do you trust this thing . Were going to talk about this smart stroller. And the president ial campaigns ramping up this week before mondays caucuses in iowa. What the candidates have planned for a final push. A great tuesday to you. Temperatures are really mild as youre waking up. 40s right now. They will be falling, and some scattered rain is happening as were all waking up. So get those umbrellas handy. Especially through the morning hours. Front pushes through, breezy as can be. Im sure youve noticed. The same winds with gusts as high as 30. Ialert has your closings and delays. Theyre instant. We have a live look at progressive field. Thats a happy thought. 46 degrees right now at hopkins. Its 5 08. Follow us on wkyc. We would love to chat with you. 5 11 right now, bern city sanders and Hillary Clinton both defending why they should be the candidates. And the Top Republican candidates rallied in iowa and New Hampshire. We have the latest on the final reporter good morning, john and lynna. Yeah, monday is the day. The very first contest. All of the candidates are desperate to show why they should win, but they want the momentum of a win. The temperatures may be cold, but each race is heating up. The Democratic Candidates highlighted their differences from one another as they made a final pitch to people in iowa. I led the effort against wall street deregulation. See where Hillary Clinton was on this issue. We tackled income equality and produced results. Not talk, but action. Thats what i will do in office. Meanwhile, on the republican side, the race is getting nasty between donald trump and ted cruz. I will not respond in kind because the people of iowa, south carolina, New Hampshire, people of this country deserve better. Donald trumps views. Abortion. Trump is now calling cruz the man from canada. Because that pipeline goes ted cruz. He was born there. Now he goes all the way to texas. Maybe theres a conflict of interest. The gop front runner says hell take action as president and not back down to anyone. Now, political experts say donald trump has enormous crowds at his events, but in order to win, they say, hes going to have to turn that energy into people actually showing up to caucus. In washington, Edward Lawrence reporting live. Time running out for iowa. All right. Edward, thank you. 44 degrees at hopkins right now. Truth. Truth. Thats right. Feels balmy. It does. This is our warmest part of the day. We actually achieved the high. Through midtolate morning. Were going to really see temperatures drop off, as it does. Well take you to the bus stop. We have a beautiful look at the lorraine bridge. Do you know what were seeing . Wet roads. Theres been a lot of melting sleeping. Temperatures so mild. That trend will obviously continue here initially this morning. 46, as john and lynna its 5 14. At the bus stop. Its breezy. So even though were mid40s, its still going to feel cooler. And just wait, you better have a heavier coat backed in the book back for later today. You will need it. Scattered rain mainly this morning. Temperatures fall, scattered snow tomorrow. We could see a flurry today. We dont have to take that out of the equation. I dont think its going to be a big deal, though. Its all going backwards today through midtolate morning. 34 degrees at 5 00, but it will feel colder than that with those gusty winds in the southwest. Shifting to the northwest behind the front. Look at the temperatures behind it now. You get the idea. Chicago is at 31. Annapolis is at 34 degrees. Detroit is still in the 40s. And so are we. Weve got low to mid40s everywhere. Akron, canton, youre at 46. Rain is moving through. Its just rain, obviously, with temperatures as mild as they are from clevelands east side. We are seeing showers. Lake and Geauga County dealing with the rainy weather. Were talking rain, not snow. Its definitely helping to get its happening. Once were at 10 30, the rain is already through. Notice temperatures are mainly in the 30s at that point. Weve got a few dots of white showing up. There could be a few flurries. This is nothing thats going to be a big deal. As we get into the overnight hours, more so tomorrow we could see lake effect snow showers right along the lake shore is where were seeing that. This is 4 30 a. M. On wednesday. Perhaps those of you who are in that little lake effect band pick up a half an inch of snow. That would be the extent of it. Looks like were going to stay cold through the middle of the week. Seasonably cold midweek and then another mild little boost as we get into the weekends. 30s and falling for today. This morning. Southwest, 1520. Gusts as high as 30. Window nation, 7day forecast, 30s, scattered lake snow. A few snow showers around for thursday. And that will clear out on friday. And then we warm back up. It looks like over the weekend. We cool back down again. Lets get a check on your commute time. Just about 5 17. Good Tuesday Morning to you. If you travel 71 and 271, county. It looks like we have work going on here. I called Highway Patrol because i thought maybe that accident that i reported on on 71 south after 3 00 had the wrong location, but they said, no, theyre not reporting anything at 271. So we do still have this crash also in Medina County, two semi trucks involved many this one. Only the right lane is open. You can expect delays here when the height of morning rush hits. Right now, were seeing 71 at 76. Looks pretty good. On our highways, but were all dealing with wet roads because of the rain. John and lynna, back to you. All right. Thank you, dani. A texas grand jury investigating planned parenthood indicts the organizations accusers instead of the group. Theres an update here. This is making huge headlines. This involves the secret recordings of planned parenthood that showed the group illegally selling fetal tissue. Planned parenthood was cleared and two of the accusers were charged. Discredit the group. This el nino weather is taking a toll on the california coastline, prompting a the cliffs are crumbling and a third Apartment Building is now inhabitable. The sea wall is damaged and there was a trail of destruction there. Any new parents know those babies dont stroll themselves. Or do they . Do you see what that woman is doing there. A new stroller design is a self propelling stroller. Theres an electric engine for going uphill. That makes it a little easier. It has builtin rocker, music, and there are extra cameras. They launched an indie fund me page. The cheapest without the self propelling feature is about 400. This is going to launch next year. For all of those parents im thinking it takes the fun out of going uphill and the exercise out of it. Defeats the purpose. Oh, gosh. You gave me something and every mom out there. You have twins. You need the double decker kind. Sure. Nasa is celebrating some of their best projects. Greg dee joins us with one special space equipment thats developed right here in cleveland. Check out these pits. Thats not regular sand in are the. Thats probably the most expensive sand youve ever played with. Because mars has different its made of spheres that allows it to be lighter so they can simulate is surface of mars or the moon. Notice the tires. These are not rubber. Theyre the same tires used in the Apollo Missions and rovers back on the moon. These are the same tires used in apollo 15 when they landed and moved around the surface. Its made by tiny springs that connect together and make the tires. They are very mallable and bendable. These types of tires are something that nasa thinks can be put into vehicles here on earth. They last a whole lot longer. Imagine some of the work going on right here for space may actually end up in our own vehicles in the future. That makes perfect sense. You cant get a flat tire up there. When you break 25 of the springs in the tire, it retains 90 of its function. Thats a whole lot better than rubber. Wow. Right here at nasa. Thank you, greg. A nice look into the future. Its all happening right here. Holly. Holly, you would love to spend weeks there. I have, john. I mean, please. Yes. Holly, the exit is that way. Temperatures, theyre going to be falling backwards today. Thats our plan. So were at our warmest point now. 40s. Front moves through. Scattered rain showers are happening as we speak. It will be dryer later, but as we look at the map, you can see the showers moving through. Eventually, im tracking snow. Lynna, i will let you know when to expect that. Thats coming up. A Big Bank Merger announced overnight. Coming up, how first merritt and Huntington Bank are coming together and what impact it might have on bank employees. Time is 5 26. Topping the morning rush at 5 30. Bic announcement d big announcement overnight. Huntington bank. The company will go by the huntington name. There are more than 2,000 employees with first merritt in the akron area alone. Huntington Officials Say first merritt layoffs are expected and some Branch Locations will be closed because the two banks are too close to one another. The deal makes Huntington Bank the Number One Bank by deposits in ohio. Alyssa . Reporter 10 homicide in the city of cleveland in the first days of the new year. Well reach 100 murders for the third year in a row. Last year, 25 days into the year, there were three homicides. The year before that, eight at the time. This year, already ten. At last nights meeting, plan to deal with this reality. He wants to give peacemakers 250,000. These are the violence interrupters. He wants to put dash cam in Police Officers and body cams on all officers. And he wants to install surveillance camera in all neighborhoods you. Era probably going to ask who wants to pay for this . Budget talks return next week. Holly . Alyssa, thank you. And checking on that forecast this Tuesday Morning. I hope youre having a great start to the day. Get the coffee brewing. I know youre packing the lunches. What coat do we pick today. Its going to be within you layer up. You probably go with one layer to start. Make sure you have the coat in the car. Its going to get colder. Temperatures in the mid40s. Front pushes through midto late morning. We have scattered rain showers moving through as we speak. As we look at radar, you can east of cleveland right now, lake Geauga County south into akron are all seeing rain. This morn. A lot of snow has melted away. On on the roads. Good morning to you. Good morning to all of you. Ive been on the phone between Medina County and Highway Patrol and medina township police. Now, we do know theres one southbound. Its either between 271 and 3. Im getting tweets from you all too. Joshua tweeted me saying only one crash on 71. Its near 271. Nothing near the 3 overpass thats just north of 76. However, the Ohio Department of transportation says that only one right lane is open. Southbound after state route 3, theres information we received from odot. 71 between 271, just prepare because of one crash. John and lynna, back to you. Dani, thank you. In just under a week, the president ial primary season will officially kick off when voters head to the caucuses in iowa. And john kasich could be getting momentum. This is an important get for the governor. Yeah, john, pretty big endorsement here for the kasich company. The globe is supporting the governor. While the endorsement may not do anything to swing voters in iowa who start the voting process for the country next monday, the globe is well read in New Hampshire, which is where kasich has been focusing all of his attention. The boston globe called kasich an experienced political figure with a record of results. The republican most likely to be successful on the national stage. Latest polling out of in New Hampshire has him tied for a lot of narrowing has to do with the crowded republican primary. The boston globe says the gop needs to settle on the fight to take it to trump. Trump and cruz have commanding leads there. Other candidates have swarmed to iowa ahead of the caucuses. But hes been there twice so far this month with a few other stops this week. Its clear hes focused on New Hampshire, and this endorsement should help. Thank you. 5 34, a man is in custody following a standoff with police. Police say justin reed handcuffed a woman inside a home on west 127th near triskit and held her against her will. He allegedly threatened an officer with a knife. Hes facing multiple charges. Fire crews are investigating what caused a fire to break out on east 118th street in cleveland. Were told the fire started in everyone got out safely. One man was taken to an area hospital. Its unclear how he was injured. The sisters killed in a duplex fire have been identified identified. They were found dead inside the home on east 147th last week. Fire Officials Say the duplex was engulfed when they arrived. The cause remains under investigation. The former Portage County police chief who gained internet fame for his departments Facebook Page has been convicted of four misdemeanors. David oliver was sentenced to two years of probation and fined 300. He was convicted of attempted theft in office and simple assault involving a female officer who accused him of sexual harrassment. Oliver must also pay court costs and had to hand over his certificate to be a Police Officer. A woman is accused of taking another womans wallet dollars of charges. Investigators say she pick pocketed a woman. The victims credit card was used to buy 5,000 worth of items. It includes 1900 worth at game stop. Call police. A man is arrested after leading police on a high speed chase. This man, shane collins, was driving under the influence over. He reached 100 Miles Per Hour in 25 mileperhour zone. Officers found a loaded handgun in his vehicle. Marijuana pipes and other drug paraphernalia. Courtroom. The Police Officer who recently lost his partner jethro has found a new partner. A group called canines for cops donated him. The officer says they will rename the k9 after he introduces him to his new family. A star is honoring his home country of australia. Cleveland Coffee Company introduces good day mate coffee blend. It was created after the companys owner noticed his love of coffee. It is a custom blend of specialty peruvian and is and samatra coffees. Tyronn lue just picked up his first win, but the expectations are much higher for him than david blatt. I will have my take coming up maureen . Familyies in flint can Start Testing their kids today to see if theyve been and the zika virus is spreading across the country. You know what that means. Its your morning pick me up. Its 5 30. We have beautiful music in your this video has been trending online. A teenager playing the piano as part of a program in the lansing area called keys in the city. Pianos are put in public cities for people to play. A High School Senior sat down to play a beautiful song. What makes this story even better is the teenager never had money for formal training or piano lessons, so he taught himself how to play just four years ago. You have to listen. [music] if this is not a lesson that anything is possible in life, i dont know what is. The teen has been contacted to play at special events. Was even offered free music less sons, but he may not even need them, lynna. You put your mind to it, really, anything is possible if youre right up here. Thats true talent. I took piano lessons for years, cant even come close to that. Isnt that great, john. Lynn na, hell be teaching you next. All of us for that matter steph curry with 37 in three quarters. Heres where everything is going right for your way. Curry throws one up there. They forgot to cover him, and he nails three. They win over san antonio. After the game, spurs coach coaching system with the cavs. Im just glad my general manager wasnt in the locker room because it may have gotten me fired. You just dont get it, do you . He was making a joke, but that shows the firing of david blatt is still causing some head scratching around the nba. Blatt was 8340 and got the cavs to the finals in his first year. Now the cavs have sent a new message. Thats not good enough. Lue got his first win over minnesota last night. The cavs played his style, pushed the ball up quicker than they did in their feeling out game with the bulls that they lost. But, bottom line is the caves have now raised the bar of expectations even higher. Lue wanted the job. Lebron wanted lue to have it. Teams change coaches to improve themselves. Prosports is a pass fail business based on your expectation. Year, that would be a passing grate based on their expectation, but for the caves to pass now, it can only mean a championship. Before they had a builtin excuse for not winning the title. That excuse was david blatt, but by getting rid of the excuse now, the message sent is being number two is no longer acceptable. Otherwise you havent improved. Tweet me your thoughts at john wkyc. A lot of pressure on this young man. He wanted it. They wanted him to have it. You have to get better. That means winning a title. Yeah, i dont know. Blatt was accused of being too abrasive, but its like, do you want your kids to pick their own parent . They would pick you know i just dont know. Bottom line, this team has done everything with the goal of winning a championship, and they havent done it. Coaching jobs stress me out. Its really not. Heres the thing with this week, theres no major storm system to track. Weve got a front moving through today, yes. Its breezy. Im sure youve been noticing that. Its been warm. Were going to go from 40s where we are currently falling back into the 30s before the afternoon is through. Were talking some scattered rain. Your tuesday forecast, including temperatures in the mid40s, its 45 degrees right now at hopkins. Thats a good ten degrees above normal. 5 45 in the morning. Falling temps, scattered snow tomorrow. Thats just a few highlights. Doggone weather is coming up. We have a couple of cuties to introduce you to. Stick around for that. 49, couple of showers. They should be on the exit. Once the front passes, its going to be a lot of overcast skies today. Not worried about snow. Maybe a few flurries. Mid30s at 5 00. If youre not looking at your tv, i will tell you 20s and 30s is what were seeing in places like chicago, st. Louis, indianapolis, minneapolis. We are all in the 40s this morning. So it really feels i mean, i think i can safely say warm. 42 in wooster, elyria, 46 degrees. Rain showers is whats happening. No snow showers. Snow has been melting when youre asleep. Weve got rain around sandusky. Ashtabula county seeing showers. Were seeing spotty showers around Portage County. As we track, around 11 00 a. M. , thats all to the east. Here comes a lot of cloud cover and blustery, colder conditions. So temperatures will be in the 30s. It will feel like its in the 20s. Even teens at times later today as the temperatures drop backwards. Showers close to the lake shore. This is 5 00 a. M. I do think were going to have scattered snow for your wednesday. Those of you that see it could pick up some really light accumulation. Again, theres nothing mayor in the works this week, which is kind of nice. Were up and down, though. In your windows nation, you will see we go back into the 40s and close to 50s this weekend. Doggone weather time. We watch every Morning Bright and early and so do our two fur kids. This is mika and rudy. Right at her feet with Morning Coffee in hand, they say, just wanted to share with you as we enjoy the pet pics every single day. Keep smiling. You brighten our days. Thats from jeannie white. Peyton would like to meet time right now is 5 47. The water crisis in flint, michigan continues to make headlines. Today another update on the contaminated water that the community is dealing with. Maureen kyle has that story. Parents can get their kids tested for free. The tests are available for children up to six years old. High levels of lead in the body can cause problems with the brain, kidney, and bone marrow. It can also cause learning difficultlies. A City Council Meeting in atlantic city. City officials will discuss filing for bankruptcy. Last week governor Chris Christie rejected a Financial Aid package for the city. The mayor says with no help from the state, the city council has to consider all options. The World Heatlh Organization is warning that the zika virus is likely to spread all throughout the that would include everywhere except canada and chile. Its suspected of causing birth defects. Itsnew to the region so few have been affected by it. There have been no local infections so far in the u. S. And america now has an official comfort food. Can you guess what it is by that video . Its pizza. The harris poll interviewed u. S. Adults and pizza topped the list of 15 of them. Thats a big win over chocolate and ice cream. Those two tied with 7 each. The study also showed that 54 of women reach for comfort food when stressed while the majority of men indulge after a good day. It made me realize, considering i always reach for pizza, chocolate, and ice cream, i must be stressed 24 7. I bought it, and i was having a great day. So you and i can have dinner thats interesting, the difference. Its funny. Makes sense. Let us know if that goes along with how you feel. 5 49, ways to save is coming up. Good morning, matt. Good morning. How to upgrade your tv. No ad they want you the see. 80 bucks for 4k. Lets check traffic out with dani. Just north of 271, four lanes blocked because of an accident. That was matt granite. Dave matthews band is coming to Blossom Music Center this spring. The band will make a stop on saturday. Here you go, matt granite. Mark your calendars. About the 25th anniversary tour. Tickets go on sale february 19 february 19th at noon. Do you have a special song for taxes . No. This year you will notice a few changes when filing your taxes. One of them, procrastinators will love. You will get four extra days to file your taxes. Deadline is april 18th. You get a day there. Plus april 15th is a holiday in washington, dc, pushing it back too the 18th back to the 18th. Health insurance penalty is going up from 325 or 2 of taxable income, depending which is greater. All right. Chances are youre paying for picture quality youve never seen on your tv. That changes this tech tuesday with moneyman matt granite. Sing about it. A lot of people dont want to know i can hit those octaves. That thats fine. Store wants you to see. They want you to rush out and buy a new 4k tv. The truth is whats inside the tv is producing picture quality that doesnt correlate with the label. Take a look at what youre likely seeing. Left side of your screen is what youre probably seeing. Right side of the screen is what you should see. The problem. Major tv manufacturers are putting in scalers that produce lame quality. Today, before you rush out to conversion kit. Thats what i did. I will show you how it works in a moment. This will heighten your audio quality, working for streaming. Amazon has it for 130 bucks. I beat them by 60 bucks. Bedroom. Scaler. You can see its pixellated a little bit. Its not 100 perfect. Now, using the scaler, as i zoom in a little bit. So much more definition. Absolutely awesome. Again, no scaler,ed this video perfect definition. 4k. You can see every blemish and what . Listen. This is a gorgeous looking morning show when im not in the shot. I think you want 4k to watch john and lynna. If you have 720, this is give you a higher resolution. This is not going to make a 10804k, but wkyc. Com, 80 bucks for a little more of this high def. Way to sell it, matt. Holly . Look at the way hes facing you. I guess retirement is coming earlier. Reera in the 40s right now. Its not going stay that way. Temperatures falling for your we have a cold front moving through and generating scattered rain showers across the area right now. Were going to track those for you, let you know how long they stick around, john and lynna. Even some snow to talk about before the week is through. All right. Holly, coming up at 6 00, breaking news of a Big Bank Merger. Huntington and first merritt will become one, and some employees will be out of a job. And a new year for the city of cleveland, but its already starting out with homicide rates in the double digits. Next, what the city council wants to do to change whats