Without power. Weve also got video of damage from west 11th street in cleveland. Half of Cleveland Heights are in the dark. Thats where we find tiffany tarpley. Theyre hoping to get power back in the next hour. Reporter were at hyde park and compton. We were at a different area earlier. This is the reason why. That power is out. You can see the street in the middle it snapped basically in half like a tooth pick. You can see it barely missed this car here on this block. Maybe a knew scratches to this car. But this is the scene really no matter where you drive in Cleveland Heights. Lease show you a live picture now, a driving live shot, our photographer is giving us this vannage point of cane park. Because wires are down. Thats what you want to be careful with this morning. Earlier this morning i spoke with a Cleveland Heights Police Officer. He told me intersections are on generators, so those important intersections, theyre using generators to power the traffic signals. The department of forestry in Cleveland Heights, they are working to get all of this up and out of the roadway, all of this debris, all of these branches. Coming up in the next im going to put in call to first energy to get an idea of how long it mike take for might take for them to get the power back home. That could happen around 6 00 this morning, but we want to see what the process is and how it is moving along. For now im going to turn it over to holly. Thank you for that. Maybe this is one of those where youre watching and you have power but you know maybe you have friends in the Cleveland Heights area you can this morning. Its going to be a pretty active day again, too. Were going to transition with quieter weather for the morning drive. We have a lot of humidity in place. I think there will be some patchy fog, which will be a tough one with all this storm damage, at least in parts of the area. 85 at lunch. Isolated showers and Storm Chances at any point today. The better opportunities later in the day. Upper 80s to near 90. Overnight what did move through is well to our east. Thunder, lightning, and what a light show it was. I live on the east side and i was passing, if youre familiar with the bishop and chardon road area. Huge trees where giant eagle is, and its one where you want to take extra caution. Theres no storms at this point. Ill keep you update. Road closures in akron will more time to your driver. The i77 north to 76 westbound ramp is shut down along with state route 8 to i76 westbound ramp. If you go to our web site, wkyc. Com, danielle has lots of information that will help you with the closures in this area. Lets also find out, because the weather has caused problems, danielle is watching the whole area for us. Right now columbia road is shut down to the west because of a john road, thats near the country club in the area. Use caution as you are traveling. You can detour fitch road to get around that closure. Also downed power lines on west 11th street near clark avenue on clevelands west side. Not sure if the road is closed here. Im going to call police to see. If you travel in this area near i90, use caution. Over that, were looking good drive times. Holly is keeping track of your fog. So use caution as youre traveling. Back to you. While some frightens one u. S. Reporter says their bus came under gunfire. But officials are saying it came from rocks, not bullets. The bus was returning from the Womens Basketball venue. Windows shattered, two people had minor cuts. Olympic officials are increasing security in that area. Now theyre the best in the world, team u. S. A. Continues to collect medals. Ahead in the overall thanks to newcomers in the gym and veterans in the pool. Jay gray has more on the wins. Reporter power, grace, and gold. Im so happy to be a part of this team with all these incredible girls. Reporter the final five leaving no doubt they are in the best in the world, with a dominant performance. While the most decorated olympian ever added gold medals 20 a with an emotional win with the 200 fly, joining his teammates to take the 4 x 200 relay. Katie ledecky found gold the second time, winning the 200 free. Good to see team u. S. A. Racking up medals. Reporter theyll be looking for another medal tonight in the mens 100 freestyle, jay hit the water in the womens pair semifinals. They had a fantastic finish earlier this week, earned them a spot in todays match. The challenge is matching the others speed, acceleration and timing. I know there are a few things i can do better in the next race, and likewise. Together as a group. And as a pair its all about working together as a it mueller says she has about 14 friends and family members to cheer them on. Im sure well hear them all the way here. She appreciates the hometown support behind her. Good luck to them today. 5 07. When youre driving around town you probably wont be surprised to hear greater clevelands roads rank among the worst in the country. A new report says more than cleveland are in poor conditions. It statements area drivers are paying 845 more a year in vehicle maintenance, fuel consumption and tire wear. Cleveland ranks 6th worst among major u. S. Cities. Police say the elyria man who shot and killed his girlfriend hacked into her Facebook Page after killing her. An autopsy will be performed toda police say buford shot his girlfriend after an argument. In the post he wrote, never play games with someones emotions, adding, someone may end up hurt or dead. Police spotted bufords car early monday morning shortly after the shooting. He fatally shot himself after officers shot his car in cleveland. Search is on to find the arsonist who set a Historic School house on fire. The restored school house is used by the greene local schools and some Elementary School classes. Police do not have any suspects but are asking anyone with information to call the Summit County sheriffs department. Thousands came together in akron to fight the heroin epidemic. It was hosted by a nonprofit called heroin is killing my town. People were wearing antidrug t shorts orthos memorializing lost friends or relatives. Why akron when you can be anywhere . Every day i get messages of people dying in akron. For more information on the movement, head over to wkyc. Com. Northeast ohio cities. The epa will announce new funding today to help prevent algae blooms in the lake. But less rain this season has prevented phosphorus from flowing into the lake that fueled the algae bloom last year. On Campaign Front today, we will hear Hillary Clintons plan to give the economy a boost. At moines, iowa, clinton is scheduled to reveal plans she says will create an economy that works for everyone. Donald trump with a new controversy with what some are calling an assassination against hillary clinton. If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, know. Trumps people called the controversy ridiculous. The Clinton Campaign says what trump said is dangerous. Saving high school students. The new bill thats bringing a heroin antidote drug into schools. Plus, a new name for the monsters. Now you have to buy jerseys, the new souvenirs. This is marketing 101. I bet it is. Wow, how humid is it, right . If youve been outside to take a look at storm damage, its muggy, patchy fog possible this morning. I think the possibility of more showers and thunderstorms wow looks like rob portman sure knows how to clear out a factory ohioans used to work here, but not anymore. 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. F0 5 15 now. Florida police are investigating after a woman was shot and killed during role play at a Citizens Police academy. A Police Officer accidently shot a 73yearold who was taking part in th his gun was loaded with live ammunition instead of blank rounds. The officer involved is on administrative leave until the investigation is complete. A march to remember the second anniversary of the Police Shooting of Michael Brown turned violent last night. The confrontation began when a Police Officer ordered a group of protestors to clear the vetoes. Gunfire then broke out. A pedestrian was struck by a including music and poetry readings. A new jersey legislator plans to introduce a new bill that would require high schools to carry a heroin antidote. The bill would require high schools to carry the antidote. If passes, School Nurses would be responsible for carrying and administering the drug. If you are looking for a cheap fall get away time to book. Jetblue is currently offering oneway flights as low as 39. The deal is only good for travel dates between august 23rd and november 17th. The same time of year when tourism drops off, which means you may get a good deal on hotels as well. To get the cheap tickets you will have to book by midnight tonight. John. The lake erie monsters have cleveland monsters. Maybe not a big change, but its all about money. Minor League Hockey teams championship win was a big victory and a lot of fans got excited. They had 20,000 when they clinched the championships. They become the cleveland monsters. Now the Team Gets New jerseys and theyll be wearing wine, gold and black. All the fans excited now are going to buy new merchandise. This is genius. Little change, change the jersey it. Money. Its about money, right . A money move. Money move, all right. Lets check traffic. Good morning to you. It is a busy morning in traffic at 5 17. Another road closure because of the storm damage. Garfield road is closed between minter avenue and johnny cage nights storms. Ill be working on detours and get that out for you. Akron central interchange a third ramp is closed, ramp to 77th close to late november. State route 8 southbound 76 west and 77 northbound ramp to 76 west also closed un normal drive times, but more storm damage causing road closures, columbia road in olmsted township closed between parkway drive and john road due to downed power lines. Look at this, more storm damage on lee road here, the starbucks is out of power, so the coffee drinkers, theyll be upset this morning. You frequent that starbucks, make other arrangements today. Awnings with literally blown down and clearly theres no power, thanks to our photojournalist derek for being out and keeping us informed. I had a comment on social media from matt who says, i just am asking what youre waking up to in your neighbor, and he says 10 to 15 inches of rain, i live were still going to smile through this all. We have a lot of damage, but biggest thing hopefully youre all safe and sound as you are waking up and opening your eyes this morning. Weve got the tropical humidity in place. Were expecting some patchy fog. And thats going to be a little tricky, because with all this damage, see this happened last night, so obviously it was dark, so a lot of you will be seeing this for the first time as the sun comes up this morning. There are more Storm Chances later today, especially. Rule out an isolated storm. Were drawing up humidity from the gulf coast. 85 at noon. 88 to 90 for the high today. Well see some sunshine past morning fog. And it looks like well have several hours of mainly dry weather before we bring in more shower and thunderStorm Chances for later on today. Now everything we dealt with overnight, the Stormy Weather we have a few showers popping up, but no thunderstorms. Well keep a close eye on it for you. The humidity is worth making mention, because it is unbelievably humid. Dew points 70 plus. 60 degrees. When the dew point is 60, it feels very sticky. When youre in the 70s, you think youre in louisiana or florida. Really, it does feel that way this morning. Youre going to notice it. Is 9 30 this morning, filterle sunshine. Later today we see the rain chances again. This afternoon into this evening when well up our opportunity to about 40 to 50 . Sevenday forecast shows a very similar pattern through the rest of your work week and even into this weekend. Never allday rains, but scattered showers and thunderstorms are going to be possible all the way into sunday. And even a few left over monday. Well start to be more seasonable next week, highs in the low 80s and plenty of sunshine tuesday. Time for access to todays summer game schedule brought to you by ohios number one hospital, cleveland clinic. Later today during nbcs daytime coverage, Michael Phelps and ryan lochte meet in the pool in the prelims of the 200 medley. And mens Beach Volleyball and kayaking, as the u. S. Goes 1 event. Thats your access to the olympic summer schedule brought to you by cleveland clinic. 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, ly dont want to live anymore, its a fate that i would not wish on anybody, not anybody. When i 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, f0 this never gets old watching Michael Phelps wearing a gold medal with our on he won two more last night, pushing his total to 21 and overall to 25. He shared this special moment with his family, including his young son, boomer. When it comes to gold medals in hope history, he has 21. The entire country of brazil has 24. He may catch them. Best performance by an athlete is brought to you by meanwhile, doping allegations against the russian olympians have led to drama within the games. Russians deny theyre fighting over it. Olympic athletes must play by the rules or not banned. For u. S. Athletes, it would be difficult to slip past the committee. We talked to the track and field director Nathan Taylor who says every week an athlete must log onto a web site and let the committee know where they are. The athletes i have are probably tested randomly, any time and anywhere 15 to 20 times a year. And its typically about a 3 there are a few russians competing in track and field sports, but wont be representing russia according to taylor. Theyll be competing under an International Refugee flag. They had to prove that they are not in russia and subject to testing by outside groups. Back to you. Thank you so much. Checking out our local forecast for today. Its muggy, will get foggy in spots. Waking up to storm damage in many locations after a really stor let us know on social media what you are waking up to in your neighborhood, were getting reports and they are helpful to our crews. Upper 80s to near 90. On the travel map, with muggy weather like this we cant rule it out at any point. Thanks, hollie. We are staying on top of the storms. Live look at the overnight storm damage and its impact on about 27,000 homes and businesses without power this morning in Cuyahoga County and lake counties. First energy crews out and about working hard. When people ask me what its like to win an olympic medal, the medals youve earned are all around you. Your bronze. Your silver. Your gold. And Liberty Mutual insures them all. Liberty mutual is proud to insure every team usa medal won in rio, just like we protect the medals youve earned in life. Liberty stands with you. F0 time now is 5 31. Powerful storms problems still in morning in eastern parts of the viewing area. Tiffany tarpley joins us live this morning. Quite a mess to clean up out there. Reporter weve been showing it to you all morning long. Were still in the area of hyde park and compton. You see this tree here, we showed it to you last half hour. But if we can pan over, look at this, it actually ended up pretty close to hitting this house. It looks like it kind of barely touched the porch. Theres going to be still a lot branches here. We know the power is out, so we didnt really notice this house like this until our photographer came over, lit this up and thats what we saw here this morning. The homeowner just walking out now to assess the damage. Lets show you a live shot. We have a driving live shot of power crews working in another area over on lee road. There is a leaning power pole in that area. Literally, i just got off the phone with someone from first energy who tells me she confirms 6 00 is the time theyre supposed to be getting the power back on here in Cleveland Heights. Were just waiting for that to happen. She tells me crews have been dispatched and youre looking at that right now. Even last night throughout the night, overnight, weve seen a lot of these trees in the middle of the roadways. So a lot of those cars they had to drive around it, drive through it if they can, kind of being careful. Youre looking at this tree going to try to speak with the homeowner, if hes willing and see whats his plan moving forward after this. Hollie. Tiffany, thank you for the report. Keep you updated on instagram, facebook, twitter this morning. Its much calmer than it was last night where we had the really strong and severe storms moving through. Patchy fog. This is going to become an issue in spots with all this going to be tricky because of Power Outages and trees down and things like that, but were going to add fog to the equation. Staying very humid and chances for storms do continue today, especially into the afternoon. Were close to 90 degrees. For now, most of the Stormy Weather is to our east. As we zoom in were definitely seeing a few showers. This is evidence its so humid. Dew points are in the 70s. Anything 60 degrees or higher is very humid. With this kind of humidity in place, showers could really pop at any point and thats what were seeing. Roads are also wet in spots. Speaking of which, danielle has been keeping a close eye on things. So many closures. So many closures. Ive been busy. I didnt get a chance to finish putting on my makeup because the road closures. Minter two closed between the garfield roads. You can detour johnny cake road to get around it. Garfield road closed in the same area between minter and johnny cage ridge. If you need to get around that, take fairview avenue or center street. We have a road closure in rocky river, west way drive closed between west more road and lake view avenue because of a broken water main. So far, normal drive times on our highways, but you may want to give yourself tra time if you extra time if you run into storm damage. Back to you. Another day, another chance in gold for team u. S. A. Did you notice the Basketball Team was there cheering on Michael Phelps . They re selfies with him. Theyre in awe of him. Today theyll have a challenge against australia, which has three nba players in their starting five, including delly. Think about this match of today, delly against irving. Team u. S. A. s jay gib and Casey Patterson face a must win over spain to reach the final carrie walls generals and walsh take on switzerland. Sam mcyou will luck aims to dethrone japan in gymnastics. And plenty of power in the pool. The women led by Katie Ledecky and Missy Franklin look to continue their dominance of e freestyle relay. The u. S. Has won olympic gold in each stop since barcelona. The stakes get higher for a rower from gates mill. Rio today is brought to you by your Northern Ohio london da dealers. Gets back in the water tomorrow, and she is one half of the womens pair to watch. A fabulous performance, thats what announcers called it as mueller and grace finished both lengths out in front. I think were excited to get to race today. Reporter when youre good to go like this duo, the waiting is the hardest part. Wednesday the semifinals, then fridays finish wins a medal. I know there are a few things i can do better in the and together as a group. As a pair, its all about working together as a unit. Reporter in their sport, thats whats tricky. Yeah, its the pair. You have one oar on eve side and you have to match speed, intention and acceleration. Thats why it can get tippy really fast. You can get offpace. Almost like a three legged race. Hardware. I deally, if that happens. Yeah. I think our goal is move the boat fast and whatever happens well be happy. Reporter thats a safe answer, but expect their performance to be fierce. Were dying to know, say you want to win theyre like, no, we want to do as best as we can. I think they have what it takes to win. Reporter elyse says 14 family mes be there. Its great, i feel like i have a family and Community Behind me. Reporter we are behind her and we know you are, too. Ill be there tomorrow as she races towards the final, which will be held on friday. Back to you. 5 39now. An injury update and parent cause of that apparent cause of that accident that caused the girls to fall from a ferris wheel. One girl is in critical condition. A witness says the girls were rocking their gondola so hard it hit another one and they stuck together and the girls turned upsaid down. Inspectors say a mechanical problem is to blame. Flooding has tucson, arizona under water. And there is an evacuation underway. 45 stranded motorists were rescued during the storms. This affects all of Southern Arizona as moisture from tropical depression javier moves into the state today. Take a look at this, officials in rio are still trying to figure out why the olympic diving pool turned a shade of green on tuesday. The bizarre part is theres a Swimming Pool right next to it the Olympic Committee says water tests found there was no risk to health, so they still competed, even though the water was green. Lovely. Yeah. I think the prevailing theory now is algae. Either way. Unhealthy. Not nice. Thanks, john. Another controversial comment. What donald trump is now saying about his opponent thats causing quite a stir. Trac did you see this . This guy goes all out to will . . Protecting your dreams goes beyond the car itself. For just the right insurance for you, get a quote at amfam. Com. F0 5 43 now. Donald trump on the defense again, for something his Campaign Calls ridiculous. Tracie potts has more, plus now were even talking about the debates and whether theyre going to happen. If hillary appoints justices of the supreme court, youre going to have a lot of problems, folks. Reporter thats how donald trump toned it down after democrats reacted to this. Judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people maybe there is. What he meant by that was, you have the power to vote against her. Reporter thats not what democrats heard. Violence is not something any leadership [ inaudible ]. Reporter senator Elizabeth Warren tweeted, its a death threat. Gabby gifford said, trumps word could follow unstable followers bent the secret service. Clintons Campaign Calls the comment dangerous, but the candidates steered clear, focusing on money to fight the zika virus. I would very much urge the leadership of congress to call people back for a special session and get a bill passed. Reporter clinton says shell debate trump, but lease asking the commission on its not clear at all if the commission is going to do that, but interestingly, what they are doing is urging the debate sites to set up or be ready to set up a third podium in Case Gary Johnson and jill steins gets the percent to qualify. Thats interesting. Every day theres something new. Thank you for following it all for us. 5 45. A live look at Cleveland Heights. By the storms overnight. Still dealing with Power Outages. Our crews have seen the power crews working. Look at the cleanup in this yard. They have their hands full today. Lets check in with hollie. You also have something special. You have to smile through the storms, too, right . Brothers. They play outside and they literally have to touch each other when theyre sleeping. How cute is this . I think theyre wrestling. No, theyre cuddling. Theyre touching, snuggling. Theyre brothers, joey and jacks. Embrace it john. I dont have any problem with it. I think its cute. Theyre hugging. I have a take on that later this morning. Im kidding. Adorable. It really is. Something this morning patchy fog and more storm chance. Wednesday and youre halfway there. Tenth day of august. Its 5 46 now. If youre scrambling a bit, a lot of you are waking up to damage, we were just showing you pictures from Cleveland Heights, and its really going to be achenial on your a challenge on your commute because of the damage that happened from last night and next several hours more or less dry, but cant rule out a shower. Were seeing a few showers, but not seeing storms. All the Stormy Weather is to the east. Thats the great news as youre waking up. We do have some rain and it is really muggy. Were seeing a few popup showers here and there. I think the potential for fog is going to be there with all of this humidity in place. Dew points are literally in the 70s. I mentioned this earlier, think of it this way, when the dew point is 60 degrees its when we start to say its humid. Well, were literally in the low 70s this morning. We might as well be along the gulf coast, its how it feels. As we track over the next several hours youll notice into the afternoon especially as we start to see scattered showers and thunderstorms again continuing through this evening, just like yesterday, it wont be all of you. I have several tweets and facebook posts mentioning hey, we could really use the rain around here, we didnt see anything. So its going to be scattered. Week, even into the weekend. Heres your sevenday forecast, upper 80s to near 90 should take us through saturday, mid 80s sunday. Chances for showers and thunderstorms, warm, humid every day. Low 80s monday of next week and looks like well dry out completely by tuesday and have a lovely seasonal sunny day. Wrap time for access to todays summer game schedule brought to you by ohios number hospital, cleveland clinic. Later today during nbcs daytime coverage, Michael Phelps and ryan lochte meet in the pool in the prelims of the moneys 200 mens 200 medley, and mens volleyball f0 5 51. Indians win, tigers lose. But concerns for tribes manager, took himself off the he rested at the hotel and they checked him out and said to be better. Brad mills took over. Hopefully terry will be back for todays game against washington. The indians bats were quiet. Scherzer had a no hitter until the 7th, then the indians broke through. Ramirez off the wall, bringing in runs. Indians win 31. Tigers lose 5 to seattle in 15 innings. Tribe plays today in d. C. Before coming home for 11 straight home games. Good news for Robert Griffin iii he won the quarterback spot for the browns, but he didnt have much pressure. Rg 3 is ranked as 32nd best should this guy even be starting. He has the chance to prove them wrong. Preseason game friday night against green bay. We know it takes full effort to win a medal at the olympics, but thats not just the athletes. Check out this video of a japanese announcer on Live Television cheering his team on to the bronze medal. Come on, come on [ yelling in japanese ] japan fell to third to Michael Phelps and the u. S. Team, but this broadcaster wins the gold for his announcing. Hes a former pro tennis player who gets caught up watching sports. Japan may have a new olympic star. And that got him a bronze. Imagine what he will have to do for gold. 5 53 right now. Today we head back to school with snackble savings. Money man matt granite has your lunch bag bargains. Like college, im alone in the dorm room. No visitors or friends. Its fine. The savings will make up for that. Im excited with what weve found. All week weve been targeting different reductions. Today i have something that many of you have seen on tv before, as seen on tv product. A tumbler that accommodates snacks, a pop, and a drink on the bottom. Take a look. I didnt think i was going to like this, but while it is stylish and you get your beverages kept cooler longer, i absolutely love that this is a great way to keep your snacks. 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Reporter work is happening now of northeast ohio, and clear trees that have been snapped in half. Coming up, well have an update on the progress. Reporter the first time in over 15 years, vegas is taking bets on the olympic games. Hall of fame game lawsuit. What dozens of fans who made from the nfl. Coming up, well run through the list of road closures and detours and were tracking the fog. Sure are. We could see more showers and thunderstorms. Some of you seeing a few showers this morning. Todays medal count is brought to you hospitals. The United States with more when people ask me what its like to win an olympic medal, i tell them, you already know. Your bronze. Your silver. Your gold. And Liberty Mutual insures them all. Liberty mutual is proud to insure every team usa medal won in rio, just like we protect the medals youve earned in life. Liberty stands with you. Good morning everyone, it has been a rough night with severe storms and rains that swept through northeast ohio last night. Crews will be out cleaning
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