Thanks so much, maureen. I think we should, fingers crossed, be able to keep it as dry as we can through the morning. Were tracking showers and thunderstorms for all of you today. Well be around 80 for a high. Really, all day showing the possibility of a passing shower. Perhaps a few rumbles of thunder. Mid70s at 9 00, 80 degrees at 5 00 today. Yesterday we hit 88. The truth is most of you are waking up here at 6 00 a. M. The last way. Weve got a lot of cloud cover. As we zoom in, were seeing some showers. What weve noted here over the past hour now is that weve seen a lot more over the lake. Some are indeed pushing inland. Thankfully no thunderstorms, just some light rain showers in most cases. Wet roads will slow you down. We all know how it works. As we track ahead on future view, well see chances not only this morning but into the work today and speaking of all of that, make sure youre packing your umbrellas and grabbing them and taking them out the door for you. Well get a look at your commute right now. Danielle, some wet roads . And be careful. Were not tracking any accidents right now. But in barberton, we have just a little bit of hazard at an intersection in north van buren avenue and robinson, your traffic lights are not working. Make sure you ea fourway stop. We dont want anyone to get hurt in that area. Of course we have our typical construction throughout the region, but were not seeing increased delays because of the construction. Whatever delay you typically see because of that construction, thats what youre seeing right now. I was tracking slow traffic before the inner belt, but that has all cleared out. So i would say, john, normal drive times. That sounds good. All right. New this morning, Cleveland Police are investigating a shooting on the citys east side. This was the scene on east 61 61st and superior. Led to the shooting. The man was taken to university hospital. No word yet on his condition this morning. A 29yearold man accused of shooting and killing a woman on a sowell road over the weekend will be in court today. Hes been charged with murder. Police say he ran a red light and hit debra pearls car. His suv flipped several times and then got out of his car and shot families are both expected to be in the courtroom today. To canton now where police are searching for the suspect who killed two men yesterday morning. It happened in the 2400 block of midway avenue. Police say the 911 call came in from a neighbor. When they arrived, they found two men had been shot and killed in the house. Police say there were also three children inside the home. They were taken to the hospital as a precaution. It is almost 6 04. Devastating affects of drug abuse. A proactive push began to try to change that. Tiffany tarpley joins us live from akron. Tiffany, some believe that a bag can make a difference. John and lynna, we know about those events hosted by Law Enforcement agencies. You can take your own medication to them. They will dispose of it for you. Well, now, this bag will help you do it yourself. Lets go ahead and show you how this works. Basically you place your pills in it. Add some water. Then you dispose of it. Its safe for the landfill after that. What this does is keeps prescription pills out of the wrong hands. Not only your children, but weve heard about how prescription opioid drug abuse can lead to other drugs like heroin. So lets go ahead and slow you information about whats happening today. The effort begins at 9 00 this morning at the Summit County Public Health building. Akron. Theyre expecting to get about 40,000 of these bags. Thats whats been donated. And we also are available at acme pharmacy locations right here in the greater akron area. So really just one step out of many to try and help prevent this heroin addiction. Another important step. Thank you. Big news for all the beer lovers out there. The law that put a beer cap on levels in ohio that means breweries can serve beer with content over the cap. They lifted the cap for 190 breweries here in ohio. Heres lynna with your morning news feed. Charges have been filed against five Police Officers involved in the shooting death of a 17yearold. This move follows a report from Laquan Mcdonald was shot 16 times in 2015. Dash cam video appears to contradict the report. Jason van who shot Mcdonald Donald trump will travel to mexico to meet with that countrys president. He invited both trump he has harshly criticized trumps promise to build a wall on the border and make mexico pay for it. After the meeting, trump will fly to arizona to give a speech on immigration. Back here at home, Kent State University making a big change to one of his dining halls. It becomes the First University in the country to feature an entirely gluten free menu. Kent state says a number of year. So it created a certified gluten free dining hall. Its estimated 43 million americans have an allergy or sensitivity to gluten, which is a protein found in wheat, rye, and barrelly. Move over uber. How google plans to get involved with ride sharing and how they want to help commuters. Maureen . I guess were going to go to hollie. We have a look at your commute forecast. Well go from the video there to what to expect traveling around today. I think there could be some scattered wet roads at times. Over my shoulder you can see the forecast. Its going to be hit and miss. Enough that you better be taking those umbrellas and listen to mom and dad headed to that bus stop this morning. Were already seeing a few showers. Im going to show you where. Were going to track through the day. Well end up close to 80 for its a long one for a lot of google may be moving in on ubers turf. Theyre working on plans to expand a carpooling Program Involving it it aims to make fares low enough to make riders avoid taxis. That would only be in the San Francisco area for now. If its successful, look for it to expand into other cities. A growing number of hepatitis a cases are linked to strawberries imported from egypt are expected to be carrying the virus. They stopped using them after learning about the potential issue. 6 12. Lets get a check on that weather. Hollie is tracking a potential of rain. We, some of you are seeing wet yes, some of you are seeing wet weather. Well start with getting you to the bus stop. I recommend taking those umbrellas. Even if its not raining at this point, have book bags. Mainly 60s to low 70s this morning. 60s at our coolest point. Checking on some headlines here. We have scattered wet weather today and the best news of all is the Holiday Weekend ahead. Thats looking really amazing. 6 12 your time check. Well continue to see chances for showers really at any time. Its not limited to just this morning into the afternoon, upper 70s at lunch. Well be 80 the high today. We hit 88 yesterday. But it will be seasonal. We should be right around 80 for a high. Were seeing a lot of overcast skies, a few peaks of sun. Scattered showers and thunderstorms. You get the idea. Most of you are waking up to cloud cover. Most of you are zooming in. Theres more numerous showers across the lake. Well get a little closer. I will step out of the way here. From clevelands east side and into lake mentor getting rained on. Painesville, were seeing showers. Well continue to have these on and off throughout the day. A lot going on in the tropics. Weve been telling you all about it. We have the tropical depression off the coast of carolinas. This is moving away. This is a very busy time of year. Peak of the atlantic Hurricane Season is september 10th. Were offfully close to that. Its were awfully close to that. This is number 9 in the gulf of west and east coast potential there. Were talking about hurricane madeleine impacting hawaii. As we track the rest of the day, on and off showers, possible thunderstorms. Look at the afternoon and evening drive. There could be slowdowns as a result. I think a few leftover sprinkles as we move into your thursday. Then we get into the labor day heres your Window Nation safed. Tomorrows chances go down to about 30 . Then were sunshine galore. Bring it on. 70s in pleasant for friday and saturday. A little warmer, still nice. Sunday into early next week, were low 60s low 80s for highs. Heres a look at your traffic. Hi there. Were midway through the week. Im going to help you make it at columbia road in west lake. As you can see, drivers getting by just fine here. Were all green in that area. We actually are all green on all of our highways to the west. 71, 480, turnpike looking great. Were looking good on the mayor roadways i had traffic data for. Hollie is tracking that rain for you. So watch on 90 or 2, be careful as you other traveling as youre traveling. No reports in the southern south south, were all green. No accidents there. Coming up at 6 30, i will let you know the gas prices if youre like me and almost on e. 22cents from a year ago. Thats good there. All right, danielle. Time for my biggest winners and biggest losers in sports. When you have a play like the one turned in by zach mcallister. If you thought the game of hack check this out. Here we go. Indians protecting a lead against the twins. Here goes to line drive. Off his leg and into the glove. A little hacky sack group. He planned it. You start to wonder, are the bounces going their way. Is this a special season . Can i go there yet . Great play. Today could be the time to ask for that new hacky sack game. Indians got off to a tough season, losing their first four the lefty grove Junior Division championship, the 12 yearolds used team work and sports pan teamwork and sportsmanship. Congratulations on coming back never give up. If you would like to nominate your champion or allstar. Send me your picture and story. Email them to me or tweet them to me. If you start off 04 and you start thinking, well, maybe we just dont have it. Not that team. Stuck with it. Right. Maybe a little hacky sack will help everybody. I like that. 6 17. Mark your calendars. What you need to apples new iphone release even if youre not an iphone user. The annual pancake flip is setting up. Do it, mo. Reporter im so good at this, you guys. Im usually working in the morning, so i dont usually make pancakes, but im going to do it for the united way. Well tell you how 5 can go a really long way, especially if youre headed downtown. Maureen, you have to wait before you flip. Thats when you flip. Weather out your window. Weve got a gorgeous, stunning sunset from tammy in willoughby. Thanks for sending your all right. Whether youre an apple or android user, its time to look at the value. The timing is key. Even if youre not interested in that new iphone weve been telling you about for six years, it feels like that, at least, the new iphone takes the down. And that depends on what your device is worth. Bear with me for a moment. Take a look at your reminder that by this time next week, whether you have an apple or android, your device will most likely be worth less. How is this possible. The new iphone 7 gets rid of the headphone jack, its a deterrent and many will go from apple to samsung. Thats w thats what theyre planning for. That means if youre considering an upgrade or buyback, my favorite way to get paid or more importantly find out what your phone is worth, go to flipsy flipsy. Com. It includes independent offers. 20 plus offers all added up. The key, though, get your buyback offer today, whether you have an apple or samsung for both of these families of once apple announced their product, your value is up to 30 less next week than it is now. Lock in the offer. You dont need to agree to it or send your phone back. Lock in the offer now while its still worth more. So its an aggregate website . You get all of it in one spot . Yes. Mo is making it happen. Working for a good cause. Reporter do you trust me. Lets see how these pancakes turn out. Im going to pour here. Okay. Really, theres going to be a bunch of us making pancakes in Public Square today. Anybody who works downtown, make sure you walk through Public Square. 5 can get you a pancake breakfast. Im here with the ceo of our local united way. Thank you for coming. Hey, we love the pancake flip. Its near and dear to our hearts. Tell me about who this helps. This helps about half a Million People in northeast ohio and the Greater Cleveland area through our system of agencies out there. Were delighted to be able to kick off the campaign in this way. 5 you get the pancakes, the orange juice, sausage. Coffee, thats important. You told me the numbers of who face on it. Who does this go to help. What kind of neighbors of ours. Its Touching Every life of northeast ohio. We understand the chronically poor. We understand the affects of poverty out there, but we also understand the working poor as well. There are people trying to do the best they can, but they need an extra hand, need a helping hand. Working single mothers, children that need wrap around right. 211 program, which is receiving calls from 300,000 people every year. Sending them out to the agencies and helping them provide the assistance they need. We have a very generous community. Yes. How much do you expect to raise starting today . Well, last year we raised 40. 5 million in. This is a great idea. We all need to join hand in hand and offer a helping hand to other people. Im getting the whistle that were burning the pancakes. Augie, thank you so much for taking the time. Everybody, come on out, we didnt burn the pancakes. Hollie, i know youre more of an expert at this. They look great. I will bring these back for you. Theyre huge you get a 5. Its a great cause. Maureen is going to treat you well. And you look great in the hat. So lets take a lock at your forecast take a look at your forecast today. Were trying to keep them away. Dont let it stop you. Its going to be scattered today. Yesterday we were in the upper 80s. Today wont be as warm. Were going to have the unsettled weather. As we take a look at the National Travel map, couple of tropical depressions. We have a hurricane approaching. Hawaii. Its really something as we approach the peak of the Hurricane Season. More of that is coming up. Punishing the parents instead of the kids. Rolling out reversus suspensions for student who is get in trouble. And chris brown released from jail. What the singers latest arrest im john anderson. Im lynna lai. Heres stories were following. Two akron men have been charged for the shooting of a woman in the national park. They were indicted on attempted murder and other charges. Court documents say the two tried to kill a woman on july 3 head. Now, if convicted, they could face up to 30 years in prison. A memorial for the victims of serial killer Anthony Sowell faces another delay. There was supposed to be a memorial but its been postponed. There was supposed to be a memorial, but it was postponed. The victims families say it will help a deal was reached and now it goes to the board. Both sides say the deal is fair and good for kids and teachers. Good to hear. All right. Time to check in with hollie and the weather. We hear you, hollie. First of all, theres a train. Its really loud. I start to dork out when you hear the planes practicing for the air show. There. Yeah, you will be hearing them zip around, im sure at the very least by tomorrow and maybe even today. The train. So weve got a lot of overcast skies. Were checking out sky conditions. Its not raining here at channel 3, but some of you are seeing showers. The chance of scattered showers and storms today, that is your wednesday in a nutshell. So, its the last day of august. Can you get over it . Ye well be around 80 for a high. Well take you through and were planning on highs around 80 later. The upper 70s through lunchtime. Notice through the day weve got chances for rain. A lot of you as we look at the wide radar view, we have just a lot of overcast skies like we have here at channel 3. As we zoom in, we start to notice theres a lot of showers that are over the lake and some are shore, ashtabula, seeing some of that light rain. No thunderstorms as youre waking up, which is fabulous news. We could see storms before the day is through. Were going to look ahead to the Labor Day Weekend coming up. Well see if the weather is going to cooperate downtown. First, lets get a look at your drive. Thank you so much, hollie. Good morning to all of you. Were looking at the traffic map, still, no accidents to report. Were seeing the typical slowing into downtown on 90 east from the i had a camera in the area, but it sort of went out. Its only about a minute delay into the inner belt bridge. So no problems there. If you want cheaper gas, center street, the average price, valero, 1. 99. 1. 97 on south arlington road. Go to wkyc. Com for the lowest gas prices near you. Wow. Havent seen that in a long time. What year is it . Exactly. Okay. Very good. Thank you. 6 34. With heroin and drug abuse on the rise, theres a push happening today that could help fight the problem. Tiffany tarpley joins us live this morning. Tiffany, it also is inteat awareness day. Reporter and, john and lynna, as we all know, theres so many families here in northeast ohio who know the negative affects of overdose and drug abuse. Here theyre going to be launching a new problem trying to prevent this. Lets go ahead and show you how theyre doing that. This is a pouch that theyre going to be passing out. They have thousands of these. Theyre used to safely get rid of old prescription pills. You can pour water into the bag, and the drugs, those drugs dissolve. The bag is sealed. You can throw it away in your trash can. No problems at a landfill. So often drug abuse begins with pills in a medicine cabinet. They may go on to the streets to get heroin or over illegal drugs. Coming up, i will let you know when the new Program Launches here today in akron. Well see 6 35. Three northeast ohio men are among 111 federal inmates whose sentences have been cut short. Now, this is part of president obamas push to phase out sentences for drug sentences. Sentence reduced to 30 years. Hal mincy was sentenced to 20 2001. Hes now set to get out of prison in december. And eddie davis of bedford was sentenced to 20 years for intending to distribute cocaine. Hell also be released in december. Odot will be hosting a Public Meeting on improving safety on i90 at the route 3 interchange. Odot is considering adding lanes to reduce congestion. Anyone can attend the meeting which starts at 4 00 p. M. At avon city hall. Now to john with th news feed. All right. Isis is reporting their spokesperson has been killed in northern sire ya. The in sere sir in syria. He was marterred. The u. S. Is not confirming abu mohammad aladnani. Hes known for giving rousing speeches to known recruits to carry out attacks. Three popular tourist storms. Hawaiis big island is preparing for the first hurricane to make landfall in years. Hurricane madeleine is expected to pass just south of the big island early tomorrow. North carolinas outer banks, forecasters expect up to 5 inches of heavy rain as the Tropical Weather system blows by. And a Tropical Storm warning has been issued for the gulf coast as a tropical depression approaches. Singer chris brown is out of jail this morning after he was arrested on suspicion of the charge comes after a woman called 911 to report that brown pointed a gun at her inside his home. Police served a search warrant at the home. Some reports say there was a brief standoff with police. Brown took to social media to proclaim his innocence. And how about this one . A North Carolina School District is trying something new for kids who get in trouble. Theyre calling it reversus suspension. Instead of forcing suspended childs parent comes to school for the day. That means being in class from 8 00 a. M. Until 3 00 p. M. Lunch in the cafeteria. And, yes, youre going to gym class. The school admits while its good for parents to come in and see whats going on, it can be hard for them to get the day off from work. Well, yeah. Okay. All right. Take that, parents. I understand accountability for parents. Okay. Today were doing square dancing in gym class. A little dose see doe. I will tell you the tech backpacks are so protective im able to put a light bulb inside and drop a giant brick on top. The test results after the break, but, first, hollie, any temperature drops coming up. I cant wait for the demonstration. Yes, were going to see a cooldown as we talk about thunderstorm chances today. Through, were going to end up a little cooler. How long is it going to last . Will we see storms into the Holiday Weekend. Well look at that. Grab your umbrellas as youre headed out this wednesday. Good morning, maureen. Reporter good morning, hollie. Grab 5 as you head out the door. These pancakes are not that bad. Were going to tell you how you can benefit the united way in Public Square this morning. Were flipping pancakes. Greater cleveland helps more than 50,000 people in northeast ohio. Today they kick off their big campaign event. Hope youre hungry. The money raised all year is what makes all this possible. Maureen is live at one of the big fundraisers, of course. Good morning, mo. Good morning. I already flipped a couple of pancakes, and they were delicious. I dont know whats in this some sort of secret recipe. For 5 there are 5, its all you can eat. Thanks for being here. Great to be here. How is hollie and john back in the studio . Doing all right . Were going to get them down here to pay 5 bucks. Ill make the donation. Reporter check you out. Every year weve been here flipping the pancakes. The media comes down pancakes and great the people who come to buy and eat the pancakes, but what does this do for our community. Well, the only security in life is the security we pray for others. Were here to help our community. Thats what the united way is all about. Thats what this campaign is all about. My predecessors paul clark had them at the cleveland schools, which is terrific. Now that its here and its fantastic. Were all in. Batter, thanks to the renaissance. Were going to have a great day. Buy some pancakes have a great time. Were kicking off the united way campaign. We look forward to the collaboration of all. More than 100 volunteers to. So im sure youre grateful for them. Thank you so much for being here today, wkyc. We look forward to having you guys come down and eat pancakes and support the community. Ill earn my keep and make a few too. Mark, thank you so much. We dee, Alyssa Raymond all coming down. Im going to bring you some. Meck can i mouse, please. Mickey mouse, please. Letters, whatever. And thank him for that offer that we can come down there and eat for free. I will thank him. I appreciate that. Were going to donate. Absolutely. Of course. Were going to save some money too. You have a great demonstration. Thank you. I put a wine glass in a backpack recently. For those of you wondering about this light bulb, it is real. It broke when i dropped it in the studio. Were going to put this light bulb to the test and put nit our backpack. Were going to do this. We dont care whether or not you buy it. Okay. Put the light bulb in. Front zipper. Now, this works with all of the backpacks. Cody, are you ready in. Im ready. Dropping the brick. All right. Its still intact. Wait. If youre not yet convinced, lets just drop it right on a lets go. Bam. Lets see if this works. I will be oh, my seriously . What . If you want to get a backpack that will protect a light bulb like that, imagine the impact it would have on a smart phone or laptop. Up to 70 off we put through the light bulb test. Theyre all through wkyc. Com. Guys, i will tell you that these are the most amazing backpacks you will see this pretty impressive. I did notice. Previously you put the light bulb the glass in the front and dropped it on the back. This time you put it in the back. Thank you for that. She can give a whole report on it. My book report and essay are coming up soon. Thank you very much. All right. Online. Out there in avon, first day of school. Hi, avon. Are you up earlier than normal . Its okay. Start the day with good breakfast. Its a short week. Its already wednesday. Think of it that way and then you have the long Holiday Weekend coming up. Temperatures in the 60s. Its not necessarily raining at this point. Lets get to headlines. We have scattered wet weather today. Thunderstorms too, looking the weather looks terrific. Time check is 6 47. Weve been holding in the low 70s in hopkins. Many of you have made the drop into the 60s all morning. The chance of a shower popping up or thunderstorm for that matter and 80 for the high. The stretch that we see over the next 12 hours is a lot of overcast skies. Peaks of sunshine, sure, but not blue skies and sunny today. And the chances for showers and storms mixed in too. As we mentioned, the other thing weve seen is an increase in showers over the lake now moving inland. I will get a little closer in. Clevelands east side, especially around mentor right now is where weve got some rain in ashtabula county. John and lynna have been telling you all about the very active tropics and just a closer look here off the coast of North Carolina. We have tropical depression number 8. A lot of rain expected there. Its moving away, but theyre still seeing plenty of moisture from it. The gulf. Florida is pretty much a soaker on the west coast today. Theres a lot of rain off the east coast too. And thats to forget about the hurricane going on. Madeline is approaching. Well keep up with the latest. As we look ahead to the afternoon hours, this forecasts u. S. To the 4 00 snapshot. Akron getting hit. Showers. I think on the sevenday, well have sprinkles leftover tomorrow. Then we clear out. Honestly, it couldnt look any better. Sunshine, lots of it. Temperatures really nice, friday, saturday, into the 70s. Back into the 80s for the weekend. The air show weather, oktoberfest is going on. I know youve just got a lot going on. 6 49. This is ginger. I know. I feel like im talking way too loud, ginger. Shes a sweetheart. She likes to take her little naps. Our news comes on really early, john and lynna. So, ginger with her sweet little woobie there. A special thank you for sending in the picture. Shes in canton. How cute is she . Its a photo. Youre not going to wake up a photo. Youre right. Good point. But shes adorable. Sorry. Need to know before you head out the door. Thats next in our morning rush. Lets check in with tiffany. Reporter well, john and lynna, a new effort to prevent drug addiction is kicking off right here in akron today. Coming up, i will let you know time right now, 6 52. Its time for the morning rush. Cleveland police are investigating a shooting on the citys east side. The man was taken to the university hospital. Searching for who killed two men yesterday morning in the 2400 block of midway avenue. Police say the 911 call came in from a neighbor and when they arrived, they found two men had been shot and killed in the house. Police say there were children in the home. They were taken to the hospital as a precaution. Tiffany . Reporter lynna, a new program is launching today here in akron to try and prevent drug abuse. We know too often the stories abusing prescription drugs and maybe they go to other opioids. Theyre going to be getting together to show off these new pouches they have. You can put your old pills in them, add water. Those pills dissolve and you can throw them away right in your own trash can. Its happening here at the Summit County Public Health building in akron. John. Republican president ial candidate donald trump will travel to mexico. The president has invited both him and hillary clinton. After the meeting, trump will fly to arizona to give a speech on immigration. Maureen . Reporter all right, john. An effort that is near and dear to our hearts. The pancake flip. Membersmembe pancakes. For 5, if you walk through Public Square or maybe take a trip out of your way, you get pancakes, sausage, orange juice. It all goes toward a great cause. Well be out here all morning. Back to you. Thank you, mo. Right now, were tracking your delays. 271 north, were seeing slowing and 490 east77 interchange. Those delays are not longer than 5 minutes. Hollie . Thank you so much. It is 6 55. Were tracking overcast skies today with a few thunderstorms. Take along those umbrellas. Highs close to 80 degrees. Thats pretty seasonal. Yesterday we hit 88. Sun is coming up as we speak, but, like i said, i think it will be a lot of cloud cover, peaks of sunshine today. A shower chance tomorrow, were in the 70s. Labo phenomenal for the weekend. Pleasant for the first part of the weekend with the highs in the 70s. It gets warmer headed into next week. Matt has a bonus deal. I do. I added backpacks for adults and for labor day all on a wkyc. Com. We have the college backpacks. Tomorrow, the ultimate laptop upgrade that costs 18. I know. That. I apologize. I was happy you didnt fall off the chair. I did that. Okay. Good news on medical care tomorrow too. Thank you for watching. The today show is next. Good morning, crossing the border. Donald trump announces a surprise trip to mexico for a private conversation with the mexican president on the same day hes set to make a major speech on immigration. Could this unexpected mng reveal . Well ask his Campaign Manager live. In the path. A major storm in the gulf strengthens overnight as tens of millions in florida brace for winds and flooding. Stars stand off. Chris brown out on bail on weapons charges after a stalemate with police that played out on social media. The embattled singer accused of threatening a woman at gunpoint