At 2. 8 Miles Per Hour. Was not worse. As many cars i got into this accident, we should be really rate for that we were ok. Reporter Police Believe that they know who the victim is. They are not going to make a recovery. Mike recovery crews are very hopeful on getting the vehicle out of the river over the next few days. New information about another crash near the combs hehl bridge. This one happened last night on 275 east near kellogg avenue. Today Police ChargedCory Lippmeier with two counts of aggravated vehicular homicide. Scott petredis was killed when his car was rearended on the interstate. Cincinnati police say excessive speed and impairment are believed to be factors in this crash. The driver, police say caused the crash is still in the hospital tonight. And has not arrested. Police say a driver who ran a red light caused a crash that investigators say the driver was in a suv going east on tylersville road just before 10. And ran as red light at kingsgate way. The suv hit two other cars stopped at the traffic light. Police say the suv then flipped. Ejecting one of the people out of the suv. 71yearold la Verne Morlock died at the hospital of her injuries. Two others were also taken to the hospital with injuries. More than a dozen families are out of their homes tonight. A fire in fairfield destroyed some apartments, and damaged others. Wlwt news 5 s Natalie Clark has been leading the way on this story all day. Details. Natalie . Reporter mike, a construction crew working here this morning, hit a gas line. Quickly the fire hit a pine tree, and then the apartment building. When it comes to a multifamily units, the fire chief says their first concern is how many residents may be inside. She was just a wreck, crying. S our whole life in there. Reporter Mike Meredith says he was at work. His wife called to tell him their apartment was on fire. I didn t even believe her. I said what . Are you serious . Reporter meredith says a loud boom woke his wife. The apartment manager pounded on of the building. A construction crew outside their back door hit a gas line and quickly spread. Five apartments were damaged. I had to run up to the building and it just, it does, it just, everything you own. I just got a brand new tv yesterday. It s everything you own. It s hard. It s hard to lose everything. Reporter though, they may have lost a lot, meredith says he knows things could have been worse. A little bit relieved. I mean, my family s safe. That s what s important you know. As long as my wife s and my dog s safe, i m happy. Everything can be replaced. It s just stuff. Reporter meredith s dog with his mother, while other pets inside the buiding were removed by an animal control officer. Other s evacuated say despite the damage they too, are thankful. I m just glad we re safe. I m just glad everybody s safe. Reporter i and told by the fire chief the age of the complex made it more challenging for duke energy to find the valve to get that gas line shut off. Thankfully no one was injured,. Natalie clark wlwt news 5. Mike she mentioned that the red cross is helping the 12 families forced out by the fire. A fire forces two people from their home overnight in wayne township. Before midnight to a home on waynes trace road. They faced a major challenge. Water had to be trucked in because there wasn t a water source near the home. By the time the fire was out the home was seriously damaged. The red cross is helping out the two people who lived inside. A Death Investigation is underway in hartwell. A body was discovered in the parking lot of the cvs pharmacy on vine street around 9 this morning. Police say it was someone known to pick up trash in the area, but havent released the identity. Investigators say there was no indication of trauma. Mike funeral arrangements set for Kenton County woman who died while hiking. Katie stuart fell while hiking at the raven run nature sanctuary. She went to Notre Dame Academy and was sent to graduate this spring from transylvania university. Her funeral mass will follow at 7 p. M. New tonight, police have responded to a series of unrelated School Threats. The first were social media threats made to 8 schools in the Cincinnati School district. Called in to North College hill middle and high school. A student threatened to blow up some schools. There was also a unrelated bomb threat called into North College hill or middle and high school. And Campbell County middle school was evacuated after a student claimed to have an explosive device. The cincinnati bomb squad had to sweep Campbell County middle school. Wlwt news 5 s todd dykes is live covering the scare, and the Response School districts are having to these threats. Todd . Reporter big city or small, it doesn t seem to matter when it comes to threats targeting schools. This middle school is a prime example. Parents say in alexandria say a bomb scare is not the kind of subject students need to be worried about. When it comes to making schools safer Susan Hoadley prefers channeling a higher power. We need god back in schools, simple as that. They should have never took him number of parents who pulled their kids from Campbell County middle school today. I with my child as a single mother raising her on my own to lose her to Something Like this. Reporter susan raced to get her daughter after police say a 14yearold classmate told other backpack in his locker. That student was taken into leaders evacuated the middle school. This was just something that was a little bit more credible and we just didn t want to take the chance of anyone getting hurt. Reporter students returned to class after a bomb squad determined the backpack was not going to blow up. It is disruptive, and it s becoming too common. Assistant superintendent kerry hill says one way to stop School Threats is to empower those on the front lines students. If you want to keep our schools as safe as we can one of the most proactive things we can do is have students that have confidence in the adults in the building. A lot of tragedies that do happen in schools you hear that somebody knew about it and didn reporter everyone involved in today s scare is grateful it ended the way it did. This was a good outcome. It s good to sit and talk to you about a good outcome than to have to sit and tell you we re making death notifications. Reporter School Leaders know some parents aren t happy that it took awhile to notify them. Assistant superintendent kerry hill says the district is sensitive to those concerns and will review how today unfolded to see what changes if any should be made going forward. Todd dykes, wlwt news 5. Mike more now on another series of threats in cincinnati. Police say a 15yearold boy was arrested. After a series of local School Threats on social media. Accused of making threats on facebook last night. Saying he was going to blow up at least 8 schools. He s a senior at dater high school. He is been recommended for expulsion. This, i believe, was almost certainly a hoax, that being said, when lives are at stake we and many, many hundreds of parents and students were reacting on facebook to his comments. Cincinnati s certified most accurate forecast. Mike Cincinnati Police said they received at least 100 calls in one hour from concerned people who saw the post online. The teen s parents didn t show up in court today so his hearing was moved to tomorrow. In North College hill. The middle and high schools were evacuated this morning after a bomb threat was called in. Nothing was found. And students were let back into the classrooom to resume the school day. A man beaten to death during a robbery in his own home. Today three people prosecutors say take part in the robbery make a plea deal. Why the victims family save that the sentence was not harsh enough. It took us two years. We finally got it right. Mike changes to the famous montgomery inn s famous barbeque sauce. But the change has went unnoticed for months. We kevin after a chilly weekend looks like the first full week of spring is going to get off to a fairly benign start. You re watching cincinnati s mike three suspects, who were charged in connection to a st. Bernard murder, have all accepted plea deals. Prosecutors say james kirby beat carl engel to death last march inside his home. Mario lewis admitted he watched the beating and did nothing to stop it. Chasidy brewer confessed to being the lookout during the burglary. Engel s children say their father was a quiet man who went out of his way to help people, including kirby s exgirlfriend. He has two grandkids that they won t get to know their grandpa. One day i m going to have to explain to her why she doesn t get to meet her grandpa and all the evil and bad people in the world. I m not looking forward to that conversation. Mike engel their father knew his murderer. They also say they thought the judge should not have accepted the plea deal. And gave them the maximum sentence instead. In prison. Lewis will serve 14 years. Brewer was sentenced to 10 years for her role in the crime. Mike today the u. S. Supreme Court Rejects an appeal in the case of a Springboro Police officer. Death. The 6th court of appeals ruled that evidence was improperly withheld that could have helped former officer Thomas Barton beat the charges, he was facing in in his wife s death. Last year the Appeals Panel ordered a new trial. Today the u. S. Supreme court said it would not consider reinstating barton s conviction. Warren county prosecutors must now release or retry barton. Ohio s attorney general rejects another petition to put a measure before voters legalizing marijuana for medical and industrial use. On march 10 a petition asking for an amendment to the state constitution was submitted to but the ag s office rejected the petition today. Citing two defects with the petition s language. One had to do with how the marijuana sales were regulated the other with who could be licensed to buy it. Indiana is one step closer to making it harder for meth makers to get the ingredients they need to produce the drug. Today governor mike pence signed two proposals into law. Discretion over who they do and do not sell sudafed to one of the main ingredients of meth. The other law would require anyone convicted of meth charges to have a prescription at all times to purchase sudafed products. Mike an order by Kentucky Governor matt bevin to shut down a lexington Abortion Clinic is denied. A judge ruled that there was no evidence that the eubanks and marshall clinic was operating and that closing it would go against the public interest. Governor bevin filed suit against the clinic earlier this month, claiming the facility was not properly licensed to operate. This comes after a similar cease and desist order was granted against a planned parenthood clinic in louisville. Now to a Traffic Alert in boone county. Work begins in a week on a new ramp that takes traffic from mall road to the connector road that feeds into southbound i75. Once work is all finished up. The new road will give drivers road. And should improve traffic flow on u. S. 42. Construction is expected to cost more than 2 million dollars. It will all get started next monday. Montgomery inn changes its famous barbeque sauce. But the changes are so subtle that you probably didn t even notice it. The restaurant chain says the barbeque sauce was reformulated to remove high fructose corn syrup. And to become gluten free. The new version was acutally rolled out months ago. And the restaurant says it didn t get a single complaint. It s been in the restaurant since last october, we didn t tell anybody, we made the switch. We wanted it to be just seamless. And lets see what happens, lets see if the customers notice anything. No one said a word except the sauce tastes great. That s what we wanted to hear. Mike they are sure glad that nobody notice. The owners of montgomery inn say it took two years to nail down the perfect formula that wouldn quality. I am ready to go to dinner here. But we the talk about the weather first. Let s hope that it continues. Kevin you re probably looking for two summer already. Spring started yesterday and bill start saturday night over the midnight. Of the next couple days ago feel more like spring around here. Maybe not tonight though. It will more chilly night to go through. It looks a lot warmer for the rest of the week. Chilly night tonight is in the headlines there s a warmup coming this week. Looks like we have ourselves a nicelooking easter weekend. Here s a look over my shoulder. You can see plenty of sunshine in the afternoon. After a cold start we were able to climb into the low 50 s. We are at 51 degrees at the airport. But the dew point, we are at 25 after the sunset it will turn temperatures will have no problem hoping down through the 40 s this evening. Will be down to the 40 s by 9 00 and into the low 40 s. Some of you into the 30 s by the time you join us for news five at 11 00. We are going to see mild and breezy weather returning before the storm system which is still way out west. Move in here by thursday. Before then we will see it turn into the breezy side. Tomorrow afternoon coupled with the sunshine, those breezy southwest winds will help us push temperatures into the 60 s. Will probably have wind gusts tomorrow that will top 30 Miles Per Hour at that time. They will say between 1020. That will likely repeat itself as we head into wednesday. With Even Stronger winds in the area maybe 30 have a 35. The strongest winds will stay to her north and west. While it will be breezy over the next couple of days, it will not temperatures in the upper 40 s. Hillsboro down the 49 already. The rest of us generally for metro and along the river south, in the low 50 s right now. Remember, once the sun goes down, temperatures will have no problem falling back. Most areas will be in the mid 30 s. It will be a little bit colder the farther east you are. If you take an average across the area, boasts forecastle hit 35 tonight. Tomorrow with sunshine, with breezy southwest winds. It will be a nice rebound with an afternoon high in the low 60 s. It will be quiet tonight. Generally quiet except for the breezy winds tomorrow. Under tuesday crossed the area, it will be a quiet tuesday night. As we get into wednesday, we may have a few more clouds. But wednesday itself will still be a nice day with a mild and breezy day on wednesday. With afternoon highs between 6570. The only we system is a storm that will push and here until thursday. Low. Beautiful spring day. Milder then today. S were highs up to around 63. Here is your date planner. 37 four chilly start tomorrow we ll creepers up creep our afternoon. There is the rain on friday. The upcoming easter weekend, monday. Weekend. A choice or on saturday morning in the 30 low 60 s by saturday afternoon. Sunday. Mike more doom and gloom if you cincinnati, heartbreak city basketball themes. One head coach be flirting with another job in another is consoling his muskies after a i was right there. George rim he right there with a shot falls. The Xavier Caesar ends season ends with a buzzer beater. Xavier falls to wisconsin. They beat it is time to look forward. Elise jesse was in st. Louis with the team and talk with former xavier player ralph lee. Years back and learn from it. Where you to learn from your mistakes. Opaline next year when we come back, was a teams are back. It hurts right now. But it is not something you can just live with for the whole summer. You want to think about it all summer. And make up for next year. Like you said most your team is back before the seniors remy abell in james farr. Great careers. I do not take anything away from either of them. They both fought to really try to get them into the next round. They really played it out on the line. James did have a great game. He did not have the game he had the other night where he and jay leno really dominated the other night. They do not have that. Galen had a pregood game. But we do not have the far that we had all your tonight. George while xavier loses james other than that, everyone else is expected back for what should be another talented team capable of doing some damage. Everything is quite today considering you see head coach mick cronin. I do not expect that to change. Yesterday the Las Vegas Review journal reported that cronin had emerged as a candidate to become rebs. With basketball season in the around here, let s look ahead to the reds. Two weeks from today the town will be painted red for opening day. We are going to dive right into out spring training updates, and this update deals with all of the new pitchers on this team. Veteran catcher Devin Mesoraco will be on a mission to keep these guys on track some of them he has worked with a little before, some he is seeing for the first time, so that makes this spring training a little different for devin. Yeah, just getting to know it s not going to happen over night. You just try to work with them in the bullpen. Ll get out there and work in the games with them. But it s a long process to get really get a feel for somebody and see what makes them tick. George one of those young pitchers cody reed is on the mountain i. On the mound tonight. The reds and padres in the old cactus league. Mike one of these days will break the cincinnati sports jinx. Unbelievable these College Teams and how they are losing. George the tournament has been great. Mike it has been fun to watch except for a couple of games. Kevin quiet overall. A chilly night. Breezy over the next couple days mike thank breaking news tonight. History in cuba. The american and cube anne president side by side. An angry raul castro challenged over human rights raising president obamas arm in an awkward embrace. Trumps secret meeting with Top Republicans as Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren go on the attack against him. Airport bust. 60 pounds of cocaine found hidden in carryones after a woman ran from screeners. You wont believe who investigators are looking for. Hitting back. Serena williams