Live from clevelands news center, cleveland 19 news starts now. Romona we continue to follow breaking news on a Severe Weather outbreak. I heard a big rumbling sound. The whole house started shaking and i just knew that it was a tornado. Romona at least three people are dead after more than 15 tornadoes swept through parts of the south. Denise an rv park in louisiana was destroyed by one of the twisters. The governor of mississippi has declared a state of emergency now where those storms rolled through. And that same weather system is headed to northeast ohio. Romona we wont see severe of rain. Meteorologist jeff tanchek is tracking the first alert details. Jeff and that rain will be here during the morning commute. It will be a steady rain and heavy at times. Lets go to the first alert for tomorrow. On top of that, this will be a wind driven rain. Wind gusts up to 30. Both the morning and the afternoon commutes will be slow. Here you can see the moisture coming up. As we focus on southern ohio you can see it across the river. On this track it puts it in the cleveland area in about four hours or so. It is from south to north. Thats what will leave your wet morning commute. These temperatures in the low to mid30s for the most part. 39 in akron. These temperatures will be going up throughout the night. So by the morning we will be around 40. The wind driven rain, kids, watch out for that as well. You will be battling it and you will need the rain gear, weather impact to five. Change over to snow on the cold side to the storm. This is a big one. The forecast details coming up later. Ramona . Romona start your day with Samantha Roberts and laura de marie yow. They will help you navigate your commute with the updated forecasts and the traffic reports. Denise now a Medina County family is desperately searching for a missing teenager. 16yearold abbie straley was last seen getting into a blue suv at Cloverleaf High School in lodi. Her family says she has run away before, but she has Severe Mental Health issues that put her in danger and her family says she needs her medication. Meantime there is a push to come up with a new amber alert system that could help bring abbie home and other missing kids. Scott taylor explains how it would work. Reporter a new amber alert it gets pictures out to the media quickly like our amber alert. Tier1 works the same as an amber alert with the same criteria. Tier2 is for missing kid who could be in danger, but dont meet all of the criteria for an amber alert. They say tier3 helps families who have run aways just like abbie. These are the children that the police get all the time that never come home and that run away all the time. Reporter so far this is the longest abbie has ever been missing. Abbie, if youre out there, you can reach us or anybody. Lots of people in the area, even if they are not in the area, find somebody and contact them. We will come get you. No questions asked. Just reach out and tell someone you are okay. Reporter the councilman says he has lawmakers in columbus, ohio law i can maker enhanced system and later this spring he will be presenting congressmen. Scott taylor, cleveland nip teen. Cleveland 19. Romona now more concern on how the spread of the zika virus is in the u. S. They are looking at 14 new cases that may have been sexually transmitted. So far four cases of zika in ohio involving people who travel to countries where the virus is present. It is linked to the birth defect microcephaly that is marked by small heads in babies due to stunted brain growth. The cdc recommend that men who travel to zika infected area to use con toms or abstain pregnant. It is not unexpected. This type of transmission has been seen before, but may lead to a more rapid spread of the zika virus. To be infected through zika is through a mosquito bite. The World Health Organization says up to four million will be infectioned it in the next year. With more cases popping up, we were curious about how close to reality is a zika vaccine . Denise the virus is not new to scientists. Sire raw golden sara goldenburg has more. Reporter the explosion of zika cases in brazil has sparked new concerns about the virus. It turns out researchers have been studying zika for years with the hope to develop a vaccine. The university of texas at galveston has learned about zika since the 1960s. They are spearheading the effort for a vaccine. Doctors and scientists recently visited brazil and saw the devastating affects of the virus. And now they are working on a quick test to detect the virus in humans and eventually develop a vaccine that could how big of a concern is zika in the Research Community . The flu bug which kills thousands of americans a year is still on the top of their list when it comes to the next possible epidemic. Romona the ohio Senate Passed a bill that will Keep School Supplies and clothes taxfree for one weekend in august but just for this year. There was some discussion to make it the sales tax holiday. The committee vetoed that idea. The bill now heads to the house where it is expected to pass. Denise according to the latest poll, Ohio Governor john kasich trails donald trump by 5 here in ohio among registered republicans. Ted cruz is third with 21 of the support and marco rubio is fourth at 13 . Tonight republicans in nevada headed to the polls to cast caucus. Romona and we are about an hour away. Dan deroos is here with a look in the numbers. Dan we had the results and we will take a live picture out of las vegas, nevada. You can see the caucusing and the voting is still going. They are talking about record turnout. They ran out of ballots and it will be on until midnight until we see numbers. What we want to show you is from cbs news we have what are called entrance polls. The people arent voting all day so you can do what are called exit polls. They vote and they come out and do a quick survey if they are available. So in a caucus where everybody shows up at 7 00 to vote, they can only do entrance polls. The question here asked the Republican Voters what is the most important quality to you. 30 said the candidate shares 25 said i am picking a winner that can win if november. Number two 22 can bring change and tells it like it is. This was also an interesting question. How many of them are angry about the federal government right now . Take a look. 58 of the people stepping into vote said they are angry about what is going on with the federal government. Keep watch for the p results out of nevada except trump in the polls is expected to be a big winner tonight. Ramona . Romona as for the democrats Bernie Sanders will be in barea. The vermont senator will hold a rally on thursday morning at the lou higgins rec center. It is set to begin at 10 30 a. M. Denise say goodbye to the horseshoe casino. Pretty soon it will be called Jack Cleveland casino. The name change happens next month. They are taking over the asking what happens to my loyalty points i have earned. Well we have the answer for you. If you play any of the three rock gaming casinos your existing points will be given an equivalent value in the new program. You can start using your new jack club down on march 9th. Romona tomorrow local entrepreneurs will get a chance to change lives. Accelerate 2016 is a civic pitch competition that rewards individuals who have innovative ideas. And it gives them an opportunity to share that idea in a room full of leaders and Community Members who can make the idea a reality. The event is tomorrow night at the Global Center for health innovation. I am in the mindset that i am doing this. I dont care what i have to do. A local man lost almost 300 his wake up call to drop the weight and how he did it coming up next. Romona and more and more local moms are turning to the blogging world and it can really payoff. Tiffani tucker explains. Jeff it will be a wild weather ride for the next several days. Breaking news and weather 24 7. Download the cleveland 19 news driven by Don Joseph Toyota in kent, this is cleveland 19 news. Denise trying to lose weight is a struggle for many of us. Thats why Success Stories are so inspiring. Romona especially when people are trying to stick to diets. One Success Story that is jaw dropping. Reporter this is some story. A man overweight all his life suddenly realizes in his 30s he wont have much more life if he doesnt make a big change. Once he decides to do something, oh it will indeed be done. In this case it would mean knocking off more than 270 pounds. The seniors gave it to me when i was a freshman. Reporter he is proud to show off his sports trophies and his memories from his younger years. Rest. Always known to be pretty tough too. I was able to take fourth place. Reporter as he looks back at his recent weight loss diary even he didnt know. He would be Strong Enough to take himself on. It was very tough. The first two months especially. You are starving. Reporter at 37 years old he is at close to normal weight for the first time he can remember. It was less than two years ago he was at his worst. It was genetic and over eating obviously. Reporter it was so bad he couldnt work. He was put on disability and put on prescription meds. I couldnt do what i wanted to do. Even go to the store and walk around and shop. Reporter it is out of curiosity one day he would stand on the scale only to find the shock of his life. 480 pounds on a 55 frame. That would soon flip a switch where there would be no turning back. That, you know what, im doing this. I dont care what i am going to do, but im doing it. It mindset. You can do anything. Reporter he turned to the internet to pick up weight loss tips he designed his own plan that would start strictly with calorie cutting. A thousand calories a day to begin with and it was quick results. 20 pounds dropped in the first two weeks. It really did become an addiction. Reporter and eventually he would be able to give exercise a shot. A lot of time in the ashtabula, ymca. Some on they lip tau cal, but most of his time with whats become his new passion, swimming. It is like i broke myself out of my own prison i made. Reporter he would lose more than 270 pounds in a little more than a year to get down to 210. You can imagine how life changing. But they can only imagine what could have gone wrong. It is potentially dangerous. Reporter he is the director of obesity programs. He cant speak on rodney in he has never met him. But he said there is a reason big weight loss needs to happen in little increments. When you cut a significant amount of calories you may not have enough nutrients so you can really get in trouble with your heart and sometimes even with your kidneys. Reporter rodney said he had minimal medical monitoring throughout. Although he had no trouble, there were times he worried he was in danger. Some days only eating 400 calories. So now he is all about learning not just more on how to do it right and keep the weight off, but about how to eventually help others do it too. The skys the limit. I still cant wait for the after picture. The next step is to get the excess skin removed and we will be following him in that too. In the meantime he is proud to say he is off all of his medication and he has a job in retail he enjoys. For more information on extreme weight loss check out our website, cleveland 19. Com. Im katherine bosley. Way to go, rodney. Can. Keep in mind on average he was losing more than five pound a week. That was more than a year. Experts recommend safest weight loss is around two pounds a week. Romona we have a massive recall to tell you about. It involves the candy maker mars. The company is recalling millions of bars. Snickers and milky way chocolate bars and other products in 55 countries in europe and elsewhere after someone found a piece of plastic in a piece of candy. Not all impacted countries have been identified. So far it is not clear if the u. S. Is involved. For more information on this recall, you can check out you are on app. Denise parents, are you having some difficulty figuring out your childrens homework . You may want to head back to the classroom yourself. It is called parent university. Moms and dads can keep up with technology and learn the being taught the basics. We get the understanding of how they are being taught. We are trying to reach out to parents and say the standard way we learned is no longer that way. We need to bring you in with us and bring you into the fold and help you so you are successful at home and supporting your child. Most of the classes are free. In fact, teachers say they are gaining in popularity. Jeff awesome. Lets check out our storm. This is a big one. Producing the Severe Weather in the southeast. Here is a look at the roof camera. A cloudy sky right now and here is the rain. It is moving in right here. A big storm over arkansas. It is making a bee line right toward us. It is crossing our area later tomorrow night. Initially it is rain. We have a big rain shield coming at us and it will give us a very wet day tomorrow it is approaching the cincinnati area. It will be hereafter 4 00 a. M. Right now it is a cloudy sky. We have warmer air coming in and we can briefly pick up in the afternoon. By 7 00 in the morning it is going to be raining. This is what will give us a on the road. People are heading off to work and walking around. It will be wet indeed. Degrees by morning. We go up in temperature. 10 00 a. M. , the worst of it is out over the lake. And then it is just showers around the rest of the day. So the heaviest rain will be the first half of the day. It may even be a Little Thunder in there later in the afternoon. There are a lot of spots, sandusky, norwalk, mansfield, just over an inch in cleveland and akron. This is a wind driven rain. East winds gusting to 30 rain and thunder in akroncanton 54. Here is a look at the planner. 74 noon and at 5 00, rain and thunder. 48. Still showers tomorrow night, but by thursday, thats when it changes to snow. And it will be about two to four inches area wide on thursday. The temperatures are crashing through the 30s. Friday some light snow in morning, but only 24. If you think that forecast is wild, check this out. Saturday is 46. Saturday night is 43. On sunday we can be around 60. I have an alert for strong air comes in. Many moms turn to social media seeking advice or simple things to make raising a child easier. Denise one mom has turned it. Tiffani tucker has the story. Tiffani michelle is a stayathome mom with two kid ages four and five. She stopped her marketing job years ago when she got pregnant with her daughter. Trading in her 95 to become a full time mom. It can be overwhelming. Depends on everyones mood. Some days are wonderful. Some days are disastrous. There is never a day that isnt good. Tiffani when the westlake mom is not running around with kids she blogs, everything from food, traveling, adventures and family. My husband is on a diet. That pretty much means im on a diet. I am sure my summer figure will appreciate the timing. Reporter blogging is a way express how she is feeling and also share with others. She has written nearly a dozen blogs and wants to eventually have her own blog and domain. Right now she says it is not about making money on a site, but she is considering it down the road. It is about feeling like you belong to something that is not just being a mom. But it is a community of blogging. Tiffani it makes this stayathome mom feel at home by writing what she is thinking, feeling and what is going on in her life daytoday. Do they still go doortodoor . They make anywhere from 2 million a month to 9,000 a month. It depends on who you get to advertise on your site and how popular it is. Back to you. Now, it is time for the buzz sponsored by National Carpet mill outlet. Denise we need to get cracking on a blog. Has a world famous voice and now he is narrating your commute. Romona and thousands came downtown tonight to see the boss and the e street band rock the q. The rock and rollers hall of famers performed their album the river in its entirety to celebrate the 35th anniversary of its release. Bruce did make one mistake though tonight when he reterred to cleveland as pittsburgh before correcting himself. Denise they do that. Living in a bus will do that to you. Romona steeler country. Denise and he is lending his voice to the ways traffic app to promote his new movie london has fallen. The actor will choice your directions like his character from the film which comes out next month. Romona the brown may be maker. Tony zarrella has the latest on Travis Benjamin and what went wrong next in sports. Coming up on cleveland 19 news this morning, ill introduce you to some local students in the fast lane literally. Making a name for themselves around the world it could change the way things are made right here at home. Now, this is the serpentini chevrolet sports report on cleveland 19 news. 335 of the top colleges are either in indianapolis or going there for the scouting combine this week. The biggest news coming out of the combine concerns a fouryear vet, Travis Benjamin. Talks between the browns and bin jaw minute have broken off. They have gotten it from his agent who was telling everybody he and the browns were close to a deal and now say they cant come to terms. With other teams when he is allowed on march 7th. Benjamin coming off a career year. He is going to get paid, just not apparently by the browns. Last. Last night jason giambi and now napoli. We will make him an honorary one in good year, arizona. Mike napoli is healthy and rested and rested was not always a sure thing for him. Sleep apnea plagued him for years. Had a surgery to correct it and knows it was a long recovery, but i got through it. It broke his upper jaw, lower jaw, his chin and had to realign all of this. That was a drastic surgery. He couldnt sleep and there were times he couldnt breathe. He didnt have a choice. He had to have it. I went through different sleeping mask, mouth piece and all of kinds of things. It didnt work for me. I was tired all the time. I was moody. It was hard. It is an extra grind for me. It is hard enough doing it on no sleep. Mark schwab, cleveland 19. He will continue his reports from arizona and throughout the weekend. We were at the combine as well. Denise thank you for sharing your time with us tonight. Cleveland 19 this morning starts at 4 30 a. M. Romona have a great evening and have a good day all across america families are coming back to Time Warner Cable for a whole new experience. Pwe came back for internet speeds so fast even the kids are impressed. Oh shes impressed. Were catching up on movies and shows on demand just as fast as we can watch them. Twcs home wifi is so strong we can use all our devices at the same time. Come back today. Youll get 30 meg internet, tv, phone and more for 89. 99 a month. And ask how you could get a 300 reward card. 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