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Manslaughter were fired as a result of the administrative review. Six others will get suspensions ranging 21 to 30 days. The decisions were handed down three years after the initial incident. We did not go through the motions on this. Michael mcgrath who was also police chief in november 2012 when the Deadly Police chase happened his decisions about which officers were disciplined and for what were based on a lot of things including reports and officer interviews and it all came down to if police rules were violated or not. We have done when we needed to do in a transparent way and in a due process way and we have reached what i believe is a just conclusion and that there is no conflict here. Reporter todays reconstruction of the november 2012 events coupled with quotes from officers bullets painted a chaotic scene. 20 minute long pursuit the car led to a shootout with Police Officers firing more than 100 shots killing the two and putting others at risk of cross firing on each other. There will be people in this atmosphere who say it wasnt due process. The fix was in. You are investigating yourself. What would you say to that. On the criminal side and we use the investigative files of other people to on the administrative side. But if the fix was in nobody would be held accountable, would they . Reporter now, the police chief today said at this point it is too early to tell if the six officers who were suspended will be put back out on the streets to interact with the public. Reporter live in Cleveland Dani Carlson cleveland 19 news. Dan thank you, dani. The police union was quick to the directors comments nonsense and went on quite a while saying this was a political move. This is unprecedented across this country. Six people got fired after the state Attorney Generals Office cleared them, after Cuyahoga County grand jury cleared them, after a common pleas judge cleared brelo. And yet the safety director finds enough there to make these types of decisions. Its absolutely politically motivated and insane. Dan as far as coverage goes, weve got you covered. All you have to do is go to the cleveland 19 web page or open up your app. We have sound from the police chief and mayor and also at 5 30 hear what you have to say. A lot of reaction as you might expect coming in on social denise . Denise thank you. Breaking news today charges are suspected of killing a 3yearold Aaron Dunnings was arrested january 12th and charged with shooting major howard last september on clevelands east side. Now, those charges were dismissed today without prejudices. What does it mean in laymans terms . It means prosecutors can file charges against dunnings in the future. The main suspect in the shooting Donnell Lindsey is still on the loose. And there have been several Donnell Lindsey sightings in cleveland. Please call crimestoppers if you know where he is hiding out. You dont have to leave your name. A cash reward is available if your tip leads to his arrest. Making our neighborhoods safer, this is a sievers security alert. Boy, something needs to happen. We have had another carjacking in ohio city making people who live there a little nervous. This is the second time in less than a week a womans car was stolen in this west side the latest victim ended up in the hospital. Jen picciano joins us now. Connected . Reporter police are looking into that possibility now. Here is what we know. A woman returning home from walking her dog at 8 30 this morning spotted a young man driveway. Not wanting to let him get away she jumped in her car and ran off. He stopped, opened the car door and dragged her from the car vehicle and began punching her. He hopped in the victims car, backed into her and drove away. The victim 67yearold marsha pressman was taken to the hospital with nonlifethreatening injuries. Brandon clark crashed the car at franklin and officers nabbed him when he fled on foot and arrested him without incident. Dan . Dan thank you, jen. What should you do if someone in most carjacking situations the attackers are really only interested in the victim. Here are tips from the u. S. State departments web site. First try to stay calm. It sounds easier to do. They said in most instances it is probably safest to give up your vehicle. Remember it is just a car. It is not as valuable as your life. Dont make sudden movements construed as a counter attack. If children are presented let the carjacker know. They may be focused on the driver and not know kids are in the back seat. There are several things you can do to avoid a carjacking victim we have them list odd our web site. Denise if that carjacking happened earlier this morning there could have been delay getting help to the victim. Clevelands 911 system was down more than 20 minutes. Thats happened twice in the past three days. Paul orlousky is Digging Deeper into this potentially lifethreatening problem. What about the weather. Here is a live look downtown from the feazill roof cam. No snow falling but theres a chance we could see something later tonight. Yeah. Later tonight and tomorrow morning, a little shot of light snow here. Nothing too big. These are little guys coming at us this week. Lets go to the currents. Windy and you felt the temperature drop throughout the day. 34 akroncanton and winds above freezing and 16mileanhour winds out of the West Downtown and with the wind chill feels more like between 20 and 25 degrees in most areas. We have to bundle up for that. The wind wont die out just a little bit. 31 at 7 00, 30 at 9 00. 29 degrees at midnight. It will be more of a seasonable night out there. And talking an inch at mohs a clipper system with more winds and temperatures above freezing and get ready for a bigger warm up as we head into the weekend. Forecast details at 5 18. Are you ready to go home, sir . Absolutely. I think he is ready, too. Welcome to your new home, tuko. The newest member of the Canton Police department touched down at hopkins. Cleveland was along for the entire journey. Tuko will be officer ryan davis new partner after k9 jethro was fatally shot by a robbery suspect earlier this month. Denise zarrella was at hopkins when the new k9 arrived. Reporter this moment marks a new beginning for officer ryan davis and k9 officer in training tuko. They arrived in cleveland ready to begin a Partnership Like no other. Than die the family. When i go home he is with me, when i go to work he is with me. At the end of the shift when you leave work they go their separate ways no matter how close they are they have their separate homes and separate lives. He is my right hand. Theres a continual 24 7 bond. Officer davis hand picked tuko to replace the partner he just lost. This is exclusive video from sia nyorkor who was there with officer davis as he made his decision. This is tuko, my new partner. Not long after the arrival in cleveland tuko jumps into the vehicle that would become his patrol car. For officer davis this is not easy and jethro is weighing heavily on his mind. Anxious to get back to work. Nervous because of the comparison. The whole flight home, i kept looking and comparing him to jethro and different markings different breed. So many Different Things i will have to get used to. Theres not a day that goes by that i dont miss him. There will always be that hole there. This is a step forward. Oh. Really. They are irreplaceable and member of your family and service dog to the community. He had tears in his eyes and voice shaking. Denise it is hard. All of us are curious to know about tuko, the new dog. He looks young. He is only 14 months old. Officer davis was impressed just how well he handled himself even being this young of a dog. Denise so smart and mature. Reporter for his age. He still likes to play. Denise where is he from . Only in the states a short time. Week. He is from hungary. And some think they are all german shepherds. This one is a german shepherd. A true shepherd. Fully trained doing narcotics and suspect search. All kinds of patrol activities. Denise how soon before he is able to be on the streets of canton patrolling . He will, on monday he will go to the office for the first time if you want to put it that way. He will do three weeks of training and at the end of that officer davis will get a certificate saying he is a real k9 officer. Denise and he is ready to go. Okay. We wish them the best of luck and happy he is doing better. Reporter absolutely. Water. Water. Have you tested the water . No, the water wasnt tested Daniel Snyder last night people packed the seabring Council Chambers in Mahoning County all seabring residents are out of school and no one is drinking the at the same timed water. Test results revealed 121 of the 123 samples taken at the school water fountains are within the federal lead limits. Meanwhile last night it was deflect, deflect, deflect. Do you even know for sure if your house tested positive . My son is a 7. 1. It doesnt mean he is two. He doesnt go anywhere else. It doesnt mean it comes from the water, maam. Seabring residents are advised to use bottled water for drinking bathing and eating. A sleepy trucker caused a crash in Medina County shutting route 3. The driver admitted he fell asleep and hit the system any front of him. Troopers say he overcorrected good news, no one was hurt. On top of that, nothing like that out there. Aaa tower camera i480 77. We have looked around odot and no real problems and traffic heavy and you expect that this time of the evening. First alert traffic on cleveland 19 news is sponsored by ford. Left hand and arm was caught in the right front tower and you see me barrel rolling and shot me out. Incredible video. An ohio officer hit by a system and i lived to talk about it. Live from clevelands newscenter driven by Don Joseph Toyota in kent this is cleveland 19 news. Dan wow, new dash cam video shows the terrifying moment when a semi skidded off the road and hit an ohio deputy early they are month. Denise this guy has Guardian Angels for sure in eaten, ohio. Captain brad moore miraculously survived this accident. Look at that. He spoke with reporter john podell about his close encounter. I remember hitting the trailer and felt the impact of the semi rolling up in the bush. Reporter this is the instant that landed captain brad moore in the hospital. I think i am saying a safe can you see it jackknife in the video and shoots it hard at a 90degree angle. The on board cruiser january 8th his dash cam is recording as he is sent flying violently to the right side of the screen. My arm getting caught up and see me barrel rolling and shot me out. Medics rushed him to the hospital. To understand how all this was set into motion we have to rewind the video a few minutes. Captain moore is on a minor wreck directing traffic and a semi drives over the train tracks and stops. When moore waves him the arm comes down and the truck is penned in and a train is coming. Moore tells the driver to steer right around the arms, the train slams into the system in the video it almost looks like i am going to be ran over a second time. Moore says a small incline near the bush sends him rolling from the semis back wheels. The only injuries, 25 stitches with two gashes on his head and broken right hand. It is a miracle, it really is. It makes you think a lot. It is definitely one of those that you flip that way, no bush and it could have been bad. Denise ill say. Captain moore is looking forward to getting back to work and hoping to get a doctors approval to return to light duty next week. Dan the percentage of people who can say i have been run over by a semi hit by a train and i survived. Denise he is definitely blessed. Thats for sure. Jeff all right. Lets look at the light snow we have coming at us late tonight. Temperatures dropped to 33 just above freezing. Dont see anything too drastic as far as cold is concerned. We have 29 in chicago and nothing arctic. You see the snow here to the north of us, this is another front coming down later on and pulse things up a little bit. It is starting to snow in grand Rapids Michigan and it will be flurries until that gets here. When it gets here tomorrow morning it will be around an inch or so in the snowbelt. It is windy as this happens and 22 in ashtabula and the wind staying up along the lakeshore. Keep that in mind if we are headed outside. Just some flurries here and temperatures more seasonable as we drop in in the 20s and here is 4 00 in the morning. You start to see the light snow mainly in the snowbelt here. Tomorrow morning. It doesnt look bad. Flurries around. South to southwest winds gusting over 25. Akroncanton your low cloudy sky and kept you dry. Here is 10 00 a. M. In the morning. Between 7 00 and 10 00 a flare up of light snow here. Looks like that will diminish back down to flurries during the afternoon at least thats what the latest future view model is saying and here is a look at the snowfall totals. I think you guys in the snowbelt can handle an inch or less. And it has chardon at an inch. Other than that less than an inch. In cleveland flurries and mostly cloudy sky and right around 30 chilly day. An alert thursday, though for wind and light snow. This will be a system. 7 00 in the morning theres the first wave. I will keep snow showers in the but as this happens, rise. Even though we will get snow showers thursday look at the high up to 39. So it is not like temperatures like this, it is tough to stick to the roads with that kind of temperature and the wet snow coming down. But an alert nevertheless. Morning snow showers friday and early on 29. Look at the weekend 48 saturday, windy and 43 saturday night and an alert sunday for rain later in the afternoon. Windy and 55 on sunday. We will drop a little bit monday and flurries, windy and 37 degrees. Dan, over to you. 55. Might be time to get out the golf clubs. Denise we have been pretty lucky this winter, not too much snow for us. Dan we have had plenty of cold days and that can take a toll on our skin and Health Reporter Catherine Bosley can help us out on this. You know, it is just about this far into winter when people notice itchy and scaly conditions and it can be annoying and experts say it can be more than that if you dont take good care of your skin for the winter. We know how uncomfortable Winter Weather can be when it is blowing and snowing. People dont know what true damage it can do to their skin other than making it cold. Cold temperature and dry air causes dehydration on the skin. Thats the number one thing we fight against in the winter. Reporter this dermatologist says she is year treating people uncomfortable from dry skin which can lead to more serious issues. Uncontrollable itching leads to scratching and you can start to introduce infection in our skin. Our hands are always dirty. Eczema and psoriasis set in and can even lead to cardiovascular problems. Take moisturizing seriously and to a whole new level. When we use moisture autoizers this time of year we are referring to thicker moisturizers and not the best time for lotion. Lotion evaporates quickly. You want a cream moisturizer and lather it on quickly as soon as you get out of the shower. Reporter she adds as little as we see the sun ultraviolet rays see us fine and often reflect at us from the snow. Moisturize is a must. Remoisturize throughout the all together by drinking more water. Thats always in season. In clevelands newscenter im Catherine Bosley. It is feeling like winter out there now looking at independence and aaa camera. And the wind will actually aid in helping to dry the skin as well. Temperature changes on the way. Dan we continue to follow new developments today in the Deadly Police chase and shooting that happened in 2012. The city came out with its findings and its discipline for 6 were fired including michael trial. Six were also suspended and one officer has already retired. We asked for your comments on social media and as you can imagine on this controversial topic we got them. Thomas says if anyone remembers this story both occupants of the car were unarmed and cops murdered two people and they should be in prison. Phillip wanted to reply. Cops out on lights, you pull over. No one gets shot. They had a choice and they chose wrong. Lets get to robins comments. If 13 regular citizens shot one person 137 times all 13 citizens would be charged with manslaughter facts. Lets get to area mes comments. The union should have their jobs back soon since they were found innocent in criminal charges with an uphill battle trying to denise voters in iowa will get the first word on the race for president in less than a week from now. If you have never lived in a state with a caucus system you may be unfamiliar with how it works. Ryan nobles breaks down the process. Unlike traditional primaries where voters show up and cast their ballot, first off, it doesnt begin until 7 00 central time and iowans will gather at a thousand different sights in the state to have their voices heard. For republicans it is relatively simple precinct chairs will deliver a speech and voters cast their ballots and they go home. For the democrats it is more complicated. They, too, will listen to speeches. But after all the speeches are done let me show you how it will work. This box represents the caucus. They split up in areas of preference around the room. They then count all the voters in each corner of the room. If theres a candidate with less than 15 of the vote, that candidate will be kicked out. The voters can participate or go home and offer up support to another candidate on the ballot. Once voting awards are based on the percentage of votes they accumulate. Results are sent to the state party and tabulate the results statewide and a winner is declared. A winner will come in first and delegates will be awarded on a percentage statewide and go to the grand total helping to nominate the eventual candidate at the convention this summer. For those who do well, this could be the kind of momentum they need to prepell their campaign forward. Those who do poorly could mean in washington, im ryan nobles. Keep it here throughout this president ial Election Year for continuing coverage on candidates from both sides of the aisle and we will bring you the latest on the campaign trail on our web site cleveland social media sites and free cleveland 19 news mobile app. Dan irans president visited the pope francis today at the vatican as Jonathan Vigliotti reports, the iranian leader is trying to mick his country more visible after a recent nuclear deal. Reporter the meeting with pope francis and Hassan Rouhani began with a handshake and moved to the popes study where they gave the Catholic Leader a persian rug. The 40 minute discussion kicked off a European Tour featuring rouhani in middle east peace efforts and tehran will play a major role in fighting terrorism. Safest and most stable in the region ending decades of diplomatic distance in the west over the controversial nuclear program. Iran agreed to limit the program in sanction release and first time in two decades they met with the iranian president. Pope francis told rouhani he hopes for peace and asked them to pray for them. Reporter Jonathan Vigliotti, cleveland 19 news. And to make sure he would not be offended italians covered the nude roman statues at the museums rouhani visited. The woman who protested outside the white house more than 30 years died today. She began her antinuclear demonstration back in 1981. It is widely thought to be the longest running political protest in u. S. History. Spain in 1960 was believed to be 80yearsold suffering a fall recently and her immediate cause of death is not known. Jeff all right. Here we go. Wind and cloud cover and every once in a while you will get flurries coming up here tonight. Maybe a shot of lakeeffect snow tomorrow morning. Interactive radar and severe here. We have a 10 day forecast on the cleveland 19 weather app indicating temperatures around 30. It will be a slow fall from this point forward and the wind staying up there 1 to 15mileanhour wind and out of the west generally and overnight it will drop into the 20s and made it up to 48 officially and that occurred after 8 a. M. This morning. It was very warm start to the day and the temperatures dropped mid to low 30s. 31 mansfield and with the wind chill feels like 21 and feels like 19 in ashtabula. For january we will take those numbers. At least we dont have minus signs in front of those things. Flurries and light lakeeffect overnight. That will linger into tomorrow morning here. On thursday, one of the fastmoving clipper systems brings the area 1 to 2 inches of night. Here is a look at the future view. Flurries and i am focused on the east side because by 4 00 in the morning perhaps light snow up the i90 corridor and tomorrow in Ashtabula County between 7 00 and 10 00 a. M. , this will be generally inch or less, some spots in the snowbelt, though, especially the higher terrain could get around an inch of snow. Thats what the is snowfall around an inch, geneva, overnight and through tomorrow morning. Thursday is your alert winds gusting up to 30. 1 to 2 isms of snow. But temperatures will warm above freezing. I dont expect big problems out there on the roads. Pretty low impact there. I will have more on the 7day forecast later on for you. Dan, over to you. Dan thanks, jeff. Facebook shocker most of your friends on the social media site denise authorities are asking the public for help finding three violent inmates escaping from a Southern California prison. At the Orange County central jail as the manhunt intensifies. We know somebody out there knows something. Reporter the Orange County Sheriffs Department repeatedly asked the public for help monday and sent a message to the vietnamese community. It is extremely important for them to reach out and let us know where they are at. They are armed and dangerous. 22yearold jonathan is linked to a vietnamese gang and wong is thought to have gang ties. The 43yearold was held on attempted murder charges. 37yearold naire is accused much kidnapping and torture. In 2012 he and an accomplice allegedly tortured a man with fire. I am scared. Community near the jail are frightened. These people are that bad. How did they get out of jail. He is incredibly violent. Orange county Prosecutor Says his trial is set for next month. The acts he committed are nothing short of diabolical. Escapees cut their way through a steel screen and entered the buildings plumbing tunnels. Law enforcement says the group propelled off the roof down five floors using a makeshift rope made of linens. Investigators are trying to figure out how they got ahold of tools used in their escape and if somebody is helping them. The Sheriffs Department confirms no one from their office is on leave or suspended with pay. Cbs news, los angeles. Dan cleveland 19 news consumer alert. Can you save a few bucks on your endure a mild annoyance. Boost offers customers to save 5 a month off their bill and you have to watch commercials. The deal only available for Android Users downloading the boost deals app. Denise chances are you have more facebook friends than you can keep up with. A study shows on average only four of facebook friends are immediate support network. You know, people by your side during a time of crisis. People you actually know. The study says the average person can count about 13 people as close friends. Although social Networks Help you keep up with acquaintances and researchers dont necessarily expand the number of close friendships you have. Do you agree with that . Denise i do. Dan i dont at all. Just four . I know people out there right now. Denise you know, people you would confide in, thats the thing. You wouldnt tell everyone their circumstances necessarily. More than four i would. Mark . I have more than four. They are not on facebook thats the problem. Coming up at 6 00 cleveland 19 news continuing coverage of the punishment handed down to Police Officers more than three years after the deadly chase. Six hours fired and six face discipline and hear why the union chief is calling it politically unfair and motivated and a scare over Drinking Water with lead. Details from the e. P. A. And ohioans love their booze. Liquor sales hit an alltime boy wait and see this people in apartments and homes on the coast in pacifica, california have been ordered to move out. Denise talk about scary, falling off a cliff. Selfhomes and apartment complexes deemed uninhabitable because of rapidly decaying hillsides, miles from San Francisco literally teetering on the edge of the cliff. Pacifica officials declared a state of emergency and asked the people who live in three apartment complexes to evacuate. Many people are not heeding the warning. I have nowhere else to go. I just moved in two months ago. I cant just pick up and leave. I dont have money like that. Wouldnt you rather be safe. I would like to be safe but not on the street all night. Denise many of the people lost their backyards to erosion blamed on storms from el nio and the wild weather is expected to continue in california into march. Also on the west coast it is proof you should never turn your back on the ocean. Called a sneaker wave catching beachgoers off guard. Take a look. Time to go here. Get out of the way go whoa that was that was scary. Thats a big sneaker wave. My god. Thats huge. I just got out of the way. Could have taken anybody in its path. Look at that. Holy you know what. There you go. The owner of the high tide cafe in coos bay was recording the video sunday when the sneaker wave snuck in and sent him and everyone else running in the direction of the dry beach scrambling for safety. Often roll in without warning behind a bunch of smaller waves. The National Weather service says this had nothing to do with the 7. 1 magnitude earthquake in alaska. It is small waves and out of nowhere for no reason whatsoever a huge wave can come in. I heard the dog barking in the background. I hope someone picked him up. I was looking for him in the video. Watch out for the sneaker waves. They occur on the ocean and we will not get anything like that on lake erie. Lets look at the 7day focus. We got snow and rain and warm up and chilly weather. The chilly stuff happening right now right around 30 tomorrow for the high. And then on thursday we warmed to 39. But we will get some snow showers here along with that. But i think temperatures will be 2 inches of snow in the forecast mainly thursday afternoon and thursday night. This is not a biggy. I have an alert for that, though because of wind and snow showers flying around lasting until early friday morning and back to 29 for the high. Look at the weekend. A lot of wind with the temperature changes. It will be a windy weekend. Saturday up to 48 mostly cloudy and saturday night very warm for this time of year. 43 and sunday 55. Mostly cloudy sky and then weve got the rain later sunday afternoon and sunday night. An alert for that. Monday flurries, windy and 37 and temperatures slowly fall and even next tuesday partly cloudy 41 degrees. Dan and denise, over to you. All right, jeff. Thank you. Our view of the day from university of akrons icefest basketball. Send in your photos to pics cleveland19. Com. Dan a local landmark getting the google street view treatment. The cool new way to check out now its time for the buzz sponsored by National Carpet mill outlet. Denise tonight we are getting a chance to see the rock n roll hall of fame like never before. A florida Photography Company teamed up with google maps to bring a street view virtual walkthrough tour of each floor of clevelands museum. Dan, show us how this works. Dan you kinda knew this would happen eventually with museums and google maps and street view. It has to do with this. You have probably done this for street view to your home. See that yellow guy, click on him. I have this on the rock hall and maybe i want to go to the ohio pop awards exhibit. It literally puts you right you get to tour around and quote, unquote, walk around and see some of the different exhibits and zoom in on some of the things. You cant read everything. But you get the basic idea. Can you look around at the basic exhibits and go all the way through this. It is extremely impressive. I have played around with it about 20 minutes. It isnt just the rock n roll hall of fame. I am here to tell you there are several other places in cleveland they have done this for. At 6 00 which other popular places christmas story, hint. Denise hint. Dan you can go through without being there. It is cool for outoftowners that cant go. And rock hall not hearing the music but very cool. Denise all right. A mega banking merger happening live from clevelands newscenter cleveland 19 news starts now. After that i heard gunfire repeatedly over and over and over. The lord mother always say hit the ground. Romona 13 officers and 137 shots fired. A Deadly Police chase by cleveland police. Three years later, the punishment. Six officers have been fired and six others are facing discipline. Mark the punishment marks the end of a three year intense investigation. Dani carlson following the story all day joins us with the break details. Hey, dani. Reporter it is important to mention one of the six officers fired was michael brelo. And six officers suspended face