Officials still dont know. The notes we got a chance to look at from the Summit Medical Examiners Office has a telling detail. The only member of the mather family with any evidence at all of smoke inhalation was the father, jeff. Meaning cindy, ruth and allison likely werent breathing by the time the fire started. The notes revealed jeff mather died from burns and smoke inhalation and found wearing a gold band on his left ring finger. His wife cindy wasnt wearing a ring or any other jewelry. Investigators are looking at murdersuicide as possible explosion. Family garage near a gas can and suicide. At the time officials found cindy and the girls they were at the front of the nearby home with cindy huddling over her two daughters seemingly trying to protect them until the end. Reporter in akron, dani mark we have more details of mathers troubled past. That and breaking developments can be found on the cleveland 19 news app. Romona lets talk about today. It is february. No need for a winter coat out there today. So now that all the snow is last . Jeff tanchak has all the answers in your first alert weather forecast. Jeff well, the temperatures are dropping right now. It still will be warmer tonight. But compared to where we have been compared to last night, will you feel it. Lets look at the records. Shattered across the board 63 the high in cleveland old record was 57. Akroncanton 62 you, youngstown hitting 60. Now, down we go. Had 2 at. 47 at midnight and could be sprinkles or flurries around tonight and not a big deal. Now, tomorrow, you can see we dont go up much. Low to mid30s out there. To 46 in cleveland and mansfield and still windy along the lakeshore and i will talk about more on the cooldown coming, even more so next week at 6 15. Romona and mark, back to you. A brook park councilwoman is due in court in march for a case that might surprise you. Mark she and her husband havent filed their income taxes. Paul orlousky is digging even deeper and he found other problems that could call into her question the power to handle a Council Committee that oversees millions of dollars. Reporter newly elected brook parque councilwoman Julie Mccormack an was chairwoman by the Council President and we have uncovered questions about her ability to handle her own finances. Certified Court Records hold she had a certified suspension after Court Records show she it was stop sign violation and expired plates and Court Records say because she ignored the ticket and didnt pay the fine her license was forfeited in june and her license was paid after word of the ticket spread. Was she driving . Outside Council Chambers we watched as another councilwoman dropped her off. We were at her home when a sisterinlaw arrived. Police were called and a report was made about a conflict. This tuesday night before council she was driving. Her driving privileges were no harm. No foul. Taxes. Property reports show the councilwoman owes more than we are on a payment plan and it is being taken care of. She was vague when questioned about financial instability at tuesdays meeting and seemed unconcerned. I believe thats the minimal amount thats due. Remember she is chairwoman of the finance city overseeing a multimillion dollar budget. I dont think it doesnt effect my ability to do the job. Some would disagree. Reporter paul orlousky, cleveland 19. Mark thank you, orla. An interesting note. The man who appointed her is Committee President and recently cleared up a back tax bill of more than 1,500 on his home. Former pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum is dropping out of the race for the white house. That comes after a dismal performance in the iowa caucus. Kentucky senator rand paul announced he is quitting the race. The latest on the remaining candidates on cbs evening news. Romona . Romona cleveland 19 news is digging for answers after we discovered two men escaped from the mcdonald correctional facility in the heart of cleveland. Officials held a News Conference this afternoon after we started was never notified of the escape. We also discovered theres at least one escapee or inmate going awol every six days at that facility. Four days ago tai shan spencer and Lavelle Tucker used a pool ball to break a window and took off. They are still missing. The protocols are to notify probation and the court. The court and probation take it from there. Thats how the notification goes. Romona officials tonight at 9 00, our scott taylor will continue to ask tough questions of officials at the facility including why prisoners arent wearing gps bracelets when they get passes to leave lock up. So far this year there have been two escapees and three inmates have gone awol. A heads up here. Thieves posing as police officers. Same old story here. Criminals calling elderly people posing as Akron Police Officers and tell the victims they are investigating fraud at the bank and need help for a covert operation by withdrawing large sums of cash. We know a victim in shaker heights, one in akron. Contact police if you get this call. Romona lets talk about downtown development. Cleveland has a lot to offer. Dan deroos joins us with details as the Downtown Cleveland Alliance gave us a market update. Dan . Dan we are really talking about the Fourth Quarter of 2015 and then also looking ahead, its been 2011 since we have seen sort of the renaissance, the resurgeries of downtown cleveland especially when it comes to apartment living. Lets go over the most recent numbers. The 4th Quarter Ended the year last year with 300 new apartments coming online. That is adding to an already lets talk about since 2011. Remember thats really when the insurgence came online. Come online. What is the plan for the future talking 2016 through 2018 . There are a total of 2346 apartments supposed to come online. One of those Major Projects is actually right here in this parking lot. That major open space just outside of town on west 6th. The new project announced for then. I know what you are saying great, you build all these apartments, are you filling them . This is the best number the Downtown Cleveland Alliance is reporting. Downtown apartments are at 97 occupancy meaning it is pretty tough to find anywhere to live in downtown and thats why you are seeing a number like this 2,349 apartments coming online in the next two years. Theres a demand especially among millennials and downtown thats good news for all of us. Mark . Mark here we go. The Glenville Community will watch super bowl 50 with pride. Ted ginn , jr. Will be on the field. Brian duffy talked to his dad who is an inspiration to many. Reporter nine years after being drafted in the first round ted has produced his best season in the National Football league and play on the games biggest stage on sunday evening. It is the pay off as ginns dad has seen his son bounce team to Team Sometimes struggling to play a role. You have to be tough to play in the nfl. He wouldnt play nine years if he wasnt mentally tough. His career took him from miami, carolina, San Francisco and back to carolina and now the superbowl. What a trip. The coach knows it is time to finish. I am just happy for him. Got to get it done. Hopefully he plays a role in it, too to make it happen. Ginn, sr. Made it happen head coach at glenville and driving force of the ginn academy and ginn , jr. Learned lessons in life and on the field. No matter where you come from and determine where you go. Ted ginn take young men growing up in difficult circumstances and give them a future and he has made it his lifes work to help the young men. Ginns football and success is just a piece of this work. Mark brian duffy reporting. Cleveland is your home for super bowl 50 Carolina Panthers versus the Denver Broncos and tune in for the news right after the game. Romona still ahead we try to get to the bottom of a fence problem at a local suburb. Toyota in kent this is cleveland 19 news. Mark so a homeowner in North Olmsted contacted us looking for a little help. Romona he says he built a fence for safety reasons, but the city says he has to tear it down why . We sent harry boomer to get some answers in their fence dispute. When i was building it i wasnt aware of city codes against it. Reporter the city of olmsted sent him this letter telling him to tear down the fence in his front yard. He says he tried to reason with the city. We have had a few incidents. Three in the past six months where cars came off the road and entered our road and i guess we are kind of worried about maybe one going through the house or when we are out there working maybe striking us. Reporter thats one reason zimmerman says he built the fence. Here is another reason. It is a bit more vague. We have a doctors note person with a medical disability living here. And having the fence up, it really helps him with that condition. Reporter caleb wouldnt tell North Olmsted city hall nor us about who has the medical condition or what it is. Normally it is neighbors complaining and not this time. They signed off on it. If they want me to go to city hall i will vote for him to keep it. It doesnt bother me whatsoever. We have a code limiting front yard fencing to 30 inches. We built it two and a half feet tall. The fence is five feet on top of that. As it stands now it would come down because of city code. And the board reviewed it and the board determined not to sufficiently warrant a variance. Zimmerman says it cost 2,000 to build it and will cost 1,000 to tear it down. He has a right to appeal it in city court. Cleveland 19. Notice harry was wearing his blazer and didnt need an overcoat out there. Jeff now you need a jacket and temperatures dropping in the 40s. We are not talking arctic air but the wind blowing now all of a sudden theres a wind chill in the mix remaining on the windy side especially along the lakeshore. 1 mentor, 22 ashtabula. Thats the sustained winds and gusting close to 30 to 33 the wind gust in sandusky. So we cleared out. Awesome sunset. Now weve got some clouds moving back in, in fact, beginning to cloud over in the sandusky area. And this is what we call the wrap around clouds or clouds associated with the colder air. Theres even some light snow showers out to the west. Could start out as some sprinkles. But it will be a noticeable change coming up tomorrow where it is 35 grand rapids. 32 in chicago. In fact, we will drop to 31, i think, tonight. Southwest to west winds gusting over 25. Flurries or sprinkles. You will see that as well. Akroncanton later on tonight and maybe some flurries and 33. Tomorrow flurries and light snow showers. We will have a lot of cloud cover in place. Not as windy, though and the best threat for snow showers with just a little bit of additional lake moisture, east. And then moving south of cleveland later in the afternoon. Showers. It will be less than an inch of accumulation. 34. Not enough for an alert tomorrow. Down to 20 tomorrow night sunny to partly cloudy, 38 and how about this weekend. Not too shabby. 41 saturday. Saturday night looking good. Sunday for your superbowl plans 42 will be the high. And rainfree. Then on monday we get a winter there and much colder tuesday and wednesday next week with snow showers. Carl, over to you. Well, coming up in sports tonight we will talk about the cavaliers going for six in a row and thats also a big day for the High School Kids National Signing day. We are talking about it on now, this is the serpentini chevrolet sports report on cleveland 19 news. Cavs have been cruising since the coaching change after dropping their first game of the lou regime and will go six in a row in charlotte against Michael Jordans bobcats. Lebron has to grind it out in a gritty win over pacers and king james knows practice makes perfect and right now practice is a precious commodity. Allstar break is coming in less than a week and a half and we have some games. We have some games where we will continue to get better and playing charlotte, they have been playing up and down and always play well on their home floor and tonight is an opportunity to get better of what we have been putting in as late. Cavs and hornets tonight on fox sports ohio with fred and ac. I once asked cooper about the oklahoma coach and how good was barry when it came to xs and os and he smiled and shook his face and said swisher can recruit. Talented acquisition, the name of the game which is why signing day means so much for College Coaches in various sports and kids they have been courting for so long. The pressure is off and everyone can exhale. I would say it is stressful just because it is a hard decision and a lot of schools football side of things and academic side and they are comparable and it is tough to separate some of them. Independent my friends were struggling a lot this past year trying to figure out where they would be and knowing before this year started i would be at marshall was really nice. Like it or not signing day is a major production. This year one kid took his announcement to a whole another level. Safety Donte Anderson jumped out of a perfectly good airplane risking life and limb to pledge his undying love and loyalty to. Wait for it, wait for it. The rebels of ole miss. Im sure his coach was thrilled to see his top recruits skydiving out of an airplane on the very day he signs with ole miss. Romona i cant even say what if. They are kids. Thank you very much for joining us at 6 00. A Dominic Mancuso editorial is coming up next. Romona we hope to see you back here at 11 00. Have a good evening. Now this is a cleveland 19 news editorial. Taxation without it is the phrase that created our country. Our forefathers revolted against paying taxes to a government for which they had no vote. Now 240 years later, it is time to revote against the mayors idea to raise clevelands Municipal Income tax from 2 to 2. 5 . 25 more dollars out of the wages of people working in cleveland. According to the Mayors Office about 87 of the tax money paid comes from suburbanites who dont even get to vote on it. It doesnt get any more unamerican than that. The mayor makes some reasonable arguments why the city needs some money. 18 million in lost property tax. More than 111 million lost in state tax cuts since 2010. 11 million to implement the doj decree to improve our police department. But the mayor has plenty of responsibility for these budget problems. The people who let the police both received promotions and raises on their sixfigure salaries. Our chief investigator carl monday has documented waste in trash collection, police and city council lunches and dinners. And the biggest problem, new city worker contracts with numerous city unions that pay almost 43 million more in retro pay and benefits through 2016. Who negotiated these deals . Increasing the city income tax is short sighted. How long will the citys current renaissance last if we make businesses and their employees pay a premium to be in cleveland . It is unfair and counterproductive. If the mayor wants to fight for our fair share of state money, were on board ohio lets us vote. We would vote no on the city income tax increase. That is, if we had a vote. 216 6643990 and let him know what you think. Im Dominic Mancuso and thats how we see it. We encourage your response to this editorial