Cleveland seeing low lying clouds and heavier bands of rain. Medina, you can see the red mark, a heavy shot of rain for lafayette to medina. You are up next in the next five to ten minutes. Finally starting to look like they are clearing up a tad bit from macedonia to the hudson area. This will be a continuous event throughout the day of wet conditions. Behind this front is a cold front and it will reduce temperatures back down. Wow unfortunately it has been a rough commute already. Not a lot of traffic out there but i think people are going a little too fast. Already seeing issues in the cleveland area. A cal car into a wall at 7 a car into a wall at 77 and east 130th. And we are dealing with ponding. Slick lives, too, as we zoom on out. Janessa has been showing you her radar, as well. Yourself plenty of time. A live look at the highways in the akron area. 76 here showing the shine on the highways. We dont want to deal with it but we have to this thursday morning. Back to you. Our cit
Ashtabula and madison, you are up next with the heavy downpours at times. There will continue to be steady moisture throughout your thursday so we will call this one a washout. But we will start to talk about day time highs falling back to only the lower 50s in my full forecast coming up. I guess that is where we should be. All right, janessa, we are dealing with slick highways and even ponding in spots. The clearing up, but the bad news, we have getting new ones. This one at 90 westbound at east 72nd street. Elsewhere just ponding and slick spots. 271 southbound to green. We had an accident 271 south before Mayfield Road in mayfield heights, but like i said, it is all cleared now. Here is 480. Four different views showing traffic building. Take it slow when you head out. Believeland, before. Now it is true. Cleveland is making the comeback and the champions are returning, as well. Yes w. Rewaking up as American League champions. The indians are now just four wins away from winning the
Yourself plenty of time to do plenty of followup space and the roads may still be wet even though it may not look that way. Well of course keep you up to date on what we see here. For now, well see things back inside. The contractor responsible for this ditch right here that swallowed several cars in cleveland on tuesday is speaking out. Multiple cars drove right into the hole and a video captured a man wearing their uniform buying beer oth nobody answered my complaints, and as a result, we had all of the accidents that we had. Reporter multiple cars drove right into this construction ditch outside of this Convenience Store and bait shop on west 130th in cleveland. Its part of a big repaving project. Nothing wasnt blocked, so i tried going in there, and i ended up in a ditch. Reporter one day after, the construction ceo wrote this on the drivers saying we installed drums pursuant to all applicable laws and regulations adding to the extent that a driver was not paying attention is unfor
Juvenile Justice System. Were finding were being overwhelmed. It is getting harder and harder to get the cases than in a timely fashion. Reporter the influx seemingly happening overnight. 2015 is when the floodgates open. Says 2009 the Ohio Department ofs do that Children Services has seen a huge increase in services. 1000 of them were added in 2015 alone. Mcmill that spike on heroin. Their parents are addicts. They love their parents. Reporter caseworkers are seeing the biggest impact. It is recommended by the state caseworkers have no more than 12 cases at a time. This county averages 14. And Portage County workers averaged 17 cases. Our community has so many resources that were pulling forward to address the heroin more money. Hundreds of millions of dollars spent every year on child neglect cases in ohio. Many are tied to heroin. When children are neglected or abuse or left alone for a period of time, the impact is great. Reporter the solution, there is no easy answer. One option,
Of Medina County down into worcester wayne county and wooster and wayne county. The west side of Lorain County getting a rain break there too and then dry across geauga lake and portage counties but it wont last long as this is shifting towards the north and northeast. Theres a closer look lorain heavy rain wellington and 71. Strongsville through we and towards millersburg New Philadelphia and canton moving into akron too. Everything is shifting southwest to northeast. So the areas that are not getting rain east of cleveland, you will see the rain come back quickly and because some of it is heavy, carrollton continues under flash flood washes. We havent seen reports of flash flooding but because theres heavy rain falling we will keep watching the streams and rivers especially in flood prone areas. The low 50s with a raw north wind. We are gusting to near 40 miles an hour. 53 to 57 wind and rain feeling much cooler as we go into the afternoon. Lets check in on your roadways this morning