It went 3 times it exploded and then the power went out. We will get a check on traffic in just a moment. This morning first we have to talk about so many people who still dont have electricity because of those nasty storms. A lot of power lines are down trees too on the west side. Nick foley is live in one of those hardhit areas. Nick, what is the latest from the Power Company . At last count we have more than 8001st ener county alone. With thousands of customers waiting for power to be restored in the eastern communities, this latest one two punch now has crews scrambling to help those in the western communities like right here what place try west lake. Take a look behind me, you can see this tree snapped in half. This makes it more than difficult for crews trying to get things back to normal. Saw on first street in columbia and columbia road. We are near the entrance of rta park andride. The parking lot to a nearby plaza also covered with debris and then there are those downed power
Northern geauga. Heavy rain over thompson and chardon. Noticing some heavy rainfall over east munson now. Driving is going to certainly be more difficult on 422 422. Hydroplaning can happen fast. The windshield wipers cannot keep up. We have had about 2 in. h with these thunderstorms. Little bit showing up in middlefield. Jumping ahead toward mesopotamia and hunsberger there are 2 in. h headed toward middlefield and burton. Just south of chardon, a lot of lightning flashes with this. It is equally as dangerous. Everybody inside until the next line shifts east and away from home. Now we had to northern Summit County. Hudson, heavy rain. Twinsburg as well. Streetsboro driving on 80 is quite difficult. Were noticing an increase in showers and storms soon to be tonight. It could be a very dangerous situation if these thunderstorms keep up through the evening hours. Poll back at the house for now. A little lighter now over bristol in courtland as this is slowly moving east. It is much light
At the university of akron. At 21, Clayton Murphy has quite a year ahead of him. I want him to continue to have fun doing this. He has brought Families Together that dont normally get together on a monday night and watch him race and root for the usa. I think we need more of that. Well, i will tell you what, Clayton Murphy is certainly still having fun raising moment. Its lucky when people can find a passion like that and also have the talent that Clayton Murphy has to back it up. His next stop is going to be back to ohio. Get to go home for a little bit and back to fall classes. Hes on a path and is going to keep running straight ahead. We know he has the support of his family to back it up. Pretty amazing here. If he made his move, were cheering for him as well. I can only imagine what his think, for all of them. They were part of a team, as i said. Congratulations to him. I said it to each of them. They worked pretty hard at some point along the way. Bigtime. All right. Well see you
Itll have the opportunity to get run out tomorrow and sunday. In Cleveland Heights high winds left damage. Progress is being made with the low back dave nethers is there. This tree weighs about 4500 pounds, that fell on this house, can see that in just a minute. I continue to remove tree limbs across a large swath of Cleveland Heights. Ssjust busy with 12, 16 hour days. Powerful winds accompanied storms since tuesday leaving a mess. The power is out to nearly 1,000 people inp clevela heights friday. The go for one job to another. O power is restored to many area homes and businessesr including the market they were busy restocking shelves after throwing out thousands of dollars of perishable food. Er meat, seafood, delhi, frozen foods. Efothey lost an estimated 90,000 of ideas because of the you got the frozen stuff, try to save whath highpriced tough, especially the meat. We had to throw out lots of stuff. F many here were still trying to clean up,e they were here to rebuild it after a
In the area. And more rainfall on the way what is the latest . . It is charging up the rainfall the best chancewe for showers storms will be south an east of cleveland today. We could have some showers, the storm that you develop will be packing rainfall. Out to the west, expecting the showers to gradually increase. Especially down towards akroncanton and youngstown. It bears watching. Looking at premier flight academy, some blue skies, a beautiful shot. Small craft surprise. The lake has ways between three and 5 feet there was a waterspout yesterday. You can see the spring underneath. Everyone smiled those do, on land. Just a little bit of it is a very active seniorr at miller and dodge roa the corner and bci are on scene investigation. Learn some new information they say that this starteded a home and winter township last nightroro in which the suspect away, then around 7 30 a. M. The suspect was tracked to this hom on dodgeville road, bci says th deputies approached an suv not ealiz