Already have a couple of inches and theres more storms heading towards Ashtabula County. So i put a tracker on this towards jefferson at about 4 15. You know, the ground is just not ready for all this heavy rain. And this isnt the only setup for it. So over the course of the next couple of hours, well continue to watch these storms funnel through sometimes over the exact same area over and over again. You can see another little small setup towards our south heading tos so living in wellington about 4 4 13, just a little bit. If this sticks together, which it probably will towards brunswick, which ultimately will put it into Cuyahoga County. It can be another interesting setup. Giving it a wider look, you can see right now, same scenario from the last couple of days. Same intensity. Youll be looking at heavy rains, downpour of rain. We just dont need it over the last couple of days. Look at our rain totals so far. Some areas up towards 3. And theres more coming for this weekend. Wait un
Heavy downpour. Lightning out there as well. Anyone downtown is seeing this going oh, my goodness and hopefully, people thinking about leaving, thinking about leaving work will put it off for a little bit. Let me update you. Severe thunderstorm warning until 5 15 central and eastern portion of Cuyahoga County. Zooming in, here is downtown. It is just on the fringe of the heart of downtown. Yeah, with you are still in part of the mix, rocky river you are pretty much done with this. And it goes all the way down past parma including the interchange of 480, 71 taking on a lot of water at this point. 90, the innerbelt bridge, all the construction, everything has to come to a complete stop. You cant drivethrough this. The wind alone by the stadium is definitely picking up. Some of the pictures we have the way through. The sweep arm keeps updating this as it moves towards the northeast. Brooklyn, brooklyn heights. You are getting hammered right now. Newburgh heights, if you are not already ta
Is good until you get to twinsburg which is good. Walton hills is in on this and bainbridge. You are just on the fringe of this. We just had a soaker go through. So i will put this mesopotamia. Yellow, upwards of 2 1 2 inches of rain just hike that. You need the heads up headed out tonight and let you know for the days ahead coming up. Tiffani. Hit by storms last night. Catherine bosley kicks off our Team Coverage live in mentor where the damage was the worst. Catherine . Reporter yeah. Simply put, it is still quite a mess out here. Look at this yard. My gosh, that says everything, right. Across the street even worse and mixed in is a tangled mess of power lines and down the street the utility workers are working very hard and looks like thats theres so much work to do. Reporter it is the kind of damage. So far it is crazy. Reporter it takes utility workers by surprise. Workers whos job it is to respond to storm damage. The usually busy mentor avenue down to one lane each direction thi
Course, were covering the possible teacher strike today. A short time ago all of the students got out of school here. Teachers and students obviously going about their business and everyone hoping that this strike never happens. [ cheers and applause ] reporter it was the first day of school in cleveland and there was all the usual excitement. Melissa scotts 8yearold daughter loved her teacher especially. Oh, it was beautiful. She loved it. She had a very good day. Denise teacher strike could be looming in the next several days. The big Sticking Point really is around evaluations and how that is fair for our members. Denise there have been a lot of broken promises in something called the cleveland plan was crafted in the last contract. Were not looking at changes state law. It mandates that you use whats called value added. Evaluate teachers. Were simply not asking that they be eliminated because thats in the state law. What were asking to do is make them fairer by putting the weightin
Seeing some of the bigger downpours come down all the way into parma. This is moving off to the northeast. Its all part of the system from last night. We have more storms popping out towards the east or towards the west, excuse me. The rainfall totals, thats what weve been most concerned about. Over two inches near medina from last night. But let me just widen out. Just over into pa, . Lastnight they got nearly five inches of rain. So as the storm systems continue to roll through our area, we have to stay up o whats coming and to alert you and let you know. You can always download our weather app. Thats always a great way to get the push alert. Take a look. We have storm damage and wind damage. Trees down from last night. Mainly on the east side. Cleveland heights got hit the hardest. So did mentor. Well be tracking through that this evening eyeing to see what storms we get tonight. Lot of people. Downed trees and wires. Mark Denise Zarrella is joining us out there with how some are co