Mark a furry little animal is the star of a National Holiday today, and he s got a big job ahead of him. Today is groundhog day. As legend has it, if the groundhog sees his shadow, winter will last another six weeks. But if not, an early spring is expected. Break out the flipflops and shorts. Good morning, everyone. Lisa i m lisa cooney. Your headlines are straight ahead. We will find out when the sun comes out and becomes a rodent rat. [laughter] randi he is very divisive. If you go either way. Our forecast today, temperatures in the 60 s. If i can do it by my shadow that would be awesome. We take a look at the forecast. We are talking 60 s and storms we take a look at the radar and this is a big storm system. Blizzard conditions up through minnesota and wisconsin today. We are on the warm side of things rolling through kansas city and the warm air is moving in our direction. Thunderstorms will be rolling into Greater Cincinnati. This morning increasing clouds in the morning and tempe
Thunderstorms to our south and west to see if they moved into our viewing area. It looks like the rain has moved in and it has helped stabilize the atmosphere. Thunderstorm warnings are quickly dropping across kentucky and tennessee. This is playing out as we expected. This was always a small threat. Even the majority of the thunder and lightning has fallen out of this activity. A good soaking is on the way. These are some pretty heavy downpours. These could become severe as we move into the area. The atmosphere is being worked over. This moves through the area. While there may be some grief downpours in the area, these do not seem to be a problem. It is a breezy night out there. That might waken you overnight tonight. Hear the house, that is what is happening in the area. Tonight. It is still mostly mild. 60 degrees. It would stay mild for a second area. I will let you know when the rain finally moves out. Mike wlwt news 5 is leading the way when any storm moves through. Download our
It was a busy evening overnight. The wind is still blowing overnight. Randi we didn t see Severe Weather per se. We had rain and gusty wind and we have high water issues. Here is the good news. The back edge of the rain is rolling through downtown cincinnati. We do have rain showers but much of the steady stuff continues to roll to the east. Some areas are seeing rain to the east. We take a look and you can see the rain showers making their way to the east. The more intense line heading into eastern ohio. The rain is almost over but the we do have flooded warnings and advisories. There could be high water at any point. And there is one flood warning. That is what is happening. Clouds will be clearing out this morning. Temperatures will take a little bit of a turn towards 5 00, getting closer to 50. Of course you ll need to watch out for high water this morning. Wlwt news 5 s dan griffin is live with some of the flooding concerns we found this morning. Dan . Dan good morning. We re here
Blue ash student claiming he would shoot up the math lab. According to Court Documents uc Police Arrested 20 year old Dondiego Bradley wednesday for threatening to shoot up the school and turn this into colorado. A signed witness affidavit says the student made the threat to a tutor while at a math lab inside muntz hall yesterday. The witness claims bradley said college would be a good place to rob people and i could shoot this place up. A majority of students we spoke with said they did not know about this threat or bradley s arrest. It s pretty scary to be honest but um hopefully nothing happens, sounds like the police it s just kind of scary because i was just in the math lab. I think nobody should take nobody s life, i don t care if i like you or dislike you, nobody and i don t think nothing is that serious to bring a gun back to College Campus when everybody is just minding their own emily a professor told me tonight the school emailed back of the instead around noon today but stu
Crystal springs area east of 280 and south of 92. They upgraded it 20 minutes ago and called in for more fire support and fighting with an air tanker. Water from the reservoir is used to douse the flames. If you have any pictures please post that for us with abc7newsnow. Then you can share it. The fire has reached a watershed so that is a break. Hopefully it is under control. More breaking news, a judge in San Francisco has ordered the map accused of killing kate steinle at pier 14 to stand trial for murder. 45yearold Francisco Sanchez is charged with seconddegree murder with the death of kate steinle july 1. This case triggered a National Debate on immigration because he is an undocumented immigrant from mexico who has been deported five times. We are joined from the half justice with the latest. Cheryl, lopez has maintained he shot kate steinle but he claims that he found the gun at the pier 14 and handled the gun and it went off accidentally. The question was in this case should he