On the attackers background but first we head to columbus where tara molina and bob jones have been talking to witnesses all day. Its an event that has everyone there still on edge. Reporter absolutely danita. Talk about a pretty horrific day here at ohio state, students still shaken up tonight. Now for many of them this all started with attacks. For chaos. This girl comes in in absolute hysterics. She couldnt talk. Students ran from watts hall where osu student abdul artan drove through a crowd hitting people, then hopped out of the car and hit people with a butchers knife. Nine people hurt. University buildings locked artafternoon. Piece op. Still shaken but focusing on their fellow buckeyes recovery. I cant believe newary going through this and im so sorry. I just pray for them. Reporter again, guys, officials are saying it is too early to determine whether this attack was terrorism related. But my fellow reporter bob jones is joining us now from outside one of the hospitals where t
The side of the pnc building downtown. Whipping winds causing a whole lot of trouble, Power Outages overnight. In the upper left there, the entire front of an abandoned building collapses onto maywood avenue. You see bricks and debris all over the place. Strong winds take down half a wall of bricks at st. Teresas holiness Science Church on kinsman. There are a whole lot of reports of poles and power lines down right now. Some 10,000 people are northeast ohio. The hardest hit area is lake county and the high winds will continue this morning. The power lines kind of like jump ropes this morning, doing loops and loops over and over. The sustained wind speeds right now are 15 to 20 miles an hour. Thats not the full story, though. We get those wind gusts occasionally around 30 to 40 miles an hour. Thats not going to help things much at all. However, i think as the morning goes on, the wind will subside a little bit. Still going to be extra windy through about 8 00 in the breezy conditions,
Before some big time change smacks us in the face. So enjoy this. Kristin. Reporter thanks so much, j. D. Well, yeah, weve been talking those downed trees, downed power lines. I have all of them listed at least as reports come in on my twitter page. Place. Kristinbyrne. Right now youre looking at an odot view of 90 right at east excuse me, west 84th. Ill get it together, i promise. But you can just see how slick we are out on the highways this morning because of that rain. And as j. D. Has been talking it, something we are going to be dealing with for that morning commute, so make sure you take it slow, and if any of those traffic lights are out, treat those as a four way stop. Were not going to give in to to fear, were not going to give in to hatred or tragedy like this. Healing after horror. Ohio state coming togethers this morning to move Forward Together this morning to move forward after a terrifying attack. And classes will resume today less than 24 hours after a man drove into a
Barbdon. That did not cause a power outage, but in total first energy is working to restore about 1,000 or so right now. So well continue to follow that. And scwrmplet d. Rudd also following that this morning. Yeah. Tracking that wind for you, 6 01, good morning. The one benefit from the wind, look at the temperature right now. Were kind of in the middle of this surge of milder air in the mid50s this morning, but it does come with that price of the strong wind gusts. Right now wind speeds are out of the south at around 10 to 15 miles an hour. The little bit over the last couple of hours. Thats going to continue as we go through the day today. But, still, as you head off to work, two hands on the wheel, yellow, kristin will certainly back me up on that. On the drive home, the sun should peak out, upper 50s. Not a bad tuesday in late november. Kristin. Reporter not too bad. Just worryd about those streets where we are seeing issues because of the strong winds. So for traffic out there us
Overseas have some people concerned. But president obama says there are no known Credible Threats against the u. S. Homeland. Nevertheless, he is asking everyone to remain vigilant. Pres. Obama i want the American People to know, entering the holidays, that the combined resources of military, intelligence and Homeland Security agencies are on the case. Elizabeth americans can expect to see a heightened security presence at places likes airports and train stations. Authorities are also monitoring for potential threats against socalled soft targets. Sec. Jeh johnson potential copycat acts, similar to things that occur overseas. Were focused on the lone actor as well. Elizabeth the tsa is recommending that air travelers arrive at least 2 hours before their flights to give themselves plenty of time to get through security. Kim lots of people are hitting the road early to beat the rain, ice and snow. Drivers are facing. Emmy roads are filling up hour after hour this thanksgiving eve with tr