At first he was given a field sobriety test by troopers before he was handcuffed and taken away. So they do have someone arrested, somebody in custody for this. But again a state trooper based in cleveland was pulling somebody over, got out of his cruiser when he was hit and killed. A very tragic situation that has i90 westbound near the cleveland lakewood border closed. It is closed for several miles. Traffic is backed up. We have a lot of traffic that is actuly heights boulevard as an alternate. Obviously an area that you are going to want to avoid this afternoon. Thats the latest from cleveland. Derick waller, newschannel5. We want to take you to clevelands air tracker 5 for a look at how this tragedy is tieing up traffic right now. John, tell us what you are seeing. Reporter well, frank, you are looking at the ramp from to go to 90 westbound just coming across the bridge. It is causing traffic to backup well past dead mans curve, stretching to about east 55th street. It is moving a
5 Live Doppler Network screen. Still some rain ashtabula to andover. Scattered snow for cleveland beginning to taper off and shift over lake erie. Scattered snow showers around mansfield and ashland. In between, just a flurry or two, maybe a sprinkle. That is about it. Its a wider view of whats kind of a complicated pattern. Weve got a stalled out Alberta Clipper. How often does that happen . Not very often. Its going to stay here through tuesday afternoon. It will rotate in spokes of energy in the form of scattered light to moderate snow showers tonight and again through the day tomorrow. So its going to be hit and miss stuff until further notice. Here is your current temperature map. 33 cleveland to medina. Its 34 in akron, 33 in canton. So its not extremely cold, but its cold enough for you to notice, cold enough to require the coats and also require you watch out where youre driving weve got scattered snow showers through the overnight. Generally a trace to an inch. A few spots man
Temperatures as high as they are, high even to the north, 41 quakertown, pottstown, 40 doylestown, 43 degrees in mount hole think morning. Storm scan3 if you look very closely, you can see those clouds. It is almost easier to see where they arent. And thats off the coast of maryland. But clouds out there this morning, storm system, rainmaker, snow maker to the north of us. We will be finding these winds starting to pick up. Every time i show this the wind speed has pick up. These are sustained winds pick up 2 miles an hour. 14mile per hour wind not big deal. But, we get them sustained 20 25 miles an hour today. And theyll be over 30 miles an hour as we move through the afternoon. And in some cases they can be close to 40 miles an hour. Temperatures this afternoon get to go about 50 degrees. I think it is a day that you can probably enjoy this weather. We do have some temperatures, though, going through the next couple of days that show a huge change from tomorrow, through wednesday, it