Heard steps away from her front door. The wall of this abandoned building blown over by strong winds. We looked out the window, didnt see nothing. Come down a little bit further, the whole building was gone. I was like oh, my god, look at all this. Im glad nobody was hurt. Hope theres no animals in there, too. Reporter now that the sun has come up we can get a better look at what happened. There are bricks all over the place but it appears that what happened is a wall that was part of this old building came hi now see that it took down with it, it looks like, a lot of electrical wire was. And in between those bricks. On the other side of town along kinsman at east 73rd, more wind damage. The facade on st. Teresa holiness Science Church now in pieces on the ground. The trail of damage continued along east 9th where Cleveland Police say a construction wire snapped, shattering glass that ended up in the street. Crews spent a few hours cleaning artery into the city. Just in time for rush h
Improving year to year. Also things like the Graduation Rate and of course the dropout rate. So, where did everyone fall . Well, we will start with cleveland. Cleveland did not fare very well. In fact, cleveland had all fs for grades. Not so great there at all. When it comes to akron, akron all ds and fs. Not much better in akron. Akron all ds and fs. Canton was mostly ds and fs. They did have one a. We will put this one a. On one a. That was in their gifted program. As for who was the best in the area . I had to put those on here because of course we want to end with some good news here. Bay village and beachwood really fared what i saw the best out of most on the list with mostly arkansas and bs. You might find a couple cs trickled in there but its hard in the area to find ones that did that well. Im sure many of you, theres a lot more suburbs that we were not able to cover here but every one of the suburbs in our area, districts are covered on this. We have shared this on our websit
Rule. Cleveland has the right to preserve our local authority and both protect and provide clevelanders with the opportunity to work on construction jobs where there is city investment. Again this is another infringement on our rights as a city. Our home rule rights as a city, to do the things that we know are necessary and that we are in the best position to do to take care of the residents of the city of cleveland. Reporter that was Council Woman Phyllis Cleveland impressive. At first blush, at least. From 20092015, 885 contracts generated 730 Million Dollars of revenue in the public sector. 23 of the work done by clevelanders. Numbers for the private sector appear even bigger. We will check back further and have answers for you at 5 00. Brian all right, orlo. Thank you. President obama boarded marine one a couple of hours ago heading to baton rouge, louisiana. The president will get a devastation that has been left there by the flooding. President obama should arrive in louisiana at
The party turnout at the specific polls but absentee ballots requested for democratic ballots were nearly two to one over the republican ballots which isnt unusual. For the past three president ial primaries more people have cast democratic ballots than republican. Its early for turnout numbers. In 2012, about 27 of voters turned out. In 2008, about 41 . So far, everyone that we have spoken to today for this primary just says that they hope ohio makes a real difference in this president ial election. Hopefully we play a role. We will see. We need a good president and good judges and everything. We just need so much in cleveland. This is important. Its an important election. I vote every year. I figured it was definitely my duty to do so. Reporter so as you heard from them, a very important know. Governor kasich has said he will drop out of the race for the so we will be here all day. You will want to stay with cleveland 19 and cleveland19. Com all day for updates throughout the day on
Fire chief rick barber is still inside taking questions at this press conference here outside know. The Fire Investigation has now wrapped up at the scene. The cause is still undetermined. They do believe the fire started outside of building on the ground level. They have ruled out arson, but they are saying barber has said the source could be as simple as a cigarette. They arent saying thats the cause. They still need to do some testing on some Electrical Equipment outside. I spoke with a couple whose unit was destroyed. Victim. Keegan. They told me about her and told me about their nightmare last night. Tim parsons and Elizabeth Miller say they had seconds to escape the blaze that destroyed their thirdfloor Hickory Hills apartment. Happened in a split second. From the time that i looked at my porch with a small red glow, to have been a 30second span. Reporter a fouryearold little girl died after being trapped in a basement unit. Rescue crews could not get to her in time. Its difficul