Comes to an end. And the buckeye pride overflowing tonight as an ohio state wrestler strikes gold in rio. This is channel 3 news brought to you by universal windows direct. And now channel 3 news at 6 00. Another banner he day at the olympic games. Gold in mens some team u. S. History made. Thanks for joining us. It is the final day of the summer olympics. Tonight the closing ceremonies. So now whats next for rio . Many host cities see their olympic structures deteriorate. Has a look at the unique way to recycle those venues. Shes in rio for us tonight. Rio today is brought to you dealers. These olympic venues are just beautiful and they have sure gotten a lot of use over the last few weeks but as the olympics come to a close, everybody starts thinking about whats next, right . Well, in this case some of the venues are going to be used differently after the game. This is one way host cities are looking to save money to reduce the cost of the olympics which in this case reached more tha
Take extra precaution as you are driving around. That rain is heavy and it is just a wild way to start our saturday morning. Thanks so much for being with us. We want to prepare you. I will say when i was on my way in, i was surprised as how heavy that rain was and i personally hydroplaned on the highway. Pretty scary. You are driving along and all of a sudden you get up close to the lakeshore and bam you hi slow down for sure. Dont hit those brakes in terms of an emergency brake but ease off the gas a little bit and dont make any radical moves out there and you are going to be okay. But there are some really big gully washers out there. 71 degrees over at hopkins and cloudy skies. We still have rain and thunderstorms downtown, and you can expect that today. Sadly enough, it is going to be a soggy saturday, warm and humid conditions though. With showers and thunderstorms as we look at the radar, look at the band of thunderstorms moving across cleveland off to the east into lake county,
Thunderstorm there, in fact you will see thunderstorms out on the lake. And it is going to be choppy there with winds out of the south at about 15 knots. When can we shut off the rain . Maureen, it will eventually, but not today. Thanks for that update. Now to our top story we have been following. The man, suspected of being on drugs whether he hit and killed a state trooper on i90 is scheduled to be in court this morning. Meanwhile, his family, his friends and people who dont even know him are tribute. Channel 3s Alyssa Raymond joins us with a look at how trooper Kenneth Veliz is being remembered. Reporter good morning maureen, velizs family and friends say he was an amazing person and questions catted to his job. No one probably knew this better than the ones who looked up on to him most, his three children. His youngest son, Christian Veliz plays football for his team last night as a trib beauty to his dad. Off the field fans from both teams showed support for the family with blue.
and now channel 3 news todaynks so much for being with us at 9 00 a. M. on this saturday march 5th. theres a life look downtown. you can see at least the cloud cover. weve been dealing with a few flurries and thats why we brought in carey coleman. is it almost like scenic or would you say were going to see snow accumulation. were going to be less than an inch on the grassy areas. its all going to come to an end later tonight. good i want it to end for the rest of the year. im not going to guarantee that but weve got nice warm weather on the way. some snow shower today however there is a major warmup on the way. day but it is going to be a remarkable warmup with about 20 degrees above average for temperatures for much of the week coming up. couple of flakes falling here and there. no travel problems whatsoever. temperatures generally below freezing across the northern half of the state and we are going to stay fairly cool for your saturday. those temperatures will gently rise up into th
a big warm up on the way snow showers today a better sunday on the way for you and much warmer in the week ahead. you can see here radar showing you some light very light snow showers all the way from about cleveland over toward toledo. we are going to continue in this vain for most of the day today. upper 20s to low 30s across the area. we are not going to change those temperatures too dramatically today. we are going to make it into the middal 30s. rain mixing in with some of the snow later on today. temperatures very gently rise but tomorrow the sun is going to come out and beyond that, a very nice warm up ahead. so maureen, have faith. there is great weather on the way. sounds good. well be checking back in with you. thanks so much kerry. Bernie Sanders brings his campaign back to cleveland today. he is holding a Community Conversation this afternoon. 3s Alyssa Raymond. i know the set up is happening this morning. big crowds could be coming in just a few hours really. the sun up is