We have had such a soggy day. A lot of rainfall coming down. It continues to fall. What a murky day it has been. Akron, canton, and this heavier brain shot rainfall activity moving into Carroll County should slowly strip towards the east behind it, we get the lake affect. Theres that little band. Down to valley view. The rest of us are seeing these areas of drizzle coming in and it is beginning to lineup. This that looked familiar . Lake affect rain showers taking over with the strong northerly wind. It is cloudy and blustery and that is the way you need to plan for your evening. Ready friday night footballers. Lower 50s to start. I think most everyone will be in the 40s at least by the fourth quarter. Some of you, even by halftime with hit and miss rain. Those bleachers will be cold and wet tonight. Of teens in cleveland every year. Social Service Agencies are ramping up their efforts to put an end to use homelessness. Were joined live from the ywca. My, lofty goals have been set. Rep
Incredible moment. The Cleveland City is on a roll. Talk about ending a drought with some style. We are going all out to bring you Live Team Coverage of the spirit, enthusiasm and pure jubilation in our amazing city today. At the center of it all, newschannel5 anchors rob powers and janessa webb. Guys, i can see the q and pr corner of the cleveland sports fan paradise as we get ready for the big night tonight. Even though the monsters won a championship the cavs ended the cleveland sports championship drought. The stakes are still so high for the indians. Yes. The last time they won was 1948. We made it this far in 1954, 1995 and 1997 and lost the tonight is the fourth attempt at yet another title, almost a major hickup. The indians halloffamer kenny lofton was invited to throw out the first pitch tonight ahead of game one. He was a member of the 1995 alcs Championship Team. He ended up on standby for his red eye flight to cleveland last night. A marble head ohio man posted on twitter
Then they tip off a brand new season. Just one hour later the indians take on the chicago cubs, game one of the world series. The feeling right now in downtown cleveland, it is electric. Reporter yes, it is. Everybody is pumped up. We are all over downtown cleveland right now as crowds gather around gateway practice va plaza. We will kick it off with Hakem Dermish live inside the biggest night in sports history in cleveland and the ballpark is buzzing right now. Fans have filed in both from chicago and northeast ohio. It will be rocking tonight with red for the cleveland indians. What will it feel like for game one . Well, i want to know, what is this all like . This is what he had to say. Game one . This is the pinnacle of trying to get to it throughout your career. To get to the big leagues is a dream come true, to play in the big leagues for a few year, but ultimately to win a championship. When you come out in game one and the instructions happen, that is when you really realize it
We began with sports director andy baskin. Reporter i have to tell you the best word that i heard you just said it. It was epic inside quicken loans arena tonight. It almost felt like game seven had spilled over a few months later. Let me take you into what we saw tonight. It was absolute edlin. You could feel the excitement and energy when they were introducing the players you felt like the roof his ring and when they race to the banner the crowd went wild in the city felt like a champion. [ cheering and applause ] this night in of us will ever forget. None of us. Anybody in this building or in this community or anybody on this stage. Anybody that has any ties to cleveland. If you are not from here, live here, play here, dedicate world. Reporter it was the night that no cleveland sports fan will ever forget the night they saw the banner go up on 52 years of sports misery here and downtown cleveland. Epic is the perfect word. Back to you. Fans who did not score tickets to it again floo
One indian. Its about 20 miles from the batting cage at Wrigley Field to the sprawling campus of glenn brook North High School but will you find jason kipnis on both. His picture hangs on the back stop. This was his field, these are his people. I remember the kid that had a hot temper growing up, even in high school when we were playing in northbrook. He was passionate. We had a running joke with his dad. He would be throwing dad would give me a check to cover the cost. Reporter the passion of a football player, which jason was a good one. Still holds a ton of receiving records. He was just a competitor. He didnt think he was helping the team unless we were giving him the ball. Reporter but it was baseball that called jason. Coach rupert watched him become a man full of prayed and determine nation. Good times, great friends, watching all this from here. Its so hard to describe that he is actually living his dream. And as a friend, as a brother, its cool. It sounds so simple, but its re