We begin with breaking news. A deadly crash that has shut down southbound 71. Lisa wlwt news 5 s dan griffin is live at the scene with what we know about the crash. Dan good morning. We re south of dana avenue. This is a wrong way crash where a woman was driving a great minivan gray minivan. We understand the van was going the wrong way and hit a small vehicle in the opposite direction. We understand a man died. The woman not taken to the hospital and stayed at the scene. How many people involved and if that woman was injured or anyone 71 southbound expected to be closed through 8 00 a. M. This morning. It is going to be a situation where investigators will try to reconstruct this crash. The crash scene is very active and we are still working to get more information about how this all played out. We will follow the details and bring you up to date as we move through the morning. Lisa thank you. Kyla this could be a significant closure, especially if it lingers until 8 00. This is a lon
3 deputies think theyve got the man and woman who kidnapped a man in northern kentucky. Investigators say Charles Burnette and Emma Haumesser forced a man to withdraw money from a t ms in boone county. The man was staying at the quality inn near the airport. Deputies say he was looking somehow came into contact with haumesser. They say she left the hotel room and came back with burnett. And he had a gun 3 tom scheben Boone County Sheriffs Office they proceeded to go to atm. To atm. To atm. Six in total. And get money. Averaging a lot of peoples weekly pay. Before the last atm ate it. I can only assume he reached his limit. So, with that really they just popped him in the mouth and eye and dropped him off and left. The victims identity is not being released. He only had minor injuries. 3 Lockland Police are investigating their first homicide of the year. The man who pulled the trigger called police himself. He told them a few men broke into his house and one of them held him at knife po
Lisa i m lisa cooney. Let s go to randi rico. Randi we had steady, heavy rain through the Early Morning hours. Of the last few hours we have caught a little break. Through the rest of the afternoon the rain is more scattered, hit and miss style. The first matches of thunder and lightning have developed to the south. You can see over the last hour the 50 s. Obviously a thunderstorm is a possibility even though we aren t expecting Severe Weather. Our entire area except fayette and Union Counties are under a Severe Weather warning. We will transition from rain to snow. Looking at our rainfall totals this morning, hamilton 1. 1 inches. Andrew quite the mess on when crest drive. A landscape true is trying to clean up. They are cutting up a tree and lifting pieces over the house with a crane to dispose of it after the tree came crashing down this morning. It was uprooted this morning and came down on the backside of the house. It happened while the woman who lived here and her children were
Above freezing. That should preclude accumulation. As temperatures begin to drop below midnight because right now were seat sitting were sitting at freezey, were going to see accumulations in the grassy area. That has pivoted its way up to lower michigan. You can see the uneven nature of the snow shower activity. While i certainly think there could be some in the grass. I dont anticipate significant travel problems. Ill let you know how much were expecting an d warmup for the weekend. Sheree th e other big story of the night, College Basketballs top team goes down at the sin tass center. Xavier pulling off one of the you know its win when chris mack getting the big win. Xavier taking the big dogs or i guess the cats as in the villanova wildcats. Mike elise jesse live at the Cintas Center. Elise. Elise xavier was not messing around today. They were all business from start to finish. They were welcoming in the Number One Team in the nation. They knew they had a tall task ahead of them fa
Taken to the hospital to she stated the scene. There is no word on any charges in this at this point. Cincinnati police said the stretch of i71 southbound could be reopened by 7 00 a. M. Which would be good news for people heading into the city. Kyla really good news that they are hearing that they will hopefully open it by 7 00. That will help us out on the roads. A fatal accident there on 71 southbound, completely shutting down all those lanes near dana. As you can see with dan, tow trucks on the scene working to clear that quickly. Take a look on our map. We are starting to see those areas of yellow. Things are slowing down a bit if you re heading toward that accident. I would recommend you try to avoid it as you had outside for your morning commute. A couple of different alternates you can use. Hop over to the norwood lateral and take that to 75. Here is another look near the site of the accident were you can see they are still diverting you will not be able to access any lanes sou