picture made all a major milestone today in the battle against the heroin epidemic. a Graduation Ceremony at the Cuyahoga County drug court has more than two dozen seeing the possible. Monica Robbins joins us live from the Justice Center with more. good evening. reporter good evening ross. the court has been active since 2009. and today it celebrated its 300th graduate. 300 of them took control of their now sober lives. the majority of these dependent. the goal of the program is to break the cycle of recidivism g drug dependency, putting them through treatment and holding them accountable. only those assessed as drug dependent are allowed into the program and this year included the safe first graduates of course. those who not only suffer from addiction but also Mental Health issues relating to and while this is certainly a the fight, there is still a lot of work left to be done. we are on pace for one of the highest overdose death rates in years because of the rise in fentanyl cases.
kind of looks like no one will have enough delegates. well see. first order of business is the state of orrow kasichs Campaign Goes to illinois. now, kasich will be making his remarks about his performance in michigan tonight he is hoping for a strong second place finish there to give him momentum into ohio. i will have more of my interview with john ght on channel 3 news at 7 00. tom beer as, channel 3 news. tom berras, channel 3 he said he would consider kasich as his running mate. he spoke to John Anderson and lynna lai. circling back to a convention in cleveland, how would you go about winning the battle on the i dont want to talk about it yet. im leading by a lot right now. i think winning ohio is very impo have a really good chance of doing that, but its a little bit early to talk about it yet. most people think its g to happen. if it does, i will be talking to you first. trump will make his way to cleveland this saturday. theres a rally planned for 2 00 p. M. at the to the democ
thanks so much for being with us at 6 00 a. M. Live shot, she was wearing a hat. theres snow on the ground. were getting through a little bit of winter this weekend and going up. thats what were all looking forward to. olga is here with the forecast. today, even when i left the house, it felt a little t. were not in a deep freeze this morning, but most of the area is in the 0s. the good news is High Pressure ving in. the winds are shifting. were gaining daylight and temperatures. its actually starting to look a little more like springtime as we head into the will be a transition for us. well get out of the 20s and push out of the 30s quickly as we move through mined before, it is the High Pressure system thats going to keep the clouds away, keep your skies mainly clear. afternoon today, and well also y for these temperatures to rebound somewhat. it means were at a quiet we push through the 30s and into the 40s, i think most of us will settle out with partly cloudy skies by this l look
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
jimmy haslam said his guidance helped us succeed our so, russ, this is the wise guy. were looking the wins rather be part of the football operations. hes the guy that knows more about football. theres nothing more for him to do. the bottom line is hes the this is a new regime. its time to move forward. its been a very busy off season. it will continue to keep ell see you later in sports sports. thank you. this morning saw another says of a vehicle being hit by a wrongway driver. that driver is said to be drunk. Andrew Horansky has that story. reporter that crash along in our area in just days. tonight, theres a real concern. a tour with employee people took on nts before, the driver had gone north in a southbound lane near the i90 split. all passengers zero some First Responders are looking to see if something could have kept that car from getting far. hes encouraging leaders to consider spike lets see if there truly is a problem. in the wake of two deadly crashes close to home. last m