Cleveland 19 news sponsored by National Carpet mill outlet. Ohios flooring superstore. Asking questions and getting answers. Cleveland 19 news starts now Jay Cleveland 19 is first to tell you about possible contamination in the berea water supply. After finding lead and iron in the water, we are get our investigation is coming up, but first we have a commuter alert. We are getting answers on what you need to know about a bus ban in Public Square. Chris tanaka joins us from the alert desk. Chris thats right. We have been waiting since Public Square opened and tonight we are getting answers. It was announced at a press conference that the road in the middle of Public Square will stay closed to all commuter traffic will continue to go around the square. Rta commissioner says he is confident that the city can find a solution. We feel these are the strategy wheeze have found strategies we have found and we can make changes to the corridors outside Public Square to make up for any inconvenie
Theyre still getting bills. Now they are fighting back. For more than one year i work on your side investigators have been digging into the Cleveland Water Department in tonight and neighborhood is fed up. Constant noise, phone calls ignored and Big Questions about water bills, investigator Jonathan Walsh joins us now and we keep finding these questionable charges. It is like an endless cycle of complaints coming in, people like the residents on kensington avenue in Cleveland Cleveland water came up with this. We met eddie irvine stood with others on kensington as continued construction work went on along their street. It is part of waterlines being replaced and service at one point was cut off. And neighbor had a funeral in the family and the whole family came over and there was no water. Reporter neighbors got their water from hydrants and hoses and they had readings that charge them for water that never ran through their meters, when they asked why . We called and they gave us an at
Groups that assist crime victims across the United States are bracing for significant financial pain after the amount available from a major federal victim services fund plunged $700 million this year.
Four years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers are still studying its effects on society. A new report focusing on domestic violence during the pandemic revealed social backgrounds and life circumstances played a significant role in how survivors view their abuse. Paige Sweet, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Michigan and author of the report, conducted interviews with 50 pandemic-era abuse survivors in Michigan, most of whom were struggling financially. .