Shaw in Garfield Heights and Somara Theodore tracking the storm. And first, Storm Tracker 5 near wadsworth, and battling the elements. Heavy, wet snow covering the highways. And if you have to go out, give yourself extra time. It took 45 minutes to go from canton to akron and. Lets start with Somara Theodore. And lets go ahead and look at the radar and we have the area in blue showing the snow, the area in pink showing the wintery weather and green showing the rain and that is where we are in terms of the system and the heaviest snow falling in our viewing area. Parts in purple and pink. That is where were picking up the heaviest snow. New philadelphia, canton, akron getting hit hard and carol county, expecting you to see the bulk of the system as it passes through. Its not coming down hard but right now, down to the critical point in canton, a quarter of a mile and were looking at a mile in cleveland and a mile and a quarter in akron and were battling different elements this morning a
Districts that historically elected African Americans and they raise the rate of minority voters in the district. Two in particular. The first which serves voters in the coastal plains. The board of commissioners chair says it will also have an effect on people in the mountains. Itll affect us because the 12th district, which counts like a snake, impacts the sent district. If they have the redistribute there will be presum bli more in the tenth district that does touch part of asheville. Justin its nothing new. The democratics over did it in 2004. And the federal court said you cant do that. Justin thats something that will have to be fixed calling it if win for everyone. You want your vote to matter. The way they drew the district they purposefully made peoples vote not matter because it made it such a high minority voter representation in the districts. You have to spread everything out and give everybody a chance. Justin not everyone is happy with the decision. The gop chairman of t
Complaints about no heat or hot water is already on the rise. Reporter were going to get to those complaints in just a minute. Theres also Public Housing behind me. There are extra repair crews ready to fix things if they go wrong here. In just a moment im going to show you an exclusive look at the boiler in here. Youll get a sense of just how much is riding on one boiler. Sixyearold jaden knows the drill about this weekend. Put on a hat and put on gloves and a scarf so you can stay warm and dont get sick. Reporter but warming your body is one thing. Thousands of new yorkers are worried about warming their homes. We got an exclusive tour of a new York City Housing Authority complex in Washington Heights. The general manager took us to the boiler room and we are talking about a giant boiler. Take a look. Thousands of tenants depend on if that thing goes down, lots of people dont have heat. That is true. But we have lots of folks that are in the area to respond to it. We have a mobile bo
Live from clevelands niece niece clevelands news center, cleveland 19 news starts right now. Denise remember this . You were bundled up and schools were closey because of the bone chilling temperatures. Last year at this time we were below zero here in cleveland. What a difference a year makes. Tomorrow we can make a run at 65. Romona dont break out the shorts and sandals just yet. Jeff has his jacket off. Jeff maybe one day you can bust out the shorts. By the way, on february 20th last year we had 17 below zero. A little different story this year. There is a wind advisory for the western counties. We have a 51 gust in sandusky and 46 in cleveland and check out these temperatures and because of the strong south wind wind lets hit the button. 57 lakewood and it is near 60 in euclid. Now, the headlines go like this. It remains windy overnight and tomorrow and unseasonably warm. As ramona just mentioned we will make a run at the 60s tomorrow. Then with the wind shift tomorrow night and su
We may be getting a change. When students were punished by making them stand outside in the cold, parents were upset. Sia nyorkor went to Brimfield Elementary School near kent to get the answers. Reporter jennifer says students need discipline but not in this way. I am all for discipline and children. They need those, the boundaries that discipline provides but they should expect certain disciplines. When you give them something that they have thats outside of that, i think it makes them feel unsafe. Reporter wednesday recess monitors in kent made students stand outside as punishment for behavior on the playground. The students were already outside for recess but a concerned parent tells cleveland 19 students were made to stand in a line and told to stand still for over 15 minutes. On wednesday there was snow and temperatures were in the lower 30s and some places below freezing. I wouldnt like it. I would go talk to them and expect something was done and whoever made the decision to do