Good friday morning. Brian im brian duffy. 98 years ago today world war i ended, and ever since the 11th day of the 11th month has been dedicated to honoring our veterans. We will honor them with stories throughout the morning. First we check in with sam roberts. We have the weekend right on top of us, sam. How is it looking . It looks good. No rain, and nor dry. If youre just waking up with us, i hope your morning is off to a great start. We have clear skies from cleveland off to the west. In far northeastern ohio a little bit more in the way of cloudiness, i expect clouds to increase through the day and there could even be a little patchy drizzle or light rain that develops. This is hourbyhour rain chance graphic, and notice it is running at about 20 all day. I dont think youre going to light rain around. Our temperature trend is interesting today. We kind of hover right around 50 through about 1 00 in the afternoon, and then we start to drop into the 40s. Middle 40s by 5 00, so your
Come to an end and snow sneaks its way back in. Accidentfree on the highways. No issues on 77, 71, 90 checking in good too. Now a reminder, the ramp right at 90 and 77 looks like were back open now. Lets pull up the odot view. Traffic is flowing just fine. It was closed for overnight work but looks like that just finished. Hure the streets in akron, speaking out against president elect donald trump and calling for unity. It started at Highland Square. 400 protesters met up and marched down west Market Street, back to Highland Square. Organizers said it was a call for unity and a protest against discrimination. Were not going to let anyone, no matter who we are, no matter what sexual preference or race or religion, that. Protesters disbursed just before 12 30. There was a group of about 20 to 30 counterprotesters also there. It all remained peaceful between the groups. New developments in cleveland this morning. A ban on busseses in Public Square now permanent. Sarah finney is live down
The surface is the truth. We clear out for thursday and tomorrow in addition to seeing a lot of sunshine we are talking about warmer weather. A preview of the weekend because i know this has you all talking, 70 on friday, 40s with rain and a change over to snow on saturday. Lake snow on sunday. I will explain coming up. Right now danielle is explaining the commute this morning and you know thank thrill thank thrill we will on the slushy stuff. Stay with wkyc. Com to check the Traffic Cameras to prepare you for the weekend. Right now i am preparing you for the commute and really not much to prepare for. Its quiet drive right now. Heres picture 77 at the turnpike. Not tracking any accidents and no major delays. Traffic moving just fine 77 at the turn pike on both the north and southbound sides of the highway. So for those of you traveling up 77 from the turnpike to 480 it is the normal 8 minute commute. Interchange its 5minute drive now back to you. We have seen antitrump protest across
Doortodoor in berea talking to customers about their water and our offer to test it, paul. We have been collecting up and water weve got and samples we have collected in clean jugs and made thursday they were clean jugs and getting answers for people and hit or miss problem. Color isnt everything. For example, the lead found you might think was found in this sample here. It wasnt. It was found in a sample sample that looked like that fair street is where we collected three samples of water. It is not the only street where we got complaints. And a new filter we watched sandy install looked like this. The pure white in the middle and old brown we watched take out on top. Abbeys home she noticed daughters bath. On the day we were there it wasnt terrible but monday a mug full of dark tap water. Lead was found in her water. They had high levels of iron. Almost triple the limit. Are you surprised . Personally, not really. I dont drink the tap water at all. Reporter why . To me it is almost f
The watercolor and quality in berea is a hot button topic particularly with cyril kleem and objects to people with bath water that looks like this and a Water Testing lab found unacceptable levels of lead. The discoloration of the water could be due to the construction. We have been flooded with comments from viewers from berea who say the problem has been happening on and off for decades. In a of less than 10 a year and a lot of people dont realize water doesnt come out of the water plant looking like this. No claim that the water leaving the plant is bad. They led us through the purification process. It is sophisticated and begins with half million gallon clarifying tanks and 2 million gallons on average. This is great at killing pathogens and viruses and carbon filtration is great for taking and odors in your Drinking Water. And he agrees with the mayor and blames discoloration on an aging infrastructure. The old cast iron water main it is underground from the 40s and 50s that are t