Baby was inside but when officers found the car. The baby wasnt inside. Police now say while the search was on benton snuck out the back of her home with that newborn and called a taxi. Neighbors tell us theyre shocked at the allegations. I dont know what was going through her head i guess she just wanted her car back bentons brother tells us hes now taking care of the baby and her two other kids. As we mentioned. Two teens are facing charges this morning in connection with that stolen car. But only one of them is charged with stealing the car. One teen was arrested on hopkins street. With the other was caught on prosperity. Near the scene of the crash. New at 5. An arrest warrant has been issued for april rose kirmse. Shes the middletown woman accused of leaving this puppy, leroy, outside to freeze last month. She was supposed to be in court yesterday answering to those animal cruelty charges and failure to license. Investigators say she left 10 when he was found, he was hyperthermic, malnourished and had parvo. He is expected to be okay. Those of us in the tristate have only been able to watch the president ial nomination process so far. But now some will have a say. Although not everybody may realize it. Kentucky republicans will hold their president ial caucus tomorrow. Tomorrow. Jordan burgess is live with what you need to know about the unusual early date. Not only is the date moved up. But the process is a little different as well. When people vote here at places like the Florence Baptist church. Theyll find campaigns trying to sway them. Before they go and cast their ballot. Otherwise things will be much like a regular election day. Once you pass the campaign representatives. Youll go to a spot to check in. And then youll get a ballot that youll cast in secret. It will only be a ballot for the republican president ial race. Registered republican to take part. The caucus will be from 10 to 4. But this is important. Counties will only have one polling place. So you likely wont go to your normal spot. What well be watching is how turnout will be with so many differences. Were going the best we can to get the word out but were continuing to hear people dont know about it. Kentucky will have its democratic primary and other republican primary races in may. Indianas primary is also in may. But ohioans will vote in less than two weeks. On march 15. Reporting live. Jordan burgess. 9 on your side. Covering democracy 2016. The reviews are in. And it was another ugly performance during last nights fox news gop president ial debate. Debate. The candidates once again took personal pot shots at one another. Another. Establishment candidates ted cruz and marco donald trump. Calling the billionaire businessman dangerous. A phony and a con man unfit for office. Trump fired back at rubios comments on his hands. donald trump r president ial candidate he referred to my hands, if theyre small, Something Else must be small i guarantee you theres no problem. I guarantee you. You. Despite that. Rubio. Cruz and john kasich said theyd support trump if he wins the gop nomination. Nine on your side is working with politifact. One of the most respected factcheckers for political campaigns. To make sure youre getting the truth. Last night. The personal attacks gave way to punching holes in policies. And donald trump went after marco rubios voting record. Out show up to vote runs 09 . Trump this guy has the number one, the number one absentee record in the united states, he doesnt show up to vote. Politifact put it to a truth check. And they found rubio has the worst attendance 125missed roll call votes. Thats 41percent more than any other sitting senator. Ted cruz isnt far behind with a 36percent absentee rate. But if you look at how many votes they have missed in their senate careers. Both rubio and cruz missed 14point8 percent. So politifact ranks Donald Trumps claim as mostly true. Politifact was working overnight checking other statements for you. Well have more of their truth ratings on good morning tristate at six am. You can also find them on wcpodotcom and our 9 on your side mobile app. Light snow gets replaced with freezing drizzle for the morning drive. Watch out for slick spots on your way to work, especially on bridges and overpasses. Skies will stay mostly cloudy for much of the day with highs in the low 40s. Im timing out our rain hand held only history inside the big top. The changes happening to the circus and why this is your last chance to see one of the biggest acts. This new building will absolutly transform the use of our college and campus. Campus. Celebrating Something Big in the tristate. The construction project that will the circus is back in the queen city today. But this years visit will be bitter sweet. It will be your last chance to see the elephants before they retire to a conservation home in florida. Florida. 9 on your sides timyka artist joins us live inside the Us Bank Arena with this final farewell. The circus is in town. Ringling bros barnum and bailey retunrs to the queen city. Its a farewell show of sorts. Its the last time youll be able to see show elephants before light snow gets replaced with freezing drizzle for the morning drive. Watch out for slick spots on your way to work, especially on bridges and overpasses. Skies will the day with highs in the low 40s. Im timing out our rain and snow chances for saturday coming up. Starting today. A push for clean water. The efforts happening now in flint. And whos not waiting for the [content sigh] ah, excuse me . Mr. Jones . Hi. Already . You booked an appointment. I just started cookin. We at Time Warner Cable need to apologize to you. Yet. We no longer give you an excuse tan. Starting to even it out. Were making a bunch of changes at Time Warner Cable. Including onehour arrival windows. Well also tell you how long gmts animyoure watching good morning tristate at 5 on 9 on your side an update this morning on the water crisis in flint. The citys effort to replace all of its lead pipes starts this morning. But some arent waiting for government help. Several homes already have new water pipes. Thanks to private donations organized by the Flint Coalition and flint islamic center. Theres still no plan yet on how to replace the thousands of lead Service Lines underneath the city. An oil spill more than 300 miles away on the mississippi traffic here in cincinnati. The Us Coast Guard has stopped all traffic in granite city. Illinois. Thats because a ship passing through the lock there broke a fuel tank. The tank holds up to 20 thousand gallons of fuel. But no one is sure how much spilled. Until the spill is cleanedup. The coast guard is keeping that lock closed. You may soon be able to travel to cuba from right here in the tristate. All major us airlines. Including american. Delta. And united. Have submitted applications to fly commercial flights to the island. The government says it will allow 20 daily roundtrip flights between the us and havana. And 10 flights to nine other cuban cities. If youve ever misplaced jewelry. This next story is for you. A wedding band lost at sea in hawaii finds its way back to its owner. In canada. Aaron thibeault lost the ring on a family trip to maui. He was boogy boarding when a wave knocked his wedding band off his finger. More than a year ring on the beach. And got it back to aaron. Who says nect time hell remember to take it off ebfore hitting the waves. Let get your latest nine scattered snow showers continued in the overnight hours, leaving roadways mainly wet as the snow melted. But as we head into the morning drive time, snow will fade and it gets replaced by patchy freezing drizzle. This means we could see some slicks spots again this morning. Be especially careful on bridges and overpasses where pavement temperatures are colder. Morning clouds will hang around for a good portion of our friday forecast. We should see a few more rays of sunshine this afternoon coming in between the clouds. Temperatures are only expected to top out in the low 40s. Another quick moving clipper system moves through the ohio valley on saturday. This initially brings a rain snow mix on saturday morning as temperatures drop to the freezing mark. But temperatures will warm a bit more quickly, resulting in more rain than anything tomorrow. Highs top out in the mid to upper 40s. Sunday looks better with partly cloudy to mostly sunny skies. Temperatures also increase to the 50 degree mark which is closer to normal for early march. Well see a bit jump in temperatures as we head into the coming work week. Highs will climb to the mid to upper 60s early in the week. But rain will take over later in chance for heavy rain and thunderstorms. Morning rush patchy freezing drizzlecloudy and coldlow 31fridaymostly cloudyturning partly cloudy high 41friday nightclouds buildsnow chance arrives closer to sunriselow 32 saturdaymostly cloudymorning mix changes to rainhigh 47 saturday nightrain endsmostly cloudylow 30sundaypartly traffic rem14 a big payday is coming to hundreds of tristate workers. Workers. Why costco says its pay raise for entrylevel employees is long overdue. Why wait at the dmv . How one woman isnt letting a suspended license take away her ticket to ride. And heres what youll see ucs blue ash campus is celebrating the start of Something Big for tristate students. Students. A Ground Breaking celebration was held yesterday for the schools new 16 thousand square foot building. It will be used for both classrooms and offices. School Officials Say space is now at a premium at uc blue ash. The school was designed for 35 hundred students. But it now has fivethousand. The new building is scheduled to open in july of 2017. Retail giant costco is raising its entrylevel wage for the first time in nine years. Entrylevel employees will now either be paid 13dollars and 50cents starting this month. Thats up onedollar per hour from the previous wage. The companys cfo says it was an important thing to do because of the physical demands of entrylevel work. There are three costco locations in the tristate. A new york state woman is facing charges this morning over his licence plate. The one she drew herself. Herself. This is the license plate in question. Made paint. A cop did a doubletake and caught the phony on the back of 28yearold amanda schweickerts car. She allegedly had a suspended registration and no insurance. Light snow gets replaced with freezing drizzle for the morning drive. Watch out for slick spots on your way to work, especially on bridges and overpasses. Skies will stay mostly cloudy for much of the day with highs in the low 40s. Im timing out our rain and snow chances for saturday coming up. Searching for an armed gunman. Tristate police say a violent carjacker is still on the loose. What you need to look for. So you dont become a victim. Special display. Youve probably taken a few home from find more than 700 bobbleheads a tristate mother and daughter. Killed in a headon crash. What were learning this morning about the accident. And the investigation thats now underway. Bursting the bubble. Uc trying to figure out its future after a big loss at houston. How this defeat could keep the bearcats out of the big dance. Good morning. Its another cold start to the day here in the tristate. Tristate. Lets check in with our team of meterologist now to see how long this will impact your day. Jennifer calls for graphic full traffic this Morning Police are trying to find out what caused a crash that killed a mother and her child in cold spring. Just after seven last night on us 27. Police say the mother and her daughter were going north when another car going south crossed over into their lane driver was rushed to uc hospital. But the mother and her child never made it to the hospital. They died at the scene. Chief brian messer cold spring 05 07 its horrifying. Its probably the worst thing that you can see in law enforcement. 11 11according to the Campbell County dispatchers. Drugs are believed to be a factor in this crash. But chief messer tells 9 on your side its too soon to tell. Another tristate driver is lucky to be alive this morning after swerving out of the path of an oncoming semi. The crash sent his car flying off river road in lower price hill. The driver told police he was trying to avoid a semi going the wrong way near state. And ended up in a field. Hes expected to be okay. New this morning. A warning to lock your doors if you live in norwood. Police officers there say theve have been three burglaries in just the last three days in the south end. All of these burglaries happened in broad daylight. Theyre asking you to keep a close eye out for anyone suspicious. And report it to police immediately. The search is still on for a criminal. Two days after he Northern Kentucky supermarket. Supermarket. It happened at this Fort Mitchell remke. Police say a young man flashed a gun and took the womans toyota camry. Just feet from the front doors. 911 call victim 0216 but he pulled his shirt up and he had a gun dispatcher he had a gun in his waist . What did his shirt look like . Victim i dont know. It was just a black gun, he had it stuck down in his pants. Pants. She wasnt hurt. This is a picture of that car. Which has a missing hubcap. If you see it. Call 911 or crimestoppers at 5133523040. He led police on a 20mile chase with his kids and a dog in the back seat. And today. A local dad is going on another trip. To prison. Prison. 48yearold james nie will be sentenced this morning on nearly a dozen charges. Officers say he was caught stealing at the sears in tricounty mall. Hopped in his car and sped off down interstate 275. He crashed into several other cars during the wild chase. But thankfully. His 12year old and 9year old werent hurt. African American Community leaders in the tristate are former cincinnati mayor mark mallory. City councilman Wendell Young and several other Community Organizers will officially endorse clinton for president. Theyll explain just why theyre supporting clinton during a press conference later this morning. It was a bad time to stumble. Ten days before selection sunday. Sunday. And this morning. Ucs bubble may have burst after a bad loss last night to houston. Houston. Uc was out of synch in the first half. Falling behind by 13 at halftime. They picked it up briefly in the second half. But it was too little, too late. The cougars coast past the bearcats 69 to 56. And uc may have to settle for the nit tournament after the loss. Do you love bobbleheads . Its a brand new exhibit at the reds hall of fame and museum. There are more than 6hundred bobbleheads showing the last 60years of reds history. If you want to go see it, the display opens to the public this morning. In case youre wondering. The reds have given away more than onepoint their history. John erardi just published the baseballs alltime most popular giveaway getting its own space at the reds hall of fame. The collection includes an elvis, pope francis and even an uncle al bobblehead. Preschool and headstart programs in williamstown are closed today. Officials says its because of illness among the staff and bus drivers. Other williamstown schools are not affected. Light snow gets replaced with freezing drizzle for the morning drive. Watch out for slick spots on your way to work, especially on bridges and overpasses. Skies will stay mostly cloudy for much of the day with highs in the low coming up. Marijuana. Back on your ballot. The big push to legalize medical marijuana in ohio. And the support it still needs this morning. Made in the tristate. Well show you the next businesswoma n hitting it big. And how shes keeping you dry on your medical marijuana on the November Ballot in ohio is moving forward. Ohioians for medical marjiana has submitted its initiative to attorney general mike dewine for approval. Along with more than twothousand signatures. If dewine signs off on it. And the ohio ballot board oks it. Organizers than 305thousand signatures to put it on novembers ballot. Youve probably driven past them on your way to work. But a dispute over a bike lane turned violent on one chicago street. Street. The bicyclist had his gopro on when he rides by a white suv thats stopped in the bike lane. He says he called out the driver. Saying quote youre in the bike lane, bro. But that driver didnt like that. He chased after the biker in his car before cornering him. Then punching him in the face. colton, biker i didnt know when he was going to stop i didnt know if he was ever going to stop kicking me. Me. The driver got away. And police are using the video to track him down. Should women be charged for Feminine Hygiene Products. Thats the question this morning for new york lawmakers. Lawmakers. A group of women have filed a lawsuit to block new york states socalled fourpercent luxury tax on Feminine Hygiene Products. Opponents say its absurd and unfair. Expecially since men arent taxed for items like rogaine. New york women pay 14million dollars in taxes on Feminine Hygiene Products each year. Donna browning of mt. Lookout had a problem her headband kept slipping off when she taught aerobics class when she so she created sweaty bands. A product made in the tristate. State. Problem was she didnt even really sew. But she knew velvet, ribbon and elastic was a winning combination. She made them herself and started selling them out of her gym bag in 2007. And now people all over the world have bought them. A lot has changed since then. Sweaty bands now prints its own ribbon. Created by a team of designers. But each headband is still giving it a personal touch. But even donnas family wasnt completely sold on this idea. And she has advice for wannabe entrepreneurs you hvae to follow your heart. Follow your gut. If you really believe in something you have to keep pushing forward with it. It. Donna estimates shes sold more than a million sweaty bands. You can buy them online or get a deal by visiting the warehouse near light snow gets replaced with freezing drizzle for the morning drive. Watch out for slick spots on your way to work, especially on bridges and overpasses. Skies will stay mostly cloudy for much of the day with highs in the low 40s. Im timing out our rain and snow chances for saturday coming up. Pitching in to help rebuild. The rabbit hash general store getting support from all sorts of people. People. Whos coming forward this morning with a big c