But the best chance of rain will be later this evening. A cold front will drive showers and isolated thunderstorms through the ohio valley. Gusts up to 40 mph are possible during the day. Just along the cold front, a line of storms could develop sometime around 8 p. M. That could produce damaging winds and minor flooding. The Storm Prediction Center has most of the tri state under a slight risk for severe thunderstorms. This line of storms brings with it the threat of severe storms. Rain and storms will continue until about 3 a. M. But keep in mind, this timing could change as this system approaches, so check back for updates. Wednesday will start mild with morning temperatures hovering in the upper 40s, possibly as high as 50. But early wednesday afternoon, colder air starts to arrive and this will cause temperatures too cool quickly, especially after keep it here on 9 on your side for your first warning forecast. If you cant do that you can download the storm shield app or check wcpo dot com. And catch good morning tri state as soon as you wake up for the very latest with meteorologist jennifer ketchmark. More people died of drug overdoses last year than in traffic accidents and the president has taken notice. Notice. President obama will ask more more than 1billion dollars in the 2017 budget to last year 47thousand people died from overdoses which is a record. If allocated, most of the money would go to states to get more Treatment Centers open. And hire experts to treat addiction. In response, republican senator rob portman of ohio issued a statement saying he hopes the president will support the bipartisan comprehensive addiction and recovery act. portman says in addition to funding new initiatives, we must also make sure existing programs have ample support. A sad update now a woman badly injured during a fire last may, has died. The nows Briana Harper takes a look at what happened. Briana . Briana . The Hamilton County coroner confirmed this morning that more than six months after she was seriously injured in a fire, Josephine Payne, has died. I couldnt get upstairs because the flames engulfed me. That was Raymond Payne last may just moments after the fire in corryville. His mother, 81 year old Josephine Payne and his sister were trapped upstairs in their louis avenue home when it overnight hours. Firefighters had to rescue them. And now weve learned josephine never recovered. Both payne women inhaled a lot of smoke. Smoke. Just a few of the Long Term Health problems caused by smoke inhalation include airway obstruction, hoarseness, and continuous cough thats all according to the National Library of medicine. Medicine. Because of the amount of smoke they inhaled. Both had to be sent to columbus for treatment in a hyperbaric chamber. At the time we asked why they had to go so far for care even though we used to have hyberbaric chambers here in the tristate. A few of them actually. Turns out the hospitals no longer have the staff, training or certifications to help in an emergency any more. More. I stopped by the corryville neighborhood where josephine lived today. That home remains boarded up. I also called investigators and im still waiting to hear back to learn the exact cause of the fire. For the now im Briana Harper. A high speed chase spans three states and ends in a started just before noon in Lincoln Heights. Police say the driver reached speed of 90 Miles Per Hour and led them into kentucky and indiana before driving back into ohio. Three suspects were taken into custody in the parking lot of the harrison skyline chili. According to police, the narcotics unit was monitoring the car in Lincoln Heights before it sped off. Today more arrests are made in Clermont County in connection with a six month burglary spree. Spree. Sherry carlier and Charles Glover are in the brown county jail. Investigators say they stole 50thousand dollars worth of jewelry, electronics, and firearms. Jeff carlier and brian crank were indicted in the case in october. Police say the men admitted selling the stolen items to buy heroin. The woman accused of standing by while her boyfriend allegedly beat her two year old to death has given birth while in custody. Rebecca kinner was pregnant when she was arrested in december and yesterday gave birth to a baby boy. Boy. Kinner has pleaded not guilty to all charges including involuntary twoyear old Kinsley Kinner and her Attorney Says is back at the Butler County jail. Kinsleys father believes he is the father of this newborn baby boy. He plans to petition for custody. And says he wants to name the child kingsley in honor of his late daughter. But rebeccas attorney told us today a dna test will establish paternity. This is what interstate 75 looks like right now just north of the lateral. Traffic is moving fine this afternoon in fact its much better than this morning when two multivehicle crashes slowed traffic. Check out this first pile up involving six cars you can see one car caught fire in the northbound lanes near towne street. Firefighters worked quickly to get that under control and clean up the debris. Police say it was a Chain Reaction crash. Officers cited one driver for rearending the car in front. Traffic was backed up for about 2 miles all the way to and about 20 minutes after that was cleaned up in the northbound lanes. We spotted another pile up in the southbound lanes. This one involved fourcars. It also brought traffic to a near standstill near towne street. Southbound traffic was backed up past galbraith road until crews could get all four vehicles to the right shoudler. Police are still investigating what caused the accident. Developing today. Hillary clinton is declared the democratic winner of the iowa caucus. In what the party calls the closest contest in history. But theres no time to rest. She and republican winner ted cruz. Along with most of the remaining president ial candidates are already back on the campaign trail today. The nows todd walker is tracking whats next 36 42 541 011 051 10 tuesday morning. And iowa is already in the Rearview Mirror for many of the campaigns. Marco rubio was on the ground today campaigning in New Hampshire. Energized from his surprise showing in the iowa caucuses. Where he finished third place. But right on the heals of donald trump. Who finished second behind ted cruz. Ted cruz 00 cheers 03an even closer race for the democrats. Hillary clinton in New Hampshire today touting a win in iowa. But the race so tight it wasnt called until just after noon today. Sot Hillary Clinton 20 ive won and ive lost there and its a lot better to win 23clinton barely eeked out a win. Which Bernie Sanders is also claiming as a win. Sot Bernie Sanders 34 for folks who did not think Bernie Sanders could win could compete against Hillary Clinton i hope that thought is now gone 43the front runners are some of the last to arrive in New Hampshire. Chris christie and jeb bush have been there for a while. Trying to gain any sort of traction for their campaigns. Christie today taking shots at rubio. Sot gov. Chris christie r president ial Student Council election, election for president of the united states. Lets get the bubble and lets see him play for the next week in New Hampshire. Im ready to play. I hope he is because ill be ready to see him on saturday night. Todd on camthe democratic race in iowa was so tight that two caucus sites had to be settled by coin toss. Both of those going to Hillary Clinton. The entire field is getting a little smaller. After dismal performances in iowa. And for quite a while now. Both mike announced they are dropping out of the race for the white house. For the now, im todd walker. Iowas delegates will be broken up proportionately between the candidates. The New Hampshire primary is one week from today. Ohio Governor John Kasich didnt do very well in iowa, but thats no surprise to him. Hes banking on a good finish in New Hampshire to bump him up in the standings. And today he talked about how hes hoping his message of hope resonates with voters. Voters. 23 its real simple. Im operating on the sunny side of the street. What i tell people is yeah, ive been a reformer, ive been involved in more fights than you can imagine, but with great accomplishments whether its jobs, whether its welfare reform, fixing my own state, so i just tell them, these problems that we have, they can be fixed and people seem to be very positive and hopeful when they leave. 45 45by the time voters in New Hampshire head to the polls kasich says he will have hosted more than 100 town hall last night in the town of loudon. The lates poll in New Hampshire compiled by the American Research group puts kasich in second place, well behind donald trump. Time is running out if you want to vote in ohio in the upcoming president ial primary. Voters must be resgistered to vote by february 16th. The primary is on march 15th. You can register at the county board of elections or public libraries. You can check your voter status at my ohiovotedotcom. 51 48 this is the worst part about snow days, right . Cleaning off your car coming up. Well tell you how many more blizzards were having every single year according to a new study. Also on the now cincinnati you know you hate it when people act up on a plane. But there is a surprising reason many says flight is better flying with kids can be stressful. But now united is families board early once again. Starting february 15th people with children two or under can get on the plane first. United stopped letting families get on early four years ago. So did american, delta and us airways but theyve all started offering the service again already. Weve shown you video here on the now of people having crazy outbursts on planes. It may have even happened on your flight. But the number of unruly passengers is now the lowest it has been in 20 years. The faa says there were just over 80 cases last year, which is down more than 40 percent from the year prior. So whats causing passengers to behave better . Smart phones may be part of this. Bad behavior is more likely to get caught on video. And then put on social media. Theres also a lower tolerance now by the crews for disruptive behavior on planes. Unruly passengers can face a fine up to 25thousand dollars. And get this it can cost an airline an estimated 200 thousand dollars if they have its groundhog day and in case you missed it this morning, Punxsutawney Phil has made his annual prediction. Take a listen nats there is no shadow to be cast. An early spring is my forecast. cheers cheers that annoucement in gobblers knob pennsylvania was greeted with cheers from the crowd. But something to keep in mind the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says phils accuracy is only about 45 percent. On the flip side and a little closer to home even buckeye chuck spotted his shadow in marion, ohio today. You know what that means. Hes predicting a long winter. Here is the good news though chucks track record is worse than phils. Phils. When asked about his disheartening prediction on twitter today chuck responded that its better to be correct that tell people what they want to hear. A powerful winter storm is pushing across the country now hitting the midwest with snow and ice. This is what it looks like in des moines dropped a foot of snow in parts of colorado. The nows Anne Mcnamara reports on how blizzard conditions like common. Stand up Anne Mcnamara | annemcnamaratv59 14 wipers up and you know what this means a big snow storm. If you feel like youve been seeing this more and more often, a new study says youre right nats58 45 ice scraping this is the worst part about snow days. Cleaning off your car before your drive to work. 50 34 i actually had like a big snow plow to get everything off. Now just getting some ice offall across the west and midwest. Folks are digging out. In blizzard conditions. Graphic 1 new research from Ball State University says the number of annual blizzards has doubled since the 1960s. Graphic 2up until 1994 we averaged about nine a year. From 95 on that number jumped to 19. This guy. Is getting used to his thankless task snowblowing. 53 38 theres an understated therapeutic quality to getting out here and moving it. Q so you dont mind the snow . A no i grew up here. Its part of something. Researchers say this weather is cyclical. Graphic 3 blizzards peak every 11 to 14 years. And typically cover about 32thousand square miles the size of the state of south carolina. This woman wishes she was there right about now. Usually she bikes to work. Today. Shes walking. 57 29 yeah its hiking stepping in other peoples foot prints and there were spots where i think i saw ski tracks stand up Anne Mcnamara | annemcnamaratv 19 00 20 and while were talking about studies and science. Lets not forget this is an el nino year. So well probably be seeing more of this sooner, rather than later. For the now, im Anne Mcnamara. We took a look and this weather isnt impacting flights at cvg at this time. And you might like to know that researchers found blizzards tend to happen in what they call the blizzard zone. Its the northern great plains. The dakotas and western minnesota. Where counties average at least one but the best chance of rain will be later this evening. A cold front will drive showers and isolated thunderstorms through the ohio valley. Gusts up to 40 mph are possible during the day. Just along the cold front, a line of storms could develop sometime around 8 p. M. That could produce damaging winds and minor flooding. The Storm Prediction Center has most of the tri state under a slight risk for severe thunderstorms. This line of storms brings with it the threat of severe storms. Rain and storms will continue until about 3 a. M. But keep in mind, this timing could change as this system approaches, so check back for updates. Wednesday will start mild with morning temperatures hovering in the upper 40s, possibly as wednesday afternoon, colder air starts to arrive and this will cause temperatures too cool quickly, especially after breaking now. The cdc is confirming what could be the first case in the us of someone getting zika virus through sexual transmission. Transmission. Weve shown you the states where the virus has been reported. After people have brought it back from other countries. But this is the first time we know of this year that someone has given it to someone else in the us through sexual activity. Typically zika virus is transmitted by mosquitoes. There havent been any cases of that happening in the us. So far. There are new efforts right now. To come up with a vaccine to fight the zika virus. A major drug maker announced today its working on one. One. They say they will use what they learned creating vaccines for yellow fever and japanese encephalitisis which is similar in some ways develop a treatment. Normally, it can take years and billions of dollars to create a vaccine that prevents an illness but the Company Plans to collaborate with the World Health Organization to speed up development. When the sun goes down, you know thats when the party really starts. Well have more football fans in San Francisco are feeling the vibe long after the sun goes down. The nows andy choi shows us why the bayarea may not get much sleep this week. Snap 10. 03choi Everybody Knows the real party starts at night 6. 58 they have live music, a live dj. You know were having a good time. 11. 40were getting ready for the super bowl yes touchdown, a nighttime soiree 4. 22hey hey hey hey 6. 25i tried to dance with these girls, they said no. He pulled him, and im jealous. Choi i know were sitting on the sidelines here this popular young man is 87 year old charlie guo, perfecting his own super bowl shuffle with thousands of his new friends inside super bowl city. 3. 19choi where did you learn how to dance like that . Charlie how to dance . Yeah, i learned myself. Choi your style . Charlie yeah, just listen to the music. Choi i see. 11. 15this is where the party at. Yall ready to party . 17. 31choi oh i got this youre in the mood to move, Interactive Games keep the pulse of this party alive, all as the clock ticks past your bedtime. 12. 44uhuh, i aint gonna sleep till after the super bowl. 6. 46when the sun goes downwhen the sun goes down, hey its like everything goes man. You have a good time, as long as you respect everybody, they respect you, youre good. 23. 24a lot of sparkly lights, and a lot of smiles just might outnumber the stars on an evening like this. 7. 27charlie is clearly the winner of the super bowl this year. He already won. He already won. Just give him the trophy. For these bayarea night owls, sleep is merely a suggestion. In san fransisco, im andy choi, for the now. Super bowl city stays open until 10 pm every night leading up to the super bowl. Next on the now. First responders are training to save y