Transcripts For WEWS Good Morning Cleveland At 5am 20160809

Transcripts For WEWS Good Morning Cleveland At 5am 20160809

The third thing, the temperatures are nearing 90 degrees today. And the biggest track story this morning, the ramp closures. Two of them happening in akron. And so you have state route 8 southbound to 76 westbound, and then you have 77 northbound to 76 westbound. You have them right there on our map. And lets go outside. I want to show you what the odot views look like in the akron area. 76 is flowing just fine. Later on this morning, its going to be rough, and we know why because of the ramp closures. The major Traffic Alert in akron and odot officially starting a massive highway project on the central interchange and that is where meg shaw is live this morning and this is going to affect a lot of people. And this will a picture more than 100,000 drivers who take this interchange every day. And its already closed this morning. If youre hitting the road in this year this morning, listen up to the closures and detours. We have seen drivers stopping to figure highway trying to figure out the mess. Here are the closures and the detours. The ramps from e77 north to e 76 closed. The detour for the closure, 277 westbound and to the kenmoore lane. The other major closure in this area, state route 8 south from i76 west. The detour here, take,77 south to 277 westbound to the kenmoore lake. Odot is shutting to replace a bridge in the central interchange and this is to reduce the backups they experience in this area every day. They could be in affect until november and the entire projects not complete until june 2017. If you miss any closures or detours, i know this is a lot of numbers and ramps, dont worry. We have everything listed on our news net 5 app and check that out before heading outside of the door and meg shaw, thank you. And there is another Road Construction project causing headaches but not because of backups. The problem is jack hammers. Neighbors at the shoreway over the lake avenue entrance ramp are complaining the noise is almost unbearable overnight. The initial plan was to jack hammer away 24 hours away the first 25 days. After a bunch of complaints, odot limited the loudest work to business hours. And we apologize. We understand and weeped to do we make it bet jeer and the entire projects to be completed in the fall of 2017. And breaking overnight, a truck crashes into a Family Dollar in clevelands North Broadway neighborhood and our overnight news track or scene at broadway and blanche. The truck left inside the store and the suspect or suspects didnt get away with anything but this follows asma issue and grab yesterday in strongsville. Two people were arrested, wool keep you updated. And details on two shootings yesterday. Officers flagged down by the gunman, carlos corbi in, on east 78 who said the corbin on east 78 and who said he was going after a girl. He was taken to the hospital where he died from a shot in the chest. No word if corbin will face charges. And a half hour earlier on 377, three men were shot after according to police, the 22 yearold was shot in the chest and later died. The other man had gunshot wounds to the foot and wrist. Witnesses said there were a large group of men in the area before the shooting. And one local 73 is cracking down on theft by people who are stealing to support their hearn habit. And in menner, more than 50 people were arrested after an undercover investigation. They were caught stealing from department stores. Most were doing it to buy drugs. And probably one of the most difficult things we have faced in society for a long time. The problem is so bad, the menner Police Department launched a special retail detail. Since the program started, the city of menner thefts have gone down but in other cities, the fbi estimates that organized retail crime is going up. And the man accused of passing out druglaced cannedy that sickened two at a festival is a Music Festival is charged with drug trafficking. People started getting sick at est 2016 on saturday. Emergency cruise were called. The candy was laced with thc, the active ingredient in marijuana. And ohios medical marijuana goes into affect on december 8th but dispensaries wont pop up next year and its looking like they wont be allowed at all in some marijuana businesses from getting licenses. They passed a sixmonth ban on licensing dispensaries. And a group hoping to combat the growing heroin problem is heading to Summit County tonight. Heroin is killing my town will host a candylight vigilea candlelight vigile and walk on many street. And one of the goals is to make more beds available to addicts. Between january and july, hospitals treated more than 750 overdoses and that event starts at 7. If youre going, youre encouraged to wear photo and bring photos of people you lost to the drug. And any information out of akron this morning. A Police Officer is on leave after she was pulled over by state troopers last month. Suspected of driving drunk with a gun in the car. The lieutenant chris is now charged with two counts of ovi. And also improperly handling a firearm and a motor vehicle. And another Police Officer is on paid administrative leave for different reins. The car and hit a tree here on canterbury circle. They were seriously judge order in the crash and no charges were filed and the accident is under investigation. And now to new information and a mysterious disappearance of a teenage girl from fairview park. 39 years later, the cold case is heating up. The police have a person of interest. She vanished in 1977 working at a gas station at the time. This is just released pictures of her here of what she might look like today. Take a look. The Police Reveal a new timeline of events explaining they have evidence of her talking on the phone with family and friends, helping customers and up until 1 30 in the afternoon and then she disappeared. What is left in there is her purse, partially eaten lunch, her cigarettes and a book she was reading. She was nowhere to be found. Investigators believe a man abducted her while she was this case. And time now is 5 08 on your tuesday and with a look ahead now. The 11th annual National Hamburger festival kicks off in akron this weekend. Civic leaders are getting their first taste. All right. And more than 20 eateries are serving them to 50 different kinds of burgers this weekend. The festival also features contests like bobbing for burgers and live music. How do you bob fo each years festival raises money for one of akrons favorite charities. And that looks like fun, actually. Okay. You go ahead and do that. And tomorrow you would, wouldnt you . Yes, i would. I want food and lets look now at your forecast. I have a lot to talk about. The humidity and rain and the temperatures and that is another major headline. Sandusky, a high of 90 and 88 in vermillion; 87, lorain and well. Beechwood and lakewood; 88, parma; 90s in cleveland and possible. The highs are going to be into the and canton and,liance at 89 degrees and theyre looking at upper 80s, a few hotspots at 90 and that is a warm day and you have to get that rain. Well talk about the timing on that rain for now. Terrence, back to you. All right, time now is 5 09. And thank you for waking up with go and im jackieern if anez. And kristen in for jackie fernandez. And another accident involving a carnivale ride. Three kids involved in this. Following more delta delays and cancellations from the live desk this morning, at least one flight, take a look, to atlanta may not be taking off at hopkins this morning. Delta tweeting that customers should expect more than 100 coming in to the live desk. The cdc report reveals the numbers of babies born per woman are at the lowest levels ever reported and this continues to trend and rates have dropped more than 10 since 2007 and the study finds fewer teenagers are having babies. And three children who fell from a ferris wheel at a county fair in tennessee are expected to being. They f all three were alert. The bas kit they were in appeared to the basket they were in appeared to get caught on the wheel and inspectors are reviewing all of the rides at the fair. And flood waters are on the rise in parts of florida. Heavy rain is expected the next four days and 10 to 15 inches of rain expected in pensia cola. Some places along the gulf coast could see as many as 18 inches. Flooding is expected throughout the week and residents and and wildfires raging out west. More than 500 homeowners in San Bernardino county are told to evacuate. And flames have spread across the 10 square miles in the northern side of the Mountain Range east of l. A. And 375 people were given the order to leave. And to an olympic update. American athletes continue to about in the gold. Month them, lily king, a 19 yearold swimmer. She took gold breast stroke to do that, she needed to beat her russian rival. After the race, she won by doing it clean and that is a slam on the other who was allowed to race, despite failing a drug test and previously being banned from the games for doping. And another gold for americans in the pool and this time in the mens 100meter backstroke. Murphy got the gold and got a set an olympic record in the and beach football. And on that way to picks up the medal, too and they pete a chinese pare in straight sets and they beat a chinese pair in straight sets. They finished with the match against the pair from sweden. And okay, the medal count now for you. The u. S. Has a Comfortable Lead with 5 golds and 19 leave all with five but 13 in total. Australia, italy, and japan round out the top five. Over to you, somara. And lets look now at the forecast for today. Northeast ohio, when youre waking up and heading out of the door, its going to be a lot like yesterday. The difference comes in the afternoon. And this morning, were waking up to dry conditions in our area. I will zoom out and show you the system that is going to change the game for us today. The area of low pressure into the gulf. I am sure youre hearing about for it. And that is because of this system here. We get the circulation moving from south to north and that is going to impact us by pushing the moisture and wet weather into our neighborhoods and that is going to impact the temperatures with the warmer air and well see temperatures rise this afternoon and currently sent in cleveland; 69, medina and wooster. By this afternoon, all of the numbers are going to jump the upper 80s and nearing 90 degrees for some of us. And 4 third p. M. , we get more cloud coverage filling the sky and we get to see the scattered showers moving in. Again, its not going to be everyone, but a good amount of us should see rain at any point in the afternoon and we should get an influx of showers and thunderstorms overnight and this is going to extend through your wednesday and that chance of rain will begin this and into thursday morning, we should get a lull and dry moment before the rain chances go back up for your friday and this is a look at the power of 5 sevenday forecast. The temperatures again, were hitting the 90s and its still summer by tomorrow and if we hit 90 degrees and talking our 19th day of 90s this summer. And all right. And lets go to our odot views here. A lot of camera angles showing were fine on the no issues. 71 and 271, and make busy area. The big story this morning, the two ramp closures in the akron area and were talking about the ramps from state route southbound to 76 westbound and the ramp from 77 northbound to 76 westbound. The detour for 8 is going to be 59 here and the detour for the other one, 77 to specific is 277 westbound to the kenmoore lake and that is a lot to get closures and well get through it, i promise. Over to you. And to the race, to the white house this morning. And at least 50 highprofile gop officials signed a letter to stop donald trump. They said he would be the most wreckless president in the american history. In a letter by the new york times, they said they would not vote for him; how far, they did not endorse Hilary Clinton and have doubts about her, to. And both trump and clin trump laying out his agenda, talking about making child care more affordable by crating a child tax break and wants to cut the income tax. I am proposing an acrossthe board reduction for middle income americans. This will lead to millions of new and really good paying jobs. And he added that they will pay up their share but not so florida after touring a brewery and taking a jab at trump for messing up companies he did an order with. And that would be exciting here and people would work hard and then they wouldnt pay you or they would say we only going to pay you 50 cents or 30cents on the dollar. I cant imagine. And she will lay out her economic agenda in did trite on ur is cleveland still a believeland. Why one red dent is leave res den is leaving after 21 years. And video gaming for good. You might be surprised what a new study said about all of that time your kid spends behind the screen. Stay with us, youre watching. Good morning, lets talk about what is trending now. Some news that will be music to spending time in front of a computer or tv could be good for them. Yes and the new study finds teenagers who are gamers score higher than average in math, reading, and science compared to those who spend all day on social media. This could help teachers with their methods to students but one cautions gamers may not be learning from their games and for a challenge. Oh, my god. And this dolphin must have gotten the memo here and snatched an ipad. See it, out of a womans hands. The man who posted the video on facebook said he was at sea world in orlando when the dolphin made the lunge and a few seconds later, the animal started flashing and soaking the crowd, basically teasing them there. And awesome stuff there. And light look live look outside. And its dark. That is the sounds from the other video and nothing is going on and its still quiet and this is a real live look. I promise and light look at today lets look at todays headlines. Grab your sunglasses today. Youll be dealing with sun glare. By this afternoon, you will need the umbrella and that is because scattered showers are moving in and isolated thunderstorms in there as well and may be even a mr. Or degrees and say high to them and over to you. And thank you so much. And talk about the lake avenue entrance ramp closure along the shoreway and its closed through november and we have a one lane in each direction and ha is all you can travel on and that isdom to one lane from lake avenue to west 73rd and so far so good, the highway is looking okay and no major accidents. And the cavs championship, and cleveland feels like its on the rise and what about for the People Living here in. And i see downtown cleveland beautiful. I see the shoreway and what shoreway . Beautiful. I see tremont, beautiful. And west 25th. Theyre building. They doing a lot but when i see my neighbor, nothing. And only news on channel 5 spoke with that longtime cleveland resident there. Houses in his neighborhood on kingsford avenue have been set on fire and his own house was broken into last year. And how often do you hear gunshot says around here in. Every day. Every day and i am waiting for one now. And he said his complaints to mayor jackson and the councilman about the crime have gone unresolved and now, he cant sell his house, so we reached out to the councilman for commen back yet. And if he feels that is what is best for the family, he has to for the safety. And there are rough parts, too. There are. And 5 25 is your time. A local superintendent some off of the job and parents upset about it, too. And a new warning about botox. Why the drug might be travelling farther than just your face. And as we go to break, this is a look at the winning lottery. New at 5 30, a big headache for the morning commute. The central interchange in akron is officially under construction. I will tell you what closed overnight and which ramps are still open. And dozens of breakins in two counties and thieves going looking for something specific and first, light start with the forecast and somara theodore. And light look at the current temperatures. Were looking at 70 degrees outside and all right, the humidity is at 65 and the dew point, 58 its not that bad. The sunsetting at 8 34 p. M. And talk about the hourbyhour forecast. These temperatures, right, theyre rising to near 90 degrees and upper 80s for of us and that is going to be hot and wet and well see the showers and the scattered thunderstorms moving after lunchtime, around 1, two and well see it first and it will proceed towards the east side and i say its going to be humid, its going to be humid and its summer, terrence. And for sure and its not over yet. For a truly messy morning commute. And meg shaw is live in akron and this is affecting 100,000 people. Reporter yeah, drivers here in akron will have to find another way for the morning commute or make time for some serious delays. That central instory change construction that was supposed to start interchange construction that was supposed to start is final here. We have closures and how to get around them and this is the map for the closur the ramp, these ramps from e77 north to 76 west and the state route 8 south ramp from i76 west and the closures are happening so that crews can widen the interstate and that is part of a multiyear plan to reduce backups at the central interchange. And this was supposed to happen last week, but it was delayed at the last minute and do you to a lack of signage. These closures could be in place until november. Home toward akron tonight, you will be able to take the interchange. Crews wont close the ramp to i 76 eastbound to 77 south until late tonight and gage, starting tomorrow and again, starting tomorrow, you will have to find another way and dont worry, if you missed the closures this morning, we have them listed on the news net 5 app and importantly, how to get around the closures and detours and kristen has more on the detail we have an accident to tell everyone about right now. And first, 71 southbound at 90 westbound and should be something minor. The detours for that akron ramp closures that youre going to come across. Theyre going to be baby if youre staking taking state route 8 and cant get to 76 westbound and the other option is 277 and getting back on the kenmoore lake. And check on 71, and there are no problems on the highways and breaking overnight, a truck crashes into a Family Dollar and our overnight news tracker on scene at broadway and blanche. The truck left there inside the store. The suspect or suspects didnt get away with everything and this follows a smashandgrab yesterday and another person got away. And well keep you updated. The Lorain Fire Department is getting a vote. The city council decided to put a ballot. And it

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