speech here at baldwin wallace university and ohioans cast their ballots before today. overall voter turnout is not predicted to set a record 500,000 early ballottings were requested. at that time it was only 333,000. john houston says the voter turnout is below what might have been predicted. >> we will not see record turnout, just strong. we have seen more republican ballottings than democratic bal the los and there seems to be more interest on that side than what you would expect with our governor being in the race. >> and right now there is still been two-and-a-half hours left. we got reports from cuyahoga county that turnout is low. 18% there. the lines are getting longer as the primary election starts to we have a look at voter turnout. megan hickey, many voters crossing the lines for today's primary. >> right, actually a historic high of 15% of registered democrats requested, republican ballots this time around. on the other side only one percent or so of republicans requested democratic ballots and i spoke with people here at gunning recreation center that did that. some is said that governor kaisch running had something to do with switching sides. the board of elections say some rain may be keeping people from the polls. we will keep you undated. in the meantime right now megan hickey, newschannel 5. okay. meggen. polls close in ohio at 7:30 and 8:00 we should have the first wave of results when the tallies tallies start to come in. john kosic has been looking it up. >> reporter: more of the >> reporter: 30% of the early vote in the state will be coming from here in cuyahoga county. we know where john kasich has done well in the past and we know where we expect donald trump should do well based on what we have seen in the first 20 states that have voted. now this is a map of the 2012 republican primary. only one percent by mitt romney over rick santorum. that is a blueprint that kaisch will need to stick to, cincinnati. in cuyahoga and hamilton county romney came out of those both with a 20% margin of victory, 16,000 votes each. he won by 12,000. romney won by five percent and an area that we expect kaisch to do better because it is his home port where he has represented the people in becoming governor. the area for donald trump from steubenville on. this is representing a large area of ted strickland's old congressional district. if we see a lot of democrats it could have an impact on strickland's race with pj sittenfeld for the u.s. senate. that is something we will be looking at. also on the republican side we have the question of ted cruz expected to pick up 17% of the vote, where does that come from and who does that impact, all of the things we will be looking at as the numbers roll in at 7:45 tonight. chris. okay. john, a busy night in ohio. we will be here at baldwin wallace university. everything is happening in an important primary and the coverage of the results starts right when the polls close at 7:30 tonight. we will bring you a half hour election special right here on the coverage doesn't stop but continues starting at 8:00 on newsnet5.com. if you are going out and about take the mobile app with you and keep you updated on what is happening here on primary day in ohio. live at baldwin wallace, go back to frank and lee in the studio. >> see you in a bit. mark what happens to the 60s? >> the fog held on very light winds, low clouds and dense fog all day long and it is still here. beginning to lift and we are trying to get a few breaks in the overcast but i doubt it's going to happen enough to ing us warm to where we want to be. dover, new philly 55. your evening, clouds for the most part, through 6:00 p.m. notice the temperatures are falling back in the 40s. you will need the sweater. home for the evening, we are tracking another round of showers and storms for tomorrow morning and then, yep, we are going to talk about some snow. again. i know you don't want to hear it. lee and frank. >> now all new at five. a week since fire tore through hill apartments. >> many suffered water and smoke damage to their homes. treated unfairly. paul kiska spoke to one of the residents. what are they telling you, paul? in these conditions jennifer. >> not seeing it every day at this level of devastation will help. >> it is a true danger to the neighborhood. we want it down. >> northville center township trustee paul busher plans to use the land bank to pull it down and huntington bank is not moving forward but they will have a resolution to demolish that could be a week. and waiting. >> when i spoke to huntington bank they are waiting for authorization and that could be another month. there is the question of how the mather family died. explosion but did they die before the explosion. the test results to make a final determination. i'm kristin volk newschannel 5. ohio plays a crucial role in today's races but not the only coveted prize. we will go to florida where it is do or die for senator marco rubio. at 5:30, we take the crucial rule ohio voters are playing and explain the strategic voting. plus only on newschannel 5, a man who was just three years old when his sheriff deputy father was killed talks about the man convicted of that crime is up for parole. and a major admission from the nfl, a league official now traumatic brain disease. continuing on live team coverage of primary day in ohio. of course it will be a major victory for any party. marcy gonzalez joining live coverage from florida, a crucial battleground state in this primary election. marcy have been saying vote for rubio in florida in an effort to keep donald trump from racking up delegates. what do the polls show in his home state? >> that's the message from the marco rubio campaign. there is an ad airing saying a vote for anyone other than marco rubio is a vote for donald trump. so he is clearly trying to close the very big gap he is seeing in florida. the latest quinnipiac poll shows marco rubio is behind donald trump by 24 points. >> if he does lose florida what is the next move for marco rubio? >> reporter: you know he is being really optimistic and he says regardless of what happens tonight, he is carrying on. he says he still plans to campaign in utah. hold out hope for the governor's race? >> there is speculating for marco rubio if he doesn't win the presidential nomination but he says he has no plans of running for any kind of political office if he doesn't win and he says he is completely comfortable with the idea of just going back to being a private citizen. chris. >> okay. we'll see tonight. marcy, great work. thanks. of course we are back here at 5:30 with more election team coverage from baldwin wallace university in barea. let's go back to frank and lee. >> thanks, chris, we will see you later. right now we want to talk about the severe weather that hit ohio. >> we told you at the top of the newscast, a tornado touched down near dayton, jason is here with an in-depth look at the impact twister has. >> here is video of the tornado. this happened at 2:00. reaching the ground. you can't see behind the trees but damage was confirmed from the tornado moving from the southwest and northwest of dayton. a town called phillipsburg and a town called brooksville. this is in northern montgomery county and southern miami county. west of interstate 57, a lot of pictures social media was a buzz yesterday afternoon. let's break down the specifics, the weather service was out there today and they were doing some storm survey damage. here it is confirmed. yesterday, one barn destroyed and one barn with a roof off and one missing with some siding missing and a tornado. obviously courtesy of the doppler radar situation that it made and the videos that we saw. here is the specifics. ef1, ef0 all the way to ef5. this was a 1 which is typical winds 100 to 105 and there's phillipsburg and the width of the path of the tornado, 75 yards and the length 200 as it crossed to southern miami county. there's dayton to the southwest so this was yesterday and in fact, mark and i were talking during the 4:00 show about how the weather service was also out today conducting other possible other tornadoes that there were a couple of cells there in the area. mark and lee and frank. apparently a few funnel clouds dropped down. >> absolutely. four tornado touch-downs confirmed in the dayton area come coming from the national weather service in wilmington. they were out this afternoon and they confirmed it at 2:30, they sent back the reports. luckily no major damage or injuries or deaths. >> that time of year. >> yes, severe weather season. here we go. i want to give you a time lapse. are you ready? let's show you the fog. chilly, we can get rid of that darn gone fog. look at downtown cleveland, obscuring the timeline, finally over the last couple of hours, the fog is lifting by the sheer will of lee jordan and frank. >> lifting the fog. so, yes, visibility is improving but just in the last couple of hours and luckily there is no rain unlike yesterday we had the rain and thunder moving in at this time. we are dry for now. we had a little bit of drizzle earlier this morning but thanks to all of the clouds and the fog look at the temperatures. they are stuck, 43 in downtown, 47 in euclid and chardon. we are in the 50s south. and ashland getting sun. either that or somebody left the iron on. mid 60s. how about 55 in mansfield and mohican at 56. slightly warmer inland. millersburg 62 and trying to sun in your back yard over the next hour or two, we could add another five or six degrees to the cooler temperatures further north. but that's not likely. look at this. stuck in the 40s, 8, 9, 10:00, 48. i would recommend wearing that spring coat out and about. we won't deal with rain for the evening but there is another front coming in for tomorrow morning's rush. a.m. wednesday morning. dry, there it goes. now we see showers coming in between 7 and 9:00 a.m. maybe maybe thunder but it looks it looks docile. we are talking 40s. tomorrow, if we can get the sun good, west side. cleveland tonight will go 50 tomorrow. beachwood a high of 60 and akron and canton, low 50s and low 60s for tomorrow. but notice this word here, tomorrow an a.m. thundershower but windy all day, probably not that bad, sit out on your deck with your little glass of ice tea. windy with gusts at 30 miles per hour. lee and frank, thanks for limit that fog. >> we do what we can. it takes hot air. next all new at five. a family buys a new house but before they have a chance to move in, thunders threw a house warming party of sorts. but the owners weren't invited. >> we told you about the cleveland mother told not to let her kids in the basement after electrical work passed inspection. and the results at six. a surprise house warming party in california attracted hundreds of unwanted guests. >> police found more than 200 teens inside a vacant home. the new homeowners scheduled to do a walk through but couldn't after discovering this mess. punched out walls and empty liquor bottles and red solo cups. neighbors called police to complain about the loud noises. when officers showed up the teens took off. but police did detain 14 people. >> none of the people at the party had permission to be at the residence, those kids, young adults and some juveniles were cited for criminal trespassing. >> additional charges could be on the way with more people held responsible for those damages. people continue to investigate how the teens got inside the >> take a look. two kayakers decided to take on a waterfall in kentucky. they got this crazy video of the feed. they received a hefty fine. going over the waterfall was a personal goal for the extreme sporting duo. fortunately they escaped unharmed but park rangers cited the men for trespassing. the two say they hope to do it again only next time legally. >> it was unfair. that i have to vision imhim at the grave yard. >> three decades after his father was murdered the defendant has a chance at parole. live on 5 continues brought to you by national carpet mill outlet flooring super store. >> it is primary election day in ohio and in four other states, by the way do or die for a couple of the republican hopefuls including our own governor. >> ohio is playing a key role in the primary contests as it will in the general election. news channel anchor chris flanagan continues the live conference from baldwin wallace where governor kaisch will wait the results. >> ohio is use to the national political spotlight and we know what is at stake with today's primary heading to today's election our governor was pulling neck in neck with republican front-runner donald trump. and we talked to voters casting their ballots and concerned about the direction of the country and the race. >> he is the most respectable person running for our he is saying what people want to say but it's not always politically correct and he has done stupid things and we all have. >> if trump leads in ohio, he could be unstoppable in the delegate stop. there has been talk about people voting strategically and that means alters the outcome as part of a bigger picture including switching parties if allowed to vote for a candidate that could serve as a spoiler. the voters say they have heard of it but none of them was doing that. we mentioned that turnout has been low in cuyahoga county with more people in the suburbs making the track to the polls. once the ballots are collected, sent to a warehouse in cleveland to be counted. our joe pagonakis is at that warehouse live. that's right. voter turnout as of 3:30 was at 18%. but that does not include the 88,000 absentee votes. we still have a long way to go concerning this situation. in cuyahoga county with more than half of the expected votes set to cast their ballots in the last two hours. voter turnout is expected to be up 40% of the counties 849206 registered voters on super tuesday with the polling locations opened until 7:30 in the 59 municipalities. the board of elections director, pat mcdonald is here. explain the collection process of the memory sticks. is it difficult? each polling location will close and collect the memory sticks and they will be transported by a bipartisan at that drop off location, we are reconciled to make sure a chain of custody is in place and they will be brought down to the board of elections and from there, we still have -- when i say board of elections the warehouse will tabulate the results and they will be brought up to the second floor and uploaded at 9:00 and ending sometime around midnight. pat mcdonald. thanks for joining us and if you are in line at your polling location at 7:30, you will not be turned away. like here just outside of the board of elections, joe pagonakis. ohio not the only state up for grab. make or break time in florida for senator marco rubio and the latest polls show him trailing donald trump by 20 points in his home state. 99 delegates are up for grabs in florida's gop primary and polls. 52 delegates on the line. the democrats are competing for 51 delegates and illinois voter turnout is steady and bernie sanders made last minute stops in chicago this morning and posed for pictures with breakfast goers. meanwhile hillary clinton made a stop in north carolina this afternoon. she met with supporters at a polling place in raleigh. north carolina's presidential primary happening earlier than ever. lawmakers moving that primary from may to mid march to boost that state's prominent and presidential politics. we will be here live. our live primary election coverage at 6:00 and then our coverage of the results as it starts coming in when the polls close at 7:30. we will bring you a half hour election special on newschannel 5 and the coverage continues starting at 8:00 on our web on on our free mobile app. to the studio. chris flanagan holding it down inside baldwin wallace and outside doing great. >> cleveland 48 and same for milder but we have been stuck cloud deck. let me show it to you. let's bring this one up full. notice the clouds and the fog finally beginning to thin. the fog beginning to lift and all in all a chilly afternoon. now, i do want to alert taught wind advisory that we have in effect for tomorrow for some wind gusts above 45 miles per hour. everywhere else it will be windy tomorrow as another front comes in with wind gusts above 30. in the meantime your evening planner, how about this? temperatures hovering the 40s and going up a little bit in the lower 50s by sunrise as we how long will the rain last and when are we tracking the snow? i got the answers coming up. all right. a certain set of words came wack to hunt the former mayor of flint, michigan. a community comes together for the devastation in louisiana. and we check in on the deadly flooding down south. today's news brought to you by levin mattress and furniture stores. it is all about you and look at nancy, she went in her backyard and found this hole. before you find big foot, this is a pie lated woodpecker hole. a huge bird and it makes short trees. woodpecker. this morning's fog and last beautiful shot from earlier coming in from amy of the fog at the lake level with the buildings and last night's shelf cloud impressive from mark johnson, w ews on facebook. we we will be st. we w and we will be right back the crime that shock land county. a sheriff deputy fund down and the man convicted can be set free. we show you how the officer's widow and sun are fighting back. >> reporter: this memorial honors glen sturgill, killed in the line of duty in 1982. 34 years later his family is now fighting to keep one of his killers locked up in prison. >> i still seek my dad's approval, you know. i just wish i could hear him say you are doing good. speaks as a man that had his childhood stole. >> i don't remember my dad i don't remember him hugging >> reporter: tim's father, detective glen sturgill shot in august of 1982 on his 30th birthday. tim was three years old. his only memory remains playing >> i have to visit him at the grave yard. >> our cameras were rolling when the killers were hauled into court. the detective had interrupted the robberies and a shotgun blast to the heart killed him in stanley. sturgill's wife, becky was home listening to a police radio. >> i did not hear glen respond to dispatch and i knew that something terrible had to have happened for him not to respond to his radio. >> mullins was convicted of aggravated murder and got up to life in prison. davis is serving 15 to 55 years for involuntary manslaughter and this september he has a parole hearing. >> i don't think it is right that he walks. i don't think he has a chance to hurt someone else. >> tim has started an online petition urging the parole >> it was him that sawed the shotgun off that made it concealable and lethal. >> tim has 1,000 signatures but want more. >> i pray that he is not released and that ashland county remembers what he sacrificed. >> in ashland, bob jones, newschannel 5. now to a heated congressional hearing in washington where lawmakers lashed out at former officials from flint, michigan. >> testifying about the water crisis. they failed to take action for months after being warned the city's water was not safe. they replayed video of the former mayor on local television declaring that water safe. >> we know now that we were getting bad information and worse water. that former person right there, that board blamed the state epa proclaiming the water it did notify city leaders. the former state emergency manager pointed the finger at lawmakers. thousands of homes in mississippi, texas and louisiana. meteorologist telling us what is being done to help. >> hundreds of families forced from their homes. tonight several louisiana communities are coming together to help neighbors in need. take a look. the waters from this river and also the toledo bend tore through parts of vernon parish leaving homes ruined and hearts heavy. many families are living in shelters and they don't know if and when they can return home. you see there. a louisiana church is leading an effort to provide food, clothing and supplies and even that had to evacuate. something that flood victims are grateful for. our communities are loving each other, you know, it is coming together out of love. >> we feel it is more responsibility to help people in our community. and 12 to 16-inches of rain down there over the weekend. when the waters start to retreat, church members will switch to recovery mode and volunteers will begin repairing flood damaged homes and helping residents replace items that they have lost. a tough situation down there across portions of louisiana. guys. tough to watch. meanwhile here after lots of rain and warmer temperatures. >> you knew it, you knew it. it is march, the month of transition, it is warm versus cold and sometimes the warm winds and sometimes the chill winds and it is coming. we figure it would. >> let's talk about what is going on. if you are planning your evening, notice the fog has shall we check on a couple of otherlocals. look at this time lapse. it shows you how the fog has lifted. now, let's go to cleveland again. i'm sorry. i thought i had akron. we will have that at 6:00. akron had a little bit of fog. this is how my brain has been today. what do you think? a little foggy. here we go. currently 43 degrees downtown. we got a light northerly breeze and low clouds, we just did not warm up. wow. what a disappointment. dry weather within the newschannel 5 viewing area but the clouds are here. gradually trying to separate a little bit and the fog lifting. we may get a few breaks in the overcast and the evening but i think mainly cloudy sky will hang on. look at the lake shore bad, 64 and norwalk 47 and same for astubula and akron at 56. here is the front that brought the rain and wrap around air and wrap around cool that is stuck overhead hence the chill. here is the next front. this will come in by tomorrow morning's rush and it will bring wit a few isolated rain showers, maybe a clap or two of thunder. there's tomorrow morning, your rush between 7 and 9:30 a.m. you get a few widely scattered showers behind it though, i'm optimistic that we get some sun coming out for the afternoon and as long as we get sun, i think the temperatures go up, much more than today. i think probably upper 50s, 47 tonight, mainly cloudy, some predawn rain showers. i don't think you see the rain six a.m. in most spots. tomorrow 62 and a morning shower in the day. advisory in effect for ottawa and seneca county and the rest of us will experience wind gusts above 30 miles per hour during the day. hold onto your garbage can lids. wednesday a morning shower. 62 and thursday a few drops of rain and then flakes, flakes, flakes, flakes. accumulations look minimal but if the temperatures cool down more might see enough to sweep off the old windshield but the chill is coming back, frank and lee. here is what coming up at six. action at different kind at a polling place in cleveland after a polling place employee pulled a gun on co-workers. >> and we are keeping a close eye on the races and the results start coming in. more live results on the races for the white house coming up. first live on 5 returns, the connection between under heavy dispute. the injuries and the brain disease are connected. the nfl is now responding after one of its own officials came forward linking football to the brain disease cte. >> the statement was given to a congressional committee in washington d.c. it is a big moment in the continuing controversy. here is brandy hicks. >> reporter: after years of hard hits medical research and lawsuits, an nfl official has now come forward for the first time in washington d.c. publicly connecting football related head trauma to a degenerative brain disease. >> do you think there is a link between football and degenerative brain disorders like cte. >> the answer is yes. >> that was not the unequivocal >> based on dr. mckey's research there's a link because c te has found in retired football players. >> it has symptoms of memory loss and depression and dementia. players diagnosed. the reaction coming in. >> the players knew this all along. >> when i heard his response, i was relieved. denied any connection. >> 24 hours after the bombshell testimony the league is issuing this statement. the comments made by jeff miller yesterday accurately reflect the view of the nfl and legal experts say that could be a game-changer for the nfl's proposed billion dollar settlement reached with players to resolve thousands of >> with the new acknowledgment, letter for changes to compensate present and future players should they develop c te. brandy hicks, los angeles. that's it for live on 5. >> danita it is all yours. polling stayings across the state were busy as last minute voters cast their ballots. after losing their home to a fire residents have been fighting for rent money back. new developments as we start at six starts in two minutes. tonight's news brought to you by elk and elk. serious lawyers for serious injuries. call 1800 elk ohio. newschannel 5 at six brought to you by mr. hero. get a 7-inch deal for 5.75. always on your side, newschannel 5 starts now. >> there is less than two hours left in the battle for the buckeye state. it is a show-down between ohio's governor and the billionaire businessman. >> kaisch can't make america great. can do it. >> this country is not about us tearing one another down. >> the gop is taking on a kaisch win, not only to halt's donald trump's momentum. >> hundreds of delegates at state that john kasich is

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