kidnapping charges. >> a lot of calls made and e- mails and texts and all that kind of stuff. so we really appreciate all the efforts everybody is putting into it to get the information out. >> reporter: the nine-year-old girl was walking home from the library when the stranger said he was a cop and tricked her into the truck. she was driven a few blocks away, sexually assaulted before she was released and walked home after the trauma investigators are impressed with the young girl's ability to remember so much about that truck should. to be that observant with everything that's going on, it says a lot for her. really does. >> reporter: at st. mar's school extra pray cautions are in place. the kidnapping happened right by the school. the principal told me extra parents and teachers are now on the playground during recess and that 200 school families were told to talk safety with trust anyone. even fats police officer, because this person posed as a police officer, to make sure that they don't get in anyone's car. >> reporter: police say the attack appears to be random, and that has left many shaken, even with the arrest. >> it is very unsettling that you have to watch for that so closely, and unfortunately this is just one case of many i'm sure throughout the country that has happened. >> reporter: and a search warrant was issued by the stark county prosecutor search the suspect's 2005 ford f-150 pickup. bci is also assisting with that search. we are told the suspect will be moved from the fairfield county jail which is southeast of columbus, and eventually booked into the stark county jail. bob jones, news 5. we turn now to a heartbreaking story unsouth carolina. that's where another american elementary school has become the scene of a shooting. right now we are hearing two children and a teacher have townville elementary school in townville. that's about 40 miles outside greenville. anchor rob powers joins us from the live desk. you have been tracking the developments. >> reporter: we want to let people know the injuries to the kids are not life threatening. that, by the way, from officials down there. but we haven't her anything about the condition of the female teacher as of yet. right now police have one suspected shooter in custody. it is a mother spoke to reporters when she showed up to get her daughter from school who was safe, unharmed after the violence, but her heart broke for the two kids in the hospital tonight. >> i just pray for their families. i pray for those kids. i thank god it wasn't mine. i'm just going pray that they're okay. i don't know if they were my daughter's classmates or somebody i knew. i don't know. i just feel so bad. >> adding another lay tore this investigation there's an old police found a man dead along that road. they believe his death is connected to the school shooting as well. we will continue to monitor this situation and keep you posted as we learn more. flank. right now in elyria a search is underway after two teen girls say a man tried to lure them into his car as they walked to school, this after two similar cases in the city earlier this year. kristin volk is live from the elyria police department. kristin, one of the 15-year-old girls approached today said she's >> reporter: that's right, frank. she told police that shed noticed the man two other times in the last month. once he watched her as she headed home from high school. the other time he called out to her as she headed to school. all three incidents involved a man in a gold or tan suv. two of the times, the girl told police that he had exposed himself. both of those occasions have been here on the third street bridge in elyria. as a black vinld his mid-30s, stocky with a buzz haircut. she also told police she did not know him. and when he pulled up to the two girls today, he told them to get in his car. a week and a half prior to the incident, an elyria woman told police there was a white man peering into a bedroom window here on northwest river road. then back in february, a white man tried to abduct a 10-year- old girl from her bedroom on furnace street. understandably putting parents around here on edge. >> so you can't take your kids outside. you can't walk around alone by yourself. kids can't be kids any more. >> reporter: now, there are no arrests in any of these cases in elyria. and police say that gold or tan suv driven by the man in today's unt has stickers on the back and a busted out rear passenger side window. news five. we are now just 40 days and seven hours away from the presidential election. tonight both candidates are going after voters in swing statements hillary clinton and her one-time opponent bernie sanders are in new hampshire tonight, the two making a joint appearance at a campaign event in durham that centered on college affordability. both candidates will attend another event later tonight. bernie sanders is not the only star campaigning for the democratic nominee. first lady michelle obama hit the trail for clinton ur voters to cast a ballot in november. >> we cannot afford to squander this opportunity, particularly given the opportunity, because we know that being president isn't anything like reality tv. >> on the republican side donald trump campaigned in chicago. he talked about the importance of nato. >> so we want nato to be strong of poland. if every country in nato made the same contributions as poland, all of our allies would be more secure. >> donald trump facing new questions tonight, though, over his trip last month to mexico. during that trip he used the president of next co's helicopter. campaign finance experts say election laws likely prohibit the mexican government from pick up the cost of that flight. the trump campaign's august reimbursement to the mexican government for use of a helicopter. the trump campaign has not commented on those allegations. lee. monday night's debate still a hot topic as both candidates continue to claim victory. >> news five's john kosich joins us now. the clinton camp has some numbers to back them up. >> most debate polling is still out in the field but the first poll conducted immediately following the debate is in and it has clinton winning almost poll also has hillary clinton expanding her national lead by two points compared to numbers gathered on sunday. in a two-way contest she leads double domestic by four points. when you expand the race to a four-way contest clinton's lead shanks to three with gary johnson picking up eight points and jill stein four. among female voters clinton leads 44 to 36%. post-debate polling te come in waves. the first 24 hours the true reaction. the next wave, which we will likely to seeing tomorrow takes into account the impact of the post-debate story lines that play out at water coolers around the country. >> all right, john. markjweather, a gloomy day. more where that came from? >> this is akron. rain showers falling there right now. here we go. we are tracking the rain. canton, dover-new philly. brief moderate rain in north kingsville, movement toward the north. i think most of us are going to see some rain during the overnight. some of it could be heavy. you might even hear some thunder. current temperatures where it has been raining, mid-50s mansfield. still near 70 in youngstown. no rain there. quite a bit of sunshine today. 65 in cleveland, 64 in akron. downtown during the en with a few showers coming in. a cloudy sky. here is your hour by hour. notice rain, maybe even a little bit of thunder all the way through 10:00 p.m. and beyond. it is going to be a wet weather week and weekend. more on that coming up. cleveland police need a few good recruits to join their ranks. >> but they are finding it pretty hard to fill those open positions. next, only news five is digging into the problems the department is finding as it searches for men and women and the last month of his presidency, there are still some firsts left for president obama. next, the first time his veto was overridden. the bill they brought back to life, that's next. >> american troops headed back into iraq. a new battle plan unveiled by the u.s. today. we break down how many soldiers are going and what their mission will be. plus, russia now officially blamed for shooting down a malaysian airlines plane killing everybody on board. the new evidence and what our country is back to that breaking news out of townville, south carolina. we just got new information from authorities after a shooting at an elementary scho and a teacher to area hospitals. one of those two students was flown to a children's hospital and is in surgery tonight. the other student and a female teacher taken by ambulance. they are both said to be in good condition at this hour. we also learned the man found dead along the gravel road near the school connected to the shooting. they believe he is the gunman's father. again, a teenager in custody accused of this shooting. we will continue to keep you updated as we learn new information on this incident. cleveland police in the middle of major recruiting campaign. a campaign that isn't as easy it is a used to be. only on 5, dhomonique ricks has spent all day digging into the reasons why. >> reporter: they are doing it on-line, on social media, and even in the form of these flashy flyers. >> got all that? >> reporter: officer frank wolters' dream became a reality three years ago. he says he loves his job, not everyone feels the same way. >>'s hard times nationwide for police officers. >> reporter: applications across the nation are down. >> it has changed considerably. >> reporter: deputy chief wayne drummond has worked for cleveland police for 23 years. >> when i took the test many moons ago i would say it was approximately 5,000 people actually took the police examination, which is quite a bit. >> reporter: cleveland police calls. they assure me the numbers are down. >> it is kind of challenging at times to get the number of recruits that we need to fill classes. >> reporter: reasons? according to some police officers, danger, increasingly tougher standards, and the most common complaint, low pay for the level of rink involved. >> it's about $45,000 coming out of the police academy. >> reporter: compare that to columbus where the base pay is 24,000 more than what is offered in cleveland. >> the dynamics are different. they are a >> reporter: that being said, monday the newest class of recruits, 50 in all, traveled to columbus to begin their six- month academy training. deputy chief drummond says when they return to cleveland they will undergo six to eight weeks of local training before starting a six-month probation period. the deputy chief tells me the community should not be concerned. >> people that think there are issues with the police department, we invite them to >> reporter: in order for the cleveland police department to be at full staffing they need 1,520 people. right now they are 78 people shy of that goal. now, when this new class of recruits graduates, coming up here and undergoes that six- month probationary period that number will bump up to 18 people under that. new at 5:00, government shutdown averted. >> leaders in congress broke their bill held up over differences on how to help people in flynn. it will provide funding for water measures. the bill will keep the government running through december 9th and offers $1.1 billion to fight the spread of vaccine. the u.s. is sending 615 more troops overseas to help iraqi forces retake mosul from isis. the plan reportedly has been under discussion for weeks but president obama and iraq's prime minister just finalized the details. right now there are more than 4500 u.s. troops in iraq. congress just family members of 9/11 victims to sue. this marks the first veto of the president that has been overturned by congress. lawmakers say they were more focused on 9/11 victims and their families than diplomatic relations. all right, mark, are we going to have a soggy evening? >> we're going to have some rain moving in. i would grab the umbrellas. we have a live look again at akron where we have had light rain reported there in the. right now cloudy in mentor. cleveland, cloudy with a few isolated sprinkles. next up, let's go to ashtabula county. here we have the showers with some embedded thunder. these are the heaviest echoes we have on our power of 5 radar moving northeast, crossing interstate 90, about to over lake erie. so some brief heavy rain. you might even hear a clap or two of thunder. for the rest of the area it is light stuff. it is light rain. it is sprinkles moving up. same for canton. i'm thinking it's hit and miss rain shower activity all evening and all night long with some areas seeing potentially heavy downpours. look at that. after midnight tonight. wet one. 62 medina, 64 in akron. mid-60s now in cleveland. we still have mid-50s, clouds and rain around mansfield much of the day. your hour by hour. watch those temperatures. hit and miss rain with some embedded thunder coming our way for the overnight. potentially some of the rain could beom and then it is going to hang around all the way through your weekend, finally beginning to fade away and pull out to our south and east on sunday. so your hour by hour, watch the rain, hit and miss. there we go overnight. scattered rain showers. a little bit of embedded thunder. here is a nice little wave of run coming in tomorrow evening. moving our way. so cannot totally discount rain. it is not going to be an all day rain any day, but if you get a few hours where it is not your chores. all right? 57 degrees tonight. hit-and-miss showers, maybe a little bit of thunder. cloudy skies. tomorrow we will go near 70 degrees. showers likely with isolated thunder. akron and canton, same story. rain likely overnight. middle 50s for lows tomorrow of 68 with on and off rain showers. some embedded thunder. a quick look at our seven-day. thursday, friday, saturday, it is scattered rain with some thunder. 72 friday, 74 saturday, and then 71 with isolated rain on sunday. that is not bad. monday through next wednesday, a nice little mini warm-up. summer is back. winter has been canceled. >> i like it. thanks mark. next, the fbi director in the hot seat on capitol hill. his update on possible russian efforts to mettle in our election, and what role ohio plays. coming up tonight, a galaxy and it is not the same model that the company recalled investigators say they have evidence the malaysian jet that was shot down over ukraine more than two years ago was hit by a missile that came from russia. according to the probe, communications intercepts show pro-moscow rebels called for th and reported its arrival. nearly 300 people on the plane were kid. russia has dismissed that report. there are new concerns that russia is behind a number of attempts to hack u.s. election systems. >> fbi director joasms came me -- james comey announced that databases have been scanned by outside forces over the past month. the fbi issued a warning to state governments saying tried to breach elections systems in arizona. sources close to the investigation have told abc news that russian hackers were likely behind the cyber attacks. fbi director james comey says the issue is being investigated thoroughly. >> we are doing an awful lot of work through our counterintelligence investigators to understand just what mischief is russia up to in connection with our election. that is work that goes on all day, every day. >> more than a dozen in ohio have taken up the department of homeland securities' offer to help improve cybersecurity for their election system. next at 5:00, abusing authority. disturbing new details about how often police officers dig into your personal information without permission. and fighting the heroin epidemic as a major ohio city warns adding something else in the drug is killing people. there is a new call for the state to came in. of massillon where police have arrested the suspect in the abduction and rape of a nine- year-old child. 46-year-old dennis menefee junior of port washington, ohio, was arrested a short time ago. investigators say menefee told the child he was a police officer and drove the child to a parking lot where she was sexually assaulted, beaten, and he threatened her again before letting her go. and major new developments to break news, this out of south carolina. the school shooting at an elementary in townville. that's near the georgia border. three people, two students, were injured. a local affiliate says two people are in good condition. the third, a boy in surgery as we speak. a teenager is under arrest, and we know that his father was found dead at their home. that's two miles from the school. that teen was reportedly home schooled, and police are looking into his ties to the school. the school superintendent just announcing the school will be canceled for the rest of the look at just how much officers abuse their authority behind the scenes. >> police use databases to get information about criminals but an investigation reveals hundreds of officers around the country using those databases for personal vendettas. paul kiska took a closer look at this investigation. paul, this isn't just a problem in other parts of the country. >> well, that's right. this investigation by the ap found hundreds of officers are misusing the computer databases and dozens of here in ohio. >> he just grabbed me by my neck and started choking me, and that was the last thing i remember. >> reporter: alexis can never forget when her ex-boyfriend crossed the line. he was convicted for using police tools to stalk her. >> he could go down to the station. he had keys. he could get on the computer and find out anything. >> reporter: an investigation misusing databases. at least 325 employees around the country were fired or suspended. another 250 were reprimanded. a former nypd sergeant, ron buell, pleaded guilty to selling access to databases. this video shows trooper donna watts chasing a miami cop for driving 120 miles per hour. but her story doesn't end there. officers searched for her illegally finding out where she lived. >> phone calls, stalking, threats. >> reporter: more authorities agreeing that there needs to be more audits of police database searches. >> when they use it with the intention of committing violent crimes against you it's like a wildfire. >> using numbers provided by the state attorney general's office and highway patrol the ap found that ohio officers year period for violating database policies. frank. >> all right. ohio wants to leave low-level felony offender out of prison. one county just got a $200,000 grant. the goal? to continue to ensure public safety while reducing the number of people in prison for low level crimes. those offenders would go to local detention centers or remain under electronic monitoring. police in columbus are warning dangerous batch of hair rough circulating around the city. at least 35 people were treated for overdoses since yesterday. two of those overdoses were fatal. columbus officials say the number of drug overdoses has increased more than 300% from 2013 to 2015. and so far this year, columbus emergency crews have given 1400 doses of narcan, the drug that democratic lawmakers are calling on ohio governor john kasich to confront the state's heroin crisis. representatives are urging case sick to did he -- kasich to declare -- are urging kasich to declare a state of emergency. >> all right, mark, the sun going to make a return? >> sunday, maybe monday. it the next four and a half to five days. here we go. a cloudy sky in the mentor area right now as you can see. ashtabula some heavy rain hear pulling toward the north. so it's almost out over lake erie. and then there are a few more lighter showers moving upstate route 45 and 46. here we go. right up interstate 71 we've got lighter rain showers pulling into akron and canton and dover-new philly and even a showers on and off through the evening, wherever you are going. i know there is a big concert tonight at the q. i believe it is maroon 5. be prepared for a little rain. 58 in wooster. notice the hour by hour. we stay basically in the 60s but the threat for rain, even a little bit of embedded thunder increasing all the way up until the wee hours of tomorrow morning. more on the rain and how long it is going to linger coming up. >> all right, mark. on the latest police shooting of a black man, this one in california. police now revealing an officer shot a mentally ill man just one minute after arriving at the scene. >> and that man has been identified as a refugee from uganda. his death comes with the nation still raw over last week's police shootings of two black men in tulsa and charlotte. here's lauren lister. >> reporter: protests in san diego after an unarmed black police officer there. >> did you shoot him? >> reporter: this comes on the heels of outrage over the police shootings of black men in charlotte, north carolina and in tulsa, oklahoma, where an officer was charged with manslaughter after shooting 40- year-old terence crutcher. in california, authorities releasing this image of the moment before the shooting tuesday, saying the man appeared to be in a shooting stance, though police admit he nod weapon. >> the male rapidly drew an object from his on pocket, placed both hands together on it and extended it rapidly towards the officer. >> reporter: one officer tasering the victim, another opening fire with a handgun. and this facebook live video purports to show the aftermath. the woman crying claims she is the victim's sister saying she had called police to help her brother. >> why couldn't you tase him? i told you he's sick, then you guys shot him! >> reporter: police say they were responding to calls of a man who was not act like and claim he refused multiple instructions from officers. local activists calling for more transparency. >> just because they released a picture, that does not identify the whole tape! >> reporter: a witness handed over cell phone video of the incident to police which hasn't been released. authorities are urging for calm during their investigation. the officers involved are now on administrative leave. lauren lister, abc news, los angeles. still ahead, all new paid hundreds for a concert ticket, only to learn you could have gotten it for $50? we explain the on-line scam to rip off and how you can beat it. plus, a muslim woman shattering stereotypes. why her magazine photo shoot is breaking new ground, all new at 5:00. but first, check it out, . still lots of color out there even though it is fall. gregory captured a few little asters blooming right next to the lily pads. remember yesterday i told you in the rain my little pup does not go outside to do his jobs. well, look, mindy found one. it's a little umbrella that attaches to the collar. here's the guy who won't go outside and do his jobs when it's wet outside. i'm going to have a rough five days. more rain coming our way. more on that coming up after breaking news out of town though, south carolina, one of the children shot th has been released from the hospital, police think a teenager killed his father in his home and then went to townsville elementary playground and started shooting, the teenager is in custody, another child a six-year-old in cocoa condition, one of the children was shot in the leg the other in the foot, a teacher was hit in the shoulder >> not only are the ticket expensive, they often sell out fast, today i have a look at why it seems to happen and how you can get good seats at a decent price. >> sherry bought a ticket online to see her favorite band for hundreds of dollars. then she realized she overpaid. >> i saw the cost was 50 something dollars. i was mortified. i was so 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mistake and plans to change how she will buy tickets from now on. >> i felt foolish absolutely ridiculous for spending that much money. >> the effort to crack down on illegal for people to use them or to sell bot software or tickets knowingly purchased through the bots. we want to talk about people bashing stereotypes, first a new commercial for a british tour company as people celebrate on social media it features a little boy singing about being a toy and there is one moment people excited about. you recognize that melody? during one part of the advertisement the boy slips into account singing about being a queen for a day the whole song is done to the tune of beyonci if i were a boy. gender stereotypes traditionally suggest only girls should play with princesses and queen dolls. that is why this suggests down stereotypes, a muslim woman wearing her he job in playboy magazine. the woman who is an american journalist will appear in black jeans and a leather jacket as part of the magazine renegade series. it is meant to highlight people who have risked it all to do with a love. she hopes to be the first anchor on u. s. commercial news to wear her headscarf. okay, we have got a newly named storm out in the caribbean. matthew. sounds for a fixed ferocious. let's show you tropical storm matthew, now over the windward islands moving off to the west, islands it will slide this way. and it will kind of stall out here for a couple of days this weekend and then the computer is suggesting it does this which is not good news. that brings it precariously close to the carolinas, to florida, sometime next week will have to wait and see. it is a long way away maybe seven or eight or nine days away. currently mentor dry weather right now but just about anywhere to go you could see some rain during the evening showers, spotty showers near the lake shore, but this is legit rain, solid wall of rainfall from wellington through them adina area into akron, canton. millersburg, rain showers, and clouds. those thundershowers have moved thundershowers moving in but we will watch, can't rule out a couple of rumbles of thunder but it will be primarily light rain that invades throughout the evening hours. 61 adina, it is all begun to happen because of this guy this low-pressure and again, he is likely going to move into central ohio and hang around for a couple of days and by sunday he slowly pulls off to the south and east, while he is in ohio he will bring these rounds of rain, these waves a rain and willing for the area. some of you could see periods of heavy rain between now and the end of the weekend, wednesday thursday friday look at the rain chances. by saturday the rain chance drops and by sunday the rain little wetness, if you're looking for a day to get out and about sunday will get you several hours of dry weather, 57 overnight, hit and miss rain tomorrow will do the same thing, hit and miss rain maybe some thunder near 70, mainly cloudy skies akron tonight mid- 50s, tomorrow 68, on and off rain tonight maybe some thunder same story tomorrow showers and thunder, once again rain, rain, rain, sunday gets better, in the lower to middle through sunday. millions of new samsung galaxy note 7 phones recalled. >> at a local family says that was not a home that caught their home on fire. they show us the damage that was done and sharing their warnings. it looks like samsung's problem is not limited to phones. warnings about their washing machines. because they could also be a found more than one week after he and his mother went missing talks about what happened in the moments before their boat imagine for a moment is spending more than one week lost at sea. that is what happened to a vermont man after his boat sank. >> the 22-year-old went on a fishing trip in the atlantic with his mother, she is and presumed dead, investigators have plenty of questions.>> nathan carman back home in vermont making a brief statement to reporters before asking for privacy. >> i would just like to think the public for their prayers and for their concern for both my mother and for myself. >> his mother, linda is still missing after they left a rhode island marina for a fishing trip september 17. friend the time they would be back saying call me if you don't hear from you. officials are now investigating just how the 31 foot boat sank, so for the coast guard believes what they learned when he was eventually rescued by a cargo ship. >> there was a funny noise in the engine compartment, i looked and saw a lot of water. the boat dropped out from under my feet, i saw the liferaft and i did not see my mom. >> no, we have not. >> court documents reveal authorities are looking for evidence of reckless endangerment, searching her home and seizing things like gps data and receipts for boat repairs. search warrants noting the boat was in need of mechanical repair and he had been doing some repairs himself which could have potentially rendered the boat unsafe for operation. >> according to the hartford current in 2014 court records relation to the death of his grandfather. he was never charged and the case remains unsolved. elizabeth hurr abc news new york. that is our time, thank you so much for joining us. new information on breaking stories we have been following all day. >> new details about the suspect and the victims in the school shooting in south carolina. here at home police make an arrest for the kidnapping and rape of a little girl. who the suspect is and how police caught him. a warning for parents and students after a man tries to get a couple of girls in his car while exposing himself. don't go anywhere, news 5 at 6:00 is >> two days after a young girl was abducted and assaulted, police have a man in custody.>> dennis menefee jr. faces multiple charges. bob jones broke the news that 4:00, he is live with more. >> reporter: we could sense all day long detectives were making major progress in this high profile case. and two hours ago we broke the news in fairfield county, south east of columbus, here's what we know so far, his name is dennis menefee jr., 46 years old from fort washington ohio, tonight he faces felony charges for rape and kidnapping, the key to the case was surveillance video from a business called sheer snacks which captured images of a gray ford f1 50 with school stickers on the window a

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