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WEWS News 5 At 5pm September 28, 2016

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 nineyearold 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 girls ability to remember so much about that truck should. To be that observant with everything thats going on, it says a lot for her. Really does. Reporter at st. Mars 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 dont get in anyones 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 im sure throughout the country that has happened. Reporter and a search warrant was issued by the stark county prosecutor search the suspects 2005 ford f150 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. Thats 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. Thats 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 havent 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 wasnt mine. Im just going pray that theyre okay. I dont know if they were my daughters classmates or somebody i knew. I dont know. I just feel so bad. Adding another lay tore this investigation theres 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 15yearold girls approached today said shes reporter thats 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 mid30s, 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 10year old girl from her bedroom on furnace street. Understandably putting parents around here on edge. So you cant take your kids outside. You cant walk around alone by yourself. Kids cant 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 todays 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 president ial election. Tonight both candidates are going after voters in swing statements Hillary Clinton and her onetime 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 isnt 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 cos helicopter. Campaign finance experts say election laws likely prohibit the Mexican Government from pick up the cost of that flight. The Trump Campaigns august reimbursement to the Mexican Government for use of a helicopter. The Trump Campaign has not commented on those allegations. Lee. Monday nights debate still a hot topic as both candidates continue to claim victory. News fives 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 twoway contest she leads double domestic by four points. When you expand the race to a fourway contest clintons lead shanks to three with gary johnson picking up eight points and jill stein four. Among female voters clinton leads 44 to 36 . Postdebate 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 postdebate 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, dovernew 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, mid50s 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, thats 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 Childrens 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 gunmans 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 isnt 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 online, 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. Its 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 sixmonth 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 iraqs 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 . Were 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, lets 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. Im thinking its 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. Mid60s now in cleveland. We still have mid50s, 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. Hitandmiss 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 sevenday. 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 warmup. 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 promoscow 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 yearold child. 46yearold 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. Thats 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. Thats 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 isnt just a problem in other parts of the country. Well, thats right. This investigation by the ap found hund

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