she was approached by this man posing as a police officer, he told the girl her parents were looking for her and she was forced into the pickup driven a short distance, raped beaten and threatened before being released. police got dozens of tips but one came from someone who recognized the pickup and had knowledge of the man, warrants were issued and he was arrested today by the fairfield county sheriff's department, bci will be assisting with the search of th will be booked into the county jail when he is released from fairfield county. in the meantime the girl was still being treated at a hospital. live bob jones news 5. breaking news on the shooting at an elementary school in north carolina. we just learned investigators think the shooter a teenager shot and killed his own father before opening fire at the school, he is now in custody. townsville elementary school. investigators say two students and a teacher were hurt in the shooting. the children were both flown to a hospital, their injuries are not life-threatening, police and swat team arrested the suspect within minutes. students and staff were evacuated to a church. the suspected shooter's father was found dead at his home two miles from the school, the teenager was reportedly homeschooled, his connection to the school is not clear. classes are canceled for the rest of the week. it has happened again, parents are already on edge after several incidents where men try to kidnap kids in the city. now police say they are looking for a man who tried to lure 215- we understand the girls were walking to school.>> reporter: that is right, we are told when he approached the girls he exposed himself and demanded they get in his car. what is just as troubling is this isn't the first time one of the victims saw the man. >> i keep an extra eye on them when they ride their bikes. they only go down two houses and i stand there and watch them. constantly in fear that her own kids will be snatched. >> it takes a second to turn their head and they are gone. >> the news just perpetuated her fear. police say 215-year-old girls were crossing this bridge walking to school. when a man drove up in his suv. >> the gentleman approached did not get out of his vehicle but he called the girls over. into a bedroom window on west river road and prior to that there was an attempted abduction of a 10-year-old girl from her bedroom on furnace street into their. >> it is scary. you can't take your kids outside. can't walk alone anymore. it is messed up. kids can't be kids. >> one of the victims in the incident told police she had seen the man two other times before in he watched her walk home from school. and exposed himself. the other time he called out to her on her way to school. >> there are certain people out there that have an attraction for children. or juveniles and they are dangerous. their predators. >> you can't trust anybody. >> reporter: police tell us when the 15-year-old girl reported the incident today she also reported the previous two incidents. black man in his mid-30s, stocky with a buzzed haircut and the suv he was driving was gold or 10 with bumper stickers on the back and a busted out rear passenger side window. live from elyria news 5. information on the women found dead in a home in ashland, earlier this month. stacy stanley and elizabeth griffith were strangled according to the mansfield ne it is said stanley was found fully clothed in the basement and griffith was on clothes inside of a closet in a bedroom on the second floor. the man charged with aggravated murder in her death. get the umbrella ready the rain is here sticking around, you can see it here. we have been morning you about blob, we have rain showers coming in, a lot of you saw a rain today during the day, some of you did not see anything. over the next 4 1/2 to 5 days we will see rain, some heavy at times, this is the first wave wellington, mansfield akron and canton primarily light rain with some brief moderate downpours, a wider shot will show we had some thunder move through the county with brief heavy rain but that is out over lake erie across to the north of youngstown out of pennsylvania into eastern ohio. moving toward the north slightly west of north now at 25 miles per hour. hit and miss rain may be a clapboard two of thunder, 60 elyria, 64 cleveland, lower 60s for akron and canton . 59 dover, downtown a few showers, cloudy with overnight lows near 60 degrees. the cleveland police department are in the middle of a massive recruiting drive we have learned it is having a hard time recruiting qualified candidates. >> this seems to be a trend across the country. and we wondered why. we go live to downtown to break it all down. >> reporter: in order for the police department to be a full staffing they need 1520 people. right now they are 78 people shy of the goal but the good news, as soon as this class of recruits graduates the number will bump to 18 people. >> the entire process takes one year. six months at the academy and six months of probation, officials tell me applications to join are considerably lower than they were one decade ago. deputy chief wayne drummond has when he started there were 5000 applications per year. the spokesperson for the department says they reached out to the civil service department to get the numbers but there calls and emails were not return, they told me the numbers are down. >> it is challenging at times to get the number of recruits that we need to fill up classes. >> according to police officers danger increasingly tougher standards and the most common co level of risk. cpd pays $45,000 to officers coming out of the academy, lower than other large cities in the state. >> reporter: the newest class of recruits traveled to columbus this week to begin their academy training. live from cleveland back to grab robbery at about five deck 30 this morning at the rite aid on west 28 and broadview, the minivan used to crash into the store was there when police arrived. >> until the 18 was taken. people facing charges accused of dealing cocaine in the cleveland area. prosecutors say this was a long selling line with one of them selling large amounts of cocaine to another who then sold it to others. eventually to get the drugs on the street, the accused are from cleveland and other cities, one from indiana. planned parenthood votes, they are targeting ohio as part of the largest get out to vote campaign ever. the group launched the ohio campaign today and is part of a $30 million nationwide effort to mobilize people to vote, especially young and undecided voters, they say they can be moved by issues like women's healthcare and abortion rights. we have heard report after report for the new samsung phone bursting into flames, now a family is claiming a did a whole lot of damage. another store getting ready for the holidays. we know how many jobs are available right here in northeast ohio. lawmakers are raising questions about the epipen, they want the justice department to look at the moves need some extra cash for business? a retailer announcing plans to hire for the holidays. jcpenney looking for 500 people to work in the cleveland area hiring begins next month, macy's and target are looking for seasonal workers as well. pl there. we have heard again and again about the millions of galaxy note 7 phones recalled after the batteries go up in flames, a local family claims a different samsung phone caught their house on fire.>> we talked to the family. >> this phone is on fire, not samsung massive recall only applies to the note 7 not the phone causing this fire, the edge. part of why this family wanted to share their story with you tonight. this is how danielle's bedroom looks right now. char, ash covered and destroyed. her samsung 7 edge. still intact. >> the phone was overheating from before the fire and after what she calls constant overheating issues, danielle told me she mailed it to samsung. >> i sent them screenshots and told them what happened. and they sent me the phone back. >> it is with her insurance company now. >> if somebody has one of the phones i would be talking to the provider finding out if it is safe. >> tonight she is warning you. under their pillows are right next to them. >> everyone with a phone. >> be careful, that could be you. your life right there. over a cell phone. >> this is the first cell phone fire they have seen here but the chief told me with all the recalls he hopes it is the last. in painesville, tara molina news 5. it is not to samsung ph commission is warning about the top loading washing machines. after reports of washers exploding in the last five years you can see the damage done people are now told to use only the delicate cycle when washing bulk items to reduce the risk of injury or damage samsung is working with a u. s. official on a fix. here's something you think would be obvious, don't drill that is fake supposedly showing you how to drill into an iphone 7 to get to a hidden headphone jack. there is no jack but some fell for this, if you do drill into it you probably void the warranty and ruin your phone at the same time. don't do it. senators in dc are asking the justice department to investigate the epipen, they want to know law when they classify the drug as generic. the senators are suggesting the company may have worked the system to divert millions from taxpayers. mylan is under fire for the skyrocketing cost of epipen. forget about self driving cars, nissan unveiled the self driving chair. meant to take the pain out of standing in line, a fleet of self driving seats with sensors that allow the chairs to follow a half dozen chairs on display right now but nissan is waiting for a response from the public before deciding if they want to release more. that is a little too much. unless it gets hacked and then you go for a ride. >> from here to the weather wall it would be nice. >> that would be easy and you could get in line. let's talk about some rain and cloudy skies over downtown, a few little sprinkles in the vicinity over the last couple of hours but the rain has evaded or avoided greater cleveland and downtown. that is good news, but take a look, a lot of water, some rain showers persisting, like to briefly moderate range across the area. a few isolated sprinkles around greater cleveland. pulls up to the shoreline, it tends to split apart and also notice the rain wants to stay primarily west of interstate 77. the main area of rain is west of interstate from cleveland to akron and canted -- canton only a few isolated chose to the west, look at the clouds, very few clouds here east of interstate 77 through the afternoon, showers across mansfield and ashland in the worchester area all afternoon long. 56 in mansfield, and we are 14 degrees warmer in youngstown. 69, 63 where the rain that just moved by, 61 from him, 59 norwalk this is where the rain is and has been. if you haven't seen any especially east of interstate, you will get your share over today mid-60s for highs, let me show you. cleveland has a high today of 66, the first time the high has not hit 70 degrees since may 22, it is officially the cold season. there is the upper-level low, there is matthew, the new tropical storm, leeward islands heading this way and then it could move toward florida, for us in the short term it is this low hanging around into the weather weekend with waves thunder. rainfall again, pay less attention to the location of the heavy rain bands, just to know that somewhere in northern ohio there could be two or three inches of rainfall between now and saturday night. that is heavy rain, 57 tonight, showers likely maybe some thunder tomorrow, widely scattered showers cloudy and cool, near 70. akron and canton 56 tonight, 68 seven day shows showers, showers and finally we dry out sunday with heister the low to mid 70s through the weekend. the locker room goggles are off and he's back. >> what the indians are playing for we will tell you and a long snapper doing trick shots. the akron football player five games to go in the regular season and the indians have something to play for, home-field advantage. here is a look at the standings the rangers had the best record in the al the red sox won half- game back indians 1.5 games back. cleveland continues its series against detroit tonight. and then close out in kansas city. stop what you're doing you got doing trick shots and he is from our own backyard. he plays football at akron where he is accurate on and off the field. snappers make ridiculous trick shots last year it prompted the akron long snapper to get in on the action. snapping a ball from the top of the stadium into a bucket on a moving golf cart. that video went viral. mike isn't a one trick long snapper, he has got a new video this year and it is hopping. he knocked the off. >> i would like to think i have a better personality than the other long snappers. got to be a fun kid to do it. all the creativity. showing people that we are putting our weirdness to good use. john was an offense of lineman in the 80s. he was drafted by the browns in 1989. mike's dad went on to play for four different teams in the nfl. >> growing up i had big shoes to fill knowing i was his son and i've got to make a name for myself. long snapping is the way i can continue to play. >> i wanted to see for myself just how accurate mike is, sitting from 15 yards away, here we go. >> look at that, knocked it off my noggin. getting it done. >> like wanted to keep the trick shots going he issued a go. i wasn't afraid because i was a catcher in college so i was used to having baseballs fly at my head. f-15 yard football snap i was like let's do this. we will see you tonight at tonight, breaking news. shots fired at an elementary school. hitting children and a teacher, a suspect in custody. images now coming in from the scene. the deadly police shooting. the aftermath live on facebook. the man's sister saying she told police he was unarmed. authorities say he was in a, quote, shooting in new york city. the new image from the fbi tonight, they now know who the mystery men are, after those bombs placed in new york. where are they now? major developments in the race for the white house. donald trump moments ago with a fresh attack on hillary clinton. and, tonight, trump's team acknowledges he needs to practice for the next debate. meanwhile, michelle obama tonight not holding back against trump. and the volcano erupting.

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