life away from you. >> reporter: someone crawled through the window of his elyria home and tried to snatch his 10-year-old daughter from her bed. >> he got a hold of her legs, talking to her. saying to be quiet and do what he says. >> reporter: she ran to her dead, but the man was gone. three months later it happened again. he succeeded in grabbing a child. this disturbing grainy surveillance video shows the kidnapper carrying the 6-year- old from her home. eventually dropped her off in th her captive for hours. >> and i play a lot of what ifs or what if i would have seen him and that i always kick myself in the butt. if i could have done anything and caught him before he caught away then it wouldn't have happened to the little girl and that breaks my heart. >> reporter: the fbi links the two cases between some evidence. here he is caught on camera in the cleveland neighborhood a week before the kidnapping. 2003 chevy lumina. the cleveland girl told investigators there was a man and a woman in a home that she was taken to that someone was cooking chicken. police do not suspect that man and woman had any idea that the little girl was being held in the bedroom. police sources tell me that it is critical that they identify this man because they are afraid that he will target another child. >> the next l not be as lucky as my daughter and what happened to that little girl, the next one might not be as lucky. >> reporter: and there is an urgency to find this man sooner rather than later. if you have any information you're asked to call the fbi. there is a $20,000 award for information. live in cleveland tracy carloss news channel 5. a traffic alert if you're waiting for someone that is taking i-90 east. there's been an accident that and that is what is causing all the backup that you'll see here. the crash happened near eddie road and three lanes are shut down. traffic is backed up at least to dead man's curb. more information tonight at 6:00 about the murder of the teenager found in east cleveland. brianna's body was found earlier this month. police arrested woods after a standoff here in cleveland. but we have been checking in with them on the case and they tell us that woods is no longer a person of case. it has been a violent summer in lorain. seven murders. most of them happened in the last few weeks. >> the latest just happened yesterday, but police think that they have already solved that case. news channel 5 paul kiska is working to uncover new information. paul, four arrests were made today. >> reporter: well that's right, rob. you know it took elyria police just hours to solve yesterday's murder. meanwhile another high-profile murder mystery drags on. this year in lorain. police say that he was shot to death in his upstairs apartment on lexington avenue. >> we believe this is a robbery that went bad. >> a quiet guy. >> reporter: neighbor betty turner told me that holland was friendly and kept to himself. >> i knew jimmie as a neighbor. he's very nice person. never any trouble or anything, he was just a real nice guy. >> police arrested four people, elliott kirkland, mark sanchez, and jasmine schafer are charged with murder. latrice obstructing justice. all four have criminal records. betty lives near three of the recent murders. >> well don't make me feel too safe, but we mind our own business and don't bother nobody. >> reporter: lorain police already solved six of the seven murders. they say none of the crimes are related. they're still searching for the killer earlier this month in a drive-thru of taco bell on overland avenue. >> we're still seeking and any homicides. specifically that one. we've gotten a lot of tips that we're still following up on. i still feel pretty good that we're going to be able to solve that with a little bit more on the public's help. >> and they are offering $15,000 reward for information leading to an arrest in that ongoing case. live in lorain paul kiska news channel 5. >> all right paul. right now in canton no sign of the killers who murdered two men while children were inside the home. it happened this morning alongside midway avenue northeast. those men we with a woman and three children and all under the age -- all under the age of four. the children were not hurt. now to democracy 2016 and an issue in cleveland that could hit you in the wallet. it will be calling for raising the income tax from 2% to 2.5% a. person making $50,000 will pay an extra $250 a year. john kosich, cleveland leaders >> they have been shaking the cushion since 2011 when they balance their own budget. and those hits in the five year stents have come to a total of $111 million. plus additional money that will be needed for union contracts and the police consent decree will have them looking at the deficit to require those layoffs and cuts to the city services. the $83 million and their income tax hike will generate and eliminate that and allow for things like improvements. more housing inspections, greater services as a whole. the greater cleveland partnership studied the proposal for three months that they were in agreement that the tax hike was needed, which is just a question of how much. >> and that they will become comfortable with the half percent when you would see both the opportunities. and more than that they will continue to make our neighborhoods right for more investments. >> yeah, to attract the investment as they need to see attracted and interesting for them. equally as important and important as they pointed out that was an income tax that it will be a vote on the school levy renewal, which will also be decided on november 8. on your side live in the newsroom john kosich news channel 5. well, you may see fewer ads for ted strickland in the coming weeks. the group on ads for strickland. and it is the second group to pull ads. that they say it will be a sign they are losing hope that strickland can win. it had is surprising because hill -- and this is surprising because hillary clinton had been leading donald trump in ohio. >> neither candidate is giving up on our state. clinton will address the convention tomorrow in cincinnati. trump will visit with the same group a day after that. also on thursday trump rallies in wilmington between cincinnati and columbus and campaigns in cleveland less than two weeks after their last visit to our city. crossing the state in politics and weather. >> we had a little rain and thunder off to the west. we will zoom in on that to start in northwest ohio with a few showers, but they're fading fast moving towards toledo. i don't think that they will have a whole lot of help getting across interstate 75. there is much drier air once you get over towards the islands down towards mansfield. so these showers the first wave should fade and not impact your evening at all. currently we'll widen out the view with dry weather all across the news channel 5 viewing area. if you are coming downtown to cleveland, 79 degrees. comfortable weather for a tribe game. just a little warmer in bedford. euclid at 82. we still have, well we dropped to 89 at dover new philly for the last five minutes. they were 91 degrees over the last five hours there. in ashtabula. what do you want to do this evening? we're in the 80s at 6:00. there you go near 80 at 8:00 and middle 70s, dry and mainly cloudy all evening long. more rain tomorrow though and a big cool down into the holiday weekend with a little fall like coming up. cleveland's official breaking news chopper just arrived over the scene of the accident that we told you about a few minutes ago on i-90 east as you can see from air tracker 5 that the vehicle has overturned. that's why there is such a huge back up. th road. three lanes are shut down. you'll look at the live traffic cam, traffic is backed up all the way to dead man's curve. someone is going to be taken on i-90 east. >> that is a back up. still ahead for us. you'll never believe what police find after getting reports of the car swerving on the highway. plus, a drug that is hundreds of times more powerful than heroin. and we just learned that it might be as easy to get as turning on your computer. windians. we'll break down baseball left to go as news channel 5 at 6:00 tonight at 6:00, new details emerge after a local police chief was placed on leave. we are told that it is looking into the money spent from a police department law enforcement trust fund. so it placed chief paul stanley on administrative leave. sergeant david braun was named interim chief. check out this video from overnight. thieves smashed into the food mart on west 56th and clark. poli nearby, they approached the group asking what are you doing? that scared folks off. police were able to track down the jeeps and the people inside ran off yet again. officers caught up with four of the five. we're told some of them might be under age. new tonight at 6:00, there is new evidence that the drug epidemic is spreading around ohio. in franklin county, these two people were just indicted on charges that they made and sold drug-laced candy. according to wbns, their ate the candy and then went to the school nurse. this all happened last winter. after checking out reports of a vehicle swerving on the highway, police found a father and son who both overdosed on heroin. that happened last night outside cincinnati and the car was along i-75. by the time that police arrived, the car was stopped on the median and the men were both passed out. news channel 5 is always investigating, digging into this heroin epidemic. as we have been cincinnati has been hit hard bit drug overdoses. nearly 200 in just a week. police say that some of the drugs involved, they were laced with carfentanil. >> that animal tranquilizer is blamed for a deadly outbreak in akron and it might be easier to get. you did some digging and learned that it was available online? >> reporter: and rob, that is alarming because it is deadly, so deadly that the cuyahoga county medical examiner put out week -- a couple weeks ago warning everybody that it is here. and it is used to sedate 6,000- pound elephants. even though that it is illegal for most people to buy, it wasn't hard to find. the quick search online reveals website after website promising to sell it. but the ones i found, they claim to be based in china. selling the powerful opioid for $400 to $800 a gram plus shipping. a federal drug enforcement administrator told m online, but the users may have no idea what they are putting in their body until it is too late. >> and let's face facts here. the last worry on their minds is what happens to you after i give you that dose that they will get that money and they will keep increasing their profits. >> reporter: and at least eight deaths in akron might be linked to carfentanil. since that deadly substance first showed up last month, agents no longer test that substance in the field, instead it away to a lab for testing. derick waller news channel 5. now at 6:00 a story that you'll see only on 5:00. area residents say they are being conned bay local contractor and they are out thousands of dollars. so today we went out to find him. kristin bolt learned that at last count this contractor had 57 better business bureau complaints against him? >> reporter: yeah can you believe it? 57 complais. the cleveland indians have sued him. today we found that it appears he starts and manages a business and takes peoples money, declaring that business bankrupt. this is the latest venture right here in this ad and his victims, well they are all over including right here in parma. >> i have seen it on tv before. but i never dreamed that i would be taken advantage of. an 82-year-old widow who need a little work done. >> he was suppose to put up the rest of this paneling. >> reporter: she saw this ad in the community magazine for all together construction. she tells me that this man came to her brook park home ted adams. little did she know he was convicted 11 years ago for passing bad checks and aggravated theft. >> he was very personallable and believable. >> reporter: that is how she described her initial but things quickly changed. >> frustrating, disappointing, heartbreaking to a point. >> reporter: anna wrote ken's company this check for nearly $4,700 last year after she told me she checked with the better business bureau, no complaints for his company at time. but once she handed him this check, she tells me that he never saw him again. >> i called again. he had some excuse. then all of a sudden i get a call from him saying that i'm really broke, i don't have the >> reporter: deborah gave him $11,000 to redo her kitchen. ken owes her $2,000 for supplies he was suppose to buy for her money, but did not. >> don't do this to people. >> reporter: today we went looking for ken. at residence here listed as the address for all together construction. ken and his business partner moved out. we then went to this home in strongsville after we uncovered another address for ken. but there in the house and the house was empty. a neighbor tells me they moved out a month ago. >> to ken shame on you. >> reporter: we investigated the businesses associated with ken adams. we found out through these state documents that he has owned or operated five companies in the last 16 years in cuyahoga county. they are suing dreamworks home improvement. that ken sent her a small reimbursement check for the work that he never did. live in parma i'm kristin bolt news channel 5. >> always makes you feel bad when you see people taken like that. >> wild stuff. >> yes. >> what is in stored for tonight? >> you're going to stay dry. you can put the top down in the jeep again, you can ride your bike or whatever you're riding to work today. >> yes. >> he always says that i ride a bike to work, i don't know why. i don't know where that comes from, rk we're not sure. let's take a look at what's going on outside right now. satellite map, here we have some rain and thunder moving our way. no severe weather to tell you about. we're not expecting any severe weather here with this next front that you can see it move down this way and then drives almost into chicago and again the movement is towards the south and east. the front is going to slowly move in. i'm thinking tomorrow afternoon, late morning, early into the akron/canton area. so we will start to see rain showers as early as 5:00 to 6:00 a.m. tomorrow morning and then slowly shifting those rain showers and storms south and east towards akron, canton, youngstown by early to mid- afternoon. ft. wayne is showing you the weather here as they could make it to toledo and finley. and they should fade out and the drier air that will be over you and i right now. 83 in cleveland and medina and akron the humidity is manageable. good night for a tribe game. baseball is going to go on unimpeded by rain. 88 the high today. 79 the average. 96 the record high. pollen count, mold and ragweed are moderate so we will be getting a double whammy here. once again that front will come in here behind us. much chillier air. are you ready for a little hint of fall by friday? and the highs are likely for degrees. tonight, 67. mainly cloudy, staying dry. let's show you this seven-day forecast quickly. here we go. thursday 74, friday 73. a nice and dry holiday weekend. every time you get an opportunity to go out there to play the game it's an opportunity to improve. coach decided that he wants to play the starters all ready to go. >> rgiii getting ready for thursday night's game as you can see it right here, the whole slate of programming. welcome in to the ballpark tonight as the indians will try to rally again after last night with a bi man it was exciting, the indians pitching coach that will be joining us as you put it together. and throwing the shutout as they would look great. just your thoughts on their game? >> and i thought that we would have a good game going in. when you would bring in some of the other guys like miller, you know, he just goes out there and does what he does and it is really special. we're proud of the offense coming through at the end, wasn't an easy winning. >> sometimes they don't have it tonight. how do you stay even keel through 162? >> a lot of routines will help us through it obviously as we will come to the field. every same time and day that we are doing the same thing like ground hog day for us. you don't get too caught up, and you know, you just fight a good fight every day. we're one of the only teams in the major league that have t that's a good tribute to our guys, they will never give up or they will go out there every day and stay even keel and play the ball and the game the way that it should be played. >> reporter: how special has this season been? sometimes i don't think that they realize how hard it is to get just one win. >> it is really special. obviously we have played really, really good baseball throughout the season, to be in the position that we're at. obviously i've been up and down throughout that, but to be in is really special and it is a testament to how hard that they have worked since spring training and throughout the season. >> good luck tonight and congratulations on everything. good luck down the road too. >> thanks for having me. >> all right, we'll send it back to you in the studios. >> the windians. >> yes, they had a great game last night. three home runs tonight. that's my prediction. >> thank you, mark johnson. breaking news. tonight, we start with a new hurricane watch, just issued. two systems. one growing in the atlantic. the other, in the gulf. plus, back-to-back major hurricanes now targeting hawaii. terror takedown. one of the most wanted terrorists killed tonight. the number two man for isis. a $5il as new details come in as an american woman held hostage. in the race for president, donald trump facing a pivotal moment. will he flip-flop on immigration? tonight, his son coming to his defense. fiery crash. the chain reaction pileup. all caught on video. and the heroic rescue by a group of other drivers. and, an out of this world sound. the radio signal discovered from 94 lightyears away.