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A live look outside now as you can see the skyline and just beyond in the distance more storms have rolled into northeast ohio today. More concerns with Power Outages and winds and now the concerns are turning to flooding. Good evening, im bill sheil. Im jennifer jordan. The stormy saturday throughoutl has beenr tracking all the weather developments. She joins us live from the Weather Center with the details. Through the afternoon i track of strong line of thunderstorms which created frequent lightning, heavy downpours and also winds upwards of 50 mouse power. Only one Severe Thunderstorm Warning from ashtabula up toward cognac where they did seehush 50 mileperhour wind gusts. Also some reports of trees down. As flooding goes, no reports yet. We are not out woods. We still have showers and thunderstorms that will be periodically moving throughout throughout the day today and into the night and into thea day tomorrow. Iro want to check out storm fox now and show you what is going on. Tk stop the clock and you can see the one line that pushed through our area is now working its way over to pennsylvania border. Now we are getting some clusters of showers and thunderstorms working their way to the north and east. Andll check this one area steady rain going on in portions of our south western communities. Draw a line from Green Springs ashland. Ay toto it is moving about 25 mouse power. It ov a will be and willard area about six zero four. Bellevue at six nineteen and new london at 627. We see the shades of yellow and some moderate rain for you. Also out toward garrets bill middle to light showers and through. Legh we have a lot more rain to work with. W the Flash Flood Watch continues until sunday evening. Another day of on and off showers and storms for the remainder of the evening with temperatures holdingth and the upper 70s with clouds around and the showers and thunderstorms. What to expect, possiblesi torrential downpours and very tropical. The dog days of summer have endedia so we are a lot of 80s in the eightday forecastt plus we still have moe rain on tap next week. And we will see if that helps out in any way with the moderat to severe drought that we have had. We need all the rain we can get but unfortunately when it rains it pours, right . We know of course that leads to flooding issues. We hope it comes in smooth increments. Oo jenn harcher, life for us thanku you. Six there are flooding concerns in northeast ohio e side. Ci so far, so good. Fox 8 News Reporter alison brown joins us in the rain and allison, what is it looking like right now . Yes, just a drizzle here and like you said so far so good. We have been pretty lucky and lorraine. We are here along the black river and right now the rain has pretty much stopped but headed afternoon. It had points of being heavy and whatever you see flash flooding watches people pay attention. Especially if you live near a river like this. For those we talked to today they say the problemke with the rain has just been the delay of plans for their saturday. Ju actually this isnt so bad. Ithi moved through and our plans were delayed a little bit. We had a dinnera going on at Tt Yacht Club down the road and it kindr of put a little damper now it looks like a beautiful evening. Li mike also said earlier he was happy that some rain came down at all. Of course people dont want that flash flooding but the rain is welcomed. A lot of brown grass out here and i will say for the first time in a while i am actually a little chilly. That is also good news. Aoo cool down and no flooding and the rain. Good news. Allison brown, by for us and inky. Day three and thousands of homes iny northeast ohio are still without power. No fox 8 Lorrie Taylor said lakewood residents are among many who have been living in the dark sincece the lights went out ono thursday. Fortunately, relief is insight. First energy is saying most homes inng northeast ohio, including lakewood, should have power restored by 11 30 tonight. Here are lakewoods glenn berry avenue is attila the house and the lights are shining on one side of the street. Its been s a little rough te pasta couple of days. While darkness and heat hang heavy on the other. Its just been pretty frustrating because i have seen so many workers out here assessing the situation but nothing is actually being worked on. Rhondas boden and her family haveer been breaking a sweat sie thursday afternoon when their air conditioner went down with hang across their backyard. The Fire Department has declared half a dozen properties, including hers, offlimits until repairs mi can be made. Were all just a little bit fed up right now. Igh just had that that that woud maybe be a bigger priority. May be more than 3,000 homes and Cuyahoga County were still in the dark saturday morning. G. Outages from this latest storm have taxed first energy cruise mid subcontractors, like this brought into get that power back on faster. R. Residents living on mckinley avenue, like matt low well, could you some cool air. He and his pregnant wife have also been toughing it out since thursday afternoon, sleeping on thesl living room floor where te air is cooler, despite the fact wells wife is due to deliver any day. Im just glad that we dont have a baby whos got to put up of this is not what its always like. El not in northeast ohio. Where all you have to do is wait and the weather will change. First energy crews appeared to make progress until this latest storm blew throughre. This morning about 3100 homes were without power. That number wasi down to about 2100 around 4 00. Now 4 its up to 5600 customers it will be a longme night for these crews. So many trees wires down. Unfortunately these crews cannot get everything back up and running overnight. Yes, thats true. But on the third nightan we are looking out where all the homes will be coming back on. Ng 11 30 does seem to be the latest time i saw. Lets hope they tomorrow morning everyone wakes up to cool air in their houses. Side. So frustrating, im sure. The cleanup continues to the east as well. Some people in Cleveland Heights havent had power since the first round of storms on tuesday. Poe crews have been working long basically to get them back on. A few dozen First Energy Customers are still without power today. Tree Removal Companies were very busyl all week long. One tree crushed the back wall of a home and took out part of the roof. We would have been sitting ray under that window broken but this night we decided to go to bed early in the kids were hanging out in the living room and think god nobody was there. Ob cleanup efforts are expected to continue throughout the rest of the weekend. We have this breaking news from Cleveland Indians tonight. Manager terryo francona said Michael Brantley will undergo seasonending surgery. The star outfielder has battled injuries all season long. Brantley willlo travel to dallas nation of thes operation and a timetable for recovery will be announced after the surgery. We are continuing to learn more about a deadly accident involving two Columbus High School Water Polo teams. We know one person was killed and several others hurt. Rs the wreck happening as the two teams were on their way to a tournament. A Passenger Van carrying players from Thomas Worthington and worthington kilbournerr water po teams,e along with some family members, tournament when the crash happened around 10 00 friday morning. Investigators say ther van did notv yield, and pulled out in front of a green truck at state route 65 and state route 281. The semi fit the van on the passenger side door, knocking both vehicles into a ditch. The henryc county Sheriffs Department telling us 19 yearold Courtney Fisher of worthington wasr killed. The driver and for girls, ranging in age fromr 1417 are with lifethreatening injuries. Its just tough. I dont know. I cant imagine. It is hard for these kids and i think about the parents. So, god be with all of them. I think everybody kind of depends on each other for comfort and things like that for district is a great job in putting together a crisis team. We do have a crisis team where counselors come to meet with kids and anyone else ho needs to talk abou feeling. Wef are told all of those involved inal the crash or from columbus. They were onco their way to napoleon, ohio for their first water polo tournament of the season. We are told the driver of the van is the mother of two of the girls. This incident is still under investigation. An investigation by the Ohio High School Athletic Association and ends with several sanctions for masculine Washington High School nd football program. Recruitingf violations by the head coach nate more. It includesre a 5,000 fine, probation for three years, and moores suspension from coaching the team during the postseason, if the team qualifies. The investigation did not released the name of the student athletes, but at least one has been declared ineligible for the entire Upcoming School year. The violations reportedly began in fall of 2015 when more took over as head coach. Before the weather turned what this afternoon, clevelandt ogee bt q community pulled up an event that only a fewed weeks ao was in doubt. And as you can see, they celebrated both are pride and their ability to make this event and reality so fast. A there were tears as they marched, and chances well. Love trumps hate. As the lg bt q community celebrated what it called pride in the cle. Quickly. Weee put this together and 13 days. You may remember that a Different Organization canceled its gay pride parade. But 18 Different Organizations came together to pull this off. We are excited because this yearifanit we thought it wasntg to happen and the Community Came together. The computer any one in to know that we need this. A few thousand people were expected toeo attend the march f the festival that followed. Organizers say they received a ton of support from the and public officials, and funding from the Cleveland Foundation andev the aids fundig collaborative. The communities that we have to have this and have to beth ae to come together and show that we are strongle, and that we are proud, and that cleveland is an amazingan city. And one that can put together a largescale parade and festival and a hurry. After this years success, organizers y hope to make this march and festival a cornerstone event for hnd the community in e years to come. Italian food fills the air throughout the citys east side. The feast of the assumption is in full swing. The annual celebration and clevelands little italy kickedl off lastd night. As everyone knows, there is plenty to taken along mayfield road, rides, games, and of coursee plate falls of food. The feast wraps up monday night. Yummy. Still ahead, more on tonights stormy weather. Power outages can be but there is one thing police reallyin dont want you to do. What the i team is learning tonight. Showers and storms sure cold us off. We will not hit 90 degrees tomorrow but i will be tracking these pesky showers andb thunderstorms. Your forecast, coming up next. Plus, they are a major part of the Flats East Bank revitalization but to popular restaurants are already closing at longhorn, steak is all you need. Its not all you get. Longhorns Great American steak dinner for 12. 99. Perfectly seasoned sirloin with your choice of side. Plus an appetizer or a dessert. All with fresh salad and unlimited bread. The Great American steak dinner, for 12. 99. You cant fake steak. For lunch try our steakhouse burger welcome back to fox 8 news at 6 00. Look at this major event going on right now. The budweiser clydesdales are in town. Beautiful world famous horses. They are right now in downtown in the gateway district. The Gentle Giants will eventually make their way into Progressive Field before tonights indians game. Oo i wonder if they will be passing out anyll budweiser of the game . For a certain fee. You pay for it. He you pay for inside the ballpark. These are the horses we all we see in the commercials and the adsise for the beer. And almost every year they have a tremendous commercial. Right, they are really beautiful, arent they . There is Progressive Field right there and it looks like the weather was cooperating f because we have said we wanted the rain for about a month. Boy did we get it. It when it rains, it pours. We needed the rain but we severally dont need rounds of rain and we are talking about some flash flooding issues. N i will show you why we are concerned about this. We have a the great lakes down to the golf of mexico. N i hope folks did bring their rain gear because it looks like we will be dodging showers throughout the game. Take a look at this picture. It went dark and bright again and hereg comes more showers. We will end out the time lapse with sunshine trying to sneak on through. You have seen it. It happened several days in a row. Unfortunately it is not over yet. Un today i am still trck will likely be doing through tomorrow. We do have some showersoi right along storm fox. Now to the north and west of i 71. Its a soaking rain that is going on now on storm fox paired that is the shade of green and yellow from attica to willard down to shall be for it we do have some light showers over and ashlanddo and now just to the london. Ew we do have some stronger cells here that created downpours near rooster and lightning with this. That is the case just to the east of rooster you will likely get around here in the next 510 minutes. I do have a couple more stops to show you. Just to the north and portions of ow Summit County and you are getting some showers and green. D now lets seeh in our area at the moment. I am tracking these showers and storms as we had through your evening hours. That will continued through around sunday. Through about 10 00 tonight looking at these things fizzling out but we will look for another round that starts to push into our area lan through the day tomorrow. It will mainlyay be in the southeastern communities. It wont be as widespread as it was this afternoon. For tonight, our temperature so mainly during the evening hours. Then just a few asn we had through the overnight. Thunderstorms are definitely a possibility. We are down to 73 degrees tonight so another muggy one. T we will likely see a few showers and thunderstorms popping up through the night ten hours. Most of it will be winding down. Right noww we are at 75 degrees. 74 degrees and akron canton area. Tomorrow we are back to 83 degrees paired we finally break the streak heat. 0 low 80s expected and scattered showers and stormsed mainly in e southern in eastern communities. Boaters have a bit of a chop with 13 footers. Be on the lookout for a few showers and thunderstorms. Heres a look at the eightday forecast and uc 90degree temperaturesan in the next eight days . No. We arere finally back toay where should be this time of year in the low and mid 80s. And ofnd course we have more ran best threat of rain on tuesday with another system that is pushing him. Otherwise you will see the popup showers and storms through mid week and it wont be tropical but still will be muggy out. Thee typical summer feel, not te tropical feel. Still ahead tonight, Alex Rodriguezt said so long to yanke fans. Today the yankees that and so long to him. Details after the announcement after the break. De the browns 2016 season is officially underway. What went right and what went wrong during last nights sports tonight the browns first exhibition game is in the books. 1711 the packers win. Green bay. Coach hugh jackson on the sidelines of the first play looks promising. Rg3 goes up and down the right side lanes to terrel prior. Watch the sketch. He also converted a thirddown play as well. Here are hitting prior again. R things looking good but then he tries to squeeze in a pass any got burned. Welcome to the nfl. Picked off at the goal line. Jamie meter, the pride of valley forge and Ashland University with safety. Id and way back in the end zone. Ricky most are made some decent runs, with a diverse but he also fumbled the ball away. Its a preseason game and you are seeingnd the good, the bad d the ugly. Josh mccown but he had a touchdown pass here but lets see if hes crossing the line of scrimmage. He did. He was over the line of scrimmage and youngsters like get the sack. And cody kessler got his first touchdown pass when he hit her shard figgins. Th