8 00 oclock is your time and we want to get a check on the forecast with aj because it is ever changing these days. There look at storm fox Doppler Radar a couple of showers around with the sprinkles, but by far the more impressive rain to the south and west just getting into mansfield a beautiful shot at burke lakefront it appears badges are going smaller and smaller visibility down to attempt of a mile so there is dense fog in pockets out there. Seventy to the top outside right now 71 in akron canton. Partly cloudy thean full corn moon pockets of shower that will dissipate by sunset tonight. The foam and will likely be up there and all its splendor. Traffic time with the one and only patty harkin. Kind of busy right from the get go this morning. We do have an accident d with chris responding do expect some delays down in the area they just process of 77 so residualti slowdowns to 21. Seventyseven at route 18 so no longer blocking the active claim that is good news. This is 90 at hilliard. The banks. A lot of traffic that takes you all the way in from the west side. More people on the roads note that school is back in session. A lot of folks shining into taking the route. Still crews on the scene of a house fire roads still blocked off a deadly accident one person killed in a crash on east 100 16th and shaker. Two others taken to the hospital withak injuries and two others a fled the scene. It is not that clear out what led up to the crash but we will continue to find out more time a lucky group ofis children new one out. Jessica joins us now with more on this heronene how cool. T is so cool. Always a good day willo make it to talk to lebron and hear from him. Last night he actually spend the n day at cedar. Where he made his first championship rating cleveland and akron, but this time at cedar. He took the stage last nightto he welcomed kids and parents attendingds but we are Family Reunion more than 7,000 students take part in the program last nights event is the adoption of theve newest cls of Akron Public School thirdgraders who s have fallen behind becauseen of her chips in our their lives. They recite the promise to graduate from high school him and him hired to getir a college degree. And lebrons mesge reiterated what he thoughth that people like and me to get back in order for society to change for the better. I believe that in orderch for us to ultimately be as great as we can for a nation that all of us had to go back to our community some and our hand and start brick by brick family by family carried by a kid and just using our resources and strengthen everything we have been able to do to build up all the kids in this foundation have the option of a full scholarship to the university of akronsh if they wt to earn one. Lebron said while winning game seven against golden state was pretty incredible, heas is at this nigt with the kidsis is always the greatest. And you know he generally means it. Absolutelyan he spends so muh of his own money with the help of all m of his other foundatios as well it is great to see. He is always so generous. Thank you. Other news right now stolen Police Looking for a man seen driving a black pickup truckk after a suspicious incident. This is the pictureci of a truck taken by a concerned mother after someone approach approached the young girlt on monday. Investigators say it matches the description to a similar place last week. White or hispanic possibly with a tattoo on his arm. Os police are but the parents situation is indeed alarming. It is terrifying i have one kidd i have just tried to talk o them about not t . If anybody comes up to them i would slow down it run back in the house. You cant trust anybody. Police simply want to talk to the man anyone with information is asked to call the Salmon Police department. Ne boosting patrols here roxbury the school has received for phone calls and sunday the most recent yesterday on the first day of class. Authorities are not saying whates the threats ae just that they are taking it very seriously. On paid leave this morning following a deadly shooting. The 36 yearold was a suspect in an Armed Robbery with a statement of the gi tract into a the backyard before it eventually crashing. The sheriff says several deputies fired shotsep at margin he was reportedly carrying a gun. No deputies are injured the women he was with them as being held now n for questioning. Cleveland parents andue adds this wednesday morning over a possible teachers strike next line the teachers unionon has bn negotiating with the district for nearly a year now buten the teachers are now threatening to go on strike of the issues they are dealing with isem the districts transformation plans which call teachers paid based on performance rather than experience it is unclear if or when talk well resume. Hillary clinton will be back in cleveland today focusing on the economy speaking at John Marshall high schoolfo at 1 15 p. M. Clinton will focus on is eight minutes after 8 00 oclock and i Campaign Shakeup for donald trump inside the changesru the republican president ial candidate is making. Good morning. Good morning stacy, wayne, stephanie every morning hope youre having a great s the wednesday. Temperature setting up into the 80s againn the humidity level sticks around the forecast showing perhaps a few raindrops around, but they wont be wide spread. What about the weekend . All these forecast details coming up next. Good morning. B and m barbecue opening a new restaurantnd when we come back,e have a lot to show you. Kicking just about 812 wednesday morning. Welcome back to fox eight news. Glad you are here. But several look first of all our time lapsek sure you are rn that came through this is the afternoon that came out through most of the day. A spectacular sunset Andre Bernier shooting that putting that on instagramt it was so colorful with all of those gorgeous colors up there and the textureus quite a shock. Rain showers to the south we were talking about that along 71 towards the state capitall and that appears to be the closest activity. There may be a brief shower in the area, but just that fleeting shower and will be pretty run a great how much rain could fall . Downstate down downstate a chance of an inch of rainta tody and tomorrow. But we should be of shari whether so we will continue with that thinking. Rainfall . We are running a surplus in cleveland almost a half an inch for the month of august when you take it all the way back to the meteorological summer of that is a different story. Kte akron and canton rung a big deficit here that is an impressive number and it would take halfs a foot of rain to mae that up at least. Currently 72 in cleveland and akron dpo swell intop the 60s it is tropical. We managed a high yesterday of 85. The average is 81. Not much of a temperature decline there is the rain most of it is downstate right now. Wens will have a typical late summer forecast and our summer so far showing days above average fr of 85. Eightyfive r more. We will have 44 of those days that is incredible. Course 2390degree days. Impressive to say the least. Passing shower and vendors are possible today. 83 degrees. The fox eight day forecast were keeping it is in the picture all the way through sunday. Then, what a difference after perhaps a soggy sunday temperatures in the 70s and much cooler weather. Back to you. Making headlines this wednesday morning . The blue capp california has engulfed some 18,000 acres about half the size of the city of San Francisco roughly 23 square miles not contained at all. 82,000 residents now in San Bernardino county under evacuation mandatorynrn orders. They up to leave theirs. Home it is startig more than 34,000 homes. The governor jerry brown has already declared a state of emergency. Homeowners have filed for federal disaster aid at least a lot of people have died because of the massive flooding. Some 40,000 homes damaged. 2 feet of rain and 48 hours causing some of the worstso flooding in louisiana sister be. A group of boat ownersna call themselves te cage and maybe alv bit going to communities rescuing people. Less than three months from electionle day and that Donald Trump Campaign undergoing a major an as is chief executive and has promoted kelly and conway as his campaign manager. Paul will stay on as the campaign chairman. They shakeup followed several weeks of negative headlines and falling poll numbers for trump who is trailing Hillary Clinton in nearly every key area. A commentator who created the roundtable consistent discussion yesterday after missing a show for the first time in 34 years. He felt under the weather. He sayser he started the Mclaughlin Group in 1982 discussing hot topics in a confrontational styleint he was 89 years old. A jesuit priest. It is amazing he is 89 and still working. Incredible and just felt a little under the weathert 89 in so doing his thing. What a great life. Yes. Here. What a great way to learn politics used t to watch batting catch it in the evenings on pbs and just get uptodate on what is going on. I did not know he was that old. I did not know either. Good morning. We are getting plugged in talking about electric cars a study out of mit saysa there are enough charging stations enough there for 87 percent of us to have cars on the8 road ony up . We take your thoughts and comments . . Came on Facebook Says in a car would not work for her job they cost is too high they are ugly as sin and make calling fire what a pain. Definitely not something i can use. You dont have the space necessarily but they dont make Pickup Center electric right now. Once as an econ will not work for their Current Situation since the c vehicle is paid off the current cost of an electric vehicle a sign e as i not a costeffective option for me another person says the technology need summer. Ill consider buying one when they make a carn charger that makes charging justice long as filling it may take it does take several hours it will still take you at least 20 . 25 minutes to get where you need to go. Done so she is a fan of combustion i will pass i prefer real cars over to a cars. Here are some voicemails. Good morning this is spring from parma on these electric cars . The only t thing is you have to recharge them all the time what if youu cant find a what do you do then . This is got from strongsville i would like to g just say that you know, the problem with the electric carsob is that if got o figure out your miles and your roundtrip you are going to because if you dont, you better the number of places where you can pull in and get electric for it, and then if y problems, whos going to come outpr and fix that this car . Part of this study is that was saying part of the study is most people dont drive more than 100 miles a day maybe 50 or 60 roundtrip local Grocery Store run agr couple of hours of driving 60 or 70 hours a day miles a day. That is why they said a lot of people would be open tob this that maybe if you twocar household one person had electricol and one person had gs then you could operated fine. That is when they get their numbers but if you run out of gasu and somewhat conservative the gas station how do you . Of somebody once runs the battery down the street there you go lets charge it up for you and that may be the next phase ofy the gas station where you would have thats pretty haved your fuel station and charging station asio well all e same thing here is how you get a hold of us h idea of an electric car . Is there Something Holding you back . The lack of no soundsol r solar power that is true. 8 00 oclock. Still ahead . Dash open for shoppers. We take you inside the newn World Trade Center mall 15 years after september 11. Your next shot to win a pair of tickets is coming up tomorrow after the break. 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We take a picture of my son in n the same place every year on the first day of school so funny to see how hes grown. Going to bump his head on the counter. H exactly. That will happen before you know it. Exactly. We do the same thing at thee yoo check in with a. J. Colby. Colby. Who is checking with theth the forecast this morning. Good morning. Or we should mention scott is off hes hanging outangi with his kids and probablybabl cooking we should ask elena and nathan if hes a good cook. En we should ask. Scott thinks hes great at it. Showers sorry scott. Ot showers heading downstate right now mansfield to the south and for us and isolated shower may pretty shot this morning fromm the premier Flight Academy downn at burke lakefront airport. Po enough breaks in the overcastove for a spectacular sunrise and patty harken and friendsfor a si us great pictures of the beautiful zoom is in the studio. Beautiful sunrise this morning. Half mile visibilityul at toledd youngstown down to a 10th of a mile. Some issues inland nooks and money. Have theeorning couldld same issue. Ue. Otherwise isolatedsolated thunderstorms. Thundersrm humid today. S. And may be isolated shower sh cropping up next weather system right here very weak but we havw to keep the chance of rain going and the forecast even into tomorrow. Rrow. Low 80s today. Mid 60s for tonight. Partly cloudy. Maze the moon of augustau will be floatingg over andan putting on a show. Tonight no charge. Rge. Courtesy of mid 80s on friday. Saturday looks driven most of th day but rain and thunder on into saturday. A sday. Looks like stacey wayne andwayn stephanie much cooler air on thh waye for monday throughnday t wednesday. s highs in the mid 70s. Hr70s. All right. Okay. Topping our headlines on this wednesday morning. Towednesdarn Lebron Jamesin made his first public appearance in our areaja since the championship parade. P and he used his time to talk jessica dill joins us live with more on the we are Family Reunion, held at cedar point yesterday. Wey good morning. Wayne Stephanie Dand kristi didd morning. Good morning everybody. N some call him the best call e bt basketball player in the world,h while others call him just a kid from akron. But say what you want, lebron james is a superstar to many. Ewy lebron really is a great person. He promised us a championship he did it. Mi lebron james continues to give back to his community in a bight way. Y in last night thousands of students who benefit from his foundation, and their families, spent the day at cedar point. The cavs start took the stage tt welcome a brand new class of third graders into the wheels for Education Program as they kick off a new school year. R edi the members get a two weeke me Technology Camp and then throughout the school year the students receive support, encouragement and incentives. Tee student the kids give a promise theys gm will graduate college and beiseh part of the community that lebron loves so much. Rt of the o and so much leeway were able ty do that and give back to these young kids. S. We all know theyre our futureue we have to understand that i love you too. Ve to und we love you lebron. Lebron. The Lebron James Foundation does so much and the main goal is toe set long term game plans. Throughout the year the kids ano parents will occasionally get visits and notes from lebron. Ute theyll get tutoring the yearute has team up with the foundation to give these kids a four year scholarship. Nde akronh a longterm plan here. Er sure. Great things. I love it. T all positive. E. Thank you so much. All in the headlines today. Several suspects are behind bars this morning for a string ofrnio smash and grab robberies, targeting atms. Police will discuss their raids and arrests later this morning. We will bring it to you. Investigators took 11 people into custody yesterday. R morning long yesterday. Ou the crime ring has targeted casi machines in stores in cleveland, parma and strongsville. Ng has tt seems like we have at least one of these in the headlines once c week or more. More. After the arrests, the iteam spoke to one store owner,r the r victimized a few months ago are you surprised that they were able to make an arrest like that . Yes, yes because so many people were getting away with it not only doing it in cleveland they r they dont care. Ng it ever the suspects are accused ofts ar using stolen vans to smash into the stores. Police started seeinge accususo connections