In this morninsngs download some great information on that for you. In youreat i news you can use. U. Absolutely. Whether we c an use scott sableuse sc is joining us now with a look at the allimportant weekend forecast. Trying to find somee breaks in in the overcast weve seen somev pretty interesting looking pictures from sunset yesterdayy and sunrises this morning. Clouds have begun to thin out slightly it will beegu vnery active beeg hear from now through mondayu vn right now theres no rain until this evening as wee right n a partially if not mostly melt off a lot of the snow aside from heavier snowvier snowv cover. Cover. Widespread 40s and return to winter rained on today general one or 3 inches of snow onsn sunday night followed by lakelakelake effect monday and tuesday. Could squeeze out isolated snowated shower tomorrow a really nothingsn substantial until sunday widespread low 40s here are a here ar few spots above that. Forecast now as we look aheadook when will the rain get here the t bigger question still looking atl looking rain. Not much here but it starts torts tr converge along that fronts the snow shower circle in yellow behind that coldi front to the northwest. Today breezy and it is pretty nort much cloudy might see a break of see a sunshine as temperatures climb and anticipate showers to get in here again after sundown or probably looking at six or 7 00 this evening and continuing to rain after midnight tonight. Check it out in the eight day in rank you very much. Following breaking news this morning out of cuyahoga falls. Multiple houses are on fire. Lets get right to stacey frey, whos live on the scene. With the very latest for us. Ht tonthth some good news nobody hurt in this. G s get right stacey verr som thats always what we like to hear and for houses also prettypr scary to think of when you initially cure it with three of them and occupied two of themf were just frames theyre the ones that are burned to the te ground to the basement you cannt you can sitting out in front but heavy smoke coming from thisyou third th house here which is unoccupied neighbors tell me it was goings to be closed on in a couple of theyre just tearing it down piece by piece now becauseetheyre it keeps smoking up. There is a fourth house that was occupied k has embers flying outs flyi of the roof. R pretty scary anybody in the neighborhood 6 00 this morning getting woken up to this andighborhondighbor people yelling and getting eacha cother out of bed coming outsideou to see these flames just shooting from these unoccupied homes. The wind was carrying the embers em b through the neighborhood. Borhood spoke with fire chief earlier hearlier hea says people described inribed in explosion what that means theys tey dont know at this point. Oint. Oi a couple of propane tanks out in front of the homes that wereh going up being built in this developmentin careful to keep the flames away from those. Quickly they were able tore able to re contain all of this and keep itkeep i from spreading to far but spoke with a woman whosebu house is heavy damage to it pretty scary it getting woken up this morning to that. Tt i mean, you never think youreink going to have y to break your kids get up theres as fire and it and actually happened. I was sleeping with my husband woke me up. Come on out. O and i was like what is going on. I was shaking and i just wasst was trying to get my daughter out. And when we got out it was thiswas this everywhere. Ande snowflakes fire everywhere. Snowflakes of fire imagine thatimaginethatim coming through your neighborhoodag your and a lot of people very nei gafraid embers going to spark more fires morfires they did not fire departmentartmentar doing a great job of keeping everything pretty much containedg prettyuch the house behind me. Somebodys dream going downn. The. I thank goodness nobod y wasas hurt. Stacey reporting live. Y report thank you very much. Much all right. The other big st. O rymu onc thisc thisc country. Gop president ial candidates back big talkearound th gop presid b seven republican hopefuls hitig talaround and jessica dill is here with a recap. Good morning. Good morning everyone. Frontrunner donald trump upupod morni against rivals senators ted cruz and marco rubio. They are joined on stage by ben carson and current governors Chris Christie of new jersey and john kasich of ohio. Hey are joiby ben former governor jeb bush rounding out the top seven. Lots covered and debated among the men. Christie and rubio engaged in aaroundingts covered tough exchange rubio accusing christie of being on the same page as president obama when it comes to gun control, commonon core and planned parenthood. Page as mes to gun christie pushed back saying his experience as a governor makes a big difference compared to being a senator. The candidates also took plenty of shots at obama. As a governor s a big dibein g bush saying there is no way the ama. As a govs ao way theama. As country is better off today than before obama and rubio said obama has an arrogant foreign policy. But the big talker of the nighttan arr ted cruz and Donald Trump Trump fighting cruzsreig b citizenship, even saying last night the democrats will bring af arr htht lawsuit against cruz. Citize af arrrr aga you cant have a question. Instcitize i can agree with you or not, butor not, buor your head. t senator, do you want to respond . Well, listen, ive spent my entire life defending thee lif constitution before the u. S. Supreme court. In and ill tell you, im not going to be taking legal advice from donald trump. Nd ill t the faceoff comes less than three weeks before the iowa caucuses. The first nominating contests off t befoow the president ial campaign. Thank you very much. Ch. Appreciate it. Other news this morning violenceis mornolence on the city southeast side. Kristi has the latest on thatlatest oat and the other big stories makingakina kristi. Good morning everyone. After being shot in the head. K good mor. Is it happened around 12 30 this morning in the 4300 block of the 43 block o easft 139th street in cleveland border. Someone fired several shots at a vehicle with two men inside. Border. He was driven to Marymount Hospital and then flown to metro Health Medical center. T his name has not been released. Officer arrested at an Airport Security checkpoint because he had a gun. A tsa spokesperson with Cleveland Hopkins internationalnal airport says a man put his jacket through the xray machine yesterday morning. Ye thats when agents saw a loaded 22 caliber handgun in the jacket pocket. W agents then called police whooagents th came and arrested the man. Airport he gave agents this n. Didnt know it was in his coat, it was basically down deep in a pocket. In a what we reccpoommend is you take a quick five minute check before you come to the airport, sweep through everything you have on your person and in your bag to make sure you dont have these prohibited items. Ome to weep througe on yo fox 8 has learned that the manrks part time with tric Campus Police department. Cleveland police say the man was booked into jail without incident. T. Tric cae departmenthe man we are told he has since beend he hasince b released on bond. A vigil will be held at 8 30 tonight in northfield center, to remember the family of four who. E held at 8 30 t 8 30 t investigators have ruled the fire arson they say a gas can was found near the body of jeffrey mather. Jeffrey and Cynthia Mather and their two daughters were killed. The medical examiner says cynthia and the girls may have been upstairs, and jeffreyb een upst downstairs when it happened. Jeffrey mather was found in with a loaded shotgun last month in the Cleveland Metro parks he told an officer he was depressed and considered ending his ownairee when ithehe sand metrs he life. Police woman with a hammer. Officers released this sketch of areeased thiet the suspect. Ch o a resident says she was hangingident s decorations on her porch last month, when a woman approachedays she was s and asked to borrow a phone. When the homeowner said no, the suspect attacked. Crime stoppers is offering a 2,000 dollar reward for help finding the suspect. No, the tacked. Oppers is offeoppers i ohio lawmakers are looking into whether medical marijuana shouldr medica marijua be legal in ohio just months after voters rejected a state be legal ballot issue. Llot is a new quinnipiac poll suggests a majority of ohioans support medical marijuana. Arijuana the state speaker of the house yesterday, to explore theed possibility. He says a Diverse Group of people including medical professionals and former attorney general Betty Montgomery will examine all sides of the issue. Ey i understand theres other side groups that are out there currently wanting to do Ballot Initiatives right now and i would invite them to. Currently wan ballot lets take a time out understand you have a willing partner here to listen to you. To list meetings will be held at the statehouse through march 31st,en t and they will be open to the public. Stat thr for more on the Task Force Members and hearing dates, head over to fox8. Com. Com. Thats an update on your top stories. Ies. Ie over to you. Y thanks kristi. S kris went to eat food and went toe n toss it some people getting addicted to a new website lays webs out they use by dates. Da do you follow guidelines or o would you eat or drink after af that date. Apparently it will be a good daywill b when it comes to the fizz factor. E a go my hair is always busy. Welcome back to fox8 news in thes in th morning we all know what its like to reach into the refrigerator to find out that your favorite food is now expired. Does that mean it should beuld b tossed out. O. Certainly can get confusing withth the use by best if used to buyd touyd theres actually a newnted on eat by date website that is becoming really popular. It tells websitat is ming how long you have to you h consumeav a variety of foods for example the side says eggs last la threes or four weeks after the sale by date. Milk last apparently for five tofive to seven days after the printed date on the cartoon. 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Were going to check in right nowri with scott sabol taking a look at our forecastgh sabol thake is outside not too bad. Beef j jer kyy last a long time. On good to know. It can last for years. If you are wondering. E won snow behind me will melt off we already just the just some big clumps of snow left over from the last couple of daysys of snow in the lake is wide open. I was doing some checking hereeck now the lake erie ice records gooo back to 1972. O 19. O midst of 44th season of ice Cover Records we look back of 44th on o the bed cant remember the number but it was something ice cover on numberse 44 underu n 90 percent. I would say most of the years weea get significant ice cover butcover the years that we have not hade not ice cover are very little h 199798 a maximum of 8 percent. P that was one of those big elig e nio years hardly any snow. S see what happens setting up toting up t enter into another wintry cold patternoo that will get as cold as a it was late february of last la year significant lake effect onffect nff monday clipper snow on sunday. Ow o right now temperatures in thethet lower 40s pretty thick blanket of cloud cover windchills lower mid 30s. Temperatures climbing regionwide lower midmdidle 40s. 40s. North Olmsted Eastlake and beach and beh with akron and canton. Split jetstream it starts to r converge when that happens you get the energyerge f wrohemn both of them tm that usually means two things. Thngs. T convergence of cold air to theto th north and moisture from the deepom the south going to see initiallyitiyit some rain this evening followedening point tomorrow. Point the forecast tom otoday stays in the t 40s very damp doesnt feel f like it will wind and snowe cover. Rain by evening temperatures inn the 40s and probably stay there forn most of the early twof t may be evening two tenths of ano inch of rain. Might see transition to isolated snow showers t in night and earlyt and tomorrow but dont think wereinere looking at anything major here here tomorrow it will tread coldercolderco lower middle 30 saturday and a sunday watch the next front thats the big one the arcticar clipper temperatures fall f througha the 20s teens by late la sunday evening and eventually weent are antuaicipating general snow on sunday late that means clipperlippe snow for everybody one or 3 inches right nowrpe well we arel just that but lake effect behind that will be significant becauseficant of two reasons we b look at the t eight day when the air aloftal will be as cold as its everit been since late last winter andwi and the other one because a lot of moisturere three reasons it willt will last a long time. T most of the lake effect events eve this one starts sunday nightnit into monday with leftover like effects tuesday and wednesday. When you addct up the 72 hourouro period 48 hour period we couldcou have really bigtime snowfallnowll amounts early next week. Eeke look at the temperatures 10 toerat 15 monday produce through they prode through end of next week. They well have mored of n when we come back everybody. Following some breaking news out of hawaii right now. No to marine helicopters havecop collided happen happened off the north shore of early this money. We being told 12 people wereeop onboard each aircraft had six people on it. By her and brief you have been spotted on the water y so has an empty life raft as well. W no word on what caused the crash or no wo if there are any survivors aturvivorsaturv this point but were followingiv itngiv i very closely at fox8 we willwe bring you new developments rightelopments here on fox eight and fox8. Com. Ox8. C. Other news right now the chicago C Police Department facing new hi criticism this morning following the release of videoartmtmhi cr from theo 2013m shooting death of aing death teenager. The video shows 17 year oldows 17 yr ol Cedrick Chapman running away from police, after stealing a car. From two plain clothes officers chased him, before one fired four shots, killing the unarmedtwo plain cicain cica teenager. Teenager. One officer says he thought chapman had a weapon. The teens mother is now suing the city. Chicago mayor rahm emanuel is ra water crisis in the state of north this morning. Wa kristi capel has the very latest on that and kristi a few other big stories for us this money. Good morning. Good 100 protesters rallied in michigan thursday, as a water crisis in flint deepens. 100 protot mi demonstrators called for theem resignation of governor rick snyder. Onsrick sn an emergency manager appointedyd by snyder switched flints water supply to the flint river back in 2014. Upply t the switch caused lead contamination, and tests haventaminatiand te shown some flint children have s elevated lead levels. Hownome groups are handing out bottled out water to residents. An actor from the Power Rangers tv show has been charged with murder. Ricardo medina was arrestedicardo m yesterday and charged withedina wa stabbing his roommate to death with a sword, last january. The men were fighting about medinas girlfriend. Dinas defense and was released. Prosecutors are asking for asecutors a Million Dollars bail. Police say a woman went on a rampage at a georgia waffle house naked. Jennifer nicholson was arrested gi ant last fday. P her clothes threw plates at patrons and punched a woman in the face. Onon thface. On nicholson faces several Assault Charges and public indecency. Ges and ic i singer celine dion is cancelingnd a number of her upcoming las vegas shows, following the death of her husband. Vegas shows, fo rene angelil died yesterday, at their Las Vegas Home after agas home ter long fight with throat cance