3 new this morning. The xavier musketeers Basketball Team is celebrating a huge win at the cintas center. The team took down topranked villanova 90 to 83 last night. It was only the second time villanova lost in their last 18 games. Up next for the muskies. Seton hall on sunday before ending the regular season against creighton. Well hear from head coach chris mack on last nights victory, ahead at five on good morning cincinnati. 3 time temp. 3 ahead at four30. Switching sides. When president ial candidates flip flop on certain issues. Its voters who feel the impact. Plus. Twisters and torrential rain. A storm system brings death and destruction to half the country. Youre watching 3 now at four30. A huge part of the country is dealing with the aftermath of severe storms. Well look at the hardest hit areas. 3 a local man who killed a baby could walk out of jail. But your help may keep him there. 3 the search for a new Supreme Court justice. Whos up for a possible nomination to replace antonin scalia. 3 good morning cincinnati. Thanks thursday. Im john lomax. And im sheila gray. The stories of the day are coming up. First a check of the weather. Heres meterologist john gumm. 3 3 3 3 3 at least 8 people have been killed by a powerful, fast moving, storm system thats swept from the gulf coast into the northeast. The system triggered a string of deadly tornadoes, strong winds and drenching rain. Don champion has the latest. 3 as the dangerous storm system moves up the east coast. State police in waverly, virginia combed through the rubble with flashlights overnight. Nats sot everythings destroyed. Unbelievable thu0006 after a tornado ripped through the tiny farming town. Nat sot looked at that, you see what happened Vincent Donald survived. Some of his neighbors did not. sot Vincent Donald resident i saw one of my friend, he said his brother died. the house disappeared so i said goddamn elsewhere in virginia. Dozens of buildings were reduced to rubble. Several reported tornadoes also touched down carolinas. This dairy farm was demolished in seconds sot sears day farm owner were thankful we lost no animals and no one was hurt so thats the main thing standup don champion cbs news La Guardia Airport queens, ny the storm brought heavy rains and strong winds to other parts of the east coast including here in new york. Making a mess of travel. Natsrain quickly accumulated on roads in the new york and throughout the dc area. Submerging vehicles. sot bruce caylor when the water gets this high, its scary because your cars are here and you dont know whats going to happenpowerful winds also caused thousands of Power Outages in the northeast. Those windy conditions are expected to stick around today. Before the system moves out to sea. Don champion cbs news new york. 3 the same storm system brought twisters to southern louisiana and mississippi tuesday, where at least three people were killed. Rescue teams there continue to comb through debris for people still unaccounted for. Turning to local news now. Today well find out if you helped to keep a babys killer behind bars. On monday, we first told you about paul schaffners attempt to get out killed Brittney Billette 23 years ago. He had claimed the baby fell and hit her head. But doctors said her injuries were the equivalent to falling from a second story window. Since that story aired, more than 24hundred of you have written letters to the parole board, demanding they keep schaffner behind bars. Well let you know if it worked. 3 a local man is expected to be arraigned on a long list of charges this morning. Police say several times back in may and june of last year, deshawn strattman sold heroin to undercover officers downtown. Then in october, strattman allegedly cut a mans hand and punched him. He was taken into custody yesterday after police say he ran from an officer during a robbery investigation. Police say they found heroin charged with assault, obstructing official business, trafficking. 3 time temp. Scramble for support. The lastest on the president ial candidates before a big week at the polls. Plus. Changing tunes. How voters are impacted by candidates who switch stances. Next, on good morning after trying brookside crunchy clusters, carlybeyar tweeted at this point, i should just be a brookside chocolate ambassador. Well, i am sorry, carly. It s something you earn. Brookside. 3 good morning. ad lib 3 president barack obama is considering nevadas republican governor Brian Sandoval as one of several potential nominees to the Supreme Court. Thats according to two people familiar with the process to replace the experts call it a possible attempt to appeal to senate republicans. But Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell has said they will not hold hearings, or vote on the president s pick. 3 turning to campaign 2016. Things are expected to heat up between republican president ial candidates as super tuesday approaches. With another debate on the horizon, donald trump warned the race will take a nasty turn. He predicts the civility, if you can call it that, between marco rubio and himself will fall away as they try to earn nominations from delegates in the 11 states that hold republican primaries next week. Meanwhile, trump was just endorsed by congressman chris collins, the first sitting congressman to do so. 3 on the democratic side. Bernie sanders and Hillary Clinton are trying to drum up support in states getting ready to hold primaries next week. Sanders will be in flint michigan today for a forum on the citys water situation. Michigan votes march eighth. Clinton stressed her committment to helping flint in front of a big crowd in south carolina. She also picked up a major endorsement from Senate Minority leader democratic primary is on saturday. 3 accusations of lying have been part of political campaigns almost since the beginning of time. And 2016 seems to be no different. But how much do voters Pay Attention . Kristine frazao looks at the candidates who change sides or positions on major issues. 3 on the campaign trail, it appears the truth may sometimes be hard to come by. Trump from cnn interviewi like mexico, i love the mexican people butt their bringing drugs, their brining crime, their rapistscruz from debate for most of his life he has described himself as very prochoice butt you are the single biggest liaris it a lie . 3 or a flipflop . And does it even matter . Lara brown grad. School of political management, George Washington univ. Voters who are very loyal and steadfast for their candidate, most of this will go right over their head, it wont matter whatsoever. But political analyst lara brown says, for those undecided voters it can have an impact, especially for candidates in a primary electionlara brown director, gwu graduate very small so the campaigns and the candidates try to make a lot of the candidate differences and the personality differences on gay marriage, Hillary Clinton likes to say her position has evolved. From this. Hillary in senate 2004 a sacred bond between a man and a woman. To this 2013 i support marriage for lesbian and gay couples Angelo Carusone exec vp, media matters for americaits ok for people to evolve or flatly reject a previous position on a policy prescription either because of new facts or because theyve actually changed their minds but, voters may question the other reason for a candidates change of heartangelo are you changing your position for convenience or for purely partisan political purposes standup kristine frazaoon both lying and flp flopping there is one inherent truth in this age mobile video cameras, what candidates say in public is almost always on the record a record thats saved and played back for months and even years to 3 time temp. Raising children born with microcephaly. Why two local families say their kids are unstoppable, despite having the same condition that the zika virus could cause. Plus. When one mom thought her kids were getting too much homework. She decided to do something about it. Her solution, next on good morning 3 new this morning. Test results show three pregnant with the zika virus. All three cases are believed to be travelrelated. The virus has hit the hardest in latin america, and scientists are studying a possible link between the virus and babies born with unusually small heads. There are now 32 cases in florida. 3 at least four people in ohio are now confirmed to have the zika virus, and as concerns spread, two local families are speaking up. They want others to know more about a complication in pregnant women thats associated with this virus. Called microcephaly. Because their children have it. Local 12s liz bonis shares their story. 3 { nat of calvin with mohammed { vo calvin and mohammed, are both three years old. They are two of slightly more than 100 children known to be born with a genetic condition known as { sot { vo microcephaly means small head for calvin { sot < 2 40 43 because its progressive microcephaly , which means his heads gonna stop growing , the rest of him is going to keep growing. { vo the same is also likely true for mohammed. These two playmates met group. { sot < ousman oohsmaan dibba deebah father 2 52 45 they play their own little games, its just wonderful really. { vo mohammeds family knew of his diagnosis from birth { sot < mariama mary aah muh diatta dee ahtah mother 2 55 11 hes my baby, i just thank god for giving me wonderful children, especially him. { vo brittanys family adopted calvin as a foster child,{ sot < 2 39 50 we were gonna help families get their lives back together and take care of thier babies while they did it. { vo he was placed with them at 17 months old. { sot < tease is at 3 00 51 3 05 20 it only takes a few moments before you notice that these children are pretty remarkable, and so are there parents and families, and they are choosing right now to share this story, for some very important reasons, sort of while we have this teachable moment, theres a few things they want all of us to know. { vo you see the zika virus is transmitted through mosquitoes the centers for Disease Control is still trying to discover if its connected to a higher number of babies in brazil, born with microcephaly { sot < flu st elizabeth clip at patty burns Infection Control manager 4 22 00 the bottom serious questions about what is this correlation, does the microcephaly really have anything to do with zika, is it just bad coincidence. . { vo but as news of this possible connection began to spread, these families struggled with the way the babies and children with microcephaly were described in certain media reports { sot < 2 41 08 i have heard people say this devastating birth defect, and these poor, poor children, 13 and some of them are pretty severe, but their parents dont see it as these poor poor children, you know these are their children, these our our blessings, { vo the genetic condition that calvin and mohammed have is rare, but for parents of other children with microcephaly they want other parents to know, just like any child { nat sot { vo their potential is limitless { sot < 2 53 07 dont feel that youre alone, you may not know about it yet, but there are other people who have a similar situation butt to 2 53 30 it makes all the difference. { sot them just how they are , we dont they do, and we love them just as they are. { sot { sot < 2 46 40 zzzhew with magnifier { vo and no matter what problems seem magnified their parents say a Strong Family foundation, and their faith, will help them overcome { sot < 2 54 18 with hope everything is possible, and then with him , hes in control of everything, everything is possible with himliz bonis, local 12 news. 3 the parents have a Facebook Support group, and we have a link at local12dotcom. 3 now heres bob with a local 12 traffic alert. 3 3 3 homework is part of learning and succeeding at school. Many parents and teachers just accept that kids will have homework each night. But when does it become too much . Jamie yuccas shows us what one mom did when she thought her kids were suffering from all homework and no play. 3 nat pop Frania Corniels living room is corniels living room is now set up as a classroom. Nat teaching two started homeschooling her sons and niece. It was olivias workload in kindergarten that drove the change. 16 21 Frania Corniel home schools every day she had to do reading, phonics, writing word math olivia it was very hard and i didnt like to do homework 27 31 bridge jamie yuccas bronx, n. Y. when children have too much homework many argue kids dont have time to be kids. howard you want to help kids to manage their time well. Dr. Jamie howard is a clinical psychologist with the Child Mind Institute. She says younger children should get no more than 20 minutes of homework a day. Thats in line with the National Ptas recommendation of 10 to 20 minutes per night in the first grade, and an additional 10 minutes per grade level after that. By twelfth grade, thats 120 minutes per night. 581 05 dr. Howard Child Mind Institute their Attention Span is short and they need to excel at other things, they need to be making and keeping friends and spending time with their families corniel agrees with the time they save on skills. frania they expose themselves to other thingslike museums, the park, swimming and music lessons. So her kids can enjoy being kids. Jy, cbs news, bronx, new york 3 time temp. Its National Chili day. So go to our Facebook Page and let us know who makes your favorite chili, and what type. Plus. Perry schaible is on the road with a look at what youll run into on your way to work. Well check in with her, ahead at cincinnati. 3 on this National Chili day we want to knowwhats your favorite chili dish and who makes it . 3 we want you 3 to join the conversation just like the local 12 page on facebook to share your thoughts. 3 3 show open 3 good morning. Well get to moment. But first we 3 want to start with a first check of your forecast. Heres meterologist john gumm