This morning especially to the south and east of cleveland from akron to canton wet roads around dover and New Philadelphia and so slow downs to be expected. As we zoom in a little closer its drier close to the lake shore but even in Cuyahoga County we have a few hit and miss sprinkles happening. This is just rain. This is not Stormy Weather but theres plenty of that happening to the south where we have a deadly tornado in alabama and storms this morning. Behind that is where we see the clearing trend. Hooks likes its going to take sometime as we get in through the rest of your wednesday mike sure youve got the raincoats and windbreaker and patience because the roads will be wet from time to time and danielle has a look at your drive this morning. Always keeping track of it for you so you can get where you need to go safely and on time. 5 01 the traffic map no accidents. I am not tracking any crashes this morning. To the south looking pretty u. S. 250 in wayne county near emerson road thats adding a few minutes to the drive of the to the north we are pretty much green no accidents to the north as well. I am tracking a little bit of slow traffic 71 north near 18 as you try to make it to 271 adding about 3 minutes to the commute. But as you get to 271 heres 71 at 271 no problems. Everything is moving just fine. John and lynna back to you. We are following an overnight accident that sent one person to the left several east side residents without power. Car crashed into a power line on ivanhoe road a. M. 2 road after 2 a. M. The man was ejected from the car at last check in serious but stable condition. As student staff and faculty begin the healing process after the adack at ohio state we are getting new information from federal investigators. Tiffany tarpley is looking weapon the day of the the attack. Reporter he bought the butcher knife from a columbus area walmart that morning. And investigators also say that they have no reason to believe abdul artans he family knew what he was planning. Friends say he was a devout muslim and loved america. Loved that he had the opportunity to go to school here and you are looking at video from his graduation at Columbus State Community college. Last night, students staff and faculty gathered as states campus as part of the healing process hours before one of thevictims spoke publicly for the first time about the attack. Professor William Clark says at first he thought it was just a crash. A little dazed and thinking how to get up and meanwhile, the perpetrator exited the vehicle on the roadside which is the drivers side and had begun to attack students and there was a lot of noise and shouting. Reporter at last check three of the 11 victims are morning. Coming up in the next halfhour i will let you know where the investigation stands especially when it comes to them determining a motive for this attack. We are following developing news this morning at least three people are dead and many buildings damaged after a series of severe storms swept across alabama. Storms ripped through Jackson County overnight and a tornado touched down shortly after midnight. Crews are now wo the damage to homes and treat injured residents. At least three people have been killed in the the wild fires raging in east tennessee near gatlinburg and hundreds of homes have been damaged. So far 14,000 people have been evacuated from the resort town. Some made it out on their own braving the roads. Others were escorted out by Tennessee State troopers after fallen trees and blocked roads. Firefighters have still not been able to get into many of the burned out areas. In all the areas. We pray we dont experience anymore fatalities. High winds and dry brush helped to fuel the flames with wind gusts reaching 87 miles an hour. This image from the fire has been shared on social media. Showing wild fire threatening the ripley aquarium in gatlinburg. Workers made an announcement they had to evacuate and leave 10,000 thankfully an Emergency Team of marine biologist got back in and all the animals are safe. Wow. President elect donald trump touched off a new controversy on twitter. He tweeted yesterday that anyone who burns an American Flag should face consequences like the loss of u. S. Citizenship or a year in jail. Not all republicans agree though and the u. S. Supreme court has voted twice to uphold the right to burn flags in protests. And in this country we have to support the supreme courts decision on that matter. Not only has the court protected flag burning it has ruled that american citizenship can only be given up voluntarily. Democrats in the house of representatives will elect the Party Leaders today. Local congressman tim ryan will challenge nancy pelosi who led the House Democrats for 12 years. Ryan says its time for a change in the Party Leadership e cites the losses of dozens of Democratic Congressional seat reason. Ryan says the party has the right policies but not the right message. Two bills moving their way through the ohio house and senate could mean freedom for Chardon High School shooter tj lane who was sentenceded to life without parole for the shooting deaths of three classmates. One easily passed the house which will allow juveniles sentenced to life without parole to apply for parole the senate is allowing parole consideration at age 40 as many as 9 ohio inmates are serving life without parole for crimes as a juvenile. Its 5 07. An ohio ohio tops the list leading the nation in overdose deaths. In a report by the Kaiser Family foundation, the Buckeye State had the most deaths due to heroin. One in 9 heroin deaths in the u. S. Happens in ohio. The Columbus Dispatch reports ohio recorded the most deaths from ohio saw over 3,000 deaths last year and is expected to easilysur that is surpass that number. Cleveland is known for state of the act health care and they are hoping to move that forward with the transport facial trns pourmation. They unveiled plans to construct a new hospital at the west 25th campus. The hospital will be borrowing the money through bonds to pay for the new 9 story facility. Towers that will be coming down soon. The new hospital is expected to be complete by 2022. The buckeyes win over michigan has them in prime position for a playoff spot even though they wont play for a conference title. New rankings are out and buckeyes are still number 2. The win just added to the buckeyes resume as they have three wins against the top 9. Top 4 stays the same as i said in my take yesterday. Alabama ohio state clemson and washington. With michigan as the on the outside looking in at number 5. So, what all this means for the buckeyes . Michigan and the big 10 moving forward i will have that in todays take at 5 40. The final selection of the four team playoff will be sunday. Its 5 08. Paying more for your morning coffee. With why prices could continue to rise and we wanted to know what age did you start drinking wkyc. Com. vote now. I believe i was 50. Decking the halls of the white house. We will take you inside thats coming up after the break. Hollie you still not drinking coffee. I am not drinking coffee. Its been a long time. I am done. I am eating chocolate so there is caffeine in my diet just saying. Happy november 30th. Its warm. And its going to continue through today before we start to scattered showers to be grabbing the umbrellas as we talk you know Christmas Lights and who, who ho, ho, ho and all that. This is is a live look in strongsville where its beautiful. A winder wonderland. Whoa may be able to add snow to the picture before the week is through. I am just saying. I will explain in just moments. But dont worry, our instant School Closing system is always 5 13. And topping your morning news feed, the black boxes have been recovered from a plane that crashed outside columbia yesterday. The deadly crash killed 71 people including a brazilian soccer team. Authorities are investigating all the ta hundreds of firefighters, Police Officers and staff from the red cross are still searching the crash site hoping to pull out more survivors from the wreckage. As cuban citizens continue to mourn for former president fidel castro president obama released the plan for how the u. S. Will deal with the funeral. According to the plan, a president ial delegation will not be sent to cuba for this weekends service. But two Senior Administration officials will attend the funeral. Sending them was the best way to show respect while remembering the history between the two countries. Donald trump is following up on the Campaign Promise to keep jobs in the u. S. Air Conditioning Company carrier says it reached a deal with the president elect to keep the indianapolis plant opened. Carrier had planned to move production to mexico details on the deal are not clear. We do expect to learn more about the agreement tomorrow. And its beginning to white house. The 2016 decorations the final year of the Obama Presidency have been revealed. The 19 foot douglas fir in the blue room is the official White House Christmas tree. The preamble to the constitution can be read on ribbon wrapping the tree. This years theme is the gift of the holidays and its a Winter Wonderland from the main entrance to the green room to the red room. 92 volunteers around the thought that was a lot. Thats a lot john. 8 trees. In your one house. In one house yeah. You will have to tweet pictures of the tree. Okay some are really small. Thats okay. There you. There you go. We are talk about one of the biggest christmas trees. Tonight the big tree will be lit for the first time and you can watch the ceremony. Its the rock fella tree. Thousands are expected to come out and how about the gees guest list how brooks d. Guest list. How about garth brooks dolly parton the rockettes. And then. Dolly. And then neil diamond. How about neil diamond. She is and al rokeer. Al roker roker. Yeah al roker. Al roker he is always the one with the tree. You will have it on maybe you are decorating your tree its tradition . Christmas music playing in the andpayton was in the chair listening to Christmas Carols how did that happen. Amazing what the pets do. Now i know kristin did it. I am glad you brought that up because as we talk bur pets send in the holiday photos because i know a lot of them like to get in the santa hats and stuff. They love it. Antlers. At the bus stop we go. Theres nothing wrong with a holiday sweater on your po day. So its mild. Its been low 60s in hopkins its 5 16 the last day of november and we are warm to end the month but colder air is on the way and we could be talking snow by late tomorrow. But a warm wednesday with shower chances throughout. We will be low 60s and thats well above normal. You know that. We have been talking about it through the week. Mid40s about where we should scattered showers right now are predominantly to the south and east of cleveland. Thats where they are steady and thats where we are seeing most of the light to moderate rainfall. We have got spotty showers a little further north. But, its nothing thats causing any major problems as far as wet roads along the lake shore at this point. But i think we will see the precipitation spread throughout the course of the the day. This is good Old Fashioned rain showers we are not forecasting thunderstorms or anything like that. But we do weather on the south end of this front where conditions are very stormy and even at this hour, which is typically unusual, we still have tornado watches in effect for numerous states including a portion of georgia and into alabama and also mississippi and louisiana and this is all in association with the very same front thats moving through here that is going to cool us off big time as we get into the end of the work and school week. You know its actually going to feel like it. Here its Window Nation 7day forecast. And if you are getting your workout put together and not staring at the television let me say tomorrow night is when we could experience a little snow. Temperatures will fall into the 30s and i think rain and snow will be a potential. Maybe we will see a little dusting as we get into early friday. Fridays highs in the low 40s we will continue with rain and snow chances and over the weekend, we have got scattered chances in it is seasonal but we warm back up next week as we approach tuesday, 50 degrees. Our instant School Closing system any closings delays you know about them right away and thats what matters because we scare about your schedules and know how important they are. Speaking of schedules, hows how its drive going . Wkyc traffic is brought to you by mike bass ford get a great deal and great deal mured at mike bass ford. 5 18 and looking pretty no accidents to report. We are seeing a little bit of slow traffic on state route 21 southbound as you approach copley. So thats adding a few minutes to your commute. Heres the picture on 77 at 21. We know we had construction overnight construction in the area. But traffic is moving around the curves just fine on the north and southbound sides of the highwayp we take a look at the drive highway. We take a look at the drive teems between 21 and 480, 19 minutes north and 20 minutes headed south and drive times. And dont forget when you hit the roads, tune into the partners at wtam, 1100 total traffic. John and lynna back to you. Thank you. Time its almost 5 20. How about this free frosties in the new year. How to get the free famous treat from wendys all year long. Wow. And we want to remind you the annual coats for Kids Campaign is going on right now. From now through early january donate new or gently used coats locations including malls and howard hanna and td garden centers. For more information head over to coats for kids time is 5 23. Trending this morning how about all you can eat ice cream for a next year you will be able to buy a 2 dollar frosty key tag to get you a free frosty with every purchase you make for a year and 90 cents on the dollar goes to the Dave Thomas Foundation to help children in foster care find a forever home. So great deal all around. You can get the tags in most stores or on the foundations website. Very good. Okay. If it soms like the morning cup of coffee ask seems like that morning cup of coffee is get enough of it. When did this start for you . We have a poll question how long were you when how old were you when you started to drink coffee go to wkyc. Com vote now. Overcaffeinated millennials may be to blame. We have the story from dawn kendrick. Mu company bloomburg says Global Demand for coffee is at an all time high and millennials are to blame. Lattes black and tans like hot chocolate with a espresso. Reporter bailey is a connoisseur. I grew up drivenning it so much and now i am just willing to pay whatever for coffee and i am so used to drinking it. Aid latte with halfand half. Reporter young people 19 to 34 make up 34 of coffee getting a lot more money from millennials at the root cafe. I think coffee culture is something that kids are growing up in to now and its normal absolutely. I am a small. Coffee and a shot of espresso will mess you up. Reporter its part of the rhythm that defines the grind of our lives. Fritz drinks 8 cups a day but you are not a millennial. No. Well, i dont know what that is. Reporter more and us get caffeine and coffee prices hiked up with that demand coupled with a growing supply shortage. Did you need a pick me up . Huh . Reporter dont blame it on this 10yearold she is having cocoa. Watching the kids grow up in the coffee shop and now they are adults. I saw that happening. I have been with this and its cool. Thats why we are here now. Reporter dawn kendrick hasntslept in 20 years. Good morning. We know you are awake. I started when i was in college and that matches the majority of 18 or 21. You why 50. No i was jobbing but that was my joking but that was my second coffee life first year in college i thought lets take 8 a. M. Classes and get the day over with that lasted a semester so did my coffee. So. Then we started scheduling noon classes hollie. I cant believe 9 said under the i know. What is going on. Thats crazy. I will tell you i remember my brother used to love coffee as a child and special occasions my grandparents would give him a little cup. It was in his baby bottle. It was totally fine and he would have wine with dinner too. There you go. Kidding. So we have got a look at the forecast for today and its going to be wet at times. Its very, very warm. We are in the 50s to near 60 and we will talk about Colder Weather moving through after our front pushes through over the next 24 hours on the travel map thats exactly what we are seeing. And notice the cooler air in chicago and minneapolis today, 30s and 40s and john and lynna its heading this way. All right thanks hollie. Time is 5 27. The fire continues to spread across tennessee. How the weather is now affecting crews as they fight and taking a course on donald trump. The low he cal school offering a class on the president elect. The local school offering a we start your morning rush with new developments in the campus attack at ohio state. Investigators say abdul artan bought the butcher knife he used to cut the victims that what set off abdul artan but they say there was no established contact with isis or other terror groups which disputes another claim from the islamic states media agency a post was left on the Facebook Page expressing anger over attacks on muslims and they have no reason to think his family knew what he was planning. Three of the 11 victims are in the hospital this morning and are expected to make a full recovery. Ohio lawmakers could vote on a bill as ea that would allow concealed handguns on campuses. The house passed the bill last year and is in the hands of st