courtis: good evening everyone and thanks for joining us. i' m courtis fuller. we' re leading the way with team coverage after today' s snowfall. right now tammy mutasa and natalie clark are live on city preparations and current road conditions. but we begin with chief meteorologist kevin robinson with how much snow we saw. kevin? good evening most areas picked up a solid two inches of snow. kevin: it moved in and moved out just as quickly here. here' s a look at radar tonight. you can see the snow push its way into the appellations tonight. things are looking much quieter here. there is a little bit more snow across indiana and illinois. we are going to dodge the bulk of that. here' s a look at the radar. notice across the area things are very quiet. we are pretty much done with the bulk of the snow for the overnight tonight. as we head into your monday morning, here' s a look at city can. overnight tonight, some areas apache, freezing drizzle. i do not think that be a big have heard he gotten a couple of inches of snow. travel will be tricky especially area. snow-covered through the remainder of the night. check our temperature out at the radar. however, it is going to change in the forecast overnight tonight, through the week we will see when i return in the full forecast, the winds have turned around from the south and east. that is a warmer direction. that will bring in some milder air, i expect her temperatures to climb overnight tonight. i will let you know when we will break freezing, and who has the best chance of seeing a little bit more snow as we had the day on monday. courtis: thanks a lot. he fought -- the fast falling snow is quickly piled up. crews had quite a challenge to prevent dangerous conditions into the night. tammy mutasa joins us now in the cut in the hill in covington. how people on both sides of the river prepare for the snow. reporter: it is definitely been very challenging for snow fighters to keep up with the falling snow. earlier today, it was quite terrible. right now things are looking smooth sailing. there is a snow plow going right by us as you can see. the roads are looking good now. >> it was awful. it is winter, mud of nature. -- mother nature. >> it was picked to routes, but -- put your tires in them and head that way. snow fighters kept plowing, but the snow kept fighting back . >> the motto is to stick with reporter: it took an hour and half for talauna buelle to get from florence to the horseshoe casino in cincinnati. we saw some cars still stranded on 75 after the back up. >> you got about 5 miles an hour, you started to slide. reporter: in northern kentucky 130 trucks have been pushing plows in 11 counties. in cincinnati-crews started pre-treating roads last week. >> we have to make sure that we stay out there and we stick with it and try to keep up as much as possible but you won' t start to see the fruits of our labor until it eventually stops snowing. reporter: it will be a long night for truckers crossing the midwest. >> eh, the roads are bad but it' s just that people don' t know how to drive them like we do, but i' ve seen cars slide off the road. reporter: on this snowy night the cold has taluana wishing she was inside warming things up on valentines day. >> i' m thinking of going home and having margarita with an umbrella and sitting in front of a fire place with it. reporter: that sounds pretty good right now. -- now that there is a break in the weather they are asking people not to park on the street so they can do the job tonight. reporting live tammy mutasa wlwt news 5. courtis: to our west interstate 74 has reopened in decatur county, indiana after a pileup crash. pedro sanchez shot this video of the crash. state police shut down westbound traffic at the 132 mile marker this afternoon. they say at least one crash involved injuries. about 40 cars are said to to have been involved in the wreck. but everything is cleaned up and moving again tonight. it' s still stop and go, in so -- in some spots. check out, what it looked like for drivers out in colerain township at the height of the storms. some areas have seen improvement, since the sun has gone down. this is a live look at the brent spence bridge, traffic is moving, but there' s still concern, for slick spots s natalie clark has been out in these conditions since the early evening. she joings us now, using our live drive 5 natalie, where are you know, and are the road conditions improving? reporter: we are moving right along here in the cincinnati area. we are at panic. we have made our way to i-75 north. 75, now we are making our way back into the city. of course, these know came to an end. conditions have improved. this is improve the opportunity to get onto the roadways and get some things cleared away. hopefully the morning commute will be a little better. right now we' re not doing too shabby. weird traveling at 25 have 30 miles per hour. traffic is moving along good. as we are heading into the city, we' ll keep you posted as to what we come across. things have definitely improved since we have been out since the early hours. the we are going to keep driving around, ticky downtown. -- taking you downtown. will let you know what you to expect on the roadways tonight. courtis: new tonight at 11. a night out at the ballet. that wouldn' t be stopped by snow. we caught up with one family who was out celebrating a birthday in the snowy conditions. and they all went out to see the cincinnati ballet' s cinderella. as they say in show business the show much go on. 9-year-old celeste homer was born in a snow storm so celebrating during the winter weather is nothing new. >> when she was born 9 years ago, there was an icestorm, snow storm so we do it every year and every year it seems to snow on feburary 14th. courtis: this birthday party included a group of 10 girls who all got to check out the show and they got to the ballet in the residential drives, are in these storms. secondary roadways, in many spots are untouched. this was the drive, earlier in the storm out in green township. many of you have been sharing your snow photos with us on our facebook page. and via email. check out this photo taken by laura fightmaster out in colerain township. beautiful photo of a cardinal sitting out in the snow. and thanks to randy for sending us this photo of maverick out in eastgate. he looks like he' s right at home out there against the snowy backdrop. we' ll be tracking your latest weather conditions and school delays and closings overnight. wake up with us for updates starting at 4:30 a.m.. you can also find school closings anytime on wlwt.com. wlwt news 5 is leading the way on the winter weather, download . you can can see the forecast, as well as get severe weather alerts sent right to your mobile device. the body of supreme court justice antonin scalia is heading home. a procession led the justice' s body to a funeral home today. but just 24 hours after his death, the debate on who will replace him is heating up. and later in sports a cincinnati legend laid to rest. how bernie stowe is being remembered tonight, you' re watching -- they' re going to slowly climb over the next couple days. i will let you know when the chance for snow will happen. and the big warm-up coming at the end of the week. re watching cinc february is huge for us. all our handcrafted classic footlongs are just $6 each. the media is going a little crazy. 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fail. senator marco rubio: already on -- he is warning of dire consequences. the president can nominate anyone he wants but the senate is not going to act and that' s very clear. ted cruz is warning of dire consequences should mr.obama add another justice to the court. senator ted cruz: already on -- we will see abortion on demand throughout this country partial birth abortion taxpayer funding no parental justice scalia' s conservative views often influenced the balance of the court in many 5-4 decisions. donald trump: already on screen -- we lost one of the greats. i' d like to have the person tailored to be just like justice scalia. democrats say senate republicans need to act responsibly and vote on a nominee. hillary clinton: barack obama is president of the united states until january 20, 2017. that is a fact, my friends, whether the republicans like it or not. senator bernie sanders: apparently they believe that the constitution does not allow a democratic president to bring forth a nominee to replace justice scalia. courtis: democrats are also concerned the high court could be paralyzed with just 8 members. with well over 300 days left in office president obama says he has plenty of time to nominate scalia' s successor and plenty of time for the senate to do its a man injured in that machete attack at a columbus, ohio s face was quote full of hate. gerry russell, says he and his wife debbie, were finished up dinner when they saw mohamed barry. russell says both he and his wife suffered injuries to their hands and had to undergo five hours of surgery. police shot and killed barry after he threatened officers with a knife and that same machete. a suspect has now been arrested for a cincinnati homicide. 23-year-old donta williams is now charged in the death of derrick johnson. johnson was found saturday morning in his wrecked car. police had originally thought they were responding to a car crash, when they discovered johnson had been shot. a police officer, forced to fire his weapon during a traffic pursuit in mount lookout. the suspect just before 2:00 this morning but the driver kept going. that driver then crashed into a parked car on linwood avenue and took off on foot. the officer fired one shot but did not hit the suspect. police did arrest the person, but have not released the suspect' s name. meanwhile, a man is behind bars after leading police on a car chase this time in columbia township. police say they tried to stop dionte dorsey because the car he was driving had fake license plates. he too crashed, and was arrested after a foot chase. he' s now facing a number of charges including failure to comply. a passenger in the car, was released. our live drive 5 van continues to make its way through the area tonight. wlwt' s natalie clark is live in reading road. how are roads there? reporter: they are not bad. we are doing good here in the side roads in downtown cincinnati not looking to greatest. the side roads are definitely still a mess at this hour. but the heavy snow showers came to an end because we can tell a world of difference it' s refer started out in the early evening hours compared to now. your exit ramps, entrance ramps looking pretty good. it is hit or miss on the highway. i saw odot crews trying to get things cleared up. we just took the because it is when you are out on the roadways. just because one road is clear does not mean the words next your is going to be clear -- the roads next-door is going to be clear. there was a little bit of the blowing and drifting snow. doing this be limits. does be cautious for the spots of snow that you may hit as well. we are moving towards downtown cincinnati headed into the city. we are going to get off your. movie back to the studio. we are doing good in our neck of the was here. cincinnati' s wlwt news 5 at 11:00. -- cincinnati' s certified most accurate forecast. kevin: as you saw from natalie' s report, the side roads are certainly a mess out there. they are probably going to remain that way overnight tonight. they' re not any get much help from mother nature because temperatures while climbing overnight are still way down in the teens right now. they will be a while until we make it close to freezing here' s a look at radar, quick hitting snowfall. it is pushed away and is over in the appellations. it is certainly a lot quieter here then they were for ivan five hours ago. that is a good news here. s a look at radar tonight. asbestos pulling away, a look -- to see a threat of patchy if we do see any patchy chisel over tonight, most of it will be it should not be terribly we have a decent amount of snow on the ground. right now at therefore, currently sitting at 20 degrees. nine. we have a southeast wind ring and some warmer temperatures. before you get into the forecast, let me send it into eric who has the snowfall totals. eric: mozilla saw between two and half and three and half inches of snow. here are some of the outliers that we had in the tri-state. a few spots coming up in for half and may so, for in heber -- he braun. downtown is low but more than that. we have some pictures from you. may location seeing of course the snow coming down. delhi. sitting on a bush. as you take a look we have a few more pictures here. locations. page two. on a facebook the field --wlwt news 5. wlwt.com. it may have a influence on what we see to monitor. kevin: it looks like right now with temperatures still the as we head into day tomorrow. as a matter of fact we might see tonight. into the day tomorrow, we may a close to the freezing mark across the majority of the area. it may take us a while though. here' s a look at the weather map, there is some win pushing off to the east. some neared dallas. this is can a scooter is way through northeast cap -- texas this will likely be a second system, for folks up in isa cincinnati, things will get more critical as we head into the night tomorrow. i do believe there is a potential for a second round of acumen living snow. mainly to the south and east of the metro area. that is because the cold air that we have in place right now, the tree as we head into the morning tomorrow. pictures will begin to climb. as a matter fact, you can see by your hour-by-hour, starting in tomorrow morning, we are in our upper teens. we' ll climb above freezing for eyes. we' ll make it into the mid-30' s and it looks like tomorrow afternoon there could be some wet snow south and east of cincinnati. probably even mixing in with a little bit of rain. it was a couple inches of snow for neighbors. we will keep if you flurries overnight and i. those floors on baby doe. but as we head into tomorrow afternoon and evening. watch her second system. this model is a little bit too warm. while there may be some rain cincinnati tomorrow night. i expect some of this to be so. some of this to keep an eye on is exactly how far west the system jogs. this model has been all over the place the second system. the system here is showing a little bit more rain. a good exit be a little bit more snow for the folks south and east of interstate 71. we will have an update on the forecast mom morning. we' ll continue to fine-tune that. i think we have one more snow maker before the week is out here before we finally see temperatures warm up. towards the end of the week. by the end the week we may be flirting with close to 60 degrees for some of us. 25 run overnight low of. if you snow showers across the area. typically temperatures would crash but they are going to gradually crime -- climb overnight tonight. mostly rain, could be some snow south and east of cincinnati tomorrow evening. we' ll keep a close eye to that. 36 for a fat high. after midway, what happens is we have start to the week, beyond and we, look how temperatures take off heading into the weekend. as amount of fact we climb from the 30' s into the mid to upper 50' s. by the end the way, we are really looking at all seasons in the next 4-5 days. from the dead of winter to spring like what weather by tommy gets a friday in the upcoming weekend. courtis: things a lot. boone county residents are heartbroken. after a fire destroys a historical landmark. this was the scene last night, at the rabbit hash general store. hundreds of people visited the local favorite today to look at what the fire left behind. the owners say the general store had been in their family for generations. they were able to salvage a few items. but residents say the town lost much more. it' s been around for like 180 years and it' s just gone now. courtis: the cause of the fire is still under investigation. the rabbit hash general store owners have set up a go-fund-me page to rebuild the store. they' ve raised about a tenth of their quarter million dollar goal. another successful year for the autism rocks fundraiser what started as a small event with just 30 people seven years ago has now grown to an event of more than a thousand. today' s fundraiser included a silent auction as well as live music and plenty of celebrity appearances. this year they raised more than $22,000 beating out last year' s efforts. congratulations to them. congratulations to our friend who received a nice recognition, elise: yes we' ll show you. we have that in a whole lot here. -- bernie stowe hundreds of people showed up to pay respect for the visitation. his funeral is set at 930 tomorrow morning at holy family it is open to the public. stowe died for seven decades. they paid their respect for a guy who treated them like family. >> i had the fortune of meeting him when i was $10-years-old in tampa florida for the first time after my father had gotten the reds job in 1974. of all the people that i was blessed enough to meet that day. pete rose, johnny bench, joe morgan, dave concepcion. tony perez, right on down the line. a guy who made an impression me just as big and just as much as any of those guys, was this guy who was about this tall. the reds posted this picture of aj allmendinger' s car it has a tribute to longtime reds clubhouse manager bernie stowe . you' ll be able to see that sticker next weekend at the daytona 500 . the daytona 500 going down today. dale earnhardt jr with a chance to put two hendrick cars on the front row but comes up short and that makes chase elliot the youngest daytona 500 pole sitter at 20-years-old. this was his first sprint cup series pole. the daytona 500 is set for a week from today . indiana on the road to face the 8th ranked michigan state. the hoosiers looking for a second straight upset of a top-10 opponent after beating number 4 iowa on thursday. it was valentine' s day today. im talking about the player not the holiday denzel valentine was feelin it early on the kid drained five of those today, this one gave msu . then the hoosiers put the pedal to the metal max biel-feldt pivots and steps through for the scoop shot max racked a double-double, 15 points and 10 boards . second half. inbounds pass to biel-feldt. the bounce pass to thomas bryant for the dunk, i.u. leads by 1 michigan state now in control. valentine crushed indiana' s defense 30 points, 13 assists, and 5 boards for the senior as the spartans take the win 88-69 . xavier one of four top 5 teams to go one and one this week. the loss at creighton tuesday could take a jab at their ranking, but maryland, oklahoma, and iowa all losing a game this week as well while while number xavier has won 10 of 13 meetings. >> everyone talked about if we get stops, we get more often. we' ve been trying to preach. try to get stops. everyone boxing out, getting rebounds. on off its views him as telling, uc' s basketball team has been working hard on the court earning themselves a win over east carolina at home yesterday they' ve moved up to number three in the aac with a 9-4 record they sit just behind temple and smu who both have 9-3 records. keep in mind smu will not be playing in the conferenece tournament this year . oscar robinson was honored at the nba all-star game. he was given the nba achievement award. if you' re wondering about the score the game, west base -- beat east 196 21 73. the cincinnati cyclones are in evansville tonight to take on the icemen. the overtime winner to send the cyclones 284-10 to win. courtis: i recorded the game, i will be up all night watching that. we were hoping somebody would congratulations to oscar, well-deserved. kevin: a little bit more snow tonight, if you flurries here there, nothing that is going to keep late tonight. keep a close aound to monica mai do think south and eases is that he will probably start with a little bitter of rain and mix with some snow. there' s potential there at least tomorrow night. there will be light making -- accumulation. a decent so they for most of us before we climb toward 60 by the end the week.