Lines and lots of waiting. Kentucky is just one of several states where voters are letting their voices be heard on what s being called super saturday. Good evening everyone and thanks for joining us. I m courtis fuller. The polls closed at 4 00, but not before some chaotic scenes throughout Northern Kentucky. We have Team Coverage tonight, of the kentucky caucuses. Jenell walton is in boone county. But first lets go to todd dykes, he s live in kenton county. Todd . Reporter voters waited in long lines this afternoon, but there were eager to weigh in on the race for the white house. Based on state Republican Party rules, each of the big 3 counties boone, campbell and kenton had just one caucus site each. The voting started at 10 00 this morning and ended at 4 00. Because of the uniqueness of this day and because part of today leading republican strategists told me beforehand they thought turnout out would be low. But as you can see, there were plenty of people who put the democratic process ahead of everything else. A real democracy in action. People are fed up. They re looking for change. They want to return to godly principles in the country. And they really feel strongly about that. They want honesty out of our government. They want honesty out of our businesses, and they want love for all citizens. And it s time to stand up and be counted and boy they re doing it here today. Reporter there was a lot of passion on display today. Today s caucus happened because former candidate rand paul wanted to run for the white house while also having a chance to keep his u. S. Senate seat. He ll be on the primary ballot in may. As for the results tonight, we should know who won at 7 00. Wlwt news 5. Courtis thanks a lot, todd. In boone county, a similar situation. An unexpected turnout of voters. Parking lots packed and hour long waits. Wlwt news 5 s Jenell Walton continues our Team Coverage tonight. Jenell . Reporter there was such a large turnout here in boone county the sheriff s department had deputies here, directing traffic into and out of the Church Parking lot. Some people said they actually waited up to an hour to caucus. Some people said they tried to have a strategy when they saw the long lines. There were some voters who said they actually tried to caucus earlier in the day but left and came back hoping there wouldn t be as long of a line to park. However, caucus Officials Say the crowds just kept coming. The caucus chair says there was a steady crowd for the first two hours. One voter said she came in hopes of keeping trump from winning the caucus in kentucky by voting for senator ted cruz. Another voter said just the he wants to see change, and that s why he supported trump. The republicans who turned out say it was exciting to see such a large turnout for their first ever president ial caucus. My strategy was to go to the Grocery Store and come back and then the line exiting here and the line exiting north and south i75 were just totally backed up all day, just really bad. It was a really bad decision, just to have this at one place. It was really bad for this large of a county. Reporter the polls were scheduled to close at 4 00 p. M. , entryway. Jenell walton, wlwt news 5. Courtis on a national scale, residents across the country are making their choices in the race for the white house. Senator ted cruz has just been declared the winner of kansas. The remaining candidates for president are campaigning hard today, trying to get voters out to the polls in five States Holding caucuses and primaries. Chris pollone has more of our commitment 2016 coverage tonight. Chris on the first saturday in march, voters are going to the polls in five states, louisiana, kansas, kentucky, maine and nebraska. For republicans, it s the first chance to gauge the mitt romney effect, whether the former s broadside against donald trump convinces voters to s frontrunner. In kansas, trump fired back. Trump mitt romney was a disaster as a candidate. No energy, no life, no nothing. He was a stiff. Chris florida senator marco rubio kept up his attack on trump, criticizing him for skipping an annual gathering of conservatives in washington, implying the trump isn t one. Ohio Governor John Kasich still refuses to engage in the gop s war of insults. Focusing instead on the one prize that could breathe new life into his bid for the nomination. Mr. Kasich we re gonna win ohio, and that s gonna create a whole new ballgame. Chris democrats saturday tried to draw distinctions between the tone of their nomination fight and the republicans. Mr. Sanders what we are seeing in the republican president ial process is like a 6th grade food fight. And i hope that most 6th graders understand that we don t behave like that. Chris former president bill clinton, campaigning for his wife hillary in michigan, compared the last Republican Debate to a sixthgrade a president ial campaign unlike any other, rolling uncensored toward the conventions. Chris pollone, nbc news, new york. Courtis we will have the results of tonight s votes throughout the evening live, right here on wlwt. Right now on wlwt. Com, our commitment 2016 coverage continues. See where the candidates stand on the big issues and get all the latest news from the campaign trail. Let s turn our attention to the weather. A jury start to the weekend. Meteorologist eric s earnest has the first look at your forecast. Erik they were standing in lines and cloudy skies and even a few flakes of snow falling very early, showers, and now we re just dealing with remaining cloud cover. Throughout the rest of the evening it will stay on this cool and cloudy side. At least the rain has moved on out. Maybe a little patchy drizzle in for most of us it will be a cloudy evening. Post temperatures not making much headway today. We start off at 33 degrees. Currently we are sitting at that 40 degree mark. Temperatures gradually falling back into the mid30 s, staying cloudy, but tomorrow things will improve. Reporter courtis developing now, Cincinnati Police are investigating a homicide after a man is found shot overnight in the west end. The victim has now been identified as 46yearold charles weathers. Wlwt news 5 s Richard Chiles spoke with residents who say the violence has to stop. Right about now it don t feel too safe. Reporter residents say it is an all too familiar scene of gun violence in the west end. You get to the place where your house just got flooded from a bullet, uhuh. Reporter she says it was times out timeout. Mitchell has witnessed the scene play out all across the tristate. We have to save our communities. We have to do something to get rid of it. We ve got this Community Information envelopes we have passed out. When you saw something, see something, say something. Write it on this envelope and send it in. Reporter other say this community cannot stand to be silent and a longer. We cannot harbor killers in our community. That s ridiculous. Reporter on the west end, Richard Chiles, wlwt news 5. Courtis police have not made any arrests just yet. Suspect information. If you know anything, you re asked to call Crime Stoppers 5133523040. A reading man is now accused of holding his girlfriend at gunpoint and hurting her 10monthold son. Swat responded to the apartment complex on maple drive last night. 35yearold neal royal is being held on a 350,000 dollar bond charged with assault and kidnapping. His girlfriend says royal stepped on her son and hit him in the face inside her apartment. She says he then pointed a gun at her and told her not to leave. The landlord says the girlfriend called police when royal went back to his own apartment in the same complex and barricaded himself inside. In mount washington, a house after flames broke out just before 11 00 last night on eagles ridge lane. Firefighters say flames were seen coming from the roof. They knocked it out fairly quickly. A cause is still under investigation. Damage is estimated at 20,000. Two people were displaced. New tonight, continuing the fight against the deadly heroin epidemic. The new cutting edge drug supporters hope to see on the market very soon. What it does and how it could help addicts kick a deadly pet moments are beautiful, unless you have allergies. Then your eyes may see it differently. Only flonase is approved toprelieve both itchy, watery eyes pand congestion. No other nasal allergy spray can say that. When we breathe in allergens our bodies react by over producing six key inflammatory substances that cause our symptoms. Most allergy pills only control one substance. Flonase controls six. And six is greater than one. Complete allergy relief or incomplete. Flonase. Courtis whether a person is hooked on heroin or pain pills, it is extremely difficult to break the cycle. In the next few weeks the fda could approve a cutting edge way to deliver a drug that helps with recovery. The cutting edge drug is getting backed by a former congressman who battled addiction himself. Heather unruh has the new details. Heather the oxycontin was prescribed for pain after back surgery, but the high got him hooked. I abused oxycontin. Heather now 5 years clean, former congressman Patrick Kennedy calls life right after rehab excruciating. When i first got detoxed from oxycontin my brain was screaming out i need more, i need more. Your brain feels like it s about to die if you don t get the drug. Heather that s why so many recovering addicts fail, says cleanslate s dr. Andy mendenhall. 95 of the people who suffer from an opioid addiction are not going to be successful, unless they re provided access to opioid replacement therapy like buprenorphine or methadone. Heather buprenorphine was a lifeline for kennedy. It allowed me to function, i really was not kind of heading for the cliff on a daily and weekly and monthly basis. Heather but taking a drug daily to stay clean often feels like using, something a new longacting implantable buprenorphine solves. It s implanted into the body with a very, very simple little s basically placed underneath the skin and it s effective for 6 months. Heather which means fewer required doctor visits. And they can eliminate that habituated behavior of having to take medicine on a daily basis in order to maintain their recovery. Heather kennedy, who lobbied the fda for the implant s approval, calls it a game changer, a bridge to recovery. The beautiful thing about what s coming down the pike is that it just gives us more tools in our tool kit. Courtis this footnote to this , is expected in the next few but it s not a magic bullet, the implant reduces the craving and withdrawals, but users still need a comprehensive treatment approach including family support, recovery meetings and psychiatric care. This lets them focus on getting well. Cincinnati erik it s been a cloudy day across the tristate. We had snow flurries early this morning, rain showers this afternoon, and we are still dealing with a few patchy areas of light drizzle. Hamilton, middletown, oxford you will all see a light spreads or sprinkle as we head through the next half hour. That s all quickly moving to the south and east. Cincinnati, you are probably going to see some more drizzle. The heavier showers were pretty much down to our south across Northern Kentucky and these have moved into west virginia. Again, just a jury night. Cloudy, drizzly. Foggy later on this evening and tomorrow morning. Winds currently out of the west at six miles per hour. Our temperature of 40 degrees, we start to slide back into the 30 s as we head on through the re already in the 30 s across Northern Kentucky. 37 in hillsboro, 37 degrees in wilmington and 41 and a strong. G again, the swirl, this is our area of low pressure. Most of the rain built down into portions of west virginia. We will continue to see these clouds. These clouds will be stubborn. The majority of tomorrow morning, but eventually High Pressure wins out and that will give us some sunshine. Along with that sunshine, you across the central plains, even some 60 s once you make it out towards the lee side of the rocky mountains. For us, starting off cool tomorrow. Topping out at 52. Plenty of clouds early, then we will see that sunshine. Eventually we will make that into the 60 s and perhaps even the 70 s by the middle of the week. A nice warm up. Most of us just seeing cloud cover and light result. If i was going out, i would leave the umbrella in the car. I don t have too much here to worry about. Tomorrow morning may be a little fog, but by the afternoon we will see more in the way of sunshine, and a fairly nice late day. As we head into monday and tuesday, notice all the clouds streaming up from the southwest. That s a bad sign. We will see warmer temperatures, but a lot more moisture building in. That means may be heavier rains as we head towards the end of the week. Your forecast tonight, 33 degrees. Tomorrow morning cloudy skies. By the afternoon, sunshine, a high of 52 degrees. Notice the increase in the temperatures and eventually the increase in those chances for rain. 69 degrees on tuesday. By wednesday and thursday, showers turning to rain. The heavy side. Anytime you see temperatures that warm, you start getting closer to spring, there s always that possibility. Overnight low of 58 degrees on thursday, i will take that. Courtis you can tolerate the rain when you have nice temperatures like that. Erik we will see sunshine here and there. Courtis can t wait. New spy was the only station and the area that had cameras for the Dayton High School elise welcome back. I m elise jesse. Xavier at home looking to exact some revenge on a team who beat them earlier in the season. The creighton blue jays came first half. Senior day for james farr, remy abell, and kevin coker this afternoon. Xavier was getting smacked around in the first. Creighton leading by as many as nine points. And xavier had to dig themselves out of a deep hole, clawing their way back towards the end of the half. James farr gives the muskies the lead. He finished with 16 points. Xu lead at the half 4441. The guys in white came out on fire in the second half. Throwing a few punches back at the blue jays. Myles davis the floater, he lead all scorers with 24 points 7 , 7 asists. But crieghton never gave up in s lead to 3. The nails in the coffin. 5 muskies score in double digits today as they take the win 9893. And they take the two seed in the big east tourney next weekend. Xavier shooting the ball much better this time around shooting , over 50 from the field and hitting 13 of 24 shots from beyond the arc. As a team the muskies also had 22 assists. Its not very often that big blue nation celebrates senior day because most of the players that John Calipari recruits never make it that far before realizing their nba potential. When Alex Poythres committed to uk he was the 13th ranked player in the country. And done. Instead he s a four year senior. Recuited by John Calipari, its Alex Poythres day in lexington. First half, tyler ulis sets the table up for marcus lee s slam gotta get out of that guy s way. Lee wasn t the only wildcat flying to the hole today. Alex poythres pick and rolll right to the hoop. The senior finishes with 12 points. As uk routes lsu 9477. In east lansing, the buckeyes facing a tough Michigan State team ranked number 2 in the country. 1st half, the buckeyes stayed within striking distance early. Jaquan lyle drains the stepback he ends the day with 18 points 3. The game is tied at 21. 2nd half, just when ohio state would get something going, the spartans would put a stop to it. Off the turnover, Denzel Washington stops and pops the 3 near the top of the arc. , the senior going to kiss the spartan as Michigan State beats ohio state 9176. S tournament resume took a hit on thursday night in a loss at houston making , sunday s game at home a must win against number 24 smu just smu. Just under 200 tickets away from a sell out at fifth third tip third, tipoff for that one is at noon. And in virginia a top 25 match up going down at 8 30 tonight. Number 11 louisville on the road to try to upset the 4th ranked team in the country. On the high school front, the district championships going on at wright state. The winners of todays games would advance to the sweet 4th Straight Year the hurricane 16. Made it s way to the district championship game, but they ve been booted from the tourney their first three trips. Wilmington led from start. Mason trying to chomp away at the lead. Matt king s bucket got mason to within one. And then Jarron Cumberland happened. The cincinnati committ took the over the game, had 12 at the half and finished the game with 35 as wilmington brings home the game in dayton had lakota east facing wayne, a nationally ranked, undefeated team. East trailed by 14 in the first half but made a run in the second, evan kuhlman s drive for two put them up 5251. Both teams traded baskets for the final couple of minutes mark minutes. Mark isom had a great look here. To Ryan Middendorf that put them up by 1 with a minute left, he had 17. Lakota east pushes forward, upsetting the the team ranked number one in ohio. 6057. Courtis a lot going on in sports today. Thanks a lot. Ohio s attorney general making it easier to purchase narcan. The extension he s granted that will allow agencies to keep pet moments are beautiful, unless you have allergies. Then your eyes may see it differently. Only flonase is approved toprelieve both itchy, watery eyes pand congestion. No other nasal allergy spray can say that. When we breathe in allergens our bodies react by over producing six key inflammatory substances that cause our symptoms. Most allergy pills only control one substance. Flonase controls six. And six is greater than one. Complete allergy relief or let your eyes decide. Flonase. Courtis Republican Voters in kentucky. Coming out in droves for the first caucus in the bluegrass state. Wlwt news 5 s todd dykes is live in independence with more. Todd . Todd if all goes as planned we shoul