Again, the threat of rain early this evening and 9 62 and mild tonight and the risk of more showers over the weekend. Details later in the half hour. Guys. Breaking news last night browns receiver josh gordon would be checking into rehab mark then came the news a paternity test shows he is the father of a local child and it looks like too much drama for the browns. They wanted to give josh gordon a clean slate but a lot is going on in josh gordons world and unfortunately, football is not included. The suspension as we mentioned, paternity test and return to rehab and it should be the most important thing in gordons life was the Tipping Point for the browns after waiting for months, they obviously know they cannot count on him and never will be able to count on him. Chapter. Today is the last josh gordon comment i want to make about that. Whats best for our Football Team we move forward and move on and he will not be with us. We wish him well. We are moving forward and move on. I think what we need to do is close that chapter right now. You know, he is doing what he needs to do. And we need to do what we need to do which is continue to move forward tony a lot of us a year ago playing off the record why is he here. The talent was so great and genuinely a likeable guy. From a football perspective you have to get your team prepared and at some point you have to say thats it. Cant do it any more. Too many distractions romona hes had so many chances. A week ago tonight High School Football player Andre Jackson suffered what we now know was a fatal injury and tonight Euclid High School has Shelby Miller is live how they will honor the fallen athlete. Shelby . Romona. Yeah, players at Euclid High School are behind us warming up for tonights homecoming game and it will be an extra special one honoring Andre Jackson passing away over the weekend. I am told there will be a balloon release as a moment of silence at 7 00 before kick off scheduled for 7 07 check this out. Here is a towel i was given that was made for tonight especially in honor of Andre Jackson. The players also have number 24 on helmets and they have that on bracelets and also on the towel here. Andre was actually 48. But i am told he wanted to be number 24 and a senior on the team had the number and they are honoring him with number 24 playing strongsville tonight. We will be out here throughout the night and talk to friends and people out here tonight and also we will be capturing this live on facebook. Make sure you join us to see the ceremony about 7 00, later this evening. Reporting live Shelby Miller cleveland 19 news romona all right, shelby. Nice to see the tribute. A viewing for Andre Jackson next friday from noon to 6 p. M. At rogers fun his funeral is the next day at star Light Baptist Church mark the man accused of kidnapping and raping a 9yearold girl pleaded not guilty today. The victim claims Dennis Menefee grabbed her walking home from the library. Menefee has two black eyes. Police have not said how that happened. The judge set bond at 2 million. The Massillon Police department set an outpouring support for the victim and disney world. This is part of the post on massillons page. She has been in the worst place, we would like to send her to the best place. They are currently working with the bank to set up an account and encourage them to contact her through the Facebook Page romona firstenergy and 12yearold girl agreed to a 60 million settlement. Gasia thomas suffered permanent injuries. She touched a power line at east 130th in the aftermath of hurricanean and afternoon and crews did not put up barricades. The settlement was just filed in Probate Court mark its been 15 days since the tragic death of trooper velez. The driver hit shells as he was stands outside his patrol car. Gaspar made his first court appearance. Paul orlousky found theres attorneys whether methadone impaired gaspar. And they claim gaspar was high when he struck trooper velez. In advance of that we have learned more on several fronts. Gaspar got a dose of methadone at a clinic at 12 34. His most likely route euclid to 40th down chester to the ramp to the innerbelt and negotiator bridge and 90 on the west side. Pr minutes. They say he would have to speed. Our drive at the speed limit took 14 minutes, 37 seconds. Early data shows the time of the crash he was driving 78 miles per hour. We got some clarification in court on exactly where trooper velez was standing when struck on i90. Earlier reports made it sound he was out in the roadway but now he was off the roadway far into the berm. Was on the rumble strip to the left. Methadone seems to hint on tolerance. Gaspar used it for 12 years. It doesnt get me high. It keeps me unsick and functionable. I started school back and able to be productive citizen of the society. Methadone on a scale of 110 for pain to get you motivated, it works better than anything else i haad does it affect your ability to drive . No want at all. After rejecting a bond reduction the judge raised it. Paul orlousky, cleveland 19 mark the manufacture of methadone cautions it may impair mental and physical activities and they recommend heroin addicts treated with methadone are generally not fit to drive romona a beauty pageant winner continues to be a top story of the president ial in a series of predawn tweets trump called venezuela native Alicia Machado disgusting and urged followers to look for a sex tape. Machado says trump called her miss piggy after gaining weight. Hillary clinton responded hours later, what kind of man stays up all night to smear awoke with lies and conspiracy theories. A state poll shows clinton ahead in new hampshire, nevada after the debate. T is doing something they have never done before. Jen picciano explains members will endorse a president ial candidate reporter voting is now open and members have been filing into the union hall all day casting ballots to make this historic endorsement. Will it make a difference election day with voters . We are not sure. We know the vote to make the endorsement in the first place was just as tight as the president ial race itself. Patrolmens association will cast ballots for the unions first president ial endorsement. Steve loomis, Union President says after the success of the rnc they have earned a voice and it is important to weigh in on this one. Law enforcement is under attack at a federal level. We cannot tolerate that. Lynn hampton president of black shield, an organization that represents africanamerican officers in cleveland feels like the union should stay out of the endorsement business with it too controversial. A person has to dig deep in themselves and make an intelligent choice on who would be best to lead our country. Who has the techierment to mend those relationships especially i am concerned with the Africanamerican Community reporter if they are going to make an endorsement hampton would like to see the union back clinton and feels endorsement of trump is a step backward. Trying to rebuild trust with the police relationships. Efforts. Loomis would like to see the endorsement go to trump and influence voters on the fence. Making martyrs out of suspects involved in policeinvolved shootings and making criminals out of the Police Officers involved is absolutely wrong, you know. 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Some worry is will hurt their Credit Report by checking it. These days you have to seeing whats going on getting a horrible surprise. Thank you, catherine. People across the country reporting sightings of menacing clowns attempting scare them in public places. The latest case at a dorm at the university of akron wednesday and started wandering the halls. End of the hallway is a clown with a hammer like this making weird halving sounds. The hammer was plastic and the 19yearold with it was not charged. They have received a half dozen sightings of clowns this week. No one complained about being harassed and a Facebook Post of a clown coming to shoot at Firestone High School and police call it a social dont do that. I dont like clowns mark i dont either. I am walking home. When will we get this rain out of here jeff it ended actually in cleveland. We are getting the break. Lets check out the latest. It is coming down in meant we are heavy rain. Rain ending in euclid good for the Football Game against strongsville. So it could be thunder in here as well. You see the red. Not real big thunderstorms basically heavy rain with thunder embedded. Kirtland hills to street level perry road and getting heavy rain in that area. This is the last part of this, you know, this particular wave coming through. So things are improving temporarily. All right. This was the rain we had this afternoon. You can see want much happening upstream for now and we will be dry a this evening. This pesky low will just drift north and it will be with us throughout the weekend. Thats the problem. 8 00 this evening not much rain going on. After 11 00 p. M. To about 2 00 in the morning thats your next wave of rain. So thats what i mean. It is coming in waves. It will move out tomorrow and during the afternoon we develop these scattered showers and perhaps rumble of thunder here. Thats why we have the alert tomorrow. But more rain and thunder developing tonight. Well keep temperatures steady around 60. 59 the low in the akroncanton area. You folks some showers and thunder developing. Upper 60s to near 70 moment of silence of the rain tomorrow afternoon and 59 at 8 00 a. M. 11 00 in the 70 at 2 00 and 68 at 5 00. And rain will linger into the evening tomorrow. I put out an alert for tomorrow night. We will drop down to 5. Sunday no alert. The risk of rain is smaller. Mostly cloudy here on sunday. A few afternoon showers. Sunday morning looks dry. Isolated showers monday 65 and monday looks drier. Low 70s and thursday, partly cloudy and 72. First week of october. Tony . More on the josh gordon situation as teammates speak out. Kevin love on the many, many chevrolet sports report on cleveland 19 news tony kevin love cannot shake trade rumors. Cavs back to work and championship banner is not up yet and rumors flying he is going to the hawks, the lakers and the thunder and do you think he is staying with the cavaliers, if you think they are keeping him up at night, think again. You know, they will never be gone. It is something you live with. And good and bad surrounding this team. It just comes with the territory. I love this team and Coaching Staff and teammates and organization. I mean i dont think it will ever leave. Frankly, i dont give a [bleep]. Same to me. Maybe different to you guys. You bring up that notion. No one wants to hear that. He is a huge piece of our team and one of our bighr happens. See game 7 when we all came to play and played at a high level. And we were able to bring that home tony cannot see that enough. Lockdown. You think you were rooting for josh gordon. He is 25yearsold at his best one of the top three receivers in football. If he ever returns to the nfl it wont be the browns. They are moving on. Theres no other option. I wish the best for josh. Someone me and a lot of guys in the locker room care about. This is an important step. I am happy he took this step. Hopefully it is the first step in the right direction and, you know, first of a lot of good things to come for him. Tony this is crucial. 8 a. M. Tailgate sunday moved it up 3 hours because of the nfl europe game with colts and jaguars on cleveland 19. We have the game browns and redskins and then the 5th quarter bob golic back with me as well. Week 6 High School Football tan says muddy. Thats football. Schwaby has it. Anthony lima camino in the rain under the lights first look at the highlights 10 30 on cle 43. Romona wow. Those uniforms. Tony i loved that. Mark my mom used to love that bring those babies home. Romona i wonder if they have to wash their own now. We didnt. Jeff all right there she is. 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