Her daughters bath when we were there it wasnt terrible. Monday she sent this picture. A mugful of dark tap water. And test results came back monday. Two other homes had no lead and had high levels of iron. And are you surprised. Personally, not really. I dont drink the tap water. To me it is flavored. These days, the flavor of the day is bottled water. The sample we discussed most discolored and contained no lead. There is some discoloration in the tap water itself. We generally are using a lot of filtered water for our dogs even. Not every home has problems. And it comes and goes . Yeah. Only when they are playing with it. Reporter okay. It is fine otherwise. The day we moved in we were here painting and didnt have to the faucet. It smelled bad and tasted bad and it was a weird color. We have more empty water bottle it is going through the neighborhood and collecting up samples and sending them away. The unanimous thing we are hearing now that people returned home from work we dont drink the water. They drink it through the fridge and filtered systems or bottled water. More goes to testing and we will look for more answers. Dani so and you can look in your house and see if you have a problem. Dani . Reporter you know what, paul. We can actually tell you we talked to a plumber today. He said one of the first steps to take, make sure you know what kind of pipes are in your house. He showed us reallicism steps and can you check and see whats in your house and make a get your water tested and make sure to keep your family safe. You could scrape it. Sandpaper and i am using a scraper and i can see theres a copper color to it. Can you do the same drill on all your pipes f. They are steel, they will be more rigid. A shinier silver and softer if they are lead. When you scrape it, it looks shiny silver. And the diameter, you dont the lead is a soft metal. Anthony caruso, owner of plumbing says if your house is built before 1954 or plumbing work done before the mid70s, the house may have lead pipes. And in cities like cleveland theres a chance the citys side of the pipe could be lead, too. You shouldnt automatically freakout if you find the lead pipe in your home or find out the citys pipe going to your you should test it. You should be concerned. Just because you find lead doesnt necessarily mean your water is affected. Caruso says all pipes, even lead ones naturally form a patina or film thats supposed to protect the water. The city of cleveland adds orto phosphate which is supposed to coat the inside of the pipe, too and keep lead from reaching. Especially if you are concerned, the best thing to do like we did was to get itte neurotoxins. Once in your system you cant get it out. Theres a real danger and you have to prevent it. We actually did find a lead pipe in this house. Can you see it is shinier than the steel pipe we showed you in the story and just so you are not worried out there it is a drain pipe. People in the home wont be on it if you find a lead pipe in your house to know where it is going. We put information on our web site cleveland19. Com. If you live in a community serviced by cleveland water and concerned that the pipe coming from the city is lead, you can type in your address and see for sure and it could weigh into your decision if you want to test your water and try to do something more to make sure your family is safe. Guys . All right, dani, thank you very much. As dani mentioned we have more on this story on our app on cleveland19. Com. Including answers to those frequently asked questions about lead in your drinking water. Go check it out. Romona we have breaking news about contaminated water in eastlake. One person died and 10 others were ill after an outbreak of legionnaires disease over the summer. The person who died and two consolidated products in eastlake. The other eight victims live in a five mile radius of the plant. They began investigating a month ago after complaints were filed with the Lake County Health department. The legionnaire bacteria travels in the air in a mist and inhaled. People with compromised immune systems get sick and symptoms mimic of that pneumonia. Cooling towers consolidated i formed during the summer. It is bacteriafree when osha conducted testing last month. All right. In the First Alert Weather Center jeff tanchak, your thoughts today. Next couple of days, gorgeous. Before the winter blast over the weekend and a taste of it. Looking at potential record highs here friday. Big warm up on the way and it saturday and strong winds and rain as it passes through. Perhaps the first snowfall in your location. You see the current temperatures. We have cleared out except the eastern counties. 40 is what we are down to already in wooster dropping in the 30s here obviously this weekend. 7 00, 45 and i will have an update on the weekend snow threat coming up. Romona . Romona all right, jeff. In who fatally shot a black driver in july will be charged with seconddegree manslaughter. The victims girlfriend live streamed the aftermath online. Officer Germano Yanez pulled over castile for a broken taillight. He informed him he had a gun. Prosecutors concluded he never tried to pull it from your pocket. A lawyer for the officer said his client reacted to the here in cleveland, the next step has begun in reforming of the police department. A final draft in use of force policy is in a judges hand for approval. This is required between the settlement for cleveland and u. S. Department of justice and new policies were opened for Public Feedback on september 8th and expected to take affect in early 2017. If approved the policy defines when officers are allowed to use force a techniques in order to avoid it. They are to report if they see force used. The Death Penalty phase of the douglas shyne began today. The jury found him guilty of murdering three people in Warrensville Heights and shot and wounded three other victims and arranged another mans murder and tried to kill two others. In cleveland new details on killing a state trooper on i90. Joshua gaspar will go on trial march 1 charged with aggravated secular homicide and driving under the influence. Trooper Kenneth Valez died in september. Gaspar is locked up on half Million Dollars bond. More and more Sexual Assault victims in the past are getting justice thanks to rape kit testing. Mike dewine updated us on results. Period of time shows us many, many, many people are serial rapists. Dan deroos joins us from the answer center to break down the huge number of results now that kits are finally being tested. You hate to call this a milestone. You are about to see what a gigantic travesty this was after rape kits for decades and decades sat on shelves. Police departments were not funding or cases going cold. Lets look at the raw numbers. 85 of kits have been tested throughout the state of ohio. 13,931 kits have been submitted and take a look how many came from Cuyahoga County alone. Nearly a third, how many came from the Cleveland Police department that were just sitting on shelves, more than 4,000 rape kits, the largest in the state by far of any police department. R testing these as far back as 2011. Mike dewine, the attorney general brought on 10 extra staffers at bci to start going through these. When they go through them they get hits. They have gotten a lot of hits. They get dna that matches and seen before in the combined dna index system calling it codis. Take a look at cuyahoga alone. Half of the kits sitting on being indicted with Sexual Assault in the past few years and 93 of those cases, thats how damming dna is. 93 of cases have resulted in convictions. Staggering numbers of a problem happening all over the country. Getting answers in the advance, dan deroos, back to you, mark. Mark thank you. Incredible numbers there. Up next, getting answers about current crimes here near a local blame. Told you about the warm up headed our way. And we are tracking fist snow this weekend at least for the snowbelt areas. Details. Romona animals getting food they need. Find out how the indians performance during the world series will help fill some bellies. Get breaking news and weather now on cleveland 19 news powered by calvetta brothers floor show live from clevelands newscenter driven by don Joseph Cleveland 19 news. Romona we are getting answers about recent armed robberies in the University Circle area. Tonight Allison Brunner takes a closer look if crime is triggered by trees. Reporter Good News Police confirm the newest arrest connected to the robberies was made less than 24 hours ago. I want you to take a look at this video behind me. You can see tree branches covering a lot of lights and thats a concern with neighbors i spoke with and went straight to the chief of answers. That can pose a problem, i imagine. I come down and see lights and then again dark patches. Theres a lot of old trees hanging around. To get answers we went to police chief. Yes. We are checking the lights for the next couple of days to see which are out and making a list of trees obstructing the light. The Power Company is being cooperative. Yes. Spots. We will send a complete list so the problem will be remedied and also we will contact the Forestry Division of cleveland to trim back some of the tree it is. His team is working on lighting woes and heightening lighting security some that the folks are aware of. Glad to see the cops around and proactiveness. A reminder. Simple things your mom whoop share with you. No matter where you are put yourself and take the buds out of your ears and be aware of your surroundings. He hopes to see extra lights go up around the 1st of december. Getting answers Allison Brunner cleveland 19 news. We have dash cam video of a hot pursuit after a woman was carjacked while walking to her car. It started november 4th at beachwood mall. Two approached the victim. One had a gun and demanded car Cuyahoga Heights Police Spotted the stolen car. The driver wouldnt pull over and traveled to newburgh heights. Police tell us they arrested three juveniles and still looking for two more suspects. Well, it is not clear if they were involved in the carjacking. To a world series story we can get behind blackwood pet food from lisbon, ohio pledged to donate 100 pounds of pet food for the Cuyahoga County Animal Shelter in valley view received 2700 pounds. The Buddy Foundation in illinois also got 2700 pounds for each round the chicago cubs scored. Is that want the greatest thing. Mark it is great. One of my best friend his family owns the company. Good folks. Romona it will be warm here and then snow. What will you do. All over the place. Warm before the snow. A big warm up in advance of the front. Dropping in the 40s. Temps in the 60s near 70 to the west. Thats the air coming this way. As far as cloud cover you are cloudy right now lake county, Geauga County and ashtabula county. Get ready in this area here. Thats where most of the snow will fly with the first lakeeffect snow season of the way and obviously not tomorrow. Friday, 70. 70 degrees on friday. Strong cold front early saturday and drop through the 40s rain to snow and yep, only 34 on sunday. Big shot. Coldest air so far this fall season. The alert will start saturday very windy as this happens. Wind gusts over 40. Saturday night strong northwest wind here. It will create snow showers in the darker shade of purple. Eastern county geauga and inland ashtabula and Trumbull County best opportunity for some accumulation we will keep an eye on. 37 the low tonight. A clear sky and akroncanton. 36 will be your low tomorrow. Enjoy it. Becoming sunny and 65 degrees. Wh d 45 at 8 00 a. M. 56 at 11 00 and theres the 63 at 2 00. Around 60 at 5 00. Akroncanton becoming sunny and 61. Warm tomorrow night. 70 on friday. Rain develops saturday morning and switches to snow showers as saturday afternoon wears on. We drop through the 40s and it is snow showers saturday night boy, the browns game. Weather will play a role. Wind chills in the 20s. We clear out monday. Chilly and 41 mid system next week is rain warming in the 50s. T . Tony thanks. Is corey kluber taking in his second cy young award in years. Today, you can click in walk in or call in to the number one care in ohio. Cleveland clinic is here for you, anytime, anywhere. Find your way to the best care, at clevelandclinic. Org access i dont want to live with . The uncertainties of hep c. Or wonder whether i should seek treatment. I am ready. Because today theres harvoni. A revolutionary treatment harvoni is proven to cure up to 99 of patients. Whove had no prior treatment. It transformed treatment as the first cure thats. One pill, once a day for 12 weeks. Certain patients. Can be cured with just 8 weeks of harvoni. Harvoni is a simple treatment regimen thats been prescribed to more than a quarter of a million patients. 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