Dangerous Drinking Water in a youngstown suburb leading to a disturbing discovery by investigators. Brian good morning. Thursday, january 28th, 6 00. Thanks for joining us. Im brian duffy. Tia im tia ewing. Were almost to the weekend. Today is also have fun at work today. Brian we dont need that. Right . Tia period. This is a fun machine. First, we have some weather to talk about this morning. You disagree . Brian no. Tia its informative and fun at the same time. Thats why people tune in. Meteorologist sam roberts is informing us about the forecast. Samantha we have some snow on the way later today. Theres not really much of anything out there right now. Its a pretty quiet start. Even though we have the snow on the way, there are no Winter Weather alerts in place. No warnings, no advisories, no watches, nothing like that. We do still expect snow to come in during the evening drive. Akron canton, good morning to 26 is our current temperature. Its a little breezy, so it does feel as if its in the teens. Cleveland, were checking the current temp out at burke. Its 28, but again, with that wind at almost 20 miles per hour, it does feel as if its in the teens. So pretty chilly out there early on your thursday. We are one day closer to the weekend. A lot of cloudiness out there, and i know the radar may look a little bit ominous and looks like a lot of snow, especially to the south and west of mansfield, but this is not making it down to the ground. The air is super dry, so its going to be hard for any moisture to mix down to the surface until we get those lower levels a little bit more moist later today. For now pretty dry, so anything flurries. Well talk about this afternoons snow chance and how much we may see coming up in laura. West side still dealing with that water main break weve been talking about on madison avenue. Theres a car going through now. We have heard that westbound lanes near west 105th street, westbound lanes have reopened but eastbound lanes are still staying closed as they work to get it fixed. We hear its really cold out there, obviously. We could freeze. We hear that theyre salting the roads in this area. Odot is out there putting the liquid treatment down on the highways as well. Theyre treating the roads to get everything, you know, so its up to par on the roadways. This is where that break is, between 105th and west 106th. Use western or berea as alternates. Hopefully they get the water shut down and cleared up so you can get out on the roads. No problems on the highways, and your drive times all look on time right now. Tia flint, michigan is four hours away from here, and that story there with the contaminated water making national headlines. We have a story of our own right tests show five children in the youngstown suburb of sebring have elevated levels of lead. Brian q. Mccray is joining us. What we know right now is the kids that have elevated levels could face really long treatment process if those levels are high enough. Q. exactly. Thats exactly right. We found out researchers with the centers for Disease Control and prevention say none of the readings are high enough to require specific medical still, lead exposure can affect nearly every system in the body and can cause learning disabilities and behavior problems in children. I also just learned three of the five kids live on the same street in sebring. So, if you have higher levels of lead in your body, your doctor may prescribe key lags therapy. It uses medication that bonds with lead in your body. Leaving your body when you use the bathroom. A child may be given key lags therapy with lower levels in the blood. Its on a 19day course or a separate fiveday course. Tia. Tia in frint lint its unclear how many children have been exposed to lead. In about 30 minutes q. Is back with us to talk about how northeast ohio is rallying together to help people in need of water in the city of flint, michigan. Brian schools are open today in newscomerstown after a man was killed in a house explosion. The schools are across the street from the home that blew up. This was breaking news yesterday morning. The person is the homeowner, dean taylor. Columbia gas confirms the cause was natural gas, but the States Fire Marshals Office is still investigating trying to figure out exactly how the explosion occurred. You can see the house completely leveled. Shook up this tightknit community. It was like a bomb going off. I mean, it was a very, very loud explosion. I thought maybe my home was hit by a car. Thats how brutal the sound was. Brian again, newscomerstown schools are back open this morning and police say its safe for everyone to be inside homes. Here are some of the warning signs you may have a gas leak in an appliance at your home. On your stove top there should never be an orange or yellowishlooking flame. It should be a crisp, blue color. If the pilot light always seems to be going out, you could have a problem. Look for soot or a scorched area around the appliance. Or if your windows have excessive condensation is a sign of a problem. A woman is in serious condition after jumping from a secondstory window to escape a fire in elyria. Pets. She became trapped and had to jump out the window. She was lifeflighted to metro. No one else was hurt in the fire and no word on a cause. A new police dog is on the parks. This is 1 1weekold k9 tieson. Hes in training to become a patrol and explosives officer. Tyson is sworn in and is now the fourth k9 with the metro parks. We talk about these stories all the time. Women attacked. I know its not something people want to think about certainly so bright and early, but these stories, we talk about them every day, people becoming victims of crimes. Would you know what to do if you were attacked. Brian january is selfdefense month. Nichole vrsansky will take us through a selfdefense class this morning. Very important. We know defending yourself to escape an attacker is the key to survival. Nichole i did an escape and survival class at the cleveland they say the way an attacker trying to intimidate a victim is grabbing that person by the neck, a chokehold with one or both hands. You can get away using a simple technique. Its a breathtaking grip around your neck, but breaking free is as simple as raising your arm. Again, its about targeting the weakness. Lift that arm. Nichole this opposite arm . The one on the outside with four fingers straight up against your head. Keep it straight up. Turn your shoulder into those four fingers and keep turning. You release that thumb. You release the grim. So fourfinger side goes straight up and spin in place and keep that arm straight up and youre free. Nichole if the perpetrator grabs you with two hands in a tighter grip, do the same thing. Pick a side and make sure you turn the right way still and go. It also works behind. This can happen a lot of times nichole the one thing that stuck out to me is im a small person, but highlighting these weaknesses of someone who might be grabbing you and then knowing your strength and where to focus your energy makes you stronger. I actually broke a board. Karate chop. Ill show you at that 6 positive 30. The point is youre stronger than you think if you know how to focus your energy and trong points. Brian and using the right technique. Its important to take a class, get together with a group of your friends or something. You can get a good rate. Nichole they offer them. We have all the techniques on our website at cleveland19. Com. So you can kind of go through the videos and look closer at how to do techniques. Brian thanks, nikki. Tia time is 6 09. Something happened on this date 30 years ago that if youre old enough youll remember exactly where you were and what you were doing. Brian it was sad. I do remember. We love the lower gas prices, but less is not always more. Doing to your 401 k . Whats going on, sam . Samantha with cheap gas i think its a perfect time to take a trip out to peek n peak for the weekend. 6 up to 40 inches of snow. That base depth there packed powder and they have 26 trails open. So plenty of space to get out there and have a great time this weekend. They have some snowshowers coming in the next couple of days, so there will likely be more snow by the weekend, which looks great there, by the way. Straight ahead. Tia even donald trump is sitting out the debate, its the story when cleveland fe a cd so comg on on abra cahealt ins few as twond aalf ys wn usedt thfirssign it penettes ep a stas to tolockhe vus a proct healy ces. Dot toh itut, knocit o, fa. Tia 6 13 on your thursday morning. Tonights seventh gop debate in iowa will go on as planned minus donald trump. Hes leading the National Polls but is refusing to debate with fox moderator megan yn kelly. Ted cruz doesnt like it and is offering trump a chance to debate on donalds terms. If hes unwilling to stand on the debate stage with the other candidates, i would like to invite donald right now to engage in a one on one debate with him anytime between now and the iowa caucuses. Tia Trumps Campaign is skipping the debate because he doesnt think he would be treated fairly. Theres no comments so far on cruzs invite ation invitation. Kasich will also be on the main stage tonight. Brian many of us might remember where you were 30 years ago today. Space shuttle challenger exploded just after takeoff. One of the seven crew members was akron native judith reznick. Today nasa is paying tribute to the crew with a day of remembrance. It was awful. It broke apart in air 73 seconds after takeoff in cape canaveral, florida. I remember watching it. Sam wasnt even born. I remember watching it, and you were like trying to comprehend what you were watching, and then when it kind of came over you, it was tia shock factor. Samantha i cant imagine. Brian bad day. Tia not a good day for weather either for people commuting tonight. Samantha this morning no major issues, but later today, as you said, we have some snow around. You can see that the radar is lit up in white. We have clouds and weve got snow out there, but this misture looks like snow is no one is reporting any snow at our observation sites. Just reporting cloudy skies and maybe a few flurries out there. Again, this is not making it down to the ground. Temperaturewise, we start off in the upper 20s. Were going to gradually climb, lunchtime. Noon were around 35 and highs today near 40 degrees. So a day here where were above average. It will be windy and from time to time well have flurries, but the big story today, that snow thats going to come in this afternoon. So i want to time it all out for you. Again, through the morning we watch that area of moisture that you saw on the radar. Well watch that move off to the east and that may produce a few flurries. Nothing more than that. Most of the day is just cloudy, but 2 00, 3 00 our eyes are going to shift out towards toledo because thats where the snow is coming from. As it moving into our western counties here, it might start off as a little bit of rain or a little bit of a rain snow mix. That transition over to all snow. Snow continues to move off towards the east through the afternoon commute about 4 00, 5 00 in the cleveland area and about 5 00, 6 00 akron canton. The temperature at that point will drop, so well be seeing all snow. This is 6 00 on your simulated satellite and radar. So evening drive, again, youre going to have to go slow out there, and it will continue to move off towards the east. 8 00, 9 00 we see snowshowers in northeast ohio. Then the wind shifts. That snow moves out. Well have lakeeffect take over overnight tonight into early tomorrow morning. We may pick up some additional snow primarily along the lakeshore and out in the snowbelt. So how much snow are we going to see . Were thinking a dusting from this afternoon through tonight into early tomorrow morning. Up to 2 inches. Heres futureview snowfall. Out to the west we have lighter really for most of us a dusting. We get farther to the east, cleveland, chardon, mentor, warren, painesville, 1 to 2 inches of snow possible there. We get a break in the cold and snow this weekend. I put a beach in the background. Look at that. 47 on saturday with a chance for rain midday. A break saturday night, and then look at sunday. 54 degrees. We will have light rain around during the latter half of the day, but 54 last day of january, laura, you cant beat it. Laura it looks like Huntington Beach over in bay village. Not quite. Wishing, though. Maybe soon. This isnt so beachy or peachy, either. Water main break at madison avenue. Westbound lanes have been reopened but between 105th and 106th is where that is. The alternates are on the screen, western or berea recommended instead of taking the area. Its a slowgo, and if you head eastbound you wont be able to get through. That as well. Across the wide map, highways looking good and if you come up 71 past the airport and over 480, still in the green the whole way through linndale and bribing Lynn Brooklyn and the steelyard as well. The drive times are all on time. Lets look at this, though. Look outside. Look at that price. Have you seen that in a while . Check out gas prices at a fuel stop in texas. 39 cents there. People came by the hundreds to line up to catch this hot deal. Its not the standard going price down there, though. It was for a promotion. The last time they were 39 cents a gallon Richard Nixon was in office in 1969. Brian. Brian all right. With gas prices under 2 bucks a gallon, we all have a little extra cash in our pockets. Thats good news, right . For the most part it certainly is, but what about the theory thats out there that our 401 k s are taking a beating because of low oil prices . You dont need to be an you are paying less for gas, you have more money to spend in other ways on other products. What is the relationship between Falling Oil Prices and the falling balance of your 401 k . For that answer we went to Baldwin WallaceUniversity Economics professor dr. Kay strong. It would seem if we have more money to spend, businesses, other than the oil companies, should be more profitable. That should be helping the market. It should, but its not. Keep in mind, the time frame here is really short. It takes a while for the inputs to pass through the economy and be picked up on the other side. Reporter so in this case dr. Strong explains consumers have developed what she calls a cautionary bent. Consumers without confidence dont spend, and thats the factor that creates the negative effect on the market and ultimately your 401 k . The lack of consumer confidence, however, according to shortterm. Things will start to recalibrate, balance will return to the economy both globally and nationally. Well be fine as long as everyone maintains some degree of confidence. Brian its hard not to get worried, though. Im not looking at my 401 k balance every day, but i look at it once a month. When you know, well, last month i remember it was this and this month its this. People get concerned. Tia i know. Iement im not near that stage yet. Still, it could impact me eventually. Brian absolutely. The more money you have, the more money youre making. Thats how it works, right . Tia thats right. Time is 6 21. Its the video youre bound to see on your time line somewhere on social media this morning. Well show you what caused a kid to go bananas on the sidelines during the cavs game. Brian good stuff. What has a shell, tail and two heads . Tia obviously, right there on the screen. Brian you dont need a big guess. Tia time is now 6 25. So if youre in the kitchen, you may want to look at this and get the kids to look at the screen, too. This is interesting. A twoheaded turtle thats 6 years old. The vet says hes surprisingly healthy. The owner is donating this unique creature to a zoo in the philippines. You might see a new clydesdale in the up coming super bowl. Anheuserbusch announced the foal was born tuesday. They did not rule out an ad. How cute. Brian they better shoot it quick. There are two things to know about the cavs suns game at the q. Heres the first. Down the floor. Caught him in the rearview mirror. It all depending on him. Brian very fresh. Maybe the dunk of the year for lebron james. Cavs hammered the suns 11593. For the second thing you need to know from the game. This is video of a kid celebrating courtside during the third quarter. This little guy was all over twitter last night. During the game espn tweeted the video getting nearly 1,000 shares. Tia thats cool. Brian its like hes saying hallelujah or something. The kid is fired up. The browns hired andy berry as the director of player personnel or pro personnel. Whats interesting is hes from harvard, so now sashi brown, paul depot depot des at that. Well see what they know about football. We know theyre smart. Tia we know that. I dont know if we mentioned it and the rest of his Coaching Staff coach the eastern conference nba allstar team. If you win the east the year before, which the cavs did, your Coaching Staff gets to coach. So the new staff. Well see what happens. We have an idea as to what may have caused the 911 system in cleveland to stop walking. Brian there are talks that Niagara Falls the american side brian new this morning, so a pickle, a burrito and hot dog walk into Progressive Field. Thats not a joke. They dont stop there at the new ballpark. We talk live with joel hammond from the tribe about what you will see that will be different come opening day. Tia well show you who is taking up a collection for the Six Police Officers fired for their roles in a deadly shooting four years ago. I think of going right through it. Brian oh, man. Dont get on nikkis bad side. If Nichole Vrsansky can do it, so can you. Well show you simple selfdefense techniques to help you and your kids stay safe if youre ever attacked. Tia if youre watching us in lake county this morning, hello. Your power came back on overnight. Im sure youre happy about that. Good morning. Its thursday, january 28th. Im tia ewing. Brian hope your alarm clock went off on time. Im brian duffy. A mechanical failure knocked out power to more than 40,000 people last night. All of it has been restored this morning. Tia we also have some morning. Meteorologist Samantha Roberts is tracking a little bit of snow center. Samantha guys, good morning to you. Good morning if youre just rolling out of bed. Obviously, if youre watching right . Lets take a look at what weve got going on outside today. Well start off with the big weather stories, and, of course, downtown cleveland. Not a bad start at all. Looks like at least from this smoothly. Laura will have an update on the roads momentarily. Out the door with windy and cloudy conditions