The workers are inspectors for the state highway department. Firefighters were able to rescue both men. And they have just minor injuries. Its a brush fire on the burlington, wilmington line. Were tart that very, very dry conditions out there. And it two real factors right now. Route38 in both directs is closed. Were going to keep watching this, this breaking situation. And well bring you new information as we get it. A mother, a family, an entire community searching for answers and searching for comfort. A deadly crash took the life of a beloved teen. And police say the driver of the car he was riding in was drunk. Papers, the driver joseph capp who is a Boston University student had a blood alcohol level 1 1 2 times the legal limit. That phone call she got was her worst nightmare. A mothers worst nightmare. Stopped by the highly decorated spot where the grad was killed only two days ea love there was for this kid. He had no enemies at all. And there was a show of support in court as
Enforcement has access to. Uber says its already been doing background checks but it does not have access to politician records. Records. The department of Public Utilities has up to a year to retaliation the regulations it will use to do background checks on ride share drivers. Were following some breaking news out of rhode island. Two workers were happy to report are safe after this crane tipped ov Island Bridge and Turnpike Authority says its a piece of inspection equipment and the bucket protected by a cage preventing those workers from falling. And heres a look at the view from down below in the water where rescue boats were waiting just in case. The two workers have since been rescued by another crane officers shut down traffic acros the bridge during the rescue. The rhode Island Bridge and Turnpike Authority is now lookig into what went wrong. They stopped a holliston man frm carrying out a dangerous plot. They say he was south korea up weapons and threatening to kill police, mu
High heat index numbers, and so as this front runs into this het and humidity quickly exploding understorms could ending, though, by midnight, so this is going to be an early evening thing. Wind damage, hail would be the two biggest Severe Weather threats. Its windy in cleveland. Downtown, 91, akron, could not, 87 and a partly cloudy sky and there you see the clouds trying to form andll form into thunderstorms. 91 at Cleveland Hopkins airport. 6 00, mid 80s as the storms could be around. 84 at 7 00, and 8 00 temperaturs at 82 and that heat index betwen 95 and 100. In fact, you guys akron, 99. Its a waitandsee attitude right now. Were keeping a very close eye n the radar. Were going to be doing little hits of course throughout the newscast here. Chris, back to you. Storms caused damage in six counties. The worst just north of defianc. Several homes damaged, some roas were closed because of debris. One person even suffered some minor injuries. Power was still out this morning for dozens
Some lightning and thunder, maybe gusty winds. Another cell were watching moving out of brunswick. This one has strengthened moving into ben nicks corner, grafton to litchfield. So far so good, just so watching cells through pier pont. Its weakening and moving away very, very quickly. 90 degrees akron, deminttor. Then the rains came through. The soup is there. Its very warm, very humid. Temps dropping down to 70. If you have a High School Keep the storm shield app on your phone. Well have the latest throughout the evening. He took her away. Only mon 5 a family demands answers after a 17yearold was murder and left in an abandoned East Cleveland building. News channel 5 is always investigating. Weve learned the 19yearold arrested for killing briana fluid was reporter brianas family is getting ready to bury her. Cheyenne smiled as she talked about her happy talkative sister briana. Reporter she said the family is living in a nightmare but the Community Outreach has been incredible. Its no
Into this air. But so far you know this has happened a couple times this summer. We have a cold front. Were expecting Severe Weather. It doesnt develop into explosive thunderstorms. Right now we are dry still. We have some scattered showers to the north of us. Thats the cold front. But were in a situation where things could change very rapidly here where all of a sudden these thunderstorms explode with the cold front approaching. As you can see right now, it is dry. We are in a red alert the rest of the afterno i evening. This is not going to be an all night thing. Pretty much one wave. One or two waves of storms that could be potentially severe ending by midnight if not earlier. Now, if we do see Severe Weather, wind damage and hail would be the two main Severe Weather threats as well as the heavy rain. Because look at the current temperature. We are at 91. 5 00 well be in the 80s. Thats when we do think the storms could get themselves going. It remains muggy tonight. 89 akroncanton.