After an army veteran is found dead. How they re using his story to reach out to others who are struggling tonight. 27yearold aaron berns had been missing since the first of the year. Evening, im Courtis Fuller thanks for joining us. Berns, went missing after Authorities Say he started a fire at a morrow home and jumped in to a river to elude them. Tonight, his family says while they ve gotten closure they hope his death means more. Wlwt news 5 s tammy mutasa spoke to his parents and joins us live with more. Tammy . Reporter courtis. Even though aaron s body was found yesterday, the family wanted to still have the vigil today. Not just for their son but for other people with ptsd. The vigil had already been planned for sunday but the closure came the day before. It felt like it was meant to be. Reporter aaron berns body was found in the Little Miami River day. Let s it s been a long two months, very long time. Reporter deputies say the 27yearold jumped into the river while on the run f
You ve got the warm air with the s. It will be drawn back in. Notice that rain shower activity , that transition will be to snow. On how much i think we can see warmup on the way. Ask a thing Anderson Township reporter take a look behind me. They look at a different story. They made their way to several inches of rushing water. And a large sinkhole next to the road. At one point, a foot of water was pouring across the roadway. Officials tell me this is a private roadway and private land and i m told the owners are working to get this sinkhole fixed. A reminder for those driving tonight , do not drive through the flooded water. This is the number one weather killer in america. You should never drive on a flooded roadway. Talking about cleanup. They will show us it uprooted during the morning rain and made a mess. Reporter you can smashing down while she and her sons were lot of inspiration. Happening. Feet away from having this message dropped on her. Reporter reporting live, natalie cl
In that cold air, the wind will pick up throughout the evening and overnight. Dropping into the teens north of i 70. It is the bitter cold air. It feels like 15, but the windchill drops to the towards indianapolis. S overnight tonight could drop as low as zero. Enjoy the temperatures in the 20 s before we drop to a low of 10 overnight tonight. Flurries and snow showers tonight. Maybe the chance for accumulating snow. Mike a case of zika virus in the cincinnati area. A woman from Butler County the just returned from b guyana. And there s a man in the columbus area that just came cases. The cdc now saying there have been 52 cases in america. We will hear from local health zika virus. We will get to a developing story out of columbus. For people hurt after a man with a machete attacks people inside the restaurant. Sheree the motive still unclear tonight. We are leading the way with new us. Reporter people came out of the restaurant. Some scattered to nearby businesses after a night that l
Re going to climb this thing . I am doing vertical miles. Jonathan we are waking up to storms and greater cincinnati. It won t matter for those vertical milers. Jennifer has the impact it s having on the area and went clouds move out. This is news 5 today. Now from cincinnati s First Television station, this is news 5 today. Jonathan good morning and welcome. Thank you for joining us. This is meteorologist jennifer schack. You didn t think you could run caps on and you did it. Jennifer there is some pounding on the roadways. We should see some improvement because the heavy bands event. Has ended. We are doing well temperature wise. It s going to be a very soggy start. Some places have seen over a half an inch after midnight. The rain is moving. There is still this back band that is developing in a central Hamilton County. We did not see any lightning with it. We do not see any. We have heavy thunderstorms between night and 1 00. Look at the several hours the trailed across Hamilton Cou
Temperatures in the 20s late tomorrow evening. Snow showers over the next couple days. We come out of that cold weather pattern and quiet down for thursday. Snow showers on friday. We stay below average into next weekend. Jonathan. Jonathan several Police Agencies are investigating a fatal crash that ended with a man dead in park hills, kentucky. It happened right outside Covington Catholic High School Saturday morning. Police say 68yearold roger Lee Stephenson was hit while crossing the street. He died at the scene. He usually waits for his bus coming this way. When he sees his bus, he crosses over. Looks like thats what he was doing, crossing over to get on the bus. Jonathan the driver is cooperating with the investigation. Kenton county police are overseeing the investigation. He was a father, husband, and avid cyclist. There was a huge show of support from the cycling xhunlt this weekend, honoring a man killed in a hit and run crash in the story. It strikes a nerve with everyone wh