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can help, you re asked to call them or crimestoppers. reporting in lockland, emily wood, wlwt news 5. sheree: two 12-year-old girls. charged in connection to a threat that closed an entire school district today. mike: the arrests came just hours after dayton independent schools shut down for the day. wlwt news 5 s brian hamrick is leading the way on this developing story tonight, brian. reporter: this is all over a bomb scare. games are cancelled, explosive sniffing dogs are called out. called in. and police say behind it all, are two girls still in the 6th grade. students who would normally be in school, are just passing time today, but even with the entire dayton kentucky school district closed, a pair of 12-year-olds are getting a tough lesson in law enforcement. the threat was that at 8:00 this morning they were going to come in and bomb the dayton schools. dayton chief of police david elaborate plan using layers of social media accounts under phony names to make th
we begin with breaking news. a deadly crash that has shut down southbound 71. lisa: wlwt news 5 s dan griffin is live at the scene with what we know about the crash. dan: good morning. we re south of dana avenue. this is a wrong way crash where a woman was driving a great minivan gray minivan. we understand the van was going the wrong way and hit a small vehicle in the opposite direction. we understand a man died. the woman not taken to the hospital and stayed at the scene. how many people involved and if that woman was injured or anyone 71 southbound expected to be closed through 8:00 a.m. this morning. it is going to be a situation where investigators will try to reconstruct this crash. the crash scene is very active and we are still working to get more information about how this all played out. we will follow the details and bring you up to date as we move through the morning. lisa: thank you. kyla: this could be a significant closure, especially if it lingers until 8:
ivan. we can assume she is from ohio. that happened around 3:00 or so. a significant crash, holding up traffic and expecting to be an issue until 8:00 a.m. police do not believe anyone else is involved. one man was killed upon impact from the van. we are working to get more information. crash reconstruction crews are here on the scene. this could pose some big issues for people heading into the city this morning. kyla: it could be an issue throughout the morning. this is a main thoroughfare for people having into the city. morning. south of the norwood lateral, which is one of your alternates. you can take that over to 75 and take 75 into downtown. 71 at victory parkway, you can see all of those lanes are still shut down. we will let you know if the closure lifts earlier. you shouldn t see too many delays on 75. you can take reading road or montgomery road. you have a couple of different ways you can go. no problems or delays in on 75. we check in now with randi rico. snow s
taken to the hospital to she stated the scene. there is no word on any charges in this at this point. cincinnati police said the stretch of i-71 southbound could be reopened by 7:00 a.m. which would be good news for people heading into the city. kyla: really good news that they are hearing that they will hopefully open it by 7:00. that will help us out on the roads. a fatal accident there on 71 southbound, completely shutting down all those lanes near dana. as you can see with dan, tow trucks on the scene working to clear that quickly. take a look on our map. we are starting to see those areas of yellow. things are slowing down a bit if you re heading toward that accident. i would recommend you try to avoid it as you had outside for your morning commute. a couple of different alternates you can use. hop over to the norwood lateral and take that to 75. here is another look near the site of the accident were you can see they are still diverting you will not be able to access a