newschannel 5 at 6 brought to you by mr. hero. get a roman burger for only 5.75. live, always investigating and on your side, newschannel 5 starts now. >> you look at the charges, he is not stable. you know what i mean? he is not safe. >> tonight on newschannel 5 exclusive. we are digging deeper into a horrific murder case where a mother of two was gunned down in front of her two children and what we uncovered will shock you. >> five on your side investigation found that the wayne county man accused of killing his wife faces charges in a separate rape case and free on bond. >> confessed to killing his wife on friday but derrick waller discovered that woods should not have been on the streets because the prosecutor in one county didn't know about the charges against him in another county. derrick waller talks about how

exclusively with the woman that accused him of rape. >> loris woods bonded out of jail for $500. the rape accusers says she feared for her life and moved back in with her parents and he should have never been let out. >> in a sense knew her life was over. >> the victim of sexual assault went to police after 22-year- old loris woods attended at her house last june and raped her while she slept in her own bed. >> if someone is sleeping they don't give consent. >> it went to a grand jury and returned an indictment for felony sexual assault where his name was misspelled. >> and she warned her of this man. >> she asked about a gun and no, i do not own a firearm and she says does he know where you live and i said yes he came to a party and she says you can't

>> medina court records show that woods pleaded no contest this past fall to one count of criminal damaging or endangering and one count of threatening domestic violence. in a separate case involving his wife. his wife had a protection order against him for the kid and herself. i went to the wayne county prosecutor's office to find out why woods walked out of jail days before he was murdered. the prosecutor says his criminal history was not a factor in the bond decision saying that the bond did not recommend a higher bond. >> i wish they were more thorough. >> two weeks after getting out of jail, woods admitted he shot and killed his wife inside this kia in front of their children. >> to think -- she had three children. to take care of that depended

and she is gone. and prosecutor dan lutz was not available to speak with us but agreed to speak with me tomorrow on camera. tomorrow is also the date of emily young's funeral. live in wooster newschannel 5. >> a story we are continuing to cover on air and online. we learned about the family that lived in a home and a neighbor that desperately tried to save them. tracy carloss is going to give us details about what happened. >> reporter: well, the state fire marshal's office tells me they don't know what caused this explosion here last night but they do have a team of investigation here trying to figure it out. yellow tape at a police center where investigators are still here on sky haven road hours after an explosion knocked this home last night.

what is left of a house that a randy lives two doors down and heard the explosion and saw the bare feet. had socks on and pajamas and we you can see how it just blew off. a lot of fire. we ran to the start of the door opened. examiner positively identified two of the victims as 43-year- old jeff mather and his 43-year- old wife cindy. two children found in the home next to cindy and believed that they are the 8 and 12-year-old daughter. jeffrey was a deacon at a church in garfield heights and catherine harrison is a member of the church and knew the family well. >> she would walk around with her wagon and collect food and cans and bring it up to the church to supply our food pantry.

they are going to be loved and missed but we know they are with jesus right now. >> reporter: now, with randy kicking in the door to try to help the family dog ran out. [ no audio] problems. as we move on another terrible a cincinnati father accidentally shoots and kills his teenage son in a case of mistaken identity. his son he thought got on the school bus and had to return to his home. police say the father hearing noises in the basement took his gun with him to check it out thinking it was an intruder. believed that the boy decided not to go to school and came back home through the back door. the case is being sent to the district attorney's office and believed to be accidental. ohio state highway patrol

the driver lost control of his car on route 24 and crashed into a car. that man was treated for his injuries and released. a man arrested for kidnapping and rape charges is scheduled for court. patrick patowsky that police say raped a woman in parma is scheduled to be in court on january 25th. a parma heights couple turned themselves into police for stealing copper. 49-year-old thomas walsh and his wife 45-year-old michelle walsh were accused of stealing copper wiring from the new american greetings headquarters. police say thomas walsh was a construction worker on the job site when he was caught breaking into the electrical world. police are looking to identify these two suspects wanted for robbery. it happened at the burlington coat factory. one of the suspects stuck clothes in his pants and put on a stolen coat over his own.

an employee tried to confront them and was pushed away. today started with a sloppy start and ending that way. currently falling across northeast ohio at this moment. storm tracker five headed on the highway towards chardin where the snow is starting to pile up again. let's check in with chief meteorologist mark johnson. >> we are tracking our band of heavy snow coming out of greater cleveland over i-271 and bedford heights into burden 322 corridor. chardin is here and burden and where the heaviest snow is falling and going to the rock creek area towards andover. where the band persists this evening and overnight a good three to six additional inches

for the rest of the region in. 13 mansfield and 14 in wooster. 16 canton to deli new philly and 17 in cleveland. we have the lake snow advisory they have may have to add cuyahoga county. wind chill advisories to the west and i'm concerned about some areas for dangerous wind chills tomorrow morning. right here in northern ohio. within the sound of my voice, a minute. in the meantime your evening, it is cold and some areas getting snow, drive with care and make sure you bundle up. and don't get caught out in the snow again. download the snowcap app and track how much snow is expected to fall in your area over the next 48 hours. you can download the snow cast app in apple's app store. in less than a half hour. leaders in another local city

it was a packed house in shaker heights city council. first considered the band back in november. if it passes pitbulls already in shaker heights can stay. but no new ones will be allowed in the city. this comes months at 71-year- old annie williams was attacked and killed by a pitbull. if it passes shaker heights would join richmond heights and garfield heights and warrenville heights and lake wood and parma with pitbull bands. do you remember last night when we told you about the guy that didn't like his mug shot so he decided to send the cops a selfie. >> that selfie was good enough to get him arrested. lima police say this guy was arrested in florida today. pugh was a person of interest including arson and wanted for failure to appear in ohio. he also has had a warrant out for his arrest in georgia. >> newschannel 5 investigators have gotten their hands on an

cleveland is paying for garbage pickup. investigator jonathan walsh joining us from the newsroom. waste collection is way over budget. >> this is the report given to counsel members by the city's finance director and it says right here as a matter of fact the overtime for waste collection and disposal is 274% over budget. the city budgeted nearly $471,000 for overtime and between january and november the city paid out almost $1.3 million and that does not include december's overtime. i talked with councilman ken johnson who's the municipal services committee chair. he says this was the first time the city made him aware of the problem. his next step is to have hearings on the issue with the entire public works department by next month. councilman polinnic said there is too many people calling off. >> people not coming to work because they are working to 9:30 at night and they are

won't show up for work. there's a major problem in the waste collection department. >> the city of cleveland told me in mid december several employees in the city of waste were fired because of overtime abuse. and that the previous waste commissioner randall scott was reassigned after not properly seeing the overtime issues. paul burnet is the interim waste commissioners. jonathan walsh. newschannel 5. investigators have been tracking down new information about michael simon's restaurant in lo litta that had a fire on saturday. after numerous requests the past couple of days we gained access to three fire inspection reports for that restaurant in tremont. all three including the most recent saw the inspections. it is required to send the information to the fire department on a quarterly basis. the exact cause of the fire has not been determined but it is

started in the kitchen. we have important consumer alert about some cough medicine that may be in your cabinet. on your side with the safety concerns. president obama will deliver his final state of the union address. all new at six, a look at some of the key issues people discussed and why tonight's state of the union will be much different than years past. and if you see knews happening you can text or email us or send us a tweet at wews. tonight's news brought to you by elk and elk.

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safe. there you go. squalls persist. >> where squalls persist. >> we get to say that today? >> yes. feast or famine and most of you just flurries, akron and canton and mansfield but in the snow belt, cleveland east, maybe three or five or six inches of >> already? was at the bus stop. it was a windy, snow in the face and just ugly. >> taking the bus now. >> yes. i'm taking the bus, baby. >> we got a live look now. >> too cold for the bike. thought i was going to say something else. we got a few flurries in lake county and the bulk of the snow is to the south. here is the wider view. the alberta clipper came through and everybody got a good inch to three inches as we expected from that alberta clipper.

and now we are transitioning to cold air and lake-effect snow. we will zoom in. northern lorain counties, lighter snow to downtown cleveland and could be a slippery go. out east we get things cooking here from the i-271 corridor around mayville heights to central geauga county with one- half to one hour snowfall rates right now. again this squall could go back and forth over the course the overnight. it may go northwest and southeast. we will have to watch it. it is about what mother nature wants to do and where the squall goes, southern ashtabula county and northern trumble and portage easily three to five inches. we are in the teens everywhere we go and this is the heaviest amounts of snow and cuyahoga

chagrin falls four-and-a-half and burton four-and-a-half and the same for middleville and andover. feast or famine snowfall. watch these clips outside of the snow falls. single digits and waking up to bitter cold air and the air temperatures current wind chills are already single digits to below zero and between minus five and 15 in a few spots. here is the lake snow advisory. lake geauga ashtabula. and cuyahoga county as well. wind chill advisories to the west. if you want a snow day, your best chance, greater cleveland for three to six inches of snow where the squalls persist by the morning. here is wind chill issues closings and delays for schools tomorrow morning, the route 30 corridor and points south.

ashlan, wooster and canton with wind chills minus five and 15 and maybe minus 18. front going by and artic air hanging around. we get a warmup a couple of days of 30 plus degree weather and we may flirt with 40 by friday and saturday. teens overnight and scattered lake-effect snow and heavy at times east of cleveland. 11 tonight. generally a trace for two inches for cleveland and out east and where the squall persists you could go five or six inches wind chills to minus five. akron and canton less snow and wind chills and air temperatures 7 degrees for the low but wind chills minus five to minus 15. tomorrow 16 degrees for the high. 35 with flurries thursday. could be some rain on friday into saturday. changing over to snow. here is the 40s and it is back to the deep freeze next week. deep, deep freeze. >> there it is. >> not messing around. >> andy is in with browns news. >> a little bit.

going on with the coaching search. cavaliers made a change. not a surprise on the cavalier changes but who the browns sent to houston to be the owner or one of the coowners, you might be surprised. we have the latest on the

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playing in los angeles. the browns will have a vote. dee haslem is in los angeles and jimmy is not. the race for a new head coach. hugh jackson saying a deal has not been offered before last night and on the giants and the 9ers radar but there is a report in santa clara saying he is no long other san francisco radar so the owners are in houston and looking to land a team in los angeles between the rams and the charges and the raiders and the committee has recommended the carson project where the chargers and raiders would share the same stadium and voting as we speak and we tomorrow. >> cavs traded joe harris headed to atlanta with a the cavaliers get one in 2020. the cavs earn a right to get a guy 16 or 17 and the cavs are in dallas. mo williams is out with a personal matter. like a 16-year-old.

athlete of the week and off to darke county to meet an athlete making the grade. >> reporter: welcome to the leeman. athlete. in the school's first ever soccer season alley scored 27 goals and on the basketball court just as impressive and a leading scorer. >> she is a go-getter, she wants things and goes and gets them and works hard for them. she will do it. >> reporter: alley may be incredible athlete but also an incredible student taking ap outstanding. >> i want to teach students and teach them what to do and to be a good leader for them and show

basketball and teaching would make me like really happy. >> reporter: alley leeman is the student athlete of the week. >> thank you, mike. a cool story. she scored one thousand points and was a game winner. that's how you do it. >> with her eyes closed? >> that i don't know. >> you have to talk to alley about that. see you tonight at 11. mark will be shooting hoops. eyes closed. newschannel 5 at six brought to you by the ohio lottery cash