detail horrifying new information about a summit county house explosion. jeff and cindy mather along with their two daughters died when their northfield home blew up. new documents reveal this may have been a murder-suicide. >> reporter: jeff mather contemplated suicide in the rocky river metro park. he had a rifle. that was at the beginning of december. he was then hospitalized at a mental health facility. this happened at the same time the records state that jeff was having problems at work. he had just started a new position. his long time employer was a company that makes and sells valves and gauges. he returned to work after the new year but one week later his northfield home exploded. the record states the investigators found a gas can next to his body. the school district tells us they had no indication there

jeff's company just sent us this statement saying this is a tragic situation, and we extend our deepest sympathies to the friends and family. our focus is to support our associates through this difficult time. live in northfield center, kristin volk, newschannel5. tonight the mystery of a cleveland boy as he remains behind bars. he is charged with aggravated murder in connection with the september shooting that left major howard dead. police say this man pulled the trigger, killing the child. lindsey is still on the loose and police say he is considered dangerous. and tonight police are looking for the person who shot a man 4 times. it happened overnight along cleveland's clark avenue. police say they showed up at a bar after reports of a shooting. they found shell casings but no victims. the man apparently was dropped off at a hospital.

marijuana debate was over, think again. issue 3 may have failed in ohio, but medical marijuana mate still be on the horizon. new tonight at 6:00, our megan hick key is live with a brand- new announcement. lawmakers told you that they want to formally study whether or not pot should be legal. >> reporter: they announced a medical marijuana task force to decide if ohio should be the 24th state to legalize medical pot. issue 3 polls gauged ohio support around 84%. a northeast ohio poll was nearly 90% in favor. lawmakers will likely discuss the topic with doctors and experts from states that have cannabis. plate can analyst tom sutton tells me legislators will have to address whether the medical pot will be grown in state or shipped in from other places.

prescription, which we do a lot right now. in fact, where he ear encouraged to do the mail order and order multiple months of a time if it's a regular prescription that you have. >> reporter: it's important to note that the task force will study medical pot butt doesn't necessarily mean that a bill is on its way. sutton said there's still the possibility of a ballot measure in november. key, newschannel5. >> we want you to could in mind that before november's election several polls asked voters about their feelings. one of them taken by quinnipiac university found that 90% of ohioans asked said they supported legalizing medical marijuana. let's switch gears to democracy 2016. >> here at the live desk we're keeping an eye on the first of two presidential debates getting underway in charleston, south carolina.

who was bumped from the main debate, but rapped paul, who participate. candidates. included. john kosich is watching. we've just changed the way investigated in our statement it will require the attorney general to appear pint a special prosecutor. that prosecutor will investigate police involved shootings when the suspect sun armed. right now part of chester avenue remains closed. crews reopened the westbound lanes last night but as you can see when we went by there today the eastbound lanes remain closed. a massive water main break near east 40th shut down the road on january 2nd. the repairs should be done by monday. >> you probably can't tell bey looking outside but it's a lot warmer tonight than it's been in the last few days.

johnson, i guess it won't last. >> great shot at our downtown, chris. mild air in place, yes. and no, it will not last. two days of this thaw. 40 degrees downtown. cleveland, akron, and canton. 408s in mansfield. so the big reporting stations all at 40. 38 mansfield, 36 in ashtabula, 39 wooster, elyria, and dover new philly. a retreat of the arctic air, back to the north. we've got a warm front here to the north of lake erie. so the snow is north of that and moving away. good news, dry weather, clouds in and out. dry, dry. if you're headed out, a late evening here by 10:00 p.m., partly to mostly cloudy skies with temperatures in the upper 30s. the good news is tomorrow is warm. the bad news is, saturday and

its return, and so do those lake-effect snow squalls. more on that coming up. now to a news alert. good news from wall street. all the major indices were up, the down gang almost 230 points. the reason, crude oil prices rising today. also new, lebron james taking his pal throes tv. the hollywood reporter saying he will executive produce and appear in a new reality show. "cleveland hustle" will focus on struggling businesses here in our area, and lebron is expected to offer help to them. we are poor pg over a new report -- we are pooring over a -- poring over a new report that grades our schools. graduation rates have improved. now a little bad news. they're still low enough that the district received an f. if you want to see how your district did check out the link on our app. now to some unusual new video coming in.

it shows the dash cam video as police pull over a bus. this happened in is a lain that, ohio, near the border with indiana. >> they spot him coming into town from south. >> police say that's where the bus came from. evansville. the bus was hot wired while parked in a lot before the start of school yesterday. officers say when they questioned the driver he told them he bought the bus and was headed to see family in to lee dose. police say they tracked the bus because they pinged the on board gps. a man arrested because he had a gun in his carry-on at the airport. the gun was in his man's coat pocket and it was loaded. still ahead on newschannel5 at 6:00, water woes. a man says his house flooded

now he spent months finding out who to blame. what we discovered after doing some digging. and too much green has some people seeing red. the calls for change after we paid billions in banking fees. wait until you hear about a white house oops that has a

. an appeals court judge has ruled a lawsuit in the case of danny witters can now move forward. he was shot bey a detective also named in the lawsuit. witters was ordered to show his hands while standing in a dimlily lit basement. the officer admitted shooting after witters began to raise his hands. all new at 6:00 a flood of problems for a local man after a water line ruptured, flooding his house. he spent seven months trying to

now he is turning to us for help. investigator jonathan walsh, you spent today looking for answers. >> this is just a mess, literally and figuratively. a work crew hit a water line flooding a man's basement. okay, it is happened, but here we are seven months later and government entities are still trying to figure out who did what and when. >> i was in water up to hear. >> this is how high water reached in his basement. there's still damage to the floor, the walls. >> there's mold up against the side ?ea.'s had to replace major appliances. but it got so dangerous he faced something that is not replace i believe. >> i was pulling plugs out of my wall, which was dumb, and i could have been electrocuted. i got one little shock. >> reporter: he explained to me that a crew came tout repair the damage and got water out but he's now out hundreds of dollars.

they've been trying to get answers from garfield high and cleveland only to be told months later that the contractor came through cuyahoga county engineers. >> nobody seemed to care one bit about a person and the things they have to go through. >> reporter: but cuyahoga county told me hat no record of a county crew at that location in may. the county set's been working with raymond's situation since day one and since november the case has been with its law department. senate's been hard. >> reporter: troubling because it's already been a tough time recently for the world war ii vet. >> the fact that i'm alone now, i lost my wife a little over a year ago now. she had alzheimer's and dementia. >> reporter: well, the county says it will continue to work with raymond on this confusing case. i have reached out to the city of cleveland ask, hey, what's going on? why is it taking so long to clear this issue? so far no response.

i'm investigator jonathan walsh. news center five. if you see news happening text or e-mail us. lead paint in cleveland homes a big problem. for years we've been telling you about it. so why has it taken so long for the cleveland health department to fix the problem? the department's inability to tackle the lead issue was called into question by the state of ohio. one major problem is the lack of investigators finding and following up on .ed children. after the state cracked down, leaders told city council they will be twoogd more certified investigators by the spring. more than 700 children have been poisoned. bey now you know that there were three big winners for last night's powerball drawing. >> we know who they weren't, right. none of those tickets were sold in ohio. there were a few big winners here in the buckeye state. three tickets purchased in ohio

they're worth $1 million apiece. one of those tickets purchased in cleveland here at erie view towers news stabbed. the owner said he had a hunch. >> i had a feeling because of the way i remained customers to buy at least one line of powerball for the jackpot powerball, and most people was taking at least one or two lines, and i had a feeling that we'd sell the lucky tickets from this store. >> good news for gary. the store will receive a $1,000 bonus. the other two tickets were purchased in toledo and chesterville. for weeks we've been telling you about chipotle's struggles. tonight the chain has a plan to win customers back. the wall street journal says the chain's executives unveiled the plan to investors. it launches next month. it includes closing all stores

that allows all employees to listen and chipotle's explain what they know about to e. coli outbreak and the safety steps to prevent another one. an important reminder about why you need to check all of your bills. complaints that cell phone companies are charging way too much. well, those complaints have gone up, and according to the survey, one in five customers reports an overcharge. at&t received the most complaints followed by verizon and t-mobile. sprint received the fewest, just 5% of its customers. another consumer problem tonight is become sog prevalent has become a campaign issue. >> honestly it's something that many people may not even question. we're talking about atm and overdraft fees. more than $6 billion in the fees. that's billion with a b. hillary clinton and bernie sanders have called out the banks, sanders promising to cap them. you may have seen this on

oops. president obama was misquoted today in a tweet september out by the white house. the president said the main impetus for better politics is people. the tweet read the main impotice, misspelled. let's talk about january thaw. we've got cloudy skies downtown. not a bad evening. here's breaking weather news. take a look. 65 days until spring. 65 days until spring begins. it's been cold the last week

we're going to get cold again so don't put away the winter coats just yet. we get a little break as the warm front pushes the cold arctic air north again and the snow as well, at least for a little while. dry weather for the evening and the overnight and for most of your friday. so we get to string together a good 36 hours of dry weather. 39 me dana to he will larry i can't, 40 akron-canton. these are current temperatures. 39 dover new philly. it almost feels balmy outside. 65% humidity. today we hit 41, the average is 34. so above normal for a change. again snowfall well below normal by 20 inches. only about five and a half inches of snow at hopkins airport. here's what's coming. we see a lot of snow to our north. but if we show you the warmth, nashville 50, cincinnati hit 53 degrees today.

warm but i'm thinking middle and upper 40s for tomorrow. warm front pushing north of us today but here comes a fast moving weather system. low pressure will drag rain showers in. most likely toward evening tomorrow. in fact, we'll show you hour bey hour. here's 1230 tonight. lower 40s. here you go. well, that's 1230 tomorrow. here's the rain showers. this is 7:30 p.m. rain showers arriving along the i 71 corridor, they sweep through quickly with the cold front. notice saturday morning temperatures falling back into the lower to middle 30s and they're not going to report. by 9:45 saturday morning, already below freezing with a little bit of lakesque forming. so you get a mild day tomorrow, saturday more arctic air spij, and that lingers through much of next weak. 37 tonight, cloudy skies. dry. in the as cold, good news. 46 tomorrow, clouds.

or evening rain showers. akron-canton tonight 34, dry. tomorrow we'll mention the rain but not until most likely closer to is up there is set or after. so you gate whole day. maybe you can get outside and jog in 40-degree weather. sure, why not. afternoon, evening rain, 46. saturday scattered snow 35. look at the cold. here it comes. 20s, teens sunday into monday. overnight lows single digits. >> all right, mark. andy is here now. yesterday it was the browns turn, today other teams. >> we're going get up to speed on the nfl. the cavaliers are trying to take that winning streak to nine in san antonio. we're going hear about that.

a busy day in the nfl. chip kelly is going to san francisco, tom coughlin is going to philadelphia. plus hue jackson might be trying to get ray horton to come here. the cavs in san antonio. rockets tomorrow night. no mo williams tonight. he is dealing with a personal matter. lebron is ready to roll.

play in, a tough team. you just try to make the right plays. when it comes to sports, brecksville is a powerhouse. it may have never started if the head coach wasn't willing to break down some walls. >> reporter: believe. a message on the wall in the gym. she was a member of kent '60s. >> we didn't have the best equipment. we had practices at crazy hours, when everybody was having fun in the dorms, we were practicing. >> reporter: in 1969, she started a program at high school, but it didn't last. >> my principal, god love him, said women should stay home and take care of children and not coach.

she returned. >> when you feel the care that a coach has, you have that extra oomph to make you do a little better. >> the athletes train here at the gym. they say the lessons they learn extends far beyond any athletic ability. >> she taught me a lot of confidence, and that helps me outside of the gym, because there are other situations where you get nervous. >> reporter: she started her career by having faith in a division. now she's using that same power winners. like showing them thou believe. >> believe in yourself, believe in your teammates, and that's how the job gets done. >> reporter: lauren brill, newschannel5.

>> they do it the right way. >> that's what power houses are about. she's not about teaching the sport, she's about teaching the kids. >> dry tonight, cold air returns saturday. >> thank you mark. so nice to see you today.