off with the man that has all of the information to stay safe and warm. meteorologist jason nicholas. it is snowing and the temperatures in the single digits. >> triple threat. world, wind and snow and seeing that across all of northern ohio. the snow heaviest across some spots. what is happening at the power of five network. traffic is moving okay but we have the snow showers and lightning up in downtown as the main lake-effect snow moves to the east. 13 in downtown cleveland and you add the wind and we have wind chills already at or below 0 and they will continue to drop and become the major here is your band of lake- effect snow. along the shore west of cleveland you are okay and this band eventually does make contact northeast of cleveland and talking about the far

county near euclid and menner to lake county and willoughby and east lake and 271 where the roads meet and undoubtedly issues there with snow on the roadways. menner to kirkland and seeing the snow for the last several hours and an additional one to three in the next couple of hours and more through the overnight. same deal southern sections of lake county and northern geauga. this band has been persist. moving to western sections of ashtabula. we got lake snow warnings out to tomorrow afternoon. three to five across the west and mostly eastern cuyahoga county and a winter advisory south and west of cleveland. 10 to 15 degrees below zero. i expect widespread school delays tomorrow morning. temperatures falling from the lower teens to the upper single

what does it look like outside with the snow falling. john rutter is live in storm tracker 5, john, what is happening. >> reporter: well, jason i don't know if mark johnson saw storm sweeper 5 but a few residents can use it. that snow whipping around and several cars off of the roadway. a car off of the roadway. to the left and two cars to the the right. the snow has picked up. look at the roadway on i-90 east and o dot trucks on the highway in front of us. this is why o dot had the extra drivers from cuyahoga to lake county to take care of the snow. we saw o dot trucks and the snow starting to pile up for slow along i-90 and we are moving at 30 miles per hour and this is a 70 miles per hour

things dicey here along i-90. and that is what is going on. megan hickey is here and how are things look for you? >> reporter: john, we counted more than a dozen cars in the ditch on i-90 west. several semis stranded and completely helpless as them out. p.m. on i-90. the traffic inching along for several miles. eastbound with slow going with slippery conditions and delays. here is video of the cars standing around nearly 180 degrees near menner and a semispun out causing delays. drivers are telling me they are taking extra care to watch out for the passenger cars on the road. >> watching for them a lot because you can control your speed better because you have a lot more weight on the road and

they are all over the place. now plenty of people made the very smart move to stay inside on this mlk day. we will hear more from them at six. meggen hickey. newschannel 5. you can see how much snow will fall in your neighborhood with the new snow cast app. download it from apple's app store. police were called to the home of 3-year-old major howard. the boy shot to death last september after reports of gunfire this afternoon. we are live at the scene. homa bash has more. i understand they are afraid they are being targeted by a major killer. >> reporter: two shots fired at this home where major's grandparents lip. two shell casings from found this afternoon. victor heard two gunshots and a

and fired. this is not the first time they feel they have been targeted. the police are stilling looking for men in howard's murder. >> we can't get no answers because he won't turn himself in. my plea is that somebody knows when he is and somebody turn >> reporter: major's grandfather tells me his son was hit by a car that ran off in front of the house a few weeks ago. you can see a police car sitting out in front. i have seen several drive by in the last few hours. district police officers will be getting this help in this area some very special attention moving forward. newschannel 5. police have made another arrest in how ward's death.

charges of aggravated murder. but again police need your help finding donnell lindsey. you see him here. if you know anything call police. developing now. an ohio police officer is dead and police say they have the man that killed him locked up. the tragedy started with a dramatic 911 call last night. a woman claimed her ex- boyfriend herschel jones was armed and looking to kill police. 20 minutes later the body of danville officer catrel was found shot to death. his weapon and police cruiser missing. jones was found a few hours later and after a foot chase he was found. he has a lengthy record. the danville tragedy highlights a growing fear among law enforcement. ambushed shootings. deputies are being prepared for unprovoked attacks. bob jones got a look at how the

instructors monitored shootings across the county. >> they tayler it based on incidents where police officers were ambushed. the scenarios are scary but officers know that any one of them can happen at any time. scenario one, officers are eating at restaurant when a gunman opens fire on them. they point laser guns on a wall and to practice awareness and moment and aim at the right target. scenario two, officers fire live rounds at cardboard cutouts after coming attack from somebody in the crowd and three, police officers in the cruiser and gunmen come after them and they are forced to make quick moves. >> the probabilities of officers being ambushed is a high probability. there is ambush trainings

have to make life-and-death >> a 4th scenario, an officer theft case. but then a gunman appears. put the gun down. put the gun down. accordingly to make sure our guys go home safe. >> we do as much stress on the perform. >> a training vital and point evolving. >> it is a tragedy and uncomfortable something we are seeing around the country. >> instructors believe the ambush training is needed so they are considering a plan to offer to law enforcement agencies throughout ohio and other states. live in akron. bob jones, newschannel 5. the fear expressed by the summit county deputies is sheered around officers by around the country and

and they are not just relying on trainings. kristen volk continue the coverage and learning how the officers return home to their families. >> it is about technology, training and tips at the willoughby police department and as officers grapple with the loss of the police officer they are paying close attention to what is going on in their own city to make sure that no copycat incidents happen there. >> in case that one emergency where that officer is not responding, we know where they are at and we can respond. what you are looking at is sophisticated gps system that shows the exact location of every police cruiser in willoughby. >> it will show them traveling at that moment. >> and lieutenant jim shuts tells me if he are traveling to a particular location officers that looks like this. >> before he steps out of his car, he is aware that there may

>> at that address, officers know that man living there has psychiatric issues and combative and has violent tendencies. we share information throughout the county on armed robberies and drug investigations and assaults and a lot of crimes that need to be solved or need to be looked into. >> and information like this that willoughby p d says they get, a picture of a bank robbery suspect in bedford. the incident happened friday. now, they are on the lookout for this man and in the age of social media, lieutenant schultz tells me it is a huge help to know what is going on in the community good or bad. we utilize our own social media, our facebook and twitter accounts to provide information not only for our officers but our citizens to keep them safe and to help us do our job better. willoughby officers also

sessions a year that range from street survival to firearm safety. police officers are vigilant about their training and several local departments express their sympathy over the danville's officer's death and their social media pages. avon lake police say officer catrel is fallen but not forgotten. kristen volk. newschannel 5. five americans free after spending time in iranian prison. >> and what it took to get them out. families in the u.s. plan to welcome home celebration. and we are learning the deep them home. the presidential race is heating up and a fiery debate between hillary clinton and bernie sanders has any impact on their poll numbers. and a day to pay tribute to dr. martin luther king, jr. our live coverage kicks off next with how the cleveland

one of the five americans freed is back home in boston. >> matthew is the youngest of the visitors and spent 40 days as a hostage and we are learning more about the secret negotiations that led to his and the other prisoners released. three of them are now in germany getting medical attention. one is washington post reporter jason rezaian that got the meet the u.s. official that got to secure his release in geneva and that reporter was held on months. >> he is doing okay. mostly been neglected for a long time. and that was his brother there. the other two prisoners in germany tonight are amir hekmati and pastor saeed abedini. in exchange the u.s. releasing

violating u.s. sanctions and others. another group of americans was reportedly kidnapped in iraq over the weekend and security forces are carrying out a house to house search to find them. the iraqi government says three americans kidnapped from their interpreter's home. they were taken from their car enroute to the airport. differing accounts. the u.s. is working with iraqi authorities to find them. happening across the country. people are remembering and honoring the legacy of dr. martin luther king, jr. a look at the flame that remains lit and burns in front of dr. king's tomb in atlanta symbolizing the effort to remember the icon's dream. and being remembered across the country and that includes people in cleveland. dr. martin luther king day has

wiley is live on 5. and where they just served dinner to some of cleveland's homeless communities. >> a cool vibe at take 5 and a dream come true for the recipients, a free meal that they would not easy have. that falls with what dr. king is saying. we want to show you video when the place was jammed pack if we can pull it up. the club was filled to capacity and guests treated to dinner with desserts and listening to the live jazz music. the event was held on thanksgiving but organizers moved it because it represents what dr. king preached, compassion for others. we wanted to uphold is legacy and a day and a holiday that most people have the day off and they can sit back and watch

we thought it would be best to utilize take 5 to service the community. now, if you don't know dr. king spent a lot of time in the 1960s urging folks to vote and paving the way for dr. carl soaks. today a great event for folks and falls in line with what dr. king says, if up can't do great great way. back to you. i went out and bought a pair of extra thick gloves. >> you will need them today. >> you do. maybe summit tense. they always work. they do. >> the hat and the gloves and the scarf. megan hickey has the

john rutter as well. there is is a look downtown. notice a difference and we will take a look at the sky cam and show you what is happening right now. the same shot. there you go. a wider picture. snow showers out there and they are relatively light. we are seeing that in downtown cleveland. take a look at lorraine. not much in lorraine and not much in the way of snowfall. cold but no snow. different in menner. we still have snow and kind of a blocking our view there. believe it or not, a few snowflakes over the sky cam wooster. a big difference even with sunshine breaking through the clouds. that just goes to show you lake effect varies from one community to the other. teens. elsewhere nearing single digits. snow. here is downtown right here.

euclid and northeast of interstate 90 and far southwest lake county. that snow continues off of interstate 90 and through lake county and starts to break out towards madison and perry and closer to downtown and not nearly as bad. 71 and 77. won't be all of that horrible. even 271, south of 90 things are looking better. menner continuing to see snow undoubtedly getting maybe potentially three or four inches since lunchtime and that will continue. notice the snow breaking up towards thompson and snowing right now in chardin. lake snow warnings in effect. geauga county and cuyahoga through noon and three to five inches for cuyahoga additional and four to eight where squalls persist through geauga county and ashtabula. elsewhere we are talking about a wind chill advisory. wind chills tomorrow morning as kids head back to school and many head back to work.

tomorrow morning. wind chills. air temperatures about 0 to 5 above. brutally cold tonight and tomorrow morning. cleveland and akron and canton around ten and falling off 7 to 8 degrees. notice the snow we are tracking here. cleveland, akron north and east. not talking about anything west of 71. good news for folks outside of the snow belt but if you are under a band of snow, you can see several inches by tomorrow morning. it looks though by tomorrow afternoon, we say adios to that lake-effect snow. total accumulation within the county warning, geauga county and ashtabula four to eight inches. 18 tomorrow and morning snow showers and chills to 10 to 15 below. seven-day forecast forecast. lower 20s for wednesday and a few snow showers. 30 on thursday and look at

forecast.

more live on five after this. >> let's go to jason for today's teacher of the week. >> we honor a local teacher as our teacher of the week. and this week's teacher teaches prek in euclid. getting hammered with lake- effect snow. in this week's teacher of the week we travel to early learning center in e euclid. >> congratulations, you have been selected as teacher of the week from newschannel 5. thank you so much. i am in shock and i have the best kids.

makes my teaching so great. guys, give yourself a pat on the back and kiss your brains. nicole petridge from ohio savings bank presented an omaha gift cards. congratulations kathleen sales. our teacher of the week. >> i like the kid giving himself a pat on the back if you would like to nominate a teacher go to newsnet5.com/teacher. a series of snubs that started a social media movement. the oscar protest and the major stars boycotting the show after white performance authorities again. a family losing their barn

live on 5 continues brought to you by national carpet mill outlet flooring super store. top stories now. family members of a murdered child think they are being targeted. 3-year-old major howard was shot and killed in cleveland. his grandfather her gunfire outside of the family's home. no bullets hit the house but shell casings were found outside. victor freeman saw a van stop in front of a house and fire. a police officer was found dead last night shortly after a woman called police that her ex was armed and wanted to kill officers. herschel jones was later arrested. he has a lengthy record. the university of cincinnati will pay $5.3 million in a settlement with

the man shot and killed by a police officer. the story that has everyone talking. the freezing cold weather and the snowfall not over yet. >> no. the lake-effect snow and it is cold. notice the showers in downtown cleveland and the big cavs warriors game, temperatures in the lower teens and single digits when you head back home. i don't think snow will be a big issue for downtown cleveland but if you are heading out for the east you will want to take that into consideration. it is mainly northeast of downtown euclid and moves and hits southern lake counties hard and continues to northern sections of geauga county. within this band it is persisting. we can see an additional one to three inches of snow by 7 or 8:00 tonight. keep that in mind. 90 undoubtedly slick travel and

the lake shore near perry getting a break and madison and geneva and more snow for geauga county. that is where the snow warnings are. otherwise a wind chill advisory in effect for tomorrow morning. i think the windchill advisory believe it or not will likely cause more school closings. we have a school closing -- closings on the bottom of the screen. jefferson local in ashtabula county has been called off. we are getting school closings and continue to get those for the rest of the snow and also newschannel 5 at 11:00. hour by hour tonight. lows in the upper single digits and cold with that lake-effect snow. keep in mind roadways will be slick across the east and

in snow tracker 5 and covering northern ashtabula. >> know, we are at a standstill. we were heading north towards route 2 and you can see not moving and that's the theme of traffic that we have encountered as we got off of i- 90 and hopped on to 306. as we were on i-90 i snapped the pictures of the semitruck pulled off of the side of the road and calling it quicks and a couple more at rest stops. traffic grinding to a halt. you can see we are moving northbound. 20 to 35 miles per hour on the highway and moving at a snail's pace now, two to three miles per hour in mentor. but traffic backed up because of the snow. we will keep you update on the

go back in the studio for now. i have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out its dreams and hold it out as evident that all men are created equal. we continue our coverage of dr. martin luther king day. and how clevelanders are taking part to honor dr. king's legacy. frank wiley from take 5 in cleveland and a look at the remembrances happening around town today. frank. >> reporter: a day of celebration. want to talk about how the cleveland public library is celebrating the people that kept his dream alive. we shot this video and this took place around noon. the library presented drum

dr. king's dream for creating a better future. this year's recipient a former library trustee. she has devoted her life to serving others in the community. i am proud to have my name associated with dr. king. that is very special to me. i never considered myself a change agent. i just considered myself responsible citizen of cleveland, ohio. and want to always do something on their behalf. >> reporter: and definitely thank goodness for her service. performances by cleveland schools all city arts and drum line. you hear them. and poetry readings by the gentlemen of spoken word. right at take 5, the celebration got spoken early. and typically the event for free food takes place on

wanted to move it to dr. king's day to have free meals and dr. king's honor. to honor his dream. live downtown and we will send it back to you guys. some $90,000 in grants have been awarded to nine ohio organizations that five human trafficking. the money is coming from the ohio children's trust fund that awarded the grants for the human traffic task force. new information out of mercer county where a hiker found human bones earlier this month after testing the remains authorities have launched a homicide investigation. the bones were found near grand lake in celina. a major below to ohio farm that supplies produce to a lot

the barn was lost in a fire last night. this picture is to the farm's facebook page. the family has so many memories growing up in that family. thank firefighters for keeping the fire under control. two weeks from now. the first americans will cast their ballot in the 2016 presidential race in the iowa caucus. hillary clinton and sanders take off the gloves. a tribute to an iconic rock star, how david bowie will live eternal in those stars.

good luck. take a break from tracking lake-effect snow snow and the nicer parts of getting snow.

better than a bulldog in the snow getting her nose in it. maggie getting snow and enjoying that courtesy of our friend ben arnold. how about jay jean jelly bean showing snow on the grill and more on the way of snow to the east and heading off to willoughby and more snow courtesy of car13 fan and with lake-effect snow even sunshine breaking out and this one ingrafton.

coming up after this. breaking news on five. the eagles announced that founder glen fry has died. battling ailments and he wrote iconic songs like hotel california. life in the fast lane as well. 14 days to the marathon race for president to begin with the iowa caucuses. candidates are urging voters to turn out. >> reporter: with just two weeks left until the iowa caucuses the presidential candidates out in full force. at liberty university donald trump made his case for the

and some said his quoting of the bible was clumsy. ted cruz has called his conservative values. >> who has been a consistent conservative. not as conservative language on the campaign trail. there is no loss between the front runners. >> he is a nasty guy. >> for the democrats they were framed from critiquing each other monday and focused on the legacy of dr. martin luther king. >> dr. king died with his work to see it through. >> what dr. king said is that we have got to combat racism and we have got to combat

>> a different doesn't from last night where the barbs are sharp. ted cruz seemed to have fun with donald trump's attack and tweeting out janet jackson's nasty. it is the biggest night in hollywood but two well-known celebrities will not be at the oscars. spike lee says his announcement comes on dr. martin luther king david bowie being memorialized in the university. his music is believed to have added fuel to the fire back in 1969 when star man and life on mars was released.

him, 7 stars that form the shape after lightning bolt from bowie's 1973 album. one of the most iconic images of that album. >> he always had a cosmic flair to his songs. pretty cool. i guess it is good that a lot people had the day off. it wouldn't be fun certainly this morning. we would have had closings and delays. take a look. live in storm tracker five, this is in lake county. likely on interstate 9. notice it moving well. there is a car merging on the right. and that makes you nervous with the roadways. let's see if we get to that road sign at east lake. that is, i believe i-90 but slow go there in storm tracker five. that car got in front of you, thanks. lake effect window. the area in red.

concerned about between now and even through the overnight hours and early tomorrow. for continuing to see the squalls. notice downtown cleveland not bad. heading in and out of the city. shouldn't be that bad. once you head northeast. that's where things get tricky and where the snow is piling up. east lake willoughby and menner and down towards my highland heights and southwest lake county. that's where the most snow is. menner has been seeing snow for several hours so we could easily see two to four inches since lunchtime and we will add to that over the next couple of hours as the squall is persisting. that is what we say with lake- effect snow. southern lake county and northern geauga county and the chimney of geauga county near thompson. these county. geauga county and ashtabula snow warnings until noon tomorrow.

four to eight additional there. windchill advisory for everyone else. wind chills tomorrow morning 10 to 15 below. that nears school closing time. normally 10 to 15, 15 below. certainly. it will be close for the counties inland. mansfield and wooster and ashland and medina and portions of wayne county. here is the hour by hour. temperatures bitterly cold and wind chills well below zero with scattered showers minely northeast of cleveland. notice right there, right where we were just zoomed in on. lake county and ashtabula and to northern geagua. the best chance for accumulating snow between now and tomorrow morning. continues tomorrow. it creeps back further west. downtown cleveland not out of the woods. certainly eastern cuyahoga and look what happens by tomorrow afternoon. we start to dry out. just clouds up there. total accumulation, sometimes

dealing with bands of lake- effect snow. you can see here southwest and not much and then right there, northern geauga and southern lake the best chance for getting accumulating snow. wind chills look at the readings below zero and temperatures falling off further than that. look at the morning wind chills, 10 to 15 degrees below zero. lows tonight single digits and highs tomorrow upper teens and morning snow showers and drying out in the afternoon and overnight lows in the single digits. dominic and chris. time now for a look at what is coming up at six. an ohio officer killed in the line of duty become the victim of a growing trend. ambush attacks on officers. we will show you how one local agency is trying to prepare officers. a brand new furnace and a

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back after this. we aren't the only ones dealing with wicked winter weather. 17 states from montana are under a deep freeze. >> shivering from the bone chilling temperatures and this snowfall on the i-95 corridor. elizabeth hurr has more. >> reporter: bound to happen and now it has. the snow drought is officially over. some areas getting up to two inches of snow making this the first and largest snowfall of the season. near buffalo where there is usually snow it caught residents off guard. >> there was grass.

my lawn. it started at 4:00 and i woke up to this. bitter snow on the highways and leaving some drivers stuck in a ditch and others needing a push to get on the road in northwest pennsylvania. snow coming and a lot more. >> georges 11 degrees out here. and icy road in yonkers out of new york city gave room to this 14 car pileup. out of minnesota it is so cold a local meteorologist says you minutes. it was colder in north dakota over the weekend with the wind chill feeling line minus 50 degrees. and here in new york, i'm

scarfs, two sweaters underneath this coat. there's relief by midweek. elizabeth hurr new york. now let's go to chris for a a look ahead at six. showing you that we have not escaped that deep freeze and snow temperatures in the single digits. leave coverage weather straight ahead all new at six. remembering dr. martin luther king, jr.'s dream. people across the country pausing to remember the civil rights leader. will you hear from one woman that said he made a personal