we all knew it was a matter of time before the warm weather gave way to snow and single digit temperatures. roads are a mess and we are bundling up against the chill. our team reporters tracking conditions but we begin with jason nicholas. >> everyone is going to get cold and some areas will see the snowfall where squalls persist. take a look. temperatures downtown cleveland 13 degrees and when you add the wind chill we are talking about readings below zero and that is just the beginning, many of us will wake up to wind chill feels like well below zero, 10 or 15 below and that will cause a lot of schools to close. here is the current band of lake-effect snow. outside of the red box, not much. downtown cleveland just a few snow showers.

drying out. here is where the snow picks up. interstate 90 through cuyahoga and menner. they are getting hammered, several inches in this band. even creeping to far weren't ashtabula county. under a lake snow warning and that through lunchtime tomorrow and cuyahoga through tomorrow morning. additional four to eight. windchill advisory for everyone else, 10 to 15 below zero. overnight low temperatures plummeting in the single digits. john rutter is in storm tracker five. joining us all afternoon in lake county. how are the roadways, john? >> well, jason back in cuyahoga

some light snow on the roadway and pretty windy and that snow west. snow across the roadway and when some of the bigger trucks passes, they whip up the snow. cuyahoga county, odot has extra trucks from three and four in cuyahoga to go elsewhere. kickly we have been going on here about 35 miles per hour and that is what we are going on right now. those o dot trucks they typically go 30 to 35 miles per hour. if they go faster they start to throw the snow and that can of course they are asking drivers to stay pack and give them plenty of room and they got extra trucks from cuyahoga county. we have seen them working in teens and two and three trucks out there plowing the roadways and the further east the worst conditions get and right here on i-90 in cuyahoga county.

sending you back inside to the studio to chris flanagan. megan hickey, she drew the short straw and has been in the conditions all afternoon. megan out in perry the snow picking up. >> it is. the snow has picked up and the winds are brutal and visibility low. the cars at a crawl. plenty of people told me that they stayed inside on this mlk day to avoid the roads. >> many drivers on the east side started the mlk day on the wrong foot. newschannel 5 captured the spinouts. this crash closed down portions of the roads on menner. >> you have to watch for the other guy especially. but there were some cars off the road. trying to take it easy to get through. crews captured the chaos on

more than a dozen cars slid into a ditch in concord. >> there was cars not too far back. >> emergency crew battled the wind chills and a car slid off to a pond. the driver made it out unharmed. many east side residents headed the warnings and stayed off of the road. >> my sister went to work and we decided to stay home. >> others are taking advantage of the snow fall offering the services in exchange for spending money. >> it is nice. you are used to the snow. you just get out there. now the accident numbers continue to rise. people in

this weather could affect the start time. be sure to check out good morning cleveland and download the news at 5 app for the closings and delays. now to a developing story. cleveland police are investigating shots fired outside of the home be longing to major howard's grandparents. they say this is not the first time the 3-year-old's death where the home has become a target. homa bash like at the neighborhood. what do you know so far? >> reporter: well, police got called out here earlier this afternoon after someone in a blue band fired two shots at this home and took off. major howard's grandfather victor heard the shots and heard his home was being fired at. none of the bullets hit the house but police recovered the two shell casings and took them into evidence. freeman says his family has been threatened by friends of

the man police are looking for in connection with major howard's murder. my family is living in fear but i'm not. >> why not? >> for one, i'm covered in the blood of jesus. i don't worry about it. i know i didn't do anything to him. i haven't done anything wrong. >> police officers will be giving special attention to this area. an officer sitting there right now and we have seen several drive by in the last couple of hours. now, last week u.s. marshals doning and he has been charged with aggravated murder and anyone with information about lindsey is asked to call police. homa bash, newschannel 5. on a day where millions across the nation remember dr. martin luther king, a couple dozen people remembering tamir rice, in the snow the group gathered outside the justice center downtown and begin to work toward the unite the

we are calling on all of cleveland to join us to make this city fair and equitable where justice is allowed and it flows for all people. the group was also vocal against the decision to not tamir rice's death. today is the day to not only remember the life of dr. martin luther king but his vision for a better world. to honor that vision dozen of the events helping those in need. our frank wiley live at the take 5 rhythm and jazz lung where a dinner for the homeless wrapped up a minute ago. this is a cool environment. people cleaning up the place and people enjoying a free meal in honor of dr. king.

marion catholic church, a day of service to help the lpbg community and homeless community. they were given clots and winter hats and hygiene items and toothpaste and deodorant and shampoo. 40 to 50% of the teens are part of this community. to get basic necessities is the least that they could do. they don't have a place to stay. they are often couch surfing and have basic needs to be met. this place was jammed pack and normally it took place on thanksgiving but the organizers decided to move it back to m ld team. a story of the keynote

rights leader. carlos is live in the newsroom. leading the city of maple heights into the future while never for getting the past. on this day named for civil rights leader martin luther king, cleveland's neighborhood is cold and quiet and nearly 50 years ago it was the opposite. the site of the riots and they played a major role in the civil rights movement in country. dr. martin luther king, jr. was a fixture in the city back then. >> i can never be what i ought to be until you are what you ought to be. >> as the civil rights movement was unfolding annette blackwell was a child. born 15 miles from selma, alabama and her father a minister moved the family to cleveland in 1964 when she was a toddler. the family went back home to alabama every summer for blackwell to help her

those summers blackwell tells me much different than her life in the north. >> no looking directly at a white person's eyes you look down. on the sidewalk you have to move over or get off the sidewalk and everything was yes, ma'am and no ma'am. >> blackwell was the keynote speaker today where she told her story because ... >> you see annette blackwell made history by becoming the first african-american mayor of maple heights. she worked hard to show people she could do anything she set her mind to. >> i became strong. >> while never forgetting where she came from. she never met mlk but he certainly influenced her life. >> he was a hope for the people i flew up with. they looked to him for home. that was the reason for the picture in the house. that was the hope. >> the picture that blackwell

martin luther king, jr. hangs in nearly every home for the people in the south. in the newsroom, tracy carlos, newschannel 5. an ohio police officer dead and the man accused of killing him behind bars, dr. catrel. herschel jones left the home with an intent to kill a police officer. catrel's body was found outside of the municipal building shortly after. his service weapon and cruiser missing and found in the woods a short distance away. jones was arrested after the shooting. court records show that he has a lengthy criminal record. officer catrel's murder shines a light on a growing concern among law enforcement. this is a ambush shootings and summit county police department have been offering training on

there is scenarios where officers come under attack while working in their cruisers or in restaurants. >> we are giving them a chance to defend themselves and make good decisions. we are giving the skills they need to process the information to make the correct decision. instructors will offer a plan for the trainings in ohio and other states. a home with no heat and this bitterly cold weather. her home was supposed to have heat but she used her stove to stay warm. how a newly replaced furnace was not turning out heat. a look at the roads as storm tracker 5 with everyone trying to get home. what the weather forecast shows coming up. in the words of the all

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now problems with hit and can be miserable. jonathan walsh showing us like. there is a woman that needed our help. veronica williams says there has been problems with her furnace and hot water heater and her natural gas so she call me and her loved ones called me and we got answers today. >> we have no heat in this house nor hot water. >> veronica williams has health problems and dealing with a cold home. what does it feel like. >> in this house, like your outside. if you turn the stove off, it would be colder. >> she had all four burners going on her home to heat the home she has lived in for the last three years. the blue glow of the flames accompany the red glow from space heaters set on high as the emotions run high in her family flight is cold as high.

>> it is hard to deal with cold water even though you keep your body clean. >> the landlord replaced the furnace in the last 30 days but the gas pressure was not holding up and i call dominion gas and the company responded with an emergency crew. a step in the right direction after getting creative to get heat. >> we will put clothes in the dryers so the dryer will keep us warm. >> and getting in touch with us to help. >> i feel great, real good right now. >> reporter: the good news is that the gas is now flowing in the home but dominion gas says you should never use a stove to heat your home. it is dangerous. if the gas is in your name, you have to contact the company and not a landlord. if you have any problems call the gas company. it takes calls 24 hours a day. jason it is down right cold. >> typical this time of the year.

and with the cold air comes the wind chills and we will see them tonight and tomorrow morning and lake-effect snow because we had the warm november and december and the lake did not freeze. take a look. live downtown cleveland, there's a look from the sky cam, notice a few of those taller buildings we are talking about lake snow that has been moving to downtown. temperatures 13 degrees. the cavs game against the warriors big game and starts and dress warmly, lower teens with wind out of the west. 15 to 20 miles per hour and wind chills at or below zero. so cover up hat and gloves. here is the current band of lake-effect snow off lake erie. northeast sections of cuyahoga county. by the way, this area saw up to 6-inches of snow since the snow begin last night. all of lake county right now within this band of snow.

snow showers and if you are heading in along 77 or 90 west. you are okay and 90 east is a mess and cuyahoga county and 271 where it meets interstate 90. willoughby and menner and kirkland through lake county getting snow and through northern sections of geauga county and south of 322 is getting spared. three to five inches i would suspect eastern cuyahoga county through tomorrow morning and four to eight in geauga county and warnings until tomorrow morning for cuyahoga and everybody through tomorrow morning wind chill advisories and we are talking about wind chill when is you combine the air and wind temperatures below zero.

or in the forecast that means no school. obviously we are scrolling those school closings and on our news 5 app. here we go. evening timeline, temperatures falling off from the lower teens. into the single digits as we head through tonight with a few lake-effect snowshowers. ashtabula county by 10:00 tonight and same deal for the overnight. take a look. the squall is persisting south and eventually the wind shifts and that will force the snow showers north and east. as far as accumulations, notice outside of the traditional snow belt, not much of anything, the area of northern geauga and southern lake. that's the area that could see four to possibly eight inches by lunchtime tomorrow. lows tonight single digits and lake snow for cleveland a trace up to three inches and wind

and early performs tomorrow five to ten five to ten below. a warming trend for the upcoming week. chris and mike. as far as the regular season goes, it is big. it won't stop the fans from going out. guess who is in town? seth curry and the warriors. first time and only time since they come to cleveland.

we will have more coming up next. the cavs and the warriors meet for the second time and the first in cleveland since the finals. bron is a guy at full strength playing well since the two teams met for the first time this year back on christmas day. cavs on 9-2 and the warriors 9- 3. lebron asked if this was a meaningful game still this early on in the season. i believe it is a great test for us. we are playing the defending champs so it should be a pretty meaningful game and trying to get better. everyone classifies a big game differently. >> same feelings we had every game so far.

of the gate and start out hot and that's the why you build momentum. nba basketball comes to cleveland on saturday night. the vols at the cue and both games will be followed by the live post-game show. the browns search for a defensive coordinator took turns in regard to ray hurton. expected to interview for the position. the browns have asked the titans for permission to interview horton that used to hold the position. now there was this. watch the basketball player after he gets the shot blocked and will take it out on the referee. not calling a foul on the play.

sticks the lay out to make his point. the player from oregon state. of course ejected from the game and not recommended in any league. >> retaliating? >> nobody would ever see this. >> not an accident? >> not an accident. >> what a knucklehead. we will see you back here at 11:00. stay warm. we will see you then. good night. newschannel 5 at six has been brought to you by the ohio lottery game saturdays at 7:30