investigated by the fbi. the 55-year-old, julio pino has been on the fbi's radar since 2014. tonight we're digging deeper. pino is no stranger to controversy. >> in 2011 newschannel5 reported he was seen and heard shouting death to israel during the speech of an israeli diplomat on kent state's campus. megan hickey has been digging into pino's past and joins us live from the cleveland fbi office. >> what have you learned at this hour? >> reporter: the regional director of the antidefamation league says she has received several complaints from parents and students over the years, and she said news of the fbi's investigation came as no surprise to her. >> i've been familiar with professor pino and the hate speech he's been spewing for many years. >> reporter: strong words from cleveland's antidefamation lead on tenured professor julio pino. the adl pointed to complaints

outspoken professor praised a palestinian suicide bomber in this campus newspaper column. newschannel5 covered another incident in 2011 when pino was seen and heard shouting death to israel during an on-campus lecture from an israeli diplomat. today his anti-israeli stance is evident on his personal facebook page where he has long defended his right to free speech. >> no, i have not violated any u.s. laws that i'm aware of, or that anyone has informed me of. >> reporter: an? that gray tells me his comments were legal. >> in his occasions professor pino's case, it wasn't right and it wasn't moral and it wasn't just. >> reporter: in a 2014 open letter pino wrote that he cursed the friends of israel more than the israelis. students on ratemyprofessor.com posted mixed reviews but roughly half of students wrote that they were in some way insulted by the professor's

i also reached out to the aclu of ohio. the spokesman said in a statement that the first amendment exists to protect the speech that others might find controversial but couldn't comment specifically on pino's case. >> can i help you? >> yes, i'm a starting. i've been waiting 2 manipulate 38 seconds. >> that's precious time. now city administrators are taking steps to make sure it never happens again. all 911 calls come in at the facility where derek wallser is. >> reporter: the false is only four months old. it's had its share of issues but issues the city said they are fixing. >> cleveland 911, what is your emergency?

fewer people to answer them. 911 call volumes in this new communications center are up more than 50% from the same time last year all while the city is demanding staff work overtime. that's after cleveland started hamming all their calls directly. >> a lot of people were calling, and they would just hear the telephone ringing and hang up and call back. (s:reporter during a tour, one commander told me they're cutting volumes with a new automated prompt that tells callers to stay on the line. 12 new police dispatchers should start in two weeks. in november we told you some callers trying to report a shooting on the city's west side waited up to four minutes for a cleveland dispatcher to answer the phone. >> oh my god, come on, cleveland. two minutes and 50 seconds, guys. >> our staffing levels are so low. >> the union president representing dispatchers for

working long shifts and six day weeks. >> i think this was a system that was implemented that wasn't thought out completely, not getting all three safety courses together and determining how they were going to implement this. >> command erika of its tells me the city is working tout kinks. >> our goal is to have 95% of the calls answered within that 15 seconds. >> are you meeting that goal? >> i don't know exactly to this date right now but normally we come very close to it. >> reporter: there are some calls that will continue to be routed through county dispatchers first. could of its tells me that includes calls that are coming from city borders as well as from downtown. that's because there's a new cell tower that has gone up for the rnc. derick waller, newschannel5. >> we just confirmed the man wanted for killing a woman in warrensville heights is now in custody. troopers arrested this man, gregory baxter, in erie county after determining he was driving a stolen vehicle.

stabbed his girlfriend, tracy bender. he's been charged with receiving stolen property and following too close. baxter will likely face homicide charges in warrensville heights. new tonight, the frantic search for two missing brothers from wisconsin ends in east cleveland. the young boys were found after they responded in their mother's call in the dayton area. police began looking for the boys last night after their father reported them missing. the boy's mother does not have custody of the children. east cleveland's mayor says a boys. >> we're just grateful to the east cleveland police department and grateful to the resident who called and within minutes we had a very concerning situation under control. custody tonight. their mother was taken to a evaluation. let's check in with chief meteorologist mark johnson. we had some flurries. >> flurries that is really about it. today.

notice the steadier light snow has moved well off to our east and southeast. still some lingering flurries cleveland to act i don't know. we will continue to watch those -- cleveland to akron. those. 18 cleveland, 19 akron, 15 in wooster with a clearing sky. so what is next? drying out tonight, staying cold for another day or. so but temperatures will begin to warm by the weekend. we are tracking the latest on that weekend east coast snowstorm. i will tell you if it is going to impact you. enjoy your evening with temperatures in the teens and light flurries. notice the temperatures really don't plummet, and windchills will stay in teens and single digits all night long. so we'll come back with a weekend forecast and some 40- degree weather on its way. >> all right, mark, see you then. you can see how much snow will

the next 48 hours with our new snowcast app. download it now from apple's app store. >> a scary scene on i-71 in cleveland. a driver became trapped in his car after slamming into the back of a cleveland firetruck. firefighters were responding to an earlier accident when it was hit by a second vehicle. the impact caused the firetruck to leak gas on the highway. >> this is why we ask people to make sure to pay attention to what you're doing, and when you're driving, always when you see a firetruck pay attention. >> the trapped driver was removed and taken to metro health medical center. the driver of the initial crash was also taken to the hospital. and right now cleveland police are looking for the woman you see on your screen. she is accused of hitting a pedestrian with her car on fulton road yesterday. police say the woman pulled her

nearby gas station and took off moments later. the victim was taken to metro health medical center with serious injuries. so if you have any information, call cleveland police. tonight akron police need your help identify ago man who robbed a family dollar at gun point. the surveillance video shows the suspect walking into that store on copley road, then pointing a gun at an employee. the worker opened the cash register and the man tack an unknown amount of money. a cleveland police officer accused of drunk driving has pleaded not guilty. 54-year-old jeer smith is charged with dui and failure to control following a traffic stop on the east side. she reportedly had a blood alcohol level near twice the legal limit. sergeant smith was placed on restricted duty pending the outcome of the case. a pack of wild dogs target a woman on her way to the bus stocht it happened in shaker heights. we've learned it wasn't the

live in shaker heights. kristin, are these dogs still on the loose? >> reporter: two out of the three, danita, are out here somewhere. police shot one of them dead this morning when that woman called the department from this area. thankfully that woman is okay. police say that they bit her coat, and that happened just after 7:30. two hours earlier police say the dogs attacked a deer, injuring it so badly that police had to shoot it. both incidents happened in the ingleside kenmore area. this man, paul, tells me he's now carrying a gun when he goes outside. this neighbor feels the same way, especially with her new puppy. >> it's a very pedestrian area, a very family friendly area, so to think these dogs are out

>> until they're caught, just be very careful. i don't walk her that much. hopefully they will catch them. >> neither of those two residents witnessed the other two dogs on the loose. police could not provide us with a description of the dogs, but if you see the dogs, officers ask that you stay away and call the police department immediately. i spoke to cleveland heights police to see if they have had any calls or incidents in their city regarding the wild dogs. they said they have not. live in shaker heights, kristin volk, newschannel5. an abandoned dog found nearly starved to death is fighting for her life. sapphire was brought to canine lifeline last week. yesterday veterinarians found a large section of fabric in her stomach and intestinal tract. she survived the two-hour surgery to remove the material but she has a long road to recovery. well, still ahead tonight, hundreds of thousands of cars

>> the new investigation that could lead to a massive recall. and looming layoffs. hundreds of workers will soon be out of a job. tonight there's a new plea for help. and ahead in sports with andy, a second chance. a familiar face trying to make a comeback in the nfl. browns? if you see news happening, text or e-mail us, or tweet us

more worries on wall street as stocks take another beating. the dow dropped by as many as 565 points today but eventually closed down 249 points. the s & p and nasdaq also lost gains after oil prices suffered the biggest one-day drop since 70. crude oil now below $27 a barrel. that is the lowest since early 2003. meantime falling oil prices mean cheaper prices at the pump. ohio drivers on average are paying $1.64 a gallon. that is down $0.16 from last week. locally prices are about 20

gas cost $1.45 at one station on lakewood boulevard. hundreds of upcoming layoffs from two well-known employers. john kosich joins us live from our newsroom with more. >> reporter: u.s. steel and republic steel announced nearly 500 layoffs over the next few months at their lorain plant. some of those impacted workers met today to discuss their options going forward. the round table put together by u.s. senate hopeful former governor ted strickland. the workers say something needs to be done to help the steal industry much like was done to help the auto industry because jobs. >> when a union job gets lost, the odds are that a home is foreclosed on. that affect everyone in that neighborhood. each small community here loses

them with their safety forces and their schools. we need to get this message out to everyone. >> reporter: the city of lorain knows that all too well. the mayor was already projecting a nearly $2.5 million budget shortfall this year because of last year's steel layoffs with the deficit expected to grow, a move that will likely lead to city layoffs. john kosich, newschannel5. united healthcare expects to lose nearly $1 billion because of obamacare policies. the company says people who need expensive medical services are signing up during the so- called special enrollment period. insurers say many americans are using that as a lap hole to sign up only when they get sick. united healthcare says it's considering dropping out of all obamacare exchanges in 2017. a serious safety flaw could lead to a recall of hundreds of thousands of vehicles. the national highway traffic

ford focus owners that the doors don't latch properly and can fly open when the vehicle is moving. the probe covers focuses from the 2012 and 2013 model years. a similar problem led to recalls of nearly half a million other ford models last year. more drivers used the ohio turnpike last year than ever before. nearly 54 million vehicles used the toll road in 2015. that tops the previous record of 52 million back in 2006. turnpike officials say low gas prices, mild weather, and an improving economy contributed to the increase of everybody using the ohio turnpike. so there we go mark johnson. >> at least it's clear and there's not much snow on it. >> there we go. >> that is a plus. >> snow is fading. i know a lot of folks freaked out after the weekend snow event. i know danita got a lot of snow. >> a lot, lot. >> i found my truck today, finally.

>> i did not drive it all weekend, and it was under this monster mound of snow, and it took me about half an hour to dig it out. i'm not kidding you. >> i believe it. it was bad out our way. >> and it just kind of snowed on everyone behind me all the way into work. >> one of those guys. >> i swept it off as good as i could. here we go. a little light snow here and there right now across mainly eastern ohio. the main band of snow is now into western p.a. right here. you see this. this is the steady snow. we've got snow reports up to half an inch. that is about it. most of you got less than that. flurries right now lingering around greater cleveland. watch that main area go bye- bye. here's akron, a flurry into chester and down into northern portage county, along the i-76 corridor. light stuff. now, there could still be a tiny bit of lake-effect snow

once this little trough goes by winds are going to shift around. so there could be an isolated lighter snow shower, perhaps upwards of an inch of accumulation overnight in the snow belt. the rest of us should dry out and clear out. currently 15 in wooster, 19 akron, 17 canton to ashtabula. here are the current windchills. still some single-digit chills. cleveland feels like 7, elyria 6. mansfield feels like 4. now let's focus on the blizzard watch for washington, d.c. and baltimore. winter storm watches in blue. winter storm warnings already issued for the mountains of west virginia. not for this stuff, okay. this is that weak trough. this is light. this is light. so where is that winter storm? here it is. here it is right now. out towards denver, colorado. let's watch it. it's going drive to the south a little bit, pick up a lot of gulf moisture. and look at this.

weather weekend it looks like virginia, up toward d.c. and baltimore, maybe even philly and new york city in the track for at least a foot of snow. some spots could get more than two feet of snow, mainly in the mountains of maryland and virginia. but the track could shift. it's not a definite forecast yet. it is still way out in the rockies. it's got a lot of chance to make up its mind over the next 48 hours. so we'll continue to monitor. 16 overnight. the good news is that storm will not bring northern ohio snow. it may bring us some clouds, but that is it. we are not going to see snow from that east coast store. tomorrow 26, cloud/sun mix. lows chilly, 12. tomorrow 27, a little warmer than we've been, with a cloud sun mix. now let's show you saturday. do you see any major winter storm? i don't either. in fact, i see a warm-up. look at monday. 41 after 28 on saturday and 35

a little milder air coming in. don't forget we are your power of 5 school closings. download our app. ray horton just found out he is definitely coming back. we'll tell you about. that all kinds of news coming up. how about tom brady? did you see this headline? check that out.

well, as first reported from nfl network the browns are probably going to confirm tonight that ray horton is coming back to be the new defensive coordinator. the other big story, josh gordon is looking to work his way back into the nfl. applied for reinstatement. he will have to demonstrate sustained abstinence during his suspension. gordon was suspended for a year after multiple violations of the league's substance abuse policy. stay away from that stuff. moving op, the eagles will hire former cleveland browns coordinator john defilippo. while fans might worry if the cavs can win a championship

arrest long way out. plus they know now not what to do. >> more of a conversation for us, figuring out how we can get better. then we went through practice. we had a really, really sharp practice, getting back to the basics. i was able to watch the film, and it was very ugly to watch, but i like to watch and see what we did wrong what they did great, and ways we can improve. the afc championship is sunday in denver but the biggest question debated today, tom brady a whiner. check this out. "crybrady." that's what the new york post said. brady took some questions. does he whine on every play? both said yeah. all right, no, i don't think so. >> i'm not sure, so i'm not sure what other quarterbacks do. if the refs want to throw the flag, i love when they throw flags on the defenders.

>> i don't know. denver. their coaching staff, their players, they're great players. whatever it is they decide to do. so that's what we're going to prepare for. >> ah, i don't know. >> you have any marbles? i got a few. >> we'll see you back here tonight at 11:00. stay safe.