announcer: news channel 5 at 11 pm is brought to buy first merit think. >> sending a message to the nba. a winning record. and tie ron is in, we dig in to what this means s charge towards the playoffs. the light rail evacuated and the bomb squad piles up and paralyzes some of the weakest cities and the worst is yet to come. >> announcer: life, always investigating and always on this channel 5 starts now. changes for the cavaliers as they announced that david ladd is out and fired a half and the

comes with 31 wins and 11 losses. a failed some key test regular games. they say the team is under achieving king on all cylinders and david griffin decided the team is not good enough to win an nba title with david blatt and make you o the assistant coach and earlier today brendan haywood saying that this move was e been made a long time ago. >> when it was film session codes david blatt was intimidated to correct lebron tyrone lou would step in so guys just started respecting him because he was not scared to challenge them

respect tyrone lou tyrone lou has the tall task of having his first game and played in the nba and for lebron that is good news for him. the only other time he has played for a coach that has played was paul silas. morrow night. andy baskin in the newsroom, news channel 5 here is the vid blatt and his successor . college ball at princeton and then spent time overseas coaching in the european made and leaking russia tyrone lou was an assistant coach for the celtics and the in the nba. the cavaliers have 3 head coaches on the payroll, in 2013 mike brown returned to the team agreeing to a five-year $20

had a big contract and now tyrone lou signed a 3 your contract . not talk about the browns, with all the changes, this man, mr. stability currently the longest running pro coach in cleveland3 years, 3 months in 16 days. i'm at the desk with a news alert that we broke for you at 6 pm. a bomb scare shut down the light rails for hours and frank wiley explains wher: is attention that a k-9 unit came out and it was inconveniencing loads of passengers all because of a suspicious package. flashing lights bother to tip and a perimeter began at 93 in buckeye and stretched 10 blocks and the commotion suspicious package. >> people are hyperaware of these. >>reporter: they turned rta

placed on the road and this was in the k-9 unit confirmed concerns for a moment and a bomb squad was deployed. this for hours and customers braved the cold waiting for alternate routes to arrive. >> you never know these days, it's probably nothing. >>reporter: false alarm is what rta said and moments later trains were sliding down the tracks and emergency brushes stowed away. this lasted about three hours and a spokesman said all was cleak wiley, news channel 5 nude 11 pm, a toddler shopped at walmart.>> the child's mother and father under arrest after the 20 month old toilet. neighbors at an apartment on kinston drive heard a child

another neighbor spoke out about the incidente neighbors for getting involved. i'm glad that there was a good outcome and everyone did their part and got him to safety.hey freed the child and made another startling discovery about marijuana plants and the child's parents are both facing several charges.dical offices working on human remains found in south akron, a skull was found on the sidewalk on january 8 and have been trying to make an identification. they are not releasing a lot of details and heights police step up their search for a killer and it has been almost one year since 49-

death in a home. are stepping in and offering a reward of $2500 for information leading to an arrest. life pictures is a massive snowstorm is moving up the east coast and some of the nations cities are shut down used to getting snow like this, we had 29 inches of snow earlier in the week but this storm is hitting cities that are used with highways into parking lots in vehicles that aren't able to gog off the road even a fire truck sliding off the road. the best thing they can do they are being told is to stay home. we see this as a major torn -- storm and it h implications and everyone should treat it that way. from washington dc ia means a long weekend ahead and about 50 million people are in the path

mark johnson and the storm is starting to ramp up. is a meteorologist cold bomb, let's go to the doppler net work and the center of low pressure has reached the coastsucking in a lot of moisture from the atlantic ocean. it will explode in intensity in the next six hours or so as it slides up and an incredible amount of strengthening and the snowfall. look at these darker blues, that is 1 to 3 in./h snowfall most into eventually after midnight tonight new york city will experience some heavy snowfall plus as the storm bombs out a lot of wind and develops a lot of wind coming off the atlantic and they will have hurricane force winds in a few spots. fall.

inches of snow. all done though by sunday morning.han 6000 flights canceled or delayed thanks to the blizzard. >> dozens were scheduled to take off from cleveland hopkins and even though none of the snow is says they are ready.>>reporter: it is all laid out here and the director is saying the mild them plenty of time to train workers on dealing with heavy snow. . dozens of flights to dc, new york, and ed today as the east coast hunkers

much snow blows through? they had been with $735,000 worth of penalties and we will know if the airport has to pay that. >> we never operated in an unsafe manner. we of plans make sure that does not happen. airplanes are not able to gain traction and theissue year or two ago.st they have only had about two thirds of the workers that they are budgeted for and that has led to problems,ing able to: workers like they used to. >> predictions are not always exact. now i hinted any snow at all, even a 1% chance triggers

people to deal with it. >>reporter: on sunday night there was an incident where his truck onto an active runway under a spirit airlines flight that was taking off. at the airport and the faa are investigating. life at hopkins, news channel 5. the storm coverage is not open yet yet, we take you to washington dc. consumer alert you should know about so you don't get ripped off at a gas station. the macedonia ys there's a rise in credit card fraud at gas stations.devices are placed on the inside of a pump and not detectable from outside, they allow thieves to record and steal your identity, how do you know if you are inadvertently

>> look at the credit card reader, if it looks shaken loose there's a good chance there's a skimmer on top or inside. the nation is trying to find a different kind of identity theft as they asked the pentagon to overload the security system and we learned new government office will take over the task. you may remember a massive breach last year and it left more than 21 million people vulnerable. people into american cities are told not to drink the water and we ask important questions about our supply and what we learned about the precautions in place in cleveland. and industry surrounding

has doctors stumped. heart stopping moment is a -- cam down the middle of the highway. what happens next when news channel 5 -- news channel 5 11 pm returns.

now for the latest developments out of flint when fema turned down a request to declare a disaster over the water supply. it would've opened millions of

that is money mainly use for natural disasters and 2 employees of the fire mental quality department was make the top water safe. the lead levels are so high people cannot use the water. we told you yesterday that public use is collecting water and more than 2000 bottles have been donated. closer to home there are neighbors were told that has found too much lead in their water and they are telling children and pregnant women not to drink the water. this can lead to lifelong health problems. the problem with drinking water prompted news channel 5 to dig deeper into the testing of the cleveland water system. the water comes from lake erie which has a low lead content level and the city tests about 300 water samples a day for lead copper and other

the treatment process uses ortho phosphate which reduces risks with letting copper and the ph of the water system is monitored daily as well to water. an important health alert for parents is more babies are being born with a serious birth defects it is called gastro kisses when it intestine develops outside their bodies and this can be corrected with surgery but it can cause lifelong problems. in el salvador a different birth defect come to the serious warning and they told women to avoid getting pregnant. el salvador is a country where they seek a virus is spreading. back to the blizzard, the snow already piling up and the

washington dc bracing for feet of snow and chris welsh's live in the center in washington dc. chris show us what it's like there right now. the worst is still to come and that is the scary part. it is the truth unfortunately as we have been getting walloped by the snow. the winds have really been picking up and you can probably see the wind, i don't know how well you can see the small flakes but it's very wet snow at this point and when interface it freezes on your eyebrows which is not a pleasant feeling for anyone who is out there tonight and it will only get worse. 30 mph sustained winds is what we could see in the national weather service saying the worst will come between one the worst will come between 1 am

we could see 65 mph gusts in some parts like maryland or along the coast. that is 10 mph shy of hurricane force wind so no one should mess with this. they've cautioned everyone to stay inside and off the road and off the sidewalks. >> a lot of people did that we saw cars drive by for hours after the deadline and really just in the last couple of hours or so we've seen it come down dramatically and not many people out at all. that is a good thing but the unfortunate news is it has already turned deadly, at least 8 people have been killed as a result. 6 in north carolina and all of the incidents related to traffic incidents. another reason to stay off the roads. >> i want to mention that we could see 2 1/2 feet of snow.

the record was set back in 1922 28 inches. thank you chris we appreciate the report. in addition to all of the snow i expect power outages will be a problem. extended take them a lot longer to clean up the snow that they aren't used to. it's the entire east coast and washington had issues with 2 russians -- inches. that's look at the quiet downtown cleveland and thankfully it's not us but we do feel for our friends and a lot of us have friends and relatives in the battle zone as far as the winter storms go and we send out our thoughts to you tonight. cleveland drive for now. here is a wider look at the winter storm and we have reports of about 15 inches in

is winding down here. just some scattered snow showers lingering and that is good news out here. they will reach peak intensity tonight and through early to midshipman afternoon with 1 to 3 inch with 1 to 3 in./h following their. for us this is a little unusual and we do not see it often. we have a northeast breeze and normally have a north to northwest or northerly side hits in the snow belts. we are seeing a reversed lake affect coming out backwards from lorraine into huron counties and if this persists in one or two spots for a few hours generally an inch or maybe 2 inches of snow from this narrowband of lake effect snow coming the opposite way. >> this is snow from the winter

flakes are tiny like sugary snow and it's still light snow there an accumulation will be very light tonight, maybe a flurry elsewhere and 21 degrees and akron at 23. winds out of the northeast, 60 mph in greater cleveland and a dewpoint of 14. storms here in rain and high mountain snow out on the west coast. dry weather in the middle and that will be there into the weekend. of little trough will try and sneak in and we will mention a little isolated snow in the lake affect some of this winter storms no lights down route 30 and it will continue on and off. 20 degrees for the low tomorrow

the storm pulls away and 27 degrees tomorrow with the morning flurry. here is the 7 day. sunday is 33 degrees and dry monday is 41 melting some snow. arranges no changeover on tuesday with the next system at 39. this is -- cam video showing a toddler running down the middle of the highway. the two-year-old was with his parents at a community center when he snuck out a side door and police came across a child is his parents frantically okay. new video showing the power of mother nature. this is why you should stay inside. lightnings struck a tree and look at that power. pretty unbelievable.

no one was hurt. marquis that your truck? speaking of shocking the cavaliers shot the word -- world letting david blatt go. more coverage ahead.

>> announcer: 5 i nearside sports brought to you by brunswick auto part. >> the decision was brought out of the lack of connectedness i've seen in the team and a witness this over the last couple of weeks. a year and a half on the job and the fire david blatt and promote tyrone lou . he leaves with a record of 83-40. it's his first head coaching

in 2014 before lebron decided to return and then things got accelerated with kevin love and lebron. expectations of clearly changed and that's why the move has been made. >> focusing on the bigger picture and more than just wins and losses in trying to decide are we working towards a championship in building a championship culture. >> what is the future all about with the new head coach. lauren caught up with a former teammate ron harper to get their take on the coaching move. she joins us now from the newsroom. >>reporter: everyone i spoke to seems to like the change. it's clear there was a discord between david blatt and the players and tyrone lou is a former player who played with ron harper in la . harper

guy and he will get the players respect and will expect them to play hard. espn host said he also thinks lou is a good choice for the cavaliers. >> he is the right guy. it doesn't mean it will result in a championship but he's the right guy to go forward with the team already had the respect of tyrone lou so why bring in someone else on a trial basis or someone else that you don't know that the team respects and starting with lebron james they have confidence in him and so the cavaliers go forward with the big game tomorrow night on national television. >>reporter: they compared him to luke walton and both had long careers and were not stars and knew how to earn respect of their players. tomorrow night gravitate

bulls and cavaliers. we will both be here.

we talked to reporter earlier and i was feeling for them. a lot of shuffling tonight and tomorrow. have a good weekend. have a great night everyone. closed captioning is sponsored by surf -- serving teeny, energize your mornings with good morning cleveland.