administrative discipline results against 13 officers and a deadly 2012 police chase. >> six officers will lose their job. another six are suspended. with newschannel 5 investigator it includes michael brelo. >> exonerated the charges in the spring but today he and five other officers learned that they will lose their job. >> we arrived at our conclusions but what was recommended to our office by the review committee. >> michael mcgrath violated orders during the police chase and shooting, the most serious contributing to cross fire. the city began to examine the officer's actions last summer after the criminal trial involving michael brelo ended with his acquittal.

137 shots into tim russell's blue chevy malibu killing him and melissa williams. the massive chase started with a mistake. an officer thought he heard gunfire coming from russell's car. but it was later determined that the vehicle backfired. today cleveland police chief calvin williams says the incident has impacted him and the rest of the department. >> it has gone for a lot of soul searching for all in law enforcement to make sure that we truly do what our mission is and that's to protect and serve. williams says that the officers who were suspended will undergo extensive decided if they will be allowed back on the streets. an attorney says they will absolutely and vigorously declare the decisions today. on your side i'm investigator sara buttonson newschannel 5.

radio traffic and saw demos on how the car chased ended and how many shots were fired and when. homa bash spoke with an expert about how it got out of hand and joins us. >> reporter: the numbers are startling when you hear them. 137 shots in 19 seconds. between 117 and 120 of those fired in just 10.3 seconds. i sat down with police procedure and train experts to rewatch it. one expert says at that point when the chase escalated to an extreme level and with so many officers involved, that number of shots fired and that short period of time is not actually surprising. it is what you would expect when 13 officers are all pulling the trigger at the exact same time. the reason they were shooting they felt threatened and in the back of their mind they heard a radio call go out that an officer was shot.

have those kinds of results. unless you control the amount is going on. we have told you this. but it is worth mentioning, typical police chase policy involves one backup car and a supervisor calling the shots. the reason to keep it under control and avoid what happened in this case. in the newsroom, homa bash, newschannel 5. charges have been dropped against 23-year-old aaron dunning that was arrested in the death of major howard. documents show that aggravated murder charge was dismissed in court today. he was arrested following the shooting of 3-year-old howard that was killed while sitting in a car on east 113th street. police are still looking for another suspect in the case. 23-year-old donnell lindsey. cleveland police are looking into an attempted child luring tonight. the little boy was walking home.

joins us with a story you only see on newschannel 5. the little boy did what he should have done. >> yes, he ran to the public library, the branches are designated as safe places and police are praising that little boy for doing the right thing. >> reporter: at the corner of west 140th and pure in cleveland, on this busy street ... >> shaken up and scared. >> reporter: a little boy was walking home and that's when the police commander says a man and woman in a white car tried to lure the little boy. >> we have a puppy, you want to see it and the man got frightened. >> reporter: what happened next is what any parent would want their child to do. the 10-year-old ran to the cleveland public library for help. the branches were recently

a national program for young people that need safety. >> this is the first time it happened. >> the little boy is a regular at the library and knows the woman that works there. >> he is a good kid and i have never had problems. he is a regular and i never had problems with him before and he is sweet and he keeps to himself. >> cassandra tells me as part of the program she just received training on what to do in an emergency like this. she called police. commander mccourtney told me the car took off. >> there is a sick individual that would attempt to grab a child. a sick sense of humor or attempted abduction so we are trying to identify the vehicle. >> and commander mccartney says there is beefed up patrols and cameras in the area. he suggests finding a safe

where your child could go in case of an emergency. tracy carlin newschannel 5. freezing. >> above freezing but we are dropping right now as we told you we would yesterday. our temperatures are going down and right now the power of 5, we are trying to find a few sprinkles and flurries. not a lot showing up but we can turn up the resolution. remember the power five is a high res radar. we have turned up the sensitivity. there you go. you find a few isolated flurries from greater cleveland to lake geauga and portage county and down towards canton moving to ashtabula. a wider view. let's show you the temperatures. 33 in cleveland and 34 akron to canton. we are 10 degrees cooler than this morning during the rush hour. so as we told you temperatures would fall during the day. if you are going throughout the

and that is really about it. notice the temperatures hovering right around the freezing mark. you want to warm up? guess what, frank and lee? a little taste of december returning to the area coming up. thank you, mark. in the meantime a robbery suspect who hit a pnc bank has been identified. 5 6-year-old mark hampton of maple heights was arrested in connection with that robbery. bedford police say he demanded cash from the teller and took off from the west gray street bank and charged with robbery and is held on $100,000 bond. akron police are looking for information in two shootings and a robbery happened last night. first around one this morning a 19-year-old was shot in the stomach while sitting in his car. he says two men opened the doors and shot him and took off. the victim is listed in serious condition. the second shooting happened shortly after ten last night.

to give up her purse. she was taken to akron general condition. and a man that was delivering food to his girlfriend was assaulted by two suspects with guns. after refusing to get on the ground, one of the suspects held a gun to the back of the victim's head and forced him in the house and they stole the victim's car. it was later found in canton. anyone with information on police. well, cleveland police say a 20-year-old arrested this morning after he stole a car on the west side. a woman who was out walking her dog saw a man riding her bicycle. she followed the suspect in her car and cut him off. when she got out and confronted him, brandon clark began to punch her and took off. clark crashed the car and was arrested. we are following developments out of indiana where several children have been injured in a school bus accident. chris flanagan is tracking the developments.

has been killed in the accident. it happened in lawrence township. northeast section of indianapolis. according to the indianapolis fire department, 25 students were on that bus. you can see it here. two were told have been taken to riley hospital in indianapolis. they are in serious condition. but with non-life-threatening injuries. those two students both ten years old was outside the bus along with the adult killed. of course we will continue to follow the story as it develops. we are also following the developing story out of san diego. it appears that it may have been a false alarm of gunshots fired at a navy hospital there. navy officials say there is no sign of a gunman or a shooting after an initial inspection at the navy medical center in san diego. there had been a report of three gunshots but a navy spokesman says that report came from one single witness. the navy hospital previously

active shooter was reported and people were told to run, hide or fight. i'd like to emphasize that we take all reports seriously and we do a lot of training to help people recognize what they are supposed to do in the event of an active shooting. obvious numerous event that have occurred around the country and throughout the world. we take it very seriously. >> the hospital actually had active shooter training in december. staff there were told that the tactics of run, hide or fight. the base was on lock down for hours as s.w.a.t. team went room to room and led people out of the facility. nci agents were interviewing the person that reported the shot before 8:00 a.m. local time. the person reported hearing three shots in a gym. the lock down has been lifted. frank and lee. still ahead live on 5. the race for the white house heating up.

and democratic on the national stage for one last time before the caucuses before the last minute swing. when everyone is in iowa governor kaisch has his eyes set on new hampshire. the federal government will be back up and running tomorrow after digging out from this past weekend's blizzard. we want to hear from you, can count on us.

5.com or tweet us. >> six days away from the iowa caucuses and there was a town hall hosted by cnn, hillary clinton and bernie sanders and mark o'mally faced the people voting for them.

night sanders said he is confident he will win. >> we will win if the voter turnout is high. >> governor john kaisch may have more confident because he got two big endorsements. >> they are big things for our governor. the monitor newspaper gave an endorsement and the boston globe. one of new england papers and the boston harold for its support behind chris christie. both papers have large audiences and the first in the nation. this video here of kaisch at one of the three town hall events. >> i am running for president

endorsement of the boston globe. that. >> one more town hall event scheduled in amhurst to be held on february 9th. former presidential candidate george patoyy is rubio. he believes that rubio will be the leader that brings a unified message of security to the country. during this past weekend we saw people building snowman and making snow angels. check this igloo out.

winter igloo for two. a boutique winter igloo for two. there wasn't much inside. a blanket and a couple of candles. it was listed for $200 a night. wait, wait. they had a couple of bookings. before they put it down. >> we have a pile of snow in the parking lot. >> we don't have enough to make a snowball. >> we lost a lot of snow on the east side with that wind in the warm temperatures it melted it down. my truck i couldn't find the last week. not anymore. >> let's talk about what is going on. a live look at downtown cleveland. gray and we have cooled back down and started off in the low and middle 40s and in the low 30s. we have dropped a good 10 degrees for a lot of you and it is going to be that, chilly

could be an isolated flurry or sprinkle. i will throw that in the forecast for everyone at least through the midnight. we got a little bit of instability and lake-effect snow coming in off of grand rapids. for us, friday will be mostly cloudy and chilly. current temperatures 42 down and 34 in north royalton and ridgeville checking in at 31. 33, fremont to nor walk, wind chills and winds have been blustery all day. 20, 25, 28 miles per hour. we are still seeing some wind gusts above 20. ashtabula close to 30. we should begin to calm it down a little bit as far the winds go.

32 at six and we stay at the freezing mark through 9 p.m. cloudy skies and maybe an isolated flurry. same for the canton, akron area. low 30s through nine p.m. and we are going to see those temperatures really just kind of hanging around in the low 30s. hires the front that went by earlier. pressure building in high. cans rule out isolate the flurries in the morning hours and a clipper on sunday. and that will keep us cold and that will bring us a dusting to maybe an inch or two of snow thursday into early friday. cold for now. umm. think we get a little warmup in the weekend. more on that coming up. 28 degrees. a few flurries staying chilly. let's show you tomorrow. how about 34, a morning flurry.

jason, what are you talking about today? >> problems in dc and the federal offices in washington d.c. will open up again tomorrow. this after crews spent days cleaning up from this past weekend, big snowstorm. the d. c. area saw upwards have to two feet of snow and one of the top five largest snowfalls ever. depending on where you were. where the monitor came from, as far as snowfall. 17-inches at reagan and many spots in washington d.c. near the government building, near the white house and the capitol, about 22-inches from that's less than harrisburg, pennsylvania and jfk airport. 20 is pretty good. just to give you an idea to compare that to cleveland, so

8-inches of snow at hopkins airport. this is a big storm for the entire season. normally 34. that means we are more than two feet, 26-inches below normal so far this season. mark mentioned snow on thursday possibly could get us up to 9 or 10 and we warm back up. what a winter it has been. certainly snowless when you factor in what they were deal with on the east coast, a big time difference. back to the desk. coming up at five. abe pagoda has died. we will look at his long career. >> new at six, how much money did ohioans spend on alcohol

numbers coming. well abe pagoda has died. known for his betrayals in the godfather and barney miller,

natural causes in his sleep. he was 94 years old. new at five, one local ohio shelter dog has a new home. >> who the new dog's owners has everyone talking. the dog from colerain township was in terrible condition. look at this poor thing. he was rescued from a hoarding situation. there he was so weak and not strong enough to fight for his own food. after he was rescued someone got a call that worked for george clooney that was looking for a pet for his parents. >> she opened the door and just wonderful happy tears for both of us. >> both of george clooney's parents insist that nate adopted them and not the other way around. still ahead at 5:30. first merit bank. >> and canton police

we will introduce you to canine jethro coming up. back with our top stories at 5:30. officials with the city of administrative results against the recommendation is to terminate six of the officers. suspend six officers for the 21 to 30 days was recommended. and have one officer retire. 13 cleveland police officers fired, a total of 137 shots during a high-speed car chase on november 29th. charges dropped against 23- year-old aaron dunning that was resulted from a dismissed charge in court. he was arrested following the shooting after 3-year-old that

police are still looking for another suspect in the case, 23- year-old donnell lindsey. indianapolis bus jumped a car killing a father and two children. buses were lined up for dismissal. one of the buses jumped the curb hitting the father and his 7 and 10-year-old children. both expected to be okay. first merit bank has a 170 year history in the akron area but the bank's name will slowly disappear after surprising merger with huntington. >> bob jones is looking into it. what does it mean for customers? >> first merit will change to huntington later this year or the beginning part of next year. some of the branches will be closed. customers will have some discussions to make and some of the employees, they are worried about their future. but i think it is just got

>> long time first merit customers were surprised to learn their bank will be bought by huntington and $3.4 billion deal. >> we have 3 first merit bank we will still have that. >> many worry about the workers. >> eventually they will be closing in probably downsizing i'm sure. >> during a tuesday conference call, first merit and huntington's ceos promised all branch employees will be offered jobs. >> the akron is the most important market for first merit and will continue to be a very important market for huntington. >> however layoffs are expected at first merit downtown akron headquarters. how many and which positions has not been revealed. >> i think it will be significant in terms of the fact that it will be the higher paying jobs.

finance department at the university of akron and says losing first merit is a big blow. thompson says customers will need to prepare for branch closings and a larger atm network should not notice changes in the banking. >> people with first merit accounts will have huntington counties. >> huntington does plan to bring jobs last in two years and it plans to invest $20 million for nonprofits and a plan to bring a hall to a call center in the city. jones, newschannel 5. ford is accelerating production at a plant in avon the automakers says the 2017 ford series chassis cab will be built there. as long as the demand is high

of the f150 and 450 and 550. november settled a contract promising to invest 1-and-a- half bill dollars in ohio. 40s this morning, frank, felt like spring and back to average january weather. 33 now in elyria and cleveland. lower middle 30s everywhere you go and watching for a few isolated sprinkles and flurries and a couple of them up there with the power of five. let me show you the satellite map. having trouble here. jason, can we bring up the hour by hour please? >> thank you very much. there is go. watch the temperatures kind of hovering and falling in the upper 70s as we head through the overnight towards sunrise. mainly cloudy skies. we will see an isolated sprinkle or isolated flurry. on and off anywhere where you go. nice weekend warmup coming your way. wait to you see it. it has been a difficult two weeks for canton police officer

partner was shot in the line of duty. but this week, he traveled to houston for a new partner. just got back. greeted with tears and applause, officer davis and his new four legged partner arrived at cleveland hopkins airport. the pup did well on the flight but there was a moment when the canine got rested. now in his new home, officer davis says they won't waste time getting back to work. >> we will do agility training and odor detection for the narcotics work and we will do tracking. it is a busy on 10 to 15 weeks depending on how he responds. tuco was donated by canines for cops. the new duo will begin training monday and will lasts three months. schools will be open tomorrow following testing on

the ohio epa collected more than 100 samples from drinking fountains and spickets at three schools. two samples from mckinley and senior high had above the federal standard of led. the fountains have been unplugged and unusable. se bring's superintendent of water has been suspend denying allegations that he falsified reports of high levels of led in the summer. a major retailer teaming up with beverage company is bringing 6 million bottles of water to the town ten though students. that's enough water to last the rest of the school year. michigan attorney general has

coming up live on five. taking drastic measures to stop birth defects but will they really work. >> the new details about the virus and how widespread an mosquitoes are. getting a new identify, or maybe going to jail instead.

winning lottery numbers right there. >> the internet amazing for communications. and in my world of weather we have followers from newschannel 5. take a look, sunset in oxford england sent via twitter. here we go. nurse jen, 326 beautiful sunset

look at that beautiful silhouette and one more sunset from grant willis in sugar creek. a sure sign of spring. the robins hang around. it is the red-winged blackbirds and look what we have here. catherine at her feeder. does it mean it is spring? it looks like this weekend and spring. maybe those blackbirds are on

after this. health officials are taking drastic measures to stop a virus. in el salvador people are warned from getting pregnant for two years. and when is evaluations for testing infants in the u.s. >> reporter: a new warning from the world health organizations. the zika virus linked to paralysis could spread to almost all countries in the americas. >> the explosive virus to countries with little immunity. >> that is found in every country in the western

>> hit especially hard and an effort to show how they are responding there was this video on youtube showing workers carrying the virus. only a handful of cases have been identified in the u.s. >> they say we are going to see small outbreaks due to people coming back from countries that are infected. >> the virus is known to spread from person to person and the symptom is fever, rash and joint pain and red eyes are mild. but the virus could cause life threatening brain damage. the u.s. officials are urging expecting moms to stay away from countries where it is infected with people. >> if you go to these countries use repellent to reduce the

>> if you think you have symptoms go to the doctor to be tested. depression affects 16 million americans. a top panel is recommending all adults to be screened for the condition and for the first time the u.s. preventive services task force specifically advocates depression for pregnant and postpartum women because it can harm children's help. the routine screening can lead to earlier diagnosis and treatment through psychotherapy and treatment. everyone wants to improve their credit but there are scammers trying to take advantage of you. there are credit repair scams where they pose as helpful companies that will promise to give you a brand new identity that can lead to legal trouble and sometimes they are suggesting you give false information when you apply for a mortgage or loan. they will ask you to abandon

number as a source of identification. and a lot of the cases though the new identity you are given from children. and president obama is proposing new legislation for people to save for retirement. giving them access for retirement savings and tax credits for small businesses that have plans. it would require companies to offer plans to part-time employees. all right. well, it feels like january than this morning. >> it is a 14-degree drop. >> wow. >> in temperatures from this morning at 730 until now. >> winter coats? >> you know. >> it back to january. let's take a look at the power of 5 sky cam. there you are. cloudy skies and no big sunrise, stunning pictures and

past few days via social media. tonight not so much. 34-degrees and what was it this morning at 7:30 a.m. in cleveland it was 48. 48. now it is 34. we told you yesterday. temperatures would warm overnight and fall during the day because a cold front came through early this morning. 34 north royalton. downtown, it is 32 in bedford and solen and chardin. 33 in peninsula as well as brunswick and west lake and hopkins all at 33 degrees. look at the temperatures. lower and middle 30s. we will sit right around the 30 to 35-degree mark for the next four to six hours. now, to find the flurries in the sprinkles, we got to go super rest collusion with the power of five and you can see there are a few little blips on the radar indicating there could be an isolated flurry following would you through the evening. i have included an isolate the

i don't think it will be a big deal. it won't slow you down. the heavier snow is up here. and way up here, quieter weather and clouds thinning out a little bit. frontal boundary went by. there's the front that came by this morning. some cooler air filtering in and again the artic air is up here. the next weather maker is an alberta clipper. there it is. it will drive this way and slide across the great lakes on thursday. it will bring light snow to everyone thursday. generally a dusting to maybe as much as an inch. the snow belt areas may get up to two inches during the day and in the evening. not a major winter storm and we don't have that on our forecast pages anytime soon. 28 degrees overnight. a few flurries, breezy and cold. tomorrow, let's domainly cloudy skies.

florina couple of spots. east of cleveland. cloudy and chilly. akron and canton. overnight, we will throw in the isolated flurry with 36. 32 for a high on wednesday. cold mainly cloudy. here is thursday. notice we got a one to two inch snowfall and generally that's a dusting to two inches and the two inch totals will be east of cleveland in the high ground and a clipper. 37, a morning flurry on friday. are you ready for the warmup? remember i said back to december remember how warm december was, it looks like we are getting into a similar pattern for a few days beginning this weekend. we are talking 45 saturday, a few showers on sunday, and flirting with 50s and same for monday near 50 degrees with rain. tuesday this could be cool. i'm thinking middle 50s for some of you and maybe a bit warmer before the cold front arrives late tuesday and brings

here you go. you got a nice little taste of return to december. that's december warmth to begin next week. mark is promising 50s. all right. so believe it or not. there is a downside to dropping gas prices. how the short-term relief could be costing you in the long run. water worries shutting off taps in two communities. three escapes missing for five days.

could be anywhere by now. i want to show you dramatic dashcam just released showing a close call between an ohio cop

captain moore was directing traffic on route 35 outside of dayton earlier. oh, my goodness. you can see him waving a big rig around a railroad crossing arm and too late. the train hit the truck sending it barely towards captain moore. >> it's a miracle. it really is. i'm very lucky and fortunate. >> yeah, he is. right now he is nursing a nasty gash on his head. a broken left hand and he will be back to work pretty soon. meantime. we are learning more disturbing details about the three inmates that escaped from a jail. brandy has the latest from los angeles. five days on the run and no sign of of the three escaped inmates in southern california. police consider extremely dangerous and armed. >> the longer they are gone, that means that they have gone further away and it is more difficult in capturing them.

if they got their hands on a car they could be anywhere in the country and even canada or mexico. all three charged with violent crimes ranging from murder to kidnapping and torture. one is accused of sexually mutilating a man. >> putting fire to his body and they poured bleach on him. >> in an interview a district attorney called him hannibal lector. the d.a.'s office condemning that statement. investigators believe that the men broke out of this maximum security jail just after friday's five a.m. head count cutting through a metal grate and crawling through plumbing pipes where they used bed sheets to rappel down and weren't report the missing for 16 hours. police believe that two of the

>> we are putting pressure on are coming after him. >> there have been pleas to the public for help and the rewards from $50,000. on 5 today. chris and da nitta. it is all yours. of the big story. after cleveland announced the discipline for officers involved in a chase and deadly shooting. why this case may not be over yet. >> very real rules about fake guns. the band that goes into effect and the kids not allowed to own

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