ing pipes and possible lead exposure at a local elementary school prompting a lot of questions tonight. students in chagrin falls were sent home with this letter this

is live. >> there are questions here at chagrin falls. we should about an hour ago. district taking action, shutting down all the dripping fountains and sinks in the building issuing a warning to parents and students. schools will remain open and students will report to class but there is now deep confusion over an paea report. on the website, we took a look. the website shows that test at the building was reported back on november 6th. at the time, school officials say they were not told there could be possible harm to children and pregnant women drinking water.

hazards. school district officials say there there was conflicting report. the paea required two additional lead in copper samples with the results expected next week on february 3rd. naturally, issues over lead contamination in flint, michigan and sebring has parents on edge. the school decided to provide bottled water to student and staff. school will remain open. school officials tried to sort out what appears to be a miscommunication. again, more test results on potential lead contamination here at gurney elementary expected this coming wednesday. >> all right, joe. you can see this in chagrin falls, some snow. that's the other big story tonight. here is a live look outside in orange right now. snow has been falling on and off the last few hours, even mixing with a little rain in some places. mark, you have been tracking this all night. >> yes, it's down the roadways, causing slick spots. that's going to be the weather lot through the overnight and

let's get right to it now. power of 5 live doppler radar coming in in waves. waves to light to briefly moderate snow. we had some rain. tells were up around 40 degrees. they dropped and again we have lighter snow showers, next little wave coming in back around lorain, elyria, amherst into new london. more light snow showers here and here. those will be dropping in for the morning commute as well. current tells, they have fallen back. 35 in cleveland, 36 canton. we get a cold shot of hair coming in for your friday. but this is what we are watching here. this is what you want to see. warming temperatures. we have lingering snow to chat with you about in a couple of minutes. rain for the weekend. and say hello to 50s? we are not talking about bobby socks here. we are talking about

coming up. cleveland firefighters battled two house fires at the same time, just blocks from each other. this vacant home on parkwood avenue was the second to go up in flames about three hours ago. firefighters say that, right now, there is no reason to believe that the two fires are related but they are investigating. a head-turning development in the three-year-old murder case of a cleveland clinic nurse. a grand jury indicted aliza sherman divorce attorney for lying to police about where he was at the time she was killed. found some startling allegations against attorney gregory moore? >> reporter: yes, some of the charges, while they are pretty incredible, three counts of terroristic threats, making bomb threats to dodge court dates and even more. >> how could you not trust your lawyer? how could you not trust your lawyer? >> reporter: aliza sherman's

with tampering with evidence. he is also accused of sending her false text messages, before and after her death. the prosecutor's office says that evidence shows moore was unprepared for sherman's divorce trial which was supposed to start the day after she was murdered. >> this was, like, not totally a surprise to me. it's something that was in the back of my head. >> reporter: aliza sherman is always on maria old's mind, from buttons, wrist bands and posters, on her car window and in front of her house. she wants justice for her dear friend. >> i never understood why aliza's attorney never said a statement, my god, my client was murdered right in front of my office. how could he not say anything? that always sent a red flag. >> reporter: moore claimed he was in his office when she was murdered. but the indictment indicates

didn't return until an hour after sherman was killed. this grainy video was released a month aft murder. the shadowy figure remains a person of interest in the case. and it should be noted that greg gregory moore is not charmed with aliza sherman's murder. he is charged with tampering with evidence and lying to police. the ohio teen who escaped a cleveland detention center for the 2012 murder of her stepfather has been found. investigators say that the 17- year-old was uncooperative when she was taken into custody in marion this afternoon. the teen escaped during a supervised zumba class at a recreation center on wednesday and cleveland police were investigating a missing persons case when they found a body buried in a backyard on benham avenue. the cuyahoga county medical examiner identified the body

released. it's unknown how the person and new video with the traffic stop that ended with the shooting death of one of the leaders of the group occupying a wildlife refuge in oregon. the video shows the vehicle stopped by police taking off. the drive, lavoy finicum hits a snow bank, gets out of the truck, first with his hands up and reaps into his pocket and falls in the snow. five other leaders were arrested during that confrontation. i kind of miss donald trumphe was like a teddy bear to me. [ buzzer ] >> that was interesting. it was the donned-less debate tonight in des moines. the gop hopefuls went head to head before for the last time before the aya caucus. the previous six debates were donald driven. the debate left the others the

kasich among them. >> i'm a maniac and everyone on ugly. and ben, you are a terrible surgeon. now that we've gotten the donald trumpisms out of the way -- [ laughter ]. >> the back and forth throughout the evening, getting into more substantive issues throughout the night. governor kasich making his case not only to the people in iowa but new hampshire. he promptly told them that he picked up seven of the eight endorsements of the newspapers there. we'll have more on this debate later with dr. tom sutton. >> and trump may not have participated in the debate but he made sure that there was still a spotlight on him tonight. he held a boycott event at drake university in iowa. and he made an interesting observation.

it's like the academy awards. this is like the academy awards. this is the academy awards. we're actually told that we have more cameras than they do by quite a bit. >> after whether skipping the debate was a good move for him, he said he didn't know. two of the gop candidate who took part in the earlier debate, mike huckabee and former pennsylvania senator rick santorum attended trump's event tonight. >> we can't go another three, six months without anything being done to the building. and the building crumbling before our eyes. many say that something needs safety a worldwide warning over the zika virus. how many cases we may see and what the president wants done to stop its spread.

way but we have to get through a chilly and maybe snowy friday.

breaking news outs of parma tonight where a 37-year-old man was hit by a consider just over an hour ago. this is video us have in from the scene.

health with serious injuries. we'll have the latest on good morning cleveland and 4:30. and the owner of the property has been promising the city that a redevelopment deal will come through for months now. but as 5 on your side investigators, lorain is now taking legal action. >> reporter: residents have been complaining about a potential hazard here with falling masonry work at the old spritzer hotel. now these violations have been turned over to lorain municipal court. even leaders say enough is enough. >> repairs have to be made to this building. you know, we can't it another three, six months. >> reporter: lorain mayor says that code and safety violations are being pursued against broadway building in the heart of downtown also known as the

since 2005 and built in 1928. the outside is surrounded by netting over concerns with falling brick buildings. the old hotel is now an eyesore. >> progress needs to be made. there needs to be some type of demonstrable progress. >> so we asked spitzer's attorney how this could happen. >> we decided to hold off making any repairs because what the developer wants to do. >> reporter: he says that the property could be donated to the lorain port authority making renovations here more economically feasible, bringing a boost to down ton lorain. >> it's starting to see that this is picking up here. this is the area where there is going to be growth in the future. >> reporter: and married mayor

ridnour is hoping that a potential deal will be made soon. and potential plans submitted by the developers include a first floor restaurant and 50 upscale apartment units. health officials across the world sounding the alarm about the zika virus as it spread quickly in the americas with some cases in the u.s. the fear began when a mosquito-borne disease exploded in brazil where it's suspected of causing birth defects. the world health organization warning we could see up to four million cases in the americas over the next year. >> we need to take actions now. whatever we can do in terms of control, environmental control. >> more than 20 people in the u.s. have been diagnosed in several states. president obama met with the c.d.c. to talk about plans to control the spread of the virus iron clueing developing a vaccine. new tonight at 11:00, the proper procedures were in place

that's at the center of the listeria outbreak that prompted the recall of bagged salads. that's according to the inspections from the last five years. dole stopped production at the plant after the c.d.c. linked the outbreaks to the salad. state officials wound listeria in one of the bags unexpected good news for those looking to buy a home the 30-year-old mortgage rate is now at 2.79%. freddie mac says that's the fourth straight week of decline just a month after the federal reserve raised rates for the first time in nearly a decade, leading to many to believe that was the end of record low mortgage rates. that good news will hopefully soften the blow of this bad news. wages are down in 80 of the 100 biggest cities in the u.s. the study looked at economic conditions from 2009 to 2014. almost every metro area saw improvement in at least one area like employment or productivity.

and it i am packed more minority the u.s. military is hoping to become more family friendly in order to attract a career path. secretary ash carter wants to lengthen the stand card weeks to 12 weeks for maternity leave, cutting down ma terms leaves for navy moms from 18 weeks to 12 weeks but raising other branches. people knew it already, but the blizzard that hit the northeast last week is the sixth largest to hit the area. this storm hit nearly 102 million people in 26 states. >> whooo. >> number 1 is still the storm of the century in 1993 which

places from mississippi to maine. i know you remember that. >> we had nine inches here in cleveland from that '93 storm. >> would not be number 1 here. >> no, blizzards of '78, '77, 2011. >> and the list goes on and on. >> but that's a new england thing and east coast thing. >> okay. >> we had a few flakes here >> few flakes and wet roads. one big flake, thank you very much. you look very nice. look like a snow flake all dressed up. very nice. >> i'm sure that was her aim. [ laughter ] hire go. mainly snow right now, still a couple of isolated sprinkles, far south towards dover, new philly. into carolton maybe.

we have a little front here and that front will continue to trek south and east and behind it, very cold air. tomorrow will be a chilly day and then the warmup begins. right now, primarily light snow moving through. east siders getting their share from ashtabula, sage brook, geneva. it is light snow, same for mentor. no snow day tomorrow. not is from snowfalls. i think maximum tonight for lake geauga, there is the did you win? maximum amount of snow would be lake geauga and ashtabula counties. ashland getting some light know pulling out of avon. snow. temps above freezing. 32 mansfield. 35 cleveland. 37, akron and canton. light snow, 35 degrees. a 30-degree dew point, west winds at 16 miles per hour.

today, we hit 43 and the current temp is our average temp for this time of year. here is the hour-by-hour. midnight. notice there is snow concentrated east of cleveland. hence the prospect of one to three inches here. elsewhere, scattered streamers coming off the lake behind the front. they gradually fade away art morning commute. i don't think it's going to be widespread snow tomorrow morning but will be enough for some of you to slow you down. allow yourself extra moments to get to where you need to go. 33, 33. one more time. let's see if we can get anything organized. there you go. seat darker band of blues. the cold air sinks in and the warmer air begins to move our way and that will arrive on friday. so we have some pretty by sunday. i'm thinking lower 50s. way. less than an inch in most spots.

27 degrees, clowdy and breezy tomorrow, 28 degrees after a few morning flakes. let's show you that seven-day forecast. seven-day forecast. come on, buddy. >> here we go. saturday, 45. sunday, 52 with a few rain showers. look at that. lower 50s monday. back with sports next. does the smell of a freshly bound presentation fill you with optimism? do you love your wireless keyboard more than certain family members? is your success due to a filing system only you understand? does printing from your tablet

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welcome back to news channel 5. the first trump-less debate. >> yes. >> missed on the stage? >> no, i don't think missed at all. i thought we saw a lot more civil disagreements between the candidates. certainly trump was not missed by any of those candidates on

>> ted cruz all of a sudden in the center seat. how did he fare? >> i think he did pretty well there were a lot of attacks against him, certainly not attacks but trying to challenge his position. he is the number 2 in both states, running neck and neck with donald trump. we saw a fair amount. at one point, he said everybody is attacking me, including the moderators, that blew against him and he moved away from that. >> mark rubio comes as the number 1 establishment candidate in iowa threatening cruz to a certain extend. did he do anything to improve his situation? >> i think he did really well. he maintained his consistency in each of the debates, the way he maintains his position, the way he attacks hillary clinton and the obama immigration and even in the immigration issue where there was a lot of back and forth between him and cruz although that opened the door for jeb bush. >> jeb bush, the best debate that we have seen of the seven

very clear, consistent. coming after this back and forth, we saw him say, look, i backed your plan, mark rubio, you need to be consistent in what you are saying. >> governor kasich taking a different approach, by passing the people of iowa and talking to people in new hampshire. >> all along, he has said, this is about new hampshire. he talked about the six out of seven newspapers endorsing him in new hampshire. he did harken to his own faith- based kind of position and that helped him. >> thank you very much. a couple of day is a way from

now, 5 on your side sports brought to you by brunswick auto mark. the future of johnny

topic in this town until he ends his career. browns owner jim haslam offered his insight a little bit on johnny's future. >> we talked to johnny before he left. i mean, i know a big deal was made. you have not called johnny. we have 53 active players on the roster and ken mower talked to him glt quarterback is the most important position on the team. let's say that again. in mobile, alabama, the new quarterback. and one of my cohost on dawg pounds report is in mobile, alabama, and he sat down with head coach hue jackson. >> you have a reputation of being great with quarterbacks. when you watch quarterbacks here, what are you looking for. >> i want to see if the guy's talent is what it is.

leader, somebody that everybody looks at. sometimes it's a little different from coach to coach. does he take things given to him and is he abling to do a good job as far as competing and executing what they are asking him to do. >> you have a lot of players in the present. what has it been like in the past few weeks. >> i think it's opinion outstanding. some guys have stayed in cleveland, have come up and met me personally. some guys have texted me, you know. it's outstanding. i never thought that i would be able to text all of them. some guys texted me and i really enjoyed that. and then there are some guys that i talked to on the phone. i'm trying every different avenue to make sure that i get a hold of everybody on the team and talk to them. some players made the pro bowl which i think is outstanding. watching them get selected, that's great. regardless of how he got, there he is there it's been an awful

as well as hiring our staff. getting our staff in place. a lot of great things, a lot of work but also a lot of fun. good to hear from the new coach. also wants to remind you that cavs-spurs right here saturday night at 8:30. abc will be debuting their new three-points technology during the game. >> what? >> that's the first year on news charge 5. >> that will be cool. >> right. >> all right. thanks for watching news channel 5 at 11:00.

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