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trackers monitoring the condition. >> mark johnson in the studio to keep you safe. >> walk us through what is happening right now. >> the snow has arrived and we have been telling you it is a race against time to get everyone home from work or school but the squall is moving on the shore right now as we speak. let's get to it on the power of live doppler radar. a live look and the snow enveloping the cleveland skyline, light for now, we got a big squall. that blue, that is the burst of snow that i have been telling you about. for two days. tweeting and facebooking and social mediaing about it through the day today. here we go. moving to downtown cleveland and in to lorain county. moving into in into elyria and

lake and geauga and ashtabula county for the snow advisories, triple wammy, first wave with the artic front and the windchill advisory kicks in and lake-effect snow as well. that's threat number three. for lake geauga and ashtabula and areas outside of the snow belt through tomorrow afternoon. there could be bursts of snow. all right? temperatures in the 20s. you will drop in the teens with hit and miss moderate snow. tara blake has been following this snow all the way in. tara, the road conditions deteriorating. >> definitely deteriorating. we are seeing the visibility lower and the drivers driving slower and back on 90 as you know, two turns back into 90 as you get closer in. lorain county. let's show you the roadways, snow covered and visibility lower and we have seen a few trucks out.

19 miles per hour and so it is coming in hard and fast and not a lot of brine or salt on the roadways with the cold temperatures in place and it takes longer for that to work. be careful when driving out there. primetime and looking for dangerous than ever. let's check in with john on the east side. >> reporter: we are on 90 headed east and similar conditions. very decreased vision billity and the snow we are dealing with and the visibility probably less than 50 yards. there is a truck in front of us and difficult to see that vehicle. wanted to point out the material freezing on our wind chill so you can see the wipers are going and difficult to get that material off. we are in right lane of travel and that is clear. you can see tire marks, the

really starting to build up. a lot of snow blowing and drifting and travel is getting dicier. the roads aren't only messy where john and tara are, take a look. shots of the highway traffic cameras around the cleveland area. certainly a slick go all around. you see the a lot of the bright brake lights. take it as out there. >> an important warning so you don't fall victim like one akron woman that was robbed by a man she thought was helping her. she paid a man to shovel her driveway but he took a lot more. derrick waller live in akron. what did he take.

this street yesterday. that man threatened to kill for percocet. >> i was counting my medicine and he come in and snatched it. >> the woman called in and said a suspect walked up and offered to shovel the driveway and he she gave him a couple of dollars and he came back, this time to use the bathroom and the victim let him inside the house but he refused to leave and threatening to hurt her. >> 45 percocet pills. sam white is the victim's neighbor. >> she called me and she was shaken up. >> and the victim thinks she might know who did it. a man named eric that lives on the same street.

>> pain pills are where pain people start out to where they progress to heroin. >> the lieutenant is urging everyone to keep a close eye on their neighbors and offers this advice. >> we don't encourage anybody for money. house. >> the victims lived in this home for more than 40 years and tonight she still is unnerved. the victim told police she has seen him before and no arrests. that man is described as african-american and about 45 to 55 years old and a medium complex. 6'2" wearing a blue jacket and jeans. if you can help call the summit crimestoppers at 330434 cops. live in akron, derrick waller, newschannel 5. a raid in wing county

police found guns and tools and a t vs. bob jones tells us more. >> reporter: on this remote property in sleeve you will find a trailer and camp stuff. it was ground zero for a trade your stolen goods for drugs operation. deputies got a tip about stolen items on elyria road and it was good. cops from multiple jurisdictions found guns and a grill and a bunch of hot tools. deputies are trying to track down the rightful owners and victims from four counties. wayne, ashland and home and coshocton. the man living there, 42-year- cooking meth. captain doug hunter reveals it was a revolving door of people trading stolen stuff for meth. searching for other suspects in

>> often times they don't have a plan for when they are captured. they believe that they are never going to be caught and i'm happy to say in this case the person has been caught and many of the victims will get their property back in the end. >> reporter: in sleeve bob jones, newschannel 5. a 23-year-old mother is facing aggravated murder charges in the death of her own child. danielle johnson was arrested today after the county medical examiner ruled the death a homicide. the child was taken to rainbow baby's in children's hospital in full cardiac arrest wednesday night. the family told the hospital she was having seizures and was found unresponsive but officers noticed bruising on the child at the hospital. two cleveland man found guilty for killing a 19-year- old woman sleeping while her one-year-old in the room. 20-year-old wil wilson and

of aggravated murder in a shooting and convicted on charges for shooting 17-year- old fisher. wilson and alexander are expected to be sentenced next month. cleveland is changing its ambulance charge was mistakingly sent to the estate of tamir rice. we got our hands on this memo issued today. it notes effective immediately invoices subject go to court activity must be reviewed before paper is sent. the estate. the mayor apologized for the new statistic on the continued effect opioids are having in cuyahoga county. the overdoses. from heroin, fell 7% over the past year making it the first time the area has seen a decrease since 2006.

significant increase in deaths from the users of fentanyl. that's a stronger and synthetic version of heroin. tim mcginty says some of the victims are not the type of users you would expect. they are not just old heroin addicts. a great percentage of them are legitimate injury on the job and started out with legitimate heroin. >> many of those that have died 60. well still ahead on newschannel 5 at six. another look at the roads as the area is starting to get walloped with snow. >> a rocky bus ride for a relaxes weekend. i was pray that we would get home safely, that's how scary it got. a scary ride that led us to discover and it was not the only complaint one bus company had. the latest on the machete attack on the restaurant in columbus. why the owner believes his

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a tweet at wews. >> welcome back. we are along i-90 moving in lake county and i use that term rather loosely. in a 70 miles per hour speed zone and moving at 40 to 45 miles per hour. you can see visibility really reduced. a lot of snowfall that we are dealing with and blowing and drifting snow. you see the snow passing us and causing problems with visibility. the snow in the left hand lane causing problems. visibility 50 yards and when vehicles are passing us it produces that visibility and makes it difficult to see. a nightmare ride for three local women that took a bus trip to new york. after we found out about the ordeal our investigators uncovered troubling records behind the company. investigators jonathan walsh has more. this trip was taken just before

>> and what i found out through the documents right here was that even before the women had their bad trip home, u.s. coach tours out of alliance had gotten a second tier rating from a company. lorie and amy and kim that wants to remain anonymous took their daughters to new york city and two buses left and the the sites. >> but the ride home was scary. >> reporter: during that return trip the women said the bus driver was tired. >> he did swerve two times into other lanes of traffic and the swerve that i was awake for was serving to a semi.

>> lorie sat up front and yelled out are you awake. i was scared. >> reporter: i obtained records from the public utility commission of ohio that deals with bus safety. from that trip, the commission cited u.s. coach tours for violations dealing with drivers on the road too much. but that's not all. i found similar violations in the past two years against u.s. coach tours with drivers being behind the wheel too long. less than a week before the women left for nyc the state gave the tour bus company a conditional rating, that means the carrier was out of requirements with safety maintenance problems. the women's advice ... >> i would make sure that i had checked out safety records and i think that is what everybody should do. now one of the operators of carnation u.s. coach tours originally agreed to do an interview but did a u turn and cancel. after several attempt to reschedule i got an email

and i did and no response. i'm investigator jonathan walsh. newschannel 5. columbus police announcing that the victims of the machete attack will survive. the officers investigated why it happened. mohammed berry entered a restaurant and attacked customers inside. the owner went there a half hour earlier and came back. now he is worried that he was israel. police shot and killed berry shortly after the attack. when driving on 90 eastbound as we are moving towards cleveland here, just past west lake and looking much better as far as driving goes, i want to show you the roadways covered and snow is much lighter in west lake and on the back edge of the snow squall that is currently dumping on northeast ohio including downtown.

will want both hands on the wheel, where as for us. we are fearing a bit better in lorain county soon to be closing in on cuyahoga. guys, all to you. all right, tara and black out in storm tracker 5. thank for that. it is here. >> it is and i want to show you the sky cam, the live look downtown, that is a pelted windshield there. full of snow. you can see the sky line and lens. this is a big old snowfall. that tells you the intensity of the snow. threat number one, dealing with that. the artic cold front stirring up a thin band of heavy snowfall moving through and it could dump inch of snow in 20 minutes or so, that will move through and should be will be out of here by 8:00 and we set

the main threat for the next couple of hours for your prevalentine's day dinner, heavy snow detector showing what tara black was showing us. look at the darker pinks out of the woods. mentor and southern portions of greater cleveland on fleet avenue and i-4 is getting hammered. threat number two is the bitter air that spills in behind the front. all right? current temperatures upper teens and lower 20s. it's cold. wind chills single digits at times. that's not nearly as cold as it will be. currently 21 downtown and dew point of 16, pressure 30 dot 00 on the money. your almanac 23 for the high and we should be at 37, enough said. that is cold. windchill advisory, yes. threat number two, the artic air. ten p.m. through 10:00 a.m. sunday for the entire viewing area for wind chills to minus 15.

this, 6:30, minus ten and minus 12 and 13 and 14 and could go below that. threat number 3, lake-effect snow beginning tonight. there will be two or three tonight and tomorrow. where the squalls persist six to 8 and three to six saturday mainly up to andover and then three to five inches tonight and one to three on saturday. where the squalls persist, 9 degrees tonight. snow showers, windy and wind chills to minus 15 by sunrise tomorrow. tomorrow a high of 13. lake-effect snow. could be west side. a burst of moderate snow a couple of inches under a snow band. west siders and south of greater cleveland chills to minus 15 and akron and canton, tonight, scattered snow and a dusting to two inches. five. tomorrow, flurries in the

your seven-day forecast, sunday dry for valentine's day. 21, scattered snow monday, tuesday and wednesday, highs in the 30s. all right. andy baskin in. big weekend for the all-star yes, we need to take a >> a fun time. >> that is all it is. no pressure. hall of fame. we will tell you more and lebron james chimes in on the fact that twa luis a coach for the east.

games, was it worth it next. the all-star weekend under way and the cavs represented by lebron james and the coaching staff. tyronn lue is the coach of the east. lebron addressed that subject today. >> i think it is great. you know he would have been here anyway. will coach lue come to the all- star game. i think it is cool that our coaching staff is here representing our organization and i know he will have a good time.

former cavalier is up for the honor. and while he probably won't be remembered as one shaquille o'neal and allen iverson up for the distinguished award and it was announced and his respect for the game is obvious. >> i got to the call and said they changed the rules and you are a nominee and i am superstitious and until i got the call so thank you to oscar robertson and everybody else, my mentors. you guys paved the way for us. may have only been here one year but it was fun. no doubt. a lot going on outside. that's right. we got john rudder on the east side and a live look at his chase car in the midst of it. in lake county.

this is where the like snow advisory is in effect. it could be continuing. >> people putting their lights on. >> this is the problem. we warned about this. a short duration but causing big time problems for the commute. take it easy. we will see you on newschannel 5 at 11.

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