few minutes. newschannel 5 at 6 brought to you by mr. roman hero burger. new at 6. a high end clothing store is cleaning up after a s.w.a.t. team responded to an armed robbery. >> and we are learning more details and taking a look at a string of robberies targeting stores with merchandise that is similar. meggan, this store has had trouble in the past. >> reporter: yes, there was a robbery here involving high end clothes and sneakers like this store. three bullet holes through the

are all that is left of last night's armed robbery on west 9th. >> swat went in. there are no other suspects there in. >> reporter: two guns were seized and three people arrested. employees were not interested in talking to us. but the owner gave us the details, the last time his store was robbed. >> we sell high end clothing. >> reporter: the trendy clothes and sneakers. these nike sneakers were the

and is sad to see the impact of violence on the cloth in particular. >> it is scary because you see people like this on the streets but they come to rob my business. >> reporter: police say one suspect was arrested with a large sum of money and unclear if it came from this robbery. but no charges yet filed on these suspects. police agencies across northeast ohio are trying to track down thieves for taking catalytic converters. there have been several recent reports from car owners finding the car completely gone and while it may seem like a random car part, they use the metal to go to stores to sell. >> it someone cuts the converter out here. >> because of the recent spike in thefts.

police have identified the woman killed by a wrong-way driver over the weekend. 20-year-old kayla coats died when 48-year-old mark rapper his her car sunday morning. rapper is still in the hospital being treated. police say the accident is still under investigation. charges have not been filed. a lake wood man will spend at least 15 years in prison for killing his own mother. shaun white made the plea before his trial was scheduled to start. facing murder and assault charges. in july white stabbed his mother inside her home. an akron plan sentenced to life in prison for fatally chapel hill mall.

was found guilty for killing clearance rogers. baskerville will be eligible for parole in 15 years. west of interstate 71, they got an inch of snow so no school called off. let's look at the winter storm. for a lot of you dumping 8- inches of snow and strutthers got 12-inches and the greater alliance area 6 to 8-inches and how about new falls with 7- inches of snow. a very good winter storm for a large portion of the viewing area. i zoomed in on the power of 5 live doppler radar and tuned up the sensitivity. because i think there's some freezing drizzle out there. maybe a few light snowflakes and you can see there is some

produce a little bit of precip. lorain county and portions of medina 71 and i will throw in the mention of some freezing drizzle during the evening in the first half of the overnight. i don't think it will be a good deal. run the wipers, the roadways are treated and it won't cause headaches but be noticeable. notice it. that is what i mean. 30 in cleveland. 32 in akron and temperatures will stay there. we have a cloudy sky that will stay with us and that isolated freezing drizzle threat through your evening wherever you are going. plans outdoors, make the snowman. we have a little more snow for your wednesday. all of that coming up. all right. mark, taking a quick look at the cameras. the roads a far cry than they have been in the past couple of days.

marginal road. you see a lot of lights by dead man's curve. a car has flipped there. a news alert about a cleveland police officer's personal car was stolen and his service weapon was inside. this happened monday in akron. we reached out to cleveland police. they tell us that howard hart was at a nightclub and noticed his keys was missing and he went outside and his car was gone. he could face charges for failing to secure his weapon. that has not happened. no one arrested and one suspect is described as wearing drag queen attire. a police officer and another driver was injured when their cars collided on 30th and chester avenue. this happened at 4:00 this afternoon. right now there is no word on the extent of both the officer and the other driver's injuries. two people in lorraine have been hospitalized after they were hit by a car outside of the hospital.

police say an elderly woman lost control of her car by the patient entrance and drove up onto the sidewalk and hit the pedestrian. they also say she hit a parked car with enough force that it was completely spun around. now all new at six there, community. madisonville may disband disband its police department. >> other communities may be facing the same problem. >> one lawmaker says this is what they had in mind with cuts to the local government fund but it is controversial. >> it is like a choice that has to be made. >> reporter: madisonville village is talking about laying off a police department and

>> when someone is in trouble and they dial 911 they are confident that someone will show up at the door. >> and that is what cuts the fund was designed to do. >> if the local governments become more efficient and opt creatively and how they can provide services that need to be provided, all the better. >> reporter: this case western professor says these cuts are no way to respond to services. >> it is irresponsible. >> it is the only way to do it because we got 800, 900 municipalities in the state of ohio and 1600 townships and 88 counties and to go through each

would be foolish. >> reporter: the process is painful. >> it sounds rationale but people are scared of it. >> reporter: there's three readings before the council takes vote. sometime in the future. they had to move it to a bigger venue at 7:30 at the madison campus of lakeland community college. the city of cleveland has considered the motion but instead of making the move the city is increasing the income tax. a father accused of pushing and injuring a 10-year-old is in jail on assault charges. the man pushed the child at the bowling alley after he making fun of his friend. the child was treated for minor injuries. a routine traffic stop

ohio state highway patrol says the car had three pounds of pot and 17 boxes of thc cigars and over 50 adderall pills in the trunk. the driver was charged with trafficking and being held in the erie county jail. our investigators showed you a woman that was unlawfully arrested by an officer. the motion was charged by a woman that says she was arrested without probable cause in march of last year. the surveillance video shows jonathan volke approaching her at a bus stop that the woman says he shoved her to the ground and arrested her. an internal investigation shows the officer violated the policy and charges against her were dropped. the rnc months away. but some people already

they are. it is not about red but green. we will talk to one local business owner that says his business is heating up against of the the summer's rnc.

wews or email us at newsnet5. com. we are caught in the middle of winter but some people thinking senator. john kosic learned that some businesses are seeing the economic impact five months out. >> reporter: $250 million is the estimated economic impact on the community but some businesses are seeing. >> it i am not trying to take no more of your real estate. >> reporter: waverly started cutting hair as a kid and had lines outside of his home charging them 3 bucks a cut. >> my mom would sit at the

window and charge me a dollar per person for electricity. >> reporter: these days waverly pays his own bills at the urban barbershop he opened in 2008 and a second shop he opened two years ago on pearl. he has a loyal clientele but notice the customers doing work- related to the rnc. >> he was here to install or wash windows and here for the duration cleaning the windows and the sky scrapers downtown. specifically for the rn c to tidy up cleveland. >> and he saw potential and registered with the committee to be a preferred vendors and took it a step further. >> i contacted cab drivers and uber drivers, you name it, as if they are downtown or by the airport, they seen me, they have a stack in my car and flyers.

>> we probably have had at least a 20% increase from people specifically from that demo graph of the rnc. >> reporter: 1400 different vendors covering 140 different categories. the convention kicks off five months from thursday. that's huge. i'm john kosic. newschannel 5. >> if you have getting registered to vote on your to- do list. less than three hours to do it before the primary. the board of elections are opened until 9:00. if you have not voted since the last election. there are changes that you have to be aware of. state lawmakers passed a law where ohioans can no longer register on the same day that you vote. the lawsuit was filed against the change and it is still pending in federal court. also in person early voting hours have been expanded to 7:00 p.m.

a new law was passed so only the the secretary of state can send you absentee ballots. this little girl is gathering coloring books and collecting them for the past two years and in the first year emma's kids for coloring collected more than 700 items! well now she is up to more than 6200 art supplies that have been donated to local hospitals. so if you want to help emma is holding a fundraiser tonight because she is trying to reach a goal of ten thousand items. emma, we know you can do it. if you want to help we have the details on news net 5 app and you can get it on our newsnet5.com as well. >> come on emma. isn't that wonderful? young person with a great idea. >> hope for the future. indeed. a lot of the kids off today. and snowmen and the packing for snowballs was perfect. >> it was.

>> you sound like you have done this. >> a time or two. >> you have thrown some snowballs. >> join me when danita grabs her dinner. >> poor danita. >> akron 5-inches of snow. a winter wonderland and across much of the viewing area. right now though here is the power of 5 live doppler radar. the current scan, it is quiet. mostly quiet. i will zoom in on the high resolution radar. you can see what looks to be some isolated flurries trying to drop out of the low clouds. this could easily be a little bit of freezing drizzle. not a major problem but enough to run the windshield wipers. and the next event in milwaukee and chicago.

the day tomorrow. this is another big storm? does this mean snow days for the kids? the answer is no and no. 30 in cleveland and 29 medina and 32 akron currently. 29 in mentor. 30 degrees at hopkins airport, a westerly wind light at 6 miles per hour and dew point at 25. pressure 29.85. the low at 30. this date in 1883. we have been as cold as 12 degrees below zero in 2015. one year ago. remember that brutal february a year ago. snowfall for cleveland hopkins 1.5 from the winter storm last night and that brings us up to 20.5 for the season. still 25-inches below the average for where we should be for this date in the middle of february. here is the big winter storm. pulling off towards the a maritime. the low pressure here and here

we are in the middle. this system late tonight and tomorrow. tomorrow morning. we will see a high, lower 30s and then falling temperatures right below the front. snowfall totals, not a big deal. tonight less than a half of an inch and tomorrow less than a half of an inch if you got up to an inch in chardin would not be surprised. 50s here and the good news is that a lot of that heads that way for the weekend. a lot of you will touch 50s on friday. here we go. overnight lows will drop down to 26 to about 28 degrees. we will see less than an inch of snow tomorrow. 32. bring it on up. there we go. thursday dry. a few rain showers on friday.

lower 40s and back to the deep freeze by tuesday. all right. so is it spring? >> no. not yet. >> wishful thinking. >> we have awhile. >> all right. the cavs enjoying the all-star break. >> they are but the rumor mill keeps flying around. the trade deadlines. we will talk about the latest

coming up after this. the clock is ticking towards thursday at 3:00 p.m. cavaliers have one open roster spot but will they make a trade or grab a player that has been bought out? the other rumor cavs are listening to teams about maybe perhaps trading kevin love. some saying it would be hard to see love move away. i am not buying it but you never know. we have the trade deadline on thursday and so we will talk more about that as we roll on. no matter what, the cavs are back on sunday at oklahoma city and brian will join us for our post-game report. we head west for mcdonald's student athlete of the week and on the ice with an avon hockey player. >> reporter: for the past four years, joe getz has been lacing

varsity player and the captain and one of the leading scorers. he runs cross country. and captain as well. by the time he is done with school, he will have earned 12 varsity letters. >> definitely one of the leaders. he has stepped into that role nicely and overall just a great young man and good to have on the team. >> reporter: joe may be a standout athlete but all-star, 4.1 epa and national honor society and academic challenge team. >> you have to know where you want to be and where i want to go is a lot of education and engineering being a hard major, you somewhere to know how to do it and you have to focus all of your effort into it. >> reporter: joe getz this

>> if you have an athlete of the week send it to us. hockey teams this week the city championships for the big school teams and the barrett cups over the last week. they are getting ready for the state championship. starting up with sectional. young andy baskin on the ice. >> andy coaches this stuff so you knows. >> that's why i am awake at 5:00. we will be back at 11 so make sure you tune in. that's it. have a great night. newschannel 5 at six brought to you by the ohio

breaking news tonight. storms slamming both coasts. in the east, treacherous driving, a dangerous mix of sleet and rain. the pileups. 60 60-mile-per-hour winds. across the south, 20 reported tornadoes. the woman trapped under her home, rescued. and in the west tonight, bracing for a major system, too. also breaking tonight, the new polls coming in now. where do donald trump and hillary clinton now stand in south carolina? and former president george w. bush taking aim at trump. also developing, the supreme court. the president just moments ago, saying, "i intend to do my job.