only on 5, a mystery unfolding right here in northeast ohio. >> a car plunges into the cuyahoga river with two people inside. the passenger said she saw the driver swimming away but there hasn't been a trace of lorne harris since. where is he? >> his family taking the search for him into their own hands. they're convinced he's still alive. there are signs something strange is going on. >> reporter: signs that that are giving new home but raising new questions. the family hired a private investigator who tracked lorne's cell phone this weekend to here in

>> reporter: the storey. >> can't eat. >> reporter: lorne harris was seen last sunday, eight days later it's like he vanished. >> we want to find out what happened to him. >> reporter: police say he drove his car into the cuyahoga river, when his car was pulled out of the water 24 hours later there was no signs of him, until now. >> it gives me hope a little bit. >> reporter: he is one of six kids in a tight knit family. a family that is stopping at nothing to find him, scouring the river banks day and night and hiring their own investigator to ping his cell phone. >> if we can find his phone we should find him. >> reporter: there were two hits, the first on west 11th street in cleveland. the second time the phone was on the move, somewhere on old detroit road in rocky river. the family hit the pavement again,

so many questions remain. >> we want some closure. we want to find my brother. us this case is not closed and detectives are actively they searched the water twice, last luck. the family obviously is not giving up. i got jesus on my side. >> a mother dealing with a parent' worst nightmare. a body found in the trunk of her son's car hours after he was kidnapped. she herself was attacked. frank wiley talked with the woman tonight inside her east cleveland home where it all happened. >> that mother told me the conversation with police was just awful. she never thought she'd have to bury her son and she says the way it all happened is not how she wanted to remember him. >> police are processing

>> the gun was this far from my face. >> reporter: there was a body found. francine's son was missing. what she later learned got this story together. >> i'm going to shoot you like i did your son. >> reporter: the gunman threatened but never pulled the trigger. >> he hit me so hard i did a back flip. >> reporter: from the floor she says she dialled 911 when he turned his back. no signs of charles barns. then 24 hours later a car description she shared turned grim. >> i was angry, i was [ bleep ] off. >> reporter: in the trunk of the car the body of was confirmed by police, it was charles. while she was under attack she was fighting to save her own life. >> i [ bleep ] and i shut the door. >> reporter: francine says the masked men who stormed her home shot her son.

up soon to help police catch whoever is responsible. the 14-year-old accused of shooting two fellow students inside the cafeteria at an ohio school is charged with attempted murder, felonious assault and making terroristic threat. two other students were also hurt. police say there is a motive but they are not saying what it is. schools there are closed tomorrow. the man accused of shooting his pastor brother had sued him over an inheritance. he had schooled william schooler and church leaders five years ago saying he should get money from the real estate value of the church. he lost. a relative did tell the dayton daily news that daniel has a history of mental illness. cleveland police are looking for burglars that hit american pride car

on the ws side. they pulled up in a gold chevrolet and used a special drill to break the locks allowing them to take the cash inside. if you have any information about this case, you're asked to call second district detectives. take a look at this now. it took nine people to move this thousand-pound pet black bear from a backyard in stark county today. our crews the only ones there as it happened. state investigators says they took the bear because of problems with its cage. they say the owner was told numerous times to make changes. the owner in tears as the hibernating bear was tranquillized and taken away. >> it's not right. i mean, it's like coming into your house and taking your kids from you. you know, they're better off shooting me and being done with it. >> jeff says he's had the bear for 18 years and pays for his exotic animal permit. he can appeal but may not have the money to do so.

weather evening out there. might have a little brief sprinkle over around toledo stretching down into southern huron county, sprinkle or a flurry. that is about it. it should be a quiet night tonight. there is a front dropping in right now. it's going to cool us down, but it's also going to stall out right about here and be the focus for more wintry precipitation coming your way tomorrow. we'll track that in in a couple of minutes. right now, 32 cleveland to aleeria, 42 in canton. once again, we're tracking another winter storm. it's going to bring a wide variety of impacts to you and i over the next couple of days. again, hour by hour tracking, who gets how much snow, all of that, details coming up. only on 5, stacy, odor, bugs, millions of gallons of storm water from other communities into their neighborhoods. >> but the northeast ohio regional

basin had help them manage that water and meet federal pollution standards. 5 on your side investigators pagonakis is live with more. >> reporter: as you're about to see, some residents aren't too happy about living next to them. it's an abandoned east cleveland apartment complex on page avenue, one of three locations the sewer district would like to turn into a bio retention basin to better manage storm water runoff but some residents call it. >> a water dump. it's a dump. >> reporter: similar projects like this one on east 75th in cleveland are being tested but there are unanswered questions, like what if the unit needs repairs. >> nobody knows how hong it's going to take to fix it or if it can be fixed once it breaks down. nobody knows what the backlash of

what if water overflows into people's homes. >> it can be dangerous for kids. >> reporter: people are concerned about safety and then there is the smell that pops up after a heavy rain. >> i've seen water sitting in there for two weeks and that's what causes a smell. it's like being back home in the south, you smell the swamp gas. >> reporter: the proposal shows several of the locations and pictures of how the unkept hand will be reused and nicely landscaped but some residents say. >> they're taking time to put them in but they're not doing the upkeep. >> reporter: and the sewer district issued a statement saying the project manage runoff, they will meet with the cleveland residents tomorrow at 6 p.m. at east cleveland city hall. new information tonight on a deadly hit and run in cleveland this weekend. the city tells us the division of streets is now investigating of intersection of lee and tarkington

neighbors say the crosswalk this is confusing, signals at some parts of the intersection, crosswalk markings only painted on one side of the street. the driver suspected in the deadly hit is now charged with vehicular homicide. there are vicious and personal attacks of the campaign. donald trump teed off against rival marco rubio calling him a nasty guy and a little mouth piece. rubio fought back calling trump's plane hair-force one. the war of words reached a fevered pitch after trump failed to david duke. and feeling the heat from the fallout. he had 30 black students removed from a campaign event tonight

rubio has tried to use trump's recent missteps to his advantage. >> ku klux klan comes through clearly and he refuses to it. hillary clinton is hoping to lock out her democratic rival bernie sanders. ohio voters aren't going to the polls tomorrow but donald trump is spending time in the buckeye state. he'll apart columbus airport tomorrow. there's nothing in the world that requires the information provided be accurate. >> a newsnet55 investigation reveals shocking information about ohio's sex offender laws. the loophole that can allow convicted sex offenders to get in contact with you or your kids. child predator search still on

forward and says she saw a suspicious man. another winter storm, the march lion as we like to call it, it's coming our way. it's going to bring a mess of different types of prekrep to your backyard.

. another girl says she saw a suspicious man the same day three other girls said a man approached them accept ratly on their way to school in -- separately on their way to school. a man was standing in her driveway. also on thursday a 10-year-old said she woke up to a man trying to pull her out of her bedroom window. miss are trying to figure out if these incidents are related. offenders, especially on line predators, be allowed to use the internet? we found dozens on social media sites here in cleveland. >> and the most alarming thing? an investigation found it's not against the haw. >> reporter: this is 2100 lakeside avenue.

registry it's the address of a child sexual predator lorne miller. like all offenders, he had to register his address with the state. there's a catch. >> there's nothing in the law that requires that the information provided be accurate. >> reporter: at a time when one in every seven kids receives unwanted sexual solicitations on line, sexual offenders have to give their internet names. but the list doesn't have to be real or complete. take for instance this page we found, miller never registered it. while illegal it couldn't land him in jail. that is until he was caught soliciting a 14-year-old girl for sex on the internet. for the second time in less than a decade. right now lawmakers are working to fix the loophole. >> we are working to get it fixed. the bill is in the house and hopefully it will be passed out of there quickly enough and on to the governor for signature.

closing another one might open. states like nevada and new york have policies for sex offenders. some require internet identifiers to be registered and it's sent to social networking sites who can kick those users off. illinois made it a felony for sex offenders to use social media sites at all. but in ohio, that kind of law doesn't even exist. >> it's not a blanket rule across the state. freedman, sex crimes experts. >> they can impose all these conditions and they have their inpersonal policies. >> reporter: when it comes to repeat offenders, like miller, he was allowed to be on line even though he was trolling chatrooms. you had not use facebook if

convicted sex offender is one of facebook's rules. we found sex offenders by doing a search by city. like this one, convicted of trying to arrange sex with a 15-year-old. or this one for child porn. but legally, they're in the cheer. senator akland says he sees the danger but says a blanket policy would be nearly impossible to draft in ohio. >> very often one size fits none. >> reporter: the biggest obstacle, first amendment objections. but what about young victims and their families? >> i don't know what you say but we're doing the pest we can within the bounds -- best we can within the bounds of rights of liberty in a free society. >> those who go out and seek it, that's a problem. if you're chatting on line with a minor or an officer posing as an officer, that's a problem.

should be treated differently than those who stumble upon a picture on line or know that their partner is underage. >> you have people committing new crimes. >> reporter: like lorne miller did. remember that address? that's a homeless shelter. he hasn't lived there for near three years. police, his neighbors, and his previous victims didn't know where he lived while he was back at it on line trying to arrange sex with a 14-year-old girl. this month lorne miller was found guilty of four counts related to sexually explicit conduct with a minor and failing to register. he'll be sentenced in may. . news channel 5 reached out to the american civil liberties union,

comment. gun themed stilettos that caused a problem. tsa spotted these shoes and while they aren't real the tsa does not ahow any replica guns even if they look like shoes or ammo past checkpoints. she had to leave them behind. >> where would you wear those? ? >> i don't know. >> some kind of fashion statement. >> i doubt that's what it is for. >> okay, mark. >> going to utah. [ laughter ]. >> you have to ex-main all your doppler themes. >> i have doppler shoes. i found out there's doppler underwear? should i get a pair? no. [ laughter ]. on.

>> you can go on line. i'm not lying to you. they are boxer briefs. [ laughter ]. >> there are so many lines and i'm not doing it. it's not past midnight. join me then on line. power of 5, we have clouds overhead but we're drying greater cleveland and we should stay dry. currently 33 degrees, that weak front is sliding in. two minutes left, producer? i don't get extra time for having fun with the doppler underwear. 32 in richfield, 35 in peninsula, 43 jackson, 42 canton to alliance. cooling down. again. the front is right about here, 29 ashtabula. the latest greatest model information is this storm system is creeping farther north. that means more rain for us and less

32 in cleveland. a northeast wind at 17. still breezy out there. here is the front, dropping in. so far only a few light snow showers moving up toward the islands. this area is going to move this way so i think the majority of us will stay dry. should be a dry morning commute. here is the latest computer forecast. the front stalls out, actually moves a bit back north, so everyone south of that should see lower and middle 50s tomorrow. north of that, 30s. so we're bisecting the area. again, that means more rain for most of us. hour by hour, here you go. look it, this is all rain tomorrow for the afternoon rush. the freezing rain is just out over the lake. but sandusky still worried about you with sleet and snow. then everybody gets a little bit of snow overnight but because the storm system is farther north it means lesser amounts of snow.

could it still shift south again? sure could. we'll keep an eye on it. good morning cleveland begins tomorrow morning at 4:30 a.m. 29 tonight, cloudy, breezy, chilly out there. tomorrow, cleveland 50. cloudy skies, afternoon rain. the afternoon rush is going to be slippery as far as wetness and rainfall goes. okay, akron tonight, 34 and dry. tomorrow, mid-50s with mid to late afternoon rain. pm 27. thursday. flurries friday and then

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. the cavs announcing that williams will be out for the next two weeks as he nurses a left knee injury. they were hosting the pacers, back from two straight road losses. this one coming down to the end. you got your money's worth if you were at the game tonight. lebron taking the day off yesterday. first quarter, driving down the middle and lays it in, cavs it in, lebron with 33 points. third quarter, under two minutes left, george pulls up for the three. pacers up. fourth quarter things get interesting. over a minute to go, james finds deli, knocks down the three.

finds thompson, a tough shot. now george hill trying to get it done for the pacers, the shot is blocked. thompson steals the win. cavs take this one 100-96. thompson with a double-double, 14 points and 11 rebounds. opening day for the indians, 35 days away. tomorrow the indians hosting the cincinnati reds in goodyear, arizona, in training camp. their first game of training camp. brantley continuing to rehab his shoulder. will likely miss opening day and be out several weeks into the season. reportedly moving up to soft talk after being limited to t work. he says he feels good about where he's at right now. >> i'm doing great. making progress each and every day. on a good game plan with a comeback and no swinging and hitting and i'm excited where i'm at. really am. >> cardinal jones will wait

march 11th to show nfl coaches his ability. he injured his hamstring but still a lot of interest. it will be well attended by scouts and general managers from teams across the league as many teams wanting to see what he can do. working out in san diego with quarterback coach whitfield, who has worked with some of the best, including newton and roethlisberger, says in terms of talent and athletic ability he has a whole lot to offer. >> he's the most gifted quarterback in his draft and i say probably, he is. he comes in, you know, one of only two kids in this draft with a national championship under his belt. nationally known, everyone had a

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