. brace yourself for another blast of winter. a few flakes flying around right now and a new round of snow is headed our way. and meteorologist jason nicholas is tracking it all, timing it hour. >> and flakes lingering. two more chances of snow as we head for the rest of the week winter is in no hurry to leave northern ohio.

here on our sky cam. notice mostly cloudy skies, early march is here and temperatures certainly don't feel that way. we're in the 20s. mid-20s. 25 degrees certainly a far cry from where we were just several hours ago. temperatures across the region again running mainly in the low to mid-20s. the cold front has moved through, 21, kirtland and 21 shardin. we have snowflakes off of eerie and we have the heavy snow detector on. and where that is hurting steady is southeastern section of cuyahoga county into downtown and sullen, west of the city, lighter stuff and into westlake. here we go, maple heights, north field, twinsburg up and down interstate 271 and as well as 480 and back into portions of portage county and southern geauga county and into the south and west along interstate 71, lodi, westfield, and burbank and into medina. vermilion, wakeman and lolain

lorain and elyria with light rain, too. a big warm-up but that is not happening until next week. hour-by-hour, the temperatures in the 20s with a few flakes. i will let you know about two shots of. when, how much coming up. leon. >> and thank you, jason. it was a house fire claiming the lives of a man and his dog. at the scene, a firefighter was on west 99th street. south of dennisson avenue. our cameras were there rolling as crews tried to save a man and his best friend. sarah phinney takes our story from there. >> reporter: as strong winds lift smoke around the west side neighborhood, firefighters went inside a home pulling out a man's limp body, wheeling him to a nearby ambulance. minutes later, a fireman carries out a large dog. his name was t-bone. >> it's important we make every attempt to save everyone in the an animal could be as important to the person as a human being. >> reporter: first responders perform c -- performed c, r and

it was no the enough. >> reporter: he will be -- cpr and gave him oxygen. it was not enough. >> he has been watching everyone in the neighborhood. >> reporter: the man likely fell asleep while cooking food on the stove, the tragedy serving as a reminder. >> when you cook on the stove, make sure that you can identify that if you have to walk away, turn it off. >> reporter: cleveland fire officials say this is the fifth fatal fair so far this year. there were 9 total last year. i'm cleveland's west side, sarah phinney, newschannel 5. and. investigators said the firefighter who was injured suffered burns to his neck and minor burns to his face. students at a southwest ohio community returned to class with heavy hearts, marking the first day of school at a shooting at the butler county high school. madison township school officials say that police and crisis counselors will be available the next few days and

student -- 14-year-old student opened fire. four students were injured and the accused gunman remains in juvenile detention after denying charges against him. and there are changes coming to a cleveland landmark. mike bookbank joins us with details on what is in the works. >> reporter: good afternoon. we learned that the city is moving forward with a controversial change. vendors will be opened on sundays. and starting out sundays will be optional. and right now, longtime vendors won't participate. and this is the first time the hours changeed since vendors set up shop here more than 100 years ago. and officials say the move will make the market more competitive. plans are in the works to change the parking situation behind the market and that is on lots a&b. combined and reconfigured, creating 100 new parking spots and that project starts this

complete lie december and after that, prepare to pay up. for the new lot. city leaders will hold a public meeting from 6-8 to talk about the changes and reporting from the newsroom, mike brookbank, newschannel 5. and democrat hillary big across the map. both took a step closer to their party's nominations. and stephanie ramos has the late on the presidential race. >> reporter: super tuesday is over with both front runners in lead. >> thank you so much. >> reporter: the winner took with the results, the november election will be a matchup of trump. trump sweeping up big wins in seven states and making it up. marco rubio winning in one

grabbing the most votes in oklahoma, alaska, and texas. >> we have done something that almost no one thought could be done. >> reporter: hillary clinton snagging big wins in several delegate heavy states and with her commanding lead, taking on trump -- . >> instead of building love, we're going to break down barriers. >> reporter: after a landslide, clinton's democratic competitor singing that same tune and this one. >> this lang is your land. sanders not showing signs of ending his campaign. >> this is not a general election or not winner take all. >> reporter: after so many votes, the gop field have five candidates, including ben carson and they're all staying in the race. hillary clinton is so much closer to the nominee status. her competition is staying in the race until the democratic

ramos, abc news, washington. and elsewhere, the former ohio governor ted strickland scored major endorsements. president obama and vice president joe biden are backing strickland and that is for the u.s. senate from ohio. the winner of the democratic march 15th primary faces incumbent senator rob portman and that is in november. coming up, there are new developments in the search for a missing malaysia airline flight. what investigators found that could help solve the mystery. >> and touchdown. the u.s. astronaut scot kelly in space. newschannel 5 continues after

. there might be another piece of a mysterious aviation puzzle, possibly a piece of plane wreckage. where maybe malaysia flight 370 was found on the coast of mozambique. it's on the way to malaysia to determine if it's from the missing flight. it disappeared in 2014, aboard were 239 people. there is a mystery of what happened on the plane and where it sits. it's turned up aircraft debris and false leads. and now this. today, the u.s. supreme

important abortion case in two decades and this will mark the first high-profile issue since the death of justice scalia. and they are to consider a texas law that hampers a woman's constitutional right to obtain a -- to perform abortions and hospitals and clinics have to meet standards for surgical centers and a few dozen abortion clinics in texas have closed because of the law. and up next, a dancing with the stars shakeup. next season. and your friend. >> that is you, leon. >> and march is here. so is the deep freeze.

. today, a story of the return of the spaceman. fact. american astronaut scot kelly is back on earth after a year orbiting the planet before the international space station.

here's more on the space journey. >> a descent rate of 80 meeters per second. >> and scot kelly back on solid earth. >> reporter: pumping his fists and giving two thumbs up and a peace sign, saying that air is good. >> the cold air is amazing, fresh air. and it was nothing like new cold air coming into the capsule. >> reporter: the russian spacecraft landed in kazakhstan overnight and they returned to earth to a hero's welcome. >> and felt like was up there my whole life, you know, after the first six months. >> reporter: he spent 340 days in space during that time, completing nearly 5500 orbits. and that is almost 144 million back, 300 times. >> and by going to mars one day, it will make things better here on earth. of that. >> reporter: one of the

measure the affects of space on the human body by comparing him to his twin, retired astronaut mark kelly. and still, a lot of work ahead for this american record holder who admits being home is bittersweet. >> i have been there a long time and i look forward to leaving. at the same time, it's a magnificent place and i am going to miss it. >> reporter: he's expected to arrive home in houston where he will be reunited with his family and greeted by his nasa bosses. from high in space to trouble on the high seas royal caribbean's anthem of the cities made it to his homeport in jersey this morning and the ship was on a planned level-day trip to the caribbean and last month, the same cruise ship sail veiled into an atlantic storm forcing passengers to

abcs hit show "dancing with the stars" returns next month for the 22nd season and the beat goes on as the first cast member was revealed. jody sweeten, who started in full house as a child s on joining the competition; how far, one of the professional dancers is stepping out of one another. derek hough is taking his talents to broadway. he won last season with brindy irwin. his sister won't return as a judge for season number 22. and cedar point just released new video of the record-breaking roller coaster. the val raven and this is footage from the first drop, we're really high on it looking at it. it boasts 214-foot plunge. when -- and when we ride, we'll hold on together, right? crews are expected to finish installing the track later today.

and fastest dive coaster in the world. cedar point opens saturday, may 7th. -- save a seat in the front for me, won't you? we'll be riding it together, i suppose. >> growing up. >> and -- [ laughter ] >> okay, and by the way, the park is hiring for the new season. a job fare is set for sent at castaway bay in sandusky, 10:00 for 3:00 and positions available in food service and other operations and other places in the park. and potential candidates are asked to follow out applications before attending the job fair. >> awesome. >> and we would be on the down side, wouldn't by? >> we're at the peak and heading down a bit over the top there. the millennium force. >> okay. >> and we're going to eventually head back up into next week. >> and whatever it is, we'll be riding it together. >> yes and yesterday was meteorological spring again. >> oh.

>> yeah, right? >> and the cloud cover and some snowflakes and not a big deal. and outdoor activities, as far as driving to and from your spots won't be an issue and in the mid- to upper 20s and 27 new officially a couple of degrees. paramedic a still chilly and 22 and low to mid-20s and that is winter out there. on the calendar, spring beginning on the 20th and that is march 20th. meteorologically speaking, we break it down into months and have four sets of three months each and spring begins meet logically, and this is snow, south and east of cleveland and we'll head into the west side first. we have some flurries over the open waters of lake erie. the same deal as you head to pearl road here, 42; pardon me alarma -- parma, parma heights and probably the heaviest bursts of snow and not heavy at

north of northfield center and into the summit county-cuyahoga county line and back into the southern geauga-northern sections of portage county along the turnpike, we're getting light snow and into the south and west. more hit-or-miss stuff through southwestern medina county and into easterny and huron. western lorain county getting snow again and not much. things are just lowly snowflakes that won't accumulate too much in anything. maybe a half an inch to an inch. and that is about it. between now and 5 or 6 tonight. as everything will start to wind down. we conto stay cold, a march breeze is -- we continue to stay cold. a march breeze and hour-by-hour for us, the temperatures in the mid- to upper 20s and mostly cloudy skies. we'll break the clouds up tonight and tomorrow won't be that bad through the afternoon. again, we track some snow and take a look. winder snow stats. we're standing at the third least snowiest winter record for cleveland and we're 2 1/2

some six feet tall and about halfway. we're about right there. low. 2 1/2 feet. wow, that is amazing. temperatures in the upper 20s and lower 30s. hour-by-hour, notice a few early flakes, otherwise we're drying things out and we watch for more snow showers to come in. could see one to two inches tomorrow afternoon and another one or two for saturday. mid-20s, a few flakes and cloudy and code. the lows tonight, lower 20s, cloudy skies again. cold and breezy, we'll track that snow tomorrow afternoon in the lower 30s, the same deal with the morning snow shower and a shot of snow for everyone, one to two inches on saturday and look at this. there is your warm-up. this time next week, we're in the middle 60s. yeah and we will see what happens.

. newschannel 5 is in your community. sports director andy baskin read to students this morning for read across america day. they celebrate it every year on march 2nd, the birthday of the late author and ill straighter dr. seuss. >> and i want that hat. bring that hat back in. >> and he's a good guy and always. >> and the weather we're going to be okay? >> we'll be all right and a better shot of no tomorrow. >> okay.

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