live always investigating. always on your side, newschannel 5 starts now! >> a family in mourning tonight after their 4-year-old child died after a massive fire broke out in an apartment complex. >> the dozens forced from their homes as a result. today with the help of community, those evacuated from their home trying to pick up the pieces. >> a sprinkler system could spreading. megan hickey has been digging through inspection records. what do you know about how the fire started. >> reporter: investigators have not determined a cause but a disguarded cigarette could be to blame. it may have started on the ground floor outside the building. an annual safety inspection was performed in june and found no violations. detectors but not required to

of the age of the building. investigators are looking into possible problems with a nearby heating system but barber emphasized that the area has had issues with cigarette fires in the past. >> people come in and throw them around by their house and the apartment and like mulch or the grass is dry it creeps up on the glass and we get fires. >> barber told me that in new york and california have laws that require older buildings to have those sprinkler systems. ohio does not. live in brunswick, megan hickey, news channel 5. as officials continue to look into how the fire broke out, the community is wasting no time in helping those that lost everything as a result. tracy carloss is live at st. ambrose where donations have been pouring in since the fire. >> they sure have. take a look. you can see for yourself. the donations have been coming

to help those people in need. bradley dietrich lost everything in last night's fire. >> ran out the door, grabbed everything we could. all we got out with is what we have on our back. >> tonight bradley explained to me that he does in fact have everything. >> i don't know i would do if i lost them. >> bradley and his 15 month-old baby and girlfriend all got out of the burning building alive last night. now bradley and dozens of his neighbors that are homeless are since last night father bob stack have been coming with >> people have been getting in their cars in a caring community all wanting to do something so car after car stopping in 12:30, 1:00, 1:30, 2:00 and it was just amazing outpouring of help. >> reporter: mountains of clothes and boxes of food water necessities needed to start over. but for bradley there are some

>> his baby book and his first year everything that i have for his entire first year, is in that house. >> a house destroyed last night. tonight, lives being rebuilt because of the kindness of strangers. >> and father stick tells me they have the clothes and household items. they need gift cards and cash donations to best help the victims. live in brunswick. 5. an alert for the parents in elyria school district. school officials say there was a report of another attempted abduction. a high schooler was approached by a man with white hair and white beard and driving an older black car with black tinted windows. the student is okay but this is the 5th abduction attempt in lorain and elyria. last month four girls reported they have been approached by a man either exposing himself or trying to grab them from one of the girls is nearly

middle of the night. the suspect in the earlier report does not match the description of today's incident. police are still looking for both men. and new details about the car stolen from cleveland's police chief. it was taken over the weekend. calvin williams, jr. left it running and someone took off. it was found with an empty gun holster. >> a cleveland man wanted for hitting his girlfriend's father with a car. and the goggins has been charged with assault. goggins pinned the father after he got out to confront him his girlfriend told police he held her against her will. a north royal ton man

his home. jeff rinear is facing charges assault and tampering with evidence in crystal shaver's dead. rinear shot him in his home last month. expected to be arraigned on tuesday. an akron man learned his sentence today for raping three girls all under the age of ten. bruce gordon arrested last year after one of the victims came forward to their mother. gordon will be eligible for parole in he 55 years and if released he will have to register as a sex offender. learning several people have been arrested following drug bust in lorain county. both lorain and elyria police department targeted suspected drug traffickers that are responsible for supplying heroin and cocaine around the counties. they expect to make more arrests. we are learn that more people died as a result of

the drug task force know of two recent deaths bringing the total number of deaths to 8 over the last two weeks. elyria police have responded to the last two weeks. two of them fatal. several people have been arrested for selling the drug. outstanding weather. it is only tuesday. wish it were friday and you could enjoy it. look at the traffic moving well. it almost looks like a may evening across northern ohio. the temperatures reflective of may. 69 degrees in cleveland. still 70s akron and dover new philly and mild through the evening. we got high thin clouds floating by. mixing with the clear and warm flow of air. will continue for at least a couple days. we do rain. we will introduce that on

more warmth to tell but for the next day. tracking rain. i'll tell you when you will need umbrellas and the cool will return. you didn't think that the cool weather wasn't coming back, right? i'll tell you when you will need the coats when we come back. let's talk about the primaries because all eyes continue to be on the republican race for the white house. right now voters in michigan idaho hawaii and mississippi are casing their ballots. not as many delegates are up factor grabs as last tuesday but the candidates are grasping for every delegate they can get. cruz is closing in. only 84 delegates separate cruz and donald trump. >> what is apparent is that ours is the only campaign that has beaten donald trump repeatedly and that can and

>> a win for michigan in cruz will tighten up up the gap with 59 delegates up for grabs. for our governor he finished up a rally in broad view heights. we found john kasich who talk about the governor and the race today. >> chris, governor john kasich wrapping up in broad view heights. shaking some hands here in the room here off of i-77. today is one of the biggest days in the race for the house. it was all about michigan. onto the next week it's all about ohio. the governor stopping here in broadview heights after talking off campaigning in michigan. the polls showed him closing the gap on donald trump on the strength of last thursday's debate. the governor will take results going to illinois. he says its is about how he >> whatever happens, i'm prepared to live with it. some people said well you know

will win you will drop out. not go to ohio. come on, you got to play it through and play it where it lies like it lies, you know and just see what happens and i'm very optimistic. i think we will win ohio. i can't imagine losing it but the voters will have their save. >> and one to determine the future of the campaign, a campaign that kaisch still believes will end here in cuyahoga county at the convention in july. reporting live from broad view heights. john kosic, newschannel 5. we will be at hillary clinton's rally tonight. expected to speak in a little more than an hour at cuyahoga community college. looking ahead gop front-runner donald trump will be holding a rally on saturday speaking to supporters of the ix center. reservations for that event are required. still ahead on newschannel 5 at six. lucky to be alive. that's how won woman described her run-in with the

i looked over at the guy to the right and i said oh, crap, pam your gut is right we're going to get beyond. one group looking for a few extra volunteers to help train an elite group of paws. remember if you see news happening you can text or email us, we love the tweets.

we'll be right back. a trip to gas station turned terrifying for a nor ton woman now sharing her story on five. a monday we first showed you this surveillance video here of the 61-year-old grandmother robbed at gunpoint. her car, cell phone and purse all stolen. today she told our bob jones she is grateful to be alive. >> the two cashiers felt he would have shot us. >> pam is wearing a counsel your blessings sweat shirt after her encounter with a gunman. >> i was shaking and i have a tendency to cry easily. >> pam tried to not show

man wearing two hoodies robbing the clerks at the duchess store. >> i was afraid he would hurt someone. he was nervous. >> but after the crook got $200 he turned his attention and weapon towards pam. >> and he turned his gun on me and said give me your car keys and i said are you kidding me? >> no joke the video handed over her keys. >> i think he would have shot me. >> the gunman took off in her car. >> she told the 911 what happened. >> he threatened us. >> and her car was not the only thing stolen. >> it has my purse and everything. >> pam says her cell phone was taken along with candy and stuffed animals she was going to put in easter baskets for kids at her church. >> police are looking for her car while pam lives with fear. >> i had my husband put a step stool in front of the front door and the locks are changed.

>> i kept thinking thank god everybody is okay. >> in nor ton, bob jones, newschannel 5. mark is here and what a day. >> am i your favorite? >> you are. >> i did some housecleaning outside. i cleaned out the bluebird house. you should do that in the beginning of march so the blue birds can find their nest. it was a beautiful day and i did that on facebook live you can go for newsnet5.com. >> you did it. >> i did something today mary. i did accomplish something. not much. something. >> let's talk about what is going on. look at this beautiful sunset over downtown cleveland. incredible. live picture there. just captures the spirit of the day. more like may out there than early march. come on. let's enjoy it. it's 71 right now downtown.

and chagrin falls and same for north royalton and avon and brunswick. the warm spot new london and ashland at 72. two hours ago it was sitting at 75 degrees. around the horn we go. we got 70s for coshocton and ravenna at 68 and 66 for mansfield and 69 for norwalk and cleveland hopkins airport. winds are a little gusty. 23 miles per hour gusts in cleveland. breezy in and out. not solid but in and out breezes and calming down for you. 72. look where we should be. the high was 72. the average is 43 degrees. almost 30 degrees above normal. incredible stuff there. and snowfall. do i dare mention the "s" word?

times all snowiest. 25-inches. 30-inches below the normal for time of year. no snow in the near future. scattered clouds. mid and high level clouds but we do notice a lot of rainfall out of the gulf of mexico. flood warnings and tornado watches out for the mississippi river. houston to dallas over towards st. louis. this is where the bulk of the heavy rain is going. but we will see some of that rain shifting around. there is the front. shifting up and over and eventually i think tomorrow afternoon we will see a few hit and miss isolated rain showers. better chance for rain on thursday. a very rainy day. this high still doing its job. the blocking high, remember i said as long as the big boy is sitting here and spinning, not moving anywhere it's going to hold back all of this. we're on the warm side, yep, so we are enjoying temperatures well above normal and will do that tomorrow.

away and allows the front to sag in thursday night. and friday is going to be chilly day. it's back to more seasonable weather with highs in the 40s for a couple of days. tonight mid-50s for lows. partly cloudy, breezy and mild. tomorrow, what do you think? near 70s again? why not, mostly cloudy skies. we will mention an isolated shower during the afternoon hours. most of you will stay dry. thursday, a very wet day. 61, rain likely. friday, much cooler. we will keep it dry for now. 48 and then we are back to the warmth. 65 saturday. another very wet day on sunday near 60s and 60s and 50s monday and tuesday. danita. as a dog owner i know there is no question about how smart dogs can be. and one local group is looking

term service dogs. guiding eyes for the blind training. the dogs are lifelong friends for those that they help. >> they help them cross the street. they can help them in their homes. it is so amazing to me that me raising a little puppy can change someone's life forever. >> good girl. >> and they are cute. the group is holding a fundraiser to not only help pay for the program but to also recruit more volunteers and raise awareness. what a great cause. umm? the indians trying to training. arizona. i will let you know how that went and we will hear from terry francona on what he is

that and more after the break so stay with us. the indians at training camp hosting the seattle mariners. looking for their second straight win.

eric stamos on the line drive to left field and michael martinez scores and the indians win 4-3 and the manager terry francona watches their approach. >> spring training doesn't define how guys will do. it is amazing. it is nice to see how they play gold and hard to see them make the club if he doesn't play well. what you are looking for is okay, is he swinging at the strikes? >> after a vote between both media and coaches akron akron isaiah johnson has been named mack player of the year.

lindsey ross is name this student of the week. she excels in the classroom. lindsey wallace of franciscan high is not your ordinary girl's high school athlete. lindsey is the goalie for the boy's hockey team. >> the coaches in our league, the great lake hockey league vote on best players offense and defense and goal tenders. all the coaches voted that lindsey as a junior was the best goaltender this season. she received that award. lindsey plays tennis and runs track. >> but sports is not the only thing she is good at but excels in academics.

>> i want to be a vet. i have done an internship and i loved it and academics are important to me. >> lindsey would like to play hockey in college and being recruited to play college hockey. junior lindsey wallace of franciscan high is mcdonald's student athlete of the week. congratulations. lindsey. >> very nice. >> not easy to play on an all boy's team impressive. >> way to go. question. tomorrow is the day. what do the browns do with the quarterback? do you thinksome. >> i don't think johnny manziel is going to be here very long but i think everyone knows that. >> tomorrow is the day they cut him or hold onto him. >> i don't think they will hold onto him a second longer than they have to. >> tomorrow four p.m. >> that is my opinion. >> at 4: 01 he will be gone. here we go. let's look at the seven-day forecast. >> i just wanted to ask. >> look at the warm air, we flirt with chilly air friday. i think friday is the coolest

and you are back in the 60s. more rain, the rain is thursday and sunday. monday a few showers. but that's not bad. that's late april and early may weather. >> not march. >> we will take it. >> many are asking are we done with winter? the answer is no. >> we will see you tonight at 11. have a great evening. news channel 5 at six has been brought to you by the ohio lottery cash explosion game saturdays at 7:30 p.m. pay their fair share of taxes, provide living wages for working people, ensure equal pay for women. i'm bernie sanders. i approve this message

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breaking news tonight. the first word from voters coming in right now. is the national race tightening for trump? at this moment, donald trump's pledge being compared to a nazi salute. also, we ask, is the math possible for bernie sanders, if hillary clinton wins tonight? and what sanders told us about helping clinton. also tonight, we're on the scene right now. the commuter train off the tracks. the rescue effort. more than 200 passengers. one car plunging into the water. we're tracking the deadly storms tonight. tornadoes hitting. neighborhoods destroyed. up to ten inches of rain from texas all the way up to illinois. breaking overseas, the american tourist killed. the images coming in.