concord family and their five- year-old daughter. >> it's a marijuana-based seizure drug. after a successful trial this week the drug company is now fighting to get fda approval. this afternoon newschannel5's megan hickey spoke to mom and daughter. how does this fit into the medical marijuana movement here in ohio? >> reporter: many people, including concord mom christina, see the successful trial as proof of the benefits of medical marijuana, and she says the clock is ticking for her daughter paige. >> paigey, your turn. >> reporter: five-year-old paige had a good day today. a good day means she had 10 seizures at pre school. on a bad day, she can have more than 100. >> i don't know when the next seizure is going to be that could cause brain damage, further brain damage, for that

>> reporter: paige has a severe seizure condition that caused her to after stroke when she was 19 months old. >> so she takes multiple doses of these on a daily basis, three times a day, and these are her sleep meds. >> reporter: right now she takes a cocktail of fda- approved medications. >> this is probably about four days, maybe four or five days. >> reporter: they still can't stop the daily paralyzing seizures. but news this week about a successful trial of a marijuana- based seizure drug gave paige's family new home. doctors tell me there are benefits to explore. >> there are components of marijuana that can be used to treat certain conditions. >> reporter: but paige's mom christina knows it could be a long road to fda approval. and she says paige doesn't have time to wait. right now she's advocating for the ohio ballot initiative, legislative action, anything to try to help her daughter.

we're willing to take. >> reporter: the marijuana seizure drug has at least three more trials scheduled for this year. in its first trial it reduced seizures by 40%. live in cleveland, megan hickey, newschannel5. the parade may be over but celebrations for st. patrick's day still well underway as crews work to finish cleaning up the city after the parade, police still out in force to ensure everyone is celebrating safely. police say the parade went off without any major incidents or arrests. but the night is still young, and officers are hoping to keep brawls to a minimum. our local breweries also see a big up tick in the days around st. patrick's day. there are 110 craft brewers in ohio alone. most started off as a tiny hobby that just continued to grow. >> what you are really seeing that's interesting right now is

town, no matter what little blip on the map it is, now has a brewery. some of the best beer in ohio is come vowght really small towns. i don't think we're near the saturation point yet. as for where ohio stands in the craft beer industry, we're ranked fourth in production, and stainls past year have grown 17%. let's check in with chief meteorologist mark johnson with an update on our weather. >> a lot going on around northern ohio and the great lakes. we have this to blame. an upper level low and a surface low kind of sitting and pretty strong. what's it doing to us now? stirring up a few isolated rain showers. they will be with us for the next couple of hours, and, of course, stirring up some pretty good wind gusts. we have seen them calm down just a bit. still blustery in cleveland p. in ashtabula. last hour we had several gusts above 40. gradually taming down those

tells, a lot of green on the map. that means 50-plus-degree temperatures. looking good. overnight notice a couple of isolated showers, all the way through 8:00, 9:00, 10:00, then things should be mainly clear but temperatures are cooling down. middle 40s for many of you. wear the green sweater. did i mention we're tracking some snow for the first day of spring, chris? >> thanks but no thanks. new at 6:00 we're learning an arrest has been made after a 20-year-old shot several cars on cleveland's east side with an ak-47. this happened last week near east 72nd and wade park. five different cars were struck. police have taken 20-year-old aryan andrews into custody. aggravated menacing charges have been filed against a poll employee who pulled a gun on

police say he never pointed the gun at anyone in the polling site at the school. he was fired by the board of elections shortly after the election. 12 people in cuyahoga county have died in the past week alone as a result of an on the part i -- opioid overdose. chris, nothing to cheer about here. a youth cheerleading group treasurer is facing felony charges accused of stealing more than peds 13,000 from the group. shannon lewis was arrested after police say she tooct over a three-month period. police say she used that money to pay off her own bills and buy personal items. >> there were two checks to herself, and there were also -- most of the charges were made

to the association that she used for perm expenses. >> lewis is scheduled to in a court early next month. more and more people are telling us their bill from the cleveland division of water are wrong. tonight a boston heights woman told us she isn't even hooked into cleveland water lines but she's getting build. investigator jonathan walsh uncovers new details at 6:00. >> reporter: there's a lot of aggressive development in the botch heights area but one woman tells me the water department billing is getting ahead of the building itself. >> i feel like where do i turn? because i'm not getting satisfaction from them. >> reporter: 76-year-old mary from boston heights told me she feels like she's getting nowhere with the cleveland division of water because she's called dozens of times and no answers. >> how cain be getting a water bill when i still have my well and no pipes down to the house or anything? >> reporter: that's right. she has received six bills for $27 each for the two homes she owns.

still on well water and not connected to the development that's happening on her road. >> i'm very careful about, you don't pay something you don't have. and so i did not -- way not send the money in, and i'm still getting bills, and late -- not charges yet, but past due, et cetera. >> reporter: i called cleveland water reps and they told me they have to investigate the issue and they didn't have enough time today to figure out what was happening on mer's property before our report aired. mary told me she prides herself on paying her bills but these she feels she doesn't did he search. >> i never pay things late. never. >> reporter: i'll stay on top of it. investigator jonathan walsh, newschannel5. >> if you live in cuyahoga county did your neighborhood vote for prosecutor tim mcginty or challenger michael o'malley? there's an interesting analysis. investigatessor sarah buduson here now to break down the votes, which candidate won and where they won. sara.

all of the cuyahoga precincts, o'malley won the race by 20,000 votes. it's very clear. one city delivered the defeat the mcginty. incumbent tim mcginty and his office bragged about prosecuting cases from a backlog of untested rape kits and demolishing abandoned homes. >> we're getting more than we can hafnlt. >> reporter: but analysts we talked to say lost the public's confidence with his handling of high-profile officer-involved shootings in cleveland. >> as far as they were concerned, mcginty did wrong and he was punished at the moss. >> reporter: we have reviewed numbers and we learned michael mall lee won -- michael o'malley won most of the suburbs, including maple heights. mcginty did win bay village, westlake, rocky river, north openly sterksd and strongsville.

cost mcginty's reelection were the defeats he sirched all but about 25 of cleveland's more than 3070 precincts. his small victories were on cleveland's near west side, in mcginty's own neighborhood, the west park area. no republicans or independents failed for the november general election. so o'malley will take over the county's top law enforcement post in january 2017. live in the newsroom, i'm investigator sarah buduson, newschannel5. still ahead at 6:00, a trial run for the rnc. >> thousands of locals in downtown cleveland for st. patrick's day but what is going to guide out of town visitors for the big republican rail lipe july? find out how you can help show off the cle. putting rumors to rest whroo. is endorsing whom, and will a popular politician jump into the presidential ring at the last minute? text or e-mail us if you

hour, a woman is dead after police say someone broke into a tuscarawas home in the middle of the night. >> chris, it happened on cougar drive. home >> reporter: deputies are still on scene. they're planning on stepping up patrols. very few details but here's what we know. around 4:00 this morning a 17- year-old boy called 911 saying he heard screams from the bedroom next to hit. he found a man on top of his dad's girlfriend. the boy was able to escape, and when police got here, they found 39-year-old darlene rerkz nner stabbed to death. an autopsy is planned in stark county tomorrow. there is no sign right now of that suspect. police say there was no murder weapon found on the scene. again, they are stepping up patrols. a very vague description of that suspect available at this point.

telling us midvale has a population of 754 people. they can't remember the last time there was a murder here. reporting in tuscarawas county, homa bash, newschannel5. today cleveland no doubt awash in green. >> chris, we know in just a few months red will dominate as the republican national convention comes to town. let's check in with paul kiska. paul, our city is gearing up to make sure all those guests will be able to find their way around. >> reporter: that's right. thousands of people packed downtown cleveland for the st. patrick's day parade on this sunny and windy day. but huge crowds are also expected for rnc week in the heat of july when thousands of out of towners descend on downtown. they need thousands of volunteers to be greeters at airports and hotels. they also need volunteers to

their way to landmarks. volunteers called wayfinders. >> we will have people with knowledge ready to share to tell how they can get to certain places, if they are downtown, if they want to go to university circle, what are the best twice get there, what will they find when they get there, what can they explore, and hopefully get them to understand and appreciate or city more. >> reporter: 8,000 volunteers, or way finders, are needed. 6,000 have already signed up. check out our news net 5 app. paul kiska, newschannel5. >> as much as the gop presidential nomination looks up for grabs when it comes to cleveland in july, there is one person what is shutting down any talk of him going for it at the last minute. >> it's not going to be me. it should be somebody running for president. look, i made a decision over a year ago not to run for president. i really believe if you want to be president, you should run for president. >> and he doesn't.

house speaker john boehner made the sings florida, but you know what, it's a real possibility that could happen if there is no winner during the first ballot at the rnc. what comes with candidates in the race, support from another former contender, lindsey graham throwing his support to ted cruz. >> john kasich the most viable general election candidate. i just don't see how john gets through the primary. this is an outsider year. he's seen as an insider. i think the best alternative to donald trump to stop him from getting 1237 is ted cruz. >> graham ended his cam payne december and first endorsed jeb bush. since then, bush also dropped from the race. thrill seekers, mark your calendar. cedar point just announced the

the weekend of may 7th and 8th. that's opening weekend. we've been telling you about the coaster since the fall. degree angle. >> big competition to have the biggest, fastest roller coater. >> here we go. >> all down here from -- all downhill from here, folks. >> is that downhill? >> we were trying to get there. >> i've got a nice little shot of wooster showing some beautiful sunshine right there. there's a nice look at wooster. let's see what else we have on our tower cam. what happened? somebody turned the lights out. there's ashtabula high school. there we are looking north and west. there's greater cleveland. look at the sunshine. beautiful weather through the day a few cumulus clouds here and there. now, we've also seen some isolated rain showers.

here's the power of 5 live doppler radar network. a few isolated showers sandusky into norwalk, moving this way to mansfield, a sprinkle up north of mansfield near shiloh. cleveland could bea sprinkle in the ground clutter. we're also seeing a couple of isolated showers down dover/new philly. i will mention an isolated, brief rain shower through the evening but there's a lot going on. we've got sunshine, clouds mixing in, and we've got these little pockets of isolated showers. more back toward fort wayne, all because of that dog-gone storm system up around sue st. marie. wind gusts currently are calming down. i don't think we're going to see gusts above 40 again this evening as winds slowly fall. look at today's strongest wind gusts.

cleveland hopkins 44, akron/canton regional airport 36, ashtabula county airport a wind gust of 46 miles per hour. another blustery day. west winds at 17, with gusts to 33 miles per hour. in cleveland a dew point of 24, humidity at 31%. a lot of green on the map in honor of mr. flannigan, his special day, st. patrick's day. flan tban is irish, right? yes, it is. 55 medina, 55 ashland, 5 currently in the akron area, 50s everywhere you go. high today 57, 10 degrees above the average of 47. 43 the morning start. we're still stuck at 25 inches of snow. i'm not taking the snowfall total off the map yet. why? because winter may have a little last laugh at us here. here's the first front coming in tonight. may stir up an isolated snowflake tomorrow morning. then the second front comes through tomorrow night. that is going to usher in much colder air.

spring begins. sunday morning. spring begins. springtime. 30s on the map. watch what happens for your first few hours of spring. you see that? our computers are printing out viewing area. out. there will at least be a few flakes flying on sunday. we'll keep an eye on things. but the first day of spring looks cold with some snow, then some rain mixing in during tab. so don't put away the coats yet. 37, an isolated rain shower before midnight. predawn, morning rush hour flake in one or two spots. not a big daily about snow. maybe a sprinkle. breezy, cold, 4 3. you're not going to see any accumulating snows tomorrow. akron/canton, tonight an isolated shower, tomorrow 43 degrees could. be a sprinkle, maybe a flurry. now your seven-day. here's the cool-down.

snow mixing with rain, sunday 38, a mix of rain and snow monday into the 50s by wednesday. >> oh, markg bye. >> thanks. >> shut down. >> see ya. >> nobody got time. >> keep that opening day snow away. think about it. >> you've been warned. michael brantley back on the field. we're going to talk about. that high school, state semifinals. and how could anybody find anything wrong with a cavaliers win last night?

let's be hops. your first-place cavaliers picked up a nice win against the dallas mavericks last night without lebron 80s. kyrie irving had 33 points, but only one assist. cleveland.com said there was grumbling in the locker room about having a point guard who only had one answers in the game. >> just doing it whenever. they were forcing me to take long jump shots. i feel confident in making those. they were definitely putting me in comfortable spots. the latest on niners quarterback colin kaepernick

the browns, comcast sports reporting there's a good chance he will stay on the niners the way things stay now. doesn't that just mean the niners are floating it out there to try to make him look more valuable? indians sign marlon byrd. good move. also, michael brantley played in a minor league game. that is good news for a guy with shoulder problems. he thinks he can play on opening day. tip deans would rather see him be healthy for the entire season and get him back when he's ready. >> the trainers are not trying to slow him down but i know they want to keep track of him. if he has a long at-bat, things like that. just want to make sure they keep track of it. but obviously it's a really nice step for him to be in a game, so that's good. i think we're all excited for him. >> can't you feel the excite from tito in that?

television. division 3 semifinals, high school basketball. d 3 final on saturday. playing right now, st. v is taking on cincinnati-aiken. and out of new concord, john glenn taking on bay village. i'm excited. >> it's in your voice. >> you and tito.

tonight, the new backlash after donald trump warns of riots at the convention if he's blocked by the republican party. leaders now calling his words unacceptable. breaking now. the new video. the young american captured, accused of fighting for isis. you will hear his explanation, right here. now saying it was a bad decision. lead in the water. the grilling on capitol hill. our reporter, tracking down authorities. why didn't they act sooner? and the new report that this is far beyond flynt int. locations in 4 the states? the tearful plea. the young american sobbing, begging to be free. now we see the alleged prank in north career ya that landed him 15 years in hard labor.