parents outraged in a local hazing program, what they're demanding tonight. and a home shot up, one bullet inches from a boy's bed, his father opens up with what he thought was a safe neighborhood, when newschannel 5 starts at 11:00 in just 30 seconds. >> live, always investigating, always on your side. newschannel 5 starts now.

teachers. >> high tempers at a school board meeting, a disagreement at what really happened at band camp. put on hold over allegations of hazing. newschannel 5 frank wily takes us inside tonight's meeting and some say this never happened. >> yeah, the school band director and assistant band direct yr, police on administrative leave following the claims. nearly a dozen >> reporter: a room filled with sharp remarks aimed at the school board. the talk and the most recent round of band camp came with plenty of stories. >> interviews revealed that woeth this year -- both this year and last year, upper classmates who characterized their conduct as good fun or team building admit some of the

>> reporter: in a word, hazing. >> [ indiscernible ] >> reporter: spoke it all down, the trip, the practices and what some call fun. >> we willing will go in the like, first liked by seniors, i waited three years to go, and be a part of this. >> reporter: changes followed. two people placed on administrative leave. reports place some of the kids tossed in the water could not swim. >> it was their fault. >> what you're trying to do to those teachers! >> the perspective wil significant contrast to the parents of the children who felt frightened and intimidated by this conduct. [ laughter ] >> reporter: more investigations promised to follow. the board is now marching forward with getting the band back on the field. >> the board approves the vote to bring in a substitute from kent state, by the way, mentioning over the last two years, 14 students have quit band, they also say they do not know why, danita.

northwest high school teacher and coach, facing allegations of sexual misconduct from several female students. after three month long investigation, the prosecutor decided not to file any charges. the teacher and coach retired in july. we have breaking news tonight on the drama surrounding some of our olympic swimmers. the u.s. olympic committee says brazilian authorities subject conor and pence off the flight tonight earlier, swimmers lochte and [ indiscernible ] to stay in brazil, investigating their claims they were robbed at gunpoint in a taxi at the olympics, and say they have little evidence to support those claims. 2:40 this morning, i woke up to banging on my door, my wife hasn't heard the gunshots going off. >> a terrifying night for a family after a bullet shoots through their home, barely

10-year-old son sleeps. newschannel 5 inaudible naub spoke with the victims and say they think this was no accident. >> yeah, they think it they were targeted and blaming it on drugs. luckily, no one was hurt, but just how close it got. >> i'm not putting up with the drugs. i've got three kids, i can't. >> a warning shot, this father thinks that's what it signifies. >> i'm tired of the drug activity, and i'm trying to stop it. >> he didn't want to show his face because whoever pulled the trge >> it just needs to quit. the violence, the drugs, it needs to sop. >> reporter: shots fire around 2:30 in the morning on lake avenue, two blocks from the e-lyria police station. inches away from where a 10-year-old boy usually sleeps. >> that was almost my son. if he'd been there, it could've been him luckily he was not there. >> reporter: three kids under

but ever since, they say there's been problems. >> you're doing it, not around my kids, not around my house, not in my neighborhood. >> reporter: so why not move? well, he served six years in the army, overseas in iraq and says he refuses to lose this war here at home. what do you do now? >> i keep my gun close by my side, keep my windows open, get a lot less sleep. >> you heard him, that family not planning to move because they say they aren't the problem. police say they tried to talk to some of the other witnesses the area but they were uncooperative. nlt newsroom, homa bash, newschannel 5. also new tonight our cameras on scene after a police chase that started in strongville ended 20 miles away on cleveland's east side. now, you can see in this video the crime tape up around the scene at east 79th and garden valley, just a few hours ago. no word on why they were chasing the car or why anybody was seriously hurt in the crash.

nexus pipeline, the second of three. many thought these would be open public meetings, government reps one-on-one with people who came to express their concerns and ask questions. and that prompted a protest outside the school. >> people have the right to meet and have have a public meeting and hear what their neighbors are saying and how they feel about it. the private meetings are intimidating to the don't want to go in separate little meetings and meet one-on-one with people. >> people have collected signatures to get an issue on the november ballot to stop the pipeline and compression station from being put in medina county. the citation has gone all the way to the ohio supreme court. the third public comment section takes place at green high school tomorrow evening. all right. let's get a check on our weather right now. mark, it's been a pretty quiet

up in northeast ohio earlier today. >> you're right. those are done and as expected, danita, a couple rain showers, a lot of ground clutter, atmosphere western portage county, light shower there, over the lake and this may live to impact cleveland or the eastern suburbs. but it's just, few stuff, few sprinkles, light rain showers, hours. 74 cleveland, 70 elyria, wooster, currently in akron. it's going to stay mild and muggy, we'll widen it out. 69 in the fremont area. so, downtown, notice, lower 70s by 7:00 a.m., partly to mostly cloudy skies. now we go about 68 degrees for the akron canton area, staying dry.

cleveland court has set up tougher guidelines. if you don't comply, you could end up in jail. judges say cell phones are jeopardizing the safety and integrity of their courtrooms and posts on social media are partly to blame. joe pagonakis has been looking in to this, not everybody has been following the rules. >> reporter: yeah, breaking out cell p session. >> if you have cell phones, please make sure that they're off. >> reporter: it's usually a judge's first order of business. no cell phone usage in the courtroom. signs posted everywhere in the cuyahoga justice center. not only are they -- a noisy distraction, but they're increasingly jeopardizing the integrity of the courtroom process. >> if someone is taking photographs of them, it can be

judicial system. >> reporter: cleveland judge says cell phone cameras put the anonymity of jurors at risk along with the groups in the courtroom. >> safety of officers, undercover officers and informants, their safety. >> reporter: bailiff foster says the security issue has become so prolific, he's rin a set of two page guidelines. creating concern oefrz courtroom content taken by cell phones and then posted on social media can easily be taken out of >> you get viral videos from people taking simple admonitions from a judge, the statements that a witness makes to insinuate that person is saying this or that person is ranting. >> reporter: under the guidelines of this person taking pictures or video, their phone can be confiscated, a bailiff can even order them to unlock their phone to erase the content. >> and the court has to do what has to be done in order to keep the integrity of the process. so there's definitely an

interests in getting in their phone. >> reporter: and then there's new guidelines, if you refuse to unlock your phone under orders of the bailiff, you could be held m contempt of court and face jail time. meanwhile, cuyahoga county courts are looking at these new guidelines, i'm 5 on your side joe pagonakis. with the smash and grab ring busted up on tuesday, prosecutors now say the 11 men thefts in northeast ohio in the last year and a half! and get this, over the past five years, have stolen hundreds of thousands of dollars and done millions in damage. eight are behind bars, but three of them, earl davis, elijah reed and jarrel williams are still on the run. expecting more people to be charged. newschannel 5 asking more questions after a pile up in the tush pike construction zone

and what the turnpike says about their construction traffic plan. plus, whether it's the clean up, whether the water has receded, or the area is now flooded over, the images out of louisiana are startling tonight. what's being done to help those still trapped. and we're tracking a few more thunderstorms for your thursday. will they impact the browns game? i'll have the answer for you coming up. history, discovered deep below the water, the shipwreck found

. not a bird, it's not a plane. but you may still see them flying over the turnpike. the ohio turnpike commission plans to use drones to inspect bridges. they say drones could analyze the condition of the bridges more quickly and without closing down a hig to go up in to buckets to see over the side of the bridge. the first inspection with the drone will be the sandusky bridge next month. >> is it safer? is it cheaper? is it more efficient? and so we're going to go out to sandusky and find out whether or not it meets the same standards and can do in an inspection as well as the humans do. >> the state highway patrol could also use drones to fly

the erie county sheriff's department already does that like the pile up on the turnpike this weekend. we're asking more questions tonight about that crash that killed a 14-year-old girl. we found the pike had reported crashes in the area since construction work started. since barricades went up along the turnpike in erie county in june, the state highway patrol says there has been 32 crashes. two of them fatal. and the five months before that, there were 16 crashes. that's twice the type. turnpike commissioner randy cole says that area has no more or fewer accidents than the other construction areas currently on the turnpike and he stands by this traffic configuration. >> separating the traffic and having it run both directions in a separated single lane is the safest thing we've come up with. >> he and the highway patrol says a lot of it has to do with speeding and distracted driving. the patrol says it's also important that semis span the right lane of this construction

is why the driver in sunday's deadly crash got charged. ohio university is getting some work done on its football stadium after part of the stone molding fell off last month. the two and a half foot by four foot piece didn't hit anyone but it did damage a door and a cabinet. university has removed similar molding on peden stadium and looking to mobilize the wall before the home opener next month. work on a permanent repair will start in the no of that if he -- right now of the ferocious wildfire in california, the outlook is devastating and evacuation order was just issued for part of an area east of los angeles and that's where more than 82,000 people live. the fire has already consumed more than 47 miles. the loss is so substantial, officials can't say for sure how many homes have burned. 13 people have now died in the storms and flooding in

flood waters. 6,000 out, more than 40,000 home s homes were damaged there. homeland security secretary says that louisiana will be visited tomorrow by him and other officials and they will assess the government's response. now, as for zika, the cdc says while flooding c mosquito population, those aren't the types that spread viruses like zika. the area now, people cleaning out their homes, spending days underwater, piles and piles, damaged furniture, personal belongings, appliances and debris now lining the streets. and with tens of thousands of people rescued, the coast guard has been very busy. louisiana residents have been hopping in their own boats to

trapped in flooded homes. they've even earned themselves the nickname the cajun navy. in other areas, crews are going door to door, checking homes surrounded making sure no one is trapped inside or needs help. and this heart breaking image has a happy ending, that's an abandoned dog, fighting to keep its head above the flood waters and thankfully, sheriff's deputies were able to cut the dog free and pull boat. >> oh, wow! wow! >> some positive news coming out of a lot of devastation in that area. >> terrible, there. the 500 to 1,000 year flood and they're going to dry it out slowly through the course of the weekend. but not any time soon. >> no time soon. for us we've been dealing with widely scattered showers, thunderstorms a live look now at the rock and roll hall of fame, danita, being inducted in to the rock hall. >> i didn't want to tell anybody.

>> that's right, i knew it. congratulations, danita, harris. okay. quiet weather now over ohio, mainly cloudy sky and as expected, we just got a couple of isolated showers here and there. on the power of five, let's zoom on in to southern giaga county, just south of auburn, 422, between shandlersville and ravenna, there's a brief moderate shower there in yellow. but it's very brief, very fleeting towards the east, charlestown and wyndham, there's activity over lake erie. we'll circle that. it's basically travelling, slightly south of east, that may carry it in to lake county, maybe even northern ashtabula county, in fact our hour by hour, does show a little activity south but watch over the lake, it does try to bring

of cleveland up the shoreline, giaga and those over downtown, can't rule out the threat of rain. and an isolated shower and thunderstorm threat, and southward, it will primarily be, i'm thinking in our southern viewing area county, south of 224 during the afternoon hours. so, southwesterly breezes, six miles per hour. humidity 82%, could see a little bit of fog in some spots for the morning commute as those dew points are at flooding. here's where the major flooding is in louisiana. just some isolated activity there, and they cancelled a lot of the flood watch for texas, thankfully that's good news there. so we're beginning to dry it out and here is fiona! a tropical storm going to slide west toward the leeward islands and then move north toward bermuda. looks like it will avoid the united states mainland. fingers are crossed, still days

from the gulf, louisiana and texas, and some of that moisture sliding right over us. in the form of a few widely scattered showers. focused by this trough. and that trough again will slide slowly south, start an isolated rain shower, thunderstorm mainly southern counties tomorrow and the good news is by tomorrow evening, the browns game should be dry with partly to mostly cloudy skies. 69, mainly cloudy and isolated shower. 85 tomorrow, a isolated thunder during the afternoon primarily south. could there be brief showers for the morning hours early for the rush in sure. and we should dry you out. friday, one or two showers and storms, 87. saturday, a few storms in the afternoon, 88. storms are likely, here's your wettest weekend weather day on sunday. 76. take a look at this. this is video from shipwreck shows the moment underwater explorers discovered the second

ontario from a storm in 1803. there were at least five people in the ship when it sank, everyone died. the team found the wreck anl earlier this -- wreckage this summer and the pictures and video confirm it is in fact the washington. well our cavaliers have been world champions for about two months now, we still love it. what has king james been up to since the big win? find out on "good morning, america" tomorrow. because lebron will be live talking about giving back to the and what it feels like to bring the championship home. that's all happening tomorrow morning, 7:00 a.m. right here on newschannel 5. you don't want to miss it. stick around, getting ready for

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16 pitches to get out. then miller in the save. then alen came on the night and blew it. perhaps this will bring manager to make it miller time when it's closing time. start from the bottom of the 2nd, the man on and it's a 2-1 hater for lonnie baseball, his seventh homer. 2-0 ind indians starting it there. sweet level, this fella. oh, yeah. high fives all around. love that. >> yeah! >> this next play is worth a high five, tied at 5-5, brandon on with two on, two outs, the tribe hitting 462 indians have a lead, two on the night, loading the bases, an o 2 pitch. he blew a bubble there when he hit it. going for a grand slammer, are

in his previous games. red sox beat them, taking questions in post game. >> pitches have to, have a good, you know, nice opportunity right there, that kind of limit what was going on, you know, didn't actually think that was a bad pitch, you know, required. so it's just, you know, how the inning went. >> well, cleveland lead in the division. all-star salazar will come off and start with the white sox in the finale. the first place blue jays come in and i have a question for the reigning donaldson, what are we doing? in front of manager gibbons, what are we doing? that could've gone anywhere, donaldson said he had to be restrained right there. after the game though, donaldson

trying to play off of the humor. >> just kind of like the dugout and put my bag against the thing and asking what kind of cologne i was wearing. [ laughter ] and then i said, i said, this new cologne called tom ford, i just got it. he said oh, okay. he got close to me and i guess got a good whiff of it. and hey, back up. so, i was like, i'll give you some after the g must be nice, get that cologne for you. hey, join us for the second preseason game against the falcons, our coverage begins at 7:00, kickoff set for 8:00 here on newschannel 5.

browns preseason action tomorrow, look at that! 8:00 p.m., mainly cloudy skies, dry. love that. 79 degrees in the mid 70s for the final touchdown as we win like that. yeah, 75 degrees, dry and mild for the game. >> and your face is going to be on the -- >> i'm going to be there! cheering on the browns! >> bye! >> closed captioning of newschannel 5 at 11:00 sponsored by serpentine. if you're thinking of chevy, think serpentini. power five weather, and traffic updates from the akron cam

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