now at 6:00 brand new details about the ohio father accused of taking his daughter from foster care and triggering a nationwide amber alert. >> only on 5:00, william roberts tells our camera that he did it after learning that his daughter was seeing an older man that he met online. but we also know that roberts went as far as to change the license plates on his car before he was caught by police. >> roberts who is a registered sex offender is now fighting for custody of his kids he faces more criminal charges. 5 on your side investigator was in court for two different sessions today. ron, can you break down what happened? >> reporter: well roberts pleaded to a previous drug charge not connected with this current amber alert. but listen to how he describes what is now happening and fighting custody of his two daughters. >> this all goes to a week before september 11.

decades and decades of corruption and a drug task force. >> reporter: robert says he surrendered to police after abducting his 16-year-old daughter to expose those who sent him to prison in 2005 for sexually molesting a young girl. >> they are not from the department of the child services. >> reporter: today he was in a portage county courtroom fighting to regain custody of his two daughters despite his of not having custody, why would a magistrate suddenly award temporary custody to a man who served time in prison involving a female child? why would anyone do that? >> because i guess that they say that they don't know what they did to send them to prison. >> i don't know? >> sending me to prison on that

last year awarded custody of both girls to roberts over objections of children services. >> you're telling me that you didn't know that you were agreeing to a plea bargain? >> you want me to believe that? >> i'm telling you facts. i mean you're asking me to be honest with you, i'm telling you facts. >> and roberts lost custody of his two daughters in august after another drug charge was filed against him. they remain in they will remain there until the outcome of this latest custody fight. i'm chief investigator ron regan. new tonight at 6:00, we are learning that the death of a 17- year-old whose body was found in east cleveland was connected to a bank robbery. two men had been arrested and indicted for shooting and killing breanna fluitt who prosecutors say was required to help the men rob a citizens bank in northfield just days before her death. now according to the cuyahoga county prosecutor's office,

they were afraid she would turn them in. four days after the robbery, her body was found in an abandoned building on hayden avenue in east cleveland. both have been charged with aggravated murder and they are currently being held on $1 million bond. the man who is shot and killed by akron police officers over the weekend have now been identified. the summit county medical examiner's office says that 61- year-old philip hasan died as a result of a gunshot wound after he was shot by an officer. over the weekend after hasan allegedly slammed a neighbor's arm in a car door. according to police and witnesses, hasan reached for an adult rifle inside the car and was told to drop it numerous times. the officer has now been placed on paid leave while the department investigates. a man who hired a hitman who killed the wrong man has been convicted. 60-year-old was found guilty of aggravated murder of the 2006

hopp. and they rose as a poster target for the 61-year-old who lived in akron. and instead that the hitman was tied up. new tonight brand new details on the case of vandalism over the local fire station. the walls, the uniforms, the equipment were all covered with urine. now as police look for who did this, we wanted to know why it happened. paul kiska >> well rob, that is right. authorities are looking at what will be bad blood between two fire departments. mattresses, chairs, a couch, uniforms, and equipment all soaked with urine. >> they damaged some stuff that is going to take a substantial amount of money to replace and fix. >> reporter: the county investigators told me either a person or a group not only dumped urine inside his

they also left sticky pad notes with profanity written on them. it appears that they had unauthorized entry, which makes it a felony burglary. there is no sign of forced entry, and the locks had recently been changed. >> there could have been a key entry, a strange key that could have been duplicated, unauthorized. and that is how they could have made entry to the building. >> the firefighters could have been out of the building on a call when it all happened. and that too is being investigated. >> the building was empty at occurred. it was discovered yesterday by macedonia fire officials. >> it's disgusting. >> reporter: northfield trustee paul booker is furious. >> i want him behind bars no matter who they are. i want them held accountable for this. there is no excuse for this, this is criminal. >> reporter: as for a possible motive, there is a risk between

station closed and firefighters lost their jobs. to cover northfield, macedonia firefighters are now working out of a northfield fire station. >> evidently they were mad or upset about the way that the whole meeting went down between macedonia and northfield. >> reporter: the but right now investigators are not sure if that is the cause and they have no idea who dumped the urine and vandalized this fire station. this fire station will remain closed until cleaned up. live in northfield center, paul kiska news channel 5. now at 6:00, well guess you can call it too much meow mix. a neighborhood overrun by cats, people are living along one street in cleveland to say it is infested with hundreds of cats. they just can't take it anymore. only on 5 our tara molina went to look to see if there is anyone that could help. >> reporter: i know it sounds strange.

tails have taken over. when they called animal control they were very surprised by what they were told. >> i mean you can't walk around without seeing cats up and down the street. >> reporter: ask anyone that lives on brighton avenue. >> there's not a house that you don't pass without smelling the urine. >> they'll tell you they have a cat problem. calling that just keep come -- cats that just keep coming back. >> reporter: but the people who call this place home, they can't take it anymore. >> they get into they get in the way when people are driving. at night they're in your backyards, they're fighting. >> reporter: they've tried nets, sprays, even the cats sworn enemy. many have called animal control to find out that the agency won't pick -- that the agency won't pick up cats, only dogs. i worked to get them some answers, eventually talking to a spokesman with the city of cleveland. he says that the city track, neuter, and return

the cats themselves and bring them in. and the people of brighton avenue say that is just not going to work. >> i mean we are working. we don't have time for that. >> reporter: i talked to the president of the apl. she told me that the city doesn't have the capacity to pick up these cats. if they were to pick them up, they would most likely face euthanasia. it is probably the best option for this neighborhood. in cleveland tara molina news channel 5. still ahead on thoughts of a -- of a serial killer. we look into shawn grate's history and why he would possibly do it. plus, we found out there is a specific group of people who are more susceptible to domestic violence attacks than others. and could this be record setting heat for the first day of fall? we'll have the details coming up next. and remember if you see news happening, we would love

tonight we're uncovering a largely unspoken issue in a

>> while the issue is domestic violence and we are learning it is more prief lant a-- prevalent among deaf individuals. >> yes, officials are trying to change how they communicate with domestic violence victims who are deaf. >> the last one that he tried to do was to choke me in my bedroom. and then he aid, and that is how hard he hit me. >> reporter: the 48-year-old cleveland resident shared her story with us through an interpreter today. she described how her live-in deaf boyfriend abused her for three years. twice officers came to their parma home and twice they did not arrest the man. that was two decades ago. she says that a lack of communication services and education among police contributed to a hack of help. now research out of the

technology suggests that deaf individuals are 1.5 times more likely to be victims of relationship violence. dawn marie believes it saying that is because the deaf community is close knit and hard to break away no matter the circumstances. the local domestic violence and child advocacy center sees the same issue and also realized that they needed to do more to make sure that deaf individuals who are also victims of abuse with a cleveland grant, cleveland police have pads like these that offer interpreters. parma police where dawn marie's abuse occurred say that they now have a text messaging service for deaf individuals in need of help. dawn marie says that her ex- boyfriend was eventually convicted of domestic violence. back to you rob. kristin, thank you. now to a case grabbing national attention. a northeast ohio man is accused of killing at least three women and confessing to the murders of two more.

local law enforcement agencies have dug into missing people cases that have been left unsolved. looking to see if there is any connection to shawn grate. in the meantime some university of akron students are also closely examining this case. they were asked by their professor to profile the suspect. bob jones explains why. >> reporter: a former akron police captain who is also a psychologist and a criminal justice professor teacs killers. the students signed up for the profiling serials killer class at the university of akron. they never imagined they would be analyzing a current case so close to home. >> taking this class, i mean definitely opened my eyes on what could happen and what could possibly happen anywhere. >> reporter: the fbi is now working with multiple law enforcement agencies to put together a profile on shawn grate who is charged with murdering two women and

more. dr. mary meyers assigned students to profile him too, asking what they would focus on. >> definitely occupation, criminal history, criminal background. the people he contacted on a day-to-day basis. >> dr. meyers says that the fbi will want to review investigative notes and possibly interview the surviving victims. meyers thinks that agents will map out the movements over the years to see if he is connected >> there's a missing persons data base. people go missing. they'll look at where he's been, all the places that he's traveled, all the places that he might have lived or worked, the kinds of jobs he might have had and they will look to see who else might be out there. >> in akron bob jones news channel 5. donald trump is scheduled to hold a town hall event with fox news tomorrow at a black church here in cleveland. the republican presidential nominee will be hosted by pastor darryl scott.

spirit revival center in cleveland heights. scott has been under fire in the black community for supporting donald trump. i asked him recently about supporting an unconventional candidate. here's what he had to say. >> reporter: you're an african american man who is supporting a candidate that is white and a lot of african americans have some problems. what type of backlash have you received? >> first of all i'm not the one. they call me uncle tom, but everybody that knows me, a sell out, uncle tom, all of the racism that i receive has been from black people. >> reporter: why do you think that is? >> because they're black people. [ laughter ] >> reporter: explain that, pastor, explain that. >> because i'm not in the democratic camp. for some reason they think all blacks automatically have to vote democrat. you know, they get upset because of their black knowledge.

a national diversity coalition for trump, a position that he says and he wants to be very clear about that he is not being paid for. scott recently spoke at the convention in cleveland in july. by the way tomorrow's event is closed to the public. >> interesting and fascinating. >> always. all of the above. all the above. and beautiful, beautifulness, beautifullish and awesomeness outside. >> i want to show you this again, the time of the year that we'll get going down right over cleveland. look at that beautiful shot. sunset is coming up just a few minutes away. a little after 7:00 p.m. all right, we've got some high thin clouds overhead right now. there is the sun, beautiful evening to come downtown. do whatever you want to do outside. just a couple of clouds here. notice these clouds that's all a part of a weak cold front that's sliding southward. it is going to fade away and

we'll get a return flow and the warm air over the next few days. we won't cool it down to fall- like levels until closer to the weekend. right now it's 84 in worcester, 83 in canton. north of the little front is 77 in cleveland. it's 78 degrees downtown. 78 in elyria and norwalk. 77 at hopkins. a northerly breeze at 8 miles an hour has told you that the front has gone by. it will be overnight. tonight we hit 88 degrees. we should be able to do that tomorrow. thursday we could add a few more degrees to that, okay? average is 72 and 55. we had 85 today. so 13 degrees above the norm. still not a record setting mark. in 1978 the record high. pollen count sniffles, yeah it's not the oak mites, they're still out there though. the mold spore is in the moderate category, ragweed is high. it is ragweed season. and trying to hold it in folks

right now. where's the nearest organized area of rain? it's right here along the east coast, outer banking all the way up -- banks all the way up the delmarva area. the remanence of julia, remember that? a tropical storm a week and a half ago out here. well it is still hanging around the coast. for us it is all about the high pressure. we've got more rain showers out into the four corners area and up towards billings, montana. believe it or not right there you see that, that's some snow. high mountains cooler air closer, but not close enough for snow. don't worry. a little front right here it's going to move back north and stall out and hang around for a few days. we're going to be on the warmer side of it all the way through friday. and then finally that front will drop in for saturday and that is going to bring what i would call refreshing air. but the first day of fall is this thursday, 87, 88 degrees. somewhere in there if we do touch 88 it'll be the warmest

the record is 88 back in 1936, september 23 first day of fall. so we're going to get close to a record high for the first day of fall. all right? normal 72 degrees. wow, big time warm up. 70s for kc taking on the tribe. early clouds warm and dry. tonight starry skies, good night for star gazing at 60 degrees staying cool. tomorrow bring it on. let's do middle 80s again. more sunshine still summertime. now as area goes, 58 tonight a nice warm up tomorrow. a high near 86. your seven day cool down are you ready? not thursday, 88. friday 85. there's the cool down. lower 70s some folks not even out of the 60s for saturday into sunday. nice fall-like pattern. >> i like that though. >> yes, every summer day that we can. >> rob likes to keep it hot. >> i'm ready to go skiing.

>> i'm ready for football. >> the browns made some roster moves today that we talked about the quarterback. they made that official today. we'll talk about that. for the indians life rolls on after losing another starter. we'll talk about that when we

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off of carrasco, a carry over to ramirez. we'll see how carrasco is holding up. >> that was carlos carrasco on saturday. now the team tries to move forward. hopefully they can find a solution with josh tomlin as they start heading towards the playoff coming up pretty soon. they'll play kansas city tonight. the magic number is now seven, but they desperately need to set a rotation. the browns made some moves today, they signed austin ryder and a new quarterback, expected to make room on the roster. the team terminated the contracts of scooby wright. watching carson wentz have a good game for the philadelphia eagles knowing that the browns have the eagles first -- first pick in the draft and knowing that the browns could have had wentz. he has looked good, but take a look at what it is. he is good against an 0-2 team. >> now i'm feeling really good. i've played with a lot of confidence, i usually feel good even when there are bad plays things happen. you need to keep plugging away

mcdonald's scholar athlete. helping us out with a short trip. >> for our first student athlete of the week this year, we're at the high school where ryan joe gibbons has earned the honors. >> we have a lot of support from my family, friends, teachers, coaches, i try not to miss anything. i haven't missed a practice. i started last year as a junior. >> i have been awarded honors pretty much all four years. a 360-pa. being the proudest is showing up every day, working hard. my goal for the year is to win state. and to be the best player that i can be. >> reporter: if you know somebody deserving of the student athlete of the week honors, please let us know. head to our website on newsnet5.com and fill out a form. for now reporting from ohio city lauren brill news channel

much. listen if you have a student athlete, go to newsnet5.com and nominate your student athlete. >> yes. we love to highlight them on news channel 5. we love it. >> that's right. if you're not picked. we'll see you tonight at 11:00.

tonight, breaking news. new surveillance of the bombing suspect, pulling a suitcase, carrying a backpack. authorities say, about to place the bombs in new york city and new jersey. and tonight here, we have now learned, the fbi is questioning someone else. his wife. because was he acting alone? and what his o also developing, the outrage tonight. the father of four, his suv breaks down, then shot dead by police. tonight, for the first time, the officer's defense. the deadly plane crash. the spy plane crashing down over america. flash point. the syrian refugees coming to the u.s. our year-long investigation. and tonight, donald trump's son comparing refugees to poisonous skittles, asking, would you take the chance?