were missing and that she needed to come with them. >> they are terrified that their kids could be next. >> reporter: and tonight the search for a dangerous predator intensifies after a terrifying attack on a 9-year-old girl in massillon. >> the child was abducted by a man who posed as a police officer and then sexually assaulted her. bob jones has new details on the investigation. but first bob, what do you know about the girl's condition? >> reporter: well danita, th brought here to their children's hospital to be examined following the attack and that she has injuries to her face. tonight the real police are ?? trying to track down a fake cop who has frightened massillon. >> reporter: the 9-year-old girl left the downtown public library around 6:00 p.m. on monday. but heading towards home, a man in a pick up approached near second street and cherry road, earning the girl's trust by pretending to be a cop. >> she just said that he had

he just said he was a police officer. he didn't have a uniform on. he just stated that he was a police officer and that her parents, they told them that she was reported missing and had to go with them. >> reporter: police tell us that the victim was driven a short distance and sexually assaulted near their church. >> a very evil person to do this to a child. >> reporter: the attack is horrifying news to the pastor. >> the predator is here and that they are still there. and so it will it. >> reporter: the attacker let the girl go as she walked home, describing the suspect to police. a white man with a scruffy beard with skulls on the side of the pickup truck and the word ohio in the back window. >> this is high priority for us at this time. >> reporter: the detective tells me that he is following possible leads, notifying the police about the abduction, which happened very close.

but when it does happen it happens in a smaller city because there's a lot of kids here in massillon. >> i hope that this person is found and brought to justice. tonight that 9-year-old girl is expected to be released from the hospital soon. and in the meantime they tell me that they are moving towards trying to find surveillance video of the suspect, they may release their pictures this evening. news 5 wanted to know if there could be a connection between the case of massillon and other abductions in northeast ohio. the agents told us that while they conot appear to be similar that they will not rule anything out. >> late breaking developments in the search for a missing 12- year-old girl. she was found safe this afternoon at a home along the boulevard in euclid. police have been searching for

riding her bike on saturday. we don't have too many details, but we do know that they are waiting for a search warrant to be able to enter that euclid home. >> we now know what lead to the death of the high school football player in euclid. according to the medical examiner, andre jackson died from a bowel laceration passing away on sunday. >> please send please. my father shot her. >> reporter: a man now charged with murder after police say he killed his own daughter. police arrested the 63-year-old jamal mansour. officers say he shot 27-year- old tahani mansour twice in the head. her brother found her bleeding in her bedroom and called 911. >> oh my gosh she is bleeding. please come here, please. >> reporter: he passed away

the father jamal being held right now on $1 million bond. a cleveland mother and her son are charged with aggravated murder after police say that they killed the woman's boyfriend and then stuffed his body in the trunk of a car. >> the 40-year-old pleaded not guilty in court this morning. her son 18-year-old larry camp is still on the run. police found 43-year-old marvin kinney's body in a car behind their home on friday night. news 5 her family last night and they say that they found out about his death on social media. new tonight east cleveland getting help to keep their residence safe. receiving a federal grant allowing them to hire more firefighters. but paul kiska reports that those positions, they may only be temporary. >> reporter: east cleveland have had five firefighters working for their shifts for the past few months.

staffing levels are about to increase. a grant from the emergency agency will help them hire up to four additional firefighters per shift. bringing the total to 12 full- time firefighters, the city of 17,000 people. >> that is very good news. we've had tremendous funding issues, where we had to cut a number of things and the fire department and ems was the last thing >> the mayor told me today that they expect to hire the firefighters in the next 30 days. >> fortunately that the grant of $1.7 million really restores the type we had to make to the fire department. >> and we don't know what would happen after that.

that. they do help for a period of time. but once they run out they are on their own again. >> they will allow them to hire up to 15 part-time firefighters. in east cleveland paul kiska news 5. tonight we are learning that the second person has died after being injured in parma heights. 60-year-old nancy gielas passed away sunday. she had been in intensive care since the august 21 incident. she was one injured when a 74-year-old woman drove her car into a crowd. the 61-year-old of parma passed away a few days after the crash. the driver's name has not been released, charges are pending. we are digging into the recent surge of the smash and grab robberies here in northeast ohio. we have learned about a solution that is stopping thieves right in their class.

in front of their stores that by doing so these types of crimes could be eliminated, so we ask if they were considering this to stop all the smash and grabs. >> we are looking at what other cities have done. >> i'm certainly open to it, but there are no current ordinance before they happen. >> and the state legislatures are looking at ways to reduce the problem. simply move them away from the >> all right, let's move to weather and check in with mark johnson. a nice day outside. >> not a bad day. the clouds are staying to the north from the most part with a few clouds here and there and it will be a dry evening for you with those temps falling out of the lower 70s, through the 60s. once the sun goes down that some of you may see those temperatures in the 50s by 9:00

and it has been a blustery day with your hour-by-hour seven- day forecast. there they are falling. the overnight lows showing some inland areas in the 40s, but the rain showers are coming. once they reach us, they will linger and linger and linger, more on that coming up. >> thank you, we'll see you in just a bit. and the first presidential debate for the candidates will be ramping up their efforts to get as many people as possible to the polls. encouraging voters to sign up before the deadline. megan hickey live where mr. clinton is expected to arrive any moment. >> that's right he is expected to take the podium any moment

again they are here to campaign on behalf of their wife. all in time for the deadline. actually in the front row of this crowd right now those students from the academy. again, we will have much more coming up at 11:00. megan hickey news 5. >> and donald trump's running mate is tomorrow. he is planning to attend a rally tomorrow night near youngstown. and it is definitely one of the most talked about moments of the debate last night. >> donald trump is interrupting hillary clinton dozens of times. and now why more women say that they are used to being cut off. >> could russia pose a threat to the outcome of the election? we are digging into voters

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hillary clinton and donald trump are back on the campaign trail tonight. the first face off between the candidates were the most watched in history. more than 80 million people tuned in, the majority of them. and it is the clear winner they said they came out on top while 27% would say trump had the better night. meanwhile one candidate, they would do most talking. >> most of the talking, off and over his opponents. >> i think that you're trying to say donald trump as he spent most of the night interrupting. and that they are live in the board of elections, derick, you spoke with some power women about something they say that it is all too common? >> yeah, i spoke to two women who run their own businesses. they say they were not surprised by the constant

>> and the worse part we heard donald say. >> the other thing i think that it will be important would add $5 trillion to the debt. >> but you have no man. >> oh i do. >> secretary, you have no plan. >> reporter: by my count he interrupted clinton at least two dozen times doing it far less often and women running their own companies here in cleveland told me that it is a pattern they've seen their whole careers. men talking over women. >> the cutting off, the exertion of authority,he of course it turns me off. >> a lot of people interrupt because they are uncomfortable with what is being said. by my count clinton interrupted trump at least twice, a far cry from the number of times he did it to her, that there is one article i saw online putting

trump and 17 for clinton. live in cleveland derick waller news 5. >> at the end of the debate, the candidates were faced with the question on how to support the outcome of the election. >> john kosich is joining us now. this has to do with a lot of talk about the rigged debate? >> well, the rigged election, that the concerns were raised by donald trump in a broadway. but they were also raised by security leaders in washington after a pair of cyber attacks on the voter registration data bases this summer in iz hill the secretary of homeland security told a senate committee that they have been working with any state that asked to beef up their cyber security in the run up to the election. now today 18 states have taken them up on that including ohio, pennsylvania. while the russians were moving towards a destruction of ukraine's election in 2014. the u.s. elections are harder to hack because no voting machines are connected to the internet. but that doesn't mean that they

incidents where there have been efforts through cyber intrusions to get into the online presence of various state election agencies. and one or two of them had been successful. the others have not. >> reporter: but again he stressed that it is why homeland security is offering their services to any stat security procedures. john kosich news 5. >> and well tonight we are learning at least 125 people will lose their jobs next month when buehlers closes their grocery stores in brunswick. their location is under performing. affected employees will have an opportunity to transfer to the stores in medina township, montville township and one in wildore.

>> sunshine, lower to middle 70s. you cannot beat that by itself. over the next five days, here comes the rain. >> thank you, mark. >> the rain will interrupt. >> once again, once again. >> interrupt. >> the sunshine. >> yes, indeed. you always interrupt me. >> that's natural. >> take a live look again, i love this time of the year. the sunsets we capture right about this time all the way through october into november, and that they phenomenal. take a look. a clear sky with the sun going down and that we will see them chill down quite a bit with a few here and there with a couple of low clouds towards columbus and that there is just hit and miss clouds. that they will fade once they go down and that it will be a mainly clear evening for you. some upper 60s and here comes that rain. watch it as you can see it

low spinning and moving over lake sue peer yo. that it will take a day and a half to get here, but beginning tomorrow late morning in the afternoon that is when those showers will arrive and that once they arrive there will be on and off showers all the way until at least sunday morning. so we are not going to have a totally dry day until probably some time on monday. 72 elyria, 73 cleveland, akron. 68 in ravenna to ashtabula. a high of 75, not bad. the average is 69, so we were sixties a-- six above that. yesterday's rain is zero. this will be the only non-rainy day for the rest of the week through the weekend. so a wide shot that will show all of this sunshine and high pressure that they are drying out in -- in iowa and the rivers are cresting here. good news, i don't expect them to see a whole lot of rain here through the weekend.

rivers subside. look at all the rivers down towards southern florida. not a good day to be there. but this is the rain we're watching thanks to the low. now watch what the low does over the next day and a half that it is just moving down into northern ohio. and the rain i'm not going to say that it will linger, rob powers, but loiters. we could get this rain for loitering. we could do something about loitering. and so your hour-by-hour forecast, let's start with wednesday morning. the morning rush. some areas. kids are getting on the bus in the 40s. you'll need that sweater. but then the showers will come in during the early to mid- afternoon hours. scattered showers. now notice here in ashtabula county that they are picking grapes, wine grapes are coming in with a great shot at the dry weather all day long. and the rain showers persisting mainly west of interstate 71 through the evening hours. then more scattered showers moving in across the entire area on wednesday night through

some embedded thunder here as you can see the rumble of thunder, nothing severe through thursday afternoon. then friday and saturday and finally we will get an isolated shower chance with a lesser chance for rain on sunday. 51 tonight partly cloudy and cool. tomorrow, why not? let's throw up 67. showers likely with isolated thunder. highs in upper 60s to the lower 70s. >> thank you, mark johnson. chief meteorologist at news 5. >> that is what i say to my wife. she loiters, she doesn't shop. shopping entails buying. >> nothing wrong with that. i'm with mrs. powers. [ laughter ] >> let's talk sports. >> we'll update on corey kluber and we'll introduce you to this week's scholar athlete. and i'm sorry, i just can't get enough of this video. we are going to walk you

the status quo yesterday where they would talk to the team today as they know it to have their sights set on getting ready for the playoffs. in the meantime watching your

the clubhouse last night. and that it is pretty fun. it is a lot better right now. >> you need to take the season for 2013 and one game wild card, but now you are division champs. that's awesome with just that one game to go home and to stay there and get our feet wet and that we're happy to be there, we are coming for some people. >> i came prepared. what do you think of my

meet grace morino. >> i have been on the star ship role for the past three years. hopefully this year also, you know, just all around. you can see the finalists, you know, for soccer. and at school that they always teach us, you know, whatever you do, do it for the lord and to the best of your ability, and taking a hold of every opportunity that will be there, working very hard. i'm also applying to the air force and their naval academy as you need to be the best of the best to get into it. that is always on my mind whether it is just scoring. i would like to be a pilot in the air force or navy. i have not really decided which branch yet, but that's definitely one of my goals. my name is grace morino and i'm

the week. >> wonderful. >> go to the news 5 app if you want to nominate somebody. hopefully that your student athlete could be here on tv with us. >> that'll be great. >> a lot of stuff. >> it is fun up here with us. >> a lot of fun with us. you never know. >> you never know. >> we'll see you right back

tonight, breaking the record. the most-watched debate ever. donald trump, hillary clinton, and the new fallout this evening. trump upset about his mic. upset about some of the questions. will he do the next two debates? and hillary clinton today, clearly relieved. >> did anybody see that debate last night? >> and the miss universe who says donald trump body shamed her. and trump tonight doubling down. also tonight, the massive and deadly house explosion in new york city after worried emergency calls about gas. the battalion chief and father of three killed in the blast, 20 injured. and tonight, word coming in now of an arrest. the fires and the floods. the emergency evacuations, flaming at least 300 feet high.