aunt. she had some very blunt things to say about her nephew. police tell me this home on state route 36 in port washington is where menefee was living. a woman answered the door but would not say much. >> we're trying to talk about dennis menefee. do you know anybody i can talk to? did he live here?>> reporter: his aunt, bessie meslow, is talking and ho back. >> i am glad he is locked up. i don't think his mother would tell you any different. i think he did it.>> reporter: he was accused of attending to be a cop and forcing a girl into his pick up before sexually assaulting here. we say he also showed the young victim a gun.>> she will never be the same afterward.

reporter: betsy is aware of her nephew's past. report show in wyoming he picks up a woman sexually assaulted her and left her on the road. >> he push her out of the car and left her. she froze to death. >> reporter: the victim was the mother of one of the man who killed matthew shepard, a college student, case that gained national attention. menefee got 4-9 years from involuntary manslaughter but was paroled after less than he was arrested wednesday while working at a construction site. betsy suspects drugs played a role. err he is the kind of fellow that would know if a drug would make you feel funny, he would take it. >> reporter: menefee will be back enjoy -- jail tonight. bob jones, news five. >> menefee was arrested in lancaster county and went before a judge today. the judge set bond at $1

brought back. that could happen at any minute. new developments in the case suspected serial killer. sean great, a man accused in the murders of three women, pleaded not guilty. he was arrested after a woman called 911 telling the dispatcher she was being held against her will. and that her captor was asleep next to her. when police arrived, she directed them to the bodies of two women inside. police say great later confessed to killing two women, one this year, one in 2005. they are investigating a connection to a fifth woman's murder. mark johnson tracking rain this afternoon. >> we have a nice little bow of rain. yellows and oranges and reds stretching from just to the east of canton and louisville and lions up in the downtown akron swinging in towards

this band is going to swing north and westward and will dry out for a little while before more rain a lives -- arrives later on. zooming in on after -- akron, talmage, lake more, that is steady moderate to briefly heavy rain, up towards sew en route eight. temperatures in the 60s everywhere you go. some embedded thunder on overnight towards tomorrow morning's rush. i will tell you what will -- when it will finally dry out coming up. it happened right here, a powerful message cleveland had been seeing about human trafficking. the problem is so serious a response team is doing everything it can to get the word out. dominique rigs is live on just learned 55th where one of the billboards is getting the word out.>> reporter: you have probably seen these billboards

take notice whenever they see them. >> it caught my attention, it happens here too mac. i said what is happening? it was human trafficking. >> reporter: xavier works in marketing and works -- passes by the spill more every day. >> a lot of people don't know about it. it gets people's attention. >> reporter: he sees the signs all over. >> i see them on the side of buses and things like that. >> people say i've seen those signs. i recognize them.>> reporter: karen walsh is the president of the collaborative to end human trafficking. the person behind the sign. >> they are inside and outside the rta buses and they are also in each of the concourses at cleveland hopkins airport.>> reporter: human trafficking is

>> it's a global problem, is national problem and is happening right here in northeast ohio.>> reporter: walsh hopes folks pay attention to the website where people can find resources about what trafficking is and what to do if they recognize it.>> it is the human rights issue. no one should be denied their fundamental right to freedom.>> reporter: coming up at six, we take another collaboration to in trafficking. what medical professionals are prepared to do. dominique rigs, news five. new developments out of sound dusky county. retired judges have decided the county sheriff should be suspended while facing charges. sheriff carl overmyer is accused of stealing prescriptions from drug drop

painkillers. this term expires at the end of this year and he is running for reelection. let's go to the cincinnati area where a heroin dealer will play for his crimes for the next 15 years. john wade got sentenced for selling heroin cut with fennel last year to a man who died from the overdose the same day. he pled guilty to distribution of a can substance in may. may. a football player died after being injured in a high school game last friday. we wanted to know how the injury went undiagnosed.>> it is a one in 1000 to 10,000 kind of injury. >> reporter: last friday night, andre jackson was injured. his coach says it was a

think they intersected. >> reporter: jackson walked off the field on his own. he was brought to the medical center conscious and alert and was released saturday. on sunday, jackson's brother found him not breathing and he died at rainbow babies and children's hospital. the cause of death, peritonitis, a massive infection due to a small bowel laceration caused by blunt impact to the abdomen. how was business?>> i can see that happening.>> reporter: head of the department of surgery for akron children's hospital, dr. john crow, says it is difficult to diagnose.>> sometimes it comes on in a delayed fashion. or it leaks a little bit. a healthy 16-year-old or 17- year-old patient may not really show many signs of this. >> reporter: a cat scan is the

dr. crowe says it's not a good test for seeing a small bowel leak, most often caused by a seatbelt injury in an accident.>> is a rare problem. usually you have something to go on like this about mark or the mechanism, and it's just sometimes can be miss. it's really a tragedy for all.>> reporter: dr. chrome said diagnosis is often made only after a patien having systems -- symptoms, fever, vomiting, abdominal pain. it can become an overwhelming infection very quickly. >> a community train in new jersey -- commuter train in new jersey leaves several dead and hundreds injured. rob powers is tracking the investigation from the newsroom. >> reporter: investigators from the ntsb are on the ground in

we had video showing the aftermath of the deadly crash moments after it slammed into the station. this happened after 8:30 this morning. witnesses say a train was approaching the station at incredible speed.>> the train didn't stop.>> it was bumper-to- bumper block basically through the air. after 40 feet it came to arrest when it the wall.>> besides those killed and injured, this also caused major structural damage to bent and twisted steal and debris everywhere. the woman killed in hoboken was not even on the train. she was standing on the platform at the station. conductor in stable condition. his account of what happened is going to be central to the its investigation. a medical helicopter had to crash land outside a hospital in oklahoma. four people were on board. the chopper lost power this morning. the pilot was able to safely guide it to a road near the

crew member. no patients at the time and none of their injuries serious. the power losses under investigation. a kindergartner fighting for his life. >> a teenage boy behind bars. we have the latest out of south carolina where shooting unfolded on an elementary school playground. that's the six-year-old conditions and what the teen gunman did before the violence began. 40 days and counting. both presidential today. that's straight ahead. should you be allowed to take a selfie in the voting booth? the legal challenge against ballot selfies and what the

new information about the south carolina school shooting. six-year-old boy is still in the hospital in critical condition after police say a teenager opened fire on an elementary school playground. a volunteer firefighter was the first person to respond is that

rushed to the kids side and the firefighter took on the shooter. before crashing the truck into the playground fence shooting a kids, police say the teen killed his own father. one child was then hit in the foot. jacob was hit in the leg. the bullet struck a main artery. he had to be revived twice. there will be more surgery once he stabilizes. the fire chief talked about that boy today.>> please especially remember to keep little jacob who continues to fight for his life. he is a hard little fighter.>> investigators also revealed today the 14-year-old suspect called his grandparents in tears before the shooting. when they went to his house they found his father, their son, dead. right now police are still trying understand why the gunman targeted those school gets. his family released a statement saying they, too, are saddened

day. clinton and trump working hard to win over voters in swing states. >> reporter: with less than two months ago, both candidates are going through as many musquin states as possible. err we are starting to vote and i would today.>> reporter: hillary clinton is in iowa.>> we have 40 days to win an election that is going to affect the next 40 years of our country and you, everyone of reporter: rallying voters after a showing of unity from her team yesterday. from michelle obama bashing trump in pennsylvania. >> the president cannot lash out irrationally. we need an adult in the white house.>> reporter: bernie sanders now standing by her side. >> it is imperative that we elect hillary clinton as our

speaking for himself, firing back at a campaign stop in new hampshire. their this will be the year the american people say finally enough is enough. it's going to start with new hampshire. >> reporter: trump is trying to push forward but he can't seem to escape the backlash from this week's debate.>> what every single vote was taken, i won the candidate himself says he is to blame for his rocky performance. the campaign has plenty of time to prepare for the next two debates. abc news, washington. >> none of the candidates are in ohio today but both candidates will come back next week. as conventional wisdom goes, as

county goes. the county that contains port clinton and putting bay has been called the states presidential picker. it has chosen the winner during the last 13 elections. abc news reports there are concerns that this year saw many people dispirited by the contest and they may just stay home, not even bothering to boat. your right to vote? go ahead. snap that selfie. an appeals court found that 2014 bands on ballot selfies in new hampshire is unconstitutional. lawmakers argued the pictures could be used to help buy votes. the court said there was no evidence of that. voters can now snap away and share on social media. >> ballot selfies.>> the new trend.>> there's a little bit

today.>> reporter: thunder, we have fog, heavy at times.>> it's a potpourri. >> reporter: first of all? >> first of all i want to start out with was breaking in the weather nationally and internationally. we have a new hurricane, hurricane matthew. that is our infrared satellite showing the cold cloud tops -70 degree cloud tops. that's the center of matthew. here's what we expect matthew to do. he is going to slide spend a couple of days out here and then take a turn towards the north and into the bahamas by tuesday. he may be a cat to or cat three hurricane. where matthew goes from there, anybody's guess. could turn towards the coast or it could slide out to see. something we're going to watch very carefully. locally, we have this band of heavy rain sliding up through cleveland, akron, now moving

look at this. liebling is -- cleveland is getting light rain downtown. ohio city all the way to lakewood, that is heavy rainfall impacting the travelers going west out of downtown. parma, heavy rain, garfield heights, that area to the north and east, we are seeing the heavy rain. yellows and oranges and reds, heavy rain just out almost into ravenna. it will slide north and east. canton getting moderate rain. there is rain out there. should dry out for a little while. another round comes in towards adric 9:00 tonight. 62 degrees raining in elyria. akron, 63, 61 in fremont. 60 degrees in ravenna. here is your hour by hour,

bit. look at the next round coming in. more heavy rainfall where you see those yellows and oranges. cleveland, madonna, lorraine, wurster, canton, akron, dover, new philly, under the gun for good rains. look at our rainfall expectations. tomorrow morning's rush, this is 8:15 a.m. friday. between now and then, look at these impressive rainfall totals. dover new philly, to a half inches of rain potentially. cleveland, almost ravenna, 1.6. keep an eye out for ponding of water. some flash flooding issues for highways and byways. there is the low. as long as it hangs around we will see areas of rain in wheeling up around it. the low is going to go into southern ohio tomorrow. guess where it is going saturday. here's where it will be

it gets out of here and takes off by monday. that's when we will likely dry out. sunday the threat for rain is slim. sunday can be your day to get outside. 60 overnight, rain likely, into now, maybe some thunder, rain heavy at times. tomorrow, upper 60s, showers likely with isolated thunder. wet weather, guys. next at five, president obama open for questions. what he had to say when a service member asked him about colin kaepernick and the prott. talking about a product you heard about first on five before the government makes it

was so much focus on his potential replacement, president obama wanted to make sure he is still accessible to

town hall with a chance for the audience to ask questions. the president copied -- covered a wide range of top text, from terrorism to veterans health. at one point the president carefully explains why he refuses despite criticism from the gop to use the phrase islamic terrorism.>> the way it is heard, the way it is received by our friends and allies around the world is that somehow islam reporter: -- >> the president weighed in on one topic. colin kaepernick's decision not to stand during the national anthem. the emotional impact it may have on our armed forces.>> i want mr. r -- mr. kaepernick to listen to the pain that that might cause. i also want people to think

expressing. >> the president touched on the expanded role for women in the military saying anyone who can do the job should be able to get the job. russia is potentially trying to tilt the election. an urgent warning and a call for action. what's being done right now to make sure the results reflect your vote. both candidates taking some strong claims about one another. we put their statements through the truth

back with our top stories, linked to the killings of four women, sean gray entered a plea of not guilty this afternoon. prosecutors will see the death penalty if he is convicted. he faces kidnapping and rape charges connected to another woman who called 911 from ashland home saying she had

scheduled for october 31. a family member of accused child rapists medhi says she is not surprised by the charges. his aunt told us she thinks meta-fee is probably guilty. he has a criminal record dating back to 1999. today news five investigated the death of a high school football player in euclid. andre jack was released from the hospital after an injury and later died from a lacerated bowel injury. today a doctor told us this was a rare injury that would have been very difficult to diagnose. turning back to the race for the white house. with 30 days to go, some voters have their say with the future of our nation.>> we are learning new information about the number of state voter

john kosich is live from the tech center. john, there are many more targets that we thought. is ohio one of them?>> no. abc news has learned 20 other states of being targeted. the hackers are working on behalf of the russian government. they are working to make sure ohio's guard is up. in the chain that is the election process, the voter registration databases the late.>> there is no doubt that sebag actors have been poking around.>> reporter: last month, more than 20 states were targeted ohio was not one of them.>> we've been working with the department of homeland security, the fbi, the national guard, the state it security team and private security experts on this issue.>>

hacking of a voter registration databases different from the voting system.>> it is so clunky. the voter registration systems are.>> reporter: there is physically a paperback -- paper ballot for the votes cast. >> each one of those machines has a verified paper trail. for 100% of there are verified paper trails of those votes which add to security of that process. >> reporter: while no one knows the intent of the hackers, it's generally identity left. it all may also be to undermine confidence in the election system. there is still plenty of posturing after monday night's historic debate. donald trump is claiming he was correct in saying murderers in new york city are up.>> clinton

invited to hack on american emails. >> under the current mayor, crime has dropped including murders.>> you are wrong. murders are up. >> reporter: the two new yorkers mixing it up monday night, aspiring over new york city's murder rate. donald trump says it's up. trump and clinton debated the effectiveness of stop in first policing.>> nypd themselves tried to correct donald trump's statement. they set for 2016 we're looking at one of the safest years on record for crime. they said murders are down significantly. >> reporter: for virtually any timeframe to let a fact look like, murders are down. trumps claim is mostly false. >> i was shocked when donald publicly invited putin to hack into america.>> reporter:

hack away us emails including the more than 30,000 emails that vanished from clinton server in the midst of a federal investigation. >> russia, if you're listening, i hope you are able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. >> reporter: trump says that remark was sarcastic.>> yes, his words matter. you did use those words. that was not the meeting you said he intended.>> reporter: the lid of reference clinton's emails specifically. the debate claim is half true. next week is a busy one for debates. trump and clinton go head-to- head again on sunday night. jamison uhler. we'll see you next week for another fact check. that computer had you screaming over there. >> we have rain coming in.

right into downtown cleveland. this stuff is heavy. traveling west into bay village and rocky river, it's going to slowly saunter our way. downtown may be enveloped very quickly. here is downtown cleveland. it's rainy. look where the heavy rain is towards ohio city. that is heavy rainfall. it slides down in the twins brca the akron area, cuyahoga falls, rabinowitz heavy rain. we while and then another band will come in from southern ohio and will taper in. lower 60s everywhere you go except for youngstown in the mid-60s. your evening looks like this. notice there is thunder he weather on and off all the way through 9 pm with temperatures hovering in the lower 60s. akron, canton, same story, upper 50s, lower 60s with hit and miss showers and thunderstorms. coming up at five, buildings leveled. the ground bear.

makeover and we are getting all the details about what's going on in edgewater. a mystery at sea. a man stranded for a week, his mother presumed dead after their boat went down. what police say is fishing. first, your winning lottery

breaking news to get to just posted on the cleveland browns facebook page. roche -- josh gordon is entering a rehab facility. we will have more on this in sports regarding the statement they released through the team.

johnson.>> this front is impacting i 77 from cleveland through akron. it's beginning to swing up in the portage county, impacting interstate 76 and the i-80 word or. this is heavy rainfall. now it is shifting into downtown. travel in and out of downtown over the next hour or so is going to be slow going. i can tell you coming in during an -- turn one of these showers, the ponding will be an issue. akron inundated with rain showers, some of it briefly heavy near coventry. it is steady and moderate there with temperatures in the 60s, the sun going down, visibility is going to be low. drive with care. more on what is to come for the

food trucks served thousands of beachgoers this year. >> there is a plan to build on that success. major improvements at edgewater park right now.>> reporter: as the weather turns cooler, construction equipment replaces swimmers at edgewater beach. air-traffic five shows the old

removed. a 12,000 ft.2 to leveled beach house will be built it will house a 75 seat diner. souvenir shop, and the store for beachgoers. this is a rendering of what the beach house will look like. it will also have a covered but open-air observation deck on the second level. the peer will also be expanded another improvements will be made like a kid play area.>> it's nice to have some water and waves. the edgewater live scenario has en surfers enjoy edgewater. >> i am excited to see what it is going to bring.>> reporter: edgewater has great views. the beach and park are undergoing major improvements.>> that is paul kiska reporting. construction should be finished by next summer. a consumer alert at five. ford recalling 74,000 focus hatchbacks with manual transmission.

cars are moving. you can open it with the push of a button when the car is driving less than 4 miles an hour. the federal safety standards required -- require two actions to open the door, then release the hatch. the recall covers vehicles from 2013-2017. a murder mystery at sea. a 22-year-old rescued from an ill-fated boat trip insisting he had nothing to do with his he also denies he has anything to do with his grandfather's murder. here is lindsay jan and -- lindsay janice with an exclusive interview. >> reporter: we are speaking about the fishing trip that left him stranded at sea for a week. >> she had always been reluctant about safety. i guess she had good reason to be.>> reporter: the 22-year-old who had asperger's syndrome that he convinced his mom, lynda carmen, to take a trip on

offshore saying she agreed partly because she didn't want him to go alone. after they arrived, the engine made a strange noise.>> i thought i was going to die and we were going to go -- dive out and go back to shore.>> reporter: he says his mother was at the back of the boat when suddenly the boat sank. >> i did not know she had been dragged down with the ship. neither of us had been wearing like this.>> reporter: finally after eight days nathan was rescued before he was back on dry land deputies season items from his home. a search warrant revealing is under investigation for reckless endangerment.>> there is some concern that the boat was not seaworthy. >> that is lindsay janice

nathan has been under suspicion. in 2014, detective say he was the last to see his grandfather before he was shot three times. nathan denies any involvement and was never charged. the crime remains unsolved. mark was saying some words we don't like like chilly and frosting. >> i was looking out to weeks. you cannot put any stock in those. it does show a cooling trend by the first 10 days of october. >> the time is right.>> to be expected. >> the first frost average is right around 8 october. let's look outside. no frost here. rain moving into cleveland. it is pouring down on her camera lands, making travel slower for loved ones. if you're waiting for folks coming out of canton, there's a lot of rainfall out there and a

gray skies, rain falling, the roads look the same color as the sky, it can be a little dangerous. slow it down. if you're coming into downtown, bring the rain. let me show you first of all some breaking sports and weather news. it has been raining in detroit all day long. the tarp is not come off the field. they have called the game. if need be they will make it up monday. if detroit needs to play, they let's show you that. we have rain coming in, some of it heavy. see this yellow and orange? moderate to heavy rainfall stretching from cleveland, western suburbs into nomura kites down to brooklyn heights, south brooklyn. some reds there moving into the north ridgefield area. there is lake township in stark county. canton, beginning to dry out. marlboro and alliance, steady rain there. we will bring him back for 1063

downtown 62 in north royalton, low 60s everywhere you go. jackson township with some rain. 57, can't, asu, my alma mater, 56 degrees. there was rainfall persisting. 60s in most spots. it's going to, those temps are going to hover through the evening hour. you will be around 60 for cleveland, upper 50s in akron. capturing that band of rain pretty well is this front orr rain showers developing to our south and east. they slide in and they make a beeline for cleveland, lorraine, at, canton. there could easily be a lot of rainfall overnight to the tune it may be one-2 inches if you get under heavy band for an extended period of time. here's the low-pressure. to slow is sitting over kentucky. here's where it's going.

way. it will sit and spin right here tomorrow. saturday, guess where it's going, frankly the logos back here on saturday, sit and spin, more rain traveling into northern ohio. it will be far enough north of us you notice not a lot of rainfall to the south of the low. that's when we begin to dry out. once the load it's here on sunday. it is making a little, it doesn't know what it wants to do. is no is going to rain on we will go 69, akron, canton tonight, 58 rain, tomorrow, showers likely, 69 degrees. saturday, scattered, a few showers sunday and drying out, warming up by next week. some call it a lifesaver, come -- some calls it a dangerous

is affecting users. plus, turning the tables. a 911 dispatcher calls 911 for help. he tells us how the life came meet -- life-saving call gave him a new appreciation of his job. a man shot by police in california. the shooting sparking protests. now new details about what went

new information on the deadly police involved shooting in california still sparking outrage. that incident inciting protests and calling for police to release the video.>> as protesters call for police to release video on the shooting, we are hearing from the family of the man killed. here is lauren lyster.>> reporter: today the family of alfred elanco, that on our man

first time.>> we need justice. these kind of things need to stop.>> reporter: this after a second night of protests over his step. hundreds of demonstrators spilling out for memorial for the slain 38-year-old. police have released video of the incident moments before the unarmed a man -- unarmed man police say what officers thought was a weapon was a vape smoking device. the aftermath captured here this facebook video. representatives for the family tell abc news he was suffering from an emotional break down and his sister had called police to come help. authority say when officers responded, he refused to follow

under investigation.>> reporter: the picture of this is from witness cell phone video. body cameras for police have not been delivered yet. lauren lyster, abc news. that will do it for news five at five.>> what's going on at six?>> coming up. >> a drug that is supposed to cure why the fda is putting a heavy ban on it the heartwarming story about a veteran 911 dispatcher who fell ill and was on the other end of the receiver. also, breaking brown's news. news five at six begins in two

news five starts now with breaking news. the browns tweeted josh gordon is entering rehab. >> the browns just made the announcement.>> it's really a setback for the wide receiver, schedu sunday against new england. the browns released that they fully support his decision to go to rehab. gordon says he needs to do it to regain full control of his life. the browns josh gordon currently suspended, will not be back for a while. he has decided to enter inpatient rehab. a federal ban on the active ingredient in a popular over-the-counter drug.