. today, the man accused of kidnapping and raping a nine- year-old girl makes appearance in massillon court. thank you for joining yous. there is a good chance dennis menefee jr. will remain behind bars. the 46-year-old arraigned today in massillon municipal court, charged with first-degree felony kidnapping and rape of a minor under the age of 13. if convicted of both charges, he could face life in prison without a chance of parole. menefee's accused of posing as a police officer and abducting the girl on monday as she

massillon. the judge issued a million- dollar bond for each charge. >> and the type of seriousness of the changes and the risk of him doing this to another child, you know, that is $2 million that sets there. he's not going anywhere. >> he is next scheduled to appear in court october 7th. police credit the overwhelming support from the public on the description of his truck as the reason for his quick arrest. also in court, the driver indicted for killing ohio trooper kenny vellez. the bond set at $1 million today. josh gaspar is facing two counts of aggravated vehicular homicide and a misdemeanor dui charge. gaspar hit vellez on september 15th. the trooper was standing outside of his cruiser at the time on i-90 in lakewood. and it happened again. right now, police are investigating another smash-and- grab theft in cleveland this morning. it happened at the convenient food mart at the corner of west

arts district. the relatives of the owners tell news 5 the atm was taken after a stolen minivan was used to smash into the front door. that mini van was left in the parking lot running. so far, police have not released any information on a possible suspect. and the trending crime has hit hard in cleveland barely a day goes by without news of another smash-and-grab. it's costing business owners thousands of dollars in wants to take a stand by introducing a bill that would require atms to go along a brick or concrete wall in stores and lower the amount of money kept inside the machine. patton hopes to fast track the bill and says that if it's not ready for a vote at the end of the year, he's confident it will be ready by next february. the latest house down there, her front window got shot out and her back window got hit, too.

bb gun shooting spree. dozens of windows shot out in the middle of the night. 28 cars and five businesses were hit in fairport harbor. up the road, painesville had 35 reports of damage. dozens of people left with a cleanup and huge repair bills. >> somebody's got time at 3:30 in the morning to drive around and wreak havoc on a city i live in. you don't do th >> police investigating leads. if you know anything, give them a call. and the columbus police officer who shot and killed 13- year-old tyree king returned to the force but not as a patrol officer. the columbus dispatch reports the 31-year-old brian mason is performing administrative desk work at the police training academy while the investigation into king's death continues. and let's check in with tera make. it's a great day out there. >> it is and it's a friday.

the weekend goes. still wet weather but a better chance of some drier air working in. adding clouds for us in akron, your live shot is showing you the gloomy look as we heard about from lane. this is why. the rainfall is not widespread but scattered about with heavier amounts and thunderstorm activity for us near few philadelphia. i will dive deeper in that in just a moment. we'll start in lake county. there is a lot of rainfall and starting to find a little bit drier air working in. you had heavy rain over force is on 90. using the windshield wipers and better news over lake and geauga, ashtabula, too and driving on 80. does look like you're going to see moderate pockets in and out as you move away from strongsville. the heaviest rain is south. driving on 36th as well as 77 and you're going to have some real heavy rain near warwick

afternoon commuting or travelling. stark and summit county, you have lighter rain. i will show you rain totals coming up. impressive as the low continues to sit and spin. and that is coming up next. and to the latest in the deadly train crash in hoboken, new jersey. investigators are trying to figure out why new jersey transit train barrelled into the historic station. abcs stephanie ramos is on the scene with the latest hoboken. stephanie. >> i there is so much damage done to the station here in hoboken, it's holding up ntsb investigators from getting to all of the train cars to the second data recorder that could help them, could give them the answers to what caused the crash. >> i noticed that the train was not slowing down. see i got confused. by the time i realized what happened, we hit -- ran through the platform. >> reporter: the horrific train crash happening so fast at one

commuter hubs. >> and we had access, however, to the locomotives. >> reporter: they found one data recorder last night in the locomotive and are looking for a second near the front of the train. as well as cameras. it's hard to get to because part of the terminal's roof collapsed in the crash. >> and people are running every way. >> reporter: the most severely injured passengers were found in the first train car. many trapped and scrambling to get out any way they could. perkins found the woman who lost her life when she >> i try to come for as much and i am going to let you. if you're going to die, not by yourself now. >> reporter: the 32-year-old a wife, daughter, and young mother had just dropped off her baby girl at day care when she rushed to catch the train. >> and she was lovable. loved her daughter and always had a smile on her face. she wanted to do everything she could for her daughter. >> and i feel -- [

changed within a few hours. >> reporter: and why didn't the train slow down? that is what ntsb investigators want to know, especially since learning the brakes were working and they requested to interview the engineer. they want to ask him about the last 72 hours -- hours before the crash. steph neigh -- stephanie ramos, news 5. >> thank you. and i got chased >> and creepy clowns continuing to cause concern in communities across the country. why classes are caps willed in ohio for one school district. >> and a recall alert for volvo drivers, the leak that could cause a safety feature to malfunction. >> and the big box store wants to take a onliner.

. drivers, listen up. we have an important recall to tell you about that affects a safety feature. volvo recalling nearly 12,027,000 cars and -- 127,000 cars and suv's. the moisture may stop the airbags from deploying in a crash. the recall affects 2016 and 2017 models and is expected to begin on november 14th.

between amazon and big box store wal-mart. wal-mart making moves to become a bigger player in the global e- commerce market by recently purchasing online shopping startup jet.com for $3 billion. there are plans to open up an online store for wal-mart sam's club warehouse. the competition is stiff. amazon shares are up 23% this year. the company's market value is at $395 billion. and next on newschannel is chiming in for the first time on an election. the candidate they're saying is unfit to be president. >> tera. >> and days of rain and now we expect more. so, what does this mean for your weekend plans? we'll help you time out the

. cancelled for a suburban cincinnati school district after a woman said she was attacked by a creepy clown. the so-called creepy clown sightings are reported across the country and here in ohio with more and more people calling for help.

on the tristate woman who said a clown chased her down. >> reporter: complaints keep coming. >> i just got chased by a clown up to my door and into my apartment. >> reporter: police are investigating reports from florida to ohio. >> this is a silly question, but can you give me a description? >> reporter: creepy clowns haunting people like this woman in franklin. >> i ran as fast as i could up to the balcony and shut my door. >> reporter: neighbors on alert. >> and it's awful, especially with little kids looking >> and as a police department, we keep an eye on trends throughout the united states and things that happened that could happen here and we prepare for it. >> reporter: the police chief said that these clowns are no laughing matter. >> if someone happened to chase an elderly person and they fall or break their head and break their hip, that is a serious criminal charge. if they fall and have a heart attack, that is more serious. >> reporter: many people

out of it or get out of it, i don't understanded. >> and this is just illogical. it's childish, immature and shouldn't happen. >> reporter: and we contacted several halloween stores across the area and employees tell us they have not noticed an increase and people buying clown costumes. meanwhile, police say they were not able to find the clown who attacked the woman. the chief said when caught, he or she would face a criminal mischief charge. high urging people not to panic over a fake clown threat. students were buzzing on social media about a killer clown who was going to target students with a gun. akron police quickly shot down the rumors saying that neither the clown nor threats are credible. and meanwhile, the recent spike in creepy crown sightings has professional clowns across the country worried. clowns have been valued across

craze is hurting their image and their business. >> there are guidelines we use when dealing with children. if we see someone that is afraid, i never approach a child and i let them come to me. >> and this video of a creepy clown is a remindder to parents to talk to their kids about never following or approaching these characters. for the first time in 34 years, "usa today"'s editorial board is taking aed in the presidential race saying they say the republican lacks the temperament, knowledge, steadiness, and honesty that americans need from the president. and trump's running mate quit to -- quick to respond saying donald trump is ready to lead and between the candidates, the choice couldn't be more clear. all right, friday, the week is getting started. >> and sunday is going to be the better day to pick apples. looks like rainfall on saturday

good. we have been cramped in our house for days and today is another one of the wet rainy days and at least it's a happy friday and there is a look outside of cleveland with the dark low clouds and rainfall light here in cuyahoga and there is a bit of a breeze in place at times and not bad at 6 miles per hour and could be high like fine today it -- 15 today and closer to the lake, the higher the numbers are and dew point is not bad and no we have the gleam air mass with the light rain and 63 in cleveland. 61 in akron and wooster and drier air surrounding ashtabula and we are dry in mansfield at 60 degrees and for lorain and cuyahoga, this is your light rainfall and driving on many highways and biways and your lighter grown is indicating the

lorain and strongsville seeing light rain and we head south and thunderstorm activity. not expecting severe weather out of this push but you may have a thunderstorm pop-up, especially farther south. and right on top of us, we're going to take away the lightning flashes. very heavy rain on dover and driving on 77 toward strasburg you will find the heavy rain in place and bars mill, i think it's impacting you and there is a potential that it does stay toge moderate rain heading your way and going north, it's lighter. tuscaroras here, stark and summit county, medina and wooster and lightens up and loses intensities. scattered, light showers. for tonight, the on-and-off rain could mean wet at the -- for the most part, we're looking at drier weather. and i am trying to be positive about this. the field is going to be soggy for players.

to have a lot of mud on them. keep them in mind. on the stands, bring something to sit on so you're not getting wet. the rain chances hopefully dodging you for tonight's big game. and scene degrees, the daytime high. -- 69 degrees, the day time high and a bit of that eastern breeze and this low can't make up its mind quite yet, but it waivers back west and heads into the north. we're going to see that drier air working in here into the weekend. but today, we star the early morning showers, even a few thunderstorms and this model is picking up on that nicely and west siders getting wet and east siders drying out more and here, we move to 3:30 and that is better pictures for us. additional chances on the west side tonight and overnight, becoming more widespread and this is saturday. cooler temperatures with the sun and 70s are coming back and much lighter rain, much more

west and north and we lose the power. the low is closer. still, we're talking the potential of another half of an inch to as much as two inches. some of us in the past 24 hours have had big numbers and that is an inch and a half near akron and southern cuyahoga and canton, an inch 1/2 and new carolton, two and watch out for a bit of flooding and we'll keep you updated. some of those numbers are finding a rainfall in the forecast is coming in just a few days. i want to see a warm-up and something to dry us out, look at income week and we'll look at the seven-day in a few moments.

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