trouble after trying to take the trend to a different level. tracy is live at the east lake police department. tracy, these girls ryan frederick threatening local -- were threatening local schools? >>reporter: yeah, the police chief told me the threats came to the police department's attention over the weekend but for the police and school district officials, it's no laughing matter. east lake police are taking the creepy clowns and threatening message seriously. three schools, middle, will bee middle, and south high were targeted on serial media. this disease -- social media. this dad has two kids. >> my daughter saw it on instagram and was upset. didn't want to go to bed and was crying and didn't want to go to school. >>reporter: the police chief got wind ovthe weekend and a tip led them here to east lake middle school. they believe an 11 year-old and

>> an anonymous tip gave us two of the name ands when we went down there and spoke to them, we developed a third. they all were remorseful and contrite. >>reporter: detectives will be consulting with the prosecutors office about charges but believes a juvenile diversion program might get the point across that police are not clowning around when it comes to thres. important thing is to learn and make sure they understand that this isn't proper. you know, none of them have any records or dealings with the police so them going to any type of youth facility is -- wouldn't benefit any of us. >>reporter: now, the police chief also told me this is a good time to remind parents to talk to your children once again about social media.

5. new developments in the investigation against a man accused of killing several ohio women. this afternoon, marion county officials release add sketch of a woman who sean gray says he killed. great met with investigators and the sketch artist to draw up this image of the woman who they say great confessed to killing. great told them ten years ago he stabbed the woman and dumped her body but could not could have been dana or diane. authorities found her body book in 2007. he's being charged in the murder of three other women. she's being held in the ash land county jail on a number of charges including murder and facing the death penalty. learning mu details about the police chase that shut down i71 for much of the day yesterday. the victim, a student from the college of wooster in critical condition as we uncover the man

investigators believe the shooting of alex was a random act by 25 year-old sean johnson. around 11 sunday morning, johnson was sitting on the bench when he got up and following alex to his car and shot him. he led police on a chase before shooting himself in the car. this afternoon, we spoke to friends understand how this could happen. >> we dug into johnson's past and found he had a warrant issued for his arrest on saturday, the day before that shooting. he was charged with domestic violence after assaulting his mother. a driver who shot and killed -- or hit and killed a woman on i480 and injured another was in court this morning. clark justin is who we're talking act.

matthews and 18 year-old asiamatthews. the two were on the side of the interstate changing a tire. justin pulled over at a nearby exit and arrested him. he was arranged on three charges, aggravated vehicular homicide and assault and position of heroin. he's being held on $350,000 bond. four people arrested in connection to a weekend shooting on the western edge of lake wood late friday night at 117th. 27 year-old christopher baits was shot in the head as a car drove past him. cops were able to track down and arrest 17 year-old avion, 18 year-old johnny and another 18 year-old. a cleveland resident 18 year- old ryan robinson also arrest and had all charged with

condition. might see a cloud and night not depending where you are. >> yeah, clouds and sun mixes together. cleveland has cloud deck overhead. a band of clouds, sugar creek, canton to youngstown, did contain a few little sprinkles into trimble county but exited the building. they're done. mid 60s. cleveland, a 68 degree reading and akron, 72 in dover very pleasant evening. temps fallly slowly through the 60s by 10:00 p.m. around 60 degree withs a mix of clouds and clear. weather headlines, more fog overnight tonight could slow you down for the morning rush. more on that, back to summertime. ready for more 80 degree temps? wait to see the seven day and we'll track the latest on hurricane matthew and major category 4 storm may impact the

dimming presidential nominee -- democratic presidential nominee hillary clinton making more stops in ohio. she was in toledo this morning. >> right now she's speaking at the good year hall and theater on market street in akron reaching out to headache sure everyone is registered to vote in november. >> her trip coming a day after the rubber city's favorite son gave his endorsement to her. john joins us and, john, isn't lebron's first endorsement in politics. >> dating back to 2008, he was supported barack. might he be considering an even bigger role in the future? endorsing hillary clinton for president, lebron james caught the attention of the sports and political words. clinton shouted it's great, i'm so excited. in his statement, lebron wrote only one person running truly understands the struggle of an

when i think about the kids need from the government, my choice is clear. >> this is my hometown and that's the main point for me. >> the the cavs practice facility, it was topic one. lebron made it clear. >> i'm not a political guy. i'm not into politics but i know what i standby. >> but actions with his foundation have spoken volumes over the years and some say underestimate his political future at your own risk. >> why not lebron? why not house? >> brad sellers knows the path since it's one he took playing in the nba playing with michael jordon to mayorville height. >> i saw something this lebron years ago and told his high school coach. i said he's the guy. whether he wants to be the guy or not, i don't know . he's the guy. he's never lost the connection to his community and understanding where they are and where he wants them to be and he's basing upon his own

listen, if i can do something to make a change, i'm gonna do it. >> james is not with clinton at this hour in akron because the cavs are holding a double practice. he doesn't rule out taking a more active role in the community if the time permits. >> as for hillary clinton's rival, donald trump, he was in virginia speaking to a group of retired veterans at the retired american warriors packed meeting. at this ent, he vowed to strengthen the nation's cyber security efforts while taking a jab at experience in cyber security involves her criminal scheme to violate federal law ennearing a massive coverup and putting the entire nation in harm's way. >> trump is in colorado where holding two rallies with supporters there tonight. controversy continues to swirl around donald trump and his foundation. the new york attorney general ordered the organization to

state. a cease and desist let was issued to the foundation because it did not submits annual audits done by the state. the foundation raised more than $25,000 in donations without filing proper paperwork, which breaks the state law. the trump campaign responded to the move saying it's concerned about political motivations but is cooperating with the invest. snyder man, who is a registered democrat, is a strong clinton supporter. while trump and clinton won't face up in a debate till sunday, their running mates are hard at work prepping for their debate tomorrow night. vp mike pence and vp tim kaine will take to the stage for a 90 minute debate scheduled to start at 9:30 tomorrow and watch it here on news 5. more than 950,000 applications for absentee

secretaries of state's office. at this point, that's 36,000 more than the 2012 general election. by the way, early voting in ohio that starts next wednesday, october 12. all new tonight, smash and grab spread into a normally quiet community. what city thieves are targeting and how you can protect your belongings. >> ? and lethal injections resume in ho. details on this controversial procedure. the latest when news five at 6

several local businessing on edge break ins. >> a possible serial thief is use ago crowbar to break or get inside. all of these crimes happened on the same street? >>reporter: all of the businesses are along ken moore boulevard in akron and all of the break ins happened within 48 hours of each other. we have surveillance video to

the suspect road up on a bicycle and used a crowbar to break in and got only about $6 in loose change. the alarm sounded so probably stopped him from stealing other items like comic books and was the same suspect who broke the window at a wireless store and stole a cash register and a cash register from a pizza place. hoping the surveillance will generate leads on this guy and till his captured, -- violate and had frustrated. >> they've got to do something about it. if they don't, everybody will get guns. that's the only way. >> it's silly to break into a place that's got a camera so he can steal five or six dollars worths of coins. that seems dumb to me. >> the crime stoppers will offer a reword up to $2,000 to identify the suspect in this

news 5 app. live in akron, bob jones, news 5. >> thanks, bob. the beginning of the year, lethal injections will resume here in ohio after the attorney general approves the use of new drug combinations. that combination approved by the fda will be made up of a combination of three drugs. the new policy is expected to be announced by the end of the week. right now the state of ohio has more than two dozen inmates sitting on death row. several other states had put a stop to lethal injunctions in 2014 after states were experiencing botched execution attempts. elyria police made several arrests in a large drug bust. arrest and search warrants carried out across elyria and loran this morning targeting a local gang. that gang has been behind the distribution and sell of heroin and cocaine around the area.

separated by one bridge with two completely different looks and one local group is trying to use that bridge to bring communities together. the cleveland campus district is trying to close a gap by tackling race relations using the bridge at east 22 and central by bringing together a group of people who live and work on both sides of that bridge, they're trying to open people up to having difficult conversation ands bring a common understanding to all. >> we have stop and they kept coming back. >> we began to draw together, it's really you access not the judgment part of your brain. you're no longer in that, you're in the spirit part of you. >> the group already getting interest from other communities wanting a similar idea in their neighborhoods. >> how about that? >> great idea. >> yes, indeed. we've got great weather but mark has his eyes elsewhere.

>> hurricane matthew and important to keep an eye on the u.s. east coast because this could go from florida all the way up to new england riding the coastline. >> my goodness. >> which would be bad news. let's go and show you what matthew is doing at this very moment. a category 4 storm, maximum sustained winds 140 miles per hour. look at the size of the eye. seven miles across. that is incredibly small. this thing is tightening up, it is packing quite a punch and will travel here is haiti, here is cuba, and that means 10, 20, even some spots 30-inches of ran fall for portions of -- rain fall for portions of haiti and eastern cuba and into the bahamas by late tuesday early wednesday and meanders out here and again, look how close it is to the florida coastline and the cone of uncertain city which takes it closer to the

easily up towards maine by the end of next week so keeping a very close eye on this storm. not a category five but a category four. sunshine breaking out. any sprinkles that were over in trimble county have since faded away so we won't mention those anymore. clouds are in and out, indeed. here we go. clouds should begin to breakup in your neighborhood if you're see ago cloud deck now but will keep a fe temps are fall like and comfortable. low 60s for norwalk and wooster. mid 6 0s for cleveland, mentor, and elyria. humidity 75 percent want the dew point at 57. dew point is the temperature you have to drop the air touchdown to to get dew and fog to form. by tomorrow morning, patchy

may slow you down tomorrow for the kids going to the bus stop or school or for you driving to work. 71 the high, 67. 89 on this day in 69. the record. out in the montanas and dakotas and florida gettings tropical moisture in the form of rain shower and storms. high right overhead that's gonna slowly move off to the east and allow some warmer air to slide in. i'm thinking thursday into friday. we're gonna see lower so will feel summer like here heading into friday night football. 54 the only thing, patchy clouds and fog after midnight tonight. tomorrow fog burns off by mid- morning, sunshine, a couple of clouds. great weather to get outside and do whatever you need to do. some of the leaves are falling, probably too soon to rake. 52 tonight, a few clouds, dense fog by dawn for the akron, canton area. tomorrow middle 70s, mainly

seven day wednesday, 79. thursday, 82. friday near 80 and afternoon thunder. saturday cooler, sunday a lake effect shower. that is football chilly. >> beautiful october weather. can't beat that. >> good playoff weather. the indians keeping that championship hope alive. >> owe got to get it going this week. got the whole boston thing going this weekend. the browns return home sunday and know who they'll play. talk a bit about the indians know what time they'll be playing. all the information you need

and he drives one to deep left field. back is gordon looking up. he's out of room and it's out of here. >> wow, what a boost to get gons back. boston here on thursday and friday. 8:30 starts on thursday and friday. in boston on sunday for that 4:00 p.m. start at fenway. so in fact, watch the browns host the patriot ands the indians play the red sox on sunday. the browns will be the first team to face this man right there. tom brady, his four game suspension for deflate gate ended at midnight. he was honored because he had nothing else to do. >> no one's gonna feel sorry for our circumstances and i get it, but your question is a

find a way. we've been doing it every week since we started whether it's the quarterback or line or receiver or here or there. we still cob to go out and fight. >> they have been fighting. >> the only team in the nfl without a win. >> hue jackson show airs thursday night at 7 and re-airs saturdays at 1 12:20 only on news 5. -- 11:30. >> lauren has a special story on som here's a sneak peek. >> i worked so hard to make myself lovable for him so i think i was really devastated in the end that nothing i did, and i tried a lot to be perfect, perfect. i was really trying to achieve something unachievable to be perfect for him, and still knowing that wasn't enough and that this relationship was

me. >> i'm gonna takeoff. >> she made a choice. >> not to walk but to run, run, run away from an unhealthy relationship. >> very powerful story tonight at 11. the opportunity to meet gabby and you'll find out more about the story. i just watched it and definitely worth watching tonight at 11. >> can't wait to check that out. before we let you go, tell you about this. a special escort to a homecoming for the daughters a fallen ohio officer. >> eight months ago, dan bill police officer thomas was killed in the line of duty and left behind three daughters, courtney, brooklyn, and alicia. when it was time for their homecoming dangs, his fellow officers knew they had to make it extra special. they provided squad car escorts for their girls and their

graduates next year. >> that's our time. thanks for joining us. >> have a great evening.

tonight, breaking news. the monster hurricane. the category 4 storm already deadly. tearing through the caribbean at this hour, haiti and jamaica bracing. and then, the models show it coming toward the u.s. states of emergency already declared along parts of the u.s. coast. also breaking, donald trump just moments ago, with to the bombshell headline involving his taxes. reports he might not have paid federal taxes for nearly 20 years. what trump says now. the outrage tonight over this video. a call to 911 about a suspicious person. the man telling police he was simply waiting for his mother to come home on her porch. >> what are you doing? >> then taken down by police. it was his mother's home. the aborted landing. the passenger jet and the emergency moments before