outrage from a local community as several teachers jobs are now on the chopping block. with a $15 million budget deficit the school district is facing a grim reality that could close schools and news 5 learns that much of deficit is because of three consecutive years of over spending, so wh sooner? mike brookbank joins us live. you've done some digging into the past of the school treasure. >> yeah daniel bowman at the helm here as this district spiraled into a massive budget shortfall. we're taking a look at his performance here at par ma. >> something wasn't thinking about the future. >>reporter: karl helling stopping short of naming names

bowman's watch may provide some insights. >> it's obvious that the financial statement showed that the district spent more. sometimes it's five years, six years i can't comment on how long the levee was passed. it was passed in may of 2011. >>reporter: that means the projected $2 .7 million sure plus bowman showed actually a $7 million shortfall. and up until this summer, there were no signs of financial trouble. in 2015, bowman and the district were honored for clean and accurate financial record keeping. for the fourth year in a row. it was shortly after that the wheels fell off according to the ohio department of education. a spokesperson telling news 5 the district's financial forecast deteriorated significantly. from october 2015 to may of this year. clearly, the community not

cuts coming. bowman left the district earlier this year. he currently holds the same position in a sandusky school system. news 5 reached out multiple times for bowman for comment. he has not returned any phone calls. meantime we let parma school city know it's actually shoald the old forecast. they thanked us for bringing it to their attention. the community now has access to the updated information and numbers. they will be here monday night to discuss e for now we ever live in parma mike brookbank. right now hurricane matthew continues to pound the east coast with it's high winds and heavy rains as millions of people are without power now. some are starting to clean up everything that they can. news 5 derick waller is live for us in fort pierce. what is the latest down there right now? >>reporter: i can tell you there are tens of thowtion of people here in fort pierce that

just one of many all down the street a couple of miles that just are not working. we also have scenes like this. of tree wran branches that are completely snapped up and these palm tree frondz which are deceivingly large and take a lot of wind power to take off those trees. we do have some video earlier of people taking down the storm shutters after the storm, after hurricane matthew packed less than a punch the fort pierce is about an hour north of west palm beach where there was some damage, including a dock that got completely destroyed, a marina that some neighbors say is going to take six months to a year to fix. it is just completely wiped out by the storm. hurricane sandy had even survived hurricane sandy but not this time. >> it just destroyed all that rain just came and winds just came so strong, it just

like haiti. >>reporter: and that is the good news here. up here there was no loss of life. further down south in florida there was one woman who died of a heart attack when emergency crews were not able to get to her because of the storm but really the consensus here is this could have been so much worse. that is the latest here from fort pierce, florida. i'm derick waller, news 5. >> thanks. lets head north of where we just saw derek and head to daytona beach. folks there saw afternoon. waters from the atlantic flooding boardwalks and coastal areas. hundreds of thousands of people without power at this hour as the storm continues to make it's way up the east coast. and mark, those storm surges, those are the major concern right now for much of the coast correct? >> absolutely. that's what everyone is watching now, because malgt eu is losing strength and the eye is farther out to see than it was. at about 2:30 this morning here

canaveral, florida. and believe it or not, we only had maximum sustained winds of 85 miles per hour measured there, with a wind gust to 107. that's category 1 wind speed, so good news there. right now there's the eye. it's lost a little bit of it's construction here if you will ttion base of it. but again as rob mentioned; the big concern is going to be tornadoes in the tornado watch box. also the intense storm surge. you've got winds coming in around the storm this way into jacksonville, into savannah and eventually into charleston harbor over the next 24 hours. that's just going to push 6-9 feet of water into the low country. that's why they call it low country. nine feet of storm surge and everything is flooded. we'll have more on matthew coming up. rob. rescue crews continuing to work their way through the

the death toll stands at more than 300. those on the ground there say moaght of those deaths appear to be from falling debris from winds that gusted through the area at 145 miles per hour. with roads flooded, residents are trying to make their way back to the homes just to dig through all thaf debris. >> we know that hundreds of people have lost their lives and that there's been severe property damage and they're going to need help rebuilding. >> the death toll is only expected to rise even more as of the country. diswhrnchts now there is some good news tonight. one of the two kids hit by bullets in their home after a drive by shooting has been released from the hospital. nine-year-old elizabeth davis is home recovering after she was shot in the back, but 3- year-old savannah davis is still in the hospital. she's in critical condition. she was hit by a bullet in the forehead by sleeping in her mother's arms that night. according to the police a car pulled up to this home and

so far no one has been arrested there. a grand jury has just handed out an indictment against a rocky river man accused of killing his own daughter. jamal mansour is being held on bond tonight after shooting his daughter. according to police her brother found her with two gunshot wounds to the head in her bedroom. he faces aggravated murder and assault charges. school student in police custody tonight after leaving threats inside glen oak high. the stark county sheriff's office said the student was arrested for leaving written threats on bathroom walls. as a result the school was put on lockdown for a couple of hours this morning. that student faces charges of aggravated menacing and inducing panic. we've learned that the man who struck a cleveland police officer with his car was driving while under the

late last night. that officer was treated, released from the hospital for his injuries. since 2011 it's been a state law if there's an emergency vehicle on the side of the road you should move over. it's a law that is supposed to help protect officers, tow truck drivers and other emergency personnel but more often or not drivers don't even slow down. the highway patrol says 85 dicts have been handed out to drivers so far this year for failing to move over. >> things ha roadway when we're at these incidents and sometimes they're unpredictable. i did not realize at first how dangerous of a profession this really is. >> now the law here is simple. if you see emergency vehicles with lietle on the side of the road, you get over at least slow down. >> it's not a happy way to end a day or start a day. >> but it's a plob all too common in the city of cleveland and now neighbors to the east say because of potholes it can

to get to i-90. as news 5 explains it's a problem that's been a decade- long issue. >>reporter: some residents of south euclid tells me this has been an ongoing problem since large companies moved away years ago. the roads are deteriorating and it's causing headaches for folks coming into and out of the city of cleveland. >> this is a big hassle to be driving down on 152nd with all the speed bumps that normally you see it's, it's upsetting. >>reporter: this man describes the roads on east 152nd as very rough. the south euclid resident says he's one of many people in his neighborhood has found a new route to get in and out of the city of cleveland. >> we go 30 more streets up off the freeway just to get home every day. >>reporter: he now goes to east 185th street to avoid what he calls a mess.

want to safe your car that's the way you have to go. >>reporter: we took the concerns of many to the city of cleveland. it says they're well aware of the issue. they're embarking on a $5 .1 million rehabilitation project between waterloo and wood worth and noble road. they will repair and replace the damaged air and install new wearing service curb to curb. the city tells me the bid will stay open until the end of the year, to start on this road march of 2017. in cleveland, dominique hicks, news 5. still ahead millions of dollars in state funds to help victims of crime get more of the services they need. plus a show of pink support by one woman's family in blue. as she endures treatment for

crime victims across the state and right here in northeast ohio will be getting some additional help thanks to some significant funding announced today. on your side investigator jonathan walsh looked into the benefits heading our way. rape victims are about to have

the cleveland rape crisis center say they're going to be heather safer and stronger. two different grants will give the cleveland rape crisis center $3 .is million. that money will be used to open a knew center that helps survivers of rape and get services much closer to home. meanwhile, welcome house inc. in west lake is received set to receive closer these pretty cool i was actually able to deliver that good news to welcome house. >> hearing about it today from you was just an absolute, it certainly made our day. and what's more important, it's going to help young adults with developmental disabilities achieve some level of independence in the community. >> check out the break down here. the fund being from the ohio attorney general expanding services and empowering victims initiative total is now nearly

ohio. of that $25 million for domestic violence victims. $14 million going toward helpings abused children. i'm on your side investigator jonathan walsh. >> thank you. a cleveland man soon to be reece leased from prison as president obama commutes his 20- year prison sentence. alan speers is set to be released in february. it's a push to grant clemency sentence for non-violent crimes. so far the president has shortened sentences for more than 700 people. republican vice-president mk in ohio for his runningmate. pens was in strongsville at the recreation ex- senior center explaining why he and donald trump would be the best team in the white house come november. pens talked about their agenda to destroy isis.

nevada trying to court voters there. he spoke on hillary clinton's career in politics and her experience. october, breast cancer awareness month and a local deputy is getting a lot of pink support from her brothers and sisterrers in blue. >> lee, her store means so much to so many. >>reporter: sheriff's depend ee amy had breast cancer and surgery and chemo and started to lows lose her hair and shave she's an 11-year veteran. her long time partner deputy he had heys decided he had to do something to show support for her. so he rallied fellow deputies and unknown to amy, 17 deputies with the office shaved their heads for her. >> i cried, i cried a lot. the amount of support here has been amazing. these are my brothers and sisters in blue. we put our lives in each

>>reporter: amy still has months of tough treatment ahead but said with help from her family in blue, she's got this. guys. >> lee thank you. thank you for bringing us that story. every time i see it it makes you feel good. are we feeling good in florida? is this thing in florida slowing down? weakening any? >> florida and northern florida it's storm surge and heavy rain with some gusty winds to tropical storm rc as bad as it could have been all right. the storm was a little weaker, it stayed out farther to see. good news it's now a cat 2. meaning maximum sustained winds 115 miles per hour or less and you can see the center is 50 miles directly east of jacksonville, florida. again, the main problem over the next couple of days is going to be storm surge because look it's going to weaken a little bit, it will be a cat 2 near savannah, charleston, a

close it comes to shore near charleston, folly beach. the eye wall is going to brush right by it so they're going to have 6-12 feet of storm surge. not good and all along the georgia, south carolina coast. that's going to be the big problem through the weekend. now wooster a live look. it is still beautiful and warm and 80 degrees. it's the tribe baby is going to tell us some good news. maybe a score coming up. 79 cleveland, 77 in akron. 75 canton. meant or at 79. still # 1 sunshine in-between more clouds up toward doitd. that's the front that's coming our way. lets play find the front. can you find the cold front? chicago 59. 70, 70 to near 80. yeah there's a cold front right hereafter midnight and it will

in for your weather weekend. so it's going to be a little briez ee tomorrow with temps struggling to hit 60 during the afternoon. here's when the rain showers will arrive. this is 1:45 saturday morning. there's not much rain coming in with the front. a couple of sprinkles or light rain showers. by 6:00 a.m. just a few lingering and then it's gone by 8:00 in the morning and sunshine comes out for your afternoon. so you're not going to have problems with rain tomorrow. it's just going to be a little cooler, about 20 degrees cooler than we are right a few showers, clouds thick ning up. in the meantime showers arriving well after midnight so your evening plans, thumbs up. tomorrow, struggling up to 60 degrees. mainly sunny skies coming up for the afternoon, so we'll call it fall sun sayings nallism. >> a little right lane between

mild cloudy and then this may be a little optimistic for 62 degrees. maybe 58 to 60, but hey lets do it. lets say fall look, about 20 degrees cooler tomorrow. browns game sunday you're dry but dress for fall weather. mainly sunny and many many cooler. here's your 7-day. sunday sunshine, 60. 65 on monday. dry and may have to deal with a couple of showers, thunderstorms into wednesday night thursday and wednesday and fall look cool thursday and friday. >> there's so much going on here with the browns coming up on sunday. the game today right now. >> what a great day outside. what a great day to be outside and catching fie hool football. we're going to talk about that. week 7 of the high school football season roles on tonight and we'll tell you where we'll be and the browns get ready for a huge challenge on sunday.

i think our guys will try to play just because we still have that taste in our mouth. we haven't been able to quen much yet. we just need to go play and win a game and we know this is a

sunday. defeat the new england patriots. and the task got even much tougher and harder now that tom brady is back. back after deflategate gate. >> i stress the importance of where i think his place in history is, so they're aware of who he is and obviously they have seen him play on tv. so it's, i don't think there's going to be a shock and know and respect how good he's been in his past. >> one of the things the browns has going for them is the running game of course. duke johnson has been outstanding. if could be a big boost if they can keep the patriots offense off the field with a good running attack from the browns offense. >> once again it goes to the scheme of hue jackson. we put an extra tackle in the

big bodies. we do some reed schemes. we're keeping the protection fairly easy and we're looking at the guys on the outside that can win one on one makeup jups. >> you can see more of that interview tomorrow morning at 11:30 in the morning until noon. hads the hue jackson show. right here on news 5. thursday nights at 7:00 and don't forget on sunday morning it's browns count down live at 11:00. live at first energy stadium getting you ready for the browns and patriots. it's hard to believe it's week 7 for high school football. we'll be pat with a, cleveland, bedford and north royal ton and father-in-lawly i know you're looking for an update the indians lead the red sox 5-0. lonnie came through with a three-run homer. so keep your fingers crossed

we'll talk about this tonight at 11:00. that's just what seems to happen with that team as soon as you question something, he hits that three-run home run. >> it happens. you don't want to mess with the baseball god. so kluber is still in the game. that's if they just get six they can still go back to andrew miller and go back to cody allen and francona said he would. he didn't want to miller go back out there. they're off tomorrow. they can pitch 40 pitches for miller yesterday. >> it was a lot for him and allen. >> you know, what they call that? playoff baseball. all hands on deck. that's it for us for now. thanks for being with us.

tonight, breaking news. hurricane matthew slamming ashore. right here in jacksonville. the monster storm battering florida right now. the dangerous winds, blinding rain, downed power lines. the storm sparking fires. this home completely destroyed. more than a million people plunged into darkness. a possible hit on georgia and south carolina next. the life threatening storm surge. waves smashing right into homes. >> so please evacuate even if it's to a shelter. tonight, we fly you right into the eye of the storm with the hurricane hunters. inside the cockpit. their new warning tonight for millions in florida, georgia, and the carolinas. and the other breaking story tonight. explosive new audio discovered of donald trump. what he says about women. >> when you're a star, they let you do it.