day. >> i'm showing you this because you ought to be just as puzzled and angry as i am. >> our leon bibbs taking the gloves off after cable aired this picture after a decade old slam of bringing up the burning cuyahoga river all new at five. first all new at five. the tragedy of the heroin epidemic striking at the heart of innocence. it is heart breaking to withdrawal. >> this is a story you will see right here. an agonizing size to heroin babies brought in to the world addicted. happening in akron where addicted pregnant women are warned not to get clean. >> because of the dangerous side effects are too risky until the child is born. our paul kiska is live from athens children's hospital. they are seeing more of the

epidemic grows. >> as you know the heroin epidemic has hit hard in akron and the intensive care unit at children's hospital is busier than ever. >> nurses here at akron children's hospital are busier these days caring for heroin addicted babies. last year they treated 120 heroin addicted babies. so far this year, 81. and they are so busy more babies than last year. babies are addicted to heroin because the pregnant mom used heroin. when the babies are born they go through painful withdrawal like not being able to eat and seizures. >> it is heart breaking to watch them go through it. >> clinical nurse specialist connie till told me through medication like morphine they can babies back to health. >> if they end up on morphine

medication, usually there are secondary medications and we have to slowly work on trying to wean them off before they can be discharged from the hospital. >> mothers addicted heroin are giving methadone. pregnant mothers using heroin should get mel help because trying to quit heroin while pregnant can traumatize the unborn baby's health. >> there are things to be done while mom is still pregnant to help her. >> till told me it up to 25 days to nurse an addicted baby back to health and, therefore, the baby can be released from the hospital. paul kiska, news 5. thank you, for your report. a mother and grandmother are expected to be sentenced tomorrow for their role in a heroin death of a 16-year-old boy. andrew fry was found dead in a hotel room back in april.

plea including involuntary manslaughter and child endangering and tampering with evidence. a family friend was already sentenced to four years. a 4th person, donald pelagin will be sentenced later this month. he pleaded guilty to heroin possession. and we have some breaking news for you right now. we are learning about an attempted luring near a local school just about an hour ago. we are told the girl at lincoln prep school was approached by a man in a black truck walking home on a west 42nd street. a girl ran back to school and toll is safe with the principal right now. we will keep you updated on the story and bring you details of the story as it unfolds. the driver accused of hitting and killing a trooper last month was back in court. a judge lowered josh gaspar's bond to $500,000. his attorney asked for that reduction after gaspar's doctors said he was on prescription drugs.

side of i-90. he pleaded not guilty to charges of aggravated vehicular homicide and driving under the influence earlier this month. now we have new information on a trio of smash-and-grabs that happened overnight. a group of thieves are still on the run. one of dangerous robberies put a family at risk. our derrick waller has more. that van out there. reporter: that van ran right through this wall hitting a utility line leaving live wires exposed while a family slept upstairs. >> it caught on fire and the gas line was right here. if that gas line caught on fire, everybody would have died. it is maybe like 6 or 7 people live there. >> they are thankful no one hurt but this gapping hold on the side of his store will cost tens of thousands of dollars to fix for no reason.

atm, no computer or money inside and they didn't check. >> it surveillance video shows the crime in action around four a.m. the stolen dodge van rammed the building three times and police were on the scene within seconds. still those five guys involved got a way and it is believed that they continued the spree all around time hitting up a family dollar and a speed way gas station at euclid and east 222nd. >> i just witnessed somebody rammed the van the store. >> u -- police found the van down the street and there could have been more damage. a clerk here at west 140th told police he stopped the guys from hitting his store with another dodge van, a favorite of thieves because they are easy to steal. >> two vans pulled out and they started to move barrels.

kids. >> two of the families other stores have been hit forcing one to go out of business. >> it is about to cost another money. i can't open for two weeks. reporter: back here live police have no suspects and even though you saw them in the surveillance video they were on them. they got away and that is because of the city's strict chase policy that allows them to chase cars in ovis and violent felonies property crimes. live in cleveland, derick waller, news 5. turning to the race at the white house and donald trump's breakup with the republican party. >> went on another classic twitter tirade targeting john mccain and paul ryan and slamming the entire party for abandoning him. here is a look at the tweets this morning. donald trump says it is so nice that the shackles have been taken off of me and i can fight

anchor paul powers has more. four weeks from election day and the republican nominee is threatening to plunge his party into chaos. appears to be prompted by paul ryan's call with the gop that ryan made it clear his focus is not on winning trump the white house. trump retaliated calling ryan a very weak and ineffective house speaker blaming ryan and other conservatives that have there has a plummet since the video was released on friday. >> if they want to release more tapes saying inappropriate things will continue to talk about bill and hillary clinton doing inappropriate things. >> trump referring to claims that he made to hillary clinton attacked viciously women that accused bill clinton of sexual

the partners at political facts. >> hillary clinton focusing on the climate change in an effort to target young voters. clinton emphasizing her energy plans. speaking about bringing more ?? clean energy to the country. reducing fossil fuels and building more weather resisted infrastructure and she talked about the impact of climate change on our storm systems like hurricane matthew. >> hurricane matthew was likely more destructive because of climate change. right now the ocean is at or near record high temperatures. and that contributed to the torrential rainfall and the flash flooding that we saw in the carolinas. >> now trump has repeatedly questioned the validity of climate change vowing to renegotiate the paris agreement if elected.

global temperatures. a lot going on. sure does, rob. thank you. your voice and your vote but if you are not registered, you will have neither four weeks from today. >> the deadline is tonight. >> the board will stay open until 9:00 to sign off those that have moved registered. >> the room where voters will vote found voter applications processed on tuesday as the deadline neared. this coming to vote and received the application in the mail. >> in cuyahoga there are 885,000 voters, down 35,000 from 2012. director pat mcdonald said last year the state removed or purged 51,000 voters from the books.

had no voter activity in '09. >> the number of nonpartisan voters went up 173. despite the man hours with the registration drives the numbers in that time period actually went down. likely former nonpartisan voters that switched in primary that want to go back in the political year to being independent. >> whatever your registration, they ask that you strongly consider what 40% of those voting will likely do. vote early. >> it takes away pressure at the polls. it alleviates a line and gives the vote a more pleasurable experience when there is not chaos at the polling locations. >> the chaos is never good. we talked about the voter purge. while they do it every two years for those that have not

driver information did not match up. using an air pistol. >> police shot and killed a man at an pharmacy. what we have learned about the robber's past. >> the pipeline lives on. all new at five, works continuing on the controversial project despite the protestors vowing to chain themselves to the equipment. heroic republicans. giving you a look at the devastation in haiti after hurricane matthew and speak to go to ohio man organizing the state's efforts to help people

new at five. more than 2 dozen people arrested again as the protest over the dakota access pipeline continues. thousands of people have joined the demonstration in support of native american tribe that says the controversial oil line threatens burial sites. today with work resuming protesters are exploring

equipment to stop construction. >> some may say this was a protest, it was a riot. when you have that many people inciting others to break the law. that is not a protest. >> the federal appeals court ruled that the working resume within 20 miles of the water source for the standing rock sioux tribe. don't you like to take a ride every now and then? the leaves are turning colors. >> my favorite part of the year. >> starting to turn, starting to turn. >> starting to turn. >> you know what, it has dropped. a fire. these cool nights and warm sunny afternoons although we have clouds today and tomorrow will be sunny.

brighten things up. let's go to the power of five. a little rain right now. a live look and it is cloudy. pretty much cloudy everywhere you go. there's bright spots. there are some bright spots. poking through. but clouds pretty steadfast. we do begin to dry it out. you see the little orange blips every once in awhile, you know what they are? aliens. yes. aliens. there we go. five. we got 65 now in akron. mid 60s in cleveland. and medina and elyria and mennor low 60s and youngstown and ravenna 67. currently in fremont and 62 in the canton area. your evening, what do you want to do outside? just grab the sweaters, it won't be as chilly as it was last night.

at six and cloudy at 8:00 p.m. and by ten p.m., notice the skies beginning to clear and everyone should be in the 50s. we do not expect frost. lows between 45 and i'd say 48 degrees. as you get up and go tomorrow. good news there and once again, got a little trough right about here. but notice the movement of the clouds. they are moving -- let's try that again. they are move that way. so the clouds are not going to bring the system pulls off. there is a little trough right there. pulls off towards the northeast. notice here is the sunshine. tomorrow, that sun helps us warm up. i'm thinking middle and upper 70s. everywhere you go. then on thursday, we get this front coming in and notice along the front and behind the front, we got scattered rain showers and the warmest day for the week is tomorrow. tomorrow is the day to get outside and walk the dog and mow the lawn and enjoy october

be much cooler thursday i'm thinking probable mid and upper 50s with scattered rain showers especially during the morning. so things looking pretty good for you. tonight, we will go with about 39 to 45 for the akron canton area mainly clear frost advisory. tomorrow we change the numbers and we will go to 75 degrees for the akron, canton area. mild and dry for you. looking good. we will have the weekend that does include rain. all when we few minutes. what are your fall plans? what are your favorites? >> going to orchards and having cider and making soup. you guys can come over. >> tomorrow is your day. get outside. now to the latest in haiti. many parts fill without aid and one week after hurricane matthew made land fall. crews from ohio saw the

we were in mansfield when the 179th air lift wing, part of operation cornett oaks touched down two hours ago in ohio. they sent two pilots to haiti to drop off relief supplies and offer contingency support. they left thursday. commander colonel david johnson is so proud of their efforts saying they flew in on a c 130 tactical plane. >> the perfect choice for this mission going prince airport after the hurricane came through, those are situations and conditions that we operate in normally and trained to do so. the news hits hard as the country was still recovering from the 2010 earthquake that killed hundreds of thousands of people. the death toll at last count more than 900. right now floodwaters are still rising in north carolina after hurricane matthew swept through and several feet of

several dams have broken and new concerns that another dam can give way. our marcy gonzalez is tracking the aftermath and joins us from lumberton north carolina. reporter: frank, lifelong residents say this is the absolute worth flooding that they have seen. this road leading to a neighborhood. you can see it is completely under water and over here, this is one of the main drags into town and further down we are told that the water is waste to chest high. and we are are still people that are trapped in their homes. rescue after rescue in north carolina. more than 2,000 people pulled to safety so far. >> we will figure it out. reporter: in lumberton an already damaging flood from hurricane matthew turning so much worse with dams and levees breaking sending rivers

in my life so quick. reporter: from the carolinas to virginia, water destroying homes. washing away roads. >> this is the worse than we have had. >> and claiming more lives. more than 30 people killed in the u.s. by matthew and its after math. >> too many people have died and we don't want anymore to die. reporter: and with some rivers staying at major flood stage, the dangers are not over. >> it is like what is happening in marion county where we are seeing them four feet under water. and expect it to continue. >> for now we are seeing residents get to up to and their homes by boat. even i-95 that you see behind me is shut down for miles in both directions because of the flooding. we are live in lumberton north

i'm marcy gonzalez for news 5. frank and dominic. >> next on news 5. ohio chartered schools linked to a school in turkey. the bizarre connection and why our state auditor got a request from the turkish government. medical marijuana in ohio is still a work in progress. now there are new concerns about coming up with the rules.

accusations. charter schools mixed up in in cue in turkey. he believes there is property deals and leasing arrangements. the people that the staked the schools are followers of a

masterminded the failed cue in july. parliament is expected to vote down a referendum on same- sex marriage and could set it back for years to come. the left winged opposition party came out against the referendum. they say holding a public vote is unnecessary and too expensive and trigger a debate to lead the lgtb traumatized. all new at five. exclusive new information about the shady past of a robber kill in west lake. >> samsung going through reports of exploding phones and now the company is facing the supreme court hearing over a year's long dispute with apple.

top stories at 5:30 a group of armed robbers on the run

family in danger. thieves smashed a stolen minivan on west 65th while children slept upstairs. police have no suspects at this time agreement donald trump presidential campaign has create add civil war in the gop house speaker paul ryan will not defend trump after his lewd comments about women came to light. trump fired off tweets republican nominee is trailing democratic hillary clinton by nine points in the latest poll. the deadline to vote in ohio for the presidential election is less than four hours away. county board of elections will be open until nine tonight to accommodate new registers. early voting in ohio begins tomorrow morning. the election is tuesday, november 8th. exclusive new information now about the man west lake police killed yesterday forcing

for hours. >> all of it happened in crocker park. after a cvs was robbed and the car was smashed. tracy carloss is live from f.b.i. headquarters and you dug into the man's past and it looks like he is connected to two other robberies. reporter: most likely, frank, more than that, cvs robberies local as well as out of state. surveillance cameras captured this man walking into a cvs waistband. he demanded opioids. police believe this man is 26- year-old devon disnoers. he robbed a cvs and crashed into a west lake police cruiser down the road. >> we have a strong suspicion that he is the serial cvs drug

pistol that is similar to this. the f.b.i. started to investigate the string of robberies and f.b.i. agents told me he is most likely connected to four and possibly more in new york and pennsylvania. >> when it is a serial robbery and the same individual in multiple robberies in the stores, so if it were walmart or anything across the state law we can get involved. we work it off of the violent crime task force. >> he was accused of crimes including burglary. he worked here as a maintenance worker at the apartment complex and letting himself into apartments and helping himself to jewelry, cash and drugs. and bci is handling that use of force investigation. a spokesperson says it could be weeks before the investigation is wrapped up. live in cleveland.

boys. the indians the hottest team in town. toronto, sold out in 20 minutes this morning. games one and two the alcs. set for friday and saturday at progressive field. potentially games would be the 21st and 27th. we may bring the plants in for frost. >> yes. but tonight we wil look the clouds are beginning to part just enough. we may actually see a pretty decent sunset and this is the time of year we see some of the best sunsets and sun rises. we have a little trough that will not bring us red. the blips is a national satellite and it is having a

here is the radar showing the next front but it is a couple of days away. we get a nice quiet overnight. on the cool side and a warm wednesday and then umbrellas. dry weather now and power of five. not worried about rain. here is clouds and starting to part but it will be mainly cloudy through the evening. everyone now in the 60s. i think tonight we will see the temperatures falling back in the 50s. quiet and comfortable and get outside and enjoy it. you know snow is coming. right? >> yes, indeed. >> eventually. i said the "s" word. back to you. we have been talking about this. a hawaii woman is demanding answers after her galaxy phone nearly caught fire in her hands. it was caught on surveillance cameras. the woman ran to her husband when there was smoke billowing out of the phone. she was surfing the internet at the time it happened.

note 7, samsung says power down and stop using it. the company making the decision after reports of at least five fires involving new replacement devices. samsung is asking carriers and retail partners to stop sales and exchanges of the phones. the replacements were designed to be safer after original note 7 was recall following 100 reported fires. i saw smoke and threw the floor. >> i saw the smoke. >> this is a black eye for the recall system and the samsung needs to stand up and fix it. >> the faa says the note 7s are allowed on flights but the flights must be turned off and the devices can't be stored in checked luggage. apple and samsung's year's long dispute has made its way

arguments. a jury found samsung had infringed on 6 different apple patents. apple was awarded one billion dollars in damages but an appeals court reduced it to $548 million back in 2015. apple is asking the high court to uphold the ruling. a ruling is expected at the end of the year. come to go to defense of cleveland leon bibb can do it. you will not want to miss the response. someone was streaming a process on facebook live and a truck plowed into the crowd there. find out how the activist responded to the driver all new at five.

numbers. great shots in my world of weather and this is what fall in northern ohio is all about. first of all i want to show you see gilbert 15, is it true that this is the edge of the hurricane that could be seen on saturday from northern ohio? no, that is a cold front that went through earlier coast. so not likely you could see clouds this far to the west. again, your hour by hour through the evening hours. takes your temperatures down in the middle 50s by 6:00 a.m. don't forget to send me your great shots. mark johnson weather on facebook. like, follow and post.

a new jersey man is planning to sue the state transit system on september 29th. the man suffered a broken nose and lacerations and lost a finger. it killed one woman and injured one hundred others. a new jersey transit spokesperson declined to comment. now new at five.

faded when you got smacked in the mouth. >> i think we took an unnecessary shot from the television cable network. cb s showed a river on fire saying it was us in cleveland. that got leon bibb angry. the photograph was uncalled for and it was not our city in the picture. >> it was not our city. friends let me tell you this, i don't like to get into fistfights but sometimes you have no way out. ohio got hit last night by a came television network which depicted us in an untrue and unethical way. it was as if we had walked into a room and someone threw a punch so i am taking my coat off and rolling up my sleeves because sometimes you got to be true to your own and true to your own town. this is one of those times. >> cable television after the indians beat the red sox and

burning river, i will never know. i'm showing this picture because ought to be just as puzzled as i am. this is not cleveland but a pipeline inferno in russia with the sports analyst photo shopped in front. the other cuyahoga did catch fire in 1969 and we have fought like crazy to clean it up. for decades the cuyahoga has been very clean. i have done >> how you can take something that was potentially viewed as something bad back then but now this river is viewed as success story. >> to us, our canary is fish, numbers and health so the water is clean enough for them to live. >> both recreation and industry is sharing that river to the benefit of both. >> cleveland is built on a

handles the strong work. it runs deep, just like our commitment to cleveland and this region. that burning river story is 47 years old. we clean the river so well other cities have asked how we did it. as they followed the wake we leave in the water. so tbs take down that picture and we will take your apology because this is the true picture of cleveland right here and the river which runs phony picture wrangles my nerves. we greater clevelands live on two great bodies of water. we are a nationally known time that draw big times conventions. you remember the rnc. we helped to build this nation and we still do over the years. we don't like someone picking a fight with us especially using

in baseball terms tbs tossed a brushed back bean ball and we are calling them out for that. one more thing tbs my name is leon bibbs and if you want to take issue with me about cleveland or our river, meet me at the clean cuyahoga where it makes the broad chest lake erie and we can have a chest to chest talk if you catch my rift. don't bad mouth my town. >> that's what i'm >> all of ours. >> leon, thanks. glad to do it. all right. well, president obama wants to send people to mars. the president says his goal is to send humans to the red planet by the 2030s with the help of private innovators. 7 companies have received awards recently to develop habitation systems on mars. >> very nice. >> you got your ticket ready?

bs stand for? >> i knew it was coming. >> i knew it. >> conan o'brian wants his announcers back. the play-by-play was terrible. >> you want more? i got more. >> keep it coming. >> all right. let's get a live look at mentor right now. we got clouds and sunshine poking through. we are dry and we will stay dry through the evening. once again we will start off satellite map. you can see the breaks in the overcast right here. got clearing here and that clearing is coming tonight and a lot of the you tomorrow will see an abundant amount of sunshine. currently 64 degrees downtown. mainly cloudy sky and breaks and you should get to see sunset action. 62 parma and 64 bedford and chagrin falls. mid 60s for peninsula and brunswick. a wider shot for coshocton and

degrees in fremont. a nice little surge of warm air coming our way. all right? it is moving this way. thanks to high pressure and it will come around the high out of the south and west. so tomorrow will be the warmest day of the weekend and we are seeing the back edge of the clouds right here. okay? and that clearing is moving our way thanks to the high and dryer air moving our way. we love that. so you are going to see an improving sky. if little while we will see moon shine. 62 at 7. we are at 60s at 8 and 9:00 p.m. and we are beginning to see the clearing. i'm thinking after ten p.m. is when the skies will clear out. akron and canton 62 at six and by nine p.m., middle 50s and might require a sweater. this little trough here to the north it brought in a few

here is the front that will bring us cooler air for thursday and rain showers. tomorrow night we will see an overnight low of 57 and the high on thursday is only going to be 57. what does that tell you chillier air moving in for your thursday. you will need the coats. 53 tonight. clouds decreasing. it will be cool and dry. tomorrow, why not? 78 degrees. mainly sunny and warm. here is akron and canton. 51 tonight and clearing and tomorrow 76 degrees. outside upper 40s. 78 wednesday and thursday a morning shower. 57. nice day friday. 62 for a playoff baseball game. in the 50s. during the ball game. 72 saturday and rain showers and lower 70s on sunday. good news, mark. they got the sweep, right? >> yes. coming up on news 5 at six. we are following breaking news out of cleveland's west side. >> police are canvassing a neighborhood after a girl says that a man in a truck tried to

the latest coming up. plus you have just about three hours left to get your voter registration application into vote in november's election. >> a terrifying incident in nevada as a car plows through a

reason behind this crash. police in reno are investigating after a truck plowed through a grou native american rights. >> the terrifying ordeal was caught on camera. some activists are accusing the driver of the attack. lora has the story. reporter: police investigating this terrifying moment at a columbus day protest in reno, nevada a truck plowing through a group of activists hitting

some demonstrators calling it racial motivated. >> advocating for american native rights in observance of the columbus day holiday. as demonstrators marched on this street a white truck pulls up. you can hear the driver honking and reffing the engine. members of the crowd and the people inside the vehicle appear to argue. you can hear strong words exchanged. in this video, som appear to threaten the driver. >> and then ... the truck accelerates driving right through the crowd. this witness says it appeared intentional attack. >> they sort of arrived with an antagonistic behavior. >> we are doing an investigation into what happened. >> one woman was hospitalized and is expected to recover.

involved in the rally is pushing police to file hate crime charges. lauren lister. abc news, los angeles. that's our time and thanks for joining us. let's go to rob and danitta. >> another report of attempted luring in the city of cleveland. >> a girl races back in her school after a man pull up next to her and asked her to get in the truck. we will have that coming up. another rash of smash-and- grabs in cleveland leaving some

minutes. fuse five at 6 brought to you by mr. hero. news 5 begins now. with breaking news. >> right now police are investigating yet another attempted luring. >> they are canvassing

as she was riding her bike home from school. joe pagonakis like right now where the reported interaction happened. >> and the incident happened right here at the intersection of west 44th in front of the small convenient store on cleveland's west side before 4:00 this afternoon. the principal at lincoln preparatory school verified that the girl was approached intersection. police are trying to figure out whether or not there are surveillance video here and at this location. the principal told me the elementary school student did the right thing quickly riding back to the school to report the situation to school authorities. the student was unharmed and the principal verified that obviously the student was very shook up. her parents quickly returning to the school to pick her up and take her home. police at this hour working off a very limited description of