washington to kick off the team coverage with one of the reasons that this election is so unprecedented. lauren, donald trump is still playing coy. he won't say won't he will accept the election results. >> frank, absolutely. even today we are hearing trump remain coy if he will accept the results of this election on election day. we heard on an interview he was asked on fox news and he said we will see how it plays out and not saying whether or not he would accept things turn out. and this of course all stems from his claims that we have her over weeks of campaigning concerns over a rigged election and it reached a fever pitch that at the final presidential debate he was asked that question as to whether or not he would accept the results that he was talking about, concerns over a rigged election and he said whether he would or want. he said i will keep you in suspension and then he said i

election if i win. this was where his daughter had said that she believed that her father would accept the results and in addition his running mate mike pence has said much but trump has not confirmed what reaction he will have particularly if it is close. >> trump has repeatedly talked about the vote being rigged. have we concerns about voter fraud or out at the polls todaysome. >> for most voters today at least as what we have seen from reports at the polls, they have had no problems, it has been without incident and the issues that have arresten and reported are the kinds of things that we would expect to see every four years. and people not reflected on voter rolls and machine malfunctions and other cases things like that but not anything atypical.

in texas there is machine problems and in utah they had to use paper ballots but nothing like a red flag that trump has raised concerns and i think it is important to point out that prominent elected officials on both sides of the aisle and election officials and expert on the topic have said that his concerns are pretty unfounded. lauren lister live from washington d.c., thanks a bunch there. and as we continue our election day coverage at we will take you live to hillary clinton and donald trump's new york headquarters to see how each nominee is spending election night. >> coming up in ten minutes but we want to go to news 5 anchor rob powers from the gunning park recreation center that people are still lining up to vote. reporter: they are indeed, lee. we've seen reports of long lines everywhere in northeast ohio and that is really no

early voting period. ohio secretary of state john hughes says 8.1 million ohioans voted early and that's up 11,000 from early voting in the 2002 or 2012 election. once absentee ballots are mailed, that will get bigger. the voters behind me have a lot more than the next president to vote on, on their minds. there is a tax increase on the ballot for cleveland voters, issue 32 would raise the tax from that's the city's hike in two decades. it would applies to anyone that works in the city if approved by voters the half point increase would generate 80 million-dollars a year for the city and the civilian police review board is in the hands of voters. issue 33 is an effort to change the makeup of the board. it doesn't address the review's board sister agency, the office of professional standards. that office is charged with investigating citizen complaints.

to help addicts. issue 35 would cost homeowners $32 a year. it would offer more programs and hire more additional social workers. and there is issue 64 in lakewood voters deciding the fate of lake wood hospital. they want to replace it with calendar outcenter and emergency room. a vote 4 issue 64 would allow cleveland clinic to move ahead. now i know th you still have questions on any of that regarding the issues, what your vote would mean in any one of those, you can check them out on our news 5 app, they are there all the way through tonight. frank and lee. so-called poll observers are out in force watching for potential fraud but who is watching the watchers. derrick wall is live at the

he says they are. reporter: cuyahoga county has poll rovers ready to respond to complaints. i checked out lorain county that says they are relying on you to be their eyes and ears. >> you voted for trump. >> yes. >> this woman is confident that her vote will count. she cast her ballot at the sacred heart roaming catholic church in lorainne county. >> from what i have seen before and today, you know, i didn't see no cheating going on because i was watching out for that. >> i am team hillary. >> one issue that marquis agre w have now and i believe it is a place proof system. >> lorain county uses touch screen voting machines that have paper receipts. volunteers check the ids on the way in and behind them poll observers affiliated with the democratic and republican parties watch it all. >> the staff knowing that someone is observing actually affects how they handle the

>> lorainne county board board of elections paul adams says this. >> the observers are there to see the process and see it it up close. reporter: but not allowed to interrupt the voting process. anyone with a concern should call his office. the same for cuyahoga county where paid poll rovers are randomly checking in on polling >> knowing that there is multiple check points in the process i think it lends itself to a valid counting of votes. >> and i did also ask to speak with those democratic poll watchers at the polls and they told me they were not allowed to speak to reporters. now it is also worth noting that the poll watchers are allowed to be there when the people are still voting, once that ends they have to leave too. derrick waller, news 5.

investigating. news 5 investigators are listening to you the voters and some of the problems this election day. on your side investigator jonathan walsh joins us. jonathan, you have more information on a voter making threats about a gun at a polling place. >> yeah, the cuyahoga county board of elections says that they had to call in the sheriff's department after a voter, not sure if it was a man or woman, after a voter said he or she would bring back a gun because he or she was extra security was added and no incident to report and investigators say that they don't know the name of this voter just yet. they are still working on it. now to a different situation on the west side where a voter told us that he had problems with polling workers and he feels that they didn't know the rules. >> i think it is important people have died to give us the right to vote. >> we will call himbob, not his real name, he didn't want his

vote. >> i don't think it should be taken lightly. >> is upset because at this polling place he handed a poll worker this card saying where to go on election day and what id is needed. he said the worker didn't ask for his id. after voting he told a poll about what happened and he said he was causing problems. >> i said i am concerned and she got in my face. >> he call several places including the second of state to complain to be bounced around several times. and about other ids that might have been missed. an. >> one of the people that were at the table really believed that id that i got in the meal was the proper id. where is the training. they tell me they are trained but i feel bad for the guy. you know what i mean? i didn't mean to call him out but he honestly believed that was the proper form of id. >> in addition to voter id concerns, the cuyahoga county

to call police into a west lake polling area where a so-called poll watcher was causing some disruptions. coming up at six, i talked to a new poll worker, brand new to the whole situation with election day and he will tell us some of the challenges he faced. don't miss that, all new at 6:00. i'm on your side investigator jonathan walsh. >> we had that up. >> there are strict rules about when and how the polls close in ohio. the key is getting yourself in line. >> as long as you are in line by 7:30, no matter how late we are there we will let you vote and your vote will be cast and counted. we will be putting a poll worker at the end of the line and after 7:30 it is too late to vote. >> and if your still planning to vote tonight we hope your

some form of identification. we have a guide on the news 5 app. >> it is your source for election coverage on election night. we will have live results and interactive maps. starting at 7:00 john kosic will host the live webcast and here on news 5 abc news your vote. election night 2016 begins at 7:00 and we will bring you local results and continuing into our democracy 2016 covera mark johnson. our election day started out beautiful. >> phenomenal. sunshine galore through the morning hours for most of you. clouds arriving quickly during the afternoon and now this. we have got rain at the polls. and it looks like it is going to linger on and off through the rest of your voting day. 55 now in cleveland. temperatures have dropped from the middle 60s thanks to the

light sprinkles and mid-50s in mansfield. look at the raindrops. hour by hour, 50s, 50s, 50s with scattered rain showers continuing through the evening and the overnight tonight. there you go. winds are also going to pick up a little bit of speed through the evening. so blustery and wet. and cloudy and dreary and cool for the rest of your voting day. back to frank and lee. >> all right. our election day coverage is getting started. next as we continue the countdown to the polls both be in new york city watching the results tonight. only a couple miles apart and we are going to visit both campaign headquarters for a live look at how they spent election day. plus what is a provisional ballot and how exactly does that work. we break down one of the more confusing aspects of the voting prospect. it is a historic day. no matter how you look auto how

first election in 8 years he is not on the ballot. so how is he spending his last election night as a white house resident? he will be there for a while

that story is next. >> now at five. >> every election changes. >> we made it. it's election day in america. the journey has not been smooth sailing. >> you could put half of trump supporters in the basket of deplorables. >> i could stand in the middle of 5th avenue somebody. >> i should have used two accounts one for personal and one for work-related. >> there have never been so many lies and deception. >> history will be made.

be faced with a daunting task. rereunite america. news 5 live team coverage start right now. >> hillary clinton and donald trump made sure to cast ballots. >> marcy gonzalez is following the clinton campaign and we begin with lenna zack at the trump headquarters in midtown manhattan. >> what is there frank and lee. you know this election has captivated americans and in some cases has got our interest. it is excitable at trump's headquarters where he may give a victory speech or concession speech. the election reaches its apex and donald trump the republican

he cast his ballot in new york city with you for many americans it has been tough. >> it has been a very difficult process. not about who you are voting for. >> the latest poll is an uphill battle for donald trump with a final appeal. >> everybody is talking about the record turnout at the polls. it is amazing. please go to the polls. we have a moment going on. they have never like that. reporter: the trump campaign file a lawsuit in nevada. the judge dismissed the charges but may be an indication that they are preparing to wage a war long after the results come in tonight. lonna zack at trump headquarters for newschannel 5. my colleague marcy gonzalez is with the clinton campaign on the other side of town. >> frank and lee after 576 days of campaigning, this is the final stop. you can see the stage is being set here behind me where

of supporters will in the election day. the democratic candidate met with the crowd as hillary clinton voted for herself in the historic election vying to be the first female commander in chief. >> i will do the very best i can if i am fortunate to win. >> after a late night on the campaign trail as clinton spends the day prepping for tonight and what she hopes will be a celebration under the largest glass ceiling in new york city. and no coincidence that the symbolism of this location but along with the victory speech, clinton aids has a concession speech written either for outcome tonight.

gonzalez for news five. >> want you to look at this right here. one last time. president obama, he shot hoops with his friend atfort mcnair. he may release a written statement but no oral statements. >> dave, you got aig that means rain for the last few hours of your election day. dress accordingly. >> if you are waiting in the lines, soggy weather. let me show you the veil of rain. the rain showers are light but steady for 30, 45 minutes at a time. all right? so there is the rain showers for cleveland and akron.

for menter and burton. steady rainfall for chardon into solon. you will get soaked if you are going out. more steady rainfall in new london and lorain county a sprinkle and further east into avon lake to columbia station and litchfield you got more steady rainfall. temperatures have cooled. mid 60s at two p.m. and now down in the mid-60s thanks to the 59. let me show you the hour by hour as we go through 6 and 8:00 p.m. we begin to see the showers scattering after 7:00 and by 1115, we have just got isolated light rain showers and sprinkles behind the cold front coming in off of the lake and tomorrow, 7:15 a.m. another little trough slides in and that will stir up some more widely scattered rain showers for your commute and temperatures in the 40s. chilling down.

your afternoon tomorrow but cooler temperatures. the mid-60s are gone and we will replace them with lower 50s after the rain is done. tonight 45 degrees scattered showers likely on and off cooling down and tomorrow 52 and morning showers cooler and breezy out there. tonight for akron 45, scattered showers and cloudy with a southwest wind at 5 to per hour. and tomorrow we will go 51 so again you will need the sweaters and during the morning commute scattered showers slowing you down and with the rain and wind you will see the leaves falling off the trees and you add rain plus the falling leaves and it is like a sheet of ice so please be careful driving tonight and tomorrow morning. allow extra time and space because those leaves are pretty darn gone slippery.

need your sweaters. coming up, decent weather weekend? half and half. chilly and then warmer.

>> we have been following this one. a former university of cincinnati police officer took the stand in his own trial. ray tensing testified today. >> accused of shooting and killing an unarmed during a traffic stop. tensing says he was afraid for his life when he shot and killed sam dubose of last year but evidence shows that was unsure. >> did you make that stuff up? >> no, sir. i didn't even remember making those comments until after i saw the body cam video again. >> tensing testified that the confederate flag t-shirt he was

the day of the shooting and that flag means nothing to him. >> closing arguments will begin tomorrow. next at 5:30. we take the team coverage to the news 5 election war room where our election expert john kosic has been mapping out all of the possible outcomes as we track the vote. >> plus a lot of people who show up to vote find out there is something wrong with the registration so what happens if

ballot? that's next. >> our big story at 5:30. millions of americans cast their ballots for president and voter turnout surged in many battleground states and some states are reporting a record number of voters. polls here close in 7:30. >> hillary clinton and donald trump among those that cast their votes today. both presidential candidates

manhattan. the last time two presidential candidates called new york home was 1944 when franklin d. roosevelt won over thomas dewey. >> on wall street stocks rise as investigators weighed election results. the dow jones rose 124 points and the stock market biggest day after they announced they would not change the f.b.i. investigation on hillary clinton. >> millions of americans on the edge of their seats watching for results. >> and no one is more prepare to bring you results than our own news 5 john kosic. joining us from the war room. you have been at work on this preparing for election night for days. what do you have for us right now? >> if you have been around campaigns you know they have war rooms, data at their

we have at our news 5 war room. breaking down the key races over the course of the last 12 years especially. when you study them you get a pretty good indication of how results will go based on how pass results have turned out. we will know early on at 7:45 or 8:00 when we look at the numbers how things are trending in the state. take president obama for example. he won cuyahoga county and in 2008 by 258 and then 2012 by 25 kerry did it by 226. was not enough. you need a certain percentage, a margin coming out of the state and will have a pretty good indication how that will work out for hillary clinton. we will break it down for you on our news 5 app and we will have complete coverage of that plus the other races going on across the state and across cuyahoga county with the key issue. voters think of one situation as a worse case

between your standard ballot and provisional one? that's the question. we send tara molina to find out. reporter: this has happened and will happen to hundreds of people today. folks check in to find out they are not properly registered or changed precincts or not the correct id and that is where the special ballots come in. >> they may be upset, i think the consolation is that they are still able to vote. >> what isth between a standard vote and provisional vote. first off these ballots aren't counted until after the election. >> and tonight's results are truly unofficial. they will be tens of thousands of ballots added into the official count. >> yes, they will count. >> in the meantime we will count the provisional ballots. >> considered a fail safe by

eligibility. >> and while some forced to vote are not happy many told me ... >> it is worth it. >> guys, i'm told about 2000 are typically filed and the point is to make sure that everyone wants to vote for president has an opportunity to do so. we are in menner, tara molina, news 5. and we have been tracking down complaints. we wondered how are things going. >> secretary of state that so far voting is going well. attribute that to early voting. about a third of registered voters cast them before election day. adding ohio has work to ensure a smooth umblemished election with no fraud. >> we remove 575 deceased voters from the roll and duplicate registrations on the roll. we cross check with other

don't vote in ohio and another state. and we could know which candidate won ohio by 9:00 or it could take until 9:00 tomorrow morning. it all depends on how close the vote is. and you know we have got your back. the news 5 app is your source for election coverage on election night we will have live results detailing the races. starting at 7:00, john kosic will host begins at 7:00 p.m. local results. continuing to our democracy 2016 coverage on news five at 11. let's go to chief meteorologist mark johnson for a prediction. when will the rain end? >> it will taper off between 7 and 9:00 p.m. from northwest to southeast so the main band of rain is over us right now. the front that is bringing the rain knocking on the door. let's zoom in.

little while but drying out in sandusky and tiffin and waster in the your evening shows the rain showers through 8:00 p.m. for the greater cleveland area and isolated showers after that and temperatures dropping to the 40s and don't recover much for your day tomorrow. we will show you the coolness and i will tell you how long it will last coming up. >> missing for months. a local woman disappeared without a trace and her family members fear the worse. only on news 5. the reason why they are so

and the significance of these stickers right here. why people are going out of their way and covering the tomb stones with i voted stickers

number >> in my world of the coolness is coming my way. how far south overnight we have freeze warnings and frost advisories into northern texas and nebraska and northern missouri. impacted with chilly weather with lows in the 30s and it is far south in the southern plains. we are likely to have lows in

not tonight but the night after. i will tell you about a warm- up.

this. right now police fear a woman gone missing in canton is in danger. >> erica hall has not been seen in months. tracy carloss is just back from canton with a story you will see right here. tracy you spoke with erica's family and the u.s. marshals

her family is heart broken and as you might imagine desperate to find her. they are looking for clues and closure. erica hall's family describes her as happy, loving and bright and they explained to me that drugs took the 22-year-old to a dark place. after erica's dad died. she became addicted to painkillers and heroin. the last time in february. >> it never leaves your mind. i just want closure for me and my girls and i don't want us to live like this. >> canton police started to look for erica shortly after she vanished. the u.s. marshals joined the hunt when a warrant was issued for her arrest after she failed to show up for a court date. they both fear that she is in danger. >> i think it is likely that erica is hurt or kidnapped or

if she is, we want to determine that. >> deputy u.s. marshall eric toll me it is personal for him and the canton police detective working alongside him. >> i look for people that have warrants for their arrest. people that may be violent fugitives. as we worked it, we got to see that there was a person here that may have been hurt. and a family here that is definitely hurting. >> and that pain is easy to see on the faces of the really hard because we have been hearing different stories and we know that canton police and they are super close to something and just finding her and getting closure for us no matter what the outcome. i think that's the hardest point. >> so the u.s. marshals and erica's family are offering an 8000-dollar rewait for information. tips can remain anonymous.

coverage at five. hundreds of voters lined up to visit susan bench anthony's grave site. they left the i voted stickers on their tomb stone. most were women. this usually happens on election day but today was poignant since hillary clinton could be elected our first woman president. pe social media dressed in pants suits. clinton's signature look has been famous as she rose in prominence. >> one woman voter was not going to let anything stop her from voting in this election. >> no, not even the birth of her first child, the baby could not wait. the first time mom went into labor friday so on her way to the hospital she stopped at the

off that ballot. >> we ran over there and kind of made it in time because shortly after that, i was like it is time. we got to get to the hospital. >> momma said this vote is getting started. sasha welcomed bella rose. her partner was with her when she went into labor and also made sure >> no excuses, right? >> adorable. >> it brings joy. >> are you ready for the leak to -- election to be over. >> i want you to post something positive. something positive. i think it is possible that we can do this. >> i don't know. let's post something positive

neighbor, about your family, about us. >> don't scratch it too far. >> let's take a look right now. a live look at wooster. darkness in wooster with rain showers moving in as we speak. the clouds are overhead as well and the rain will continue for a little while longer and the actual cold front is moving through sandusky and tiffin and rain has stopped here. we will dry out hour but the rain will hold on longer for akron, wooster and canton and youngstown and astubula a little while longer to go as we zoom in. you can see the band of more moderate rain sliding out of lorain county. there is moderate rain and we swing back into new london and into southern huron county.

moderate rain through chardon and burton stretching down to minerville and twinsburg getting good rainfall. akron is generally light but windshield wipers and if you are in line that will soak you. mentor hours but the end is out of lake erie about 20 to 30 minutes away from folks in lake county. temperatures falling thanks to the rain showers and the sunset, in the mid-50s in a of spot especially along the lake shore. 63 in canton and 62 in dover new philly. theey 50s with scattered rain showers. front comes through and we will see some lake effect rain showers and a trough that will swing in tomorrow morning. we can't remove the threat of rain and during the afternoon dryer air for the north should

radar. tomorrow afternoon 45 and scattered showers and cooler and tomorrow not much of a recovery. in the lower 50s. morning showers and breezy and cool through today. akron 45 and scattered rain and 51 tomorrow. early showers with dry and breezy conditions through the afternoon. thursday, not a bad day, 61. now, friday i with a small threat for a wet snowflake. that would be mainly after midnight and then early right around sunrise could be a brief rainshower. saturday, let's go back. saturday is dry through the bulk of the day with chilly temperatures, 49 and a better day on sunday if you want to rake leaves. dry weather and temperatures in the 50s. frank and lee back over to you.

>> sunshine. there you go. >> a horrific crime. a man shot in the face. >> new at six, how he managed to survive the attack and the one thing he is asking for. and a gruesome discovery has investigators baffled what they found is raising questions tonight. i'm not siding with either one. they are acting super childish. your voice, your vote. what today's election means for each generatio

>> everybody is certain that

the job. no matter who they voted for they agreed on one thing. >> my social security, payroll, contributions will go up as will donald's assuming he can figure out how to get out of it. >> this is an unusual campaign. i have never seen anything like it. >> but if i win, i am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look in to your situation. >> i both candidates are, i would rather have somebody else. >> ask any generation and they will tell you this election cycle is different. >> even just the attitude that they showed during the debate was ridiculous. carry yourself as professional. >> he call her ms. housekeeper because she was latino. >> where did you find this. >> machado. >> it was more civil.

office and using the language he has. >> 81 year-old ben horseman has been voting ... >> all my life. >> and has seen a lot of presidents. >> eisenhower. john f. kennedy. >> looking at this election cycle, he says things have changed and that's why he is voting for ... >> hillary. >> 22-year-old arielle is new to the game. >> i have never voted before. >> she is stunned by the way both candidates are acting. it is like i'm 23, 24 years old and i would never say some of the things that they are saying. >> that being said. >> i am voting for donald trump. >> a president who she believes is the better choice. >> i dob believe in taxing the rich because of the poor and the republican party does not do that. i am looking at the economy standpoint. >> we are getting closer and closer to naming our next president. the rain not stopping too many

live in cleveland, dhomonique ricks news five. and that's it for news 5 at five. >> danita, what is going on at six? >> we are just an hour-and-a- half away from the polls closing and a few minor issues that have popped up. we are monitoring problems in some of northeast ohio biggest cities. what we have uncovered. a local father that survived a gunshot to his face and is telling his story of survival. a story that you ll

>> a decision left in your away from the polls closing and the buckeye state will start counting the ballots if they vice president already. >> an election that has everybody fired up. it could bring out record numbers. we are coming you from the gunning park recreation center where we have seen a steady stream of voters and it has picked up as people head home from work. we have crews across northeast