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he heard noises in the basement. he went downstairs and he fired. all of it matches what the father told police. >> deer park police want to target a bank robber. the man held up the branch and showed a gun and demanded cash. according to police, he jumped into a waiting car on linden avenue and drove away. detectives are looking into whether today's robbery is related to a robbery that happened back in november. people who live in over the rind could soon have to pay more for their parking. 450 spaces would be set aside for people who live in the neighborhood. a permit to use those spaces would cost more than $100 a year. the spaces are currently free. which is part of the reason that mayor john cranley vetoed this

:00. >> she pleaded not guilty to the charges against her. jessica hood is charged with manslaughter and assault. charles napier was pulling shawn and samantha along napier road when they were hit. police say hood was distracted when she drove off the road. and his attorney says he's yet to see any negligence on her part, including substance abuse or inattentiveness. >> we feel that it is an accident. it is a horrible accident. we intend to defend this vigorously. >> dickinson says hood feels terrible for the victims and her family. right now she's out on bond.

trigger in a recent shooting is locked up on bond. he's charged with shooting two people on poplar street last night. two other people later showed up at the hospital on their own. one had been shot in the hand and the other shot in the back. johnson is also charged with drug trafficking, according to court documents, he showed up to poplar trying to selling marijuana. five people banged on their window and when the couple wouldn't let them in, they broke a window to get inside. police say they assaulted the man who lives there and stole the woman's car. a ton of sun made for a welcome start today. some might even see a few flurries this afternoon. here is meteorologist scott

weather. >> we begin the day with temperatures near zero for some. we have made some improvement through the afternoon. temperatures will continue to rise for the remainder of the day. the sun will be filtered, especially late, with temperatures maxing out in the mid 20s. temperatures barely fall late this afternoon and early this evening. some flurries around, especially to the northwest and the north of cincinnati for the tail end of the business day, otherwise we're cloudy for the afternoon and the evening. temperatures rising from 7:00 p.m. through midnight. wind chills will be in the single digits and teens. clouds are increasing at this hour. notice snow returns to the northwest of indianapolis. that's why we have flurries in the forecast. temperature now 17 at the international airport. 9 the temperature in oxford. 9 in liberty.

wind chills are near zero. for some communities, well to the north and the northeast of cincinnati, wind chills are as high as 15 to 20 degrees along the ohio river near vevay. warmer is on the way as we get close to the weekend. along with a return of cloud cover. even though warmth is on the way to finish out the workweek, more cold air is expected next week. we'll take a check of live precision doppler 12 hd and show you the planning forecast. john. >> john: so many of you shared the facebook post of a couple fighting for an experimental cancer drug who is saving brad kiesting's life. he has a rare aggressive difficult to treat sarcoma. late last month the pharmaceutical company decided to stop the clinical trial and wife annie started a media and

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>> the pentagon says that 10 u.s. sailors held in iran are today. >> iran's revolutionary guard released these photos of the 10 u.s. sailors relaxing, some even overnight. they arrive this morning uninjured to a u.s. military base in the gulf, where they will be debriefed. the nine men and young woman were on these patrol boats when a breakdown caused them to drift into iranian waters. they were captured and held on an iranian base.

in our waters was not hostile or espionage. they are now investigating exactly what went wrong. >> secretary of state john kerry expressed appreciation for their swift reaction to this matter. some republicans criticized his speech as being light on the issues. >> the fact is that it was obama's policies that enabled us to have much more domestic production than ever. i'm glad that the president took credit for things last night. >> i don't know how many of you watched the president's state of the union address, and it just is extraordinary to me. i said this morning that really what we should have called that last night was story time with barack obama.

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. down. lower crude oil prices means lower gasoline prices. aaa says the national average is now 1.95 a gallon. parts of the country could soon see $1 a gallon for gas. >> the latest numbers from wall street. the dow jones is down 103. the s&p 500 is down 12 points. you can catch the market's closing numbers today on local 12 news first at 4:00. >> a search crew looking for a missing malaysian airlines flight. they have discovered a shiphe can where that could be 102 years old. crews found the ship remains off the west australian last month. they were looks for missing flight 3 70.

passengers and the crew on board. searchers were hoping to find some clue as to what happened to the flight. the ship is likely made of steel and iron and dates from the turn of the 19th century. kids are sending some encouragement to blair walsh. walsh missed a 27 yard field goal on sunday which would have seahawks. offering words of comfort and encouragement. the kids are apparently learning

wanted to provide a real life >> wow. take a look at this gusher. it is a large watermain break that caused trouble in montgomery county, pennsylvania. the water shot high into the street from a hole in the street. water from that geyser froze on nearby trees and power lines. how much damage would that do? >> a lot. especially if the wind is up. wind and ice is terrible. >> i came in when the wind chill

it was like a snow maker. times. >> oh, yeah, i've been here a long time. tri-state. we dropped down to 6 officially in cincinnati this morning. i did the full investigation where i could find a temperature below zero. summerville in butler county dropped to 3 below zero. foster hit 8. mayesville dropped to 3. versailles went to 2 below zero. these are temperatures. we had wind chills below zero in many tri-state communities. temperatures are on the rise. we're shaking the chill in the afternoon. we're also picking up clouds. there will be some flurries. fayette, union, warren, butler county have a chance of seeing some flakes today.

they will be isolated. temperatures maxed out in the mid 20s. today's high temperature will be hit very late this evening the 27. the low will be set 6:00 or 7:00 in the mid 20s. the temperatures rises initially this afternoon and then falls a couple of degrees and then we come back up into the mid and upper 20s nearing midnight. clouds will increase this afternoon. there will be flurries favored in our far northern and northwestern counties. you can track the returns that we have on local 12's the weather authority app. search for wkrc. temperatures up to 19, over cincinnati, sunshine for now, but later today we'll have more clouds showing up on the atrium center weather cams. there will be isolated to

perhaps brushing our far northern row of counties. temperatures will rise this afternoon. it will fall a couple of degrees. jonesville is at 18. peeples is at 14. 17 now in cincinnati. 22 in lexington. 12 in muncie. a pocket of cold air continues over the great lakes and the ohio valley. this will give us an increase in cloud cover for the next few hours. once clouds get here, they will stick around through tonight and tomorrow. notice on precision doppler 12 hd, we'll be watching this area of flurries and snow showers to the north, to the northwest of indianapolis. it will basically stay around interstate 70.

connorsville and areas north of lebanon later this afternoon. basically 3 to 7. notice on the forecast model, much better chances of snow well to the north of interstate 70. clouds are around tonight. i don't see any opportunity for tomorrow. we'll stay dry through thursday. next form of precipitation will be on friday in the form of rain. temperatures continue to rise for much the evening. tomorrow we're up to 45. rain develops on friday, we're up to 47. and we still have snow showers in the forecast over the weekend. winds will be up on sunday the possibility for some minor accumulations both saturday and sunday. we'll update the forecast shortly on local12.com. look for updates later today on local 12 news. >> be sure to join local 12

code black at 10:000 a >> an artist in connecticut is using an interesting medium.

portrait of actor morgan freeman in salt. he says it took him only 14 hours to complete it. and in this instagram video, you can see it took a few seconds to destroy it. >> aw. >> that's a skill. i couldn't do that. >> good stuff. one last look at weather. >> clouds will be increasing, some flurries will be around this afternoon. especially north, northwest, northeast of cincinnati. temperatures rise in the next few hours. up to 25 by 5:00. we fall a bit this evening and