se >> afternoon, everyone. thanks for joining us. one local pastor is calling it a city wide epidemic. there's a lot of attention focused on teen suicide. >> hamilton county coroner, involving juveniles. one just 12-year-old. members say they have also seen other suicide attempts and other teens talking about the subject. local 12 news reporters has more on how community leaders are stepping up to address the

of hand. >> the pastor here in the church of living god avondale says it's time for all hands on deck, and they come here to talk about a growing problem, teen suicide. >> it was a call to action. people representing churches, schools and community groups, joined forces to tackle the issue of teen suicide. pastor ennis tait calls it a city wide epidemic, hit in our neighborhoods. whether it's actual suicide or attempts. much has been related to the facebook challenge. who will miss me when i'm gone? there's indications the page will be taken down. following the news conference, many who pledged to take action, took part in a prayer gathering. their message to the, the youth, we are listening. >> we want to make sure we got ahead of the issue, started to

move faster, than i believe a lot of people understanding what is going on. when it was brought to our attention, we want to bring everybody attention, everybody is aware and everybody made a commitment to be part of solution. >> avondale, larry davis, local 12 news. >> coming up on local 12 news at 6:00, we will have more on the call to action to tackle teen suicides. plus a child psychologist weighs on the issue as well as the controversial facebook page that's linked to the problem. another local family devastated after a house fire turns deadly. firefighters have been at the scene much of the day. wilson scott aker lost his life in the early morning blaze which his mom escaped. he's the 11th person to die in the local fire so far this year. megan more has more on the scene and what local firefighters have encountered way too often.

after a man dies in a fire. you could see the mattress, where the firefighters pulled from the home. that's where the firefighters started in the front bedroom. we're told the mom was inside of the home. she was able to make it out safely. however, her son, the man who died was 66-year-old wilson scott thacker. when the firefighters got here, the home was fully engulfed in smoke. and the fire started in a mattress in the front bedroom where they found mr. thacker. we learned three people lived here, his mom. and they were able to get out safely, with the help of a neighbor, who also called 911. >> the husband tried to go and get him and he can't get him to wake up.

we can see it through the window. the window, like -- i don't know if someone burst it or if the fire caused it. doesn't really see the flames. i wanted to get back over there. my husband will cover his mouth with, so he could continue to go in. >> the cause of the fire is still under investigation, but officials tell us, they believe mr. thacker may have been smoking in bed. lebanon, megan moore, local 12 news. >> as we mentioned, 11 people have died so far this year. according to the red cross. smoke alarm helped one person get out alive this morning. this is important for you. if you need a smoke alarm, you could get one free from the red cross. here's the number to call. 513-579-3003. we will have the number in the red cross as well. the red cross will come to your home. they will install the necessary number of smoke alarms.

the idea of legal pot is not dead. the group of lawmakers visited the campus. last year, voters rejected overwhelmingly for legalizing pot. and they heard from a parent legalizing the advocate of marijuana because she believes it will help her child. >> restrict the right to treat my child. a child with catastrophic epilepsy, which is a safe plant-based medicine that's currently improving lives in 23 other states. >> hear more from that mom at 5:00, when jeff hirsh also tells

come for debate before lawmakers in columbus. as promised, it was colder. we saw lakes but nothing to shovel. no big deal. let's check in with brendan >> five days with temperatures right around 60 degrees or above that. big changes have moved on in. temperatures are hovering right where they are all day long. 32 in harrison. 32 at the airport. a lot of us, fairly uniform temperatures in the area. you could see the temperature trend in the past 12 hours or so, right around the freezing mark. we're looking at the camera downtown. power cam hd, seeing peaks of sunshine. and downtown, we have the spotty flurries. they are not accumulating, not doing anything other than falling from the sky. no problems with any of these. most of it are to the east of downtown, wilmington. down towards hillsborough. georgetown, getting some light flurries every once in a while

there's the back edge of the clouds, already starting to approach ourselves. as you saw in the tower cam, we have the peaks of sunshine every once in a while. expecting clearing skies in the evening. that will help temperatures to fall in the middle 20s. already by midnight. it gets lower than that, 2326. that will be about the low temperature. we're talking more about the warming trend. this is as cold as we get to the weekend. winter, makes a huge comeback into next week. we're talking about some snow showers likely, especially in the workweek that could impact the morning commute. we'll have more for the full forecast in 15 minutes. >> as paula -- >> flake. >> and you looked at me as if i was talking about people. >> no, i did not. . in other news today, a local boy suffering from cancer has lost his battle. also ahead, learning more

a head ststartt . >> taylor grant has lost his power with cancer. they first introduce to taylor last month. you may have seen hash tag, taylor strong. and doctors diagnosed him with

and it came back and this time more aggressively. his mother sierra post add message in the taylor branch, confirming that taylor passed away yesterday. she said her son earned his wings. and a heavily traveled road. two lanes are closed in columbia parkway. crews are working to remove the dirt that's spilling over the retaining wall near william howard taft. it created quite a mess. traffic away from downtown should have no problem for the evening commute. those lanes will remain closed until 9:00 a.m. tomorrow, the ones that are closed right now. >> you could share your thoughts, get a little bit more information about the preschool promise program. it is an initiative that every child gets access to preschool. there's a coffee meeting around

we have a list of other meetings on local12.com. it's an ugly problem that many people don't want to talk about nail fungus. >> it's probably not at the top of the concerns. and in today's health minute, holly firfer looks at some of the treatment. it's a common but embarrassing treatment many experience. >> nail fungus, those are fungi that affects skin and nail. it could be everywhere. >> nail fungus is contagious and nail. >> the nail will discolor. it will be yellow or black. sometimes it will loosen. sometimes it will also have pain, because the nail thickens and discolors. >> even though anyone could get a nail fungus, athletes, elderly

higher risk. the good news, it's treatable. >> option number one, which i typically tell patients, it's a topical antifungal. the second one is lamisil. the patient will take it for three months. you'll see treatment 60 percent of the time. and the most usual one, laser treatment. you will see changes 85-87 percent of the time >> for today's health minute, i'm holly firfer. >> for protections don't go barefoot in the public, try not to get professional pedicures >> i'm not sure about the professional pedicures >> i can't get people touching my feet.

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>> former pharmaceutical, he showed up, took the 5th and didn't say the word. he's widely scorned for hiking the price of long established and potentially life-saving drugs by more than 4 thousand percent. the smirk and laughter during the appearance seemed to irritate some lawmakers. he's facing security fraud charges involving another company. cab drivers hospitalized after the cab overturned in the exit ramp. video from the scene shows the vehicle very close to falling. a crash happened just before noon. the driver is said to be in good condition, though pretty lucky. >> the whole front side is smashed in. >> that's crazy. cab, the one that they are driving these days. do you know they are flakes? >> they were all over. >> they were flakes.

>> over to see lots of flakes next week. >> good. >> like, mounds of flakes. >> mounds of flakes. we can see some measurable snowfall next week. >> no shovelling >> no. >> that's the dividing line. >> for me. >> and we can see some light snow accumulation. i don't see the big one next week, but there's something for next week. we have a nice weekend to enjoy before we get there. a warming trend from here on out. they are moving to the east, at the area of gray you see on precision doppler hd. and last one, moving through downtown right now. most to the east, wilmington, towards bethel, hillsborough and we're only seeing them in the next couple of hours and then we're looking much, much dryer. and in the weather camera right now, noticing the breaks in the clouds. and we'll loop it over in the last three hours or so.

and it's pretty much hit and miss. most are in downtown, especially in butler county. oxford, it's been snowing for a good portion of the day. no accumulation whatsoever. there's the sunshine you see in the background. 33 degrees, we're mostly cloudy. it's not too breezy. there's a light breeze coming from the west. temperatures in the area, sitting in the freezing mark, maybe degree above or below. 33 degrees with a lot of the temperatures. and we're next in line, getting rid of the flurries, pushing to the east as well. and i think downtown, 7:00, 8:00, mostly sunny skies. and completely clear as we get towards midnight. the clear skies at night, help the temperatures fall a little bit faster. and that's why we're expecting temperatures to get down to 20 degrees, right around 6:00 a.m. you see the winds from the west, 8 miles an hour here.

see where the temperatures are coming from. 33 here but 37 in springfield. it's warmer where one direction is coming from. it's a lot cooler than yesterday. and there's the warm-up we're talking about, just towards the west, they are seeing 40s. st. louis, kansas city, right city. and the winter returns by the workweek. we have some of the clouds pulling from the east. no clouds overnight tonight. as we get through tomorrow, we have some hit clouds from time to time. and we will see some sunshine in between those. that will help us to the 40s. saturday, we warm up even more. again, no rainfall out here. green. just light gray that continues to push on through. and saturday, 47. 48 by sunday, getting very, very

especially northern kentucky, and here's winter returning as we get to next week. here's the headlines for next week. starting next monday, going to wednesday, we have a chance of snow showers. it means, it's hit and miss -type snow showers. it won't be light snow the entire time. good chunk will have snow showers. that means light accumulations will be possible. with temperatures below freezing. and we're talking about an inch here. we get another inch. that sort of light accumulation. something we will have to watch. since it is so hit and miss, it's impossible to tell the details on which neighborhood will see what this early. that's something we will have to hit in the latter part of the weekend, to get details, i should say. and 30 degrees for the high temperature during the day on tuesday. 36, and that's kind of where we bottom out.

>> we are not going to complain but we are going to complain. >> a wild jaguar captured in the

>> also ah >> video captures. a rare glimpse of the jaguar in the u.s.

rita mountains. the jaguar is the only large cat native to north and south america. this one was photographed repeatedly in the last two years. the people of tucson call her el happy. >> beautiful. >> i don't want to come face-to-face with one. >> only one. >> we don't know it's the same one, do we. >> they say there's only one. there's only one. >> originally, there's only one. >> and it's down in the u.s. and it doesn't mean people don't want a good burger. >> after generation of bad patties, patties. >> veggie burger is no longer a bland gray party masquerading as meat. >> the texture is really important. >> chef choey, opened by chloe

everything in the menu is vegan. >> i think there's a lot of work to be done, in terms of making them fun and acceptable and every day. that's part of the mission. >> customers are embracing the veggie trend. in three years, vegetarian menus are up 66 percent. chloe's vegetation menu has clearly won over the new york neighborhood. it opens at 11:00 and within minutes, it's packed. it started in a restaurant catering to foodies. even white castle and wendy's have veggie burgers on their menu. more than 35 percent of americans say they eat vegetarian meals at least once a week. more than 60 percent of americans actually like eating veng tabls when going out. food trend says it's not just veggie burger has come a long

reiching them. >> now you're eating it >> veg began, nicholas and salmo agrees. >> kind of like the good burger experience, good bread, good pickles and alternative fries. >> and it's being served up in places you never expected. jamie lucas, cbs news, new york. >> and food experts say it could be cost-effective way for a restaurant to add vegetable dishes. they can keep longer nan meat. >> and love them. especially the black bean burger. . >> did you find several oh, yeah.

your >> welcome back, zika virus continues to spread in the u.s. and abroad. >> diane gallagher has the latest on how u.s. health workers are ramping up efforts to stop it. >> today, florida has 12 zika cases. we have to explain the zika case.

for the best. florida is not only confirmed for the zika virus. texas has a task forum to deal with it. it's estimated 4 million people to be infected in the next year. the zika virus is mosquito born. but the first case didn't come from a mosquito. >> we have confirmation it's spread otherwise through sexual activity. >> there's an alarming link, micro micro encephaly. >> we do know for pregnant women, that could be so concerning. >> so concerning, they are telling women who are or could be pregnant, not to travel in zika areas.

of defense, are allowing pregnant employees to opt out of assignment in the places. brazil. as the country prepares for carnival, it's preparing for a campaign that will involve more than 2 hundred thousand troops. in washington, bill gallagher. >> and the experts are -- local 12 news, sits down with the health commerce, to share the concerns in our area, especially the concern that carries. people convicted the child abuse or neglect. the bill will create a list of similar on-line registry. and the bill was inspired by

died while being cared from a baby-sitter that later admitted. and they want to restart border checks and much of the new year's eve. more than 400 sexual assaults were reported in cologne gathered. much of the blame is being placed on refugees. and scott folman, would recently returned from colon. >> people who are karrieing pepper spray. are walking in groups, all because of the fear that what happened on new year's eve could happen again, the next time we have a large crowd. this is an issue. they are now trying to reexamine, so we can be

protect those. >> and scott fullman, fuel measure this thund morning. you could watch it here on local 12. >> not bad, before it gets through. >> and friday, as we look ahead. what do we have for tonight? >> tonight, it goes up, brad. especially if you go to super bowl sunday, like paula mentioned, what we're being looing forward to. the clouds have been stubborn to move out. eventually, they will. the end of the clouds, clearing line, not too far away. it will be moving in, 7:00, 8:00, moving downtown in places like oxford, where we see a whole lot of clouds right now. we have the flurries shipping to the east. this is the back edge. we have a couple of hours to go, wilmington, hillsborough. nothing is accumulating. it's not creating any roadways. it's drying up shortly after it reaches the ground. temperatures right around the

most locations, 33 is the popular number. airport is around 33. alexandria. and uniform temperatures across the area, near the freezing marks. there's the clearing line i was telling you about, seeing clear skies moving to independent unanimous. we're next in line, moving towards 7:00. we will start to clear out downtown. falling through the twenties overnight tonight. it will be way colder than what it was over the past couple of nights. it's something to keep in mind. that's something we will talk about coming up in 15 minutes. it's how much a cooldown we saw during the day, compared to the past five days. we're looking at a warming trend this weekend. enjoy it while it lasts. it will be a short warming trend. winter comes this month. the updated forecast, coming up soon. brett? >> donald trump back in new hampshire. packed a campaign, after a disappointing finish in iowa.

the first of the nation primary. members of the campaign, promising voters will notice the difference. daniel nottingham will notice the difference from new hampshire. >> we're at the beginning of a very, very important last few days. >> donald trump took a break from his attacks, against rival ted cruz on the campaign trail. one day on slamming cruz, accusing him. and trump tweeted, this is a cruz violation sent to everyone. a misdemeanor at everyone. cruz says trump was just angry. >> i did not respond in time. i do not intend to respond in time. >> trump was leading in the polls before a last minute surge from cruz. trump's campaign is trying to avoid a second loss in new hampshire. >> we have more volunteers. we have more call centers knocking on doors.

it's too late for trump to build a ground game because it's a strategy month in the making >> donald trump could continue to be donald trump, the brand and not donald trump the politicians, not donald trump complaining the election was rigged in iowa. >> he's not afraid to rock the boat and the boat needs to get turned over. >> the republican field will have the last debate before the primary saturday. democrats, bernie sanders and hillary clinton hold the first one tonight. cbs news, durham, new hampshire.

. >> irs is strieg trying to get the electronic filing system back and running. for now the agency has stopped accepting electronically filed tax returns. it could affect the tax refunds but the agency says it doesn't expect any major interruption. honda is recalling air bags. they include older models from 2005, as well as newer vehicles from 2015-2016 model years. facebook feed could have a reminder. it belongs to the social media giant itself. facebook founded 12 years ago today.

focused on users, electing february, friends day. . and stocks ended up modestly higher. losses, the dow jones industrial rose 71 points. the nasdaq climbed 5 points. s&p 500 edged up 2 points. and okay. something to think about, as we approached valentine's day. a lot of us are unfaithful when it comes to money. credit cards.com, did a survey. 49 percent of americans kept a purchase more than $100 from their spouse or partner. >> what? >> yeah, $100. 19 percent spent $500 without saying a word. millennials, seniors or those under 64, they are less likely to spend even $25 well, 13 million americans have hidden a bank account or credit

significant others. and actually, people in the northeast, they seem to be the most dishonest about money. they are unlikely to spend $500 without a mention. and other said, if their spouse did the same, they wouldn't care. >> anything i do, i do for the good of the family. little stashing away is not a bad thing. it's not a selfish thing. >> okay. .

next w with h a looook >> super bowl xl, on its way to be expensive super bowl in history. and it's just shy of $5 grand. hundreds of dollars more than record setting ticket price for may mayweather-pac mayweather-pachaoa. watch it right here on local 12.

first championship game. the average cost of gas. and the average income, for men was a little over $7 thousand compared to about $49 thousand today. >> i'm still at $7 thousand right now. >> you may remember, paula, who played in the first super bowl, don't you? >> that kind of trivia. >> one team. >> a team? oh, san francisco. >> no, it was the kansas city chiefs and the mvp was bart starr. i was reading, roger goodell has invited him to come to the super bowl. he can't because he's just broke his hip and had a heart attack. he is not doing well. >> he made it on the field for brett favre's retirement. >> all right, cammy. what do we have going.

>> northern pastor is locked up, on charges he raped and sodomized a foster child in his care. he shocked the members of the new banquet church in walden. coming at 4:30, joe webb will have the latest on the investigation. there's major concerns on the drinking too much in miami university. sororities and fraternities, after 20 students drank so much they had to go to the hospital. coming at 6:00, angenette levy will have more on the concerns for students and the reports of their parents, too. dangerous stuff. >> see you at 5:00. >> see you at 5:00 . >> taking a look at the traffic, 275. loveland and madera. slow going here at 4:47 in the afternoon. paula was worried about the flakes. >> clear.

>> no slick roads. >> know more on the flurries. >> what will we do. >> and they'll be back. >> they'll be back. >> not too far in the future. >> on monday >> you know how warm we've been in the past couple of days. you could believe we've hit 60 degrees in the international airport for the past five days. >> the past five? >> traffic went back and look at the high temperature. at some point in the day, hit 60 degrees, whether or not it's in the middle of the night or later in the afternoon. the highest, misstreak of 50s was last sunday, last weekend. 63 last saturday. 64 last sunday. you could start to see temperatures have been going way, way down during the day today, right around freezing that's where we're sitting all day long, since the cold front. and it's about the same. pretty much where you are at, south of downtown, northern kentucky or north, it's still around the freezing mark.

much of the area, especially north of downtown. hamilton, franklin county and south eastern indiana, having some flurries most of the day today. none of it is sticking. a lot is pushing to the east. the last few flurries are moving across i-71 to the eastern end. wilmington, light flurries getting in for a while. adams county has some decent flurries. you could see in the far top end of the side of the screen, some clear skies. finally peaks of sunshine, most of the while. south eastern indiana, will see the clearing moving in first. pushing in those areas. downtown, around 7:00, maybe as late as 8:00, on the east side, where we start to see the clearing finally push in. with the clear skies at night, it allows the temperatures to fall faster than what they had with clouds around.

20s around midnight, down to the low to mid-20s early tomorrow morning. we're going with a low of 26 degrees by 6:00 a.m. most of the winds are am coulding from the west, northwest at that time. we look out at the direction, see where the temperatures are coming from. 37 in springfield. 32 degrees in st. louis. compared to the 33. it's warmer there. one, because they have the warmer air moving in. two, we have sunshine. that's why it's 19 degrees cooler than this time yesterday. if we look to the west towards warmer. weekend. hear the clouds we have around now. that's the area in gray, that pushes to the east. we have clear skies again tonight. it won't be clear all day tomorrow. we won't have any precipitation like we had today. we had the on and off flurries. next weekend. some warmer air continues to

we will see some peaks of sunshine from time to time. it's exactly what we have in the weekend forecast. 10 degrees above average. it's about on sunday. the average high this time of year, right at 40 degrees. we're below average now, won't last too much longer. here's the headlines, as we head towards the week much and timing is monday through wednesday. we'll start out with a little bit of light rain. monday. that transitions over to snow showers early monday morning. we can see some light snow accumulation at times, especially on tuesday. that's probably the best chance of snow showers. temperatures below freezing. pavement temperatures will likely be below freezing as well. travel. we will be watching it closely. sometimes the light events could be as dangerous, than when we have the thick show storm. we can see some snow squalls at times and it covers the roads pretty quickly. tuesday is the best day of seeing that. behind that, we see some chilly

nothing historic. nothing too cold. 26 for high temperatures. lows in the teens. we finally get a chance to dry out by thursday. we're looking at a 3 day period of pretty much nonstop on and off snow showers. >> okay. . >> this time of year, it's not bad. >> 3 is not that bad. air flow is coming into that. she'll have a lot more at 5:00. joe webb's story about the kentucky caucus. there will be a caucus for republicans to choose presidential nominee >> we did that so ron paul could run for senator. and even though paul has dropped the bid for the g.o.p. nomination. today, endorsed ohio governor, john kasich. we'll talk about the caucus. debra hall, could vote on the voters. >> and williams agree. the g.o.p. is changing things to

maybe they will learn and not change the political process and waste money for one person who supposedly doesn't like governor waste. >> and it will be interesting to see if kentucky reelects senator paul, now he's out of the presidential race. you could add your opinion, by going to the facebook page and give us a like while you're there. >> u.s. intelligent official, besides isis is slinging in iraq and syria but it is growing. and this revived estimate comes as the white house is considering an expansion of anti-isis operations and airstrikes into libya. new developments related to tuesday's explosion on board syria. the suspect is the al-shaabab militant group behind.

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>> today is world cancer day. for many women fighting the disease, something simple as cleaning their house may mean the whole world. >> she shares the story of one of her clients. >> told me the last time, they used all the drugs they can take. i've taken it all. georgia anderson still holds on to hope. in her ten year battle of fallopian cancer. after all, she's beaten the odds a time or two. when she was first diagnosed she learned her days were numbered. so doctors thought. >> they gave me six to nine months. now we're going 10 years later. the lord has definitely been involved. >> the past christmas, another number reared its ugly head. >> ten down, ten days. >> and the thing, to keep living with it and not letting it get

>> she learned how precious time is. her family, too. . >> how are you. >> that's part of the reason her daughter emily reached out to cleaning for a reason. not just for help to keep the house tidy but also so their time could be better spent with each other. >> filling the information and simply organized contacted me. >> simply organized partners with cleaning for a reason, for offering free house cleaning for women battling cancer. it's something that means a lot to georgia. >> i'm not there fast. >> whether it's trying to get the house clean, or if they want us to clean out their refringe rater. >> though the cases, the help is free of charge. 2 doesn't mean the ladies goes home empty-handed.

and we love doing it >> oh, there are other cleaning services in the area, that partner with the non-profit organization. if you want more information on cleaning for a reason, you could find a link under the news tab at local12.com. >> we're back at 5:00, with rob and cammy. >> and the push for medical marijuana in the tri-state is back in play. why some local parents say it can't come soon enough. >> more than 100 jobs, eliminated and workers remain. >> a lot of people think they are the best part of the super bowl and. this is local 12 news live at 5:00 >> and it should be our right to treat our children with a promising medicine that's

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