. right now at 6:00, donald trump is back in northeast this time rallying in akron. coming up, we'll also let you know how clinton support hers -- supporters are responding. danielle? >> reporter: thank you. i recruited help to report traffic. it's first day of school. we're helping you prepare for more school buses on the roads. >> all right. a car drives into a crowd at a local community concert injuring eight people. we'll have the latest on their

forecast. here's hollie. >> great. thanks. august 22nd. welcome back to school for bedford, west geauga today. let us know if you're starting for the first day of the year. we're excited for you. we've got a good looking day ahead. perhaps a passing sprinkle this morning. otherwise some sunshine. 50s and 60s as you wake up. from as far, not a lot going on. we zoom in, few sprinkles. these are light in intensity summit and portage county. southern geauga, ashtabula. no thunderstorms to worry about. we're 50s and 60s. it is refreshing. perhaps your windows are open. ac is off for a change. you may grab a sweatshirt for the bus stop this morning. we'll see the shower chances fade throughout the morning hours. we'll transition to a lot of sunshine later in the day. i'll have much more coming up in minutes.

your drive. >> reporter: thank you hollie. we're outside. it feels great out here. i have recruited live traffic maps. i have my live traffic reporter here from bedford city schools. first day for bedford city schools. are you ready? >> yeah. >> they're ready for success and ready for you guys. normal drive time so far -- i'm keeping track of traffic for you using our portabl go to wkyc.com /traffic. right now the biggest thing we have cedar road between brainer and lander road remains closed because of yesterday's water main break. what you want to do is detour lander road to get around that. other than that, we are smooth sailing on the highways to get to school. coming up in 15 minutes, we'll prepare you for bugs laws when

buses. you want to be safe when you go to school. if you don't listen to me, listen to them. lynna, back to you. thanks so much. 6:03 now. eight are recovering after going hit by a car at a community concert in parma heights. two are in serious condition. police say a woman was trying to leave the concert when she accidentally hit the gas and drove into a dance floor set up in the parma heights police are investigating. so far no charges have been filed. . battle for the buckeye state is heating up on the campaign trail. donald trump is schedule yuled to hold a rally in -- scheduled to hold a rally in ohio. he'll be speaking at university of akron. >> at the rods arena -- roads

important for democrats and republicans specifically northeast ohio here. voters here in ohio have sided with the last ten presidents. that goes to show you how key this is. average of ohio's top polls shows that donald trump is behind hillary clinton in the buckeye state. tonight at 7:00, he's going to appeal to voter who is haven't yet made up their minds. clinton camp is not silent about this. ohio.com is reporting antitrump news conference this afternoon made up of leaders from summit county. tomorrow, also an event held surrounding a new downtown clinton campaign office. if you remember, hillary clinton was here in cleveland last week. so lynna, we're likely going to see both candidates here making those stops a lot more in coming months. >> you bet. thanks tiffany. hillary clinton's e-mail

she maintain had the former secretary of state colin powell used a private e-mail server too and encouraged her to do the same. he says he told her about his practices but she had been using her own private server for a year. a hearing will be held today to address a conservative group's lawsuit against clinton. the group judicial watch is seeking all of her e-mails between 2009-13. a federal judge issued the order friday requiring c answer their questions within 30 days. new information in the cleveland fire that killed a 46-year-old man at a west side duplex early yesterday morning at a home on plat avenue near clark and west 86th. police arrested the victim's 49-year-old girlfriend as the fire is investigated as arson. investigators say the left side of the duplex did not have smoke detectors. a 27-year-old man that lives

everyone else got out safely. the cause is unclear. he eluded police were months after he shot and killed a man during a home invasion on cleveland's east side. now the murder trial against shape starts today. -- sean starts today. he and two other men forced their way into an apartment last july and killed a 22-year-old man. the two others pleaded guilty for their role in the crime time now 6:06. topping your morning news feed this morning, a veteran sky diver died after opening his parachute too late in southeast ohio the owner says the man deployed below the safe at duty of

3500 feet. when he did open it, it started spinning. the faa will handle the investigation. a bridge failure caused a freight train to derail in texas. part of the bridge chanced causing 26 train cars to derail with five of them falling into the water below the bridge. fire crews say they were carrying goal -- carrying and not harmful materials. no one was injured in the accident. counter fit pills with a powerful pain kill their is said to have caused his death. two dozen pills found in one aleve bottle for falsely labeled. one tested positive for fentinol. in june, the 57-year-old's death was said to be an accidental overdose.

is the last time you took your cat to the vet? today is national take your cat to the vet day. a recent survey found 60% of cat owners do not take their cats to the vet on a regular basis. the brand is now asking cat owners to pledge to see the vet this year. . time is 6:08. the summer extinguishes. until 2020 we have a look at the closing ceremony and best olympic moments. a new zika forecast. find out how long scientists say the virus would stay in the u.s. and which areas are the most vulnerable. we're checking out your forecast. your commute forecast, back to school forecast. it's nice to see you. hope you have a good weekend. waking up feeling bright eyed and rested. 60s, even few upper 50s now.

going to be a lot of beautiful sunshine today. 70s for highs which is nice. normal high on this day is 80. 6:44. sunrise time today. we're about 35 minutes away. going to be beautiful. partly cloudy skies.

. 6:12 now. we have a warning about the zika virus. the national institute of health says the virus could hang around the u.s. for a year or two. it says other gulf coast states besides florida are the most vulnerable to the spread of the disease. areas where there's flooding are most at risk.

birth defects. pregnancy can be affected in all three trimesters. wind gusts of 30 to 40 miles per hour were reported with the storm as it moved through the phoenix area. visibility in the area was down to a quarter of a mile or less itit even delayed flights at sky harbor international airport. over. the flame was extinguished at the closing ceremony last night. all athletes entered the stadium one last time. simone biles represented team u.s.a. as the flag barrier. the olympic flag was passed to governor of tokyo who hosted summer olympics in 2020. rio games may be a memory. it's great at that. games opened with doubt about

crimes and whether the host county was ready. that's not how rio will be remembered. brian has the story from olympic park in rio. >> rio brought us awe inspiring feats of agent -- athleticism and real american spirit. michael phelps earned his spot as greatest olympian ever. ryan lochte and three other false robbery attempt. biles lifted her team to glory this americans were strong on the track. venus and serena williams were sidelined. team u.s.a. earned the most medals. brazil was the big winner giving

remember. nbc news, rio. how that the -- -- how about this. irving says this gold medal tops off my whole year. couldn't be more fatigued and happy at the same time. this is for y'all. love y'all guys to the moon and back forever and ever. another step in the journey. >> congrats to congrats to us. a nice reprieve. >> timing is perfection with school going back today and rest of the week. a lot of you started last week. we got a good feeling morning. we'll look at bus stop forecast. temperatures mainly around 60. 6:15, headlines. a passing sprinkle chance

comfortable. sunshine later today. more partial to start. like i said, can't rule out the shower chance early today. we're seeing a few. i'm going to show you where. 72 by lunch. looks like highs in the middle 70s. 63 degrees now at hopkins. 6:16. reality time check for those of you back with us. great to see you. over the next 12 hours, partial sunshine to a lot of sunshine. it really is going to be a terrific start to the week. the cooler we're seeing a lot of 50s and 60s as we wake up this morning. we'll zoom in closer. 60 degrees elyria. 55 worcester. upper 50s right now akron, canton ravenna. mansfield 57. this is great. you might need a little sweatshirt for the bus stop. it's comfortable, refreshing. we've got a good looking day ahead. satellite and radar from a wide

we've got spotty showers. no big deal. no storms. nothing that's going to cause much in the way of slow downs. we are seeing a few showers around east side of hudson now and manaway. showers near you. east of geauga looking dry at this point. again, i think these chances will continue to fade through the next few hours. then we're back sunshine into the afternoon. as you get the kids from perhaps their first day of school, they're going to be running out with big hugs and smiles. just lovely into this evening. we'll continue to see clear skies and really great sleeping weather tonight. tomorrow looks like another fabulous day. more sunshine. warming up i little more to 80 tomorrow. that's seasonal for this time of year. here's a look at your window nation seven-day forecast. sunshine continues into the middle of the week.

then we've got a front pushing through thursday. scattered showers, thunderstorms. then really pleasant weather behind the front friday and into the weekend. it's 6:18. here's a check of your drive. >> reporter: good morning. we're live in bedford heights. it's the first day of school for the district. it's back to many of you are familiar with this scene. kids starting to get back on the school bus. this is a familiar scene as we return to school. we wanted to remind you of laws when hit comes to passing stopped school buses. we want to keep those kids safe. all of our kids throughout northeast ohio. we prepared graphics for you we're all great visual learners. here you go. if you're traveling on a two

snead to you -- you need to stop. no matter which direction you're traveling. multiroad lanes, four or more. only the side traveling on the side of the school bus needs to stop. if traveling towards the school bus, you can't continue to go. that's different from other state law. don't take this to another state. this is in ohio. it's because as we move to the next video bus graphics or drivers are supposed to, required to drop off children on the side of the highway in which they live. or the side of the road they live on a multilane road. i want everyone to be safe. still tracking traffic for you. closed southed of the highway blocked due to a falling tree. at 6:30, we're actually getting on the school bus doing traffic

again, with everyone back to school, normal drive times so far and no accidents. >> looking forward to that. sounds great. now saving on your cell phone plan. matt granite with the look at smart phone deals available for the new school year. >> timing is perfection. 6:20 is your time linda from garfield heights sent this. calling it happy rainy humming birds. captured this picture on day. see him in there? so sweet. thanks for sharing with us.

david was proud to be an american soldier. and i know i'm prejudiced because he was my son,

when i saw donald trump attack another gold star mother, i felt such a sense of outrage. "she was standing there, she had nothing to say..." if donald trump cannot respect a gold star family, then why would anyone in america think he would respect them.

. back to school time. two major companies taking unlimited approach toward your smart phone plan. matt granite is here to explain.

usually hear in the same sentence when it comes to reductions. >> okay. >> or are they? some would like to convince you their prices are better than they actually are. two offers from mobile and sprint. they change up the smart phone plans. take a look. back to school is prime time for anybody on earth trying to walk you into a new contract. in the case of t mobile which got rid o challenge other smart phone companies. sprint is accepting the challenge head on. let's talk about sprint. they greatly reduced the cost for their unlimited plan. both have fine plan. they're all you can text, all you can download plan on your smart phone device. sprint coming in around $60 mark. t mobile again, breaking the rules. one of the first to get rid of contracts, roaming, first to get

see from your provider. print believes they have a one plan fits all, unlimited plan that has more fine print. 70 or $75 depending on whether you have a lot to pay. this is unique. t mobile believes they've got one plan for everyone. they believe that everyone can take advantage of this new plan. that's what we all want. if you do the math and look at actuallyt mobile's new offering is actually inferior to their other plans. >> oh, okay. i'm urging you to do your research. t mobile i think is the far better choice economically and far better company. do the math what makes sense for your family. >> it differs for every family. >> okay. let's hope that competition knocks down verizon and at&t. >> they need a challenge.

no challenges in the weather department hollie. >> easy stuff. back to school, work, refreshing weather is the truth of the matter. a passing sprinkle can't be ruled out this morning. otherwise we warm to low 70s by lunchtime. i think we see abundance of sunshine later today. right now partly cloudy skies. a few of you, spotty sprinkles. no big deal. we'll head out to back deck and check it out in minutes. 6:26 now a look at what the presidential candidates are up to this week. plus, drones on the roadways. why the ohio turnpike is going to be sending out drones for the

. welcome back. 6:30 now. john is off this week. hollie has your forecast in a nu here's stories we're watching. one man is dead following a motorcycle accident late yesterday afternoon. it happened on state route 84 between st. john's bluff lake and kirkland road. michael drove off the right side of the road, struck a guardrail and was thrown from his motorcycle. he was pronounced dead at the scene. alcohol may have been a factor in that crash. the ohio turnpike plans to use

the first time next month. the officials hope to determine if drone inspections will save time and money. now work zones have to be created when bridges are inspected. odot and state highway patrol are considering using drones. a warning before you head to work, a sinkhole shut rca green line in shaker heights. this is the scene at shaker boulevard and warrensville center. rta officials say the line will be closed until at least wednesday so in the meantime, buses will cover the route between shaker square and green road. if you step outside this morning, you'll notice changes. hollie is on the back deck. how's it feeling? >> like fall. that's the truth. shane has his sweatshirt on.

work or bus stop this morning. a beautiful sky behind us. there's one shower over the lake that we've pinpointed. just about everything else we're seeing is beautiful partly cloudy skies. sun up at 6:44. we're still a few minutes away. sunrises are getting later and later. tis the season. we look at the forecast. if you're heading back to school today, bedford, west geauga, i know a couple districts start today. feeling day. 60s and into the mid to upper 60s at 9:00 this morning. 50s and 60s as you wake up. 72 degrees, partly cloudy at noon. we'll see a lot of sunshine later today, late afternoon into the evening. as you come home from work and get kids to school. satellite and radar from a wide perspective.

not causing problems. there's the shower over the lake we showed you from out here. other than that, it's really just a spectacular start to the day. it wakes you up danielle as you step outside for sure. . >> yeah, well i've been outside all morning long preparing people for back to school. i'm actually live on a school bus why we're picking up kids. of course we want to prepare you for traffic. peppere, brainer and lander road we'll remain closed. take fair mont as the detour. also clay street in mountainville is closed south of the highway because of a fallen tree. after you look at the traffic maps here, see we are pretty much green and clean. seeing typical slowing into downtown on 71 north. adding a minute or two to your drive. now again, we have our bus drivers out live picking up our

prepare for back to school. i know if you have a kindergarten child going for first time, you're nervous. no need to be nervous. everything is all good, going to be great today. back to you. >> thanks so much dani. . donald trump will be back in northeast ohio today making a stop at the university of akron. tiffany tarply is live ts slightly behind hillary clinton in ohio. >> lynna, with ohio key to winning the presidency we'll likely see both candidates here a lot more in the months ahead. let's go ahead and show you that poll we're talking about. it's an average of top polls in ohio done by real clear politics. it shows trump trails hillary clinton by 2.6 points. this is the error of margin.

state. ohio cited with last overall winning candidate in last 10 presidential elections. that's five democrats and five republicans. coming up at 6:50, we'll let you know where things stand when it comes to fundraising in key battlegrounds states including ohio. >> thanks tiffany. see you then. 6:35 now. time now for morning news feed. $20 billion. that is the estimated cost of the st southern louisiana now. more than 95,000 have applied for federal aid in the disaster stricken region. families are trying to reburrell thes who's caskets were unearthed by flood waters. the louisiana department of health says 15 cemetery across seven parishes are affected by the flooding. president obama will visit flood soaked bah don rouge tomorrow. -- baton rouge tomorrow.

per penn state coach sandusky will be held today. his attorneys claim his trial should be overturned because of errors in his initial trial. he was convicted of sexually abusing 10 boys between 94-2008. he's serving 30 to 60 years in prison. washington state firefighters are battling a handful of large wildfires that they're called called the spokane complex fire. these are threatening dozens of homes because of other fires burning in the area have stretched resources pretty thin. crews on the scene say this fire could be as large as 500 acres as it just continues to burn this morning. time now 6:36. lots more ahead. we check in with matt granite. what do you have today? >> we're helping with storage. i'm also doing your laundry.

hollie, good morning. >> okay to that deal. good morning to you matt we've got a refreshing start to your school year, work day. forecast highs in the 70s. 50s, 60s. could see a sprinkle this morning. otherwise plenty of sunshine. sun still not up. 6:44 official sunrise time today. it will set at 8:15 this evening. what a gorgeous day ahead. speaking of beautiful and smile sweet little alaina. yep. we are featuring all your back to school pictures. alaina on her first day of kindergarten. so cute. we'd love to share your instagram photos from the first day. post them and use hashtag back to school 3. use them on tv like we did there. hope you're having a great

david was proud to be an american soldier. and i know i'm prejudiced because he was my son, but i don't think he had a mean bone in his body. there is not a day that i don't think about david. when i saw donald trump attack another gold star mother, i felt such a sense of outrage. if donald trump cannot respect a gold star family, then why would anyone in america think he would respect them.

. 6:41. we start with the bizarre story. this a wrestling match. take a look at this. this resulted in a point deduction and cost lebron's medal. the two mongolian coaches started taking off clothes. ey their shoes in protest after their wrestler was denied the medal. fans loved it even if they didn't like the results. from that to pokemon. >> now a burger chain is cashing in on pokemon go craze with these adorable burgers.

burgers. pikachu has tries for ears. very cute. streisand got apple to correct siri pronunciation of her name. we'll check it out. siri, who sang "? it annoyed her for a long time siri mispronounced her name. she called apple's tim cook and got them to agree to which i change pronounce her name. that's power, right? >> wow.

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>> or child. >> you know what, that's perfect. >> my kids are going to start folding their own clothes right now. >> for $12.99. child labor at its finest. >> don't judge us. we'll take two. [ laughing ] >> right? >> as you know, anything to make your life easier. we enter this back to school rat race. >> it's fun kid >> the hamster wheel -- fun kids. >> the ma'am hamster wheel begins. >> a light jacket like we see here is a great idea. temperatures mainly 60s by the time you head out to the bus stop. right now mid to upper 50s to near 60 degrees. it's come i. great sleeping weather. as i mentioned, plentiful sunshine later today.

next 12 hours after cloud cover here this morning. gosh by later, you're getting kids to school. this is day one or just your own work day. you've got a beautiful commute coming home into the afternoon. look how nice and cool it is regionally. it has the fall feel this morning most certainly. 50s to near 60. sun coming up as we speak. we're going to see it today. we zoom in to radar. few spotty sprinkles. little shower over the noticed on the back deck out there. moving through parts of lake county, much of the wet weather has fizzled fizzled and will be out of here in the next couple hours. we're totally dry all across northeast ohio. we'll go from partly to mostly sunny skies in the afternoon. this evening looks beautiful. tonight is going to be a really comfortable sleeping night again. lows 50s to nowhere 60 tomorrow more sunshine.

degrees. that's seasonal for this time of year. it's going to be a nice day. window nation seven-day forecast, highs in the mid 80s by midweek. little warmer for wednesday. still nothing too crazy. we're not forecasting 90s or anything like that this week. scattered showers and thunderstorms thursday. behind the front, really pleasant weather. this weekend looks like just beautiful as can be. upper 70s to low 80s. dog gone weather time. we've got whit, henry, introduce you to. there they are. all golden doodles. love taking walks, playing. they're happy as can be. a special thank you to laura for sending in this photo. putting a smile on our face that's for sure. . >> all right thanks hollie. apple and google aring i can'ting down on robo calls.

greg dee has that in your morning fix. >> it's time for your weekly geek fix. we'll start off with election season. many of you have probably received robo calls trying to sell you things or pushing a party to get your vote. apple and going million google have joined the telecommunications company that will try to figure this out calls coming to your cell phones. new iphone 7 will be released in three weeks or announced. there's now rumors that the apple watch will finally get an update. it will feature better navigation and additional health sensors to make it more use possible in health fields -- more useful health fields.

that was installed friday. what this new ring will be compatible to all other countries around the world. it was built for space shuttle originally nasa wants to sell trips to space station to commercial traffic. boeing and space x are poring are working on vehicles to send people, anyone that wants to go to the space station using that new attachment. >> very cool. thanks greg. weather, traffic, all things out the door. next in the morning rush, let's check in with tiffany. >> lynna, donald trump in akron today hosting a rally. coming up, we'll let you know what's coming up with fundraising for both candidates in key battleground states like

. we start your morning rush with northeast ohio once again being the center for politics. today donald trump will host a rally in roads arena. this comes on the heels of hillary clinton's visit to cleveland last week. ohio is key for presidential candidates. when it comes to financing, u.s.a. today analysts found clinton beat trump in states last month. trump edged clinton in one state, nevada. doors open at 4:00 for donald trump event in akron at 7:00.

recovering this morning after a car crash into a crowd in parma heights yesterday. six people remain in the hospital. two of them in serious condition. we say a woman was trying to leave a community concert when she accidentally hit the gas and drove into a dance floor in the parking lot. police are investigating. so far, no charges have been filed. repairs continue today for a major water main break pike. water was shut off last night but has been restored. repairs for the line extend into the afternoon road repairs on top of that go to wednesday afternoon. gillmore academy is closed today as a result of the busted line. i'm embarrassed for myself, my family, especially those guys, the u.s.a. swimming, the

everyone watching. it is just -- i was immature and made a stupid mistake. i'm human. i made a mistake. i definitely learned from this. >> there you have it. the u.s.a. olympic committee says ryan lochte and teammates will face discipline for lying about being robbed at gunpoint. lochte opened up about the controversy in an exclusive interview with matt lauer. punishment is not announc watch more when the" today" show starts in a couple minutes. dani? >> reporter: good morning all of you we are live on a school bus in bedford heights. we are on columbus road, just drove over 271 is looking great. you're looking live back to school. keeping track of slow traffic for you it is typical 480 near 77 as well as 90 east to downtown.

those delays are between five minutes or three to five minutes. of course i'm updating you on twitter at dani wkyc. have a great first day of school bedford city. >> wheels on the bus go round and round. right? thank you everybody. you're singing at home too. 75 and slight chance of a sprinkle early. a lot of sunshine 80 tomorrow, sunshine. warmer wednesday, scattered storms thursday. weekend look amazing just like matt. >> thank you hollie. >> you're welcome. a car wash for $11.48. what? yes. it's real. i posted this to my twitter page. matt granite. if you want today's $12 gadget to fold your laundry, on our website tomorrow.

>> very good. thanks a lot. >> totally. >> we'll stay away from -- >> see you during the "today" show. >> have a great day.

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good morning. it's a wrap. rio throws a massive party to bring the olympic games to a close. five-time medalist simone biles leading team usa after an another u.s. athlete is still making headlines. ryan lochte opening up in an exclusive interview about that gas station incident he initially described as armed robbery. >> i overexaggerated that story. if i had never done that, we wouldn't be in this mess. >> this morning why lochte and three of his teammates could face more disciplinary action. a softer trump? donald trump's new campaign manager suggests he could be walking back his plan to deport 11 million undocumented