robbed at gunpoint leaving beachwood place to go is your mall safe? we look at incidents around northeast ohio, ahead of holiday shopping. phibro piper and her family never saw it coming when hundreds showed up tonight to pray on her lawn on the eve of an important surgery for this little girl fighting cancer. it was powerful. skyrocketing prescription drug prices. we answers about who is responsible . woman claims she found inside her new outfit just might make you cringe, it made her sick. since election day, the super just across the country

win. this demonstration in our area tonight. we begin in akron. carleigh when morgan is in downtown akron the details. >> 11 pm seems like a strange time to protest. a lot of these people gathering right now were dish network first and second shift. this is a really convenient time for them together and they are just beginning to gather right now. there's 100 to 200 people it seems like they will leave soon for trial. they say this will be a peaceful protest. they plan to stay on sidewalks every group and share stories and ideas. participants say they want inclusiveness overall and say they will not tolerate hateful racist misogynist leadership and that is how they view a truck presidency. a designated safety marshall to help guide their way and keep them on track for the akron police are here as well.

as we head into the holiday season, more shoppers are heading into stores and crime is rising in those places also. >> we did some digging to find out what's happening in our local malls. this is the case of an employee being held at gunpoint the news is fighting. let's not think of it in isolation. hello caution goes a long way. we had to the store for the was november to the store for the was november 4, 9:02 pm. a woman who worked at saks fifth avenue held up at gunpoint. her car stolen. almost unheard of in between. a scary occurrence as we start the holidays. when you chase santa and rudolph and local malls, national retail center says we

center says we plan to drop more than 650 billion during this holiday season. in the meantime, you don't want the sales you pick up to be stacked by anyone. i called the municipal police for five major shopping centers. just about all reported shoplifting. that's normal for this time of year. please tell me legacy village had not seen anything out of the ordinary. in fair lawn, summit mall, they've only had some petty theft. no violence or anything directed at customers. please looking over chapter home all the mall has stepped up activity with marked security vehicles that they haven't seen enough -- wesley police say they have increased their control this time of year. it owes pickpockets and those targeting purpose on the backs of chairs, find these audits --

please also see the heroin epidemic has pushed many people to target people at stores. and akron man sentenced to death for the murder of a kent state student. suspect shot and killed the victim in february and off- campus apartments. it just added 60 with years in prison to the sentence. a travel alerts for the redone and announcing to be decorated public square city and rta have decided they want to close the main thoroughfare through public square permanently. chris tie has details on the closure and how it will impact passengers. let's give you a big picture of what we're talking about. for generations, superior avenue has affected public square except the last two years, construction and vacation stops traffic. tonight, the city has said they want to stop traffic through

camp one, preserve the city's freshly beautified prime real estate, keep traffic out of its which would likely attract more people to it and spend more money downtown. or camp to, keep the original plan which most fluidly uses the heart of the city to move 40,000 bus patrons every day. mayor jackson made it clear he's in camp one. >> people's input was maybe it would be nice traffic on public square at all. >> reporter: is disputed is approved rta would have to devise alternate routes from 900 buses that used superior daily. with undeniable tonight is this already paid for 600 foot stretch of primo city streets may end up never seeing a single commuter user. take a look at this time lapse video. it shows the years of work to get public square to where it

the next 10 to 14 days planning out ways to pitch the federal transit administration and why this is a good idea. that's the to authorize the cancellation of traffic. it will be unclear as of tonight whether the city will have public input phase and how much this will all cost to make this change so late in the game. now with channel 3 investigation. it depends recent price hike second a lot who need it made headlines ever. we looked into it and the many other drugs have also skyrocketed in price. >> channel 3 and out partners nationwide are demanding answers. investigator tom meyer has a person the three-part exclusive investigation. cleveland and rosie harris is worried sick about her cancer returning. >> i told my doctor i can't afford the truck. >> she says the cancer fighting drugs jumped dramatically in price and is costing her more

>> people like myself who are unable to get the medication they actually need to stay well. >> mark burrows is in need of remicade treat crohn's disease. he's had eight surgeries including the removal of several feet of the small bowel and a third of the stomach. remicade gave his life back but at a cost of why thousand dollars and a monthly co-pay $460. >> i can't afford it. >> he was forced to stop using it. jurco what you do? >> i suffer. >> reporter: her quality of life with down the price went up . remicade is among the prescription medicines that rose to billion dollars last year. >> they're putting a price tag on people's life. >> university hospitals, acetaminophen jumped 200% cut in the hospital to stop using the track and to evaluate others. we have seen long-standing

thousand percent. it's no secret drug prices have soared in the past four years. figures are all over the map ukah >> this is not fair, it's a disgrace. >> we did our own review of three drug databases. 356 generic and brand name medications, half those drugs jumped in price by more than 50%. only 53 or 15% went down in price. the highest tetracycline. the acne treatment medicine went from $.10 a pill to $10 a pill. >> the reason is the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry is not regulate them. they can run amok. and charge in the amount of money. drug companies are known to tweak in all drug and call it new. this allows them to extend their patent protected from competition and keep prices high. >> i believe they are catching

pharmaceuticals march rally came the poster boy wall street greed. he race of price of a life- saving medicine from $13 price of a life-saving medicine from $13-$750. >> it's not funny. >> reporter: drugmakers are raking in huge projects due to -- profits due to lack of oversight for the >> it's hard to have faith in washington when you think the drug companies have them in their back pockets. >> reporter: tomorrow's report, the big money in dc a subject lawmakers don't like to talk about. >> what to expect the money? >> industry insider blows the whistle on the middleman, accusing them of driving up drug prices and lining the pockets at your expense. crush cancer, it's about a local girl lives by see how her

way tonight. woman is suing a store it came from to the shocking discovery showed inside that made her sick ready to rock in cleveland has score your tickets to new kids on the block before they go on sale to the public. >> i believe they had a hit called the right stuff. but i believe you're talking about the white stuff. >> it looks like we have snow to talk about. you have accumulation i will tell you about its co

when you are five and trying to crush cancer, you can use all the support you can get. fiber sandals has a tough day have tommaso tonight, thousands are sending up prayers.>> don kendrick has a story of the girls spirit that is impressing so many. >> they came from all over. all ages, some total strangers, hundreds for once we grow. >> piper and her family never saw it coming.

in front of a prayer vigil of hundreds standing rooted in credit to the gratitude and faith on her lawn with a lead on a rock bigger than their own understanding. >> we thank you crazy for her. check away save paper loses the battle but not the fight when doctors amputate her right leg >> i'm here for piper. so she could feel better >> piper is a great late in this world. took up parents have your own kids a little tighter. >> from the mouths of babes.

good way to do. >> i thought god will use her in huge waste because god hears at all. >> goodlett piper we're all pulling for you piper you have inspired so many i can't wait to see how god works. >> watching the slow kids and our thoughts are with her.

lawsuit against the clothing store after she said she found part of the dead rodent in her new dress. the 24-year-old said she was a strange odor while wearing it and discovered this what appears to be the leg of a mouse. sewn into the hand of that trust. she says she suffered emotional distress and developed a rash diagnosed as a rodent borne disease. the store says it's investigating the matter. to book the flight. jetblue has fares under hundred bucks round-trip. efforts to cover travel through march night. there are blackout dates, sale fares the most rose not available friday and sunday. the sale ends tomorrow night. and 90s boy band is hanging tough traveling around the country, new kids on the block is coming back to cleveland

and boyz ii men. tickets for the total package tour go on sale to the public saturday. you don't have to wait until then you can buy presale tickets friday morning beginning at 10 am. displays in the code wkyc. bruno mars plans to bring his 24 carat magic to the q in august. the world tour stops in cleveland august 15. tickets will go on sale next monday new kids on the block, on the walkman with the cassette single. i was so excited. it was a flashback on a great trip bus to washington dc. you can totally back me up on this my former classmates.

board buses, there could be a few sprinkles out there. sunrise times 718 for our commuters but i think we'll have more clouds and sun. later the table get sunset time at 506. temperatures back in the 50s, there is the clouds and chances for sprinkles, a wave moving to the great lakes, not expected to do much more than stir up the sprinkles for us. we'll get a wind shift going as well. this. chances will fade as we move into the afternoon. temperatures in the 50s and will hold that as we go partly cl well. for those who still have the boat in the water, you're still fishing out there. westerly winds of 5 to 10 on the nearshore waters wasted 2 feet or less. it's going to be a bite as we got into the weekend. that's because it would be an abrupt change coming our way. we continue to focus on this area of the atmosphere of the

visit jetstream digging anytime we did that allows cool air to flow southward progress the same time, we have big ridge building over the country the jetstream is in the border area of the north dakota, northern minnesota area. that was signal warmer temperatures. him as a storm system ve potential friday. highest low 70s, the record currently sits at 71 a year ago. not a whole lot to happen there, not an old record to crush but a record we can crush. the fight will swing through saturday, it will be windy and temperatures will be following aspects falling quickly. rain will change to the mix as we head into the evening and cold

saturday night, sunday even into monday and that sets us up to the lake effect. the overall picture looks like this. we will ride the wave up into the low 70s and windy conditions friday forecast and saturday as we take a fall. here's what i want you to look at, this is totally on time for what we are expecting. range is no saturday afternoon. lake effect for rain and snow we'll start with a primary population of 1 to 3 inches but believe me we will be adjusting. there will be some areas that don't get any some that have potential to have more than one to 3 inches which is depending upon how things set up. we will start with accumulation likely saturday into sunday lingering into monday as to be sold in the upper 30s and therefore degrees. get your jackets ready.

the streets of akron. these people are protesting donald trump's presidency. started at highland square and is now making its way through the streets of akron heading to china park. it's quite a large group but they appear to be peacefully protesting through the streets and they plan to be out until 2 am this morning.

tonight, eastern conference finals rematch is the cavs take down the raptors again. it didn't have jared smith of lebron was there. so is oscar robertson. lebron, one we down the check we down triple-double. neutral by six. two minutes left. tyree erving from the corner, a little help, they lead with 24. raptors back in the lead. 26, lay the game. channing frye comes up huge, 21 points, hits the triple with empty nine seconds left, cavs at 117-115. 13 triples the cavs tonight and the best closer in the game, lebron finishes them off. they would one -- kasen 121-117. tomorrow, terry francona is the

enjoy it cleveland's. where the best ever in any sport in town. francona when it with a second time. 128 points, 64 head of texas manager jeff banister. he was 22 and 30 first-place votes only manager made on every ballot. he led the indians 94 wins, first division title in nine years. the world series. he had right hip replacement surgeries a note tv just a conference call. >> the awards. was something like this happens, i think the reason happens is because coaches and players the front office, they do their job so well. i and up with a reward. >> tomorrow, the cy young award winner will be announced. you might talk more hardware in the postseason.

the steelers, first of the season with temporarily heal wounds. steelers favored by seven in that. but they lost four straight games giving up an average ridge 20 points a game during that stricter four and five overall and in the public, >> my understanding how big this game is for them. also understand how big this game is rustica they are hungry football team >> we're searching for a win.>> the latest laptop football rankings are out tonight. michigan is three, louisville just on the outside. tuesday night football, kent state of bowling green two in one-zero in the second quarter. 56 yard touchdown in a good 21- 7 but that's all packets that,

college hoops first home game for csu hosting vikings only have one. rebound opportunity, how about to bobby word. nice rebound and put back basket vikings up 7-64. they have a chance to tie. no good. they went 67-64. they are one and one. we'll be right back after this

the anti-president-elect trump continues and akron. the latest on line. have a great night, we will see you tomorrow.

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