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and the east lake facility was closed and clean. one person dead 10 others sick from the legionnaires outbreak a press conference by the way at the lake county health association is slated to begin in the next few minutes. >> chris give us a refresher course is legionnaires disease contagious. >> reporter: in a word no. it's not. we are told according to the cdc people contract it by breathing in water droplets or we can understand it comes from just air conditioning as it was in this case. the cdc says by the way 3,000 case come in most recover and -- come in and most recover if treated properly and we will have more at 7 and wkyc pop com. >> see you late -- wkyy.com. >> thank you. scary moments for a pizza delivery driver robbed on the job. >> it happened on sherman street last night. channel 3 amani abram what --
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tonight? >> reporter: no at this point there's no word on a suspect. police are searching for him and unfortunately this is not the first time we have heard that a pizza delivery driver has been robbed. but what makes this different is this crime was violent a woman pulled inside and threatened. it happened last night around 10:00 when a 22-year-old papa john's driver was driferg wings to a house on sherman street was asked to come and that's when the man went upstairs to grab money but a feminutes later he came back and grabbed her by the hand. pulling her into the home and knock her on the -- knocking her on the floor he demanded money and she emptied her pockets and she was forced to go upstairs and wait in the bedroom threant toned rape and kill her if she made noise when things went quiet for about 5-- it therened -- threatened to
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noise but when things went county she ran outside and flagged down a deputy. she suffered minor injuries. police still searching for the man involved. and neighbors concerned. >> makes you scared because you don't know what to expect. when aid quiet neighborhood you think you are safe but hearing stuff like that you don't think you are safe. >> reporter: this is the area where the woman flagged down a deputy and officers say that house was vacant. so they are searching fo pizza delivery bag and hat belonging to the driver in the home. reporting from the akron canton mobile newsroom amani abraham channel 3 news. >> thanks. two people killed when 137 shots were fired. a handcuffed suspect kicked in the head. cleveland police department is being overhauled because of cases like these. officers used too much force
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but tonight, change is on the way. it's change city leaders hope will recrit -- create better understanding between officers and the community. >> the police city and justin department are asking a judge do approve a use of force policy. tom beres explains the big changes. >> reporter: hi russ. the proposed use of force policy can see a pile of paperwork has lots of new dos and don'ts potentially life and death decisions. we picked out and tried to highlight a handful of significant changes. the cross-town chase that endeded in 137 -- ended in a 137 shot killing two in the shooting of tamir rice would have not happened if they followed the proposed policies. terry gill gert who -- gilbert handled hundreds of alleged excessive force cases.
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to you know what they perceive to be a criminal act. i think it's a step in the right direction. >> reporter: the polywatchworddecase late dangerous situations. >> put it together to make this community safer in the context of trying to reduce necessity to use force. >> reporter: and any use of force must be reasonable and proportional to what's happening. officers can't point a gun to scare suspects or shoot at fleeing cars unless lives are at risk or fire warning shots. or use force suspects or those just shouting at them that prohibits neck holds. it has specific rules for tasers and pepper spray and batons requiring officers to stop those using too much force and demanz not just officers using force but those who see it to make thorough reports. >> you can't use force on somebody and think that it's just going to go away if you don't report it. it doesn't happen that way. >> reporter: federal judge
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taught. police unit is not commenting but said giving officers making split second decisions too much to think about may jeopardize police. the proposed policy came from input of officers and command staff and the department of justice. the city community organizations and cleveland residents as well. the monitor overseeing the consent decree calls it in line with policies being adopted in other cities and an officer in fear for his or lives can still use deadly force russ. >> related question give us an update what's the latest on the two officers involved in the tamir rice shoot being. >> reporter: we are coming up on two years since that de-- shooting. >> reporter: we are coming up on two years since that defining incident and we wanted to see what was happening and not much. officers are still on the job off the street and no disciplinary hearing dates have been scheduled. >> all right. tom beres thanks very much.
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police comes this same day we learned a minnesota police officer is facing manslaughter charges. officer jer ron mow yan -- geronimo-- jeronimo yanez shot and killed fill ando castile. prosecutors say -- filando castile. his girlfriend streamed it live. he never pulled a weapon. a new development the back log rape kits attorney general mike dewine says all the 5,000 kits have been tested as a result 540 indictments have been issued. the oldest kit, dated back to 1995. there's a new plan to see the possible in akron my hometown the city looks to draw more people into the heart of downtown to live and to play. channel 3 jasmine monroe has
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>> all the new development is definitely time for akron to thrive. >> reporter: downtown akron is transforming into a place to work live and play. in this week's plans took a big leap forward as phase one of the downtown vision and redevelopment plan wrapped up.phase one includes 10 planning principles to help downtown. leading with the focus on main street and ending with connecting the surrounding communities to downtown. something that the owner margie klein of the believe is -- believes is crucial for the community to grow. >> we are excited about the revitalization of downtown we need more customers but we are very thankful for the loyal customers that have always been here for us. >> reporter: some residents say the plan set akron up to grow as a competitive balance right size city. >> i am only 62 so i am in for change all the time you know. >> reporter: as for freshman holly goddard from the university of akron she
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downtown. >> i would be interested to see what else they can make out of this town. it's really big considering where i am from but to see more would be interesting to go out more. >> reporter: at the city -- as the city moves to phase 2 securing more money, they are getting some help. >> huntington bank is offering60,000 dollars towards the goal of the phase 2 and they are asking for that match to that 50,000 dollars to come from the corporate community. >> reporter: residents they feel 2017 will be the rubber city bounce back they have been waiting for. reporting from akron, jasmine monroe, channel 3 news. in cleveland critics are calling it a classic case of misspending. a 50 million dollar project to give public scare a makeover could cost -- square a makeover has more. andrew horansky is live with more. >> reporter: hi. we have heard of the bridge to nowhere. this may go down as the road to nowhere.
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apparently has the rta have their way this will never be easy for what it was built. iter is reded of as a -- it severed as a selling point to improve public square. bus friendly upgrades which may have in the end now wasted the city's time and your money. >> there is not enough transparency and explanations as to what's going into the decision. >> reporter: jessica serves on the rta citizen advisory board which offers guidance while the road was repainted and bus >> we put it all in with the intent of having transit there. >> reporter: after all that, she was stunned last night. when the mayor announced he would be appealing the federal government to keep it closed. and the rta went along. >> it probably a sai very complicated political situation that most of us riders don't know or understand. >> reporter: the mayor believes a greener square could attract more people. something we heard a few weeks back when we pulled -- polled pedestrians but if you don't
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stop matters ask those who must walk more to make the connections. running the risk of missing them. >> because if you miss that bus some of them run every hour and if you miss the bus, that's a another hour. it's hard for us to get where we got to go. >> reporter: today the city declined to comment on the cost of undoing the work or how the square will look. the rta worries about how it could impact a 12 million dollar grant given to them by the federal transit administration. with the understanding that thisd now again, the federal government still has to approve the mayor's request russ but no word on what the timetable looks like for how soon he could get that green light. if at all he does. now back to you. >> a lot to talk about this today. thanks. next at 6, secret scholarships where you can find hidden money to pay for college tuition. hey betsy. >> hi. we started talking about it on monday.
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on uncovering scholarship secrets. [ music ] >> reporter: high school is done and you are on your way. now, how do you pay for that bright few newer my favorites right now is chapel hill and wake forest. >> reporter: will studied hard earned good grades and is still learning about all the money available to help he and his family to pay for the higher education. looking for the scholarship money has to be stressful. >> yes absolutely in short answer yes. >> you do need guidance. >> rt are all in to foot the bill and hired elizabeth hartly from scholarship goal to fund themoney. >> the most expensive schools are the least expensive schools if you can get in. >> reporter: elizabeth sent her dot to dartmouth the last -- daughter to dartmouth the last semester scholarships offset the cost. there's endowment money they have to spend so ask what's
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college you're likely eligible for money if you are self- employed or a military family and if you shop at some of the smaller off the grid schools, they can offer you very generous packages that don't include loans but tough research and then have to ask. and don't forget about the the local community groups. service organizations, and even your favorite retail store. this is 19 billion dollars worth of independent scholarship money out there and when your child is in the 7th grade. just look on the websites. >> if you think about it the scholarships are from the school and not from the school and that's veterans groups and business and kohl's and best buy target and footlocker and found san diego and gates and those look to give money. >> reporter: holly and bill asked for the money and shopped smaller schools for their older daughter. she got accepted to furman in
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but they didn't pay that. >> i would never have believed that she could go to a school for 12,000 dollars of that caliber. it's a wonderful school. >> reporter: and don't think for a second the high test score kids or the 4.5 to 5.0gpa get all the money she told me she saw kid with a 950sat score get a scholarship. so look for it and be sure to ask. i am bill mcginty reporting. >> a sign the times you pay someone to kid can go to college wow. >> we were sitting there going man. >> oh man. >> expensive. >> i will tell you what and the farther down the road you go,. >> oh, yeah. >> the more expensive it's going to get. >> yeah. >> that's right. >> and that's kind of like the forecast. the farther down the road we go. >> uh-oh. >> the worse it's going to get. things are look shady. let's talk about the good news. it's very mild temperatures in the 40s we will have wind back around in the southwest calming as we get into the night tonight.
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beautiful evening on tap. temperatures in the 40s now across northern ohio worcester is the -- wooster is the chilly spot at 40. 53 degree water temperature the surface water temperature at the bowy 28 nautical miles northwest of cleveland. that's key to the forecast as we get into the weekend. we have warmer temperatures that will be coming in first. look at all this warm air. yellows and oranges sitting out here in the plain states. and we have a storm system that's coming in. the cold air up here in the northwest and also in da happen in the next 24 hours we will have a storm system develop and that storm system will stir all of this. stirring in the atmosphere is typically a sign that mega changes are coming and we have a lot of stirring and we have a lot of changes. and a lot of that begins with what's going on in the jet stream. you can see how the clouds are moving from southwest to northeast. that's the harbinger of how things are moving. as we look at the forecast we
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blizzard watch winter storm watch, and there's a lot happening in the northern plains in the southern plains there's a wind advisory and high wind warning. so when i like to do is take a storm track very preliminarily and divide that. the really nasty wintry stuff will stay to the north of us with the storm system the wind will be coming to us but then lake erie gets in on the action and that's where things get crazy. let's look at how it will go out. we will consistent through the rest of the week. we started with the graphic on monday and i am going keep updating it every day i think it explains things very well. temperatures and then this is the upper level pattern we had the storm system that's going to be developing. i mentioned the stirs first a big warmup mid-60s tomorrow. 0?7s record potential on friday. then the front comes through. looks like it will come through saturday morning. rain likely changing over to a
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afternoon. and temperatures will be falling. the really interesting stuff is probably saturday evening into saturday night it will be very windy and lake snow with accumulation likely and thundersnow potential with hail a possibility. not only that but the cold air continues to come in and that lake snow continuing and look at this 2 to 6 inches maybe more in the primary snow belts traced to three other but here is the thing windy conditions and the warm ground continue to mack accumulation tricky. that's a snapshot of what's coming. window nation forecast sunny 60s tomorrow. mostly sunny and windy friday with 70s. look at what's coming saturday an idea of how things will go saturday. 50s in the morning and then look at that. the big change what a drop. you are going to feel that by saturday afternoon and it's windity whole time. tickets to the browns game on sunday take the snow gear it's
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>> hi. it's cy young award night and, of course, we are on pins and needles waiting to see who the american league winner and and -- is and if it's corey kluber but max schiewrser -- scherzer won it in both leagues he won with the tigers and now he won it with the washington nationals. but, to the american league cliewber is one of three finalist -- kluber is one of three finalist if corey does he wins it for a second time. he porcello of the red sox and justin verlander of the tigers. remember, now, nothing in the post season matters here as far as the voting is concerned. the votes had all come in and the voting ended at the end of the regular season. kluber makes a great case to win it. 18-9. big game pitcher 3.14ers and-- era and 220 strikesouts i think he is the best in
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getting the nod. the browns taking on the steelers neither team is in a good mood. steelers lost four in a row but the browns have not won yet. okay. so, we go on sunday at the stadium codeey kessler is the --cody kessler is the starting quarterback e was benched -- he was benched last thursday in baltimore because he was not playing well or moving the team and i agreed with hue jackson whole heartedly get him puts him back in this week -- flitching puts him back -- flinching puts him back in this week. >> that's work in progress but at the same time i think young carder-- quarterbacks grow at different rates and we want him to grow up as fast as we can but sometimes the guys have to go through the process to get there. >> well the browns steelers rivalry we talked to pryor today and he is from pittsburgh area and he was not a steamers
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rivalry it's about the browns getting a win that's most important to him. >> we have to get a win doesn't mat here it is doesn't matter who we are playing we have to get a win. and obviously you know if we are in it and stuff like that and we are winning it would be big like that but we are worried about every opponent matters and this mateders big time. >> g-3 let's -- matters big time. >> g-3 he has been cleared for nonconct football activity noncontact activity. so we will wait and see if he is going to be able to come back at some point before the end of the regular season. cavs are in indiana taking on the pacers. what great win last night. this game against toronto last night the caves came back 7 down late to win and made them 9-1 an i thought it was better than any of the eastern conference final games against toronto that's how good a game it was. how good a start has it been it
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