mark: police in mount healthy searching for a suspect after finding a dog dead in the street. how a woman says she witnessed the dog' s horrific death. lisa: protests planned at local hospitals. why former patients of doctor atiq durrani plan to picket today. mark: a woman driving in bond hill shot in her own car and left for dead. the latest on her condition this morning and why police are looking for her passenger as >> from cincinnati' leading the way. this is wlwt news 5 today. give a joining us i'

lisa: and i' m lisa cooney. this morning' s headlines are straight ahead. let' s start with your forecast with randi rico. randi: it' s nice. yesterday, snow melted away. i was there when it started melting when i went for my run. it was sloshing through stuff. a couple hours later, snow is gone. it looks like we' ll see rain before we see snow again. mark: the will take that. lisa: i would like right before snow instead of snow before rain. randi: we will get more eventually. not immediately. as we look at the radar right now, we have cloudy skies across greater cincinnati. some places are clear, but we are turning cloudy over the next couple of hours. you can see rain showers running along the ohio i' m looking in our direction. if you are southwest of downtown cincinnati, you could

for most of us, this is a second half of the day. clouds starting to stream in early this morning. temperatures are not bad at all. a couple days ago, it low single digits. right now, 38 degrees at cvg. 41 in florence, 41 and mason. here is the right density. 8:00 a.m., clouds are building, 39. noon, rain showers, especially west of downtown. everyone mild to bring to the afternoon. expect a high today in the upper 40' s. mark: 4:32 now a woman shot in , her car. and abandoned on the side of the road. now police are looking for the person responsible. lisa: wlwt news 5' s emily wood has more from u.c. medical center where the victim was taken into surgery. >> this right here needs to stop. it is the beginning of we 2016, getting tired of this. emily: flashing lights fill the streets of bond hill as cincinnati police investigate a shooting initially described as a case of road rage. police say it is now unclear what led to the multiple shots

>> its total speculation. all we know is we had a discharge of shots from one vehicle directed at another. i couldn' t offer what proceeded or what precipitated the shots being fired at this point. emily: police say the driver of this red chevy avalanche truck was shot in the side while driving north on reading road. it ended up crashing into the back of a metro access bus near reading and california. no one on the bus was injured but the passenger in the red truck ran away. police say the shooter was seen in a silver sedan and fired several times before driving off. >> we' re gaging based on the damage to the avalanche, between six and nine, but again. we don' t have anything to physical evidence on the avalanche right now. emily: steven sherman works as an anti-violence advocate in bond hill. public' s help. >> can' t be scared to come out, get away from the shadows and

reporting. the cincinnati police district 4 this case. anyone with information on the suspected shooter or the passenger in the red truck. is asked to call police. mark: breaking right now, a hamilton. other county dispatchers say at parking lot. the victim was flown to uc medical center. the extent of his injuries are unknown. smart, i suspect still on the run after ceiling a car and committing a robbery in north college hill. police say they suspected -- caught the suspect after the robbery. the suspect ended up ditching his car on north edgewood avenue and was able to run away from the scene. they k-9 was called out to the area but could not track down the suspect. new this morning, a protest is scheduled at three local hospitals concerning dr. atiq durrani.

s the doctor accused of performing unnecessary spine surgeries. and then fleeing the country after his arraignment. wlwt news 5' s dan griffin is live at u.c. medical center with the story. dan? dan: dozens of dr. atiq durrani' s former patients will be picketing hospitals they say are responsible for their unnecessary procedures. dr. durrani was charged with health care fraud in 2013, accused of performing dozens of unnecessary surgeries and procedures. he left the country after he was arraigned, and there' s never been a trial. the significance of today according to attorney eric deters, it' s the two-year anniversary of the more than verdict awarded to one his $1 million clients in the case against durrani. deters says he represents more than 500 victims. today, his clients are expected to picket three hospitals in the area. we will be here covering that for you today. live at u.c. medical center, dan griffin, wlwt news 5. mark: thank you.

indonesia. an indonesian police official says an islamic state group flag was found with one of the jakarta attackers. who launched an assault on a coffee shop and a police post yesterday. police believe they have established the identities of the 5 attackers killed by police. two civilians were killed in the attack and at least 20 others were injured. today indonesians will pay homage to the victims. lisa: it is 4:36. actor home, a search for answers in mount healthy. after a woman called 911 saying she just saw a dog get thrown from a pick-up truck. police say they found a dead beagle. near compton road and clovernook last thursday. but they' re not sure if the dog incident. we talked with one woman who witnessed it. she can' t believe someone would do this. >> an animal is something that does have feelings. they are not just there. they do care about you and for an owner to do that to their animal is just horrible.

question has two beagle dogs. but he told police he was not driving that night. and that he has not driven his truck in the last six months. mark: an organization making sure our heroes are never turmoil. the entire yellow ribbon support they' ve canceled their 11th annual let us never forget scholarship dinner. after a fallout with founder keith maupin. the board spokesman says. maupin scheduled his own separate dinner. on the same date. the scholarships help dozens of local high school students and keeps the legacies of our fallen heroes alive. >> they are stories. if you don' t continue to tell stories, they eventually vanish and with the let us not forget , scholarship it keeps my husband, specialist russell madden' s name alive. along with other fallen people out there. mark: founder keith maupin says. the dinner will go on as planned

loveland. board or no board. lisa: happening today visitation , services for the man who made a big difference for many in greater cincinnati. frank gerson established the freestore in 1971 as a way to collect not just food, but household items as well. then 8 years later it evolved into a foodbank. the freestore foodbank now serves about 20 million meals a year. visitation at weil funeral home begins at 9:30 this morning. gerson passed away earlier this week. he was 70-years-old. mark: let' s check in with randy and see what is happening outside. randi: offered his or get. today, a little better thanks to temperatures being in the 30' s this morning. upper 30' s for most of us. actually making it into the upper 40' s later on today. as we take a look of a forecast at 30 degrees at cvg, hamilton at 39. 38 and mount auburn. a nice start today. for the kids handing out to the

earlier in the week, delays, snow, single digits. this morning, 39, pretty mild. not bad at all. clouds are slowly streaming in through the morning. on the way home from school, it is a different story. give your kids the raincoat or umbrella because they may need it. rain showers arrive at the earliest, mid to late morning into the southwestern communities. by the afternoon, everyone is seeing the rain. 45 degrees on the way home from school. it doesn' t stay this one all weekend. temperatures take a tumble i retaliated sunday night. let' s check the roads. india: if you are heading out the door right now, mcmillan, an accident there. also central parkway at the western hills high at. keep that in mind. use a look at 7175 over the river, you can see traffic is moving along there. it looks on the northbound side

74 at harrison pike east and west around, very light right now. that is what we are seeing. it looks like we have construction heading southbound at 75 at sharon. i will keep an i on it and let you know what is going on. lisa: the bengals will have their best showing yet in the pro bowl, in more than 20 years. mark: and is xavier' s starting point guard. close to returning to the court? we will have a check in your morning sports report just ahead. lisa: outside live on your friday, i hope it is a great start, 4:40 hey buddy, let's get these dayquil liquid gels and go. but these liquid gels are new. mucinex fast max. it's the same difference. these are multi-symptom.

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lisa: welcome back, 4:43 hundred friday. a live look at the radisson and covington. it is red. you can see the interested behind there, i-75, pulling along fine. the recent oscar nominations came with some surprizes and upsets. mark: miriah turner joins us now with the films being recognized and other stories trending online. she now the street out of compton reference. miriah: i said it was a great movie. 12 nominations, leading the way. the topic trending online this morning isnt so much the talented effort by everyone in the film industry. rather the color of their skin. for the the second year in a row the academy of motion picture arts and sciences has nominated

passing over well-reviewed performances in the movies creed and straight outta compton. you can follow and join in on the conversation on twitter this morning the hashtag primarily being used is oscars-so-white. and after the sad news of british actor alan rickman losing his battle against cancer yesterday hundreds of fans of the harry potter series paid their respects. they gathered at the wizarding world of harry potter at universal studios florida performed a eulogy for rickman and his character professor snape and honoured him by raising their wands in the air. they also left flowers outside snape' s office door in the castle and a single lily outside the potions classroom. and a follow up to yesterdays story involving the missed kick by vikings player blair walsh. yesterday he paid a visit to the first graders who wrote him letters of empathy after his teams loss and his missed field goal. he shared some advice about perseverance and positivity, before signing autographs and hosting a question and answer session. questions ranged from whether he

reaction to the letters. the kids were wonderful. so surprised to see him. the teacher said she was so moved by his reaction when speaking from the sideline that she felt the need to the product about empathy. and then he just showed up. mark: that is awesome. you should have worn your shirt. lisa: kicker jerseys are wildly popular. mark: probably hard to find. especially now. [laughter] miriah: speaking of other sports, people are getting in training for the flying take. -- pig. i am asking everyone joining the training for the pig to send me your selfies. this one, giving a thumbs-up

if you are heading out early , getting in miles before work, 6:00 a.m., 38 degrees. at least it will be dry. after work, 6:00 this evening, 44. rain showers will be around. throughout this flying pig season, snap a selfie of your group shot over the weekend. tweak them to me or put them on my facebook page and i will use them for my training forecast all the way up through race weekend in the first week -- weekend of may. mark: a reds pitcher says his good-byes. lisa: and xavier getting a big boost on the court, heading into the weekend showdown. george vogel has the latest in sports. george: we are heading into the meat of the college basketball season. a good time for xavie r to get back super freshman edmond sumner. welcome back, everyone. two weeks ago, sumne r suffered a head injury at the lenovo. yesterday, he was cleared to turn to full practice. elise:

have been told sumner has been working out for the last five days. those consisting of shooting drills. today was his first full practice. i was here to watch the entire thing. it his his most -- first full practice since he went down against villanova. some say he looked better in practice than expected him to. @ >> he has been out for a few weeks. getting or basketball legs under you, being able to make the right decisions, playing games speak, there is an adjustment factor. elise: as far as i could tell, edmond sumner seems to be very happy about being back at practice. a tip off with marquette on saturday at 2:00. as far as playing time goes, chris mack' s says don' t expect to see sumner leal 40 minutes. he just got out of concussion protocol. they will keep evaluating them and play it by ear and ease him in. elise jesse, wlwt news f ive sports. george:

had college basketball last night and ku. the norse looking for @ their first win in the horizon league. he was honored before the game for joining the 1000 point club last weekend. going to wor k @ against -- up and under for two. across courts with devonte call , the wide-open three. the norse with great ball movement here. it ends up in the capable hands of cold murray . and ku getting its first win in the horizon. down in volvo last night, -- in louis ville, being the panthers, 51-49 louiv sville. there is a report that he is about to sign a minor-league deal with the arizona diamondbacks. also, espn' s jerry krasner reports the reds are

listening. the team is interested. carlos dunlap is heading to the pro bowl. the bengals defensive in is the first alternate, but an injury to bahamas wilkerson opens the door. this means there will now be six bengal s in the pro bowl to be played on january 31. another big night in high school basketball. another blitz coming your way tonight at 11:00. that is all of the sports @ for now. the day. mark: 4:49 is your time here take look outside, 30 eight degrees right now as we get up and going on a friday. i wonder what the conversations are like at the pro bowl. i am an are colorful. especially when you play on the ended your season in a lot of circumstances. i would like to be a fly in the wall. [laughter]

randi: let' s take a look. our winter roller coaster of weather continues. it is going to be a bumpy ride this weekend. let' s take a look. starting out today, mild, rainy. temperatures making it into the upper 40' s. way colder into the weekend. temperatures take a tumble. starting today in the upper 40' s, ending closer to 20 degrees. right now, it is about mild air in many spots in the 40' s. 45 degree, warsaw. 42, florence. 48 at cvg -- 38 at cvg, 39, hamilton. all of these temperatures are if there were any puddles that t dry up with the sunshine, they are frozen. clouds are streaming in from the south and west are you have to head back to paducah, kentucky to see that. by the time we get to 11:00 this

right now, 38 degrees, wind out of the south of nine miles per hour. southerly wind helping to hike are temperatures into the 40' s today. it :00 a.m., turn cloudy, 39. at noon, showers make their arrival. throughout the afternoon, rainy often on with temperatures in the mid to upper 40' s. not bad for january. futurecast showing no showers, 9:00 and 10:00 in the western communities. by lunchtime, more widespread around on time. in the afternoon, everyone gets in on the action. scattered rain through the evening commute. if you have post-dinner plans, soggy through 10:00 or 11:00. maybe even a stray flurry could be visible on the back edge as it rolls through around midnight. tomorrow, cloudy skies expected throughout the day. temperatures take a step back. we will be in the 30' s. today, 36 -- 46, rain showers, still mild.

sunday, 20' s all day. decent wind through the day on sunday. maybe a round of flurries or light snow showers, as well. into monday, many have a day off which is good because if you have to start your car when it is five degrees, you may have an issue with that. mark: police are still looking for at least two suspects after a teenager was shot and killed. inside his west chester home. friends say a group of teens followed tyler kassow' s brother to the house wednesday. he says two men pushed their way into the house. with a loaded gun and fired one shot. a family friend tells us tyler matured a lot in the past couple years. >> he was very polite, please thank you all the time. , when he started working, he grew up a lot when he was in high school. 11th grade when he started working at mcdonalds. that' s when i noticed a change in him, he grew up mark: police are holding 18-year-old justin koch, on a two million dollar bond. he' s charged with complicity to murder and complicity to aggravated burglary.

teenage boy and a girl who took off in a blue mazda protege. lisa: happening today. city leaders are going to discuss the plan to move 9 historic murals from cvg to the duke energy convention center. the city planning commission will meet today and focus on the location for the murals. right now the plan is to have the murals on display outside the convention center after they are moved from airport terminals, set for demolition. mark: tonight you can enjoy high , school basketball while raising money for the ruth lyons children' s club. the bluegrass-buckeye charity classic takes place tonight at northern kentucky university. scott takes on dixie heights at 5:30. followed by the cooper-holmes matchup at 7. and ending with covington catholic taking on newport central at 8:30. tickets are at the door. $10 the money goes to several local charities in both ohio and kentucky. randi: it won' t be sunny and mid-50' s like yesterday.

into the start of the weekend. for today, cloudy skies, 46. rain showers on the way. they will be scattered west of town in the morning. you will see the more frequently in the afternoon. futurecast shows clouds of streaming in. by 10:00, 11:00, west side seeing rain. everyone gets in on it by lunchtime. through the afternoon, steady rain showers moving out between 8:00 and 10:00 p.m. it will stay cloudy through the day tomorrow. temperatures are cooler. highs only in the upper 30' s. into sunday, plan on cloudy skies, stronger wind, and maybe even a round of snow late on sunday. sunday, not the best today to get outside. it will be blustery through the day. monday, and locate a holiday, the coldest -- mlk holiday, sunny, but only making it to eight degrees. india: we have a couple of accidents that are on the roadways.

map not doing bad. if you are on 74 from the indiana state line 275, 17 minutes, 17 minutes on king though, on 71 heading to king mills. 60 minutes down to 125. we had 75 closed at mitchell due to overnight construction. that has opened back up. i will let you know about more weekend. 4:55 right now, checking stories trending this morning. mark: a farm in virginia looking for gate -- go to smugglers -- goat smugglers. they need volunteers who would snuggle and feed those babies. lisa: a baby goat is adorable. mark: they need to be kept warm so they need your body he. no experience necessary. they will train on the spot.

brought a turkey along on a flight as an emotional support animal. a fellow passenger tweeted photos showing the bird sitting in the cabin. but don' t cry fowl apparently any animal can be a service animal, as long as it' s ok' d by a licensed mental health professional. mark: do they listen on command? lisa: i guess so. sit, turkey. an iowa woman is using her baking skills to try to fight hunger and food insecurity in her town. jodie tietsort is launching southwest circle cafe, a place for people to pay what they can to eat. if they don' t have money they can eat for free. tietsort and her crew of volunteers have had numerous community organizations step up to help them. the issue of medical marijuana in ohio not going away, long after november' s election. lisa: why the speaker of the house is initiating a task force on the issue. mark: taking a live look outside

morning, 4:56 lisa: then opted on the officer a solely by your thursday morning.