. >>> and as holiday shopping kicks into high gear, ohio ternattorney general mike de-- attorney general mike dewine wants to help you avoid scams. he says look out for an online also be on alert for advanced fee loan scamers offering fake online applications that require a fee paid up front. and, of course, charity scams will rev up scamers will miss misrepresent the charity with vague or fony claims. fony claims. >>> -- phoney claims. >>> now the turkey are done you can deck the halls for christmas. make sure that all your lights have been safety tested and all montng if you have an artificial tree, check that it's fire resistant and if you have a live tree, water it often. >>> look for a winter fun for the entire family this weekend, make sure to check out the ice rink at public square. it's opened and torment cleveland foundation is offering a free skate foreone who shows up. saturday is when the magic -- for everyone who shows up hosted by danielle wiggins and we have a list of events happening saturday right now on wkyc.com. >>> whatever you have planned this weekend we want to check in with t

former senator and current ohio attorney general mike dewine and the 500,000. commerce in germany see nearly hundred 80 grand. >>> that makes term limits look very appealing. >> big pharmaceuticals are largely unrelated. congress even banned medicare from negotiating prices in 2003. janet snyder is recoveri heart transplant patient. permits have gone up by more than 500%. >> it kills us. it literally kills us. >> reporter: we did some digging and checked out voting records. senator brown received high marks. thousand eight at eight times on healthcare according to medicare votes.org. raise record tends to favor the industry. he received a thumbs down on 15 of 16 votes. he denies doing the drug companies any favors.>> this is pencils. >> reporter: representative fund received all positive ratings, 2020 thumbs up. partner received a thumbs down on all three votes. tv or 18 and 20 thumbs down and joyce, 12 of 13 thumbs down. >> target date in washington when you think the drug companies have them in their back pocket in order to get them to vote t >>> congress may

. >>> 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 >> 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 t

cleveland 19's harry boomer has all >> harry: ohio attorney general mike dewine said when he took office in 2011, there were literally thousands of old rape kits at police departments all over the state. his office didn't know just how many there were meaning there were many thousands of suspected rape victims waiting for justice. the state started dna testing the backlog of rape kits in october of 2012. now listen to this. there were 13,931 rape kits from 294 law enforcement agencies in cuyahoga county alone, there were 4,996 kits from 40 police departments. >> we had something happen in the last several weeks that we found the one we were looking for. that was the last one of the rape kits. i am announcing today that we have completed the analysis of all the old rape kits that were in cuyahoga county. >> harry: cleveland had the lion's share of these rape 88%. in the county to date, there have been more than 2,000 matches of people in the system. attorney general dewine says some of those rape kits were almost 20 years old. asking questions and getting answers, harry boomer, cleveland

the group was appointed by the attorney general mike dewine to create universal guidelines. the report suggests that officer is way several factors. they also outline specific measures that officers need to take once a case begins. between 1982 and 2014 more than 350 people were killed in law underway into how a vacant golf course clubhouse caught on fire. take a look at some of the pictures from the lake county sheriff's department which shows the old fairway pines clubhouse going up in flames. the course has been closed since 2007. previous plans for the site included repurposed sing >>> moving to football, we talked about this earlier. could this be the day -- the browns are looking for win number one back but it will be anything lazy as the dallas cowboys are in town. there is good news for the browns and their fans going into this game. the first-year quarterback has been cleared to play and start coming out of concussion protocol. averaging a 3 to 40 yards on offense in games i -- he has started and finished the game time is 1:00, firstenergy stadium. >>> thank you so

. >>> ohio tern general mikedewean announce -- attorney general mike dewine announced a price freeze for narcan he met with the provider to find out how it can be affordable and affordable. it could be the difference between life and death for those struggle with addiction. ohio is the only state in the country to secure a surprisefreeze with the for door buster deals, cyber monday for discounted offers online but sandwiched between is today, small business saturday a shopping holiday with an emphasis on community. jasmine has been all over this morning and she is live where they specialize in refurbished and repurposed and reimagineed furniture in little italy's neighborhood isn't that right jasmine. >> reporter: that's right. so the good thing about this place is there's so many shops in out in the rain you can-- it's one stop shop inside the building. we will show you another place but right now we are here with two lovely people. craig here this morning as well as brian and they know some great things that you should have especially for christmas so let's tell people what you off

and we were talking about early in the evening with general mike dewine of ohio, and we asked him-- he's a republican-- where would he be looking tonight? what area would he be looking for an early indication of how things are going? and he said mahonning county in northeast ohio. that includes youngstown. that's home to a lot of displaced blue collar workers. and he wonders how deeply the inroads that trump could make campaign can offset that erosion of traditionally democratic voters by gathering support of, at least nominally, republican voters in the suburban areas around cleveland, columbus, and cincinnati, republicans for whom trump may be a bridge too far. now, the early voting, which comprised about 23% of allre reached 1.8 million. that's about 11,000 more than voted early in 2 tonit. we'rgoing to be hearing those numbers first, andhe other parts of the later. the mahoning thing, though, is key, and it was key, also, four targets that obama, president obama had to hit if he was going to defeat romney, and he hit them. and we knew early on in ohio who was going to win the state.

mike dewine, the attorney general brought on 10 extra staffers at bci to start going through these. when they go through them they get hits. they have gotten a lot of hits. they get dna that matches and seen before in the combined dna index system calling it codis. take a look at cuyahoga alone. half of the kits sitting on being indicted with sexual assault in the past few years and 93% of those cases, that's how damming dna is. 93% of cases have resulted in convictions. staggering numbers of a problem happening all over the country. >> getting answers in the advance, dan deroos, back to you, mark. >> mark: thank you. incredible numbers there. up next, getting answers about current crimes here near a local blame. >>> told you about the warm up headed our way. and we are tracking fist snow this weekend at least for the snowbelt areas. details. >> romona: animals getting food they need. find out how the indians performance during the world series will help fill some bellies. get breaking news and weather now on cleveland 19 news powered by calvetta brothers floor show >>> live from cl