the cuyahoga's waters are akron's life blood.0 years, the city has been expanding a water supply reserve along the cuyahoga watershed. it is at this point that the city extracts its water from the river. as much as 75 million gallons can be pumped out of storage daily. formerly, after treatment, the residue of water pumped back out into the river was pretty much instant mud and solid. now, however, the installation of new sludge or settling beds permits clear water to return to the stream. water quality downstream is much better as a result. downstream of lake rockwell is kent. here, again, the river is dammed. the installation of the sludge basins at the akron treatment plant has made a marked improvement in the water at kent. outdoorsman bill prichard proves a point. the public pressure to put in the treatment was due to a one-man campaign raised by gresser. a small mouth bass proves that stream fish have come back to this point of the cuyahoga. of course just downstream from kent, that city makes its own contribution to the ri

required by akron. that at one time tons of sludge taken from it were dumped directly into the river. largely through the efforts of bill gressard, two large settling ponds were built to hold the sludge. now even they are almost full, and that part of the plan will most likely have to be expanded in the future. by legislative act, the city owns the rights to the river's water, and the cities upstream must use municipal or private wells for water supplies. but akron is now considering a fourth water reservoir beyond lake rockwell, meaning a new dam across the cuyahoga. with the new reservoir, the city could begin selling water to the countless towns in the area. but even now the city of akron uses so much water from the river that, in times of low flow, the stream almost stops running. there are those who feel another dam would kill the cuyahoga. now the river runs somewhat clear, though it still is not pure by any means. it is clean enough to support fish, and several have been taken from this spot belo

akron is right on the divide.n though we are much closer to lake erie than we are to the mississippi river, only one fourth of the water that drops in ohio, rainwater goes in to lake erie. three fourths of rainwater in ohio flows south into the ohio river and then down into the mississippi to new orleans. i went to kent state university back in 1971. i can tell you a whole lot about may 4, 1970. as a student, i used up hike along the cuyahoga river in the city of kent. one last thing. john nature -- john was a democrat along with reagan, a republican. those two were the two mainly responsible for the cuyahoga national park. i love taking the train through the small town of peninsula. one of the most scenic places in ohio. there is still work to be done. a lot of work to be done to get this river as clean as it should be but i'm very proud to be from this part of ohio. host: thank you. david: i am glad he referenced the path. he is talking about the ohio and canal,now -- and erie that used to -- it went down the cu

jerry hughes then with the akron pd raced to the the scene. detectives popped the trunk. it was worse than he'd expected. >> you have seen a lot of stuff in a lot of years. how does this fit? >> it's sickening. it's something you can't unsee. you'll see that for the rest of your life. >> the the body of hannah hill had been found naked from the waist down, posed, her shirt pulled up. >> 7:30 this morning that the auto belonging to a missing person hannah hill had been seen parked on cane road. >> pictures of her car being towed away made the evening news. >> devastated. how could this happen? >> i just totally blacked out. every emotion just hit me all at once. >> what had happened to hannah and why. >> and who had killed hannah. police quickly focused on one man, hannah's boyfriend brad. >>> coming up -- >> found out he was a drug dealer. he liked to chase other girls. >> when the night hannah hill disappeared continues. l disappeared continues. it's the last thing i want to do. well i switched to swiffer wet jet and its awesome. it's an all-in-one so it's ready to go wh

without the cuyahoga, cleveland and akron would not exist. the river was the reason for originally settling this portion of the western reserve in the 1780's. the river called crooked by the delaware indians provided a waterway to the interior of ohio. and so man came and continued coming. until today, nearly two million people live and work in the river basin. in creating this urban complex, man has used the river as men have always used rivers. the flow has been put to work as a navigable stream, a water supply, and as a sewer. man's mark is everywhere. is this mark an epitaph or the cuyahoga? >> joining us from the cleveland area is david stradling. he is a professor of history at the university of cincinnati and the co-author of "where the river burned: carl stokes and the struggle to save cleveland." let me begin, though, by asking physically where are you located and explain what happened 50 years ago this month. david: hi, thanks for having me. we are sitting near the mouth of the cuyahoga river, which is to say we are sitting where th

out of the old it nd other things is that around om the south akron. so it heads south and back, north. >> carl stokes is joining us y is on veland and mar the phone from ohio. good morning. >> good morning. as a young girl i learned how to within the river in a small town. that is, i mean, i grew up i'm 58 yearser and old and this occurred in 69. i was nine years old at the time it was all over the news. he air point in time, t pollution was so bad you won't ere he iso see david wh standing as of this moment. 30 miles away, city. he y're moving away from t industrial floor as more and icans have commutes peoplee longer distances live farther from polluted environments. and i think water pollution allows people to return to beaches here in the city has been an important part of the cities, and i think we'll see that more and more. going to do something ke climate problems li change they'll have to make the steps. th bargesa great job wi and horns. anyone.d startle you.k to the path, we went to and south which is in the northern part and i'm proud of it

we know the iranians president hassan rouhani has spoken to the french president emmanuel akron in thehours, how did it go? -- emmanuel macron. it is the same as before. the french have said the europeans are committed to preserving the deal and president rouhani has repeated the same old line that this is economic terrorism against iran and iran is not benefiting from the economic fruits of this deal and the french have said that the european union is going to do its best to preserve the deal. a charity boat carrying 41 rescued migrants defied a ban from the country's far right interior minister, matteo salvini, on docking at italian ports. the captain of the italian—registered ship, the alex, said he had to come into the port of lampedusa because of intolerable hygiene conditions aboard. the authorities have not allowed the migrants to disembark, although they have sent food, water and medicines on board. amien essif is a reporter with the german broadcaster deutsche welle and is at lampedusa port. he told me the latest on the migrants. well, we know that they are still on board. i t

welcome back to the cause a report just the akron smell of revolution and your gases in the air concert report was there nothing kaiser report was there in cairo kaiser reports been all over the world covering the global insurrection against banker occupation for 10 years now as it comes to head people are not accepting this model of we take all the reward you take all the risk. yes again where in a summer solutions episode of kaiser report we're looking for a solution to the kaiser report because if there were no global insurrection well if there were no global occupation by banks toure's then we wouldn't need this show but there is and i wanted to follow up on what we talked about in the 1st half of joe biden bringing in robert rubin or basically promising robert rubin kissing is a ring saying we're not going to change anything we're going to keep the system that you robert rubin put in place this you know the repeal of glass steagall the introduction of commodity futures modernization act in the separation of risk and reward where we socialize all the risk on to the chump taxpayer an

more heavy rains drench streets outside akron, ohio. plus reports of a tornado on the turnpike in south jersey. millions of americans in the storm zone. rob marciano joins us from central park. rob, good evening. >> good evening, tom. we've had several rounds of storms roll through the new york city area. the humid air mass still in place. that front yet to come through. more damaging -- potentially damaging storms coming through. here's the radar scope. you see boston, connecticut, pennsylvania back to ohio. that's the front. that pushes through later. that's when the strong storms will come. there have been some tornado warnings there. denver, cheyenne you're in a thunderstorm watch with potentially damaging winds. the south eastern part of the country still in the heat. heat advicerieieieies for littl and montgomery. will feel like 100 degrees. looking to be cooler in the northeast, but not before more storms tonight. tom? >> rob, thank you. >>> now to politics and the 2020 presidential race. former vice president joe biden apologizi

you can go to youngstown, suburban cleveland, go to akron.laces where you can say that the president's trade wars and the president's tax cuts have not benefited the businesses. have not led to the kind of hiring that you want. but i got to push back a bit. i think there is one critical thing here democrats have to understand especially going into the debate. donald trump didn't win on the economy. right? it was never economic anxiety. donald trump won't be re-elected on the economy. the economy is going reasonably well but he is not nearly as popular as he should be for this kind of economy. why? because of his moral leadership and his rhetorical leadership has offended and failed so many americans. >> jason, economic insecurity did help the president. it was president obama's final state of the union address where he said anyone who says the economy is not on the incline is peddling lies. from that you saw the trump voter be born as the president said, it's only working for the elite not for you. the people you are talking about in youngsto

cuyahoga county starting it, cleveland and akron, northeastern corner of the state.there. >> the supreme court of the united states when confronted with mass litigation 20, 30, 40, 50, 10,000 cases against the same defendant decided to try an experiment called bellwether. a bellwether case is one typical plaintiff against one typical defendant in which all the grievances and expert testimony is aired and the jury makes findings of fact and the lawyers in the other cases waiting to be heard take guidance from this how to settle it. the chief justice of the united states designated this ohio federal judge to try this bellwether case as he did with an ongoing case in new jersey starting today on tall couple powder. this one is on opioids. the defendants will say everything we made was approved by the food and drug administration. everything we sell goes to doctors, not the people who use it. doctors decide the strength and frequency. our hands are clean. plaintiffs will say you couldn't have cared less if people became addicted. you made it chief and available. you are

. >> bill: the other thing you are living in new york for two weeks and living in akron ohio for twois so much different than it is in the city. >> going out to coffee with my brother and his friends and i lived in new york for a long time and new york affects you. i take out my phone and showing them the tweets from donald trump, you know, can you believe he said that? and all these guys are saying yeah, it doesn't matter. we don't care. the fact is what we want is what he is doing. and it's been an eye opener for me just to see our country is big, diverse, it's beautiful and there is so much goodness out there among democrats and republicans alike but people want the same thing. they want freedom from the chaos that our political class has created over these years. >> bill: from one buckeye to another we don't hear enough from middle america >> that's right. >> bill: nice to see you, jonathan morris. all right. alicia what's coming up? >> alicia: a community searching for answers after the murder of a 21-year-old college students as we learn disturbing new details about the suspect

akron man, rob smith. >> pleasure. stuart: thank you.ent we take you straight to the rose garden for the signing of the 9/11 victim's compensation fund. our own blake burden is there in the rose garden. what do we expect, blake? reporter: this is mon you mental day for the heroes, the first-responders who rushed down to ground zero in the immediate days and month and stayed in browned zero with all the smoldering rubble on the ground. the issue is devastating health effects that many first-responders will continue to encounter and for years on down the line. the president will sign in matter of moments the 9/11 victim's compensation fund. so far, stuart, there have been 22,000 plus claims from first-responders to tap into five billion dollars, but the issue was going forward additional funding. making sure the first-responders suffering from health illnesses will continue to receive compensation and receive money to make sure they're taken care of down the line. this new funding will go forward to 2092. over the next 10 years or so, it i

the inception was with killing the native people, enslaving the akron people -- the african people.r was subject to what the immigrants are going through now. this is our history so we need to stop lying to ourselves and come to grips with the truth because the truth, according to scripture, is the only thing that can make you free. are you still with me question e? host: i am. caller: we need to back up and listen to what the question is and ponder it, like i said. host: thanks for calling. down for last couple of calls on this question -- can any presidential candidate unite the country? anare following up with op-ed in the hill published recently by dj redell/ . he writes that no presidential candidate can unite the country. here is another look and you can read it at the hill.com. houston, texas, democrat, what do you think? caller: first of all, good morning. can unite thell country. what the question is saying to me is disturbing because it brings a lot of negativity to the conversation and it divides the country based on not one person. the question should be can one person w