@dan gilbert walked by me, and i @can't use to words to describe @how he felt as he was walking @by. @i think that loss had a lot to @do with this. @>> ty lue coming in. @lue takes over as head coach. @2010. @mike brown did it twice. @he's a former player. @first round pick of the nuggets @and traded to the lakers, so he @won titles with the lakers. @so you're talking about a guy @that's seen success. @he takes over for david blatt. @by the way, he's the first head @coach since conferences began @to be fired when his team has @the best record in conference. @83-40 overall. @30-11 this season. @the big thing about tyronn lue @is he's a former player. @players. @i don't want to say the players @gave up on david blatt, but @there was clearly something @going on. @david griffin saw that. @>> as we were watching this @news conference, the elephant @in the room is this was @lebron's move. @he's the most important guy on @the team, if not the league. @he was behind this. @>> if he still wanted david @blatt to be the head coach, he @let me finish with this, in the @nba finals last year, afte

lebron did not actively seek out david griffin or dan gilbert and say i want the coach fired. lebron, i'm told, found out over the phone today after it was already done. >> anticipated, we've got to ask, is this a good move for the cavs? >> yes, i believe it's a good move. david blatt had a lot of trouble transitioning from europe to here. i think tyronn lue will call out lebron james. >> andy, thanks a lot. >>> more breaking news on newschannel5. rta light rail service is shut down right now, this after a suspicious package was found on a train near the buckeye woodhill stop. 6:00. >>> there have been three shootings in downtown in the past monte that have left arrests, the latest happening last night on west 9th. kristin volk has the latest. >> you live in the city. you've got to deal with it. many. >> reporter: what happened at this apartment building last night is the topic of conversation among residents and city council members. >> every building owner has to be responsible for the people living there and be aware of what's happening. >> reporter: councilman joe tells me

coach blatt released statement through his agency short time ago, and part saying, i like to thank dan gilbert and david gieven forgiving me this opportunity, and i am honored to worked amazing group of players from lebron james irving love through our entire roster. tiffany tucker joining us live with reaction tiffany >> well deknees mobility's learned caves fired their head coach, we came here to 923 the fan and as you can imagine, the lines were lighting up. people just wanted to reability to today's news. right now they are listening to the news conference. that's still going on. but earlier i talked with adam who had this to say about the coach's firing. >> i mean there were reports out there coming out well la blow ask for but clear for while that love bron didn't really care for team didn't either. maybe this was necessary. it just odds fire coach went final had best record east halfway through the season. if didn't think he was right guy why didn't you fire him after season. wrap have changed this year so much when they are playing pretty well overall. >> >> you heard right there back

grateful to have the opportunity to serve as the head coach of the cavaliers want to thanktyty dan gilbert and david griffith to give me this chance in and to work with players, lebron james, kyrie irving and kevin love and the entire roster express my gratitude to the coaching staff i am indebted to them for theirir hard work loyalty and friendship, . i wish they had coached head coach nothing but the best is season and beyondy, david blatt, 83 and 40 as the head coach of the cavaliersbl during the regular seasoneg led them to the finals of the first season and the best record in the eastern conference at 30 and 11, halfway through this year,0 tyronn lue the assistant takes over as coach for david blatt who has been soon top of the east cost blizzard o. >> from virginia we've got this cool video, another to love your stivarga about a leaf blower, massively fluffy enough but is a pretty good way, he makes his way down the stairs . he has s some snow on the issues, but you have snow on your shoes, you stop, andur you blow it off with the leaf blower, they can be multitasking, it is a funny

. >> can you explain how the conversationon went with dan gilbert, was a surprise, but he says this was coming? >> think the first time he came out it came out that he was his perspective, it was hard to fathom in terms ofc our record and i think he understands that we make this decision for the right reasons,, the process in decision-making . and i think that at the the finals if anything it brought trust in what we are doing . i really appreciate greatly appreciate the trust ownership has shown us .i >> i know you said you did not take a poll and then not talk to the players butut given the history of the game,, and a notion outme the notion out there that lebron james is kind of a coach killer,ou i don't know if you can speak to that or. >> i certainly can't . i've got a problem with this narrative and those of you who have been with us for a while understand thatt lebron james plays with his wants to bring a championship here , he does not run this organization he is about this and he is of this team and of the community. >> this narrative that somehow weni take direction from him,

gul to have had the opportunity to serve as head coach of the cleveland caveliers i like to thank dan gilbert and david gieven forgiving me this opportunity. amazing group of players from la bron james irving and kevin love through our entire roster. then we skip right down here he says i am proud what we have head coach. and wish the caveliers nothing but the best this season and beyond in you want see the entire statement, we have retweeted this out. and of course there is press conference live press conference coming up supposed scheduled at 5:45 we will take you to that denise >> all right. big drug raid near metro health medical center. the sheriff and cleveland police swat team raid two houses on troy bridge avenue, just off 259. it was part cocaine trafficking investigation. and cleveland 19 news crews were on the scene, two suspects were taken into custody. >> alert for people live in mohne county some homes had he will visited levels lead in their water. during the recent test. the health department is doing retests, with schools being are at higher risk if they drink lead contaminat

@cavs owner dan gilbert thanked @blatt and said over the course @of my business career i have @learned sometimes the hardest @thing to do is also the right @thing to do, our ownership @supports david griffin's @decision. @any of the players before his @decision yesterday saying it @was all on him. @it was not lebron's decision. @did he call lebron and ask him @hey should i fire blatt today? @probably not, but no way does @he make this change if lebron @wasn't on board. @blatt was hired before james @came back to the cavs so he had @no say in it. @the relationship was better @this season. @>>> how about this one? @a tweet saying david blatt told @friends from israel last week @it is either me or kevin love. @just surprised lebron didn't @decide sooner. @that is pretty eye opening. @the cavs are taking heat for it @including reaction from rick @carlyle, the presence of the @nba coach's association. @he feels the decision is @bizarre, leaving you with an @empty feeling, saying blatt did @a great job and quote i'm @embarrassed for our league that @something like this could @happen. @david

i would like to thank dan gilbert and david griffin for giving me the opportunity, and i'm honored to have worked with an amazing group of players from lebron james, kyrie irving. i'm indebted to my coaching staff for their hard work and loyalty. at the clippers game there was no indication that something >> we're still, after that long 12-day trip, that i thought took a lot out of us -- we mentally stepped up. >> live pictures as we get ready for that press conference in independence. david blatt leading the cavaliers to the 2015 nba finals as head coach, but again, he's been let go fired as the cavs coach. we'll have much more on this independence. >> tyronn lue will take over as head coach. he joined the cavs in 2014 coach. lue has coached with the he was also one of the coaching vacancy in 2014. we'll be back tots cavs headquarters in 15 minutes. >>> in our other top story, that massive blizzard that's slamming the east coast, they've been bracing for this all week long. this is a live look at cape may, new jersey, where there is already plenty of snow on the ground. you don't see

@cavs owner dan gilbert thanked @blatt and said over the course @of my business career i have @learned sometimes the hardest @thing to do is also the right @thing to do. @our ownership group supports @david griffin's decision. @griffin said it was all on him. @it was not lebron's decision. @all right. @decall lebron yesterday and ask @him hey should i fire blatt @today? @probably not. @but no way does he make this @change if griffin didn't know @lebron was on board. @remember blatt was hired before @james came back to the cavs. @the relationship has always @been scrutinized. @>>> how about this one? @a tweet saying david blatt told @friends in israel last week it @is either me or kevin love. @just surprised lebron didn't @decide sooner. @>>> a lot of reaction to this @news as the cavs are taking @heat for it. @including reaction from dallas @whatever r360 head coach rick @carlyle. @he feels the decision is @bizarre, leaving you with an @empty feeling saying blatt did @a great job and wet i'm @embarrassed for our league that @something like this could @happen. @i know integrity. @i know

>> dan gilbert, quicken loans founder. >> horrific.t about those people make them selectively prone to a higher out of something called fairness because they've done better than everyone else. >> we could debate about this, but there's a distribution curve in terms of -- >> i know that. that's not their fault. >> it's not their fault. >> not their fault. >> the distribution curve changed in the country. >> you're going to penalize -- >> i'm not. i'm not saying it's right, but it's the argument. >> i thought it was absurd by saying i'm for it, but all the sutden, we're just right on the same side of things. >> dan, kicking off the new year, and plans to invest $35 million in early stage tech companies focusing on sports. quicken loans launched rocket mortgage campaign, and we'll talk about that too. dan gilbert is on the floor of the detroit auto show. great to see you. >> hear you're fired up there in new york about something about distribution curves, but i couldn't catch the rest. >> there's a plan from hillary clinton that says she

. >> released a statement that reads in part -- like to thank dan gilbert and david griffin head coach he was the highest-paidake nba assistant interviewed for the head coach job before they hired david blatt and 2014e percent what he brings is different, and again, different does not imply that what we had before was bad. >> p.j. ziegler fox 8 news. >> cavs hosting the bulls tonight at the q.,bu much more of the story coming up later in sports. >> cavaliers fans have strong opinions about the move to fire head coach david blatt. more fan reaction to.ee >> were spread quickly downtown at the cavaliersa parted with head coach david blatt midseason . >> i thought that he did a good job last year of getting them to the finals . even though they had a shortage of players that are expected to hear that. >> some wonder if they've lost the loss to the warriors on monday that a led a part in the decision,a many believe that black deserted chance. >> lookout locale for me made when we came together we went to the finals and we mvp and repeat the words without our star players.r >> it's not a go

as we mentioned, show you a screen, dan gilbert will be on tomorrow. we'll talk to him. george pine company creates live events. deal with the nfl. you remember the tickets. call it the nfl experience. he'll try to do it with the other leagues. >> he has a new -- what is it, you see the rocket mortgage is quick ken? >> quicken loans? what is it? >> they do five names -- five words that begin with mort. mortality, morbid, mortician. all of them bad. all sound like you're dead, mortgage. they put a new name next to t rocket. they show a rocket. who doesn't -- remember long ago rhoda -- >> i like watching rocket. >> i like watching rockets take off. sort of the same thing. we ask him tomorrow if we have time. earnings reports take off. alcoa after the bell today. csx reports tomorrow. then thursday jpmorgan reports before the opening belle. intel reports after the bell. then on friday we'll get wells fargo, citigroup and black rock. we've got that going for us. join us on the set so we talk china. dismal start for the end of the year and bmw board member ian robinson will g

gilbert joins us live in waterloo... this facebook page was created after an incident she covered last week..... waterloo police chief dan trelka reached out to kwwl...telling us about this new facebook page... last week... i was out here on news years morning telling you about a shooting that happened between lafayette and sycamor... trelka belives it was these pictures taken around the time of that shooting that prompted the new page.... the pictures are captioned- i got my eyes on you hash tag busted.... although these photos say busted... captain trelka says these officers were caught doing their job.... "those photoes are waterloo police officers taking an armed they took into custody. adn it was right after a shooting... immediately.. within that photo was taken." here is some of the facebook page's about section....some words are blurred out... but one part is clear... it says you kill us... we kill you... newly elected mayor quentin hart caught up with kwwl.... saying that this page and what it stands for goes against everything he standss for.... he says he denounced it completely... we've got you covered... liv

gilbert has more... junior jasminin grafton is taking the act in a few months.... "when they set that big packet preparing.... " i have like a thousand apps on my phone." senior dan rafferty already took them.... "i hink i spent out 4 months leading up to them.. both agree that unwanted and unnecessary stress t t stududts.... " it's just doesn't seem fair to have the next four years based on a four hour test. " "it's like finals... but times hahaard may agree...they released a new report recommending that standardized tests be made optional.... and waterloo associate superindent charles mcnulty surprised by this report..... standup so far 80 iowa...and students at the university of northern iowa gave mmxed opinions about the act" "i think it's necessary.. it makes sense. its straight forward. it measure intelligence. " " i don't like it. they should get rid of it... shouldnt have determined my future" for now... jasmine will just have to keep studying.... but maybe things will change in the future... "i really don't want to takk this... im so stressed...." that was kwwl's amanda gilbert reporting in cedar falls... now -- the a-c-t corporate ofofce in iowa city ha

gilbert has more... junior jasminin grafton is taking the act in a few months.... "when they set that big packet preparing.... " i have like a thousand apps on my phone." senior dan rafferty