right now, newschannel5's chris flanagan is kick off our park. what's it like out there? >> reporter: you can see the scene behind me with the lights dunn there. crocker park, crocker road you see behind me is open. a lot of businesses are closed right now as a precaution, including l.a. fitness and chipotle. a lot of restaurants within crocker park and businesses let's show you what happened earlier today about 10:30 this morning. take a look at some of the pictures that we received interest our newsroom. really incredible, a lot of you sending in pics. a fair then erupts into a massive fireball. the blast was incredibly powerful. witnesses say the blast blew out windows from the front of the building and the sound could be heard from as far as rocky river. tara mo lynn that was among the first out here. how did this all happen? >> reporter: we still aren't sure what started the fire that led to that explosion. flames shot into the sky, then totally blew up. police and fire officials say was two construction propane tanks that caused the explosion. but they're still inve

i'm chris flanagan. back to you. >>> new details tonight surrounding an fbi raid in bay village and its connection to a child porn investigation. officers from the fbi and bay village police spent most of the morning combing through this house on lake road. of a case out of michigan that the country. they would not tell us any more details. >>> this made some parents uncomfortable. school officials were forced to keep kids out of school after bedbugs were discovered at the high school. the doors to alliance high school were closed to students as a crew came in to chemically treat the school grounds. four bed burnings found over the last week at the school. the health department said they are confident the school is not infested and that the insects are actually coming into the school from somewhere else. school officials are asking parents to keep eight eye out for bedbugs in their homes. school is expected to be back open tomorrow. >>> if you are in the kitchen right now, before you throw that frozen di

state that john kasich is we begin with chris flanagan at baldwin wall list university. >> it begins at 8:00 and john kasich hoping to get a win in ohio. voter turnout, high voter turnout in cleveland. we begin with john kosic, for the governor it has been a lot. >> reporter: two goals, last july, make it to new hampshire where he knew he could have an impact and when he did that five week ago the second goal make it home to ohio. should he make it out the path is a different pace. we had 1s1s vote and now it slows. enabling the candidates to reestablish themselves. john kasich is facing a challenge in pennsylvania and it will get bigger if he wins tonight and then on to utah for friday. hands of the voters that know him.

chris flanagan is at the live desk with what the candidates are saying. >> reporter: no surprise the war of words continuing among the presidential hopefuls. they picked up where they left off in last night's debate. trump spent today in michigan. this video from him -- from his rally in cadillac. she call that protesters, attacked the media and took another shot at mitt romney, calling him quote stupid. marco rubio, looking for votes in kansas within the past hour. the florida senator said he would support trump and november if the billionaire businessman wins the republican nomination. meanwhile, senator ted cruz is in maine today. he claims he is the party's conservative alternative to trump. >> there is no doubt if we remain divided, donald trump wins. catastrophe for this country and so i welcome the supporters of every other candidate to

that's why there's a great effort to market sporting events at that time joe flanagan found out it seems to be working since two williamsburg chamber tourism alliance has been marketing sports. we're always busy in the somewhat frozen but we needed to fill the january's and february's october november's and sports is a year round on it that has helped our our economy grow in two thousand thirteen and two thousand fourteen lisa told us they landed a hundred sixty teams competing in the girls' softball national fast pitch world series here is one of those tournaments brought athletes from all over the country they were here for seven days they are used every ten thousand room nights and set each year that was about a four million dollar economic impact in the economic impact has been up to ten to twelve million dollars annually now for spartan is a huge huge business. we know that families are time poverty so when they look at a sporting event there a lot of times looking at how can we incorporate this into a family vacation. someone who knows a thing or two about sports marketing is boo c

and chris flanagan has the latest. >> reporter: dr. ben carson throwing his support behind the businessman. the billionaire businessman comes one week after carson ended his bid for the white house. meanwhile, today the two were in west palm beach florida today where they made that announcement. carson gave his support to donald trump. marco rubio saying to the folks here in ohio republican voters go ahead and vote for john kasich because that's the only way to stop donald trump. >> i have never stopped to john kasich. i you asked me a question and i'm giving you my observation. john kasich has a better chance of winning ohio than i do and if a voter in ohio concludes that voting for john kasich gives us the best chance to stop donald trump there, i anticipate that is what they will do. >>> all right. the polls released today donald trump leads in ohio and florida

and news channel anchor chris flanagan is manning that team from wallace where governor closed. >> the stage is set and now it is hurry up and wait for the results to come in and the governor giving a speech here speech here at baldwin wallace university and ohioans cast their ballots before today. overall voter turnout is not predicted to set a record 500,000 early ballottings were requested. at that time it was only 333,000. john houston says the voter turnout is below what might have been predicted. >> we will not see record turnout, just strong. we have seen more republican ballottings than democratic bal the los and there seems to be more interest on that side than what you would expect with our governor being in the race. >> and right now there is still been two-and-a-half hours left. we got reports from cuyahoga county that turnout is low. 18% there. the lines are getting longer as the primary election starts to we have a look at voter turnout. megan hickey, many voters crossing the lines for today's primary. >> right, actually a historic high of 15% of registered democrats requ

i'm joe flanagan will have the story and we are bracing for a wet and cold night that could even bring some snow jeff has williamsburg has a new city council building the new striker center opens monday just in time for the next council meeting as in the same spot is the oldest ryker center on north boundary street the williamsburg regional library will share the space you can start checking out books about two weeks now the williamsburg area has been finding success in sports marketing during the offseason when tourism is down soccer to softball the effort has been a big cat joe flanagan tells us it's been hard work by the chamber and tourism alliance for greater williamsburg chamber tourism alliance has a game plan that includes sports in its marketing plan. looking at where we are this destination covers all aspects of what the family would want and the facilities are top notch they are getting a quality performances while with erica wants park where the girls national fast pitch world series was held in two thousand thirteen and two thousand and fourteen the national softball assoc

up at six ten including one homeowners dilemma losing their backyard live in virginia beach joe flanagan thirty news now know if it's a treasure as a neighborhood faces a long list of charges including corruption and perjury barefoot attorney now says the feds entrapped his client to make an even bigger case against him. erik ainge talk to buffets attorney today erica prosecutors haven't commented the buffet attorney says this is part of the defense's strategy to attack the eight count indictment and keep her foot from possibly spending the eight federal indictments the buffet faces are two charges for lying under oath if its attorney andrew sachs as the government set him up that's called perjury and trap the perjury charges stem from testimony buffet gave in twenty thirteen during the bank of the common law fraud trial which ended with its president going to prison prosecutors asked for but a defense witness to questions solicited anything of value in exchange for official acts he was asked has he ever has never accepted anything of value in exchange for official acts and he had alread

the news starts now the morning and thank you for joining us on thirteen years now daybreak on joe flanagan will have those stories in just a moment but first let's get to your weekend weather forecast model of before you head out the door may not be able to tell from this sunrise over downtown offered but it is going to be chilly this morning meteorologist asia scott is tracking temps in the forties today really much warmer conditions to come to morning edition. good morning jeff good morning everybody that's right we are going to see temperatures today once again holding in the forties that is below what we should be this time of the year but we've got a big warm up coming your way. here's a look at satellite and radar right now we do have a break and some of the clouds across the area more clout that to the west and satellite we are showing that over the past so we did have those scattered showers overnight and now were mostly dry across the viewing area but we can't completely rule out a shower or two this morning as the system continues to push offshore temperatures aren't quite as bad

joining us on thirteen years now daybreak on joe flanagan news weather sports and a whole lot more coming your way over the next two hours first it is time for your week of weather forecasts yeah well it's going to be a new day dawning at least over hampton roads take a look at this gorgeous sunrise over the virginia beach oceanfront those clear conditions are going to stick around for most of the day but you may need an umbrella later on meteorology station scott tracking a chance for showers later tonight or morning i showed how is your morning so far and going pretty good the mornings now good morning everybody hopefully are also good start this morning it's early but you know what we're up and were added this morning taking a look at these temperatures is pretty chilly out there we've got temperatures closer to the coast near forty degrees in norfolk where twenty five in emporia right now chesapeake smith failure right at the freezing mark at thirty two degrees with thirty nine right now in virginia beach the morning to you and along the outer banks and into northeastern north below f

joe flanagan is live at the oceanfront with a look at the conditions right now jan thank you regina having my own personal storm mode and are thus the hat we've been out here all day freezing as we look across and beach while the waves whipping around from the outer banks to grow to an all day today. one neighbor told us they have lost twenty five feet of beach since the beginning of the year their current and another person saying parts of their backyard are slowly disappearing all because away and hear rudy inlet they an winds up on the resort strip not so much along the beachfront at crow a tan as videographer brandon graves pulls out and swings around to the left you see this and burn the city virginia beach public works has built today they do that in store modes like this one today to protect robben island park and also to keep sand out of the storm drainage system that's right drama here the oceanfront in virginia beach and will be out here with more at five o'clock reporting live in virginia beach joe flanagan thirty news now friday so we have new information about the death of an

flanagan's irish pub on main street is once again throwing its st. paddy's day street festival. there will be live music, traditional irish food, and beer! the free event begins at 11:00 this morning. as you celebrate, you'll want to make sure you get home safe. triple a and anheuser-busch have teamed up for their tow-to-go program. even if you're not a triple a member, you can call for a ride anytime today through 6 a.m. on tomorrow. triple a will then safely drive you and your car home or somewhere safe within 10 miles. and it's all free. the number to call is 8-5-5 2-tow-2-go we're learning more about president obama's visit to cuba coming up in just a few days. as we've been telling you, obama is the first sitting president to visit the island nation in about seven decades. during his time there.. he'll meet with advocay groups and the country's president, raul crews in cuba are making renovations for a rolling stones concert on march 22. preparations are also underway for the tampa bay rays game in havana. they'll be playing the cuban national team on march 22. with the ray

all of it is happening at flanagan's irish pub on main street. that party is not out until my late tonight. >> we are always here and always on on wtsp.com. >> pelley: that's the rear window of a car after a ferocious hail storm battered north texas. also tonight, under fire over water. >> you messed up 100,000 people's lives, 100,000 of them, 10,000 of those people are six years old and younger. >> pelley: the e.p.a. takes the heat for the crisis in flint. the democrats fall preview. >> donald trump won't make america great again, but he will make republicans the minority again. >> pelley: a sea change at seaworld. the curtain is coming down on killer whale shows.

aaron flanagan and jacob sallie are in jail. james reed has been indicted, it is unclear if he is in custody. a 31-year-old florence man has been arrested or sexually molesting a child under role two occasions. i was a charges that include rape and saw to me against a 6-year-old. the incident happened at his home on southern pine lane. mark: responding to a higher at garden street iron and metal on spring grove avenue at 2:00 a.m. no one was hurt. a fire started in the machinery. there is no word on how much damage was done. kyla: a teenager will be ok after being hit by a train new the intersection of pershing avenue and martin luther king the teenager di d he was flown to the hospital head and . the police are interviewing happened. holmes high school are going to the tournament with a lot of support. they prorated through the halls of the middle and high schools as part of the sendoff celebration. they' re going to the state 14 years. there is a lot of excitement for the players and the coach. seeing the turnout means a lot.

the annual free festival is in front of flanagan's irish pub. there will be plenty of irish music, dancers, and of course lots of beer that will flow until midnight. >>> in tampa, the mayor's river fest will take place from 11:00 to 4:00 on saturday. >> i think he like mize green. >> i think so. >> clearly, i forgot about that. don't forget to call a designated driver or call a service like uber. you can find all of the details right now on the abc action news app. >> ivan, have you got on green today? >> i do not, actually. so munn will have to pinch me. do they still do that? as you talked about earlier, this is an old patchy area. so far, fhp not reporting any closures here. some pockets of fog where we don't need it there money we'll have the latest coming up in just a few minutes. >>> not like it used to be. coming up at 5:00, the reason business owners say area beaches are empty this spring break. >> back on the ice again tonight. gearing up for the fight of her life. years ago, she rescued a sick alligator and decided to keep him. >> he's

chris flanagan talked to him exclusively tonight. >> yes, while that accused hit and run driver sits in jail, that father sits in a cleveland hospital. as he told me exclusively tonight he's lucky to be alive. >> the pain, it is unbearable sometimes. >> reporter: andrew griffin has two broken legs and a busted kneecap, but not a broke spirit. >> it is rebuilding the man, you know what i'm saying? [ laughter ] if they could get me back on my feet, then i'm cool. >> reporter: griffin still can't shake the thought of nearly being killed. he says that his daughter got into a fight with her boyfriend while leaving the cleveland clinic when he got out of his car to help her. >> the next thing i know he stepped on the gas, he pins me up against the car. that, he kept his foot on the gas. he was actually trying to push the car and me out into traffic. >> reporter: griffin knows the driver, but not well. he said that they had no beef with each other and that he is fleured by what happened. >> i'm really not mad at him like that, but i'm mad at him. because all of this could have been avoided,

seniors tomorrow, juniors friday and all students on monday. [ indiscernible ] >>> chris flanagan talked to them tonight. >> reporter: enough is enough. drive-by shooting last night has them terrified once again. >> reporter: windows blown out. bullet holes on cars and a fence, a fence meant to keep them safe. >> i usually get up and check but i didn't. it was a disaster. >> reporter: she says it is too common. the town house is on east 72 and wade park and she claims police aren't controlling enough. >> we feel like we are snitches. when you leave we are still here. where is our protection. >> reporter: 5 cars at itude by bullets. including -- tattooed by bullets. including her son's car. >> he has a bullet hole here. one there. and he has one here. >> reporter: she was so rattled she posted this video to facebook. >> a lot of them are scared. the younger ones think we are going to do. >> reporter: neighbors are petrified the next time a stray bullet may hit more than a car or fence. >> i am ready to get out of this place. you know what i am saying? because you don't know if the bullet

for him the news starts now thank you for joining us on thirteen years now and a break on joe flanagan will have those stories in just a moment but first let's check your weekend weather forecast bundle up before you head out the door it's going to be a chilly morning meteorologist asia scott is tracking temps in the forties today angela got a beautiful shot there of virginia beach but much warmer conditions the common good morning i sure we can't wait. i you know i can't wait either for the seventies there back in the seven day forecast good morning joe good morning everybody know brought to a chilly start this morning and we still have quite a bit of clouds holding on across the area so the dish a satellite and radar we had some showers moved through overnight. right now we're seeing mostly dry conditions across the area but you'll notice there's a little bit of mixed precipitation popping up here tap the handle as we move through the morning hours at least for the next two or three hours we could see some mixed to our north. otherwise a shower or two possible as we go throughout the

. >> hundreds of delegates at state that john kasich is we begin with chris flanagan at baldwin wall list university. >> it begins at 8:00 and john kasich hoping to get a win in ohio. voter turnout, high voter turnout in cleveland. we begin with john kosic, for the governor it has been a lot. >> reporter: two goals, last july, make it to new hampshire where he knew he could have an impact and when he did that five week ago the second goal make it home to ohio. should he make it out the path is a different pace. we had 1s1s vote and now it slows. enabling the candidates to reestablish themselves. john kasich is facing a challenge in pennsylvania and it will get bigger if he wins tonight and then on to utah for friday. hands of the voters that know him. >> do you feel you will win. >> yes. do i seem like i'm nervous or uptight. i'm having a great time. >> kaisch wins ohio and his 66 delegates, it is winner take all, he can't win the nomination without a contested convention that will play out in cleveland in 125 days. chris. >> okay. john, thank. a lot on the line for the candidates th

weekend for an event that showcased locomotives of all kinds and featured a number of workshops to flanagan has look at the hobby that draw thousands of people together as many of them work to keep that hobby a life things of the survey was going to the green bird the great train and toy show. so the show is good for the hardcore collector all way down to the family was it's great range and great the kids and kids at heart flock to the show's checking out the hubby is still surviving although we are have a lot of competition from video games. peter hiro is an artist who paints people's memories of trains from this blue comment to this basically what they did was in nineteen sixty four in penn station they tore down the station from here up and put madison square garden on top. push away the less old woman is an o gauge board member and says the train bug bit him as a kid i had trains all my life and various gauges the boys like the line l because you can handle and we can work on time and now with all the new electronics law these things are remote controlled have special sounds. yes they m

chris flanagan, newschannel 5. >>> northeast ohio slowly drying out tonight. a live look outside. and the rain showers are still hanging on here and there. but jason, as the rain moves out, something else is moving in! >> are those christmas lights? i'm not sure what month it is. >> let's call them springtime lights. >> yeah! it feels like that. 70s earlier this week. today, not too bad. and the temperatures are falling. that'll be the weather trend as we head through the overnight hours. current air temperature, downtown, 40 degrees with a few rain showers. now, these rain showers are relatively light. we haven't seen the real steady, heavy rains for a couple of hours. to our north and west. right now, we're down to 39 downtown. 43, parma. lower 40s for here. mid- to upper 40s from fairlon to akron. downtown cleveland right now, the rain is moving out. the rain showers lingering. southeastern cuyahoga. akron. medina, too. heavier toward ashtabula county. there you go. drier air from the north and west. this will be the weather as that back edge of rain is moving east. here's your

. >> we have chris flanagan with more. >> reporter: what a night for governor john kasich. he said all along if he didn't win ohio in the primary, ballgame over. he hit one out of the park and argue bhi one of the biggest the governor took the stage around 9:15 tonight to a thunderous ovation. he thanked hundreds supporters at tonight's rally, while flanked by his wife and two young daughters. in his victory speech he spoke from his heart thanking the democrats who crossed over and voted republican in the primary, even thanking marco rubio for his service after he dropped out of the race tonight. he never mentioned donald trump. did mention hillary clinton, said bring her on. and then he thanked all the people who traveled so far to support him. >> you know what? look, this is all i got, okay? this is all i got. and all i can say is thank you for the bottom of my heart. i want you to know something. we are going to go all the way to cleveland and secure the republican nomination. [ cheering ]. that he hits the campaign trail again tomorrow heading to philadelphia as he trie

chris flanagan is following the latest for us. >> reporter: if it leads to a contestant convention in july, donald trump warned today it could lead to riots. president of the united states. >> reporter: just 24 hours after john kasich's big win in ohio, his campaign already hiring top operatives to focus on a contestant convention. >> never know what will happen. but they're going to look at somebody who can actually be president of the united states, who has a record of accomplishments, not just talk. and they'll wonder who can win in the general election. who can win ohio? >> reporter: a contestant convention is where most delegates will be free to vote for whoever they want after the first ballot. the last republican floor fight was the reagan-ford battle in 1976. this may be kasich's only hope trump needs to win 55% of the remaining dell guilties. ted cruz, 79%. >> there are many in the washington establishment who are right now having fevered dreams about a brokered convention action about a deadlocked convention where they parachute in an established candidate who suddenly saves

. >> tonight there is new backlash against trump, chris flanagan live here with us with new details. chris? >> reporter: some high-level republican leaders met in washington today to figure out if they still have a shot at preventing trump from clinching the nomination. tonight many inside his own party blasting their front- runner after what he said could happen here in cleveland. a group called the stump trump movement met privately to develop a plan to prevent the billionaire businessman from getting the nomination. shortly after he warned there could be chaos in cleveland if his nomination is blocked. he would have riots. i'm representing a tremendous, many millions of people. i think he would have problems like you've never seen before. i think that things would happen. i really do believe that. i think bad things would happen. >> reporter: trump warning of riots, if he doesn't win the nomination. speaker of the house paul ryan today calling it unacceptable. >> nobody should say those things because to even address or hint at violence is >> reporter: john kasich telling abc news

more tough defense as nichole flanagan gets the rebound, sunapee creates another steal and score 20-7, eight points 10 rebounds. here for the rams alissa rebounds for nute. top seeded sunapee takes it 16 with 22 rebounds. they are back in the championship game for the third straight year, and will try to defend last years title. against littleton, littleton in white, emma bogardus feeds allie horne who banks one home from 15 feet. horne finished with nine points. at the other end madisen dumont pulls down the offensive rebound and puts it back up and in. she had a team-high 10. the panthers work it down low to cathlin lord. she hits the jumper from the block, but the crusaders were just too strong, horne finds libby mcnamara for two of her 12 points. emma bogardus had a double-double, 15 points, 14 rebounds. littleton wins it 53-28. they are going to the championship game for the first time since they won it all in 2012. the red sox opened their spring training games with a college first against boston college. manchester's carmen giampetruzzi is a sophomore three-sport star at trinit

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our partners at the journal- news report james reed, jacob sallie, and aaron flanagan are charged with murder, aggravated burglary and aggravated robbery for the beating death of daniel coffey. he was beaten on christmas, but died december 30th at the hospital. in a matter of hours people will gather here at the colerain township community center. they'll hear about successes but also see them. that's right 79 percent. that's the success rate of the quick response team here in colerain township of getting heroin overdose patients into treatment.they've been at it since july.the team is one of the things that will be talked about at this forum tonight. those here say the success is not an end to the epidemic but a beginning of strategies that can reduce overdose deaths. that focus on hope forum is set for 630 tonight at the colerain township community forum. any one is welcome. they'll also talk about how they want to do more to help people treatment so they stay reporting live jordan burgess. 9 on your side. a bill that's sitting on indiana governor mike pence's desk would ban abortion

he was a troubled former station employee, vester flanagan, who had been fired in 2013. before taking his own life later that day, he released a 23-page letter claiming that he had been motivated by other mass shootings. >> i'm andy parker and when my daughter alison was murdered on live television, i pledged that i was going to do whatever it takes to reduce gun violence in this country. shooting victims the parkers immediately changed the course of their lives. grief fueling fury. >> first you're numb. you're completely in shock. and then you grieve uncontrollably. obviously i still do. but then it turned toking aer. >> what changes do you want to see? >> simple thing universal background checks and closing the loopholes in these gun shows, that's the simple stuff. >> but the sad fact is that vester flanagan did pass a weapon legally. >> there are people that say, well, nothing would have prevented her death. okay. maybe so. but is that a reason to not try to save the next life? even if it's one life. >> the parkers insist they are not taking aim at gun ownership, but

before taxes doesn't have any big plans for his winnings except to take care of his mom good and joe flanagan this week's joe's job to be a vet tech at the office to helping to care for the popular and adorable new tiger cubs were born in early january their mother wouldn't care for them so zoo workers bottle feed them the are critically endangered malayan tigers so this was an important job is less than three hundred of them in the world so it's a very unique opportunity for us which were really trying to share with our visitors bring visitors and close the cubs haven't been named yet but we're told there will be chances for public input very soon. visitors can also lighten live feedings and check out the cups on the zoo's website and voting for two o one and so the other flank. once again i'm gonna fall the cute animal story and the baby store hours on the phone up with instead of galena mary and here we go again when mary is hoping the stars aligned this weekend and they tournament for the first time ever this weekend it's the caa tournament to cover storm in baltimore. the men to the fina

murder.our partners at the journal-news report james reed, jacob sallie, and aaron flanagan are charged with murder, aggravated burglary and aggravated robbery for the beating death of daniel coffey. he was beaten on christmas, but died december 30th at the hospital. a backyard party, rattled by gunfire. gunfire.now 5 people are dead, and police are trying to figure out why. a deadly bacteria is spreading, and the c-d-c from.what's being tested to determine the source. alarmwe often tell you about people getting packages swiped right off their porches.now one guy says he's invented just the thing to make it stop. you're watching 9 on your side who's here. she has to take a brand name drug. been taking it since the early 1980's. at that time it cost approximately $180 for 10 shots. the latest refill was $14.700 for the same 10 vials and the company is called valeant pharmaceuticals. i'm going after them. this is predatory pricing and we're going to make sure it is stopped. i'm hillary clinton and i at this hour,police near pittsburgh are looking for at least two shooters, and a motive, i

flanagan's irish pub it hosting a festival featuring dancers, music, and plenty of corned beef and cabbage and guinness. they said it will flow until midnight. >> will the weather cooperate? >> temperatures in the0s will be in great shape. unless you are celebrating on top of the sky way, you have no problem. >> look at the sky. this is where we're good for the sky was up 400 feet with the low cloud base there. that was a nice day at apollo beach. we'll continue to see plenty of afternoon. if you are heading out to the festival, here's the forecast as you check in with temperatures in the 70s and muggy. keep in mind, we're about an hour and 15 minutes away from the festival in dun eden. temperatures for the rest of us into the 70s. a little grain here. it will jump another 15, 17 degrees. look at the showers and storms firing along this frontal boundary. it will come in two phases friday into saturday as well. watch as we head through friday afternoon. we'll be okay and then it's this final one will come in saturday into sunday. west. back behind it as i show you. as this time of year, we

chris flanagan is live from the newsroom and it is all about michigan. >> it certainly is. polls close at 8 and with a huge number of delegates up for grabs the stakes could not be higher. donald trump leading the republican field according to the latest polling average. mitt romney who won michigan's primary back in 2012 has recorded a robo call asking michigan voters to vote for marco rubio in today's primary election. governor john kasich has the least delegates. the wolverines have focused on his campaign and trailing donald trump in michigan and hoping to use that state as a springboard. >> have the state of michigan send a message and launch me into the state of ohio where we have a whole new day in american politics. >> and on the democratic side the new nbc wall street journal national poll shows hillary clinton topping rival bernie primary voters. clinton had the big league according to that pole among republicans will vote in michigan and idaho and hawaii. >>> by the way hillary clinton is campaigning in cleveland. community college about two hours from now. those

. >> the 14-year-old boy is charged with multiple felony charges including two counts of flanagan is in the newsroom with the latest. >> the hearing lasted a few seconds. the boy's attorney instead a denial of charges, the juvenile equivalent of a not guilty plea. this is video entering the courtroom this morning and we have learned in the past few hours, that the boy apparently was carrying a handgun all morning before he jumped up in the cafeteria and opened fire. madison junior high school. four students non-life- threatening injuries. the butler county sheriff believes he obtained the gun from a family member. today all schools in that district were closed. >> at this point our plan is to return to school tomorrow. we believe that getting kids back into school as quickly as best for them. >> and in about 45 minutes or so, the schools will be open for students to walk the they so wish. investigators say they do have an idea of the motive for the not releasing it. the boy will return to court on april 5th. frank. >>> a wrongful death lawsuit filed in the chardon school shooting is

. >> that was chris flanagan reporting. akron police have not made and arrest in this case or last month's papa john's robbery. the fbi is assisting them, trying to crack the unsolved murder of a pizza man shot during a robbery in december. >>> there's new video this morning of a head-on crash we first told you about yesterday on "good morning, cleveland." odot cameras caught the moment a drunk, wrong-way driver slammed into a u haul truck. the two brothers in the truck say the couple in the other car were so drunk, they tried to flee the scene. >> the lady was -- said, "i just want to go home. >> truck drivers blocked the car until police could arrive. both brothers are expected to recover from their injuries. the driver of the car faces odi charges. >>> new this morning, wood bear police want to if you recognize two suspects wanted for credit card fraud. take a good look at this picture. the pair have been using stolen credit cards to rig up large purchases at several stores in the area, including trying to buy two laptop

chris flanagan is live in the newsroom with the latest. >> reporter: the senate's top republican is holding his ground that the next president should pick the next justice. it's the republicans who control his fate. they made it clear they won't budge from their refusal to consider a replacement for antonin antonin scalia. >> if republicans refuse to do their job it will only be to pick the next nominee. occasionally republicans may try to distance themselves from him with their words, but their failure to do their job and give judge garland the consideration he deserves ties them to trump in a way they cannot untangle. >> today republican leader mitch mccobble did take a call from garland reiterating his feels, wishing him well. abc news is reporting there are at least six republican senators who are open to lee. >>> today at least one lawmaker took issue with a request from military leaders laying out their budget for the next fiscal year. it's not because the pentagon wants too much money. it's because the defense secretary and joint chiefs chairman asked for $2.5 billion less than was r

i am here today, in support of the letter flanagan shared with the board of supervisors regarding the waving of the competitive process requirements. for the selection of a new ehr and naming ucsf as the preferred contractor. we believe that it is not in the public's best interest to wave the competitive process and allow the sole source of the complex and high risk, 342 million dollar, information technology contract. we are asking that the competitive process remain in place, the competitive process, provides, dph the opportunity to fairly evaluate the key factors which include, an integrated system that meets the unique needs of the dph across the full care. and in addition to the exchange of information, with non-affiliated epic partners, service level agreements for out time, warranty and support levels and a fixed fee implementation and the total cost of ownership. there are no examples of two organizations as large as ucsf and dph with different service lines and government structures coming together in a shared system. this is a very important long term project and we urge the

chris flanagan is at the live desk. chris, make some sense of this. >> reporter: frank, clinton said if she is the nominee she hopes senator sanders will support her the way she supported barack obama in 2008. the latest polls show clinton has a 13% lead over sanders in michigan. both today chris crossing that state and clearly sand hears some ground to make up. but today he said he expects to beat clinton tomorrow, but he needs some help. >> and i believe that tomorrow, if there is a large voter turnout in michigan, we are going to do very well. that means nontraditional voters, working class voters, to vote. for us. if turnout is low, we're probably not going to do well. >> we have differences, but those differences pale in comparison to what we see among the republicans. i'm interested in results. they're interested in insults. and they are becoming quite masterful at delivering them, which i think is bad for the country. >> reporter: as for the republicans, there are 150 gop delegates at stake tuesday in michigan, m

the shaken driver is speaking to chris flanagan. >> reporter: as the 22-year-old mother of two was delivering a 7:00 last night. she quickly realized the address was an abandoned house and went from bad to worse. she doesn't want to use her last name, she was jumped by three men. >> he grabbed my shirt with my skin, and turned me all around, i felt like i have no words to how i felt. >> reporter: she found words and fearing, screamed as loud as she could. >> help, help me. it seemed like no one head me or came out. they, it got them away from me republican her screams scared them off. the men ran for it empty handed. this is a second marco's pizza delivery driver to be robbed in akron in the past week. >> what going on there? >> i have just been shot. >> reporter: last month a papa shortly after making a delivery on akron's south side. >> i cannot fight off three guys but i did. >> police haven't made an robbery. fbi is assisting them trying to crack the unsolved murder of a pizza shop worker shot during a robbery in december. >>> a head on crab we told you about yesterday on good morning cle