martin flask and the city created a job for him. dani carlson went to city hall to get some answers. >> it's been nearly two years since former public safety officer martin flask was reassigned to the nubilous position executive assistant for an appointment that came in the middle of calls for resignations and cleveland probe to the cleveland police department probe and investigation into officer actions during the deadly police chase where timothy russel and malissa williams were shot and killed and after the officer firings and suspensions and 2012 chase we didn't see flask in the room. city hall says he was in the back the entire time. >> today we put in the freedom of information act requests and asked the mayor's office to sit down for an interview and what flask has been doing and special projects he completed and what he is working on now. >> the response he got, the mayor's office declined to talk about it at this time and never told us where we could look and i turned to the city record, what happens at every city council m

dani carlson tried to track down what flask is doing now. hey, dani. >> dani: hey, mark. if you look for his official martin flask is officially the executive assistant to the mayor for special projects. harder to define. it's been nearly two years since martin flask was reassigned to the seemingly nebulous position executive assistant to the may yr for special projects -- mayor for special projects. an appointment that came after the calling of his resignation after the cleveland police department's use of force and investigation into officer action during a deadly police chase where timothy russell and melissa williams were shot and killed. amidst the firing and suspensions announced at yesterday's press conference, we couldn't help but notice flask was nowhere to be seen. so today we asked the mayor's office to sit down for an interview to talk about what flask has been doing for the last couple years, what special projects he's finished and those he's working on now. the response he got is that the mayor's office is going to decline to talk about that at where we could find more

we learned flask makes $128,000 a year. we are waiting for a response from the city on the special projects he is working on or has completed in the past two years. we will let you know as soon as we find out more information from the city. >> all right dani, thank you. >> mark: a pair of ohio state senators are kicking off a medical marijuana listening tour. center. they are gathering public testimony about legalizing medical marijuana and stops in columbus. >> romona: new ratings are out on the best toll road and the ohio turnpike topped the list. dan deroos has details. what is this based on? >> dan: we didn't want to give them the blue ribbon and let them go on that. we are talking about the turnpike and strongsville. this is a reminder what it looks like. this is done by fitch ratings and 17 companies that run turnpikes or tollbooths or toll roads throughout the country and the ohio turnpike company that runs out and harris county toll road company rapinged number 1. we are talking about traffic volume and costs and yo

. >> denise: what is marty flask up to these days? he was in the brass at 2012 during the police shooting now the former safety director serves as an assistant to the mayor. we are looking into his schedule tonight at 5:00. >> dan: plus how are iowans getting ready for the first election volt. they don't cast ballots they caucus. we want to explain to you what >> dan: first we want send it to jeff tanchak. we had snow today but is she sunshine on tap for the weekend. >> jeff: sunshine and a big warm up. you will be nowhere close thinking of winter-like weather over the weekend here. let's get to the trend here as far as temperatures go this evening. still be on the chilly side and the wind dies down dropping to the low to mid-20s and we start to rise in temperature through the 20s overnight. we are at 28 currently. wind is starting to go down. west wind at 12 and blustery on the lakeshore and 12 in the akron-canton area. we have a lot of sunshine out there. look at that. sunset time is at 5:39 now and warming overnight and big weekend

p>>> on wednesday we asked the pquestion where is marty flask? pwe found out where the former ublic safety director was preassigned to and what he's been pworking on since then. pwe turn now to dani carlson who phas been really digging for some panswers to all of this. pdani. p>> dani: well, we've been sure ptrying to get some answers to pthese questions. pfound out is martin flask has pbeen talking to people about pdealing with the abandoned olice harbor unit equipment and ptrailers. pso today we tried to find out pwhat's going on. pcleveland 19 rode along with the olice department harbor patrol pnearly 20 years ago. pback then, five officers were pcertified divers who patrolled pthe lakeshore and the river and pon 14 bodies a pyear. pwe're told the harbor unit was pcut to save costs in 2004 and pthe equipment has sat here at paviation high school ever since. pso i called around to different pcity agencies trying to figure pout if there's a plan for all of pthis stuff. ptalking to city hall and to the eople at the burke airport, i pwas told that

. >> keep the flask at home. >> absolutely. >> football games, the flask in the pocket. >> inside.e. >> great tip. that's a great tip. drink, have it inside. >> not outside. in front of the football game, in front of watching sunday house call, i'll let you have a glass of wine. >> good deal. okay. well, by the way, the storm is behind us and the snow has stopped falling, so does that mean that you should head out for your morning run? good question coming up, the doctors give us a breakdown of the dos and don'ts of exercising in the cold. listen up! i'm here to get the lady of the house back on her feet. and give her the strength and energy to stay healthy. who's with me?! yay! the complete balanced nutrition of great tasting ensure. with 9 grams of protein and 26 vitamins and minerals. ensure. take life in! ugh! heartburn! no one burns on my watch! try alka-seltzer heartburn reliefchews. they work fast and don't taste chalky. mmm...amazing. i have heartburn. alka-seltzer heartburn reliefchews. enjoy the relief. >>> well, a lot of runners out there eager to hit the pavement after

martin flask was safety director at the time. what was his job as mayor now. >> plus before you do your taxes write off and what may ultimately send up red flags to the i.r.s. >>> live from cleveland's newscenter, cleveland 19 news starts now. >> mark: the images are disturbing. a home burning out of control after a massive explosion. and a man trapped inside. right now it looks like natural gas may be to blame for that. >> the story began in tuscarawas county. crews rushed to a in newcomerstown and denise zarrella went there to learn more about the victim and the investigation. >> reporter: family members pour through the charred and scattered remains of one man's home. a man identifying himself as the victim's son says the family doesn't want to talk and his dad was a quiet and private man. he has known dean taylor since he was six-years-old. >> he was a great guy.

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@marty flask then safety @director gets promoted to @whatever he's doing in the @mayor's office. @>> the woman accused in a hit @skip turned herself in. @the 24-year-old struck a 31- @year-old turning on fulton from @clark avenue. @she pulled into a nearby gas @station and watched the after @math before driving off. @>>> for the first time former @broomfield police chief david @oliver came face to face in @court with the woman he was @charged with sexually @harassing. @officer crystal casteline. @>> he turned around and glared @at me. @even now he attempts to @>> this whole thing be puddles @me. @>> the boston globe endorses @john kasich. @>> kasich and other republicans @hoping for more face time in @thursday's debate. @donald trump will be a no show @because he thinks moderator @megyn kelly is unfair. @>> trump has criticized fox @news in the past and called out @kelly saying she is quote a @third rate reporter who is bad @at her job end quote. @>> clashing with nbc's peter @alexander claiming his question @misquoted trump. @>> do i apologize for reading @your words. @>> for not re

. >> ayesha takes a sip of oil from her flask and holds it in her mouth. >> seemed like even the music stopped, and then she lifted the flame up high and looked up towards it and then blew. >> ayesha is suddenly engulfed in flames. >> there was just a big ball of fire. >> the fire just go like ten feet higher than me. >> it was just the brightest thing in the night sky that really got everybody to wow. >> instead of blowing it out in front of her, a gust of wind blows the fire back in her face. >> i feel the wind and at this point, the flame came in my face, and i wasn't able to control it anymore. >> it seemed like a part of the act for a second, then when she put her arm down with the torch, you could see the flame was still in her face. everybody just kind of stopped breathing for a minute. >> the next 30 seconds are a slow motion nightmare for ayehsa as she struggles to put out the fire. >> the fire was turning around my head, in my hair, my shoulder. i was trying to remove it. was removing the fire here, it starts another place. so okay, something is wrong here. >> it wasn't stopp

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aside from that other slow aside from that other slow-moving flask laurel sky fox on way to this locationa water main break fourth and monday rose avenue an a lot of water flooding intersection avoi it causes very very dangerous conditions for roads. snow removal taking place in montgomery country as well icc after 370 270 big delays after falls road blocked. through lanes back up as well. trying to get those plowed. busy tuesday morning. give yourself extra time. silver and orange line afek bid third rail damage now. shuttle bussing and very and a, fairfax east falls, closed service picks up boston to new carlton. metro operating on severe schedule vre no service and mark on adjusted schedule as well. that's traffic. lots to talk about. back to you guys. >> thank you so much erin coming up more fallout this morning following investigation into planned parenthood. >> and manhunt continues for innature california that escaped. why officials think they had phelps inside. help from the inside look, i know you're a cow and all. and you may not know what i'm talking about, but, uh. the yogurt