michael hickey's father john worked in the factories here for 32 years. after he died of kidney cancer in 2013, hickey made it his mission to find out why his father and so many others in his hometown seemed to be getting sick. >> there has always been a thought that we seemed to have a high rate of cancer. >> reporter: he started researching cancer and teflon. in the summer of 2014 he took water samples from his house, his mather's house, two local businesses, and used his own money to have them tested. >> they came back positive for pos. >> reporter: all four? >> all four were positive. >> reporter: it's just the fact that you are seeing a lot of cancer, and probably more so than in other places. >> reporter: this doctor is the family doctor for many of the village's 3500 residents, including michael hickey. he is himself in remission from a rare and aggressive form of lung cancer. are you convinced it caused your cancer? >> i mean, could i prove it, you know, 100%, no? clinically, yeah, i think it has a lot to do with my cancer. >> reporter: here you c

michael licky's father died of kidney cancer in 2014, and hickey made it his mission to find out why his father and so many other people in his home town seem to be getting sick. >> you know there's always been kind of a thought in our village that we seem to have a high rate of cancer. >> reporter: hickey started be researching cancer in teflon. in 2014 he took water samples from his house, his mother's house, two local businesses, and used his own money to have them tested. >> they came back and positive for pfoa. >> all four of them? >> all four were positive, but the two over the epa level was my house and my mother's house. >> whether it be thyroid cancer, pancreatic cancer, renal cancer, it was a lot of it. >> dr. marcus is the family doctor, 44 years old and is himself in remission from a very rare and aggressive form of lung cancer. >> are you convinced that pfoa caused your cancer? >> i mean could i prove it? you know 100% no. clinically, yeah, i think it has a lot to do with my cancer. >> reporter: so here you can see what might have caused the problems here in hoosick fall

live in cleveland, megan hickey, newschannel 5. >>> it is a big night in politics and everyone keeping a particularly close eye on the presidential race. right now voters in 12 states primaries. some states on the east coast will report the results as early as 7:00. shown that donald trump has a commanding lead over the other candidates. >>> our country is so unbelievably divided. it is divided politically. it is divided among white and black. it is divided in so many ways. we are going to bring the country together, folks. >>> donald trump was in columbus today holding a rally inside of an airplane hangar. one person not supporting him was speaker of the house paul ryan calling out him for not denouncing support from the ku klux klan over the weekend. candidate of the republican party, they must reject any cause built on bigotry. ryan will back whoever secures cleveland in july. >>> still ahead. mean a death sentence. >>> but medicine has come a long way since then. >>> but the stigma around the disease remains. >>> we don't want to talk about it. we want to push it under the rug. >>>

this afternoon newschannel5's megan hickey spoke to mom and daughter. how does this fit into the medical marijuana movement here in ohio? >> reporter: many people, including concord mom christina, see the successful trial as proof of the benefits of medical marijuana, and she says the clock is ticking for her daughter paige. >> paigey, your turn. >> reporter: five-year-old paige had a good day today. a good day means she had 10 seizures at pre school. on a bad day, she can have more than 100. >> i don't know when the next seizure is going to be that could cause brain damage, further brain damage, for that >> reporter: paige has a severe seizure condition that caused her to after stroke when she was 19 months old. >> so she takes multiple doses of these on a daily basis, three times a day, and these are her sleep meds. >> reporter: right now she takes a cocktail of fda- approved medications. >> this is probably about four days, maybe four or five days. >> reporter: they still can't stop the daily paralyzing seizures. but news this week about a successful

megan hickey, newschannel 5. >>> another round of primary elections under way and a handful of western states. another day for the presidential candidates. voters in arizona, utah and wanted to be the next president. republican candidates ted cruz and john kasich looking to win. hillary clinton with a lead over bernie sanders. >> we are going to get john kosic to run for council or something. >> i think so. >> all right. hey, a great day today weatherwise and i was lucky to get out see cool kids. take a look out in royal view elementary visiting the 2nd graders, two classes and they had a lot of interesting, cool questions there. and they talked about the eye of the hurricane what that is like and great to go out there and visit the kids in north royal ton. thanks for the questions. i told you the one most interesting, can you get a concussion from hail. i guess if a big hail pellet hits you in the head you could. but no hail in the forecast and storms. we do track thunder as we head through thursday. this is a the day that we will watch. one of the days that we want to make sure you k

live in cleveland, megan hickey, chris, back to you. >>> okay. meggen, thanks. ohio election officials clearing up confusion. two spots to pick a candidate for the presidential race in 2015. the ohio republican party changed awarding delegates to a winner takes all process. those on the republican side need to fill out the first box called the delegates at large. election officials say the law still requires a second box for presidential candidates labeled district delegates. they will be totaled but won't count. the process is causing confusion. >>> i did fill out the same name two times but again a few weeks ago i told my wife to pick her first choice and second choice because we were getting conflicting will be removed anytime soon. it is not just the republican race that everyone has their eyes on and paying attention to. hillary clinton and bernie sanders had some relatively low key events with supporters this morning in north carolina clinton telling reporters that despite a heated ticket on the other side, she is proud of how their ticket is unfolding. >>

megan hickey has been digging through inspection records. what do you know about how the fire started. >> reporter: investigators have not determined a cause but a disguarded cigarette could be to blame. it may have started on the ground floor outside the building. an annual safety inspection was performed in june and found no violations. detectors but not required to

megan hickey has been digging through inspection records. what do you know about how the fire started. >> reporter: investigators have not determined a cause but a disguarded cigarette could be to blame. it may have started on the ground floor outside the building. an annual safety inspection was performed in june and found no violations. detectors but not required to of the age of the building. investigators are looking into possible problems with a nearby heating system but barber emphasized that the area has had issues with cigarette fires in the past. >> people come in and throw them around by their house and the apartment and like mulch or the grass is dry it creeps up on the glass and we get fires. >> barber told me that in new york and california have laws that require older buildings to have those sprinkler systems. ohio does not. live in brunswick, megan hickey, news channel 5. >>> as officials continue to look into how the fire broke out, the community is wasting no time in helping those that lost everything as a result. tracy carl

meek gan hickey has been -- megan hickey has been investigating. sites. >> reporter: that is true. parents tell me they're worried about the flood of strangers coming and going at their kids' elementary schools, not to mention that registered sex offenders in ohio are allowed to vote in schools. there are 10 sex offenders registered to vote in brook park. officials told me they're aware of the concerns. the school hired a police officer to monitor the entrance to the voting room. but parents tell me they don't session during voting. >> it's a potential for harm that's there. we teach our kids to avoid strangers before they even enter kindergarten, and then you enter a large scale number of strangers into the school all day long. it just doesn't make any sense. >> now, ohio law lists public schools as suitable polling spots. the board of elections tells me they've heard complaints before about voting while school is in session but so far they've been able to work out concerns with administrators. >> thank you megan. >>> being able to vote is almost a rite of passage, especially if y

at blue canyon, brian hickey. >> should we go? >> nice to see but not necessarily to be in that track. jeff ranieri has been watching all those details. a lot of fresh snow. >> great news for the snowpack. we think the latest round of snow should push us up to 100% of average. after that wild weekend of very heavy rainfall saturday night also into sunday evening we started to see things calm down. scattered rainfall that's left over here. so as we go ahead and zoom in to get a closer look, you can see right near san martin down to about morgan hill we're finding areas of rainfall. that will continue through gilroy for the next 30 minutes or so. that's really what we expect tonight are these scattered areas of rainfall. as for tomorrow morning's forecast, do expect superslick roadways. we'll start off colder down to 39 in the north bay, east bay at 41 and for the south bay we'll start off at 44 degrees. let's go ahead and take you into the futurecast. in just a moment, you'll be able to see that we do have more wet weather coming o

in the meantime right now megan hickey, newschannel 5. >>> okay. meggen. polls close in ohio at 7:30 and 8:00 we should have the first wave of results when the tallies tallies start to come in. john kosic has been looking it up. >> reporter: more of the >> reporter: 30% of the early vote in the state will be coming from here in cuyahoga county. we know where john kasich has done well in the past and we know where we expect donald trump should do well based on what we have seen in the first 20 states that have voted. now this is a map of the 2012 republican primary. only one percent by mitt romney over rick santorum. that is a blueprint that kaisch will need to stick to, cincinnati. in cuyahoga and hamilton county romney came out of those both with a 20% margin of victory, 16,000 votes each. he won by 12,000. romney won by five percent and an area that we expect kaisch to do better because it is his home port where he has represented the people in becoming governor. the area for donald trump from steubenville on. this is representing a large area of ted str

megan hickey has been following the story. what is the issue exactly. >> reporter: the drug and the overdose drug use a nasal applicator and the rise in overdoses have been putting a strain on the supplies. >> take them off. >> reporter: 5-year-old page had a two hour seizure earlier this month but when paramedics arrived they couldn't give the epileptic drug the medication she needed because they were out of the applications. much of that could be because of heroin overdoses. the nasal applications are used for drugs and they have asked the pharmacy for more. >> we have acquired extras so we are not in that position because we are seeing an increase in overdose. >> reporter: working on staying ahead of the problem because it is not a paramedic's job to determines who gets the medicine. >> we don't run into a situation that we have a 5-year- old having a seizure laying next to an overdose victim so it is really who calls us first. >> reporter: concord township has seen two overdose deaths. that is why they are pairing up with

megan hickey, newschannel 5. >>> an akron hospital security guard stabbed on the job last month walked out of rehab to a cheering crowd. injuries when a psychiatric 18th. 33-year-old andrew wallace pulled a knife and stabbed the unarmed guard in the stomach. belcher thanked his co-workers recovery at home. enforcement agencies have adopted new standards when it comes to use of deadly force by police. the new standards allows officers to use deadly force when defending themselves or other people from serious injury or death. the first four agencies to adopt the standards are medina, cold water and colerain police department and the montgomery county sheriff's departments. all of them must adopt the standards by next year. >> it is official. johnny manziel is out. the browns released the troublesome quarterback after two drama filled and disappointing seasons. brown used first-round pick in he was a texas a and m standout star. johnny football was his sheikh nimr al-nimr and in his procareer he became better known for his parting lifestyle off of the feel including a lengthy rehab stay.

live in cleveland, megan hickey, newschannel 5. >>> all right. let's check in with chief meteorologist mark johnson, where is the rain? >> it is called a squall line, lee. it is developing and evolving from individual cells of thunder. now joining forces and becoming a line of heavy rain and gusty winds. you want to see the wind field, frank. this is pretty good winds. 30, 35, 40 miles per hour winds. moving up the i-75 corridor, ashland, we did measure a couple of wind speeds or 50 miles per hour. but i'm not believing that those are reaching the ground just yet. but you get the picture, a wall of wind coming our way and we have scattered showers developing ahead of it. vermilion. it will be a thundery evening because it is warm out there. 71 in akron, 70 canton, a surge of warm, muggy air up to the lake shore and that's fueling the thunderstorms as an area of low pressure rides through central ohio. if you are going out and about, plan on thunder, 7, 8, up to 9:00 and the major skull line should have moved through and we will have lingering sho

megan hickey has the story all new at 5:00. megan, a legal expert told you this guy should have been locked up. >> reporter: he's a tier 3 sex offender with two probation violations. legal documents show that courts had the opportunity to with the victim and her mother, still shaken from an encounter with this suspect. brown allegedly kidnapped the 17-year-old, tried to sell her for serks and gave her drugs. according to court records, she is brown's third teenage victim. >> it absolutely could have been prevented. there were red flags early on that this person was dave 80ing. >> reporter: after brown pleaded guilty to sexual battery charges he was told he could face prison time for violating parole. in march he failed to updates sex offender registration, but he didn't get jail time. just a community controlled caping shun or heightened probation. court records said the sentence would, quote, adequately protect the public. butt obviously didn't protect >> this is an extreme example of the abuse of the system and to take place.

megan hickey spoke with the occupational safety and health administration about the case, and the victim was well-known in his community. >> reporter: kenny ray junior's firefighter turnout gear is right where he left it at the fire department. his small department told me they weren't ready to talk about the huge loss. >> it's really one of their family. so i could see how hard it would be. >> reporter: his colleagues got the news of his death last night. today they learned that ray likely died of nitrogen exposure. >> oxygen levels in the area where the employee was found at >> but osha's spokesperson had to me timken steel knew about the hazard. >> we did issue citations from an inspection in may 2015, and the company was placed on the severe violator enforcement program. >> alan told me the company received a serious violation about the night trough general problem in january and said the workplace death was preventible. >> this is unacceptable behavior in this company needs to be held accountable. >> meanwhile locals who remember ray said right now the biggest concern should be hono

megan hickey tracked down the answers. could pregnant mothers really use pot? >> reporter: a spokesman for the marijuana policy project told me pregnant mothers with severe nausea could qualify for medical marijuana with the approval of a doctor. it all applies to a case right here in northeast ohio. >> then they came in and told me i cab leave but i need to leave my daughter in the nursery at the hospital. >> reporter: this lorain mom told me her newborn baby girl was ripped from her arms for using what she considered pregnancy. >> marijuana came up and i did a lot of research and decided to do tea. >> reporter: sanford's baby was born in november. the little girl tested positive for a marijuana byproduct and hollie briefly lost cushion stoa.d but this scenario could be challenged by a new proposal that says pregnant moms lake sanford could qualify with the permission of a doctor. >> a doctor gave her the prescription and instructed her to use it, then yes, she could get away with it. >> reporter: but substance abuse experts tell me getting a doctor to sign of

paramedic chris hickey shows us the needles, the tool kits. children and their parents often finding them. you've got families calling you saying there are needles in the park, needles on the little league field. and he tells us that if the needles are everywhere, so are the dealers. who's most vulnerable. we watch as this man walks right camera. listen to what he tells us. how easy it would be to give savannah heroin. and once she's hooked again, more business for him. >> it's like a pyramid scheme. okay, like, i'm at the top, i get it from wherever i get it from. the more people i can get to sell and buy off of me. >> and to do it. >> the more money i make. which i don't sell anyways, anymore now. i got a job now, but -- >> so even though there's like this wonderful, new young mother, you'd still try to like pull her back down? >> it's not about who i am or heroin. >> they're dirtbags. i don't associate with those people. >> reporter: when we come back, we witness the biggest test yet for this young couple, and their baby. will their past, w

. >> repter: across town, veteran medic chris hickey gets the call. >> how qckly do you have to get there, if there's a chance of saving this person's life? >> within the first five minutes. >> i think we have an overdose, right in the middle of the road. >> reporter: we arrive. and there he is. the young man in the street. >> yeah, i just had a long day at work. >> reporter: they believe his heroin addiction, so strong he couldn't wait to get home from work before shooting up in his car. >> you sure you didn't take anything? >> yeah. >> we're not the police. you can tell us. >> no, i know. panicked driver who made the call. >> i came around, saw him slouched over at the wheel. >> reporter: a father on his way home from work. he says he gave that young man mouth to mouth because he knew what he was witnessing. in new hampshire it's everywhere, even in his own home. >> you know someing. i lost my son to a drug overdose. thank god i didn't have to do what i did for him. i miss him dearly. we have a problem in our coury and we have do something about it, period. >> reporter: for more than a

as brian hickey reports, it's great for the ski areas but tough on drivers. >> reporter: 25 inches of a 12 hour period. that's why they have been here plowing, scraping, and in some cases grating the roadway trying get it back down to the asphalt after that snow accumulated in a short time in the sierra. some of the ski resorts reporting 2 feet of snow at the base elevations. waiting for totals the upper elevations. if you are coming into the surveillance today definitely want to be ready for -- into the sierra today definitely want to be ready for winter weather conditions. the snow continues to come down here in the sierra under this winter storm warning. here at blue canyon at 5,000 feet. take look at this. i came through on friday coming home from skiing. it was pouring rain here. this was all dirt and now 18 inches of snow here on the ground just at the 5,000 foot elevation. significant snow totals in a very short time. again the interstate has re-opened. still gonna need those chains or snow tires goat up over the sierra. they are going that you advise -- you add here to that 30

live in cleveland, megan hickey, newschannel5. >> meantime police in lorain county say they busted up a large-scale trafficking organization. authorities say the raid resulted in the arrest of high- level heroin dealers. paul kiska just back from a news conference. paul, you also talked with a mom who knows the painful consequences of this heroin epidemic. >> reporter: frank, her son recently died from an overdose. she's glad police are cracking down on those drug dealers. >> he loved the outdoors. he loved to hunt, fish, four wheeling, mud trucks. >> reporter: this mom is packing up her son's personal belongings from his apartment. >> he throwfd wear this hat. he was is a western boy. >> reporter: she wishes his son would have made a better choice. heroin overdose. he was 19 years old. >> heroin, it's not a painkiller. it kills people. it takes them away forever. >> reporter: nick is one of at least eight heroin-related deaths in the last two weeks. lorain and elyria police reveal today they served five search warrants resulting in nine arrests of high-level dealers. police say the d

paul hickey is the co-founder and joins us now. why? >> you look the sector was only about 3% in the quarter that was enough to be the best quarter since i think mid 2014. so that's how poor energy has been, which is so beaten down. it's now coming into the second sector what we want to look at. tim, you were talking about the weak dollar. that's good or to the energy sect. commodities and good for oil. that's one thing working in its favor. sentiment towards the energy sector, over half of companies in the energy sector have seen their numbers cut in the last month. when you head into earnings season and you have that extreme of a negative revisions ratio, short-term sector usually does well. we saw it going into the first quarter earnings season. energy bottomed in late january. and analysts were so negative on the sector, industrials as well. and history. you look at history all the time. and two things. energy, is second quarter of the year is historically the best quarter of the year for the energy sector. and then, again, with thi

megan hickey has been in contact with both candidates tonight. >> what is the latest? >> reporter: with just under half of the precincts in o'malley is candidate the nominee tonight is effectively -- will effectively become the prosecutor. mcginty has served as prosecutor for the last four years and has come under fire for the handling of high-profile cases involving 12-year-old tamara rice and cleveland police officer o'brio. o'malley said he will change the way police cases are handle. win or lose his campaign will have helped raise questions about mcginty's policies. >> i am not victorious i think the community has gotten ahead because of my campaign. ask questions to propose more changes that he would have not proposed had i not been out here campaigning so i think the community as a whole has won. >> reporter: now, i have been in touch with mcginty's campaign as well. he did not want to give an interview until all the results were in. the latest results. >>> there are also a number of congressional primary races on the ballot and those results are running on the b

brian hickey at blue canyon. now, he's talking about using chains. the number one complaint overnight was solo spinouts. we know that the roads are saturated. >> the are still wet and you run the risk of hydroplaning. we'll check in with mike in just a bit. this sloppy morning commute. even though for most of us the rain has let up and a live look at the golden gate bridge and cloudy skies overhead and the seven-day forecast is coming up at the bottom of is the screen. come on over and take a look. you can see lots more rain as we go the week. and a look now at some of the storm os that i have been highlighting moving across the santa cruz mountains and moving also through sunnyvale. we will see more of these showers kind of off and on throughout the morning. we've seen rainfall rates coming down. in some, at about 0.25 per hour looking at what's happening there in saratoga and trying to get an idea of the rain coming down. some spots with some light rain and then as we take a larger view of the storm system, it's continuing to spin and will rotate m

. >>> yesterday we had brian hickey from our nbc affiliate reporting from doner. that was a heck of a lot of snow. >> that was great. a good time to be in tahoe. how quickly is it going to melt, kari? >> i think it will melt over the next few days. talking about highs in the 50s there and no more snow on the way. how are we doing here? as statewide averages at 92%. so, we're not at 100% all across the board, but we're doing the best in the northern tier where it is 102%. compare that to last year where it was 16% and we're getting so close to that all-important april 1st snow pack measurement. so, definitely will be watching those numbers as you make your weekend plans here in the bay area, highs in the 60s and low 70s and some beautiful weather saturday and sunday. what's happening on the roadways, mike? >> most of the major roadways are doing well. in napa county 121 at 128 still closed because of the storm activity and all the damage done. that's the area for napa county. and over here the drive across the golden gate bridge. that truck moving and that zipper t

. >> reporter: across town, veteran medic chris hickey gets the call. how quickly do you have to get there if there's a chance of saving this person's life? >> within the first five minutes. >> reporter: he arrives to find the young man who authorities believe couldn't wait to get home from work, shooting up in his car. the panicked driver who called 911, a father on his way home from work. he tells us he gave that man mouth to mouth because he knew what he was witnessing. it is everywhere, even in his own home. >> i lost my son to a drug overdose. thank god i didn't have to do what i did for him. i miss him dearly. we need to do something. we have a problem in our country. we have to do something about it. period. >> reporter: over the course of a year, we've met so many parents who never thought it would be their child. sabrina membenic. >> spencer's world was football. the boy loved to play. >> reporter: doug griffin. >> courtney was a lot of fun. she would bring a smile to everybody's face. >> reporter: 4 out of 5 new heroin users begin with prescri

mayor carolyn goodman will be reading to kids at hickey and today, dozens of first graders will be practicing their reading skills at the animal foundation... by reading to dogs./// kirsten joyce > now let's get a look at your forecast. brian loftus sherry... how's the weather looking today? < sherry swensk mostly clear and warm with temps in the 50s this morning... and another warm spring day is coming. in fact we could meet the record high in the low 80s - that will be two days in a row. ........... yesterday we hit a new record in the very warm low 80s. more 80s are coming this week as we welcome march... and a chance of showers are coming by the weekend. we'll take a look comiing up. > < kirsten, brian... back to you./// > ((kirsten joyce)) > the man > the man accused of kidnapping and holding a teenager captive as his sex slave in his home... is set to be in court today. jimmy carter kim faces more than 80 charges... including dozens of counts of sexual assault... police say a 14- year-old girl from arizona was held captive in his home for about a month... kim was initially arrested in d

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megan hickey has the answers. tell us what you know. >> reporter: the proposals gives a long list of debilitating medical conditions that would qualify for a license where patients could get it from the store or grow it at home. cancer, debilitating pain, hiv and epilepsy, a fraction of the conditions that could qualify patients for using medical pot. >> it is kind of like you need a driver's license or a passport to get into a bar to get alcohol. it makes it easy for the police >> the director of the marijuana project, the nbp drafted the initiative that included 5 medical marijuana businesses and allows a designated caregiver to grow it at home for a fee of $40 and it could be reduced for low income patients. well many patients say the announcement is a blessing, dr. christina reyes told me smokeable medicine is not the healthiest treatment for many conditions on the list. >> for me it flies in the sense of common sense. >> reporter: and it could be a slippery slope if other conditions are approved as the propos

this afternoon newschannel5's megan hickey spoke to mom and daughter. how does this fit into the medical marijuana movement here in ohio? >> reporter: many people, including concord mom christina, see the successful trial as proof of the benefits of medical marijuana, and she says the clock is ticking for her daughter paige. >> paigey, your turn. >> reporter: five-year-old paige had a good day today. a good day means she had 10 seizures at pre school. on a bad day, she can have more than 100. >> i don't know when the next seizure is going to be that could cause brain damage, further brain damage, for that

meagan hickey is live in the newsroom. >> reporter: some states ban sex offenders from voting in schools, others require them to vote absentee. but here unohio sex offenders can walk in and vote in elementary schools like the one in brook park. >> i thought there was a law that they had to be so many feet away from the school. at the school? >> reporter: newschannel5 did the research. there are 20 registered sex offenders in brook park. ten are registered to vote. one was assigned brookview he was convicted of internet sex crimes involving a minor. >> i am absolutely consider school. >> reporter: this parent told me sex offenders are not the only threat. >> there's no way they could possibly check every person going in and out of that school. >> reporter: the superintendent concern. the district hired a police officer to monitor the door to the voting room. according to the polling list many schools are used as polling sites across cuyahoga county and have been for decades. the parents tell me times have changed. >> it's a different age now. you don't know what's out there any more. >> h

brian hickey has more from the sierra. >> reporter: a very snowy night in the sierra where more than 2 feet of snow fell in some places. that's why interstate 80 for the better part of the evening and into the morning was closed due to whiteout conditions and very hazardous travel for a lot of cars that spun out on the freeway. caltrans and chp very busy clearing those vehicles overnight. the interstate has reopened today under very snowy conditions with chain controls all over the top. for skiers and snowboarders trying to get up here, we got more than 2 feet of snow in a 12-hour period is what we're hearing from some of the folks on the mountain overnight. intense snowfall coming down. i came through blue canyon on friday. this area was pouring rain, not a flake of snow to be found anywhere and now 18 inches of snow on the ground here as well. if you're coming up, check it out. significant snowfall. winter storm warnings expected to last through the day so definitely be prepared for winter driving conditions if you're headed into the sierra. >> and our nbc bay area app is a great r