what's the latest there, homa? >> reporter: yeah lee, we are at east 55th and marquette, kind of in midtown cleveland with a huge plume of smoke over this entire city just a few minutes ago and they have just in the last five minutes put out this fire. you can see that crane has been this is a scrapyard. fire started about an hour, an hour and a half ago. former workers were telling me that the way it started, the crane was moving a van, so when it squeezed that van to lift it to move it to a different location, it squeezed it so hard that one of the tanks inside burst. they don't know what it was, but that burst into flames, catching nearby cars on fire. the last hour we've been out here, we have been hearing put out these flames that are shooting smoke well into the sky. now, i want you to listen to what that former worker told me that happened. >> the one right here, he's okay too. he is the one that blew up on it, but the crane blew up instead. >> reporter: now back out here live you can see the smoke is cleari

. >> news channel 5 homa bash is live on scene. homa, you spoke to some witnesses there? >> reporter: yeah, we did. they heard the same thing we did over the last hour, explosions coming out of this scrapyard that is still currently in business. now, we want you to take a look back here. that fire is mostly out now. cleveland firefighters on scene, mopping up the hot spots. but i want to show video we shot over the last hour. you'll see these huge flames and smoke filling up the sky all over midtown cleveland. that huge black plume of smoke. this happened at a scrapyard called american iron and metal on east 55th and marquette right off cleveland's east side. we were getting calls from all over as people saw that huge plume of smoke over the sky during their evening commute. down here we kept hearing small explosion after small explosion. caught the nearby cars on fire. as you can imagine that it is almost expected in a scrapyard filled with metals and flammables. luckily no injuries to report though. again, you can see that fire is out pretty quickly. now, a former worke

nlt newsroom, homa bash, newschannel 5. >>> also new tonight our cameras on scene after a police chase that started in strongville ended 20 miles away on cleveland's east side. now, you can see in this video the crime tape up around the scene at east 79th and garden valley, just a few hours ago. no word on why they were chasing the car or why anybody was seriously hurt in the crash. nexus pipeline, the second of three. many thought these would be open public meetings, government reps one-on-one with people who came to express their concerns and ask questions. and that prompted a protest outside the school. >> people have the right to meet and have have a public meeting and hear what their neighbors are saying and how they feel about it. the private meetings are intimidating to the don't want to go in separate little meetings and meet one-on-one with people. >> people have collected signatures to get an issue on the november ballot to stop the pipeline and compression station from being put in medina county. the citation has gone all the way to the ohio supreme court. the third public c

we just saw homa in downtown a few light sprinkles. much better driving conditions now that our extremes have left the city. showers -- no thunderstorm activity to report an area neuron. watching this little bit of activity heading toward willard with thunderstorms in place. much lighter here over our viewing area. temperatures are back into the 70s. the 70s, 80s, and 90s where the story for today. rainfall, is going to be a continued concern not only for your forecast tonight but for your friday before we start to see those temperatures for the cold front. for tonight, those with the loop brian tickets, i know you do not want to hear that we are not done with the rain. we still think that we have the chance for some additional rounds here are the evening and overnight and into that friday forecast as well. he is here for two nights. hopefully, we can dodge it. but still be weather aware. check news app. it is a great tool when you're going to be outside. it will alert you and keep you and the family safe. power fives seven-day forecas

. >> reporter: homa bash, newschannel5. >> lustrous pride event actually rained out. organizers say this year they are moving forward rain or shine pride in the cle steps off at noon. the festival continues at e >>> the ohio a state highway patrol investigating a fatal crash that happened yesterday afternoon the 46-year-old rachel lucas june a u-turn when another driver hit her vehicle on the drivers side. she was killed and her passenger was injured. that passenger is in stable condition this morning. >>> we are looking ahead to next week with the streetsboro school board meeting. two allegations of hazing at band camp. we don't know exactly what happened, but we do know that two parents complained about what happened at a camp in carroll county earlier. >> there is different rights of passages mentioned. the band director has been suspended with pay. about or encouraged the hazing. we were not able to reach in that direction for comment. >>> it looks like a legal fight over ohio state band is all but over. on friday a judge dismissed the civil rights lawsuit filed b

but the latest scandal is the final straw for longtime hillary clinton aid and wife, homa aberdeen. she says after long and difficult work on my marriage, i new york child services may investigate because the child was in the picture with weanner. >> vanessa: panic in los angeles after two security scares at the city's interairport. tonight, we know all it was due to a false report of a shooter. hundreds of travelers who saw them then running out of lax after reports of a man carrying a sword. >> as adam housley found out, it was really just a passenger dressed as zoro and it w >> a gunman prompted the evacuation of several terminals sunday evening, lax describing the situation if a statement, reading, airport police began receiving reports of an active shooter in terminal 8. word spread quickly through the terminals by word-of-mouth, social media and additional calls were made to airport police about an active shooter in other terminals. the ensuing panic caused more than two dozen flights to be diverted, as well as cancellations and delays. >> all of a sudden, there was a flood of

una investigaciÓn por el uso de policÍas del estado de jalisco no su video musical se extendiÓ no homa*. >> yo apenas me enterÉ que ese lugar era de gerardo ortiz. >> pero la propia fiscalÍa hoy confirma a quien le pertenece esta casa. >> lo que puedo yo asegurarles porque lo conozco es que quien aparece como propietaria de la finca es una persona es una mujer que se encuentra radicada en estados unidos no tenemos hasta el momento un vÍnculo de eso personas con este cantante. >> a juzgar por las propias declaraciones del fiscal general es bien difÍcil entender quien realmente es el dueÑo de esta residencia, la mujer que acaba de mencionar o. >> realmente quien hacen como dueÑos son estos representantes legales y el abogado de esa finca que tenemos los tenemos vinculados en otros ilÍcito de carÁcter federal. >> sea quien sea la dueÑa ol dueÑo de esta propiedad, corre el riesgo de perderla, bajo la extinciÓn del dominio. >> extinciÓn del dominio, solamente se aplica en delincuencia organizada en secuestro, en robo de vehÍculos en trata de personas. si la finca estÁ involucrada en la comi

involved, that to get this done should he elected he president, don paulson investor wilbur rookay homaist what do you say. >> hi -- >> sandra. >> around on you you can't see us we can see you go ahead. >> i think good to the to have too many economists, the critical thing here good business managers that can make the government more effective, you know, if you look back on the years for the u.s. has done poorly, in the economy, there just aren't enough good business managers to make it operate. so i think this is a good team, everybody is working together, you are going to see a good plan at noon from trump, and that is going to then be able to be implemented by cabinet going to talk about the cabinet and the importance of the cabinet itself running a better effective operation. >> all right david malpass thanks for joining us good to have you. >> thank you. >> tune in for intu with donald trump tomorrow 7:00 a.m. eastern happening right here "mornings with maria." >> up next northern gulf coast is bracing forheavy a rainfall widespread flash flooding more on that superstorm, that has

only on 5 tonight our homa bash spoke to the people about it and why though chose here. >>reporter: because the a is a die-hard clevelander and he only agreed to do the project if they put one of those statutes right here, but now, there's not even a trace of it and he says that is heart-breaking. >>reporter: it was up for less than an hour. >> horrible, covered up. >>reporter: a statute made over the course of 6 months. >> you seen it all over facebook, it's crazy that somebody made that. >>reporter: gone before some could even see. >> looks like trump. >>reporter: donald trump in the coventry road in cleveland heights. maybe photos don't do it justice. >> i thought it looked cute. >>reporter: cleveland heights officer seized the statute soon after it went occupy. the police telling us it's against city ordinance to leave anything up on public property including the sidewalk. >> we're not going to be trying to get these things. >>reporter: that's one of the guys with the activist groups that put up these statutes across the country. >> this is our way its existence esse