wlwt news 5' s jenell walton continues our team coverage tonight. jenell? reporter: there was such a large turnout here in boone county the sheriff' s department had deputies here, directing traffic into and out of the church parking lot. some people said they actually waited up to an hour to caucus. some people said they tried to have a strategy when they saw the long lines. there were some voters who said they actually tried to caucus earlier in the day but left and came back hoping there wouldn' t be as long of a line to park. however, caucus officials say the crowds just kept coming. the caucus chair says there was a steady crowd for the first two hours. one voter said she came in hopes of keeping trump from winning the caucus in kentucky by voting for senator ted cruz. another voter said just the he wants to see change, and that' s why he supported trump. the republicans who turned out say it was exciting to see such a large turn-out for their first ever presidential caucus. >> my strategy was to go to the grocery store and come back and then the line

jenell walton is covering the long lines, and long waits, at the polls. but first, wlwt news 5' s todd dykes is live in independence, with what voters are saying, about their choice for todd. reporter: voters i talked to are happy so many people showed up at this school in kenton county to make their voices heard, and some voters weren' t bashful when i asked who they want to see in the white house. reporter: moments after casting her ballot in kentucky' s first caucus in three decades linda clark made it clear she supports donald trump. >> who' d you caucus for? >> the one that i voted for? >> yes. >> how come? >> i just feel like he' s the man that' s going to help our country. reporter: linda was among a huge crowd of gop voters who endured in independence kenton county' s >> it' s unbelievable. i' and trump did this. he did it. thank you, trump. reporter: some republican strategist in northern kentucky worried turnout would be low because the vote fell on a saturday. >> i am amazed and in wonder at what i see today. laying my eyes upon this >> we' ve

wlwt news 5' s jenell walton is live at uc, with the latest from the school. jenell. good afternoon. are a total of 19 students in brussels right now. they are there on spring break. the university says the students are in antwerp, belgium. that' s about 35 miles outside of brussels. the students are all safe. take a look at the students travel schedule. they arrived in paris on saturday. they took a train to brussels last night and were scheduled to visit the parlamentarium and procter and gamble today. however, the vice-president of communications at uc says the students will not head to brussels for that part of the trip. the students are traveling with professors suzanne masterson and tony salerno. greg vehr: we have 19 students and two faculty students in antwerp which is about 34 miles from brussels. they are safe and they are redirecting their plans to stay away from the scene. jenell: the uc international calls right now, not only from parents with students in brussels, but all students who are travelling abroad. uc says staff is working very hard to keep pare

jenell walton, wlwt news 5. sheree: jenell, thank you. cincinnati police and the atf will hold a press conference tomorrow to talk about how herald was linked to the great we' ll have that covered for you. it' s hard enough for adults to understand, let alone children. tonight, wlwt news 5' s tammy knew the four-year-old little boy who died this week after police say his step-mother punished him by putting him in scolding hot water. tammy? tammy: sheree, just try explaining to a child how their four-year-old friend died a horrific death. it' s very tough to do. tonight, i spoke with a family who knew little austin while he lived with his mom, before his dad got custody of him. >> he was four-years-old. he was a little kid. tammy: for adults, it' s hard enough to understand. let alone 10-year-old lona frye, crying for her friend, little austin cooper. >> we always played together. i always did everything with him as much as possible. tammy: police say austin' s step-mom, anna ritchie, admitted she punished the child by putting his legs in

wlwt news five's jenell walton is live in boone county tonight.. where we saw huge crowds throughout the day. jenell? people are excited about this presidential election. thousands of people turned out to boat here in boone county. caucus official say there was a line from the doors of the church all the way down the side of the building when they first open this morning. the caucus chair says even with the large crowds there were plenty of volunteers here. the cocky started at 10 am and ended at 4 pm and there was a non-stop flow of voters hear that entire time. caucus official say the crowds just kept coming. the republicans who turned out such a large turnout for their first ever presidential caucus. the caucus chair actually ended shutting down the entryway to the church wants the caucus officially closed at 4 pm so some voters were turned away. there were a lot people still hoping to caucus when the doors closed, but they were turned away. jenell walton wlwt news five. thanks, jenell. we will continue to update results as they come in... we wil

wlwt news 5' s jenell walton is live at u.c. where she' s been jenell. janel: there are 19 students and two uc professors on that trip. they' re in belgium right now. they were supposed to travel to brussels today. these students from the uc lindner college of business was supposed to tour procter and gamble' s brussels business center today. the attacks not only forced the group to make other plans, but find a new hotel for the rest of the week. >> we have 19 students and two faculty students in antwerp which is about 34 miles from brussels. they are safe. reporter: vehr says the students are part of a marketing group touring businesses in paris and brussels while on spring break. >> this is all part of the uc international study abroad program and our students have the opportunity to go to various places around the world and every now and then they get involved in an area where there is something that occurs such as this. reporter: robert capannari snapped this photo after the group landed in paris on saturday. he tweeted this message to family and fri

jenell walton, wlwt news 5. mark: the school district says school counselors are also available to any students who have concerns. kyla: we continue to get new developments at the scene of a devastating house fire in indiana. mark: officials have confirmed a body has been found inside the home that burned down overnight. kyla: the situation continues to unfold in aurora. wlwt news 5' s brian hamrick is live on the scene with what we' ve learned. minute or so, they removed the body from this burned-out building here, the home or they say an elderly woman lived. with her son and his wife. they have not yet said if this is the body of that woman. you can see it is still an active scene. people are involved in their point. we do know that the woman, her escape the fire. i talked exclusively to the son this morning, he said the fire spread very quickly. he couldn' t put it out. the fire was very intense, neighbors caught it on cell phone video as the home here on market street was fully engulfed area after the fire w

wlwt news 5' s jenell walton is live from the clermont county juvenile detention center. she has new information we have learned this afternoon. jenell: the gun turned out to be fake. argument escalated and led to the student being locked up here at the detention center. word quickly spread on facebook and twitter. an amelia middle school sixth grader arrested. police say he threatened a classmate with a gun. >> i was just scared. i was panicking. jenell: a parent' s facebook post led to a quick investigation and arrest by union township police. >> a mom posted on facebook that her daughter told her a friend sent her a picture of his friend holding a handgun. he said he was going to come to school today and hurt somebody at school. jenell: detectives say several students were group messaging last night when a disagreement escalated. >> which resulted in our juvenile suspect painting an airsoft gun to make it look realistic. placed a photo of himself on that facebook site showing himself holding the gun. jenell: police, with help from the school resource officer, tracked do

jenell walton wlwt news 5. nagel middle school has 40 students in paris right now on a mike: the classmates are a result of a project the students did as 7th graders last year in social studies. we did speak with a parent who' s child is on the trip and we are told all the students are safe, and having a great time. for those who have not heard from their friends or family. facebook activated its safety check this morning. unlike a normal facebook update safety check automatically sends your status to friends in the form of a notification if you are marked safe. it can also be used to check on facebook friends in the area of the attacks. and wireless carriers are offering free calls and texts from the u.s. to belgium in the wake of the attacks. verizon, sprint and a.t.&t. all announced customers in the u.s. can call and text numbers in belgium for free for a number of days. sprint, virgin mobile usa and boost mobile. will waive fees through march sheree: president obama. did not to return to the u.s.. after lea

jenell walton, wlwt news 5. jonathan: we're told west chester police will also be handling security. today's event will be at the savannah center in west chester beginning at 2:00 in the afternoon. we'll have a crew there live and stream it on wlwt.com. other presidential candidates are commenting on the incidents at trump rallies, including governor kasich, who called out the frontrunner during his campaign event yesterday in sharonville. >> donald trump has created a toxic environment. and the toxic environment has allowed his supporters and those who sometimes seek confrontation to come together in violence. jonathan: we'll hear more from governor kasich, including his plans as commander in chief coming up at 5:30. on the democratic side, hillary clinton packed the pews in a town hall in cleveland, ohio. throes attended the end. during the event, she outlined her plans to lift people from poverty and protect against gun and police violence. she also denounced donald trump's way of campaigning. >> the ugly, di

wlwt news 5' s jenell walton is live with a look at that video . jenell? jenell: people did not want to believe that a car flipped over the bridge, but a family' s surveillance video captured the horrible moments when it flipped over and plunged straight into the ohio river. this video capture the moments that the unthinkable happened. a car flipped over the bridge, landing straight and the ohio river near coney island. a family, who does not want to home surveillance camera was pointed at the bridge. you can see it sinking almost immediately. campbell county police leave they know the identity of the driver. >> there is a possibility we know who may have been driving when the car went over the bridge. jenell: they have not heard from their loved one since tuesday' s accident. the person lives in the area and drives over the bridge to run from work. >> the individual frequently commutes over the bridge. jenell: investigators say it could be several more days -- tuesday or wednesday -- before dive teams recover the victims from the wreckage. >> we will do e

jenell walton, wlwt news 5 . mark: two suspects in tuesday' s bombings at the brussels airport have yet to be identified. lisa: one of them is a suicide bomber. kier simmons has the latest. kier: in europe' s rain-soaked capital, soldiers questioned commuters, searching bags outside the metro. going to work is an act of defiance. frightening? >> yes. kier: you' re still determined to get to work? >> we cannot give in to fear. kier: an urgent man hunt to find killers who struck in the name the man in the middle has been identified as one of two brothers who died in the attacks. the suicide bomber on the is unidentified. each man is wearing a glove on investigators are working to establish why. they transported their palms to the airport in a taxi. the man with them is wanted by the police. there are questions about how the killers so easily enter the airport. there was a third bomb on the subway in our later. the cars' doors were blown out. passengers escaping on the tracks. echoing through the tunnels, screams. t

sheree: jenell walton is covering the arrest. about what appears to begun. what happened? jenell: it turns out the gun was fake. it was actually in airsoft pistol painted to look real. investigators say some students were messaging each other on facebook. two of them got into a disagreement and one of them made that threat. >> i was like, wow. it is time for metal detectors. i think clear book jenell: concerned parents want to make sure their students are safe at amelia middle school. some kept kept their children home today even though the suspect is in custody. >> late last night, the communications center received numerous calls from concerned parents after a facebook post children went to their parents. jenell: a parent wrote a facebook post about the picture it. other parents and then started sharing the information. >> it is scary. i think the kids need to be better protected and may be monitored a little better. i dig into what my kids are doing often. everything that they have on social media or tablets, it is always in my account. jenell: students and parents did t

wlwt news 5' s jenell walton is live with a look at that video . jenell? jenell: people did not want to believe that a car flipped over the bridge, but a family' s surveillance video captured the horrible moments when it flipped over and plunged straight into the ohio river. this video capture the moments that the unthinkable happened. a car flipped over the bridge, landing straight and the ohio river near coney island. a family, who does not want to

wlwt news 5' s jenell walton is live from the courthouse with the story jenell? accepted a plea deal with --. one being sentenced to 37 years another 10 years. the victim' s family says they should have been put to death. >> he took my dad' s life for $400. reporter: cynthia koehler says she wanted judge nadine allen to give the defendants james kirby, mario lewis and chasidy brewer, the maximum sentence, even though the prosecutor agreed to a plea deal. >> our interpretation of the law is that she definitely had some judicial discretion in which she could have imposed some additional time. reporter: prosecutors say 73-year-old carl engel was severely beaten by kirby. >> he had been beaten for an extended period of time with such items as a can inside of a sock used as like a swinging club, a coffee maker, a five gallon bucket of driveway sealer. reporter: engel' s son says his dad suffered for at least three hours before he died. prosecutors say kirby removed engel couldn' t call for help. >> the assault went down two kitchen with blood sprayed all over the wall

wlwt news 5's jenell walton has a look at the video. reporter: this surveillance video captured the horrific happened. a car flips over the combs-hehl bridge, landing straight in the ohio river near coney island. a family, who doesn't want to be identified, realized today their home surveillance camera was pointed at the bridge. you can see the car flip and then crash into the river, sinking almost immediately. campbell county police believe driver. believe we know who might be -- have been driving at the time the vehicle went over the bridge. reporter: the chief says family members have come forward to say they haven't heard from their loved one since tuesday's accident. the person works in the area and traveled across the bridge to and from work. >> that individual was last known to be in the campbell county area and frequently commutes across the combs-hehl bridge. reporter: in the meantime, investigators say it could be several more days, maybe tuesday or wednesday, before dive teams can attempt to recover the victim from the wrecka

wlwt news 5's jenell walton has more on the fundraiser. reporter: the theme, moulin rouge. dancers from the cincinnati ballet kicked off the cure starts now ninth annual gala. >> in the last year, we've raised $6.7 million. we've given to cancer research. if you raise it and never spend it, you never get closer to the cure. it starts with events like this. reporter: guests were able to meet real life cancer survivors in the crowd, like tanner thompson, a high school junior. >> january of 2009, i was diagnosed with my first brain tumor. i came for my yearly checkup and in july of this last year, i was diagnosed again with another tumor. reporter: organizers invited tanner and her family to get their minds off her illness and enjoy a night on the town. >> great to see so many people support this great cause and to get to see it firsthand is humbling. reporter: lauren hill lost her very public battle to brain cancer last year. her mother helped organize the fundraiser. she says it's an honer to help others fight the disease. >> to go and be in the fight every day in her honor

jenell walton has unexpected voter turnout and the problems it caused. >> i was the next to last car to i was like okay. reporter: carol walsh says she almost missed her chance to vote in the republican caucus before the polls closed. she went to the church on zion road earlier in the day and decided to leave and return in hopes of missing the crowd and long lines. the kasich supporter says she closed. >> my strategy was to go to the grocery store and come back. then the lines exiting here and the lines exiting, you know, on i-75 were totally backed up all day. really bad. reporter: there were lots of reasons voters said it was worth waiting in long lines in the parking lot to vote. some wanted to stop donald trump in his tracks. >> surprised me they put only one place to vote in each county unless they expected a very low turnout. which we obviously had a huge turnout. and i'm hoping that that's to stop trump. reporter: trump and marco rubio had their supporters too. i did. i'd like to see a change. you can't buy him off. he didn't owe anybody anything, right? we need a change in wa