investigator jonathan walsh joins us in medina. that have suspicions about their kids. >> reporter: parents need to know this is an option. >> we will flip your hair over. >> reporter: angela demonstrated a test examining

investigator jonathan walsh, newschannel5. >> if you live in cuyahoga county did your neighborhood vote for prosecutor tim mcginty or challenger michael o'malley? there's an interesting analysis. investigatessor sarah buduson here now to break down the votes, which candidate won and where they won. sara. all of the cuyahoga precincts, o'malley won the race by 20,000 votes. it's very clear. one city delivered the defeat the mcginty. incumbent tim mcginty and his office bragged about prosecuting cases from a backlog of untested rape kits and demolishing abandoned homes. >> we're getting more than we can hafnlt. >> reporter: but analysts we talked to say lost the public's confidence with his handling of high-profile officer-involved shootings in cleveland. >> as far as they were concerned, mcginty did wrong and he was punished at the moss. >> reporter: we have reviewed numbers and we learned michael mall lee won -- michael o'malley won most of the suburbs, including maple heights. mcginty did win bay village, westlake, rocky river, north openly sterksd and strongsville. cost mcginty's reel

jonathan walsh shows us more. >> the business is called any lab test located in medina. those that run the drug screening have seen a big increase in positive tests including heroin. they can get a rapid screening done with urine for $49 and a hair sample test that runs 189 dollars. the idea is to be proactive if children are taking drugs so children can get help. any positive tests are sent off for another verification and more review to help avoid false positives. they are monitored having blue water so the specimen can't be diluded with clear water. >> if they have suspicions it is better to test and know they were wrong and it comes out negative or if the child needs help and it does come out positive and they can take the next step to ensure the children have a good quality of life. >> one of the biggest things to remember is once you have your result, they don't go to the cops, they don't go on any medical records, they stay within your family so you can becomes an even bigger problem. i'm investigator jonathan walsh, newschannel 5. >> david muir has a special repo

i'm investigator jonathan walsh. newschannel 5. >>> we haven't seen as many as snow as we have in winters past but road crews have a concern of a different kind. take a look. huge piles of salt. now sit unused since this winter's weather didn't warrant it and now officials are trying to figure out what to do with the leftover salt. >> we don't throw more salt on i would much have it stored and reduce the budget and be budget conscious for the residents of the village. >> towns like orange save money on fuel and estimate $50,000 in savings for next winter and are very prepared. i like your idea of what to do. >> they should make a big pretzel and put salt on it or popcorn. >> let's just have a party. >> it's been foggy and cloudy and the fog has been thick and kept us chilly. let's take a look at what is happening in downtown akron. the time lapse showing fog in the area, skies brightning a bit. but clouds are kind of hanging tight and they will do so through the evening in the overnight. currently it is 43-degrees do

just go claim it. >> reporter: watching out for your wallet, investigator jonathan walsh, newschannel5. >> hello! it's like a can join there. the ohio lottery told us there is a lucky for life ticket that was sold in cleveland. it is worth $25,000 a year for life. it hasn't been claimed yet. plus there are many more tax tips on our newsnet5 app. >> you bought about six tickets a few weeks ago. >> i wish, right. >> so the next time i hear, what's in your wallet, i'll know the answer. >> jonathan walsh. >> 30-something guy stealing cash from my pocket. here's our tower cam from ashtabula heights. looking north it does look cold. notice there is no snow falling. snow is fading very rapidly. it is 25 degrees downtown. this isn't the trend we wanted. we're into march now. we wanted warming trend. we will wait a couple more days and get. that in the meantime here is the big chill. it is on like con key congress. 24 did he grains ravenna. it's 23 right now at the courthouse doors. calm. we have calmed our winds down in ravenna, but there are still windchills with temperatures in the 20s. with

our consumer investigator jonathan walsh is live on 5 outside city hall. jonathan, this woman reached out for help and you found this is a very complex problem. >> reporter: yeah, i talked to the woman. she lives on the east side. as i walked through her home i noticed quite a few questionable, if not dangerous, electrical situations. i talked to one city leader. i asked him, were there inspection mistakes made? >> i trusted that the city would back me up if all else fails. and that has not happen. >> reporter: charlene who, for to be seen on camera, but she did want you to sea how an electrician left her home with unfinished work. she told me one inspector signed off on this work saying it was done, but -- >> he's never been to my home, and i don't know why he approved and said that the work was cleat. >> reporter: in the basement alone the box is wide open, wires exposed. add to that the older house has water collecting on the floor. >> it's not fair that i sur and may family summer. >> reporter: i talked with cleveland's building and housing director, r

we need to be aware of this so we sent jonathan walsh digging for answers. we have seen a huge jump in the deaths. >> a sizable increase. in ohio we saw the largest increase in pedestrian traffic deaths than every other state in the country. take a look at the numbers from the governor's highway safety association. they show in the first half of 2014 ohio had 25 people died and in the first half of 201556 people died. that's a 124% increase and the largest again of its kind for all states. woods in northeast ohio? i requested records from the ohio state highway patrol for all of 2014 and preliminary numbers for 2015 some of the main counties saw increases. cuyahoga went from five to ten and lorraine from one to five and portage one to three and summit two to four. you may be asking why? across the country people are using cell phones so much that they are distracting walkers and drivers and experts say that is partially to blame. other reasons, a better economy with low gas prices is allowing more miles behind the wheel. overall deaths are still to jump and

juve been contacting us with problems at the cleveland >> jonathan walsh went digging for answers in boston heights. >> reporter: you have lived here how long? >> all my life. >> reporter: 76-year-old mary griffith owns these two homes side by side. she showed me the well that she's used for decades and still does. >> it's been very good for the >> reporter: she was a bit surprised when she got a $27 bill from cleveland water. >> how can i be getting a water bill when i still have my well and no pipes down to the house or anything? >> reporter: you see, there's some development happening across the street. >> reporter: did they put these fire hydrants in here? >> yes. >> reporter: as a part of all that a water line did go in at the row. however, mary told us she isn't even hooked up yet, but then she received two more $27 bills totaling $81. >> i feel like where do i turn? >> reporter: we're not just talking about three bills for this house. six total bills. she says 30 to 50 phone calls later to customer service and she's still getting stonewalled. >> it's very, very difficult. you

that's where we september five on your side investigator jonathan walsh to get answers. >> i'm getting confused about this water bill thing now. >> reporter: 81-year-old mae owns this building on superior avenue on cleveland's east side. >> there's one right there. >> reporter: in her building there are two stores and two apartments above those stores. >> reporter: those. been occupied? >> they haven't been occupied in many 15, 20 years. >> reporter: so i am imagine her surprise when she got a water bill for thousands of dollars. she showed me this store doesn't even have water. she told me she tried several times to get answers from the cleveland division of water. >> there's no water being used. you don't use no water. >> reporter: i want to show you one of the interesting things mae told me. this is a huge building. but the only working water is right here in this sink, and over here, this toilet. in fact, to help out mae, a business owner from next-door cut the water line going up to the apartments and capped it off. >> reporter: apartments upstairs are not getting any water? >> no

five on your side investigator jonathan walsh joins us. it's been great weather so of course that means a lot of work being done. >> reporter: , some but maybe not a lot. i'm on dupont. this is actually assigned to a city crew today. there are quite a few potholes but get. this as you watch my report i'm going to continue to walk, and at the end of my report, i will have walked the entire section that was on the work order today. take a look. >> i just don't understand it. i'm sorry, i don't. >> reporter: linda robinson is >> i don't have the greatest car in the world, but i need it to get back and forth. i have children, i have a disabled sister i care for. >> reporter: she lives on east 53rd where at the intersection of fleet her car hit a major hole blowing the tire and damaging the rim. fleet has been repaved, but then it's a mess at 53rd. >> you can see where they resurfaced everything except for that one area. >> reporter: i checked the schedule of the cleveland pothole filling crew. 11 total were out. but a couple of the assigned le

i'm investigators jonathan walsh. >>> mark is in and following severe weather coming up for northeast ohio. >> no severe weather warnings. wooster, the storms have arrived. the rain is at wooster high school. football field so good news there. everybody indoors but there is the wet weather, the pavement wet. and we will zoom out, norwalk, wellington, down towards the wooster area, you can see the squall line and it curves south to coshocton. the individual cells are forming forces and combined the wind speeds. near wakeman, producing torrential rains and another one near sandusky. a pretty healthy cell of rain along the lake erie shoreline. may have some hail right along the shoreline. let's go back further south and we will take a look at the cells, look at that. hail near florence and wakeman right there. large hail is an inch in diameter. here is hail here near rochester. some interesting air spinning a little bit. right now it doesn't appear that we have any type of major issue going on. we do have gusty winds out of wellington. potentially producing 30 to 40 miles per hour winds.

jonathan walsh, news channel 5. >>> canton police now investigating the death of a three-year-old girl as a homicide. police and ems were called in this morning for an unconscious child. we talked to canton police about the investigation moments ago. >> we believe some sort of blunt force trauma. we don't know whether it would have been from hands or an object. that will be for the corner to decide. right now -- bashin is in canton right now and will have more information later this evening. >>> this was the scene along and the avenue late this morning. we have asked police for information but they are not telling us anything at this point. >> it felt like a train hitting both of us. >> a driver tonight became -- a driver's nightmare became a reality overnight. anthony and his brother had been up all night working on their church. is not usually on the road so late and says he had a bad feeling when he pulled his u- haul onto the highway. >> it was just before this happened. i said lord, please don't let a wrong way driver hit me. >> moments later, that exact thing happened. they were

jonathan walsh digs into a problem with www. wishart, and how one local woman -- www.wish.com and how one local woman said it could be too late for your. >> they have craft supplies real cheap. >> reporter: or so she thought. she lives in a small apartment with her cat. she is on a tight budget so she liked www.wish.com because of the prices. she thought this ring was the cat's meow from a two dollars but not so fast? text messages for any activity account. not only did she get a text alert for $45, she received yet another one. this one, for $72. >> i saw where they were from, opened up the app to see what was -- to see what was going on. >> reporter: shelley filed a report at the police office. then, she came home to find another problem. >> i discovered there is now an that isn't mine. >> reporter: shelley isn't the only one with problems about www.wish.com. site jabber cleans identity theft, stolen information, fraud and that's despite google naming it one of the best shopping apps of 2014. there are positive roots -- positi

investigator jonathan walsh joins us in medina. that have suspicions about their kids. >> reporter: parents need to know this is an option. >> we will flip your hair over. >> reporter: angela demonstrated a test examining she has seen an increase in positive drug results. >> unfortunately i have seen it here in my facility, children as young as two being exposed to drugs. >> it includes 8000 tests, screenings for cocaine, marijuana, opiates, meth and on and on. parents come in curious about their children. >> it is better to test and know that they were wrong and it comes out negative or the out positive. >> there are times that the lab. >> we guide them into the process and we help them understand that mom or dad is just concerned for them. >> rapid drug screens dug with urine costs $49 and hair tests $189 but the hair gives you a ninety day past history of drug use and privacy is protected. health record. we don't report it to the police department or anything like that. >> and angela suggests that if you do bring your child by the lab don't say you are coming, say, hey, we have to swing

investigator jonathan walsh newschannel 5. >>> a gop is aiming a campaign from naming a new supreme justice. there is hearings being refused for president obama to choose. to replace justice antonin scalia. >>> a massive sinkhole swallowed up a car. a 12-inch bust sending water everywhere. the hole gave way and taking cars with it and the police fished that vehicle out of that huge hole. >>> that's a bad monday right there. >> might as well go back home and go to bed. >> but at least we have a beautiful warm day. >> it feels like april so what comes with april ... >> showers? >> maybe april storms. >> a little more than that. let's show you the power of five live doppler radar. the thunderstorms and the line we speak. these are the same storms that dayton a little while ago. let's zoom in and we will show you the strongest cells. towards shelby. it could be a tiny bit of hail but if there was hail in the storm we would be seeing the big blotches of purple and pink. those are not there and it issue. as you can see the hail chances 30% and it would be very small. so it is moving towards the n

investigator jonathan walsh spoke with a wild life investigator to help get progress in the case. senate's not a good feeling. >> reporter: tim is a well established big game hunter. he gave miller's taxidermy a huge elk head and a deposit but then heard nothing back. >> it was a good six months of heavy phone calls and such lake that, and hounding him down. >> reporter: numerous customers were running around, trying to find the owner of miller's taxidermy. they wanted their money back. they wanted their animals back. then, out of nowhere, a wild life officer stepped into the picture. he contacted me about the victims i had spoken to. i gave him the information, around. >> i don't know, i couldn't back. >> reporter: robert from lorain dropped off this rack back in november of 2014, then couldn't taxidermy. >> i called him in february, no answer. contacted him on facebook, all this, no answer. >> reporter: robert went off to serve our country and just got back thursday. >> just sitting at home, and i got a notification from you, >> reporter: surprised after wildlife officer randy w