judge dlott told me she first heard about the problem around seven o'clock while at dinner and issued her order. the ohio secretary of state's office got it at 7:31 -- a minute after polls closed -- and elections boards had it in ther hands by 8:01 p.m. p.m. "it was a bit of an inconvenience." inconvenience." clermont county board of elections director judy miller had workers quickly try contact her 66 polling places. places. "the problem was it came at a time when many of the polling locations had already shut down and we alreadyk had some of them en route here to the board of elections." elections." hamilton county, elections board chairman tim burke was upset they didn't have a say in the matter. "this one was i think too quick." quick." ohio secretary of state jon husted went one step further calling it an "unjustified intrusion by the federal court into the election system. judge dlott told me she was unaware of the time when issuing the order, but added, "i did what i thought i needed to do. i do what the law requires me to do." which should be counted in 10 days, depending upon

got a call at 7:32, 2 minutes after the polls were to have closed from somebody in federal judge susan dlott's office letting us know the judge had provided an oral order for us to hold the polls open in hamilton, butler, clermont and warren counties until 8:30 pm.husted says he received no written order until 8:13. regardless, hamilton county voters voted up until 7:30 and the polls closed. locally, no one knew what was going on between the judge and the secretary of 8:01 pm from the secretary of state's office. some times pollworkers, if they've finished their procedures by 8 pm...they had left before we had even received a court order.long before. poland got the secretary of state's email at 801 but not the court order until 8:14. we made every effort to reach the pollworkers and instruct them that the polls were to remain open until 8:30 and the poll workers did their best to process the voters.less than 100 voted in hamilton county between 7:30 and 8:30. some were turned away. two elections in a row extended hours led to late returns. in ohio, we are a place where legal issues surrounding

judge dlott says the order was justified, adding "i did what i thought i needed to do. i did wehat the law requires me to do." tonight -- we know how a polar bear briefly escaped its enclosure... the cincinnati zoo says the bear walked through an open door! door!a zoo spokeswoman says "berit" breached a behind-the- scenes containment area around 11-30 this morning... but was never loose *in* the zoo. moved indoors as precaution. a local design company is already having fun with today's news."cincy shirts" on main street released this shirt design today... a take on the cola-cola ad.it reads "enjoy cincy" with a polar bear on it. president obama announces his pick to fill the empty supreme court seat...and it's one that has ties to a tri-state leader. leader.merrick garland served in the justice department during the investigation of the oklahoma city bombing -- this is video of him from 1995. at that time -- n-k-u president geoffrey mearns was a trial lawyer... and was picked by garland for the team prosecuting terry nichols. here's how mearns remembers garland. "he is

burke tells me this happened because, as he was told by the secretary of state's lawyer, judge dlott's court reporter was stuck in the traffic and reported it to her. he told me he's never seen polls stay open before for a reason like traffic backups. live downtown... ben katko... fox19 now. and we have full results on fox19 now dot com... we also have a live report from inside governor john kasich's election night headquarters... coming up.. as well as more coverage of the local races you voted on today. weather now steve cam an oklahoma man is charges tonight, accused of making a cincinnati teen his online, sex slave. through court records and is in studio with what she's found. the illegal relationship is outlined in these pages and pages of federal court records. the two met in january 2013. but, now more than 3 years later...the suspect faces life behind bars. nats computer keys jermey barrows was 22 years-old when investigators say he logged onto an internet chat room and met the 14 year-old amberley village teen. these are pictures from barrows' myspace page. though hundreds of

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federal judge susan dlott issued the order, but the secretary of state didn't hear about it until a minute after the polls closed. elections boards weren't notified until 30 minutes later causing confusion in clermont county's 66 polling places. "we had a couple of calls from some of those precincts that were closed down and we told them to come to the board and we would let them vote here, even though we had not had that direction from the secretary of state and that call could be made later. but, we didn't want anyone to feel disenfranchised." disenfranchised." voters in that extra hour were given provisional ballots that will be counted in 10 days -- unless judge dlott's order is appealed. after wins last night... to be working in favor of hillary clinton and donald trump.9 on your side anchor look. it wasn't long ago our newsroom was busy calculating results from last night's elections. elections. hillary clinton just needs about 780 more delegates. bernie sanders needs about 15-hundred. on the republican side, donald trump is now about 590 delegates short. his closest competitor ted c