our major concern is a flood watch in effect for northeast ohio. through sunday evening at 8 pm we have a few storms already starting to pop up. offshore, we are not expecting any wet weather to slice into our viewing weather until 9 a.m. 9 a.m. widespread rain will track in from the north flooding is the major concern. earlier this week we were talking about in moderate drought for northeast ohio. we are starting to just make up the difference here. so the soil and plants are dicey right now. temperatures are 80 degrees or greater cleveland. the air is already making its way in today back to mid 80s. good morning akron at 77 degrees and 74 four ciscoe morris county this is the last day will we will talk about the heat and sticky humidity that is definitely playing a big part in producing these storms we have seen all week. look at our daytime highs. 87 by 11:00, but our team is on full coverage today as minor flooding is our major concern. >> you have to stay tuned. thank you. >>> residence in cleveland heights, it why is it taking so long for cre

right in the northeast corner. in the last 10 minutes, 17 minutes and there are some heavier pockets of rainfall possibly a little bit of rainfall with this but you could see the burst of purple indicating really a quick -- an area of quick heavy rain in that region right near scottsdale road as that moves to the northeast. we have more to the northeast tracking fountain hills, heading towards you. behind it not a whole lot happening so things will start moves through and as we talk about your most accurate planner, the best potential is here through about 6 am for the scattered thunderstorms so be on the lookout for that. if you have to travel before -- after 6:00 you have a better chance of getting drier conditions on your way to work. right now we're at 78 but by 9 am we climbed to 86 as we start to gradually clear out -- we will climbed to 86 degrees as we start -- to gradually clear out. slight chances in that forecast. 100 degrees today show you how much hotter it will get in the 7-day forecast in just a few

northeast ohio is great. it's huge. [ technical difficulties ] >> reporter: let's see if he can make it happen again here in rio. now ohio's rowers finished rowing today and without the medals they were hoping for, muler and partner grace completed the a final in the women's pair but this morning it just wasn't their race. they finished fourth over all. about six seconds back from bronze medal. and josh made the first american team to qualify for the a final. the medal race in the light weight. today he told me he is glad he proved they are glad to be here. they finished fifth over all about four seconds back from the gold medal. now russ, we will be watching those two university of akron folks as we watch clayton compete and sean gets started. no medal events though. we'll have to look forward to them hopefully making it to the finals h back to you. >> akron, i hear really cool people come from there. will you confirm that sara? >> i think that is true. you don't have to go far to find cool people from akron

this is tropical moisture continuing to feed across northeast ohio. so you're seeing the gray skies, lingering through sunday afternoon. we have slight changes in the forecast. looks like more moisture even for your monday and heavy-duty rain for tuesday afternoon. so let's finish up the weekend on the wet side, along with temperatures. they are cooling off just a few cleveland. ashland to medina lower to mid- 70s. looking at highs today lower 80s across the board. dew points are still up, also as the front is starting to track across northeast ohio. so tracking rain this morning for twinsburg just moving north and east out of the hudson area, so stark county already this morning, getting hit with a little bit of rain, you can down from euclid to lake county. these are heavy downpours, no lightning associated with those cells but even ashtabula to connoat they are slow moving systems, moving east 5 do 10 -- 5 to 10 miles per hour but cloudy skies and rain linger across the area. it's already starting to feed in slowly but surely, i know yesterday afte

again as those storms continue to push off to the northeast. as i zoom in even fountain hills is gradually clearing out, just a few light sprinkles around behind the rainfall. things are also winding down as across the northeast things are much quieter and clouds are starting to break up. you can see that from the phoenix hospital valley cam. more sunshine across the west and south valley as we begin the process of trying out after the storms. so storm chances will gradually trend down from here. clearing out the storm chances by lunchtime. this afternoon, just a 10% chance of another phoenix metro although the bulk of the action will be across the higher terrain. temperature-wise we've had rain cooled air so you will step outside to some pictures in the 70s -- to temperatures in the 70s. it will feel pretty comfortable out there and it will be a gradual warm-up up to 93 by noon before the high and then drier air starts to move in and that will clear out storm chances for wednesday and thursday and also he does up a bit with the temperature war

moving to the northeast. you could get caught under a there is a chance for storms through the day and any storms will have the potential of producing flash flooding >>> we jumped up to a 12 minute desert drivetime on i-10 westbound from 202 to 60. the full spot will be in the northwest corner on 101. this is a look from the adot camera. at 35th avenue. jampacked back to union hill. the roads are slick. >>> we have rain chances >>> good morning, america. donald trump defending himself after a comment being called a threat against hillary clinton. >> if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. although the second amendment people, maybe there is, i don't know. >> trump said he was not suggesting violence and clinton overnight. a new batch of her e-mails made public. >>> breaking overnight, a former librarian killed by police in front of a horrified crowd. shot while volunteering for a demonstration at a police safety event. the latest on what officers say was a terrible accident. >>> flash flood

northeast winds 5 to 15 mph. .wednesday nig.m cl lows in the upper 50s. nortwinds 5 t mph. .thursday...partly sunny. highs in the lower 70s. north winds 10 to 15 mph. 3 roads are in great shape this morningweather shoul't impact the morning commute. there will be a full freeway closure overnight of i-41 sb from watertown plank rd. through the zoo for roadwork. i-894 nb will also close from national through the zoo for sign structure removalthe i-94 eb to i-41/us-45 nb system ramp is now closed long term until spring 2017 for reconstructionall part of the zoo interchange project. hwy 100 will become the main detour while this closure is in place.plan on slow condions as you travel through the area.another reminder that the national, lincoln and greenfied ave entrance ramps to i-nb new zipper merge is also in place between national and greenfield ave as well. drivers should use posted alternates and plan for extra time.another reminder that the i-794 nb exit ramp to michigan still ahead this morning - a plumber is using his truck to give customers an eyeful

this is pushing to the northeast and that eventually is going to continue to move northeast into northeast scottsdale. and the senate -- southeast valley has -- this is tracking right over mesa gateway. the radar is there, tracking to the northeast. apache junction is in the path of that. we've got valley and a little bit more to our south. maricopa getting in on some of that rain. if it manages to hold together it could move towards ahwatukee and there's another spotty shower to the south so as we go through the next couple of hours watch for the scattered showers that could continue to impact the valley and all of this is moving to the northeast so we have wet weather along the mogollon rim. any of those in that direction so the ran also has a -- the ram also has a chance for showers. plan on this early-morning rain chance but we have chances for more storms later, a few disturbances moving through, a boost in monsoon moisture and then rain chances -- means chances are sticking around even into tomorrow. we could see storms to our south. the dust threat will be there today ahead of any r

northeast mesa over loop 202 moving to the higher terrain moving toward the northeast pretty soon it will clear the valley, but i will a close eye on that one. that could lead to potentially some areas of flooding in the area. we have already seen quite a bit of wet weather in the region in the last couple of days. more storms firing up and some strong storms developing in the state, we will talk about what to expect the rest of today. and when we will dry out and clear out the moisture in a few with a chance of getting really wet. that is what they are dealing with in mesa, 64,000 students back in class right now, each principal has their own plan in place, but the district has additional resources waiting which includes extra maintenance and ground workers. sandbags are at the schools, pretty much prone to flooding in the district. the buses are running on schedule but drivers are prepared to take alternative routes because of washed out roads. if this happens, the district says to keep your phone they will contact you by phone or email if anything changes. >>> one of the hardest h

all of this is tracking the northeast, heading up into northeast scottsdale. just west of the loop 101 also moving northeast towards anthem so in that area your way and cave creek, all of this pushing to the northeast. got spotty showers as we wake up under mostly cloudy skies. this morning watch for the with roads as you heading to work and as we go through the day we will track more monsoon moisture meaning it will be warm but also humid and that's going to mean more storm chances. so 81 now, 94 by lunchtime, a high of only 99 and we talk about the threat of afternoon >>> i am allison rodriguez live in the right -- in the live drive. the rain is starting to come down. let me turn this around and show you, the windshield wipers are going. i am not sure if this is weather-related but that -- but at this hour looks like it went out at some point near 7th street and greenway. this is now a four way stop. i was showing this downpour on the facebook live page just a few not -- moments ago share page but just crazy. you can see out here. the other video from overni

moving northeast. moving west and northeast. confidence is good. they take a move along. there could be serious issues and the capital and accelerates in the northeast. we're left in the soup for a how many more days. friday is going to be wet. get set for more rain near the coast as the temperatures are in the 70s. we'll talk about that at 6:45. here for now hermine is heading to the big bend area of florida. that's where we go in panama city beach. it is decent there. >> yes, mark a few minutes ago i have to say some heavy rain did come through and wind out here reached about 18 miles per hour. the rape has stopped. as can you see we have some people here out on the beach. they were hiding under that pier there. making their way back out to beach and some surfers we have several people on the pier who are fishing. now take a look at the advisory flag that we have here it is yellow which means medium hazard and currents right now. florida governor rick scott stopped by the emergency operation center earlier today for a briefing of the chief said they do not plan an activ

that will cross over to northeast ohio by early afternoon . we will looking at more sunshine and set of rain afternoon. let show you our temperatures across the board. greater cleveland 69 degrees. upper 60s dover/new philly. dew points are starting to fall as our temperatures continue to warm-up throws afternoon. is the first morning in about 9 days that i haven't talked about any moisture, tropical moisture, just a little bit of ground clutter that is taking a the area -- up the area. the browns are back tonight and will play in a little bit of sunshine. >>> it will be a little bit difficult later on this evening could you have the browns, the indians and paul mccartney. look at the 71 ride into the no problem at warrensville heights treader we do have a problem in warrensville heights, 90 will be closed. >>> breaking overnight: a fire breaks out at an apartment complex in warrensville heights at shaker park gardens. it is a three-story building. our overnight news tracker sent us this video. witnesses tell us this started as a cooking fire

it could clip parts of wickenburg as it continues to track to the northeast. much of the valley is fairly quiet but we spotty showers from sun city west into surprise that we will continue to track to the northeast towards loop 303 and eventually could impact spots like him. this is just the beginning -- like anthem. this could be firing up along the rim and we are walking -- watching storms to ourselves and there's a threat of dust as we head through the afternoon. so a lot to track and the forecast. i will break it down for the in just minutes. >>> -- a shooting near 28th street and broadway is where we find megan thompson. >> police say he went door-to- door asking for help after he was shot around 3:00 this morning. police say it was a neighbor who drove into a county hospital where he's now in critical condition or -- but they didn't know about him until half hour or so until they -- after they got on scene. they found shell casings and a car with bullet holes but police say the car belongs to sleeping inside their house when this all went down. we're tol

right now, starting to make its way across northeast ohio once again. that why we're waking up to cloudy skies and that rain starts to flow here. we have been tracking a cell that has just exited lake county, geauga, northern portions, even ashtabula county. moving pretty slowly north and east from our viewing area. moving into erie, pa. this is where the bulk of the moisture is currently, you're seeing the darker greens and yellow, that could be a heavy downpour but we're not picking up any gusty conditions or hail, this is just definitely rain that is congress down even for wayne -- coming down even for wayne county. the bulk of this moisture, it's elong gated and going to continue to make its way across northeast ohio. this afternoon we're under a slight risk of a few storms humidity, still very high. hour by hour, we're in that time frame between now, all the way to about 3:00 as that front starts to make its way through. we're going to be tracking more rainfall unfortunately for your monday and tuesday afternoon. >> umbrellas still needed. with all

it has been a soggy we can across northeast ohio. we were talking about that low that is affecting louisiana. it has finally decided to live to the north which will give them a reprieve, but that same front has affected 6 states over that continuous moisture really to affect northeast ohio. right now we're seeing those heavier bands out toward cincinnati, but our temperatures across the border are definitely on the warm side this morning. we're still in the lower 70s across the greater cleveland area. you can see out toward inland locations from akron, wayne county -- dew points -- still rain is falling. it is definitely on the lie side . we have a little bit of isolated activity for summit county all the way into madonna. -- medina. no advisories. they have expired even though we are contending with rain this afternoon all the way through tuesday. what we're dealing with here is a frontal boundary that has stalled out. it hopefully will track cooler air by wednesday really losing the humidity. so far your future cast, we are not goi

the storms rolled their northeast ohio especially the westside afternoon. it started about 4:00 i believe. massive dark clouds rocked downtown cleveland thursday >> bring with it severe thunderstorms that pound of much of northeast ohio. torrential downfall made for a terrible commute home and even bringing down a pole on a car. >> air raid really hard and it blew really hard. we went inside because we did not want to get wet. we came out an hour later and half the neighborhood was in the street. trees and branches. >> as soon as i pulled in my driveway we heard a loud bang and a crash. >> in rocky river trees came tumbling down at orchard park in detroit. father west it a portion of columbia road was closed due to >> there was rain and i did not know if we should get in the car or out of the car said they're there still about 4,000 customers in the city of rocky river without power grid you can always get the latest in your area by heading to our website fox8.com. >> a lot of you started sending us pictures as soon as the storm started going through. cloud

the northeast side of town especially... but everyone got a taste of the lightning and even some rain... hail and gusty winds. ...... we could still see a shower before this area of low pressure completely moves out today. ........ there is still plenty of moisture out there and a little trailing energy to trigger a shower or even a thunderstorm early this morning then getting on with some sunshine this afternoon. ............ humidity is very high and circulation is slowly pulling away, but the humidity will not in the low 70s right now - if the air was dry. ........... the storms that clobbered the northeast side of town dropped more than an inch-and-a-half of rain in about a half hour last night. hail, lightning and gusty winds. .............. the low will pull away today, but outflow from afternoon storms could trigger late-day storms again after 5 pm and we might be seeing more evening storms in and near the valley. -- ann and durango flooded intersection demetria, how are the roads? you shouldn't run into any delays <<

and it's if they it have happy back-to-school week concerns in northeast ohio especially on the city's west side, an area hit hard by storms. earlier in the week alison brown allison brown tells us so al far people cleaning up from the first round of storms.. >> went to the grocery store ana my eyes onn the sky. >> not again. whether rolling into northeast counties including cuyahoga and lorraine.n you never know what is going to happen and many people in bay village lost power earlier thisr weekend did not want to deal with anything else.week >> the power was out on our street from thursday night until early this morning. that was more than enough. >> so far so good at the rain came through to the area saturday over a span of about 20 to 30 minutes but after that. the only problem with the rainan has been a delay of plans for saturday. >> our plans were delayed a little bit.t. we have a pen. roast going on at the yacht club down the road here in and it kind of put a damper on our style but not too bad. >> even though the idea flooding does soundea terrible, rain does not.ei much of th

and 10 miles northeast of van wert. the warning until 7:30 p.m.th for this storm cell van wert and western putnam county there outside of our area but moving east-northeast at about 25 mph so we continue to track that. western counties have the conditions more ready to go in terms of severe potential. there's nothing eminent for warnings. it has been hectic across central indiana with tornado warnings. continue to watch showers/storm scattered storms overnight in the watch these developing tomorrow evening between five and 9:00 p.m. because of the passing cold front. at this time tomorrow could be some severe warnings may concern would be damaging winds. today high of 87, the normal is 80, record from 1947 with 94. the winds have been active in the south between ten and 20 dewpoints are higher in the las is just another ingredient to support severe weather . when i get a break from the humidity till friday.n the cluster stor but does not look to be severe overnight. the watch again about 5:00 p.m. tomorrow a squall line

let's get to sam sweeney live in northeast with the latest. sam? we are talking about the eastbound lanes of rhode island, east of the rhode island metro station. you can still see police on the scene. we are waiting for homicide investigators to arrive and start combing for clues. a man was shot around midnight in the stomach, rushed to the hospital, where he later died. police do not have much of a suspect description, but they are looking for a blue ford with tinted windows that fled from the scene, around midnight. if you had been in the area or had heard something, police want to hear from you. willarea of rhode island remain closed through the rush-hour. trafficight has the around the rest of the area. julie: will be a tough commute through northeast washington because of the closure point and the ongoing investigation. the outbound lanes remain closed outbound on rhode island avenue between 10th street and 12th street northeast. inbound, the lanes are open. no problem out of cheverly in northeast. this is a crash before kenilworth avenue. as

it's moving northeast. the problem is it's going to take its sweet time cross northern ohio. -- getting across northern ohio. it's going to take time, churn up the rain and thunderstorms through the weekend. we have a flash flood watch issued for saturday, 2:00 p.m. through sunday 8:00 p.m. for the counties you see highlighted. we may see that adjusted. hour by hour in the forecast. by midnight, showers and rumbles of thunder still around. we'll have dry periods as we start the day tomorrow. it's not a complete washout. we've got a lot of heat and time to get out and get things done. by afternoon, we see this scenario setting up with showers and thunderstorms forming. here's the kicker. the front is getting closer. we have focus to funnel that moisture and get periodic storms training over certain areas. localized heavy downpours come after the other. that's when you have local flooding. things temper down a little bit saturday night. a front is not showers, maybe a few rumbles of thunder. here's the front.

the forecast across northeast ohio this afternoon. s a isolated it of the and temperatures in the lower 80s. a slight breeze for greater cleveland and tracking a bit of rain here will not be a washout and we'll see even a little glimpse of sunshine and why you need that heat in stark an split? >> and 9:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., we have construction work happening and pavement repair at 71 northbound and this is going to impact you because the left line will be closed and they're doing some work in that area. 77 south at pershing and looks like that disabled vehicle is all clear now. >>> and this morning, a $5,000 killed a man in lorain on sunday. robert nisac was in the drive- thru line at the taco bell when someone trying to rob him shot and kill him. if you know anything, call police. >> and around here, we know what a gem the cuyahoga valley national park is. >> and people from out of town are realizing that, too and is attracting more toward. information on who visited last year. people from 36 states and several foreign the place. 79

flooding concerns in northeast ohio this weekend. especially on the city's west side. >> the western suburbs hit hard by storms earlier this week. alison brown joins us by from bay village and allison, thankfully not a repeat their. >> right, bill and jennifer. definitely a collective sigh of relief out here in bay village for that is because a lot people still trying to get their power restored in the city and they definitely did not want anymore headaches today. >> being that i just cleaned out the refrigerator and went to the grocery store, my eyes were on the sky. >> not again, weather rolling into northeast ohio a concern on saturday. with flash flood watch is issued in several counties including cuyahoga and lorraine, you never know what can happen. many people and bay village lost anything else. >> the power was out on the street from thursday night until early this morning. so that was more than enough. >> so far, so good. heading west the rain came through the area quickly saturday over a span of about 20-30 minutes. here in

for many of the counties here in northeast ohio. there could be a quarter of an inch or so in cleveland but as a cold front faxing, look sags in, look what happens.xig saggy and soggy tuesday. tuesday could be wept wet for sure.ue lapse from burke lakefront airport. arom there were some clear open op patches they are lately but itt looks like they are pretty much building now. temperatures in the seventies and viewpoints in the low seventies. t there is a cold front which as it settles into ohio may serve to deflect some of that precipitation s but the font is expected tois come back north of the warm front on tuesday which will set the stage on for perhas some heavy water again on tuesday. that is the day to watch. behind that system as it cools off it will become less humid. it will still be muggy. >>> the fox eight i team is taking some hard questions to cleveland's mayor ha asking whyo many people had to wait for so long for police or an ambulance. >> mayor jackson admits there is a problem he is working on a solution. >> we are

cooler air is in store by mid- day for northeast ohio. taking a look at our temperatures and across the board, how that moisture continues to move towards southern locations and we'll continue to track the front as it makes its way to the south. you see the moisture streaming in. the only concern is for dover, new philly and into tuscaroras county, seeing a few isolated raindrops. >> and we head to the traffic maps. a slowin inner belt. i checked and we're accident free in that section and might see cars going under the speed limit. elsewhere, we have a accident on cleveland on east 116th at shaker and didn't appear to be too serious. i will let you know if that is not the case. as we head on outside, light look at the view here and 480 and transportation boulevard showing it why's quiet. over to -- it's quiet. over to you. >>> a smash-and-grab operation charged with robberies. and nick foley is live with more at one of the scenes of the crime. we'll learn more today, nick. >> reporter: we plan on doing that, terrence. this is a 46-page i

i think chief among them as these continue to the northeast is this stripe right here. as it moves to the northeast we'll be looking at wellington at 6:08. overland at 6:18. aleeria at 6:32 as shows come through. we are talking about a movement off to the northeast, plenty more where this came from. this will train across the region. what does that mean? the same track a train would take is the track these will continue on as they continue on the path they have been on all day long. rainfall amounts as we look at future view, 64 uths of an inch at cleveland. more than an inch at aleria. as we make our way to k78 sunday morning. we'll take a look in a few. >> as you know the clean up continues in cleveland heights. some people are dealing with power outages. it is taking utility crews to make repairs. in areas east of cleveland are not alone. suburbs west of the city are also dealing with power problems. the heat and rain isn't exactly helping. >> the latest. how are things going? >> reporter: there are many without power in lakewood. about 20 minutes ago, some of the ho

we will keep our eye on that, and for now, we have our eye on northeast ohio. you will notice the thicker clouds are farther south, and all of us waking up to cloudy skies, and rain chances not as high this morning as they will zooming in, we have action just outside of our county along lake erie, and you will see there's the trajectory of northeast, and it will continue to push along the lake shore, however, as this expands to the side, we could see areas of 90 getting clipped. either way a light shower this morning. here's a look at the weather setup we have. cold front getting ready to push through. northeast ohio, headed into the overnight hours, and behind it, the stronger injection of cooler, dryer air the temperatures feeling like fall as you head through thursday and friday. for now, i want you to notice the time stamp. we are seeing tons of cloud coverage, and then in the afternoon, the threat for a thunderstorm, and by this evening, we will see clearing, and like i said, along the lake shore, we may get sunshine, and i will keep an for now, back to yo

leon: back to the breaking news in northeast washington.police on the scene of a serious crash on benning road. this is benning road and 19th street. the circumstances of what happened are not known at this time. we are still working on those details. deadly crash, but we are now told that may not be the case. stay with abc 7 and wjla.com for updates. give us some good stuff. steve: tomorrow, though humidity, warm temperatures, lots of sunshine. then we crank up the heat and humidity thursday and friday 9,0 to 93. a weak frontal system may bring showers and thunderstorms friday. ,e dry out for the weekend saturday and sunday, upper 80's, near 90 degrees, with temperatures in the 70's overnight. 90 to start the work and school upperonday of next week, 80's tuesday. don't forget to download the stormwatch 7 weather app. it is free and it's the best in town. leon: jimmy kimmel live is next. have a good night. >> dicky: from hollywood, it's "jimmy kimmel live"! tonight, curtis "50 cent" jackson, from "narcos," wagner moura, and music from kongo

. >> reporter: maureen and chris, your northeast crime bureau in rio. we're covering a real life the big question is where is ryan lochte? apparently he's long gone, but the drama is not. while other american swimmers are returning, there's a twist for ryan lochte and james fagan. >> and these guys came out with a police badge. >> he said he and three fellow swimmers were robbed at gunpoint on sunday. >> he sa conflicting accounts and ordered their passport seized while the investigation continues. the u.s. olympic committee says it's cooperating, but the swim team left the athlete's village after competition ended this weekend. lochte's lawyers say he's already back in the state and rio officials are just trying to save face. >> the equestrian team received a silver of his own. after medals in the 200-meter and the long jump after missing out on a fourth gold medal and her first ever olympic loss, carry walsh jennings. >> walsh jennings says she was not robbed but she just didn't play well. she's looking for the bronze tonight. it's going to be against

as they track into northeast ohio, they're going to lose their force a tad bit. but it keeps our rain and storm chances in the forecast throughout your midafternoon. and so, hour-by-hour, we're dry all the way to noon. by 2:00, we'll track a little bit of lightning and thunder. i want to show you exact timing on our fought our cast here. this model -- our future cast here and the model is showing the high serouse clouds morning through lunchtime. you can see the rotation of the storms starts to track in here and going into about the 2:00 hour. i think the model is leave doing it a tad bit for portage and into ravena area, but ashtabula was keeping our eye on you as some of the storms could be pretty strong with some damaging wind. and as you can see, the moisture continues to flow across cuyahoga county to 5:00 and so we're going to deal with day. isolated activity and by your evening, we'll track dryness once again. kristen. >> and thank you so much, janessa. >>> we have traffic news in geauga county. a semi rolled over on 4 two and this is near -- 422 and this

police on scene of late night murder and a man shot and killed northeast.ppened before midnight and nearly 6 hours later parts of the road are still blocked off there. and now that was just one of several violent incidents across the district. a man was shot in southeast and haze minor injuries and two stabbings in northwest also both should survive sgle meanwhile this morning more about what happened while d.c. 911 call center was down over the weekend. >> it was done two hours when a maintain engs worker inadd ver tentsly turned off the system when trike to turn off an alar alarm. live in north east with the latest. >> if you try to deletes email it asks if you wants to for sure delete it. you're telling me there's one button you turn it off it shuts down the whole system? >> it sound like it is a master power switch and we know it was there as fire safety system. and we know nat they're also taking a look and seeing whether maybe there should be a different system in place. it's an actual switch. i don't think there would be do you really wanted to do th

bqe northeast, brooklyn battery tunnel, overturned tractor trailer. john del giorno showing us pictures of this mess, this is beer all over the bqe, we have, they are sanding down the roadway. they still have to clean up the debris spill. they have to get this trailer up righted and pulled off of the bqe. of the gowanus bqe. the a-train, signal problems at howard beach, expect downtown delays, long island doing okay. delta airline flights are grounded everywhere. if you are going to newark, jfk or la guardia, get in touch with your carrier. street cleaning rules are in effect. >>> iconic member of e out his career as a player this week and moving on to a different role in the organization. alex rodriguez and the yankees announced the designated hitter's retirement. the 41 year old had a controversial career, he made a successful return to the game last year, after suspended for violating the league purchases drug policy. this year, rodriguez has been in a slouch on the bench for most of the last month. the decision to retire and excited about his futu

this is -- this batch of heavier rain is tracking to the northeast hitting us toward deer valley, and eventually heading over to cave creek within the next 30 minutes -- rather in the next 16 minutes that heavy rain is falling right along i-10 and also spots right along mcdowell street, mcdowell road i should say in spots like the west valley and you can see grand avenue there is also getting in on some of the heavier rain as it moves to the northeast. further out to the west spots like avondale are also getting in on the heavier rain. this is just south of litchfield park and you can see the dark red indi and then the east valley starts to get difficult to see that you can see another area of heavy rain falling northeast chandler and also gilbert. this is just south of the 60 here this morning, also tracking to the northeast slowly producing lightning within that as well and we have isolated pockets near tempe. so showers and thunderstorms across the phoenix metro here to kick off our day and our best storm potential will continue through the 5:00 hour. by 6:00 the chances start to e

governor branstad has issued a disaster counties in northeast iowa. today, he plans to visit cities with flooding. a 15-year-old cedar rapids girl has serious injuries after a car hit her in front of kennedy high school. police did not ask for charges against the driver for the crash. republican presidential nominee donald trump plans to attend an event for joni ernst event tomorrow in des moines. democratic nominee hillary clinton is criticizing trump for trying to incite racism. you're watching kcrg-tv9. now, from your 24 hour news source, this is kcrg-tv9 news

we will be the northeast winds are blowing intore drier air here. starting to feel more comfortable and today. temperatures in the low '80s. not 90s like it was yesterday. traffic is active imagine not a couple of things about which to speak you momentarily. a couple of areas of disturbed weather one of which cof is a system not posina meanwhile, a different story down in the gulf with tropical depression nine. indicating this will swing outut through florida anywhere from tallahassee to campus saint pete maybe as far south potentially as naples. we will see 82 today. the humid say. low '80s s mid 80s tomorrow. bright sunshine. chances for rain kicking up a little on wednesday.in a september call s cool is on the wayne on the way thursday and friday. gorgeous into the holiday weekend. traffic time with patty harkin. >> you can look behind us with a lot of right on the map. 71 northbound towards the metro 40 is been averaging 22 miles per hour i across the valleyview and finally you break it up altogether. this is a peek att 77 and harvard with the s

wane county from stark county and definitely a cooler air and as that tracks through northeast ohio yesterday, it caused our dew points to fall dramatically and this is nice breathable air and 57. not too much moisture in the air from wayne county all the way up to the elyria area and you can see 5 live radar there. they're picking up a few spotty showers this morning, the parma area seeing a heavy do lightning, but they're isolated showers, even north madison to geneva and we're tracking a bit of rainy activity. and now, you can see hour-by- hour lots of sunshine in store and we're, unfortunately, dealing with leftovers of the front moving across the area and so a few clouds and showers picking up. by the noon hour and by 2, we should be nice and dry, 73. >>> and thank you, janessa. starting out the morning with a massive water main break that can emback the -- impact the drive and they are closed between lander brook and brainerd roads until at least wednesday when i spoke with dispatchers this morning. because of this, classes have been cancelled at gilmer academy and gates mills. the wate

i love being from the midwest and northeast ohio. it's great sports area. it's exciting. >> and she's right. people are excited. there was plenty of support for emily on the east side today. her high school beaumont hosted a watch party while her race aired live on channel 3. friends, loved ones, current students, emily's former track ohio's rowers finished racing and no medals to take home unfortunately. muler of gates mills and her partner grace competed in the women'spair. the pair finished fourth, six seconds from gold and four seconds from the bronze medal. while olympic stories are all about triumph, there's also defeat. having heril was critical at a moment like this. they offered love and perspective. we all need that in these tough moments. how's this for perspective. josh made history being the first american team to qualify for the race in the double light weights. he's glad they proved they deserve to be there. four sessions back -- four seconds back from the gold medal. it's difficult to walk away even if you're not empty handed. we think about

disaster proclamation for five northeast iowa counties. it's for flooding in allamakee, clayton, fayette, howard and winneshiek counties. these counties can now use state money to help with flooding response and recovery efforts. governor branstad and lieutenant governor kim reynolds will tour flood damage in winneshiek county today. they will be in freeport around 9:15. they will then head to the inwood ballroom in spillville around 10:15. and governor's visit to northeast iowa, as well as flood recovery efforts, on-air and online today. the chickasaw county sheriff says the man who died while swept away in the flooding was a 77-year-old man who lived near sumner. this area quickly flooded during the heavy rain early wednesday morning. deputies say albert gott managed to call authorities when the flash flooding washed his vehicle off county road v-56, or union avenue in northeast chickasaw county. but later deputies found his body north of from his car. the cedar rapids salvation army has set up in spillville to help flood victims. army s

kic >> this year all the proceeds will go to help veterans right here in to northeast ohio. >> that's where we find fox eight melissa reid.h how are you? began stretching. >> nice. >> you don't want to pull ahead of me. >> when they were like hey do you want to cover ther foxtrot i was like i will run to that assignments i don't have to run. >> i'm life you with the event organizers event organizers, cleveland on super photographer here and the producer of the 5:00 o'clock. am going too start with local veterans how did this get kicked off. l >> two years ago our charity was the wounded warrior project. that is a great organization but they that they only benefit service servicemember's post- 911 and we said we need to hit icem fought in vietnam, world war ii, both guys who came back and did not receive the welcome our not guys are todayd we need to do something fory thm we've got thousands of people coming out to support theds va. >> thank you so much. in new layout, layouts, new location. talk to people about fat and give us the layout right now. >> misses this is our fourthh year.

this rain is slowly moving northeast. it's going to move from right north of the us 60 to the 202 and eventually into the higher terrain. wet roads if you have to travel along these areas. roads getting -- getting hit the hardest. mcdowell road. hikingly road. power road and keep in mind as it moves north if you lif along these north-south roads you're in the path of the rain. up towards the higher terrain that's where this gach bavp is going to go. more areas of heavier rain fall near thomas and and into scottsdale over camelback mountain where we're seeing more heavier showers. those pushing east-northeast. and eventually those will be an impact here for the loop 101. along the loop 202 or east valley watch for the slick roads. mallry will have an update in a bit. >> we're tracking more showers in twin creek and south. northeast and they could clip parts of the southeast slal as we go through the morning. the strongest storm has been to the northeast near pinetop-lakeside where we had a severe thunderstorm warning. smal

. >>> severe storms rolling true northeast ohio tonight. our cameras catching heavy rains, strong winds, lightning and thunder in downtown cleveland. reports of damage and tower outages are coming in right now. and take a look at these images just into the newsroom, a huge tree that came down on west 11th tonight. more than 25,000 people across the area are in the dark. we have been keeping you updated on all the storms all >> we saw over 700 lightning strikes, this is one cell that continued to gain strength across northeast ohio, first affecting richland county to mansville, and uplated to cuyahoga county. we -- uplifted to cuyahoga county. we are over severe weather concerns, things are dying down and our temperatures are dropping into the mid-70s right now. still tracking the wet weather, even though it's not on the severe side, southern portions dealing with heavy lightning from north madison to south madison, north perry. we're not under an advisory for ashtabula but i am watching the cell as it tracks to the east. behind this moistur

one northeast ohio man got very lucky. his long time co-worker decided to donate a kidney to save his life. john doe natured his kidney to welcome to the show. what a great story. how long have you guys worked together? >> 20 something years. >> 20 something years. so you obviously were not feeling well to the point that you needed a kidney. >> i was on dialysis for almost a year, and john said i want to donate a kidney. >> that's a big decision. how did you come knocked down from dialysis and him not being himself, i went to his wife anne and i said what do i need to do about getting tested? let's step up to the plate and see what we can do. >> we go to the testing part. you need to be a match, right? >> yes. >> that had to be incredible done? >> december 12th. >> >> sorry, december 8. >> by the 12th, you are feeling better. on your end of it, what is it like to go through this? >> the pain wasn't nothing compared to having my friend. you can't put a price on life and there are no accidentals. >> these are great approxima

. >> here police is still piecing together deadly shooting spree in northeast ohio that ended with a gunman taking his own life it up again when police fatally on so shot and killed his girlfriend 40 -year-old keisha benton at her home in a leader to south euclid which he shot two more people at a home on winston road early this morning both are being treated for their injuries police spotted before his vehicle and brand to know about 230 this morning where they chased him stopped him at mlk in east 100 fifth however he shot himself in the head and died mission man accused of passing out marijuana candy candidate music candy at a music festival in richland county now charged with a fifth degree felony for drug trafficking 24 people felt sick set bond for matthew gross at $50,000 if he's convicted he could face up to a year in prison the akron man accused of trying to get the cuyahoga falls police officer facing a judge today donald watson junior pleading not guilty to several charges including attempted murder prosecutors say he used his truck to damages several cruisers parked outsi

it has made the turn to the northeast. what about tropical depression computer model even though it will not be good for our friends in florida keeps that offshore, this one being helped by our cold front that will be here on thursday. what does that mean for us? there is tropical depression 8. clouds, rain mainly impacting the coastline tuesday through wednesday has it pulls off quickly to the northeast. we stay dry that whole time, depression number 9. here comes our cold front waiting to push that away. yes. we will have some rain on thursday from the cold front but not from the tropical system. before the cold front gets here we have another day near 90 tomorrow wednesday and thursday. so not many changes for the first few days this week but the cold front not whom brings us rain on thursday but cooler temperatures as we head into the weekend. i've got to tell you, we had so weekends on labor day weekends where we've had hurricanes. but look at this, we have no rain. the tropical system will be long gone. we have highs

first, a live look outside, beautiful morning in northeast ohio. hello edition of "good morning cleveland," i'm sarah phinney in for nick foley. i have janessa webb with us. it could be a good pool or beach day for part of the day. >> tracking just a few scattered thunderstorms for late afternoon but all in all you should get to the beach. that warm air is tracking into northern ohio once again. we're talking about upper 80s, lower 90s for most spots so definitely warm air in place here. you can see we're tracking just nice green grass, get outside and enjoy it. make sure though you are staying hydrated throughout your afternoon. good morning greater cleveland, 73 degrees. upper 60s and lower 70s for stark and summit county. so we're off to definitely a warm start. all right dew points, you're going to have that ac cranking for most of the day right now we're seeing that oppressive air, upper 60s across the ar cleveland, 67. 66 for canton and akron. so we're looking at that to reach the lower 70s mark. 5 live radars not picking up moisture but i wa

this line of storms near natick, canton, moving off to the east-northeast as well. wellesley, needham heights, also near the edge. that's the northern edge as it tracks to the east-northeast. those are the three cells.

this line of storms near natick, canton, moving off to the east-northeast as well. wellesley, needham heights, also near the edge. that's the northern edge as it tracks to the east-northeast. those are the three cells. cell that has our attention. the severe thunderstorm warning is for the middle, affecting clinton, sudbury. you can see how it has been moving, and you can also see why our attention is focused on westminster, because it is showing a hook echo which signifies that there can be rotation. sometimes rotation makes its way to the ground, and when that happens you can have a small tornado. were just saying it is not impossible. we got a call of 15/100 of an inch of rain in two minutes. the heavy rain has the highest chance. medium chance of lightning. some don't have lightning but can still be strong, because it is tropical. medium chance of strong wind with some of those cells, and even a low chance that there this continues into the evening, then it slides off the coast. it may not be the end of the story, because there are some storms in eastern pennsyl

a few school districts in northeast iowa had to close or delay today. closures include valley schools.. here's a look at some of the flooding in decorah, where crews brought down tractors. they're using them to pump flood water at a park over the earthen berm between them and the upper iowa river. thanks to our viewer who sent us these pictures. just down river from decorah is freeport. that's where we find kcrg t-v nine's brea love. she's spent her morning in that area where the upper iowa river is causing freeport. very high water. cannot pass this road. we're seeing walls and basements caved in. completely flooded out. earlier we were in decorah whee we took this video. emergency responders rescued this woman stranded in her car. there was also campers and trailers washed by the river sent. plenty of people out assessing the scene for themselves looking to help and check high water. there is help out here if you do live in the decorah area. stone ridge church is the primary shelter. the salvation army is providing food service and clean up. emergency