LOCAL POLICE RESPOND TO A MAN PASSED OUT BEHIND THE WHEEL! THE ALLEGED DRUNK YOU’LL ONLY SEE HERE LOCAL POLICE RESPOND TO A MAN PASSED OUT BEHIND THE WHEEL, THE ALLEGED DRUNK DRIVING INCIDENT THAT ENDED WITH AN OFFICER IN HANDCUFFS BUT FIRST WAVES OF HEAVY RAIN AND POWERFUL WIND CAUSING WILD WEATHER. MOMENTS ACROSS GREATER CINCINNATI. NEW CONCERN FOR HOMEOWNERS IN OUR AREA AND A SCARY SITUATION. RESIDENTS THEMSELVES IN AND WHEN IT RAINS, IT POURS. BUT IT WON’T IMPACT QUITE AS MANY TOWNS TODAY. MY PREDICTION FOR WHEN YOU SHOULD BE HEADS UP FOR SEVERE WEATHER TOMORROW AND. SOME MORE COMFORTABLE AIR ON THE WAY. THIS IS W WELL W T NEWS 5 TODAY. LEADING THE WAY 6 A.M. ON YOUR WEDNESDAY MORNING. WE ARE TRYING TO DRY OUT FROM WHAT WE SAW YESTERDAY EVENING. SOME OF YOU HAD INCHES UPON INCHES OF RAIN AND SOME DAMAGE TO GO WITH IT. AND IT REALLY DEPENDS ON YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD OF WHAT YOU SAW DOWN THE ROAD. THEY MIGHT NOT HAVE SEEN QUITE AS. UNFORTUNATELY, THOUGH, WE GET A QUICK BREAK AND THEN IT COMES RIGHT BACK. LET’S CHECK IN WITH METEOROLOGIST RANDI RICO FOR THE TIME LINE ON WHEN WE GET THAT NEXT ROUND OF THE CHANCE FOR SEVERE WEATHER. RIGHT. SO THE RAIN CHANCES THERE TODAY AND TOMORROW. BUT THE BIGGER THREAT FOR STRONGEST SEVERE STORMS THAT KICKS IN TOMORROW EVENING BECAUSE WE HAVE A COLD FRONT COMING IN WHILE WE’RE GOING TO REALLY ENJOY AFTER EFFECTS OF ALL OF THAT. ONCE WE GET INTO FRIDAY, WE COULD HAVE DECENT ROUND OF STRONG STORMS TOMORROW. THIS MORNING, IT’S NICE TO TAKE A LOOK AT THE RADAR AND SEE A WHOLE LOT OF NOTHING BECAUSE THERE WERE PLENTY OF TOWNS THAT PICKED UP UPWARDS OF TWO INCHES OF RAIN YESTERDAY, ESPECIALLY IN NORTHERN KENTUCKY AND EAST RIGHT ALONG THE OHIO RIVER. NOW, THIS MORNING, IN THE WAKE OF YESTERDAY’S RAIN, WE ARE DEALING WITH A LITTLE BIT OF FOG. BUT AS FAR AS THE STORM THREAT GOES, FOR THE NEXT TWO DAYS, FEWER DOWNPOURS TODAY. IT’S PROBABLY NOT GOING TO BE A TOTALLY DRY DAY ACROSS THE AREA, BUT I THINK FEWER TOWNS ARE DEALING WITH THOSE BUBBLE UP DOWNPOURS THAT CAUSE RAIN THAT JUST DOESN’T GO ANYWHERE. RIGHT. POPS UP OVERHEAD AND YES, RAIN ITSELF OUT TOMORROW. THE RAIN IS MORE WIDESPREAD AS THAT COLD ROLLS IN. AND IT DOES BRING US SOME MORE SIGNIFICANT THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER INTO TOMORROW EVENING. THIS MORNING, WAKING UP WITH KIND OF LOW CLOUDS AND SOME FOG HOUR WINDS COMING IN OUT OF THE SOUTH TODAY. SO THE POINTS ARE GOING UP, WHICH MEANS IT GETS EVEN STEAMIER TODAY. AS FAR AS THE FOG GOES, WE DO HAVE A DENSE FOG ADVISORY BUTLER WARNING CLINTON COUNTIES THROUGH 8 A.M. BUT EVEN INTO DOWNTOWN PORTLAND RUN INTO AT LEAST A LITTLE BIT OF FOG. SO FOR TODAY, RIGHT NOW IT IS 69 DEGREES. NOTICE BY NEW WORD 80 HOUR HIGH TODAY INTO THE MID EIGHTIES. YOU’LL COOLED DOWN IF YOU GET STORM DONE. OTHERWISE YOU’RE GOING TO BE FEELING LIKE THE NINETIES SO COMING UP WE’LL GO HOUR BY HOUR THROUGH TALK ABOUT WHEN THOSE POP DOWNPOURS ARE POSSIBLE AND THE TIMELINE FOR TOMORROW’S MORE SIGNIFICANT STORMS. THAT’S IN A FEW MINUTES. KELLY GRANDY. YES, WE WILL BE CHECKING BACK IN THROUGH THE DAY HEAVY RAIN AND A SUDDEN BURST OF HIT SOME PARTS OF OUR AREA PRETTY HARD LAST NIGHT. IT CREATED SOME SCARY SITUATIONS FOR SOME RESIDENTS. OUR AREA, INCLUDING ONE DRIVER WHO JUST NARROWLY MISSED BEING HIT BY A FALLING TREE, TAKE A LOOK. I CAN’T SEE. WHOA OH, NO. AS INCREDIBLE AS THIS VIDEO IS, WE HAVE TO STRESS, DO NOT DO THIS. TWO HANDS ON THE WHEEL, PHONE DOWN, ESPECIALLY IN THESE CONDITIONS. THIS VIDEO WAS SENT TO BY A VIEWER LAST NIGHT. HE SAYS HE WAS DRIVING IN CLERMONT COUNTY WHEN THE SHEER OF THAT STORM BROUGHT DOWN THAT TREE RIGHT BESIDE HIM AND REMINDING YOU AGAIN, IF YOU ARE DRIVING IN DANGEROUS CONDITIONS, PHONE DOWN TWO HANDS ON THE WHEEL. KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE ROAD, BECAUSE YOU NEVER KNOW. CASE IN POINT, THAT RIGHT IS GOING TO FALL THERE IN FRONT OF YOU. SO VERY LUCKY INDEED. YES OTHER PARTS OF GREATER CINCINNATI FEELING THE IMPACT FROM THE HEAVY RAIN, ESPECIALLY IF TRUE FOR PARTS OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY TUESDAY NIGHT, WE GOT A FIRSTHAND LOOK AT THE DAMAGE INSIDE. AN APARTMENT COMPLEX OFF TAYLOR MILL ROAD NEAR TO 75 WLWT NEW SIZE LACEY ROBERTS IS LIVE THERE THIS MORNING. LAZY WATER SURROUNDED THAT BUILDING. THE WATER MIGHT HAVE SUBSIDED OVERNIGHT. BUT IF THE PEOPLE ARE LIVING THERE AND THOSE WHO ARE LIVING THERE, THEY HAVE SOME TROUBLE JUST BEGINNING. YEAH GOOD MORNING TO YOU BOTH. LIKE YOU SAID, THE EFFECTS OF THAT HEAVY RAINFALL, YOU CAN STILL SEE THAT DOOR PROPPED OPEN TO LET THIS BUILDING KIND OF DRY OUT. AND JUST LIKE YOU SAID, AROUND THE BASE OF THIS BUILDING IS WHERE WE SAW MOST OF THAT STANDING WATER RESIDENTS FORCED OUTSIDE OF THEIR APARTMENTS BECAUSE OF THAT DAMAGE, THAT WATER GOING INTO THEIR APARTMENTS. AND WE GOT TO LOOK AT WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE INSIDE THIS BUILDING. TAKE A LOOK. WITH US NOW, RESIDENTS GIVING US A TOUR OF WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE AND IT LOOKS LIKE THAT RIVER RUNNING THROUGH THE HALLWAYS AND INSIDE OF THAT APARTMENT BUILDINGS, YOU COULD SEE CARPETS SOAKED KITCHENS ARE FLOODED, HOSES DRAWN BY FIRE CREWS TO PUMP THAT STANDING WATER OUT. NOW WE TALK WITH A MAN NAMED MATT WHO LIVES HERE AND HE TELLS US A LOT OF THE PROPERTY IN HIS APARTMENT WAS COMPLETELY RUIN, BUT HE WASN’T THE ONLY ONE. THE LADY THAT LIVES ACROSS THE HALL FROM HIM SHE’S BEEN HERE FOR 20 YEARS. YOU KNOW, I WAS TALKING TO HER EARLIER TONIGHT AND. YOU KNOW, THIS IS HER SIXTH, SEVENTH, EIGHTH TIME GOING THROUGH THIS. I’VE BEEN HERE FOR ALMOST THREE YEARS NOW, AND THIS IS DEFINITELY BY FAR THE WORST I’VE SEEN IT. LAST TIME IT WAS JUST, YOU KNOW, PUT A COUPLE OF TOWELS DOWN, YOU KNOW, SOAK IT UP, EVERYTHING’S COOL AND MOVE ON THIS TIME. I MEAN, IT’S POTENTIALLY LIFE CHANGING. NOW, MATT DID SAY THAT YOU HAD TO FIND IN A HOTEL TO STAY IN OVERNIGHT THE APARTMENT COMPLEX THERE, THAT THEY ARE HELPING OUT WITH CAUSE FOR ANYONE WHO DOES NEED A PLACE TO STAY IF THEIR INSURANCE DOES COVER IT. LIKE WE SAID THIS MORNING, WE EXPECT RESIDENTS TO SHOW UP TO ASSESS THAT DAMAGE OF WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE INSIDE THEIR HOMES. SO REPORTING LIVE INSIDE RIGHT HERE, I’M TAYLOR MILL LACEY ROBERTS NEWS 5 LAZY. THANK YOU. A STRONG STORM KEPT RIPLEY IN THE DARK AFTER A MASSIVE TREE DOWN POWER LINES EVEN CREATING A CLOSE CALL FOR ONE MAN WHO’S TRYING TO CUT THAT TREE DOWN. SO THIS HAPPENED LATE YESTERDAY AFTERNOON AND BLOCKED A ROAD FOR MILES AND THEN INTO THE EVENING AS WELL. CREWS WERE CLEARING UP THE STREETS YESTERDAY AND BEAUTY CREWS, A CLOSE CALL THERE WITH A LINE WORKER AND THAT FALLING TREE. THIS NEIGHBORHOOD, THEY SAY NOTORIOUS FOR STORM DAMAGE AFTER A FALLING TREE A HOUSE TWO WEEKS AGO THIS TIME AROUND. NEIGHBORS WE SPOKE WITH TELL US ARE THANKFUL NO ONE WAS HURT. REMEMBER, WITH MORE STORMS IN THE COMING DAYS, YOU CAN STAY AHEAD OF ANY SEVERE WEATHER BY HAVING ALERTS ON WITH OUR FREE WLWT APP. CLICK ON CUSTOMIZE ALERTS. THAT’S ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE MENU WITHIN THE APP OR LEADING THE WAY WITH SOME NEWS THIS MORNING AS CREWS RESPOND TO A FIRE BILL HILLS. THIS IS A LOOK AT THE SCENE ON BLUEGRASS COURT LESS THAN AN HOUR AGO. OUR CAMERAS SAW FLAMES COMING OUT OF THAT WINDOW AS FIREFIGHTERS PUT IT OUT. NOW, RIGHT NOW, HERE’S WHERE THINGS STAND WITH A LIVE LOOK AS CREWS CONTINUE TO WORK. LOTS OF FIRE TRUCKS ON SCENE, LOTS OF FIRE TRY TO FIREFIGHTERS TRYING TO WORK. NOW WE’RE STILL TRYING TO FIND OUT MORE ON WHAT HAPPENED, INCLUDING WAS ANYBODY HOME. WAS ANYBODY HURT? WHAT THEIR INJURIES, IF THEY WERE THE FORCE OF THE FIRE, OF COURSE, IS STILL UNDER INVESTIGATION. BUT YOU CAN SEE SMOKE ALONG THE ROOF LINING RIGHT THERE. SO PROBABLY SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF DAMAGE INSIDE.