in lorainne, paul kiska, news 5. >>> this story is all about helping people get a fair start when moving to america. new numbers show that the refugee population is growing in cleveland. local agencies telling news 5 one thousand refugees move to cleveland just this year. >> now this population is get on their feet. dhomonique ricks has more on the refugee bike program. >> something simple as a bike can make all of the difference in the world for someone just moved to the united states of america. >> not having transportation is not easy. >> 23 year-old john is from rue wanda and has been in the usa for six months and in she has landed a job. >> a job that can cause anxiety because of her lack of reliable transportation. >> when you have a bike, it can help you and go to market and go to this. >> it is expensive to just buy a bus pass every month. >> jim sheehan the executive refugee bike program. >> you can keep a bike on the road economically. >> he and his team are collecting old bikes and fixing them up so they are safe and reliable. >> sheehan says they will flip one hundred bikes b

paul kiska has been digging into what this new message will mean for the treatment of addiction and paul zpzpzp)@w.?j0 from east lake. >> well, lee and frank this report calls opioid addiction a major health crisis in our country. seek medical treatment. seek medakes a life nt. every 19 minutes. >> for the first time the u.s. surgeon general is 0mcalling dr and alcohol addiction a major public health crisis. ?ex?udvhv=h)6zt?er$g?re@p?.pm&?w online shows us what to expect. >> a chronic disease of the brain. >> going to the extent of calling heroin and other drug can work. >> i believe qo?ethat it is get worse. >> the lake county shipped says people should not be taking drugs in the first place would you agrees that when addiction starts it needs to be treated. >> it is part of a disease that in terms that it takes over systems in your zkm?body. >> there has been 102 heroin overdoses in lake erie this year leading to 25 arrests. that's because a 3w? went into effect in september allows a person to have two overdoses before getting charged as %./?long as they get treatment. >> on the :md3rd

paul kiska talked with food bank leaders today. paul joins us now. >> reporter: from cleveland to mansfield all the way to the border demand continues to rise. >> we are still serving more people today than we were particularly busy time. >> reporter: the president of the greater cleveland food bank told me the need for food is higher than ever. >> community support is needed like never before. >> reporter: demand for nutritious food goes up this time of year as kids go on winter break and don't get a school lunch. volunteers pack bags of food for children who go to the boys and girls clubs after school. they will pack even more bags after winter break. >> summer is a very busy time for partners making sure that kids have access to the food they need and the holidays are as well. >> reporter: one in three people at cleveland lives in poverty. many of them children. the numbers of hot meals the food basic's kitchen puts out every day is remarkable. >> back in our kitchen we could distribute anywhere from 5,000 to almost 10,000 meals

live in lorain, paul kiska, news 5. >>> markjweather, that flag was moving behind you. >> oh, yeah, we've got breezy conditions he is special along the lakeshore with winds out of the north right now, blowing upwards of 15 to 20 miles per hour. hopkins, 58. mid-50s for peninsula and solon. mid-50s from akron through jackson into canton. 54 degrees for massillon right now. a wider shot, yeah, we're 50s, but we will cool you down through the overnight. 7:00 p.m., already some upper 40s showing up. inland away from the big city lights by 11:00 p.m. lots of 40s so if you are staying out late, sweaters. notice the clouds coming in after midnight, and yep, even a couple of showers toward sunrise east of cleveland, with temperatures 40s to near 50 degrees. a little bit of rain tomorrow, and then a big cool-down for part of the weekend. more on that coming up. >>> still ahead, our on your side investigation. dozens of sex offenders walk right into local schools while kids are still in class, all in the name of democracy. >>> plus, now that we're getting ready to usher in a republican dominated go

she spoke to paul kiska that is live from the lorainne police department and, paul, this woman may have bought a two man burglary ring to its knees. >> that's right. if it was not for this gusty 53- year-old woman he may still be on the loose. >> it may be on the side of the street. >> at 7:00 a neighbored sus to say someone broke in her car and she saw her belongings including lawn equipment on the ground. >> it looks like your leaf blower ... >> susan fears the suspects do not want to be shown on camera but with her adrenalin pumping this morning, she took action. >> and i said that's them. it has to be them and they jump back in the car and took off. >> angry about what was happening, susan jump into her car and got behind the wheel and started to follow them. >> and she called 911. >> and they took off. >> susan followed the car for several blocks where the man approached another house. that's when things got tense. >> and i grabbed the license plate and tried to write it down with the house number and they saw me and started honking for the other young man to get in the car and one

paul kiska, news 5. >>> mark johnson is tracking breaking news and what picture that is behind you. >> gatlinburg tennessee evacuated. one fire burning in gatlinburg, a popular tourist town near dollywood. three people have been confirmed killed by the wildfires. so sad. and so far more than 100 homes have been damaged by the flames. the fires are forcing mass quickly. >> we covered our faces with wet towels and we got in the car and drove down the mountains and we ran into something that was over the road and we could not see to get up the mountains. >> the mayor says the fire started in great smoky mountains national park and high winds and 75 miles per hour and dry drought conditions helped it to spread. here is hopeful news. rain in the forecast tonight and tomorrow. we are talking up to two inches of very much help the fire situation there. let's talk about what is happening at home. and the other thing that makes me angry, frank and lee, arson. all of fires started by humans. arson fires, just terrible. >>> mild and drug. 54 elyria and 58 cleveland. akron to canton to astubula a

he spoke with news 5 paul kiska who joins us now live with what he has learned. >> paul. >> well, the overall school buses are considered to be safe. but sometimes they do have tragic accidents including here in ohio. >> ohio has not seen anything like what happened in tennessee but ohio has had two deaths on school buses between 2005 and 2014. in one, the 67 year-old school bus driver who was wearing a seat belt was killed in star county at 2008. a 6 year-old passenger was killed in muskogee county in 75% of school fatalities are other drivers and pedestrians and cyclists, not the occupants of the school bus. on average 6 children die every year nationwide on school buses. like airplanes they have black boxes to tell one how fast someone is going. ken trump told us this afternoon that investigators will focus on the school bus driver. >> the key issue with buses that the vast majority of school buses to and from school. when there is an accident we look at what to do in the emergency situation and the driving. when there are school bus accidents, the first focus goes to the driver an

we sent news 5's paul kiska to check out how it would work. >> well, lee and frank. lakewood city council plans to vote on the false alarm ordinance in just the next few weeks. >> burglar alarms are meant to >> lakewood city leaders are considering a nuisance ordinance, to find residents and businesses for too many false alarms. alarms that tie up police and must check windows and doors. lakewood looked over the numbers numbers from 2014. and this is what they found. there were 1,654 alarms, only french were valid calls. that means 97% of alarms were false. hundreds of hours of police time spent false alarms. >> so this begins a process of looking at how we can eliminate those false alarms and a waste of police time. >> after a second false alarm, a warning letter would be sent out. after a third one, the resident or business owner would be fined $200. the fine could be appealed to a citizens review board. >> and the goal would be to have the operator of the alarm, fix the problem. generally, it's operator error. employees. or carelessness. sometimes equipment malfun

paul kiska from the police department in oak wood with this story. >> it was caught on tape as you said. and here is that video. >> this cell phone video shows on police officer struggling with a driver of a stolen car in cleveland. the chase started in oakwood village where a driver sideswiped two cars and the man ran after blowing a tire. the officer wrestled him to the ground and got slammed on his back. as the man got up, a 70 year- old passer by tried to get control of the man. the man got away and jumped and the officer trying to pull him out of the car through the passenger side. the man drove away. the man crashed the police car into this tree a few blocks away in cleveland and took off running. police searched the area and the man is still on the loose. a loaded gun and ammunition were found in the stolen car. it is believed he used the stolen car. >> a suspected stolen vehicle. it was stolen and several armed robberies in cleveland. >>> and again that oakwood village car was found crashed into the tree. as to the police officer taken to the hospital with cuts to both legs and

paul kiska has been monitoring hoaxes. >> the internet can be a great source of information but on day this important it can also be filled with fake news and hoaxes. a picture showing ballot boxes here in ohio. the picture is a hoax because it was taken from the united kingdom. another picture on the internet claims to show voter fraud being carried out by clinton supporters in three states during the primary and snopes reports it is from russia. a fake facebook post warns when checkmark up for trump and this is a a hoax and a tweet that has been debunked shows a woman claiming to work for the post office in columbus ohio claiming she rips up absentee ballots for trump. those are four election hooks. there are more and be skeptical. >>> i saw the mosel flash and knew >> a barberton father was attacked and police are now searching for a hooded stranger. our bob jones on the interview only on five. barberton police are calling this a random crime. >> well, danita this is a true terrifying story. last week the victim returned from a friend's house after watching the world series. he then

paul kiska has more about that man's mission to bring new life into old baseball gloves. paul. >>> well, that's exactly right. rob, thanks to this man that lives here in the city of parma. some of our troops serving overseas can now occasionally say play ball. >>> gordon king's dining room table and living room look like a baseball play ground but this is his office. >> king is a doctor. nursing old gloves back to health by stitching and reconditioning and putting new webs on the grandfather. -- gloves and he fixes them why? >> we have appreciation for the troops. >> he has boxed up a dozen more at a time and donates the repaired gloves to troops overseas. >> people bring me their gloves and i restore them and i recolor them and i restring them and ship them to the department of defense and they troops. >> king says his passion comes from loving baseball and being in a military family. >> my dad was in the service in world war ii. >> he says that troops can take bats and baseballs but not gloves because drugs could be smuggled in. >> a few people ruin it for the rest but

reporting live paul kiska, news 5. >>> more than 16 years after an akron man who was locked up for raping a woman. they connected him to the rape of a woman in august of 2000 after the victim's rape kit was tested and came back with a match for johnson. a jury found him additional 28 years in prison. he is already serving a life sentence in the death of jacob curry who was on leave from the military at that time got into a fight and johnson shot cory. many people packing the luggage or a car to visit family thanksgivingeve one of the busiest travel days of the year. >>but this week is one of the best times to book travel for december. >> reporter: 28,0 today, but if you're already thinking about possibly traveling in december, i have some tips you'll want to know and scams to look out for. ready to trade in the wintry weather for the warmth? forget what you've heard about finding cheap flights midweek. that theory now debunked. >>looking on the weekends is when you can find the best deal booking a room can save about 600 bucks. >>60-plus days in advance or about 7 to 13 days in advance. >