tiffany tarpley joins us live this morning tiffany after 7 years the outdoor ice rink well, it's beautiful and opened today. >> reporter: it is and here we are. tom here was center ice and got finished laying and building the ice is what he calls it putting water down looks beautiful and am here with mayorth mayor who says they are excited about tonight and it's been 7 years why do you think this is so important for the community to have this back opened after so long. >> everyone is excited about it. we are bringing back downtown canton. and this is just another step in doing so. this summer we opened up the door which is an outdoor refreshment area attracting lots and lots of people downtown. we think this will attract lots and lots of people downtown. we have more and more people downtown. and tonight, it's the opening of the rink but also this is the 26th annual light up downtown event where we celebrate christmas and santa claus and fireworks and we will have 14 blocks of stores opened tonight with refreshments entertainment and arts and crafts for the families and so forth so we expe

tf any tarpley joins us live now with the -- tiffany tarpley joins us live now with the details. both situations started as fender benders he. >> reporter: they -- benders. >> reporter: they d it's nothing to get out -- they did. it's nothing to get out of the car to check the damage and see if everything okay but someone in the other vehicle jumps in your car and takes off with it instances in beachwood on tuesday. let's go ahead and show you video of the areas where it happened. first was at the south boulevard and the other on cedar road they got away with purrs and cell phones and ipads and hundreds in cash. police are looking for a darkcolored suv. we spoke with the state trooper ohio state highway patrol that says the best thing to do even if it's a small fender call 911 and wait in your car until police get there lynna>> thanks so much. >>> topping morning news feed donald trump was in ohio yesterday for the first stop on his thank you tour. the president-elect is visiting the battleground states that helped him win the white house. he made a big announcement and selected

. >> tiffany tarpley joins us live from canton this morning. make this happen. >> reporter: a big effort here to make all of this possible this once popular attraction is back and it opens tonight and joining me this morning is the mayor. just take us through this. how did you make something like this happen. >> tiffany good morning. thank you for visiting canton ohio. we are by the way the hall of fame city. >> reporter: we are. >> and we are now naming this the hall of fame city ice rink. >> reporter: ay years. so this is the first time it opened it took a lot of work. at first i thought it was a relatively simple idea to open this and it turned out to be hours and hours and hours of work and collaboration from so many, many groups. but most importantly the people that helped us are the sit they parks commission, the canton recreation department, some steve koon is a developer center ice and tom who has an enclosed ice rink and is the brains behind the operation and one that taught us how to put the icedown and he is with us this morning to h

tiffany tarpley joins us live from beachwood. crooks are drive away in victims' cars. >> reporter: yeah and of -- are drive away in victims' cars. driving away in victims' cars. >> reporter: yeah and we want to make sure you are safe. what's happening is people are driving off in the cars. so one thing you want to do make sure that you call 911. no accident is too a small. and if you feel unsafe, stay in the car until police arrive. >> i was in the car and someone hit me from behind i got out to check the damage drove away. >> -- jumped in my car and drove away. >> we drove past a woman who was on the ground saying she had her car stolen someone drove off with it. >> reporter: those were calls to 911 after both carjackings inbeachwood tuesday you might wonder where they happened the first with somerset and the other on cedar road. away and they took the woman's purse and whatever that was inside of value. if something like this were tohappen to you you think i will -- you think i will keep the key in my purse we spoke with a serg