THE EXCITEMENT ON CAMPUS. THIS IS WLWT, WLWT NEWS FIVE LEADING THE WAY WITH BREAKING NEWS, AND THAT BREAKING NEWS. THREE SOLDIERS ARE HURT AFTER A HUMVEE FLIPS AFTER A CRASH ON I-70 FIVE TODAY. THANKS A LOT FOR JOINING US HERE AT 5:00. I’M MIKE DARDIS. GOOD EVENING. I’M SHEREE PAOLELLO, TRAFFIC WAS BACKED UP FOR HOURS AND HOURS TODAY. THAT CRASH HAPPENING 75 SOUTHBOUND AT CRESCENT VILLE ROAD THERE IN SHARONVILLE. SO THIS IS JUST NORTH OF THE 275 LOOP WLWT NEWS FIVE’S BRIAN HAMRICK HAS BEEN OUT THERE ALL DAY FOR US. GATHERING MORE. HI, BRIAN. YEAH. HEY, SHEREE. THE HIGH HIGHWAY IS OPEN NOW. 75 SOUTHBOUND. ALL LANES OPEN. IT WAS BACKED UP FOR HOURS TODAY. THIS ALL STARTED WITH A MILITARY CONVOY AND A COLLISION WITH A SEMI. IT WAS A MILITARY CONVOY CAUGHT UP IN A CRASH. TWO VEHICLES ACCIDENT, A SEMI AND A HUMVEE. HUMVEE FLIPPED AND LANDED UPRIGHT. RIGHT. TWO PEOPLE POSSIBLY EJECTED FROM THE VEHICLE, THREE INJURED. AFTER THIS HUMVEE AND A SEMI MADE CONTACT. POLICE SAY AT LEAST ONE WAS EJECTED. THEY’RE SAYING THAT THERE’S THREE SERIOUS INJURIES. REQUESTING A THIRD MEDICAL DISPATCH. ANOTHER 75 SOUTHBOUND JUST NORTH OF 275 IN SHARONVILLE WAS SHUT DOWN FOR HOURS. THEN TRAFFIC GOT BY ON JUST TWO LANES. THE BACKUP LASTED FOR HOURS. THE HUMVEE THAT CRASHED WAS TRAVELING WITH A PRETTY GOOD SIZED CONVOY, SO WHENEVER TRAFFIC STOPPED, SO DID AT LEAST A DOZEN OF THESE MILITARY VEHICLES. THE MILITARY UNITS ARE THE SIX 37TH CHEMICAL COMPANY OUT OF KETTERING. ON THIS MISSION. THEY TOOK ON INJURIES BEFORE THEY EVER REACHED THEIR DESTINATION. YEAH. NOW, THIS CHEMICAL UNIT, PART OF A NATIONAL GUARD, UH, OUT OF KETTERING, WE’RE TOLD THEY WERE HEADED TO TRAINING IN INDIANA FOR REPORTING LIVE BRIAN HAMRICK WLWT, WLWT NEWS FIVE. BRIAN, I’M WONDERING, IS THERE ANY INFORMATION ABOUT THE CONDITION OF THOSE SOLDIERS? YEAH, WELL, WE KNOW THAT THERE WERE THREE THAT WERE INJURED. UH, OHIO STATE TROOPERS TOLD US SOME OF THESE INJURIES WERE SERIOUS, BUT THEY COULDN’T BE SPECIFIC. THAT WAS THE LAST CHECK. SHERI, WE CERTAINLY HOPE THEY’RE ALL GOING TO RECOVER. BRIAN HAMRICK LIVE FOR US TONIGHT. BRIAN. THANKS SO MUCH. ALL RIGHT. BIG COUPLE OF DAYS FOR OUR CHIEF METEOROLOGIST, KEVIN ROBINSON. FIRST OF ALL, STUFF ON THE RADAR. SECOND, KEVIN AND I KNOW TAYLOR SWIFT IS CONCERNED ABOUT TOMORROW NIGHT. SHE DOES NOT WANT HER GUY TO BE IN LIGHTNING OR THUNDERSTORMS WHEN HE IS AT UC TOMORROW. WHY? SHE HAS BEEN DURING HER CONCERTS. WELL, NOT DURING LIGHTNING. TOUGHEN UP. NOT DURING LIGHTNING. ANYWAY, I KNOW THEY’RE MOVING IT INDOORS, BUT WHAT’S THE DEAL? THE NEXT FEW DAYS? WHAT’S THE OLD SAYING? I GUESS WHAT’S GOOD FOR THE GOOSE IS GOOD FOR THE GANDER TOO. IN THIS CASE, RIGHT. SO THERE CERTAINLY WILL BE SOME RAIN AROUND TOMORROW EVENING FOR THURSDAY NIGHT’S EVENT. BUT RIGHT NOW WE’RE TRACKING AN INCREASE IN RAIN TONIGHT WE’VE GOT THE REDS AND BREWERS PLAYED SAYING IT’S GOING TO BE A NASTY NIGHT ALL THE WAY AROUND. NOW, THE RAIN HAS BEEN RELATIVELY LIGHT THUS FAR, BUT I THINK WE’RE GOING TO SEE AN UPTICK HERE THIS EVENING. YOU CAN SEE THAT HAPPENING IN SOUTHEAST INDIANA. NOTICE SOME OF THOSE DARKER COLORS SHOWING UP THERE TO THE SOUTHWEST OF HOLTON. I DON’T EXPECT A LOT OF THUNDER AND LIGHTNING THIS EVENING, BUT JUST HEAVIER SHOWERS VERSUS KIND OF THE MISTY SPRINKLES YOU’VE BEEN SEEING THROUGHOUT A LOT OF THE DAY. SO YOU CAN SEE THE RAIN INCREASING THROUGH MUCH OF BUTLER COUNTY FROM MIDDLETOWN DOWN TOWARDS HAMILTON, A FEW SPRINKLES AND SHOWERS ALREADY SCOOTING RIGHT OVER GREAT AMERICAN BALL PARK, AND THEN TO THE SOUTHEAST OF CINCINNATI AND SOUTH THROUGH NORTHERN KENTUCKY. THERE’S MORE SHOWERS THERE THROUGH LATONIA LAKES AND INDEPENDENCE. HERE COMES SOME HEAVIER RAIN UP TOWARDS MAYSVILLE. SAME STORY FROM FALMOUTH TO DRY RIDGE. NOTICE SOME YELLOWS AND SOME REDS IN THERE. SO THE OVERALL THEME FOR THE EVENING, AS YOU CAN SEE, IS FOR AN INCREASE. AND NOT ONLY THE COVERAGE, BUT ALSO SOMEWHAT THE INTENSITY OF THE HEAVY RAINFALL. AND THIS IS JUST KIND OF THE START OF WHAT’S TO COME. TOMORROW WILL BRING US THE THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER, AND THAT INCLUDES THE POTENTIAL FOR A FEW TORNADOES AS WELL. MIKE AND SHEREE, WE’LL TALK MORE ABOUT YOUR THURSDAY COMING UP HERE IN JUST A LITTLE BIT. ALL RIGHT, KEVIN, THANKS SO MUCH. WELL, MAKE MORE INVESTMENT IN OHIO’S CHILDREN. THAT WAS THE THEME OF TODAY’S STATE OF THE STATE ADDRESS BY OHIO’S GOVERNOR MIKE DEWINE. BUT AS PART OF THAT INVESTMENT, HE IS PUSHING HARDER FOR KEEPING MARIJUANA SMOKE AWAY FROM THEM. AND HE WANTS DETAILED RULES ABOUT THAT. WLWT NEWS FIVE’S JOHN LONDON FOCUSES ON THAT PORTION OF GOVERNOR DEWINE’S MESSAGE FROM COLUMBUS TONIGHT. SIX MONTHS AFTER OHIO VOTERS APPROVED RECREATIONAL MARIJUANA, THE SMOKE OF SPECIFIC REGULATIONS HAS YET TO CLEAR, AND THAT IS PART OF THE CURRENT STATE OF THE STATE THAT GOVERNOR DEWINE SPOKE ABOUT HERE TODAY. MOST OF THE OHIO GOVERNOR’S MESSAGE TO THE 135TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY FOCUSED HEAVILY ON SPECIFIC INVESTMENTS IN EDUCATION AND CHILD CARE, BUT HE ALSO ZEROED IN ON MARIJUANA, AS DEWINE HAS STRESSED, BEFORE, THE WILL OF OHIO VOTERS MUST BE RESPECTED. BUT HE DOUBTS PEOPLE WANT THEIR KIDS BREATHING IN POT, SMOKE WHILE WALKING IN A PARK OR TO A BALL GAME. THAT IS WHAT THE CURRENT LAW ALLOWS AND WILL CONTINUE TO ALLOW UNTIL WE DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. WE ASKED 30TH DISTRICT REPUBLICAN BILL SEITZ IF LAWMAKERS WILL FOLLOW UP WHEN I’M DONE WITH YOU, I’M GOING TO A MEETING ON THAT VERY TOPIC. HIS COLLEAGUE CINDY ABRAMS ALSO WANTS RULES CLEARLY DEFINED. YOU KNOW, YOU’RE IN THE CAR. YOU CAN’T DRINK A BEER OR A GLASS OF WINE. YOU SHOULD NOT BE ABLE TO SMOKE A JOINT. BUT IT’S ONE THING FOR LAWMAKERS TO BE GENEROUS WITH THEIR APPLAUSE. ANOTHER FOR THAT HAND CLAPPING TO TRANSLATE INTO ACTION ON THE FLOOR. DEWINE IMPLORED THEM TO GET BUSY ON IT. WE OWE IT TO OUR FAMILIES TO CHANGE THAT. AND YOU HAVE THE POWER TO DO THAT. BUT I ASK YOU TO EXERCISE THAT POWER. IT’S NOT WHAT PEOPLE WANTED. WHETHER THE GOVERNOR GETS THE CLARITY HE WANTS ON THE STATE’S NEW MARIJUANA LAW IS GUESSWORK AT THE MOMENT. HERE’S HOW DEMOCRATIC STATE SENATOR CECIL THOMAS DESCRIBES IT. YOU KNOW, THE MAJORITY PARTY IS DIVIDED. THEY CAN’T COME TO ANY CONSENSUS OF AGREEMENT ON JUST ABOUT ANYTHING. AND SO UNTIL WE FIX THAT, YOU KNOW, I VENTURE TO SAY THAT IT’S GOING TO BE DIFFICULT TO GET ANYTHING DONE. AND THE WINDOW FOR STATE LAWMAKERS TO REFINE MARIJUANA REGULATIONS CLOSES WITHIN A FEW WEEKS. THIS IS NOT PLAYING OUT THE WAY THE GOVERNOR HAD ENVISIONED IN COLUMBUS. JOHN LONDON WLWT NEWS 5 BY THE WAY, AMONG GOVERNOR DEWINE’S MANY PROPOSALS TODAY, EXPANSION OF MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES, MORE ACCESS FOR MENTAL HEALTH CARE AND A NEW VOUCH