Kings High School placed on lockdown due to threat; police on scene

District: Kings High School placed on lockdown due to threat; police on scene

Updated: 11:23 AM EST Jan 31, 2025

TURNING MORE SCATTERED AS WE APPROACH SUNRISE HERE ON THE WLWT RADAR. HOW LONG SPRINKLES LINGER TODAY BY HOUR BY HOUR. OUTLOOK FOR A DRIER WEEKEND. AND THE POTENTIAL TO SEE SOME HIGH WATER NEXT WEEK. AND NEW DEVELOPMENTS OVERNIGHT IN THE SEARCH FOR ANSWERS AFTER THAT DEADLY MID-AIR COLLISION OVER WASHINGTON, D.C., THE POTOMAC SPECIFICALLY WHAT CREWS RECOVERED FROM THE WATER AND WHAT COULD HELP THEM FIND OUT WHAT WENT WRONG. AND WE ARE LEARNING MORE ABOUT THE 67 PEOPLE WHO LOST THEIR LIVES, INCLUDING A WOMAN WHO GREW UP HERE IN CINCINNATI. OUR NICOLE APONTE JOINS US WITH HOW SHE’S BEING REMEMBERED THIS MORNING. THIS IS WLWT NEWS 5 LEADING THE WAY. 5 A.M. WE ARE SEEING SOME SHOWERS OUT THERE RIGHT NOW. THE WORST OF THAT RAIN HAS PASSED. NOW COMES THE WARM UP. GOOD MORNING, I’M MEGAN MITCHELL. IT’S A WARM UP WE DESERVE. I’M STEVEN ALBRITTON WITH KELLY RIPPIN. THANK YOU FOR JOINING US. WE’RE GOING TO HIT TEMPERATURES JUST SHY OF. CAN YOU SAY IT? AT THE END OF JANUARY? YES, 60. 60. I WAS SPEECHLESS. I THINK EVERYONE IS LIKE. I CAN’T SAY IT. YES. I DON’T WANT TO SAY IT BECAUSE I DON’T WANT TO JINX IT FOR ANY REASON. RANDI THE REMNANTS OF RAIN MAKING THIS A WEATHER IMPACT DAY. IT’S STARTING TO MOVE OUT THOUGH. AND YOUR TIMING? HOW LONG THIS WILL STICK AROUND. HEADING INTO THE WEEKEND I WOULD KEEP AN UMBRELLA HANDY THROUGH THE DAY. THE BULK OF THE RAIN CAME WHILE MOST OF YOU WERE SLEEPING. PICKED UP ABOUT A QUARTER OF AN INCH OF RAIN. WE’LL HAVE OCCASIONAL SHOWERS OFF AND ON, EVEN INTO THE AFTERNOON, BUT THE STEADIER, HEAVIER STUFF WAS HERE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT. SO AS WE TAKE A LOOK AT THE TEMPERATURES RIGHT NOW, MOST PLACES SITTING IN THE 40S AND WILL MAKE IT TOWARD 60 DEGREES. BUT WE HAVE TO GET THROUGH THE WET WEATHER HERE EARLY THIS MORNING. TAKING A LOOK AT THE RADAR IN MOTION, YOU CAN SEE RAIN SHOWERS WORKING THEIR WAY, GENERALLY TO THE EAST HIGHLAND COUNTY INTO BROWN COUNTY, ADAMS COUNTY. THOSE ARE THE SPOTS STILL SEEING THE MORE STEADY RAIN SHOWERS THAT EXTENDS NOW INTO PORTIONS OF BRACKEN AND MASON AND ROBERTSON COUNTIES SOUTH OF THE 7175 SPLIT. OWEN COUNTY STILL SEEING SOME LIGHT RAIN. THERE ARE A FEW SPRINKLES RIGHT ALONG THE OHIO RIVER NEAR RISING SUN. SO AS WE GO THROUGH THE NEXT 12 HOURS, YOU CAN EXPECT OCCASIONAL RAIN SHOWERS, EARLY BREEZY CONDITIONS THIS AFTERNOON. AND BY THE WAY, IF YOU DO HAVE TO HEAD OUT THE DOOR RIGHT NOW, THOUGH, THE RAIN IS NOT HEAVY BECAUSE THE RAIN IS MOVING OUT. THERE IS SOME FOG IN SPOTS. SO DENSE. FOG ADVISORY IN BUTLER COUNTY, FAYETTE, UNION AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES IN INDIANA. KELLY. OKAY, GOOD TO KNOW. RANDI. THANK YOU SO MUCH. AND LET’S KEEP AN EYE ON THE ROADS THIS MORNING WITH WET ROADWAYS, WE KNOW THERE COULD BE THE CHANCE FOR SOME THINGS TO SLOW DOWN THIS MORNING. SO WE JUST WANT TO KEEP AN EYE ON THAT. THINGS DO LOOK GREAT, THOUGH. FOR THE MOST PART HERE. 75 AT 74. AN AREA THAT GETS BUSY PRETTY EARLY 75 AT TYLERSVILLE IS LOOKING GOOD AND 275 AT THE CARROLL LEE CROPPER BRIDGE. THAT IS WHERE IT NARROWS DOWN TO ONE LANE. SO WE’LL KEEP AN EYE ON THAT AS WE HEAD THROUGH THE MORNING. SHOULD ANYTHING POP UP HERE. 71 AT 75, HEADING THROUGH DOWNTOWN. NO MAJOR ISSUES RIGHT NOW AND NO CRASHES TO REPORT, WHICH WE LOVE TO SEE. SO HOPEFULLY THAT WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE MORNING. AND WE’LL KEEP YOU UPDATED HERE ON WLWT. KELLY, THANK YOU SO MUCH. 502 NOW TO THOSE NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN THAT DEADLY MID-AIR COLLISION OVER WASHINGTON, DC. YOU’RE LOOKING LIVE AT RONALD REAGAN NATIONAL AIRPORT, CLOSE TO THE SITE WHERE THAT PASSENGER PLANE AND BLACKHAWK HELICOPTER COLLIDED OVER THE POTOMAC. ALL 67 PEOPLE ARE BELIEVED TO BE DEAD. SEARCH CREWS HAVE PULLED DOZENS OF BODIES FROM THE WATER AS INVESTIGATORS TRY TO FIGURE OUT HOW THIS HAPPENED. NOW, LATE LAST NIGHT, CREWS RECOVERED THE BLACK BOXES FROM THAT AMERICAN AIRLINES FLIGHT. THOSE CONTAIN AUDIO RECORDINGS FROM THE COCKPIT AND OTHER IMPORTANT DATA. AND INVESTIGATORS ARE PORING OVER EVIDENCE. THEY’RE TRYING TO FIND OUT WHAT CAUSED THE DEADLIEST U.S. AVIATION DISASTER IN MORE THAN 20 YEARS. WLWT NEWS FIVE’S AMY LU NEAR THE CRASH SITE WITH WHAT COMES NEXT NOW, STEPHEN, KELLY AND MEGAN. EMERGENCY RESPONDERS HAVE BATTLED NEAR FREEZING TEMPERATURES, ICY COLD WATERS OF THE POTOMAC RIVER AND WITH RAIN IN THE FORECAST TODAY, AN ADDED CHALLENGE FINDING OUT WHAT HAPPENED. NEW PICTURES OVERNIGHT FROM THE NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD INVESTIGATORS PULLING THE PASSENGER PLANES. VOICE AND DATA RECORDERS BRINGING THEM TO THEIR NEARBY LABS FOR EVALUATION. YOU NEED TO GIVE US TIME. STILL TOO SOON TO SPECULATE. THE CRASH’S CAUSE. OFFICIALS ARE PLEDGING A PRELIMINARY REPORT IN THE NEXT MONTH. AND WE’RE HERE TO ASSURE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE THAT WE ARE GOING TO LEAVE NO STONE UNTURNED AS RECOVERY CREWS CONTINUE TO WADE THROUGH FRIGID WATERS IN THE POTOMAC, RECOVERING AT LEAST 28 BODIES FROM THE WRECK. YOU’RE HALF SWIMMING, HALF WALKING WHILE YOU’RE WORKING. THIS IS VERY STRENUOUS FOR OUR DIVERS. THE SEARCH FOR A CAUSE ONGOING. MAYBE THE PILOTS FAULT. THEY SHOULD HAVE SEEN IT. I WOULD HAVE THOUGHT. THEY SHOULD HAVE SEEN IT BECAUSE IT WAS A PLANE THAT WAS LOADED UP WITH LIGHTS. PRESIDENT TRUMP PINNED UNFOUNDED BLAME ON THE PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATION, PRIORITIZING DIVERSITY OVER QUALIFICATIONS IN HIRING. WE DON’T CARE WHAT RACE THEY ARE. WE WANT THE MOST COMPETENT PEOPLE. I HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE, ABOUT THAT. DRAWING BIPARTISAN PUSHBACK. AND I THINK HE OWES THE COUNTRY AN APOLOGY FOR TAKING THIS MOMENT WHERE WE’RE TRYING TO COME TOGETHER AND FIGURE IT OUT, AND INSERTING GROSS POLITICS. IT WAS GROTESQUE. WE KNOW THAT PLANES ARE FLYING IN AND OUT OF REAGAN NATIONAL AIRPORT THIS MORNING, AND AT LEAST ONE AMERICAN AIRLINES FLIGHT IS SCHEDULED LATER ON TODAY BETWEEN WICHITA, KANSAS AND WASHINGTON. THE SAME ROUTE THAT ENDED IN THIS DEADLY CRASH IN WASHINGTON NEAR THE POTOMAC. I’M AMY LU WLWT NEWS 5. WE ARE LEARNING MORE THIS MORNING ABOUT THE 67 PEOPLE WHO DIED IN THE COLLISION FROM A LAW PROFESSOR AT HOWARD UNIVERSITY TO FRIENDS WHO WERE JUST ON A DUCK HUNTING TRIP TO A GROUP OF FIGURE SKATERS, INCLUDING ONE WHO WAS JUST 12 YEARS OLD, A TRULY IMMEASURABLE LOSS. AND ONE OF THE VICTIMS GREW UP RIGHT HERE IN CINCINNATI. WLWT NEWS FIVE’S NICOLE APONTE IS LIVE WITH HOW THE COMMUNITY IS HONORING THE LIFE OF A MADEIRA HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE. NICOLE. STEPHEN. HER NAME WAS ELIZABETH ANN KINGS, AND SHE GRADUATED FROM HERE MADEIRA HIGH SCHOOL AS VALEDICTORIAN BACK IN 2010. SHE WAS KNOWN BY HER FAMILY AND FRIENDS AS LIZ, AND SHE ALSO GRADUATED WITH A LOT OF OTHER AWARDS. ELIZABETH WENT TO TUFTS UNIVERSITY IN BOSTON AND EARNED A LAW DEGREE FROM GEORGETOWN. SHE WAS WORKING FOR A LAW FIRM IN D.C. AND HAD BEEN FLYING BACK HOME TO SEE HER BOYFRIEND AND THEIR DOG, TUCKER, WEDNESDAY NIGHT. SO MANY PEOPLE FROM MADEIRA HAVE REACHED OUT TO SHARE THE IMPACT ELIZABETH HAD ON THEIR OWN LIVES, INCLUDING HER FORMER PRINCIPAL. WHAT A HIGH QUALITY PERSON SHE WAS. YOU KNOW, JUST ENJOYABLE TO BE AROUND A GREAT STUDENT, A LEADER AMONG STUDENTS AND JUST THE TYPE THAT YOU WOULD WANT YOUR EVERY FATHER WOULD WANT THEIR DAUGHTER TO TO BE. IN A STATEMENT, ELIZABETH’S MOTHER WROTE IN PART, SHE LOVED DEEPLY AND WAS DEEPLY LOVED. IT GOES ON TO SAY, QUOTE, WORDS CANNOT EXPRESS HOW DEEPLY ELIZABETH, MY BITSY WILL BE MISSED. WE ARE FILLED WITH UNBEARABLE SORROW AND DESPAIR AT OUR LOSS. ELIZABETH WAS ALSO CELEBRATING HER 33RD BIRTHDAY THE DAY OF THE CRASH. LI

District: Kings High School placed on lockdown due to threat; police on scene

Updated: 11:23 AM EST Jan 31, 2025

Kings High School has been placed on lockdown due to a threat received by the school, a representative for Kings High School said. Multiple units are on the scene to clear the building. WLWT has a crew headed to the scene. Stay tuned for updates. This story was curated by Hearst’s WLWT Alert Desk. For live traffic updates, click here. Click the video player above to watch other morning headlines from WLWT News 5 Sharing brings us closer together. If this story happened near you, share this article with friends in your area using the WLWT mobile app so they can read along with you. The WLWT app is available for free in Apple’s App Store and on Google Play. See news happening? Send us your photos or videos if it’s safe to do so at www.wlwt.com/upload.

KINGS MILLS, Ohio —

Kings High School has been placed on lockdown due to a threat received by the school, a representative for Kings High School said.

Multiple units are on the scene to clear the building.

WLWT has a crew headed to the scene. Stay tuned for updates.

This story was curated by Hearst’s WLWT Alert Desk.

For live traffic updates, click here.

Click the video player above to watch other morning headlines from WLWT News 5

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