RANDI: NOW ON WLWT NEWS 5 TODAY, HEAVY RAIN AND STORMS ROLLING IN RIGHT AT THE BUSIEST TIME OF THE MORNING COMMUTE. I’M TRACKING THE HOUR BY HOUR IMPACT OF A SOGGY START AND THE TRANSITION TO SNOW. KELLY: PLUS, AN ORGANIZED CRIME RING, BUSTED IN NORTHERN KENTUCKY. WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THE SIX PEOPLE ARRESTED AND THE TIES TO A NATIONWIDE ENTERPRISE. STEVEN: AND WITH ALCOHOL-RELATED DEATHS ON THE RISE, SOME ARE CALLING ON REGULATORS TO DO MORE, AND LENGTHEN THE LABELS. WHY THEY SAY MORE INFORMATION, COULD HELP SAVE LIVES. KELLY: PLUS, COUNTING DOWN TO KICKOFF, AS THE BENGALS GET BACK TO WORK ON THE PRACTICE FIELD. WHAT THEY’RE SAYING AS THEY PREPARE TO TAKE ON THE RAVENS ON WILDCARD WEEKEND. >> THIS IS WLWT NEWS 5 TODAY, LEADING THE WAY. KELLY: WE KNOW ALL EYES ARE FOCUSED ON THE WEEKEND BUT FOR NOW WE HAVE TO FOCUS ON THE SYSTEM. IT IS MOVING INTO OUR AREA. STEVEN: YOU MIGHT BE EXPERIENCING SOME FOG OUT THERE. WE HAVE TO TALK ABOUT THE RAIN IMPACTING THAT COMMUTE. IT’S ALL ABOUT THE TIMING, THE COMMUTE IS IN THE CROSSHAIRS. RANDI: 6:00 A.M., 7:00 A.M., WE HAVE A LINE OF STRONGER STORMS APPROACHING FROM THE LOUISVILLE AREA. HEADS UP IF YOU ARE JUMPING ON 71 SOUTHBOUND SOUTH OF THE SLIP YOU ARE HEADING INTO THE STORMS THAT ARE PRODUCING PEA-SIZED HAIL. THIS IS THE EDGE OF THE THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING FOR THE MORNING COMMUTE. THE HEAVIEST RAIN IS JUST OUTSIDE OF PORTIONS OF OWEN AND CARROLL COUNTY’S. THERE COULD BE SOME HAIL RISK AS YOU MAKE ITS WAY -- AS IT MAKES ITS WAY UP 71. NO WARNINGS FOR OUR AREA BUT THAT HEAVIER RAIN IS MOVING INTO CARROLL COUNTY. IT WILL RIDE UP RIGHT UP THE OHIO RIVER IN I 71. THROUGH COLTON AND VERSAILLES COUNTY. THE LINE IS CURRENTLY OUTSIDE OF OUR AREA WHERE IS SWITCHES OVER TO HAIL TRACKER MODE. YOU CAN SEE THOSE HAIL REPORTS UP TO NICKEL SIZE IN CHARLESTOWN. AS IT MOVES IN OUR DIRECTION, WE HAVE HAD REPORTS OF PEA-SIZED HAIL OUTSIDE OF LAGRANGE. THERE IS A POTENTIAL FOR HAIL AS THIS MOVES IN AN SOME INTENSE DOWNPOURS THAT WILL SLOW YOU DOWN IF YOU ARE ON THE HIGHWAY. ON THE WIDE VIEW, YOU CAN SEE WHAT IS COMING OUR WAY. WE HAVE ROUNDS OF RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING IN OUR DIRECTION. RIGHT NOW, MOST PLACES ARE LOOKING AT TEMPERATURES OF THE LOW 50’S BUT RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING IN FOR THE MORNING RUSH THAT IS LIKELY TO SLOW DOWN YOUR TRAVEL TIMES AT THE VERY LEAST. WE GET INTO THE AFTERNOON AND THE COLD FRONT WILL HAVE MOVED THROUGH. TEMPERATURES WILL SLOWLY SLIDE AND RAIN WILL TRANSITION INTO SNOW. I WILL HAVE THE TIME LIGHT ON THAT IN A FEW MINUTES. KELLY: 75 NORTHBOUND NORTH OF TAYLORSVILLE, TRAFFIC IS STILL MOVING JUST FINE. IT’S ONE OF THOSE MORNINGS TO BE PREPARED IF YOU DON’T LEAVE UNTIL CLOSER TO 7:00 A.M.. NO IT MIGHT TAKE YOU A LITTLE LONGER. YOU CAN SEE A LITTLE BIT OF FOG JUST BE MINDFUL OF THAT. MORE ON THOSE SIDE ROADS IN LOW-LYING AREAS. WE ARE WATCHING IT FOR YOU ALL THROUGH THE MORNING HERE ON WLWT. DEVELOPING ON WLWT, A BIG-TIME BUST, RIGHT HERE IN NORTHERN KENTUCKY. SIX PEOPLE ARRESTED, AND POLICE SAY THEY GOT THEM, RIGHT BEFORE THEY WERE ABOUT TO HIT A LOCAL BANK. STEVEN: OFFICIALS SAY THEY WERE PART OF A NATIONWIDE GANG, THAT HAS BEEN CAUSING ISSUES IN OUR AREAS FOR YEARS. WLWT NEWS 5’S LACEY ROBERTS IS LEADING THE WAY WITH WHAT WE KNOW SO FAR, ABOUT THE ’FELONY LANE GANG’ LACEY: YEAH KELLY AND STEVEN, LOCAL POLICE AND THE FEDS ARE NO STRANGERS TO THIS GANG. THE FELONY LANE GANG HAS BEEN ON THEIR RADAR FOR MORE THAN A DECADE, IN FACT, THE FBI HAS A DEDICATED TASK FORCE TO STOPPING THEM. THE FEDS SAY THE GANG IS A NATIONWIDE ENTERPRISE LIKES TO TARGET MOTHERS, AND UNOCCUPIED CARS, STEALING PURSES AND CHECKBOOKS, TO COMMIT FRAUD AND IDENTITY THEFT. WE’RE TOLD THEY GOT THEIR NAME FROM THEIR USE OF THE OUTSIDE BANK DRIVE-THROUGH LANE, TO COMMIT FELONY CRIMES. BUT THEY HAVE SINCE GROWN. ITS A RISING TREND WE’VE SEEN GROWING ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND HERE AT HOME. THIS MOST RECENT BUST HAPPENED AS FORT THOMAS POLICE WERE CALLED TO A WES-BANCO, AFTER BEING TIPPED OFF ABOUT A GROUP STAKING OUT THE PLACE. WHEN THEY GOT THERE. THEY FOUND TWO VEHICLES AND SIX SUSPECTS. WE’RE TOLD SIX PEOPLE ARE BEING HELD IN THE CAMPBELL COUNTY JAIL, CHARGED WITH MULTIPLE CRIMES, RELATED TO THEFT AND FRAUD, INCLUDING ENGAGING IN ORGANIZED CRIME. INVESTIGATORS BELIEVE THEY’RE CONNECTED TO FELONY LANE GANG AND ITS NOT THEIR FIRST RUN-IN WITH THE ENTERPRISE. TAKE A LOOK AT THIS VIDEO FROM MAY OF 2018 ALSO IN FORT THOMAS, SECURITY CAMERA CAUGHT SUSPECTED GANG MEMBERS PULL UP NEXT TO CARS IN A PARKING LOT, SMASH THE WINDOWS AND GRAB A PURSE OUT OF THE CAR. BUT THERE’S EVEN MORE HISTORY BETWEEN FELONY LANE GANG AND FORT THOMAS POLICE. THE DEPARTMENT WAS ALSO INVESTIGATING A SERIES OF CAR BREAKINS IN THE CITY, AND IN GEORGETOWN, BACK IN OCTOBER OF 2016 TOO. INVESTIGATORS IN THOSE CASES TOLD US IT WAS A SIMILAR MANNER, WITH SUSPECTS BREAKING THE FRONT WINDOWS TO GET PURSES. WHILE IT MAY JUST BE A DROP IN THE BUCKET IN THIS MASSIVE CRIME ORGANIZATION, ANY ARREST AT ALL CAN MAKE A HUGE DIFFERENCE IN AN INVESTIGATION, AND POLICE HAVE NOW MADE SIX. WE HOPE TO LEARN MORE, INCLUDING WHO THE SUSPECTS ARE AND WHERE THEY’RE FROM, IN THE COMING DAYS AS THE SUSPECTS HEAD TO COUR