Transcripts For KLAS 8 News Now At 11 PM 20160105

Video shows his repeated warnings to 23 year old Keith Childress for more than two minutes. hands up, hands up Vanessa Murphy this was december 31st. drop the gun Vanessa Murphy metro police were called to help us marshals. Who told officers childress was on the run out of arizona for attempted murder. if you advance us, you will be shot Vanessa Murphy but when he walks toward Officers Police shoot and kill him. Turns out what bohanon refers to as a gun was a cell phone childress was holding. Weve also learned childress was not an attempted muder suspect. And one of the officers at the scene failed to turn on his body camera. All problems which undersheriff Kevin Mcmahill says are being investigated. undersheriff Kevin Mcmahill any time an unarmed individual is shot in todays environment, its a big deal, but its not a bigger deal to anybody than this police department. Vanessa Murphy on monday metro Police Released this audio to false information from us marshals that childress was an attempted murder suspect. audio Vanessa Murphy mcmahill also pointed to the suspect being a fugitive, his violent criminal past and his failure to comply with officers. mcmahill an individual thats being challenged by armed police toward them during that certainly lends you to believe the fact that he absconded from arizona to come to las vegas and he potentially didnt want to face the music for the charges down in arizona. Vanessa Murphy we talked with the brother of childress by phone. Nicholas mann is not ruling out a lawsuit against metro. Nicholas Mann i feel that these officers are trying to hide behind a badge and hide behind slandering Keith Childress for their justification in that. Vanessa Murphy both officers who shot childress are on paid administrative leave while the shooting is investigated. Is the officer who failed to turn on his body camera. That is part of the investigation. Back to you. Dave Courvoisier vanessa, any feeling on whether mcmahill thinks this shooting was justified or not . Vanessa Murphy dave, its too early to tell but he did say he believes its clear officers thought childress had a gun. And that a taser wouldnt have been an option because the distance between childress and the officers was too far. Paula Francis we had a damp monday across the valley. And the unusually wet weather will have an encore. Or two. This week. Ashley conroy is in for tedd tonight. She joins us with a first check of your weather. Ashley . Ashley Conroy thats going to be looking like an encore all week long today was our first rain of 2016 the first of multiples throughout the week. When we look at our satellite radar map you can see we have general precipitation, including rain and wintry mix all throughout the Western Region of the us. We had some showers through through Southern Nevada you can also see we have some snow happening in the mountains to the west and north of the valley. Were expected to continue to see more showers and heres why we have two low pressure systems in the pacific this one right here thats already starting to make its way on land going into the Pacific Northwest and Northern California and this one back here, thats headed our way later this week. Its not just rain were seeing, but theres actually winter storm watches and warnings in multiple counties throughout the Southern Nevada, and eastern california ill have more on that later in the newscast paula back to you. Paula Francis thank you, ashley. A warning tonight. For people going up to Mount Charleston this week. The Mount Charleston Winter Alliance says. With snow predicted every day this week for the mountain including lee canyon that everyone making the trek needs to be prepared for severe winter conditions. That includes being aware of driving conditions, meeting chain requirements, and watching for road closures. You can access that information when you go to las vegas now dot com. Click on links we mentioned then Mount Charleston safety and traffic tips. Dave Courvoisier Technology Company Faraday Future got a jump on ces tonight. Unveiling their concept vehicle that they promise will redefine the future of mobility. Meet the ff zero one or as it was termed tonight an extreme tablet on wheels. Faraday future, which prefers that we refer to them Going Forward as simply ff, says the vehicle has Flexible Battery lines. Features two or four wheel drive. Internet connectivity. And autonomous driving. There are many Customization Options for the concept car. Which they expect will make it to market in just a few years. Ff says they have the tools to achieve Ambitious Goals nick sampson senior vp, Faraday Future number one, we have an amazing worldcass team. Two, we have a transformative vision. Three, we have incredible alliances. And four, were moving very fast. nods to tesla and apple as Innovative Companies they aspire to be like, in terms of creating and bringing new ideas to market. They also credited North Las Vegas mayor john lee and governor Brian Sandoval for their work in bringing faraday to nevada. Ff breaks ground on their North Las Vegas plant in a few weeks. Theyve committed to investing over a billion dollars. And will bring thousands of jobs to Southern Nevada. No price for the ff zero one was announced. Thats not expected until its close to market. Dave Courvoisier ces officially kicks off tomorrow morning. And remember, there will be some extra cars on the roads with over 100 thousand people in town for the convention. Ces is not open to the general public. If you are credentialed to go inside this year, there are some new rules. No luggage may be brought into the venues. Smaller bags are ok, but they will be searched. Clear bags are encouraged. Everyone will be subject to metal detector screening and body pat downs. Bulky clothing is discouraged. Also make sure you have your government issued photo id before entering show venues. Paula Francis a newly released arrest report is shedding new light on the mysterious murder of a man in the parking lot of a 24 hour fitness location. 19yearold megan hippie reportedly admitted to police that she and her boyfriend, 27 yearold kyle staats, were burglarizing vehicles on december 29th when they happened upon 42yearold neil gandler sleeping in his car outside the gym. Hippie claims that staats got out of the car with a gun. And heard the victim plead with staats. The next thing she said she heard was a gunshot. Hippie says she and staats left. And stole a vehicle at another location. Both of them were arrested on saturday and now face murder charges. We looked into staats past and he has a lengthy rap sheet including felony battery and Drug Trafficking charges. Friends of the victim, neil gandler, tell us he was in town for ces. And he was an accomplished man in the technology field. Father and an older brother. Paula Francis and bizarre new details emerging in the case of a unlv senior. Accused of killing his father. A Police Report says that the wife of 68year old mbayi ngeza called metro police after she couldnt locate her husband at home. And then found a bloody pillow in her car. The woman gave Police Permission to search their henderson home. And Police Reported seeing the dead mans feet sticking out from underneath 21 yearold eugene tshiyombos bed. Officers pulled back the mattress to find the mans head wrapped in a blanket he had apparently been shot once in the head. The young man told detectives he doesnt have any friends and that caused friction with his father. He then said he wanted to talk with a lawyer. Police have booked him on an open murder charge. Dave Courvoisier president obama announced today that he is moving ahead without congress on plans to require background checks for guns purchased from dealers even if theyre bought online or at gun the white house revealed the executive action aimed at curbing gun violence despite opposition in congress to new gun laws. The actions have four major bullet points. First the expanded background checks. President obama will also include funding for 200 new atf agents in his 2017 budget proposal. To help enforce gun laws. The white house is also proposing 500 Million Dollars to increase access to Mental Health care. Along with a directive to the the departments of defense, justice, and Homeland Security to research gun safety technology. Today, mister obama explained his decision to move forward without Congress President obama we have tens of thousands of people every single year who are killed by guns. We have suicides that are committed by firearms at a rate that far exceeds other countries. We have a frequency of Mass Shootings that far exceeds other Dave Courvoisier democrats were quick to praise the president s announcement. But many leading republicans, including those on the president ial campaign trail, were quick to slam the unilateral move sen. Ted cruz r tx president ial candidate he has a phone and he has a pen but if you live by the pen you die by the pen and my pen has an eraser gov. Chris christie rnj president ial candidate its not constitutional and im confident the courts will reject his attempts to do that. Dave Courvoisier House Speaker paul ryan issued a statement calling the president s plan a dangerous executive overreach and says the country will not stand for it. President obama conceded today that the move cannot stop all gun violence, but believes the action will help reduce it. Paula Francis the father and son ranchers convicted of setting fire to federal grazing land have reported to prison. But a standoff protesting their treatment continues tonight at an oregon wildlife refuge. Dwight hammond and Steven Hammond are being housed at a federal correctional facility in california. They were convicted three years ago of starting fires that burned federal land. But an Appeals Court judge ordered them to serve about four more years each. An armed group is now occupying the federal wildlife preserve. Saying the hammonds are being treated unfairly ammon bundy protester we will not forget about how important each person is and how that person has the right to live here on this earth and has the right to live here in liberty. Paula Francis that was ammon bundy. A name that should sound familiar. His father, cliven, was involved in a dispute over grazing rights on federal land in nevada in 20 14 that brought selfstyled militiamen out to protect him. The younger bundy says he has no intention of using violence, but hes asking others to join his cause. The fbi says it is monitoring the occupation. Dave Courvoisier professional football in los angeles. Is starting to look like a whole lot more than just talk. The Major Development tonight to bring the nfl back to la. Donald trump is making his push. The first real ad dollars hes has the political world talking. music but only a few commands to master depositing checks at chase atms. Technology designed for you. So you can easily master the way you bank. Season. Republican president ial front runner donald trump is getting more aggressive in courting voters. Releasing his first tv ad with familiar messages donald trump political ad the politicians can pretend its something else, but donald trump calls it radical islamic terrorism. Thats why hes calling for a temporary shutdown of muslims entering the united states, until we can figure out whats going on. Hell quickly cut the head off isis and take their oil. And hell stop illegal immigration by building a wall on our southern border that mexico will pay for. Dave Courvoisier Trumps Campaign says he plans to spend two Million Dollars per week on the ad. Set to begin airing tomorrow across iowa and new hampshire. The trump team has acknowledged tonight that the video in the ad of people streaming freely across a border is not in fact mexico, but rather the north african country of morocco. They say that fact does not change the message of border security. Paula Francis two of the three democratic president ial candidates are Planning Campaign stops in Southern Nevada this week. Former senator Hillary Clinton will be at sun city anthem in henderson for a grassroots organizing event. Thats wednesday at noon. The mgm grand Conference Center for a Democratic Party battle born dinner. Clinton will also tour the Culinary Academy in what will be her seventh visit to nevada this election cycle. Paula Francis former Maryland Governor Martin Omalley will also attend the battle born dinner on wednesday. Then hell make a speech to the Economic Club of las vegas in the Caesars Palace ballroom. Thats scheduled for thursday at 9 am. Dave Courvoisier Rooftop Solar Company solarcity plans to announce how many nevadans jobs they will cut after the Public Utilities Commission Decision on the rate structure for solar companies. The announcement will be made tomorrow. Solarcity installers will also begin dismantling their Las Vegas Training Center that opened just last month. Solarcity says the puc effectively shut them down with the plan to raise rates over a fiveyear period. Governor sandoval has previously slammed solarcity. Calling the actions a bullying tactic in an attempt to influence the decision. electric rates for Nv Energy Customers decreased. Effective on january first. The overall rate decrease is just over 5 percent thanks to decreases in costs associated with fuel production and the companys generating stations. Combined with rate decreases in july and october of 20 15. Nv energy says the typical familys bill has gone down nearly 13 dollars since july. Ashley Conroy heres what were looking at this week a rainy start to 2016 temps are near normal for early january compared to what we saw last week with temps 10 degrees or more below average. We do have those winter storm watches and warnings. And look for snow in higher elevations. Our satellite radar map and ive taken off the cloud coverage, because i really wanted to highlight where that precipitation has been happening off the coast of california, in arizona and here in Southern Nevada. Now heres where were looking at those watches and warnings winter storm watch for inyo, esmerelda, ny, lincoln, clark, and mohave counties starting tonight and going into wednesday morning for elevations above 55 hundred if you have to travel in that area, make sure to take extra precautions we also have a winter storm warning for inyo and southern Lincoln County so try to avoid traveling if you can. Winds winds are going to be calm tomorrow during the day, but picking up in the Colorado River valley and at Mount Charleston by tomorrow evening then tappering off a little bit on wednesday earlier in the day but picking up again by the afternoon well be looking at winds in the teens here in the valley 35 Miles Per Hour at Mount Charleston which with the snow, could almost create blizzard like conditions. Heres what were seeing the valley tonight 43 degrees 40 percent chance of showers. Tomorrow 54 is our high 80 percent chance of showers and again gusty at night. Our highs around the valley mostly 50s summerlin at 49. Regionally pahrump youre at 42 searchlight 49 in the 30s in tonopah rachel, pioche for tomorrow. At Mount Charleston you are under a winter storm warning starting tomorrow at 7 am and going through wednesday morning at 6am. Sustained winds of 15 to 22 Miles Per Hour, but gusts could be upwards of 30 Miles Per Hour like conditions with the snow. With all this snow you can always go to lasvegasnow. Co m click on sections and check out all the latest ski conditions in the mountain west. Heres our 7day rain showers for the next three days breezy conditions starting tomorrow night and 50s for the week we also have the potential for showers this weekend. A great rainy start to 2016. Dave paula back to you. Dave Courvoisier a big College Basketball game with a former unlv coach on the sideline. Paula Francis former rebel coach lon kruger digging deep into his bag of coaching skills. Chris maathuis with more on a nail biting game. , Chris Maathuis any time youve got number one versus number two. It has the potential to be huge. And how about triple overtime huge for lon kruger, looking to beat the number one team. The sidelines. Plus. Why wouldnt top ranks bob arum say much about a possible Pacquaio Mayweather rematch . Perhaps the less he says the better. More next here on 8 news now. From 8 news now, this is sports Chris Maathuis this is a huge week for the runnin rebels. After dropping that home game to fresno state, they travel to Colorado State on wednesday and wyoming on saturday. Theyve got to get a split and their best chance might be at laramie on saturday afternoon. Rams are pretty good, cowboys are not. This is now a time to regroup, focus and leave distractions off the court. Stephen zimmerman unlv Freshman Center once we come in here it needs to be 100 percent about basketball and about unlv and i think people bring their off court issues onto the court, it snot good for the team right now, its a maturity thing. Off the court were still close and stuff, but on the court weve got to be able to take constructive crisitism and will be a big thing for us Going Forward. Both games are on cbs sports network. Wednesdays tip at 7 00 and saturdays at 3 00. Of course the big game tonight had top ranked kansas facing 2nd ranked oklahoma. And since he did so much to revive the rebel program, its fun to follow former unlv coach lon kruger. lon kruger oklahoma head coach weve got to come out and have a lot more energy than theyve got, theyre going to come out and play on emotion right here, weve got to have more then theyve got, more then theyve got right here. They got a transition on us because we werent ready, run back, run back run back. Lons a gem and so was the game. Both teams hitting big shots. Tied after regulation, after the first and second ot. What about a 3rd overtime. Lon kruger using all his coaching abilities. Trailing one, sooners turn it over on the inbounds, led to free throws that led to a kansas 109106 triple overtime win. Classic 1 vs. 2, its going to be hard to beat that game the rest of the Chris Maathuis its going to be hard to top what the ufc did in 2015, but already in 2016, fans witnessed possibly the fight of the year from last saturday. Then coming up this summer at ufc 200 with perhaps ronda rousey and holly holm in a rematch. Conor mcgregor will be back. And today. Daniel cormier tweets out that hes going to fight jon jones. He says he has a date, but wont reveal it. Jones defended the title vs. Cormier, but was stripped after being charged for a hitandrun in new mexico. Cormier went on to claim the belt with a victory over anthony johnson. My best guess is the two fight this spring in los angeles. Last week we learned that Manny Pacquiao will fight Timothy Bradley for a third time. Should be a good fight, the first two were exciting. Bradley is working with a new trainer. Pacquiao is working on preparing for the fight, becoming a senator in the philippines and maybe looking ahead to a rematch with floyd mayweather. Bob arum top rank i know manny cant stop talking about a rematch, he may stay retired, if he continues losing betting on jets, he may have to come back sooner then later. Im not going to get my hopes up, if i suggested to floyd that he should come out of retirment, thats the sure way i think that floyd stays retired. Aside from boxing. Bob says take a look at the Minnesota Vikings in the nfl post season. Theyre a long shot at plus 35hundred to win the super bowl. First day to officially file nfl relocation applications and the rams, raiders and chargers all filed. The three submitted their apps today. Its strange because plans and polls have come and gone over the years, but this is the first formal request to move into the la market. Its a little strange since the rams and raiders, both left la in 1994 and now they want back. There are two stadium plans, one in inglewood and the other in Dave Courvoisier were the flu virus. Its a really big deal. And with fever, aches, and chills, mom knows it needs a big solution an antiviral. Dont kid around with the flu, call your doctor within the first 48 hours of symptoms and ask about prescription tamiflu. Attack the flu virus at its source with tamiflu, an antiviral that helps stop it from spreading in the body. Tamiflu in liquid form is fda approved to treat the flu in people two weeks of age and older whose flu symptoms started within the last two days. If youre pregnant, nursing, have Serious Health conditions, or take other medicines. If you develop an allergic reaction, a severe rash, or signs of unusual behavior, stop taking tamiflu and call your doctor immediately. Children and adolescents in particular may be at an increased risk of seizures, confusion, or abnormal behavior. The most common side effects are mild to moderate nausea and vomiting. Antiflu . Go antiviral with tamiflu. Dave Courvoisier governor Brian Sandoval was in town today. Seeing off hundreds of National Guard members. They were at the mandalay bay as family and friends sat in the audience for the mobilization ceremony. The 17th Sustainment Brigade will be sent to the middle east. With a main focus in kuwait sgt. Christopher cargill im feeling great, a little pumped up, a little anxious ive never been deployed before but everything should go smoothly we have a great unit we all get along really well. Dave Courvoisier the National Guard members. Mostly from the reno area. Say they were surprised by the warm welcome they received here in las vegas. And by mgm resorts. Dave Courvoisier thats all for us live at eleven. Paula Francis Samuel L Jackson is on the late show with stephen colbert. Well see you back here tomorrow the son of a polish immigrant who grew up in a brooklyn tenement. He went to public schools, then college, where the work of his life began fighting injustice and inequality, speaking truth to power. He moved to vermont, won election and praise as one of americas best mayors. In congress, he stood up for working families opposing the iraq war, supporting veterans. Now hes taking on wall street and a corrupt political system funded by over a million contributions, tackling Climate Change to create cleanenergy jobs, fighting for living wages, equal pay, and tuitionfree public colleges. 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