Hillary clinton wont look out for their interests if she makes it to the white house. Certainly alot of back and forth here. And more to come with less than 100 days to the november election. Mauricio Marin the event is open to the public but organizers have asked people to request tickets through trumps for president website. Well of course bring you the very latest right here on channel 8 starting at 4pm. Reporting live. Mauricio marin. 8 news now. and libertarian president ial candidate gary johnson will be here tomorrow. Johnson is holding a rally at the sls hotelcasino tomorrow night at 6 oclock. He will take questions at the rally. His running mate william weld will be there as well. You dont need a ticket. Johnson needs to reach a 15 average in polls to join Hillary Clinton and donald trump on the president ial debate stage. brian loftus 8 news now is your local election headquarters. You can follow all the local and National Election news here on channel 8. Com. brian loftus another big story this afternoon. Is the fast moving wildfire in Southern California that has shut down i15 between here and los angeles. Known as the blue cut fire. It is in at the cajon pass. And has exploded to 47 square miles. It now affects more than 80thousand people. Chris martinez is in phelan, california with efforts to get it under control temperatures. sot stu mundel this is a huge firefight out here. firefighter with Carter Marc Peebles battalion chief pio for San Bernardino county fire it spots ahead of itself, gets established, keeps moving, keeps jumping, keeps leapfrogging up because of the spots. sot ronnie moore our motor home just blew up, probably seven of my cars just caught on fire. track six firefighters were briefly trapped by the flames. Two of sot cody anderson, San Bernardino county fire just because of the wind direction, making its way into las vegas skies. Sherry swensk is in the Weather Center where she is tracking its path. Sherry. Sherry Swensk yes, you can really see that smoke and haze today appearing early before daybreak. And right now as we look out across the valley its sunny, but very hazy. Airport at 100 degrees and very dry air. The same hot, dry conditions as Southern California. Their winds are bigger though. Those dry gusty winds have been too hard to fight in Southern California. And those winds will kick up for us again through the afternoon. The winds will continue today. There have been fire weather warnings and hot temps across that area. Danger. And the steep terrain and erratic winds are hard to fight. But hot triple digits will continue for us. brian loftus valley who were trying to get home. Andrew ong was on his way back to california from utah. But is now here waiting it out andrew ong, traveler ive never seen the sun like this before. Its crazy to see the amount of smoke thats being caused by this fire. nigel mcafee, traveler our first reaction was oh, its not that bad so lets find an alternate route so we were looking at that but theres so many road closures and so much traffic that now were just looking for any place to stay. brian loftus they quickly found nearby hotels were booked. So e to vegas to stay until conditions changed. They told us it wasnt an ideal situation to add on another 4 hours to their trip home. But it was far better than the alternative. Demetria obilor has a look at alternate routes if you are trying to head that direction. to get around the i15 closure, caltrans is recommending the following alternates eastbound i10 to eastbound sr62 to northbound sr247 to westbound sr18 northbound i5 to northbound sr14 to eastbound sr58 to i15 sr18 through apple valley and Lucerne Valley to sr330 through big bea brian loftus a metro officer charged his bail set at 300thousand dollars this morning. Officer Ruben Delgadillo faces five counts of possessing child pornograhy. And one count of distributing it. A Police Report says he admitted to police he struggles with his interest in child porn. Case. Delgadillo has been with metro since july of 2015. brian loftus starting the school year. The greeting for new teachers. And why even more are needed. Next on 8 news now, the valleys news leader. youre watching the valleys news leader with swensk. This is 8 news now at noon. brian loftus today. Over 1thousand new teachers were welcomed into the Clark County School district. The orientation took place inside the south point hotel and casino. And thats where we find 8 news now reporter Michael Stevens live. Michael Stevens brian, Clark County School district superintendent Pat Skorkowsky called it the first day of school for these teachers. He greeted all of the 15hundred new teachers at a welcome event here at the south point earlier this morning. The event kickedoff with cheer leaders. And a marching the superintendent. And members from the board of the trustees. Of the 15hundred. At least 600 were new teachers from out of state. The superintendent praised his recruiting team. And says they were the ones responsible for bringing them to the state Pat Skorkowsky ccsd superintendent our state only produces about 1,200 teachers. We have over 1,500 here. We didnt get to hire everyone in the state. There are other districts across the state who hired as well. So we had to go across the United States, there will be a couple International People here who have their licenses now in the state of nevada so its an amazing opportunity for us to bring in dir the United States and expose our students to the best and brightest. Michael Stevens the superintendent says the district still faces a Teacher Shortage with about 3hundred and 50 openings. He says the biggest challenge is the amount of teachers resigning. Making it a revolving door effect. Theyre facing ahead. Michael Stevens the superintendent made it a point that there are a number of students with a diverse set of needs. And these new teachers here today will have to adapt. Brian . brian loftus catastrophic flooding continues. Flooding continues. The rescues continuing in southern louisiana after 30 days. Still ahead on 8 news now, youre watching 8 switch to centurylink and get up to 40 megs of highspeed internet for just 20 a month. Thats the speed you need to stream. Game. Connect on social media. Learn, shop and more with fast inhome wifi. So call 844560link. Get up to 40 megs of highspeed internet for just 20 a month for one year when bundled with a qualifying home phone plan and autopay. Available in your area. Call today. . . The death toll in flood ravage southern lousiana continues to climb. Eleven people have now lost their lives. Tens of thousands remain out of thier homes. Added to the federal disaster delcaration. National guard troops carried out more rescues in baton rouge. So far 30 thousand people have been saved. The cleanup is expected to take months. toss to sherry Sherry Swensk between the flooding in the deep south. And the devastating wildfires in california. A little extra heat for us just doesnt seem too much to deal h temps will stay above normal for feel a downward trend with back to normal temps. The smoke is making its way into the valley and you can really see it as we look out across the valley this morning. Those dry gusty winds have been too hard to fight in Southern California. The winds will continue today. There have been fire weather warnings and hot temps across that area. That area is so prone to fire danger. Here at home we have lighter winds and somewhat cooler some smoke and haze. But hot triple digits iwll continue for us. And back to normal by the weekend. Segment. The rules one company didnt follow. And your rights if you take out one of these loans. Ahead on 8 news now, the brian loftus a new ruling against title max. A vehicle title loan company. Says they will have to pay back some money to customers. And they were ordered to stop offering grace period deferrment loans. Segment. Judah zakalik with peters and associates is here to tell us about title loans. First of all. Explain what this title loans are. And how many of these so what can you do if you get caught in the debt trap . There are new rules and news now at noon. for families about keeping children safe in strollers and carriers. A 21year long study published in the journal academic pediatrics says 361thousand children ages 5 and younger went to the er for stroller or carrier related injuries. Thats about two children every hour. The most common injuries were aused by falls or tipping nationwide Childrens Hospital says parents should always buckling up children in the stroller and lock the wheels to prevent it from rollingwa live at noon. The valleys news leader. Remember that 8 news now is always available at las vegas now dot com, facebook and wyatt i cant believe this. Are are you sure . Youre positive . Steffy i was in the office when my grandfather brought quinn in. Wyatt eric offered her a job . Steffy mmhmm. Wyatt she didnt accept . Steffy oh, she accepted, all right. Wyatt she wouldnt do that. Steffy she did. Wyatt well, why why is eric offering her a job . steffy because hes not thinking straight. Because hes being taken advantage of by your mom. Wyatt [ sighs ] [ knock on door ] . Quinn look at you. Eric look at you. Come in