For little girls, and one little boy all killed. Three of them were third graders, one a first grader, the other just in kindergarten. Its the most unnatural thing in the world, is for a parent to mourn the loss of a child. There are no words that can bring comfort to a mother or a father. Today the city is praying for these families. Spec speaking at. Taste the bus drivers mother defending her son. Calling this a drastic accident. Saying he tried to help kids out of the wreckage. Is a father himself. The safety board has sent a team to investigate. They will be looking at the school bus version of a black box to try to determine what happened. The water is now safe to drink in peoria. That wasnt the case a few days ago. Especially for kids. s but we just learned about this today. We wanted to know what took so long for a warning. Reporter we want to reiterate that the water is safe to use and to drink. There has been no reports of anyone getting sick. We want to show you here are the efforts the city of peoria are taking right now. We are told a routine test show levels of nitrate coming from a well that were slightly higher than allowed. Nitrate is found in fertilizer, an of this spike. Nitrate is dangerous for children under six months old. We asked the city why it took so long to hear about this . s but lab results take a couple of days to be returned. It is a lengthy test. Reporter it is important to dumb things like food or ice that was made with city peoria tapwater between november 15 17th. The water is currently safe to use. We have a hung jury. This is coming out of the seven weeks of testimony we have been following in this big case. The murder trial of former Firefighter David watkins, the one accused of killing his ex wife linda, her mom and a family friend. This was all over a custody battle. The jury unable to reach a verdict. The forecast sunny and dry. Are storm system heading farther to the east. Leaving behind some pretty dry air. Temperatures pretty close afternoon. Upper 60s to low 70s, with a high of 71 in phoenix. Clear tonight, temperatures in the low 60s. Then we will be down to the 50s. We will keep the sunday forecast going. Cool mornings and warm afternoons. A beautiful thanksgiving. We will take you to the thanksgiving forecast. Coming up in just a few minutes. No answers and a phoenix murder. That happened right at the 12th street. The 32yearold victim opened his door and the suspect fired several shots. It is not clear if the two knew each other. Police are trying to track down any witnesses. A phoenix firefighters rescue call. This one unlike anything we have seen before, the team to help rescue a man fell in his wheelchair. Phoenix fire says the man blind. He got too close to the edge. He was in the water for 20 minutes. He was able to keep his head above water during that time. A husbandandwife recovering after they were both accidentally shot. Chandler police say it happened near alma school and jermaine. The woman was cleaning her new gun when it accidentally went off. Shooting her in hand and her husband in the leg. Both are expected to be okay. While an officers family mourned, the suspected killer in this case, was getting married. Police say 31yearold otis license less than 48 hours after police say he shot and killed officer benjamin marconi. Surveillance video shows him driving past officer twice. Marconi was simply writing a traffic ticket mccain was arrested after somebody recognized his car. He told reporters have been involved with several custody battles, lashed out at someone who didnt deserve it. You may be turning a new leaf. President elect donald trump says he is working to build a relationship with the New York Times. He has been meeting with the staff. The soontobe president spoke with journalists on several topics and reporters were live tweeting at all. During the meeting trump said that in seery he could run his business in the country with no conflict of interest. Is in the process of handing over his business to his children. He says he disavowed the movement and distance himself from it. He also told the New York Times country. He does not want to hurt them. He says he doesnt want a job. President elect donald trump wants ben carson. Carson saying its one of several jobs on the table. At one point carson said he wasnt interested in any job. Today it is sounding more like he is interested. He grew up in the innercity. Spec president are some of the people who made him who he has. 21 individuals receiving the nations highest civilian honor. Actors, athletes, artist and philanthropist. Tom hanks, robert de niro, bruce springsteen, robert redford. Plus to the greatest basketball players ever. Michael jordan, and kareem abdul but jabar. s but there is a reason you call someone the honored leaders in math, science and architecture. Including myelin who designed the Vietnam Veterans memorial. The white house as the president committed this prison sentence of 79 inmates today. Many of them convicted of nonviolent drug offenses. President obama wrote putting such offenders behind bars for decades isnt in the best interest of taxpayers or public safety. Spec new details and the massive crash in the loop 101. A family loses a loved one. Do you recognize this guy . Police want to know who he is how they can find out how he died. Black friday is days away. How would you like some extra cash . Were learning more about the mystery involving a body found in the salt river bottom. It started last thursday near 67th avenue and southern. A sketch released of the victim. They are asking for they hope you know who he was. The man has short black hair, a short buzz cut with a short beard. If you know anything please call police. The complete description including what he was wearing over on abc 15. Com. Were learning the name of the person killed in this pile up on the loop 101 in scottsdale yesterday. Dpss Courtland Mckinney of mesa rearended another driver and then got sideswiped and pushed into a wall. He died at a nearby hospital. Prompting a threehour closure. All of it in the middle of rush hour. As many of you get ready to hit the road for travel, mac mesa family hoping you buckle up. Abc 15 sonu wasu shares their story. Reporter this family just lost their child in a rollover crash. It happened last week here on the 202. Near arizona avenue in chandler. 20yearold Jesse Bennett was in the backseat not wearing seatbelt. Dps officials believe the driver was drunk and flipped the car. Jesse and another passenger ejected on impact. Both were not wearing seatbelts. Her injuries so severe she was in a coma for five days before her family decided to take her off life support. Tonight her friends are hoping by sharing jesse story they may be able to save another person from dying on our roads. I want people to recognize the importance and wearing a will be in this world anymore. If she would have had her seatbelt on i would have have my best friend. Reporter jesse family is slammed with thousands of dollars in medical bills. I will have more on how you can help them. Also news from dps, on how deadly the seatbelt violations can be. The numbers may surprise you. I will have more coming up. Neighbors get into a nasty fight outside of a home near 111th and northern avenue. It got really dangerous when police say 46yearold todd Michael Klein through a hammer hitting his neighbor in the arm. He ended up needing several stitches. He said it was in selfdefense. Witnesses say that was not the case. A disturbing fine and a gilbert canal. Why are so many fish dying. Sfx [beeping alarms] . Blues Country Music . If its in your nature to be the first one out there. Then dont miss cabelas black friday doorbuster sale. For 5 hours only, get 100 off vortex diamondback binos 80 off a cuddeback trail camera combo from over 8,000 in prizes. Doors open at 5am. Cant wait . Shop thanksgiving day. At cabelas. Com some things a bit fishy in the gilbert canal. Dead fish popping up everywhere near elliott and greenfield. Our reporter is taking action to find out why. Reporter you number of these things floating in the canal. Lately people in gilbert are finding something fishy. 50 to 100 dead fish floating on the canal. Reporter we called frp who maintains the canal. They sent a biologist to get to the bottom of it. In the 6 1 2 mile stretch of the canal they found about 80 dead fish. According to srp something is and nonnative fish that srp stocks the canals with. They eat the weeds to keep the canals clean. That improves the water flow. Reporter the dead fish are being pulled from the water and tested. Srp says that reason they are dying could be as simple as a change in the temperatures or the algae in the canal. Water has been tested and is safe. There are no indications of any kind of chemicals or anything in their that would be or affect the reporter reporting in gilbert abc 15news. Another hurdle clear for the southbound freeway. A federal Appeals Court refusing to stop construction. The project can move forward. A coalition of groups who say the road will damage sacred land, and environmentally sensitive areas. A dot just open the new overpass this morning after seven months of construction. Rest of the project should be finished by spring. A major recall for kia. The company pulling back 72,000 suvs across the u. S. Because of an electrical short that can cause injury fires. The dangerous issue was discovered after an suv caught fire while parked in the driveway. You can take it to her dealer. If they find rusty wiring they will replace the computer assembly. Theres a new barcode scanning app that can help you save big bucks before the holidays. Its called shop savvy. Once downloaded on your smart phone you can scan barcode items at any store. Generates a list of stores and prices where the item can be found. The debt the best part, it could mean one stop shopping. All you have to do is show your price match to the cashier. If youre looking for a hot meal and a Little Company this thanksgiving. The Salvation Army want you to know that you are invited to spend the day at the convention center. The decorations go up tomorrow. Some 715 volunteers are getting yes. Plus deliver meals to the homebound. It is a remarkable event. If you went to some of the finest restaurants in phoenix he would get the same quality of food. Our attention to our customers, is probably better than most restaurants that i experience here in the valley. Guess can take him clothes and shoes, hairstylist and manicures will also be on hand. Children will have a special area. Doors at the Phoenix Convention center will open thursday from 9 am to 2 pm. At least 300 families were there to get a thanksgiving meal. Everyone that is in line get a turkey, and an emergency food box. It is jazzed up with thanksgiving items. The food banks as they could use more turkeys. They are expecting this scene weather today compared to yesterday. A lot of them were stuck in the rain. Temperatures are similar. At least the skies are clear. We will stay dry on thanksgiving. 10 am on thanksgiving day, 64 degrees. By noon we will be in the low 70s. We will spend the rest of the afternoon in the low to mid 70s. If you have travel plans to get at a town there are a couple spots to watch out for. The first the Pacific Northwest we have a storm system coming in their. Another one that is bringing way up near chicago and detroit. This is the same system that moved through here yesterday. Heres what it looks like on the map. Rain associated with it. Lots of snow farther to the north. Minneapolis and surrounding areas getting anywhere from six to 10 inches. Further down south we are seeing showers and thunderstorms. Through portions of nebraska, and we will be watching that as we head into tonight for you. Heres the next storm system we are tracking. Watch what happens. Too far to the north to get any action here in our stay. There is that chunk of energy. Surging out across utah and colorado. It will bring another round of snow to them on wednesday and thursday. For us we stay dry. We will still be staying at close by. That will bring changes to our forecast. Right now we are 69 degrees, northwest winds at eight miles per hour. Humidity at temperatures will be in the low 60 through 9 pm before we drop off into the 50s in phoenix. Currently at 61 in cave creek, 67 and scottsdale, tempe, glendale and goodyear all at 60 degrees. As we look a little bit farther up to the north we have mid fifties and place for sedona and press get. 46 and flagstaff heres what we expect as we head into tonight, clear skies and freezing temperatures. Along the rim we are talking low 30s. Casagrande down to 43. Temperatures in the 40s further to the west. Tomorrow our warmest spots hit 75. That will be yuma, and phoenix not too far behind. Casagrande in the 60s. Upper 50s for sedona and payson. Flagstaff and cholo in the mid 50s. Heres the hour by hour. Right here in the valley we will start out in youll need the jackets as you head out in the morning. By lunchtime 67, the afternoon looks gorgeous. Sunny, low 70s more or less your average for this time of year. 72 in mason and tempe. In the west valley 72 in peoria. Heres the next sevenday. We have 76 for a high on thursday. Black friday morning upper 40s to low 50s again. That afternoon will be the warmest all week. 77 on friday. We will drop down to the mid cloud coverage starts to come in on saturday. Temperatures drop here in the valley. It looks like the forecast will stay dry. There will be a slight chance to see some spotty showers across northern arizona. For us, more clouds, cooler air, hies return to the mid60s by the start of next week. A toilet malfunction injures a school employee. She is taking action to make sure it does not happen to a forming university and be tried again in the shooting death of a black man during a traffic stop in july 2015. A jury cannot agree on a verdict. And the killing of sam debose. The county prosecutor making the announcement today. He does not want race to be an issue in the case. But it is kind of like the elephant in the room. Beware of exploding toilets. That is what one florida woman is saying after a injury at her school. The former Elementary School librarian says she was barely able to judge dodge porcelain projectiles. She is suing the city. I flush the toilet and took one step and it blew out pieces of shrapnel were flying around the room. The first thing you do is close your eyes and turn your head. She said the police of porcelain lodged into her leg. That is how she was infected according to the lawsuit the city was working on the schools waterline that day. Its a gut wrenching story which will always remind you to buckle up. Plus the war in chattanooga, bringing up safety concerns for buses right here and arizona. To special needs camilli the person they trusted with their money took off with the. What the owner said when we tracked her down. Nows the time to take operation in we are taking donations for the four amazing charities listed on your screen. You can drop off donations at the abc 15 studios or any of the 120 ups store locations. It also tissue can also donate you will get one entry to win a 2017 ford f1 50 for every donation you give. Holiday music is playing in every store thanksgiving a couple days away. Tomorrow the last day of school. Temperatures will be chili at the bus stop. Mid 40s to low 50s. A little bit warmer than what were feeling out there now. Upper 60s to low 70s. Theres a look at your 7 day tonight, breaking news. After the deadly storm, the new and major system set to hit tonight. Chicago, detroit, several cities in the bullseye. Then, moving east, affecting millions traveling this thanksgiving. Also breaking, what we have just learned about the driver in that Deadly School bus crash. The children who survived revealing to us what happened on that bus moments before the crash. The Police Officer ambushed. Now, the arrest, and the new moment today. What the suspect says when asked, did he kill the officer . Youll hear it. President elect Donald Trumps aboutface. Lock her up lock her up after chants of lock her up, what hes now saying about Hillary Clinton tonight. And mr. Trump on those nazi salutes. The group celebrating his win. Breaking now