Sexually assaulted and then stabbed her 40 times before burning her body and leaving it in a field in the very northwest part of the valley. Its been a roller coaster ride over the years for this family as they have been in court every step of the way hearing horrible details about what happened to her. Alyssas mother says she will continue to be in court until he is punished. That choice he made that day will change, the rest of my life my familys life and its just its [ inaudible ] journey. Anchor so that is jennifer she says that she feels the Death Penalty is only fair saying her daughters life wasnt considered before the violent murder. So we know this much. He will be back in Court Next Week and he could face the Death Penalty in this case. Such a difficult situation for that family. Former nfl player sharper was sentenced today. Anywhere from three to seven years for pleading no contest to raping women. He was sentenced in louisiana to 18 years in prison on similar charges. He wasnt actually in court but he also is accused of doing the same thing in arizona and california. Police are investigating a shooting that happened this morning here in our community after a man ran in to a 711 just south of the unlv campus am we first brought you this story as breaking news this morning and the shooting it happened early, very early in the Morning Hours near maryland and parkway and reno avenue. Give you an idea of where it was. The victim who was living at homeless camp we have learned with his girlfriend was shot twice once in the throat. Police say the victim and his girlfriend likely know that shooter. The victim was taken to Sunrise Hospital at last check he was in critical condition. Certainly statistic that we dont like to hear in this community. Violent crime in las vegas actually up 14 over all since last year. And Home Invasion last night tuesday night i should say reflects part of this disturbing trend. The victim was an 83yearold man. There he is right there robert willis. He told police four teenagers broke in to his home and beat him up. The spike includes robberies and Home Invasions up 17 and homicides up 24 . As of yesterday metro investigating 140th homicide of the year. In 2015 there were a total of 136 in las vegas area. Lets switch gears. This is a live look right now at the spaghetti bowl where things are looking okay. This is what you would call the calm before the storm. Because carnado is in full effect. We are talking about closures in area where project neon expanding the free way and these closures are going to be going on until february. This will be a mess especially during the rush hour. Here ask what we are talking about. Ao big i15 northbound to the u. S. 95. You wont be able to take that ramp. Drivers will have to use fly over to mlk and be modified to tie in to the u. S. 95. The other major closure is the ifinal southbound getting on to the u. S. 95 north. Thats the onramp there and ndot suggesting you do this. Take the exit at lake mead. Then west to palm. Make that west to mlk and then get on to the u. S. 95. Expect long delays with all of these closures and people are going to be taking side streets maybe, if you are trying to get from 15 to 95 maybe you take like sahara. Valley view. Just expect everybody is going to be thinking the same thing as patience it will be a mess. Big time. We already saw that this morning because even though trying to tell people about it, some times kind of goes in one ear and out the other. Doesnt quite get that. Got carnado tomorrow morning and factor in the possibility of rain and its going to be a real headache out there. Today, though, dry conditions for us. This is a time lapse from the middle school. So far today just seen a lot of clouds in the area and thats goin as we have a storm system approaching from the pacific that will bring rain to the area. Just not today. Right now Elementary School 73. Wind southeast about 4 miles per hour. 75 degrees thats the current temperature at k carl. Dew point at 51. So some moisture in the air not quite enough. Now throughout the rest of the day we are look at quite a few clouds. 84 degrees at 3 00 and temperatures falling from there late tonight. Talk about the timing and how long the rain is expected to last coming up. We appreciate that. Can he definitely need to keep those umbrellas handy. We are taking a live look right now at our Mccarran International airport. Good news. Good news always pleasant to hear. Mccarran has the bulges busiest september on record. Also served more passengers per month for the passed five months. This is along its stretch exceeding 4 million passengers in airport history. So more than 170,000 people have already cast their votes for president and you know for the election coming up early voters. Meanwhile we learned that Vice President joe biden making a stop here in las vegas. He will be here saturday and be lear to rally for Hillary Clinton and katherine cortez. This rally will be held doors open at nip in the morning. The event is set to take place at 11 00. If you would like to rsvp a link on our web site news3lv. Com. Click on the link. We made it easy for you. Meanwhile Donald Trump Holding rallies in Battle Ground state ohio today. New polling shows he is leading clinton by a very slim margin. Nationally new members show that its Hillary Clinton on top by by three in a new fox poll. Meanwhile trump said this morning he would not commit to working with clinton if she wins. Bottom line you captain take any votes for granted. Its really really tight. A lot of these Battle Ground states including our fine state of nevada. Keep it right here for complete coverage of decision 2016 all the way up to election day. We have you covered. You can always follow our coverage of course on air, on line at news3lv. Com and we are platforms. In particular follow us on facebook. I know a lot of people are just ready for this to be over. We are so close. We are so close. Make sure you get out there and vote. Multiple women accusing a student at the university of wisconsin of sexual assault. Coming up the shocking things police say they found in his apartment related to these charges. Plus fire breaks out on a commuter train in boston and look at this video. People breaking windows to try to get o. The area. How this happened and what authorities did to get control. Halloween is a lot of fun for kids as they get dressed up but also its an important time to watch out for your pets. So we have some safety tips to keep in mind when it comes to costumes and candy. We know they can get in to it Hillary Clinton far too many families today dont earn what they need and dont have the oppoportunities they deserve. I believe families deserve quality education for their will be different if im president . Well kids and families have been the passion of my life and they will be the heart of my presidency. Im Hillary Clinton and i approve this message. Shes a slob. She ate like a pig. Id look her right in that fat, ugly face of hers. Donald trump calls women bimbos, dogs, and fat pigs. But congressman crescent hardy said hed support donald trump 100 . Kihuen pushed to crack down on employers who pay women less than men. And kihuen will always protect a womans right to choose. Ruben kihuen for nevada. Ads for joe heck are attacking my time as attorney general. The thing they left out is the truth. The truth is crime actually went down during my time in office. Thats why ive been endorsed by Law Enforcement across nevada. G down on meth, protecting seniors from scams, and Holding Banks accountable for defrauding homeowners. Im Catherine Cortez masto. I approve this message because ive spent my career solving problems. Isnt that what we need more of in washington . Weve learned a lot about how joe heck works. Follow the money. He called nevadas foreclosure crisis a blip and took almost 700,000 from wall street, s taken from payday lenders who charge 521 interest. Heck cosponsored legislation protecting their predatory practices. Add it all up, and joe heck is working for corporate special interests. And that doesnt work for nevada. Senate majority pac is responsible for the content wow. Frap tick moments yesterday caught on camera when a fire broke out on the boston commuter train and you can see what happened next. People freaking out. This is video shot by a passenger showing these moments as the orange line train over heated. That sent a thick smoke in to the commuter strayings. Over heated engine starting on fire on the traip. Also that fire spread to the track. Both quickly extinguished but people were very, trying to get out. They dont know what is going on. Recently a train accident in new jersey that killed somebody. So a very chaotic moment here caught on cam amount luckily nobody was injured when you see the people pouring out of broken windows. Glass everywhere. Nobody was injured. Traumatized. Understandably sew considers what goes on daytoday. Ohio Police Officer body camera captured the first moments of get back wow intense. Officers found a woman suffering from burns and then you saw the mobile home just engulfed in flames. The officer telling people as you heard get back. Get back. Just kind of standing around observing. Then you heard that explosion. Explosion we understand were caused by oxygen tanks in the home remains hospitalized. You see Something Like that somebody must have gotten seriously hurt or possibly killed. Just amazing to see the video of these First Responders in action. What they do everyday to save lives amazing. All right. Shocking allegations today one of the nations top colleges. The multiple women have come forward accusing the same man a student at the university of sexual assault. Investigators say they made apartment. In madison with the latest on this case. Reporter this morning the university of wisconsin is in shock as multiple women accuse a student of sexual assault. Its been pretty devastating. Reporter so far alec cook faces nine charges involving four women but prosecutors say many more counts are possible. Investigators searching his apartment say they found a black book in his night stand with names of women he met describin wanted to do with them. According to the search warrant disturbing ly enough there were statements of kill and statements of sexual desires. The first woman who went to police said cook strangled and assaulted her for more than two hours at his apartment on october 12. As news of his arrest spread around campus another woman came forward claiming he assaulted her, too, back in february. Come forward. We are glad she did. She is bray to do so. Reporter cooks attorneys deny allegations they say their client is a 20yearold business major with no criminal history seemingly been charged tried and convicted by a rapid fire internet news cycle. But here in madison outrage is mounting. Just keep hearing more and more bit and i guess it just gets more and more sickening. Cook has been suspended by the university. Now banned from campus. Anchor develop a story we will continue to follow. A marine veteran wants his bike back. Robert has been traveling the country as part of the ride to recovery program. We told but this what it comes through town. Fort collins colorado on tuesday when someone stole his special Mountain Bike from the back of his vehicle. He explained on social media the bike is not just any bike. There are only 10 in the world just a bicycle pick up at a store. This was given to me by an organization ridden previously by a vietnam veteran friends of mine who had given it to me after he was done riding it. It has a lot of nostalgia value to me. Emotional tie. A lot of veterans ride are specially outfitted because they may have had amputations. Its black with stickers ng united care. Ride to recovery and his last name. The earthquake that truck italy captured live during a television broadcast. Take a look for yourself. So you see the lights shaking and speaking very quickly obviously kind of comprehending the fact this is happening. Earthquake a few hours later. California area you know that its a big one. The studio shaking swinging. The two quakes crumbled churches and buildings in towns about 100 miles north east of rome. Those quakes also knocking out power, sending panicked residents in to streets just two months after another powerful earthquake in the same region killed 300 people. Its not a tiny point. Its magnified by a lot when you go up like that. Those are after shocks. Thats scary. So we dont have earthquakes but it might look like we do. Once project neon gets under way. Fly overs and then you have cars back up. Look like the end of the world. Look like a movie set. Its okay. You will mix carnado with so thats going to create headaches. Dry conditions across the area. Its clouds thats really what we are seeing out there. This is a time lapse look from the Las Vegas Day School camera. Few peeks of sunshine. Mostly cloudy skies. If you were noticing the background you could see the snow up on mount charleston. Hopefully we can add to that this weekend. Now, a look at what we are seeing as far as temperatures in the las vegas valley. Mid and upper 7 downtown 77. Henderson at 79. Summerlin coming in at 76. Temperatures rise more. Looking at low to mid 80s for highs this afternoon. Most of these temperatures already above normal. Normal for todays date is 76. So here a look at what we have going on. You see the clouds streaming from los angeles toward las vegas and look at this. Those rain showers just off the coast and they are heading our way. Tonight and continuing throughout the day tomorrow with breezy conditions. Not just one storm system we have coming. Its two. So here is look what we are expecting for the rest of the day. Partly sunny mostly cloudy skies. 84 degrees thats our expected high with winds out of the south three to 8 miles per hour. Mostly cloudy tonight. Chance for showers late. Probably between about three and 5 00 a. M. See things really start to get going here. 68 degrees that will be overnight lows. Warmer tonight because the clouds come bac now our sevenday forecast thats where we are showing temperatures dropping tomorrow 78. Thats the expected high scattered showers on and off throughout the day. Make sure you have your umbrella handy. Pack your patience. You will be dealing with wet roadways. Breezy conditions. Again on sunday. Second system will come through. This will come through mainly dry for most of us but its going to have big impact on our temperatures. Halloween on monday 74. Temperatures will be falling to the 60s as the kids are out trickortreating. Hopefully you have a costume with at least a little bit of warmth to it. Not quite the snow suit under the costume. But definitely want some long sleeves. Maybe some tights. And temperatures get cooler toward the middle of the week. By wednesday just 71. Thank you. Let me ask you a question. If you had the opportunity to reduce your risk of cancer but at a great personal cost. Las vegas local jamie had to make a very difficult decision after learning that she inherited a gene mutation from his mother that severely increases her risk of cancer. Its the same gene defect inherited by actress angelina jolie. Had both breasts removed and later her ovaries as precaution after her mother her and and grandmother all died from cancer. Talked to her and she says she never thought she find herself in the same shoes. Im completely healthy. I had a hysterectomy at age 37. Im considering a double mastectomy. Never did i think that, sorry. All right we will tell you more about these brca genes and how they are affecting both men and women this is it airs tonight on news three live at 11 00. Definitely a good one and hopefully one that might save lives. Thank you for that one. [ inaudible ] people are caught off guard the our children, they look up to us. What we value, how we treat others. And now theyre looking to see what kind of leaders we choose. Who well entrust our country and their future to. 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Coming from northwest indiana where diners got a little bit more than they expected to say the least. Look at the video here. Deer. Deer are sharp hoofed. Be careful. Came crashing through a window. Ran right over. What the heck. Ran right over tables. Nearly collided with a woman in the entrance and then smashed through another window and got out. Well, at least nobody got hurt. Thats a good thing. We call this dash and dine. Dine and dash. Deep and dash. Thats it. I dan if a bad guy breaks into my house, i have every right to defend my home. And i will. I have no problem have a right to bear arms. Bad guys . Criminals . The dangerously mentally ill . Weve made it way too easy for them to buy guns. We have a loophole where dangerous people can walk into a gun show and buy a gun, no questions asked. After that, they could walk into my house, or yours. And id rather they didnt have a gun. We dance on the salsa team together, and its like a lot of power in what we wear. When were practicing if i dont feel good in what im wearing i dont look good. T. J. Maxx has that variety. I can get a lot for my money. Its like yay t. J. Maxx if youre feeling it, just go for it, dont wait. Right now on news three live at 12 30. A man accused of killing his wife because she was suffering from debilitating pain well he was in court today we will tell you what happened. All that coming up in a live report. And another sports franchise nba follow the nhl and possibly nfl. Who wants to make that dream a reality. Remember what we told you, it is fat free today and sugar free. The Cheesecake Factory and its executive chef here again to introduce us all of their pumpkin inspired desserts and other specialty menu items. Yes. News three starts right thank you for joining us. A local man accused of killing his wife in apparent mercy killing he was in court for miss arraignment today. Our Craig Fiegener joins us live from the justice center. His wife was just in horrific pain when she died. Reporter that is what he told detectives that is his claim and presumably part of his defense. This morning the defendant dennis kopp did tell a judge