For us will be wednesday and thursday with southwest gusts to 25 mph and highs for those days at 74 and 71 with mountain shower chances increasing clouds. Good morning. Heres a look at your fox5 Traffic Solutions lets begin with your drive here are the accidents to watch out and alternate routes you can use listed on our maps here are the construciton areas to look out for and alternate routes listed on our maps back to the news desk we have an Ongoing Police we have an Ongoing Police situation to report now. Police have been involved in a standoff near desert inn and maryland for several hours this fox fives Nick Lagrange joins us live from the scene with what we know about the situation, so far. Nick . Dave and maria. Barricade started at 9pm thursday night. Police say a male subject is the only preson involved. No one has been shot. We will stay on scene until situation is resolved. Well stay here until we get more information from police. Check back with us in about 30 minutes, dav
Dollars for the las vegas community. The event has a reputation for drug use and abuse. And on average one person a year dies while attending. Fox 5s Cyndi Lundeberg joins us now to break down the economic impact. And some of the problems the electric Daisy Carnival faces. The electric Daisy Carnival isnt the most popular Music Festival in the world. But edc fans spend more per day than any other event. About 288 dollars per person per day. And when you consider nearly half a Million People come in town just for this event it adds up. One point three billion dollars. Thats how much money one Music Festival has pumped into the city of las vegas. Pasquel rottella ceo and founder of insomniac events who puts on the electric Daisy Carnival. Says it feels great to put money back into his city. And i never imagined it to be as big of a number as 1. 3 at least in five years the three Night Dance Party held at the motor speedway draws more than 300 thousand people to sin city every year. Festi
Weather 247 forcast. Meteorologist Cassandra Jones joins us now. Good morning im Cassandra Jones with fox5. We are on track to tie a record high today with 75 degrees. That record was set in 1954. For the weekend well see sunny skies with a high of 74 on saturday, then 73 with north breezes 1015 mph on valentines day sunday. On president s day monday, well see a high of 74 degrees with lighter north breezes. The next weather changer for us will be wednesday and thursday with southwest gusts to 25 mph and highs for those days at 74 mountain shower chances increasing clouds. Heres your fox5 Traffic Solutions here is a look at your drive here are the accidents to watch out and alternate routes you can use listed on our maps here are the construciton areas to look out for and alternate routes listed on our maps here are your photos for the day back to the news desk. Happening over night, theres heavy Police Presence at an apartment complex near desert inn and maryland. The situation began
And out of nowhere gets her purse snatched. But she wasnt about to let the theif get away. Take a look a man walks into a restaurant. And trys to steal a purse. But he chose the wrong person to steal from. After he tried to snatch her bag, the woman tackled him to the ground, then with a little help from an onlooker, she got her purse back, and the theif ran away. We dont reccomend people necessarily going to this length of fighting because the risk to you is also very grave as well. Police say this situation could have ended violently, so they dont reccomend fighting back. But they are asking for help in finding the purse snatcher. They say this happened the morning of january 16th. At a burger king on sahara and eastern. Theyre looking for a 5 foot 9 balding white man in his mid 30s. This suspect might also be a suspect in additional theft related crimes in that area. We went back to the area where the attack happened, and apparently this happens all the time. I dont know its just da
Facebook with tongue and cheek commentary of how the 2 burglars were looking for some food they could eat. Unfortunately for them they didnt find any food or money. Unfortunately for thye owner of this restaurant they left behind 3 to 4 thousand dollars in damage. Imagine if you will 74 other Small Businesses like this one have been hit by this pair. So far they havent encountered anybody inside the places that they have broken into and police hope they wont between now and the time they catch these guys we dont want to see this escalate we dont want to see become victims and we dont want this to escalate to any crimes of violence according to the Restaurant Owner his video has been million times since facebook. These guys are pretty brazen because we are West Charleston and the door they smashed with a westbound would have seen them. Theyve been lucky so far but their luck should run out pretty soon. Metro says there is a reward for information leading to the suspects arrest. You can