Could be for the next two hours or so. Well keep you updated. Thank you. 5 01 now this wednesday. Lets talk about this forecast, bordering on hot today, maybe full on hot tomorrow. This is obviously not typical for this time of year. The latest we see triple october 23rd, 2003. Over the next couple days well come close. 71 now, high of 95 today. Ill show you which day will be the hottest, in just a few minutes. We have a lot of work this morning. Roads for the most part look good. Desert drive times this morning, on the 17 from dunlap to mcdowell thats about 8 minutes. Coming up, well have the smart at where the lanes are closed. More on that coming up in a few minutes. Now to a story that will make you sick. A disgusting case of child abuse involving a little girl. This morning a big admission from dcs, the department created to protect children. Katie conner is live with more off 43rd avenue and thomas. Reporter turns out dcs had a long history with the parents who lived here at this
This happened apparently after a fire hydrant was broken, creating this geyserlike effect. For more than two hours traffic was shut down here. Crews also knocked down mcdowell to one lane on the west side and trying to figure this out. Megan thompson, abc good morning. It started off nice and cool in a lot of places, some places in the 60s. That warmup has been quick, 85 dries right now at sky harbor. Well continue to warm up well into the 90s today. You can see how we started in the upper 60s, low 70s for a lot of us this morning. Were at 89 by noon, 94 by that will be our official high today. Thats 10 degrees above average more or less. Its going to get even hotter after that today. Tomorrow we could even break records. Details in the full sevenday forecast coming up in a few minutes. Thank you. Two teen girls are in surgery after being pinned between cars near cactus just west of the 17. Their car ran out of gas and they decided to get out and push the car to the gas hundred feet aw
Those horses, wed tell someone. Reporter so far about half of the salt river horses have been accounted for. It can take up to two weeks to find and count them all. Lauren, thank you. A phoenix mother who is already on lifetime probation for child abuse is now under arrest again. Investigators say this time she beat her daughters. Donna rossi is live. Some of the did he thainls case are just disturbing. Reporter very much. So this is being held here at the estrella jail. The other suspect is this man. He is being held in the towers jail not far from here. This is a very disturbing story, one that if not reported, could have ended in the death of a child. A call to the child abuse hotline landed child safety workers at this apartment near 43rd avenue and thomas to check on a nineyearold that was reportedly being abused by her parents. Police got involved arrested Melissa Lloyd and michael duggar. Both denied ever using physical discipline. The couple is now charged with 17 counts each o
Securing the presidency. It will continue over the next few weeks. Before ohio the president elect toured the indiana factory he presented from moving to mexico. The president elect taking the opportunity renew his pledge to build that wall along the border. And trump making a decision, making secretary of defense. The retired four star general in 2005 he said it is fun to shoot some people while addressing Service Members in san diego. Posts on social media calling a district to send a warning School District to send a warning to parents. The request that has department of Homeland Security involved in this one. Abcs Navideh Forghani is getting more information. Reporter i just got my hands on this letter that was sent out by the School District the students after parent told administrators that somebody was targeting their children on instagram. This is what we know so far. The students are in middle school. Whoever sent them was requesting the kids send inappropriate pictures. Now d
Extreme distress with no water. Police got there and eventually called glendale firefighters, who used a ladder to get to the puppy. But by then, it was too late. The following day, Glendale Police talked to the owner, 28yearold adrian gonzalez. He told them he and his wife and kids had brought the 6monthold puppy from mexico in february. Gonzalez told police they left rihanna with a bowl of water at about 3 00 in the it was 113 degrees for a high on that sunday. He says the dog slept in a storage area near the balcony and thought that would be enough shelter. He also said they would put the puppy outside when they left because he would chew and damage things in their apartment. Gonzalez told police he didnt know the heat was so deadly. Thats what happened. To do all of that in that time. Reporter gonzalez says there was such a fire storm of anger over this, he and his family had to leave their apartment, faring for their safety. Now he is facing that felony animal cruelty charge. I sp