Doubting the importance of our swing state vote. All you need to do is look at all the campaigning events and special visits around town. Even president obama is coming to the valley today. He will be speaking at Cheyenne High School just before five pm. Hell talk about the economy and how important this election is to the silver state. The event is free. But you must have a ticket. The president will only be in town a few hours. Cheyenne high school is his only scheduled stop. Meantime. Were only one day into early voting. And clark county voters have already set a new record. More than 37 thousand people cast their ballots. But as fox5s faith tanner explains. The campaigns arent letting up. Several events were held yesterday. Even some celebrities popped into town. To encourage more early voting. Sot of early voter tens of thousands of people lined up for the first day of early voting. Sot early voter . . And while voters cast their ballots. Several campaign to head to the polls. Sot
Begins tonight right here on fox5. Im john huck. Im Christine Maddela and history will be made for either the chicago cubs or Cleveland Indians. Who will win the best of seven series. We will have to wait and see. But as fox5s Vince Sapienza explains local bars are already winning hes live near blue diamond and the 15 with more. Im here at brandos sports bar a chicago sports bar and as you can see behind me you have all the cubs signage and flags to prove it i spoke with the owner who has been here in vegas for 16 years. He tells me that when the Chicago Blackhawks won the stanley cup a couple years ago it was still not as packed as it has been this past its the best its the whole reason youre in business, while reason youre a fan embrace the moment, this is history 108 years since they won the world series, 1945 since they were in the series, my grandmother passed away recently, almost 100 years old and she never saw them win it, so we moment and that goes for everybody, were just wak
Through the video. That police hope. Could be the key to catch the guy. You can see there are plenty of other stores here in this complex. But they were already closed when the suspect walked into the big lots sunday night. Those i talked to hadnt even heard about the attempted robbery until seeing this video. The man calmy walks into the store. Just before closing time sunday. Suddenly. He makes a dash for the register. Take a closer look. You can see he pulls out a what appears to be a large stick. After that initial struggle. Police say the man forced two employees towards the office area of the store. A third employee is seen escaping just before they enter the hallway. While in the hallway police say the man. Hit one of the employees with the stick. And then putting his arms around the employees neck and threatening to kill them if he didnt get money. He is then seen leaving without any money. Police are now hoping someone he strikes again. Camera officers say the employee that wa
Metro police arent telling us why police think vegas could be his destination, but they are on the lookout for michael vance. Hes accused of killing his aunt and uncle sunday night. And shooting two police officers. Those officers surived. There have been no credible sightings of him since monday in oklahoma. Police say he is driving a silver mistsubishi eclipse with oklahoma tag number 943lqq. If you do see that vehicle Contact Police immediately. A major road closure at the spaghetti bowl. The ramp from i15 north to the 95n will close down in just over 12 hours its going to cause a big mess and this is supposed to last until february. Lets get over to Yasmeen Hassan who has all all your alternates. And how you can try and reroute your commute right now police are also trying to track down four teens suspected in a violent Home Invasion near vegas drive and rainbow. Police say the teens broke into a home. Assaulted someone inside and ransacked the place. They managed to get away with
Bowl. With what you should know. Things are going to get bad out here really soon. Take a look at the video ndot gave us it helps to break down all the closures. Ndot will close the interstate 15 south and northbound ramps to u. S. Highway 95 northbound starting 10 p. M. , october 26 through latefebruary 2017. The interstate 15 north and southbound ramps to Martin Luther king boulevard will also frame. Also, the u. S. Highway 95 northbound ramp to Martin Luther king boulevard will close, too, from 10 p. M. , october 26 through late february 2017. A lot of closures around the mlk exit see thats a gun. Thats a enough for showers. Partly sunny conditions with light winds out of the north northeast and temperatures ranging between 80 and 86 degrees valley wide will be common through the area. Temperatures will increase as we see a little more sunshine than clouds through wednesday and thursday. High temperatures look to peak between 83 and 88 degrees and then our next rain maker moves in.