Much of the valley smelled like smoke today as early as when you woke up this morning. Good afternoon everybody, thanks for joining us here at noon. We start with developing story. Have you noticed that haze across the valley and the haze in the air. This is why. A pretty good sized landfill fire is burning. Its right at gilbert road. The penguin it this morning. Crews are using bulldozers to put those flames out but you still may notice the flames throughout the day today. Five people have to find another place to stay after the fire tore through the tempe apartment overnight. The fire started in a kitchen at the ravenwood heights apartment complenear baseman and hardy. This fire spread to the cabinet and made its way into the second floor even. The Sprinkler System caused much of the damage to one of the units. Two people were seriously avenue in phoenix. Firefighters had to use the jaws of life to get one person out of a car. Four other people suffered minor injuries and it appeared
Fight every Progressive Initiative that improves the life of working families. He definitely has a good way with the younger generation. I think since hes supporting hill lean thats going to help her out. Bernies position got a lot of people investigated in the election so even though hes not hes no longer running for president , people are still excited to vote. Reporter sand derz is one of several big named decr chelsea is coming on wednesday and Michelle Obama on thursday. An indication arizona maybe up for grabs in the race for the white house. It is so wonderful to have all of these wonderful democrats coming to this very conservative state. Its very refreshing. Reporter its been 20 years since a democratic president ial candidate won inarizona but some Many Democrats believe its about to happen again. Reporter can arizona go blue this election. Than any other registered party in the state of arizona and i think people are tired and i think you know definitely we could be blue thi
Democratic party who says right now 200 people signed up to be poll observers which is normal for the democratic party. Live in phoenix. Cbs5 news. Thank you. And breaking news just coming into the news room. We have just confirmed the dee i steals feel of first Lady Michelle obamas visit to the valley. We are told she will be at Phoenix Convention center. Doors open at 11 30 again this information just comiin story coming up for you at 6 30. With less than a month to go until the election, 36 states are now asking the federal government for help with Voting System cyber security. 20 states including arizona have reported attempted hacks surrounding state election systems. Here there have been more than 190 thousand hacking attempts just in the last month. She has an Old Fashioned solution to prevent hacking. So this is not in any way connected to the internet. No, no, no we use paper ballots so even on touch screen machine, you have a tape of everything that happens on that machine so
One polling place at any time and they are not allowed to talk to voters and must be approved by the party chairman. There have been very few cases of whistle blowing. Graham relates this spike in republican poll observers directly back to donald trump and says Arizona Republicans just want their voices heard. Trump supporters have a very high intensity and support of him. So, they are making sure they get in there and assure that it is fair. In arizona. Reporter now, we also reacou democratic party. They say at this point they have signed up 200 poll observers which is about average. Live in phoenix, makuta loor, cbs5 news. Thank you mark taylor. Arizona sup for grabs. Today, Bernie Sanders kicked off a democratic blitz in our state. He held a rally in flagstaff hoping to turn arizona blue and he wasted no time criticizing donald trump. I would suggest that mr. The least qualified candidate in the history of this country to ever run for president. Sanders also talked about making coll
And equal justice under the law. Vote for diego rodriguez. Good evening everyone. It was a fire that could be seen for miles. That apartment complex under construction up in flames to. Night fire investigators say they have a person of interest in this case. Were joined live with who theyre looking for tonight. Lauren. Reporter there is not much left of the buildings. Fire crews are still here talk to a young man who was seen in the area just before it break out. The smoke and flames coming from the pick rollly constructed Condo Community could be seen for miles. Five buildings still under construction caught fire saturday night. I was just kind of sad. I feld bad because we see it everyday. We work here at the clinic. It thought it was so devastating to do that work and reporter gilbert fire said theyre not ready to say if arson is the cause. Were investigating all leads at this time. Reporter atf is helping investigate that possibility. Its very much an active investigation. Theyll s