Creek area. Heavier rain toward the foothills. This is going to be affecting us through the next hour. Im glad you showed us that snow. I dont think i would have believed you. [ laughter ] some national headlines. Brandon won a recent episode of chop. It was the skills he learned inside jail that helped him come out on top. Reporter ruiz was here at tent city more than a decade ago, working inside the kitchen. Hes now an executive chef. He called on the skills he learned here to win a reality tv reporter it was that cando attitude and scrappiness that helped claim the top spot and 10grand. It was a lot harder than what i thought it would be, for sure. Reporter he spent two years in tent city on weapons and is drug charges and calls the time we cooked what we could. Reporter working at a historic restaurant in downtown santa fe. Ive been the executive chef there for years. Reporter and hes grateful for his second chance, he credits his turnaround to their family, and not sheriff arpie c
Cosmetic changes were pretty much stuck. Reporter but dont look for the state legislature to jump in. Heres what the new House Majority leader said last week about publicly financed sports stadiums. I find subsidies for sports teams a little bit difficult when we have kids warehouseed in Foster Care Group homes. The days of Public Financing of stadiums are over. I dont think the public wants tha agreement between the diamondbacks and county runs through 2028 unlessth some sort of agreement can be reached shortly. Gallardo says the team is going to have to be satisfied playing in the stadium the way it is now. Dennis welch cbs 5 news. We have an update on the condition of cardinals head coach bruce arians. Hes expected to be back at practice tomorrow. This morning he tweeted thank you for all the well wishes, thoughts and prayers im doing good. Everything checked out okay. Arians was released from the hospital last night. The 64yearold got checked out for chest pains after returning fro
And plumbing news chopper. That is a wall of storm and jerry what are you seeking . Jerry is getting us now. Reporter we are having some problems getting jerry on the headset. You can see the wall of dust and storm that is moving in. Yet joins us now. What are you seeing with this. We have east ll the dust pushing into tempe heading toward the scottsdale area and parts of phoenix. One thing i want to get to is a flash flood morning. We can take the weather maps and get that back to jerry but we haves reports of 2 inches of rain at least. This is in the Apache Junction area. The flash flood morning will be going on for the next hour or so at least. Apache junction Superstition Springs mall in the salt river all of those areas are included in this flash flood morning. A lot of rain has fallen in a short time. We are seeing tons of rain. And a lot of that rain falling along the beeline highway. This is torrential downpours and all of this falls on the mountain and it comes down. Around th
Its one of the larger walls of dust we have seen. Are you seeing a pickup in intensity . It seems to be a little less , it may be dying down a little. I will give you an idea of the disability. It may be dying down a little as it reaches. Look at those brake lights headed into the clouds. It may be dying down as it hits populated areas. A good reminder that if you are heading out and see Something Like this, do not drive into it. Does it look like it is causing a lot of traffic problems . You are up there quite a bit does it look like the normal traffic . We have a lot in that area but that is looking like a lot of red brick lights. It is probably a little heavier. The visibility flow. Better. The camera does tend to exaggerate. It might be heavier is folks travel into this. That is the heck attend we are looking at . That is the i10 . This is i10 near south mountain. Before we toss it over to meteorologist paul, you were talking eb about the different shades of color. Anytime there is
Reporter there are some emergency vehicles. They did a great job of reopening a lane to alleviate traffic they want to make sure they are better safe than sorry. We will talk to an official. Penguin air and plumbing what is the best thing that people can do because there i hope bunch of people jumping on that freeway right now. Reporter my advice is they have a single lane open and they had a closure. The traffic will start. If they are thinking about leaving the there is a 10 mile backup so i would delays 30 or and jerry will be with us throughout the newscast keeping us updated. Lets take you to the ground. Here is a viewer courtesy of our facebook page. Right here, he is stuck in traffic. Look at that lack black plume of smoke and so flames. This is the same information you can get right now if you pop open the mobile app. Westbound 10 through the tunnel in the downtown area this is typical of a friday look at the backup at Platte Canyon city. It stretches from 10 to 12 miles northb