Thank you for being here today to talk about a very important topic. We are going through a major change each as a society, and i think that it hasnt been discussed yet so we are going to start a conversation today by talking about the future. For all of humankinds history weve been fascinated with the future and wanted to know whats going to happen. Whether they are going to win the war and as it turns out theres a reasothere is a reasoe fascinated with this and its because there is no greater advantage than knowledge about what is going to happen. Not nature, government or business. Then we can avoid being sure, potentially lifethreatening danger and get a jump on opportunity and if we cannot do either of those things at the very least, we can prepare. For the future it means survival. It means a huge advantage over everyone else. And it has become such a central theme in literature and art and such a pursuit of humanity that we owe it to ourselves to try to look at how Technology Ma
Possible in the mountains. Stronger wind expected for thursday with southwest gusts to 40 mph. Well also have a slight chance of showers overnight into early thursday morning with a high of 69 degrees. For friday and the weekend well see low to mid 70s with light breezes and a mostly sunny skies. Heres your fox5 Traffic Solutions here is a look at your drive here are the out and alternate routes you can use listed on our maps here are the construciton areas to look out for and listed on our maps photos for the day back to the news desk. The man accused yearold little girl in a hit and run in North Las Vegas. Makes his first court appearance. Daniel Garcia Martinez has been in jail since he turned himself in last week. Fox 5s Miguel Martinezvalle has the details of his arrest and what the victims family had to say. The court had, upon reading the reports and the allegations set bail at 750,000 daniel Garcia Martinez has been in jail since turning himself in on friday morning he is entit
Authorities. According to that report, police got a call from someone who knows Garcia Martinez on february 9th. They aranged to speak with garciamartinez and noticed the same van witnesses had been describing sitting in his driveway. During the interview Garcia Martinez said it was a dark colored car which hit 2year old evelyn green. He said that car sped away and he stopped, in his van, to help the little girl and her family. He eventually changed his story in another interview with police, saying while the dark car hit evelyn first, he might have accidently ran her over after not being able to swerve. He said he didnt Contact Police because he was scared. Soon as i heard the screaming, you know, thats when it happened. I seen the mother picking her up from there, running in here. There was no other car behind there, if there was a car behind him it wouldve been going real fast. I didnt see no vehicle. Neighbors say they didnt see a dark car, but North Las Vegas police say they cant
Timmons is facing multiple charges. Including resisting a public officer with a firearm. Attacking a Police Animal. And damaging and destroying state property. Mistreating a Police Animal is a felony and is punishable with prison time and up to ten thousand dollars in fines. Two weeks ago today the Emergency Call Center for Las Vegas Metro police failed and today its still not known what caused it. Callers endured dropped calls and long wait times. And this failure comes just two months after a multi million upgrade to the 911 system. Fox 5s Cyndi Lundeberg has more on how the department is trying to prevent this from happening again. Metro says they dont know exactly what caused the six hour crash but believe it had to do with a surge of data which flooded their system and metro forwarded calls to North Las Vegas and henderson during the outage. Today we asked metro if there had been any complaints because of the failure they said there werent any that they were of. They did say with
That surge of data. Came from inside the department. Meaning employees plugging in their cell phones or usbs to the computers handling the 911 calls. Metro says they can rule out a hack. And add despite the crash theyre confident in the system. Even though we do not know a definitive reason for the destruction of service we do have enough information to better prepare against any future failure of the system simply put our system is stronger as a result of a thorough look into this matter. Metro did just install this new 911 system in december it cost two point three million dollars. As for how many calls were made during the all that data was lost. Reporting live Cyndi Lundeberg fox 5 news local las vegas. All calls during the outage were diverted to North Las Vegas and henderson. Those departments each use a different 911 system. New at six tonight. A man is arrested for trying to break into at least two homes on the south end of the valley. Police say one homeowner shot him in the f