Dave Courvoisier years in the making. But today the nevada board of education approved a preliminary plan to reorganize the Clark County School district. This plan takes the control that the Central District Office Currently has and gives it to principals, teachers and parents. Basically. Each ccsd school will be its own precinct. With the help of teachers and parents, principals will decide on the budget, instruction and staffing. Week. And if thats approved. The proposal is expected to become law for the 2018 2019 school year. Denise Valdez a woman is dead. After a crash in the southeastern part of the valley. The intersection at russell road and boulder highway has been shut down as police investigate. Were told an elderly woman was killed when the red van she was in hit a power box. That knocked out electricity to the area. Nv energy is working to restore power. The crash is also making it tough for people to get to Sam Boyd Stadium for tonights a 25million dollar ecosanctuary mean
Released last week one protester here today said she was disgusted when she read it and in an unprecedented move the Common Council allowed her to make a presentation during this mornings meeting. I think its important for the community to see we are not going to hide from the traditional problems the city of milwaukee has had. We want to demonstrate what open and transparent government looks like dangerous precedent here that we are going to disrupt our Council Meeting son any given occassion by people demanding that they be heard. Specifally the woman who spoke said she was upset over the recommendation to add more officers and deputies. She also said they need to make Community Meetings more accessible to the public so were told the Common Council does plan to hold two Community Meetings before anything in the plan is finalized and those meetings are in the process of being scheduled. We also want to mention this mornings disruption caused the Common Council to cancel a presentation
Your kids to the beach. Youre watching live at daybreak on todays tmj4. Im susan kim. And im Bridget Shanahan in for vince. Lets start with a check of weather and traffic together. Yesterday was the first day of meteorological fall, and it felt like it with a chilly ne breeze to 25 mph in the 60s and lower 70s. This morning is clear and cool with lows near 60 along the lake, but lower 50s in the inland areas. Today is mostly sunny and pleasant with highs in the low to mid 70s, low humidity, and a light easterly breeze. Tonight is another clear and chilly night with lows in the incident free dry roads light traffic typical drive times at this hour speeds are at or above postedheads up the badgers versus the lsu tigers Season Opener at 2 30 tomorrow in green bay is expected to be a nightmare both teams have huge traveling fan bases, the constrti field, as well as travel times for the Labor Day Weekend definitely plan ahead and construction across wi will be paused starting today at noon
Animal foundation to accept owned animals by appointments only. Its a way to not only find a home for more homeless animals, but to keep pets in their homes if possible as well. Its part of their initiative called Mission Possible 2020. The goal . To save the lives of all healthy and treatable animals by the year 2020. So how will this help pet owners . It mn the policy will also give the shelter an opportunity to anticipate the high volume of animals being surrendered by their owners. According to the Animal Foundation, several shelters have adopted this strategy and theyve seen the changes a decrease in euthanization, an increase in adoptions, and a reduction in owners surrendering their pets of up to 30 percent. Shakala Alvaranga this is how itll work. Pet owners who want to surrender the Animal Foundation. From there, the shelter will determine the best possible outcome for the animal. Reporting live Shakala Alvaranga 8 news now. Kirsten Joyce shakala, what are the main reasons peo
We begin right now with breaking news. An explosion at a launch pad in florida. The latest now from molette green at the live desk. Weve been following this breaking news for about an hour now, just getting some new details on this explosion that rocked the spacex launch site. The force of the blast could be felt miles away, shaking buildings. Were hearing there were multiple explosions for several minutes and a cloud of dark smoke filled the overcast sky. We just heard from spacex, a spokesman there confirming there was a, quote, anomaly on the pad resulting in the loss of a rocket and its satellite. There were no injuries, the vehicle was unmanned. This test fire is considered routine. Its done in advance and was done in advance of a planned saturday launch from cape canavarel air force base. That is the latest. Back to you. Right now people in florida are bng and flooding as Tropical Storm hermine barrels toward the gulf coast. People are being told to take the warnings seriously. S