Robberies. brian loftus and. We could be off to a wet start this week. Sherry is watching the radar. To see if thunderstorms will rock your neighborhood. Michelle Mortensen 8 news now good day, the valleys news leader, starts right now. now, live. This is 8 news now good day. brian loftus thanks for waking up with us on 8 news now good day, the marcos arenas. Michelle. For the family of marcos arenas. And we learned more information overnight about another high profile case. 27 year old shane ross is due in court wednesday. Accused of a string of armed robberies. Metro says ross would park his motorcycle outside a store. And rob its employees at gunpoint. 8 news now was the first to break the news. That he is the son of las vegas mayor pro tem steve ross. The family says shane has struggled with addiction, and are urging him to cooperate with police. Ask the sheriff questions from the viewers in our morning cup of joe segment in the 6am hour. To submit a question. Just go to las vegas
American swimmer jimmy feigen testified before a brazilian judge in rio overnight. Natscameras. N ot even any apology. As teammates gunner bentz and jack conger made their way back to the us. Under a cloud suspicion. Bentz and conger were detained in the country wednesday as part of the Ongoing Investigation into claims they, along with feigen and ryan lochte, were robbed at gunpoint in the city last sunday. Pulled us over, they pulled out their guns, they told the other swimmers to get down on the ground. Brazilian Officials Say this Surveillance Video proves thats not true. They say it shows the swimmers being confronted by Armed Security after vandalizing a gas station. gfx a statement by the Us Olympic Committee thursday appeared to agree with the brazilian account. Saying security quote. Demand ed the athletes provide a monetary payment. And once paid, they were allowed to swimmers could now face serious sanctions that could hurt their careers sot Mark Schubert United States swimm
Kirsten Joyce nearly 40 people are dead. That number is expected to continue to rise. The quake practically leveled cities. Tina kraus has the latest. Hours after the earthquake hit. Rescue teams led this man in a white apron, covered in blood, away from the devastation in amatrice and carried a little girl to safety frantic residents and emergency workers used buckets bulldozers, and even their hands to dig through the debris. Italian andrea gentili, italys department of Civil Protection this rescue worker to cut iron bars, and jacks to remove beams we need everything. The Us Geological survey says the magnitude 6. 2 earthquake struck at 3 30 in the morning while most italians were asleep. Several aftershocks followed. Maria gianni, quake survivor this woman says, the whole ceiling fell on my head, i just managed to put a pillow on my head so i wasnt hit. The hardest hit towns and villages are in the northeast of rome. The mayor of one hardhit town said a family of four was trapped un
Those storms were fierce over the northeast side of town especially. But everyone got a taste of the lightning and even some rain. Hail and gusty we could still see a shower before this area of low pressure completely moves out today. There is still plenty of moisture out there and a little trailing energy to trigger a shower or even a thunderstorm early this morning then getting on with some sunshine this afternoon. Humidity is very high and away, but the humidity will not disappear that quickly. Temps would feel really cool in the low 70s right now if the air was dry. The storms that clobbered the northeast side of town dropped more than an inchandahalf of rain in about a half hour last night. The low will pull away today, but outflow from afternoon storms could trigger lateday storms again after 5 pm and we might be seeing more evening storms in and near the valley. Sherry Swensk demetria, how are the roads doing . Demetria Obilor up in north las vegas, traffic looks pretty good. Th