And now, were learning who this victim is and what happened to her. We sent fox5s Miguel Martinez valle to hunt for answers. Hes live in the newsroom with what we know now. Within the last 30 minutes friends of the woman who was found have identified her to me as wendy rodriguez, a person they describe as a wonderufl friend and Family Member whos life was taken too soon. They say they last heard from her last night when she went to the bank, they were searching for her until moments ago. We now know wendy was the victim of this horrible crime. Police say the homeowner called to report her body after midnight. When officers went in to investigate they found rodriguez on the ground. Officers tell me she was only wearing a bra and it looked like someone partially covered her with a blanket. They say it was clear there was a struggle there was lots of blood, and she had some kind head trauma. Night. And some of her friends were searching for her this morning. This morning i got up and go m
Found out that hundreds of homes may have been destroyed in the fire as the flames moved into the lower lake area. Now, it started saturday night off highway 29 and Clayton Creek road. Heres a map of that area to take a look. Ktvus alex savidge there in lake county this morning. Boy, whats behind you tells the story, alex. Reporter yeah, pam, dave, good morning to you. The devastation really incredible here. We are getting a better look at how this fire just swept through lower lake, and this was essentially a winddriven firearm storm. It blew through the downtown area where we are this morning. It caused an incredible amount of damage. A number of businesses were destroyed, including what you see here. The offices for habitat for humanity of lake county. This is still smoldering here, whats left of this building. And we have fire crews who are here at this scene in the downtown area trying to put out some of the hot spots. Next door you can see this was an auto shown, we are told. And
Mike, warmup to the 9. We have a lot of news this morning. We are getting a better idea of that devastation caused by the clayton fire in lake county. Calfire says more than 100 homes have been destroyed in the fire. And 3,000 acres have burned. It is just 5 contained. Thousands of people have had to evacuate from their homes. About 1,000 firefighters are now trying to get that fire under control. The fire started saturday night off highway 29 in Clayton Creek road. Ktvus alex savidge has been in lake county all morning and he is about to show us some of the areas affected. Alex. Reporter yeah, hey, good morning to you guys. Just scenes of destruction everywhere you look here in downtown lower lake. And this is one of those scenes behind us here. This is the original firehouse here in town, and you can see this is the plaque. Thats all thats left. It says historic lower lake firehouse. You see the building gutted by this fire as it blew through this area late yesterday. Thats just one
The security video. This has gonzalez thinking about how she will deal with security in the future. We do have alarm already but we are thinking maybe it be good idea to get a camera the atf and homelands security showed up. North Las Vegas Police were here and were told they have pretty good Surveillance Video of the suspect. A man arrested after a robbery at a burger king. Is believed by police to be the same person who committed at least eight other recent holdups. And in breaking news weve just learned that the suspect is shane ross. Son of las vegas mayor pro tem steve ross. Investigators say he took money from a business around 7 am. Near rainbow and spring mountain. He was found about 40 minutes later. A few after an officer spotted the bike. He followed motorcyle in suspect got off motorcycle walk into Jackpot Joanies on same corner. Called for other officers. They cleared the bar out and suspect came out on his own. And surrendered to detectives and officers. Metro says ross i
Reporter were hoping to learn more. Take a look at this video. This have rachel leahy 0 who deputies say made a deal that put the price of her husbands life at 5,000. More than two weeks ago, someone stopped a deputy saying she wanted her ex gone so we have to the first time she paid a thousand bucks and yesterday another 1500. Now she is charged with solicitation of murder and being held without bond. Leahy will make her first appearance in about four hours. She is expected at 1 00 this afternoon. Of course were going to let you know what happened, folks, here on air and on social news. And a man accused of a deadly shooting last week is expected in court. Victor manns killed someone during a connection for a craigslist that he was supposed to buy but he snatched it and ran. When the two men ran after it looks great out there and feels more humid and already at this hour were in the upper 07s upper 70s to lower0s. 9 00 a. M. Already feels like mid80s. By the afternoon, it will be back