Weather 247 forcast. Meteorologist Cassandra Jones joins us now. Good morning im Cassandra Jones with fox5. We are on track to tie a record high today with 75 degrees. That record was set in 1954. For the weekend well see sunny skies with a high of 74 on saturday, then 73 with north breezes 1015 mph on valentines day sunday. On president s day monday, well see a high of 74 degrees with lighter north breezes. The next weather changer for us will be wednesday and thursday with southwest gusts to 25 mph and highs for those days at 74 mountain shower chances increasing clouds. Heres your fox5 Traffic Solutions here is a look at your drive here are the accidents to watch out and alternate routes you can use listed on our maps here are the construciton areas to look out for and alternate routes listed on our maps here are your photos for the day back to the news desk. Happening over night, theres heavy Police Presence at an apartment complex near desert inn and maryland. The situation began
And out of nowhere gets her purse snatched. But she wasnt about to let the theif get away. Take a look a man walks into a restaurant. And trys to steal a purse. But he chose the wrong person to steal from. After he tried to snatch her bag, the woman tackled him to the ground, then with a little help from an onlooker, she got her purse back, and the theif ran away. We dont reccomend people necessarily going to this length of fighting because the risk to you is also very grave as well. Police say this situation could have ended violently, so they dont reccomend fighting back. But they are asking for help in finding the purse snatcher. They say this happened the morning of january 16th. At a burger king on sahara and eastern. Theyre looking for a 5 foot 9 balding white man in his mid 30s. This suspect might also be a suspect in additional theft related crimes in that area. We went back to the area where the attack happened, and apparently this happens all the time. I dont know its just da
Strip like its 2016. We love this video so much we wanted to share it with you. You see the man in the hat, boogieing on fremont street and some gal out of the audience comes and joins him. Kim theyre just strangers, they dont know each other, someone saw it, rolled on it and tagged us on twitter. They tagged me, tagged dana and we thought this is a fun way as we head into the new year, to show you people are already partying on fremont. Dana well check in with tom hawleys video vault, showing you fremont street interest 30 from 30 years ago, what it looks like on new years eve. Kelly it is another chilly one out there this morning. Temperatures below freezing in most neighborhoods in the valley especially. Were seeing current temperatures in the upper 20s. By 9 00 a. M. , were at 40 degrees, lots of sunshine, 46 by noon. And 47 at 4 00 p. M. Well talk about those temperatures for the new years eve celebration, plus chances for rain in the forecast coming up. We were just checking from
Identifying him. Now, we know who he is. And the officer who fired those shots. Patranya Bhoolsuwan today, we went to an address listed for black. Our knocks at the door went unanswered although there were people inside. As for information about him. We dont know much. We couldnt find a criminal history or online profiles that might shed light on fridays incident. As for the officer, police say it was 45 year old george smith with metros Tourist Safety Division who fired the shot on the sidewalks near the bellagio fountains on friday night. This as authorities were trying to get to black who they say was Walking Around waving what appeared to be a gun at people on the strip. In the moments leading to the arrest, officer smith, fired the shot that grazed a child and went through another mans clothing. The childs injuries were not major and they were released from umc that night. We talked to a woman, who told while working nearby that night marie rios busker i thought saw police throw a
It will be his first are to russia since the conflict and ukraine began at his second trip since taking office. They will meet in the resort town of sochi. Today in washington, d. C. , the Atlantic Council is holding a conversation on gas prices and the oil prices and fracking. Live coverage of that discussion gets underway at 3 00 today right here on cspan. On cspan 2 at 3 00, the u. S. Senate gavels in for general speeches, and later discusses the release of u. S. Citizens in iran. Tomorrow, work on trade Promotion Authority in the senate. The house is back tomorrow to talk about Defense Program securities you can watch the house live here on cspan tomorrow. Tonight on the communicators we met up with author peter novak who says we are in a new phase of Human Development and through bro us and other technology, we are likely to enhance the human condition. Robots is an especially interesting one. 2014 was the year where i do not know f if the day went by where did not see a story tha