Dave Courvoisier and patrick will return at as trump stumps in nevada. Hillary clinton took the day off the campaign trail. Shes preparing for the second president ial debate. Which takes place this sunday in st. Louis. Its a town hall style debate. With the candidates taking questions from undecided voters in the audience. Dave Courvoisier and were your local election headquarters keeping you updated on air and online at las vegas now dot com. Denise Valdez thousands of thousands of people have been ordered to florida as Hurricane Matthew heads straight toward them. Thats forcing some tourists to cut their vacations short. The massive storm is causing long back ups at gas stations. As people try to out run it. In south carolina. Interstates there are clogged as people evacuate. Matthew is being called the strongest storm to threaten this region in more than a decade. Some areas could see up to 18 inches of rain. Matthew after it slammed the carribbean. tedd florendo winds have decreas
A oneyearold boy. This is 23yearold amonte taylor. Hes been booked into the clark county detention center, charged with one count of child abuse resulting in substantial bodily harm. Investigators say officers were called to a home where taylor and the child were last week. The report says officers found the child with serious burns to his hand and wristso serious they required surgery. Taylor told police he was babysitting the boy while the childs mother was out. Investigators said they do not believe the burns wer accidental. A despicable crime of animal cruelty hanging an animal to death is unspeakable. Its not to be tolerated in this community. And now. Animal activists are getting involved. To help police. Catch the person. Who did it 13 action news reporter. David schuman tells us why. Police are worried. That people. Could be next metro needs your help. Our help. In a neighborhood near alta and 08 00 11 robert sigal, metro this is obviously a heinous case because this cat was ca
8 news now anchor paul joncich is here with reaction and whats next for solar customers. paul joncich the Supreme Court said the petition signatures, all 115thousand of them are no good because the language on the petition was unclear. So its back to the drawing board for the Solar Industry and the 32thousand nevada solar customers who feel like theyre getting a raw deal. This is a very contentious issue. These angry people were outside the puc in january. 32thousand of rooftop solar customers installed expensive money by selling Surplus Energy they generated back to the utility company. But last winter, the puc raised rates and changed the game. Today the Supreme Court disallowed a referendum that would have reversed the changes. The Solar Industry isnt done fighting. voice mail 1 03 Chandler Sherman Bring Back Solar Alliance so now were looking to our elected officials our legislators to enact the will of the people. paul joncich are willing to take up the issue in the next legislati
Light winds. Tstorms could increase winds from their outflows. Some models depicting some better chances late this evening. Well have more on your forecast and what to expect for the rest of this week coming up in a few minutes in your most accu Dave Courvoisier another top story disappointed to hear that a decision on rooftop solar rates will not be on the november ballot. An initiative to restore more favorable rates to customers was turned down by a lower court. And the state Supreme Court upheld that decision. Justices ruled that a referendum by opponents of a 2015 state law was fundamentally flawed, with a summary for voters the court called inaccurate, misleading and argumentative. Nv energy spent more than a million initiative. Which has had a Significant Impact on the industry Chandler Sherman Bring Back Solar Alliance if you look at the nv engery website, last month only 18 people in the entire state applied to go solar. It used to be about 1300 a month so under these new rule