History tonight. Supervisors have just done what no other city has. The impact of Small Businesses if pg e is set to shut off power for days at a time. If they shut down power for days, i dont know what we would do. Officers say they were forced to shoot a mentally ill man. But the mans family says his death was preventable. Andrea. Reporter has decided not to watch it at the advice of their attorney. Stay down. Reporter on sandra court what began as multiple calls for help ended with miles hall dead at the hands of pd. This after he had broken through a sliding glass window and was threatening them with a nearly 9foot steel pole. She warned them hes in a Mental Health crisis. Mental health issues. Our officers train daily on when to use force. Reporter field officers are required to have eight hours of crisis intervention training. Even the head of the Negotiation Team was there but the situation kept getting hotter. Attorney for the hall family john burres says the officers did not f
So much for starting your day with us on this sunday. Here is a live look for you to start off your day here on august 14, 2016. So good to have you with us. Im christine kim. This weekend is a hot one. Were going to hit 110 today very close to time the record high. Record high but it is 111. A long hot summer is almost over doesnt mean that we can get hot temperatures into septr. Hottest week we have now for the next nine months or so. And what will be go down as one of the hottest if not the hottest summers on record. A3 degrees currently at russell and Mountain Vista. 83 at Liberty High School as a kid to getting back to school in a couple of weeks from now. We have wind gusts up to 19 Miles Per Hour were not expecting much in the way of wednesday. In elementary washington mount hood 81 degrees these are the to where they should be for this time of year. 77 in North Las Vegas in any downtown las vegas. Mountains edge coming in 81 wind speeds at seven Miles Per Hour or lower than tha
In class nearly one week after a mercury spill shut down Walter Johnson junior. The biggest question is how did the mercury get in the building and it was a student how, how did the student get it . All of this is still under investigation. Were trying to put puzzle pieces together. Reporter answering questions monday morning after the hazmat scare and the School Reopening tomorrow. Do you feel comfortable opening the school not knowing where the mercury came . We are comfortable. Remediate the building. Epa has been here along with a contractor. Reporter the same parents who waited all night to be reunited with their kids are now having their homes checked by the epa. They have checked 80. By and large, most homes are safe. Reporter the priority is getting students back in class. We can verify the school is i walked the gym. The bottom line is this was a serious event. I just want to make sure that its known that the district took it seriously. We acted proactive in many instances and
Might be distributed unequally to different schools. But state senator Michael Roberson says the School District shakeup sends a clear message to the rest of the country about nevada and how important education is. Were 50th or 59th. How much worse 49th . How much worse can we get . We have to make dramatic change to improve. No one finds it acceptable we are at the bottom when it comes to k12 education in this state and Southern Nevada. We will not tolerate it any longer and were going to improve. Reporter the clark county School District can now get to work putting in place all the measures they have to get this reorganization underway including a lot of training, a lot of the staff throughout the different schools, and those changes will go into effect by next school year. Reporting live im nathan oneal, news 3. Reed a lot of parents wondering how this will impact their kids. Clark county superintendent pat course cow ki is speaking skorkowsky after a mercury spill high school. Clas
News 3 is your Weather Authority to make sure you are prepared. Chloe beardsley joins us live. Chloe that is right. It looks pretty peaceful, but if you step outside, it is a completely different tory. As we take a look this afternoon, not too much action on our time lapse here from russell and mountain vista. And it looks pretty nice from this view. Very windy is what we saw today, outside still seeing mostly clear conditions. This evening, wind gusts reaching 40 Miles Per Hour in many of our neighborhoods. So far today, a strong breeze out of the north continues. Here are the sustained winds, 12 downtown, slightly stronger in north las vegas. 18 for centennial, and as we take a look, temperatures started off very chilly. You see mostly in the mid to 30 74 downtown areas, right around the freezing mark for centennial. Other neighborhoods also reaching the upper 30s. As far as how we started off temperaturewise, we take a look outside, mostly 30s and 40s. We will see those down to the