School year with a Teacher Shortage again . karen castro yes, about 320 teaching positions are still open. Kirsten Joyce and making sure all those students get to School Safely is the focus of police this week. Police will be watching for dangerous driving behaviors in and around schools. North Las Vegas Police had a strong presence at this Elementary School and cheyenne and alexander this morning. Sergeant sean walker says the goal is to educate drivers; sgt. Sean walker, nlvpd you have to be aware of the school zone that are around you though, because some are in effect all throughout the school day, some are only in effect when students ar around. Kirsten Joyce any minor violation in a school zone will result in four calendar year your license can be revoked. Kirsten Joyce for the last week. The push for the School District has been to make sure everyone is enrolled. A week ago. About 90thousand students had not yet. Enrollment must be done online through ccsds infinite campus. Infi
Is speeding through school zones, and there are some newer laws as well. Reporting live Shakala Alvaranga 8 news now. Kirsten Joyce shakala, besides the Large Police Presence else has the department been working to get the word out . Shakala alvaranga kirsten, several departments have highlight the rules of the road. A week long event last week was held for bike, pedestrian and teen driver safety. Demetria, how are the roads . Watch out for a crash on tropicana, west of boulder highway. Flamingo and its been a pretty mild morning considering how many extra vehicles are back on the road. Things are quiet down at i15 and blue diamond. Were talking. More than 120 thousand students a day Michelle Mortensen drivers are tasked with the big responsibility of making sure those kids get to and from school safely. Kirsten Joyce joining us live from the cheye vegas. Is superintendent pat skorkowsky. Sherry, hows the weather . Sherry Swensk clear skies this morning after clear skies this morning a
Mind today ccsd saw a record enrollment this year. So. More kids equal more walkers. And as you mentioned, safety is top priority today. Were joined now by Sergeant Sean walker with the North Las Vegas Police Department. Throughout the week, police will be scoping out any dangerous driving behaviors in and around school zones. Because many Students Walk to and from school, crossing busy intersections, youll see a lot of the morning and afternoon hours. The goal of the backtoschool Traffic Enforcement is to educate drivers about traffic gets hurt this morning. Several departments have been working together over the past few weeks to highlight the rules of the road. That included bike and bus safety. Meanwhile, police will be here for the first week of school clock in the afternoon to enforce those laws. Reporting live Shakala Alvaranga 8 news now. Kirsten Joyce shakala, what are some laws through school zones . Shakala alvaranga kirsten, when you see that blinking yellow light, youll wa
Your health. This is abc7 news. The heat is on. Record breaking temperatures today. And even tonight the temperatures are still in the 80s right now. Good evening and thank you for spending your sunday with us. Im sure you felt it out there. We have Team Coverage on the heat tonight. Lets start with our news meteorologist drew touma. We set several records this sunday afternoon. 96 is the record high in richmond. Tieing a record at 93 degrees. Nice and toasty at 104. The temperatures were in the 90s to lower 100s. And just like the air over the weekend it will continue to be stagnant on monday. Another spare the air day was called. There will booy poor air quality for monday. But we are tracking cleaner and cooler changes to our area. To our air. There is an there is an area of low pressure that will bring us relief from the heat. A closer look at when that will arrive in a few minutes. Sooner rather than late are. People all over the bay area were looking for ways to beat the heat tod
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