One person is dead. And another is in the hospital. After a hit and run on the freeway. What to look out for. To help police catch the suspected driver. Clark county kicks off the first day of early voting some big names were in town. To help encourage young voters to cast their ballots before election day. And one man is dead. After a shooting near the las vegas strip. What we now know about the incident. This is fox5 news at 10. Local. Las vegas. One person is dead. And another is injured after a hit and run on the i15 tonight. Im faith tanner. Us. Fox5s Abby Theodros is live on the i15. Near sunset. Abby what are police saying now . Abby we were just briefed by police and they say the man who died was just 26 years old. There was another passenger in the car and we dont know what condition theyre in but they were taken to the hospital for their injuries this all happened directly under the overpass that wee standing in so we investigation but you can see the traffic its causing. Now
Doubting the importance of our swing state vote. All you need to do is look at all the campaigning events and special visits around town. Even president obama is coming to the valley today. He will be speaking at Cheyenne High School just before five pm. Hell talk about the economy and how important this election is to the silver state. The event is free. But you must have a ticket. The president will only be in town a few hours. Cheyenne high school is his only scheduled stop. Meantime. Were only one day into early voting. And clark county voters have already set a new record. More than 37 thousand people cast their ballots. But as fox5s faith tanner explains. The campaigns arent letting up. Several events were held yesterday. Even some celebrities popped into town. To encourage more early voting. Sot of early voter tens of thousands of people lined up for the first day of early voting. Sot early voter . . And while voters cast their ballots. Several campaign to head to the polls. Sot
Him about 50 feet. The boy has nonlifethreatening injuries and the other two were not hurt. Police say theyre not pressing charges since they say the driver had a golf when he was turning. Westport police say they are worried about a farm where hundreds of sick and dying animals were removed this past summer. Theyre learning the owner has at least one new animal on the property. Back in july more than 1400age mals were seized from a farm off American Legion least one cow on that property and the Police Department says their hands are tied. Theres nothing stopping the Property Owner from bringing animals back on the police end the only entities that could stop that would be the board of health and the Building Department enforcing violations. Police say they have asked the court for Court Proceedings in connection with previous Animal Removal but no one has been charged at this outage friday for most of the east and west coast. Remember sights like twitter, spotify and netflix were take
Downtown. Chilly in brooksville and Crystal River in the low 40s this morning. 40s in arcadia, its 49. 48 in brandon, still 65 in st. Pete. Need to keep in mind that the water surrounding us in the mid70s and thats why youre the mild spot. Were all at least a degree cooler than this time yesterday. 11 00 in brooksville and Crystal River, and yes, us. So we know its here for the southeast. Our dew points are in the 40s, which is a bonedry reading, and we have dooums in the 30s north of the area. If you have plans to head to the beach and tried to do it yesterday, it was gusty and not as breezy this afternoon. A few degrees warmer with upper 70s. We know the question. Is fall going to last all week . We have the sevenday forecast in about 15 minutes. Out out the cubs have won the pennant alcides wow. With that, the chicago cubs are heading to the world series for the first time in 71 years. They beat the dodgers in game six of the nlcs last night to clench their First National League Pen
Anybody else want go ahead, vern. Just to comment on the general direction, in the surveys we have the privilege of doing with the Kaiser Family foundation and namd we have a series of questions on whats going on with the system reform and Payment System reform and so on and if theres one thing that characterizes Medicaid Programs today it is a focus on what they can do to make their programs better in the sense of achieving Better Outcomes and so on. There are just example examples after, you know, many, many examples that you could cite. Its arizona is exemplary. And there are 49 other exemplary states also in terms of what theyre doing in this regard. It is amazing what states are doing now and if you want to look at one place where medicaid is a leader in the health care system, you can look at medicaid. It is definitely, definitely leading. Trying things that other folks havent tried. States are focused and they have the ability to be flexible and one state learns from another. Le