Thank you for being with us. We begin with a news alert this noon, live pictures from skyfox. This is a deadly motorcycle crash in mesa. Country club and southern. Mesa fire confirming that the motorcyclist was killed in the crash. As you can imagine, there is traffic restrictions in the area. So if youre heading out, youll want to avoid the intersection for quite a while. Also first on fox, we are getting our first update this afternoon on the little girl who was hit by a last week while getting some ice cream from a truck. Today her parents releasing a videotaped message and their attorney spoke out. Nicole garcia joins us live now in the studio with the latest on what happened today. Nicole . Reporter troy and celeste, that little girls name is vanessa and right now she is still in the hospital in a medically induced sleep. She is fighting for her life. Meanwhile, her attorneys are conducting a separate investigation into this crash. This is threeyearold vanessa. Injuries after she
Woman, 49yearold dinya farmer. Police say before she was shot, she called 911, saying three men in a white truck were following her. This is last night about 7 30. Police getting several calls about a truck that was driving erratically, and that includes a call from the victim who was driving on i10 and then went up north on the 51. While she was on the phone, the dispatcher heard three gunshots, and then the call ended. Her car crashed into the Center Divider at thomas. Right now, polic little to go on as to what happened. Our best description of our suspect vehicle at this point is three hispanic males that was provided by our victim in a white pickup truck with a ladder track and a toolbox in the back. She described it as a work style truck, last scene northbound on the 51, possibly exiting at thomas road. Rage . Did she know the men . Police believe that she may not have been a random target. Police did collect some Surveillance Video from one business next to state route 51. The s
Today. First at noon, d. P. S. Searching for a hitandrun driver who hit and killed a man on i17. This happened around 2 00 this morning. Ron hoon joins us in studio now. D. P. S. Tells us it was about 2 00 this morning they received some 911 reports. Two vehicles were pulled off the side of the black canyon freeway, the i17 at the thomas road onramp. Just minutes l man had been hit by an suv that came driving by. And here is the scene of where the killing happened. D. P. S. Says the victim, a man in his early 20s, he was pulled over to the side of the road after his car stalled. Authorities say a Good Samaritan attempted to come to his aid and help to jump start the car. But the driver was suddenly strike by another vehicle driving on to the 17. He died at the hospital. And d. P. S. Is reminding drivers, arizona. When you see the flashing lights of an Emergency Vehicle or any stopped vehicle belonging to anyone, they say you have to move over every time, for every vehicle. At this hour
This 18wheeler, it gives you a better idea. You can see some of the labeling there on the side, it says a. C. T. The company and the driver, we are working on gathering information. In riverside, california, as you can imagine, theres choppers up in the air and some patrol cars behind him, following him as well. The reports we have, this is a stolen semi. I dont know if you have ever seen the inside o cabs of these things, they dont drive like a regular car drives. To drive a semi like this, you would almost think it would have to be somebody with experience with driving a truck like this. I dont know if its heading into l. A. , east, what direction it is, but riverside is in between los angeles and palm sprin truck like this could cause with somebody behind it that either a, doesnt know what they are doing, or b has a bad intent. Not just that, but having to close down a freeway like that for sometime and the effect of having to close down traffic for some time. Heres what we are goin
Quickly ended in new jersey after authorities tracked down the suspect in tree bombings on the east coast. Authorities say Ahmed Khan Rahami was caught just a few hours ago. They got a call of a man seeping at a bar. When they got to the scene, they realized this was the man authorities were looking for. He pulled out a gun, fired at fortunately the Police Officer had a bulletproof vest. The suspect was taken to the hospital, three officers also taken to the hospital. The man hunt started after two explosions if in new york and a third in new jersey. Police are seeking rahami, a afghanistan. They were trying to figure out if the three bombings were connected. President obama spoke earlier. I know that the United Nations meetings here every year already create an additional workload for new york, but given the u. N. Meetings, we also have a particularly high level of federal resources here to help as needed. We are going to make sure that everybody is working together seamlessly as one