Leads in a Homicide Investigation that began this morning. Officers responded to reports of a shooting at tropicana and boulder highway at about 2 am. They found a man with a gunshot wound. He later died at sunrise hospital. Police say the shooting may be gangrelated. brian loftus listen up. A multimillion dollar Improvement Project just wrapped up. And people are celebrating. Literally. 8 news now reporter Michael Stevens is live from flamingo and jones with the celebration taking place. Hey michael . Michael Stevens brian. Anytime construction wraps up. Drivers are cheering. Because it means less today. People who live, work or play along flamingo should be smiling. Its because the rtc just wrapped up a 46million dollar Improvement Project that lasted 17months. A number of local leaders took part in celebration ceremony here at west flamingo park. The rtc says not only did they upgrade traffic signals. Add more than 100 new bus shelters and bike lanes. Theyve also made the 14mile str
Live near the spaghetti bowl. He got a look at the technology being used to ease traffic jams in the area. Mauricio . Mauricio Marin traffic is starting to slow down as people head home for the weekend. The major closure is the 15north connector to 95 northbound. Not a single car on it. And thats how its going to look for the next four months as ndot crews work to demolish a part of the bridge and start work to widen interstate 15. We got an inside looo center. Theyve partnered up with the Nevada Department of transportation to monitor traffic ramp meters and traffic lights in the area. In and around the spaghetti bowl areartc has 35 traffic cams that can help workers determine if realtime changes are needed to get traffic from backing up. One of the big issues theyre looking at is preventing traffic from backing up on side streets from detours in place particularly along mlk boulevard and lake mead. brian hoeft director, rtc fast we changed the signal time in anticipation in especiall
Yesterday cooled things off around the region. Temps close to the 70s today with no 80s in the forecast today. Hour by hour tonight some clearing with clouds around and cool evening temps in the 70s to 60s later. Tomorrow more sunshine back to the 80s by get this week . And theres another chance of showers in the 7day. Thats all straight ahead in the extended forecast coming up bundy along with five others. Some say the jurys decision opens the door to armed occupations everywhere. 8 news now anchor paul joncich is here with reaction. paul joncich heres how a juror explained the verdict. Even though the group that took over the malheur wildlife refuge had guns and threatened to use them, they werent charged with crimes against police. They were charged with willfully conspiring to stop federal workers from doing their jobs. And prosecutors couldnt prove it. Applauded by the sovereign citizens movement. Its being criticized by many others who believe this puts blm and other federal land
It all week long. Project neon. All of the work on that major Improvement Project has caused a lot of disruption along the spaghetti bowl. And some new closures go into effect tonight. Demetria obilor has a breakdown of that. Demetria Obilor on wednesday, several ramps closed down in the spaghetti bowl for carnado project neon. There was one more ramp that needed to shut down, and it did earlier this morning just before 5 am. The northbound i15 exit to northbound 95 is cld exit onto a temporary ramp that takes you over to northbound 95. These ramps will stay closed through february 2017. Make sure you stay on top of all of the closures by visiting our website, las vegas now dot com. Also, starting tonight at 10 pm, mlk is shutting down, in both directions, from bonanza to us 95. The us 95 on offramps will close too. Things should reopen around 5am monday. Plan ahead. Dave Courvoisier days after a 65yearold died from a flurelated illness in clark county. Health officials are warning kid
Saying the young boy suffered visible trauma. He was taken to sunrise but died about 30 minutes later. lt dan mcgrath, metro pd there were reports of some ligature marks. Brittany Edney metro police are investigating what happened inside of an apartment sunday afternoon that led to the death of a sevenyearold boy. lt dan mcgrath, metro pd were not here to publicize a child being killed in the manner that he was but the facts point to child abuse. Brittany Edney police say the victim was inside apartment with 4 other children. His mother and another man when he was hurt. The man has been arrested and police are questioning the mother. lt dan mcgrath, metro pd she is not arrested, but she is with detectives. She is not in handcuffs or anything so we do want to speak with her and find out if she can tell us what exactly happened. Brittany Edney the other four other childrenall under the age of 8 were not harmed and are in cps custody while this case is being investigated. lt dan mcgrath,