Dumped nearly two feet of rain in some areas. Well, there have been some dramatic rescues, like a woman and her dog stuck in their flooded convertible. More than 10,000 people are in shelters. And at least six people have now died from this flooding. Today some people in arizona moving in to help out. Red cross volunteers in our state are right now on their way to louisiana to help those flood victims. One group leaving t headquarters just a few hours ago, driving a louisiana response van to hand out food and splice. The volunteers will be there for about two weeks. Outstanding work from all of the people that were involved. Thats what you call heroism, if you put yourself alone the line like that. I guess they felt like giving Something Back to the community, and my wife says this gets me out of the house, so 500 volunteers headed to louisiana. New pictures from baton rouge, the u. S. Coast guard rescuing stranded residents, in these pictures a small child was stuck on the roof a subm
Thank you for joining us. We begin with a fox 10 news alert at this hour where theres just been a wild turn of events. Skyfox over a big Police Presence in a small neighborhood in florence, southwest of the valley. A man holds police at bay for hours from inside a home. The swat team is called in to try and get this man, a convicted sex offender, to surrender. So let me first start by showing you where this all unfolded. Its the town of florence, south and east of the valley. Right here so what we are going to do is go down south and east even of queen creek. You may have golfed in this area. Johnson ranch to give you an idea is the san tan valley. The home we are talking about is south and east of that. Ill zoom in and show you, its a little small subdivision here. Again, its around a golf course. You can see this whole neighborhood is affected by whats going on, celeste. Twist here, the suspect has escaped, and hes on the loose right now. This all started just after midnight when the
Us live from the scene. Nicole . Reporter yeah, guys, we are at a barricade situation right now at a house down the street. This is copper stone drive and 134th drive and you can see there are several mcso vehicles and a armored swat car parked in front of the house here. Mcso just confirmed that the situation is related to a dead body that was found inside of a vehicle in this neighborhood just a couple of hours ago here to this scene to update us about whats going on here. So we dont have a lot of information of exactly whats going on right now. We do know it is about 9 00 this morning that a body was found inside of a vehicle here in this area. Then two hours later, mcso swat team arrived here at this house and a barricade situation is in place right now. As far as any other details, we is on his way out here and he will give us the update on exactly whats going on here. So thats the situation here. We are at 134th drive and copper stone drive in sun city west. This portion of the s
Publics help. In doing that, the investigators say they are actually looking into all of the evidence right now and making sure that there are cameras in this parking lot because obviously then they can see exactly whats on that footage and if that leads them to anything that could help them with this investigation. If you know anything about what happened earlier, you asked to call the police or silent witness. Reporting live, mars mar, fox 10 news. Just in, tempe Police Telling us a twoyearold twin boy pulled from a hot tub on sunday has died. But his sister is improving. Both were found in the back yard hot tub at a home near priest and warner. It did not have a barrier around it. Firefighters say the mother lost track of the twins for just a few minutes and that was long enough. Another Death Investigation underway. This one in the northwest valley where a body was found in a car with the details tonight. This is a pretty scary scene especially for the elderly people who live in th
Steve krafft is live with this decision and reaction. So at this point it looks like its going to be on the ballot, steve. Reporter thats what it looks like so far. And this is not over yet because the group opposing prop 205 to legalize Recreational Marijuana says it is going to appeal the judges ruling to the arizona supreme court. Heres what prop 205 would do. It would allow adults who are at least 21 in arizona to have up to one ounce of marijuana and grow up to six Marijuana Plants at home. Like recreational already on the books in colorado, washington, oregon, alaska and washington, d. C. Opponents, arizonans for responsible drug policy, tried to convince a superior court judge to get rid of 205 even though it easily surpassed the more than 150,000 voter signatured needed to get on the ballot, Maricopa County attorney Bill Montgomery one of those opponents who wanted prop 205 off the ballot. Week trying to convince the judge the petitions 100word summary was misleading, but the j