Robberies. brian loftus and. We could be off to a wet start this week. Sherry is watching the radar. To see if thunderstorms will rock your neighborhood. Michelle Mortensen 8 news now good day, the valleys news leader, starts right now. now, live. This is 8 news now good day. brian loftus thanks for waking up with us on 8 news now good day, the marcos arenas. Michelle. For the family of marcos arenas. And we learned more information overnight about another high profile case. 27 year old shane ross is due in court wednesday. Accused of a string of armed robberies. Metro says ross would park his motorcycle outside a store. And rob its employees at gunpoint. 8 news now was the first to break the news. That he is the son of las vegas mayor pro tem steve ross. The family says shane has struggled with addiction, and are urging him to cooperate with police. Ask the sheriff questions from the viewers in our morning cup of joe segment in the 6am hour. To submit a question. Just go to las vegas
Those storms were fierce over the northeast side of town especially. But everyone got a taste of the lightning and even some rain. Hail and gusty we could still see a shower before this area of low pressure completely moves out today. There is still plenty of moisture out there and a little trailing energy to trigger a shower or even a thunderstorm early this morning then getting on with some sunshine this afternoon. Humidity is very high and away, but the humidity will not disappear that quickly. Temps would feel really cool in the low 70s right now if the air was dry. The storms that clobbered the northeast side of town dropped more than an inchandahalf of rain in about a half hour last night. The low will pull away today, but outflow from afternoon storms could trigger lateday storms again after 5 pm and we might be seeing more evening storms in and near the valley. Sherry Swensk demetria, how are the roads doing . Demetria Obilor up in north las vegas, traffic looks pretty good. Th
They had a late night hosting our countdown to 2016. Some 330 thousand people packed the world famous Las Vegas Strip to ring in the new year. Patrick Walker but after the party. Comes the cleanup crews. Street sweepers got to work fast to get the roads ready to reopen. Michelle Mortensen Michael Stevens is live in front of caesars. Hey michael, anybody still celebrating . patrick, michelle. What a night to say the least. It was only a few hours ago thousands packed these streets now cleanup crews are still working to bring some normalcy back to las vegas boulevard. Just a few hours ago. People from all over the world packed the Las Vegas Strip to ring in the new year. And it seems everything went off without a hitch it was fun. Bottom line. It was fun. it was pretty fun. Loud. There were a lot of noise makers. The fireworks were beautiful. They were erywhere. You just look everywhere they were coming out of the hotels near circus circus where you can see like above the circus circus a