mauricio marin after a man was shot dead last night, we tied a record in las vegas for the most homicides in a year. Police believe last nights shooting was drug related after a man was found dead near bonanza and maryland parkway. Involved fled the scene in a red four door jeep cherokee. If you have any information, call crimestoppers. This is the 157th homicide in metros jurisdiction so far this year. That ties a record for the most murders in a single year. A record set back in 2006. Denise Valdez the creaters of jersey boys are going to have to pay millions after being held liable for copyright infringement. A federal jury in nevada determined the director and substantial potions of another work without permission when creating the script for jersey boys. They also concluded that ten persent of the Shows Success is attributable to their unlawful infringement of an unpublished autobiography, tommy devito then and now. The long running show recently ended after being on the strip for
After talking with students and University Officials who say his comments dont represent unlv abby a lot of shock tonight and emotions. Students protesting a professor who said hell report undocumented students to ice. Both student and University Officials say this goes against what the school stands for package nats keyboard Jessica Scheffer hateful and violent and exclusive and ignorant third year unlv student jazz scheffer is talking about the unlikely professor posted to her friends facebook js he added a smiley face at the end of his comment just essentially describing how happy he would be to send out this undocumented students to ice and it scares me that he feel so comfortable with the stance that he could say this in public george buch a part time math professor at the university had a lot to say about unlv supporting undocumented immigrant students. Last night a former student of his unlv president len jessup signing a letter in support of the deferred action for Childhood Ar
Closed captioning will resume shortly and more breaking news tonight. Police are investigating a suspcious death. One person is dead. Another hospitalized. Fox5s adam herbets joins us live near rainbow and gowan. John christine the police told us they couldnt get the dead woman out of this house for a while because the place was cleaning with poisonous gas were not sure what the chemical wise but obviously the police arent here anymore the street is dark lets at one point the police said that they were looking into the possibility that this was a meth lab were not sure if that still the case because they left without giving us an update it sounds like they have a lot of evidence to go through but either way they are definitely looking into the possibility that even if this wasnt a meth lab that it is drugrelated and some of the neighbors weve talked you were concerns that there have been drug problems in this neighborhood and possibly at this house before they say the house does not ha
My next instict was to go next door because the flames started getting real bad, banging on the neighbors house, telling her to get out and she came out screaming with her daughter and i asked her i said well how many people are in the house, she said well theres four people that live there, one of the gentleman is disabled, and his wife and two girls. Closed captioning will resume shortly a woman is dead and a man is recovering in the hospital after they had to be taken out of a house with toxic fumes. Fox5s adam herbets has been out there tonight talking to police. And neighbors John Christine whatever that toxic poisonous gas was, possibly Carbon Monoxide, it kept crews from going in here taking the woman out of the house for a long time. They had to wait for it to air out and they had to move us further away to make sure that we were safe metro after not too long ago before they left they didnt give us any sort of update but the last we heard they were throwing out the possibility
And im Alyssa Deitsch in for monica jackson. Welcome to fox5 news this morning. First Cassandra Jones joins us with a quick look at the fox 5 weather 247 forecast. Good morning im Cassandra Jones with fox5. The big story today will be gusty winds across Southern Nevada for friday. Wind gusts around the Las Vegas Valley will be in the 30 to 40 mph range. Even stronger wind is expected along the Colorado River valley. A wind advisory will be in laughlin, and Lake Havasu City throughout the day on friday with wind gusts in the 50 mph range. High temperatures friday will be in the mid to low 50s. It stays breezy saturday before winds calm down sunday. Skies will be mostly sunny this weekend with temperatures back up around 60 sunday. Well see another surge of cold air for the middle of next week with more wind and below average temperatures. Here is a look at your drive here are the accidents to watch out and alternate routes you can use listed on our maps here are the construciton areas t