On scaffolding along the eastside of this grey buildingey. When it collapsed. Other employees told las vegas fire and rescue. The dust was so thick they couldnt see anything but they knew something was wrong. Tim szymanski with las vegas fire and rescue tells me two of the three men jumped to safety. Escaping without injuries. The third one was the person they found dead under the scaffolding. Outside this site. Premier cm is listed as the construction project. Under oshas website. It says premier cm is based in las vegas. They had an osha inspection back in march. But the case has since been closed. Our calls were not returned this afternoon. Tivoli management did release this statement tivoli statement graphic monday, august 22, 2016 4 44 pm we are incredibly shocked and saddened by todays tragic construction incident. On behalf of our partners and construction team, we express our heartfelt condolences. Out of respect for the victim and those investigating, all Construction Activity
Minutes. Several drivers chose to risk it and went through the intersection anyway. Others played it smart and decided not to test the flood waters. Dave Courvoisier it was even worse at lake mead and civic. But that didnt seem to stop drivers who were willing to risk everything in exchange for convenience. The flooding has subsided some drivers getting trapped in their cars. Denise Valdez nia wong has been chasing the storm all evening. She joins us live in the northeast from a wash thats still rushing with water. Nia . nia wong dave and denise. Weve seen drivers ignoring warnings not to drive through flood waters throughout the evening. Take a look at what we saw just a few hours ago. We went to both of those intersections you just mentioned. And despite several inches of water in the road. Many through while others remained in place. You may be thinking whats a few inches of rain in the road . well, as weve seen time and again in southern nevada, it doesnt take much to wash out the
Valleys news leader. Im Michelle Mortensen in for kirsten joyce. brian loftus and im brian loftus. Sherry hows the weather today . You brian loftus as weve seen time and again in Southern Nevada, it doesnt take much to wash out the road. Michelle Mortensen it really doesnt. And were aware of at least four swift water rescues last night. Thankfully according to clark county fire. No one was injuried in any of those cases. But these heavy downpours sure did take some folks by surprise. Especially some of our tourists on the strip. chris dent vegas vacation rained out its been pretty rough. Driving through it is something else. stitch its really high over in some spots about a foot high. Michelle Mortensen with more rain potentially on the way. Clark county wants you to remember their slogan when it comes to washed out roads turn around, dont drown. Driving into flood waters can ruin your car. And if the water is deep enough. You can get trapped yourself. And get this. If you do need to b
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
8 at 7 00 begins now. Good evening. Doctors continue to treat two men badly injured while sky dives this afternoon. One of them is in critical condition. Jamel lanee joins us live. We are told one of the sky drivers was trying to catch up to the other one when they had a midair collision. Reporter thats right. Actually, he was going just a little too fast. Like a car that was speeding trying to catch up to a car that is already moving pretty slowly. A fun day of sky diving turned scary in a matter of seconds. Two sky divers badly injured after they collide in midair tuesday afternoon. Both were wing suit jumping with sky dive city. One of them was flying on his back, the other flew down and collided with him. Reporter one diver was asia to pull his main parachute and but the other jumper ended up on county road 54 a mile away. His chute was up in there. And both chutes. The emergency chute, the regular chute. Reporter pat and her friends saw the diver fall from the sky. They raced over