Crews assisted as well. Mauricio Marin the good news here no injuries were reported and there was never any threat to the public. There were also big traffic backups as a result. Its friday night and a lot of people travel to and from the casino town. The traffic has calmed down tonight. Reporting live from laughlin, Mauricio Marin. 8 news now. Dave Courvoisier mauricio, has nv energy said what caused the transformer to blow up and extent of the damage . Mauricio Marin no word yet on what caused that explosion, dave. Thats under investigation. As far as damage. Theres no dollar figure at this time. Back to you. Patranya Bhoolsuwan the parents of an infant who was hurt at the hands of a daycare worker are speaking out tonight. Dave Courvoisier they are one of two families changed forever in North Las Vegas from separate cases of child abuse according to police. Vanessa murphy is live at umc with this story. Vanessa . Vanessa Murphy the parents are here at u mc around the clock taking ca
< thats a look at the roads. Back to you. Kirsten Joyce the British Airways jet thats been sitting at mccarran since september. Is no longer covered and the smoke damage is gone. This is what it looked like when the left engine caught fire. With 157 passengers on board and 13 crew members. We reached out to British Airways. And they sent us a statement saying quote a team from boeing is carrying out the repair work, which will be certified to the same high standards as if the aircraft was brand new. They also say the aircraft will resume flying once stringent checks have been completed. The re is no set timeline for this. The ntsb has not released the cause of the engine fire. brian loftus gas prices and we could expect prices to go down another 5to10 cents here in the valley. According to gas buddy dot com. The drop in prices is being fueled by low crude oil prices. Along with high inventory. Gas in the valley is low. But some other states have it even lower some drivers in arizona ha
Crews prep roads along rainbow. A project that some arent necessarily ready for. chris white, bartender, wahoos you just hate it when somethings under construction and then youre alternate route is under construction. Its like a maze. construction will affect one point three miles of rainbow boulevard between sunset and russell roads and will take an estimated 15 months to complete. lee ditterline, general manager, scooters pub thats a long time to be in construction on rainbow. Rainbow is a huge huge outlook for a lot of people. the section will be reduced to one lane during the overnight hours of nine pm to five am daily, except for saturdays. There will also be lane shifts from 5 am to 9 pm each day. With two travel lines open to traffic in each direction. Which nearby businesses say they hope doesnt push their patrons away. lee ditterline, general manager, scooters pub i dont think its going to be a big impact for us because our customers are really loyal and they like coming here,
Reporting. Clinton won 53 percent of them. Sanders recieved 47 percent. Dave Courvoisier clinton now has momentum heading into the South Carolina primary next week. Denise Valdez and as paul joncich explains. The first in the west caucus went off pretty smoothly. At least at caesars. paul joncich it was a raucous caucus here at Caesars Palace. Hillary supporters are still celebrating after a big win today. Many of the same people caucused downstairs. At the Caesars Palace caucus site Hillary Clinton prevailed over Bernie Sanders by a wide margin. During her victory speech former president bill clinton still about 6 feet away clearly pleased with the results. Hillary Clinton d president ial candidate, this is your campaign, and it is, it is a campaign to break down every barrier that holds you back. Were going to build ladders of opportunity in their place so that every american can go as far as your hard work will take you. paul joncich caucusing at this site only took most people were
Im Paula Francis. Dave courvoisier. Thanks for joining us. Police arent releasing many details involving this incident, but dash cam video shows officers confronting a man in a parking lot who they thought was invovled in a robbery senor venga aqui thats not him dude. Thats not a black guy black shirt. somebody stole some stuff over here and they said they were going to rob the place. So they thought that you were, they thought that you were part of that ok . officers quickly realized that the man didnt fit the suspect description, but another officer arrived on scene with a k9 unit. From the video, it appears that officer releases his dog to clear the mans car, but you can hear the man say his baby is inside. You can see the dog jump inside the car, the officers go to retrieve the dog and then you hear the child screaming officer theres an infant in that car theres an infant in that car baby crying Dave Courvoisier henderson statement on the incident while we should always remember th