Transcripts For KLAS 8 News Now At 11 PM 20160903 : comparem

Transcripts For KLAS 8 News Now At 11 PM 20160903

hotter today than yesteray with clear skies. Breezes have picked up a little as well around the region up to 20 mainly. Not anticipating any alert for wind today and the rest of the week. We are going to warm up through the week however with temps peaking on thursday and friday. Humidity remains very dry as well. Evening planner calling for warm temperatures through the night with light breezes again. Plenty of 90s this evening with 11pm temps nice and comfortable. Commute temps should be in the 80s again and hotter tomorrow. But your morning should be nice with light winds increasing by afternoon. Well have more on the r Denise Valdez much of the carolinas drenched by rain friday afternoon as Tropical Storm hermine slid friday and left hundreds of thousands without power. But the hermine isnt done. Along parts of the east coast there are threats of floods and dangerous riptides through labor day weekend. Chris welch is in apalachicola, florida to explain. nats hermine made landfall near saint marks, florida overnight pounding floridas gulf coast with heavy rains, and high winds the first hurricane to hit florida in 11 years. Marvin Heymann impacted by hermine what a mess. Sandy Matthews impacted what a mess. Like rocks. Cracked and jagged. All because of hermine. mayor Rick Kriseman st. Petersburg, fl quite candidly this is one of the worst weve seen in this city in a long time. On the hardhit island of cedar key storm surge devastated parts of the community chief Virgil Sandlin cedar key, Fl Police Dept the majority of the businesses dont have a front anymore. The water come through the back door and went out the front, just tore everything to pieces. But hermine isnt done with her path of destruction. dr. Rick knabb meteorologist director, National Hurricane center a system because that means whatever rainfall is occurring could happen for not only hours, but days in some spots. The storm is expected to impact much of the east coast throughout the holiday weekend. cathy haynes chief of operations, charleston co. our biggest concern is people getting out on the roadways that really dont need to be out there because they dont understand the seriousness of these things because they have never been through this before. In apalachicola, florida , im chris welch. Dave Courvoisier night about a Mountains Edge couple who came to us about their stolen mailbox. They believe their mailbox was stolen sometime last week. Leaving them wondering who might be combing through their information. We reached out to the postal service. To see when a new mailbox would be installed. And we found out tonight. That a new mailbox was delivered earlier today. Dave Courvoisier and, people in the southwest valley will see some relief. At least for a little bit. Were talking about the loud blasting crews have been doing. According to commissioner susan brager. Blasting in the area is on hold. She plans to meet with all those involved this coming tuesday. Earlier this week we told you about neighbors complaining the blasting was damaging their homes. Well be following tuesdays meeting and update you on what they talked about. Denise Valdez a church in North Las Vegas isnt letting a likely case of arson stop them from helping the community. Fire Officials Say local and federal agencies are looking into the overnight fire of holy trinity ame church. Reporter Brittany Edney shows us churchs plan for moving forward. rev. Cynthia pitts, holy trinity a. M. E church the propellent that went through the top of the glass here, thats what went inside and lit the flames on our drapes. Brittany Edney reverend Cynthia Pitts says another flammable agent was left at the front door. And as cleanup begins and investigators search for clues she says she doesnt believe this was a hate crime. rev. Cynthia pitts, holy trinity a. M. E. Church we just feel this is a random act of violence, thats all and we will pray for them and hope they will come back, sit down and see what we can do and this place of worship has no plans of letting this slow their momentum of helping the community. rev. Cynthia pitts, holy trinity a. M. E. Church we have a feeding Service Every friday and that went on and people came in today and of course our service will go on on sunday. Brittany Edney this church is home to two separate congregations. And they both say theyre lucky that there wasnt more damage done to the church. pastor ismael gomez, centro evangelistio salem i want to say thanks to god and thanks to the officers, to the firemen and i feel this is a blessing. rev. Cynthia pitts, holy trinity a. M. E. Church well get through Brittany Edney Brittany Edney, 8 news now. Dave Courvoisier a 13yearold valley teen is dead after taking her own life. Jumping from a casino parking structure thursday morning. Denise Valdez and her mother believes she was bullied. Stefanie kruger never thought she would have to bury her own child. 13year old maria took her own life. Her mom says she was bullied. Stefanie Kruger mother i would have moved her from that school if i had thought for one second she was that unhappy. elaine chabrow grandma my sole focus besides my daughter and the rest of the family is to get to the bottom of what happened to this beautiful light angel. Denise Valdez the teens mom now lives with a heavy heart. Wishing she could have done more to help her daughter. And pleads with parents to get kids the right help if there are any signs they could be thinking Dave Courvoisier one week from today. We should know the fate of clark county schools. And the plan to reorganize. If 12 lawmakers that form the Legislative Council have their way in one week, expect these changes by next fall each ccsd school governs itself. Each principal decides hiring and funding, with a team of teachers, staff and parents. And associate superintendents will oversee 25 schools, answering to the district superintendent. senator Michael Roberson this is more about to the schools. For the 1st time atleast 80 percent of all unrestricted general Fund Education dollars will go directly to the schools and after the 1st year it will be atleast 85 percent Dave Courvoisier Ccsd Trustees say theyre also worried about equal opportunities for all. Advocates argue title one schools will get more money. This transformation would be in place august of next year. denise an uncertain future awaits students and faculty at itt technical college. The school has stopped enrolling new students and is facing sanctions that could put it out of business. We want to make it clear. There is no official announcement of any closings. Linda montgomery, president of the las vegas Learning Center says itttechs problems make the whole industry look bad. Linda Montgomery the Learning Center ive seen organizations on a friday like today. You know they roll the trucks us and when the students come in monday morning. Theres not a paper clip in the place. Dave Courvoisier many of them veterans and single parents, will be left in a lurch with outstanding loans and without the certifications they need to get a good job. Dave Courvoisier quite the sight in the northwestern part of the valley. A special tribute to the victims of 911. The healing field at palm northwest mortuary and cemetery on north jones boulevard. Flags. Lined up. And lit up. To pay tribute to the lives lost nearly 15 years ago. Denise Valdez its back to sch country. Dave Courvoisier but it seems drivers arent aware of the kids out there. michael masue, witness she didnt know that you had to stop for the bus stop coming from the opposite way. Dave Courvoisier two kids. Two separate accidents. Hit by drivers not paying attention. And we have the video you have to see. its important for drivers to to know the law about stopping for a school bus when students are getting on and off. Denise Valdez in texas, two students were hit by vehicles getting off the school bus and both were caught on camera. Erin cargile tells us luckily neither student was seriously hurt. Keep your eyes on the crosswalk. This is a 12yearold boy seconds after getting off the school bus monday at south first and st. Elmo. amy mcfadden son hit by driver i kept shaking because its the most horrible thing to watch. Theres nothing worse than that phone call where all you can ha child crying amy mcfadden son hit by driver this driver was not some evil person. He was doing what we all do. We all have days when were in a hurry. Just 24 hours later in west austin, another driver hits another student. This time you can see the stop sign is out, the bus lights are flashing, and police say the bus driver was laying on the horn. michael masue, witness ugh, yeah, thats how i remember it. Michael masue was in his car stopped behind the bus masue witness my heart was racing it was just so intense. He got knocked i think 10 feet towards my car he rolled to the side of my driver side window. Michael called 911, then realized he went to middle school with the 17yearold laying on the road and goes to high school with the 16year old girl who was behind the wheel. michael masue, witness she was mortified she thought she killed him. She came out of the car crying af tried to reassure her he seemed ok at the time. The new driver told michael on scene she was confused about the law. michael masue, witness she didnt know that you had to stop for the bus stop coming from the opposite way. A traumatizing lesson to learn. michael masue, witness i hope it will be a wake up call to more people. Denise Valdez 17yearold was taken to the hospital by ambulance to get checked out. In both cases, the drivers stayed at the scene and were cited by police. tedd florendo the heat returns this week and its hotter today than around the region. Winds increased as forecasted as well but still remain below windy criteria. We still are dry with single digit humidity readings. And were a few degrees warmer than yesterday. Afternoon highs hot around the valley with temps hottest over to the east side of town where were lower in elevation. Especially for the east and southeast neigbhorhoods. The foothills and certainly the mountains where it appears to be coolest. Regional temps also stayed hot with hottest temps in laughlin and death valley. Although we definitely got hotter for the Colorado River valley from mesquite all the way down to the searchlight. More tolerable temps in the 90s for the central great basin where they also had some wind develop too. U. S. Temps show get stay hot only in the Desert Southwest but the Southern Plains with feels like temps in the 100s. Still hot also for the northern states with muggy conditions there down to the deep south. Doppler radar looking clear again across the region with most of the precip up in the pacific northwest. Looking at the high mexico texas to continue to progress northward and bring hotter weather this week; specifically late week. Looking at the next system to roll through the north part of the state to increase wind this weekend and especially next week. Heres the forecast. 80s by morning with clear skies and winds finally calming down by morning wit wakeup temps in the 80s again. Tomorrow expect a high of 106 again and hotter. We could see some light breezes returning again tomorrow. Extended temps show hotter temps as we head through the week. Expecting those temps to peak near 110 by the end of the workweek. Staying dry as no monsoon has been seen. Wind could week, but its next week and late weekend when we do anticipate stronger winds. Monsoon could return late next week or the week after according to long range models but that could change as well. Dave Courvoisier friday night lights indicates only one thing prep football is back. Denise Valdez each friday well highlight the big games with big plays. Chris youve got more tonight. Chris Maathuis thats right. Our viewers choice game had us going to gorman high to meet a team from florida. Jon tritsch will show us but also a team from orem utah visiting the aggies from arbor view. Plus. Well peek in on a few more hockey team. Hes close to revealing a logo and breaking ground on a training facility. More next here on channel 8. Were burning brightly. 16 High School Games on the schedule tonight. Our fans choice game of the week was at gorman. You all voted to see the gaels meet cocoa, florida. Jon tritsch was at fertitta field tonight and joins us fr of the week. Looks like this team is very derserving of its number one ranking. jon tritsch in their 40 game winning streak. Gorman has beaten teams from california. Utah. Washington. Ari zona and texas. Florida is still an unchecked box on their beatdown bucket list. Until tonight Brevin Jordan leading the gaels onto the field after 198 yards and 3 touchdowns last week Biaggio Ali Walsh looking great in uniform but not playing due to an ankle tate martell. Hes play action bomb to jalen nailor but the tigers respond. Qb bruce judson breaks containment and completes the jump ball to 7 who steps out of bounds. Cocoa settles for a field goal. Down by just 2 last play of the first half. Martell looking to make a play. How about a hail mary full of six. The sky. Tate the great. Option game strong. Martell ignites for the touchdown. Bubba bolden. Scoop and score. 4610 Kenny Sanchez gorman head coach great first half by thought we played well. Wins are hard to come by and be proud, but weve got a lot of work to do. Tate martell gorman quarterback coming out and scoring right away that kills a team, that hail mary was huge for us, but coming out and scoring right away in the second half was huge for us. jon tritsch trail of dominance across the country next week when they travel to mighty st. John bosco of los angeles. Chris Maathuis in some of the other games tonight. Outside of gormans big win. There isnt a bigger win by a Nevada School than what happened tonight in austin texas. Rich muraco takes his liberty patriots into the Lone Star State and comes away with a huge 2114 win over westlake. Westlake is one of the better teams in texas, but thats now twofortwo for nevada beating texas. Last week, gorman, this week they announced the score tonight at gorman and all the gael fans cheered when they heard it. At arbor view tonight, the orem tigers visiting the aggies. Orem is located next to provo. Traditionally theyve been solid, but there was a big shakeup with the tigers program. So arbor view was ready and took advantage. Quarterback Hayden Bollinger up top to michael sims down inside the one. But they couldnt punch it in. Third down pass out of bounds, they settle for the field goal. Later in the second, from 25 yards out. Its bollinger hooking up with and its arbor view winning 316. Theyre one of the Solid Program in the valley. Lots of offense at mojave tonight. They were hosting legacy high. The longhorns rollin along. Sam bam turner. The 59 bull gives legacy a 15zip lead. But the rattlers charge back. To dequincy michell and he scores. Its 156,. But then the longhorns tack on one more, Roberto Valenzuela gets to the one. Theyd punch it in and they go on to win it 226. If you like defense you wouldve liked the game at desert oasis tonight. Points were really hard to come by. Fans were put to sleep by halftime. Desert oasis down 60 to Muir High School from pasadena. But making a last minute charge. Kordell wooten takes the ball to the 5. With 2 seconds lefl and muir stuffs them. 60 the final Chris Maathuis nhl fans in vegas are sittin on pins and needles waiting for bill foley to reveal his team name and logo. Probably a month away from that. Were also less then a month away from Ground Breaking on the new practice facility in summerlin. We learned the date could be october 15th, but that date could be pushed up, which is good news. Also foley and other officials had a meeting with the nhl and and from what we know tonight, they need one more review. So everything is coming together nicely. Its getting close. Denise Valdez our strange stories for ads for joe heck are attacking my time as attorney general. The thing they left out is the truth. The truth is crime actually went down during my time in office. Thats why ive been endorsed by Law Enforcement across nevada. Im proud of my record cracking down on meth, protecting seniors from s

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