Rider. The body of 39yearold William Couch was found at the dry lake bed near jean sunday morning. 8 news now reporter karen castro found out why offroading deaths are not that uncommon. Crashes. Thats a 10percent increase compared to the same time last year. rick wyatt president , american adventure tours in the racing community, there are circumstances beyond your control that you usually can take and youre usually taking more of a risk than would the average person out there. karen castro the same study says most offroadvehicle crashes happen on public roads. But in the last month, two riders have died in the same desert area near jean. rick wyatt president , american adventure tours its very popular for a family destination, thats where the locals usually go for, you karen castro couch was with his family when the fun ride turned deadly. Loved ones say he died doing what he loved the most. Riding in the open desert. Karen castro, 8 news now. Dave CourvoisierSchool Starts up one week from today and before students head back to class a Safety Coalition of Community Agencies is teaming up to teach kids the rules of the road. Katie boer checked out a free, week long event that focuses on zero fatalities for children katie standup 00 30 58 now many of the Community Agencies that are out here today. Participate for a reason. Look out kids about actually started after 7 children were killed in the fall of 2006 at our around local schools. This program today is designed to prevent that 31 15 from slowing down. 24 09 dont forget about your brakes to stopping. nat pop . What do we going to do . Kid look left and right. Police left, right and what else . And left one safe kids clark county, ccsd police, and a handfull of other Community Agencies are teaming up to create a Safety Coalition to teach students heading to School Next Week how to be responsible for their own safety. Todays focus . Biking to school. robin so many kids get new bicycles and things like that and dont know how to ride them. Dont know how to do the safety checks and today were doing that. Weve actually taught several children how to ride a bicycle today katie standup on bike todays event was all about that means as soon as kids complete this Obstacle Course theyll be leaving today with a free helmet nat pop 25 46 alright youre going to stay in between the tennis balls right here alright. Youre going to go towards that arrow. Its called the figure eight 51 lesly 09 20 this activity has actually taught me so much. I think im actually going to ride my bike 26 kb really . to school . Lesly yes 28 11 year old lesly soriano is headed into 6th grade this fall. lesly 10 45 so hes teaching kids how to ride different kids of obstacles you see on a daily basis 52 youea them how to be safe and have fun during it 57 katie tag now if you missed todays event focusing on bike safety there will be events held all week long. Tomorrows focusing on bus safety. Thats being held at western high school. Reporting off valley view and the di, im kb back to you. Dave Courvoisier the week long event is free to the public. Katie mentioned tomorrows event on bus safety. But you can find the schedule for the rest of the events and the different locations where theyll be held on our website las vegas nowdotcom. Dave Courvoisier nevada is living up to its billing as a key swing state so far this election. Denise Valdez an average of polls over the past 6 weeks has Hillary Clinton with a 2. 3 lead. Which is within the margin of error. The clinton camp is trying to get some breathing room this week. Dave Courvoisier political reporter Patrick Walker is here to break down the strategy. Patrick WalkerVice President ial candidate. Stuck to the same script weve seen in the monthplus since the conventions. He spoke to two labor unions today. Focusing on jobs and the economy. And going after donald trump on those subjects. Kaine told members of the plumbers and Pipefitters Union that donald trump is antiunion and believes wages are too high. That led to the Vice President ial candidate saying Hillary Clinton is the candidate who would strengthen the economy through infrastructure investments. Immigration reform and reforms kaine said those initiatives are missing from Donald Trumps plan. And criticised the republican candidate for what he called a bleak picture of the country. sen. Tim kaine d Vice President ial candidate the Republican Convention was dark and gloomy and blame america first, boos looked like gotham city 5 or Something Like that, and people say wow, thats a disturbing picture of america, i said that is not a picture of america, that is guided tour through donald j. Trumps mind and thats a very scary place to be. Patrick Walker trump was scheduled to campaign in las vegas friday. But his cai at southpoint was cancelled for unspecified reasons. Nevada gop chairman Michael Mcdonald confirmed to me this afternoon. However. That trumps lake tahoe fundraiser is still on. And the candidate is expected there friday night. Patrick Walker lets bring in my politics now cohost. Review journal columnist Steve Sebelius. To talk more about what we heard today. First thing that struck me. Kaine got the crowd cheering for paying more taxes. Talking about all of the services the government provides that need to be paid for somehow. Nobody likes paying taxes. But he said you cant support the military, or teachers, or schools, or national parks, unless you support the taxes that pay for them. A lot of politicians get away with that, and kaine was calling out trump to let him know hes not getting a free pass on that issue. Patrick Walker kaine also stressed the importance of the ground game. Hitting the streets to knock on doors. Let me play a quick part of the speech where he touches on that. sen. Tim kaine d i persontoperson stuff is what its going to take to elect Hillary Clinton, its what its going to take to elect Catherine Cortez masto as your next us senator cheers . Patrick Walker steve. That echoes what weve heard recently on the campaign trail. But it didnt come from an expected source. Steve Sebelius right, that is almost wordforword what mike pence said at his rally in henderson last week both candidates said will trust a word from a friend. So engaging regular voters is key to spreading the word for both campaigns. Patrick Walker lets talk about minimum wage. But he never talks about a federal minimum wage that clinton wants to see. Sanders was adamant about a 15anhour federal wage. Steve Sebelius nobody is as adamant as sanders. Except maybe Green Party Candidate jill stein. Clinton wants 12 per hour, but says states can go higher if they want. Over the map on this hes said wages are too high. Hes said he opposes a higher federal minimum wage. Hes said the minimum wage needs to go up, maybe to 10 dollars per hour. So thats definitely an accurate charge. Patrick Walker of course. Well have much more on the weeks events. Including a Hillary Clinton stop on politics now. Thats sunday at 5 30 right here on channel 8. Patrick Walker 8 news now is your local election headquarters. You can find all things politics both on air and online at las vegas now dot com. Dave and denise. Dave Courvoisier happening right now. 8 news now is holding a food drive at Findlay Acura to benefit the las vegas rescue mission. Denise Valdez we are asking for nonperishable food items to be dropped off. Katie boer is live in henderson. Katie, how is it looking so far . katie boer Denise Valdez the big story tonight. The weather. And our next chance at the current conditions. Tedd is next with the forecast you have to see. news music voice over youre watching the valleys news leader with Dave Courvoisier, Denise Valdez, tedd for seniors like barbara, Social Security makes a difference every month. But for the wall street types whove given congressman joe hecks campaigns over 500,000, Social Security could mean billions of dollars in fees. Thats what privatizing Social Security means and why joe heck and wall street support it. Under hecks privatization plan, and the wall street types supporting joe heck make billions. Whose side are you on . Senate majority pac is responsible this is 8 news now at Denise Valdez weather toss tedd florendo looking outside it looks like seattle with the cloud shield. Temps remain warm but muggy do to the humidity. Wind also stay light and the smoke plume from the blue cut fire has drifted way more west and away from the area. Tstorms maybe this evening, but should be isolated in nature. Temps around the valley in the 90s through many neighborhoods with the warmest temps typically over to the east side of the valley and southeast sections. Not as warm for the foothills and the northwest part of the region. Were below normal for temps but not much. Helped keep a lid on any daytime warming from the sun. Regional temps also stayed warm but still hot over in death valley where they had more sunshine. Warm down the Colorado River valley from mesquite all the way down to laughlin. More tolerable temps in the central great basin with those areas inthe 80s to low 90s. Radar shows very little convective tstorm occurring. A shield of clouds helped keep a tight lid on any storm now with clearing and us getting to the hottest part of the day, there is still slight chances for tstorms mainly east of i15 and better chances for southern clark county. Mostly in mohave county. Futurecast shows we get a better break from those storms chances tomorrow but its sunday we see the return of showers and storms chances due to an area of low pressure that will drift in some rain from the south. Shower and Storm Chances also return for monday through tuesday as well before we see a drying trend by wednesdy. So the forecast is calling for temps in the 80s by morning with clouds and some clearing. Expect muggy condtions this evening with slight hit and miss shower chances as well. Tomorrow expecting temps near 100 and partly to mostly sunny through the day. Very slim chances for showers but the possibility is out there more points east of the valley. Extended forecast calls for temps to drop even more by late weekend and early week with high in the 90s still. Showers chances return by sunday and through early week with sunday and monday being our best shot for some rain. Drier mid to late week next week average 200. Card. Saturday night made up for all that disappointment. It was the card of the year so far. Terrific fights throughout the night. Seemed every fight lived up to fans expectations. Tyson still gets the biggest applause. Iron mike on hand. Of course all eyes were on the main event. Conor mcgregor and nate diaz swinging for the entire 25 minutes. Niether one giving an inch. If it was a tug o war, they got pulled to the edge. But night won by mcgregor as they went to the scorecards. Wwere the leg kicks. Was that part of the strategy coming in . Conor; it was but he took em better then i thought he would, he didnt show, let me know. I thoguht the first three rounds proved the class difference, but that toughness and durability that he has crept back in but i washappy to come away with a win. Hes a gret competitor, brought out the best in me. Diaz; i thought id win that fight, they cant have me win, im too real for this sport, theyre good. I came worse off then last time i had injuries, im not making excuses but he shouldve finished me off. Chris Maathuis there may not be a trilogy, although the fans would love it. Dana white was said hes moving on. And wants conor to fight for his featherweight belt which means going back down in weight and meeting jose aldo. Thats certainly another fight fans want to see. I dont have a ballot, but if i did, las vegan kris bryant would have to be near the top of the still a healthy chunk of the regular season left. But hes red hot the cubs are red hot and right now it seems the cubs are the team to beat. kris braynt cubs; it feels good, this time last year we were battling for a wild card spot and now to have tht 1011 game cushion, but got to go out and play and dont put pressure on themselves. And we should be where we want to be at the end of the year. I think we were 500 club through 100 and took off from there into the end of the year. Chris Maathuis the unlv Football Team is less then two weeks away from kicking off its season at home against jackson state. Over the weekend unlv held a pair of scrimmages, so Things Get Serious now. There were a bunch of positives. But then you know coaches. They dont live a normal life. Theyre never satisfied. tony sanchez coach; its one of those deals. You can feel good afor about 15 minutes after a win then you go right into the ne do, theyre looking for the things they didnt do well so they can correct them and get better and now its about the opponent and what they do and attack that. Its a breath of fresh air when the focus is on on apponent, it changes the way you prepare, the way you do things. And wed like to remind you. This year were giving you the vote on which game we feature on friday our facebook page. So far the leader is arbor view and liberty. But that could change. And you those who appreciate our High School Football can vote and make a change. Denise Valdez thanks for watching 8 news now at 6. Thanks for watching 8 news now at 6. Were always on at las vegas now dot com and our app. Aloni Dave Courvoisier see you tonight at 11. This is the jeopardy teachers tournament. Here are todays contestants a ninthgrade math teacher from allentown, pennsylvania. A fourthgrade languagearts teacher from savannah, georgia