Apartment. The first officer entering into the bedroom, that suspect according to police lunged out of the closet with a knife, cutting that officer. He of course grabbed his gun and opened fire. That suspect we are told is dead here at the scene. The officer is a 15year veteran, 35 years old and we are told he is going to be okay. It is routine now to put that officer on leave to be sure hes okay mentally. When they have their lived threatened like this, it can really play with their minds. Phoenix police want to be sure that officer is going to be okay both physically and mentally. We are told that he is back here at the scene and talking with detectives about what took place in the apartment. Again, this stems from another shooting that happened last night. This morning they confronted that suspect and shots were fired. Back to you. Thank you. Great reporting out there. Update on another officer involved shooting, this one in mesa. Police say this is connected to another shooting investigation that happened two days ago. Police say three officers were involved but all are okay and the suspect is dead at the scene. They believe he was involved in a shootout with another man thursday morning. He was about 55 years old. We suspected that was a drug related later friday a specialty unit caught up with the shooter and started following him. Thats when officers say he started speeding up in that mesa neighborhood. They did whats called a pit maneuver to stop this guy and one neighbor heard the loud crash. One car went up into our front yard. The other ones were right in front. Ran out, figured someones hurt. Sounded like maybe they hit one so i reason outside. As soon as i opened the door, i just heard gunfire. And well continue to bring you any updates as soon as we we get new information. A jack in the box employee shaken up after a car rammed through the drivethru at 35th street and thomas road. No one was hurt and police are investigating. We are working to get information on a possible description of the car involved but a very scary situation there for employees. Not only were our animals better for knowing him, but we were as well. A north valley veterinarian who died when he fell into his underground grain storage will be laid to rest later this morning. More than 100 people gathered last night to honor dr. Bill tryon. He just did so much for the community. You know, everybody up here lanterns were also let go to honor his neighbor who died trying to save him, as well as his assistant. This morning a renewed push for answers in the case of a Real Estate Agent who vanished more than a year ago. The fbi is asking for any and all tips about sydney cranston, jr. The bottom line is sydney cranston, jr. Is still missing. Somebody knows where he is, and we are pleading with the public the fbi is officially considering this a homicide investigation. They are offering 5,000 for information about his suspicious disappearance. Heavy rains in parts of louisiana causing a deadly and devastating flood. Two people have lost their lives and the governor declared a state of emergency as homes are filled with brown murky water. Which started earlier this week. That area is expected to get even more rain this weekend. In maryland, police say they have found a third body after an explosion and fire at this apartment complex. Authorities arent saying who the victims are yet but police say they will pick up the search and Recovery Efforts later today. That happened wednesday night. People could feel buildings shake more than a mile away. 34 people were taken to hospitals including three firefighters. Three people are in custody accused of shooting and killing a Police Officer. 45yearold jose chavez died friday after having surgery. Reports show he pulled over a vehicle for a traffic stop and thats when a passenger got out and fired shots at his vehicle. The suspects ran and carjacked another vehicle, then shot that driver. Officials are still investigating this incident. In the northern part of the state. The bodies were pulled from the burned wreckage late friday. All six victims were from out of state and the cause is still under investigation. Family and friends are gathering to say goodbye to prince. Family members are holding a private Service Today at paisley park in minnesota, one day after another service minneapolis. A public tribute to honor prince been at minneapolis u. S. Bank stadium in october. Its something no one wants to hear terror. This morning a new threat, isis crossing the border into arizona. Conservative watchdog groups report an isis operative is training terrorists just across italian paper which says the borders are soft and he could get in with a handful of men and kill thousands in texas or arizona in just a few hours. It is likely a topic youll see come up as the president ial race heats up. 8 07 right now. The impact continues today for thousands of new sun devils and their parents. It is movein day at asu, meaning a lot of heavy lifting. For the students, those incoming freshmen, you know its such and exciting time. Its really exciting. Sparky and the welcome team helped some students move into the fall semester starts on thursday, can you believe that . And trending nationwide, this video, featuring helicopter rides and a pink jeep tour. Vogue said it cost 300,000 to make this video but the National Office wrote in part, with todays technology, a talented team can produce a video like this for a few thousand dollars and thats what our chapter spent as well. 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The judge criticized investigators and dasseys own defense attorneys, saying they made false promises to the then 16yearold with developmental days unless prosecutors decide to retry him. More criminals are filling up with your money. This is happening at the gas pump. This is video we just showed you and we are told several areas have been targeted by skimmers. State investigators have found more skimmers this month alone compared to all of last year. Sk debit card information. To see all the locations with skimmers found this month, head to abc15. Com. I hate bank fees and paying a bank to use my money. One website says on average we face 23 Different Bank fees at 470 each year. Dont do it. Bank rate says Overdraft Fees alone cost us 24 billion each year and the fees keep rising. Reporter opt out of any overdraft protection. Youll be denied if you dont have money but you wont have to pay the fee. Other ways, choose nofee checking an savings. Sign up for alerts. 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The National Guard is joining the front lines as californias governor issues a state of emergency for the fire thats been burning since july. Troops will spend 29 days trying to put out the fire thats burned more than 71,000 acres and destroyed 55 homes. Illegal campfire and also killed one person. Did you get enough of the rain this week . No because we missed last week. Then this week i had to go to bed. There are some areas in arizona that could pick up a stray thunderstorm or shower. The valley looks its 89 degrees already and maybe just a half hour ago we were 86. Humidity is Holding Steady at 42 . By our standards, a little muggy out there. It will feel a little sticky, wind out of the east about 5 miles an hour. We are at 86 in scottsdale and and radar right now. We have some popup showers especially to the east and in Higher Elevations like the white mountains. Some activity near pine top and show low. Not counting on a lot of lightning, but keep that in mind especially in the east. We are also going to see activity in the high country, too. Not everywhere but i think isolated we could see popup thunderstorm activity, and to the southeast too. The valley looks to be dry today and tomorrow. We should see this for the next few days. Midweek i think well incorporate rain chances here in the phoenix metro. Air quality today is not great because of the ozone pollution advisory. Unhealthy groups keep that in mind. And we have a uv alert in effect. 11 00 to 2 00 is peak sun time, 15 minutes. Use that sunscreen. Pollen not bad today, picking up for sunday and monday with grass and ragweed. Todays high 105, right about where we should be this time of year. Its hotter than we were feeling because some days we had below triple digits. Not today. Tomorrow is pretty much a carbon copy of today, 106, mostly sunny skies, up to 107 for monday and 108 fo after that well take temperatures down a little bit but well add in rain chances wednesday, thursday and friday. Download our free abc 15 app to track the storms with us and those temperatures, especially today as we get ready to sweat it out. Not a pretty night not really cardinals fans. The raiders came to town and the Second String gave up two quick turnovers, leading to two touchdowns for the raiders. The good things about the ball game, i like the way we started. I thought the good players showed up ready to play. Individually there were some really good things with the young players, although collectively it was not very good. The cardinal rolls on. They will take on the chargers in san diego and our coverage starting 5 30 on friday with kickoff at 6 00 here on abc 15. Katie ledecky gets the gold in the 800meter free style last night, adding to her gold medals. Did you see her all by herself . She smoked the competition by record. She is awesome. She is on fire. Lets take a look at the medal count . Have you done shotput . Im small but im strong. We have more on a tragic story showcasing the dangers of playing with guns, as a woman shoots and kills her boyfriend with a gun they thought was unloaded. And kids are back in school. And kids are back in school. We are taking action to . Double down on your coffee and candy cravings with dunkins new heath and almond joy flavored iced coffees. . Double down on your coffee and candy cravings with dunkins new heath and almond joy flavored iced coffees. Get any medium iced coffee for 1. 49. We have travel alerts weekend. I10 eastbound is down to one lane near loop 303. This is saturday 4 00 a. M. To 3 00 p. M. , and the same thing on sunday. Expect a lot of congestion in that area. And the i10 ramp, on an off ramps at 32nd street will shut down friday night to monday morning. Use 40th street instead. And restrictions on grand avenue include a closure near bell road friday into saturday abc15. Com. Back in the studio, it is back to school time. Have you checked everything off your list . Just in case you havent, we are taking action for you. Well bring in the pros to talk about teaching an learning. Theresa is a pro with two twins in third grade. If anybody is going to know, its you. Talk about some things you must have for kids this year. Start over here. They may have to brush up on skills after the summer. These kits come with lots of different things, not just a work sheet they can fill in. We like handon. Thats good. Here . This is little flash cards. The child answers it and once they have the answer, they put it in his mouth here and then shows them the answer. They can check by themselves if they got it right. And the third item they must have . Go to the far end here. This is an electronic game with multiple games on it from the wee little guys. If they are saying put these numbers in order, they quick hit the buttons or practice multiplication on it. And unfortunately so many kids drag their feet with math. I was one of them. But this shows you math can be fun. And its a skill you need to keep up with. Going a couple months without doing it, youre a little rusty. I like that. This too. What can some parents pick up . This comes in sight words, alphabet, a whole family of games. Its a great game for like after dinner, just a quick 5 minute game. If they can answer, they can keep it. If not they have to put them back in the bucket. Its a quick game everybody in the family can play. And y this . Promoting the engagement of the parents. Studies have shown that really makes a difference in their education. It does. Making it fun is absolutely key. And you have a few other things parents should have . This one is brand new for us. Its a math game that comes in a cute little backpack. Theres dice and cards. If you can make the number on get to keep that card. Thank you very much for showing us all of these. We have more information on the three valley locations and their number on the screen. Thank you. Reporter a phoenix officer opens fire on a suspect after being cut by him. Well have the story. Plus fired and rehired in a matter of days. A teacher said she lost her job good morning to you this busi im nick ciletti. Im allison rodriguez. It is saturday and the kickoff for the weekend. Maybe some people are heading to the farmers market. Yes, and it is 89 degrees right now. Humidity is elevated so as you step outside it feels a little muggy. We get a warm start in the mid it is hot and dry outside, no rain chances today. We could have some in the seven day forecast. Ill break it down coming up in a few minutes. We have breaking news out of phoenix right now. We have our crew live at the scene of an officerinvolved shooting with new details. At least one person is dead. And Maryellen Resendez has been on top of this story since it break this whats the update . Reporter Phoenix Police say the shooting actually stems from another shooting that happened last night. We have video of that shooting. That happened about 8 30 p. M. Near 75th drive. Were told two men who knew each other got into an altercation. Witnesses say they heard an argument, then one shot the from family members and that led them to this second location. It is here that police confronted that suspect. The suspect chose to come out of the closet and immediately attack the officer, which caused him to defend himself. Reporter again, were back out here live at the apartment building. We are told this tip came from family members, which brought they had a search warrant to search the apartment. There were five officers that went into the apartment. This is one of the apartments in the back here. When he got into the apartment, according to the officer, he said that suspect actually lunged at him with a knife, cutting his hand. We are told he has a cut across two of his fingers and they did need stitching but they were revolver and fired on the suspect, who is dead at the scene. Family members are standing by and well talk to them and get their side of the story as far as what took place, then get back to you. Thank you very much for that. Well keep you posted. A crash shut down 12th street at northern for hours after a driver crashed into a woman who may have been walking in the street. She was taken to the hospital in extremely we have asked police if they plan to charge the driver but havent heard back yet. Charred remains of this mobile home in mesa at lindsey and main. Firefighters attacked this from all angles and its still unclear what sparked the fire, but nobody was hurt. Whoever did live there will need a new place to stay. Developing now, a man is dead and his girlfriend is accused of shooting him in the face inside a Phoenix Motel with abc 15 saying it was an accident. Court documents say Gabriella Hardee shot and killed rosario leon on thursday. Documents say she sat on top of him, pointed and ak47 at his face, then it went off. Police arrested her but her mom says shed never do anything like this on purpose. She didnt mean to kill her boyfriend . No, no. Paperwork said the suspect and her boyfriend were drinking and smoking pot the day before she was shot. Her mom said the two had a good relationship. In a few hours, Dylan Liberti will be laid to rest after being gunned down by a Police Officer a few weeks ago. Police say he was acting i radically and lunged at officers with a knife. Lawyers and plan to launch their own investigation into what happened. We have been canvassing the area for video, for witnesses. We have contacted, you know, witnesses who