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KNXV ABC15 News September 3, 2016

The house is a city worker. We dont know whether its that city worker that was the man that was shot though. They tell us its a very nice family and this is a nice neighborhood. All of this is coming as quite a surprise. We want to mention something. When we arrived on the scene we noticed there were a couple car doors open. Police are investigating whether or not someone was breaking into cars. Right now they still dont know that. They are waiting for homeowners to wake up and come out and let them know what exactly took place and if missing from those cars. Waiting to confirm whether that may be what led up to this shooting. Were live in southwest phoenix, Maryellen Resendez, abc15 news. One man is in the hospital after being stabbed multiple times. It happened at this circle k near 16th and roosevelt. Witnesses say the victim was asleep in his car when the suspect approached him and out of the blue started attacking. One of the stab wounds was actually to his neck. Now, he is expected to be okay. Police have not said what led up to this attack. Hispanic man in his 20s wearing light colored clothing. An officer critically wounded after a shooting in atlantic city. According to authorities, one suspect was killed during a shoot out with police overnight, and one officer is in surgery right now. This happened in the parking garage at the casino there, the caesars, we know there is a search for theres two other suspects. This area still blocked off right now, and as soon as we learn more details about this one, allison, well check back in, and of course g the latest. Nick, we are also learning of another officer involved shooting. This one in new mexico. Sadly, an officer was killed in this one. Authorities say two officers were in pursuit of a suspect when he opened fire on them. Were told the officer fired back, striking the victims. He was killed on scene. Officer clint corvenas was hit. He was a 4 year veteran with the police department, and leaves behind an 8yearold overnight. This one happening at an apartment complex near i17 and greenway. At least two units damaged by the flames here. It does appear everybody made it out. Its still unclear right now if anybody had to be taken to the hospital. Well continue to ask questions on that one. Lets get to this apartment complex fire near 43rd and thunderbird. Were still working to learn exactly how that one got started and what led up to that one. We have to talk about this one here. This was a house fire sparked and were told this is a vacant house. Nobody was inside at the time. Firefighters were able to stop the flames from spreading. Were told the kitchen area was damaged but no word yet on what sparked it. A fourth fire sparking early this morning. This home going up in flames south of downtown near 7th 7th avenue and grant. A huge response. Dozens of firefighters battling the flames. Were told People Living here made it out safely. As soon as we get more info, we just checked and officials now say all of the ballots have been counted. Here are those unofficial results. Look at the race for Congressional District five in the east valley. Could not be any tighter. State Senate President andy biggs leading Christine Jones by nine votes. She was ahead since primary vote. We have seen that lead continue to shrink in recent days, and another tight race for the county hellhell helen percel ahead of Aaron Flannery by 85 votes. Homicide detectives, they are investigating a murder after a guy is gunned down in the sunny slope area near 2nd street and alice. We have reached out for information, and we are still wait to go hear back. Were told shots were fired during some kind of fight. We know at least one person is dead. We saw the search going on with the ground as well. The shooters have not yet been caught. Its an abc15 exclusive now, a Valley Family demanding answers after their fathers accused killer walks out of jail even after admitting to the crime. Police say kathy sackrider was speeding and plowed into a car at gilbert and mcchemical lips, pushing mckellips. She admitted she was drunk and high, and spent less than 24 hours in jail, and the judge released her the families just want justice. Are they not worthy, im thinking, okay, are they not worthy of a bond. Is it that our family members are not important just because he felt sorry for this girl . Thats just irresponsible. Now, sackrider has more than 20 prior arrests in florida, including carjackings, Armed Robbery and prostitution. A report sent to the judge said sackrider is supposed to be back in court september 15th. 8 06 in chandler, a man hunt underway for five people after a teenager is scrumptious stabbed and left for dead all is jumped, stabbed and left for dead over a bicycle. This morning, police revealing that they are looking for a blue and brown sedan. Were working to try to get an update on the condition of that 16yearold. So tragic there. A serial arsonist strike investigators in chandler on scene responding to the 6th 6th suspicious fire in a month near mcclintock and chandler boulevard. This is the latest fire sparking last night after a trailer, a car, a Backyard Fence and a house all went up in flames recently. Now, at this point police cannot tell us if these are connected. They are looking for some kind of a pattern. One woman we spoke with has two small kids and she says shes terrified. She says she she wants person i think i would say think about who youre impacting. These are my kids. Theyre my life. And the fact that you have no consideration for, you know, peoples property, and human life. Sadly, we just spoke to that womans husband yesterday who fears this exact thing happening. The good news, nobody was hurt, and the people there tell us that they have each others backs. Neighbors even jumping in with garden hoses to put out one of angry boos at a friday School Board Meeting in the valley. The higley unified board accepting the resignation of a be loved principal. Terri wattawa was the principal in gilbert. The reasons for her resignation are a secret right now. People at the meeting wanted the board to not accept she knows our names. She goes to our club meetings. She goes to events. I dont think theres another person out there for the job. Well, we did leave a message with wattawa, but we have not heard back yet, and this isnt the first time students have come to wattawas defense. Just last year she came under fire accused of allowing a senior prank that left classrooms trashed. A group of students went before a School Governing Board Meeting saying she should keep her job. In that case, she was put on leave for two hes supposed to be a pillar in our community. A valley man facing charges accused of embezzling thousands from a group helping veterans and honoring a hometown hero. Kirk davis aused of taking 157,000 from the pat tillman memorial vfw post in avondale. Police said he started steeling in 2014, writing himself more than a hundred checks. He wasnt home but his wife was sided. Weve only been married for two years. I didnt know any of this was going on until he called me. Davis is out of jail this morning. Were told that he will remain out of jail until his trial begins. Turning our attention now back to your most accurate forecast here. Its a threeday weekend. A lot of people are going to be out will hitting the lake, going on the boats, going for a swim. All fun stuff, right. Lets look at your most accurate forecast and what you can expect here as you around and travel. Take a look at this. Things are going to be really nice no matter what your plans are around us. Thank goodness. We are seeing whats happening on the east coast. Could not be more different over here. Beautiful in tucson. Nice and cool in the flagstaff area. Warm but not as hot as here in the las vegas year, and if youre going out to la area, and if youre going out to la, beautiful there. Low 70s there. Great conditions for you to get out and enjoy yourselves. Maybe you want to stay in town, and do a little staycation. Ill have that forecast coming the asu and nau game. Well have that forecast in just minutes. Thats right. College football. Did you hear about this, taco trucks on every corner. The controversial statement now prompting an in your case response from folks if the valley. Plus a one valley city. Do you have an old bike taking up space. Consider donating it and letting it be a holiday miracle for a kid in foster care. Abc15 once again teaming up with Earnhardt Auto Centers for the recycle your bicycle campaign. Drop off the old bike at any of 20 different earnhardt locations. Donate some money or volunteer abc15. Com bikes. Right now scottsdale tightening its rules on medical marijuana dispensaries. It will affect where they can be, and how many there can be. The City Council Unanimously approving the changes. The minimum distance between each dispensary doubles to just over 2600 feet. And the distance from schools, homes, and churches and parks now triples to 1500 feet allison. It is trending online and by now, taco trucks on every corner, a comment by a latinos for trump, and this is a sign in central phoenix here, and it says taco trucks on every corner. The sign poking fun of a donald trump supporter who went on tv saying that thats whats going to happen if immigration changes are not made. From a political professional standpoint, thats a bad slander to me. Joking way. Now, democrats say the reaction has been positive there. A few people saw the sign and registered to vote. Theyre even planning on bringing the taco truck to the location today to draw even more attention. They were targeting mosquitoes but accidentally killed millions and millions of honey bees. Now officials in South Carolina are apologizing this morning, these honey bees, of course, the worlds most important pollinator of an extensive use of herbicides and pesticides. Its going to take delta a while to bounce back from the computer outages, costing them 2300 canceled flights in three days. They are looking at a hundred Million Dollars in lost revenue. Delta not the only one either. Southwest airlines losing 53 million from a july outage that resulted in thousands of canceled flights. And taking a trip to santa fe new mexico, thats about to get a whole lot easier just in American Airlines will launch a new service, running once a day in each direction, between santa fe and sky harbor. The flights are not scheduled to start until december. Lax projecting for a Record Number of people traveling on labor day. They expect more than 800,000 passengers this weekend. Multiple delays are expected for those traveling to the east coast. Today officers are going to be beefing up their controls to direct the bumper to bumper traffic to airport. Hop on a plane at lax with a dream and a a cardigan. Theyre trying every trick in the book. Unfortunately, distracted driving seems to be getting worse, and at times police may feel like this is a losing battle. Last year alone, sadly here about 3500 people were killed in the u. S. And puerto rico, and that is way up from previous years, and those numbers may be worse. Heres the challenge, police test to know if a driver was using his or her cell phone when they show up to a crash scene. Its tough. Every parent wants to make sure their child makes it to and from school safely, right, but one spot in the east valley is taking things a step further. Traffic expert Mallory Moore is telling us how. Reporter drivers in queen creek are going to see a whole lot more of these cruising around because mcso district 6 is boosting controls for the next month. Drivers see the cruisers theyll slow down and obey the laws of the road, part of the reason they chose to increase in september is because kids are back in school. People are forgetting the school zones and we want to remind them youve got kids out there playing and they need to go ahead and slow down, look around, be observant. Reporter another reasons drivers need to be more attentive. Lots of road projects happening around the southeast valley, chandler heights, ellsworth, all under construction with works. In queen creek, Mallory Moore abc15 news. Thanks mallory. Lets go ahead and talk about our most accurate forecast here. This is a live look outside. You see a few straggling clouds. Really its not that bad. Were going to call things mostly clear this morning. Not completely. We have some of those clouds in play as we take a live look outside the mayo clinic valley camera. Current temperatures right now across the valley. Some of us have dropped into the 70s here. Not bad. Upper 70s to low 80s this morning. 80 in 82 in gilbert. 77 in ahwatukee. 84 in glendale. 82 in goodyear, and buckeye at 72 degrees. Heres a look at how the rest of the day is going to go for us here. By 10 00 a. M. , 92 degrees. Well warm up nicely. By 1 00, flirting with triple digits at 99. By 9 00 p. M. , still at 91 degrees. Well top out at 103 today here in the phoenix area. A ten. Were in the very high category for that one your air quality, moderate here because of ozone concerns. Thats where well be at there. No other weather alerts. And no Storm Chances to tell us about. Thats good news, if you have plans to be outdoors, and you should. Its going to be a nice day, a little bit warm. The next couple of days, for us, we are going to be pretty clear and dry from any rain chances there. Up north, we are going to keep the slight chances. It looks to be late morning, early afternoon and we will dry off into the evening. Spotty showers to the northwest of us. Look what happens overnight. Everything pushes on through, dries out and were going to be pretty clear by tomorrow morning and also by your monday morning as well. So i think things are going to be really really nice for us. Your labor day statistic. Look at this, were projecting 106 trees on labor day, thats 3 degrees below normal, and 13 1945. I think labor day is going to be really really nice here in the valley. Your forecast highs today, 102 in apache junction. 102 in tempe. 100 in deer valley,s and 101 in anthem. Deer valley, and 101 in anthem. We did talk a little bit about asu and nau, the big game happening in tempe today. Heres what you can expect if youre heading out there. By kickoff, i think its going to be hot, in the 90s there the first half of the gam w stay in the 90s a little bit humid. Well finally start to cool. The end part of the game, in the mid80s. Everybody is filming out of Sun Devil Stadium, things will be nice. Were excited for that game. Heres a look at the next 7 days. Take a look with me. Your Holiday Weekend is looking nice. We get cooler from here on out. But look, the downward trend continues because were getting rain chances back here this week. Look at that. And along with those rain chances some cooler air. Wednesday and thursday before we start to climb back up and the good news is your overnight lows are looking good too. They drop into the 70s. Early morning runs, bike rides, dog walks, anything like that, i think is going to be nice. I didnt forget about u of a, we are going to go over that forecast in glendale as well. The sun devils are back and so is camp fargo. Asu students camping out all night for tickets to the Season Opener against the jacks. You can tailgate if you dont have a grill because the Tempe Mission is opening the parking lot for the asu football season. There will be free live music, activities and the best part, food. Tailgate is from five to 7 30. College football season is here in the valley and it is time for the cactus kickoff classic thats getting folks excited, the Arizona Wildcats take on the byu cougars at university of phoenix stadium. Tailgating starts at 4 30. Lets get to that small stars segment this week. Were headed to the football field of week number one of the youth football season. Craig fouhy introduces us to two teams, super excited about in upcoming season. Its just after seven on a typical saturday morning and the players and coaches are on the field preparing for an 8 00 kickoff. Before we take the first snap you have to 94. Thank you, maam, thank you, sir. And check your finger nails and cleats. Once the pregame checks are done. Its time to warm up. And then get the game started. Red team won the toss, deferred their choice to the second half. White team will receive. The parents are in place. The balls on the tee, and its time for the fusion in white to square off against the 2016 season. For every team on the field theres a support staff, working behind the scenes and probably none more important than the water boy. And thats what i call high quality h2o. Meet julio garcia, the 12 yearold who keeps the fusion hydrated. After a scoreless first quarter, the fusion put together a drive. Around the left side, the pat is good and the fusion are up 8 0. On the next drive, the fusion run off tackle right, but Jack Dickerson steals the ball and returns it for a touchdown. In fact, he does it twice in one game. Congratulations fusion and summer is coming to an end, but they are just beginning. Our smart shopper team, so we know all the things we should buy and the things to avoid. Dan spindle has the details. Its september, a great time of year for great labor day sales, and all of these laptops, under 300 bucks, gets you a great deal. September is typical the best time to find deals on grills some stores are slashing prices by more than 50 . Best buy has all their labor day sales going on right now on all of theres appliances. The samsung 1249. I have seen this going for two grand. Youll find great deals on patio furniture. Sears is one of many businesses offering up to half off. September 29th is National Coffee day, and a lot of food chains will offer free and discounted coffee including krispy kreme, mcdonalds and labor day is a few days away, keep an eye out in your mail. Youll be getting a lot of ads, great deals. Were going to post the best ones we find after we scour all of the advertisements on our smart shopper 15 Facebook Page and the deals that you get, we will then turn around and share those with all the other smart shoppers, and help u

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