medal to hold up to the cheers of roughly 100 fans here to see him. his family has describe him as a humble person. i think the shirt that he wore today can attest to that. in gold print it read "just a kid from the usa." we were able to squeeze in and chat with connor for just a bit as he was signing countless autographs. he says it's just that he wants to remember. him as a kid and all those dreams he made. >> i feel really good. the support is amazing. kid like this getting autographs from the pros. so it's awesome. >> kyndell: now back out here live. we were speaking with connor's parents. they say they remember when he was just a boy, 14 years old. he wrote on the garage inside their home "one day i will win and be an olympic champion." that day has come. we'll get more of you on that story right here on news 3 at three. for now reporting live at mccarran airport, kyndell nunley. back to you two. he is our golden boy. >> michelle: he was so shocked when he walked around the corner. they did a good job surprising him. the legal saga for the man who tried to grab an officer's gun at a trump rally. remember this? it happened here in las vegas. he admitted he was here to shoot donald trump. >> krystal: news 3's sergio avila joining us from the federal courthouse with more on this case. at one point, his mother was trying to get people to help her to get him back . that is true. today sort of a win for the defense and for michael sanford. he was granted a visitation by his mother. she's been asking for that as well. that was granted today by a federal judge. again, michael sandford was arrested in june during a donald trump campaign rally. as you said, michelle, police say he attempted to grab an officer's gun and later admitted he wanted to use that gun to kill donald trump. his attorney successfully argued that this is a unique case. mental state but he is originally from great britain hnd his mother has been trying to see him in person. today a judge granted that request saying this case is unique and agreed with the defense in that regard and said an inperson meeting might help resolve this case. sandford's mother was not this the courtroom today. there has been no time set for when the visitation might take place. all we do know is it will likely happen h they have a room where they could put the defendant and all the parties without having any sort of physical contact. we'll have more information on when that might happen as soon as we learn of it. again, we're also working with the news outlets up in great britain to try to get reaction from lynn sandford on these latest developments. sergio avila, news 3. back to you in the studio. >> krystal: two guilty pleas expected today in the bunkerville blm standoff that happened two years ago. to plead guilty today along with blaine cooper of arizona. investigators say the two were mid-level organizers, recruiters in training of armed bundy backers during the standoff. cliven bundy and four of his adult sops also facing charges in that case. work at tivoli village has stopped after a worker, 28-year-old riccardo bautista was killed when scaffolding fell yesterday. two other workers were standing on that platform but managed to jump f village has been under construction off and on for the past several years. tivoli village by the way near rampart and alta. also if you know where summerlin parkway is and rampart on the west side of the valley that's what we're talking about right now. the development has stopped until the occupational safety and health administration, osha, has completed its investigation. >> michelle: jury selection continues for the man who pleaded not guilty in the death of a teenager after the theft of no this is the victim here that we're looking at. and this is the suspect. michael solid in court just before jury selection started yesterday. during the process of voir dire, the prosecutor and defense attorneys quizzed jurors about programs they watched on television, specifically news and semi fissional crime dramas. the judge has allowed the dismissal of two potential jurors for personal reasons. it is expected 12 jurors and two alternates wbe later this afternoon. opening arguments are expected to start tomorrow. with school back in session in less than a week, metro is asking you to slow your roll. literally. that's the name of the campaign. the slow your roll campaign. this is an effort of course to remind drivers that all the kiddos are going to be back in session and that means they're going to be walking to school. you got to keep an extra eye out because we have the whole summer and kids have had it off. they do this every year to decker elementary today to ask drivers to slow down and be aware that children are going to be crossing. they crossed with those children across the road. this was just -- they went back and forth with kiddos just to get people to remember, hey, this is what you are going to be seeing here coming next week. some private schools are already in session. and clark county school district students, they begin classes on august 29th. >> krystal: always a great reminder. the kiddos are excited. they're heading back to in front of traffic. we want to keep our little ones safe. let's talk about what happened last night. holy cow! i got in the shower and all of a sudden when i got out it was like hurricane outside. >> kelly: absolutely. strong winds. we had street flooding some locations in the northern portions of the valley receiving over an inch of rain. officially at the airport though it was just a trace. we do have a trace for wet weather today. i want to start out with a time-lapse. this is the south east career sun to the west and clouds to the east. we've got convection developing over the spring mountains. temperatures though, what a difference today. this is becker middle school. 87 right now. when is the last time we saw something like that right? 78 degrees at alexander dawson school. winds east northeast about four miles per hour. as we look at some of the radar picture there not really showing up but here is a look at what we're expecting today. the las vegas valley. 97 at 3:00. there is a chance for thunderstorm activity. it's probably going to be right around the time you are heading home from work this evening. then by 9:00 should be cleared out. we're going talk more about the storm chances and where the best chances will be coming up in just a minute. >> krystal: thank you kelly. i know you will be tracking it all throughout the newscast. let's talk politics. donald trump saying the clinton foundation should be shut down. that foundation does charity work worldwide but has come hillary clinton's relationship and sources of its fundraising. >> michelle: yolanda harris is a reporter from our sister station in columbus, ohio, spoke with trump and filed this report. >> let's see the big news today. you mentioned that you would like to see the clinton foundation shut down. and money paid back because they apparently, you believe, got money from places they shouldn't have. why now? >> they should have shut it down years ago. frankly, they should have probably never opened it. but they should shut it down and give the money back to and gays and just about everybody else. it is ridiculous they've taken in tens of millions of dollars. it's pay for play. you pay and you play. and i think it is a very, very bad thing for them and i think probably in many cases totally illegal. >> reporter: this is an organization, a massive nonprofit that helps a lot of people around the world. what would shutting it down do to those-- >> it hurts a lot of people. people go in and they see what's going on and they make a access to government. it's like selling government. so it is a very, very bad thing. and i think they will end up shutting it down. >> reporter: and shutting it down would accomplish? >> it would at least stop all the pay for play. i mean, it would stop what's going on when she was secretary of state they would make contributions and all of a sudden they have access and favors. it's ridiculous. i think they should shut it down. we'll see what happens. >> reporter: you have mentioned pay to play several times. way. if so, if that is true, what are the cliblts giving -- clintons giving and what are the recipients getting. >> they wrote a whole book on it. it was well received. the book is talking about a lot of things that have happened. when you have so many countries from different parts of the world that have such horrible views on gays and women and everybody, and they have taken tens of millions of dollars. $25 million in some cases. >> krystal: bill clinton saying he will step down and won't raise money for the foundation if his wife is elected. also foreign donations from corporations will no longer be accepted. >> michelle: we continued to reach out to the clinton campaign for a one and one interview. if and when that happens we'll bring it your way. this brings us to our question of the day. we want to know what you think. should the clinton foundation be closed down? let us know your thoughts on that. head over to click on question of the day. a little icon there. >> krystal: the driver of a vehicle crashes their car into a jewelry store. look at that. my goodness. all caught on camera. that's frightening. >> michelle: awful. i mean, okay so we'll have the latest why this happened and how these people are doing. plus, astronauts using their green thumb to prepare for a mission to mars. a look at the new technology to wonder what it would taste like? >> krystal: entertainers coming together. the concept behind monday's dark. we're going tell you what that means. how it's expanding. the founder here to tell us about an exciting announcement. that is coming up at 12:30. stay tuned. eatment saved my life. so i'm really outraged that joe heck voted ten times to defund planned parenthood which thousands of nevada women depend on for cancer screenings. congressman heck even threatened to shut down the federal government to eliminate funding for planned parenthood. look at this video. this car just comes barreling into this jewelry store in tennessee throwing customers on to the ground. look at that. my goodness. this is another angle of the crash. i mean, you can just see people scattered all over the this ford slammed into the jewelry store in memphis. the chaos caught on camera. an elderly would-be customer apparently misjudged his parking spot. fortunately, despite all of that, no one was seriously hurt including a customer who was thrown about 15 feet and covered in glass. just suffered a hairline fracture in his ankle. >> michelle: aside from the fact they survived, think about all the glass being thrown around. very scary. >> krystal: absolutely. >> michelle: the american heart guidelines today concerning how much sugar our kids should be eating. the recommendation says children ages 2-18 should consume no more than six teaspoons of sugar per day. that kids under the age of two shouldn't have any added sugar at all. so we're talking not about the stuff that comes in fruit. but we're talking about added stuff. the american heart association says right now children are consuming way too much sugar and that can lead to lifelong health weight gain, heart disease and high blood pressure. most new moms are breast feeding their babies. that's good news. but the bad news according to the research here is that few are sticking with it for an entire year which is recommended. there's a reason for that. a new survey from the centers for disease control reveals 81 percent of babies born in 2018 were breast fed from birth. half at six months. however less than one-third of baby's first birthday which is the minimum recommendation. they say the reason for is that because so many of us moms are now working moms and it's difficult to find time to continue nursing. it's hard for people to pump at work even though there are laws that allow that. for those who are breast feeding that's great news. for those who aren't that's great too. i always say a fed baby is best. >> krystal: whatever works for yo obama now. in louisiana today after severe flooding just ravaged that stay. we've been bringing you images. here is president obama visiting baton rouge. look at that. it's going be a long road to recovery. the president also meeting with local officials to talk about emergency responses. also trying to figure out a way the federal government can step in and help these communities because it's going be a very they've had 30 inches of rain. severe flooding as you just saw over the course of a week. and, unfortunately, 13 people have lost their lives. >> michelle: let's bring kelly into the conversation. i have a question. do you know how many inches we got last night in that storm? >> kelly: officially at the airport it's going to go down as a trace. but up towards the northern end of the las vegas valley we were looking at between about half-inch to inch-and-a-half. >> michelle: and look how much chaos that created. an inch to an and they had 30 inches. that's just really puts it into perspective. >> kelly: and imagine this is louisiana. a lot of this is very saturated ground to begin with. it's swampland in many locations. so definitely a major problem out there. can you imagine what would happen here if we had 30 inches of rain? we don't even want to think about that. let's talk instead about what we're seeing outside right now. a lot of blue sky out there. this is the inspirada overlook camera. we do have a little bit of haze you can start to see -- i'm going to try to point it out -- this is clouds. they're starting to form. a little bit of convection over the sheep range. that's one of the areas we're watching today. the sheep range and the spring range. we do have a lot of activity going on to our east. if we get any storms today they're going to pop up there. let's talk about these temperatures. i think it's been wild today. i mean, you needed a sweater this morning. 82, that's the current temperature at sun city anthem and volunteer. last week we didn't e lows this cool. here is a look at what we're seeing other places around the valley. centennial and summerlin, 81. we have a great breeze too. i don't know if you have been outside yet. it's fantastic. spring valley 85. henderson 85 degrees right now. this is what we've been seeing for lows lately. now it is a little bit muggy. the dew points, pretty high. lakes we're looking at 56 degree dew point. green valley 58. 61 in henderson. air. we're getting into the upper 50s, low 60s. we've got enough moisture in the air to create thunderstorms. it's just whether or not we can get these things going. here is a look at what we've got. that low pressure center, the trough that brought us the storms yesterday, it's continuing to track off to the east. arizona, utah, they're seeing showers, thunderstorms right now. not a whole lot going on in our area. a little bit of some activity into northern lincoln county. again, the sheep range and the spring mountains that's whe thunderstorms popping up later this afternoon. still a slight chance for action in the valley. that's something that we will be watching. there is also a flood warning in effect for the muddy river. the water has crested at glendale but it's continuing to go down stream. overton hasn't quite crested yet. this goes through middle of the night tonight. we're keeping an eye on that. and if you come across a flooded roadway, turn around, don't drown. today partly sunny skies. on news 3. we're going to have the latest updates. 98 that's today's expected high temperature. i think to be honest we're going to be struggling to hit that. 80 for the low tonight. chance of showers and storms in the evening then skies clearing out. tomorrow we are expected to go back to triple digits. but good news is it will be short lived. 102 tomorrow. mostly sunny skies. look at friday, saturday and sunday. dry conditions. sunny skies and highs in the double-digits. i'm liking the i'm not use to seeing double-digits. >> i got into my car during our break and it said 78. i thought something was wrong. >> krystal: i must admit last night it was cool enough to where i turned on the heat in my car. >> michelle: you did not? >> krystal: i did. [ laughter ] it was cool. i was out later than i should have been. >> michelle: i opened my windows and listened to the rain. right now hundreds of miles above earth astronauts are growing food. apparently this is really research to help nasa figure out how to some day feed astronauts on a manned mission to mars. >> krystal: that's right. nasa working closely with experts to determine the right combination of plants and growing conditions. this is really interesting. john rogers is going to take us there with this report. >> in zero gravity circling high above earth astronauts aboard the international space station new lettuce and it could never have been doneit of sweet grass farms in sarasota. at this hydroponic farm the owner has worked with nasa to figure out which plants would grow best on a spacecraft. he has tested a wide variety of plants including basil, lettuce, cabbage and tomatoes. >> this will probably be one of the same plants that gos to mars. >> reporter: nasa wants plants that pack a mighty punch in a small space and is easy to grow. these tomatoes fit the bill. grow 50 cherry tomatoes. >> nasa said this is what we want because it's compact, highly efficient. and we're going to grow this in the space station. >> reporter: but growing food is more than just planting seeds. that's where flori cam comes in. a sarasota based company that's developed a revolutionary type of fertilizer. >> typically you have to reapply every couple weeks. this you can p i and it will fertilize a plant for three months. nasa loves it because astronauts are too busy to be full-time farmers. >> less fertilizer being used, less waste and easier on labor for the farmer. >> reporter: their work will play a key role in keeping astronauts alive on their mission to mars. in new hampshire one woman got quite the surprise when she had uninvited guests and, of course, she got it on tape. look at the little cubs. oh my goodness. backyard. they want to play on the rope swing. i'm hillary clinton and i approve this message. how do we make the economy workrk for everyone? hillary clinton's plan starts here... by making big corporations and those at the top finally pay their fair share in taxes. and those companies that move overseas? she'd charge them an exit tax. then she'd use that money to make the largest investment in creating good paying jobs since world war ii. >> krystal: a new hampshire homeowner had a few uninvited guests over the weekend. >> michelle: started as a typical sunday morning for this resident named jamie. until she noticed she has company. she has a mama bear and cubs. and she says the bears stayed for about half-hour. then they were just hanging out in the backyard climbing trees. they were hanging from the family rope swing. and, of course, searching for food. up turning over a trash can and carried it away in her mouth with her cubs following behind her. >> krystal: they just made themselves at home. got real comfortable real fast. >> michelle: a lot of animals out in the wild are getting so used to humans they're not scared. >> krystal: we've done a lot of stories about bears making themselves comfortable in people's backyards. stay with us we have a lot more people's backyards. stay with us we have a lot more to com for seniors like barbara, social security makes a difference every mononth. but for the wall street types social security could mean billions of dollars in fees. that's what privatizing social security means and why joe heck and wall street support it. under heck's privatization plan, retirement security gets risked on the stock market. and the wall street types supporting joe heck make billions. whose side are you on? senate majority pac is responsible i pledge allegiance, to the flag [continues in background] they're e bringing drugs, they'e brigning crime, they're rapists... you could see there was blood coming out of her eyes... blood coming out of her...wherever [pledge continues in background] you gotta see this guy; "oh, i don't know what i said. ah, i don't remember." get out! priorities usa action is responsible for the content of this advertising. >> michelle: welcome back! local olympian connor fields came back to las vegas and we were there when he was greeted by his family and a whole lot of fans. a look at the homecoming coming up in a live report. >> krystal: and mondays dark. you may not know what that a special guest is going to tell you how entertainers are stepping up to help raise funds for local charities in our community. the founder is here with an exciting announcement. that is coming up. >> michelle: back to school. our friends from town square are here in studio today. they've brought goodies, back-to-school shopping examples of the stuff that kids -- you know the latest styles that are hot. what you need. all that coming up >> announcerew right now. >> michelle: good afternoon. thank you for joining us. we have breaking news to start this half-hour with. we've heard the southern nevada health district has confirmed the very first case of the west nile virus in our area. it is a woman over the age of 50. >> krystal: she is suffering from a very serious form we understand of west nile. she had been released from the hospital. the virus of course transmitted through infected mosquitos. just breaking news we wanted to

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