Slightly republican. You look at the past 10, 12 years, the seat has gone back and forth. Its gone republican, democrat, republican, democrat. Bounced back and forth. Tell me the raginal. You have been a sheriff. You have been a political guy since you were 18 years old. You were on your town council in massachusetts. You got an early start in politics. Whats the rationale . What is it you want it accomplish . You look at our cou where we are at. I dont feel safer than i have in the past. In fact, i feel our country is more threatened, compromised when you look at isis. I serve not as a lawman and a sheriff but also 20 years in the army, in the reserve component. Served a term in iraq. Commanded soldiers here in our state down on the border and when you see the leadership in our country under the president take the approach we have, its leadership, we need people to run for office for congress that have a background not just as a sheriff but as an army officer retired to help make thes
All right. Thank you. The former suspect in the freeway shootings case is trying to get his gun back. This time he has new ammunition. A second expert agrees that his weapon cannot be linked to the shootings. Team 12 has more on why we have not heard about the second expert till now. Reporter yeah. The report is attached to a new court filing by his attorneys seeking to get his the case fell apart after the expert couldnt match bullets to his weapon. The attorneys say the second expert should be a death blow to the case. Reporter he was the only suspect in the freeway shootings that terrorized the shootings in the summer of 2015. After his arrest the department of Public Safety said bullets traced to his pistol butthexpert concluded they could not be linked to the gun and last april a judge dismissed the charges and then in august the judge rejected his request to get his gun back. They said the investigation was still active but now there is a second report backing up the first expert
Football . Thursday, sunday or monday . Interact with us live right now by going to www. 12news. Com your voice. So far you love sunday football. Final results at the end of the broadcast. 12news at 10 00 continues now with weather watch tonight. It looks like Winter Weather has arrived. This video from Stewart Stadium in utah at weber state university. The area is under a winter storm warning right now. Parts of Salt Lake City area received between one and six inches of snow, bringing ice, several crashes, and power outages. The first widespread snowstorm of the year has blanketed montana tonight as well. Temperatures are in the lower 20s. Here is what the storm system that moved to arizona did in colorado. Yesterday, they tied the warmest temperature ever recorded in denver in november and today they dropped 41 degrees with a incredible depth and temperatures tonight or going to take a tumble across portions of the high country. We do have free will freeze warnings that were issued f
Exactly, we should be used to it. I feel like you never get quite used to it. It actually last night felt semi decent once the sun started to go down a bit. Tell you what it is going to be like, 86 right now, live look, humidity not as bad as it was yesterday. Still a little bit elevated, 34 , wins picking up out of the east at 8 miles per hour. I think we are going to stay in the mid80s throughout much of by noon flirting with the triple digit mark. Hot and dry after that. We have changes coming up in the seven day forecast, yes they do include some rain chances coming up in a few minutes. We are hoping to learn more about a man who drowned on the salt river, only releasing a few details we know that this man was in his 20s. Under water for 4 005 00 minutes before he was pulled out. Rehoped to learn the name of a man in a swat situation, the swat team were at a home after receiving a call of a man with a gun. After a two hour standoff, tear gas was deployed, the man would not cooperat
Driver who hit and killed a woman in a wheelchair. We are told that the woman was in the bike lane near 48th street and mcdowell when she was hit. Another driver saw that crash, blocked off the street, just to make sure she would not get hit again. They performed cpr on her until the ambulance got there but she didnt make it. Police are looking for a dark colored truck that most likely has front end damage. One man dead after a fight breaks out near Seventh Avenue and camelback. Police are still looking for one Allison Rodriguez has more from the scene. Reporter we have the phoenix mobile command unit on scene over here. Lots of crime scene tape up here still and also several police units on scene as well where this happened just in between two local businesses. Police tell us a fight broke out between several transient men over personal property around 3 45 this morning. We are told that one person tried to steal some personal property from two other men, did manage to get away with i