Like the founding fathers, grave and grayhaired. But most of them were boys when they died and they gave up two lives, the one they were living in the one they would have lived. It when they died they give up their chance to be husbands and fathers and grandfathers. They gave up their chance to be revered old men. If they gave up everything for country, for us. But what does the country they shed blood for look like today . Is in a country that looks like it is worthy of their sacrifice . Imagine a country in dire straits. Its a country convulsed by riots, pitting police against protesters, ordinary citizens against activists. Its a country gripped, nearly obsessed with the issues of and ethnicity. Its a country that just exited along and grinding foreign war is the loser. Its a country where divisive republican president is succeeded by a Genial Democrat who promised healing but proves too inept to lead. Its a country whose campuses are in the grips of fanatical ideologues. Men and wo
approaching the area and we will remain in the windy category through tomorrow. expect peak gusts to about 35 mph tonight and to about 40 mph tomorrow. there is a lake wind advisory in effect for lake mead through 9 pm tonight. as the system pushes in, it will drag cooler air into the area and drop high temps to the upper 80s tomorrow and wednesday. the system pushes east wednesday and we will drop to the breezy category. in the system s wake, we will be left with a weak area of low pressure that will keep high through saturday. expect a high of 91 thursday, 92 friday and 93 saturday. average temps are on tap for sunday and the start to next week with a high of 95 both days. expect clear to mostly clear skies for the next seven days. your voice.. your vote in the race for the white house.. and hillary clinton has canceled a fundraising trip to the west coast today after a health issue that her campaign says is pneumonia. the democratic nominee left the today, her rival donald
80 s for wednesday. highs will begin to rebound by thursday but will only climb up to around 95 degrees. the uv index for monday is 8 or very high good morning. here s a look at your fox5 traffic solutions let s begin with your drive here are the accidents to watch out and alternate routes you can use listed on our maps here are the construction areas to look out for and alternate routes desk no school again this morning at johnson junior high the mercury spill saga continues. the environmental protection agency spent the weekend examining students backpacks and belongings they even homes within the school district. one family was asked to evacuate. fox 5 s mike doria joins us with the latest on the investigation. so far, the e-p-a has recovered a of mercury. to give you a visual this is one cup this is a quarter cup. i m gonna pour colored water in here to show you the amount of mercury that is causing all the commotion. as we ve been reporting it is easily trackab
little baby. sheriff s investigators closed telling us the two-month-old baby girl suffered a graze wound serious enough to put her in children s hospital. investigators closed the northbound lanes of i-43 sunday evening looking for evidence in the shooting of 2-month-old ava schowalter. these photos from the sheriff s office show a bullet hole in the car door the bullet also piercing the infant s car seat and grazing her a matter of millimeters and she could ve easily been killed. according to a gofundme page set parents and sister had just left the zoo and were heading home to sheboygan county when something happened on i-43 near hampton someone in another vehicle opened fire on the family striking the baby. they pulled off the road and into a parking lot where ava was quickly taken to children s hospital. according to her aunt on the gofundme page, she underwent surgery but the bullet missed her spine. her grandfather posting this picture on facebook, writing, god bless
hauled off to jail. investigators think impairment is a factor. this qt will be shut down for several hours. right now detectives are trying to figure out a motive. boy, an intentional act. scary stuff there. and i m working on a few more updates on breaking news. an early morning apartment fire as displaced some people. but first you look at the weather. right now feeling pretty good. another degree. we re down to 78 degrees in phoenix. a very nice start. we have breezes out of the southeast right now. bumping up to 155 and 15 miles per hour. and the winds will get stronger through the day today. all dry as you step outside. desert doppler all clear and this morning will be nice and dry. we have a slight chance of storms, a 10% chance. i ll talk about who has the hundreds, only up to 98 degrees. and we ll get stronger winds as the dose of cooler air sets in. i ll break down the hour-by- hour forecast and show you when we ll feel the strongest winds. the drive is proble