Michelle Mortensen and im Michelle Mortensen in for kirsten. We know more details. About the death of a 9 year old boy who was attacked by a pitbull. brian loftus little Derion Stevenson went to his friends house on wednesday for some candy. When he got to the front door, the pit bull got spooked and attacked the child. Little derions uncle. Aj moore. Said he ran down the street to try and help as soon as he heard what happened aj moore victims nephew when i got to see him he couldnt move. If i told him to move he couldnt move. Its like he couldnt hear anything i said he couldnt talk one eye open the other moore says the dog owner tried to help until paramedics arrived. And he believes it was an accident. The dog has since been euthanized. Metro police are investigating the incident. To determine if the owner will face criminal charges. Michelle Mortensen in southern california. Firefighters are making some headway on the blue cut wildfire. Its now 22 percent contained. Since the fire
Hes now being booked into the Clark County Detention Center on a number of charges. Michael Stevens one thing thats important to mention. Police say the suspect never tried robbing this jackpot joanies. His name. And a list of charges should be released in the coming days. brian loftus firefighters are making some headway on the blue cut wildfire. It is now 26 percent contained. Since the fire erupted tuesday. Its charred about 37 thousand acres. Its raging in the cajon pass. And is just one of 8 large wildfires that some 10 thousand firefighters are battling across the state of california. as sherry has been telling us. Were no longer seeing any from that fire. Instead. Weve got a little rain. Sherry Swensk cloudy skies since this morning and were seeing a few light virga showers thats rain that is not actually hitting the ground. Holding back the heat today with temps not all that hot so far. And with extra humidity so it feels a bit muggy. Temps are in the upper 80s and low 90s now.
And john kashich got about 4 percent. Trump has captured three of the first four nominating contests so far. Kirsten Joyce Patrick Walker was there as trump gave his victory speech. Patrick walker reporting a very brief speech for donald trump tuesday evening. The republican frontrunner mostly thanking his supporters. Including casino moguls steve wynn and phil ruffin, along with his family who joined him on stage. Trump only touched on a few topics in his victory speech. He vowed to build the wall on the us mexico border. And. He vowed to keep Guantanamo Bay open. He also had an i told you so moment for the press. donald trump r president ial candidate we will be celebrating for a long time tonight, have a good time. Have a good time. You know, we werent expected a few months ago to win this one, you know that right . We werent. Of course if you listen to the win too much and now were winning, winning, winning, the country, and soon the country is going to start winning winning winnin
The case against the woman. Accused of purposefully running down people on the strip. Is back in court today. Police say Lakeisha Holloway plowed into a group of people. Walking in between the paris and Planet Hollywood hotels. 1 person died and more than 30 were injured. Her toddler was in the back seat when it happened. Well be in court for holloways appearance at 8am. And will update you on what happens onair and on las vegas now dot com. Kirsten Joyce this morning. Metro police are apologizing. For tuesdays 911 outage. The system was down for about 6 hours. People who needed help got a busy signal, waited nearly an hour for an answer. Or were dropped while they spoke with an operator. assistant sheriff Tom Roberts Metro police yesterdays unfortunate event is not representative of the kind of service that we want to provide and is definitely not what the public deserves. Apologize to the community. metro doesnt know what caused the outage. Or how many callers were affected. But they