a teen hiding in plain sight. water woes. tonight, we are grilling buckeye leaders. planes sliding off the runway. risky rescue. three heros reunited. a big honor for the big unit. how randy johnson has changed over the years. the 12news night team tracks it all for you. 12news at 10:00 starts right exclusive. a gas station in the sky and the people hiding it are in plain sight here in the valley. the refueling wings mission happens in midair. it is incredible. a truly impressive sight to see. as team 12 s stacia naquin shows us, the men and women of the 161st are rooted right here in arizona. reporter: hiding in plain sight. just south of the runway of welcome to the 161st 850 members, eight planes and a global mission. this group is arizona proud. we are here to protect our state and our nation. our octave is to provide inflight refueling anywhere in the world. reporter: for 70 years, the 161st refiling wing right here in phoenix has engaged in jus
???adlib & toss weather??? new this morning.the former suspect in a series of phoenix freeway shootings spends the night in jail.just hours ago. he was once again released.team 12 s nico santos is live downtown. he got off the hook from charges related to those freeway shootings last summer after conflicting ballistics testing.but last night he spent some time in jail again take a look at video of what appears to be merritt ru into the driver s seat after his release from jail last night.glendale police confirming to 12 news merritt the man who was accused of being the freeway shooter last year had been arrested. officers say he violated a domestic violence order of protection last night. they say he was on a victim s propertyand was making threats. this happened near maryland and 67th avenues. merritt junior was responsible for multiple shootings on the i-10 but the charges were later dismissed. and he got out of jail for ?thatback in april. stay on top of this s
the maricopa county recorder s office saying more than 560,000 easterly ballots have been mailed in and nearly 11,000 people have voted early in person. more than 228,000 registered republicans have cast their ballots while just over 190,000 democrats have voted early. more than 138,000 independents and other voters have also voted. so friday is the last day to request an early ballot by mail. you can d the maricopa county recorder s office. and fox news out with a poll today. hillary clinton leads but now just by 3 percentage points. 44 to 41 over donald trump. last week the lead was 6 points so it has shrunk. 10% of people back in independent candidate while 4% say they are still undecided. today a chandler teenager named jacob would have turned 16 years old. sadly after his battle with celebrate that and his mother is asking that everyone spread kindness in his memory. but she is also pushing for changes. that she believes could have saved her son s life. liz kotalik h
all. with the simple touch of a link on twitter, maricopa county calling 911 with no control over it. this was the man behind the prank, 18-year-old desai. a 911 dispatch center in surprise started receiving hundreds of 911 hang-up calls. michelle bush is a 911 operator. we have a board that us for 911. it was ongoing, nonstop. hundreds of people say they clicked a link that was being shared on twitter. that link was traced back to desai s twitter account, as well as his website. when they clicked, it put a bug into their phone, actually causing their phone to automatically dispatch, call 911. it kind of looked like a youtube video, so i clicked on it, and all of a sudden it my phone just went black. it started calling 911 and wouldn t stop. desai says he created the bug but did not mean to push it out on twitter. he says he created a separate bug, one that was funny and did not create the force calls to 911 services sxand meant to pus out that one. it was a b
difficult obstacle to overcome. reporter: steps are being taken to reduce the risk. adot is hoping to include some sensors in the pavement. there is to this along ramps at several locations along the valley freeway system, there is not the technology we are looking at that would be on the freeway as well. we have to work on that. 2017 is going to be an important year for doing that. steps are being taken to curb this very serious issue that alleged wrong way driver has been identified as thurman cervantes. the good news is all three people involved are recuperating at the hospital this evening and expected to recover. he is not all not only facing dui charges but also criminal damage, aggravated assault and endangerment. i am mike watkiss, cbs5 news. this topic comes up every time we have one of these crashes. spike strips to the freeway on ramps to stop these crashes before they happen. tonight we have answers for you again. adot says no way and the reason is very