History. And whats in store for the future. Tonights implosion of the monte caro wing comes two months after the monaco tower came tumbling down. The riviera is a historic landmark. And has been for the Vegas Community for 60 years. Another one. Bites the dust. Nats the riviera opened in 1955 as the first high rise on the strip. And quickly became a staple for hollywood hits. Including the original oceasn eleven. The hangover. And most recenelty jason bourne. Nats come tuesday morning. The Riviera Hotel and casino will be a thing of the past. In june the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority began the process of tearing it down. The monaco tower was the first to go. Now the monte carlo wing. And iconic building in the front will be reduced to rubble. Jeremy handel sr dir of communications lvcva all of our clients are saying we need more space. And thats our goal with this Jeremy Handel with the lvcva says at 42 million dollars. The iconic site will now be used to expand the conve
And im brian sullivan. Just three hours left in your trading week. Stocks are moving off their session lows, still we are in the red today. Dow down 65 points. The nasdaq and s p 500 also making slight losses. The biggest dow winner this week, the swoosh, nike up more than 4 . The biggest decliner, mcdonalds down 3 . Mcds now down nearly 8 over just the past 90 days, melissa. Brian, im melissa lee, heres what else is happening at this hour. Amtrak naming new ceo, previously served as chairman and ceo of norfolk southern. Crude oil pulling back slightly but still sitting in a bull market. Its up about 85 from this years lows. And team usa continues to dominate at the rio games with 100 medals in total. 35 of them are in fact gold. Weve got lots to get to today, but we kick things off with a developing story in the pharma world. Shares of mylon labs as the Company Increases the price of epipen drug fivefold. Bring in david from wells fargo. Thank you for being with us. Thank you. Weve se
Whipping it up into Southern Nevada today. Timing changes every hour but so far the common window looks 15 and 25 with mainly sunny skies being common for the valley. Highs will range around normal values between 100 and 105 saturday. Highs will drop though and by sunday we are ranging temperatures between 97 and 102 degrees. However, monsoon moisture surges at this point and rain chances will return; this time, between 20 and 30 and holding through tuesday afternoon. By wednesday, mainly sunny skies return and high temperatures climb but only back to our normal 100 to 105 cut wildfire in southern california. More progress is being made this morning. The fire has grown to nearly 36 thousand acres but its 22percent contained. Both north and southbound lanes of the 15 are opened. Some of the evacuations have been lifted. Firefighters have been escorting folks back to their many of those people are returning to find rubble. But one family was surprised to find the fire had skipped their h
Some local businesses told me that they usually get a boost in customers when theres a ufc fight, but with all the hype surrounding ufc 202, they prepared for one of the busiest nights of the year a huge fight card meant huge crowds of excited fans packing into t mobile arena for ufc 202. Its fight night you got to be here, ufc 202 it made us come all the way out here and it also means huge business for local bars like scooters pub. A ufc night compared to a normal saturday night . Its comparing oranges and apples four hours before the main card started. The bars phone was ringing off the hook nats phone rings scooters bar this is lee as ufc fans were already starting to stream in you think diaz can do it . Lee ditterline says everytime theres a ufc fight the bar gets a boost in business. Preparing for be one of the busiest nights of the year with nearly 300 people and hundreds of dollars of added revenue packed into the bar. Because he says the bigger the names, the bigger the crowds
One of the newest and fastest-growing sports in the world is MMA (especially UFC) and the sport is expected to continue to gain followers and become even more mainstream. What you have is the two warriors ready to settle in a steel cage. There's no shortage of fists and feet flying around, ferocious brawls, blood,