With several different angles. Along with fox5s peter dawson. He had the best point of view. On the roof of the marriot. And joins us live with more. The second and final implosion of the riviera is in the books. 60 years of vegas history is now ruble. Last june the monaco tower was imploded. The lvcva threw a huge party and thousands came out to see the iconic high rise come tumbling down. Last nights implosion of the monte carlo tower didnt have as much fan fare. Many attended with mix emotions seeing yet another piece of our history fall to everexpanding growth. Those who did attend got to say arrivederci riviera. sound of building implosion the lvcva is expanding the convention to the strip. The 1. 4 billion project will have several phases and take many years to complete. The goal of the lvcva is to remain the top Convention Destination in north america, a title theyve held for 22 straight years. People has mixed emotions seeing the riviera come tumbling down. I love how they didn
Vanessa well start with you. Yeah, good morning, guys. We have big back ups on a few of our major roadways. We will start off along i4. Where we have westbound delays here a man go road. I will try to bring you live look weve had concerns with video stream. We will move on. I will see if i can get that back for you later. And involve we counted two lars trucks and pick up truck off to the shoulder. But lots of folks slowing down to fake look in this area. Westbound once again backed up from mango towards area of Branch Forbes work arounds being homosassa and u. S. 92. Now we will get to this one in pinellas along i 275 in knot bound direction. Outside lane block at 54th avenue north. This single vehicle crash were hearing vehicle hit guardrail and unfortunately, a person inside was ejected. And we have those delays you can see very in the red zone here from the 54th back to an area downtown st. Pete. Work around here is go going to approaching that crash site as well to pasco 75s also
Relentless new evacuations in southern louisiana. The destruction is overwhelming. As Homeland Security secretary jeh johson toured the flood zone thursday an editorial was released in n it urges president obama to visit the state. Fema says more than 80thousand people have applied for federal help. At least 13 people have died. Its hard for forecasters to keep up with such devastating floods. That was the exprience for forecasters here in colorado during the floods of 2013. But now scientists in boulder are trying to make those forecasts better. The National Center for Atmospheric Research in forecast model for noaa. It could change the way we predict floods across the country. The way the National Weather Service Forecasts floods now, happens based on information from specific sites. Usually on major rivers or waterways. That doesnt always help predict what could happen along smaller waterways. As it did in colorado almost three years ago. This new computer modeling is able to not ju
Issues, for now things are very, very quiet, tranquil, and towelly real comfortable outside, too, right now guys. Looking at storm scan3, quiet as can be, can stay that way, another look for you here at the area temperatures, currently at 71, should be about where we bottom out, we are again starting to see the light of day pop over the horizon, but at the 60s many other locations in philadelphia, couple of 50s sprinkled in, there as well, 53 mount pocono, and off to cool start. Now, not everyone is back to school, but some district certainly are, so taking the ride to school on the bus or maybe mom or dad are dropping you off here, 73 and very comfortable for that ride to school this morning, by lunchtime, though, talking about temperatures already into the mid 80s. Maybe one of the days to layer and have the short ready as you head home from school. We top off in philadelphia at 89 degrees, later err on today. We always talk about the eyewitness hit report. When you have hot sunny su
An elongated trough of low pressure has formed to our west and extends into wisconsin along with an associated leading edge of warm air. That frontal boundary will remain essentially stationary for the next 48 hours or so acting as a track for twists in the atmosphere to ride along. Those spins will trigger periodic opportunities for more showers and storms through tomorrow night with the chance of some lingering showers into friday, as well. In addition to rising temperatures, the moisture will surge, too. Dew points will remain near 70 degrees through thursday before the humidity retreats a bit by the end of the work week. Even though it appears conditions weekend, plenty of clouds could for saturday as the mercury returns to about average with highs near 70 degrees. The city of charlotte, North Carolina bracing for the potential of more demonstrations tonight. Thats after a night of violent protest following the Police Shooting yesterday afternoon. Mark barger reports. nats riot the