Your fox5 Traffic Solutions lets begin with your drive here are the accidents to watch out and alternate routes you can use listed on our maps here are the construciton areas alternate routes listed on our maps back to the news desk an elderly hospitalized after police say he rearended a car. Rainbow was shut down between Spring Mountain and desert inn during the investigation. Police say the 75 yearold rider hit one car before ricocheting off and hitting another car. The man was then thrown fro bike. Police say he was taken to the hospital with lifethreatening injuries. Now to a Heated Exchange in a mcdonalds drive thru between a customer and an employee. We want to warn you this exchange could be offensive to some viewers. Fox5s Miguel Martinezvalle shows us what went down. Wanted to get a snack for me and my dog so how did it end up like this . . . Im not talking to you i dont give a shiii longer she does that the longer i dont get my point across longer i stay here when i reach to
A 1 billion dollar electric car factory. To north las vegas. Action News Reporter Bryan Callahan is following this story in carson city right now with an update on a special session to talk about faraday future. Bryan. Faraday future wants to build a 1 billion dollar factory in north las vegas. The Governors Office reached a deal with the elctric car maker on a 215 Million Dollar tax incentive package. Ad lib lawmakers also agreed to allocate about 3. 7 million a massive backlog of untested rape kits in nevada. Including 63hundred in las vegas. Some date back 30 years. Experts say full funding could clear the backlog by 2020. Police are looking for the people behind a series of burglaries right now. One of the suspects is on the left. The suv used in their getaway is on the right. Police say theyve broken into several businesses recently by windows. The man accused of killing an aspiring filmmaker appeared for a judge today. Luis lopez waived his right to a prelimanry hearing. So the c
Is recovering. But first we go to cyndi lundeberg. Whos live near the Southern Highlands golf course. Where officers arrested fox. Cyndi. Earlier tonight metro pd told me fox was taken into custody without incident. He was being driven by a friend and was the passenger in a mercedes. Polcie did whats called a pinch technique and blocked in the car. Metro pd says the driver had no idea that fox was the suspect that shot an officer. A Metro Police Officer was shot just after 11 am thursday morning responding to a domestic disturbance call at the emerald suites on las vegas blvd. As he was walking towards the front office there was a verbal exchange with the individual and in a very short time the suspect produced a weapon and officer the officer was taken to umc with non life threatening injuries. Metro Police Sheriff joe lombardo says teag fox hit the officer. And the officer returned fire. This officer in my mind is an absolute hero to have the presence of mind to protect his own safet
Strip. The suspect wasnt even involved in the domestic dispute confronted the first responding officer with a hand gun. He shot the officer twice once in the arm and a second time in the vest. The officer was taken to umc. Sheriff joe lombardo he was at a luncheon event nearby he heard the suspect description on the radio system saw the suspect and began chasininhim into the manhattan apartment complex across las vegas boulevard where the shooting happened and thats when police began setting up their perimeter. Omar robey i just heard one gunshot and i didnt really think of it as its normal sometimes. So i guess the guy just came from running over there and thats all i saw. Sgt. Jeff clark, pio that we have at our disposal will be at gentleman, and take hopefully safely incident. But were walk away from this. One of ours was hit. And were we can to find him. We saw investigators surrounding this apartment complex and searching in a wash tunnel. They have expanded that search down to ri
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