Been pinnedn dnering the collision prisicilla 22 04 he was just laying there. Nobody noticed he was there because so much cement was piled up on him 08 about twenty people were in their backyard at the time celebrating a birthday party. At first. The family thought it might have been one of ten children playing in a bounce house 12 10 literally right where that carpet is. They were inside 13 less than five feet from where the truck slammed into their backyard. 04 44 leslie they were yellign, screaming. Looking for the children 47 they made us go inside the house 49 leslie munoz saw the whole thing standing. leslie 02 42 there was four tables, chairs all around it 46 but the adults were over here 48. 49 but 20 minutes before it happened they were all sitting over there 52 leslie who was too traumatized to go to school today saw the bicyclist before he died. Her family tired to help before paramedics arrived on scene 00 21 43 she was telling him that it was okay, it was going to be fine 47 and help was on the way 49 and he was just saying help me, help says isnt the first for this busy street that curves right around their house. 11 02 across the street in the house, there was a fence and they crashed into that. I think a year or two ago. Two more people were killed 14 same. By a driver 16 katie boer the Coroners Office just released the name of that bike i do want to note the family who lives here tried to chase after that driver who fled the scene. Police gave the family his Insurance Information where his name was listed as luis aguilar. According clark county detention records a man with that name was booked for dui. Denise Valdez looking at increased wind anticpate a cold front to bring some gusty winds through wednesday. Temps will also get cooler as well for a few days and below normal. Gusty winds at this hour, but could be strongest later on and tomorrow. Temps not as hot but still warm across the region. Hour by hour shows clear skies but gusty winds through the as well and down tot he 80s by late night. Morning start stays cool as winds will increase again tomorrow with possible advisories in place through many areas. Well have a complete update on your forecast coming up in a few minutes. Told the Mercury Vapor levels were 10 to 15 times above the safe level. And its believed the chemical has been on School Grounds for much longer. As to how the mercury got on campus and who brought it to school is still being investigated. Officials say they do believe it was a student but have not identified that person. 04;37;54 we are very comfortable opening the school at this point. There has been extensive efforts to remediate the building. , epa has been here along with an outside contractor, and much work has happened to get us to eighty homes have since been screened for mercury. One family was asked to leave their house over the weekend due to the high levels of the chemical. When asked if that home may be the source of the mercury, Officials Say they do not want to speculate. Shakala Alvaranga meanwhile, school will start at its normal time tomorrow morning. School officials are looking into make up days on election day and a day leading up to thanksgiving. Dave Courvoisier shakala, do we know how much money this cost the district and who will be paying for it . Shakala Alvaranga dave, we asked school officiails that question. They do not have a price but say they are looking into insurance for help. Back to you. Denise Valdez protesters gathered outside the courtroom in downtown portland, oregon protesting the upcoming trial of those who in january. They demanded ammon and ryan bundy be released protester im standing here because of the injustice thats being done in our country and for the federal government overreach, and im standing here for every american. We all matter, and we all deserve to have our liberty and freedom, and we all deserve to have justice. Denise Valdez tomorrow, lawyers will deliver their Opening Statements occupation of the federal wildlife refuge. Ammon and seven other protesters face federal charges stemming from the standoff. Dave Courvoisier a different clinton will be heading to las vegas this week. Hillary was originally scheduled to take part in an event wednesday. But her husband. Former president bill clinton will substitute. Bill clinton will be appearing at the college of southern nevadas student lounge. This wednesday at 11 in the morning. Doors open at 10. The democratic nominee came down with pneumonia over th and will be taking some time off. Bill will also take her place during events in california tomorrow. Coming up on our news at 6 30. politics now cohost will have in depth coverage of clintons health scare over the weekend. Dave Courvoisier and were your local election headquarters. Stay up to date on all things politicis on air and online at las vegas now dot com. Denise Valdez in just a matter of months. Youll be able to take a direct flight to china out of mccarran. Today. The Us Department of launch the first nonstop flights between las vegas and beijing. The Service Starts december second. The airline will fly on mondays, wednesdays, and fridays. The fares start at 650 dollars. And you book starting today. Denise Valdez a former Governors Mansion in carson city is up for sale. Check out these pictures from the nevada appeal. The house was once owned by john e. Jones. He was nevadas eighth governor. Jones bought the place back in 1888. He served as nevadas governor for one year. The home was fully restored before being put on the market the going price. 479 thousand dollars. Dave Courvoisier its considered one of the toughest game shows on television. Jeopardy has been on the air for more than thirty years. Denise Valdez it attracts some of the smartest people on the planet but it takes more than just brains to be on the program. We tagged along as a contestant team travels the country searching for the best and brightest to appear on the show. Hopefuls come from all over the country to audition. Coordinator what he looks for glen kagen when theyre coming out to try out for the show or even be on the show is have a good time. The thing is when your watching at home sometimes you do really well and you like the catagories other days the catagories arent to theyre liking its all random. So if they came in 2nd or 3rd. They ring in correctly or catagories to their liking. That show might have been theirs. Denise Valdez its not easy once you grab the buzzer nerves can kick in. Depth look at what its like to compete for a spot on jeopardy. And you heard that right. 8 news now at six is going to a full hour. So jeopardy will start airing at seven tonight. With wheel of fortune being pushed back to 7 30. Dave Courvoisier getting a foot in the door. In a big way. Denise Valdez next on the valleys news thats giving them a fast track into the las vegas foodie scene. news music voice over youre watching the valleys news the new salami caprese panini from subway. Pressed and grilled to cinematic perfection to get a golden brown crust and meld the flavors in melted cheese. Part of the new chefinspired this is 8 news now at six. Denise Valdez for many students the cost out of reach. So for the past decade las vegas chefs and Hotel Operators pay for select students to not only to attend college but also give them hands on training to land that first job. You can help make it happen by kicking off your shoes and raising a glass. I have great mentors also from the Hotel College there and they really shaped my career. Denise Valdez a counselor at durango high encouraged her to apply for the ecf scholarship. She became one a dozen students receiving a full ride and a four year mentor. Melissa Arias our students are learning from somebody who is already a leader in the industry theyre helping not just get job placement but bring them up throughout their education as well as their career. Denise Valdez the foundation hanp hospitality students nat chef cooking Denise Valdez and gives them the skills they need to bust in to a competitive industry. chef ronnie rainwater you know in this town and in this business everything. So many different areas of culinary world. Hotel restaurants so to be able to touch base in all of those little areas. To be able to find out which way you wanna go is huge. Denise Valdez it costs about 33thousand dollars to put each student through the program. One way it raises the money nat Party Handout video Denise Valdez upscale and delicious fundraiser. chef rainwater in the environment at Mandalay Beach your kind of outdoors all this great food and all these great cocktails. And wines. Denise Valdez the students actually put the party on planning cooking and working alongside some of the best in the business. For martinez the ecf turned her dream into a reality. martinez i think having the scholarship as my backbone has really shaped where i ended up today i have a lot more confidence in myself i have a lot more confidence in my Denise Valdez more than thirty chefs bartenders and restaurants from up and down the strip will host the party on the sand at mandalay bay beach. Its this friday night. Some tickets are Still Available by going to the ecflv dot org website. weather toss tedd florendo the heat spell continues for another day as temps jumped up to above average again. Sunday looks to be another day with temps at triple digits before another cool down. Many neighborhoods at triple digi the east side as early as noon sunday. Saturday high was up to 100 again making it the third day in a row of tripledigit heat. We were 5 degrees above average and no where near the record thankfully. Weve been seeing some cool morning starts and it should remain that way all week with some 60s by morning as the heat continues over to the east coast where the midatlantic still dealing with oppressive heat with dewpoints in the 70s and high humidity making the feels like temp close to 100. Sunny and dry for sunday. We have a weak system in california that is bringing some clouds around but shower chances are slim to none. The mountains but the rest of this weeked it mainly stays east in arizona this time around. We are watching a big trough in the jetstream still on track to slide down and stick around for a few days bringing wind and cooler temperatures. Heres the forecast for tonight through sunday. Temps dropping to the highs 70s overnight then jumping up to 101 by sunday afternoon. Expecting winds to increase to breezy with locally higher gusts by afternoon and early evening. Mount charleston cool and breezy with a high of 73 by later in the day. If you plan on hiking remember winds will increase making it difficult for those higher terrain hikes tomorrow. Aking it difficult for overnight lows drop to 52 by morning with red rock looking at highf. Lake mead will be extra warm with highs around 106 and breezy. If you plan to be on the lake keep in mind late day well also have some breezy winds brining choppy water to the lake for all those boater. Life vests are recommended. Heres your extended forecast. Big winds on monday and tuesday as well getting close to wind Dave Courvoisier for many sports fans, the nfl season couldnt have come soon enough. Denise Valdez the sports books certainly thrilled that football is back. Chris Maathuis doesnt it see books handles just keep going up and up. They never seem to lose. One way or the other, it was a party at all the books this weekend. The Best High School in hawaii is visiting vegas this weekend. And red raiders wanted to move the game from fertitta field. More coming up next here on channel 8. Im really good at war. I love war in a certain way. Including with nukes, yes including with nukes. I want to be unpredictable, unpredictable, unpredictable, unpredictable. Its football season and for the sports books this day couldnt have come soon enough. The numbers are posted and the fans are flocking to their favorite place to enjoy the games. Every book in las vegas was packed with fans on saturday and sunday. Especially on sunday. Because at the books there is no substitute for the National Football league. Jay Kornegay Westgate sports book; people could not get enough we saw it ove the last couple of days. Whats the plateu, how high can it keep going . I think the sky is the limit because the entertainment value is tremendous you could bet 10 dollars and have three hours of entertainment. For the most part. Maybe longer you bet a parlay and you could have action all day. Chris Maathuis couple of game tonight. Steelers beating the skins and later its the niners and rams. Chris Maathuis those who watched unlv and ucla play over the weekend, noc rebels were within 7 points in the 4th. But long before that. Quarterback Johnny Stanton was kicking himself for a couple of bad throws. He was picked off a couple of times. And its those kind of mistakes that will cost unlv from being a possible Surprise Team in the mountain west. johnny santon qb;a lot of things that i know that i did wrong that i can fix this week. But if shouldnt be making those mistakes. A lot of mistakes other then the two interceptions. My team is supporting me and im supporting the rebels play at Central Michigan this saturday. And the chippawas got the attention of unlv. With a eye popping finish. They beat Oklahoma State on a blown call and a successful hail mary at the end of the game. Kickoff at noon on espn 3. What a team Kenny Sanchez has over at gorman, the gaels shut down bosco in the 2nd half for and ran away for their 3rd win. This saturday the top high 17th ranked kahuku out of hawaii. The red raiders will bring a ton of fans, in fact they petitioned gorman to move the game to sam boyd, but the gaels said no thank you. Kahuku fans also tried to buy up all the tickets at gorman, before the school put a stop to it. 7 pm kickoff at gorman on saturdy. The always friendly and fan favorite manager Wally Backman wont be back in Las Vegas Next year. The 56 year old is leaving the mets organization. Hes been a minor leauge manager for the last 6 years. He told some great stories. Backman was on that mets 1986 world series championship team. Chris Maathuis its time for you to have your voice heard here on channel 8. Its our fans Choice High School game of the week. This is where you decide what we do on friday night. Chris Maathuis the voting is a lot closer with our three games this week. Here they are. Go to our Facebook Page and vote. Centennial visits las vegas high. Faith lutheran will travel to home with legacy. So there are the teams. Which game is our game of the week, you get to decide. Chris Maathuis also, dont forget to send us your smartphone videos. Well play em on friday night. We can have some fun this season. Sharing your videos with the rest of the valley. Go to pix lasvegas now. Com Denise Valdez strip headliner Britney Spears isnt going anywhere anytime soon. She Just Announced newe show oooh, oooh, oooh Denise Valdez britney piece of me. Now has dates all the way into next may. Shes been performing at the axis inside Planet Hollywood since 2013. She just revamped the show earlier this year. And now shes performing some of the songs off her new album glory. Tickets for the added dates go on sale on this friday. Denise Valdez our brand new 6 30 newscast airs right after this. Dave Courvoisier paul joncich has a look at what theyre working on. Thanks guys. Coming up next on 8 news now at 6 30. There is major progress on the new interstate that will connect the valley to phoenix. How crews are doing. And we look into whether theyre staying on budget. Plus. Hillary clinton is taking some time off the campaign trail. But a new trump ad zeroing in on hillary. Why clinton already backtracked on her deplorables statement. And why that doesnt matter to the trump campaign. news music we are carving out a whole new interstate through the the new salami caprese panini from subway. Pressed and grilled to cinematic perfection to get a golden brown crust and meld the flavors in melted cheese. Part of the new chefinspired paul joncich interstate 11. Is really taking shape. Why drivers might be able to use the new bypass earlier than originally expected. Christianne Klein hillary clinton. Recovering from a bout of pneumonia. The stumble that has the polical world buzzing about the overall state of the president ial hopefuls health. women ih paul joncich remember, jeopardy is moving to 7pm. On 8 news now. We go behind the scenes to see what it takes to make it on the popular game show.