With a quick look at the fox 5 weather 247 forecast. Another deadly another deadly temperatures will begin to soar the next few days as High Pressure builds over las vegas. Fridays high of 105 is the coolest temp in the stays there monday. Next week, a trough slides south along the coast gradually helping to ease the hot temperatures and will try to push monsoonal moisture into our area. The uv index for friday is 10 or very high. Another deadly day on valley roads. Three pedestrians lost their lives in less than 24 hours. The latest happened inside a marked crosswalk on eastern near saint louis. This specific crosswalk requires the pedestrian to push it to get to the cut out in the median, then push the signal again for the other side of the road. None of those were working was crossing the road. Metro says a woman failed to activate the crosswalk signal before crossing the street. The woman was hit by a car and rushed to Sunrise Hospital where she later died. Police say the driver wh
A road worker found the victim and called 911. Police tested the driver for dui when he returned, and say he passed field sobriety tests. Police have not said if they have arrested the truck driver. And another pedestrian was killed just after 11 last night, on boulder highway and nellis. Metro says the 60yearold man was walking in a crosswalk. But against a dont walk sign. A ford focus hit the pedestrian, and he died at the scene. Metro says the driver stayed at the scene, and they do not believe that person was impaired. A scary situation landscaper in a las vegas neighborhood this morning. When he got stuck in the fronds of a palm tree. Fox5s Abby Theodros was there earlier today and shows us how the man was rescued. Nats bucket beep a man stuck in a tree. Holly woodward, neighbor he was not making any sounds or anything. Buried in up to a thousand pounds of tree fronds. Holly woodward, neighbor we didnt even see him until they cut away the palm fronds. They had to go in with the bu
Captioning will resume shortly. Captioning will resume shortly. Captioning will resume shortly. That was the second serious crash along this the driver of this Station Wagon was injured when they rolled over on the northbound lanes near valley view. This crash happened around one this afternoon. A hitandrun driver says he left the scene of a deadly crash because he was afraid. Thats according to metro police. The crash happened around 530 am near sahara and eastern. Police say the driver of a red pickup truck hit a pedestrian that was in or near the crosswalk. Then took off. A road worker picking up cones found the pedestrians body. Then called 911. Police say the driver returned to the scene an hour later. I understand people scared probably really shocking even to driver of car but right thing to do is immediately pull attempt to render aid and notify Law Enforcement call 911. Who knows if individual may have survived this collision having pulled over and immediately call services. I
Good evening, tonight was less stormy than the past couple of nights, but some still heard rumbles. There are still places cleaning up after storms earlier this week. First, lets get to betsy for what we can expect overnight. We have a Flash Flood Watch that starts tomorrow afternoon and we have scattered rain showers. Most of that is offshore, but the last what is something that is concerning. We start on the showers that are moving away from us and we still have a chance for isolated reinsurers rain showers. As you can see it is along a cold front that is ever so slowly moving to the northeast and is that trajectory moving through Northern Ohio. This is more of a timing issue than a quick inundation and it looks like once we get that front a little bit closer it has several strings of moisture and theres even upper level support. I would say we are looking at a widespread one to rain by monday night and there will be isolated areas that we can exceed 5 inches. Here is the good news,
Steve krafft is live with this decision and reaction. So at this point it looks like its going to be on the ballot, steve. Reporter thats what it looks like so far. And this is not over yet because the group opposing prop 205 to legalize Recreational Marijuana says it is going to appeal the judges ruling to the arizona supreme court. Heres what prop 205 would do. It would allow adults who are at least 21 in arizona to have up to one ounce of marijuana and grow up to six Marijuana Plants at home. Like recreational already on the books in colorado, washington, oregon, alaska and washington, d. C. Opponents, arizonans for responsible drug policy, tried to convince a superior court judge to get rid of 205 even though it easily surpassed the more than 150,000 voter signatured needed to get on the ballot, Maricopa County attorney Bill Montgomery one of those opponents who wanted prop 205 off the ballot. Week trying to convince the judge the petitions 100word summary was misleading, but the j