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Thanks for joining us. Im Walter Allen Jen and im jen epstein. Lets start off with a check of the forecast, with dave. dave no closed captioning is federal funds will become available today for those affected by hurricane hermine. The aid includes grants and other programs to help individuals and businesses recover from the disaster. Is fox 13s shayla reaves. Good morning shayla. Those who qualify can get some help with housing. Home repairs and loans from the government. The disaster declaratio...

Weve had more action in pahrump. There is a chance of more than that in the next 20, 30 minutes. A cell in arizona could actually if it holds together move up to boulder city within the next hour and a half. They will be spotty. More hit and miss. But the chance does continue through at least tomorrow afternoon. Well let you know where we go from there with the full sevenday forecast in a couple of minutes. Thank you t. Show a henderson man accused of killing his wife. Michael kaplan was charged...

Twice. They promised to return our calls but never did. Next the better light system parents think is necessary to alert drivers. People arent paying attention, ive walked to come pick her up and they still dont Pay Attention whether it says to walk or not. The city telling 13 action news. Theyll send a team here to determine. What changes. If any. Need to be made. In the mean time. Some playing it safe. I dont even let him cross the street by himself hahahah and devon. He says hes already learn...

Something towards officers. Thats when he was fatally shot. Denise Valdez this is just the latest example of the difficult, splitsecond decisions Law Enforcement officers have to make every day. And it can mean the difference between life or death for suspects and officers. paul joncich and in cases involving mentally ill people, it adds another wrinkle to an already stressful situation. As Shakala Alvaranga shows us tonight. Metro police puts an emphasis on training for situations just like thi...

Tonight about the video he took which is a crucial piece evidence to find out how this big fire started. Good evening, im dan ashley. Im ama daetz. The fire has burned more than 2000 acres, destroyed one home, and forced people to evacuate. It started near the summit of loma prieta. The i team has been investigating marijuana grows on that mountain for a month. Reporter i started the investigation in august. Neighbors complained to me they felt under siege but what they suspected are illegal mar...

Like the one alonso perez pulled off when he broke out of his handcuffs. Still one man i spoke to today says while this type of escape isnt likely. Its obviously not impossible < handcuffs hancuffs are meant to keep people restrained. So how is it murder suspect alonso perez managed to break out of his. And make a run for it. North Las Vegas Police studied the escape video and metro even re enacted the handcuff break, trying to answer that very question. Police didnt want to do an on camera inte...

A friend of his says he went by the name sasha and served in the miltiary where he learned not to back away from conflict. That friend said he was a father of three. The escape of a murder suspect who broke out of handcuffs and ran from a North Las Vegas Police Holding room may have been a one ofa kind incident. Law enforcement officials around the country say they cant recall a similar case. But police in Southern Nevada are double checking equipment anyway and reminding officers to keep an eye...

Puente says the result will be less babies getting the care they need. We know that the earlier were involved in that 03 time of a childs life, that theyre more likely to be set up to have a successful future. Dcf says the program could receive more funding in the future if the home visits serve a high number of families and additional money becomes available. Its time for your news and weather together. All charges against him for shooting and killing 5yearold laylah petersen. Thats the verdict...

Convention center. It was still good but just something about having it outside. If you are coming to the Bluegrass Festival today, wear your shorts and tshirts. It is really warm and muggy. Yesterday, we had very heavy rain at this time and down in that same area, we have a storm that has developed. Well zoom in down south. You can see the storm, when we talked about it 20 minute or so ago, it was moving across lightning with this. This is an area that saw devastating flooding yesterday. Dont b...

The 215 at south decautur will be down to one lane this will last until ten this morning. Heres a map of where crews will be working and where you can expect some extra traffic this morning. Crews are making some emergency repairs to the beltway to bridge gaps. These gaps are essentially where the joints meet theyre there to avoid cracks in the making repairs to these gaps. Theyre emergency repairs simply because they werent planned but needed to be addressed immediately. Today crews are working...