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KLAS 8 News Now At 4 PM August 30, 2016

And it was an accident. The defense pleaded with the jury to not convict solid for conspiracy and 1st degree murder. nia wong the state is giving their rebuttal. Well give you updates as soon as theyre ready. Reporting live. Nia wong 8 news now. Christianne Klein the sentencing for three teenagers in a violent Home Invasion. Where they tied up a family. Robbed them. And sexually assaulted a woman. Was put on hold. It happened at a southwest home in 2015. The Home Invasion was one spree committed by 18yearold qumaire rainey, 17yearold edward london, and 16yearold casey franks. All three have taken plea deals, where its recommended they be sentenced to life in prison, with the possiblity of parole. A judge delayed the sentencing while they sort out an issue because of their ages. tedd florendo hotter today than yesteray with clear skies. 20 mainly. Not anticipating any alert for wind today and the rest of the week. We are going to warm up through the week however with temps peaking on thursday and friday. Humidity remains very dry as well. Evening planner calling for warm temperatures through the night with light breezes again. Plenty of 90s this evening with 11pm temps nice 80s again and hotter tomorrow. But your morning should be nice with light winds increasing by afternoon. Well have more on the rest of the week coming up. A string of defeats in recent weeks, including in syrias Northern Aleppo province. Turkish troops and allied Syrian Rebels drove the is out of the border town of jarablus last week. Christianne Klein police are searching singer chris browns home this afternoon. This after an hours long standoff between brown and swat officers. Authorities responded to a call for help this morning from a woman on the grammy Award Winners property. According to the los angeles times. Police eventually obtained a search warrant to looo used to threaten the woman. Throughout the day the 27yearold has posted videos on instagram denying he did anything wrong. Brown has a history of runins with Law Enforcement he was put on probation in 2009 after pleading guilty to attacking singer rihanna, his girlfriend at the time. paul joncich a new Police Substation opened up today to handle the west area of the strip. Sheriff joe lombardo was on hand for opening of the Spring Valley and sahara avenue. The Department Says the command will have about 100 officers patroling 31 square miles of residential and commercial areas. This is the ninth comand area in metros jurisdiction. Christianne Klein gold medal winning bmx rider Connor Fields will be awarded a key to the city of henderson tonight. Fields is the First American bmx racer to win gold at the olympics. The green valley high graduate is being honored at the Whitney Mesa Bmx track near russell and whitney ranch. Oclock. Coming up in our later newscasts Chris Maathuis will join us live from the celebration in henderson. paul joncich a nevada congressman is bouncing back after a health scare. Christianne Klein how congressmen Cresent Hardy is not letting a heart attack stand between him and his campaign thats coming up on the valleys news leader. Christianne Klein december last year. 14 americans are killed in a mass shooting inspired by isis. In the aftermath, congressman joe heck had the chance to ban suspected terrorists from buying guns. Heck voted no. 23 times. Individuals on the fbi terror watch list have purchased firearms over 2,000 times. Its not just that joe heck does nothing to stop them. Its that hes voted to let them keep doing it. 23 times. Senate majority pac is responsible for the content two states have primary elections today. And three prominent sitting members of in florida. Former dnc chairwoman Debbie Wasserman schultz is being challenged by Bernie Sanders backed tim canova for her congressional seat. On the republican side. Senator marco rubio faces wealthy businessman carlos beruff. There are early reports of some election day glitches in that state. And in Arizona Republican senator john mccain is being challenged by kelli ward. paul joncich portions of Hillary Clintons interview with the fbi over her use of a private email server soon be made public. Its something the Clinton Campaign says it has wanted all along. While donald trump is preparing to clear up questions surrounding his imigration proposals with a major speech on the topic. Craig boswell is at the white house with more details. Sources tell cbs news the fbi has changed its position and will soon release some notes from its interview with hillary clinton. Clinton has previously called on the bureau to make the notes public and has maintained she did nothing illegal. Fbi director james comey said clinton was grossly negligent while she was secretary of state but did not recommend prosecution. Donald trump has used the fbis investigation to hammer away at her trustworthiness. donald trump r president ial nominee august 25th the fbi found thousands of work related emails she failed to turn over. Its watergate all over again. Craig Boswell cbs news the White House Trump is preparing for what he calls a major policy speech on immigration in arizona wednesday. There are questions surrounding his recent immigration that conflict with his pledge to deport every undocumented immigrant. Kellyanne Conway Trumps Campaign manager courtesy bloomberg with all due respect he hasnt talked about that in a very long time. John Heilemann Bloomberg Politics courtesy bloomberg with all due respect so is he in favor of it or against it . Kellyanne Conway Trumps Campaign manager courtesy bloomberg with all due respect he has not talked about that in a very long time and. John Heilemann Bloomberg Politics courtesy bloomberg with all due respect you understand youre still not. Kellyanne Conway Trumps Campaign manager courtesy bloomberg with all due respect youll have to wait ith all due respect you understand ure still n answering the estion. Inton has been laying low ing fundrae andtting going to be the biggest debates ever in history as far as tings a lot of interests coming in. Ad i do that many ma voters dont n is is going to be the first cou scheduled president ial debatesm. Craig boswell, cbs news, the white house. paul joncich the clton cam ptly Still Deciding who ll play bate sessions. Onghlist of peoplo have beeniscussed publicly arem former pennsylvania governor ed rendell and even mark cuban the billionaire Dallas Mavericks basketball team. Christianne Klein nevada congressman Cresent Hardy is back at work this afternoon. After suffering a heart attack. His Team Released a statement. Calling it a minor heart attack and saying hardy underwent a routine medical procedure. They say the 59 year old hardy is expected to return to a full schedule later this week. Including a Campaign Event today. Hardy is up for reelection in november. Hes in a tightly contested race against the democratic nominee, state senator ruben kihuen. is your local election headquarters for all the races and issues that matter to you both on air and online at las vegas now dot com. paul joncich residents in hawaii are battening down the hatches as Severe Weather lingers off their coast. Christianne Klein the two hurricanes looming off their shores. And what authorities are warning for people to avoid the dangerous winds. announcer youre typhoon lionrock made landfall in japan today the third powerful storm to hit the country in a week. The storm will still bring heavy northeast provinces. It is expected to miss tokyo though. Airlines are on alert for possible impact on flights. Christianne Klein hawaii is closely watching two hurricanes. Both are heading that way. The swirling storm seen here on the left is hurricane madeline. Curren tly a category four. A hurricane warning is in effect for hawaiis main island. Forecasters expect the center of madeline to pass dangerously close to the big island wednesday. Mudslides. Right behind hurricane madeline is hurricane lester. A category three hurricane. Its center is not expected to make landfall on the island but islanders will still feel the effects of the winds and heavy rain. Toss to weather tedd florendo the heat returns this week and s yesterday with tripledigits around the region. Winds increased as forecasted as well but still remain below windy criteria. We still are dry with single digit humidity readings. And were a few degrees warmer than yesterday. Afternoon highs hot around the valley with temps hottest over to the east side of town where were southeast neigbhorhoods. Notashot for the locales on the west side of town especially the foothills and certainly the mountains where it appears to be coolest. Regional temps also stayed hot with hottest temps in laughlin and death valley. Although we definitely got hotter for the Colorado River valley from searchlight. More tolerable temps in the 90s for the central great basin where they also had some wind develop too. U. S. Temps show get stay hot only in the Desert Southwest but the Southern Plains with feels like temps in the 100s. Still hot also for the Northern Plains and the midatlantic. Doppler radar looking clear again across the region with most of the precip up in the pacific northwest. Looking at the high mexico texas to continue to progress northward and bring hotter weather this week; specifically late week. Roll through the north part of the state to increase wind this weekend and especially next week. Heres the forecast. 80s by morning with clear skies and winds finally calming down overnight. Should be comfortable and clear by morning wit wakeup temps in the 80s again. Tomorrow expect a high of 106 returning again tomorrow. Extended temps show hotter temps as we head through the week. Expecting those temps to peak near 110 by the end of the workweek. Staying dry as no monsoon has been seen. Wind could be breezy at times through the week, but its next weea anticipate stronger winds. Monsoon could return late next week or the week after according to long range models but that could change as well. Way. Demetria obilor found out when the county will finally build out this road in todays whats driving you crazy. Demetria Obilor tyra asks, do they ever plan to open south rainbow boulevard between Mountains Edge parkway and cactus avenue . So, ive got some good news from the county regarding this project. The ball should get rolling by midseptember and improvements will go beyond rainbow boulevard. Actually before crews even start on rainbow, contractors will need to refresh pavementa meranto avenue, tenaya way and serene avenue. Afterward, contractors will Start Building out rainbow between blue diamond and cactus. Crews will start on the south end at cactus and work north. Everything should be finished by january. Rainbow will then have two lanes in both directions with raised medians, leftturn pockets and new signs. And a quick side note for this area. The county is going to construct two new signals in Mountains Edge this fall one at buffalo and gomer and another at buffalo and Mountains Edge parkway. Question to traffic eight at las vegas now dot com. paul joncich coming up on the valleys new leader. A bovine mystery has one farmer stumped in new zealand. Christianne Klein how one community is using social media to rally behind the farmer who says 500 head of cattle vanished without a trace. Christianne Klein a big mystery surrounds new zealands canterbury. Locals there are wondering how five hundred cows could just disappear. Today Police Confirmed theyve received a complaint. And are investigating the suspected theft. Its the talk of the district. 500 cows. Gone without a trace stolen. According to the managers of this farm. Local farmer Willy Leferink spoke to them this morning Willy Leferink, local farmer theyre gutted and they want answers farm administrator pennie ormsbysaunders first took to facebook to ask for help. Then went to police who today advised her not to be interviewed she earlier told one news her 1300 cows had been grazed on other farms over winter. And came back for calving last week. Willy Leferink, local farmer the on get really worried once calving got underway how many cows were there and it just didnt stack up, the numbers didnt stack up. The cows are worth as much as 16 hundred dollars each. That would be 800 thousand for the lot. So just whats happened . Not easy to hide them these pictures are of a herd that numbers just over 500. The Police Officer in charge of the investigation wouldnt appear on camera but in a statement said officers have been to the farm and interviewed those who reported hundreds of animals could be completed at once, and is more likely that multiple thefts could be carried out over a period of time stock theft has happened before, but not on this scale. The logistics of moving 500 cows. Enough to fill this truck 10 times. Unseen. Has locals scratching their heads Jim Crouchley rural transport they either have to be walked or trucked and 500s a lot and if they have in fact been stolen. Jim Crouchley rural transport they have to put new up on another farm and get read the geograhpical location of the animal is incorrect and it would be register in wellington local farmers are now on the look out. And police are asking for information Willy Leferink, local farmer im fearful. Ill lock the gate, dont worry. Everyone hoping the mystery is solved soon. paul joncich this may look like any old star. Have been trying to unravel. A new study by a nasaled team of researchers suggests that this massive star lodged deep in the milky way might actually be a protostar. Thats a star still in the making. Several teams of astronomers studied it and concluded it is an oxygenrich star about ten times as massive as the sun. The researchers acknowledge that the object is not a typical protostar. For reasons they cant explain yet. The star has features of both a very young and a very old star. and theres this astronomers are looking into a possible sign of alien life. A russian telescope found a star around 94light years from earth emitting a very strong radio signal. Astronomers are training their telescopes on the star in the hopes of learning more. Researchers say if artificial the signal could be evidence of a hugely advanced alien civilization. A type two civilization by its star. But would need a superstructure to do it. Thats more advanced than our civilization. Earth is type one on the scale. Meaning we are able to harness all the Energy Available on our own planet including solar. Wind. And other fuels. Christianne Klein authorities in the valley are looking to cut down on pedestrian death. paul joncich and that has them getting creative with a new project how they think sidewalk stickers could help save lives coming up next on the valleys news leader. announcer now, live. This is 8 news now at this might be the one thing in the world you pull apart to come together. New papa johns cinnamon pullaparts covered with cinnamon crumble and sweet cream cheese icing. Try our new cinnamon pullaparts for just 6 bucks. paul joncich could sidewalk stickers be the answer to curb jaywalking . The city of las vegas is going to give it a shot. Christianne Klein the focus is on eastern avenue, near sahara and owens, a trouble spot thats seen its fair share of accidents. Shakala alvaranga has the detials. Eastern avenue. Check it out. Its a way to deter people from jaywalking. Four people have died here in the past two years. Ten autopedestrian crashes have been reported here since 2015. The death toll is climbing statewide, with 48 pedestrian deaths so far this year. The numbers are staggering. Its about a 50 percent increase from last year. This proactive step is a part of the states zero fatalities Traffic Safety campaign. An effort to save lives. Really wanted to focus on is education and how can we educate the pedestrian in the dangers of jaywalking and when we looked into it we found is our highest amount of pedestrian activity occurs at bus stops. the focus here is on jaywalkers, and maki

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