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KLAS 8 News Now At Noon August 11, 2016

Really all sorts of stuff. Michael Stevens all you have to do treasurers website. And search your name. To see if youre missing anything. Kirsten Joyce two people were hit and killed on valley roadways in a matter of hours overnight. The second happened around 5 30 this morning near sahara and eastern on burham avenue. A construction worker arriving on the scene found the man dead and called police. Eventually returned to the scene an hour later. And told police he left because he was scared. Metro says the driver was not impaired. The driver will be charged with felony hit and run. Kirsten Joyce hours before that. Another man was killed while crossing the street and boulder highway and nellis. Police say the man was crossing the street against the signal. They say it appears the driver was not impaired or speeding. Those two make 64 pedestrians killed in metros jurisdictions so far this year sgt. Richard strader metro police past few years, these next few months are when our numbers start increasing. We dont want to see that happen. Lets make a change. But the only people who can make that change are you and me who are out here driving around, walking around, being parts of the motoring community on our roadways. So lets do what we can to make it safe out here. Kirsten Joyce the driver in the second crash did stay on the scene. Kirsten Joyce a fire burning in the Great Basin National park is now about 20 percent contained. Great Basin National Park is about 300 miles northeast of las vegas. About 47 Hundred Acres so far. This is video from the university of nevada seismology lab. There are severla campground closures at wheelter peark. And at the lehman caves while firefighters try to get it under control. They hope to have it contained by tomorrow night. Sherry. Those wildfires are causing problems across the west this summer. Sherry Swensk they are with smoke and haze and of course displacing people from their homes. Beautiful and cooler than Southern Nevada of course. Temps here are at home are in the 90s. And dry, but not breezy. Killed and several others are missing following an explosion at a maryland apartment complex. The massive explosion and fire lit up the night sky in silver spring. The blast was so powerful that firefighters a mile away could feel it Byron Benitez resident i was sleeping and i heard a boom and my mom said wake up because theres a fire. the whole apartment shook emergency crews used ladders to pull residents out of windows on the upper floors. Neighbors had begun rescuing people before the firefighters arrived. Dozens of others had minor to serious injuries. At this point. They are working to determine exactly what caused. Kirsten Joyce donald trump and Hillary Clinton are both tryingt to get their messages out. But each has been dealing with problems plaguing their the president ial race from the white house president ial nominee monday i am proposing an acrosstheboard income tax reduction. sot sec. Hillary clinton d president ial nominee monday were going to make the wealthy pay their fair share of taxes for a change. Clinton is dealing with newly released emails from her time as secretary of state. gfx one of the emails is from a Clinton Foundation official sent to aides for Hillary Clinton on behalf of a job seeker. The Clinton Campaign says the job seeker was a former staffer for the clintons and had nothing to do with the foundation. Craig boswell, cbs news, the white house. Kirsten Joyce cbs news is also reporting that hillary ct release her 2015 tax returns in the coming days. Trump has refused to release his returns. Saying they are under audit from the irs. Kirsten Joyce former president bill clinton will be in las vegas tomorrow. Libertarian president ial candidate gary johnson will also be here. The forum is being put on by the Asian American Journalists Association and the asian and Pacific Islander american vote at casears palace. The group has also extended an invitation to republican nominee will attend. Kirsten Joyce 8 news now is your local election headquarters. You can stay up to date on all the local and National Races right here on channel 8. And online at las vegas now dot com. Kirsten Joyce dangers in the roadway. A new study highlights just how many crashes are caused by debris on interstates. And the precautions you can take to avoid them. Next on 8 news now, the valleys news leader. youre watching the valleys news leader with brian loftus, Kirsten Joyce and Kirsten Joyce a new report from triplea is highlighting the dangers of raod debris. The study says it conb four years. Those crashes caused more than 500 deaths. The majority of the debris comes from other vehicles. And debris related crashes are more common on freeways. Where people are driving at higher speeds Tamra Johnson aaa spokesperson maintain space around your vehicle so if you are in the position where you have to swerve its safe enough for you to do so where you wont hit another vehicle. Kirsten Joyce they say it is critical drivers make sure their loads are secure before hitting the roadways. Vehicles on the road. Kirsten Joyce the nations largest drug store chain has started a mobile payment app. Cvs will start accepting in store payments through its cvs mobile app. The drug store has already integrated credit card and debit card Payment Options into the app. It will be immediately available in some larger markets. It will be available here in las vegas by the end of the year. Kirsten Joyce macys announced today that it plans to close 100 of its department stores. That is about 15 percent of the stores or employees will be affected. They did say it would happen early next year. Shoppers should watch for great Closing Sales at the end of the year. Kirsten Joyce a boulder at zion. What caused this giant rock to roll onto a major roadway into zion National Park. And the problems it is causing for potential visitors. Plus. Get ready for more heat. Sherry swensk has the weekend forecast that may keep you youre watching 8 a major rock fall has closed a highway that leads into zion National Park in utah. You can see the picture of the boulder in the road here behind me. It was caused by a major thunderstorm. The park itself. Open. But the a Flash Flood Warning means most of the slot canyons are closed. The zionmount carmel highway leads into the park the arizona side. But you can still acess it by taking highway 59 from hurricane utah. Kirsten Joyce Sherry Swensk that we could have temps in the 90s during early august . Seeing some clouds off to the east where thunderstorms are Getting Started in arizona. Well have to watch to see if any of those push over the this afternoon. I think well reach just above 100 again today at 101. We had 70s around the valley this morning and we should do that again tomorrow morning. Nights are getting longer and so the Early Morning temps should be cooler, but that will be hard to do when we heat up again this weekend. Skies should stay clear tonight. And that will be great for viewing meteors the perseids will peak tonight and if you get far away from the bright city lights you may see up to 200 per hour. We will stay dry and breezy. And then a big heat up this weekend again. The perseids shoot to their peak tonight and could see 200 per hour . We wound up making it above 100 degrees yesterday afterall. All the way to 103 again with the help of the winds. But because the air is so dry, it didnt feel all that hot. Winds will be lighter today and well stay dry. Arizona and new mexico again. Temps should stay below 100 today. At least well try with 90s through noon and upper 90s this afternoon. youre watching 8 in jut two weeks. Clark county students will be heading back into the classroom. But it can be tough for some families to make sure kids have everything they need for a Successful School year. Thats why we teamed up with smithss grocery stories for the gr8 School Supply drive. Bob day is the hr manager at smiths. Thanks for coming in why is smiths what donations do you need . Where can people donate . Why is it important for the community to participate in this drive . Kirsten Joyce bad reviews. How suicide squad has become one of the biggest hits ever in august. Next on 8 news now, the valleys news leader. youre watching 8 news now at four. Its a looming lawsuit for the bureau of land management. Why one oil and Gas Trade Association filed a lawsuit against them. plus. We show you new gear some officers are using to protect themselves and inmates who become combative. kept suicide squad down. 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