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KLAS 8 News Now At Noon October 25, 2016

colonel Dennis Osborne nevada Highway Patrol we were told he has some distant relatives in the Las Vegas Area but doubtful that was his reason for coming to las vegas. right now. Multiple agencies are still trying to find out what led munoz to do this. Colonel Dennis Osborne says munoz had his blood drawn for narcotics. Theyre still waiting for those results. As for trooper david dudley. He is a 17 year veteran of nevada Highway Patrol. He was not injured. Hes going to ben investigation is finished. nia wong the video shows multiple victims were caught in the middle of munoz mayhem. Investigators say the woman from the carjacking had a hand injury. The driver hit on 95 and the elderly couple at the dealership were not injured. Live from nhp Southern Command headquarters. Nia wong 8 news now. brian loftus yesterday it was rain. Today it was a fog that covered some parts of the valley. Which made for a chilly morning low clouds are still around at noon. But that Early Morning fog from the heavy moisture in the air has thinned out. Temps were in the cool 50s this morning and now warming up into the 60s. Valley yesterday especially hitting the southeast valley pretty hard yesterday. With lots of lightning it will take a while to dry out today. But well get there with more sunshine and highs a little warmer and back to normal upper 70s. Thursday night and friday before a warmer weekend and nice halloween with temps in the mid 70s on monday. brian loftus in oklahoma. A massive manhunt continues for a man suspected of shooting two crime spree. 38yearold Michael Vance is the man police are looking for. Hes accused of killing his aunt and uncle. And stealing several cars. Hes also wanted on past charges of child sexual abuse. Since the search began. Vance has posted videos on facebook threatening both police and some of his family. Those people have since been taken into protective custody. brian loftus a new report claims. The average driver in the las due to poor Road Conditions and congestion. 8 news now reporter Michael Stevens was there when the findings were announced. He joins us from the centennial bowl with more. Michael Stevens trip a National Transportation research group. Are the ones who released this report saying throughout nevada 24 percent of our statemaintained roads are in poor condition. In addition they say 13 percent of our bridges are structurally deficient or functionally obsolete. These numbers come just months after the american road and association ranked ndots bridges among the best in the country. The people working for trip say our roads are also becoming much more congested causing people to waste more time and gas Carolyn Kelly trip here in las vegas the average commuter loses 46 hours almost a full working week because theyre stuck in their car sitting in congestion and just looking at the break lights in front of them that has a Financial Impact the second component is the rough roads beating up your vehicle its you hitting one pothole and suddenly youre at your mechanic and spending hundreds of dollars each year on new alignment and maybe. Michael Stevens when we did ask trip about specific roads in the area that needed improvement. They had a hard time answering our question. While trip says it has no political association. Right after the report was read clark county commissioner larry brown spoke. Along with mayor pro tem steve ross explained why they felt it was important to vote yes on question 5 which asks voters to approve the continuation of fuel revenue Michael Stevens the money would go towards over 300 projects waiting for funding. Reporting from the centennial bowl interchange. Michael stevens 8 news now. brian loftus the report also claims 34percent of major roads in las vegas are in poor or mediocre condition. Costing the average driver about 3hundred and 50dollars in extra operating costs. brian loftus the world renowned bonanza gift shop has a new owner. According to clark county for 50 Million Dollars on friday to an area businessman. This is just one of the many changes were seeing on the strip. The lucky dragon wil be opening in december. And the World Resorts slowly coming together down the street. Theres no word yet on what will happen with the property. brian loftus theres just 2 weeks left until election day. And its crunch time for trump and clinton. That means both are making a final push to sway voters in key states. Plus. Students are gti even if theyre too young to vote. So how does the future of our country see the election playing out . The valleys news leader will be right back. its hard to make the past dissappear, but Danny Tarkanian is trying. Hed rather you forget about all of his failed runs for congress, senate, and secretary of state. And the shady record that killed his chances every time. The property taxes tarkanian skipped out on for years. The telemarketing scammers he represented. House majority pac is responsible for the content of this advertising. Ads for joe heck are attacking my time as attorney general. The thing they left out is the truth. The truth is crime actually went down during my time in office. Thats why ive been endorsed by Law Enforcement across nevada. Im proud of my record cracking down on meth, protecting seniors from scams, and Holding Banks accountable for defrauding homeowners. Im Catherine Cortez masto. Ecause ive spent my career solving problems. Isnt that what we need more of in washington . Narrator the target. Seniors. Danny tarkanian set up thirteen Fake Charities that preyed on vulnerable seniors. Fronts for telemarketing schemes. Seniors lost millions from the scams Danny Tarkanian helped set up. Jacky rosen has always led with integrity. In congress, jacky rosen will responsible with your tax dollars. Jacky rosen im jacky rosen the of the biggest battleground states still up for grabs. Craig boswell is at the white house with what Hillary Clinton and donald trump are doing to win over florida voters. Donald trump touted the diversity of his employees outside of his doral golf course in florida tuesday morning. donald trump r president ial nominee 80 percent of them are hispanic, right . cheering this is trumps Third Straight day in the state and early voting is already underway. donald trump r president ial nominee the polls are packed. But theyre all wearing trump stickers and hats. Roughly 57 percent of floridas vote is expected to come from early voting and onepointtwo million ballots have already been cast. Craig Boswell cbs news the White House Trump needs floridas 29 electoral votes if he wants to win the white house. But to get there he needs to win back republican holdouts. Anthony Salvanto cbs news director of polling hes still got this 20 percent of republicans, i call them the reluctant republicans. Largely women largely suburban women. Hillary clinton is calling for those reluctant republicans. sec. Hillary clinton d president ial nominee weve got to get back to listening respectfully. We can disagree without being disagreeable. But massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren campaigning with clinton attacked trump in New Hampshire monday. sen. Elizabeth Warren D Massachusetts he thinks that because he has a mouth full of tictacs that he can force himself on any woman within groping distance. Well, ive got news for you, donald trump women have had it with guys like you the latest cbs news poll shows her with a threepoint lead over trump in the state. Craig boswell, cbs news, the white house. brian loftus here in clark county. Early voting started saturday. And folks are turning out in strong numbers to cast their ballot. Saturday was a record for us. With 55thousand showing up. As of this morning. A total of 141thousand have voted statewide. brian loftus along with the tens of thousands who have already cast their votes. Schools are giving those without a say in north 13th street tech in new jersey was one of many schools across the country that took part in a mock election. In all. Nearly 300thousand students cast their ballots. So the results of this mock election are in. Students chose Hillary Clinton over donald trump 47 to 41 percent their top concerns . Terrorism, education, and gun control who voted for Hillary Clinton . Who voted for donald trump . Evelyn gomez sophomore one big thing i support about hillary is her immigration stance. Cesar portillo she has experience. Quirico santana sophomore i feel trump will another popular student poll by scholastic shows students choosing Hillary Clinton over donald trump by a larger margin 52 to 35 percent. That poll has mirrored Election Results since 1964. brian loftus weve heard of using Driverless Cars for uber. But now folks are using the technology for things like beer runs the valleys news leader is back after this. youre watching 8 brian loftus Sherry Swensk more blue sky and the clouds are started to thin out. With more sunshine eventually the air will dry out. Upper 60s and getting near 70 degrees. Highs should reach mid to upper 70s later this afternoon. But weve got fewer hours to do it. Out side the valley more neighborhoods in the 70s. Speaking of few hours of daylight. We are counting down the days of Daylight Saving time. Less than two weeks left until we fall back to standard time which returns the first sunday of november. Which is november 6 this year. Highs today back to near normal in the upper 70s and tomorrow with clear skies should be dropping to chilly 50s again. That rain yesterday really added up for the southeast valley with about threequarters of an inch southeast of henderson and lesser amounts elsewhere. But you might want to turn off rainfall. The next system arrives thursday night and friday for another chance of rain. It will be chilly for the first game of the world series tonight in cleveland. Warmer 80s next couple of days creating good jobs, expanding solar energy, and improving our schools. But with Danny Tarkanian, you cant escape the sleaze. Tarkanian lost 17 million in a failed Development Scheme and stuck taxpayers with the bill. He even helped set up Fake Charities used to scam nevada seniors. Danny tarkanians out for himself. Dccc is responsible unlv is now looking for a new athletic director. Tina Kunzer Murphy announced she will be stepping down at the end of her contract extension in june of next year. She took a lot of heat for the firing of former mens basketball head coach, dave rice. In the middle of the season. The university tried to hire two other coaches before finally scoring current head coach marvin menzies. However, Kunzer Murphy is also responsible for landing football coach tony sanchez. brian loftus noww he and the runnin rebels will hit the court in just a few weeks at the mack. The team will start the season with some exhibition games november first and fourth. I spoke with the coach earlier this morning. To hear what it means for our city for the season to start marvin menzies, unlv head basketball coach we do play for vegas and we want to represent the city and university the right way. I think our guys are getting that especially the new guys who have never been in las vegas and theyre starting to understand how much pride and passion is behind us in our community and fanbase. brian loftus against south alabama. brian loftus and finally. We cant not mention the world series. And thats not just because im a cubs fan. Game one happens tonight. The Cleveland Indians have Home Field Advantage against chicago. The cubs last won in 1908. And the indians took home the trophy back in 1948. brian loftus weve learned a lot about how joe heck works. Follow the money. He called nevadas foreclosure crisis a blip and took almost 700,000 from wall street, including some of the same banks who caused the crisis. And then theres money hes taken from payday lenders who charge 521 interest. Heck cosponsored legislation protecting their predatory practices. Add it all up, and joe heck is working for corporate special interests. And that doesnt work for nevada. Senate majority pac is responsible for the content these days were seeing selfdriving cars used in more and more ways. But one company is standing out from the rest. Anheuserbusch has completed the worlds first driverless beer run. The beverage maker sent a tractortrailer full of 45 thousand cans on a 120 mile journey through colorado. A professional truck driver was on board for the entire route. Just in case. Anheuserbusch says it hopes to use selfdriving technology more often in the future. live at noon. The valleys news leader. Remember that 8 news now is always available at las vegas now dot com, facebook and you spend a lot of time Opening Doors for these little guys. But congressman heck opens them for these guys special interests and the billionaire koch brothers. They spent millions supporting heck, and heck supports their agenda special tax breaks even for corporations shipping jobs overseas. Worse, heck pays for them by cutting education and raising taxes on us. Congressman heck is whats wrong with washington. . Wyatt huh. Hey, uh, you need a hand . No, im good. Uh, actually, do you know where the kitchen is . Wyatt uh, yeah. Its, uh, right through there. Thanks. [ chuckles ] ive been in and out of this house three times so far. Has to be some kind of record. Wyatt right . Hey, you mind if i. . No, go ahead. Wyatt yeah . Oh, those are everybodys favorite. Yeah, everybody seems to love those. [ both laugh ] wyatt all right, man. Thanks so much

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