Transcripts For KNXV ABC15 News At 11AM 20160831 : vimarsana

Transcripts For KNXV ABC15 News At 11AM 20160831

For the valleys only 11 00 newscast. More news to get to, a motorcycle officer in checked out after winning his bike down in phoenix. We are working to figure out what happened. Ar15 is over the scene near 20th st. And union hills. Officers are pushing the bike off the roadway. Thankfully no other cars were involved. Problems for drivers in the west valley this morning. A backup was caused by a avondale boulevard. Six or seven cars and a semi involved in this one. Trooper say there are injuries, that we dont know how serious they are. The cause is thing investigated. Auto i was always tells us we cant let our guard down when it comes down to those monsoon storms. Lets check in with iris. It will be another hot day. On keeping a close eye on the skies. So far all quiet. I expect things will remain quite. By later this afternoon and evening the storm and dust threat is moving back into the valley. More monsoon moisture when you step outside. It will be humid today and muggy tomorrow. That means Storm Chances will be back in the forecast. All quiet in the valley now. We will watch this area in southeast arizona as storms fire up. Also, more storms developing over the next few already seeing a little popup. This area will be want to watch, southeast arizona. Eventually Storm Chances moving into the valley. Right now 97, humid and warm. By this afternoon a high of 105. A chance of storm and dust. I will break that down and let you know when we could see those storms in a few minutes. Donald trump is coming to phoenix for a heavily anticipated speech on in mexico city. He will meet with that countrys president before flying to the valley. That olive branch coming after more the year of trump willing against undocumented immigrants and even directly and openly insulting mexico. Hillary clinton was also invited to meet with the mexican president. Shes using the opportunity to call out trumps comments about the nation. In a statement Clinton Clinton says in part, [anchor reading quoted material displayed on screen. ] clinton added what ultimately matters is what donald trump says to voters in arizona, not mexico. Once again thrusting arizona into the national spotlight. Donald trump will take center stage tonight at the Phoenix Convention center. Katie conner has more on what could be one of his most anticipated speeches yet. Reporter doors open at 3 00. 6 00. Donald trump is expected to talk on immigration. Initially he took a hard line on the issue, but now appears to be backing off. Governor ducey will introduce trump tonight and will be the first time to see appears publicly with trump. The governor did not show up at trumps last four big rallies in arizona where thousands of supporters of protesters gathered. Recent polls show trumping clinton are pretty much neck and neck in arizona. The last democrat to win in arizona was bill clinton back in 1996. There will be plenty of supporters inside the Convention Center and thousands of protesters outside. We do know security will be very tight. Katie conner with abc 15 news. Were following the latest results from the primary elections. Officials are trying to figure out who some of the winners are. Some of the races are still too close to call, including the republican primary for Kristine Johnson appears to be close to wrapping this one up for the republican nomination. Jones all but declared victory last night. Andy biggs trust by less than 1000 votes and is not ready to throw in the towel yet. Someone whos not still counting votes, to come out so strong in pima county and into now county woman to have such a wide victory this is where the majority of votes are, this is where i served. The people who know me best. You will face halloran who ran away with the race on the other side of the aisle with the democratic nomination. Sen. John mccain will head to the november election. Even before voting was over yesterday sen. Mccain told us he felt really good about his chances. Right now he has 52 of the votes. Dr. Kelly ward from lake havasu is a 39 . Inflicted this will be mccains sixth term in office. To continue serving arizona. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. [ applause ] after this mccain will face and kirkpatrick in november. A lot more races to cover. We will bring you more of those primary results coming up throughout the show. Gunfire outside a tucson medical center. Tucson police say a woman was reportedly shot near the parking garage. The hosp that was lifted around midnight. The woman was taken to another hospital and is expected to be okay. Were still trying to figure out if she was an employee, visit or patient. Police in phoenix investigating a Home Invasion where a man was hit over the head with a baseball bat. Police say the call came in after midnight as an assault near seventh street and thomas. Two been kicked in the apartment door armed with a baseball bat, a handgun. A man and woman were inside. It targeted for this was random. Phoenix police trying to get to the bottom of this car fire. A man lit it after getting into a fight with another guy your 15th ave. In missouri. The suspect started a second fire on a strangers balcony. Thankfully nobody was hurt. Police say it was a dangerous situation. The fire center could be facing arson charges. Brandnew information about a hepatitis outbreak linked to a popular we will let you know which states were impacted. An update on a story use our right here, more than 1000 lawsuit filed by the same group this year alone. Why the Attorney Generals Office is moving to throw them all out. Cardinals preseason action continues tomorrow with the broncos. We want to know what is the best way to watch . At a stadium, with friends or right here at home on abc 15 . A health alert. Hepatitis outbreak is being linked to frozen strawberries from egypt. The first cases were reported at tropical smoothie base in virginia. More than 50 cases now being vacated reported in maryland, oregon, North Carolina and wisconsin. One victim and carolina says since july he made parts of the stops parts of his daily routine. Now he doesnt feel so great. I was like oh my goodness, i dont even want to keep water down. At least two people have filed lawsuits tropical smoothie ceo tweeted out an apology saying he immediately pulled the affected strawberries from the cafis in virginia as soon as they were contacted about the recall. So far none of the hepatitis a cases have been our state. Several governments shelling out major bucks to help fight opioid abuse. 44 states will get a total of 53 million to cut down on overprescribing and killers, increase access to treatment and make sure the antidote is widely available. We are working right now to find out if arizona to be one of those dates benefiting from this. As soon as we find out we will let you know. They claim theyre helping people with disabilities. Are they really just lining their own pockets . How the arizona a tenor atty. Gen. Office is taking action. Switch to centurylink and get up to 40 megs of highspeed internet for just 20 a month. Thats the speed you need to stream. Game. Connect on social media. Learn, shop and more with fast inhome wifi. So call 844565link. Get up to 40 megs of highspeed internet for just 20 a month for one year when bundled with a qualifying home phone plan. Speed may not be available in your area. Call today. The attorneys Generals Office taking action again after our investigation into ada lawsuits hitting businesses. Ag asked the judge to consolidate every open case filed by the Controversial Group called advocates for individuals with disabilities. If the judge oks at the ag plans to try to dismiss all of the groups lawsuits. We discover the group filed more than 1700 cases this year. Tragedy on the navajo nation. Officer from that community in arizona was killed in a head on crash. This happening in the northeastern part of the state. Arizona officer identified as luther frank. He was responding to a call along route 64. His dog named beautiful is now back home. We told you yesterday someone kidnapped the dog and started sending texts and demanding money for one of our abc 15 viewers helped crack this case, tipped off police in phoenix. The dogs owner tells us he doesnt want to press charges, he just wanted his dog back. His job was to hand out flyers. This court decided to use it as a coverup for a crime. A homeowner tell tablet and a laptop were snatched near 67th ave. And deer valley. A problem for the crook, the business he was working for was too advanced for his scheme. Apparently with the company they have gps trackers on their employees so they could tell everyplace they had been. There were green dots all around my house. He said once Police Caught up with him the woman quickly got her stuff back. Travel when. The Gila River Indian Council doesnt want to see that happen. Their voting to appeal a judges decision to move forward with construction. The council feels a project would desecrate sacred land. We are tracking new wildfires burning in california. The bogard fire growing overnight about 1000 acres near riverside. Earlier evacuations affecting about 700 people have been lifted. The human the fire is 10 contained. Fire by september plan to contain the cedar fire by september 10. Crews now have is at 75 contained. Firefighters still dont know how it happened. In the valley there are two career fairs happening. Job advertising holding a fair at the sheridan mesa hotel. That is near dobson. In the phoenix career fair at the Renaissance Glendale Hotel and spa has already started. About these and other job openings onourwebsite abc15. Com. This will probably creep you out. Three big snakes were found outside scottsdale. These are the kind of along the rain forest. We showed you those pictures now we will show you the video. The 7 foot longbow a just about gave this lady a heart attack as she was taking out the trash. Earlier scottsdale fire also found two burmese pythons, both about 10 feet long in the exact same spot. Where are the coming experts think somebody probably owns all of them but isnt doing a good job of taking care of them. They were very underweight, so when we got it here normally when you get then they are really skittish. This one was not. If found the snakes owner maybe they will find their way back home. Maybe theyre coming out because are feeling its more humid out there. The dew point has climbed over the next over the last 24 hours it will get more muggy as we go on. As we get monsoon moisture back , so far it has been really quite across the valley and across the state. Not seeing a lot of action yet. As you look live with the ph some clouds in the distance over some of the higher terrain. We will see more that as the day goes on. We will see more that over the higher terrain northeast of the valley. We will have to watch that going into this afternoon. Temperaturewise, we have been warming up. Into the upper 90s already. Unlike yesterday due to the extra moisture in the air. Were sitting at 97. The dew point is up, upper 50s they were in the 40s a couple of days ago. That is the monsoon moisture working its way back in. Over the next couple of days the dew points will continue to go up. Today we have the moisture. Tomorrow we get even more. Tomorrow it will feel muggy and stay muggy going into friday before we get the drier air starting saturday. Over the next couple of days the Storm Chances, because of the monsoon moisture, will be getting higher. Today all quiet on desert doppler in the phoenix metro. Even as southeast. It is not as active yet. This area will be one to watch as storms will begin to develop this afternoon across southeast arizona. They could regress further north towards casagrande and that is where the dust threats will come in. We could get some strong wind from the storms that will help develop new storms closer to the valley. Rim. Right now one little shower developing south of mormon make. This area will be the focus for more storms going into this afternoon. We will keep an eye on those. It is all due to this boost in monsoon moisture moving in along with a weak disturbance from mexico. That will combine and give us a chance of scattered storms across the rim and southeast arizona. A slight chance of a storm in the valley late this afternoon and into the evening for chances continue overnight into tomorrow morning. Tomorrow during the day with more monsoon moisture in place widespread storms in the high country and eastern and southeastern arizona. A better chance of rain in the valley also. Today the 10 chance in the forecast, the timing this afternoon and evening, Late Afternoon and evening will be the better time frame. Watch for storms that produced strong wind and possibly localized heavy heavy rainfall. The dust threat is in the moderate to high range because of the storm threat to the southeast. 10 and 20 . That is through friday. The best potential tomorrow for rain and overnight into friday morning before we see a slight chance of an isolated storm friday afternoon. Drier weather hits our way into the weekend. By labor day it is looking dry and hot. I will break down the temperature forecast for you in a few minutes. I will have the seven day also. Dont miss any more preseason action as the World Champion Denver Broncos come to glendale to take on the Arizona Cardinals coverage starts tomorrow at 6 00 with kickoff at 6 30 right here on abc 15. Developing now, chris brown is out of jail on 250,000 bail after the 14 hour standoff with police. He was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly deadly weapon. A woman called police claiming brown pulled a gun on her. He is denying that and went off on instagram while police were searching his home. I barricaded myself in my house . Have you seen my house . Im not coming out. So what . Hes due back in court in three weeks. This is not the first round of legal trouble he has been in. He was convicted in 2009 of assault to then girlfriend rihanna. We know many of you are still reeling over the death of mexican singer jaun gabriele who was supposed to perform in the valley this october. We have been able to confirm if you bought tickets for his concert you can get a refund but it has to be arranged through your tickets seller. s for the next season of bachelor is a ways away. Did you catch the big announcement . Nick fiala will be the new bachelor. In case youre wondering, that means his dating situation on that show apparently doesnt pan out. Hot on their trail, they made off with 30 30,000 worth action and leading police to one of the suspects. New information about a pair of burglars on the run. We showed you this a couple of weeks ago. These guys these guys collected 30,000 worth of stuff from a phoenix home. Yours took action and led police to one of the suspects. That is the amazing part. We find out that was a key to catching the sky. Reporter you might call them the bickering bandits. Or the a paranoid prowler over and over urging his accomplice to leave. But, the most important name tossed around . Michael. Putting that name to a good look at this face was all it took for a viewer to make that got feeling a reality. Michael heinz busted. Police could end up connecting him to more breakins hopefully making the connection to his partner in crime. In phoenix with abc 15 news. She has been in charge of elections in Maricopa County for almost 3 decades. Right now Helen Purcell is in the political fight of her life. We have the latest numbers. This couple is taking it there was not a standoff. Our Tactical Operations unit took the normal precaution of giving every opportunity for people inside the residence to come out. The suspects now facing felony burglary charges. We are tracking the results of the primary election. A few races too close to call. Helen purcell is now losing in the gop county recorders race. Shes the one who took the blame for the long lines during the president ial preference election in march. Purcell about 350 votes behind her challenger aaron flanery. Purcell has held a job since 1988 and when have been going for her eighth term. In glendale the race for the mayor is neck and neck. Purer than 200 votes between jerry wires and his challenger mark burdick. Wires and other leaders have dealt with a lot of turmoil in that city in recent years over the drama with arizona coyotes. Another interesting race in the east valley where jeff title is one of more than. This took a nasty term because of some Unanswered Questions about dials military record. Problems keep coming for elections officials. A lot of people had issues with the secretary purcell secretary of state results site last night. No reason why but likely all of the people trying to check results. Theyre still trying to recover. The state lottery is out of luck when it comes to the new software. Completes are coming in because the new system read the winning scratch off tickets at more than 2900 locations. Officials say they can still print and read tickets for games like powerball in the mega millions. People with Winning Tickets are told to hang on until the issues with the new system can be fixed. An update on the freeway shootings. Dps telling us the reward is no longer on the table. It used to be 50,000. With the prime suspect cleared were told that money is not available anymore. Dps once you to contact them if the big island of hawaii is bracing for hurricane madalyn. This is what it looks like from space. The category one storm looks to come dangerously close to the islands eastern coast. Its impact will be felt in the next day or two. Neil carl linsky is in hilo hawaii with the story. Reporter the rains have started and they have been boarding up the windows on the big island, gettg hurricane madalyn to make a direct hit or come very close. This is unusual behavior for the hawaiian islands. They are expecting waves up to 25 feet and possibly mudslides and wind damage. All Public Schools have been open and also they shut down the port in hilo, making matters worse, another hurricane is just a couple of days out. Hurricane lester. That would be unprecedented if both hurricane to strike the right now the us is closely monitoring a situation in syria. The public face of isis confirmed dead in a coalition airstrike. This is a major blow to the terror group. The Founding Membe

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