Reporter a manda is thankful for the tough response because even one letter home is unsettling. I dont think theyre thinking at all. Reporter the jufb niles arrested so far now have a misdemeanor o arizona is t clown craze. A 9yearold michigan boy said he was attacked by a knifewielding clown. Justin belcher was climbing a tree outside of his home in sterling heights, and when he got down, a clown was standing there. The clown had a knife and cut him before he could run away. So youre saying this is a clown attacked you here tonight and cut you with a knife . Yeah. And you know a lot of people take this seriously so you have to be honest. After you with a clown outfit on tonight . Yeah. How scared were you . I was like a lot he could have killed my kid. Apparently that wasnt the only clown in the park today. There was another one over on that block, offered a kid a bottle of water. Kid ran away though. The topic of n briefing. The president has not been briefed on the threat of evil clowns. Author steven king who sort of helped create the whole evil clown thing is trying to get people to just knock it off he tweeted hey guys, time to cool the clown hysteria of the most of them are good. Cheer up the kiddies to make people laugh. Downtown phoenix could be a Grocery StorePhoenix City Council just said yes to the project that has been years reporter in a 72 vote, the City Council Just approved funding assistance to turn that parking lot into a mixed use building complete with a frys Grocery Store, apartments and office space to be completed as soon as 2018. Re block 23, the proposed building site has only served as a parking lot for the last couple decades. One side that is very modern, as opposed to one side that is not. Reporter the plan is to make it look more like this. This computer renderings show a building a dozen stories tall with a Grocery Store on the bottom, and 300 apartments tlus 150,000 square feet of office space above. Downtown has been a long time in the making, and this is important pieces for downtown. Reporter there are over 1,000 Apartment Units within walking distance of the site. But the nearest Grocery Store is nearly 20 blocks away. Most people have to get in their reporter the city would waive property tax on the lot for years to get construction started. In return they pay that moneyk over the next five decades. The city says sales tax generated by having business on that site will put more than 76 million into the general fund. You gotta spend money to make money. I dont think thatll hurt. Its like anything, in the end, itll bring more people out. Reporter and the process has more than tripled the number 1,000. A fictional diner came to life for a day in the valley. The diner from the show gillmore girls set up show at two cafes, one in mesa and one in scottsdale. Hundreds lined up to check out lukes. Some of them even coming from flagstaff. Besides your house and car, your next biggest expense is probably furniture and it can buy the wrong furniture. But youll likely spends thousands more on your furniture than you should over time. Keep these guidelines in mind. You can never measure enough. Measure the furniture to see if it fits where you want it, and measure all the doorways leading to that area. Height, depth, width of furn stur important when trying to fit it into an elevator. Failing to measure it can cost you a money. When youre in the store, its hard to visualize how the piece will look in the home so ask for a color swatch. Consider your future lifestyle. If you plan to have kids or pets, youll save bundles by passing on a silk chair. People spend months looking for a house or car. Dont spend minutes to buy furniture. Dont impulse buy. Walk away for a day. Think about expect. Ask about the durability on wood finishes. Know how to clean it and which products to use and not to use to do so. And you want to stay within your price range. Dont let being approved for a store credit card lure you into spending more than you anticipated. That interestfree Financing Deal is only applicable if you pay off the entire amount within the allotted time. So you want to pass on extended warranties and negotiate delivery charges, two more ways to avoid overspending. Let me know if you have consumer dispute. Fill out that storm, submit it to me, and ill get back to you. We do have a clarification regarding the rape of an unconscious woman in scottsdale. According to police reports, the victim wasnt just drinking at one bar but instead had gone in and out of at least four bars in old town before she was attacked. Surveillance video showed the man carrying the victim over his shoulder just after 2 00 am. Repeatedly. Ramirez is facing charges. You have probably gotten them in the mail but tonight testing a new beyond plus royalty program. Purchase. Small businesses are south Major Credit Card Companies over the new chip readers. They say the machines are expensive and dont fully protect consumers from fraud. New rules will protect consumers who use prepaid visa or master card for all those people addicted there is a Scented Candle that smells like a mac. Yes. The soy wax candle emits the smell of unwrapped plastic and cold alum numb. The mall of america will close on thanksgiving for the first time. Its stores will violate option to stay open. Its the mall services that will be chosed. Black friday shopping has been slowly creeping into Legal Marijuana could soon be a thing in arizona. But what about kids who get caught with recreational pol . What is the pot . What is the punishment . Sheriff paul babeu was headmaster at Desisto School in massachusetts. A boarding school rife with abuse. A lot of things went down that probably shouldnt have. This isnt about abuse or neglect, because none of this was found. Except these records show the state found it, students and parents testified about it, and a judge ordered it to stop. The cornering, the sheeting, i didnt know how to live and function as a normal human being. Ill end with that, thank you so much. How early is too early to start decorating for the holidays . A valley homeowner wants to get a head start but his hoa is telling him no. Well get answers tonight. The latest star trek paramount literally beamed up a company of star trek beyond to the International Space station for the astronauts to watch between experiments. For earthbound fans, the movie bluray and dvd november 1st. The shining is back just in time for halloween. The flick to select u. S. Theaters on october 23rd and 20th. Turn out all the lights, watch that late at night and just freak yourself out. Never made it through the whole movie [ laughter ] go watch star trek. [ laughter ] the cardinals are not gonna have their starting quarterback Carson Palmer not even on the team playing today as the team went its the drew stanton show tomorrow against the niners. 5 and 3 as a starter but hasnt started a game since 2014. I dont think you can sit back and worry about that rust. I think the rust could exist. If youre dwelling on that, its gonna take away from you being able to go out there and have successful my main focus is to find a way to help this team win a football game. The search for the new gm diamondbacks. Goldy just finishing up his fifth big league season. Only one has been a winning one. Are some of his best yearsing wasted on bad teams . There was a time this year i didnt make a play on defense and it might have cost this game. So how can i get better so next year i can make that play, and we can win those games . It can be a quick turnaround. Preseason game ninetynine two for the the jazz. In a surprise at center, veteran tyson chand sler is in the Tyson Chandler is in the starting five but that could change. We expect alex to have a major jump. Tyson also notes that. Although understands that. The sun devils basketball the sun devils ran out of the gas and the highlight of the season might have been hurley getting thrown out against arizona. Will we see a repeat performance in year 2 . Really laid back now. If that helps at all. Theres always a transition of learning. And im figuring out which guys, what i should do, what i can say, what i cant say. Theres a learning curve there for me. Im always gonna beas it, and is fine, thats just my personality. Havent you ever once wanted to get thrown out of a game . [ laughter ] and isnt it fun to watch the emotion . Absolutely. Thats what its james p. Walsh to keep our Community Safe we need a sheriff who will put fighting Violent Crime ahead of his own political agenda. Paul penzone has been a and dea Task Force Agent of the year. Paul penzone caught murderers, put drug kingpins behind bars, and created awardwinning programs that protect our community. Paul penzone. Arizona voters are about to decide if recreational pot should be legal in arizona. Tonight many in our Law Enforcement communities say proposition 205 is not tough enough when it comes to marijuana. Reporter the official motto of 205 is regulate marijuana like alcohol. Creates some real differences between how alcohol and pot would be regulated. Under current state law if a minor tries to buy beer with a fake i. D. , its a class 1 misdemeanor, punishable by up to sick months in jail and a 2,500 fine. Under prop 205, if a minor buys pot with a fake i. D. , its a simple pelty offense like a parking ticket. The maximum fine that can be imposed is 300. And multiple petty reporter Maricopa County attorney bill month gopry argues theres a big difference between a misdemeanor and a petty offense. Deterrence. The fact that it is a criminal misdemeanor allows us to offer a diversion program, and is the motivation to complete that program is obviously different for a criminal misdemeanor. Reporter cbs 5 investigates reached out to the attorney who helped draft prop 205. Ryan want to strap a kid with a criminal record with lifealtering consequences for making a mistake with a substance that is less harmful than alcohol . Morgan lowe reporting. Other states which have legalized Recreational Marijuana have already addressed this problem in. Colorado the penalty is the same there for children with pol as for children with alcohol. It is a misdemeanor. Happy wednesday, everybody. Another nice one he. Temperatures in the upper 80s across the valley. Up in flagstaff, temperatures around 58 degrees. For us, gorgeous sunset, and sunset officially taking place at 6 07. Make sure you head out there. Great picture with a few high thin clouds out there. Comfortable temperatures. A nice evening. 85 degrees, currently wind speeds out of the west at 12 miles per hour. And across the state, 58 as we mentioned, currently in flagstaff. 68 in sedona. Temperatures in the upper 60s pros ket. Globe at prescott. Globe at 77 degrees a few high thin clouds continue to pass on by, casa grande, gila bend, through the valley, no showers. Over the weekend well see some clouds filter in south. Temperatures dropping once again in the high country below freezing. 31 degrees in flagstaff, 41 f prescott. Mid60s in phoenix. Speaking of flagstaff, the 7day planner, chance of rainfall on saturday up in the high country as well. Mid60s through sunday, and is the sun will return. And our forecast, plenty of sunshine through friday. A warming trend in the forecast to the end of the workweek, and a chance of showers saturday. And then drier conditions sunday, monday, into tuesday with a little warmup to start the workweek next week. Heres a look at tonights top story. A 2yearold is in morning at a mesa apartment complex. Investigators sate little boy was leaning against the screen when it popped out. The boy was rushed to the hospital. He is in serious condition. But he is expected to be okay. Three people are in custody after an Armed Robbery and police chase. Investigators sate suspect held up a chandler gas station. They took off in a getaway car with police behind them. Officers managed to stop them using stopsticks. Police are hoping that the gunman who forced a chandler Goodwill Store evacuate. When employees showed up for work, they saw this man inside. At should point, he fired a shot and then left through the back of the store. If you know who he is, call police. Be sure to connect with cbs5 on facebook, twitter, or instagram. Share your story by using cbs5 az. But not this guy wow. He has gone viral for his full head of hair. Thats news anchor hair. Thats better. [ laughter ] lets see, two months . Hes nine weeks old and his hair is unbelievable his mom says she loves playing with it, and this could bring some truth to she had heartburn. Wow. Good looking kid. Sheriff paul babeu was headmaster at Desisto School in massachusetts. A boarding school rife with abuse. A lot of things went down that probably shouldnt have. This isnt about abuse or neglect, because none of this was found. Except these records show the state found it, students and parents testified about it, the cornering, the sheeting, i didnt know how to live and function as a normal human being. Ill end with that, thank you so much. Captioning sponsored by cbs pelley floridas governor says, leave now. Residents begin fleeing the coast. This could be the biggest evacuation ever. Pelley as the hurricane now battering the caribbean takes aim at the u. S. Southeast. Also tonight, trump weighs in on his running mate. Mike pence did an incredible job. Pelley now a replacement Samsung Phone starts smoking, forcing the evacuation of a jetliner. Shades of snowden. A new n. S. A. Security breech, a contractor is arrested for allegedly taking secret documents. And a new beginning for a wounded warrior. Im just grateful that im