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KSAZ FOX 10 News 530pm August 20, 2016

Nicole, what have you learned . Reporter yeah, john, Phoenix Police have identified a gunman in this case as 19yearold Maliq Thompson who is still on the run tonight. Police say he came here to this apartment complex and shot a woman several times. Now, the two know each other, and the victims coworkers are saying the victim was the gunmans mentor. Police say this person, 19yearold Maliq Thompson, tried to kill a woman thursday afternoon. The shooting happened Affordable Housing complex, where the victim, whose name is valerie, worked. Valerie is an employee of you mom new day centers, a Phoenix Organization that supports homeless and low income families. She actually worked in our Youth Program and coordinated some of our Childrens Services that we have here. Reporter at this point, a motive for the shooting has not been released. The two had a close relationship. Police say they had been romantically involved. I know she was trying to help he was not a client at you mom, nor was he a resident of carson village. He was a person known to her but not to you mom. Reporter as Police Continue to search for thompson, valerie remains in critical condition, her coworkers and the families that she helps remain concerned for her safety and recovery. They really felt that she cared deeply reporter now, Maliq Thompson is considered armed and dangerous. Anyone with information on his whereabouts is asked to call Phoenix Police or silent witness, reporting live im Nicole Garcia fox 10 news. Glendale police are searching tonight for two men who robbed a convenience store. They say yesterday morning the men walked into the store near 47th avenue and bethany home road with a rifle and a handgun demanding gun. They got the money then fired car. If you have any information about these two, call glendale police. Boy, they are busy, the police that is over in glendale where they are also searching for a driver who hit a motorcycle. Did you see this scene from the morning show . Wow. It happened in the northbound lanes of grand avenue near 54th avenue this morning. The 30yearold motorcyclist was thrown on to the hood. And then on to the windshield. Its amazing. He was rushed to the hospital with lifethreatening injuries. The driver then took off on foot. Police described the hispanic male between 30 and 35 years old who was last seen wearing a white tank top and blue jeans. An estimated 37,000 acres now have burned in the blue cut wildfire burning in Southern California north of l. A. 40,000 homes have been damaged. Thousands of people have been displaced as a result, and now the red cross sending in some help from right here in the valley. Anita roman has the story tonight. Red cross volunteer bob lucas ws ready with less than 24hour tomorrow . And so i said, yes. So i was kind of ready to go. Reporter this eightyear veteran with the nonprofit has answered the call for help in texas, north dakota, even flagstaff, arizona. He headed to the airport bright and early friday morning to board a plane to california, where the blue cut fire has ravaged tens of thousands of acres and left thousands homeless. Hes safe where they are. They wouldnt put a disaster sheltering area in a dangerous i have been to fires in flagstaff before, and so this will be similar, but the people are so grateful just to have anywhere to stay because they are totally lost. Reporter when he lands, lucas will report to the red cross headquarters in ontario california and will be assigned to ne of two shelters. They are really important to the people who need them, because for them its hard for us to imagine, but they have lost everything. Its really amazing because you thats one i do this for the red cross. Someday im hoping if i have a disaster somebody will do it for me. Reporter he was asked to stay and help for the next two weeks but says he is prepared to stay longer if needed. Anita roman, fox 10 news. Lucas is the first local resident deployed to california for the blue cut fire but the red cross says it expects to send other people soon. Republican nominee donald trump is doing his part to help out those affected by the flooding in louisiana. His r joined him as they checked out the flooding damage in baton rouge. This is historic flooding, two feet of rain, imagine that. Two feet of rain in two days. Its just unfathomable. The record setting floods killed 13 people, displaced thousands more and destroyed millions and millions in property. Trump says that hes just there to help out. Its a great place. I have had a great history with louisiana. They need a lot of help. Incredible. Nobody understands how bad it is. Its really incredible. So im just here to help. Thank you. And you may have noticed, if you look closely in some of that video that Arizona State treasurer jeff dewitt was also in louisiana with the trump campaign. Hes got a role in the campaign. Right, heading up the finance arm of the campaign. Donald trump has really kind of done a, i dont know what you would call it, its a reinvention, its an about face. He made an apology for some of the comments hes made out on the campaign trail, saying last night that he regrets anything that may have caused personal pain, things he said. Arizona senator jeff flake is openly opposing donald trump about the comments hes made during the campaign and told us today he wishes trump were more specific about his apologies. Our troy hayden and Andrea Robinson spoke with senator flake this morning and asked him if he would vote for donald trump. So i want to vote for him, but i cant right now, given and some of the language hes used. I just cant. Senator flake says that trump cant and shouldnt win the election if he continues to use this kind of language and rhetoric. He says trumps language and conduct on the campaign trail is not representative of the republican party, its ideals and values. New information involving the email controversy and hillary clinton. She claimed that former secretary of state colin powell is the one who e use a private email because he did while he was in office, but that apparently was news to him. Powells camp says that he has no recollection of telling clinton to use a private server. Thats really the issue here, is the server. The New York Times now reporting that the state department has asked to review the fbis notes from clintons questioning before they are released. Boy, what a scene in new jersey this morning, one person killed after a violent crash involving two city busses. This morning, one of the bus drivers killed. You can see the horrible tbone crash. 19 people taken to the hospital, no word yet on what caused this crash but investigators tend to believe that one of the drivers tried to run or beat a red light. They are examining Traffic Camera footage to find out exactly what happened. A u. S. Coast guard crew rescues two people from this small plane when it crashed and look at that, you see all of the hair coming down from the helicopter as the rescue goes down. Just an amazing sight there. Now the aircraft was making an emergency hard landing in western Broward County just before noon today. The front of the plane badly damaged in that crash but the two people on board, they were found standing on top of the craft, surrounded by nothing but swampland. Think of all of the alligators in there. It. A coast guard chopper lifting both of them to safety. Its not clear whether either of them was hurt. Ntsb will be now looking into what caused that crash. A bridge collapses as a train killing chemicals was passing over in chile. You can imagine the mess. The pictures were stunning. The train carrying several chemicals, recommending people dont drink the precaution. No one hurt or killed in the crash, which is amazing. Investigators are working to figure out what caused it. A couple of crooks in new jersey are locked into a store after a clerk outsmarted them. They demanded money and cell phones, and as they looted the store an employee snuck out the back door. Pretty smart, huh . Ran around to the front door and brought the security gates down, trapping the crook inside. They were trapped for about i thought they were playing at first. I thought it was like a prank or something, so when they come this way, and then he show me the gun. Now the thieves were so busy trying to pry the gates open to escape that they forgot to take all of the stolen goods with them. Witnesses called 911 but it took the authorities too long to get there. The crooks were able to get away, but they got away empty handed. Still aheadton, a kids getting enough sleep . The amount of rest that kids say you need going back to school. What about the parents . Are the parents getting enough sleep . No. I can absolutely say no. Forget the kids. They are sleeping too much. Right. Plus a miracle for this man, what just happened to him for . Gcu offers more than 200 innovative programs across 9 colleges. Which now include cuttingedge nextgeneration programs in engineering, computer science, and information technology. Grand canyon university. The quality of private, christian education. Sity. I dont want to live with the uncertainties of hep c. Or wonder whether i should seek treatment. I am ready. Because today theres harvoni. A revolutionary treatment for the most common type of chronic hepatitis c. Harvoni is proven to cure up to 99 of patients. Whove had no prior treatment. It transformed treatment as the first cure thats. 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David sweet has never been able to pick up sounds like that before today. I see the fan. Its moving around, but i dont hear it. With those, i can hear the fan. That will be great. Reporter sweet was born with a hole in his right eardrum and recently discovere to hear out of his left ear was failing him as well. I realized i needed one. I didnt know i needed two. That really surprised me. Sweet doesnt have insurance and thought he was going to have to just deal with his hearing loss. Thats when he found out about the Miracle Ear Foundation and applied for the program. They get approved, they get two refurbished hearing aids for no out of pocket cost. The new hearing aids today. Hell finally be able to hear clearly most of the time. Its definitely going to change his life for the better. Reporter the Foundation Also helps provide hearing aids to children and adults all over north america who otherwise would not be able to afford them. To hear for the first time, their eyes are lighting up, and a lot of times people start crying, and thats really, really rewarding to me that im helping better somebodys quality of life. Today, sweet was finally able to hear his wife, both ears for the first time in his life. Can you hear me . Yep. I love you. I love you. The Miracle Foundation has donated nearly 10,000 hearing aids to almost 6,000 people since the organization started in 1990. In health watch, most kids are now back at school, but getting back on a normal sleep schedule, thats always difficult. Its a challenge for kids and adults. Children, they need between nine and 12 hours of sleep per night while teens need between eight and ten. Experts also say do not use the weekends to play catchup on sleep and make sure to cut out the Electronic Devices for at least two hours before bedtime. Yeah. Good luck with that. Prying the smartphone out of your kids hand . And i think we have got several violations at play here. Checking me. Bad, bad, worse, yep. Coming up the place thats been overrun with tourists and they are blaming the movie frozen. Hey, youre looking at a live shot, qualcomm stadium, thats where you want to be tonight. Cardinals taking on the chargers, Richard Saenz in san diego, all week. Hes going to join us live to preview the matchup. What should you be looking for . The latest, cardschargers on my son has meningitis b. His mom thought he had the flu and that he was covered by the meningococcal meningitis vaccine he had received. Until 2014 there were no vaccines for meningitis b in the u. S. Now there are. While uncommon, meningitis b can lead to death within 24 hours. Trumenba is a vaccine for 10 through 25 year olds to help prevent group b meningococcal disease. Trumenba should not be given if you had a severe allergic reaction after a previous dose. Most common side effects were injectionsite pain, fatigue. He, muscle pain, and chills. Ask your doctor or pharmacist about all the risks and benefits of trumenba and tell them if youve received any other meningitis b vaccines. Meningitis b can be spread by typical sharing like. A drink. A spoon. A kiss. It all started here. It might have been prevented with trumenba. In tonights the u. S. Air force awards a 2. 8 billion contract to boeing. The company will be producing the 19 new kc46a tankers. The new tanker will be using a boom to refuel air force planes and hoses that extend from the wings and the center body. And the country of norway is now apparently dealing with a lot of tourism. Movie frozen. The setting of the movie is based on norway, and since the movie appeared, tourism has increased by 20 , and many areas are simply overrun with tourists. It is a beautiful place to visit, i hear. And the dow jones falling 45 points, the nasdaq slipped a point, and that is tonights business watch. Youre watching in hd. Well, here you go, the second test of the cardinals preseason. Arizona back on the field tonight. And theyll be going up against the charger, battling the chargers, Richard Saenz with the team all week. Hes got more on tonights matchup. Hes live in san diego. Reporter jude, we are minutes away from kickoff as the cardinals get ready to take on the chargers right here at qualcomm stadium. Its been an interesting week for the cardinals to say the least. We finally get to talk about feeling just fine physically. But what i want to know is how is Brandon Williams feeling mentally . The rookie corner had a rough time, a rude awakening to the nfl in oakland last week. The raiders picking on him from the first play, the third round pick out of texas a m has been working hard, shadowing opponents, smart move, one of the best dbs in the game. If youre an opposing team, who are you or the rookie . How hes going to respond when the ball is coming your way, because thats what its all about, coach it tells him all the time not to toot my horn or anything, but having to year that i had last year and now you have an opportunity to go up against a rookie defensive back, now it is the time that they are going to pick on the young pup. They just want to throw him in the fire. Coach ross wanted to throw him in the fire to see how he was that type of attraction. Reporter you know, jude i had a first segment hit where i sang happy birthday to kenny. Kari was not a fan. I didnt believe her at first but then i got a text from my mom. La la in tempe watches every show with her dog sparky. Wow, they love your singing. For sure, youre doing a great job, but watch t wow, kari and la la not fans of the singing. Ill stick to reporting. Live from san diego, im Richard Saenz, for fox 10. Thank you kari. Except the singing. We did get an inquiry from americas got talent for richard and maybe at least an yeah, thats, you know, the critics are tough on you richard. The reporting, outstanding. The singing, keep that to the shower, all right man . Well be back with more at 6 00, cards, chargers first highlights as we continue our coverage of the arizona cardinals. Well see you then. In defense of Richard Saenz, its all about commitment. If he believes in his art and what he is doing, and he can deliver the song whether its Pitch Perfect or not, thats really what matters here. John, his mother even agreed with me on this one. Still ahead tonight, the upcoming conference thats all about billy joel. Thats a guy who can sing. No doubt. Right there. America thought our pancakes were pretty special. But we knew we could do better. So we did. We made dennys new pancakes 50 fluffier with fresh buttermilk and hint of vanilla. If you disagree, the cakes are free. . Everybody is talking about the new sound, funny but its still rock and roll to me . Thats actually richard singing this song. That would be great if it were, unfortunately. Its a conference that will be all about billy joel, Colorado College in Colorado Springs is putting on the event. I actually want to reenroll in college now. I never had fun roll to me, the music and lyrics of billy joel and will include more than twodozen presentations about joel, and the piano man plans to do a live interview via telephone. He should go in person. Why not . What else to do, other than a concert in Madison Square garden. The concert takes place in the first week of october. Attorney joins me live in studio to talk about what comes next now that Marijuana Legalization will be on the ballot in arizona, it appears. The news continues in two first on 6 00, a judge is asking for a criminal contempt charge to be filed against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his top aides. 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