Im not seeing anything blocking travel lanes. This someone cleared out of the way so that is good news. Jeff thank you. Traffic and weather every 10 minutes. Were looking at an accident in addition to what tom just showed us, tropicana and durango has an accident at the intersections there. 15 south bound between the and tropicana slow moving at nine minutes. Kelly were seeing a little bit of haze out there, not as drastic as yesterday. Still some smoke in the air. If you do have respiratory illness stay inside. Its a little improved from yesterday morning. 99 at noon and we have a slight chance for showers and thunderstorms this afternoon well talk more about that and the haze coming up. Dana and the traffic situation is on the improve at least a little bit from that wildfire raging in Southern California. North bound interstate 15 has reopened. Going from los angeles here to las vegas, however the south bound lanes are still closed this morning. Good morning. We did see a little i want to show you what is going on behind us. This gives you an idea of where were located. Were two miles away from the town of wrightwood on highway 2. This fire as it continues to spread is a huge concern because there have been hundreds of structures damaged in other areas of the canyon. Firefighters are using this highway as a break. They were digging trenches to further. To give you an idea of how fast its spreading. Firefighters said it took four to five minutes for the fire to go up a 3,000foot ridge and hop to this side. They hope some of these breaks work. About 82,000 people have been evacuated. Mandatory evacuations are still in place. Some locals are deciding to stay in the area. Fire officials estimate about 25,000 acres have been burned so far you live coverage all day today. Stick with us out here. Kim before we let you go, when you made your way down, what was it like getting to where you are now . Take us for the tour. When we left las vegas, the vegas. As we made the ride it was clear skies until we got to the area and there was a huge haze across the sky. It was eerie coming down the i15 because there was no traffic and ive never seen the i15 like that before in my life. Coming in here, there is a little bit of traffic but not much going on except for fire. Kim stay safe and well see you in the next half hour of the program. A theft leaving metro looking for a nuclear device. Officers say they are trying to find two Nuclear Density gauges stolen from a storage facility. This is from last thursday. Soil particles and contain two radio active ice were tops. Isotopes. If you know anything de stoppers. You can remain anonymous. Dana nearly 76 people overdosed on heroin in Clark Co Drug up almost 40 . Michelle joins us with what some are saying is a heroin epidemic. Michelle that is what Substance Abuse experts are saying here in the valley. Not only have we talked to family members but weve talked to the people battling those addictions. A lot of them say prescription painkillers is what they started with and that led to the heroin overdosing from this drug. We talked to one woman, her name is angela, shes a patient here where we are reporting live this morning. Shes going through medical detox. Many admitting it started with prescription painkillers and they switched over to heroin. She says and a agree with this that heroin is a drug that is so easily accessible anywhere in the valley and its cheap and thats why its so easy to become addicted. It took one thing in my life, i lost everything in 2011 and then i justifying youred i had nothing left to lose. People dont realize you have so much more to lose. Its killing many young people and its not unique to numbers for heroin overdose and fatality since the 1970s. Michelle thats scary. Since the 1970s weve not seen such a bad problem with heroin in our community. It is hard to get clean. Addiction and recovery is very hard but there is a way to do it. You just have to reach out for help. There are a lot after you become detoxed, there are a lot of programs once you are released from the detox center that will help you stay on track. Kim i want to thank that young woman for sharing her story. You know the power of telling these stories like this. When you can put a face with addiction, it has way more impact than you and i talking live reporting from rio this morning. Chloe working hard down there. One of the interviews shes been able to score has to do with the world famous marathoner. Its a Beautiful Day in rio. This afternoon its going to be phenomenal. We did get a chance to talk to the marathon known from the london olympics for barely making it over the finish line. He collapsed after the finish line. Thats what hes known for. Hes back in rio this time for redemption. You are probably wondering what does samsung have to do with this. Samsung is his sponsor and put a documentary together of him. Its called a fighting chance. Yesterday we got to speak with it was hopping. But he tells us and his fans that he hopes that he can pull out a victory for he will be racing on sunday. I asked what hes been up to and hes been practicing very hard for this race. Yesterday as a warmup he ran 10 what is that in miles . Dana 6. 2. Kim whenever shes not talking was you can keep one her every move and reed both doing a fantastic job documenting their journeys. Dana there was a push to go to the 70s. After a while we shoed the whole thing. The guy using suction cups to climb trump tower has been officially charged. Well tell you what he was charged with coming up. Kim two u. S. Swimmers yanked off a plane that was bound for the United States trying to get out of rio and authorities said not so fast. Was recounted by ryan lochte. We have the breaking update headed your way. Tom little trouble on the surface streets. Nhp is all over it. Well give you an update in just a moment. Dana were on the front lines of the blue cut fire in San Bernardino with live reports from christy where we know that more than 80,000 people have been evacuated. Fire Officials Say there will be a lot of families that will come for seniors like barbara, Social Security makes a difference every month. But for the wall street types whove given congressman joe hecks campaigns over 500,000, Social Security could mean billions of dollars in fees. Thats what privatizing Social Security means and why joe heck and wall street support it. Under hecks privatization plan, Retirement Security gets risked on the stock market. And the wall street types supporting joe heck make billions. Whose side are you on . Senate majority pac is responsible breaking news, a major drug bust going down in utah. Police calling at this time big nest utah history. It was Homeland Security that tipped off police. This whole thing started man on the i15. Police found 68 pounds of meth with a street value of at least 2 million in a suitcase in the trunk of that mans car. He was arrested and could face at least 10 years in prison if convicted on those drug charges. Kim a picture of a syrian boy is getting a ton of moment. Youve got to see this. Hes on your screen. Its obvious hes covered in dust. Hes got blood dripping down his head. Sitting in the back of an ambulance. This picture highlighting the desperation of the civil war and struggle. The image showing him covered head to toe, disoriented, seems barely aware of an open wound on his forehead. He was taken to a hospital and later this startling image from a video. They stilled it from a video and it is circulated by the media center. It is on fire online this morning. Dana hundreds of thousands of people have been killed in that civil war in syria. This picture brings all of that home. This is 19yearold kid out of virginia climbing the side of the trump tower and now this young man has been formally courtroom. He was formally charged from his hospital bedside yesterday. Hes charged with reckless endangerment, base jumping, criminal trespass. Virginia native seen scaling that tower for three hours before they were able to get him into custody. Bail set at 10,000. Expected to make his next Court Appearance in october. Kim while most of you we that is different than what were normally talking about on this program. It has to do with two u. S. Swimmers taken off a flight. They were sitting oh on a plane bound for the United States. You see them walking through the airport now. This investigation has to do with a reported robbery targeting ryan lochte and some of his teammates. A lawyer for the two swimmers pulled from the plane says they are not going to be allowed to screen has a lot of people talking as well because the judge in brazil after he viewed this said they dont seem alarmed or shaken up. At some point they seem like they are joking around with each other. The judge found that questionable. There is ryan lochte, he recounted his story about what happened to him with a Person Holding a gun to his head after they were posing as a police officer. Lo and by the way, hes supposed to be here in las vegas in just a matter of days. Before he parties here in las vegas, he has a lot of people asking questions. He did speak by phone with the today show and you are seeing this on your screen. He is saying he sticks by his original story but the taxi did not force them off the road. He may have been stunned and he had only had a couple of hours recounted that. Says they were stopped at a gas station when they were robbed and not forced off the road. The gun was not pointed at his head but in his general direction. The story has changed a little bit but hes standing by they were held up at gunpoint. The other three guys still in rio, lochte back in the United States. Tom has a check of traffic this morning. Tom looking pretty good for the most part. We all like to freeway and that is what is happening out here at the 215. Looks like the crews are up and down the hill picking up trash. There is one little accident in the northwest part of town at the intersections of durango. A couple of pickup trucks involved. This is just off of the Centennial Park and ride area. They are in the process of clearing that one away as we continue with jeff. Jeff thank you. For the most part the freeways are clear. Travel times looking good from 95 north bound to 95515 north bound coming in from henderson. Six minutes from downtown to tropicana. Weve been talking about the blue cut fire. North bound i15 is open. South bound lanes still we are partnering with waze. You can give us updates on your commute anytime, real time, just dont do it behind the wheel. Kelly and dana standing by and were talking about lightning. Its beautiful and dangerous but we have great pictures to kelly if only we could take the floodwater from louisiana and dump tm that would be great. Unfortunately thats knots how it works. The sun has come up. This is red rock this morning. Weve seen a little bit of verga out there as well. A few light showers as we head further to the south. Sunrise 84. Spring valley 82. Anthem you are at 79 this morning. Here is a look at the radar. Were watching showers heading toward the phoenix area. Light rain showers. Not a lot going on. Most of this being picked up between search light and bullhead city. We had a little over the Las Vegas Valley as the sun was coming up. Dry conditions right now. We could see thunderstorm activity or at least showers later on this afternoon. Hazy conditions this morning. Scattered light showers possible this afternoon. 104 is our expected high today. About 2degrees above normal. Tonight chance of 81 for the low. Mostly sunny skies tomorrow through the weekend. 99 tomorrow and sunday. Another chance of showers for monday. Kim another hover board making headlines this morning. Remember around christmas time when we had scenes like this. We have another one this morning. Dana team u. S. A. Making headlines on the track. These lovely ladies doing something that no other country kim the g. O. P. Is planning a contingency if donald trump falters. The Republican National committee concedes it may divert resources away from the president ial contest in favor of Senate Candidates if trumps standing does not improve. Live pictures out of our nations capitol. Tom youre looking at a live shot of a trio of aircraft. Down on the roads things are looking smooth right now. Some hot air balloons up there this morning. We have hazy conditions in the skies. I want to take a look outside. The conditions look better than what we saw yesterday but you can see the air looks dirty this morning. As far as the temperatures are concerned, were at 74 in pahrump. Were going to take a look at highs for the afternoon in about 10 minutes. Kim now someone says have you a dirty mouth, have you the air quality to blame. Teenaging in supposedly caused by a hover board fire. Dana the guy had it plugged in for serial weeks here. He smelled smoke and finds his bedroom on fire. Then the battery burst and shot across the hallway into another bedroom. That one caught on fire as well. He purchased the hover board online but thats the last time. There will not be another hover board in his house in the future. Kim you ever do i lean to help the running back just like alys parents lean to help their daughter. Now there is a fan who wants to help out the parents. Its a lot of fun and well share that story ahead. Dana live pictures from the blue cut fire from the air this morning. Burning about three and a half hours from las vegas. Were going to take you live to the scene with our very own dana Team Goodness no other country has ever done. Well show it to you in moments. Kim also inspiring moment. This collision now has been seen all over the globe. It happened earlier in the week at the games. Now this morning for the first time were hearing from these women. Youre going to hear them in their own words ahead. Dana welcome in. 6 30 on this thursday morning. That smoke Las Vegas Valley. Kim we started the morning with it thicker than this yesterday then it cleared out. As you take in live pictures provided by tom in sky 3, it is evident it is back. We have Live Team Coverage on this event causing the smoky skies here in southern nevada. Dana we are live from the front lines in San Bernardino county. This thing has scorched more kim only 4 contained. This is just awful in nature. Were hearing from veteran firefighters saying theyve never seen anything like this. A lot of people when they finally go back to their homes, no chance that for many of them they are still standing. It is an active situation as we speak. They are having a hard time even getting the destruction count as far as how many structures have been wiped out because they are in full on saddle mode with this fire. D good news, north bound is reopen. That means people coming from los angeles to las vegas can get through. However, if you are headed from las vegas to los angeles, when you get just past victorville you have to detour. You get on the 18 and head west until you hit the 14. You take the 14 south and that hooks you up with i5 and that take you an extra hour or two. Kim more good news. We have a team of people in place for this breaking news event and what it means for you. Lets start off with tom and sky 3. Tom i would go with the bigger number there at least two hours, taking the detour would add an hour. Thousands and thousands of other motorist are doing the same thing on highways that arent signed to handle interstate volume offense traffic and they are getting heading down to Southern California by the detour. Were at the airport connector where have you a lot of work taking place but the commute is smooth right now. No delays weve noticed. Jeff the highways are clear in the metro area, that is good news. Were focused on this accident here at lake mead and sloan. Still an issue at the intersections. 15 south bound is clear. And looking at travel times craig to downtown five minutes. 215 eastbound no problems. And Summerlin Parkway no delays there. As we continue the discussion about the fire, how is that air going to look today . Kelly looks better than yesterday morning. Air still looks dirty and you can still smell it out there as well. If have you respiratory ailments, take it easy, stay inside as much as possible today. By noon 99degrees. I think well see t we could see showers and maybe thunderstorms this afternoon. Well talk more habit that coming up. Dana team u. S. A. Continues to roll in rio. But away from the games, questions and controversy continue to surround four members of the United States swim team who say they were robbed at gunpoint by men posing as police. After being pulled from their more questions from detectives later today. They say there are inconsistencies about the stories about being robbed at gunpoint by men posing as police in rio. They hope to talk with ryan lochte who was involved in the accident but hes already returned to the u. S. The first sweep in this event in olympic history. So the games now and there is the womens 100meter hurdle. The first ever sweep in the race by the u. S. We came together as girl power. A beautiful jump. A powerful performance helped track tonight. Follow along with reed and chloe and our Facebook Page and news3lv. Com. I was looking at chloes twitter feed yesterday, she has amazing stuff coming out of rio that we dont have time to show on the states, still in first place. 30 gold. China is second in the medal count, grain is now third. Kim if Michael Jackson were still alive, hed be celebrating his 58th birthday this month. A lot of locals would like to pay tribute. There is a unique way you can get that done. Kendall joins us live from the stratosphere this morning. Were going to have fun with grooving this morning. We are inside the stratosphere theater. This morning we are previewing Michael Jackson live. I can tell you i have seen the show, it is a tribute concert to Michael Jackson. It is going to be we have two impressive impersonate tosser. I want to see you moving and grooving with u