The student and family. Who lives in this home. Is dealing with the most changes tonight. After the epa started decontaminating this house today. The family who lives here is still displaced. But for most students at johnson jr. High theyre just trying to get back to their Normal School routine. Sot its just like it never happened 7th grader, fiona vogl, says it felt like a pretty Normal School day here at johnson jr. High school. Except for the fact that she was missing her backpack, lunchbox, and purse. Sot there were 30 backpacks that got destroyed and mine was one of them, and my lunchbox was one of the 3 lunchboxes that got destroyed and my purse is the only purse that got destroyed the epa determined there was too much mercury on fionas belongings. For her to get them back. She says she saw a few drops of mercury herself. During gym class when other students pointed it out last wednesday. Spilled on the bleachers, because i had a lot of it on my pants. Now a portion of the schools gym floor has been ripped up and fiona says her p. E. Class met outside today. Sot we just didnt go into the gym we went into our locker rooms changed and went outside while students started to get back on track at school its a different story for one family who had to evacuate their home. The epa started decontaminating it today. Sot we have to identify where the contamination is, remove it, hopefully weve got it all. If weve missed soth back in Tom Dunkleman with the epa. Thinks the johnson jr. High student who lives here was exposed to the mercury at school. He says the high levels at the home do not mean that this is where the mercury came from. Sot epa i think its just the fact that this child got mercury on their clothing or on their back pack and it just got transfered back to the house meanwhile fionas mom says she feels ok having her daughter back at school. But still has some concerns about her health. Sot just kind of wondering how much she could have inhaled, so i would probably like to get back out here live at the home that is being decontaminated. The epa says this home should be put back together in a day or two. Any items that are found with unsafe levels of mercury. Will have to be thrown out. If you had any of your kids backpacks, shoes or anything else taken by the epa and destroyed. You can file a claim for reimbursement with the school district. An update now on the fox5 investigation into viewer complaints of bugs at the silver nugget story aired yesterday, a restaurant in the casino shut its doors. Its back open tonight. Im beyond disappointed. I really thought they were a nice place. We used to go there on date nights. Im just really disappointed. Fox5 first told you about a woman who tells us bugs bit her legs while she was eating at the home town kitchen. Since then several other people reached out to us with similar claims. Health district inspectors found 3 to 4 live insects and at least one booth in the restuarant. They also found them in and under cracks in the carpet and crawling on the floor. Toss to weather a beautiful and a high of 86 degrees. Well warm back up to the low 90s on thursday, then 93 on friday. The great weather continues for the weekend with 95 saturday and 97 sunday. Well stay in the upper 90s to start next week on monday and tuesday. The recession hit nevadas Housing Market hard. To help homeowners, the the troubled asset relief program. Or tarp. This program was designed to get federal funding to people struggling to keep their homes. But now it looks like much of that money didnt get to those families. Fox5 got ahold of an audit into the states tarp funding. Fox5s Miguel Martinez valle dug into the audits findings that show millions of dollars were spent on things like cakes, parties, and gifts. This audit is more than 50 pages long. The spec Inspector Generals Office shows thousands of homeowners who needed that help were turned away while the company spent federal funding on things like birthday cakes, parties, and gift cards. If youve lived in nevada during the great recession, odds are you know someone who lost their home to foreclosure. The us treasury granted federal funding to the 19 was one of them. It was called the troubled asset relief program, or tarp. Fox5 got ahold of an audit conducted by the special Inspector Generals Office. In that audit, we found the federal funding wasnt getting to the families who needed it the most. The state hired a Company Called the nevada Affordable Housing assistance corporation. It was supposed to distribute that federal funding to qualifying families. In this audit, we found between 2013 and 2015, the number of homeowners admitted into the program went down. But the listed Company Expenses went up. Last year. For every dollar the company gave to a homeowner in need. It kept a dollar. That quickly added up to more than 1. 4 Million Dollars in Administrative Expenses for the year. What were those expenses . Well the audit shows the company spent tarp dollars on car allowances. Lavish holiday parties at casinos and golf courses. And gifts for employees. The Inspector Generals Office says the company racked up 8. 2 Million Dollars in wasteful spending. Now the Inspector Generals Office is reccomending nahac stop getting tarp dollars. And that they stop program all together. I did reach out to the company mentioned in the audit. They told me they were preparing a statement which i have not yet gotten. The british man who tried to shoot donald trump at a las vegas rally went before a judge today. 20yearold Michael Sanford submitted a guilty plea to being an illegal alien in possessing a weapon and disrupting an official function. He could have faced up to 20 years in prison if he was convicted. Instead he will face two years in Court Documents say sanford acknowledged reached for a gun while trump was on stage in june. After his arrest sandford told police he drover from california to kill the republican nominee. He sold 75million records worldwide. And was recognized by the guiness book of World Records as the highest selling rap artist of all time. And 20 years ago today he died. Someone gunned down west coast rapper tupac shakur at the in flamingo and koval. Today people from all around the country paid respect to the artist. Fox5s Cyndi Lundeberg joins us now live from where the shooting happenned. All day long tupac fans have been coming to this site to pay honor to the fallen superstar. Theyve set up a sign and flag in honor of tupac shakur. He was heading to a club when a car fire. September 7th 1996 rapper tupac shakur was shot four times at the intersection of flamingo and koval. Six days later he died. Fast forward 20 years. This is what the site looks like. Lauren cheatum people been comnig up and showing love a make shift memorial popped up and fans stopped by. Rob macias we wanna be out here and still celebrate his passion it still lives on today long live tupac tupac was riding in a black bmw with his manager suge knight when a white cadillac pulled up. Andbegan firing. His murder remains unsolved. For his fans being at the site where it happenned. Is surreal. Stetsen its a little tough to talk about rob macias it happenned right here at this intersection it wasnt just the site of the shooting bringing tupac admirers to las vegas. Madam toussads also saw multiple people. Yolanda webb traveled from baltimore. And says tupacs death seems like yesterday. Yolanda webb his music was a prophecy of his life while rumors around his death continue. Tupac fans can all agree on one thing. He was a music icon. Taken too soon. Rob macias its mind bloowing a bunch of fans were sitting here and its like wo this is the palce stetsen i turned on the news it wsa a friday i remember it like it was yesterday his picture popped up and stetsen im crying now im 28 tupac di a umc. His murder remains unsolved and metro still considers it an open case. Reporting lvie cl fnll. I know more about isis than the generals do, believe me. Nuclear, just the power the devastation, is very important to me. I want to be unpredictable, unpredictable, unpredictable, unpredictable. Live from las vegas. Youre watching fox5 news at 10, with Emmy Award Winner john huck. Christine maddela. And weather 24 7 with chief meteorologist ted pretty. This is fox5 news at 10. Local. Las vegas. A major announcement for unlv football. The team got a major donation. That will make it more competitive. The fertitta family pledged 10 Million Dollars to help build a state of the art College Football facility. The fertitta football complex will be a 73 thousand square foot two story facility. The building will have an academic center. Locker rooms. Offices. Meeting rooms. Nutrition bar. Weight room. And even a players lounge the complex will overlook the Current Practice facilities. The project is expected to break ground next spring. And open to student athletes and staff 10 months later. I think well look a game changer in the direction of our football program. People across the country are building buildings or building new stadiums and for us this was the next step. Were going to have facilities that can compete with anybody that we recruit against and ill be honest as we grow and we move and the president jesup positions us to get in a bigger conference. Our facility is going to hold true even to those conferences. Unlv also received a 2 Million Dollar donation back in may. And with Community Donations have raised 16 Million Dollars. In all the project is expected cost between 24 and 26 Million Dollars. The popular three day Music Festival is returning to downtown Las Vegas Next weekend. But already organizers are preparing for life is beautiful. The festival taked over 18 city blocks. It is filled with music, art and food. Road closures will go into effect. Starting tonight at midnight starting with mesquite avenue between las vegas boulevard and eighth street, and then seventh and sixth streets will close between stewart avenue and interstate 15 will be made in phases leading up to the festival which is september 23 through the 25th. Now fox5 weather 24 7, with chief meterologist ted pretty a beautiful wednesday with very light breezes and a high of 86 degrees. Well warm back up to the low 90s on thursday, then 93 on friday. The great weather continues for the weekend with 95 saturday and 97 sunday. Well stay in the upper 90s to start next week on monday and tuesday. A beautiful wednesday with very light breezes and a high of 86 degrees. Well warm back up to the low then 93 on friday. The great weather continues for the weekend with 95 saturday and 97 sunday. Well stay in the upper 90s to start next week on monday and tuesday. A beautiful wednesday with very light breezes and a high of 86 degrees. Well warm back up to the low 90s on thursday, then 93 on friday. The great weather continues for the weekend with 95 the upper 90s to start next week on monday and tuesday. Closed captioning will resume shortly for many veterans. Talking about war can help them heal. I talk to women who are active now and quite often theyll come up and theyll say we want to thank you because its because of you people who went in first that paved the way for us. Where these special women are bonding over breakfast. Be sure to check for all of your up to date news and weather. A local casino infested with bugs and our new hockey teams name two of the the topics in the rant tonight we want to hear jim dunlap too many Nevada Police officers have been killed in the last few years. The truth is, we make it too easy for criminals and the dangerously mentally ill to buy guns. They get them at gun shows or online from strangers, no questions asked. Close the background check loophole. That will help prevent future cop killings. It works. In states that have closed the loophole, nearly half as many Police Officers have been shot and killed in the line of duty. Background checks save lives. V. O. yes on question one. But in washington, congressman joe heck supports privatizing it. Turning our savings over to wall street. And risking it on the stock market. Hecks plan means billions more in fees for wall street. And theyve donated over half a Million Dollars to his campaigns. Those numbers speak for themselves. Joe heck is a threat to a secure retirement, because hes part of the problem in washington. Afscme people is responsible danny tarkanians carrying a lot of baggage. As a realestate developer, tarkanian was penalized for failing to pay thousands in property taxes. Tarkanian was ordered by a judge to repay 17 million tarkanian refused to pay the money back, forcing taxpayers to bail him out, leaving us holding the bag. Danny tarkanians out for himself, not us. Dccc is responsible for the content of this advertising. The next group of women arent your average group of gal pals who get together to have breakfast every now and then. They are all u. S hop to catch up. Share war stories and Plan Community service projects. The women have played major roles in huge battles including world war two. The korean war. The vietnam war and the gulf war. Most of them served in a time when women had little or no rights in the u. S. Any place where you would find veterans, theyd say oh, was your husband in the service . they never thought i had been a veteran. Im so proud of the young women that are in right now. They are whipper snappers they are Something Else yes. Im really glad that theyre coming in on our heels. The women come from all different branches of the military. There were 83 days over 100 degrees this summer. This means some pretty good news for the grant a gift autism foundation. It really helps out a lot of people in the community and im pretty sure a lot of my friends who are on the spectrum in the community will appreciate this as well. This gift will help us expand our reach. We can our programs and services for all the children and family who really need it. Fox 5 teamed up with ford country for our the heat is on event. For everyday the temperature hit the triple digits. Onehundred dollars was donated to grant a gift. That equaled a nice 83 hundred dollar check for the charity. The money will go on to Fund Programs for kids with autism as well as to help the unlv center for autism spectrum disorders. Students were back in their classrooms. After they were forced out for nearly a week. Contamination. But for one mom cleanup at the school was just one of her worries. How the epa helped put her fears of to rest. A denver bronco lost another big endorsement after after refusing to stand for the National Anthem. What Brandon Marshall has to say about being dropped. A lot of brides spend countless hours planning their big day. But one brideto be didnt plan on getting stranded before she said i do. How she made it just in time to walk down the over 20,000 nevadans rely on planned parenthood for access to basic Health Services and critical cancer screenings. And was willing to shut down the government over it. Heck opposed roe v. Wade and voted to criminalize abortion. Congressman heck is whats wrong with washington. Im hall of famer jerry west and my life is basketball. But that doesnt stop my afib from leaving me at a higher risk of stroke. Until i learned more about oncedaily xarelto. A latest generation blood thinner. Then i made the switch. Xarelto . Significantly lowers the risk of stroke in people with afib not caused by a heart valve problem. It has similar effectiveness to warfarin. Warfarin interferes with vitamin k and at least six blood clotting factors. Xarelto . Is selective targeting one critical factor of your bodys natural clotting function. For people with afib currently well managed on warfarin, there is limited information on how xarelto and warfarin compare like all blood thinners, dont stop taking xarelto without talking to your doctor, as this may increase your risk of a blood clot or stroke. While taking you may bruise more easily, and it may take longer for bleeding to stop. Xarelto may increase your risk of bleeding if you take certain medicines. Xarelto can cause serious, and in rare cases fatal bleeding. Get help right away for unexpected bleeding, unusual bruising or tingling. If you have had spinal anesthesia while on xarelto watch for back pain or abnormal bleeding. Tell your doctor before all planned medical or dental procedures. Before starting xarelto tell your doctor about any conditions, such as kidney, liver or bleeding problems. To help protect yourself from a stroke, ask your doctor about xarelto. Theres more to know. Xarelto. The epa says it checked nearly 80 homes for mercury after a spill at johnson junior high. One of those homes was evacuated this weekend. And today professionals started to work to decontaminate it. Fox5s faith tanner joins us live from one of those homes. Now. The epa was out here for hours. We saw them taking big trash bags out from the home and putting them into this big red bin. Where told the materials inside here with be shipped off to be disposed of theres no word yet. About if and how the family who lives here will be reimbursed for the items that have to be destroyed. So far the epa said its footing the bill for the clean up. But they could not tell us the cost of that yet. The epa examined nearly 80 homes for mercury. And this was the only one that had to be evacuated. Today one mom told me about what it was like having her home checked for mercury. After the substance was found on her daughters back pack and lunch box. They go to different rooms in the house and then if you have anything youre concerned about they can test that for you. The whole process is probably about ha