Hurricane newton slammed into the twin resorts of los cabos and the southwestern us will is next. Newton made landfall as a category one storm with winds up to 90 miles per hour. Pelting Cabo San Lucas with heavy rain tossing debris around and blowing down several trees. The storm is being blamed for three deaths. It then moved inland. Dumping rain over the mainland. brian loftus as Tropical Storm hermine pounds the new england coast. Officials are still hard at work keeping folks out of the water. capt. Gregory wood lifeguard neck back in by the waves, they can get pulled out by rip currents. Its very dangerous for the public. the storm is expected to stall in the area. Making for a long period of damaging weather from new yorks long island to cape cod like dangerous rip currents and strong winds by today. Forecasters predict it will once again head out toward the sea. sherry hows the weather today . But a lot of rain to the east in arizona from newton. Newton is now just below hurric
This past year and for years werent able to make new hires. So todays Academy Graduation couldnt come at a better time. The sixty men and women who make up metros class two of 2016 received badges and diplomas this afternoon at a Graduation Ceremony at the Orleans Hotel and casino. The recruits were recognized today for their dedication and passion to serve their community after six and a half months in police academy. Undersheriff kevin mcmahill. And represent a Diverse Group of men and women that will be serving all across the las vegas valley. Metro tells us the addition of dozens of new recruits will help to fill the gap after recent retirements but say that it will be a process with many more needed. we do have quite a bit of attrition and this will help every little bit helps weve been down for a number of years in our numbers were well below the National Average for police to citizens over the valley the ceremony isnt the last step. The sixty recruits from this graduating class
Same opportunities and it was powerful and motivating and it is just something that i will never forget and i am forever grateful for everyone who made it possible. Thank you. So, iesha is being a little modest. She was one of the outsing of the year for the boys and girls club in 2012. Yeah. So she is pretty spectacular kid too. And so just to give everybody the background and i know that a lot of people know the story, this was entirely jasons idea. And so i was all ready to blame it on him if he did not go well but it went great and he deserves all of the credit. And he got all of the money and private money and no city dollars spent on this at all, and the kids went and the other officers that went, lieutenant danger field, and i dont want to miss anybody. Leon jackson out in the bay view and l in went and did a lot of the pictures and it was a complete volunteer army and everybody came back changed and it was one of the kids when we met him at the airport he was saying that there
Three part process, one of the parts where they had to write a letter or an essay, explaining why they want to go, and why they should be selected. The second part they had to maintain a 2. 0 gpa. And in the third part was they have to display Good Behavior at school as well as at the boys and girls club. The requirement for the 2. 0 was i think as far as next time, not sure if that will be part of the requirement because like i said one young lady after she got a passport and a ticket and everything come to find out she was not even in school. And we thought of her going now, she was going to school and have the gpa is over a 2. 0. And so it might be something that somebody needs to, you know, to get their grades up. And i think that the point that i wanted to make was that there was preparation, which i felt was key. And a lot of thought went into that. And i know that you talked about, you know, the impact that it had on the young people, but having seen you and the other adults in
Have to display Good Behavior at school as well as at the boys and girls club. The requirement for the 2. 0 was i think as far as next time, not sure if that will be part of the requirement because like i said one young lady after she got a passport and a ticket and everything come to find out she was not even in school. And we thought of her going now, she was going to school and have the gpa is over a 2. 0. And so it might be something that somebody needs to, you know, to get their grades up. And i think that the point that i wanted to make was that there was preparation, which i felt was key. And a lot of thought went into that. And i know that you talked about, you know, the impact that it had on the young people, but having seen you and the other adults in the studio, i dont know who got the most out of it, you guys or the kids . Really. And it comes through here, and even as you are speaking now. And i told the kids, and i use the phrase a lot the world is bigger than the block.