some east valley spots getting wet. spots to the east with the shower and thunderstorm activity earlier today with quieting down, so really just watching the east valley and down across southeast arizona south of safford. a few showers and thunderstorms there. walking you through tonight, leaving the storm chance at 10 percent. the east valley has a better chance than the west valley because there's where the storms are coming off the higher terrain to the northeast of us. so slight chance of a little more action near. temperatures in the low 100s to the 6:00 h the end is spent in the 90s. although the chance valley-wide is slight, the spots that do see the storms develop have to watch for gusty winds, blowing dust and pockets of heavy rain. we'll talk more about the storm chances to wrap up the work week coming up in minutes. tonight all eyes on arizona as voters head to the polls in the state primary. >> a lot of early ballots already in, county officials

the ballots sent out were returned. we have live team coverage starting with sonu wasu tracking problems at polling station, and have you -- stations, and have you seen any big troubles? >> reporter: they're always going to encounter problems. nothing like we saw in march, and they have a long checklist to start out the day with. it's a long list of questions that every troubleshooter out there in the field is armed with as they go from polling place to polling place, to solve problem, and those problems started sprouting out early today. several pollings places opened late because workers failed to show up on time, and about a dozen voters given the wrong ballot at one location. and this is called poll worker error. troubleshooters were dispatched to the places immediately. these troubleshooters are the eyes, ears, and boots on the ground for the election office. >> we check to make sure that all the signs are up, check to

was started in the beginning, all board workers are wearing badges and asking for id. we have to stay and observe that they're doing it >> reporter: now polls are going to be open until 7:00 tonight, and we are told as long as you're in line by 7:00 you can vote. >> thank you. is he still a maverick or part of washington establishment? that's the question when comes to john mccain if were arizona voters. -- for arizona voters. jon erickson is live at mccain's headquarters, and right now he's leading in most of the polls over the republican challenging. >> reporter: yes, preparations continue here at campaign head imparters, and tonight -- headquarters, and tonight we see the impact the trump effect will have on other race, specifically this state. kelly ward has been hitting

specifically on illegal immigration saying he hasn't done enough, and immigration is certainly part of conversation because of trump. john mccain has had to walk a line when it comes to donald trump, supporting him as the nominee, but criticizing him on other points. donald trump is a popular point here, he won our primary, and kelly ward has been called lady trump. what effect will it have on the race between her and john mccain? we'll see later tonight. >> yes it will be interesting. he'll need to win convincingly to make him a contender in november. thanks john. >> reporter: i'm melissa blasius in mesa where there's a four-way race in the republican primary for congress in the southeast valley. and it's a hard fought race. you can tell by all of the

whoever wins the republican primary in congressional district 5 will likely sale through the november election, and get that seat in congress. that's why it's so important, this election tonight. the people running against each other former maricopa county supervisor don stapely, state senate president andy biggs, justin olson and christine jones. retiring congresswoman, and jones has piled money into television commercials saying that she's an outsider in a field of career politicians. were stay tuned to abc 15 all -- stay tuned to abc 15 all night long. thank you. tonight many politicians are calling on the fbi to look into the threat of election tampering. it comes after two major cyber security breaches in arizona

say there's no reason to be concerned. but coming up next on world news, what the fbi director is now saying about the hack, and how his agency is prepping the rest of the government in case of another attack. and from the abc 15 live desk, we're not the only ones heading to the polls today. voting just ending in florida primary. first for senate rubio facing off against a republican real estate developer there called florida's little rubio's run for re-election came at the last minute after losing the state's presidential primary to donald trump. now trying to hold on to her house seat democrat debbie wasserman schultz. she resigned as the dnc chairwoman last month. >. and donald trump is expected to take the stage at a campaign event in washington state in just a few hours ahead of his big speech in the valley

address immigration, and tonight his son is defending him. >> he's not softening anything, not changing the stance, what he's done is that he's speaking with the people. >> on the left hillary clinton taking a break from the campaign for a day, but her running mate tim kaine went right at trump in the battleground state of pennsylvania saying he's not buying what the republican is selling. >> it's like he thinks we're gullib suckers. it's like he thinks we're marks and he can con us. >> last check tickets were available for tomorrow's rally. it's a limit of top tickets for -- two tickets per cell phone number, and you can't bring signs, banners or backpacks. >. and the lock down was lifted at a phoenix elementary school within the last hour. students and teachers put on

for a person wanting in a domestic violence call. breaking news out of phoenix where tonight police are on the hunt for a gunman that opened fire on a man standing in his driveway. the man was hit in the arm, and is xerox copied to be okay. -- expected to be okay. the shooting doesn't appear to be related to the serial street shooting investigation. and police with hands full near 19th and glendale. a family fight turning violent here. this all started with an argument between and their brother-in-law. and opened with all -- ended with all three of them being stabbed. we're used to scorpions and rattlesnakes, but nothing like this. where crews in the valley keep finding these giants. >> and winning the lottery and finding themselves out of luck. why some in our state are not getting paid, at least for now. >. and live look from abc 15, you can see the dust picking up.

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all right, back to the weather alert, and a live look at abc 15 desert doppler radar. taking the weather computer, i can show you where the dust sources are. blowing dust advisory for pinal county, two areas where we're seeing the dust pick up, and the arrows indicate the direction they're headed, so

visibility, and there's a chance of showers and storms in parts of mesa and scottsdale. we'll zoom into the streets coming up in minutes. >. imagine walking out, taking the trash, and i found this. >> gahhh. >> it's a 7-foot bo constrictor going down the treat. >> yes, three -- street. >> yes, three found in the past month. jason is taking action to find >> reporter: can you imagine having this girl popping up at you? it's a red tail boa, and a woman found this last night in scottsdale while taking out the trash. one of three big snakes found in one area in the last month. >> weighs about 22, 23 pounds, but it's a friendly snake. >> reporter: friendly or no you don't expect it to find it in scottsdale. >> i walked up, petted it, it seemed fine. >> reporter: for 17 years this

fire department. the last time they found aid snake last this, and now they found three in 30 days. two pythons and a boa. >> my personal opinion is someone is not securing the cages. i don't think someone is releasing them. i think they've just done a poor job of keeping them. >> reporter: someone claimed the first one, and the phoenix reptile society has the rest. >> if being accused -- there being abused people would be crying like there's no tomorrow. >> a puppy or kitten is a natural menu item. >> reporter: so far no one has claimed the last two snakes, but the snake catchers want to

all right, a live look from air 15, trackerring that dustment -- tracking that dust. it's clipping by southern portions of valley, but it's headed away from us, not into phoenix itself. blowing dust advisory is only for pinal county, and it will be in effect for about another hah minutes her -- 45 minutes here, we'll talk storm chances day by d c minutes. and amber, there are some power outages from srp, they're substantial, 9700 customers without power. estimated time to have it back on is 7:10 tonight, and one other, let me update it there. 6:30 tonight, 1300 people, and

the two others are outages not related to weather, and very few people. thousands of people without power. 6:30 to 7:10 is the turn on time. a valley father behind bars and an ahwatukee neighborhood is getting back to normal after a barricade situation this morning. it started when the man took off from a traffic stop and drove to a home near hoeth and chandler -- 40th and chandler. he had two children in the home that he let go before posting up inside the home for he was taken to custody. >. and another stand off near36th and vista where a man was threatening his wife with a knife. everyone is okay. >. up to 15 people looking for a new place to stay tonight after a condo building catches fire. you probably saw the thick black smoke this morning. we're told the fire started at a vacant home before spreading to the complex. firefighters say working in the

>> we actually have a couple of former nfl players at the fire departme, so we had a conversation to them about how does it compare to being in an nfl football game, they say you get beat up in a football game, but this is similar to that. they're just exhausted and tired. >> nobody hurt here, and investigators are looking into how the fire start. and a tow truck driver hailed a hero after tracking down sky hit and the run driver on the -- a hit and run driver on the 17. a the driver saw the wreck, checked on the victim, and then chased down the man. he was eventually picked up by troopers. and a mojave county sheriff's deputy is on leave after shooting and killing a woman late last night. he said he had no choice but to open fire after coming face to face with the barrel of a shot gun the woman was holding when she was pulled over for a traffic stop. the deputy was not hurt. staying in kingman, a gruesome

backyard. he led investigators to his friend's body buried under concrete and dirt. he killed the man in an argument last summer. we're learning the german pilot that flew his plane into a mountainside on purpose failed a key test in arizona. instructors saying he struggled with learning to fly in general, but was promoted anyway. he was a co-pilot for german wings last year when he set the plane for a collision and killed every on board. >. the border patrol with a series of major busts netting nearly a million dollars worth of meth, cocaine and marijuana. four people under arrest, including a us citizen. it appear it is state lottery is out of luck when it comes to the new software. complaints come not guilty from across arizona -- coming in from across arizona because of

it's not able to read winning scratcher tickets. it can still print and read tickets for the power ball and megamillions. people with winning scratchers tickets are told to hang on to them until the new issues are resolved. and now for the forecast. the desert doppler tracking storms in the higher terrain, but just as expected when they're coming off the higher terrain they're weakerrenning significantly into the valley. the storm chance for the phoenix metro is pretty slim about 10 percent the rest of the evening. we have a few pockets in the east valley right now including parts of south scottsdale and along the us 60 in gilbert and val vista, and these spots are isolated, and the showers overall continue to weaken over the next 10 to 15 minutes. farther to the south, two blowing dust advisories in effect in pinal county. we swung the queen creek camera around.

earlier at the base of the superstitions, but now to the west and southwest to capture the dust, and you can see a little of it on the horizon. visibility down to a quarter mile or less, but the dust is starting to disperse a little, so i don't imagine we'll see any reports that low going forward. but we'll keep a close eye on it here for you. slight chance here 10 percent through the evening forecast, 103 at 6:00. 99 at 10:00. dewpoint in the upper hoes and winds -- 40s and winds out of the east. temperatures dropping in some of the spots that have seen the rain, in fact fountain hills and apache junction now down to the low 90s. the rest of the valley sizzling at 105 to 108. to the north, 88 in sedona, and 77 flagstaff, things quiet up there storm-wise, and it stays that way overnight with lows in the upper 40s to low 50s along

the west and in the valley as well. then tomorrow a few degrees cooler. down to 104 here, 101 in casa grande. 93 for the high tomorrow in globe, and payson and prescott in the mid to upper 80s. here's futurecast, and we do still have a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the higher terrain tomorrow, and a slight chance that some of this could move into portions of valley. but the best bets in the higher terrain spots, not only tomorrow, but into thursday as well. they'll get closer to us thursday, and chance to 20 percent. that's the best bet over the next several days. higher terrain spots running about a 40, 50, or 60 percent shot over the next few days. here's the hour by hour tomorrow waking up in the morning. warm start, 84 at 6:00 a.m. 93 at 10:00, and98 in noon. triple digits in the afternoon forecast with a 20 percent chance of a storm, and highs of 102 tomorrow in scottsdale and

in the west valley 104 in avondale and glendale. the next seven days, 102 thursday, 103 friday. slight chances of spotty storms through the end of week, and sunny through the weekend with temperatures a little below affirming. it was a language -- average. it was a long drama all day and night, and new into the live desk singer chris brown was jury arrested, accused of -- just arrested, accused assault with a deadly weapon. police responded to a call for help from a woman. she was not there though, and brown stayed inside posting three different videos to his instagram account as police had to wait most of the day to get the search warrant to go in. we've seen reports of drugs and weapons taken from the home, and we'll keep you updated. a top isis leader killed in syria, what the terror group is now vowing.

just into the live desk, word you'll definitely be able to vote hike in november. the arizona supreme court upholding the judge's order to keep the initiative on the ballot. calls for raising it to $12 an hour by 2020. and developing now, a major blow to isis. just announced in the past few hours, the terror group's second in command killed in syria. the death of the leader is especially important because he's considered one of group's longest serving and prominent leaders. isis now vowing revenge on who

italian coast guard showing in the past 48 hours they've rescued more than 7,000 migrants in the mediterranean sea. they're working to save families from africa drifting up the coast of libya in overcrowded votes. the international organization for migration says already this year more than 3,000 people died trying to make the same journey. the us department of agriculture closing six offices in five states after ammonias threats say -- anonymous threats about the safety of workers in buildings. they'll remain closed until further notice. new at 6:00, pressure on isis, and it's not just because the terror group lost acre figure. -- a few figure. >. plus new concerns and the warning from the fib tuberculosis about the potential -- fbi about the potential of a big hack on election day. >> reporter: he was hired to

using it at a cover up to commit a crime. and we're tracking the forecast. you're looking at live drive on the left. the queen creek cam on the right. visibility is improving, that's a good thing, but the blowing dust advisory is in effect for pinal county until 6:00 p.m., and the showers that have moved in, those are tapering off as well, so just a slight chance moving forward later on tonight or tomorrow to see the isolated shower or two. percent, then drying out for the weekend. the weekend. >> world news is coming up let's feed him to the sharks! squuuuack, let's feed him to the sharks! yay! and take all of his gold! and take all of his gold!

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breaking news. tonight, we start with a new hurricane watch, just issued. two systems. one growing in the atlantic. the other, in the gulf. plus, back-to-back major hurricanes now targeting hawaii. terror takedown. one of the most wanted terrorists killed tonight. the number-two man for isis. a $5 million bounty on h h as new details come in about an american woman held hostage. in the race for president, donald trump facing a pivotal moment. will he flip-flop on immigration? tonight, his son coming to his defense. fiery crash. the chain reaction pileup. all caught on video. and the heroic rescue by a group of other drivers. and, an out of this world sound. the radio signal discovered from 94 light years away.