if what witnesses say is true, this is absolutely terrifying. >> breaking now and only on abc 15, we're hearing from a teenager who says she was in the drive through of a taco bell on buckeye when a man on a clown mask entered the store and robbed it at gun point. >> and not only that, she says he shot the cash register, and

forget. >> i heard the gunshot. it effected me a lot. i lost it. i couldn't stop shaking. >> we're still trying to confirm the details with police. and a lot to sort south right now in north phoenix. police shooting a man they say pulled a gun on him after continue fronting him over a -- confronting him over a drug deal. >> >. and abc 15 is if first to break -- the first to break the story. >> navideh forghani is live to down. >> reporter: well the scene is stale active. the main -- still active. we see the suspect's vehicle and the police cars. the suspect was part of an investigation, an undercover drug deal was set up. the officer pulled the man over, and when they walked up to the sedan, i'm told the suspect pulled out a gun

then they went back to their car, and the suspect put his car in reverse and tried to hit the officers. then another officers pulled up and he shot the officer and hit him in the eye. the suspect is in critical but stable condition. they also found two guns inside the car, and there was also a passenger inside the car. he's in the patrol car right behind me and will be questioned by officer. now, we are also learning more about the officers that -- officer that pulled the trigger. enforcement squad. they do intense enforcement across phoenix. he pulled the trigger and walking through the entire investigation with internal affair that's standard in these cases. and we have brands new video to show you. the moment sparking a similar pursuit in mesa. you can barely see a car speed out of frame, and see the guy with the cell phone, he's letting cops know his mercedes was stolen.

a chase. the driver eventually trying to run down the officers causing them to fire, and once he was arrested they found guns in that car, including an assault rifle. and the victim learnings a valuable less son as well in all of this. when you leave your car, take your keys. dark, dangerous and dehydrated, a potentially deadly combo for hikers, but rescue crews reaching a woman just in time. when they found her she was and okay now. and we heard reports someone tried to kidnap a girl from a backyard. this is near 7th avenue and dunlap. when we showed up officers were on scene but were tight lipped about what did or didn't happen. and a judge telling a man he might be deported after being accused of video taping women in a campus bathroom. >> jon erickson is live on asu's campus in tempe tonight, and what kind of building first

>> reporter: it's a class room building, and because the suspect is a chinese citizen, what allegedly happened in here could end with him not only in jail, but also out of country. phrase according to police i wasn't in the shadows but under the lights where he targeted victims. there were six victims. >> >. it's sad that even on campus we don't feel safe. >> reporter: she's glad according to police, the women cornered the suspect until arrest paperwork said the suspect video taped the victims inside a women's bathroom. also in the paymenterwork, he told -- paperwork he told police he did it because of his dirty mind. >> to invade that privacy, it's just wrong, and i probably would have done the same thing. captured him and say no, you don't get to walk away from this. it's a shame he'll probably be out really soon. >> reporter: but that's not the case.

can get out of county jail he has to see an immigration judge. >> that judge could release you, require you post bond or hold you to remove you from the country. >> reporter: court paperwork says the suspect actually has a history of taking pictures up women's skirts. we tried to interview him tonight, but he was not available for a jailhouse interview. >> just unbelievable. thank you so much. this was a big one, and now that the dust have several new looks of the dust storm that engulfed the valley. manyof you caught up in this one on the way home from worse, and it was even worse in maricopa. the dust so intense we want to show you a flashback of jason during the 6:00 newscast. >> reporter: there's a stoplight just beyond the car you can see closest to us, probably less than a hundred

where we are right now. i can't tell you if it's red, green, or yellow because the dust is so bad. >> our abc 15 photographer also caught near loop 202 and scottsdale road as the dust tomorrow was weakening moving in over the valley, and we had a few showers and thunderstorms behind it down to the south, but tonight central arizona is back in the clear. shower and thunderstorming atiffty right now -- thunderstorm activity right now the confined to the higher terrain near the rim and flagstaff this lingering chances for more in the overnight forecast, and for the next couple of days we still have chances in play here in the valley along with below average temperatures. we dry things out again soon. we'll go day by day through the seven-day coming up. we all know the dangers of texting and driving, but what about using your phone to follow directions? a valley family says that's what killed their father. nohelani graf is live with the story, and it's scary how well

this. >> reporter: it's hard to find anyone these days that doesn't use the gps on their phones, so police told this family that the other driver reacted to their phone, turned right too soon, and swerved to avoid that car, but trying to avoid that crash got them into another that was much worse. douglas martin and his fiancie jennifer were both hurt crash, blind sided by an out of town driver looking down at their gps. >> it said turn here, he didn't look before he turned. >> reporter: jennifer swerved 35 miles per hour into a pole on grand avenue. they both blacked out. >> a second and it was over. >> blood dripping down my head. >> i just saw dust. >> paramedics grabbed me and pulled me out of passenger side. >> i could hear doug screaming my dad, my dad. >> reporter: the real pain is

that day was supposed to be for frank, his 70th birthday party. >> he glowed the whole time he was there, laughing and smiling. >> reporter: frank was in the car too, he never made it to the hospital. >> having that as the last moments with my father, that is nice to have because it was a beautiful day that's for sure. >> reporter: bruiseswill fade, cuts will close, bones will reset, but the pain >> we looked forward to have the last few years with them but it's over and gone. >> reporter: and even then will still hurt. the other driver was ticked for an unsafe lane change causing a death. the family wants to pursue criminal charges, but paying for a funeral is the priority right now, and we have linked their fundraiser to our website. >> and an incredibly powerful

and tensions flare outside a community meeting about the south mountain freeway. >> no 202! >> police refusing native americans to bring their prayer sticks into the adot meeting, they complained their religious freedom was violated. then they were told to leave the property, but inside hundreds listened to adot explain time lines and details of controversial project. >> when they to blast through there, we just won't let them. we can't let them. our cultural or religious beliefs, however you see them, are on the line. >> you can check out the presentation on www.abc15.com right now. just in from the first time since it began publication in the late 1800s, the arizona republic endorsing a republican for president. they throw support by hillary clinton saying donald trump is

view got qualified. the governor is weighing in on last night's presidential debate, and we caught up with him as a small business event in chandler tonight. >> i think more and more as i watch the political season on a national level, the more i see that washington dc is the problem. >> he's a donald trump supporter, and we'll have much more from trump and clinton later in the newscast. sheriff joe arpaio could find out in a couple of weeks if he's facing criminal charges for violating court orders in th there's also more legal trouble potentially on the rise. his political opponent says he plans to file a lawsuit against arpaio in false allegations in a political ad. and october 10th is the deadline to register to vote, and today is actually national voter registration day, and it's actually pretty simple to do it. you can do it from the couch and on your phone.

384387. and three valley students could face felony charges after being arrested for a string of threats this week. there's a map confirming by abc 15 sources showing many of the nearly two dozen spots mentioned in the online posts. now all of these threats feature something eeriely similar. a creepy picture with the threatening posts. >> it really just exploded overnight and effected a lot of people. we've been told from a lot of the different schools that kids are absent. kids are missing school because they're afraid to come to school. >> and police tell us more arrests could be on the way. he took an oath to serve and protect, but he was the threat to police in a deadly shoot out in maricopa leaving a border patrol agent dead. his name is jeremy russo.

that called 911 last night saying her mom and dad were fighting. the kids and mom got out of the house just before the shooting started. >> every now and then you'll see like a flashlight, you know, flickering, but outlain that they did everything they did in the pitch dark. >> police say russo flooded the house then shot himself in the stand off. when will it stop in protests going late into the night over another controversial police shooting. and candidate confessions the day after the first debate. and the highway.

>> black, white, asian, indian. it doesn't matter right now because we're standing together for a black man! the hits keep oncoming in the efforts to improve police relation, especially in the

>> new protests near san diego after witnesses say police shot a black man who posed no threat and wasn't even armed. >> terrified, you know, i couldn't believe it. all this stuff goes on in the world, and nothing happens. suspension with pay? it's wrong. >> the man shot is alive in the hospital. his sister called 911 witnesses say after he had a seizure and woke up very confused. police only saying he wasn't following their commands. >> and this comes on the heels of a police shooting carolina. several violent protests erupting over the last week after keith scott was killed and prompted everyone to be on high alert. charlotte police weren't taking any chances of a suspicious package was dropped off at headquarters. the all clear was just given in the past few hours. as for the shooting it's effecting people of all ages. >> we are black people and shouldn't have to feel like this. we shouldn't have to protest

wrong. >> protesters are calling on the police department to release more footage of what happened that day. and a scary situation involving a fighter jet that caught fire during a training mission in idaho on fire. initial reports showed the fire started in the engine, but air force officials now say it's too early to know for sure. they expect the investigation to last another two weeks. thankfully nobody was hurt, but making it more concerning, just recently 15 over concerns with the fuel tanks. you expect them to clean your clothes, not explode and burst into flames. more problems for samsung tonight, and it's not their phones. the fed issuing new warnings over certain samsung washing machines after a massive recall. the company urging owners to continue to come forward following a number of fired sparked by the machines. if you have one of the effected models you should get a notice from samsung. happening now as we take a

two daunting words looming. government shutdown. it could happen friday night if congress can't get their act together. the two major sticking points are funding for zika virus and the flint water crisis. even if they reach it it's only a band-aid to keep the government ruining through december -- running through december 9th. >. and both hillary clinton and donald trump reflecting on last night's debate. >> for 90 minutes i watched her holding back. i didn't want to do anything to embarrass her. but i watched her and she was stuck in the past. >> he admitted he was on his heels for much of the debate but said he won. hillary clinton reinforced one of the big memos from last night -- moments from last night. >> he made it very clear that he didn't prepare for the debate. i did prepare, and i'll tell

for. i prepared to be president of the united states, and i think that's good. >> the two have two weeks to prepare for the next debate coming up october 9th. driving with donald. the only problem is that this is a cardboard cut out. cops pulled over a driver trying to make the hov lane great again, but a state trooper didn't see it that way. ticketed him for $136 for not having an actual passenger. no matter what lane you use, you might have to pay to get on a new highway, and yes we're talking valley's first toll road. adot confirming plans are in the works, but nothing is finalized just yet to build state route 30, giving you another option to get between the west valley and phoenix. it's been considered for awhile, but funding has always been the issue. so many of you sharing pictures of tonight's dust storm, and here's another look from queen creek right before sunset. the sunset amazing, and of

underneath that. abc 15 viewer anna sent that in, so thank you so much to her and everyone else who sent the photos into us tonight. as we take a live look at abc 15 desert doppler, the valley is back in the clear. showers and thunderstorms this evening hitting the higher terrain mostly, and cruising across i-17 near flagstaff, it's pushing farther off to the north, hitting i-40 as well, and the showers will continue to push off to the northwest in the overnight hours. watch out for brief heavy rain, the mix as well. the system tracking farther to the west is weakening, and we have a few spotty showers across far southeast arizona as well. overall here's the set up. area of low pressure down to the south that's been pumping the moisture in over the last couple of days, but just south of that is the tropical storm, and we're tapping into that moisture. the storm herself will stay offshore and weaken into

moisture getting pulled up, and we're seeing it on the water vapor imagery. all the green getting pulled across the baja and into the desert southwest, so it will increase the chance of storms especially in the higher terrain tomorrow. for phoenix more of an off day for us tomorrow. just a slight chance for a stray shower with most of the activity confined to the higher terrain and portions of southeast arizona. then we get a little bit of up tick in the storm chances thursday at 20 percent before drying back out for friday and saturday. and friday is the end of the month and the end of the monsoon, so this is the last chance to up the monsoon rain fall totals for this year. right now 81 degrees, winds at 7 miles per hour. a few light breezes expected at times tonight and tomorrow, but nothing major. up we were 70s to low 80s across the valley at this hour and 61 in sedona, and 46 in flagstaff. tonight along the rim lows in the 40s.

low to mid-50s. from the valley out to the west, low 70s. and take a look at tomorrow. still a little bit below average. 90 in casa grande, 84 in globe. 74 in prescott and 65 in flagstaffment for the valley upper 60s to low 70s in the overnight forecast. highs tomorrow in the upper 80s for carefree and cave creek, but the rest of us in the low 90s. still a couple degrees below the average of 96 tomorrow, and really looking great in the morning. 70s through at least 8 if not 9:00 a.m. so the lows r next couple of days. highs at or below average, and a dry and sunny forecast into the weekend with another cool down early next week. >> it will be are you prepared to die? that's a lot to ask. the new plans revealed for flights to mars, but what would you be will willing to act --

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you by sanderson ford. the arizona cardinals have a 24 hour rule. you have one day to feel sorry for yourself, and then it's time to move on, but that's not the case for the long snapper cameron. he was released after two mistakes. yesterday bruce arians was asked if this was the worst road loss since he's been here in arizona. >> there's no doubt. we've never given yards rushing, never had that poor of performance on 3rd down. this one, this one was a good but kicking, and better butt kicking and we took it. as the new season tips off there's been a lot of focus on whether nba players will be protesting during the national anthem. well yesterday one of the best basketball players in the world announced his intentions. >> me standling for the

will do. that's what i -- standing for the national anthem is something i will do. that's what i am, what i believe that, but that doesn't mean i don't respect what kaepernick is doing. >> lebron shut down all the questions about what he'll be doing in the national anthem. now he may have something else up his sleeve, but he definitely says he'll be standing for old glory, and case you were wondering stories. and the cardinals will wear the alternate black uniforms against the rams sunday. and kaepernick's jersey being used at a door mat at a virginia restaurant, and they say it's in response to his quote un-american national anthem protest. un-american is what some people are calling a new

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a new page of controversy for sheriff paul babeu. sources tell us the fbi has subpoenaed records related to how babeu's office used seized criminal money also known as rico funds. critics have said pcso's use of the foundation is like money laundering. and they've also accused babeu of using the funds to fuel his campaign. it may already be illegal campaigning with government resources. or if they're just being used to make the sheriff look good,

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