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>> plus, a manhunt after someone we're always watching out for breaking news. we've got live pictures of a serious crash near 73rd avenue and indian school. our abc15 crew just getting to the scene. >> we know two people on a motorcycle are the ones hurt. a 63-year-old man and a woman in her 40s. both have been rushed to the hospital. the scope of their injuries still unclear. all new tonight at 10:00, a judge ordering a phoenix grandmother locked up.
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the country with a half million dollars worth of cocaine. >> abc15's john erickson is live. her lawyer says she does a lot of babysitting in phoenix. >> her lawyer says she baby sits her three grandchildren but the work she's accused of doing now is carrying individual bags of cocaine to detroit. she could go to prison now for 10 years. >> reporter: that jail is in detroit. that city is where 63-year-old cheryl chedham is accused of flying with almost $600,000 worth of cocaine. federal court paperwork says she flew from las vegas to detroit, landed friday. authorities ended up pulling her over. that's when police allegedly found the drugs. they got more suspicious when she made her phone call. here's the prosecutor. >> she said she wanted to call her daughter. when she was given the phone she had in her possession and she wanted to call her daughter, she went to a contact in her phone listed as lover boy. that in and of itself also raised suspicion for the
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daughter's contact of lover boy. >> reporter: we never learned who lover boy really is. her lawyer says she's sick and should be let go to come home to phoenix. the prosecutor says she wasn't sick enough to stay home in the first place. >> got on a plane in las vegas, flew to the city of detroit with 17 kilograms of cocaine in her luggage. >> reporter: the judge decided no, she stays in jail for now. the prosecutor says as this grandmother grew older her rap sheet grew with her. >> most clustered when she's in her late 40s and at the age of 50. so this isn't an instance or individual standing before you where you can say perhaps we can chuck this up to use and imaturity. >> reporter: the prosecutor says she's wanted here in the valley too. we tried to reach the daughter for comment at the family home here in west phoenix.
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breaking right now, two words we hate to hear. campus shooting. this is at the university of cincinnati and we can report that nobody is hurt. but that shooter is still out there. witnesses saying he appeared to be high on something and just lost it. >> my guess, something was stolen from him and then they were trying to get it back and the guy just wasn't acting right. and then he didn't even do anything to make him mad. the guy just started freaking out. >> reporter: police are keeping they continue their search. tense moments right now in el cajon, california, the site of the deadly police shooting last month. protesters now returning to the scene. some of them reportedly with guns. police forming a human chain trying to make sure things don't get out of control. we're already hearing about several protesters handcuffed and taken in to custody. more answers should be coming in a matter of hours in that deadly crash on a coronado bridge. four people died over the weekend including a chandler couple.
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that tomorrow. crews in anna marie contrares were visiting for a motorcycle festival when the driver who police say was drunk plunged off the bridge. we're told that driver is an active duty navy sailor and still had his phone in his hands when he was pulled out of his truck. an update to breaking news we first reported on the abc15 live desk at 6:00. the computer problems appear to be fixed at southwest. the airline tweeting out this message within the past couple of hours. at one point domestic flights online. jetblue which uses the same computer system also dealing with the issue. all new at 10:00, a murder suspect telling abc15 he regrets killing a man but says defending his turf was apart of life as a homeless man. owen coho said all he wanted to do was go to sleep friday night near 18th avenue in peoria but says robot pruitt tried to steal
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get violent. he said he warned pruitt and felt threatened so he used his knife. >> stabbed him right in the heart. >> he apologizes to the victim's family and says he truly regrets what he did. two little girls with so much to live for and so many more memories to make. as soon as tomorrow police say they may release their names. investigators say their own father killed them in their tolleson home before taking his own life. before the tragedy the girls' mother called police, worried about her ex-husband's we-b a valley construction worker may have to miss some time on the job after getting burned during a gas leak. this is at an apartment complex near 27th and indian school. at one point 30 people had to be evacuated but they've all been allowed back home. it's more clear than ever, arizona is stacking up to be a battleground state. >> tomorrow kicks off a number of big campaign stops right here in the valley. joe joins us live tonight. >> on the heels of two security stays, extra precautions are now
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to normal, but you can bet the doors here will be locked uptight, and come tomorrow, there will be extra security here at the gop state office. that comes after a bomb threat was phoned in. that forced an hours long evacuation around 3:00 this afternoon. abc15 the first to bring these details to you. a worker telling us a voicemail revealing a bomb planted in the building and the voice warning everyone should get out. police searched for two hours before giving the all clear. the arizona republican chairman says this is flat out voter intimidation and politically motivated. >> when they bomb an office where people are working then they put bomb threats in offices like ours, it's nothing but trying to constrain people's first amendment rights. >> and the gop state chairman there referencing that fire bombing of a republican office in north carolina over the weekend. now this threat taken extremely seriously, whoever called in that threat still a mystery tonight.
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the arizona republic ever since the paper endorsed hillary clinton. >> the paper's president says it's been difficult on employees but they have a duty to uphold. >> without a free press there's no democracy. so the idea that people would find us to be offensive or to demonize us i find very sad. >> hillary clinton's team meanwhile rallying after a new arizona pole shows she's neck and neck in our state. pollsters at high ground found donald t in rural areas but clinton won every statewide age group except people over the age of 65. arizona's 11 electoral votes now a toss-out. >> it's going to probably be a little nastier. we're going to see questions about the immigration stuff come up again, questions about integrity. i'd expect more e-mail discussions. but it's a tougher road ahead for the trump campaign because
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we're looking at. >> clinton meantime sending her a list team to arizona this week. bernie sanders tomorrow. chelsea clinton on wednesday. and first lady michelle obama on thursday. abc15 will be at each of those events. we're also sending a team to vegas for wednesday's presidential debate. much more on the campaign trail coming up in just moments. sheriff joe arpaio one signature away tonight from officially being criminally charged, all for violating court orders stemming from a racial profiling case involving his deputies. the departnt announcing its proposed charge against the sheriff. a federal judge still needs to sign off on the proposal before it can become official. when it does, a legal analyst tells abc15 there's a chance arpaio's only looking at a misdemeanor, meaning he could stay in office if re-elected and convicted. meantime the man working to unseat the sheriff just got endorsed by four former phoenix police chiefs and while paul
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sheriff's legal battle, they did. >> while you have police officers being ambushed and murdered and when you have a large segment of the community that's lost trust in their law enforcement agency like the sheriff's department, then it's time for a change. >> former chief jack harris, dennis garrett, ruben ortega giving the same reason for their endorsement. they say mcso needs to be restored. abc15 the first to report the news. more than a week ago. tonight mcso making it in response to police officers being shot all over the country. volunteer armed posse members will now ride in the patrol vehicles of many deputies, serving as a protective second set of eyes. a bite for a bite? at least that's the way it sounds. cops say 23-year-old dominic gracia was driving in a stolen truck when they stopped him. a police k-9 tracking him down and bit him. then cops say gracia bit an officer trying to restrain him. they eventually got him after
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breaking news out of queens, new york. a storage unit auction leading to an awful surprise. it might not look like much but inside this freezer and one other like it, the man who bought the unit found 40 dead cats, all of them frozen. police are now trying to track down the original owner. they also plan to do autopsies on the animals. new video tonight showing halloween decorations outside but the real scare was inside this tucson home. a mom shot son. somehow the toddler got ahold of the weapon and when mom tried to take it away, the gun went off, hitting her in the arm. she'll be okay but charges are still a possibility. just in tonight, the connection we were certainly hoping to hear about. after a purple heart medal turned up at a good will, likely by mistake. our sister station in tucson now letting us know contact has been made with that deserving world war ii pilot's family in another state. the name of the back of the
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purpose before, to have a hero in your family that served his country and died for his country is kind of amazing. >> de la hunt was declared missing in action and later killed in action during a mission in north africa. goodwill reached out to the v.a. organizations about his medal right away. time to talk cardinals now. big night match-up. started well and ended well. >> much needed win over the jets. craig fouhy live at university of phoenix stadium tonight. about this one. >> oh, my gosh. you talk about needing a win and you said it there, stephanie. a must-win situation for the cardinals. they were 2-3 on the season after being ballyhooed as one of the super bowl favorites. they got the resounding win, convincing win, 28-3 over the new york jets. >> i felt it was an easy game
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we finally scored in the 1st quarter. it was a nice run. we've won two in a row. we're still just a .500 ball club but i like the way we look right now. >> much more from the university of phoenix stadium and our cardinals win tonight a little bit later on in the newscast. we've got three of tonight's biggest stories moments away. including an update just in on the motorcycle decision. >> a gun shop owner taking aim at hillary clinton in a controversial new ad. >> a new kind of counterfeit cat ripping p holidays. >> and cooler overnight lows on the way. how cold does it get tonight? high pressure, it's sticking around. that means more warm sunny dry conditions ahead. we have some valley breezes that are headed back up. i'll let you know when you can
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allegations against pinal county sheriff paul babeu. paul babeu exposed in a damning home video. accusations of widespread abuse at a massachusetts private school. she is sick of hearing sheriff paul babeu lie. allegations of abuse of power. another headache, the fbi has subpoenaed records. lawsuits regarding abuse and neglect. questions of babeu's integrity. new page of controversy. a question of judgment. ultimately voters are going to have to decide if he's the type of candidate they want in congress. dccc is responsible for the content of this advertising. want to take you back to the crash at indian school. two people on motorcycles. the ones hurt here we know they
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expected to survive. indian school now closed between 71st and seventy-fourth avenue. a woman driving out near tulsa gets in to car trouble. she pulls over then two people dressed as clowns stop their car and get out. instead of helping her, they assault her by putting a cigarette out on her forehead and then writing clown posse on her face with a marker before stealing her car. people who live in that area un this news. >> i've lived out here long enough to know that people do go off the road, do have accidents and do need help and then for something like this to happen, that's really dangerous for people. >> police still looking for those clown crooks. now to the latest on the campaign trail. donald trump saying if he wins the white house, he might meet with russian president vladimir putin before his inauguration. critics accuse trump of having a
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a little too cozy but he says the tension between the two countries needs to be fixed. the republican nominee heads to colorado tomorrow, a place many believe is a swing state. meantime melania trump responding one-on-one to the tape of her husband. she said it's not all his fault. >> he was lead on, like egg on from the host to say dirty and bad stuff. billy bush, fired by nbc tonight. meantime, melania trump saying she does not believe the woman accusing her husband of sexual assault. new accusations surrounding the e-mail scandal with hillary clinton. appears to show a top state official offered a bribe to the fbi to declassify an e-mail from clinton's private server. both she and the fbi are denying those claims. fbi director james comey refusing to answer any questions
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>> i'm not going to comment on that. >> as for clinton, she'll start making her way to las vegas tomorrow for wednesday night's debate which you can see right here on abc15. a vegas gun shop taking some heat for an ad they just placed in a local newspaper mentioning hillary clinton. here it is. it reads, quote, don't wait. prices will skyrocket after crooked hillary wins. the words appear alongside a semiautomatic rifle. here's what the owner of the shop has to say. crooked hillary gets in she's going to take away all our guns. i'm calling to action people come get them now before the prices spike. >> he says he's already seen an uptick in business over the past 24 hours and hopes it continues. sleep tight. don't let the bedbugs bite. the one valley mom says she's marks all over her daughter's legs did not come from under the covers. instead from a trip to the grocery store. sarah gindro telling us her 6-year-old daughter grabbed a
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loop 101 in chandler. before she made it out the door, she noticed marks all over her daughter. >> none of the things in the aisle were covered. who knows what else it could have been on. >> walmart releasing a statement to abc15 saying they'll have a team come inspect the store. it's a new kind of counterfeit and with the holidays approaching, police only expect to see more of this. special type of cash. it's call teller training note. banks use them to train employees but they're showing up crooks are trying to use them during the busiest parts of the day, hoping stores won't take the time to notice. >> slow down. look at it. if it don't look right, contact the police department. don't take it. >> these teller training notes have three distinct features. chinese lettering on one side, a dash in the corner, and apparently the paper feels very different. meantime, just steady as she
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not complaining. >> 60s in the mornings. a little warm in the afternoon. not bad though. 90s. high pressure. that's what you get. not a lot happening here, making again for a beautiful evening sitting in the upper 70s. we did top out today at 91. 30% humidity out across the valley tonight at phoenix sky harbor. 79 in tempe, 72 in mesa. fountain hills in the low 70s. upper 60s right now coming in in the west valley, peoria, and surprise right now at 69 degrees as you look at the valley winds, they they were much stronger across the high country. take a look at some of these top gusts just really clocked these a few hours ago. 42-mile-per-hour gusts in show low. flagstaff, 36-mile-per-hour gusts today. sedona, 28-mile-per-hour gusts. payson. everything north of the rim had those stronger winds and still has breezes out there tonight in the show low area. sustained winds right now, 5 to 15 miles per hour. but tomorrow these winds are going to be returning to the
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different. they won't be quite as strong tomorrow. around 25 to 30 miles per hour with those gusts. valley looking for light winds. once again very similar to today, out of the southwest 5 to 10 miles per hour. maybe a couple breezes up to 15 miles per hour. satellite radar composite, very quiet cross the entire state. sunny skies here. couple passing clouds to the north. have to go well to the north to find the chance for showers and even snow showers due to a ridge of high pressure that's going to continue to build in over the that keeps those storm tracks well to the north, moves them off to the east over the next couple of days so not a lot is going to be changing for us. we'll stay warm, above average with those highs. no records. average high temperature in the upper 80s. 88 tomorrow. we'll be forecasting a high of 91. 93 wednesday. a little bit warmer as we climb up to 96 thursday. that's when our breezes return. those breezes help warm us up a little bit. right now in the 40s in
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60 in kingman. and prescott, you're also sitting in the 60s. headed down in to the 40s tonight. 65 in phoenix. 59, casa grande. 50s, tucson tonight. then highs tomorrow, upper 80s casa grande. 77 in payson. 67 in flagstaff. take a look at your most accurate forecast with me. you're going to see temperatures staying in the 90s as we go through the next several days. 96, thursday. breezes in the forecast through friday. this weekend we'll also be lookin morning lows in the 60s. and listen up, dancing with the stars fans. here's your chance to win a getaway to the grand finale, hotel, airfare and more. tonight's weather word of the day, warm. with those 90s in the forecast, thought that was appropriate. enter it on abc15.com/dancing for your chance to win. good luck. the cardinals celebrating a blow-out win at university of phoenix stadium. that's where we find craig fouhy.
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to. >> how about david johnson tonight? he was phenomenal again. 157 yards rushing a week ago against san francisco. 111 yards rushing tonight against the jets. we'll hear from david coming up
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welcome back to university of phoenix stadium. i'm craig fouhy. a nice win over the jets. the jets are not the best football team in town but they're 1-5. right now it's still a win. that's all that matters because the cardinals are now 3-3, .500 on the season. let's talk about the player of 31. three rushing touchdowns tonight. 111 yards rushing. the longest of his career at 58 yards, early in the game. the cards finally score in the 1st quarter, something they haven't done all season long. david johnson again coming off 157 yards rushing last week, 111 tonight and those three touchdowns, now has eight rushing touchdowns on the season, the most of any player in the nfl. afterwards david johnson saying it's the running game that gets
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>> we knew they were second in the nfl in the run defense. the guys up front, it makes my life a lot easier. the way they're blocking, not just the o line but everyone. we knew that if we get it going early, we continue to sustain the momentum and continue to run the ball. >> that's the key, running the football. tonight they finish with 171 yards rushing against the jets. a great night for them. tonight a 28-3 win here at university of phoenix stadium. we've got to talk too. i understand the d-backs with a big announcement. >> the arizona diamondbacks just snagged themselves one of the top up and coming gms. the team introduced mike hazen as their new general manager. hazen spent the last 11 years with the boston red sox, last season being his first as general manager. is he the man that can help turn this thing around. >> hopefully we can as a group
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out a way to map out a path to success where we'll have a much better pitching staff going in to next season. that's our goal. but there's a lot of conversation that's going to surround that. i don't have any exact answers yet because you have to really dig in to that before you're going to. >> he went on to say his first order of business, finding a new skipper. so expect maybe another announcement coming up in the near future. >> there's some room for improvement i think. >> i'd say so. nowhere to go but up. >> full support from all of us. we're excited about it. still ahead, fast food hacks. we're taking action with five ways to get some of the food you
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big reason that fast food can be so appealing. it's cheap. taking action tonight with five ways you can get even more bang for your buck. >> it's true. according to the website simple most, save a dollar at arby's, for example, by getting two junior roast beef sandwiches rather than the one classic. >> at chipotle, don't forget
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and at mcdonald's, instead of the big mac, order a double cheese burger without ketchup and mustard but with lettuce and special sauce, same thing but $2 cheaper. >> at starbucks ask for light ice in your iced coffee. split a foot long instead of ordering two six-inch subs. a lot of people shop at costco to save money but if you're not careful, you can break the bank. >> pop sugar came out wit several money saving suggestions. avoid the action alley. those are all the flashy displays and end caps. some distributors pay to be there and price those items pretty aggressively. >> use your membership outside of the store to access costco travel, a website for things like rental cars, theme parks, vacation packages. and finally, buy halloween candy in bulk. just did that. usually you don't need 30 king sized candy bars but this might
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if you're handing out king sized candy bars at your house, people will be driving to you. forecast going to be a little warm, really the next seven days. we're above average highs. mid 90s on the way. breezes returning thursday and friday. morning lows very nice, in the 60s. >> we love it. jimmy kimmel is next.
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james p. walsh: to keep our community safe - we need a sheriff who will put fighting violent crime ahead of his own political agenda. paul penzone has been a decorated crime-fighter for over 20 years. a police officer, undercover investigator, and dea task force agent of the year. paul penzone caught murderers, put drug kingpins behind bars, and created award-winning programs that protect our community.
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who will put our safety first. >> dicky: from hollywood, it's "jimmy kimmel live"! tonight -- ewan mcgregor. from "jack reacher: never go back," kobe smolders. and music from the 1975. and now, not only that, here's [ cheers and applause ] ? >> jimmy: i'm jimmy, i'm the host of the show. thanks for watching, thanks for coming.

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