breaking news tonight as a police situation closes the i10 and almost any time that happens you see this, miles of back up. air 15 following this one since6:00. >> now we're seeing what caused that freeway standstill. police rushing in baskets out.

about the aftermath? >> things are back to normal we're learning more about the man who was running down the street with a knife in his hand. he ran here and tried to go over the fence. you can see that the fire that latter was there trying to get the man to get into the ladder and bring him down safely. they were able to do that but it took them several hours causing traffic. this is what i'm being told. that suspect is expected to face aggravated assault charges for attacking someone with a

information that we get from the scene. this is on union hill where a woman jaywalking got hit by a car and she's now in critical condition. the driver did stick around but officers say they're suspecting -- a second person also hurt tonight. this fire station is where they drove themselves after being shot. >> we watched him walk out of jay overnight but what sent leslie merit jr. into jail.

suspect. john erickson is reporting for us tonight. >> reporter: here's the restraining order that leslie meritt jr. is accused of violating. a 19-year-old woman says she was assaulted by merritt and is now expecting his child. saying i was his property because i have his child inside me. throughout the relationship, she writes, he threatened to kill me. and so merritt i violating that restraining order by showing up in that apartment in west glendale. we called merritt for comment, we could not reach him. we also could not reach the victim. justin de la torre is now behind befores. it follows a dash cam video we showed you earlier.

an officer was grazed by a bullet. they returned fire. la torre just booked into jail. according to the owner tonight, it might have been a big misunderstanding. a neighboring business calling police claiming they saw a guy with a gun run inside. police surrounded the place, used a loud speaker, shouted more than a dozens times for a guy to come out. turns out he's a regular just there to have a drink. >> sure. but the whole time while on police rout, the guy didn't know anything that the police were out here they're just in there drinking their beer or whatever they're having, listening to music and watching tv. >> the man was taken into

that business. cops say yohan yuhomi shot at a man. no word on how he's doing. a viewer sending us a clip of this fight is said to be in westwood high school. we'll let you know once we get ahold of school officials. banned from play offs because of recruiting practice in pads during the summer. we're talking to a lot of disappointed parents.

wrong. at -- tonight parents are trying to stay positive for the students. >> it's crushing. because they work hard all year. it's not fair for the boys because they really didn't have a say in it. >> they had a great chance to teach these kids a life lesson by resigning. because that's what you do. you hold yourself accountable when you do the right thing. that just didn't happen. >> today the arizona interscholastic association said they would face a probation. coach mark nolan sent us a three page explanation of what happened. the entire thing posted on our website. reporting in scottsdale, kim tobin. if you live in chandler stick to the speed limit, watch those red lights or say cheese. red light cameras are being turned out again next tuesday. also a new camera at the dobson and ray intersection.

about a month to receive warnings but for now citations. looking into a cell service outage. nothing we know of here. but check it out. as far as philadelphia and it sounds like this started around 4:00 or 5:00 arizona time. it comes on the heels of a west coast outage overnight. some people unable to connect for 15 hours. it's a controversial law some say the republican backed arizona measure is designed to minorities. making it a crime to collect early ballots. for now the law stands, no word if there are any plans to appeal to the supreme court. is it shaming or social pressure? is there even a difference? tonight many questioning the

republican party. comparing people's voting practices to their neighbors. you can see their voting record and they can see yours. >> we encourage people to get their ballots and vote. >> democrats used a similar flier the only difference it doesn't list neighbors by name. the same flier had a positive effect two years ago. the voting machines here are making accuracy rate after a test run. now the machines are under a lock and key where you can everyone watch them on a web cam. >> it is all locked up and sealed. we have the records on seal. when the poll workers get there, they have to verify the seals that they are the same numbers that were on there when we sent it out to that facility. >> hundreds of machines will be

at close watch. and now to the presidency. the fbi looking at those new hillary clinton e-mails meaning the case isn't necessarily closed. tonight she's calling on the feds to release more information saying, let's just get the info down. these documents came out in the case of weiner who is also being investigated. >> it's imperative that the bureau explai question, whatever it is, without any delay. because right now your guess is as good as mine. i don't think that's good enough. >> this is bigger than watergate. hillary clinton's corruption is on a scale we've never seen before. we must not let her take her criminal scheme into the oval office. so the questions tonight, do the e-mails contain any classified info.

private server. >> little rowdy tonight in cedar rapids. hillary clinton in that city today. with both nominees headed this way we're asking what is security looking like? >> drug runners in the desert. only on abc15 we're going understood cover -- going undercover to show you what's being done. >> tonight the panic inside the cabinet. etiquette of wheeling and dealing as you buy and sell online. >> another day another record. this time an early morning low. only 77 degrees this morning. it broke the daily record. those clouds brought a few showers to the north. we're going to take a closer look at desert doppler. and get you through the weekend with your most accurate record

paul babeu is abusive. physical and sexual abuse at a boarding school. woman: a school that used to be run by pinal county sheriff paul babeu. disturbing. man: babeu's school was unlicensed, abusive, and dangerous. woman: paul babeu exposed in a damning home video. man: congressional candidate not only ran a boarding school rife with abuse, he supported the abusive practices and even bragged about them. paul babeu is unfit to represent us. house majority pac is responsible

a tucson teacher arrested for having a sexual relationship with a student on campus. police encouraging tips still tonight. right now a double we have hillary clinton and donald trump visiting arizona. a late look right now as we let you know we're going to have dedicated crews in place tomorrow. make sure you get your complete coverage right here on abc15, on tv and online. making history. the city of phoenix has a new police chief. for the first time ever, a woman leads one of the

department. she takes the reigns from interim chief yener who led the department out of turmoil a few years ago. he leaves the street shooter case open. >> we made adjustments, we started the escalation training. we got ahead of that. we have body cameras on the way. we are adjusting to the new environment of policing. >> you all have entrusted me police department what that means for me, that means there's going to be a lot of days i don't get to sleep because i am out engaging with the public and community. >> her top priority on day one getting to know her department. eight people hurt tonight after that fire on a flight at o'hare airport. watch as everybody scrambled to

and it gets more intense here. you see the passengers going down the safety slide screaming the whole way down. only to stand up and look back at that fire ball. no time wasted in getting far away from this. the crew estimates everybody got off the flight in under a minute. yeah then this scare. a scene fusolage blowing up. that actually closed that terminal. maureen brown suffered through more than two dozen surgeries. her family asking for whoever hit her to come forward. >> we know finding this person is not going change what happened.

emotionally to get closure. >> scottsdale police don't have a lot of leads. they are hoping a $20,000 reward will change that. >> bill cosby is legally blind. that's from his lawyers tonight. they are arguing he won't even be able to recognize the woman accusing him of sexual abuse next week. it's all part of getting the charges dismissed and they're promising proof from his doctor. not guilty, sheriff joe arpaio is pleading. insists it wasn't on purpose. >> a big story tonight. we're taking you inside the special operation. taking down drug smugglers who managed to reach our border.

walkers walking through the desert with drugs. many of those drugs never make it to valley streets. as the sun goes down on the desert. crime comes to life under cover of darkness and so does this maricopa sheriff's office special ops squad. on foot, scouts on rich tops armed with night vision. spotting smugglers miles away. >> the groups will get split up. >> reporter: ahead of drug runners doing the same thing to dodge the deputy. >> with stun people on how sophisticated they are. >> plus eyes on the road, watching, waiting. >> we're going to turn the light off. >> suddenly. >> intel hot on the trail. >> sheriff's office. >> they've been here.

they're packing 50 to 70-pound bags. sometimes the pick up is in plain sight waiting along highways you take to rocky point. >> so blatant they'll be sitting right on the side of the road. >> reporter: this truck stopped dead in it tracks, hiding eight men and stacks of drug. this guy made it 75 miles past the border. carpet shoes hiding hides tracks. but vision goggles. still just the tip of the iceburg. >> most people realize how much drugs are coming over and the impact it's having on the state of arizona. >> reporter: until operation gila monster can fight into more bad guys. final tally, worth an 1,100

the packers mostly illegal immigrants. the locals usually local american citizens. a fire at that house down below. you see the huge response there. this is over on cactus ren and glendale. no flames to be seen at this hour but several fire trucks out there responding to this one. we're still waiting to find out if anybody was hurt if we learn more details within this newscast we moments away we have to talk baseball. history in chicago and cubs fans are getting their money's worth. >> we're just days away from halloween here in the valley. just in time for cooler air. trick or treating temperatures in the 70s through 7:00 and 8:00 p.m. we'll take a closer look at every day in your seven day forecast coming up. >> and you know if you need help planning your halloween weekend our smart chopper -- shopper team has got you

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gets pretty heavy at times you can see some of the flooding there. you can see the storm system coming in this weekend which will keep rain chances going. we are watching that one still offshore off the coast of northern california. we also have this ones tracking. is going to take these too far to the north to get in on any major changes here in our state. but, there is going to be a slight chance of a few isolated showers. especially across northern arizona. an little bit of that action tonight. watch futurecast going into tomorrow. you can see what i'm talking about here. just a slight chance for those far northern reaches of our state. our valley forecasting seeing much more forecasting tomorrow. a few more clouds working their way into the day on sunday. we stay dry with no chances for rain here. we'll keep the northern arizona spots over the mountain that will provide a bit of a lift.

forecast is looking good. it's looking warm. not as warm as we were yesterday. temperatures in the low 80s at 10:00 a.m. saturday and sunday. mid-90s at 3:00. by 9:00 both evening down into the 80s. right now we're at 80 degrees. winds are calm, our dewpoint in the 40s. we still have glendale and levine in the 80s but the rest of the valley has dropped down into the mid- to upper 70s. we look up north. show low at 55. sedona and prescott at this hour. here's what we expect tonight. down to 57 in globe. 67 in casa grande. no freezes on the map tonight and temperatures almost as warm tomorrow as where we ended up today. 65 up in flagstaff. 79 in sedona tomorrow. 84 in globe.

mountain hills at 91. tempe at 93 degrees. and in the west valleys, we'll see highs at 93 in glendale, avondale and levin. here's how it shapes up hour by hour. 76 is our morning low. that was the record for us. tomorrow with less clouds for your wake up it is looking like we will drop into the 60s. 69 in phoenix. then those 90s will set in. look at average 83 degrees. near that. even with the drop down to 88 on monday for halloween. we're still going to be running several degrees above average. then we start another warming trend which will take it back into the 90s by the end of next week. >> game three making its historic return to wrigley. down 1-0. men on second and third and baez strikes out to

game four saturday night in chicago. >> comedian bill murray making tonight a little more memorable. >> this is the best moment. you've got to see this hilarious moment. >> you need to take this as america's greatest entertainer mr. daffy duck. so i want you to spray it and don't say it. a take me out to the ball game ? ? take me out with the crowd ? >> gosh, okay. good time in chicago today

tonight i have to rave about this young man. he was released so what did he do? he went to get a job at ups. he was seven days into that job when the cardinals called him to say come back. >> my mom suggested ups and i just went for it. i always have faith. i believe in god. i knew it would work out end. >> pretty easy guy to root for right. he also told us he hasn't officially quit his job at ups. just took some time off. he's not sure if he'll need that job any time soon but he hopes he didn't. keep an eye on asu's quarterback situation. looks like they will once again be without a starter with a shoulder injury but has been named a game time decision.

2:00. we have a full slate of match ups right here all throughout the day. the morning game eighth ranked baylor at texas at 5:30. and clemson and number 12 florida state in tallahassee. wearing ncs color there is

vo: 13 year-old sabrina told a school counselor she was raped by her uncle. her counselor called sheriff joe arpaio's office. but arpaio failed to protect her. for three more years, and arpaio did nothing. rapes, assaults, even child molestation, remain uninvestigated, while arpaio focuses on his personal agenda. arpaio talks tough,

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