you see the detour signs. deputies and state troopers trying to negotiate with that. traffic diverted and we have no idea when the situation may clear up. try to avoid the area if you can. remnants of tropical storm xawfer that brought heavy rain and gusty winds to the area. the storm system moved into our state from the south an it moved quickly throughout the d before pounding the phoenix metro area today. it was tuesday that got hit hard. so much rain that three cars were trapped by flood waters by the city streets. the cars are swamped. they had to shut down the exit ramps because of the flooding.

firefighters say a state official tried to avoid flooding. crews had to break the back window to get her out. we are told she is doing ok tonight. fast-moving winds kicked up a wall of dust that formed in the east valley in the chandler area. this is incredible. this is taken from a southwest airline flight leaving sky harbor airport. a perfect shot of the wall of dust making their way into the valley. these kimball as the dust covered the valley. these pictures from are kari lake. the top picture and the bottom picture showing the dust storm. if we can lose the banner, we can see the dust moving in around noon today in central phoenix looking south as the storm covered downtown at tempe and south mountain quickly moving through the valley. that was followed by showers. a welcome sight after all of

fountain hills. a flood advisory for that community and scottsdale until 2:00 p.m. flooded roads started to dry out this afternoon. >> reporter: apache junction is drying out after the storm earlier today dropped more than 2 inches of rain here in a span of an hour. what you're looking at is 16th avenue and this looks like a gentle stream right now. earlier, it was more than a raging river. streets and washes in apache junction turning into raging waterways tuesday as passing storms drench the city dropping at least a couple of inches of rain in a span of an hour. rain waters flooded the wash overcoming 16th avenue. the storm hit during the lunch hour. local crews and law enforcement were busy shutting down flooded streets.

i think a lot of people here in apache junction underestimate how powerful that is. >> reporter: imagine prep superstition had to cancel their football practice today. this was their path to their football field so they can't get to the football field because of this raging river rushing through here. you can see how powerful this water is. you can see the white crests on the top of the water here. a lot of water moving very >> i think she is dead. >> reporter: a handful of drivers did get into trouble with rapidly rising water on the roads. >> my co-worker is like you will be good and now look, he is at home and i'm stuck here. >> reporter: so the lesson the here don't drive through a flooded street? >> especially if you're a little car like me.

it takes 6 inches of water to make a car stall. >> people living in the east valley are bracing for more rain, especially in the emerald park area of mesa. you may remember that neighborhood got hit hard suffering severe flooding. this is along the us-60 between stapley drive and gilbert road. a retention basin got and overflowed. it left a lot of homeowners with damage. they do have equipment ready to roll and sandbags available to residents who need them. steve krafft is live right now. steve, people won't forget what happened two years ago. >> reporter: i was here in this neighborhood a couple years ago and it was bad. this is emerald park.

supposed to collect. a couple years ago, it went across the street and into homes that was bad. the city is confident it won't happen again. >> reporter: emerald park in mesa has come a long way since the time it flooded. people we net in this -- met in this area don't think they are going to suffer damage. >> i'm from louisiana so i love the >> ot too much, i feel like this is a safe area. we have lagoons here. not too concerned about it. >> reporter: we're at stapley and eighth avenue. this is not the only place in mesa where you can get sand and sandbags. there are a half dozen places around town if you need protection. >> reporter: a big dust storm rolled through the east valley,

the rain came in some places. this is ray road near ray road in ahwatukee. if you got your car washed, hope you got a rain check. if we get rain tomorrow, here in mesa, if all goes well, that rain will collect here in emerald park and it will stay here and not go into anybody's home. reporting live in mesa, steve krafft, fox 10 news. for a list of locations across the valley where you can pick up sand for sandbags if you need them, go to fox10phoenix.com and click on seen on tv. we could get more rain tonight and into tomorrow. dave munsey tracking the weather for us. >> reporter: let's take a look at it and see what is going on as far as the moisture that snuck in here this morning. literally that is what it did. you can see a pretty good storm system working its way through. take a look here.

look at these accumulations. look at fountain hills, 2.5 inches. south of the city, .5 or less than .5 of an inch. look at that at apache junction, 2.5 inches right there. you head down by maricopa, one inch there. north of phoenix, one inch. south of maricopa in the desert area, 1.5 inches. we get another look over here on look at tucson, almost 3.5 inches. a little shy of that and north of tucson 1.5 inches. you can see this stuff up in the show low area. where is it coming from? right here this is tropical depression now. xavier, the problems that xavier has caused.

moisture along it with. we will take a look at the futurecast in a few minutes. the dew points, we'll look at. there is a lot of moisture that is coming up. >> the agency has started sending out bilingual tweets. a number of the tweets are in english and spanish. during repeat storm, the national weather service tells fox 10 they are experimenting with an posts weather alerts in spanish. the agency says they are hoping to have individual twitter and facebook accounts dedicated to the spanish language exclusively. >> a lot of fox 10 viewers showing weather photos today. check out this footage from tempe. it is posted on our facebook page in the area of mill avenue

blowing through. check out this image. this was taken near 44th street and university in phoenix. you can see the huge wall of dust and dark clouds behind. a shot of driving in the dust along i-10 this morning. drivers across freeways dealing with low visibility this morning. >> we appreciate all of thought photos. if you would like to share yo facebook page and tag them using the hash tag fox 10 phoenix. in a fox follow-up, police identify a suspect shot by an officer after he allegedly shot his mother and another woman. he was booked into jail on aggravated assault. he was seen assaulting a woman sunday night. he also assaulted a witness who

assaulting his own mother. police went in the home and saw that he was holding his mother. he resisted arrest but officers were able to take him into custody. he was treated at the hospital for nonlife-threatening injuries. police arrested a second suspect in an armed robbery at a smoke shop. he will be extra arizona. he robbed a smoke shop at 91st avenue and union hills. surveillance video shows them pointing handguns at the owner. no one was hurt. more than two years after a prison inmate rapes a teacher behind bars orders the inmate to pay her $10 million.

settlement from the state. it is unlikely that jacob harvey will come up with the money if the judge decides to award $10 million from the victim. the victim could receive earnings from casinos as he is a member of the m -- indianed of ham

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police police reports related to the unsolved serial shooting in phoenix are released. they show detectives have recovered bullet casings from a number of crime scenes. witnesses told investigators descriptions of the vehicles. they were targeted in phoenix. a total of seven people have

hispanic man with black hair. he is believed to use several vehicles in the attacks. there is a $50,000 reward that leads to his arrest. a san tan valley couple accused of ditching their 2-year-old son to go play pokemon go have been indicted. brenltd and brianna daley been charged with child abuse. the toddler was said to be dehydrated and overheated at the time. maricopa county supervisor gets into a war of words with management with the arizona diamondbacks after the board of is supervisors rejects $65 million in upgrades to the field. county supervisor wrote to

business, professional baseball is on its way to destroy its host. he had a chance encounter, face-to-face with hall and said if i were up to me, i would let you take your stupid baseball fame game and get out, take it to west virginia. that is aimed at the owner who is from west virginia. he believes that taxpayers should never have paid for the stadium in the tim improvements. >> it came out of frustrations that i've had with the diamondbacks and the management of the team. >> so he says he apologizes for the way the comments came out but not the sentiment. his comments will cause the team to move forward in a "different direction." dave munsey is here with an update on the stormy weather

dave, you have been telling us we were going to feel the affects of xavier and many people around the state are feeling it. reporter: the watches that were in effect, are in effect were in effect for this afternoon and evening and had to

the system came rolling in here. it will continue to push moisture in our direction. 93 degrees right now. winds out of the east at 10 miles an hour. 92 in scottsdale. 97 in glendale. it is 95 in ahwatukee. 91 in fountain hills at this time. take a look at what the going on here, there is the rotation from the low. there is the rotation from the high. there is the moisture that brings it up into the state. that is what is this morning when the moisture found its way in here. it is nice and dry at the present time. we had a lot going on. as you look down toward the tucson area, this area had 3.5 inches of rain. lots of flooding in tucson. there was debris floating down the roadway there. big storms earlier but those storms have moved out of here. even up north, or in the east we

this is from it is xavier with lots of moisture wrapped around it and continuing to move in a northerly direction. it continues to push more moisture. speaking of moisture, take a look at the dew point temperatures. right now all of them in the 60's. lots of available moisture in the state. with that around, we have the flash-flood watch for the north. we have flash-floated watch for the tucson area. we have active weather that is going to find its way in here. we are looking at that happening a couple times during the day. 97 degrees is what we had for a high today at sky harbor. you can see other temperatures across the country, once again, it was the southeast where they saw a lot of moisture. overnight, 83 with a chance of

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night. we'll get into that. news now in moments and we'll be back at 9:00. >> we'll see you then. hopefully, folks get a chance to dry out tonight. >> reporter: tonight is the chance. if we see rain, it will be late, maybe after midnight or tomorrow morning. >> "tmz" is next. we're back at 9:00 and 10:00.

>> today on "tmz" -- harvey: well, justin timberlake seemed to say that this would never happen, but nsync reunited for one song. ? happy birthday to you ? >> everyone got together at the nice guy for j.c.'s 40th >> that means j.c.'s the favorite because justin doesn't go to anyone's stuff. >> no one goes to chris' dude. >> chris doesn't even go to chris'. >> one candle. >> the rock apparently hates some of his co-stars on "fast and furious 8." some conduct themselves as stand-up men and true professionals while others don't. candy asses. harvey: jason statham is a suspect. scott eastwood is a suspect. >> i feel like it's tyrese. >> why, because he's black? >> the rock is black.