new information about a little girl who was hit by a police cruiser as she was buying ice cream. >> there's a that's circulating and swirling in the media right now that is not consistent with what we have seen thus far. >> how that little girl is doing. a car demolished, the crash shutting down a valley freeway this morning. is donald trump coming back to the valley in the next week or so? what we have learned this morning. >> and a storm moves across the valley, bringing rain, wind, and

thank you for being with us. we begin with a news alert this noon, live pictures from skyfox. this is a deadly motorcycle crash in mesa. country club and southern. >> mesa fire confirming that the motorcyclist was killed in the crash. as you can imagine, there is traffic restrictions in the area. so if you're heading out, you'll want to avoid the intersection for quite a while. also first on fox, we are getting our first update this afternoon on the little girl who was hit by a last week while getting some ice cream from a truck. >> today her parents releasing a videotaped message and their attorney spoke out. nicole garcia joins us live now in the studio with the latest on what happened today. nicole? >> reporter: troy and celeste, that little girl's name is vanessa and right now she is still in the hospital in a medically induced sleep. she is fighting for her life. meanwhile, her attorneys are conducting a separate investigation into this crash. this is three-year-old vanessa.

injuries after she was hit by a phoenix police cruiser right in front of her house. >> vanessa was dragged under the police cruiser while her head and the side of her face were scraped up against the asphalt. while she laid in the pavement, after she was run over by the police vehicle, her mother, her ten-year-old brother 7-year-old sister came to her side. suffice it to say, these are images that they will never forget. >> vanessa had to undergo surgery to remove portions of her skull and cranium to remove brain swelling. the accident happened one week ago near 57th avenue and camelback. vanessa had just purchased an

police say she darted across the street towards her home and the officer didn't see her until it was too late. today attorneys insist she did not run or dart into the street but could not specify exactly how the three-year-old ended up in the middle of the street by herself. attorneys say they are doing their own independent investigation. >> i would like to appreciate everybody that is praying for my daughter, for my family, so she can get better, and just thank you, everybody. >> now, phoenix 35-year-old female officer, an 8-year-old veteran of the force, was alone in the cruiser when the crash happened and that she is absolutely devastated about this accident. the officer's name has not been released. meanwhile, attorneys have set up a website and a gofundme page for the little girl for those interested in helping out, and you can find more information on that, on our website at fox10phoenix.com. reporting live, i'm nicole garcia, fox 10 news. political news for you, fox

will likely be here in the valley next week. it will be his fifth campaign stop in the state. the city says trump has reached out looking for a location to make a policy speech next wednesday. he's looking for a site that will hold more than 500 people. the city says they don't have any venues that meet the requirement and have advised the campaign to work with hotels in the area. we have been hearing about this immigration speech that he was supposed to give, but then he postponed it, so we'll pass any details to you as they are confirmed. it's hard to believe right now with our relatively sunny skies as you can see here, the valley area under a weather alert this morning. the system brought rain, lightning, and i am sure as you have heard thunder. here's a shot from a gopro putting us right into the passenger seat as you can see. there is near the loops 101 and

of rain thankful. the storm cells have moved from the valley, up to the northeast, right across the middle of it, this is near i-17 and thunderbird. showers overnight, pretty intense on the west side for a while before the storm moved out to the east. a lightning strike knocked out power striking a power poll at 34th and mcdowell. people watched as the electricity traveled to a poll across the street and then just started sparking. about 1100 peo neighborhood were without power at one point. and then take a look at this, a big flash was caught on our tower cam, you see it right there? we believe this is a picture of the pole or possibly a transformer. there is a better shot of it right there being hit by the lightning. >> yeah, it was a good flash. some of you are posting pictures on our facebook page. you know how we feel about that. we love it. so this shot of lightning from fox 10 viewer michelle pugh, look at that, you can see the bundle of lightning, and then it

little bit. we would to get your pictures of the rain, the wind, whatever you have, post them on our fox 10 facebook page. for weather anytime, you can download our weather app at fox10phoenix.com. in other news this noon, a bad crash in the southeast valley this morning, and when you see some of these photographs of the demolished car that you see here, it is hard to believe no one was killed but several people were very badly hurt. fo 202 san tan freeway just south of elliot road. skyfox over the seen this morning, several people hurt, one in critical condition, one had to be cut out of the vehicle. the southbound lanes were shut down it during part of the morning rush hour and have since reopened. president obama heads to louisiana. he's there for the first time to our the flood damage and speak to the flood victims, some of his critics saying it's maybe

>> love >> see where he trying to jump from rooftop to rooftop. she's impressed now. >> i am sure. and wait until you see what a surgeon found in the stomach of a police constable. >> a sinkhole opens up right

you're watching fox 10 news at noon with troy hayden and syleste rodriguez in hd. president obama travels to louisiana. he's there right now getting a firsthand look at the flood damage and talking to people affected by it. he says their recovery is a national priority. he was greeted at baton rouge's airport by louisiana governor john bel edwards and other officials. the president took some criticism by opting to stay on his family's two-week vacation

heading down to louisiana. flooding brought on by heavy storms has forced thousands of people into temporary housing. more than 115,000 people have registered for federal disaster aid. while in louisiana the president will also meet with the families of slain baton rouge police officers and with the family of alton sterling down there. you remember that shooting that caused some rioting in the area. new at noon, a philadelphia man learns his lesson the hard way that jumping in between buildings is not such a good idea. a man met a woman, took her up to a rooftop, where he tried to impress his date by jumping from run rooftop to another. as you can guess it, it didn't turn out so well. the man missed his landing, fell, and was wedged in between the buildings. rescuers, as you can see, spent more than three hours at a nearby building, eventually

out. >> they had to break through a wall? >> to break him out. >> that will impress your date. >> needless to say, he is embarrassed. a heartbreaking story out of chicago, a fire taking the life of three children and a man. crews responded to second and third floors, a man jumped from the third floor window with a baby in his killed and the man is in serious condition. the cause of the fire is unknown. stuck on the truck, not where you want to be stuck, the side winder coaster abruptly stopped with 27 people on it. they were walked down to safety. fortunately nobody was hurt. park officials are now trying to figure out what caused the roller coaster to seize up. caught on camera a sink whole swallows two people in china. choin's state media released video of the sinkhole.

that have kind of fallen here. >> yeah. >> it just opens up from right underneath them. it shows that two people slipping right into the hole as it opened up. both were hurt, taken to the hospital. their conditions are unknown. this is kind of like a scene out of a movie here. and it's in a -- it's in like a black and white, kind of like infrared video, maybe. italian police in a big boat chasing somebody on a jet ski can or a really small boa front of them with 500 pounds of marijuana. look at them cutting them off, roping them up, like a james bond movie. they were crossing the adriatic sea out there. they caught one but the other got away. a doctor in india removed fort knives from a man's stomach. he had been swallowing them for

five-hour surgery. many of the fives were folded, up to seven inches long. surgeons said the man could not explain why he swallowed all of those knives. 42 years old, he works as a police constable. he is said to have a psychiatric disorder and is now being treated. >> so he wanted to eat knives? >> yeah, they were tasty i guess to him. >> at least he made it. hey, forbes magazine named jennifer lawrence the highest paid actress in the world last year, so who does the honor to this year? >> but first, it's mother nature versus fox 10 reporter liz kotalik, and it looks like mother nature took the round. >> and her umbrella.

>> the sound of rain. >> especially here in phoenix. we just don't get it all that often. but we did today, it poured in central phoenix this morning at 35th avenue and grand. they got rain, lightning, some wind, and our liz kotalik as out there at 5:00 a.m. going live when this happened. >> okay. ryan, it happened again. this is how windy it is. every time i do storm coverage, this is what happens to my umbrella, so, great, another umbrella thank you monsoon. >> she's going through those umbrellas. >> you are going to need monsoon sfurns. are -- insurance. are you going to cover these umbrellas now? >> i told her go with the slicker. she had glasses on before. we were commening on that. >> it kind of makes it more dramatic anyway, so you ditch the umbrella and go for it. >> a lot of people got rain this

let's go ahead and take a look at this. we saw rain, thunder, which might have woken some of you up. now gorgeous blue skies, it will get a little bit sunnier as we continue tomorrow into the noon hour, another chance of storms for the weekend. let's take a look at here at some of the rain that we saw in the last several hours. we'll start in the west valley, wickenburg area, down through surprise, across the 17 right in the middle of town in the west valley as well and then continued their way to the northeast, and that's exactly what we saw. you'll see fountain hills here at this hour, you just received some rain up that way, tonto basin as well. bigger area here up 17, right up the 17 you'll see prescott had plenty of rain, flagstaff as well, nothing to considerable but a good nice dousing of the rain obviously. up in the white mountains, up

that area as well. show low, probably just south of there you're getting some rain as it cruises on up. and take a look at the i-40 for all of you folks who maybe travel the i-40 east and west of flagstaff. you're going to see plenty of rain there moving up to the hopi navajo nation as well as into gallup new mexico. we have a considerable amount of rain falling but really nice for you folks to see up in snowflake. take a look at that. you're going to get a good you can imagine that it really dropped some of those temperatures, and we enjoy them, dealing with this very, very warm summer. page at 54, flagstaff 5shg9s over in winslow 77 along the i-40, st. john's 69, prescott looking at 60 degrees, and along the colorado river, 90 in bullhead city, 9190 in lake havasu, and 97 for you folks down in yuma. around the valley here,

90s. these 80s, like at cave creek you're 81 right now, that's the temperature we usually wake up to at 4:30 this morning, so temperatures very nice right now. across the country you can see the 80s and 90s across the eastern seaboard, across the middle part of the country, very nice, storms have dissipated in the louisiana area, now just a headache of having to clean up a lot of that mess. back here in the valley, talk about what we can expect here, forecasted highs for the in kingman, 68 up at the grand canyon. it's just going to be gorgeous up there at the south rim. beautiful 48 at the grand canyon as well. cruising on into friday, you'll see friday, saturday, sunday, there's a 20% chance of rain that begins on friday into the afternoon hours, but starting tomorrow at noon you're going to see that there is lots of sunshine until friday, so for two days we'll see sunshine, starting tomorrow about the noon

20% chance of storms through sunday. >> i like those double digits. >> very nice, right? >> saturday. >> good for the golf game. >> i'm making the tee time again with the big hat. i have got the big hat. >> i've spotted you. i've seen the paparazzi out there. >> coming up after the break, actress shannon doherty's legal trouble. >> plus an eye-opening new

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end of the study. in entertainment news this afternoon, shannen doherty settles a lawsuit against her former business managers, accusing the people of handling her money leaving her without health insurance, delaying her diagnosis of breast cancer. last month she posted some pictures on instagram, showing her in various stages of cutting off her here. a settlement to make the case go away is cti unspecified conditions that need to be completed within 45 days. last year, actress jennifer lawrence topped forbes magazine's list of the world's highest paid actress and did it again this year, $46 million, thanks to her paycheck for the final hunger games, melissa mccarthy took second and

justin timberlake hosting a fundraiser for hillary clinton this afternoon. the fundraiser will be held at his hollywood hills home, cohosted by his wife, actress jessica beale. a ticket costs $43,000 for one ticket. >> a nice house though. star trek fans may be locking to illinois this halloween. >> the record breaking way the

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