rose mofford story is a truly unique arizona story. rising through the ranks of state government to our state's top office. she shattered a once thought unbreakable glass ceiling and served as an unparalleled role model to many. she was nothing short of an arizona treasure. and will be deeply missed. in a statement to fox 10, former arizona governor jan brewer says that mofford, i considered her a friend for all of the 40 years i truly saddened to learn of she was a wonderful public servant and an arizona icon. my thoughts and prayers are with her and her family. she will be dearly missed by many. >> trail blazer, icon, friend. that's how former arizona governor rose mofford is remembered tonight. >> which is truly a legend and will be massively missed by me and all people across arizona. >> in 1988, mofford became governor taking over for evan meekham who was impeached and removed from office. >> i rose mofford.

>> do solemnly swear. >> mofford served as governor for just three years. but her life in public service spanned five decades. she was her high school valedictorian, a standout athlete and first woman to serve as secretary of state and the first female governor. her name can be seen on phoenix landmarks, her signature hair style, the bee hive instantly recognizable. arizona governor doug ducey ordering flags to be flown at half staff today. a grateful state paying respects to an arizona treasure. >> phoenix mayor greg stanton who is in new york city tonight says he is deeply saddened to hear of mofford's passing. he calls her a grifted and ground breaking leader and personal friend who swore him into office. he requested that stanton says he was one of the most generous and thoughtful people he has ever known. joining me now is somebody who knew her well. former arizona attorney general candidate for governor, terry

tough day but what a life and for people who moved here and weren't around when she was governor, what would you like them to know? >> i hope we are saddened by governor mofford, rose mofford's passing. she had 94 very solid years. it's a record to be admired. and frankly she gives an enduring picture of what the best of arizona is all about. >> you said to me there were -- we got a state bird, a state flower -- >> yeah we do. we have one of those that -- and if you had a state -- let's say hate to use the word character because she was far more than that, but let's just say a person who epitomizes what the best of this state is all about would be rose mofford. hard working, honest. she said at one point she was success that she ended up being because of her roots, she grew

her religion, and her rolodex and that rolodex was powerful. >> tell folks tonight when evanmycome was impeached -- evan meekam was impeached, what she meant to the state in the healing process. >> i think that was her gift. rose never in the will rogers sense never met a person she didn't like and didn't like her. she had no vision as to party. she was anybody and any part of arizona and they were her friends. they were truly her friends. so when she took over the governorship in a time of incredible division and incredible hostilities and frankly a lot of doubt about whether arizona could survive, you know. it was a rough time and she came in and healed the waters. she reached out throughout the state to people to pull together and i think it gave us all hope. >> and unless you were here at

meekham's impeachment was incredibly divisive. >> she was incredible. i hope people remember her as exactly that. a healer. a person who gave her all to public service. who never stopped giving. so generou in her later years she was always -- always had a charity. called you up and called me often. it was -- we got something else we need to rally behind and we need to put some hard time and some money behind it. >> great cause. >> thank you for spending time with us and giving us perspective about rose mofford. an amazing woman. >> hopefully she will be remembered for many, many -- >> i think some and a lot of you are sharing your memories of rose mofford and we really appreciate that send your thoughts and condolences, log on to facebook.com/fox 10 phoenix. i'm danielle miller. the most controversial provisions of sb1070 stands as civil rights groups challenging arizona's immigration law and

it requires officers while enforcing other laws to question people about their immigration status. the so-called papers please provision was the last of seven challenge to sb1070. >> we felt on our end we got everything we needed out of 9 litigation and everything we could get out of litigation. >> a clu reached an agreement with the state this after attorney general mark brnovich issued a written legal opinion with guidance for law enforcement officers about wha they can and can't do. troy hayden has more. >> so i'm here with attorney general mark brnovich and so the bottom line is the papers please provision of sb1070 looks like it will stand now. >> we have reached a settlement with the aclu that we are filing in district court today that allow section 2b the provision you are referring to stand. so there are circumstances or law enforcement agents can indeed check immigration status of individuals. we were issuing an opinion that

for the entire state law enforcement agencies as to what they should or shouldn't do regarding immigration status. >> what will you say to them. what can't can or can't do? >> you cannot racially profile someone. you can't detain someone unnecessarily. but if indeed someone is in custody or someone is been detained lawfully you can check on the immigration status and we just want to make sure that people are following the law, all law enforcement agency. >> is this symbolic or will have teeth. will you have people if they don't they are legally will be taken away by i.c.e.? >> i believe it's important to have consistency and certainty notice law and that's why we reached the settlement. i think this is a great day. i feel as an arizonan this is an opportunity for us to move forward providing clarification in the law. we are providing guidance to law enforcement agencies as to what they can and can't do. and section 2b, provision you are referring to, remains in effect. >> thank you attorney general. appreciate it. >> thank you, troy. thank you very much.

the village of oak creek and a california man are under arrest on molestation and child pornography charges. this is what we are learning. detectives took gary zimmerman into custody on friday. the registered sex offender molested a teenage boy. the previous day investigators served a search warrant in long beach, california. where richard sumner lives. he was involved in creating child porn. several law enforcement agencies they teamed up and say they learned both men were sexually abusing young yavapai sheriff's detectives are working to identify if there may be more victims out this. >> in surprise, new developmented in the wake of a deadly crash in the west valley. police say a man on a suicide mission drove his truck into a car killing the driver of that car and causing several other vehicles to crash. keith johnson making his first appearance in court at the fourth avenue jail. police say johnson was depressed. he seemed tired and he was

to blow through a red light at peoria and litchfield and hit another car to kill himself only he killed someone else. 46-year-old margie yah of surprise. a social worker who helped other people make their way through troubled times. her friends stunned and shaken by the news. >> that's too hard to take. i understand that he was ill, but live and a lot to give to everyone. it was a great loss. >> margie's friends say she has a son in high school and another one who is a kindergartener. she died because johnson drove through that red light and t-boned her white volkswagen. johnson, the driver who is in custody was not injured. he faces second degree murder charges and aggravated assault. if samsung was hoping to quietly reissue phones to customers who bought the note 7

today the fed ready stepping in. those phones went over charged have caught fire. destroying cars, injuring people, today the consumer product safety commission issued a mandatory recall on all note 7s made by samsung. more than 2 million of these phones have been sold there are dozens of cases of those phones catching fire. if you own one. samsung is offering a full refund or replacement. still ahead tonight on "fox 10 news" at 6:00. how a popular downtow bar with a lounge named afros mofford is paying tribute to her tonight. well, a nice night. it was a beautiful day today. nights have been just absolutely perfect. we will take a look at your weather coming up. and just a gentle nudge here. keep up with me. keep in touch with me on social media. i would love to hear from you. follow me on facebook and twitter at john hook fox 10.

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we begin the news cast discussing the passing of former governor rose mofford today. a valley bar in downtown phoenix is celebrating her life

her, its lounge, at least the lounges called the rose room, it serves a drink named after her which staff say is the best selling cocktail there. all of the signature cocktails named after famous arizona politicians. and there is a painting of rose mofford in the rose room. valley bar put out post-it notes for people to write messages and place around mofford's portrait. >> mofford to me stands for someone who fought for social equality, and we need more politicians like that these days. she did so much even after she was out of office. she considered herself the mother of arizona and everyone was her kid here. all about the people here. not necessarily about any other issue. it was about the people. >> when valley bar opened last year, a friend took pictures of the rose room to show mofford and she sent the bar a care package. thanking them. valley bar located near central

september is child cancer awareness month. nearly 16,000 kids diagnosed with cancer every year in this country. many of them right here in phoenix. and tonight liz kotalik has the story of presley who was diagnosed in may and continues to fight for her life. >> words of hope and encouragement brighten the walls of a special room at phoenix children's hospital. the positivity taking the edge off the machines and the medicine something nine month old presley knox and need in the fight to save this young life. >> until you are faced with it, you don't think about it. >> mothers liz and lori will never forget the day they saw it the rare malignant brain tu amer that spread after weeks of misdiagnosis by other doctors in the valley. >> believing she will be okay keeps me positive. it's very hard. i worry about her every day. and just keeping my strength to be here and then turn around and

>> a different mom to their five other children. their family made up of three sets of twins. their youngest, presley and her brother, a healthy boy and a very sick little girl. two brain surgeries and chemotherapy treatments later, 99% of presley's tumor has been safely removed. but the fight is far from overrer what the transplant really is, is a rescue. >> the doctor has a unique plan for presley's remission. it's focused on the bone marrow. instead of radiation that would cause permanent damage. >> high doses of chemotherapy, which would normally would really suppress and wipe out your bone marrow and then you rescue the person with their own bone marrow. >> a treatment that starts in just a few weeks with family, friends and an entire hospital praying for the best. and as presley's story continues to spread, those extra positive thoughts liz says gives them the strength to fight on.

my faith and heart tells me she will survive. >> liz kotalik, "fox 10 news." the knox family has set up a go fund me account and if you like to help support them through this fight, we have posted the link on our website, fox10phoenix.com. click on seen on tv. still ahead tonight, dave coming up with a look at weekend forecast. live look right now at eastbound i-10 at 7th avenue. things flowing along pretty well. at least one direction. slow on back in a minute. be sure to follow us on instagram. share your images using the

we will get to the weather in a this is really -- it tells you something about rose mofford. >> i knew rose mofford or governor mofford since she was secretary of state. a long time. had a lot of different events that i was at with her. and they made a lot of fun of her hair. they called it the bee hive. they called it a dairy queen a dairy cone. she never minded because it wasn't a bee hive. it's not a bee hive. she said -- it's an --

it's a french roll. i don't understand when they don't get that. ishes she. >> it was a french roll, she said. non-bee hive. >> and just a wonderful, wonderful person if you had the pleasure to meet her. >> i always said she was one of us. she was one of us. >> she loved a day like today. a great arizona day. >> absolutely. look at that. 94 degrees right now. there is no wind at this hour. and isn't the city looking good. we have some nice temperatures. 92 in scottsdale. we have 94 in ahwatukee. and in surprise it's 92 degrees as well. not much going on as far as any moisture around the state, but we have some around the state. not exactly in the state. let's take a look and see what that dew point temperature is doing right now. you can see these dew point temperatures are way down and that is very good to see with those -- had been up in the 60s and 70s here just a

we had 94 in deer valley. 95 in buckeye. and take a look across the country here. this is still the big story. this is julia down here. still winding around and is going to be there for a few more days. overnight 68 degrees. we will look at 95 degrees for tomorrow. things will warm up as we head into the weekend. you can see those triple digits coming back but back to the 90s right after that. watch your kids around water. once in awhile it happens, cliches here but a profound moment about a player and his inspiration. you will hear what i'm referring to regarding larry fitzgerald

(jude)larry fitzgerald has larry fitzgerald has lived with the loss of his mother from breast cancer every day of his life. her fight became and in a current tv commercial he opens up about her impact. now after practice today, fitz expressed his very public love for his mom. >> hi, you reached the fitzgerald. leave a message after the beep. >> hey, mom, this is larry. i wanted to let you know that i fulfilled the promise that you held me to. i wouldn't be able to do it without your love and support

me and marcus growing up. still things that i hold near and dear to my heart and i want to teach it to my boys as well. love you. >> when my mom -- somebody that i used constantly for inspiration, a lot of things she went through and i'm hurting and i'm sore and i always remember my mom for instance, going through her chemotherapy and i come upstairs and i see her throwing up in the bathroom, you know, and i still see her wip her mouth and clean herself up and get-up and go care about her business. the discipline she had. i try to use that as inspiration because whatever life throws at you jowrk two options, you can either lay down or get up and keep fighting. and seeing those kind of examples always has made me want to fight no matter what the circumstances are. >> you have it believe larry's mom would be proud of her son reaching another milestone. his 100th career touchdown

>> where does 100tds rank? >> ranks 97th behind jerry rice. >> we will see what he can do this sunday. fox nfl kickoff at 8:00 a.m., fox nfl sunday and don't forget we will be on right after the game with post game coverage. richard saenz at the stadium and max starks our analyst inside analysis podium for bruce arians and with our coverage going right through that news cast. against the cardinals on sunday. >> great piece on larry. very poignant. >> you know he is a guy that i remember sitting next to him the very first banquet and we had that in common. i lost my mom to breast cancer and he was just that 20-year-old young man coming into the league. and he has done so many good things with his charitable work in the fight against breast cancer and helping others and helping youngsters in sports. he has lived it. and i can say that that

>> and you lived it, too. >> you better believe it. no question about it. >> quick note on rose mofford as we remember rose mofford for the passing of the former governor, she saved the cactus league. >> she absolutely saved the cactus league. it was late 80s. down in tucson. cleveland moved to florida and the threat of the cubs leaving. the she put in the bill to the -- that made the cactus league what it is today. >> "tmz" is next.

>> today on "tmz" -- >> just like drake, kanye's now on the attack because someone accused him of not writing his own lyrics. >> respect! >> cudi took to twitter and cudi said kanye and drake are not writing their own lyrics and also not including him in their song. >> remember real rappers like tupac. >> i wish it was still in the '90's. all over and stuff like that. >> nick cannon and chilli were in warwick. >> any wedding bells in your guys' future or what? >> he gets in the car really fast. he's wearing his turban. >> why is he wearing that turban? >> he said he wears it because it's part of his culture. >> but it's not like a ethnic turban. it's like a "golden girls"