and soldiers are patroling mccarran as we holiday.. many extra troops are coming to town. plus ... new details about the driver accused of driving through crowds along the strip.. what drug test results show was in her system. breaking news tonight along highway 60 on the way to pahrump. i'm christine maddela. i'm elizabeth watts .. john has the night off. the nevada highway patrol confirms someone found a person's body along highway 60 near mile marker 22... this is near the top of the highway over the pass.. near mountain springs. right now metro police is investigating ... we're told it doesn't appear to be a traffic related death .. but it's too early to say for sure. we'll keep you updated on this breaking news thhroughout the night on fox5vegas dot com .. and later on forx5 news at 10 and 11. the countdown is on! there's now less than 30 hours to go until 2016 and the beginning of the biggest - and best - firework show in the nation.

planning will pay off tomorrow night from the rooftops of seven casinos on the strip. that's where we find fox 5's ophelia young, getting a behind the scenes look at the final preparations. a whole year of planning in 8 minutes and 18 seconds... over 50 pyrotechnicians on 7 roofs all day today and tomorrow. tomorrow night is the moment they've waited all year for. "this is part of the finale its what we call titanium salutes.' the finale - in his hands now - up 2 hundred and 80 feet on midnight new years eve. the day before - henry herman carefully places every one of these firework shells filled with black powder in their rightful tubes and wires them to a panel. "the wires might get tangled in another wire might pull it out of the panel little things like that."

precision... to make the 80 thousand casino roof tops nat sound tape over them. "so we dont even the tubes at all we just see if the tape is gone if the tape is went up in the air." henry has worked on every one of the last 15 new years eve fireworks shows put on by phil grucci in las vegas. "the clock ticks very slowly on new year's eve for us." grucci has been planning this years display since the moment last year's finished. this year's theme - on top of the world. each song in the sound track will highlight each of the seven casinos the fireworks take off from. "that particular building in the first few seconds of the song will be a separate color for the rest of the strip so its giving tribute to caesars palace with roman march hollywood for planet hollywood and the theme of the year is on top of the world so the song on top

the stratosphere." the night of - grucci will be behind the control panels a mile away at the rio. he'll be hoping for forgiving wind says every year has moments before the so far winds are forecasted to be 10 - 10 being the usual cut off for fireworks. for luck so were keep that 15 year streak running and we wont have to postpone or cancel." if all goes well - henry and 50 other pyrotechnicians- will be monitoring shells on the rooftop - and controlling debris on the strip- waiting for the finale he's working on now. "oh yeah to hear the crowd go off at the end i mean you have that many people screaming and yelling its all for me and i did all that." there's an app search grucchi

count down theyre hoping to hear the whole strip countdown lauching the fireworks in unity... reporting live ophelia young fox 5 news local las vegas the people in charge of setting off the fireworks also said drones flying near the show can be dangerous.. they are also illegal. metro says if they see anyone flying a drone within five miles of the airport will be warned first .. and then can have their drones confiscated. for metro and other law enforcement .. keeping partiers safe tomorrow night is job number one! and to help with this effort .. nevada army guard soldiers will be on hand at mccarran. around 40 soldiers will help make sure mccarran is safe should anything happen.

help... cpt. sabastian balint / 72nd military police company, nv national guard "if they see anything out of the ordinary, talk to national guard, talk to metro, the best way anyone can help is to say something is they see something suspicious." earlier this month, governor brian sandoval also approved the request form clark county to have one hundred additional national guard troops on hand to help. metro police also have a few dozen more guard members supporting their efforts over the next couple days throughout the valley. major roads along the strip will start closing down around 4 tomorrow afternoon. at 5, freeway on- and-off ramps will be shut down and will start re- opening around 3:30 a-m new year's day. remember there is a 6 p-m curfew for anyone under the age of 18. if you are going to the strip tomorrow night... you might be happy to hear the monorail will be running all night. for the first time .. the monorail will continue service through the night and through new year's day. ingrid reisman / vp, las vegas monorail company

people on new year's eve. and even at 3 am to cycle everyone out we don't have large crowds there's still people who want to use the system. so this year we thought, you know what, let's meet that demand, give the folks what they're asking for, make sure we can accomodate all of desires for transportation year's eve and new year's day." can buy single- tickets for new dollar! it will continue to run for 44 consecutive hours.. or until 3 a m sunday. there are plenty of other ways to get to and from your new year's eve destinations safely. the r-t-c is offering free rides from 6 p-m tomorrow night to 9 a-m new year's day. rides will depart every 20 minutes. there are also several park- and-ride options ... where you can park your car and get a bus ride for free. and don't forget about tipsy tow for you and your car a certified tow truck driver will pick you and your car up for free. just call 1-800- triple-a-help. the best part of the deal... you

hog hauling motorcycle towing is also offering free rides to motorcyclists. call 702-586-0536 to hitch a ride. all of this and more is available for you at fox5 vegas dot com. and come tomorrow night .. if you can't watch the fireworks on the strip here on air... you will be able to watch a live stream of the strip fireworks on our website on the fox5 vegas app. the driver accused of killing injuring 35 others on the las vegas strip tested positive for marijuana... a toxicology examination of 24- year-old lakeisha holloway shows the woman tested positive for the drug while driving. she is charged with one county of murder with use of a deadly weapon, one count of child abuse, and one count of leaving the scene of an accident. her 3-year-old daughter is alleged to have been in the back seat during the rampage. fox5's abby theodros is live from the news room - with details of the report and what experts are saying about the findings.

holloway had a large amount of metabolites in her system which is a primary y dicator of drug use. holloway's metabolite level was at about 24 nanograms per milileter - which is a number high enough to indicate that she used the drug within hours of the crash. carrison: somewhere between 3 and 6 you can say that you're under the influence of marijuana when you're tested for that. doctor dale carrison with university medical center is talking about whether or not the amount of drugs found in lakeisha holloway's blood could mean she was under the infulence. dr. dale carrison, umc: it may mean something they may not mean anything. it's very difficult and there is no real medical consensus on when you're under the influence or not. in a statement from clark county district attorney steve wolfson .. he writes the amount found in her bloos does not change the charges he's filing against her. carrison went on to say there is no concrete scale to determine the level of use or if drugs played a role in this deadly crash - but there is one thing the toxicology report shows... carrison: we know that sometime within the last 12- 24 hours she did in fact smoke marijuana she had a large amount of

metabolites are only there if you have acute use. her metabolite level - or the level at which the drug is processed by your body - was about 24 nanograms per milileter. i spoke with a local toxicology expert ... and this shows she used the drug within hours before the crash. regardless - officials have called holloway's actions intentional and say the results of the toxicology test will not change the initial charges filed. holloway is charged with murder with use of a deadly weapon, child abuse, neglect or endagnerment and leaving the scene of an accident. defense attorney joseph abood says the levels are low and don't prove holloway was impaired in any way. her next court date is scheduled for january of next year. the fbi is now offering a 5- thousand dollar reward for anyone providing information leading to an arrest and conviction of a possible local hate crime. bacon was found on the door handles of a las

recently. you can see someone placing the bacon on the doors in this surveillance video from the mosque. the fbi called this act a desecration of the islamic worship center. the quran, the holy book of islam, prohibits muslims from eating pork.. and people have used pigs .. or pork .. to taunt or offend muslims. tense moments today in court.... in the sentencing of a man - convicted of firing a weapon at police officers. a jury recently convicted joshua bacharach for shooting at a metro officer back in 2014. today a judge sentenced him on 15 charges.. giving him the maximum sentence allowed. that was 62 to 157 years in prison .. along with a 75- thousand dollar fine. before the judge read the sentnces.. he questioned bacharach's actions the day of the shooting.. judge "i've been in this business since 1982, i don't know any person who is not a police officer that

gentleman, i mean this poor officer who was checking this car out, the bright lights, and so the officer went to stop him and the first thing you do is stick a 45 out and bacharach on the video, you the video or bulletproof vest. he didn't catch me with none of it." judge own car." bacharach "in that video you didn't see me shooting at nothing!" after the shooting .. he drove off and was k-9. no officers were injured in the shooting. still ahead tonight .. metro polcie make an arrest for an overnight deadly stabbing. and he had on his serious face today .. comedian bill cosby is brought up on charges he assaulted a woman.. details after the break. plus .. a look at the historic and deadly flooding happening right now in the midwest. your fox5 weather 24/7 forecast is

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lice have arrested a man they say is responsible for a deadly stabbing overnight. metro has gianni raneri in custody.. they are holding

degree murder charge. metro says he approached two people last night - at an apartment complex near swenson and twain. following an argument - he returned hours later .. approached them again - and stabbed one of them - just before one in the morning. a security guard caught him and held him until police showed up and arrested him. bill cosby has been charged with sexual assault. the actor and comedian had been accused by dozens of women of rape and assault, but this is the first time charges have been filed. cosby appeared in court earlier this afternoon. steve nannes has the details about what happens next. (kevin r. steele, first assistant district attorney) "we are here to announce today charges that have just been filed against william henry cosby." after years of allegations and accusations from dozens of women... bill cosby has officially been charged with three counts of aggravated indecent assault, a second degree felony. cosby appeared in a pennsylvania courtroom on wednesday. he did not enter a plea.

one million dollars, and a preliminary hearing was scheduled for january 14th. pennsylvania district attorney kevin steele says cosby established a relationship with andrea constand, a staffer for the temple university women's basketball team. constand says she came to see cosby as a mentor and a friend... until the night in question. (kevin r. steele, first assistant district attorney): "mr. cosby urged her to take pills that he provided to her and to drink wine. the effect of which rendered her unable to move, respond to his advances, and he committed aggravated indecent assault upon her." today's charge stems from information obtained in depositions from a 2005 civil suit filed by constand. that suit was settled confidentially....but the deposition was unsealed in july. (eric guster, criminal & civil trial attorney) "that gave prosecutors enough evidence to go forward. they read cosby's deposition, they read where cosby said he penetrated her." in that deposition, cosby admitted

prescription quaaludes to give women he wanted to have sex with. cosby said any sex and drug taking were always consensual.. i'm steve nannes reporting. more than 40 women have accused cosby of sexual assault over a span of four decades. if convinced of these charges, cosby could face up to ten years in prison. catastrophic flooding in the midwest is pushing rivers high above their banks.. and leading to the deaths of at least 24 peopl. in some of the worst flooding in history... parts of greater st. louis are underwater. a shopping area is half submerged with a sign for jimmy john's sandwich shop still visible above the water. hundreds of roads and bridges are closed... including more than 20 miles of a major interstate. the missouri and meramec rivers converge into the mississippi .. and from st louis south small river towns are in trouble this week. now fox5 weather 24/7 with chief meteorologist ted pretty

sunday morning with highs around 50 degrees. north breezes to 20 mph on thursday afternoon are expected to decrease overnight through new year's eve as we ring in 2016. new year's day will feature north breezes to 15 mph in the afternoon. we'll see more clouds on sunday with slight rain chances monday into tuesday then again on wednesday into thursday. highs increase to the low-mid 50s with lows at 40 and above during that

we stay close to freezing through sunday morning with highs around 50 degrees. north breezes to 20 mph on thursday afternoon are expected to decrease overnight through new year's eve as we ring in 2016. new year's day will feature north breezes to 15 mph in the afternoon. we'll see more clouds on sunday with slight rain chances monday into tuesday then again on wednesday into thursday. highs increase to the

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nevada casinos have slot machines to be thankful for when it comes to earnings in november. revenue rose almost 8-percent from november of last year.. bringing in more than 944-million dollars. downtown las vegas was the big local winner ... up 25-percent from last year. the strip was also up .. about 5 and a half percent. a gaming control board analyst says the timing of month also helped.. it started on a sunday and ended on a monday.. meaning revenue from a bit of october was counted and none of it rolled into december. christmas came late for a local family.. but given what happened to them a few days ago ... this was a blessing. this family of three lost everything in a fire three days before christmas. their neighbors duplex had a fire that spread into

today .. the group called "operation stands for holiday emergency dropped off children. the team includes some of the firefighters who their apartment. jayson calhoun / operation fire h.e.a.t. "many times the firefighters who are at that fire tragedy and they don't get to see the first step of that tragedy and that's what's not only does it benefit the family it benifits the firefighters who were actually there." kristopher youts / "it's actually really we get back on our feet we're going to be trying to give back to those who helped us out so much especially, you know, organizations like this" this will the fifth family operation fire heat has helped this holiday season. next .. spain is know for the running of the bulls.. this is a little different.

the 'all new' stories we are working for fox5 news at ten. a couple is terrified after a man breaks into their car, and is able to find their home! why police say this is a common scheme. and a record breaking year for las vegas tourism... and new year's eve is set to end 2015 with a bang! finally tonight..

dogs. we take you madrid, spain where about 700 dogs & owners took part in a dog race to raise awareness about abandoned animals, particularly dogs. some even brought their dogs who had physical challenges such as amputations .. other dogs that were abandoned were learning how to mix with their other canine pals. there's a push recently in madrid to make the city more dog- friendly. thanks for joining now on "more with the new year's eve celebrations just hours away -- a last minute cancellation. backed out on a highly publicized appearance! booked.

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