strip... had marijuana in her system. how much was discovered, and what it means for the case. and we're counting down to 2016... as america's party takes over the las vegas strip. the records officials hope tourists will break in this new year. this is fox5 news at 11. local las vegas. as the new year comes to a close, it looks like las vegas tourism was the big winner. i'm elizabeth watts in for john and christine tonight. fox 5's miguel martinez-valle is live at the vegas strip where thousands will ring in the new year. the las vegas giant party so you could call tonight the pre game... people from all over the world have chosen las vegas to celebrate the new year, something city officials think one throws a party like sin city...

its america's party and while the ball may be dropping over in the east coast, no one celebrates quite like las vegas... " oh how boring to watch a ball drop, i grew up in new york city... this is the place to be." around 332 thousand people from all over the world picked sin city to end their 2015... " a lot of wild and craziness going on, thats what i anticipate." "we'll be ready, definitely, were english people were ready for it." some people are saving their energy for tomorrow night, others have been celebrating for a while... " we've been partying for like three weeks solid. and i'm feeling good today..." and while theyre celebrating the new year... the city is celebrating the new record. " there's a lot to celebrate here in las vegas, we've reached 42 million visitors for the year for 2015, and that beats our previous record of last year of 41.1 million people." after seeing the highest number of visitors since las vegas started keeping track, the city is raising their

successful 2015, and looking forward to an even better 2016... " i'm looking forward to it tomorrow because were going to teach the world a lesson. were going to show them how las vegas has a party unlike any other party and were going to celebrate the new year and 2016 is going to be the best of the best" the lvcva says the record breaking numbers could be due to the hotels and casinos constantly changing things up, new plane routes flying into the city, and the mass amount of people visiting las vegas for the many conventions... live from the las vegas strip, miguel martinez-valle, fox5 news local. las vegas.

electronics show is this weekend. 165 thousand people are expected to come to town just for that, giving us a huge start to the new year... the las vegas monorail will have different hours for the first time ever for new years eve. the monorail will be open for 44 hours straight for the next couple of days. it will be open from 7 a-m tomorrow until saturday at its usual 3 a-m. the monorail is the only form of motorized transportation that will be available on the strip. at about 5-45 p-m tomorrow the streets will be closed off to cars new year's eve. the monorail has five stations along the las vegas strip - from the m-g-m grand to the s-l-s. "we carry so many people on new year's eve. and even at 3 am when we're starting to cycle everyone

large crowds there's still people who want to use the system." locals also get a very special discount on new year's eve. tickets for the monorail are just one dollar when you present your local i-d. the national guard will be at mccarren airport until new year's day. 40 nevada national guard members will be at mccarren to give law enforcement more flexibility. having them here makes response time quicker should anything happen tomorrow night. earlier this month, governor brian sandoval also approved the request to have one hundred additional national guard troops on hand to help. "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." metro police also have a few dozen more guard members supporting their efforts over the next couple days throughout the valley. tomorrow night - las vegas will host the biggest fireworks show in the country. fox5's ophelia young shows us how it takes an entire year, to

"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 precision... to make sure every one of the 80 thousand effects over seven casino roof tops fire. nat sound henry even places tape over them. "so we dont even have to look inside the tubes at all we just see if the tape is gone if the tape is open then the shell 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

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 of the world from 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 speeds - which he says every year has luckily died down moments before the show. so far winds are forecasted to be 10 to 20 miles per hour - 10 being the usual cut off for fireworks. "this is the town for luck so were hoping that we'll 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

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." oy f5n llv pyrotechnicians says flying drones near fireworks can be dangerous. metro reminds everyone drones are already banned within five miles of the includes the las vegas strip. a local couple's into... and the the garage door opener. and hours later, suspect showed up at their home! lundeberg spoke homeowners.. and shows you how quickly you could become a victim. this couple is scared tonight... they say their sense of security has been stolen... i also talked to the metro police

say this kind of situation frequently happens... so here's what the buglar does... they break the car window... in this care they broke into through the passenger side window... opened the glove box and took the cars regristration... or take house keyes whatever they can... so now they not only know where you live... they have a way in... this north las vegas couple is scared after their car was broken into... their registration with their home address was aken... and then a man showed up at their front door... they asked we not show their faces.. "i noticed things from my glove box had been removed and i noticed my regristration and insurance card were missing we did notice the garage clicker was left on the viser in my vehicle i immediately grabbed it and put it in my purse " the family says at first they didn't know there was a problem with their garage clicker... "i noticed on the back of the

written " metro police told the family that remote... was likely from another one of the burglars victims... then their was a knock at their front door... nats 'hi can i help you' i got a notification on my phone when the doorbell rang and the person... had a rather strange question... ummm did you guys lose a lowes card? "this person at the door asked if we left a lowes card by the street and he said okay ill leave it out there" the familys surveillnace camera caught the person driving up their street... then sitting in his car before coming up to the front door... they say they believe he was checking to see if anyone was home... "i feel vulnerable you definetly feel violated you dont want people to have access to your personal life " the family says theyre home surveillnace is what kept them safe.... i feel the preparation is number 1 and i don tknow if that made s lucky but it could have been worse thats for sure

protect yourself is if you put personal information in a glovebox put it in one that locks that will make it just a little more diffiuclt for that burglar to find address... reporting live cyndi lundeberg fox 5. metro also says if you are in this situation... or lose your garage door opener... head home and reprogram it immediately. if you have information or recognize the suspect from the video... you're asked to contact police. a man is being charged with murder after a deadly stabbing late last night. "a witness and a securtiy guard then chased the suspect who was still holding the knife about a block away. and the security guard then pepper sprayed him and handcuffed him nearby." gianni raneri was arrested around one this morning. metro says he was upset over his girlfriend leaving him. he approached her and another man in an apartment complex off of swenson and twain and an argument followed. police say gianni raneri later came

the man. a group of hikers came across a body today. and one of them called fox5 to tell us about the discovery. n-h-p confirms the body was found along highway 160 near mile marker 22... on the way to pahrump. metro police are investigating this case... and they haven't released many details. jeff thomas says he was hiking with his kids, when they came across the body hidden among some rocks. he tells us there were bones, clothes, and a variety of the person's personal items. " there was no skin, nothing like that left on it. bones, clothes, skull was white as snow, it had been picked clean. " thomas also tells us there was an eviction notice with the body. the coroner will release the person's name and how they died. the woman accused of driving her car into a on the strip... had marijuana in her system when it happened.

details on the report and what experts are saying about the findings. 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 blood 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-

marijuana she had a large amount of metabolites in her blood.those 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. at f5n llv defense attorney joseph abood says the levels are low and don't prove holloway was impaired. her next court date is scheduled the levels are low and don't prove holloway was impaired. her next court date is scheduled for january of next year. a local mosque was the target of a possible hate crime earlier this week. the f-b-i is offering a 5- thousand dollar reward for information on the suspect. a surveillance camera outside of the mosque caught the man on tape. the f-b-i released a statement calling the act a "desecration of the islamic worship center." the "quran" - the holy book of islam prohibits muslims from eating pork. both f-b-i and las vegas police are investigating. a man is injured while escaping from his burning home. how a neighbor describes what happened to him...

and floods slam the midwest... completely covering buildings and homes. why officials say the disaster will get worse in the next few days. your fox5 weather

one man hurt this morning. it happened near craig and m-l-k. a single story home on terrace point drive caught fire around 7 a-m. north las vegas firefighters say it appears the man was injured trying to escape the flames - and taken to u-m-c. the next door neighbor called the fire department after she saw smoke and fire billowing out

"the guy who lived there he was in the back yard he was really confused somebody had to go back there and get him and they took him to the hospital for smoke inhalation." the next door neighbor ran over to the burning home after calling police. she banged on the door in case someone was inside. after a window busted, she ran and waited for emergency responders. nevada lawmakers pass regulations for a school choice program. the program allows families to claim a majority of their child's per- pupil state education funding and apply it toward things like private school tuition. students must attend public school for at least 100 days before they can qualify. the regulations spell out details of the program - and also exempt military families and kindergartners from the 100-day requirement. now fox5 weather 24..7. with chief meteorologist ted pretty we stay close to freezing through sunday morning with highs around 50 degrees. north

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 time. 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

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 time. closed captioning will resume shortly the runnin' rebels opened up mountain west play tonight. and for the first time under dave rice.... unlv began the conference schedule at home.... sadly they lost. fresno state in town for this one.

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 thursday. highs low-mid 50s with lows at 40 and above during that time. closed captioning

the runnin' rebels opened up mountain west play tonight. and for the first time under dave rice.... unlv began the conference schedule at home.... sadly they lost. fresno state in town for this one. let's go to the thomas and mack.... where the rebs have been having a tough night. fresno state won this one... 69 to 66. unlv tried to tie the game at the final buzzer, but missed. unlv is nine and five this season. we'll have highlights and reaction for you on the rebzone after fox5 news at 10. bill cosby is officially charged for the first time... after several woman accuse him of sexual assault. what happened during his court appearance

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midwest is filling rivers high above their banks. parts of saint louis are underwater, and hundreds of roads and bridges are closed. emergency crews are rescuing people trapped in their cars. people living near rivers in missouri and illinois are urged to evacuate. in some places rivers and streams have already crested. but not the mighty mississippi, which isn't expected to peak until later tonight or thursday. several woman have accused bill cosby of sexual assault or rape. today, charges were filed for the first time. "(gloria allred / attorney) "for many of my 29 clients who allege that they are victims of bill cosby, seeing him criminally charged and having to face a christmas present that have every received. " the actor was charged with 3 counts of aggravated indecent assault... a felony crime. the charges stem from a 2005 civil suit filed by andrea constand... to publically come forward and accuse cosby of his bail was set at one million dollars, which he did post. cosby's lawyer

aren't a surprise... but says they are unjustified. bill cosby's felony sexual assault charge has not swayed hulu to ditch the comic's famed show from its playlist. 201 episodes of "the cosby show" are available on the streaming service. several networks nixed projects and cut re-runs of all cosby related programming. industry insiders suggest that user-controlled streaming removes the need to pull a show from programming. two of hulu's biggest competitors, netflix and amazon prime, do not stream "the cosby show", but do offer other ways to watch it. carrie fisher fires back at her body shamers. the 59-year-old actress - best known for her role as princess leia - has received many hateful tweets since the release of the latest star wars movie. some viewers thought she looked exactly the same -- but others did not. fisher took to twitter saying "please stop debating about whether or not i aged well.... my body hasn't aged as well as i have." she has spoken in the past about feeling pressured to lose weight before reprising her famous role. from catching fire to throwing

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