live from las vegas fox5 news at 6 starts now. closed captioning will resume shortly the starbucks customer who died-- d suspected shooter who police say... took his life. we're learning more about both... and what led to the fatal shot. 41 days to the election... but far less than that if you plan to vote and aren't registered. the simple steps to get you in the system and eligible to cast a ballot. this is fox5 news at 6. local. las vegas a woman is trying to get by without her car... after it was stolen from her in front of her 4 year old daughter.

i'm john huck. the robber had a knife and a gun... and attacked the mom as she was dropping off her little girl at daycare. fox5's adam herbets spoke to family... and joins us live from where it happened, near boulder highway and desert inn. the mom doesn't blame the neighborhood or the daycare.... she just blames the guy who attacked her as she was getting out of her car right in this area. > > she says it was almost 5 in the morning... she was on her way to work... and she didn't want to give up her car, until she saw the guy had a knife... and a gun. at that point she said look, my 4 year old baby girl is the most important thing. she didnt want to take any chances, so she gave him her keys. > > take a look -- this is the car we're looking for. > > its a 2016 hyundai elantra. > she just bought it a couple months ago. > the license plate is 89b 541 >

figure out how to explain this to her little girl... who saw the whole thing. > trt 6 -- 23 seconds " we're going to get the car we're going to get the car back. mom: how do you explain " > in response to all of this -- everybody is stepping up all of this -- everybody is stepping up security in this area. > > there are going to be more lights. more cameras. the security at the casino is going to step up their

mom says she thinks the guy who robbed her was actually at the casino, and now theyre working with metro to go through surveillance video and find this guy. > > of course if you see the car -- please call the police. > > we're live at the daycare. adam herbets. fox5 news local las vegas. a person who was stabbed died... after being dropped off at mountain view hospital. police say the victim was taken to the hospital around 12-30 p-m. when officers got there -- the person had already ed a second victim -- who police say may have a connection to the first -- was also treated at mountain view hospital. their condition has not been released yet. police say another scene near rancho and washington may be related to the death. no word yet on a suspect or suspects. we will bring you more on this deadly stabbing on fox five news at ten... and fox five vegas dot com. we have new details of what happened inside a starbucks sunday when one customer shot and killed another. what's still not clear is why... but the suspect did tell police one

fox5's kathleen jacob is live at the now reopened starbucks with what we've learned about the shooter and the victim today. guys... the biggest thing is the identity of the victim... alexandre cut-zek-feely. we're still working to learn more about him... but right now we know he is a 41- year-old man and at one point he lived downtown. now the starbucks is back open... and today we saw people coming in to pay tribute to the victim and people that went through this. i just wanted them all to know that my thoughts and my prayers have been with them for the last few days and for them to just stay strong and to get

thinking about them. for cindy westergard... the shooting at starbucks hit hard. my brother did lose his life at his job 11 years ago. so for her... visiting the starbucks employees that witnessed the deadly shooting at work is a priority. i was just mortified and so scared for all the people working here. she wasn't the only one... the first customers in when the store opened back up were a group of metro police ... after a long and lengthy investigation that began sunday just after eleven. they say pedro garcia is the man who came in.. fired a gun twice into the air.. and then shot cut-zek- feely. we reached out to garcia's wife.. who told us this is completely out of his character. she says garcia hasn't been the same since his brother hung himself. her facebook shows loving notes from garcia from just last week... saying he loved her and was off to the library. she hasn't spoken with him since the starbuck's shooting... and says she has no idea what happened. questions police and the community are still trying to

garcia will be in court tomorrow morning. he was originally put in medically restricted housing.. but police were not able to say if he had any sort of mental illness. according to his facebook page... he went to rancho high school. reporting live,,,kathleen jacob...fox 5 news... local. las vegas. garcia is currently facing open murder charges.. robbery with a deadly weapon... burglary with a deadly weapon.. and firing a weapon into a structure. let's check in with fox five's chief meteorlogist ted pretty with a look at the forecast.

wednesday and remain through thursday night into friday. a few hundredths of an inch are possible with gusty conditions at times near storms. we'll see a high of 87 on wednesday, then a high of 88 on thursday. we'll be back to the 90s on friday and saturday with cooler air expected sunday through tuesday in the mid-80s. southwest gusts to 30 mph will move through the area sunday afternoons. slight shower chances move in overnight into seven weeks away

and the voter registration deadline is drawing closer. today -- dozens came out to register to vote... in honor of "national voter registration day". the diverse southern nevada coalition held the event at seafood city -- near maryland parkway and flamingo. organizer say the process to register to vote only takes a couple minutes. you need your nevada driver's license or state i-d card. you can do it all online through the nevada secretary of state's website. "it is important voices are numbers counted. and issues also addressed." "its an action we wanted to take to raise the consciousness of folks in maryland parkway corridor this is something community needs addressing." here are the deadlines in nevada. you can register in person and online up to october 18-th. to mail in your registration -- the deadline is october 8-th. we have more voter registration

com. an international gaming trade show makes it way to las vegas this week. the global gaming expo or g-2-e is at the sands expo center. we'll show you how some slot machines are changing the way we gamble... plus... a plan to colonize the red planet. we'll hear from the c-e-o of space-x and tesla motors about how soon he wants to put humans on mars...

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and patrons rallied for nevada casinos to go smoke-free. more than a dozen gathered outside of the sands expo convention center. they say that second-hand smoke in casinos may lead to serious health effects... and that the toxic pollutants can cause heart disease, asthma, breast and lung cancer... and many other illnesses which can lead to death. this rally comes as m-g-m resorts plans to build a one point four billion dollar smoke -free casino in maryland. "we think its time for nevada legislaters to come forward. we need a to elminate this exemption. everyone in nevada should be treated fairly and equally and not discriminate against anyone based on who there employer is. second hand smoke is toxic it's affecting the employess and patrons and the fact of the matter is, it's smoke free in almost every other state except here." across the country -- nearly 800 casinos and gaming operations are smoke free. a ton of new slot machines will appear on casino carpets soon... but most of them are making their debut this week at the

from las vegas headliners like britney spears and mariah carey... to some t-v favorites like "game of thrones" and "the x-files". the new slot machines are all about 20-16 pop culture. toby keith and shaq were on hand at g-2-e to unveil their slots. creating a slot machine is not an easy task. "brooks pierce" of "america's at aristocrat" explains there's a special amount of tender loving care that goes into making a game successful. "the designers of the game h feel passionate about a person or a brand. so when they do, like britney or mariah, we give them a canvas and they basically do whatever they want so we aquire the licensing and the right to the game. then they develop it because they have passion for it so it makes a fun game." g-2-e is held in las vegas every year. t-v and entertainment icon -- vanna white -- has turned the key to the city! the wheel of

las vegas by mayor carolyn goodman... in honor of i-g-t's wheel of fortune slots 20-th anniversary. vanna white plays a big part in the success of the wheel of fortune slot games... and she was more than happy to have the key to a city she loves. "las vegas is in my heart and it's been in my heart for many many many years. this is my home away from home, i love it, i love being here. i ;ove being apart of igt and the wheel of fortune slots and i want to thank everyone out there for watching and enjoying our show." wheel of fortune has made more than a thousand people millionaires... paying out more than three billion dollars in life- changing jackpots. new at six tonight. the c-e-o of space-x and tesla motors -- elon musk -- believes mars will be colonized within the next fifty to 150 years. musk announced his colonization plans at an international space exploration conference in mexico. he wants to make an unmanned trip to mars before 2018... and send the first humans to the red planet in 2024. musk says any

depends on reducing the cost of a mars trip to around 200- thousand dollars a person... along with making rockets reusable. he warns that the first journey will be dangerous. "the risk of fatality will be high. there's just no way around it. so i would not suggest sending children. it would be basically, are you prepared to die? then that's okay and you know, you're a candidate for going." musk also says any mars colony will be able to grow crops in contained buildings... and have the resources to send spaceships back to earth. he expects mars transit times to take as little as thirty days in the distant future. and speaking of space... here's a look at ending of a star similar to the sun. nasa captured this on the hubble space telescope. the burned out star is the white dot in the center

light causes the material to glow... creating this image. nasa says our sun will eventually burn out and do the same... but it will not happen for another five billion years. (( weather )) now fox5 weather 24/7 with chief meteorologist ted pretty slight shower chances move in overnight into wednesday and remain through thursday night into friday. a few hundredths of an inch are possible with gusty conditions at times near storms. we'll see a high of 87 on wednesday, then a high of 88 on thursday. we'll be back to the 90s on friday and saturday with cooler air expected sunday through tuesday in

30 mph will move through the area on saturday and sunday afternoons. slight shower chances move in overnight into wednesday and remain through thursday night into friday. a few hundredths of an inch are possible with gusty conditions at times near storms. we'll see a high of 87 on wednesday, then a high of 88 on thursday. we'll be back to the 90s on friday and saturday

through tuesday in the mid-80s. southwest gusts to 30 mph will move through the area on saturday and sunday afternoons. closed captioning will resume shortly a new concert venue opens on

when the "park theater" near t- mobile arena plans to host its first show... and which legendary music artist will be the first to perform there. horner: i was proud to stand for our country. i will not stand for congressman hardy and donald trump insulting seniors and veterans. and said seniors who rely on programs like social security are a draw on government and the disabled are a drain on society. and then there's donald trump. they're just not for us.

[cell phone vibrating] when the billionaire koch brothers call, congressman joe heck has been answering. 85% of the time. giving tax breaks to big oil companies and the super rich, but ending medicare as we know it and forcing cuts to social security. taking care of the koch brothers may be a good call for joe heck, but it doesn't work for nevada's working families. senate majority pac is responsible for the content of this ad. district attorney steve wolfson: as district attorney, i've seprosecuted a lotc of violent people. our background check laws have stopped over 5,000 dangerous

people to buy guns. they get them at gun shows and online from perfect strangers with no background checks, no questions asked. it's a dangerous loophole. closing it will save lives. let's make it harder for criminals, safer for us.

there may be a thrilling cure for kidney stones. shows riding a roller coaster may help dislodge them. michigan state university researchers say several patients could painlessly pass a stone by riding a roller coaster. they took a three-d printed model of a patient's kidney... and strapped the model to "big thunder" at disney world -- in different seats and positions. the study shows the stone could move when sitting in the back of the roller coaster. they say roller coaster therapy could be a preventive treatment for

another surprise for locals near t-mobile arena. the new strip-side entertainment... "the park theatre" at monte carlo... will make its debut in december. the venue will have 53- hundred seats and a large l-e-d wall for performances. stevie nicks from fleetwood mac will be the first artist to perform at the new venue. tickets go on sale at 10 a-m on october third. you can find more ticket information on fox 5 vegas dot com. just find the story on our homepage. adele's album "25" officially reaches diamond status in less than a year. hello its me. i was wondering if all this time you would like to meet to go over, everything they say times suppose to heal i aint done healing..." it's sold more than ten-million copies in the u-s alone. that's according to the "recording industry association of america". it's not often that albums reach diamond status... but the pop star managed to do it twice in a row. her first album "21" also hit

with songs like "someone like you" and "rolling in the deep". from one star to another... some items from iconic actress -- marilyn monroe -- will be up on the auction block. which legendary outfits and items will be part of the

politics should never come before basic health care, but that's the choice joe heck keeps making. women like me rely on planned parenthood for checkups and cancer screenings, but congressman joe heck voted ten times to take away their funding. heck even threatened to shut down the federal government to eliminate funding for planned parenthood. shutting down the government... taking away access to lifesaving care... just to score political points. joe heck should be ashamed. women vote is responsible

here's a look at some of the 'all new' stories we are working for fox5 news at ten. it's becoming a popular alternative for treating pain and drug addiction... now federal drug officials are calling for a ban of the herbal drug... kratom. but some are saying the ban is unnecessary. the election is a little more than a month away... are you registered to vote? we'll tell you what you need to know if you plan on casting a ballot come

some highly- sought pieces from "marilyn monroe" are now on display around the world. this is ahead of an upcoming auction here in the u-s. monroe's dress from "some like it hot" and "bus stop" were featured in the exhibit in china... along with handwritten notes and letters. more than 800 items are being sold by the estate of acting coach lee strasberg. his son says this collection is an important piece of pop culture... and chronicles monroe's life and career. "i do think she was like family. i think my father regarded her like a part of the family and i think as beautiful as we see her in her imagery, i think my father and the people who really knew her actually saw her beauty, her sort of more personal beauty right as a human being not just as a star." the items will be up for auction in los angeles this november. thanks for joining us..

access" - ((tim mcgraw music nats)) from the stage to the casino floor! country's tim mcgraw is back in vegas! what he and other stars are just revealed at this years global gaming expo! plus - ((showstopper nats)) get a showstopping look into broadway as "more" take wynn's hit musical production! then ((nats edge of seventeen)) she's on the "edge of seventeen" as star hailee steinfeld talks with us on her new role in this coming of age teen dramadey! and from the bay to the more studio! reggae band "lady ree-ko" stops by for a performance in our gibson showroom! tonight on "more acces!" get more las vegas. more.