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camera footage released this afternoon-- showing a robbery suspect who police pinned on the 215... shot and killed after they say he pointed what appeared to be a fake gun. four different angles of the shooting were recorded. fox5's kathleen jacob joins us live after going through all of the video and talking to police. kathleen? the video shows four officers shoot 36 rounds total at 50-year- old rex wilson...after a high speed chase and multiple attempts to stop his car. after they block
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immediately start firing. police sirens "ram him! ram him! get him!" "get out!" gun shots "down! down!" police say 50- year-old-- rex wilson-- pulled out what they year-old-- rex wilson-- pulled out what they thought to be a hand gun and then as a result... started shooting. it turns out... wilson was actually holding a spray nozzle wrapped in black tape to look like a gun. wilson was linked to 16 armed robberies... believed to have all been done with the fake gun. the four officers involved in the shooting are on routine paid administrative leave. officers went after wilson after someone reported a suspicious car and they linked it to one that had been stolen at gun point in henderson. they also linked him to a recent crime spree involving 16 armed robberies. other than that he had a very minor criminal history... so they're not sure
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live in the newsroom...kathle en jacob...fox5 news...local..las vegas. the four officers involved are on paid administrative leave while the investigation continues. metro police held a public forum on animal cruelty prevention over the weekend. detectives work with animal control and the animal foundation to investigate animal abuse cases. metro says that one hundred percent of sexual homicide offenders... had a history of animal cruelty. and forty percent of animal committed violent crimes against a person... with animal abuse starting at a young age. if we don't investigate these crimes and we just ignore them, these people, have the potential to grow up and become our future serial killers, so we've got to start when they're young. police are still looking for the person... accused of hanging a cat from a fence last month. the reward for information leading to that arrest... is now up to six thousand dollars.
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driver safety week. car crashes are the leading cause of death for fifteen to nineteen year olds in the u-s. and young driver fatalities were up 10 percent in 2015. the zero fatalities program says teens pick up driving behaviors of parents... which could lead to bad habits. last week... triple a released a study of the top three mistates for teens behind the wheel. it includes speeding...distract ions...and poor visual scanning. the race for president remains tight in our state. new c-n-n polls find hillary clinton just inching ahead of donald trump. 46-percent of likely voters say they back clinton... while 44-percent back trump. north carolina...another battleground state...shows voters almost evenly split between the two major party candidates. clark county reached one million registered voters sunday... and there's still one more day to add to that total. the deadline to register is this tuesday. both county election department offices will be open until 9 p-m
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the north las vegs office is off of cheyenne and m-l-k. and the downtown office is off grang central and bonneville. the candidates will face off in the final presidential debate on wednesday... right here in our backyard. fox five will have special coverage before and after the debate... so join us as we break down where our battleground state stands. you can stay up- to-date... with fox five using your mobile device. just head to fox five vegas dot com... and download our app. it's the best resource... for breaking news... weather... and traffic. george zimmerman is back in a court room today. the man that's facing jail time... even though he says zimmerman was the one who threatened to kill him. and a case of road rage leaves one man fighting for his life. what police know
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joe heck's and donald trump's views on women are disturbing. heck voted to defund planned parenthood 10 times. he was even willing to shut down the government over it. and they both outlaw abortion. "do you believe in punishment for abortion?" "the answer is that, there has to be some form of punishment."
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jacky rosen: i'm jacky rosen and i approved this message. man: the tea party republicans in congress want to cut social security. woman: and danny tarkanian wants to join them. man: he is proud to call himself a "tea party radical." man: he wants to privatize social security... woman: ...just like them. woman: risking social security benefits on wall street. man: danny tarkanian would raise
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a party republicans in congress. man: they would take away what we've paid for out of every paycheck. of shooting at man:that's "tea party radical" for ya'. george zimmerman in a road rage incident last year was sentenced to 20 years in prison today. matthew apperson was convicted of attempted second-degree murder in september. zimmerman testified apperson followed him, flashing his lights and honking his horn, before pulling up beside him and shooting at him, but the bullet missed. zimmerman was cut by glass from a shattered window. apperson gave a different account, saying zimmerman had threatened to kill him and he acted in self-defense. zimmerman became a controversial figure in 2012 after he fatally shot unarmed teenager trayvon martin. the case prompted national debates about the use of firearms for self-defense, as well as race issues. zimmerman was acquitted of second-degree murder charges in 2013. a man is fighting for his life after being shot in an apparent road rage incident in
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20-year-old luis diaz was shot in the head behind his left ear and taken to a hospital, where he's in critical condition. after the shooting, diaz's car crashed into another car, but that driver is o-k. police are working on finding surveillance video from surrounding businesses today. that shooter is still on the run. in the middle of a robbery.... a suspect tries to set an entire gas station on fire. but he may have ended up burning himself instead. what he got away with and what's left of that business. plus h graduation rates are up around the country... where clark county schools rank against other states. this is fox5 news at 5:30, your only choice for live local news right now now he's divisive and dangerous. "uh, i don't know what i said. uh... i don't remember." but congressman hardy supports trump 100%
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donald trump is blaming hillary clinton's supporters for the firebombing of a g-o-p headquarters in north caroli. officials say someone threw a flammable substance... into the party's office in hillsborough. the fire caused damage inside the building... before the flames went out. a message that compares republicans to nazis... was spray-painted on a nearby building. a state g-o-p official says the firebombing was meant to send a message. (dallas woodhouse, exec. director, state republican party): "it is meant to scare and intimidate people from volunteering, from working at this office and from working at other offices across the
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necessary precautions to do whatever it takes to keep our people safe and keep them working." trump tweeted that quote "animals representing hillary clinton" are behind the attack. clinton's campaign called the attack horrific and said it's grateful that everyone is safe. investigators are looking into the incident. a big homecoming weekend for senator tim kaine-- as he attended his high school reunion at rockhurst. but some protestors showed up to protest v-p nominee's stance on abortion. ryan says "the most want father to know he needs to do something about this. this is a scandal, this isn't about kaine as much as it is about rockhurst and they haven't said a word. instead of speaking up and saying we dont believe in what kaine is saying we believe in...." senator kaine says he does not believe in abortion....... but... he doesn't think the government should make that choice for women. protesters disapprove of kaine's stance.....calling it "a scandal." they're also calling for the catholic high school to respond. the school has
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and almost one- quarter went hungry. hunger rates were higher among african americans, those attending community colleges and those whose parents never completed college. the white house says more students than ever are graduating from high school. a new report shows america's high school graduation rate now tops 83- percent. that's a new record high. graduation rates for the last school year were released today... and they show progress for all reported groups of students. the white house says graduation rates have g by about four percent since the 2010 - 2011 school year. the clark county school district is reporting a 15 percent graduation growth-- thank to the class of 20-16. this brings the school district's graduation rate up to nearly 75 percent-- the highest it's ever been. they made the announcement last week at chaparral-- who managed to raise their own gradation rate up to nearly 80 percent. now fox5 weather 24/7, with chief meterologist ted
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that weekend wind is slowly leaving us, but cool air behind the system will hang around a few days. we'll see a high of 82 degrees on tuesday with 79 as a high on wednesday. light breezes from the south will increase and will be from the north on wednesday and thursday. we only expect north wind to top out around 20 mph..the strongest wind will be in the north portion of the las vegas valley. we will then warm up for friday and the weekend with highs between 86 and 89 for those days. average highs this
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degrees. that weekend wind is slowly leaving us, but cool air behind the system will hang around a few days. we'll see a high of 82 degrees on tuesday with 79 as a high on wednesday. light breezes from the south will increase and will be from the north on wednesday and thursday. we only expect north wind to top out around 20 mph..the strongest wind will be in the north portion of the las vegas valley. we will then warm up for friday and the weekend with highs between 86 and 89 for those days. average highs this week are around 80
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...or the scams against seniors he formed... or the $17 million judgment he never paid. he can try, but he can't make his record disappear. danny tarkanian: just a con man who can't bury the truth. house majority pac is responsible for the content of this advertising. ray steiber: i was in charge of homicide. i know when something's not right. the attacks on question 1 are wrong. question 1 protects the right of law abiding nevadans to bear arms. hunt. protection. it's all there. doesn't change. and no one goes to jail for swapping guns while hunting or at the shooting range. what changes is convicted felons can't run to a gun show or go online and buy guns without background checks. that will save lives. yes on 1. case closed. you've heard plenty about joe heck and the tax breaks he's voted for. for oil companies and the millions the oil billionaire
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all... yeah, everyone's been clicking on this story on fox5 vegas dot com today. in the fight for your business many stores are opening early ahead of black friday.... but a number of businesses will close on thanksgiving... including the entire mall of america. they say closing will allow employees to celebrate the holiday... but it turns out, enjoying family time may not be the biggest reason. retail experts say some stores have figured out they do just as well staying closed as they do opening. same-store sales for the last six weeks of the year have not increased by being open one more day.... thanks for joining us.. fox5 news at 6 o'clock is straight
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an party. my son max can't live in trump world. so i'm crossing party lines and voting for hillary. i don't always agree with her, but she's reasonable. and she's smart. she can work with people to solve problems. i want to be able to tell my kids that i did the right thing when it really mattered. i'm hillary clinton and i approve this message. joe heck's and donald trump's views on women are disturbing. heck voted to defund planned parenthood 10 times.
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this is fox5 news at 6. local. las vegas "get him ram him. steps out. gunshots. got him. shots, shots shots. sirens" metro police release body cam footage -- showing the moments leading up to a robbery and carjacking suspect being shot and killed by police. i'm john huck. i'm cyndi lundeberg -- in for christine. police say the suspect shot and killed on the 215 last week did not actually have a gun. fox5's kathleen jacob joins us live in the studio after going through all of the video and has disturbing new details. kathleen? that's right guys... the video shows four different body camera angles as police chase 50-year-old wilson and then shoot and kill him. they fired 36 rounds total... 8 of those hit him. the video also shows a panicked
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