A flash flood warning was in effect for Henderson and the southeast valley in the afternoon.
Marvin Clemons
Former Digital Content Producer
The incident began about 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at a 7-Eleven parking lot in the 900 block of North Rancho Drive.
The driver was Khari Qiyam Cooper. He was northbound on Interstate 15 exiting to the the southbound U.S. 95 transition ramp about 5:35 a.m.
The unidentified man won $122,720 with three wild panels on the Monte Carlo Spin & Win slot game.
Vitalant says the heat, holiday and summer vacations make the Fourth of July a slow time for blood donations in the valley.
The forecast called for the haze to be fairly widespread around the noon hour with calm winds.
It was the second day of rainfall on the west side of the valley, but showers were lighter than experienced Sunday afternoon, according to National Weather Service radar.
Monsoon clouds were popping up in the southwest valley near Blue Diamond around noon. From south of Summerlin north to Cheyenne was hit with quick downpours.
The Saturday attack in Butler, Pennsylvania, was the most serious attempt to assassinate a president or presidential candidate since Ronald Reagan was shot in 1981.
In 11 days of heat that Southern Nevadans have never felt before, five ones were set and two were tied. Rain is a 40 percent chance on Sunday.
Clouds and rain covered a majority of the valley Saturday afternoon, dropping temperatures from 110 to about 95 as of 7 p.m.
Ten days of record heat came to a possible end when a rare weather phenomenon blew through Las Vegas — a haboob, also known as a big dust storm.
The crash between two vehicles at North Eastern Avenue and East Bonanza Road sent the three to a hospital.
In the midst of a record-setting heatwave, an electrical problem caused an outage of some air conditioning at Summerlin Hospital.