On Friday around 2 p.m., Clark County Department of Public Works officials were using heavy equipment to remove excess debris from the flood channel while firefighters dug through the piles by hand and found a second victim in the flood channel. The man’s body was removed from the wreckage and taken to the Clark County Medical Examiner’s Office, Samuels said. Rainwater poured from the roof at the Planet Hollywood casino Thursday, as seen in video posted by CNN affiliate KTNV, which reported 114 power outages in Clark County affecting about 12,000 people. Heavy monsoon rains in recent weeks have reduced drought levels in the Southwest — as well as the Intermountain West — to levels not seen in many months. Extreme drought and extreme flooding will become more frequent and more intense as the planet warms, scientists have warned. In Nevada, the area of ”extreme drought” fell to 4 percent from nearly 30 percent last week — the lowest point in nearly two years, the report said. Conditions worsened in California’s Central Valley, but improved somewhat in the eastern deserts after last week’s significant rainfall caused flooding in Death Valley. In Las Vegas, Thursday’s 0.58 inches of rain brought the total for this year’s monsoon season to 1.28 inches, the wettest since 2012, which had 3.63 inches. The monsoon season runs from June 15 to September 30. The wettest monsoon season on record was 1984, with 4.16 inches. CNN’s Jay Croft and Alison Chinchar contributed to this report.
