With blizzard warnings now in effect from there all the way now up to philly to new jersey. There are also coastal flood warnings, because this storm offshore could bring a storm surge with strong winds and high tide combining for flooding through the jersey shore and delaware beaches and delmarva. Its size is big. With the heaviest snow now coming down in virginia and and now into dc. Areas of ice can be seen in North Carolina and southern virginia. This storm is going to cause all sorts of problems for the east coast paul and denise. Across the east coast. Thousands of flights are cancelled. That means a Ripple Effect for passengers here in las vegas. And the more than 200 thousand convention goers who are trying to leave town this weekend. Patrick walker continues our Team Coverage at mccarran Patrick Walker airport officials call this week Super Convention week. With five conventions wrapping up today. That. Combine that with Severe Weather in the east. Is making getting home an adventure for many. Patrick WalkerMccarran International airport is always a busy place. Consistently topping 40 million passengers per year. That means. Any hiccup in the National Air System can have a big impact here. Jesse Patterson strande d passenger i gotta get back home, ive got a lot of work ahead of me Patrick WalkerJesse Patterson wrapped up a week in las vegas attending the International Builders show. His United Airlines flight. One of nearly 50 in and out of mccarran cancelled on friday. Hes had to make alternative plans to make it home to new jersey. Jesse Patterson strande d passenger im going to cleveland, ohio, and then im renting a car, and i think its about a 10 hour drive, so the flights about 5, so about 15 hours laughs . Patrick Walker while leaving las vegas has been difficult for patterson. For dean landry. He flew in from atlanta. After missing his first flight in south carolina. dean landry missed his flight first, we had to drive through the mountains, in the snow, and ice and rain, and we made it, it only took us 7 hours to go 3 Patrick Walker most airlines have waived their change fees through monday because of the storm. Jordan butler took advantage of that. Getting out of baltimore before the wintry blast hit. Patrick Walker you were anticipating there were going to be problems . Jordan butler booked earlier flight absolutely, i think the storm was supposed to come in around 4 oclock, and my flight was for 8 30. Patrick Walker while the storm could let up by monday. Airport Officials Say dont let that fool you. The rebooking Ripple Effect could last for quite awhile. christine crews Mccarran International airport its having a huge impact on air travel today, and we anticipate into next week. Patrick Walker philadelphias airport has cancelled all flights for tomorrow. Which will cause some problems across the country. Surprisingly. San francisco is seeing delays of more than 3 hours. Side of the country. Dave. Dave Courvoisier how about nationwide. Whats the backup looking like . Patrick Walker major airports on the east coast from philadelphia to atlanta are seeing heavy delays. According to flightaware dot com. There have been nearly 35 hundred flights cancelled so far today. Tomorrow doesnt look any better. Denise Valdez the sports books are gearing up for a big business, its the nfls League Championship weekend. Chris maathuis joins us and hes also gearing up for the play offs. Chris Maathuis this is always a lot of fun. As the season winds down the excitment builds. The nfc and afc title games are its going to be interesting to see how the sports books do. Remember last year it was a record breaking year for the books. And it could turn out that way again. Whether its new england or denver. Or arizona or carolina. Everything seems to be pointing to yet another crowded weekend at the sports books. randy blum manager; its gets pretty packed in here we also have the theater available for extra seating. But if youre coming down expect the big crowds. Yeah wee have props on each game. , basically player props, total yards passing by the quarterbacks. , total yards by recievers and then some team props as well, for example will each team make a 33 yard field goal, what will the first score of the game be stuff like that. The afc title game kicks off first followed by the nfc. New england still favored over the broncos in denver. And in the nfc. Its the panthers 3 better then the cardinals. Chris Maathuis channel 8 is your home for this historic super bowl 50. In fact well be in santa clara and san franciso all week of the biggest and most fun events. Heres whats cool. We are guaranteed two las vegas former prep Football Players in the big game. Even if you cant go, isnt there something we can do to make it a great super bowl sunday regardless . Denise Valdez 8 news now is giving away 25hundred dollars on super bowl sunday. The give away will take place during our special newscast. Right after the big game. Go to our website las vegas now dot com to enter. And click the banner at the top of the page. And check out our page dedicated to the big game with recipies. Stats and nfl news. Denise Valdez excitement is building for the upcoming super bowl. Football fans will find out this weekend which two teams will battle for the world championship. Dave Courvoisier but local fans who subscribe to cox cable might have to make other plans if they want to watch the game. The 50th anniversary super bowl will be carried live by cbs and channel 8, but unless something changes in the next few days, the game will be blacked out for cox subscribers, along with Everything Else that airs on klas. Reports on the contract dispute between klastv and cox. heres some reallife daytime drama for you. Things are about to get a lot less bold and considerably less beautiful for cox cable customers. After january 29th, cox customers will be blocked from watching their favorite programs on channel 8. The price wont be right in the mornings. And in the evenings, say goodbye to alex trebeks jeopardy brain twisters or vanna whites stylish letter turns on wheel of fortune the most popular prime time programs on the nations most watched network will vanish when klas is taken off the menu. The big bang nerds. The sleuths of ncis. And tom sellecks iconic klas g. M. Lisa howfield does not want to be on the air talking about this. Lisa howfield klas general manager im doing this because i dont and turn it on next saturday morning or late friday night and find out were not there. But, she says, it looks like thats where things are headed. It means nevadas most watched local news station, 8 news now, would be gone. The last for cox subscribers. A nd if no agreement can be reached soon, the Biggest Television Event of the year. Super bowl 50. Will not be carried by cox, which is the Service Provider for about half of all viewers in southern nevada. Cox customers would have to make other arrangements. S witch to another provider or try your luck with rabbit ears. Lisa if you are a cox customer and dont make arrangements, theres a very good chance you will not be able to see super bowl 50. Like other cable systems, cox pays fees to rebroadcast original content. The biggest chunk of your monthly cable bill goes to pay for espn. 8 bucks a month per customer. T. N. T gets 1. 65 per local providers, including klas and the other network affiliates, get a tiny fraction of that, even though the local stations are the biggest draw for cable systems. Howfield says, after 5 months of intense negotiations, cox is unwilling to pay a fraction of what channel 8s programming generates for the cable company. Lisa its crazy. Broadcasters bring about 35 of the audiences to any given cable system around the country and we get around 12 of those retransmission revenues. Were asking for a fraction of that. Howfield says cox stormed out of the last negotiation session and is unwilling to budge, even though the other local providers. Incl uding satellite companies. Alre ady agreed to a deal. Cox declined to appear on camera but in a statement the company said it is willing to pay more but thinks that the demands made by nexstar, the Parent Company for klas, are unreasonable. Howfield is asking that klas them to settle this lisa were really upset at this point. We dont want our viewers to have to go through this but were really at the point where we need people to rally around us and help us out on this. George knapp 8 news now Denise Valdez on our website, we have posted informaiton about how you can reach out to cox including by phone or social media. Also there, you can read a full statement from klas as well as comments sent by Cox Communication s. Again, the deadline is january 29th. After that cox will no longer carry any channel 8 programming including this news broadcast. Dave Courvoisier nevadas medical marijuana business has been picking up as dispensaries and other facilities start to open up. So here is where we are right now clark county 10 dispensaries open. And 3 more that have their final certification and will be opening very soon. Nye county has one dispensary about to open. And washoe has two that are already open. In addition. Clark county has 5 laboratories for testing. And 7 production facilities. There are 3 more cultivation facilities in nye county as well. Denise Valdez dealing with dust i think its about being ressponsible for the after affects Dave Courvoisier the bad impacts one man says he and neighbors are seeing from a nearby gravel pit. You know the basic bargain of america is if you work hard, and you do your part, you should be able to get ead and stay ahead. But so many families dont feel like their hard work pays off. Thats not the way america is supposed to operate. I want to go to bat for them every single day. Get incomes rising. Get equal pay for women. Cut the cost of health care and child care so people can actually get ahead. Hillary clinton, she has what it takes to get things done. Gravel pit on the west side of valley are growing tired of dust thats blowing into their yards and homes. Denise Valdez even though the gravel pit was there before they were, they Say Something needs to be done to clear the air. 8 news now anchor paul joncich checked it out today. paul joncich were talking about the gravel pit at Spring Mountain and tenaya. With trucks coming and going all day long, it is a noisy, dusty place. While the Company Appears to be trying to keep the dust down. Lately neighbors say its been getting worse. trk paul joncich years ago the wells cargo gravel pit and constructions dump were on the outer edge of the city. But now, homes surround the site. nat pop where they mine construction agregate and manufacture asphalt. Its a busy place. Tenaya and Spring Mountain. It gets picked up by cars driving by, and thrown into the air. 27 47 neighbor it gets on everything like that. paul joncich this man lives in a neighborhood a quarter mile north of the gravel pit. He says recently, the dust is becoming too much to bear. 28;56 neighbor and since ive lived in this home, ive experienced like bloody nasal passages and things like that, and just speaking with other neighbors they are having similar type concerns. the man, whos lived in his home for three years, doesnt want us to use his name because he fears retribution. 28 38 neighbor ive lived in vegas for 14 years, ive lived on the edge of the desert, you know the last homes, so i know that youre gonna expect dust in las vegas, we live in the desert, but this is not normal. This dust is not the same as desert dust. paul joncich he admits the gravel pit was here first, but hes hoping something can be done to clear the air. nat of sweepers paul joncich wells Cargo Company representatives tell me theyre trying to be Good Neighbors and can think of no reason thered be more dust in the neighborhood. We saw water trucks working to keep dust down on the property. And sweeper trucks sweeper truck nat but the neighbor says the sweepers seem to be stirring up more dirt than theyre removing. He says whatever the company is doing for dust mitagation isnt working. paul joncich air polution control tells me there have been a total of 56 odor and dust complaints about the site since november of 2009. They became more frequent in the later portion of 2015. The Company Tells me they are working on ways to reduce truck traffic on residential streets. One idea is moving their entry off tenaya and on to Spring Mountain so they can go directly between their gravel pit and dump . weather toss < tedd florendo cloudy skies staying cool in the high 50s this afternoon through many neighborhoods. Winds staying light for now but will pick up tomorrow and were certainly cooler than yesterday. Temps this afternoon shot back up to the high 50s today with Cool Conditions even for mount charleston. Near 60 late day for those areas on the east side of town where were lower in elevation so therefore usually the warmest spot along with green valley and henderson. Regional temps show mild afternoon temps in the mid 60s for laughlin today and Cool Conditions from mesquite to searchlight. Chilly for areas from tonopah through pioche. Colder in ely and the northern part of the state. Clouds streaming in from the west right now with showers in california and near reno. Big spin the atmosphere shows up our weather. How . First increase in winds and then a chances for show later in the day with snow and rain in the mountains. Slight chances for sunday morning but we turn more sunny late sunday. All eyes are now focused on the east coast. Where snow is stretching from tennesse all the way up to pennysylvania. Darker blues here indicate heaviest snow bands now in virginia, west virgina and now starting to see heavier snow in dc and up the tristate area in philly. Ice can see in the carolinas where the snow rain line can be clearly seen. Snow totals are going to be big. By sunday late we could see totals up to 2 fee in dc and baltimore. Newark as well with over a foot in philly, and maybe more in new york. Tonight 44 for the low with plenty of clouds and staying dry. Winds stay light as well. Tomorrow expect a high of 61 and mostly cloudy skies with showers later in the day. Winds increasing and becoming breezy at times as well. Mount charleston showing 43 for the how and 23 for the low. Cloudy skies with both rain and snow likely. Along with gusty winds later in the day. Extended forecast show temps near average this weekend and early week. Breezes on tuesday and look at eumbers for late week with highs climbingo the mid 60sd some neighborhoods couldreach 70. Denise valdez a possible change in course. How the Public Utilities commission may rethink its rooftop solar decision. And why the woman who wrote the net metering bill says the Brian Sandoval is touting grants. Incentives and loans the state has given out to solar power plants. The Governors Office says its given out 467 Million Dollars to plants like Crescent Dunes near utah. However all that money has gone towards large scale projects utilities. Through 2014. 18 percent of the states Renewable Generation was from solar. is still feeling pressure over the Public Utlities Commission decision to rollback the rooftop solar Net Metering Program for homeowners. Which would raise their rates. Today another company that sells rooftop solar says it will layoff 66 employees. Its the third one to announce layoffs in the wake of that decision. Nevada congresswoman dina titus actually helped write that net metering bill when she was in the legilsature in 1997. She lays part of the blame on the legislature dina titus i just hated to see the legislature throw it to the puc instead of working on a compromise that would have maybe gradually increased the fee, or gradually decreased the amount paid, and kept the industry going, protected the jobs, protected nevada power and done a bait and switch on the people who have already invested. Denise Valdez the Public Utilities commission has started to relent a little bit on their decision. In the last few days its indicated it might decide to grandfather in the 17 thousand existing rooftop solar customers. Interview with dina titus on politicsnow. This sunday at 5 30. Dave Courvoisier the state Economic Development board gave final approval to tax incentives for electric car maker Faraday Future. The Package Details the Faraday Future manufacturing facility going into apex in north las vegas. It will cover 3. 4 million square feet. And be capable of assembling up to 150 thousand vehicles per year when it is fully running. Farday also says it will create more than 23hundred construction jobs this year as its plant goes up. At its peak. Faraday plans to hire 45 hundred employees. At an average of 22 dollars an hour. The packet also says it will cover all of thier employees health insurance. Faraday will be eligible for up to 215 Million Dollars in tax breaks over its first ten years. Denise Valdez honoring a life. The crowds that turned out for the funeral of celine dions husband in canada. Dave Courvoisier a unlv professor is heading to the white house. To become inventors. Thats landed him an award from president obama. if youre doing everything right but find it harder and harder to get by, youre not alone. While our people work longer hours for lower wages, almost all new income goes to the top 1 . My plan make wall street banks and the ultrarich pay their fair share of taxes, provide living wages for working people, ensure equal pay for women. Im bernie sanders. I approve this message because together, we can make a Political Revolution and create an economy and democracy that works for all this is 8 news now at 5. Dave Courvoisier the funeral for rene angelil. Celine dions husband. Was held in montreal today. Mourners lined up outside the notredame basilicia to wish him goodbye. Angelil died at his laske Las Vegas Vegas home a week ago. After a long battle with throat cancer. He was 73 years old. Denise Valdez the 8 news now living green super recycling event is this saturday at the thomas and mack. Electronics. Get rid of your unused and expired medicine and bring paperwork that needs shredded. Goodwill will also be collecting household items. For the complete list of what well be accepting and the few items that require a fee head over to las vegas now dot com. Dave Courvoisier thanks for watching 8 news now at five. Evening news is next. news music dave pelley the snows coming down, the warnings are up for they said its coming. Im trying to get out of here. Pelley also tonight, a new air bag death, for the first time not in a honda. The recall expands by millions. The conservative National Review calls for the defeat of donald trump. I guess they want to get a little publicity. But thats a dying paper. Pelley and Steve Hartman on the road when tim met tiffani. Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley this is our western edition. The snow is falling and it will only get worse