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Hotel and casino with a look at what stands out about this property. Mauricio . Mauricio Marin the lucky dragon is at the boulevard and sahara. Its alot smaller than the mega resorts weve seen built on the strip in the last decade or so. With the doors set to open at 8 tonightthis casino is working to set itself apart by reaching out to the Asian Community who experience more close to what its like overseas. The casino is built from the ground up to create an authentic asain cultural and gaming experience. They have five contemporary chinese focused restaurants and 203 hotel rooms. Even the signage inside the casino is a bit different. Where they have chinese first and english second. And the gaming lounges even follow the discipline of theres also a chance to the casino floor layout compared to other places where people play around town. dave jacoby chief operating officer, Lucky Dragon Hotel casino we have 37 table games. 25 of them are baccarat so your mix you would generally see at another casino is not quite allocated in that way so we know what are players want and focus on baccarat, igow, a few black jack tables, few roulette we dont have any s here in the building. Mauricio Marin the casino floor has 287 slot machines. And the games are centered around a po Mauricio Marin hotel leaders say they really worked hard to make this an authentic asian cultural gaming experiencenot just a theme. They hope to attract local guests and people overseas. If youre looking to come on downthe doors open at 8 tonight. Reporting live. Mauricio marin. 8 news now. Christianne Klein plane crashed in northern nevada killing four people released a statement about the accident today. The plane went down in elko moments after taking off from the aiprort there. Were told crews were transporting a heart transplant patient to the university of utah. At this time the cause of the crash remains unknown. American medflight released this statement saying in part we are devastated by this event and wish we had answers to the many questions being asked at this time. The National Transportation safety board and the federal Aviation Administration as they investigate the accident. Christianne Klein back here in the valley. A section of the 215 is completely shut down creating quite the traffic nightmare for those traveling near and around the airport. The closure is at the airport connector in both directions. Reporter Brittany Edney joins us live with more brittany how bad is traffic right now . Brittany Edney this is the backup heading into weekend due to part of the 215 being closed in both directions. A portion shut down last night and wont reopen until monday. Drivers can get to mccarren using the airport connector but that its. Other than that, the 215 is closed. Through traffic wont go through. And with a lot of people traveling ahead of thanksgiving. It might be easier and quicker for you to use alternates if going to the airport. So you can avoid some of this heavy congestion that weve seen. Soif youre heading to surface streets like russell to get you to the airport. Those coming in from the west side can use tropicana avenue. And follow it to paradise and get to the airport that way as well. The closure is allowing crews to install parts of a flyover offramp over the highway. And with all the various Road Construction projects, closures and detours throughout the valley. Ndot wants to remind drivers to stay focused on safety. Especially as we hit the holiday rush. tony illia, Public Information officer, ndot driving on the road is people can be easily distracted, talking on their phones, or texting or listening to music, and things can change in a split second. and distracted driving is something Henderson Police say theyre keeping an eye out for as well. For the first two weeks of november, the Department Says it made 575 traffic stops and issued 637 citations for varying offenses. Brittany Edney the airport connector to sunset road is also closed. Reporting live, Brittany Edney, 8 news now. Christianne Klein brittany, when exactly does that area of 215 reopen . Brittany Edney commuters just have to get through this weekend. These closures again, are temporary and things reopen at 5am on monday. Right before traffic starts to really pick up across the valley for the workday commute. A chlly start to the day that warmed up with clouds this afternoon. Lets check in with katie for a first look at the rest of our weekend. Katie Boer A Pacific storm system will move across the region sunday through monday night. Precipitation chances will spread into mainly the sierra by sunday afn the area sunday night and monday. Some showers may linger in eastern portions of lincoln and mohave counties monday night. Generally dry conditions and near normal temperatures are expected for the remainder of next week. Southwest flow will be over the area tonight as a pacific trough approaches the california coast. Some mid and high level moisture will continue to spread across portions of the area as this trough approaches but mainly associated with a weaker disturbance out ahead of the california. This first disturbance could bring just enough moisture for a slight chance of high elevation showers or sprinkles sunday across eastern san bernardino, clark, mohave and lincoln counties. Christianne Klein clkoty big ticketitems are get d 11hundred lots of itemsfrom theyre items used or acquired by Police Departments from around the county and the state. Auction organizers expect the auction to go late into the night with about 2thousand bidders looking for a good deal. Even if you dont make it out to todays auctiontheres another one already planned for early nexy the goods ahead of time can give bidders a better idea of what they want to pick up mike mckee tnt auction i always recommend come to the preview. We have a three day preview here in las vegas before the auction. Check the stuff out, look it over, and do your research and make sure you know what youre buying. Christianne Klein in 2015 clark county made about 2pointsix Million Dollars in sales from the auctions. Christianne Klein several organizations here in the valley and across the nation have teamed up to help today the convoy of hope along with the Champion Center hosted its 3rd annual help for homeless event. Were told a free holiday turkey was given to the first 25 hundred families and many others received bags of groceries along with an early thanksgiving meal. One of the pastors at the Champion Center says every year the event seems to grow and while its disheartening at times to see so many in need. She gives this advice to others Randall Araujo Champion Center pastor do somethin. Weve all been given so we should give back. We should show the same love that we have be shown. Christianne Klein organizers say they hope to beat last years record of serving 10 thousand people and have already started planning next years event. Christianne Klein Law Enforcement here in the valley are gearing up for the arrival of a new super drug. Exactly what it is and why a tiny amount of it could be lethal. youre watching the valleys news leader. With sharie johnson, Katie Boer Jon tritsch. Christianne Klein the heroin epidemic is becoming more deadly by the day. Now, a super heroin is being created by dealers who are cutting their drugs with animal tranquilizer. To give it an extra kick. 8 news now anchor paul joncich explains the dangers of what hit them. Until its too late. To save overdose victims, is suddenly not powerful enough. dr mathew lee Wheeling Hospital it used to be we could give one dose of narcan, sometimes two doses and that would be enough. But with this stronger narcotic, it can take 410 or even more doses of narcan. paul joncich in the hardest hit areas of the country, where dozens of overdoses are happening in clusts,ramedics art overdoses duto carfentanil. Cor continually sharing our data with Law Enforcement, so they can map it, see where its happening, see where these deaths are occuring see where the hot spots are in the valley. paul joncich make it into las vegas heroin stream, theres good reason to believe it will. Sources within metro tell us in several recent burglaries at veterinarian offices, the obvious target was large animal tranquilizer. Back to you. Christianne Klein this news came as leaders in the pot industry from around the country met here in las vegas. More than 10thousand cannabis industry professionals spent marijuana. Discussing topics from equipment to fertilizer. To an actual mockup of a dispensary. These businesses offer a gilmpse into what nevadas Marijuana Industry could soon look like. State lawmakers will soon tackle a bill that would require edibles to be packaged in nondescript. Childproof packaging. But thats not the only issue. Marijuana businesses have had a hard time finding a place to set up shop. george stone ceo, Kalyx Development so they typically reject them, because sometimes if a landlord has a mortgage, the mortgage prohibits though its state legal, its federally illegal. Christianne Klein Recreational Marijuana becomes legal in nevada january first. But sales wont begin right away. At least two state lawmakers say theyll work on a temporary program allowing medical marijuana facilities to make recreational sales until full regulations are in place. Christianne Klein the sweater weather didnt last long we warmed uq straight ahead. Meteorologist katie boer brings us a look at the valleys temperatures as we head into the night. now, live. This is 8 Christianne Klein theres a new sheriff in town calvary brigade. Were told during war time. Nevadas calvary brigade is responsible for making sure the army knows where the enemy is, what hes doing and his intentions to relay it to the tactical and maneuvering team. Today as the squadron ended an era with the 11th armored cavalry regiment in california. They got a new leader. Major nicholas h soapes. nicholas h. Soapes major im hoping to bring energy, i hope that i can motivate with charisma and push our soilders to do more than what they know that they are soapes has served in the United States army for four year tour in fort hood before coming to serve with calvary. Christianne Klein toss to weather katie boer monday night. Precipitation chances will spread into mainly the sierra by sunday afternoon and across the rest of the area sunday night and monday. Some showers may linger in eastern portions of lincoln and mohave counties monday night. Generally dry conditions and near normal temperatures are expected for t. Southwest flow will be over the area tonight as a pacific trough approaches the california coast. Some mid and high level moisture will continue to spread across portions of the area as this trough approaches but mainly associated with a weaker disturbance out ahead of the main trough moving north out of baja and through far southern california. This first disturbance could bring just enough moisture for a slight chance of high elevation showers or sprinkles sunday across eastern san bernardino, clark, mohave and lincoln counties. Your 7day forecast keeps our rain chance to primarilly sunday night into monday morning. Leading up to thanksgiving. For thanksgiving look for temperatures in the upper 60s and sunny skies. < thanks . . What . Is he gone . . Finally, i thought hed never leave. Tv character why are you texting my man at 2 a. M. . No. If you want someone to leave you alone, if you want to save fifteen percent or more car insurance, you switch to geico. Its what you do. Christianne Klein coming up tonight at 6. The Trump Transition Team meetings pick up this weekend at the Trump National golf club in new jersey. The latest on the president elects potential candidates for administration appointments. Join us for those stories and more, tonight at 6 00. Christianne Klein how would you like to own chance californias van eaton galleries is holding a souvenirs of disneyland auction today. The auction features more than a thousand rare and neverbeforeseen items from the theme park over the last six decades. Items includes costumes, artwork, souvenirs and other collectibles. The auction also has items that come from the estate of the late disney icon annette funicello. Proceeds from those items will benefit her namesake research diseases. Christianne Klein thats it for us. Join us again at 6 00. middletown, ca 6 00. captioning sponsored by cbs ninan political enemies joining forces . 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