Where the airport experienced some Flight Cancellations from the blizzard. Daniel Jeffords flew in from boston we were scared about that until we actually drove to boston and then we found out that it was ok to, like, get on our flight. karen castro their father and grandmother waited patiently for their arrival. christine bond grandmother they were in about 30 minutes late because they to deice the plane, i guess it wasnt ready when they got on the plane. karen castro other travelers, however, remain on standby. Mccarran has been experiencing Flight Cancellations since thursday night. christine bond grandmother i had been following the weather. They are really lucky and missed the weather. karen castro daniels flight from boston was allowed to take off. But he almost didnt make it. Daniel Jeffords flew in from got lost. We were late a little bit for our plane. karen castro agains, almost 30 flights have been cancelled here at mccarran. Expected tomorrow. Reporting live, karen castro, 8 news now. Karen, what kind of help are airlines providing to their passengers . All Major Airlines are providing some type of voucher to rebook flights. But there may be some restrictions. Passengers should check in directly with their airline. Sharie. Sharie Johnson turning to weather now millions of people on the east coast have been affected from this weekends snow storm. Ashley conroy is here to talk about whats going on out there now. Ashley Conroy thankfully things have cleared up in most areas from yesterday, but some areas literally dropped a foot or more of snow. The satellite radar of the area shows some lingering snow that happened in upstate new york and through new england but multiple cities were heavily impacted by blizzard conditions last night including washington d. C. , philadelphia, new york city. And even though the storm has passed, that area of the country will continue to clean up for days. Heading back west now. We have plenty of snow happening in multiple areas near or around us including Salt Lake City and denver. Uan see weve had some highoudming over the state and to southern nevada. T were going to continue to ahead. Lhe the full forecast coming up later in the newscast. Ariearie johnson former clarkunty coissioner darwin lamb died this afternoon at his home in cedar city utah. Darwin, who would have been 84 in april, fell at his home a few weeks ago and broke his hip. Then he contracted pneumonia and was never able to recover. Lamb was the last of what was once. A political dynasty in nevada. While he served on the county commission, his oldest brother floyd was a powerful state senator and another brother ralph was the longest serving sheriff in county history. The lambs were often called the at one point, two of the brothers were seeking the states most powerful offices this is a 2014 interview the i teams george knapp did with darwin lamb darwin lamb i was going to run for governor when Mike Ocallahan won. I saw a survey after the fact that i could have won it easily. Floyd said im going to run. So i said okay, youre the oldest. Its your right, but this year, one of us could win it. I said, ill tell you what, you run for governor and ill run for lt. Governor. laughs in addition to a busy life in politics and business, darwin lamb was also an actor who had small roles in several big budget movies and also had a nightclub act. His daughter marion told the iteam. Memorial services are being planned for both cedar city and las vegas. Sharie Johnson a magnitude coming up later. The number of evacuations it prompted. And the suprising number of injuries reported. Do you think when you are president youll be paid as much as if you were a manmale. . This is one of the jobs where they have to pay you the same. But there are so many examples where that doesnt happen. Im going to do everything i can to make sure every woman in every job gets paid the same. As the men who are doing that job. Im Hillary Clinton with 40 megs of Internet Speed from centurylink, a family of four can all be online at the same time, streaming, gaming, or downloading movies. Yeah, the internets great, but i think hair and makeup went a little too far. Yeah, thats not working. I much prefer the twoday beard, hornrimmed glasses, justsleptinhiscar kinda thing. Yeah, i miss the rumpled crazy uncle look. Okay. Be paul giamatti. Thats the essence of this role. Feel like a hollywood insider is building this weekend for super bowl 50. But local fans who subscribe to cox cable might have to make other plans if they want to watch the game. It 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. George knapp 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 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 stash. 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 want viewers to go to their tv 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. This sundays 60 minutes will be 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 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 customer. 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 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 viewers contact cox and urge them to settle this lisa 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 Sharie Johnson on our website, we have posted information about how you can reach out to cox either by phone or social media. You can also read a full statement from klas and comments sent by Cox Communication s. 29th. Carry any channel 8 programming including this newscast. Sharie Johnson one team has already made it to the superbowl ron futrell is coming up with highlights of the broncos patriot s matchup later in sports. Sharie Johnson a suspicious fire at a vacant apartment this morning. And then tell them what to do. My plan break up the big banks, close the tax loopholes, and make them pay their fair share. Then we can expand health care to all, and provide universal college education. Will they like me . No. Will they begin to play by the rules if im president . You Better Believe it. The complex on tam drive was heavily damaged thats near the 15 and sahara. These are pictures from las vegas fire and rescue. Firefighters believe the building was used by squatters. Started. Damage is estimated at around 150 thousand dollars. No one was injured in the blaze. Sharie Johnson investigators have determined that a fireplace left burning for two days is to blame for a fire that displaced two adults. The blaze broke out at a home near west sunset road and north Arroyo Grande parkway saturday morning. The total damage is estimated at 55 thousand dollars. The two adults in the home were not hurt and are now being assisted by the red cross. Sharie Johnson gas leaks. House fires. Power outages. Thats what a major earthquake caused in alaska this morning. It struck about 160 miles southwest of anchorage. The quake had a magnitude of 7. 1. A gas leak prompted the evacuation of almost two dozen homes. It also sparked atleast three house fires. One of them exploded. But thankfully. No there have been no reports of injuries. Turning to local weather Ashley Conroy regionally, pahrump youre 54 searchlight 48 degrees, laughlin 59 colder in the midsection of the state rachel, 37, pioche 33 degrees. Heres our satellite radar map plenty of snow happening around the west right now including Salt Lake City, denver, also some wintry mix in northern california. Out east, that blizzard has dissipated still some lingering snow in upstate new york and through new england. Millions of people affected out there from the massive amount of snow theyve seen, some areas feet of snow. Theyll continue to dig out of the clean up for days. Back in southern weve had high clouds moving through this afternoon but we have a High Pressure system moving through and well expect to see drier conditions in the days ahead. Lasvegasnow. Co m click on all the latest ski conditions out west plenty of snow happening out in colorado and utah right now. Tonight 43 degrees partly cloudy skies nw winds 5 to 7 miles per hour. Tomorrow a high of 57 breezy winds out there 9 to 13 miles per hour. 7day forecast will be breezythe next few days. Sharie Johnson thanks ashley. Heres ron futrell with alook at sports. ron futrell looks like a denver carolina superbowl panthers are winning big right now over arizona and broncos and patriots in the afc championship game Peyton Manning and tom brady two of the best in the business broncos score on their first posession manning to the big guy owen daniels out of the university of wisconsin go badgers go broncos here 70 denver with the lead. After a turnover, patriots get great field position and Steven Jackson does what he does best barrells in for the score jackson attended vo tech hs here in las vegas, but played football at eldorado high glad to see this happen for jackson. He gets the score, but pats miss the extra point. Broncos answer after a tom brady interception, broncos go to daniels once again for antoerh score it was 179 broncos at halftime one issue in the first half the wi fi for the patriots microsoft tablets wasnt working, so they had to go over and use the Old Fashioned hard wire system btw the hmmmmm okay 2012 broncos 17 seconds left in the game, 4th down patriots need a touchdown here and brady goes to gronkowski 2018 but they need a 2 point conversion because of the earlier missed extra point and the brady pass is tipped and picked off the fumble at the end of this play doesn;t matter because it was on a 2 point conversion 2018 broncos are on their way to super bowl 50 no matter who they play there, they will be the underdog denver looked a little shaky they looked ok in teh first half but were very conservative in the 2nd half. I think no matter who comes out of the nfc championship game they are definately going to be the favorites over the broncos. at last check, carolina is leading arizona 277 in the 4th quarter. Rebels fell back into some of their old habits last night at reno. Eric mussleman coach first year coach of the wolfpack has coached everywhere former nba coach now with the to prove he can make it with the rebels ben Carter Gorman high working it down low gets good position and scores. If youre the rebels dont let reno do this two quick passes and the jam by Cameron Oliver just a freshman and he looks like a world beater here be tough, play interior defense. Ben carter to jordan cornish this combo is working well for the rebels hits the 3 961 consecutive games the rebels have hit a three an ncaa record. Late in the game now 3 mins left and cornish drives to the basket and the foul rebels trail by one. Heres the end of the dame rebels still down by one. 1. 4 seonds left Marquis Coleman hits the free throw rebels down by two and Patrick Mccaw from 50 feet out rebels lose 6563 they have boise st. Wednesday at home its get the red out night for the rebels two of the best prep teams in the country meeting last night at the south point it helps that theyre both from vegas. Bishop gorman against findlay prep dave and mindy rice at the game their son plays for Gorman Travis rice hits the first three pointer of the game a Family Affair as grant rice is coach of the gaels Chuck Obannon jr to jamal bey to zach collins inside ryan kiley scores for Gorman Jamal Bey with the dunk Carlos Johnson of findlay prep 29 points headed to unlv but gorman wins the big city showdown 7771 over findlay prep tonight carlos gave it a shot, but couldn;t make it happen for findlay prep. Carlos Johnson findlay prep i think they just contained us more and they let us get to the basket but our jumper wasnt falling today grant rice gorman coach they jumped up in the First Quarter it was 2212 maybe, and we just turned up the pressure. We talked about if were gonna go down, were going to go down swinging. It took Joel Silverman years to become a master dog trainer. But only a few commands to master depositing checks at chase atms. Technology designed for you. Dollars during our special newscast after the super bowl. Just head to our website. Las vegas now dot com to enter. Click the banner at the top of the page. And while youre there, check out our newly launched super bowl page. Sharie johnson thats it for us. 60 minutes is next. Well see you again for 8 news Sharie Johnson coming up tonight on 8 news now at 11. Since 1961, Pearle Vision has provided the neighborhood with expert eye care. That was dr. Stanley pearles vision and we still proudly carry on his legacy. 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