Back here in our area two deaths in icy ponds, one year apart. Family and friends of 13yearold Austin Pendergrass gathered at the shore of a south reno pond and released balloons at the exact moment he was pulled year ago. Ventured out on the ice through and was underwater for a half hour. He was pronounced dead hours later at a local hospital. Just hours before todays memorial . A 19 year old man drowned at Paradise Park after falling through the ice. Pendergrass it broke my heart because its still happening. I dont understand why its not stopped. The name of the 19 year old who died this morning at Paradise Park isnt yet released. He was with family members who were putting themselves at risk when rescuers arrived. Veteran Water Rescue Team members say you should call for help and never venture out on ice to rescue someone yourself. Local officials tell us ponds where the ice is deemed safe. Hundreds of people today. Trying to break a record for the largest ski and snowboard lesson ever. To accomplish the feat. Lessons were held simultaneously at dozens of ski resorts across the north america. Locally. At alpine meadows. It was not just about the record. But about getting people the proper instruction that will help them improve their technique. So often people come on out with friends, family, what have you. They try it and they dont necessarily have an excellent experience. They are falling a lot, they are not sure what to do. These professionals can break it down bit by bit and make it easy for you to succeed and have a lot of fun and want to come back. Across the nation. Lessons started today at 10 am pacific time. The goal is to have more than 594 people taught at once. It will be a few more weeks before we know if a record was broken. The suns been making an appeareance today and heating things up just a bit. But, it may not be long. Chief meterologist Jeff Thompson has your weather now forecast. The next winter storm will move into the sierra early saturday and then slide through the region during the day. While this will not be a strong storm, snow showers and controls are likely in the mountains at times, with snow levels on valley floors saturday morning and then again saturday night. Valley accumulation will be limited, but a quick inch is possible. Sunday will be quiet, with clouds increasing again ahead of another, fairly weak monday system. The strongest storm in this series will move in mid to late week, with mountain snow and valley rainsnow showers likely. The pattern is staying active through january. Jeff saturday scattered snow showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 41. Southwest wind around 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50 . New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible. Saturday night scattered snow showers, mainly before 10 pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 26. West wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening. Chance of precipitation is 40 . New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible. Sunday mostly sunny, with a high near 37. Calm wind becoming east around 5 mph in the morning. Sunday night partly cloudy, with a low around 25. Monday a 30 percent chance of showers after 10 am. Partly monday night a slight chance of rain and snow showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 27. Tuesday partly sunny, with a high near 41. Tuesday night mostly cloudy, with a low around 28. Wednesday a chance of showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 41. Wednesday night a chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 31. Thursday a chance of snow showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 39. Come november, Washoe County residents will be asked to vote on a ballot question to relieve overcrowding and repair aging schools in the district. The Public Schools overcrowding and repair Needs Committee unanimously voted today to create a ballot question for school funding. The committee is made up of public and private entities; and was created to look at the needs of Washoe CountyPublic Schools and find solutions to meet them. The immediate concern the overcrowding problem at most Public Schools. Traci davis wcsd superindent what we wanted to avoid at all costs is double sessions. And we do not want kids at a bus stop when it is or kids free at noon cause they are out at noon without supervision. While superintendent davis serves on the board to provide information, she has no voting power. The measure hasnt been authored yet, but it aims to raise at least 600million dollars throughout a nine year period. And it still has to be decided where taxpayers will be asked to pull those additional funds from. The committee did acknowldege pulling from multiple resources tends to anger more special interests, giving the ballot measure less chance of survivial. They hiss, they slither. And theyre coming to the wilbur d. May museum. Snakes alive is a new Exhibit Opening tomorrow. The exhibit will feature more than 20 live venomous snakes and dozens of interactive displays. There will also be non venomous snakes you can see up close. The exhibit is designed to clarify some of the misunderstandings people might have about snakes. Theres a lot of handson, snake handler thats part of the show so people can literally get handson with snakes. Well have the Great Basin Herpetological Society here several weekends, and theyre bringing snakes people can get handson with. Snakes alive will run until april 10th at the museum in Rancho San Rafael park. Admission is nine dollars for adults and eightdollars for kids and seniors. It was a wild night at a donald trump rally in vermont. The gop frontrunner was met with protests during his campaign event. Meanwhile, maines governor . A Chris Christie supporter, has ignited a firestorm with controversial remarks being called a racist rant. Kenneth moton has the latest from washington. 1 1 today its on to South Carolina for donald trump but overnight, a volatile welcome in the liberal backyard of Bernie Sanders. Get em out of here take em out the gop frontrunner. Interrupt ed, drowned out and screamed at by demonstrators in burlington, vermont. Him his coat. Keep his coat. Hundreds of people cheered on the billionaire while those protestors got the boot. Many of them supporters of sanders. The vermont senator and trump couldnt be any more different on policy but their campaigns are both matthew dowd Bernie Sanders and donald trump are fishing from a similar pond, which is independent voters who are working class whites. Bernie sanders was quick to point out a recent Quinnipiac University poll has him beating trump in a hypothetical general 38 percent. Sanders was on the phone with Political Group democracy for america while trump was in his home state. Sen. Bernie sanders, d president ial candidate i would love, love to run against donald trump. It would be a dream come true. But theres another political controversy brewing involving Chris Christie and his supporter, maine Governor Paul Lepage who said this about drug traffickers in his state. Gov. Paul lepage, rmaine these are guys by the name, dmoney, smoothie, shifty. Incidentally, half the time they impregnate a young, white girl before they leave. This morning, lepage held a News Conference and he blamed the media. Christies rivals pounced, demanding he renounce the maine governor. As of this morning, no response from christie. Kenneth moton, abc news washington. And donald trump will be at the reno ballroom on Center Street sunday afternoon. The rally starts at one in the afternoon. Doors open at eleven in the morning. Ohio Governor John Kasich will also be making a stop in he is holding a meet andgreet at the Washoe County gop headquarters next tuesday at a quarter totwo in the afternoon. Both events are open to the public, but an rsvp is requested. Are you looking for a new job in the new year. Newly released numbers show that employment is on the rise across the nation. And, good news for your gas tank in 2016 get ready to road trip youre watching kolo 8 news now at 4 30 with sarah johns and weather with meteorologist Jeff Thompson american job numbers are up. But the stock market taking a big hit. These are the stories affecting your wallet this week kolo 8 news nows noah bond joins us for financial friday. Noah . The numbers are in and 2015 was a strong year for the the us jobs market. American employers added more than 2and a half million jobs. 292thousand of those jobs were added in december. It was the second best year for jobs gains since 1999. Americans saw their paychecks go up as well. Wages grew 2point5 percent in december. It matched the gains in october which were the best in six years. The us stock market closed out of its worst week since 2011. Concerns over a slowdown in chinas economy, and plunging oil prices, have investors rattled. A big reason for the drop in the oil price is a concern that chinas economy is stumbling. This week, the country allowed its currency to weaken against the dollar, an ominous sign that growth there is coming to an end. The Dow Jones Industrial average lost 167 points. You might want to take a close look at your office chair. . Does it look like this . Office depot has issued a recall for their crawleytwo executive chairs. They were sold at office depot, and office max stores between october 2012 and september 2015. Roughly eight reports have been made, that the seat plate welding can crack, and break. So far, there have been no related injuries. If you have one of these chairs you should stop using it immediately and Contact Office depot to install at home. New Court Documents show reviled farma pharma executive martin scrahelee shkreli, used a 45 million etrade account to secure his 5million in bail. This, following his arrest on federal securities fraud and conspiracy charges. Shkreli is best known for hiking the price of a lifesaving drug by more than 5thousand percent, while ceo of turing pharmaceuticals. He maintains his innocence, arguing he was targeted by federal authorities, due to the drug price hike at turing. When it comes to filling your tank. 2016 will be easier on your wallet. Thats according to analysts at gas buddy dotcom. They say the transition from winter to summer blends will result in higher gas prices but we stay below last Years National average peak price of 2 dollarsand83cents. In fact, they say 3 dollars a gallon will be difficult to find except for areas around the west coast. So . What does that taking a look at prices in our area. You are likely paying 2dollars and50cents for a gallon of regular gas. Thats according to tripleas fuel gauge report. That price is up slightly from last month when the average price in our area was 2dollarsand 55cents. If youre filling up with diesel. Youre likely to pay 2dollarsand50 cents a gallon. Thats actually down 15 cents from last months price of 265. Those prices seem a little steep when compared to the national average, for a gallon of regular gas which is only 198 these are average prices. You may find them higher or lower where you are. Remember. You can find the best gas prices in your neighborhood by going to kolo tv dot com and clicking on hot topics. Sarah. Back to you. Are you ready to get your cookie fix . We have our local girl scout representative in studio to tell us if your favorite flavor will be back this year. So what kind of weather can we expect tomorrow, and into the rest of the week . We will have a closer look at our forecast. And what you when you stay connected to your kids, theyll stay connected to you. The Boys Town National hotline can help. Call the Boys Town National hotline at 18004483000 tdd 18004481433 . Or visit us on the web at parenting dot org. Anything to him. Maria castro is breathing a sigh of relief after being reunited with her one year old son. It happened in montebello, california around three yesterday afternoon. The child was the back seat of the family van when it was stolen in broad daylight. Surveillance video captured the moment the suspcet, in black, walked towards the van with marias three kids still inside. Two of the children got out. But the baby was still sleeping in the in sheer panic castro ran toward the van while the car thief takes off. Roughly three hours later, a tip helped police find the van parked in a Shopping Center two miles away with the child still inside. The next winter storm will move into the sierra early saturday and then slide through the region during the day. While this will not be a strong storm, snow showers and controls are likely in the mountains at times, with snow levels on valley floors saturday morning and then again saturday night. Valley accumulation will be limited, but a quick inch is possible. Sunday will be quiet, with clouds increasing again ahead of another, fairly weak monday system. The strongest storm in this series will move in mid to late week, with mountain snow and valley rainsnow showers likely. The pattern is staying active through january. Jeff saturday scattered snow showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 41. Southwest wind around 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50 . New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible. Saturday night scattered snow showers, mainly before 10 pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 26. West wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening. Chance of precipitation is 40 . New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible. Sunday mostly sunny, with a high near 37. Calm wind the morning. Sunday night partly cloudy, with a low around 25. Monday a 30 percent chance of showers after 10 am. Partly sunny, with a high near 40. Monday night a slight chance of rain and snow showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 27. Tuesday partly sunny, with a high near 41. Tuesday night mostly cloudy, with a low around 28. Wednesday a chance of showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 41. Wednesday night a chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 31. Thursday a chance of snow showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 39. The next winter storm will move into the sierra early saturday and then slide through the region during the day. While this will not be a strong storm, snow showers and controls are likely in the mountains at times, with snow levels on valley floors saturday morning and then again saturday night. Valley accumulation will be limited, but a quick inch is possible. Sunday will be quiet, with clouds increasing again ahead of another, fairly weak monday system. The strongest storm in this series will move in mid to late week, with mountain snow and valley rainsnow showers likely. The pattern is staying active through january. Jeff saturday scattered snow showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 41. Southwest wind around 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50 . New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible. Saturday night scattered snow showers, mainly before 10 pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 26. West wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening. Chance of precipitation is 40 . New snow sunday mostly sunny, with a high near 37. Calm wind becoming east around 5 mph in the morning. Sunday night partly cloudy, with a low around 25. Monday a 30 percent chance of showers after 10 am. Partly sunny, with a high near 40. Monday night a slight chance of rain and snow showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 27. Tuesday partly sunny, with a high near 41. Tuesday night mostly cloudy, with a low around 28. Wednesday a chance of showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 41. Wednesday night a chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 31. Thursday a chance of snow showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 39. Theres still a lot of cold weather yet to come our way, and south asking for your help warm. They are holding a Community Coat drive now through january you can drop of donations at any of these three locations. They are looking for clean, gently used coats in all sizes. All donations will be given to children in need around south lake tahoe. Ordering your Girl Scout CookiesCourtney Barnett from local troop 262 is here to tell us about it. If theres anything that can make cracking open a box of fresh Girl Scout Cookies even better, its knowing that youve contributed to helping girl scouts learn the skills they need to succeed in life and make the world a better place. This year, its easier than ever to find cookie booths in your area, or even order cookies online girl schot cookies are on a mission to help girls learn five skills that are essential to leadership, to success, and to life. Skill 1goal setting skill 2decision making skill 3money management skill 4people skills skill 5business ethics did you know the Girl Scout Cookie Program is the largest girlrun business in the world . Its trueand its Pretty Amazing all of the net revenue raised through the Girl Scout Cookie Program100 percent of it stays with the local council and troops. Or they may use the money earned to fund a project that will improve their community, or donate the money to a worthy cause. Stay with us. Well be right back. Whats coming up in our next hour. Were working on several new and updated stories coming up on kolo 8 news now at 5. A commercial flight is diverted after a woman, demanded to be let off the plane in the middle of a flight. And. The Washoe CountySchool District is turning to voters for help reducing stress on overcrowded classrooms, and aging buldings. Plus. . Do you recognize this man . Investigators with the Washoe CountySheriffs Office is asking for down, after a Convenience Store robbery. We dont hear this often enough. A onceendangered the list the manatee will be removed from the endangered species list after their population grew by 500percent since 1991. The us fish and Wildlife Service credit better habitat conditions. The manatee is still a protected species under law. Whats coming up in our were working on several new and updated stories coming up on kolo 8 news now at 5. A commercial flight is diverted after a woman, demanded to be let off the plane in the middle of a flight. And. The Washoe CountySchool District is turning to voters for help reducing stress on overcrowded classrooms, and aging buldings. Plus. . Do you recognize this man . Investigators with the Washoe CountySheriffs Office is asking for your help to track him down, after a Convenience Store robbery. Jeff is back with your. Forecast. Showers. Mostltonight on kolo 8 news now. A 19yearold man is dead after falling through the ice in reno. It comes exactly one year after a 13yearold died the same way. Washoe county schools are facing severe overcrowding. And fixing the problem could be in the hands of voters. Plus. He said that he pledges his allegiance to Islamic State he follows allah and that is the reason he was called upon to do this. A Philadelphia Police officer is shot, as he sits in his patrol car and a surveillance camera captures the whole thing. Thanks for joining us. Im noah bond. Im sarah johns. A tragic anniversary, and another death through the ice at a local pond. One year ago today, thin ice claimed the life of a 13yearold boy in south reno. Early this morning, a