Calm, cool, spring like weather. Went golfing center. Meteorologist tim studebaker. Our next winter storm has arrived across the area. Were seeing winds, not so much in the way of precipitation yet, but that will change as we go into nighttime hours as the main bulk arrives in the area. Were looking at windy conditions for the rest of the day today. Southwest winds 2535, gusting at times to 55 to 60 and ridge to happens gust to 105 or so. Ridge is up to 115 miles per hour. Increasing snow as we head through the afternoon and evening hours, above 7,000 feet. Increasing rain below 7,000 and changing over to snow as the snow level drops. Down into the valley locations, including places like truck key meadows. Winds today 2535, gusting to peak wind gusts has been 49 miles per hour. Tonight as we go through the overnight, southwest winds gusting to 45. Increasing rain as we head through the day today and into the evening. We got our first round of moisture in the sierra. Thats started to weaken, but the bulk will come through overnight into tomorrow morning. By tomorrow morning too, the floor. How much snow are we talking . 1020, four to ten inches below 6,000. Upper foothills, 37. Upper foothills 13. Down to the valley floor, zero to one. Mostly a wind and rain showers event. A few showers possible pi tomorrow morning. Maybe up to a few inches in the valley. Back to you. Tim, thank you. Happening now, heidi cruz, wife of ted cruz, is speaking in northern nevada. This is a live picture. Womens luncheon this noon. Representatives from other campaigns are also in attendance. This is the event Carly Fiorina was scheduled to be in before she dropped out of the president ial race. Well have more on her campaign on our sister station news 4 later on in the day. And speaking of which, ted cruz himself is going to be making several stops in northern nevada next week. Crews will hold a rally at the boys and girls club. That event begins at 7 00 and is expected to end around 10 00. Nevada looks like a tough Battle Ground for Hillary Clinton and bernie sanders. A new cnn orc poll has Democratic Caucus goers in nevada split almost evenly. 48 say they support clinton. 47 sanders. The racial divide in nevada is not nearly as big as the one in both white and minority voters are evenly divided between the two candidates. It is, of course, a big week for national politics. The Democratic Caucus on saturday. Millions of dollars in campaign adds are flooding to airways. Van 2 follows the money. President ial candidates are pumping money into their air waves. Its interesting to look at how much money theyre spending to reach your living room. According to the latest ad spending numbers from sng, delta, and abc news are the most expensive. Jeb bush banking on 89. 9 million. Bernie sanders, 25 million, and Hillary Clinton 20 million. When you look at nevada, the democrats are spending twice as week there. Putting money into the silver state. Last week sanders spending 1. 9 million in nevada. Clinton spending 1. 5 million. Now, this week clinton is out spending sanders. Her Campaign Spending 3 million on ads. The Democratic Candidates fighting for nada moving into the caucus this weekend there. There theres no clear projected winners. Clinton tops out at 3. 3 million. Second at 3. 2 million. And marco rubio spending the most in nevada at 560,000. Clearly nowhere near how much sanders and clinton are nevada. In more political news, jeb bush will be making a Campaign Stop in reno as well. Nevada. Bush will host a town hall meeting at huff elementary school. Hes been here a lot during this Campaign Election cycle. The events start at 6 00. Although the event is open to the public, space is limited. Lets keep it going. Donald trump also coming to northern nevada on Republican Caucus day. He plans to hold a rally up in nugget casino in the rose ballroom. Thats where he was when he came back one of the other times. Admission is on a first come, first serve basis. In his prior trips to nevada, they have been packed. Theres a veterans resource that you may not know much about. Its credited with getting an estimated reno veterans off the streets last year. The Va Health Care became more visible after a Safety Inspection of a reno hotel it helps vets that were at risk of losing their housing or already homeless. It provides a way to shower, eat. It provides them with a counselor or social worker if needed. Hes sober and employed, thanks to the services offered. It took me nine rehabs. You know, i was sober. Its taken me nine rehab this is time to get over four years. You just never stop trying. For more information on veteran services, just visit our website, www. Foxreno. Com. Well,17nativeamericantribesi nnevadaarereceivingmorethan 15 mil well,17nativeamericantribesinnevadaarereceivingmorethan15 mil well,17nativeamericantribesinnevadaarereceivingmorethan15 million dollarsingrantthisisyearfro mtheu. S. Department of housing and urban development. Grant money is distributed to eligible indian tribes, including the reno sparks will be used to maintain and develop new housing for tribal members. Theyve done some studies and looked at multigenerational housing, and housing that isnt stagnant. So, for instance, maybe you have a common area, and you have wings so that your elders can live on the first floor and maybe what most of america would call the nuclear family, maybe theyre on the second floor. As those children get older, maybe they move to a different part of the house. So you can have all the same relatives in the same place, but the house sort of evolves and grows as the family does as well. If you want to learn more, we have a detailed look at how the money is being allocated over on our website, and our sister stations website. Happening tonight, rtc officials want to hear from residents about improving safety for cyclists and pedestrians across reno and sparks. Their ideas and comments about the complete streets and master plan at a workshop tonight. Its from 5 to 7 00. Many across the country kick off the day with a fresh cup of coffee. Were in the middle of random the nation. This morning Bank Officials paid for everyones cup of joe reno. The company has been participating in participating participating in random acts of kindness week for years. Its a beautiful thing. I think its great. Its a fun thing to do. Makes people feel good, and gets the Community Involved in kindness. If something is good for you, you will remember to do something when youre out in the community, do the same. Random acts of kindness week continues throughout the country through friday. If youve ever participated youre helping to give back to the community. The river walk Merchants Association has donated more than 84,000 to local nonprofits. This month its all about the truckee meadows parks foundation. Portions of proceeds from the wine walk this coming saturday will benefit the foundation. As always, it goes from 2 00 to 5 00. Straight ahead, we all know that the water in flint, michigan is toxic. Were going to break down to how residents will pay more than the average american for the undrinkable water. The reality is if you put a back door in, thats for everybody, for good guys and bad guys. Apple officials are fighting fighting a a judges order to break into the phone of syed farook. Its too dangerous. When wind and snow are all in the forecast. Expect, coming today in america, the top 1 10 of 1 owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 this great country and our government belong to all of us. Wall street, corporate america, wealthy Campaign Donors have so much influence that the only way they are defeated is when millions of people begin to stand up and say loudly and clearly, enough is enough. And welcome back. Apple says it will not help investigators break into the iphones of one of the San Bernardino killers. A judge in california has ordered the company to help the fbi get into syed farooks phone. However, a letter signed by apples ceo tim cook warns complying with the order would require building a back door to the iphone. Such a phone would potentially render tens of millions of devices vulnerable. Investigators have farooks phone, but its locked with a pass code. There are people that suggest we should have a back door, but the reality is if you put that back door in, its for everybody, good guys and bad guys. Tashfeen malik killed 14 people. The investigators owe it to the families to investigate every aspect of the attack. Clive bundy remains remains in an oregon jail after a judge denied bail. He was said to be a flight risk. He faces charges of conspiracy over his conspiracy with his standoff in southern nevada. He led armed supporters in a faceoff over grazing rights on federal lands. Bundy was a rested was arrested in oregon where he flew to support his son at a separate standoff. He could spend the rest of his life in prison if hes convicted. Mexican druglord el chapo is complaining that life behind bars is simply too rough. He said the guards are waking him up every two hours, which he feels like is torture. Sleep that he feels like a zombie. The druglord whose real name is Joaquin El Chapo guzman. Hes now under close watch after escaping last year. Theyre going to eventually extradite him to the u. S. Keeping the zika virus out of the u. S. They recently traveled to countries to wait four weeks before donating blood. This applies to everyone who has contact with travelers. Most people do not show any symptoms makes this an interesting case. The wait should be enough for their immune systems to clear the virus. Its spreading through Central Africa and southeast asia. Residents and government officials know their water is undrinkable. It has been for a while. A new study shows they paid the highest rates in the nation for that toxic water. And water watch released the results of a national study. The survey looked at 500 largest Water Systems in the country. 864 a year was spent for water service. Thats nearly double the national average. Fees shouldnt exceed 3 of the household income. In flint, it averaged 7 . A different forecast than what weve been used over over the last spring like weather. A lot of people woken up by the wind. When are we going to get this full impact. Good afternoon to you. Well continue to see increasing winds through the rest of the day today as well as increasing chances for rain and snow shower activity. That will pick up for the rest of the day today. Then start to decrease as we head through your thursday. So the bulk of this system will be during the evening through the Morning Hours tomorrow. The snow level will lower as well as we go through the so we may even see the snow level right down to the valley floor by the time we get to tomorrow mornings commute. Not expecting much on the valley floor. Well keep you updated. 56 degrees. Still quite mild out there. 32 mileperhour sustained winds gusting gusting into the 40plus range. The maximum gusts so far has been 49 miles per hour. Well continue to see some pretty strong gusty winds through the rest of the day today. 40s and 50s through the area now. Its mild because the cold front has not arrived yet. Once that cold front comes through, well see cooler weather before rebounding heading into the weekend. If first batch of moisture headed into the sierra earlier this morning. Thats now starting to weaken. That was only the first batch. So that will arrive as we head evening hours, especially the evening into the overnight. Thats the best chance for snow shower activity. Plus, well see that snow level starting to lower as we head toward tomorrow morning. That means the chance for some flakes for your morning commute in reno sparks. Minor accumulations, we went over the numbers earlier. As far as your driving difficulty forecast is concerned over the next couple of days here, right now, a medium impact. I mentioned specifically the passes thats the area thats going to be hit the hardest. By this afternoon and evening, i think things will get much worse up into the mountains and into tomorrow morning as well. Headed into tomorrow afternoon, everything is going to taper. Well see a lot more improvement there. A lot of weather alerts there. Most of them wind related. Thats a winter storm warning that goes from 7 00 p. M. Tonight. Again, its mostly an evening and overnight system. Tonight to noon tomorrow. 1220 inches of snow. Lake level at tahoe and the winds will be coming on, ridges gust as high as 105 with 5560 for most of the elevations of the sierra. Above 6,000 feet. Look for four to ten and 7,000 feet. 20 inches of snow with the winter storm warning in place. Of course the gusty winds down in the area as well. Northeast california has a wind advisory today until about 10 00 p. M. Wind prone areas, 65 to 70 or so. Lake wind advisory in place. Wave heights of three to five feet. We do have a high wind warning that includes reno sparks into Douglas County until 10 00 p. M. Tonight. 25 to 35 here. We also in eastern nevada, we have a Winter Weather advisory 2030 that way out of the southwest. Your 7day forecast, theres the storm system. It will start to taper through tomorrow afternoon. Tomorrow is much cooler. Only a high of 45 degrees. Then heading into the rest of the weekend and into next week, things are going to be a lot quieter. Highs back into up ther 50s and lower 60s. Back to you. Thank you for that. A lot of us rely on a cup of joe to start the day and maybe another way to make it end as well. Is it really the healthiest way to get that boost . Could soda be a better option. Well talk about that when we well be right back. Think youre being healthier by going to a coffee shop. Think again. Some flavored coffee drinks can contain more sugar than soda. The group action on sugar analyzed the 131 hot drinks. Some can contain up to 25 teaspoons of sugar. If you dont know that well, thats three times more sugar than one can of soda and more than three times the maximum daily intake recommended by the american heart association. Extending Passport Services to all of their Stores Across the country. Theyre going to allow customers to schedule appointments for passport photos. The ups reported an increase in passport sales. Some response to an unexpected surge in demand as nearly 50 million american passports expire over the next three years. Started a go fund me campaign to pay for the rappers debt. He claimed hes 53 million in debt. Tmz says the 53 million represents kanyes investment dollars that are tied up in his music and fashion lines. He called on Facebooks Mark Zuckerberg to invest. Theyve raised not a darn thing. Still about 50 million more to go. There you go. Take a look at your forecast. So we have our winter storm in the area. Have [lively music] yeah. All right oh, no, wait. No. You sit down. Relax. Its fine. Hi, welcome to los angeles, california. Welcome to celebrity name game. I am your host, tvs craig ferguson. Thank you. Our teams today are teresa and lauren versus florence and taaji. Ladies, step it up, please. Come on up. [cheers and applause] all right, let me guess. You guys are best friends since kindergarten. Uh, close. Actually, taaji was my student 20 years ago. Yeah. Really . 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