This is not a plot to take away everybodys guns. The president will also hire more people to process background checks. Order better tracking of lost guns. Increased funding for Mental Health care and a push to include information from the Social Security administration in the background check system to make sure people with Mental Health issues are not able to boy a gun. And so where are we at tonight. The debate rages on. We have gun ownership. Some people saying the president s action have gone too far while others are saying they dont do enough. Were live near downtown las vegas. Youve been talking with people on both sides of the issue and also constitutional law professor about whether the president has the authority. Jim, marie, as you said many opponents to these executive orders and the president is over making these executive orders. So we went to find a constitutional law professor and talked about whether or not this could be applied to this very divisive issue. The two sides for and against the president s proposed executive orders could not be more clear. If its completely within his power. How can he think an executive order is going to override the constitution. He said what barack obama proposed today would make no difference if someone iss going to commit a mass shooting. The person killed somebody to get access to the guns. They did background checks. San bernardino they were motivated for other reasons. And not only will president obamas executive order save lives but nevada needs to take greater steps to ensure more gun safety. Her group wants voters to expand requirements for gun sales across nevada. Criminals. Domestic abusers. People that shouldot have access to weapon. It comes with a request for more funding to treat mentally ill. There is precedent for administrative, executive action. In the regulation of products like firearms. Even garcia the president ial of constitutional law at unlv feels the president acted within his power. The fact that the congress has not acted in this particular area is not evidence that it is unconstitutional. Could the actions today be successful. It depends on what specific proposal. There is a wide range of different proposals. President is and depending on their values and the issues that they care about as well these executive orders may end up being a mute point. Reporting live, news 3. A lot of perspectives. There is legislation in the u. S. Congress to address gun control and one bill is being cosponsored by dina titus. Also a push to make this state law. The titus bill would expand the system to cover all firearm sales and that includes gun shows and weapons over the internet or through classified ads. It does provide exemptions for family and friend transfers. Titus calls this long overdue action. Asking you what you think about the president s executive orders on guns. Do you think his orders are not enough . Going too far . Head over to mynews3. Com. And stay tuned for the latest reporting of the story at 5 30. Now on to the story that got everyones attention. A winter storm bringing more snow up in the mountains and rain here in the valley. News 3s George Ramero capturing these photos. Incredible and this rare site surrounding las vegas. In fact this fog was so thick a fog advisory was issued for a while. The fog cutting off the visibility of some prominent spikes like the top of the stratosphere. Yesterday we woke up to seattle weather and today its more like london. Meteorologist Kevin Janison take it away. I thought waking up in a fog was normal las vegas. Well show you a time lapse. No question the weather headlines right now. A couple of areas weve been watching. One of them up in the northwest. Some decent rainfall. Up to half an inch in parts of centennial hills. Down in green valley light to moderate rain. It has been persistent and the snow will continue to fall up on mount charleston. Most of the significant rain is pushed east but more patches of light rain and the potential for fog will persist before another round comes in late tomorrow. An action packed forecast and youll get a kick out of the videos of fog in the desert. Well show it to you along with the forecast coming up. Jimmy kimmel as i plan to place. Bundy also wants authorities to look into claims that local ranchers have been intimidated. The two ranchers who now face long prison sentences having treated unfairly and bundy and the group questioning the constitutionality of the federal government rules and public lands. Theyve been holed up since saturday. The sheriff said he is about to pull the plug on the electricity to end the stand off. Antigovernment protestors continue to control buildings. Near byrnes in eastern oregon. Leaders of the occupation now in the fourth day say the group has no plans to leave until theyve implemented a plan. Where the community will begin to participate more in that. And then begin to take that over and so that they can claim their begin using them and then they can stand Strong Enough to defend themselves themselves. Digging in despite the plea from the local sure. I its time for you to leave our community. Go home to your families. And end this peacefully. They call themselves citizens for constitutional freedom and think the federal government has too much control over western land. Some local ranchers agree. It feels like were getting pinched out. The occupiers are rallying behind the ranchers who reported for prison monday and are being convicted of starting fires on federal land allegedly to cover up poaching but they made it clear they dont want militant support. The occupation has closed schools for a week unsettling much of the community. I dont think he has any business doing this. Back to the bundies he said he supports his sons and their right to stay for however long it takes. The ranchers at the heart of the stand off turned themselves into authorities both convicted of arson for the fires and sentenced to five years in less on. Jim the fbi is asking to find out what the San Bernardino terrorist did for the 18 period right after the deadly taxes. The fbi said the 18 minutes are the only chunk of time where they dont know what the killers were doing. The bureau knows the attackers drove back and forth near the Government Center where the mass shooting took place and they also stopped at a parking lot and nearby lake. The mother of the socalled affluenza teen faces a judge. She fled to mexico with his son who is under investigation for violating parole in a drunk driving crash that killed four people. She waved her right to fight to be back in fort worth. Her bail set at 1 million. As for ethan he remains in mexico where he is fighting efforts to bring him back to the u. S. Jimmy kimmel a Service Member was killed and two others injured. In afghanistan. They say all of the attackers were killed in an intention 24 hour gun battle that started on sunday. Now to the race for president and donald trump continues to hold on to a big lead. Trump getting 35 support among republican voters. Marco rubio at third at 13 and ben carson at 9 followed by jeb bush at 6 . Clinton leading bernie sanders. The democratic president ial candidates will be in las vegas tomorrow for the caucus dinner. And while here the candidates are rallying supporters. Hillary clinton will visit supporters in henderson and tour the academy on the west side. Bernie sanders will hold a rally before 5 00 tomorrow afternoon at the tropicana. Now at 5 00 time to take a road trip to the california and Arizona State line. A lot of people doing just that. The jackpot for tomorrow nights power ball drawing is now 450 million. That makes it the biggest lottery prize anywhere in the nation. That jackpot is going to get bigger the closer we get to tomorrow nights drawing. You can get the numbers as soon our website news 3lv. Com. Inside its the Little Things in life that make me smile. Spending the day with my niece. I dont use super poligrip for hold, because my dentures fit well. Before those little pieces would get in between my dentures and my gum and it was uncomfortable. Even well fitting dentures let in food particles. Just a few dabs of super poligrip free is clinically proven to seal out more food particles so youre more comfortable and confident while you eat. So its not about keeping my dentures in, its about keeping the food particles out. Jim 8600 nevadans hold medical marijuana cards. 6200 right here in clark county. Maria an inside look at a medical marijuana center. Jim we have a look at the Company Called wave seer. That is right and this is currently the largest grow house in the apex area right now. What were showing you here is just a very small amount because they had a major harvest. Only days ago ago. This is a growing industry. Make no mistake about that and that means that the product here we currently are growing 20 different strains right now. Forget what you thought you knew about marijuana farms. This is wave seer of nevada. A facility located in apex north of las vegas. Youre staning in a vegetative room only and th9 lights are actually on 24 hours a day because plants do not sleep. Here the workers look more like doctors than farmers with their White Lab Coats and rubber gloves. The plants will be turned into medicine to treat everything from headaches to cancer. Once they are full size well take them and put them into our flower room and create nice big flowers and then they will go boot processing machines. Also on staff here he helps monitor things like soil conditions and plant genetics. The environment is 100 and the humidity to the product itself. Quality is paramount. Were testing it for microbial bacteria growth and fungal growth and the biggest thing is nevada has stringent testing. Only months in operation they are producing all it can to meet demand. Operators say they will begin farming an a additional 20 new strains by this spring. And this particular company has two did i pens reese. They produce along with other dispensaries throughout nevada six more grow farms are planned in the coming months for this apex area so that gives you an idea of how big this industry is getting. Im gerard ramalho. Back to you. ; jim thank you for the look around. And you bring up a good point. Retractable roof. They would save a lot of money today. The rain but people are still talking about the fog. And kevin, even though this is something that we see a few times a year kevin this is what we were expecting and its going to continue. Light and even moderate showers with snow in the mountains before backing off and then coming back tomorrow and its an unusual site with these high levels of humidity and the morning low clouds and fog gobbled up the top of the stratosphere tower. You could see absolutely nothing and another view from our camera on top of mandalay bay. You can see the clouds lower to the ground. This happens about once or twice a year but its a rare site and it was visible all over the place. We go out to the Red Rock Visitors Center and here are the clouds obscuring the rocks. A break and then more slashes in the afternoon and up off the mountain watch the plow go to work. To the edges of the parking lot. Sometimes measuring about 3 feet tall. Watch the parking lot at the high school in pahrump. It is dry and then it gets wet fast. About a quarter of an inch of rain and the snow level is still high. So as a result were not seeing a problem over mountain springs. 48 degrees up in the northwest but 100 humidity. They have better tan a quarter merchandise of rain. And that is where most of the rain has fallen. Elk horn is over a third of an inch of rain. 100 undesert like humidity and henderson 95 and. 17 of rain. The rest of the rainfall totals. Its a west side story with the most significant totals up in centennial hills. Still raining on the east side of town. Outside the valley pahrump a quarter of an inch. The lake at a tenth of an inch of rain. At mccarren today that number is up to. 08. Which is about where we should be for this early portion of to 6. And temperature wise when you have thick clouds youll not have much of a spread. 6 degrees between the high and the low. But it will go down as a below normal day. We could get a sliver or two of sunshine. Well also get a breeze in the afternoon. And again this will be in the afternoon. We could see a few more gusts over 20 miles per hour. So one wave of rain going through right now. Light to moderate showers. Not expecting anything that would cause any flooding. No reason to have your sprinklers on at all had week the way things are acting because weve got yet another band tonight and one more possible around midnight and however its another system lined up in the pacific. This is due in late tomorrow and thursday. And then well probably be done for a while. The timing tomorrow will bring the next band of rain in within 3 00 to 4 00 in the afternoon. And i think just about every neighborhood will see some of rain. Area lows tonight. Thick clouds. 33 pahrump. High temperatures tomorrow afternoon boulder city 54. Sandy valley at 50 and indian minutes at 48. We go down to 42 in the valley. It will be wet and then again the rain comes back tomorrow. 55 degrees for the high temperature. A gust in the afternoon over 270 miles per hour. Mount charleston could wind up with yet another foot over what theyve had today and that is closing in at a foot at the we will start to try off and towel off and temperatures will be below normal. Overnight lows in the 30s and then a dry cold. That snow level tonight and tomorrow could get down to 4,000 feet. They need it. Its been a while. Good news for the snow borders and skiers. Kevin and the sledders too. Jim something out of a scary movie but it was real life. A crook tried to get into his house. For 10 minutes and got in through an open window. Coming up at 6 00 an exclusive interview with the man who came face to face with a would be be intruder. Next at 5 00 the impact fare day could have on another electric car maker operating in nevada. Also another hover board that is next maria now at 5 00 check this out. Another hover board catching fire and then exploding. This latest incident in los angeles. 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