First walking up toward the thomas mack, we were showing last night, how the whole parking lot is ringed in those shipping containers. Ive never seen that before and the security presence. You notice right away, both with local metro officers and with plenty of federal and police state here as well. A lot of guns and just a big perimeter around. The i. D. S and credentials are checked over im standing in front of the thomas mack. This is set up for the media to do their live reports and live shows. You see the Fox News Team over there and the media here, somewhere between 2500 and 3,000 people from all over the country and all over the world. 28 Different Countries are here covering this debate tonight. So its absolutely stunning to see that many people all focused here on las vegas and what is i know ive heard from a lot of viewers this week who are hoping this third debate will stick to the issues. You want to hear about healthcare and education and Social Security and all of the rest. But, of course, theres a lot of speculation it will turn into insames and insults and accusations in the media. I want to take you inside what we call the Filing Center and also the spin r w our jeff gillan is in there right now. Reporter hey, jim. How are you . Welcome to the spin room where were already getting spun by representatives of each of the respective campaigns. You are looking at our Office Behind me for the next eight hours. Heres the deal the stage is now set and really all thats missing are the two people were all waiting to see. Hillary clinton and donald trump. The campaigns have their cavern of media. As jim said, there are about 3,000 journalists hear to witness the final cage match of the campaign. I caught up with one of americas top political journalists, dan balls of the Washington Post to see what he expects to see this evening. Do you think he will come out swinging . I assume he will want to do two things. One, he will make a case agast for a change argument. Thats his strongest argument but i think one of the things well see is whether she provokes him or he provokes himself, shes gonna have to answer some questions. I assume that Chris Wallace will have very tough questions for her based on the new information thats come out over the past few weeks. Reporter and that would be some of the emails released by wikileaks regarding how the also, her speech to Goldman Sachs got publicized. There may be a question about that coming up. Well wait and see. Coming up at 5 00, i talked with the head of the Clinton Campaign and one of Donald Trumps top advisers to get their take on what well see tonight. This will be a fascinating evening in american politics. Jeff gillan, news 3. Back to you. Reporter i cant wait. I know you cant either. Its fantastic to have a now we want to talk about the traffic issues. If you are not coming down to the debate, you need to know things are slow going around this part of time. Jeff and i have been here for a couple of hours. So we didnt want into a lot on our way in. Lets get back to the studio. Jeff is tracking the traffic. What are you seeing . If if you are heading in and out of the thomas mack expect days. Between 4 00 and 10 00 p. M. , you you can see both directions of traffic are looking okay. A little slow northbound. Southbound nothing yet. But the closures. Into effect at 4 00 p. M. Until 10 00 p. M. And up will see the 15 southbound and then the 215 inant out of the airport connector. The airport connector is slow. 42 Miles Per Hour currently. And looking at the thomas mack, already seeing indications of whats to come with people funneling their way to that well as maryland parkway. For alternate routes if you are trying to get yourself to the airport, the best way is to avoid 15 southbound and the 215 ache take that back route and make your way back. But even that will be a little bit slow moving. A lot of people converging on the thomas mack for this big and final debate. As we continue our coverage, reporter all right, jeff. Thank you. And the predebate spin has been going on for days here in las vegas. Its as the candidates prep for their meeting here at the thomas mack, their surrogates are doing the speaking for them. And harry reid took a swipe at donald trump before tonights debate. He was speaking to a crowd down at a restaurant in henderson. Reid said trump is fightening people with all of this talk about a rigged reid says United States is a nation of laws and the process will be fair no matter who wins. I think the only thing rigged im seeing is his mind. We should all be proud of what we have in this election system, and to have this man, who is who is doing everything he can to make america look bad, i dont get it. Reporter so senator reid is, hes looking forward to spending more time with his family and that race to replace him is one of the mostwatched in the country. In addition to all of the spinning going on, the surrogates and everyone around here, there are protests outside of the thomas mack. Want to talk with faith jessie who has been talking with some of those folks. Reporter yeah, its a lot of energy out here from protesters on both sides. Right behind me is the public expression area. Law enfme protest during the debate. Earlier, some of these people tried to well, they didnt try. They expressed themselves at trump tower off las vegas boulevard and they built a wall made out of taco trucks. What do we want justice reporter a cry to bring unionized work to trump tower. Were not being treated fairly, in the sense that we dont have any Health Coverage trump hotel joined hundreds of others to park the trucks. Since the candidate who they claim has not honored their cry for action. We need to sit down and negotiate a contract to get fair wages to work hes employed. Reporter this served as a platform for crit advocates. Some things they are protesting are actually things that Hillary Clinton did not support and she wont help these people because shes paid for by wall street. Reporter this trump supporter is latino. Its difficult, dont get me wrong and im also gay. Reporter he said trump is getting a bad rap from trump supporters. They say trump is a racist, et cetera. Okay. Thats all you got. Open to protesters all throughout the debate. Its actually open right now. It opened around noon and speakers are open until 8 00 p. M. Tonight. Reporting from the public expression area, faith jessie, news 3. Thank you for that, faith. As you can see, its been a huge day for las vegas. And the world really. Well see these two candidates faceoff. Its the last chance you will see them on the same news3lv. Com. You can stay with us on twitter, facebook. Developing now, eight people including three firefighters hurt in a gas explosion. It happened this morning at a bagel shop in portland, oregon. A lot of destruction to show you here. Several buildings ripped apart. Firefighters were called to the area after the smell of gas and the explosion happened. Coming up in less than 15 minutes, well have a live chase end with a nevada Highway Patrol trooper opening fire on a man outside of a cadillac car dealership in henderson. The second carjacking victim is a 90yearold man who was thrown to the man. Kelsey thomas is live with a play by play of what happened. Reporter well, the good news this afternoon, the roads are back open to drivers out here. This is an investigation that involves two crime scenes. 30 minutes of terror and a su desperate to get away. A cadillac dealership in henderson turns into a crime scene. It all starts miles away at this am pm on fremont and eastern. Nhp says at 7 15 this morning, a woman is getting her car washed when a 28yearold man steals her toyota. This Surveillance Video shows the suspect stalking her to her vehicle. Reverse with the door open. Reporter 12 minutes later a trooper spots the stolen car on the 95. The man behind the wheel driving fast and dangerous. Striking other vehicles, he was running over curbs. He was in a desperate attempt to get away. Reporter the trooper gives chase. The suspect eventually stopping ten miles away at finley cadillac in henderson. At this point, his car is on rims. Hes ran over curbs. Hes struck other vehicles. His car is pretty much done at so he bails in the parking lot, runs into the vehicle dropoff or pickup for finley. Runs up to this cadillac thats got a 90yearold couple in there and like i said violently pulls this man from his vehicle, throws him to the ground, tries to get in. Reporter the nhp trooper and a witness try to stop the suspect. Struggle ensues. Hes able to get away where he jumps back into the cadillac and thats when shots were fired. Reporter by 7 45, the trooper and taken to Sunrise Hospital where he is now in stable condition. And that trooper who opened fire, he or she is on paid administrative leave. Thats standard protocol. That first carjacking jim from the am pm she was taken to the hospital. The second carjacking victim, the man thrown from the car. He was checked out and is okay this afternoon. Reporting live in henderson, kelsey ts, all right. Thank you. As you can all see at hole, hole at home, were just getting started. Our live coverage of the final president ial debate continues. And we have a pretty impressive warming trend expected for the rest of the jacky rosen im jacky rosen and i approved this message. Man the tea party rerepublicans in Congress Want to cut Social Security. Woman and Danny Tarkanian wants to join them. Man he is proud to call himself a Tea Party Radical. Man he wants to privatize Social Security. Woman . Just like them. Man Danny Tarkanian would raise the retirement age. Woman just like the Tea Party Republicans in congress. Man they would take away what weve paid for out of every paycheck. Man thats Tea Party Radical for ya. Joe hecks and Donald Trumps views on women are disturbing. Heck voted to defund planned parerenthood 10 times. He was even willing to shut down the government over it. And they both outlaw abortion. Do you believe in punishment for abortion . Criminalize abortion, even in cases of rape. Donald trump and joe heck are not for you. Dscc is responsible for the content of this advertising. I spent many years as a Nuclear Missile launch officer. If the presidedent gave the ordr we had to launch the missiles, that would be it. I prayed that call would never come. [ radio chatter ] self control may be all that keeps these missiles from firing. [ sirens blearing ] i love war. The thought of donald trump with Nuclear Weapons scares me to death. It should scare everyone. Our live coverage of the final president ial debate continues right here on news 3. Our jim snyder joins us once again from unlv. This time you are with a guest. Reporter yeah. Im talking with a guy who teaches president ial debate to stus an article, a predebate article posted on the Huffington Post if you want to check that out. Thank you for joining us. Thanks for having me here. Reporter a lot of speculation whether this run ramps up the nastiness or whether they can try to get him to stick on the issues. I think part of the strategy of the moderator is to put the fitness of being at the end of the debate. Strategy and throw everything he possibly can at clinton. Reporter for unlv to be hosting this debate, the eyes of the world are on las vegas. Your students have to be excited. This a brandnew class. This is a onceinalifetime opportunity for many of our students. Its a fantastic opportunity for them to become specifically engaged and participate in conversations and learn a lot about the way our democracy works. Reporter with what were watching in the national polls, it lookse to make up tonight. Do you think that hes the guy who has to really score a victory to change that . Yeah, trump has to hit a home run tonight in order to really reverse the tready downward trend in polling numbers. I think clinton can play prevent defense or even settle for a tie. To that point she says if he goes low, well go high. Did you see the same thing i did in the second one . While she was mostly successful, under her skin a little bit. Well, i think shes good at not taking the pate. There were a couple of times she came off her talking points. Reporter i know you are excited. Thanks for the time. Back to you. Thank you. This debate is feel fueling all kinds of talk on social media. We wanted board. Its following the hashtag lvbebait. There it is. News 3 has a huge team in the spin room. A short time ago, our jim snyder was able to talk to nbc news lester holt who has been watching this go on for several weeks and several months. Jim snyder will have that interview coming up at 3 30. Now, outside in front. Thomas mack center. Theres more media than people will be watching on the inside of the thomas mack. All of the media stationed there. They are waiting for the main event. These are the risers. You can bet all around the media and venue, theres huge security. Well be monitoring the action on facebook, twitter and look at this. We have a team of reporters out there using that hashtag lvdebate and well follow that the community and what the world is saying about this las vegas debate tonight. Also if you cant be in front of your television tonight, you can watch the debate right here on news 3. Facebooks fan page, also a great page and you can watch it live on our twitter page. Follow us on social media and you wont miss a moment of the third and final president ial debate. Busy night. I bet your fingers will be working overtime. Time for a check of the forecast. News 3 is your weather. Lets check in with chloe. A lot of people paying attention to whats happening at the unlv. But we still have weather to contend with. If you are gonna get caught in the traffic, at least its good weather. A little bit of a breeze but were doing fairly good and the winds will die down. But its another sunny day in las vegas and another win in the weather department. Look at that. Clear skies, like on. Here are the neighborhood conditions right now. Throughout the day weve seen wind gusts you to 20, 30 miles an hour across the area. Also temperatures a little bit cooler compared to yesterday. You can see most of our neighborhoods are only in the mid to upper 70s in las vegas. Here is a look at what were expecting for the rest of the evening. Right around 5 00, mid70s anticipated with low 70s by 9 00 under clear skies for the rest of the evening. Those winds will continue to morning. Certainly good news there. Were still seeing some strong wind gusts along the Colorado River valley. Thats where we still have the red flag warning in effect through tomorrow afternoon for gusty winds, low humidity and an area where we could see that critical fire weather continue through tomorrow. The dry weather will continue across Southern Nevada and we actually have a nice warming trend headed our way thanks to High Pressure building in over the west. That will bring our temperatures up quite a bit. Overnight tonight, well be a few degre lows around the region in the upper 30s for mount charleston. 45 for pahrump, 66 degrees for lake mead and 57 for boulder city. Highs tomorrow were slowly gonna start getting warmer over the next few days with temperatures in las vegas reaching around 83 degrees. It will be a calm day with winds only up to 10 miles an hour in the afternoon and that warming trend, im promising temperatures around 88 by saturday. A storm, a very strong area of bringing us a slight chance of showers and a nice cooldown at the start of the workweek. All right. Depending upon how negative the debate gets, we all might need a shower. [laughter] an explosion in portland leaves several people, including firefighters, hurt. Its hard to make the past dissappear, but Danny Tarkanian is tryryin. Nces every time. The property taxes tarkanian skipped out on for years. The telemarketing scammers he represented. All those Fake Charities he helped set up. He can try all he wants, but Danny Tarkanian just cant bury his past. House majority pac is responsible for the content of this advertising. Jim childs one of the ways criminals avoid background checks is by going online and connecting with strangers to buy guns. As someone in law enforcement, i think thats dangerous. Millions of guns are sold through websites like this, most with no background checks, no questions asked. The law requires background checks in gun stores; why dont we require them online . D thats a threat to all of us. Narrator vo yes on question 1 jacky rosen im jacky rosen and i approved this message. Man the tea party repupublicans in Congress Want to cut Social Security. Woman and Danny Tarkanian wants to join them. Man he is proud to call himself a Tea Party Radical. Man he wants to privatize Social Security. Woman . Just like them. Woman risking Social Security benefits on wall street. Man Danny Tarkanian would raise republicans in congress. Man they would take away what weve paid for out of every paycheck. Man thats Tea Party Radical for ya. Welcome back. A powerful natural gas explosion in portland leaves several people hurt. Now the question is figuring out exactly how this happened. For more details, lets go to our reporter live in portland. Kelly, the building seems to be still smoking. Reporter thats right. Working on it. Its not structurally sound at this moment. What weve learned is that eight people have been injured. Im gonna step out of the way so you can take a look at the scene. Eight people have been injured. Three of them excuse me, two of them Police Officers, three firefighters and three other civilians. Were told they are going to be okay. As you see, smoke still coming out of that building as crews are working after multiple explosions this morning. Fire Officials Say a call came reporting a natural gas leak in a High Density Residential and shopping district minutes from downtown portland. Moments after evacuating the building, the building exploded. I saw the explosion in front of my eyes and i cant even tell you the amount of the debris and the building just disintegrated in a fireball. Reporter a major explosion could be heard for nearly a mile shop. It was like a wave. It took me right off my feet. I heard the blast. Reporter a few smaller explosions followed that first blast, causing extensive damage to the surrounding buildings. Several people are hurt, including firefighters, Police Officers and civilians. Two firefighters that im being told have broken legs. The third, his injuries were less severe. Reporter Police Ordered the evacuation of hundreds of students were bussed to a different location where peoples could pick them up. Meanwhile, fire crews struggle to pull out the flames. That explosion caused a great deal of heat and it damaged the integrity of the building. Reporter gas officials were responding to a report of a damaged gas line. Investigators are trying to determine what sparked the explosion. And those investigators say this could be weeks before we find out what caused that leak and portland, back to you. Thank you for that. Well, no one likes to pay baggage fees. So the airlines may have to pay them back. The new rules that they have to pay them back. The new rules that they have to follow in case putting a wife to work is a very dangerous thing. Planned parenthood should absolutely be defunded. And congressman hardy said he supported trump 100 . Like trump, hardy opposed legislation to ensure equal pay. And hardy fought to defund planned parenthood, kihuen fought for equal pay for equal work. And ruben kihuen will protect our right to make our own health decisions. Dccc is responsible for the content of this advertising. Jacky rosen im jacky rosen and i approved this message. Man the Tea Party Republicans in Congress Want to cut Social Security. Woman and Danny Tarkanian wants to join them. Man he is proud to call himself a Tea Party Radical. Man he wants to privatize Social Security. Woman . Just like them. Man Danny Tarkanian would raise the retirement age. Woman just like the Tea Party Republicans in congress. Man they would take away what weve paid for out of every paycheck. The clock is ticking. The phonal debate hours away from unlv. Were live outside of the thomas mack with what parts what parts anticipate will be the biggest battle between clinton and Hillary Clinton. Video vault wednesday. Heavy weight champion sunny