Reporter millions of motorists use more than 610,000 bridges in the united states. Most drivers are unaware of the frightening state some of these below the structure you have a lot more traffic going over bridges today than you used to. Reporter as a result these have taken a pounding through the years. Many u. S. Bridges are dangerously dilapidated. One of the basic functions of government is maintaining our infrastructure. Our roads and bridges. Reporter lawmakers requested the Government Accountability office to assess the damage to u. S. Bridges from 2005 to 2014. The gao report found that nearly 25 percent of the nations bridges are considered deficient. Ten percent are considered structurally deficient which means theyre in poor condition. Nearly 15 percent are considered functionally obsolete. Which means their design is no longer up to date with todays heavy traffic patterns. Poor conditions some way or another. Were talking about 150,000 that are de nisht some fashion. Reporter how could one in every four of americas bridges go unrepaired to so long . Not a lot of money to be made by lobbyists to lobby to have bridges repaired so it does not become 3r50i ort. Reporter Congress Passed a massive transportation act this month signed into law by the president and authorizing 305 billion in spending over the next 5 years for roads and transit upgrades. It provides more flexibility for states to carry out infrastructure priorities. Each community and each state can decide how best to use those resources. Theres never going to enough to address every structure need in this country but this is a great step. Reporter peter shwietser says it wont be enough however to address a crucial problem from coasttocoast. As large as the new highway bill is you are still going to see a lot of bridges neglected. Jeff band reporting. Reid they said a lot of bridges were functional ie obsolete. Bridges decreased in 33 states and dc. Thats the decrease from those who were functionally obsolete. Marie we have new developments in the war on terror today. Reid jonathan alias takes it from here with the terrorist alert desk. Reporter from the terrorism alert desk in washington im josie sterman. Syrian activists say an opposition supporter turned isis militant is dead. He kept in touch with journalists even after joining isis apparently carrying out a bombing this week. Thats according to the sir yab observatory for human rights. Germanys terror alert remains in place after warning people to avoid large crowds on new years eve. Top Security Officials say they received concrete indications of a potential attack at midnight. Some Train Service was canceled because of that threat. Investigate a deadly shooting the Israel Military is sending the bodies of 23 palestinians back to their families. In october israel began with Holding Bodies of suspected terrorists as a tactic to crackdown on the most recent outburst of violence. From the terrorist alert desk in washington im josiesterman. Reid after a huge fire raged through a hotel in dubai smoke fips to waft. The skyline is gray and black from the smoke. This is the daytime scene of the 63 floor hotel. At least 16 were injured. The fire broke out in a residence when curtains caught fire. Flames started spreading around 9 30 p. M. Local time on new years eve. One photographer was trapped inside the building sending desperate pleas for help to family and friends on facebook. I try to go exit and im not because of the smoke. I am here for help. I can hear them. I can i saw debris falling from the building. I prayed if this is my last chance then so be it. Reid almost two hours went by he came up with a last ditch plan, rappel down the building on a window washers cable. As he started going over the edge firefighters found him and they saved his life. Marie wow. A fire tore through a Historic Church in northern new jersey early this morning. Officials say the fire caused significant damage to the ig glasso church including a total collapse of the roof. No injuries are reported. The cause remains under investigation. The structure was originally built in 1827 and housed an was sold to another religious organization last year. The wife of comedi to give a deposition in a defamation suit against her husband. The Defamation Case involves seven women who have accused bill cosby of drugging and sexually assaulting them. Say they the faayearold comic 78yearold comic portrayed them as liars. Bill cosby facing charges in pennsylvania over an alleged incident in 2004. The comedian has denied wrongdoing. Reid iconic r b star natalie cole the daughter of Nat King Cole died at 65. She was a grammy winner and came from a Legendary Music family. She died last night in l. A. At the hospital. She under went a successful kidney transplant in 2009. Her kidney troubles date back to 2008 when she was diagnosed with hepatitis c and under went aggressive chemotherapy to fight that illness. The wise cracking army surgeon trapper John Mcintyre the first three seasons of tvs mash has passed away. He died of complications from pneumonia at 82. He left mash in a contract dispute in 1975 but remained friends with cast members long after his de par tour. Alan alda sent a tweet calling him funny, curious and dedicated. Marie going back to school is one of the new years resolutions the first thing you need to do is fill out your fafsa form. Today is the first day to submit the nationwide College Financial aid form. The sooner the better. Students must submit to be eligible for Financial Aid awards of which you will not have to pay back. The form also helps determine how much in loans you qualify for. This year those loans could come with lower interest rates. Reid it is the new year and many of us have vowed to develop healthy habits. The top resolution historically marie but a growing number of americans are shifting the focus from working out their bodies to their minds as well. Brian moore explains. Reporter millions of americans are hoping to wind down in 2016. Meditation is becoming incellbly popular. You are seeing big ceos medicate. Reporter according to a Research Design study, more than half americans meditate or are interested in meditation. And for good reason. The published study demonstrating the ability to improve attention, decrease stress and improve productivity. Reporter it may be an ancient practice but modern technology can help you get started. Head space aim to make meditation easier and similar to the way fitness wearables track your body theres a device to track your brain. The muse brain sensing headband. The muse has sensors on the forehead and behind your ears. Slips on like a pair of glasses your smart phone or data. Reporter it reads brainwaves to see when its active or calm and gives realtime feedback. You actually will be able to hear the sound of your brain so you can take it from that crazy, busy place to a place of clear focused attention and that its easy to do every day. Reporter finding your own personal calm within the storm. Brian moore, nbc news. Reid so i teach meditation here in the valley. So i want to add another technological help. You are supposed to meditate 20 minutes in the morning and if you have time in the afternoon right before the sun goes down meditate another 20 minutes. This is called insight timer. Download out your smart phone. All you do set the time you want to meditate then listen. It ring as little bell and keeps track of how long you are meditating and helps you to really get that single focus and go to your breath so we cannot marie sometimes i just pause for a moment and breathe and listening to the breath really helps too. Mindfulness tip for you there. Reid thats right. If traveling more is part of your resolutions list you are likely going to be chen into a hotel. According to trip advisors travel trends for 2016 there are three Hotel Amenities most important to american travelers. Topping the list, 70 percent of american travelers must have air conditioning for their stay. The next on the list is wifi. 42 percent say it is a must. Rounding out the top three Hotel Amenities is parking because who wants to be inconvenienced with not being able to find a sparking space. Marie one waitress got a whopping 500 tip and all thanks to one man that wants to give back in life and in death. Reid coming up in the good stuff, how the mans family is carrying out one mans dying wish to help out a stranger. Marie one couple celebrates their 80th wedding anniversary. Their amazing story on how they got together. Calm conditions weather wise outside but its not going to last long until the weather is details next on news 3. Im alex trebek. If youre age 50 to 85, i have an Important Message about security. Write down the number on your screen, so you can call when i finish. The lock i want to talk to you about isnt the one on your door. This is a lock for your Life Insurance, a rate lock, that guarantees your rate can never go up at any time, for any reason. But be careful. Many policies you see do not have one, but you can get a lifetime rate lock through the Colonial Penn program. Call this number to learn more. This plan was designed with a rate lock for people on a fixed income who want affordable Life Insurance thats simple to get. 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Marie they fulfilled that wish not once but over and over again across the country. Most recently in fort wayne, indiana. Holly campbell reports. Reporter it was just a normal day at mad anthony brewing company. After paying their bill, this it was 500. It was part of aarons last wish. Aarons brother seth is carrying out his brothers request. In his will the very last thing was that we go out to dinner and leave an awesome tip for a waiter or waitress and he specifically said i dont mean like 25 percent. Im talking about 500 for a pizza. Reporter it started a few years ago. The first video went viral. Then the donations started pouring in. Capping 50,000. Since then seth has left a 500 tip in every state. Oftentimes with his mother by his side. It was aarons idea and seth made it happen. So you can imagine how wonderful that is for me. Reporter a few weeks ago seth got a request from david and his family to visit fort wayne and spread aarons message in a restaurant here. To make it happen in his town. Share it with his family because he does have four small children. Reporter the server says she will use the money to pay bills and buy a gift for her grandmother. Its a simple gesture at the end of a meal that is changing not only servers lives but seths too. I never had any idea what it would become. And neither would aaron. He would have been completely blown away. He would have thought this is just a small thing he wanted to do for a person, for one person. And he wouldnt have expected it to have this sort of live reaching impact. Reporter the mission is to help honor aaron and help other people. But his mother tina says fulfilling her dreams is helping her dream with the loss of her son. I feel like its done more for me than anybody. Because it continues to [ inaudible ]. They will hand out 500 tips once a year for the rest of their lives even she says if she has to foot the bill herself. Reid thats how she keeps his memory alive. Beautiful. Here is a pretty good way to celebrate the new year marking 80 years of marriage. Marie maury is 102. His bride helen, 100 years old. They live in california but they eloped in philadelphia in 1935 after she popped the question. He gave me a big kiss and he was ready to go. And he said wait a minute. And then i just went and told him how i felt and what i thought was a good [ inaudible ]. I was afraid to do it. Reid helen says the secret is keeping a sense of humor and just going along with things she says. Marie i love that. That is just so beautiful. We want to know, what do you think is the secret to a long and healthy relationship . Send us a tweet. The people here at the station theyll want to hea from you. Reid just honey yes. You are right. Thats what you do. And you forgive a lot. Marie and you laugh. Reid make sure to join the conversation and tell us what works for your relationships on facebook as well. Just search for ksnv news 3 las vegas. May you have a great relationship in the new year. Marie time for a look at whats ahead on news 3 live at five today. Reid a deadly start to the new year. Two poem lost their lives after the car they were driving lost control. This happened after our coverage last night. What police are saying caused this deadly accident just before the start of the new year. Marie the president expected to make a big announcement on gun control. The executive actions he plans the affects this could have on gun ownership. Those stories plus kevin janson looks at the forecast on news 3 live at five. Reid our thoughts with the people dealing with this again today. The swollen Mississippi River continues to cause a lot of widespread destruction throughout missouri and parts of illinois. The river runs nearly 15 feet above flood stage today throughout st. Louis. The citys second worst flood on record. This is forcing backups in the artery rivers that flow into the mississippi causing them to overflow and flood nearby homes. While theres a lot of damage, fortunately we can tell you nobodys died as a result of the floods which means a lot of people are out helping each other i would imagine. You know, mother natures flexing her muscles in rural new mexico. Look at this. Roswell dealing with a huge amount of snow. A massive storm hit that town four days ago. Isnt this where ufos are supposed to have landed . Maybe its the aliens. People have reportedly stuck in there is sunshine in the forecast helping melt some of the snow. 300 tons of salt has been used so far in and around roswell. Marie chills me to the bone looking at those images. Thawing out are folks on the strip. You said you went to bed last night with a blanket on your chest. I couldnt get warm. Made me really think about our Homeless Population and how theyre outside 24 7, 365. Hopefully we canll give coats and help them out. Its going be another difficult night. Temperatures dropping into the low 30s this afternoon. Weve seen mostly clear skies all across the area. Here is a look at one of our timelapses at red rock. Mount charleston saw beautiful conditions today. And lots of sunshine in the valley as well. Between this is a timelapse. You can see not too much happening on our timelapse which means we had some pretty calm weather conditions throughout the area. Variable temperatures throughout temperatures at 51 degrees. A little cooler in the southwest. 45 degrees for Wright Elementary School right now. And temperatures all across the area just kind of depending on where you are ranging from the 40s and even 50s for southeast and el dorado. Low 40s in summer leadership. Upper 40s downtown. Variable temperatures across the neighborhoods. A light breeze does continue out of the north northeast for t afternoon. And just outside the valley were in the 20s for tonopah. 20 degrees mount charleston. Upper 40s pahrump. Mid50s for overton outside right now. And speaking of outside right now, a live look outside from mandalay bay. Beautiful, clear conditions. But its not going to last like that for very long. You can see not much happeni satellite across southern nevada. Thats going to change as we make our way into the weekend and especially into the next have a series of storms that are actually headed our way just out of the pacific. That is going to bring us unsettled weather in the week ahead. Will continue overnight tonight. Maybe getting more clouds throughout the evening. But, other than that, ce is expected for our forecast tonight. Clear skies like i mentioned with more clouds expected later. Temperatures dropping down to the 40s by nine. Still going to see that breeze out of the north up to ten miles an hour throughout the evening. Overnight temperatures again very chilly weather dropping down to the low 30s. Still below our normal temperature for this time of year. By the time you wake up tomorrow morning a little bit more clouds as we get ready to start our weekend. Regionally a chilly one. Teens for alamo as well as caliente overnigh Single Digits for tonopah. Upper 20s for overton. 20 on the dot for mount charleston. 39 for lake mead. And 31 degrees for boulder city. Highs tomorrow. Were going to gradual hi see warmer weather through the weekend before we get chilly weather with a chance of showers headed our way. Highs you can see reaching the overton. 42 mount charleston. 54 pahrump. Upper thirties for tone apaw. As lee look at conditions for the Las Vegas Area waking up to a few clouds with more anticipated throughout the afternoon. Highs only reaching into the 53 degree mark. Still below our normal temperature. Again winds out of the northeast at ten miles an hour are expected through the afternoon. As we look at the next few days. Like i said, a gradual warming trend into sunday. After that we do have unsettled weather headed in our direction and its going bring us variable amounts of chances of seeing that precipitation across the valley with the best chance of seeing that shower activity on tuesday and wednesday. Temperatures arent going to be we arent going to see too much variation. Staying in the 50s through the next seven days. Overnight temperatures upper 40s to low 50s. Marie but its that chance of rain that really grabs your attention. I just realize i misspoke. Upper 30s to low 40s. Reid we know what you meant. [ laughter ]. The raindrops. I love the rain. And we need it. Thats absolutely right. Marie a forceful showing wows fans at the rose parade today. What would be complete these days without star wars . Storm troopers joined the parade in its 127th year there in pasadena california. Reid may your day be rosy. Were back at five. This is exactly whats happening with tax extender legislations. Washington has countless tax breaks in the cox code. It also has dozen of other tax breaks gd for only a year. Year tax breaks yearyear. Some have been around for decades. Th refd to as tax extenders. You might ask, why doesnt Congress Make these long time tax breaks permanent . The answer is simple. Fundraising. Over the years power has shifted many times between the two parties. At any Time Congress could have made the tax breaks permanent. But they didnt want to. They use the annual renewal to threaten lobbyists and raise money. Their pitch goes Something Like this. You need to help me help you or the tax break you like will go away. Campaign cash over tax extenders is worth millions to both parties. But it gets better. Congress bundles dozens of tax brakes into one bill. Then democrats and republicans tell supporters their hands were tied. They had to vote for the bad tax breaks in order to get the good ones. 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