Else is knows that you pay for parking. If you go to a beach resort, anywhere. Even downtown in las vegas you are paying for parking. So were the last holdouts. Jeff why is this such a big deal . Ten bucks. I think it is the mindset of las vegas. And for so many years it has just been free parking. When you go to the strip as a local and if you have gambling that you are going to do you think to yourself kind of like a comp. Like im spending money. So i should be comped in a number of ways including free parking. And same goes for people driving in from california, arizona. The think wow i can drive there and have free parking not not anymore. Kim if anything, you bring up a really good point here. Because people are making their budgets before they end up driving here. Nunley at the top of the broadcast who is from california where this is a real perk. They drive to las vegas and they know they dont have to worry about paying for parking while they stay whether it is the weekend or a full week, however long. Are going to be affected. Our reporter sergio avila brought up a really good point. He says what happens if i am out to dinner then say i go to hock asan and stay out until four in the morning. So i think theyre going to prorate these things. Not everyone is going to maybe get slapped with the ten bucks. Maybe depending how much you have it overnight. This is a game changer for here in las vegas in the year 2016. Jeff you also got to wonder about casinos off the strip like red rock, texas station, how are they going to reef act . Do they need it as an incentive for reason to follow suit. Kim Station Casinos going recording theying they are not going to charge for parking. They are known as the locals casino. Jeff Actor Sean Penn has broken his silence about the trip to mexico with notorious drug lord Joaquin El Chapo guzman. Kim that alone played out and nbcs jacob rascon has more. Reporter if you thought sean penn was it in the thrill of the big scoop sean penn would say you are wrong. In an interview with cbss charlie rose he says he has a terrible regret about the entire story and his Rolling Stone article. His purpose in going he says was to begin a conversation about the policy on the war on drugs and he says, quote, my article failed. Let me make it clear, my article failed. Meanwhile we sat down with mexicos prison boss in charge of the entire federal prison system. He says he was put in only months after El Chapo Escaped last july in order to fix the security. He detailed some of the changes that have taken place not just at that prison el chapo is held but all the prisons in mexico. He said el chapo and other prisoners now have 24 hour physical and electronic if their motion soernss on the floor connected to infrared cameras, there are screens for drugs and weapons and other measures he says that make him confident he says that what happened last july wont happen again. This as were learning that official talks facetoface between mexican and american authorities have begun in miami. Jacob rascon, nbc news, mexico city. Kim we take you now to jakarta where People Living there are holding a vigil today at the site of the attack where seven people lost their lives. Five of them however were terrorists. They had pledged allegiance to isis according to authorities there. But two innocents also losing their lives. You see they were right there paying tribute to the lives lost and they want to make sure that all foreigners know they are stillwell com to come to jakarta. However a lot of people concerned here. Of the growing influence of isis within that area. Police saying the attack was funded by isis. That is a certitude they say. Theyve arrested three men on suspicion of links to the plot and seized an isis flag from one of the homes as one of the identified bombers. Five men, you remember, went into that starbucks cafe with handmade bombs, guns and suicide belts. Now you see the locals paying tribute to the two people who lost their lives innocently. Jeff a website in arizona is using the internet to help them track parents who are way behind on their child support. The Governors Office will show you the faces of the 420 people who owe more than 20 million in child support. Officials call these people the worst of the worst in the category of dead beat parents. The people featured on the website have to meet certain criteria in order to be placed on the website so they can get the publics help in tracking them down. Theyre under arrest. Theyre criminals. Two, they owe at least 5,000 in back child support. The third one is they have gone at least six months without paying anything. In some cases, years. Jeff the spokesperson says the online tips people send in will be veted to make sure they meet the criteria for placing the pictures on social media. Pima countys top cop likes the idea because of the people it targets. She says putting pictures on the internet could act as a deterrent through shaming. Kim theres no denying it, the internet is changing how we shop. More people turning to online retailers whether its clothes, gifts, even groceries. Jeff but, if you are not careful, you could be sacrificing security for that one click convenience. Marie mortera has todays rip off alert. Reporter with a few key strokes, what would have been a two hour shopping trip is ten minutes in front of your laptop. Even the savviest user can fall victim to internet thieves. Too. So i just i dont know if someone im guessing someone must have hacked into the system. Reporter stephanie says she followed all the right advice but her debit card was hacked twice. Really scary. It usually takes five weeks to get a card back. Reporter to prevent this nightmare we turn to steve of digital medics. Anyone can create a website and create a store of any kind. You can do it for free nowadays. So a website could pop up today and be done tomorrow. Reporter thats why steve says its so important to only shop at sites you trust. Dont go for an unknown website just because an item is cheaper. And he suggests keeping your shopping or Online Banking to a min 34u78 when use minimum when using a public wifi network even though it is your device you are shopping on doing it on the Public Network makes your information vulnerable. With this rip off alert im kim thank you marie mortera. I am joined by two lovely gentlemen here. Steve and damon. Thanks for being here. Thanks for having us. Kim i love what you guys are talking about today. Were talking about valentines day. Were talking about honoring our veterans. And were talking about a really unique ball that you guys have put together with the help of steve wilson our District Attorney and many others. And this takes us up to mount charleston. Its february 13th. Lets talk about how veterans can go free of charge and have a wonderful evening. We put it out on social media for the veterans to contact us. And provide their dd 214, their military i. D. Or v. A. Card and prove they are a veteran and well give them tickets to the ball. 75 veterans were looking for to come up and eat for free. District attorney steve wilson sponsored a couple. Shelly berkeley as well. Kim talk to me about how this this this this ball that is so unique in nature february 13th. I publish a distinguished men and womens publication. We had met in the last book that we just did. And it features over the years thousands of nevadans that have accomplished so many great things and hundreds of veterans have been highlighted through these books over the years. And just really proud to be part of that project and steve asked me to contribute some of my experiences from the knowledge and the time spent with these wonderful veterans over the years. Kim i love too, im reading some notes. It says set aside the politics and go up there and just have a great time. I think thats a neat comment. Because you do have people from different ends of the political spectrum coming together to help with this. Steve, are you a veteran . I am. Kim thank you for your service. Thank you maam. Kim you have participated with this in the past. I saw some of the pictures associated with it. When we say ball we think of the traditional ball as far as like a fairy princess only instead absolutely. What were trying to do is bring veterans up there with politicians and members of the community to kind of interact with each other. So that the veterans when they go to the polls and they go and vote they know exactly who theyre voting for. Kind of an educational atmosphere as well. Kim so you can actually poll the politicians while you are there but you dont need to talk politics with the person that you are cutting a rug with. So leave your ted cruz, donald trump comments, hillary clinton, Bernie Sanders and go actually talk to our local politicians. Thank you for being here gentlemen. Damon christopher and Steve Sampson thank you and good luck. Well make sure its prominent on our website at news3lv. Com for people who are interested. We appreciate it. Thank you. Kim thanks so much. Lets send it over to jeff. Jeff guys, thanks. Allowance advance denied. A son asks his father for more money and is told no. But in a unique way. In way that you typically dont see from dad. Thats next at 12 30 p. M. Local zumba struttingos have team pd instructors have teamed up with a family fair happening this weekend. A live studio demonstration when we come back. Looking pretty nice outside after a cloudy start. What can we expect going into ill let kim i think this is the worst story ever. Its just so mean. It is so, so mean. Jeff who would do this . Kim i know. Im sorry, maybe its not the i may be on the wrong picture. Jeff you are on the right one. Kim the workers at a park avenue healthcare and wellness in pomona, california, they think look at them all excited. This guy punks his mom. Hes not going to get son of the year because he tells his mom that shes won of the powerball winners. So the nurses son sending his mom a picture of what he said was the winning ticket. Everyone going you know what, but its not so. So this was gone viral. He pufrpged his mom. He is note winner. She is note winner and he is in the doghouse. That is so mean. Jeff not funny. Why would you do that to your mom . The rollercoaster of emotion she would experience. By the way, we have an update. A lottery update that was just given to me in my ear by our producer. From the lottery office, lottery officials confirm that tennessee does have one of the winning tickets. I guess that was a question leading up to this. Kim they wanted to make sure the people who went on the today show were on the up and up. Jeff i believe thats what is being told to me. The tennessee situation has been confirmed. Kim the Robinson Family we met earlier. I guess theyre not liars is what theyre saying. Theyve contacted the lottery officials and theyre not scammers. We now transition to this story. Theres a father who goes the corporate route when his son asks for an advance on his allowance. The son requests 20 bucks and he got a denial let the ceo, dad savings and loan. Dad creating letterhead and the slogan because apparently i look like im made of money. The denial citing his sons insufficient funds and history of not doing chores. The letter says he can appeal to the Complaint Department. The Complaint Department is mom. Jeff ive made some requests to dads saving and loan. Usually its approved more so than mom bank international. Kim i met your family when they were here visiting around thanksgiving. You hit the jackpot with every single one of them. Jeff thank you. Kim you did. They dont owe you anything. In fact if anything you should be sending them thankyou notes. Jeff im going send them a lot more than that come christmas time. Its time for the sons and daughters in the family to pay back. As we toss over to jerry brown i think back to my days in texas. When you start off you dont make a lot. So you do need help from mom and dad. On public assistance in the newsroom. Jeff i had coworkers that qualified for food stamps. Dad is the best bank you can have. You take money out but dont have to put money in. Kim spoken from a true father. Were going start in my quest to find worse weather than here just to make you feel better, here is marlin park in miami. Doesnt look that bad. But this was six hours ago. Look at it. Thunderstorms running through it. Temperatures into the upper 60s. How can they than . For us you can see the clouds zip through this morning. Look ominous. You can also see the reflection from those sun rays moving arots. That was from aliante. Currently sustained to 17 miles an hour. Theyve had winds sustained at 24, 25. 53 currently up there with the low pressure. Those winds are going to subside as this little system, this burst of energy moves through that went through this morning. Winds not a big deal on the 58 degrees at the miracle mile shops. West north west breeze at nine at eastern and charleston. 56 degrees over there. Take a look at some of these wind speeds. You can see theyre pretty pronounced. Sam boyd stadium, 20 miles an hour sustained. Weve had wind gusts here at our studio at 32 miles an hour. 34 up at the North Las Vegas airport. Temperatures currently stand in the mid50s. Of course cooler up on the mountain. 34 up at the lodge. 55 55 at pahrump. Same boulder city. And 54 at the airport. 37 tonopah. You can see the cold air pretty much staying north. A little line of dough mar casing. That is the frontal system moving through. A lot of rain up along the southern atlantic seaboard moving through the midatlantic states. Theres the mess of moisture that moved through this morning. As you can see, its pretty much history as we are clearing out. Definitely going to be looking at sunshine today. Afternoon highs across Southern Nevada generally mid or even few pahrump looking at 58 degrees. And overnight lows tonight again seasonably chilly getting down into the 30s. 20s up on the mountains. Lets go midfifties in las vegas today. A mix of clouds and sun and chilly north wind that will eventually taper off into the five to tenmileanhour range and go northwest at 38 for the low. Here is the 7day forecast. Let me get out of the way so you can see whats going on. A rather pleasant Martin Luther king holiday weekend. Starts off cool on saturday. 56. A marked improvement on sunday. Up a deuce on monday for the actual holiday. 63. Looking really nice. Then afternoon showers possible by tuesday. That will be snow in the mountains. Then back into the 60s by midweek. Not too shabby. Jeff . Jeff all right. Weve got a big crowd with us. Were talking zumba. It is all the rage in the fitness world. This weekend families in Southern Nevada can combine that teddy from Touro University is here with the details. We also have a student, bernice, welcome. Thank you both for coming. And what a great thing for people to look forward to this weekend. Just talk about this event and how are combining zumba with the health fair. Basic from 10 00 a. M. To 2 00 p. M. At Touro University of nevada, in henderson, were having a free health fair. Get your blood glucose checked and spinal screenings. All fair. On one side you have kids that can go to Mini Medical School and learn how to become a doctor, learn about nutrition and exercise. The adults can get their fitness on. Theres zumba. Jeff thats what i want to ask you about. Zumba expert, i am assuming. Sdum bass all the rage. What it what does it do for people who havent done it. Zumba helps out with the cardiovascular system. You are going to get a lot of the aerobic fitness on. It is a big party as you can see with all my zumba family here. Burn calories. It is a big party. Jeff the party starts right now. Right now. Because were going to put this cue the music. Im going to step out of the way. Take it away teddy. [music] jeff welcome back. We are taking a live look at the mgm grand. Incorporated today saying all of their ka seen roz going to be going through a big change moving forward when it comes to parking. Kim this is our top story today. Were going have Live Team Coverage throughout the day here on news 3. In case you missed the top of the broadcast, mgm resorts announcing today, making it official theyre going to become the first major casino to start charging visitors for parking. They want to get it done this year. They think this move is going to bring in millions of dollars revenue each year and also its going to change the landscape of call home. The changes were going see by spring. Theyre having this coincide with the april opening of the companys t moenl arena by the way, what are we talking here . Were talking about 10 or less for overnight selfparking at all the mgm major resorts. Jeff a Significant Development because people in have been used to free parking time right . Kim i know. Enjoy your holiday wee kayla ah, good morning. Steve morning. Hope you slept well. You deserve it after the last couple days. Whats with the suitcase . Kayla i got an email that i