Shooting on the historic west side. Police are also looking for the suspect responsible. It happened last night around 8 thirty near mlk and owens. Police arrived to find two people shot. Both were taken to umc where one of them died. The shooting also prompted road closures in that area. An investigation continues, and police have no information about a suspect at this point. Well keep you updated on any information that comes down this morning. A valley woman is trying to make her husbands dying wish come true. 60yearold Heriberto Diaz was shot and killed last saturday while walking home from work. The family held a car wash yesterday near bonanza and nellis. Theyre hoping to raise nearly can bury heriberto in mexico next to his mother. His wifemariais confident they will reach their goaland also believes police will find the people responsible for her husbands death. From what i can see, they are working hard on it. I can see theyre moving around my neighborhood. I see them stopping everybody, you know, in the neighborhood. The family will be holding the car wash again today from 10am to 4pm in the parking lot of kmart on bonanza and nellis. An update this morningon a man considered armed and dangerous the Nye County Sheriffs Office says21yearold cody barnes is now in custody. Police say barnes tried to kill his girlfriend friday afternoon after he saw her with another man. She survived and was able to get away. Barnes was arrested in ventura california. The girls motherkristy connection to the shooting. Metro arrested six teens who they believe stole bb guns from a walmart yesterday. The teens took off in their car but later abandoned it near fort. Apache and sunset when officers arrived. The suspects then started runningbut were eventually caught and taken into custody. Police were concerned about the theft since several realisticlooking bb guns were stolen. And metro was called out to the scene of a bad crashnear desert inn and mojave. The driver of this gray kia optima first crashed into an suv thenhit a 60yearold man on a bike before finally crashing into a light pole. This happened yesterday afternoon. The bicycle rider was taken to the hospital. No word yet on his condition. The driver of the kia stayed on sceneand is cooperating with authorities. Ahead today. Hollywoods biggest showthe oscars and las vegas is for the seventh year, variety the Childrens Charity will host an Oscar Viewing Party at the palms. Variety salutes hollywood starts at 4pm with the red carpet and preshow coverage. This is all happening inside the brenden theaters. 13 action news anchor Dayna Roselli will actually be cohosting the show tickets are 25dollars if youd like to attend. Hollywood is in full preparation now for its biggest awards show. This year, buzz over boldfaced names that could strike oscar gold for the first time. But also controversy over who wasnt nominated, with some prominent celebs sitting this years show out due to a lack of diversity. The revenant leads the pack, snagging the most oscar abcs Lauren Lyster is in hollywood with more. Ats movie trailer [then show corresponding clips where it works from the bear scene in the revenant, the martian, mad max and big short lets try to make it a quick montage b c well need the time] a cgi bear. A martian. Post just a few of the characters playing prominently in tonights academy awards. [show clips from corresponding single room. To the wsoscarprepscarpet 37 they start to roll out red carpet can replaceith the time lapse set up if we get it, wsgovballpreview] the scene of the ceremony has been a Construction Zone for days. The listing all the best picture movies] gfx and later this evening well find out which of these 8 films were deemed the years best. sot 10 13 19 28 david one has any idea who is going to win best picture this is a really muddled unpredictable year [[best actor graphic when it comes to best actor. Lesley messer approx up the award for his role in the revenant sot Leonardo Leonardo dicaprio has been nominated five times now, but has yet to snag the coveted statue. [[best actress graphic if time show blanchette and or Jennfier Lawrence or highlight them somehow when i mention past winners the best actress category includes past winners. But its firsttime nominee brie larson in room who snagged the Screen Actors Guild diversity generating boycotts and renewing the controversial hashtag, oscars so white. People now waiting to hear how host chris rock will address it. Partially or nearly fully . We can also cut this down to just the first part or out altogether for time] 10 10 38 the prevalent issue at the oscars is definitely diversity and of course chris include Vice President joe biden. Awaiting guests . 1500 bottles of champagne and 16thousand square feet of red carpet. Covered on the oscars throughout today. Coverage kicks off at 1pm with road to gold. Followed by on the red carpet at 2then oscars red carpet show for a special edition of 13 also, stay with us after the show for a special edition of 13 action news. And for uptotheminute coverage, dont forgetyou can head to ktnv dotcom. We have an entire page dedicated to this years show. Also, follow us facebook, twitter and instagramand download our ktnv mobile app. Coming up. Police overwhelmed after an officerinvolved shooting turns into a riot. What witnesses are saying sparked all of this. Plus, a shouting match between members of the kkk and protestors turns violentwith a fight spilling into the streets and its all caught on camera. That footage, coming up next. Clouds will push overhead from the pacific ocean. Will be slightly cooler than yesterday, but highs will still be very near 80 with some areas reaching into the low to mid 80s this afternoon. In addition to the spectacularly warm temperatures, the winds will cooperate as well as theyll be very light and will generally make las vegas the gem of the entire country weatherwise. Highs continue their slight tomorrow, but itll still be an amazing day with highs in the upper 70s and a solid 1015 above normal for this time of year. The weak upper level low pressure area will still pass to the north monday into tuesday which will further cool the air, but highs will still stay in the upper 70s as the system is very weak and will be temperatures rise once again to start off march with highs in the low 80s again. No rain is expected through the forecast period. adlib at open set with live pic in mon ted cruz is turning up pressure on donald trump to release his returns. Cruz released four years worth of his latest returns yesterday. Cruz is calling on trump to follow suit, saying he owes it to the american people. Trump says hell keep his returns under wraps until his irs audits are done. The irs says trump is free to release the information if he wants to. Marco rubio also released part of his tax returns yesterday. Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton is celebrating a big winoverwhelmingly beating Bernie Sanders in the South Carolina democratic primary. At the same time, insults are flying on the republican side as the super tuesday president ial primaries are fast approaching. 04 06 Hillary Clinton d president ial candidate 13 18 Jonathan Karl abc news marco rubio r president ial candidate 1 17 1 24 Donald Clinton d president ial candidate thank you so much sot special report Jonathan Karl a big win here in south Bernie Sanders can continue to win some states, if he doesnt win decisively it will be impossible for him to catch up. Bernie sanders conceding but insisting his campaign is far from over . Sot bernie tonight tuesday, over 800 delegates are at stake and we intend to win many, many of them. Both democrats now focusing on super tuesday and beyond . And going after gop frontrunner donald trump . Sot clinton a leading candidate for president spends half of his time insulting people. Sot sanders we will defeat trump because the american who insults mexicans, muslims. Trump also the target of now relentless attacks from marco rubio . Rubio sot con artist con artist con artist artists. the insults thrown right back tonight by trump . Sot trump i watched this lightweight rubio, total lightweight, little mouth on him, bing, bing, bing. Bing, bing, bing, bing. And his new hardhitting supporter, Chris Christie . Right by his side on the campaign trail. All of the candidates will be out on the trail today with Campaign Stops in several key states. New this morning. Police in salt lake city, utah are investigating an officerinvolved shooting local media reports officers intervened in an altercationand shots were fired. Witnesses say a 16yearold boy was hit by bullets. After the shooting, several people started rioting, throwing rocks and tossing several people were agitated in the crowd. Our officers started arriving on scene, encountered a lot of hostile people upset about what had taken place were told several people were detained. Witnesses also telling our abc affiliate in salt lake city, the person shot had been drinking and carrying some kind of weapon. That persons condition is unknown at this time. Police continue their investigation this morning. Also new this morning. A ku klux rally turns violent in california. Kkk demonstrators and counterprotestors started fightingright in the middle of the streets in anaheim yesterday. Police say two kkk members were stomped on the ground and three people were stabbed in all the chaos. 12 17 nats a shouting match led up to the fight , but it quickly turned bloody. We came here for a peaceful protest for white lives matter and we get jumped. Something. robert lara witness its crazy to them to come over here where theres a majority of minorities here. To me its just old. We are at a different time in the world. We got to be moving forward and this is not helping, you know . Its not clear who attacked who first. This morning, police are searching for a suspect in connection with those stabbings. Straight ahead. An ecigarette explodes causing this raging fireand leaves a woman badly burned. Shes talking about the scary encounter. Number of people caught up in the theft of taxpayer data last year is seven times larger than originally thought. Last maythe Internal Revenue service said cyber criminals used a popular tool on their website to steal the tax forms starting next weekthe agency will warn affected taxpayers about potential identity theft. They will be offered free credit protection. Theyll also get an extra pin number to protect future tax filings. The irs has disabled the online document tool used to steal personal information. A car is destroyedand a woman has been sent to the hospital with severe burnsall because her ecigarette exploded. This dramatic video shows a car completely engulfed in flames. A florida woman was sitting in her car smokingwhen it suddenly exploded. Cassandra koziol 00 09 41 i pushed the button and it literally. I felt an impact in my face. I let go and i saw sparks fly off into the passenger side. She will have a long road to recoverywith severe burns and several missing teeth. But she saysshes just lucky to be alive. 00 16 12 the best thing you can do is always try and find something to laugh at. Youre going to be lost no word on why that ecigarette exploded. Our Furry Friends getting the chance to take part in a great event thanks to the county. The Las Vegas Humane Society and heaven can wait animal societypartnered up to offer free vaccinations for all cats and dogs. Yesterdays event took place at the Whitney Recreation Center on boulder highway near tropicana. Jason allswang animal control 1 06 341 06 38 28 the law is all dogs and cats need the rabies vaccinations, need to have a tag or a microchip and need to be spayed or neutered. If you missed yesterdays event dont worrythere will be another one in a few months. Mountain view hospital is celebrating 20 years. Yesterday they offered a Free Health Fair to the community. This is video from that event. People were able to speak with nurses and physicians and get healththere was a photo booth and all kids received a free stuffed animal kangaroo. With flu activity starting to rise in some parts of the countrytheres a bit of good news. With more heres abc news senior medical contributor dr. Timothy johnson. The flu shot . One of our best defenses against an illness that sickens millions of americans each year. And the flu can kill thousands. This week, promising signs . That this years version of the influenza vaccine is a good match for the disease. Those preliminary findings at a meeting of the Advisory Committee on immunization practices . Suggesting the shot cuts the risk of having to go to the doctor because of the flu by 60 percent. so its the risk of having it be a bad case is 60 lower, or the risk of getting the flu is 60 lower . Unclear thats reassuring, since before every flu Season Health officials must predict which flu strains will be predominant . In order to advise vaccine makers. Think of last flu season, where the vaccine was only 19 percent effective. With flu activity only now popping up in some parts of the country . It will still be some time before this effectiveness can be confirmed. But that doesnt mean you have to wait to protect yourself and your family. If you havent gotten your flu shot now is the time. With this medical minute. Im dr. Timothy johnson. Good morning las vegas. Still ahead this morning. This is a live look at the dolby theatre. Hollywoods alist celebrities will be hitting the red carpet hours from now for the oscars. But this morning, theres some questions over whats inside their gift bags. Plus, unlv getting a much needed win at home well have highlights from their victory its one of the valleys most dangerous streches of highway. Moves are being made to make else can be done . Plus, taking center stage at the oscarsa controversy over whats included in this years gift bag for the stars. But first a live look outside. Its setting up to be another beautiful day. 13 weather first meteorologist carlo falco is standing by with our forecast. Good morning las vegas im. The time now is. Lets get started with a weather first check with carlo falco good morning carlo. adlib adlib a henderson man has been arrestedin the hit and run woman crossing boulder highway earlier this week. The highway is one of the valleys most dangerous roads and tragedy is becoming all too common. 13 action News Reporter David Schuman has more with whats being done to make boulder highway safer. Pkg eric leppard has turned himself into police for stealing a car and hitting a woman who was walking outside of a crosswalk. Officers said speed was a factor in her death. What used to be a changing speed limit on boulder highway vegas. These people drive like crazy. Theres no speed limit to them. New to boulder highway are speed radars that show you how fast youre going and plenty of speed limit signs. 002826 erin breen in our community we seem to have a disregard for speed limits to start with 13 action news viewers chimed in on the changes. Gerald harrelson tweeted its probably a good idea but people will probably still speed. Carlos agreed, tweeting that a lower limit wont do anything. 45 Miles Per Hour is a start. More ideas are in the works and one could be as simple as a name adjustment. 003037 breen do we still need a highway . Could we change not only the street itself but the mindset of the people traveling it by changing it to boulder boulevard. For now. Breen says there are more police on boulder highway. Ready to pull speeders over. Now, we asked if lowering the limit even more could be a solution. Our expert says its unlikely to happen because some drivers would follow the limit while others would still be going 60making things even more unsafe. People looking to save some cash showed up at the clark county auction. Auction goers were able to save big on electronicsfurnitur e and over 200 vehicles. Bidding started at just 1hundred dollars for vehicleswith the most popular ones being pickup trucksand suvs. You could even bid on police cars. 1 03 231 03 29 i think im of the former police interceptors. But thats fine, theyre good reliable cars. Theyve been maintained. The items at yesterdays auction were acquired by Valley Police departments local Government Agencies and even from mccarrans lost and found. The 2016 color run brightened the streets of downtown las vegas yesterday. We showed you some live looks from the area yesterday morning, heres some more footage from the run the race started at 8 in the morning and you can see alot of people enjoyed themselves out in the gorgeous weather yesterday. A portion of the proceeds from the 5 k go to the three square food bank. Now for a story thats positively las vegas. Hundreds of local teens looking forward to prom this year got some needed help yesterday help of Southern Nevada along with Radio Station 98 point fiveput together gown town at town square las vegas. Used prom dresses all went on sale yesterday for only 20 bucks. Some shoppers even picked up a a big win last night for the unl v runnin rebels mens basketball team. In their final home game of the regular seasonthe rebels were able to hold off the wyoming cowboys79 to 74. The rebels play next at San Diego State thats next saturday at 7 p. M. Theyll then get ready for the Mountain West conference tournament. Youve heard about the oscars so white controversy theres not a single black nominee for an acting award, at tonights show. Now theres another controvery surrounding the academy awards. This one is about gift bags. Heres cnns oren liebermann. As if being a Hollywood Alister wasnt enough of a everybodys gonna be interested in this. Including. And the most expensive gift in the bag . Surprise a 55,000. 10day. All expenses paid trip to israel. From the countrys ministry of tourism. Were going to tell it right. All 25 of the acting and directing nominees. And host chris rock. Will get the unofficial oscars gift. Some of hollywood biggest names. Wooo. In your face neil armstrong. Israel hopes to boost the countrys struggling tourism numbers by tapping into the stars followers on social media. yariv levin, israels minister of tourism they will show how good it is here, how interesting it is here. Im sure and i call them use this opportunity, you wont regret it. In an awards season where the academy may have been hoping the lack of racial diversity would be their only controversy. This trip to israel has set off another one. omar barghouti, palestinian bds movement we hope that a majority a great majority of the nominees will reject this israeli trip. Omar barghouti. Who fronts the Palestinian Campaign to boycott israel. Says accepting the trip plays into what he calls israels propaganda. omar barghouti, palestinian bds movement were asking hollywood figures as they did era to not give their names for israel to whitewash the occupation and violation of human rights. Israeli minister of tourism yariv levin rejects that criticism. yariv levin, israels minister of tourism i think that there is a diypute that should be solved, hopefully there will be sometime to achieve some kind of peace agreement, but i think that talking about occupation or talking about boycotting israel because of the Current Situation is something unfair you should be careful mark rylance. Up for best supporting actor for bridge of spies. And a supporter of palestinian causes. Has said he wont accept any gift. But most other nominees have been silent about the swag bag. In a conflict that has dragged on for decades. The latest clashes between israelis and palestinians ave moved from the streets of the west bank. To the red carpet of hollywood. Oren liebermann. Cnn. Jerusalem. When good morning las vegas hundreds of people will make the excruciating climb to the top of the strat today. Well tell you what theyre up against. My School Reunions coming fast. Could be bad. Could be a blast. Cant find a single thing to wear. Will they be looking at my hair . When its go, go to choicehotels. Com. The site with the right room, rewards and savings up to 20 when you book direct. Welcome back. By definition, deserts dont have much water. Were somewhat familiar with this, living in las vegas. But in the middle east, providing water for cities in the desert can be difficult. It can be expensivebut in the united arab emirates, they know a thing or two about making it rain. Reporter jon jensen took a ride to see exactly how it works. At a remote airstrip outside abu dhabi, New Zealander pilot mike anstis is setting off to do something most would consider impossible in a desert. Hes hoping to make it rain. nats mike is cloud seeding. He does it by firing salt increase rainfall. mike anstis pilot on the wings of the aircraft, weve got flares, which. When we fire the flares, it burns, and it emits a smoke. That smoke then attracts water vapor, creating bigger droplets. The flares are only effective if launched from inside certain thick clouds. jon jensen reporter if you dont like turbulence, well, this is definitely not the flight for you, because when youre cloud seeding, pilots like mike here, they dont avoid storms; they head right to the heart of them. The plane is tossed around in the wind sidetoside, up and down. jon jensen reporter oh wow, were dropping. mike anstis pilot there is a calculated risk associated with this. We do have to know when its ground, scientists at the countrys Meteorology Centre track the flight. They started cloud seeding 15 years ago to help sustain a growing population in the uae, one of the worlds top consumers of water. Last year, they flew more than 150 flights. Each costs around fivethousand dollars, but they say its cheaper and greener than operating desalination plants, uaes main source of fresh water. Abdullah Al Mandoos executive director, National Centre of meteorology and seismology our material that we use. Its environmental. Its salt. Very small, small amount that is not affecting the environment. And it may be working. Back where mike first fired flares, a heavy downpour pounds the plane. jon jensen reporter did you just make this rain . mike anstis pilot its a natural rain, but were trying to increase it. Scientists are still studying how much water cloud seeding makes and the long term effects on mother nature. But in a region where annual rainfall is just around three say this may be the best way to sustain life in the desert. Jon jensen, cnn, somewhere over the uae ahead today. Some extreme climbers will lace up their tennis shoes to take on the tallest building in las vegas. Its for the scale the strat event. The climb is the largest fundraiser for the American Lung association in Southern Nevada. Steps to the top last years winner made the climb in 7 minutes 22seconds. Everything gets underway at 7 this morning with a kickoff party. The race starts at 8am. When good morning las vegas returns. The Junior League of las vegas is working to make easter a little easier for some local families. Theyll join us in studio next, to explain. transcribe easter is just a few weeks away but for some g with their child may not be an option. Joining us now is the Junior League of las vegas whos helping make this easter. A little more special for the children who need it the most. Katie horn, Junior League project chair rose van dee, clinical manager procare hospice cierra sonetti, registered nurse procare hospice questions to katie how did Junior League come up with the idea for the project . To katie how many Junior League members are directly assisting with the project . To rose what services do you provide for your careousel children one particular childs story you would like to share with us to cierra cierra, you work closely with these families, spending lots of time in their home, caring for patients. Can you share what its like to go through the loss of a child with a family to katie how can others get involved or help out with the project . If you want to help out the junior leag they will be benefit brunch on sunday march 6th from 10 a,m to 2 pm. Tickets range from 15 dollars when you get one gig internetfrom centurylink and prism tvand theyre both deliveredon a superfast Fiber Network but do you think his deliverywas a little flat on that one . Just yeah. Its amazing oh, wow. Oh, mom, thatwas really good. Thank you. Wow. [ sighs ] feel like a hollywood insider. Okay, ill work on it. With prism tv plus gig Internet Speed thanks for joining us this good morning, america. Hillarys huge victory. Thank you so much, South Carolina. Shes now got major momentum heading into super tuesday. Can bernie bounce back . As the republican mudslinging gets even nastier. Hes flying around on hair little mouth on him, bing, bing, bing. All the headlines from an amazing race. Breaking overnight in the line of duty, a Police Officer in virginia shot and killed on her first day on the job. What went wrong on that seemingly routine call . Fantastic finish. Bang, bang, oh, what a shot from curry steph currys night for the injured ankle, sinking 12 threepointers, including an amazing buzzer beater. Is this the best game of the season . And countdown to oscar. Were live on the red carpet as hollywood gets set to honor its best. Who can pull off an upset . And the award goes to spotlight. And that awards show overnight. Will you be tweaking your oscar picks now . Lets do this. And host chris rock keeping everyone guessing how hell handle oscars so white. And the red carpet looks, who will go bold . Were live at the oscars with everything you need to know for hollywoods biggest night. Good morning, america. Happy oscar sunday. Sara and i are in new york. Paula and rob, right there on the red carpet this morning. You guys look great. Thank you. Thank you, dan. Dan, i know it looks like were going to prom, right
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