Just a moment. But first we start fox five news at eleven with breaking news. Former cuban president fidel castro has died. Thats according to the associated press. His brother president raul castro made the announcement on cuban state television. No word yet on how castro died. Or where. Fidel castro was 90 years old. We will bring you more information as the story develops. 54321 music. Confetti. Cheers. Beautiful. Shake up the happiness its christmas time. Thanksgiving and black friday have come and gone. Now christmas is being welcomed around the valley. Thats santa and mrs. Claus counting down for the Tree Lighting ceremony at opportunity village. Good evening. Im adam herbets. Im faith tanner. Celebrating 25 years in Las Vegas Fox fives Abby Theodros was at the magical forest. For all the excitement. 1111111111111111111 1111111111111 abby its the start of the Holiday Season which means its a Winter Wonder land at the opportunity village magical forest. Package lights trees and ho
Some people mourning, others celebrating. We are taking a live look at the streets of miami right now. In havana, cuba. Some are entering a nine day mourning period. But in Little Havana in miami. Reaction on the former cuban leaders death is much different. 2127 pots banging cheering 0 010 07 pots banging cheering those are the celebrations that went on in miamis Little Havana overnight. The community is known for its number of cuban exiles who fled the communist country and castros rule. Castros death was met there with widespread celebration. People waving flags and banging on pots and pans. We spoke to a cuban mother and son here in vegas last night. On how theyre reacting to the news. Jackie its sad that anyone should die. Its just. My father defected communism and fidel. And im just shocked the guys dead. Erik his brothers still alive and his family is still in power. And the ideals he upholds are still there. So i dont know how much it actually changes. But he is a figurehead fo
Bowl chances, but they go by the do your job, next man up philosophy and they are determined to keep stacking up the wins over the next few weeks, all the way to the super bowl in houston. The patriots on the field prepping for the los angeles rams. The loss of a star player no doubt hits hard, but it is football, gronkowski or no gronkowski they say they are ready. We are going to go out there every single week. Next man up mentality. You know, there is a lot of weapons on well together so whoever is out there we are going to go out there and play with whoever it is. Reporter news of gronkowskis injury broke after reporters had access to the players, but i happened to speak with bennett, the other top tight end of the team and i asked him, how does your Mission Change when gronkowski isnt playing. I mean, i been doing the same thing all year so my job is my job. Reporter im not asking you for the game plan but not for me. Report was released about an hour ago. It only shows gronkowski
Shes texting it to me as we speak. Hopefully the weather cooperates . I think its looking great. Weve seen a good week. Muchneeded moisture. Now we wrap up the work week with the friday forecast. I will stay nice into the weekend as well. We have more cloud cover west of highway 91 and these clouds are going to filter in a little bit. Well see a mixture of sun and clouds leaning on the sunny side of things today. Temperature wise were starting to warm up. 37 like in bedford when you factor in the winds. Feeling like 27 degrees in worcester and 36 degrees in fitchburg. Cooler start than yesterday. Were still warming up to temperatures that are going to be above average. Our average highs are around 46 degrees. You can see were well above that. Some of us potentially hitting 50 degrees here today as well. And we will see a mixture of sun and clouds. We keep it that way into saturday forecast. But you can see we do drop off a couple of degrees in the temperature department. That trend wil
Shes texting it to me as we speak. Hopefully the weather cooperates . I think its looking great. Weve seen a good week. Muchneeded moisture. Now we wrap up the work week with the friday forecast. I will stay nice into the weekend as well. We have more cloud cover west of highway 91 and these clouds are going to filter in a little bit. Well see a mixture of sun and clouds leaning on the sunny side of things today. Temperature wise were starting to warm up. 37 like in bedford when you factor in the winds. Feeling like 27 degrees in worcester and 36 degrees in fitchburg. Cooler start than yesterday. Were still warming up to temperatures that are going to be above average. Our average highs are around 46 degrees. You can see were well above that. Some of us potentially hitting 50 degrees here today as well. And we will see a mixture of sun and clouds. We keep it that way into saturday forecast. But you can see we do drop off a couple of degrees in the temperature department. That trend wil