forecast. good morning i m cassandra jones with fox5. the big story today will be gusty winds across southern nevada for friday. wind gusts around the las vegas valley will be in the 30 to 40 mph range. even stronger wind is expected along the colorado river valley. a wind advisory will be in effect for mesquite, laughlin, and lake havasu city throughout the day on friday with wind gusts in the 50 mph range. high temperatures friday will be in the mid to low 50s. it stays breezy saturday before winds calm down sunday. skies will be mostly sunny this weekend with temperatures back up around 60 sunday. we ll see another surge of cold air for the middle of next week with more wind and below average temperatures. we have new information about a crash involving three vehicles in north las vegas. police say the motorcyclist who caused a chain reaction crash has died. it happened last night on ann near simmons. north las vegas police say the motorcyclist hit a car and was thrown fro
elections as well. 28 days of early voting. you don t even have to go to the polls. the more people that vote early, that means fewer people will be at the polls on election day which should ease some of the stress. about 17,000 people have already voted early. we have seen some people going today. through saturday. just a note, they are still looking for poll workers for next tuesday. that is a paid position, workers john, back to you. thank you for that. meantime the secretary of state also wants repetitive ublican voters to know that they should expect to see two versions of the district congressional race on the ballot. if the district congressional race is a big one that s replacing john boehner, the former speaker of the u.s. house of representative, if you re republican you vote twice, you want to replace john boehner and then you vote for who you want to nominate to be on the ballot this november. republican voters have to cast two votes in the congressional p
as you can see, the flames have been billowing for hours. ed? reporter: this fire broke out about 2:00 this afternoon. it actually started at a house. three houses are at a total loss. let me show you where these houses were. the fire jumped the canal over to indian island here in copague. you ll be able to see the houses right down in here, the middle house, that is 37 east santa barbara road. that s where the fire started. it jumped to the two houses beside it and across the canal over to indian island. az bring it back out here, you will see a lot of damage, a lot of acreage burned to a crisp on inaldian is and. no reports of injuries, but the condity,ns are so dry that this isod what s going to happen and this is the threat for the next couple days. we ll bring you any updates. reporting live on chopper 4, i m ed hughes. let s go back to the studio. island and the man police say is the so-called ninja burglar. today the suspended serial thief faced a judge after what wa
three al jazeera journalists is put back three weeks after hearing from prosecution witnesses lacking diplomacy. i stand corrected. president obama s new ambassador nominees are lambasted with being unqualified. ukraine s interim leader says he s open to talks with russia. that s despite russian war ships blocking ukrainian vessels in a black sea port. there are also russian troops in other military bases in crimea. speaking ahead of a summit in brussels, the european parliamentary summit reiterates that the e.u. stands behind ukraine. we need to urgently tackle this problem. and we are ready to find a solution in the contact group and an offramp, together with the u.s., e.u. russia, and clearly with ukrainian participation. and we ask russia to respond. whether they are ready to preserve peace and stability in europe or they are ready to instigate another provocations and another tensions in our bilateral and multilateral relations. i give you a guarantee, and yo