Here on good morning reno. Its time. Im Amanda Sanchez and im dave lawrence. Lets go to Lindsey Matherly with a look at the forecast. Above average temperatures along with light winds will persist with High Pressure over the region through the remainder of the week. Weaker valley inversions will allow for decent mixing today and friday. Little to no chances for precipitation through the rest of the week with the next chance for any precipitation next wednesday. No significant changes term forecast. Ridge will flatten in response to a couple of shortwaves moving through the pacific northwest. Main impacts from this will be variable cloudiness, stronger winds aloft, as well as improved ntm anim shot o a nearly 3 hour standoff at a home in stead is now over. Reno police tell us one person is in custody in connection with an Armed Robbery at the Maverik Convenience store on stead boulevard early monday morning. The standoff started around 11 last night. Swat was called to the scene and neg
Lets go to Lindsey Matherly with a look at the forecast. A storm is on track to bring wind and then period of moderate to heavy sierra snow wedthu with persistence in the timing of both precipitation front wed ngtthu morning. This includes previous forecast thinking regarding spillover into western nv and snow amounts confined mainly to foothills above 48005000 expected to begin increasing across the sierra ridges during the next several hours and become very strong by daybreak. Mos impressive for strong in the race for the white house. New polls show Trump Holding onto his commanding lead in South Carolina where voters head to the polls in just a few days. And a nail biter in nevada where a new poll shows Bernie Sanders even with Hillary Clinton. Heres abcs megan hughes with more. Trump calls in on Stephen Colberts the late show sot colbert i can think off the top of my head three things that you have said on air that, and this is true, cbs will not let me repeat though hes vowed to c
Smoothly. No major delays on reno area highways. No major delays on highways in Northern California. Back to you in the studio. Thanks very much mike. Republican president ial hopeful donald trump is waking up a winner. Trump claimed a big victory in the nevada caucuses on the same night the democratic contenders hit the stage for a town hall in South Carolina. As abc s Kenneth Moton reports the race is heating up with less than a week to go before super tuesday. Script this morning, donald trump . On a winning streak after time nevada. Sot donald trump we love nevada, we love nevada love for trump but that anger at washington and a strong desire for an outsider gave the gop frontrunner an easy victory over his rivals. Sot trump of course if you listen to the pundits we werent expected to win too much and now were its a fight for second between republican establishment favorite marco rubio and iowa caucus winner ted cruz. Sot ted cruz the only campaign that can beat donald trump is thi
Sheriff ken furlong from the Carson City Sheriffs Office says they have reason to believe alcohol could be a factor. He says the gas leak closed hot springs road between tiger drive and roop street for hours. The oregon standoff is coming to an end. Cliven bundy, the father of ammon bundy was arrested late last night after flying into the Portland Oregon airport. Nevada Assembly Woman Michele Fiori will meet the four remaining occupiers at the Malheur National wildlife refuge in oregon today. Fiore spoke with the occupiers on the phone as the fbi surrounded their compound. They called her yesterday morning to ask for her involvement. According to a youtube livestream, the occupiers agreed to leave their guns in their vehicles before ending the standoff. I am with you in spirit. God is with you in spirit and were walking out. We dont need our weapons right now. They can not fire upon you with the world watching. Do you understand. The world is watching you. Fiore is scheduled to for the
Hillary clinton and Bernie Sanders in a dead heat. So who will come out on top . Thanks for joining us on good morning reno. Im Amanda Sanchez and im dave lawrence. The snow moved in fast some problems for people heading over the mountains. Kolo 8 news nows rebecca kitchen is live at gold ranch with more on the traffic nightmare. Officials with caltrans say interstate 80 at stateline is closed due to severe weather. All vehicles are being turned around at the gold ranch casino exit on i80. They say semi trucks and four wheel drive vehicles are getting stuck in the snow, causing multiple clusters of cars to block sections of the interstate. Its not clear when i80 will be back open. Stay with kolo 8 news now intense storm system will bring wind, rain, and snow to the area through thursday. Wind will be gusty, especially east of the sierra crest through the evening hours. Rain will develop in the sierra and change over to snow below 7000 after sunset, and around the tahoe basin levels wil