I didnt expect it to be like this its pretty windy out there im going home and hiding but there was almost no place you could hide to avoid this blustery cold. Daniel carlson finding that out quickly < coming down the freeway was rough i had a couple of people almost run into me. One car the wind blew him into me almost take a look at this video carlson sent us. Watch as the car to his left veers into his direction almost hitting him after being hit my a huge gust of wind. But who had it worst with windsthe north or south . We started our day in the green valley area winds here making it hard to walk. It has to be about 40 to 50 it just blew my truck out here a minute ago at one point even tumbling this metal newspaper stand into the roadway. But over near durango and the 95 things were just as bad for albertson worker katie i have to bring these cards in that and its bad wind, chill and snow not what many would consider las vegas weather. I think were going to stick close to home its
This video shows. A flag blowing in the wind. Its not just the wind either. Check this out. Some places in the valley are down to 34 degrees. Near rainbow and sahara. Its not just the valley. Getting hit either. We also headed up. To Mount Charleston today. Where 18 to 20 inches of snow fell overnight. The lee canyon ski temperatures overnight. Tonight. We arent the only ones getting hit tonight. Old man winter is taking aim at iowa tonight. Where a major storm is set to hit in a few hours as it moves east. There are also weather alerts up right now from california. In colorado. Snow and ice caused a 25 car pileup. On the road. Airlines have already canceled more than 500 flights through denver. And in california. Strong winds brought down huge trees. Including one that fell on a car. Wheel. Sot Michael Sharma i saw the cars underneath and just the storm is expected to continue wreaking havoc for the next several days. Be sure to stay with action news as we continue to track the weathe
Cuffs. Action News Reporter Parker Collins is live near mlk and 95 with how it all went down. They actually found him up of this roof. With the help of canines and the police chopper. Lets back up. It started around one thirty. Nhp saw a man driving like crazy. Swerving everywhere near 15 and tropicana. They tried to slow him down. But he wouldnt. They stopped chasing him. But another officer saw the man ditching his car and running. Thats when they asked metro for help. Watched as they took him into custody. Reporting live Parker Collins channel thirteen action news. This morning. Troopers are trying to figure out what caused a driver to lose control and crash head on into another car. Take a look at the aftermath of the crash on the 215 near aliante last night. You can see both of the cars are destroyedand both drivers died. Nhp says this portion of the highway is under construction. The speed limit is only 45. Its too soon to know if that was a factor. A third car was also involved.
Weve have been hitting the extremes in the past 72 hours going from a near record High Temperature saturday to chilly and windy conditions today. That drastic weather change along with the rain and mountain snow has been a bit of a shock to our systems. Fox5 meteorologist les krifaton joins us live at. Les how were people dealing all the weather changes the past few days. Rough start to the week for locals and visitors as we got hit with a pretty good storm sunday that widespread rain and mountain snow. Today in the systems wake we had strong winds and much colder temperatures. Conjure up images of las vegas in your mind and your probably thinking this. Not this. Yeah its a little cold cold enough that most of the people we saw downtown were bundled up looking like they were living in a sub zero Winter Wonderland like chicago, but this is las vegas. The wind and cold air was fierce enough even birds werent flying. Unfortunately these conditions are sticking around. Our normal high righ
Polls. And donald trump with a slight lead over ted cruz in the gop race. Fish says i think im definitely going to go republican. I just think that trump is the one thats out here to say what he needs to say and hes going to get the job done. Iowans turning out after plenty of campaign exposure. Phone calls. Door knocks. Some sixty thousand campaign ads airing on tv in iowa. Plus, some fifteen hundred candidate rallies here. All leading up to this moment. With iowans finally getting to weigh in. Frank snyder says the two people that are at the top of the polls i actually dont see either one of them beating hillary. Meantime, in the final moments before the caucuses. A number of candidates. Includi ng chris christie, jeb bush, and john kasich. Already flying to New Hampshire to meantime, former omalley and Mike Huckabee have their bids for president. In des moines, iowa, joel waldman, fox news. The first nevada caucus is a little more than two caucus is up first on saturday february 20t