One. Im gerard ramalho. In the home stretch for decision 2016. Nevadas position is a battleground state beginning and bringing the biggest names from washington to las vegas. Speaker pall ryan and joe biden here today. And our face jesse was there, joining us now in studio. Reporter there was a lot a lot of energy out there this morning. People i spoke with came from all over t california to hear biden speak. But more importantly, to encourage people to going to out and vote. Get out the vote. God bless you all. Joe bidens call to action rallied nearly 800 people this morning. All part of Hillary Clintons get out to early vote campaign. This was a motivating factor for us to come out. Reporter ge net is one of we came out yesterday and were going to canvas today. And were hoping to get the vote out. Reporter she joins 100s of others with the game goal in mind. We need your help. Make those calls. Reporter a similar call to action was heard just before biden took the stage. Democratic c
Here we go. The election just two days away now. A Record Number of people have already early voted in nevada. Friday night at the cardenas market, the line stretched around the building well after the polls were scheduled to close. It was estimated more than 1,000 people in a largely hispanic neighborhood were still in line. It was one of several that stayed open late so everyone could vote. Clark county says its allowed under state law. Lets dig in to those early voting numbers. More than 769,000. Two away from 770,000. Ballots have been cast already. 224,000 of those were registered democrats. Democrats about a 45,000 vote lead state wide. Democratic lead is more pronounced. Democrats are ahead of republicans by more than 72,000 votes. Thats similar to the numbers in 2012 when barack obama won the state by seven points. Lets first point out that democrats tend to vote early. Republicans tend to wait until election day to do so. But that big lead in clark county i think would mean an
Ones house, one went to the others house. So it was kind of a brewing ongoing thing. Sharie Johnson the man who was killed also had a gun on him. He was shot half a dozen times. Police are sorting out exactly what happened. But say there may be some history of drug abuse with those involved. And a woman may also be involved in the dispute somehow. The names of the suspect and victim have not been released. Sharie Johnson a sheriffs deputy checking on a suspicious car was shot to death in Central California. Dennis wallace was a 20 county sheriffs department. Police describe his death in hughson as an execution. Hughson is just east of modesto. He was shot twice in the head at point blank range. 36year old David Machado was arrested for the murder. After a manhunt. He had a felony warrant out for his arrest. Sharie Johnson this morning. A hundred veterans and their families hit the skies as part of the annual salute to the troops week put on by the gary sinise the story. nia wong protec
Is there can i believe it . Election day is past us, and it was a historic one here in nevada across the country. Thanks for joining us. Im patrick walker. And im steve sebelius, more than 1. 1 nevadans went to the pollsht to cast an early vote, a turnout rate of about 77 , slightly less than the 80 thats typical in president ial electionf years. Here the turnout was slightly lower it brings it at about 75 . Thate was lower turnout than e 2012 election, so steve, why do you think we saw those numbers trending down . I think one of the reasons is the top of the ticket, you know, people were not excited to vote for either one of these two candidates. Look at the return that none these candidates got in the president ial race. At 2. 57 , its never broken 1 . There were more votes cast for of these candidates in the elections of 2000, 2004, 2008, and 2012 combined. So all of this mill. And those are the people who actually went to the polls as the one that stayed home. Nevadas senate seats
With the crowd. It was a very touching event and coming up tonight at 6 30 on 8 news now, well share with you the ceremony plus hear from families members about the Important Message of safe driving especially during the holiday season. Reporting live Brittany Edney 8 news now. katie boer move across the area tonight through monday night. Still seeing some differences with exact amounts and placement of precipitation so continued to use a blend of model data. Several areas of afternoon associated with the incoming trough and weak disturbances out ahead of the main trough. One area of showers which moved through las vegas earlier today was moving through Lincoln County this afternoon. Coming up out of mexico and will likely brush southeast mohave county this evening. Showers will also likely of the forecast area this evening as well but the area across central and eastern portions of inyo and san bernardino, clark and southern nye counties look like they will be in a break for the eveni