In with van tieu, she is at Trainer Middle School where the republicans hope there will be no caucus hiccups tonight. Van . Reporter the Nevada Republican caucus has officially kicked off. The doors opening at 5 00 tonight. Now, Washoe County republican chairman autumn kahn told me he expects this to be the most organized caucus they have ever hosted, really stream lining the process as well. We are here at the middle school which is one of 28 site locations in Washoe County. In 2012, there were only 11 site locations in the county, so really making it easier for the Republican Voters to reach a site. Now, for instance, there will be 25 precincts reporting at Trainer Middle School. This is how it all works out Opening Doors at 5 00. People here are checking, making sure they are registered Republican Voters, and you have to be a registered republican in order to participate tonight, so also if you are 17, 18 before the actual election so you can actually put in a ballot tonight. So if
First, lets take a look at this picture from the internet. This is quite the sight from the heavenly observation deck. And that is a gorgeous picture. It will be gorgeous again tomorrow so we do have pesky high clouds in the area. That is not going to last too much longer. Well see clear skies. 54 for the cloud cover. It prevented us from getting to 60 today. That is why we stayed cooler than what we thought. Other temperatures are a little warmer, but not much. Not many. Smith valley, 53. And it is already 48 in stead so renosparks. Our air quality is good, so it is okay to burn. And the area looks mild, and then well go below 40, but not until around 11 00 tonight so get out there, get stuff done. It is gorgeous. And our heat wave will continue weekend. Back to you. Thank you. Topping our news this Republican Party not making any predictions about turnout for tonights gop caucus. The process starts. We join news 4s terri hendry live at Reno High School which is one of the caucus loca
3 bill it was a big 3 night for the silver state. As Republican Voters caucused for the president ial candidate of their choice. And as expected. Trump trumped everybody else. News 4s alex cannito joins us in studio with a recap of last nights events. 3 alex the big news this morning from here in nevada is that donald trump won the gop caucus last night. Across the state there were 1 thousand 784 precincts. But lets break down the numbers for here in washoe county. 3 trump dominated the caucus with 46 percent of people supporting him. Thats more than 23 hundred votes. Marco rubio came in second at roughly 27 percent. Thats nearly 13 hundred votes. And ted cruz came in third with about 18 percent of people showing support. Now to talk kantar mediacmag shows trump spend roughly 490 thousand dollars in nevada. While rubios team spent 920 thousand and cruz spent 790 thousand. But all that campaigning must have worked as this is trumps Third Straight win. And he says hes ready for this week
All the way until 3 00 a. M. Which is absolutely true. It is an easier forecast for the next several days. Today is close to the average high. Fiftyfour is the forecast high. Fiftythree, the average for this time of year. Check out wednesday, thursday and friday into the 60s. Definitely well above average. Starting tomorrow, and going right into the weekend as well. Staying mostly dry across the area. A mixture of sunshine and fiftyfour in reno sparks. Days. Today is average. Fiftythree in carson city. Generally light wind across the area. Not too much going on. We had clouds fill in. They kind of faded away a little bit. Sunshine and clouds for the rest of the day today. Dry conditions across the area. Temperatures right now, into the 30s and 40s. Heading for the 40s and 50s as the day goes on. The air quality is moderate. No restrictions on reno sparks. Very warm temperatures and small precepts chances. Donald donald trump is holding another event in nevada before the caucus tonight.
Votes. Marco rubio came in second. Ted cruz was a close third, followed by ben carson with just about 5 percent. Donald trump is still celebrating that big victory this morning. Last night he thanked everyone for their support. sot trump we won with young, we won with old, we one with highly educated, we won with poorly educated. I love the poorly educated. People waited hours for trump to get to Treasure Island for his celebration speech. The billionaire went on to say that he believes hes going to keep gaining momentum as more candidates drop out. Texas senator ted cruz ended up in third place. He was here in the valley when congratulating donald trump and reminding his supporters of his early victory. Po10we history teaches us that nobody has ever won the nomination without winning one of the first three primaries and there are only two people who have won one of the first caucuses in nevada than the winner. In nevada than the winner. He spent about 790thousand dollars. Compared to