Good morning im Alyssa Deitsch welcome to fox5 news this morning. First les krifaton joins us with a quick look at the fox 5 weather 247 forecast. A pacific storm is moving into our area for the next lots of clouds with shower chances sunday night and into monday. Daytime temperatures will cool a few degrees monday with the passage of a cold front. By tuesday drier weather returns to the valley and will bring us seasonal temperatures for the remainder of the week including thanksgiving and police in elko. Are now the air ambulance flight that crashed friday night. Killing three crewmembers and a patient. Had mechanical trouble. Guys, a plane just crashed over here. Oh explosion this video shows the aftermath of the plane crash in the parking lot of a Mining Company in northern nevada. Elkos police chief says the victims of medical Staff Members Jake Sheppard of utah. Tiffany urresti of elko. And patient Edward Clohesey of spring creek, nevada. Were told the patient was being flown to t
With exact amounts and placement of precipitation so continued to use a blend of model data. Several areas of precipitation were noted this 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. Another area was coming up out of mexico and will likely brush southeast mohave county this evening. Showers will also likely work into the far western part of the forecast area this evening as well but the area across central and eastern portions of inyo and san bernarn they will be in a break for the evening hours. Expect this break to fill in overnight as the upper trough moves into california Denise Valdez the first snow of the season is great news for skiiers and snowboarders but it can in Northern California blizzard like conditions had drivers slipping and sliding all over the road. And in chicago workers at one the nations busiest a
Horrifying situation. Cristian mendoza, cousin any person who ever needed anything, even a place to sleep, he would make sure they got somewhere to sleep its that very trait cristain mendoza believes led to his cousins death. Cristian mendoza, cousin they were good friends and the kid had nowhere to stay. A kind act that ended in tragedy. 20 year old kevin zaldana killed by the very person he opened his home to. Cristian mendoza i get a phone call saying hey jacob stabbed kevin. butt to after he stabbed him on his bed to sleep trying to kill him in his sleep but he woke up, dragged himself and he was able to drag himself from one room to another trying to get my aunts attention. Kevins mom ismenia living a nightmare. Ismenia magana, mom he said mom mom someone wants to kill me but when i looked at him, he was already full of body was covered in blood. She tells me twenty year old Jacob Driscoll ran when she threatened to call police. Ismenia magana, mom i didnt see him. While i was wai
As emcee of the big reveal tonight. He begins our live team coverage. Chris Maathuis it was historic. From this day forward, las vegas will have a Major League Sports identity. Majority owner bill foley and the maloof brothers shared the dream. And today, five months to the day that an nhl expansion franchise was awarded to las vegas, a huge naming party was held on the plaza at tmobile to make it official. Disappoint. Nats the vegas Golden Knights. Oh my. Bill foley owner good lookin hat you have on, by the way. Its done we have our name vegas Golden Knights, golden knight, we have our logo its a powerful logo, ive been telling people, were going to have a great logo and its going to denote power, strength and dedication, fortitude. Gary bettman commish we thought that this was going to be very strong and vibrant, and again focus tonight on the logo and and name, the George Mcphee gm weve got Something Special here and its a treat for all of us. When the fireworks ended, the chatter s
Team is facing off against nau tonight. The rebels are looking for their Third Straight win tonight at the t and m. The game is part of the global or preliminary rounds. The rebels one their second game saturday night against cal state fullerton 77 to 68. That w marked a 200th career win for head coach marvin menzies. We will have highlights form the game tonight on fox5 news at 10 and 11. In just 8 months unlv will welcome its first class of students for the new medical school. The university has made no secret about the fact the school was pushing money. Efforts to becoming recognized as a Tier One Research university. One of the key elements to gaining that status is a medical school but its also a big step forward for southern nevada. Nevada is in the bottom tier of states with primary care physicians per one hundred thousand population. The hope is. As the medical school evolves and add Additional Research arms on top of residency programs, students who graduate will stay in the a