Youre watching mornings on fox 11, connecting northern nevada. Good thursday morning. Thank you for joining us here on mornings on fox 11. 7 00. If you havent gotten outside as of yet, make sure you give yourself extra time this morning. Depending on where you live, as you saw with those live shots if youre taking a look there, pretty wild certain parts of town. Still coming down at a good clip. Snowing furiously at my house about 3 45 this morning. A sketchy drive in to work for me this morning. Now looks like weve got some of shows showers scattered around the area, particularly where ryan kern is west of town near the state line. Yeah. The weather this morning has called for some school delays. All story county schools are on a onehour delay, Sierra Nevada college on a two everyone else, sorry, you are good to go. Dont hit that Snooze Button today. Dont hit that. Lets check in with tim, see what we have in store for us rest of the day. Good morning to you. We have snow shower activi
Reta closed captioning of nevada newsmakers is brought to you by the nevada trucking association, trucking moves america forward. This is nevada newsmakers with host sam shad, a no holds barred now from the nevada newsmakers broadcast headquarters, here is sam shad. Back on nevada newsmakers, we are tape thanksgiving program on february 4, were changing studios and backing a few shows. Well interview bob lucey, Washoe County commissioner, newly minted, been on the board about a year. Tell me the difference between what it was like running for the office and being in office . I got to tell you, sam, its been a huge experience in the way ive just difference that i thought going into it, i thought i would be impactful on all the change and i really have bring outside from my private Business Life in the Public Sector and impact, i think it was that kind of airgant, novice way of looking at things. Now i get in there and spent the laf year working on it, ive seen so much more that goes on,
Innocent victim killed in a driveby shooting. Myra rodriguez was just 19 years old studying social work at t nc c. She aspired to help victims of crime. Unfortunately she became victim. Reporter her sister says myra was at a house party when a group of uninvited guests fired shots into the house killing her. The suspects still on the loose. She was our everything. She was literally the light in the room, the light in our sunlight. Reporter myra isnt the only young life lost. A 16yearold we was shot dead at the hands of a 15yearold. These shootings happened in or around the pat baker park area. The city of reno is looking to add more lights and security cameras and Community Action officers to patrol the area. Eventually it will invest about 450,000 into this park. Designated officer for the area which helped decrease crime. But when the economy took a downturn that position was eliminated and crime ticked back up. But he says the city has recruited 16 new Police Officers, the first tim
Solar city has moved out of the state, i do not blame solar city, they had 18 states, that they cano energyith. Its not going to affect them that much. But it sure does affect the people that i encouraged to get solar. Reporter now, the Public Utilities commission was asked to issue a stay on that rate change, that went into effect the first of this year. And basically, that would just press the pause button so they could go back and reevaluate their decision and the rate change. But late this afternoon, and after hearing all of the testimony, the three member panel voted unanimously to deny that stay. Reporting live in carson city, im terry hendry, ill send it back to you guys. So much frustration over this issue, thanks. That brings us to the my news 4. Com web poll question, do you think that the puc should have reversed the rate change . There is time to vote and u will find the web pole on my news 4. Com. A 7day forecast is a busy one, we arent getting my breaks from the precipita
Warm for this time of year. Santa clara into the 60s and low 70s. Low 70s on superboy sunday includingsuper bowl sunday including at game time. Back here not that warm but still mild into the weekend. 40s today and 50s for the weekend heading into the 60s by the middle of next week in reno sparks. Partly cloudy skies 5 Miles Per Hour winds and 62 humidity. Coming up on the seven day no precipitation chances and a quiet seven day to show you coming up. Okay thank you. No secret that schools are over crowded and need a lot of repairs. This means the community could get. Tells us what this means for you the tax payer. Washoe County School Officials Say they are in the midst of a perfect storm. Not enough funding. Estimating 81 million over nine years needed to keep up with population growth estimated 1500 students by 2019. More than 200 temporary portable classrooms are being used but its a more serious problem. Either we are going to repair existing buildings or we need to go double sess