Coming up, tomorrow night ross park will read from his new novel, who are you, thomas bledsoe. Stephen kinzer will present a history of the cia. We also have some other events next weekend tickets are available for mondays conversation and another talk on wednesday. Tonight we welcome gary marcus, author of rebooting ai building Artificial Intelligence we can trust which argues a computer being a human in jeopardy does not signal we are on the doorstep of solely Autonomous Cars or super intelligent machines. Taking inspiration from the human mind, the book explains if we need to advance Artificial Intelligence to the next level, suggests that if we are wise along the way we will not need to worry about a future of machine overlords. Finally a book that tells us what ai is, what it is not and what a i could become if only we are ambitious and creative enough. A deeply informed account. Gary marcus is founder and ceo of robert robots. A ing metric intelligence and published in journals i
Robberies. brian loftus and. We could be off to a wet start this week. Sherry is watching the radar. To see if thunderstorms will rock your neighborhood. Michelle Mortensen 8 news now good day, the valleys news leader, starts right now. now, live. This is 8 news now good day. brian loftus thanks for waking up with us on 8 news now good day, the marcos arenas. Michelle. For the family of marcos arenas. And we learned more information overnight about another high profile case. 27 year old shane ross is due in court wednesday. Accused of a string of armed robberies. Metro says ross would park his motorcycle outside a store. And rob its employees at gunpoint. 8 news now was the first to break the news. That he is the son of las vegas mayor pro tem steve ross. The family says shane has struggled with addiction, and are urging him to cooperate with police. Ask the sheriff questions from the viewers in our morning cup of joe segment in the 6am hour. To submit a question. Just go to las vegas
Todays scrimmage. There is still no clear cut starter at quarterback. Both Kurt Palendech and Johnny Staton had their moments. But also made critical mistakes at important times. You could sense their frustration. Average is no longer acceptable at unlv. Johnny Stanton quarterback we didnt have any wow factors today. Had some strong drive and didnt finish. I had a pick in the end zone, had a strong drive, but those first two werent good. Kurt palandech qb we had a couple of screwups and i take responsibility for that when im in there. Weve got to make the most of our opportunities. Mcaleenan linebacker; i think everybody is more familiar with everything. Which means were getting more consistant. Tony sanchez coach; one side does good, the other side struggles then the opposite, offense had a long drive and a touchdown. You want give and take not one side dominating more then the other. Thats why scrimmage are kind of a funny thing especially for a head coach because you want to see the
Little we could see slight stray shower Storm Chances later, but they should be isolated for now. Well keep our eyes on the next week and late weekend where showers chances they return. Thats coming up those unions helped carry clinton to a nevada caucus win. Despite Bernie Sanders winning most of rural nevada back in february. The virginia senator also said nevada is one of a handfull of close states theyre fighting to win. Which he says is why the Clinton Campaign is spending so much time in the silver state. sen. Tim kaine d Vice President ial candidate you know how important nevada is, im not here by accident, nevada is really, really important cheers , really, really important. average of polls over the past 6 weeks Shows Hillary clinton with a 2point3 percent lead in nevada. Hillary clinton herself will be in the state later this week for the third time in five weeks. On top of a visit from her husband former president bill clinton a week and a half ago. Patrick Walker more on th
Reporter Shakala Alvaranga has details of the evidence against shane ross tonight. Shakala . Shakala Alvaranga paul and christianne, its a shocking revelation in this entire ordeal. Police believe shane ross is the man behind six other robberies in the area. Were told he was arrested without incident this morning. An elected officials son. The man accused of robbing several businesses on Spring Mountain and rainbow. Surprise. Even to shane ross own family. Police say he hit the krispy kreme and burger king restaurant today. They werent letting anyone in the parking lot at all. Police surrounded Jackpot Joanies near flamingo and durango. And arrested ross about an hour later. A couple of cop cars, they were just everywhere, they were all over. Ive never seen that many cops. Metro says ross would park his motorycle outside a store. And rob its employees at gunpoint. August 16th, all in the area of Spring Mountain, jones, rainbow area. We reached out to mayor pro tem steve ross today. In