In the room tax is on the line to pay for 750Million Dollars worth of the nfl stadium. And 1. 4 billion dollars to expand the convention center. Casino execs made the pitch today. Asking lawmakers to pass it. But lawmakers didnt get the bill until yesterday. And they are asking a lot of questions. The big takeaway today from the senate. At this point. There are still a lot of reservations. st. Sen. Patricia farley r las vegas i want to make sure that again, theyre good jobs, its got a good wage, t economy, so that were not falling victim to tourism again. St. Sen. Aaron ford d las vegas i mean at the end of the day we have to ask a lot of questions and be able to get some answers, theres a deep divide, a deep split on these issues. St. Sen. Ruben kihuen D North Las Vegas we have students who are sitting on the ground, students who are in portables, why dont we invest this money in our education system, why dont we build new schools . Thats going to put people back to work. Patrick Walk
Infrastructure committee, its addressing tourism as a whole, and as a question, and the more we delay, the more issues we have. Patrick Walker county Commission Chair steve sisolak. Who sat on the Southern Nevada Tourism Infrastructure committee. Says the looming theat of terrorism is a reason hell push for the tax increase if its passed and sent back to the commission. Sheriff lombardo says hes also wanting more officers because of a 14 percent increase in Violent Crime over last year. Patrick Walker this is a onetenth of a percent increase in sales tax in clark county. Additional 31 Million Dollars for Clark County Police agencies. While the assembly has been tackling this issue. The stadium and the Convention Center are in front of state senators. Let me bring Chris Maathius into the conversation. And chris. Chris Maathuis one of the big Early Morning topics with the stadium proposal, centered on unlv and with the rebels be protected should the with the raiders a Reasonable Rent app
Football field to this Centennial Hills innout. Students kicked at innout employees. Students from both schools hit and punched one another. I think they took it way too far. One person fought someone else. That would have been okay. It was way too much. Reporter centennial high senior george still cant believe what happened. Metro police say the brawl got so violent, a girl had to be transpor themselves for emergency care. Arbor view senior says this fight is a black eye for his school. I think it was a bad representation for the school. The people are wearing our colors and gear. I just think it shouldnt have went down. Reporter metro police are looking for the aggressors who started the brawl. Its still not clear what started the fight. He says the innout employee getting hit was just trying to this one girl was getting jumped and he was trying to help her out and ended up getting beat up, too. Reporter the culprits could be looking at serious charges. Palo says its a shame this hap
Tommy gaitano. What they did in there. What what they did in there is pass a tax, raiders will pitch in 500 million and cell that sends a bad precedent. Convention Center Expansion will bring in business and more tax revenue. Back to tommy. Turns out his union guys who camped out here carried the day in the senate. Unemployment in some trades is 80 they said. That stuck with democratic leader senator aaron forward. Feeling i said no. We are hoping on account of 14 votes. We got 16 votes we think that is exciting. It could be dramatic as 42 other people get to way in. In carson city, jeff gillan, news3. Thank you jeff. Jeff will stay in carson city until everything is wrapped up. News3lv. Com. He was stabbed while showing a property to a local buyer. Now this Real Estate Agent is in the hospital and his attacker is behind bars. Heres more. Well marie theyre both Real Estate Agents and we spoke to the victims wife. She wanted to speak out in part, because she wants to send a or could end
All over there. I was following you on social media throughout the special session when the word came down last night 16five vote. What are we expecting to happen moving forward. Reporter well its going be a busy next two days. Welcome to the halftime report. Because i am coming to you from the chamber where all of the action is moving to. You are looking at the state assembly. Ill get to that in just a second. Were on hold here. This is empty behind me. Wer for the yom kippur holiday. The big action as you know happened yesterday in the state senate. It passed that stadium bill on a 16five vote. The bill raises the room tax to build an nfl stadium and expand the convention center. Its the most controversial measure up here at the capitol because it raises taxes which critics say could be spent on other things. I talked with republican paul anderson. He is the majority leader here my goal is to be done tomorrow. So were going to work that thing hard. Were going to make sure that we vet