Remain a few degrees above seasonal averages on tuesday before increasing well above average into the start of the weekend. The next chance for light precipitation will be saturday. Republican president ial hopeful donald trump is waking up a winner. Trump claimed a big victory in the nevada caucuses on the same night the democratic contenders hit the stage for a town hall in South Carolina. As abc s Kenneth Moton reports the race is heating up with less than a week to go script this morning, donald trump . On a winning streak after another decisive victory . This time nevada. Sot donald trump we love nevada, we love nevada love for trump but that anger at washington and a strong desire for an outsider gave the over his rivals. Sot trump of course if you listen to the pundits we werent expected to win too much and now were winning, winning the country. Its a fight for second between republican establishment favorite marco rubio and iowa caucus winner ted cruz. Sot ted cruz the only cam
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
He served as a Federal District court judge. He was nominated by george w. Bush and confirmed by the senate. He stepped down in 2009 to run for nevada governor. Nevadas Senate Minority leader nomination. I dont pick the justices, but i know if he were picked, i hes a good person. He has a great record and hes been a tremendously good governor having to deal with big problems there. Now, news 4 did reach out to sandoval spokesperson today. She gave usle following statement. Neither the governor no, sir his staff has been contacted by the Obama Administration regarding any potential vetting for the vacancy on the u. S. Supreme court. Senator reed is endorsing Hillary Clinton for the democratic president ial nomination in the same photograph where he endorsed sandoval. Someone who understands the issues of the people. I think the middle class would be better served by hillary. I think that my work with her over the years has been something that i have looked upon with awe. Reed added that
It is so nice right now as were heading into march. Open for a miracle march for skiing and snowboarding. Not bad weather. Our meteorologist joins us with more on that. Hey, tim. Youre not alone wishing for a miracle march. A lot of us want to see more snow before all is said and done. Things are not looking good as far as that is concerned. They are looking good for Outdoor Activities when you went to get out there and enjoy it. 65 the high in renosparks today. Well above average. Winds are light across the area for the day today. The temperature trend over the next few days, nothing but warm. Average high is 54. Were going well above that average, even to the upper 60s for thursday and friday. When we come back, by saturday, down to 61. That is still well above that we have partly sunny across the area. 54 in town so far. That incidentally happens to be the average high for todays date. Were going to keep warming up for the next few hours. 57 in carson city. 57 in fernley. 7day forec
Good morning thank you for joining us for here on mornings on fox 11, it is 7 00. We made it through the gop caucus that happened yesterday, donald trump coming out on top, he was projected to win but a very close race when it came to second and third. Yeah, trump rubio and cruz about a 20 point spread there with trump having a huge commanding lead and if you talked to anybody, went to the Republican Caucus last night there was a pretty good turn out. We dont have the final numbers sounded like a lot of the places were busy, people waiting a couple hours to put in their votes. Were getting some excitability on the republican side of things for here for sure and a huge train following donald trump. I know were saying it over and over again, the facts dont lie he is making points. Were now 6 days away from super tuesday, well be checking in with alex on that for now lets send things over to Tim Studebaker to look at your forecast. Next several days mostly sunny to partly cloudy skies, by