priority at this time.)) ((vanessa murphy)) the department said this was a technology issue....which workers tried to figure out....after the communications center started experiencing problems with 911 and 311 calls around 3:30 this afternoon. after that - a notice went out from the department.... saying again, there could be a delay for 9-1-1 calls....and asking the public not to call 3-1- 1....because officers would only be responding to true emergencies. metro was routing calls to north las vegas and henderson....and the department says metro employees were there to deal with those calls. ((vanessa murphy)) but again - tonight - 9-1-1 back up and running according to the department...wit h no delays.... but the department will try to figure out how and why this happened.... and a media briefing is expected over the next few days to help explain this. reporting live, vanessa murphy 8 news now./// ((denise valdez)) vanessa, how center and did police offer any advice in case this happens again? ((vanessa murphy)) a metro spokesman told us the average is 300 calls a day.... and about 1.2 million each year. again, metro's advice... if this happens -- only call 9-1-1 in a true emergency and hope you get through quickly. back to you./// ((dave courvoisier)) > we are learning new details tonight of the plan to outsource valet workers at mgm properties on the strip. the resort company called an emergency meeting this afternoon with employees...to go over this deal...and many of the workers say they are upset and understandably worried about their future. patranya bhoolsuwan joins us live with their reaction... and what these changes could also mean for guests of mgm. patranya? ((patranya bhoolsuwan)) we've been telling you how free parking at mgm properties was going to be eliminated soon ...and tonight we are learning how the valet service will also it starts with hundreds of workers being contracted out to a brand new company. no m-g-m valet workers we reached out to about this story... were willing to go on camera...due to fear of losing their job. but one who agreed to talk to us by phone...says that could soon happen anyway. ((mgm valet worker: 'it's a definite possibility a lot of fellow employees are already looking to transfer with other positions in the company so they can stay with mgm.")) this man says he had worked as a valet for an mgm property for 10 years and was shocked to hear the resort company decided to outsource some 400 current valet employees to a company called "s-p plus" based out of chicago. ((mgm valet worker: "it's going to impact a lot of people not only employees but also guests.")) according to mgm officials, employees were told at tuesday's meeting that s-p plus will retain all of the workers and match their mgm pay, benefits and even seniority the deal will affect valets at 9 different properties starting as early as april this coincides with when the resort company plans to start charging for both self parking and valet. the valet worker we talked to on the phone say when that happens... valeting your car could run up to 15 to 20 dollars per night, and that could slash what he earns in tips by half. ((mgm valet worker: "people have house payments, car payments, they have children...")) he says he and other workers are now considering other jobs in the company or leave altogether...no t trusting what their new bosses could do in the future. ((mgm valet worker: "it's a sad state of thing for mgm to go this way and who knows who will follow suit and what will happen.")) > ((patranya bhoolsuwan)) right now valet at 3 mgm properties, circus circus, excalibur, and luxor not affected because they as for the other workers, the transition to the new company is expected to happen in the next 60 days. reporting live, patranya bhoolsuwan 8 news now. ((dave courvoisier)) did mgm say why they are are even switching to this new company in the first place? ((patranya bhoolsuwan)) when i talked to an mgm official earlier today, who would not go on camera...he says with them implementing a fee-based parking strategy at their properties...the y need an expert in this field to help run the operation. another valet i talked to today did not buy this explanation, saying this deal would somehow benefit m-g-m and the workers in turn have nothing to gain.// ((denise valdez)) > several tornadoes were spotted in the southeast tonight... including some powerful ones in alabama. tedd florendo is here with a look at the damage and your most accurate weather now. the same storm is bringing heavy snow and blizzards in the upper plains and great lakes... but first a look at these tornadoes. this is video from pickens county, alabama. the twister started in mississippi before crossing the state line. there were several reports of downed trees and utility poles. in aliceville, alabama... police say a federal corrections institute and many homes experienced damage. some injuries have been reported as well. much of the region is under a tornado watch through the night./// ((tedd florendo)) >hard freeze warnings go into effect tonight. we have clear skies and calmer winds and believe it or not, that actually makes if feel colder. those areas with hard freeze warnings could see temps dropping between 17 to 22 degrees by morning. with those temps it's recommended to wrap the pipes or at least keep them slowly also bring in the pets. ............................... .......................... morning temps in the valley expected to drop to below freezing for many neighborhoods. even some 20's expected again in the outlyingareas of the valley. no hard freeze warnings here, but nonetheless it's going to be a cold morning again. ............................... ........................... regional temps also stay cold from pahrump where the freeze kingman. cold down the colorado river valley as well. and subzero temps expected up in state. ............................... ....................... here's your evening planner. not a lot of cloud cover, but it will certainly be cold. going from the low 40's to 30's as easrly at 8 p-m. cold by 11 for our newscast under clear to mostly clear skies. a new development tonight in the standoff between states' rights advocates and the federal vernment.a blog post on the bundy ranch web page... calls for action from the pacific patriots network. the post states a condemnation of the harney county, oregon sheriff's department and the f-b-i in the shooting death of protester lavoy finicum. it also takes issue with what it calls violent arrests of the author urges any and all americans to go to burns, oregon to stand against the federal government. they're demanding that the law enforcement officers involved in last week's arrests of the militia members be thrown in jail... f-b-i personnel be removed from harney county... and the sheriff, two county commissioners, and a judge should resign. this evening the judge said he won't step down and that their petition isn't even valid. the blog post says that this is a peaceful mission. according to the post, anyone who joins needs to bring enough supplies to be self sufficient. yesterday, cliven bundy issued a letter with similar demands. we reached out for comment, but were told he was too busy to do an interview./// ((denise valdez)) > metro has denied our freedom of information act request to see footage shot from an officer's body- worn camera in a january 2015 incident. a signed letter from sheriff joe lombardo says the footage from former officer richard scavone's camera is not a public record the letter further states that it is evidence in an open criminal case and not subject to disclosure pending release in open court or other action in the criminal case. lombardo's letter states the donrey of nevada versus bradshaw case from 1990 as precedent. the digital media law project, an organization that works to ensure digital media have access to legal resources, writes on its website that the test was intended to be applied very narrowly to criminal investigative records, but is often cited in refusals to comply with records requests. scavone was fired by metro in september... and indicted by a grand jury in january for allegedly roughing up a suspected prostitute. the u-s attorney's office is prosecuting the case and told us they would not prevent metro from releasing the video./// ((dave courvoisier)) > all-new tonight... los angeles prosecutors have filed criminal charges against the southern nevada gas company for delayed reporting of that massive methane gas leak. the leak has been out of control a criminal complaint filed today charges the company with four misdemeanor counts. if convicted, it could be fined up to 25- thousand dollars for each of the three days it didn't notify the state of the leak... along with one-thousand dollars per day for air pollution violations./// ((dave courvoisier)) > also new tonight... michigan's governor will propose 30- million dollars in state funding to help pay the water bills of flint residents. the city's water supply is contaminated with lead after a switch was made to a new source. lawmakers will have to approve the plan./// ((denise valdez)) > metro has released pictures of a man who they say robbed a bank on saturday. and they got a pretty good look at him -- see if he looks familiar. police say the robbery happened near village center circle and summerlin parkway. no one was hurt in the robbery, and the suspect made off with an undisclosed amount of cash. police say he's white or hispanic -- about 30 years old and 180 pounds. if you have any information... call crime stoppers./// enforcement has taken several pounds of drugs off the streets of bullhead city... after a search warrant turned up three pounds of meth. narcotics detectives executed a traffic stop of 36 year-old nicole parker and say they found meth, heroin, and drug paraphernalia. a search warrant at a house resulted in the seizure of 130-thousand dollars worth of meth and the arrest of 52 year-old catherine hart. both of them face multiple charges./// ((dave courvoisier)) > a disaster for the democratic party... the problems with precincts in iowa that have bernie sanders' supporters crying foul tonight... the latest from the campaign trail. plus: (("two las vegas athletes talking about that new stadium, possibly the nfl, that's coming up on 8 news now at 11." )) < news music voice over: "you're congress doesn't regulate wall street... wall street regulates congress. it's a rigged economy that sends most new wealth to the top 1%. and it's held in place by a corrupt political system where wall street banks and billionaires buy elections. my campaign is funded by over two and a half million small contributions. people who know you can't level the playing field by taking more money from wall street. has a mess on their hands tonight... after one of the closest caucuses in history. votes from one precinct were still missing this morning and democrats scrambled to find party officials so they could report their tally. bernie sanders won that contest by two delegates over hillary clinton... making her close lead even more narrow. six ties in democratic caucuses were settled by coin flips -- clinton won all six. now, sanders supporters are calling for state party officials to release the raw vote totals: (( bernie sanders supporter: "we do have reason to believe that where things weren't reported quite accurately or accidentally numbers were flipped and things like that. we just want to make sure that everything is absolutely accurate, especially when we're talking about two-tenths of a percentage point. )) ((denise valdez)) the iowa democratic party has taken some heat today for having a tie-break process decided by a coin flip. as of tonight, clinton secured 23 delegates from iowa to sanders' 21. the republican party also had an embarrassing result in the 20-12 iowa caucus. eventual nominee mitt romney was initially declared the winner... but after a recount former senator rick santorum was found to be the actual winner./// ((denise valdez)) > meanwhile, clinton and sanders are already moving on to new hampshire ahead of next week's primary. sanders has a 19-point lead in polling. new hampshire borders sanders' home state of vermont./// ((dave courvoisier)) > senator ted cruz is riding high a day after his big victory in iowa. cruz told supporters in south carolina that he will take power out of washington and give it back to the people. with cruz, though. a cruz staffer falsely told iowans that doctor ben carson planned to quit the race and today carson said that staffer should be fired. donald trump hurled more insults at cruz today... and the third-place finisher in the republican race says he's positioned as the party's best bet come november: (( donald trump/(r) presidential candidate: "he insulted the people of iowa by doing a voter violation form that nobody's even seen before, which was disgraceful." sen. marco rubio / (r) florida presidential candidate: i think i give us the best chance not just to unify the party, which is important, you can't win if this party is divided, but also to grow it." )) ((dave courvoisier)) pre-iowa polling showed trump leading cruz by 24 points in new hampshire./// ((dave courvoisier)) > republicans and democrats both added about seven- thousand new voters to their rolls here in nevada from december to january. there are now more than 471- thousand registered democrats in the states... about 39- percent... and 423- thousand registered republicans... about 35- percent. voters must register with either participate in the respective caucus later this month. 8 news now is your local election headquarters... we've posted voting information at las vegas now dot com./// "from 8 news now, this is your most accurate weather now with tedd florendo." ((tedd florendo)) < >fewer clouds today and staying chilly this afternoon. expect cold conditions again overnight though with temps near freezing. winds still a slight breeze out there but not windy. we're slightly cooler than yesterday at this time. we're looking right around the same temps we had this morning. ............. afternoon temps in the mid to high 40's today. certainly below average for this time of year. east part of town and cold up in kyle canyon in the 20's later in the day. ............ tonopah. chilly for pahrump and mesquite. 50's this afternoon for laughlin and death valley. cold up in reno as well. ............................... ........... looking at the national forecast we have snow from the same system that brought us the rain this weekend. snow stretching now from omaha all the up to the great lakes. at the same time, it's frontal boundary is picking up gulf moisture from the gulf of mexico and bringing severe weather in the southeast. ............................... ............ these tornado watches stretch from mississippi allthe way up to kentucky. but we'll have to watch the ohio valley and georgia as these severe storms keep pushing east this evening. ............................... ............. clouds overhead and could see more clearer skies over night. out the pacific there is another system but it stays to the north, bringing snow to ely on thursday, but we'll just get ouds............................ ................night expect a low of 31 andld.ar freezing temps and windss than 10 mpand mostlyear.tomorrow 50 for the high sunny and cool. 10 grees below normal and ............... neighborhood temps in the 50's tomorrow all over town with some 40's for centennial hills and anthem. cold up in kyle canyon near freezing by afternoon. ............................... ................. extended forecast shows a gradual warning trend after tomorrow. plenty of sunshine this week with warmer temps where we want them. this weekend. superbwol sunday above average and mild next week as well ron futrell in for chris maathuis tonight ((dave courvoisier)) we get closer to sunday's kickoff for super bowl 50 ((ron futrell)) yes --- chris is live from san he'll have the latest on a possible move by the raiders to las vegas and the rebels tonight against new mexico --- going for a win without big ben tonight. sports is next. "from 8 news now, this is switch to centurylink prism tv, and get the same great channels cable gives you, without having to deal with cable. yes and? and...there's whole home dvr. plus tons of on demand options so you can watch whatever, whenever. yes and? why do you guys keep saying that? it's the first rule of improv. by saying "yes and," we accept the reality created by our comedy partners, paul. yes, right, i know. do you? feel like a hollywood insider ((ron futrell)) > it's an exciting time for las vegas and the nfl... two of our homegrown talents are playing in super bowl 50... and the oakland raiders are exploring a deal to make vegas their new home. so naturally, chris maathuis wanted to get reaction... from where else? super bowl francisco. hi, chris! ((chris maathuis)) ((brandon marshall/broncos lb: it'll be a lot of scrutiny with marshall/broncos lb: it'll be a lot of scrutiny with all the gambling and everything like that. its always a blessing i think everybody wants to play in their home town. like tj ward, tj anderson they're so happy to get to play here in the super bowl it's amazing so i would love to play there in vegas ben think of coming from vegas there's lots of distractions in vegas with everything to do and if you're going to have a team in vegas they'd better be good and just from when i was a kid there watching everyone, i know its aaa baseball from that yo rebel football its hard to sell out those stadiums. maybe im wrong, maybe people will be super pumped about it. and they'd go out and they'd be excited to have an nfl team it would definitely be different from the vegas i know. )) plenty of fans watching rebel watching rebel basketball on the big screens at super bowl city --- and we talked to some of them. there's so many things that goes on here all year lone but this is great, the lights, the city the bridge and good peple everywhere, it's awsome its awsome to be in san francisco welcome to the super bowl wooooooo! )) ((chris maathuis)) on the road tonight at new mexico ---- of course, playing without forward ben carter --- out for the season with a torn acl always a tough place to play in the pit in albuquerque -- now its wise pies arena --- a pizza place in albuquerque right off the opening tip --- the lobos send a message --- the alley oop to their big man. steven zimmerman junior slick move inside for the freshman out of bishop gorman. 15 first half points for zimmerman todd simon --- 4 and 2 as rebels interim coach --- end of the first half ---patrick mccaw hits the three at the buzzer --- 47-43 new mexico at halftime. now, less than 2 minutes left --- tie game and tim williams drives and scores --- zimmerman --- in foul trouble ---- couldn't stop him, didn't stop him. rebels counter with jordan cornish hitting the three to tie drives --- scores 29 points to lead all scorers. 87-83 new mexico wins ---- rebels play at fresno on saturday. right after this./> uber changed their well-known logo today. the new look features a "bit"... while the driver app features an "atom." it's part of a new philosophy of being a company that - quote- "exists in the place where bits and atoms come together." uber will use the simplified logo to make it easier to add products... such as deliveries... without confusing its core ride- sharing service./// ((dave courvoisier)) > that's all for us live at eleven. ((denise valdez)) the late show you know the basic bargain of america is if you work hard, and you do your part, you should be able to get ead and stay ahead. but so many families don't feel like their hard work pays off. that's not the way america is supposed to operate. i want to go to bat for them every single day. get equal pay for women... cut the cost of health care and child care so people can actually get ahead. hillary clinton, she has what it takes to get things done. i'm hillary clinton and i approve this message.