Transcripts For KRNV News 4 At Four 20160127

We have a nice week ahead. Weve got one more day. Can i get a high five for today . I thought it was pretty nice. Gorgeous son and you in the mountains. Now well start to see some change. We may see a few high clouds rolling through. First we start off with a sunset from our heavenly camera. How nice is that . More snow on the way, at least another foot through sunday, maybe more. Doppler radar is quite right now, high clouds are going to string on in but the storm is waiting for us. But it is still way up sure. You can see it building. That is a whopper. Its going to start offering at around 8000 feet. Thats where the snow level will be, then the snow level will drop to around 4000 feet or lower by sunday. Its going to be an interesting saturday and sunday. Temperatures right now, upper 40s. This morning, most locations were below freezing. And, here is your planner for tonight. Midforties, upper 30s by 8 00 and on close to freezing by 11 00. Bundle up if you have plans outside tonight. 7day forecast coming up. New information this afternoon in an officer involved shooting near the meadowood mall. News 4s terri hendry joins us with the latest. They released the identity of thats right. We know his name now but not much else about him. In a Late Afternoon news conference, Sparks Police identified the man killed as 38 yearold Sergio Alvarado morales. But, we dont know where he is from, and we dont know anything about his background. We are learning a little bit more about how all of this unfolded. Authorities say it started with a traffic accident, involving four or five vehicles. They say Sergio Alvarado morales was an accident, they also confirm his armed with a knife and threatening to harm himself. They say one officer tried to subdue him using a taser but that was not successful. Investigators say thats when a scuffle led to the officers turning deadly. Now police need your help to fill in a lot of those planes and what led up to all of this. We believe that there is the hour traffic just after 5 00 p. M. On south mccarran near smithwick, we believe there may be somebody out there who saw something before the crash occurred. Reporter if you have information, you can contact secret witness at 3224900 and remain anonymous. And were told some individuals involved in the accident were treated and released. None of the officers were harmed. They are not releasing the names of officers involved and will only say they are on routine Administration Leave pending the outcome of the investigation. Of course, i will have more coming up for you tonight at 5 00 and 6 00. Happening right now, the Washoe County School District board of trustees is deciding to the state of the rain shadow Charter Schools, considering whether to revoke its charter news 4s van tieu joins us now. Reporter the board of trustees came together and say they are not giving up on rain shadow. Of the money will be tight they will not break up the rain shadow family, as you know. This is a Charter School, alternative Charter School questions, and who are on track to graduate. They come here and to go on track, this will allow the school to operate through june 30 under the current contract, while moving had through its renewal process for the charter for the next school year. That deadline is in late february. Now initially, the attorneys for the School District recommended that the target be revoked, however the board of trustees said it was important to do what was best for the students. So, although this year the internal auditors believe that the school will finish only about 7500 in the school year, they say it is tight money, but you know, they are going to allow the school to operate. If the seniors will graduate together and the school will stability because they have had a lot of problems since 2012. But, some good news at least for now, the students this year, as rain shadow continues to keep them afloat. Reporting live at the Washoe County School District headquarters, van tieu, news 4. Western governors university, also known as wgu, is offering up to 24 right scholarships for people who wish to go back to school to become a teacher. The scholarship is geared to help combat the silver states teaching shortage. Winners must be a nevada resident will be awarded up to 12,000 to complete the wgu Teaching Program that allows individuals who already have a bachelors degree in on education related fields to get their teaching licenses. The leader of a henderson synagogue announced that she will run for the congressional seat being vacated by republican joe heck. Democrat jackie rosen an official run for the third including henderson and summerlin down in southern nevada. Several republicans announced plans to run for the seat including state Senate Majority leader michael roberson, danny tarkanian, Michelle Fiori and andy matthews. Democratic lawyer jesse has also announced plans to run in the district as well. Partnering with local businesses to help feed those the hungry feast event. More than 1500 people are expected to attend the event this evening with last years group giving away more than 1700 hot meals to Washoe County residents. The feast kicks off at 5 00 and runs until 7 00 tonight. Those interested in attending should head to the Reno Events Center downtown. Earlier today, more than 1000 men, women and children participating in the 2016 project homeless connect event. Coordinated by catholic the event offers Free Services such as medical care, social services, Mental Health services, veteran services and housing information. For those experiencing homelessness. The event offers services such exams. I could not imagine a better something that is really amazing and is completely unexpected. And so thats a lot of things we dont have to worry about, now. This is the eighth year of the project homeless connect. As officials say, it has become a organized effort to coordinate services and processes to people dealing with poverty and homelessness. After the 1986 Challenger Mission exploded, the families of crew members wanted to dedicate education to that mission. And for the 30th anniversary, the first challenger learning doors. News 4s emily shows us how she went to mars. Reporter as 30 years passed after the Challenger Mission in an inspiration for the future. Challenger Learning Center is officially here. It allows students to become astronauts and scientists on a real nasabased missions to the moon, mars and beyond. So, it relates to the future college and career experiences in a very exciting and dynamic and interactive way. Reporter the center is at Sparks High School where students of all ages from all over the area can come and learn about space travel. Until recently, the closest challenger Learning Center was in sacramento. Now students can enjoy it right in their backyard. It may be sixthgrade class or high school class. It may be boy scouts, girl scouts, it could even be a teambuilding. Reporter mcfarland says there is no better way to team build them by trusting each accomplish the mission. This is the flight directors station at Mission Control where students can communicate with estimates on the emily, how is it going over there . Reporter on great. We are experiencing performances on the spacecraft heading to mars. The mission takes place in the future, year 2076, but is based on realworld science and was created by the leading nasa scientist alive today. Students analyze and interpret data to solve problems while the spacecraft is in flight. I think they have a very positive experience with science in a way that they dont always get in a classroom , sometimes they read a little bit, or they hear a little bit. But this time, they get to do science. Reporter today, there are more than 45 challenger Learning Centers around the globe. It took eight years to finally bring one to the silver state. Over the last 30 years we have been able to reach over 4. 4 million students. Now the exciting news is we are able to reach students right here in nevada which is a state that is six siding and heading to space in many different ways. Reporter in sparks, emily pacillo, news 4. That is great stuff. The center is not limited to students in the region. You can head over to www. Mynews4. Com to find out how Public Mission will take place. Coming up next, a Popular Airline is redesigning their aircraft so they are more modern and spacious. We will show you who that is and what they plan to do. And coming up after the break, i will sit down with Sergeant Lisa perault to discuss this months probation get ready welcome back, everyone. Ford is recalling thousands of ranger pickup trucks due to faulty airbags. The company says airbags installed in 2004 through 2006 rangers can explode with too much force and cause injury. The recall covers nearly 391,000 trucks in the United States and canada. Ford says it will send letters to owners about recalls starting late february. Trucks are included by going to www. Ford. Com and clicking on safety recalls. Jetblue officials want their planes to be more entertaining, modern and spacious. Officials say they will redesign all 130 of its airbus a320 airplanes. They plan to include in seat power outlets turning each seat into a charging station. There will also be free wifi which passengers will be able to use before the plane reaches 10,000 feet. Jetblue plans to start remodeling the a320 planes in 2017 and finish by 2019. Owners of go pro action cameras can now lifestream video to the world on periscope. The small cameras are a favorite with adventure seekers and videographers of all kinds. To make it work with periscope, a go pro hero 4 camera first links to an iphone to wifi. The newest version of periscope now allows users to select the go pro signal and stream alive. And has about 10 million users. With tax season upon us, you might not be the only person filing your individual taxes. Textron is on the rise. Some thieves are trying to get your refund before you do. With a little bit of information required, you might get your information stolen. We explain what these look for and how to protect yourself coming up tonight on news 4 at 6 00. Time now for our my news 4 web will question. We want to know, have you started filing your taxes, yet . Or started the process . There is still plenty of time to vote. Find web poll on our Facebook Page. We will have results throughout the newscast tonight. All right, Collin Jackson is over in the Weather Center with details on a storm that is going to be moving in for the weekend but giving even more snow to the upper elevations. The trick will be when does it start to snow . For now, we are going with late saturday in the tahoe area with a very high snow level and dropping off. Were live at boreal from the internet, heavy snow on the way saturday and even a piece of sunday. The satellite picture is pretty quiet. Future clouds and greater coming up soon. We will take you to that timeframe to show you what we think will happen. This is a pretty good storm. A lot of moisture with that and rain and snow totals, its a little too far to get accurate about that but it will rain and snow and theres a chance of flurries on the valley floor on sunday morning. But remember last weekend . That did not really happen. This storm is a little stronger. The cold air is right there. And its, you know, the brunt of the moisture comes from hawaii but is grabbing air out of the gulf of alaska as we speak. 50 was the high today, 47 is the average. We were at 26 this morning and that was called. Right now we are at 48 in the light breeze. It will be a nice night and overnight lows will be similar. Right now, carson city 45. Not that cold and truckee, 50 out in turn. These numbers are nice. 42 at the south lakeside. Everything quiet for now, passing clouds tonight and partly cloudy to mostly cloudy day late in the day wednesday. And then things change. Here is our future clouds and radar map. Have a mixed bag of clouds tomorrow, not as funny as it was today but still a nice day. And it wont last completely all day, you will see the sun as well. At we advance through thursday and friday late, this model takes us through friday morning and shows a chance of rain just on the outskirts of town and has not turned to snow until we think late saturday into sunday. Tonight, we drop up to 29. It will be around 30 when you are dealing with the kids at 7 00 and 8 00. Tomorrow, we get to 55. Mostly sunny to partly cloudy. That is above average for this time of year and a light breeze out of the southeast at around 5 to 10 miles per hour. 35, the high. These numbers are called, right 19 up at mcdermott near the oregon border, and highs in the mid to upper 30s. Fallon drops off into the mid 20s, most numbers, down to 15, in the 50s for most of it some places only up to the 40s. How about places like carson mid20s, just like this morning. 50s as well. Lots of sun, and increasing clouds late in the day. Here we go, near lake tahoe. How about this . Truckee down to 19. Kings beach below freezing. Even southlake, 15. How about up north . Susanville, 28 and portola, 53. Springs alsoran 53 degrees for the high. A little warmer as we start to get warm air in here before it cools off into the weekend. 52 at sun valley, Golden Valley overnight lows below freezing for most if not everybody on that map. Here are the 7day numbers, late carson city, late p. M. More rain, help a chance and sunday, a rain and snow mixed, south lake tahoe, it will snow starting on saturday and for reno sparks, rain late friday, saturday and sunday, its going to be interesting again, for the second weekend in a row. Joe, taken away. We are joined this action by the probations Sergeant Lisa perault. Thanks for coming in with your most wanted. You guys are looking for mister velasco. His last offense was in 2015, a stabbing reported and Police Responded and found he had used a knife , cut his victims face and stabbed him in the abdomen. He was convicted of battery with substantial bodily harm, got probation, and then in november, he stopped reporting Transitional Living facility where he was staying. Now his whereabouts are unknown. You have been looking for him since november, then. Yes, we have. Do have reason to believe he is in the area . We do believe he is in the area and would not feature them otherwise. Were hoping the public can help us find him. Obviously he is a violent guy and have some concerns that way, right . We do. He has got a history of other convictions involving violence. Hes also got Mental Health issues and Substance Abuse issues. He is considered dangerous and we would like for the public to call us or any Law Enforcement to contact him rather than personally contacting him. Will put that number up on the screen so people can see the number to call. Who is it that usually makes phone calls when he get tips . Is it usually family and friends connected to these people or people who just see him . Hard to say . Sometimes its from public, able in the public to recognize the photo, but sometimes it is family who know that maybe someone is on the drug run or they are up to no good and they know that better place for them would be in custody so they can get it together. It comes from all over. Do you want to tell us the number to call . 6842644. Okay, if you see mister velasco, keep your eyes out. Dont approach and cooperative apprehend him. Youve had a pretty good track record. Weve had good luck with stores we profiled here with you guys getting tips, what . Yes. The subject here to sex offender, daniel more, our target in december, was picked up january 8. Their successful and we are glad for it. Lisa, thanks for coming in. We will talk to next month. Shelby, back over to you. Here is a quick look at todays numbers from wall stay with us. Time now for our news 4 web poll question. We want to know tonight have you started your tax filing process, yet . Heres a look at the early results. 40 of you say, yes, you are on it. 60 say no, not quite yet. Theres still plenty of time to vote. Will find the web poll on our Facebook Page and also update the results on the newscast tonight. We also want to know, do you think nevadas existing solar customers should get grandfathered rates . 82 of you say yes, 18 say no. Coming up in 30 minutes on news 4 at 5 00, the founder of the group who videotaped planned parenthood executives talking that they depart maintains his innocence. This comes as two people are indicted for videotaping the conversations. He will have whats next for them coming up tonight at 5 00. Tonight at 6 00 the state department want to delay the release of the last batch of month until after the primaries in iowa and new hampshire. Can caucus voters make an informed choice without the rest of the emails . We have the latest on that coming up tonight at 6 00. All right, colin is back for a final check on the forecast and still like to talk about. Its nice for now. Today was 50, thats okay. Tomorrow will be about the same. Than the changes arrive just like the last weekend. Saturday, and sunday. Now, some places got a dusting sunday morning but it melted quickly. This weekend, it may stick around a little longer sunday morning. Be prepared. It will be a little colder. Interesting travel plans ahead for the weekend, again. Are you seeing the patterns around here . You know, im driving around and see something new everyday. So its great. Good to have you. Thats it for us for news 4 at 4 00. Thanks for tuning in this afternoon. Announcer for an unlucky