I am Kyndell Nunley and starting with top story. Cuba is announcing the death of fidel castro. Rebellers hitting the streets across the world. And cuban americans in miami celebrated the death. These images you can see from moments ago. Definitely a lot of people out there. You can see in miami. Florida. Here in united states. And heading over to havana cuba. Hundreds of people also celebrating the death of the former communistea filled the streets and packed areas outside of a cuban restaurant in little havana. Rebellers carried flags and banged on pots and pans. Crowds chanting spanish word for freedom. Thousands of cubans flooded to miami during the 49 rule of the country. And president castro announced his brothers death on state tv friday night. He was 90 years old. All of my life. I am 34. Waiting all of my life for this moment. Castro has damaged a lot of cubans around the world. 11 million in the world. Without food and nothing to eat. They are going through struggles. And just Background Information on that. As you have heard. Critics called him a dictator. Out celebrating his death. No cause of death given for the leader of the 1950s cuban revolution. Bruce hall looks back on the life oth communist state 90 miles from u. S. Shores. For more than four decades fidel castro was antiamericanism personified. Through the cold war, dictator delighted in being a thorn in the side of u. S. President s. Fiddle castro revolution born in cuban, brilliant attacktion, and backed the dictator. The 33yearold revolutionary proclaimed his markist beliefs and forged close alliance with soviet union that would endure for remainder of the cold war. U. S. Struck back, spearheading 1961 invasion of the bay of pigs. Castro personally led the resistance and American Invasion failed miserably. Embarrassment for kennedy. Year later castro and soviets hosted nuclear crisis, after tense standoff, soviets relented and pulled missiles from cuba. And during the 70s and 80s castro used Financial Support america and africa. But as conditions worsened at home thousands flee the island risking their lives in a 90mile boat trip to united states. As soviet union collapsed so did cubas economy. With no subsidies he is forced to court hated capitalist asking businesses to invest in cuba. And as time passed castro began to show effects of age. In a stumble 2. Years later had intestine surgery and he turned over power to his brother raul. With Fidel Castros death cuba faces uncertain future. Bruce hall, nbc news. Anchor now, switching gears. News cleis your weather authority. Dana wagner is in. For jerry brown today. Big changes on the way but not until later this evening. Tonight, tomorrow. Right now pleasant morning. 41 degrees. Winds at 5 miles an hour. This number will change big time. This number will be going down. Current temperatures across the valley. On our network. 37 degrees in downtown las vegas. 38 at the base of Sunrise Mountain east side. Nellis 36. Barely above the freezing mark as we speak. Winds in the Single Digits right now. This afternoon, pleasant enough day today. To battle for fremont cannon out at the stadium at 1 00 this afternoon. Unlv hosting unr. 65 degrees. Sunshine. Winds are not an issue. But winds will be an issue. We will have a chance of rain and also talking about snow in the forecast. Tell you when. Coming up in a bit. Kyndell. Anchor thank you. Looking forward to that. News 3 is your Traffic Authority. The airport connector to know about it. Last weekend they did not finish, and it has one girder left to add. Steel bloom. On the flyover on 215. The reason why monday night eastbound 215 will be closed from 9 00 to 5 00 a. M. Tuesday. So you need to know this. Especially with visitors coming in to town. Or if you are visiting, welcome. But you will head to the airport. Stay with news 3, your Traffic Authority on air and online at news3lv. Com for latest airport connector project. And turning more serious. Woman twice be convicted of killing a homeless man is getting a new hearing in front of a judge, kristin labot tow said the man tried to sexually assault her and cut him in the groin. But body found across town behind a dumpster near the palms casino. The mans body was mutilated and she was found guilty. And appealed and new hearing is ordered. 137 Million People have lined up at stores and continue to flock to their computer screens across the nation. In search of bargains over the extended thanksgiving weekend. Experts say president ial campaign caused the stock market to rise and customers to open up wallets. Shopping Center Operators say 7e reporting sales that were equal to or better than last year. An local owners say saturday is what they are looking to. Today. Small business saturday. Fueling more customers locally without competing with big box stores. There is a human touch to it. My customers know all the people i stock and very family. Very different. Anchor all right. So head out the door there today. It is Small Business saturday. Definitely container park, i will be out there later this morning. Come out to join us. Coming up on news 3. Just ahead. In video vault. 30 years ago this month. The investigation into the skimming by the mob at the stardust was winding down tom hawley takes us back. Pop up style look back. . . Anchor these workers did not man how did they find the time . It was all caught on camera. Welcome back in. Good morning. About 6 10 on saturday. Big quake hits northwest of china. Shows chandeliers and people scrambling out of a restaurant. 6. 7 magnitude. Hit a sparsely populated area prone to seismic activity. Not many people there. Several homes collapsed and few people there, many more were damaged. One person found dead in a home that had actually caved in. And new details in the deadly bus crash that killed six tennessee children as they were on the way to school. Records show student weeks before the crash in chattanooga. Records included two written statements from students complaining about 71 than walkers driving. Claiming he drove so fast the student was afraid the bus would flip. Another wrote driver turned so quickly kids flew out of seats. Six other children voiced concerns of the safety on walkers bus. Another disturbing incident in chattanooga to talk about. Police say one person shot in the arm, another in the leg. Neither are life threatening. Officers say one of the victims is known gang member. They have one suspect in custody and are questioning another person. Anchor and switching gears now. Time for video vault. If you have ever seen the movie casino. You are tributed to a mobster skim. We are looking not at the midlevel mobsters that pulled it off in the actual property. Tom hawley takes us back 30 years to november of 1986. Reporter on friday these former Stardust Hotel executives were convicted of falsifying tax returns by not reporting the millions of dollars they pocketed from the casino. Casino managers had been filling out false fill slips and sending difference to midwest bosses. Reporter investigators figures with the stardust skimming operation. But phillip ponto and josephtalreekco would not testify. 51to made man in chicago and talreekco teamster official. Elected to go to prison rather than testify. They did go to prison. Reporter prosecutor perry went into private practice and retired in las vegas last year. Prosecutors say they have spent more than 12 hours a day working on what has turned out well, you have now a team and a record of prosecuting skimming cases. Which many owners later is planet hollywood. Thats the acronym for alan r for governor are former owners of the stardust. Saxon tobin opened sundance which is now the d. Reporter they have had to sell the hotel, when skimming charges surfaced. Now owned by boyd group. Same owners of sams town. Anchor that former reporter beth rivera still works in tv and movies but on entertainment side. Stardust torn down in 2008 planned to be resort world south of circus circus. Dana wagner you are the weather authority. Lets get to it. Weather do you have ear muffs . Those things you wear on your head during the winter. Anchor it is cold. Weather you dont have those, do you . Anchor i dont. Weather buy some. Chilly weather is coming in. We caught a good scene from red rock resort westside of the las vegas valley. You will see the moonrise this morning. From. Now we see a few clouds on Eastern Front and clouds. Weather maker comes from the west today. 42 degrees. Winds are calm at shiela tar school. Fort apache 48. And check out George Harris elementary, east side. Flamingo and sand hill at 37 degrees. And not going to want to be on the lake tomorrow. Although today will be a decent day to be on the boat. Up until later tonight into tomorrow. A chance of rain in the forecast as well. This is the weather maker. Draping the westcoast to united states. Heavy rain showers in portions of seattle. Very close to portland this morning. And along the california coast. All of this stuff moving our direction. It will go from west to east right across the top of us. So we will have a chance of rain showers in the forecast. Few sprinkles tonight possible. Tomorrow, better chance of rain. As a matter of fact, we also have a check of our future cast. Las vegas right in the center of the screen from west to east with a chance of some rain showers. Snow in upper elevations above about 4000 feet in Spring Mountains above 6000 feet, two for 4 inches. Sunday we have a northerly flow that brings in cooler temperatures. And cooler temperatures will remain all week. Todays high is 46 mount ch 65 degrees in pahrump. Tomorrow morning the morning lows, 32 at pahrump, 22 at mount charleston. Into the 30s indian springs. Alamo 28 degrees. And this is the next seven. Today not bad. 65. Lots of sunshine. Winds picking up later in the afternoon. Big Football Game today between unlv and unr 1 00. Winds are not an issue during the game. Winds pick up later tonight. 56 degrees for a high. A chance of rain showers. Some more winds coming next week with highs staying in mid 50s. Overnight lows dipping into the 30s by the time we get to wednesday morning. Anchor looks good out there. It is chilly. Which means we turn our attention to winter season and holidays as well. This is abbey quinn from house of Southern Nevada. You have holiday initiatives. People are involved for thanksgiving weekend and moving forward into the christmas and Holiday Season as well, right . Time and need for volunteers and community involvement. And so we are very excited. We did just serve over 1100 families with frozen turkeys and fixing. And did a turkey drive with our favorite Radio Station and smith. And get our grocery bags put together with junior league, so we provided 2200 grocery bags for those families. Anchor my goodness. Had a nice warm big thanksgiving meal thanks to your service. Moving past november holidays to december. A lot of families out there not only that will be receiving the help but families that can give back as well. Right . We kickoff december with intake. So if clients, or people that are listening are in need they can sign up for that assistance. But we start our 18th annual [i so we start that. That kicks off on the first. And we are excited. Goes 12 days. We collect tons of bikes and toys and gift cards. Because we serve 3000 clients in the valley. That comes out usually to about 10 to 12,000 children in Southern Nevada. Anchor we have seen the rows and rows of bikes. I was there last year. It is quite the sight to see. Really hits home for how much of and how much giving there is as well. For people looking to give back. How can they do that . You will need volunteers around the clock. We need volunteers. We need volunteers for toy drive. We have toy distribution we can use extra volunteers. For we have to load the bikes into trailers. So need help with that. During the toy drive we are looking for overnight shifts. So people in the community v different shifts. Maybe they cannot volunteer because we do it during the day. An opportunity out and brave the weather. So if they are interested in that. Or in giving. An amazing experience coming down to the toy drive and seeing that sea of bikes. And it is a great opportunity for parents to bring their children down and teach them what giving s log on to help and come see us or call us if they have a question or want to give. Anchor final push out there to the community to really just drill home what this season on that list. How many children again . You will see 10 to 12,000 children. Then we assist last year we assisted 65 other nonprofits in town. So when we do that you are looking at the number of 24,000 children. So one bike, one gift card, one toy is what we need. And how we will get to the goal and help to assist all the clients that are in need. No one should have to go without because they hit a bump in the road. L have. Anchor remember the image of the little ones face when they open up. Anchor it is amazing. Anchor we will get it all on our website, news3lv. Com. And coming up. Major loss for rebels against it. Cu. Randy is next with sports. Anchor welcome back. Disappointing loss for rebels fans last night. Randy howe has a look back with morning sports. Reporter all right. Last night rebels return to the floor to get the fourth win opening up the Global Sports classic with a win against tcu of the biggest 12. Toughest challenge of the young season possibly. Positiveser off the bat down the three keeping threes alive. He finds table and launches three. 112. But outscored the rest of the half and down by three. Second half. Rebels down 40. Poser again. Rebels down by five. Poiser another three. Cuts the lead but no late lead. Take on western kentucky later this afternoon. Over at the orleans. Final of the Las Vegas Invitational unranked arizona and butler. Hot hand for Arizona First game knocked down the three. 2321 the lead. Bull dogs come back. Time wind go down first half. Mcdermitt beats the buzzer and gets the lead at the break. Final minute of play. Find him down low for jam and foul. Threepoint play. Butler pulls off upset. And rebel football finishes today. Maybe most important game of the year. Rebels off 4225 loss at boise state. Today, well they can make fans feel better about the whole season if they defend fremont cannon against nevada. Sanchez excited about that win. And he and the program should be because cannons are a big deal. It is huge. But it is big for the program. Big for the school. Big for the community. It is a big deal. They have had that thing 10 or 12 years. They got used to having that as part of the furniture great. To have here. Paint it red. And post season, great year, bad year, it doesnt m if you truly understand the rivalry, i think it is something we have talked about all year. Every single meeting. Spring all about it. Has been something. On the walls. Beat reno. Big deal. Reporter also a big deal. 4 a final 4, you can see this on my lv tv at 1 00. And thats it for sports. Back to you. Right here on news 3 today. At 6 30. Man in northern nevada wakes up be behind bars after police say he shot a walmart shopper. How this violent fight started. We will explain. Plus. This is a lego mixsonite toy game. Eightyearold santa claus wins peoples hearts by pick out toys for christmas. Not for herself. Wh anchor right now news 3 today. Local man dead after shot in the chest inside of his home. More about this deadly investigation straight ahead. Anchor and new details of a murder suspect that escaped an Interrogation Room in september. You remember him . What investigate stores are saying next linking him to two other announced two more appointments for trump administration. Who they are. And a Campaign Promise team is trying to fulfill. News 3 today starts right now. Live from las vegas, this is news 3 today. Anchor good morning. It is saturday november 26. And as you can see the sun is up. So am i. You know who else is awake this morning. Dana waggener, he, of course is your weather a dana it is cold out there. Anchor morning has broken, i am keeping it current with a song from 45 years ago. You are right. The sun is up. Sunrise 6 29 this morning. Mainly clear skies. This is not going to remain. We will notice increasing clouds moving in from the west. Cooler temperatures. A chance of rain. 41 degrees. Winds out of the westsouthwest at 6 miles an hour. Currently 37 degrees. 44 centennial northwest at darnall elementary. These are current temperatures. 36 degrees in downtown las vegas. Cooler on east side still in 30s. Warmer on westside. To 40s and summerlin at 46. Winds are not much of an issue yet but they will be. Today very nice day to be outside. 65 degrees. Plenty of sun. Fairly light winds for most of the day. And big changes are moving in. Tell you when, and we will talk coming up in 10 minutes. Anchor snow . My goodness. We are looking forward to that. This next story, local man behind bars this morning after witnesses saw him leave the apartment of a man found dead. This happened yesterday afternoon near eastern and sunrise. The 30yearold victim found dead on the footsteps of his home after he was shot a single time in the chest. Police say the man in custody had several warrants. Now being questioned. Investigation this year. And the update to a murder suspect that caught most of our attention when he escaped an Interrogation Room in september. He was recaptured days later. Now North Las Vegas police say 25yearold alonzo perez is linked to two other murders. This is surveillance of perez escape from North Las Vegas police Interrogation Room. He was being que murder. Of a robinson. Who was killed at mcdonalds when he did not hold the door for the suspects girlfriend. Police are linking evidence from the murder to two others. Perez is due in court for preliminary hearing on january 27. And 11yearold girl is dead afghanistan. Tv crash in arizona not far from bullhead city. Mohave official said she was on 12yearold driver suffered a broken arm and 11yearold girl suffered internal inj