This morning president obama announced new executive orders to try to go after our Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms, well i can tell you right now when you live by the pen, you die by the pen, and my pen has got an eraser. Tim on cam gun control is sure to be a topic of discussion here. As well as sen. Cruzs position on biofuels including ethanol production. Well wrap up the campaigned today at the orpheum theatre. Abc9s Deborah Souverain was there. She joins us with more. Deborah . Deborah jenna today Hillary Clinton urged a crowd of supporters at the Orpheum Theater to commit to caucus for her. In what shes calling. The most consequencial election in recent history about 450 people filled into thth bby of the Orpheum Theater to hear from the democratic frontrunner. Clinton wasted no time. Getting straight to the issues. Telling the crowd. If she becomes president. She will make the economy work for all americans. Clinton saying she would create a fair and balanced tax cod
Mixed precipitation moving from south to north into the area. Temperatures are in the upper 20s and lower 30s on a relatively warm january morning. Weve got a light wind from the south between 5 and 15 miles per hour. Heres the dayplanner where were headed for a high of 37. Jessica rae tonya couch. The mother of ethan couch, known as the affluenza teen. Will be returned to texas to face a felony count against her. A Los Angeles County judge approved an extradition waiver for her. Tonya signed the extradition waiver and has been turned over to the la county sheriffs department. She and her son were detained in puerto vallarta, mexico last week. Ethan is still being held in mexico city. Jessica rae the armed activists who have seized a Federal Building in oregon are vowing they will not back down. They say they will only leave if the government relinquishes control of federal land. Group maintains they want peace. They have also made it clear. If provoked theyre not afraid to use force.
Out executive actions he hopes will curb gun violence. In a white house address, president obama says he will tighten existing laws without infringing on the rights of lawabiding citizens. At one point, he was brought to tears as he spoke of the 20 first graders gunned down in their classrooms in newtown, connecticut. And from every family who never imagined that their loved one would be taken from our lives by a bullet from a gun, wipes tearpauses every time i think about those kids it gets me mad. In his plan, the president hopes to expand background checks by having federal agencies treat all gun sales equally. That means weapons sold at gun shows and online, would be subject to the same background checks as all other gun sales. Percent of sales have no checks at all. All. The president also wants to increase funding for Mental Health care and to hire more atf agents, something that would require approval from congress. The National Rifle association has successfully lobbied congres
Between california. Nevada. The pyramid lake pauite tribe. And the truckee meadows water authority. It provides a lot more flexibility to the parties to be able to exercise their water rights. Federal water master chad blanchard administers troa. He says. It allows water right holders. Like tmwa. To more easily store water. Instead of letting it flow downstream. A water right that maybe was not being used before can now be exercised and credit stored up stream to be used later for a drought reserve. Prior to troa. Certain flows were required to be met everyday no matter during drought. Or high water year. Those requirements have been in place since the 40s when hydro power plants. And paper mills lined the river. With those water users gone. Flows dont need to be as high. Hydroelectric power is not as important as it used to be, there are no paper mills. So that rigid release of water from reservoirs to meet a certain high flow at the state line is now not there anymore. Now we can hol
He says it is a personnel issue so he really could not say a whole lot about the teacher or what happens next. Workman, though, quickly and promptly apologized to parents and students. The fist thing we would want to say to the parents we hope they would accept our sincerest apology for the offensive nature of the picture, the message reflected in there no way is consistent with our views in regard to law enforcements. And workman describes this as an anomaly, an isolated case, but he also says without getting into specifics here that the district is now working to ensure Something Like this never happens again. Back to you guys a the desk. Thank you so much. All right. Were taking a look at weather right now. Here is video that was taken around 10 00, right down the street from the station on vasser street so far we have received reports of five inches in the somerset area and the north star ski officials reported 10 inches this here is a look at the here is a look at us were going to