Block sections of the interstate. Its not clear when i80 will be back open. Stay with kolo 8 news now for any updates. A fastmoving, but intense storm system will bring wind, rain, and snow to the area through thursday. Wind will be gusty, especially east of the sierra crest through the evening hours. Rain will develop in the sierra and change over to snow below 7000 after sunset, and around the tahoe basin before midnight. Snow levels will drop to valley floors before sunrise, bringing the possibility of a few slushy inches for the morning commute. Snow levels will rise on thursday and showers will diminish by evening. Dry, mild weather will return friday through early next week. Officials with caltrans say interstate 80 at to severe weather. All vehicles are being turned around at the gold ranch casino exit on i80. They say semi trucks and four wheel drive vehicles are getting stuck in the snow, causing multiple clusters of cars to block sections of the interstate. Its not clear when
Thursday as a winter storm moves into the region. This will bring gusty winds wednesday followed by snow and rain this evening through thursday. Another weak system is possible friday night, before the ridge rebuilds over the west with warming temperatures into early next week. Short term. Winds. The next winter storm keeton from the koh radio traffic center. Hows traffic looking so far . Traffic running smoothly. No major delays on reno area highways. No major delays on highways in northern studio. Thanks very much mike. In the race for the white house. New polls show Trump Holding onto his commanding lead in South Carolina where voters head to the polls in just a few days. And a nail biter in nevada where a new poll shows Bernie Sanders even with Hillary Clinton. Heres abcs megan hughes with more. Trump calls in on late show sot colbert i can think off the top of my head three things that you have true, cbs will not let me repeat though hes vowed to clean up his dirty language, that
Including us here at kolo 8 news now right when the oscars were starting. Thats why many of you could not watch the first portion of the program. Nvenergy says a breaker failure at one of their sub stations caused the power outage. The outage knocked out our transmitter. Which cut out the overthe air signal. Cable takes our signal before it goes to that transmitter. Which is why those who have charter. Or atandt uverse were still able to watch. The first 2hours of the oscars did reair at 1235 am. If you didnt get a chace to see last Nights Academy awards. Abcs brandi hitt has the highlights. Sot mark rylance bridge of spies the best supporting actor category . Was full of hollywood heavy hitters . With the oscar going to mark rylance. Sot if you ever wondered if working with tom hanks helps . The answer is clearly yes. Alicia vikander took home best supporting actress . Sot thank you so much while mad max fury awards . Including editing. Sound mixing and editing. And make up and hair s
Winds increase again as the upper jet lines up over the region this afternoon. Pcpn will also begin to move into the the tahoe area late this afternoon. This may squelch the strongest winds. But for now we feel upgrading the advisory to a warning is prudent. The warning will run until the winter storm warning starts this evening. But the winds are likely to decrease before then. Also of concern is zone 1. Southern lyon county and mineral county. The strongest winds aloft impact that region later this afternoon and this evening. There is likely to be a period of down slope enhancement east of the pine nuts into smith valley and east of the wassicks now to the case between apple and the federal government. The fbi using the courts to compel apple to unlock data on an apple iphone 5c used by suspected terrorist syed farook. Apple saying it isnt as simple as unlocking this one phonesparking a could affect your private information. Heres abcs lana zak in washington james comey fbi director
Two horses were hit by cars this morning. What you should do to stay safe while driving in the Virginia Range area. Plus. President ial candidate if youre talking about the polls, im beating him awfully badly president ial candidate but youre not beating hillary. President ial candidate hey, if i cant beat her, youre really going to get killed. The gloves were off during tonights republican president ial debate. Well have the all the highlights. Thanks for joining us tonight. Im noah bond. We begin with breaking news. In the last hour reports of shots fired at the Silver Springs nugget in lyon county. A care flight was sent to the scene. Were learning this shooting was started by an attempted robbery. Well bring you updates on this developing report in this newscast as we learn new details. And were following a developing story out of kansas. At least four people were killed and more than a dozen were injured following a series of shootings. The suspect opened fire at two separate loca