restored for all of those affected in just about 15 minutes. we re just about an hour away from the last gop debate before the iowa caucuses. although donald trump won t be participating in tonight s debate, he s hosting his own event. steve hamelman has more on the report. reporter: on a big debate day in iowa, will donald trump s dropping out help or hurt him. donnie whitman is more eager to back trump. he s his own person. he hasn t even spent money on his campaign. so you re going to caucus for him whether he debates or not? you bet. you bet. cori miller is not happy that he s jumped out. he s not as interested in the people as much as i would like him to be. unfairly in the first fox debate. he rejected bill o reill s plea plea. you re denying people in a forum they need to see you in. no, we re not. we re going to help a lot of veterans. the debate a few miles away, ted cruz will be center stage. he wants to debate trump. it s not that he s afr
before the vote there were dueling republican events. donald trump boycotted and held his own rally. reporter: donald trump was missing at tonight s debate on fox. i am a maniac. everyone on this stage is stupid, fat, and ugly. and then, you are and ben you are a terrible surgeon. reporter: carried on several cable networks. invited low polling rivals on stage. my whole life i have been greedy. i am so greedy. the united states. reporter: ted cruz was center stage. rebuilding our navy, air force, army. he only voted for a budget that rand paul voted for. threat let me just say this. this is a debate. reporter: trump with a 7 point lead over crews and marco rubio holding third. donald trump and all the debaters were trying something tougher. trying to motivate the people in iowa. i am steve handles nbc news des moines. a big crowd turned out to watch the debate. some of the party faithful s to show up at the last minute. they wanted to hear what the other cand
3 (bill)3 we begin this morning with a developing story. reno police are investigating a commercial burglary that happened shortly after two this morning.. police tell news 4 that it happened at the radio shack on east plumb.. in the shoppers square shopping center. right now.. police are combing through surveillance footage.. to see exactly what items were taken. and workers are cleaning up broken glass. no suspect description is available at this time. we will keep you posted as soon as we learn take a 3 quick look outside.current conditions and skycam 3 (bill, samantha) we ll toss it over to meteorologist tim studebaker.. 3 weekend storm summarya storm is arriving today across the area. here s a summary of what you can expect from this storm system.snowfall forecast here s how much snow we can expect from this storm in the sierra.todaymild temperatures but very windy today with rain in the sierra and rain showers spilling into western nevada at times. here s the forecas
a big friends in overnight lows the 40-degree range for the high tomorrow. that is the north star snow steak and we will add at least a foot or two to that i the time we finish this storm on sunday. temperatures are above average and above average in spots, high today in reno was officially 61. the windsor strong but not as strong as they were unless you are at stabbed, 31 miles per continuing. doppler is a wet commute over the great find but will turn to rain and snow by 11. accordingly. we now go live to meteorologist cassie wilson who joins us up at the national the winds have really been kassie. reporter: they have been extremely gusty. we had to move. we were standing about 200 yards almost knocking is over. we moved toward the national weather service but they still received almost 40-mile per hour sustained winds right here. take a look at these winds that we received across the region. some of these numbers are in the hundreds, hundred mile per hour gusts and almo
a lot of snow was falling in central nevada which was a nice treat. take a look at this voter sentiment from virginia city. this was a very wet, brainy event that we saw. with that we had 10 pages of storm reports that i weeded through to find some snow totals because this was mostly a wind and rain event. 16 inches up at mt. rose, 10 for mammoth, and eight down in squaw valley. we do have another storm rolling through and this one is going to bring more wind and more travel impacts. we are talking about mostly snow for this event and i will have your full forecast of what you can expect with the timing on that coming out up. snow was starting to fall as we for the snow system to impact all day on sunday. 38 in reno with clear skies and partly sunny conditions. the winds are calm, 3 miles per hour out of the west. air quality is good so we do have that green and taking a look at your next 24 hours, we will see some lingering snow showers tonight and by midday tomorrow is wh