In their trucks. There is an apartment complex for Senior Citizens nearby, but the Elko Fire Department told fox5 that complex was not affected by the crash. We do not know where the plane coming from or flying to. We have confirmed the plane was a twin engine piper pa 31. Depending on the type of plane. It could hold up to eight people. Joining us now live on the phone is Michael Adams in and michael we understand you saw the aftermath of this crash. Were continuing to gather information and were continuing to gather were continuing to gather information and will keep you information and throughout the night. Im christine maddela. Im john huck. Back here in the valley. Traffic is backing up on the southern beltway as ndot closes backing up on the southern beltway as ndot closes backing up on the southern beltway as ndot closes backing up on the southern beltway as ndot closes the 215 at the airport connector. Shutdown just about an hour ago in both directions. And will remain closed u
First les krifaton joins us with a quick look at the fox 5 weather 247 forecast. Its a cool start to saturday with overnight lows in the mid 40s. Expect lots of sunshine with seasonal temperatures to start the weekend. Sunday we will see increasing cloudiness as a system drifts into the valley bringing us shower chances for sunday night and monday. The system will move out tuesday and sunshine will return. Temperatures for the remainder of the week including thanksgiving and our top story this morning. Four people were killed in an overnight plane crash in elko. Guys, a plane just crashed over here. Oh explosion elko is about seven hours from las vegas. This is footage from the aftermath of the crash. According to the Elko Fire Department and nevada highway patrol. The plane crashed just after take off into the parking lot of a Mining Company before 8 30 last night. The Elko Daily Free press says belonged to american med flight. And onboard were two pilots. A nurse. And a heart patient
People. We also want to show everyone how the Chinese Culture is, how we do the dragon dancing, because those people practice a lot of times. It is a very long time to practice for dragon dancing, so we want to show everyone the culture of the chinese. In addition to several lion dances a day. The el dorado and silver legacy are bringing out more pai gow poker and baccarat tables. Both games popular among asian gamblers. And of course. There will be Chinese New Year dinners at both buffets. Most festivities kicking off here. On friday. Live downtown. Colin lygren. Kolo 8 news now. Its still winter in northern nevada, but Washoe County already has an eye on summer activities. Theyre looking to fill several seasonal positions for aquatics, recreation, park rangers and maintenance. You can find a complete list of available positions and Applications Online on the Washoe County parks and open space page. The next round of that go on sale later this month, have a new fee this year. Its call
It is fat tuesday. This is the day that you are supposed to indulge. Get it all out. Yes. Indulge before lent starts tomorrow, so a big party down south in louisiana and new orleans and up here as well. Weve got some events going on, all for a good cause. Kind of coinciding with that tuesday. We will check in with alex with more on that. First though, lets talk about the having. Is the perfect way to say it. Temperatures on the way keeping in mind that it renosparks average high this time going for the low to mid 60s over the next several days. Record highs to show you just close we are. The first couple days today and tomorrow are not all that close to record highs, but still very warm nonetheless. Thursday only 3 degrees away from that record, and friday 1 degrees away. 66 is the forecast high for friday. The record of all time on fridays date stands at 67 degrees. Only 1 degree away. We could be threatening that record area 61 in town for the high later today. 50s in carson city, an
Hitting the slopes after all this fresh snow, youll want to be aware of the avalanche danger today. The Sierra Avalanche Center is currently reporting moderate avalanche danger. Natural avalanche activity is not expected today but Officials Say its not out of the question. However, human triggered avalanches are expected for the backcountry. Officials at the center say wind slabs have formed in less typical areas which could be easily triggered. And skier were rescued over the weekend after riding out of bounds at Mount Rose Ski resort. Washoe county Officials Say two people called for help saturday afternoon after getting lost on the slide side of the mountain. Washoe county search and rescue say they made contact with the boarders four 4 later. Officials say they were in an avalanche prone area, which slowed the rescue process down. The boarders were found unharmed. Its no surprise that weve gotten a good amount of snow this year in the sierra. Today, nevada is conducting the second