Left and Martin Omalley supporters sprinkled in the middle. Tonight was an opportunity for all three democratic president ial hopefuls to make one final Campaign Push in the silver state before the caucuses in february. Nevada is the first state in the Western Region and he third state in the country to let its voice be heard in the democratic president ial primary. Each candidate spoke for close to a half hour reiterating the messages theyve been touting since hoping on the campaign trail. Tonight secretary clinton governor omalley criticizing nevadas Public Utilities commission for crushing the solar energy industry. And senator sanders promising he would raise the minimum wage to 15anhour. Before the president ial candidates took the stage four Democratic Candidates for the fourth Congressional District warmed up the crowd followed by congresswoman dina titus. And then u. S. Senator harry reid made some comments before introducing the candidates. Reporting live Rachel Moore Fox five
Another day, i hope our flight gets canceled. Reporter now the morehouse family cant get home to detroit where their ice storms. The Severe Weather is hitting much of the midwest impact doing Sandra Morales is trying to to get to indiana to see family. I am here to visit my brother and i cant go there. Reporter are you in a rush . Theres a rest. Reporter as when a country the aftermath of deadly china does in texas is affecting some flights into and out of the dallas area. Some subtle than acknowledging when it comes to validate traffic delays and cancellations come with the territory. Just to give you a sense according to the web site there have been 3800 delays on flights within the country today, more than 2500 cancellations. Ernie this is one of the busiest travel weeks of the year that needed trying to get home for the holidays or go somewhere and vacation. A lot of people who are going to be stranded or waiting longer than they would have hoped tonight. Ernie not easy for a lot o
See some snow flakes fall as low as 3500. Friday well keep the clouds but stay dry with a high of 50 and a morning start around the mid30s. We have slight rain chances for saturday afternoon and we sit down one on one with hillary clinton. Well have that interview in just a moment. Our Team Coverage includes visits from all three democratic president ial candidates today. Fox5 is your nevada election fox5s rachel mgm grand where the doors just opened to tonights first in the west caucus dinner. But we begin with fox5s Abby Theodros with a look at todays events with two of the candidates. The sanders rally is just Getting Started here and i can tell you theres a diverse crowd of a couple hundred people ready to hear what the president ial hopeful has to say. Take a listen. And just a few hours ago clinton was across town making her case to a crowd of around 400 people at a grass roots anthem. Highest priority si making the economy work for everyone. Which means more jobs and higher inco
Pinpointing the exact failure of the new system they have ruled out a computer hack. Meanwhile theyve increased monitoring and technical staff and they are building a back up dispatch center that should be ready by march. Natsound of ax juan says he appreciates metros apologies but it still doesnt change the fact that he and his family now has nowhere to live. Anxiety anger im thinking about all the losses im thinking about my little sister i told her about our dog that died. I called juan earlier today to see how he was doing he says at this point he is more disappointed more than angry and may consult with an attorney to talk about what sort of compensation he can get. He says the firefighters have not come back to him yet with a cause for the fire. Meanwhile here. Reporting live Ophelia Young fox 5 news local las vegas. Metro also says it is working on a back up 911 dispatch center but it wont be ready until spring. Well have more on the possible legal fallout. Later in this newscas
Started at 3 30 tuesday afternoon keeping 311 and 911 callers was a busy tone or message there was a lapse in between the time that we could get the 911 calls switched over to the other jurisdictions. Metro estimates between 30 and 50 minutes went by where calls could not be answered at all while they worked to route them to henderson and North Las Vegas. After that lapse there were delayed responses. Six hours passed before the problem was finally solved. But in that time metro is not sure how many calls they missed. But have expressed their apologies since the beginning. Yesterdays unfortunate event is not representative of kind of service that we want to provide and is definitely not what the public deserves. The new system cost 2. 3 Million Dollars plus another 4 hundred thousand the county commission granted to renovate the dispatch center and was installed after the old system crashed last june. What occured last summer was a switch failure. Yesterday was a systems issue. Metro i