Happens at 7 59pm tonight. Reporting live. Mauricio marin. 8 news now. Paula Francis mauricio we thought the jackpot would have hit by now . If there is no winenr tonight do we know how large the jackpot will grow for saturdays drawing . mauricio to win big. But in case there isnt a winner tonightlotto officials are projecting the next powerball drawing to be at 2billion dollars saturday. Back to you. paul joncich today. We could be closer to a decision on the rooftop solar debate. The Public Utilities comissions is expected to make a decision on holding off or reversing course on the new net metering rates. A meeting took place today. And at that meeting, more than a thousand supporters of the Solar Industry including dozens of laid off workers. And actor mark ruffalo. The new rates are about 40 percent higher than the current rates for solar customers. Solar companies laid off employees. Mos tly installers. After the decision. At last check, todays puc meeting was still going. With no decision made yet. Paula Francis maryland parkway. Could soon be getting some upgrades. Yesterday. We heard from area businesses. Seen better days. Today. Local developers met with representatives from unlv to discuss changes in the area. Some of the proposed upgrades include a light rail that runs along maryland parkway. And added parking for students on campus Frank Marretti owner, g2 capital this means so much to the campus and the community and were lucky to have that because in the beginning we had nothing. Nothing from unlv. It was a roll of a dice and the unlv called the day after i purchased the property. Paula Francis maryland parkway is home to las vegas first private hospital. Sunrise. And the first shopping mall. The boulevard mall. Paula Francis weve learned the name of the motorcyclist killed after crashing into an suv. The coroner identified him as 25yearold adam shields of henderson. Police say he rearended the suv yesterday afternoon. On lake mead parkway near industrial park. This is the first deadly crash paul joncich snow is piling up in areas near the great lakes for the second straight night, causing havoc from indiana to parts of upstate new york. Cold air moving behind an Alberta Clipper weather system is blowing across the warmer thanaverage great lakes. Kicking up high winds and snow. Plows couldnt keep up with the heavy snowfall that covered the roads. And people with shovels and snowblowers seemed to be fighting a losing battle, too. Blizzard conditions led to a 40 vehicle pileup along interstate 74 in eastern indiana. Another pileup on eye70 involved 13 vehicles. paul joncich so relatively speaking. We have little to complain about other than rather chilly this is nothing compared to what theyre going through out there. Chilly again this morning near freezing for many neighborhoods. Take a look at our weather headlines for the week. Storms this time stay to the north and away from the desert southwest. Well show you where they are headed and what our impacts will be. We another cold start to our day tomorrow with temps again near freezing for some. We are warming to the 60s for our high though and its going to happen this week. Well pinpoint what day thats going to happen. And could we see some weekend clouds and showers . Right now were looking at the low 50s by afternoon with these clouds overnight. Milder over to san francisco. And especially down in phoenix in the 60s. Hour by horu forecast shows another chilly night with clouds. 40s mostly this evening but well be clearing. Well pinpoing how cold it will get neighborhood by neighborhood coming up. 10 us sailors are free. A day after theyre captured by iran. Paula Francis the reason their ships ended up in iranian waters and the sailors in custody. paul joncich plus. Its a water emergency. In one michigan town. The reason the lead levels in free after being held in custody in iran. The pentagon says iran released the sailors, whod been picked up in two small navy boats yesterday. The sailors were returned to the uss anzio this morning, where they were checked and found to be in good health. The iranian navy escorted them to the meeting point. This all started when the american sailors boats supposedly entered iranian waters. But theres no word from us officials why that happened. An iranian spokesman claimed the boats navigational system failed, and they strayed near an paul joncich the National Guard is helping families in a water crisis. Lead levels in children in flint doubled after the city 2014. Michigans governor, rick snyder is under fire for his handling of the nearly twoyear water problem. On monday snyder said it wasnt learned there was confirmed lead in the water. But emails first obtained by Virginia TechResearchers Show that state officials may have known there was a problem months earlier. People living in flint are furious. Brianna Lewis flint resident you cant drink it, you cant bathe in it. Its ridiculous eena Richardson Flint resident its been very difficult. My kids have been getting sick. paul joncich the Justice Department has launched an investigation to figure out exactly how this man made Public Health crisis happened. In response to a request for comment from cbs news, governor snyders office said that though the governor has apologized, he knows the situation warrants more than an apology. Paula Francis mark your calendar. The 8 news now living green super recycling event coming up saturday, january 23rd at the thomas and mack. You can recycle all sorts of electronics. Get rid of your unused and expired medicine, and bring paperwork that needs shredded. Goodwill will also be collecting for the complete list of what well be accepting head over to las vegas now dot com. paul joncich the president makes his last state of the union address. Paula Francis what president obama couldnt accomplish. Putting it on his list of j j on average, it takes three hundred americans working for a solid year, to make as much money as one top ceo. Its called the wage gap. And the republicans will make it worse by lowering taxes for those at the top and letting corporations write their own rules. Hillary clinton will work to close the wage gap. Equal pay for women to raise incomes for families, a higher minimum wage, lower taxes for the middle class. Shell get the job done for us. And about 18 Million People watched president obamas final state of the union speech. The president has one year and one week left in office before he steps down and a new president is sworn in. During last nights speech. He made a point of recapping accomplishment s during his presidency so far. But he also took some responsibility for the political divide that has all but shut down washington dc president obama its one of the few regrets of my presidency, that the rancour and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better. paul joncich president obama hits the road to tout his vision for the future of america with a stop in nebraska this evening. Followed by a speech in baton rouge tomorrow. paul joncich South Carolina governor nikki haley followed the president s address with republican response. She says her party needs to resist the quote siren call of the angriest voices. all im saying is weve got a responsibility and the way we talk about the issues should be towards solution, not towards division. paul joncich texas senator ted cruz skipped last nights speech to stay on the campaign trail. He said he cant wait to give his own address. And claims it will be very different from last nights. Cruz is in the fight to win the nomination. A new poll in iowa shows him with a three point lead over donald trump. With less than three weeks to go. Paula Francis along with all the policy talk. The first ladys dress has also been talked about. She wore a stunning marigold dress by designer Narcisco Rodriguez which popped out from the sea of dark suits. According to eonline, versions of the sleeveless dress sold out on the Neiman Marcus website before the president had even finished his speech tuesday night. Neiman marcus priced the wool crepe dress at 2,095 but later reduced it to 628, the first lady has famously used fashion to support emerging designers such as jason wu for both of her inaugural gowns. More accessible and affordable choices such as the j. Crew clothing favored by her and her daughters. Paula Francis the dress had many people talking on facebook. Michael wrote a sea of sunshine amongst the black and navy. And marked down too . . This is my first Lady Anderson said the most beautiful and elegant first lady ever. And i dont support this administration. Just keeping it honest. Finally add commented. Loved the color, first ladies are suppose to stand out. If youd like to join the conversation. Be sure to like 8 news now on facebook. We may use you comment on air. toss to weather overhead today as systems migrate to the north this time. Not bringing any rain unfortunately, but that could change this weekend and next weeek. Winds staying light as well. A lot of neighborhoods by afternoon hit the low 40s and stayed cool because of the clouds not warming up too much. 50 for some interior sections of outskirts of las vegas and certainly up at mount charleston. Regional temps were already near freezing up in the southern pioche. Certainly colder in ely. Cool conditions and same cloud cover by afternoon for mesquite all the way down to laughlin where they were milder. Cool in pahrump and dropping to the 20s again out there. The lake effect snow continues in the great leks with more snow bands from this clipper coming in from canada. Snow from michigan over to the ohio valley again. Back weest more precip staying california. Clipping northern nevada but not quite reaching us. We do have a parade of storms out on the pacific were tracking. But futurecast keeping all of them this time to the north and away from the southwest. One after the other. There could be chance saturday with more clouds coming in. Right now no echoes on the radar, but satellite showing some thick clouds over us right now. Well see in a few hours. Futurecast shows storm after storm hitting the west coast mainly affecting our friends to the north, but saturday some models saying we could get a slight chance of an isolated shower from this one, but mainly in the mountains. Morning temps again cold in the 30s through many neighborhoods with 20s possible in aliante and anthem. Certainly out in summerlin and nellis. 20s again in pahurmp and mesquite. Very cold up in the central part s for ul by morning. Tonigh3overnight andearing up. Ld by morning again with winds staying lit thankfully. Morro55 again r the high d both sun and clouds tomorrow. Staying below normal with light wis again. Res your extended forecast. Rtly nny until this weekend re clouds saturday with shower chances mainly in the mountains. Clouds to sun by sundayternoon. Ancef owers again,ight chance on tud. paul joncich is conezone annoyed some of you last year, and its sticking around for a good chunk of the new year. Demetria obilor has an update on the always busy Eastern Avenue in whats driving you crazy . major, construction zones have followed you into the new year. Based on the amount of emails ive received, the worst one is along eastern. Lane restrictions continue on eastern between sunset and warm springs as crews continue building the countys paradise whitney interceptor. Its a 13mile, 165 mile pipeline thats being built in three segments. Work on eastern, as well as work on sunset between eastern and mcleod, is part of the central portion. The county anticipates crews to finish with sunset this march and pick up the cones on eastern in september. The county says sometimes crews encounter conditions that require them to change sequencing or to wait for a resolution, which could alter these dates. Hey whats driving you crazy . Question to traffic eight at las vegas now dot com. Paula Francis two sisters are in search of a loving home. With enough room for both of them. paul joncich Dave Courvoisier gets to know them a little better. Hes taking them to hang out with some real farm animals. In todays wednesdays child. for this weeks wednesdays child. paul joncich Dave Courvoisier introduces us to them. And their hope to find a new home. Dave Courvoisier theres this great mini ranch style farm on the outskirts of town where we took our two wednesdays child candidates. The place is full of animals the owner has adopted. And guess what . [Dave Courvoisier] the mckee ranch south of town is a minimicrocosm of farm animals. Goats, pigs, horses, sheep, and lots of chickens. Oddly enough, it was the chickens part that concerned our two sisters the most. Retta and cici just thought they were about the most scary things theyd ever seen. Once we got past the fear of the roosters and hens, though, these two were able to enjoy all the other fun things about the mckee ranch. Cici is the older sister at 9, but shes not always the one in charge. [cally, case worker] it depends. Sometimes bretta acts like the older one. I think they do an amazing job of taking care of each other. [Dave Courvoisier] bretta is labretta. The younger of the two at seven. Theyre both very active. They like sports and school, and especially going to the park. They love being together. [cally, case worker] they do, you can tell when they are together, their bond is really strong. They feed off each other a lot of the time with emotions all that. [Dave Courvoisier] right now foster care, but they talk to callie all the time about adoption. [cally, case worker] we have had so many conversations about adoption and family. Theyve been really perfect about giving me tons of feedback. They are open to little siblings big siblings lots of different types of parents and family systems. So there really going to do well. [Dave Courvoisier] these girls would need a placement that going to nurture and direct them. [cally, case worker] so im looking for a single or a two parent home. I definitely feel very structured home would be able to set clear boundaries, but a fun family thats going to take them out, theyre going to be active, enrolled in sports everyday after school. Dave Courvoisier you can start the process by calling the adoption exchange. The number is 7024366335. Paula Francis nevadas attorney general announces who hes backing for president. paul joncich the candidate who now has adam laxalts announcer now, nevadas first choice for news. This is 8 news now at 4 paul joncich cuban immigration to the us and nevada has skyrocketed in the last year. A Pew Research Center study during the 2015 fiscal year. Paula Francis here at home, nevada has taken in almost 30percent more immigrants from the island nation during the same time. 8 news now reporter karen castro takes a closer look at what may be triggering the mass exodus. karen castro Yohan Martinez escaped from cuba last august. The 24yearold is among the tens of thousands of immigrants to leave the caribbean island. After the us announced it will begin normalizing diplomatic relations with the communist government in late 2014. Yohan Martinez cuban migrant muchas personas se querian ya irse previendo estos cambios. karen castro he says a lot of people wanted to leave now foreseeing these changes. A Pew Research Center study says more than 43thousand cubans entered the us during the 2015 fiscal year. Compared to just more than 24 thousand during the previous year. Yohan Martinez cuban migrant sabiendo que despues la migracion es un poquito mas dificil de asilio publico aqua. karen castro he says immigrating at a later time, may be more difficult to get asylum here. Under the cuban adjustment act island nation receive a path to citizenship after reaching us soil. Carisa Lopez Ramirez immigration migration services, Catholic Charities certainty were seeing an increase in the migration numbers. karen castro in the last decade, the number of Cuban Migrants in nevada has almost tripled. The biggest increase during that period of time was in the 2015 fiscal year. En almost 17 hundred cunssettled in the state. Ats aost 4hundredocompared to the previous year. Carisa Lopez Ramirez immigration migration services, Catholic Charities due to the increase of numbers, right, tt wasnt something at we wereeing last year the point that ouwalk in takes were actually taking upto 4 weeks to schedule their appointment. karen castro in response, Catholic Charities has received extra funding for an additional staff member. Wait times are now down to seven days. As for martinez. Yohan Martinez cuban migrant no me sorprense. karen castro hes not surpised by the increasing number of cubans migrating to nevada. Karen castro, 8 news now. Paula FrancisCatholic Charities is the only agency in the state that provides federally funded services to Asylum Seekers and refugees. About 75 percent of the people they help are cuban. paul