Where employees are being staged. Shakala Alvaranga denise, dozens of employees are patiently waiting for power to be restored. Theyve been outside for hours. Some, forced to walk up all these stairs to get back inside. The hotel is looking at other options for the guests if theyre unable to turn the power back on. Hotel guests are being told to go to the ballys front de to a different property. Guests are also being encouraged to spend time at the Planet Hollywood lounge while they wait to get back into their rooms. One employee described the moment paris. Went dark. i went into the bathroom. The lights went out. I went into the hallway. though no one was hurt, the fire Shakala Alvaranga again, no word yet on when power will be restored. Stick with 8 news now for the latest developments. Reporting live Shakala Alvaranga 8 news now. Dave Courvoisier the president ial election away. And the latest National PollShows Hillary clinton is still ahead of donald trump. The two candidates criss crossed the critical battleground states of North Carolina and florida today. Clinton had president obama stump for her in florida. While trumps wife melania hit the campaign trail in pennsylvania. As first lady, she said she would fight against cyberbullying melania trump, Donald Trumps wife we have to find a better way to talk to each other, to disagree with each other, to respect each other. Dave Courvoisier york times poll shows clintons National Lead is shrinking. Shes up by 3 points within the margin of error but Campaign Advisers say trump could turn historically blue states red. Denise Valdez getting underway right now. Bill clinton is drumming up support for his wife here in las vegas. Hes taking part in a rally tonight at the cox pavilion. The crowd isnt just there for the former president popular dj steve aoki is performing at the rally. Denise Valdez and donald trump junior was also in town today. Newt gingrich. The two had a private campaign event. And trump junior held a get out the vote rally at ahern manufacturing on bonanza and mlk. Dave Courvoisier our exclusive poll by jmc analytics for 8 news now shows how nevada voters feel about the Affordable Care act. Denise Valdez anchor Christianne Klein has been looking at the data and joins us now with the story. Christianne Klein with the recent news about Health Care Premiums rising around the country, our own poll shows just how polarizing this issue is for 48 percent repeal of obamacare and 48 percent support keeping the Affordable Care act with 5 percent undecided. This issue breaks down largely along party lines republicans favor repealing or replacing the Affordable Care act 78 to 19 percent. While democrats favor keeping the act 74 to 20 percent. Independents narrowly favor repealing obamacare 50 to 46 percent. This issue will likely be addressed by the next congress which is y focusing so much on those socalled down ballot races for the senate and the house. Pollsters noticed an early voting trend favoring democrats and with just a few days left before election day it shows just how important every vote is. John Couvillon jmc analytics the thing that most stands out to me is the fact that you literally have an instance where given that the democrats according to those who have responded to the poll given that the democrats have built up a large lead among those whove early voted which according to my latest count is more than 500 democratic vote base being accounted for right now and the republican vote base is going to be accounted for on november 8. Christianne Klein this poll was conducted october 28 through november 1. The margin of error is 4 percent. Coming up in our 6 30 broadcast well take a look at how voters feel about retiring us senator harry reid. The results may surprise you. Dave Courvoisier thanks christianne. We are you local election headquarters keeping yo now dot com. Dave Courvoisier about onethird of nevadans use pay day loan lenders. And many people, who cant pay it back, get deeper and deeper into debt. Two months before the next session, lawmakers are drafting bills to put restrictions on lenders. Meanwhile. Sharie johnson looks at the legislation. And why nevada is such an easy target Sharie Johnson this is a huge problem nationwide. Few states regulate pay day lenders. There are 440 lenders in clark county. But why so many . Justin gardner of Innovative Research and analysis says by and large its the make up of our state. justin s. Gardner, ceo innovate Research Analysis a lot of the jobs here in nevada dont require a lot of education and so that immediately lends itself to payday lending Sharie Johnson there is also no regulations on how many lenders can open in any area or how many loans a person can take out. We talked to e his second loan that he hopes will be his last. ameen sbitani, applied for payday loans if you dont make the payment, they cash the check at your bank, last month there was nothing in the bank, and they cashed the check, the bank took care of me; so now youre indebted to the bank; they took it out today Sharie Johnson sbitani is one of many nevadans trying to avoid getting trapped by lenders. Garnder says military communities, veterans, African Americans and people who make under 50,000 a most. And many of them pop up in lowincome areas of town. justin s. Gardner, ceo innovate Research Analysis all of them exist right where you would expect them to from a literature standpoint; in lower socioeconomic neighborhoods, in more diverse neighborhoods in transition zones between henderson and las vegas Sharie Johnson right now. State treasuer. Dan schwartz is drafting a bill that woul includes Interest Rate caps, forming a database and teaching Dave Courvoisier making a new home. On the harsh surface of mars. Up next on the valleys news leader. The iteams george knapp gets a sneak peek on how nasa hopes to generate electricity to get to. And live on, the red planet. news music voice over youre watching the valleys news leader with Dave Courvoisier, as you make up your mind, remember congressman heck voted 10 times to defund planned parenthood. He even threatened to shut down the government over it. Heck took all that money from wall street eir way. He even wanted to privatize social security, risking it on the stock market. Congressman heck just doesnt care about people like us. The desert is where bad guys go when they want to make evidence disappear. But hiding the evidence wont help danny tarkanian. Sure, he can bury all those property taxes he skipped out on for years. Or all those Fake Charities he helped set up. Seniors he formed. Or the 17 million judgment he never paid. He can try, but he cant make his record disappear. Danny tarkanian just a con man who cant bury the truth. This is 8 news now at six. Dave Courvoisier president obama has announced he wants humans to travel to mars by the 2030s, but anyone who has seen the hit movie the martian knows there are some major technological issues to resolve before that can happen. Denise Valdez soon, a team of scientists will conduct a key experiment here in nevada that could make travel to mars much more feasible. George knapp is here with an exclusive preview. Once wrote that mars tugs at our imagination with a force mightier than gravity, and its true, especially for the scientsist and engineers alreayd working on a power system that could not only help get us there, but to get around once we land. The iteam got the inside scoop on project krusty, an experiment to produce electricity from a small, portable nuclear reactor. The test is slated for some Time Next Year at the Nevada Nuclear security site, formerly known as the nevada test site, inside a facility. If it work as designed, it could not only help transport astronauts to mars faster, but make it possible for them to stay there for longer periods. Patrick McclureLos Alamos National lab we have a power source that can range in missions, whether thats to the icy moons of jupiter and saturn, Something Like encephalus or titan, or to actually provide power on mars to make fuel, to make oxygen for say a return trip, also it could be used for human habitats to keep astronauts alive, in addition it could be a power station for like a martian rover. The small reactor project at los alamos lab. The other partners are the y12 team at oakridge, two nasa centers, and nnsa department of energy folks on the ground here in nevada. The nevada site is not only well suited for such a test but historically its where the First Nuclear rocket engs george knapp tonight at 11, we will tell you what the experiment will need to succeed, and what it could mean to the future of humans in space. The people working on it are understandably very excited. weather toss earlier today as forecasted. Temps climbed higher than yesterday and near average again with comfortble 70s outside this afternoon. Gusts did peak up to 30 or more in some spots down the Colorado River valley. Neighborhood temps in the 70s through many parts of the valley, with mildest temps over to the eastside where were lower in elevat warmer. West side not as mild and cooler than the rest of the valley with temps only in th 50s for the mountain this afternoon after a chilly morning start near the freezing mark. Regional temps also stayed mild especially down the Colorado River down to laughlin and bullhead city. Warmer in death valley with high near 80 today. Chilly temps exist up in the central great basin and far north portions of the state. Cool here to the pacific northwest, but warmer weather continues in the Southern Plains over to the southeast where theyre breaking records for heat for early november. Satellite and radar shows clearer skies than yesterday and no chance for showers as they stay down towards mexico and arizona. Well begin to see that low wrap around moisture tomorrow towards Northern Arizona but we should remain on the dry side with some cloud cover. Could sneak in slight chans sunny with breezes still continuing down the Colorado River. Tonight expect lows in the mid to high 50s and chilly again under mostly clear skies. Evening breezes will be isolated and decrease through the evening but still remain breezy down the Colorado River. Tomorrow milder near 80 tomorrow and should remain that way for several days. Winds not as strong tomorrow, curse. After 108 years they can now celebrate. Denise Valdez one of the players celebrating might be the nicest guy in the clubhouse. Chris Maathuis you must be talking about Las Vegas Kris bryant you wont be able to find anybody to say a negative word about the cubs thrid baseman. More on bryants celebration. Plus. As for the curse, its over the goat goes away, and Steve Bartman is now one of the boys. We hope, sports is next here on channel 8. Shameful Interest Rates first when he took their money . Nevada, its time to put people before the corporate special interests. Its time to vote no on joe heck. Senate majority pac is responsible with all of the shenanigans danny tarkanians pulled in nevada helping set up Fake Charities used to scam nevada seniors, failing to pay thousands in property taxes, losing 17 million in a failed development scheme, imagine the shenanigans tarkanian would pull in washington. Its why we cant afford tarkanian in congress, ever. After 108 years, the cubs finally win. And one of the key centerpieces is las vegan kris bryant. The former bonanza high grad was terrific in helping the cubs win their first title since 1908. He hits a home run in the most important game of the century and later makes the last play. Its fitting hed have such a huge smile. Thats just who he is. A humble giant in the world of giant sized egos. derek stafford; i was nervous and then its funny because they even replayed it kris was smiling on the ground ball. It was incredible my wife and i had tears. Watching it on tv and we were we talked about the shoe dropping on the other foot always have that what could go wrong what if he slipped and thrown that ball away. So he kept his footing thats a memory that will never be duplicated. Chris Maathuis the talk among sports fans in vegas was not only about kris bryant, buta the code and finnally winning the world series. You got to go way back. 1908. The last time. So for fans like Ron Kantowski and his buddies this is a great day. A day to celebrate and reminisce about what seemingly never would happen but finnally did. Ron Kantowski sports writer; nervous on every pitch when the indians made that comback. Raja hit the homer my wife said shes going to go feed the cat,. We dont even know if the neighbor has a cat. She knew she had to get out of may way. Duke sims former indian player; spent 12 years it wouldve been nice to say cleveland got out from under 1948, Everybody Knows they got swept in 54, so it was disappointing, but such good so nice how well it was received by by fans and non baseball fans. Chris Maathuis tonight at 11. More great sports days in the last century. Cubs win, cubs win. Chris Maathuis getting ready for some championship fights this weekend at the thomas and mack. The champ and the legend square off. Its not far fetched to think this could be Manny Pacquiaos last fight. But from everything you hear. Hes looking better today then he did a few years ago. And besides its historic. Manny Pacquiao former champ; why i can say this is an important fight, because this is a historical fight, another record in boxing that an active senator Jessie Vargas champ; im bringing something completely different fighter then hes been agaisnt in many many years, and its going to play a factor in this fight. Chris Maathuis the fights are coming up saturday. First of four title fights on the card will begin at 6 p. M. The first round of the pbr world finals is in the books. Second round getting underway tonight. It toughest 8 seconds in sports. And the bulls usually win. And when a bull rider gets hung up, its scary. Last night a rider got hung up and all the bull fighters had to use their skills to help the rider. The action continues tonight and again through sunday. When they crown a world champion. Dave Courvoisier 8 news now at 6 30 is next. Christianne to see what theyre working on. Christianne Klein the waiting game continues. As the Paris Las Vegas sits dark tonight. How the hotel is helping guests effected by the power outage. Plus. A slot machine with a pay out thats too good to be true. What a casino offered a woman. After a slot machine malfunctioned. And tried to give her 43 million dollars. Those stories are coming up next at 6 30. news music shes a slob. She ate like a pig. Id look her right in that fat, ugly face of hers. Donald trump calls women bimbos, dogs, and fat pigs. But congressman crescent hardy said hed support donald trump 100 . Nevada, theres a better choice ruben kihuen. And kihuen will always protect a womans right to choose. Ruben kihuen for nevada. As you make up your mind, remember congressman heck voted 10 times to defund planned parenthood. He even threatened to shut down the government over it. Heck took all that money from wall street and predatory payday lenders and voted their way. Risking it on the stock market. Congressman heck just doesnt care about people like us