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 called the Live Entertainment tax. Last week the Nevada Department of taxation notified burning man organizers, that the event qualified for the charge. The state says tax registration is required before the 15thousand tickets go on sale. The organization previously argued for an exemption claiming attendeesnot the organization provided entertainment. Faculty across the 23 campus California State University system are preparing for a fiveday strike. Union Officials Say a vote over the weekend approved a walkout in april unless a new contract deal is reached. The main issue the size of payraises Union Members will receive this year. The faculty is seeking a five percent increase. The university is offering two percent. A dream vacation turns into a nightmare for thousands of cruise ship passengers. Their Royal Caribbean ship was caught in giant waves that damaged the limping back to new jersey. Elizabeth hur has the story. Take a look at the damage done. And this video showing anything not nailed down. Sliding off tables. These are just some of the images. Passengers posted on twitter. The amount that things were shifting around our room was a little frightening. While aboard, royal carribeans anthem of the seas caught in hurricaneforce winds off the carolina coast. Some passengers reporting the ship listing at 45 degrees when we looked out the window, youd see waves that were, it looked like the height of our balcony. Were on the 7th deck. I dont know how much of that was the height of the waves and how much of that was us tipped over. Gregg cribbs. Is one of some 4thousand people. Ordered to remain in their cabins for hours. Leanna petrone is another. Also tweeting from the ship. Leanna via twitter were trapped in our rooms, we cant leave. The ship left new jersey day cruise to the bahamas. And despite this scare. The original plan was to continue onto florida and dock in Port Canaveral on monday. But based on the weather forecast. Officials had a change of heart. And decided to sail back to new jersey. According to officials. No one was seriously hurt. But for their patience. Royal caribbean is issuing a full refund and a half off certificate for future cruises. Elizabeth hur, abc news, new york. The Elko City Council is new york. The Elko City Council is looking to expand the citys airport. The Elko Daily Free press says the city is eyeing more than 60 acres of private land adjacent to the airport for development. City Officials Say the land would be developed over time with longterm leases lasting about 50 years. Family and friends are mourning the three People Killed in a mid air collision, near the port of los angeles. Crews are still searching for the bodies, and for plane they mourn the loss of Martin Clement today at his church in rodando beach. Ill miss him as a true friend. Its still a shock, as we all are. We are in mourning. On the st. Lawrence Martyr Catholic Church website, they identitefed deacon Martin Clement as one of the People Killed in the midair collsion friday afternoon. A deacon, in the catholic church, the word deacon means servent, and thats what martin was. Clement and another man were in one plane. Mary falstrom was piloting the other. She loved to fly, that was her. Rich and Mary Falstrom were married 24 years. Friday, she told him she just had to get in her plane and take off. Its too pretty a day, i got to go and fly. That was the last time i saw her. She was an experienced pilot. So was clement. Him and his wife traveled flew into little airports up in northern california. And then camp along side the plane. Clement had his own business in rodando friend of his told us clement had his own airplane and kept it here at the torrence airport. The two planes involved in that deadly midair collision on friday took off from this airport. The planes collided here along the coast of san pedro. Pilots told us this airspace gets awfully crowded because pilots from four local airports use this area for practicing maneuvers. Friday, three people were killed here. Mary falstrom, Martin Clement, and another man whose name has not been made public. In torrence, greg mills. Kcal 9 news. Hundreds of rooftop Solar Workers brought wheelbarrows full of cards signed by rooftop solar to todays the Nevada Public Utilities Commission meeting. Last month nv energy offered seven timelines for carrying out grandfathering. One would implement a rate hike gradually over four years as regulators wanted, while a more dramatic option would implement it all at once but 20 years down the road. After criticism from rooftop solar companies, nv energy issued a more forceful 20year plan. Regulators arent expected to make a decision until later in the week. A consumer alert tonight. Iphone 6 owners who have their phones fixed by a third party company. May find their phone dead. Its called error 53. The guardian reports that ios 9. Apples newest operating system. Permanently disables the phone, if it detects a repair has been carried out by a nonapple technician. The issue affects the home button on the i phone 6. Which has fingerprint recognition built in. The issue has also impacted customers whose phones had been damaged. Then installed an update from apple. The error permanently erases all user data. Its generated thousands of complaints online. Apple says error 53 is part of a measure to prevent tampering, and protect customers security. A new Study Reveals the change of seasons impacts our ability to in tonights medical minute well let you know the best time of year to take a test. So what kind of weather can we expect tomorrow, and into the rest of the week . We will have a closer look at our forecast. And what you can expect in the days to come. Right after the break. A piece of Hollywood History is here in reno. Well tell you how you can see the iconic car of one of tinseltowns biggest stars. Thats tonight on kolo 8 look, i know youre a cow and all. And you may not know what im talking about, but, uh. The yogurt made from your milk, is delicious. Winter blues . That down feeling some get as the days get shorter. New Research Suggests that some seasons may actually make you dumber. Doctor timothy cold, snow, darkness by 5 oclock . Theres plenty of things about winter that can make you moody. But now, new Research Suggesting that changes in the seasons may also take a toll on your intellect. In a small study, researchers at the university of liege in belgium studied 28 Healthy Volunteers at multple points over two years. Periodically scanning their brains to see how they handled demanding intellectual tasks during different times of the year. Looking especially at areas involved in sustained attention. Oddly. These areas appeared least active in winter, and most active in summer. And when they compared the function of brain areas required for more complex thinking. They found that activity in these regions peaked in fall and dropped in the spring. While this research may be far too early to allow us to predict the best times of the year for taking an important exam. It does provide tantalizing clues to how our brains might change to weather the changes winter can give us a different kind of brain freeze. With this medical minute, im dr timothy johnson. High pressure will keep the weather dry through the week. Expect mostly sunny, mild afternoons, with highs in the low 60s for most western Nevada Valley locations, and midupper 50s in the sierra. Nights will stay chilly, with lows dipping below freezing. Jeff tonight clear, with a low around 30. Calm wind becoming south around 5 mph. Tuesday sunny, with a high near 60. Southeast wind around 5 mph. Tuesday night mostly clear, with a low around 32. Southeast wind around 5 mph becoming south in the evening. Wednesday mostly sunny, with a high near 63. Calm wind becoming south around 5 mph. Wednesday night partly cloudy, with a low around 34. Thursday mostly sunny, with a high near 64. Thursday night partly cloudy, with a low around 35. Friday mostly sunny, with a high near 63. Friday night mostly cloudy, with a low around 35. High near 59. Saturday night partly cloudy, with a low around 33. Sunday mostly sunny, with a high near 58. High pressure will keep the weather dry through the week. Expect mostly sunny, mild afternoons, with highs in the low 60s for most western Nevada Valley locations, and midupper 50s in the sierra. Nights will stay chilly, with lows dipping below freezing. Jeff tonight clear, with a low around 30. Calm wind becoming south around 5 mph. Tuesday sunny, with a high near 60. Southeast wind around 5 mph. Tuesday night mostly clear, with a low around 32. Southeast wind around 5 mph becoming south in the evening. Wednesday mostly sunny, with a high near 63. Calm wind becoming south around 5 mph. Wednesday night partly cloudy, with a low around 34. Thursday mostly sunny, with a high near 64. Thursday night partly cloudy, with a low around 35. Friday mostly sunny, with a high near 63. Friday night mostly cloudy, with a low around 35. Saturday partly sunny, with a high near 59. Saturday night partly cloudy, with a low around 33. Sunday mostly sunny, with a high near 58. High pressure will keep the weather dry through the week. Expect mostly sunny, mild afternoons, with highs in the low 60s for most western Nevada Valley locations, and midupper 50s in the sierra. Nights will stay chilly, with lows dipping tonight clear, with a low around 30. Calm wind becoming south around 5 mph. Tuesday sunny, with a high 5 mph. Tuesday night mostly clear, with a low around 32. Southeast wind around 5 mph becoming south in the evening. Wednesday mostly sunny, with a high near 63. Calm wind becoming south around 5 mph. Wednesday night partly cloudy, with a low around 34. Thursday mostly sunny, with a high near 64. Thursday night partly cloudy, with a low around 35. Friday mostly sunny, with a high near 63. Friday night mostly cloudy, with a low around 35. Saturday partly sunny, with a high near 59. Saturday night partly cloudy, with a low around 33. Sunday mostly sunny, with a high near 58. 60s for most western Nevada Valley locations, and midupper 50s in the sierra. Nights will stay chilly, with lows dipping below freezing. Jeff tonight clear, with a low around 30. Calm wind becoming south around 5 mph. Tuesday sunny, with a high near 60. Southeast wind around 5 mph. Tuesday night mostly clear, with a low around 32. Southeast wind around 5 mph becoming south in the evening. Wednesday mostly sunny, with a high near 63. Calm wind becoming south around 5 mph. Wednesday night partly cloudy, with a low around 34. And that means that three former wolf pack players earned Championship Rings plus. The pack Basketball Team will take on the conference player of the week on youre watching kolo 8 sports now with josh little. A trio of former wolf pack Football Players won a super bowl ring with the Denver BroncosBrandon Marshall played the biggest part of the three in the win over carolina. He started at inside linebacker, and finished with five tackles, including a tackle for loss. Virgil green played a lot as a blocking tight end for denver. But he did not have any passes thrown his way. And Reed High School grad kyle roberts was on the practice squad all season. He, too, will get a ring. There are now 8 former pack players to earn a championship ring. Bills runing back lesean mccoy is under allegedly assaulting two offduty police officers. It happened last night at a nightclub in philadelphia. One of the victims may have suffered a skull fracture. A Major League Baseball player has been arrested for allegedly assaulting a valet. Delmon young is accused of choking and threateninng a man at a miami hotel. Hes been charged with battery. Young played for the orioles last season, he is currently a free agent. The wolf pack Basketball Team has a pair of home gamesthis week. First up is air force on wednesday night. And today their guard, cj siples, sypulls was named the conference player of the week. He led the falcons to a pair of home wins. He scored 13 points against wyoming, then had a careerhigh 25 points in the win over boise state. He is only averaging five points per game this season. Tipoff on wednesday is schedule for 7pm. The pack beat the falcons by 23 points last month erick green will not star game. Hes still in the nba with the utah jazz. So ricky ledo will take his place. He is averaging 20 points and 6. 5 rebounds per game. Hell join bighorns teammate vince hunter in the allstar game this saturday in toronto. Its at 11am on nba tv the knicks have fired derek fisher as head coach. New york has lost 9 of their last 10 games, and fallen to 23and31 overall. Fisher won just 40 of 136 games during his 1. 5 seasons in new york. Kurt rambis will be the interim head coach for the rest of the season. Some more honors today for a pair of wolf pack Baseball Players trenton brooks has been named the preseason conference player of the year by perfect game. He got that same honor last week from baseball america. Brooks was the player of the year last season. He led the conference with. 365 batting average. He also pitched in 13 games. Christian stolo was named the preseason he was the Mountain West pitcher of the year last season, going 8and2 with a 2. 83 era. Officially has a name. Nora. The name was chosen in a public online vote, which attracted participants from 115 counties. Nora is a combination of nanuq and aurora, her parents names. She was born on november 6th. Jeff is back with another check of your forecast. Tonight clear, with a low around 30. Calm wind tonight, breaking news here. A blizzard hits with the showdown in New Hampshire just hours away now. Abcs powerhouse political team, out in force tonight. Oneonone with donald trump. Can he close the deal here . Oneonone with marco rubio, after taking incoming fire from his opponents at the abc debate. Did you fight for your own legislation, senator, or did you run from it . Repeating his lines on stage. There it is. What he says now. And Hillary Clinton in a fierce battle with Bernie Sanders in his own backyard. The blizzard warnings across several states tonight. The bus flipping. Dozens hurt. Some critical. Were tracking two major storms at this hour. The cruise ship on its way hurricaneforce winds