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KOLO KOLO 8 News Now 630PM February 23, 2016

Voters choices narrow. Today marco rubio made a Campaign Swing through northern nevada on a last minute bid for votes, still looking for his first win, but with renewed momentum following a second place finish in south carolina. In an obvious reference to donald trump and ted cruz, the florida senator told a crowd of several hundred at the peppermill, the party will lose if they nominate a candidate, a majority of republicans dont like. He argued that he was the candidate who could unite the party in an election he said was pivotal for the nations future. Rubio told the crowd president obama had set the country on a downhill track and he said this election was coming at a pivotal moment. Rubio i dont care how much you think theyre funny or how interesting they may sound, if we nominate someone that 40 to 50 percent of our party cant stand, we are going to lose. We are going to lose to Hillary Clinton or bernie sanders. We will bring us together. And i will bring us together faster than anyone whos running right now. Rubio if we lose this election we will have to explain to our kids why we inherited the greatest country in the world and they got something different. We still have time to get it right, but we dont have forever. Thats the great challenge of this election and thats why im asking for your vote. Rubio has been picking up endorsements from party regulars, including nevada senator dean heller and congressman mark amodei, both of whom appeared with him at todays rally. Senator ted cruz is getting ready to speak to a crowd at the boys and girls club of truckee meadows. Hes scheduled to start his rally in about half an hour. Kolo 8 news nows Catherine Van will have all the highlights tonight at 11. This is not cruzs only stop in northern nevada, hell have several more rallies tomorrow. Hell have a rally at the Journey Community church in fernley tomorrow morning. Then a rally at the Carson Valley Improvement Club hall in minden. And his last scheduled stop will be at the Brewery Arts Center in carson city. Doctor ben carson was at pipers opera house in Virginia City this only, where his supporters listened to him talk about his tax plan, and the governments irresponsible fiscal policies. Carson says he is still in the race at the encouragement of supporters. He admits he is soft spoken, but thats not necessarily a bad thing. Sometimes in the news people will say well carson is too soft, hes too nice and hell never do anything because he just wants everyone to feel good. Wrong. Carson will be in las vegas tomorrow for a town hall prior to the caucuses gettng underway beginning at five in clark county. Donald trump will be in sparks on tomorrow. Hell speak at a rally in the rose ballroom at the nugget casino resort at noon. Doors open at 10 am. The event is free and open to the public, but registration is encouraged. For the latest information on where the president ial candidates will be, just go to kolo tv dot com. Debbie smith will be. Smith died yesterday, she was 60 years old. She missed part of the 2015 legislative session when she was diagnosed with a brain tumor. Smith was first elected to the state assembly in 2000 and won a seat in the senate in 2012. Her funeral will be at sparks high school, sunday at noon. Her family asks in lieu of flowers, donations can be made in her name to the doctor marnie rose foundation, which supports brain tumor research. The nevada Highway Patrol is releasing new information about a deadly crash in carson city. Nhp says 55 year old melanie marnnelawson was killed in crash between College Parkway and arrowhead drive last friday. She was driving in the fast lane when she drove into the left shoulder. She overcorrected and drove across all the southbound lanes and hit a concrete wall. She was taken to a hospital where she died from her injuries. This is still under Washoe County School District police are trying to find out who vandalized Sarah Winnemucca elementary school. The vandalism happened over the weekend. We were told someone broke into the school, but its not clear if anything was taken. Anyone with information, is asked to call the school or secret witness 3224900. A major roadblock that could have been deadly. See what is causing problems for drivers and homeowners in lake tahoe and how long itll take to clear it up. 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. Its gonna be another chilly bus stop forecast tomorrow morning but the afternoons certainly make up for it. Join us bright and early tomorrow morning on good morning reno starting at 4 30 am. Well take a look at the temperatures in the your day. Announcer youre watching kolo 8 news now at 6 30, with sarah johns, noah bond, weather with meteorologist jeff thomspon, and sports with josh little. This is chief meteorologist Jeff Thompson has your complete forecast. High pressure will dominate the weather picture this week. Expect mild to warm afternoons, light wind, and occasional high clouds. A couple of weak systems could bring showers saturday and late sunday to the region, but they will likely be weak and track to our north. Temperatures will cool in their wake, after warming to 70 by the end of the work week for western nevada valleys. Jeff tonight mostly clear, with a low around 30. Calm wind becoming north around 5 mph. Tuesday sunny, with a high near 53. Southeast wind 5 to 10 mph. Tuesday night mostly clear, with a low around 31. South wind around 5 mph. Wednesday mostly sunny, with wednesday night partly cloudy, with a low around 36. Thursday mostly sunny, with a high near 68. Thursday night partly cloudy, with a low around 36. Friday partly sunny, with a high near 69. Friday night mostly cloudy, with a low around 38. Saturday a slight chance of showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 62. Saturday night mostly cloudy, with a low around 36. Sunday partly sunny, with a high near 62. High pressure will dominate the expect mild to warm afternoons, light wind, and occasional high clouds. A couple of weak systems could bring showers saturday and late sunday to the region, but they will likely be weak and track to cool in their wake, after warming to 70 by the end of the work week for western nevada valleys. Jeff low around 30. Calm wind becoming north around 5 mph. Tuesday sunny, with a high mph. Tuesday night mostly clear, with a low around 31. South wind around 5 mph. Wednesday mostly sunny, with a high near 64. Southeast wind around 5 mph. Wednesday night partly cloudy, with a low around 36. Thursday mostly sunny, with a high near 68. Thursday night partly cloudy, with a low around 36. Friday partly sunny, with a high near 69. Friday night mostly cloudy, with a low around 38. Saturday a slight chance of showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 62. Saturday night mostly cloudy, with a low around 36. Sunday partly sunny, with a high near 62. High pressure will dominate the weather picture this week. Expect mild to warm afternoons, light wind, and occasional high clouds. A couple of weak systems could bring showers saturday and late sunday to the region, but they will likely be weak and track to our north. Temperatures will warming to 70 by the end of the work week for western nevada valleys. Jeff tonight mostly clear, with a low around 30. Calm wind becoming north around 5 mph. Tuesday sunny, with a high near 53. Southeast wind 5 to 10 mph. Tuesday night mostly clear, with a low around 31. South wind around 5 mph. Wednesday mostly sunny, with a high near 64. Southeast wind around 5 mph. Wednesday night partly cloudy, with a low around 36. Thursday mostly sunny, with a high near 68. Thursday night partly cloudy, with a low around 36. Friday partly sunny, with a high near 69. Friday night mostly cloudy, with a low around 38. Saturday a slight chance of showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 62. Saturday night mostly cloudy, with a low around 36. Sunday partly sunny, with a high near 62. Thanks, jeff. Do you know who youre supporting at the Republican Caucus tomorrow . Meet one young voter who finds himself in a bit of a pickle. For news while youre caucused on saturday for Hillary Clinton. Tonight we introduce you to a young republican, who is undecided. 21 year old matt weber cant decided between marco rubio and ted cruz. This is his first caucus and first president ial election. He says unlike some fellow republicans, he anticipates staying at the event and listening to what the candidates representatives have to say. Undoubtedly precinct captains from the five campaigns will be looking out for matt tomorrow night. Even after much debate, he says he may not come out totally committed to one candidated. Matt weber 21 year old i think i would stay undecidedwith a weight toward a certain candidate. So will stick to him, but im not going to say 100 . We will follow weber to his precinct tomorrow and see how the candidates stack up for him at the end of the night. The Nevada State Democratic Party has released their official recap of saturdays democratic caucus. According to the party, nearly 84 thousand people participated in the caucus. An estimated 14 thousand nevadans registered as democrats. And 65 percent of those who went to the caucus were going for the first time. There are a few things you need to remember if you plan on taking part in tomorrows Republican Caucus. First. Your caucus site may or may not be the same as your regular voting location. Second. Youll need to check the time your precint is caucusing. You can only participate if you are already registered to vote as a republican. Register for tomorrows caucus has already passed. You have a couple of options. With your candidate preference. Or stay for discussion among supporters of the various candidates. But before you can participate. Youll need to have a government issued id when you check in. You can find more the caucuses on kolo tv dot com. Just click on hot topics. You can get the most uptodate election information anytime with the kolo 8 news now mobile app. You can download it free for apple or android from your phones app store. It could have been disastrous. An 8 foot tall boulder weighting an estimated 60 thousand pounds fell saturday night from the mountainside onto us highway 50 near the cave rock tunnel. This is video from today as the boulder sits next to a guard rail. Right below are homes. On tuesday construction will begin pieces with a hydraulic drill. It is a time consuming process. The Nevada Department to expect delays or can. What we are going to do traffic and put it on the eastbound side of the highway, running single lane traffic on both sides so it is going to be a lot slower. Ndot will be starting a five Million Dollar construction project in the beginning of may on the cave rock tunnel. It will replacing the steel mesh with a Larger Concrete barrier to hopefully catch more falling rocks. The concrete will be painted to blend in with the surrounding rock. Traffic will be down to one lane through cave rock from may till october of this year. The brackets are set for this weeks High School State basketball tournament plus an exciting day for the wolf pack Baseball Team, thanks to a former wolf pack baseball star after months of fan voting, renos United Soccer League franchise will officially be named on thursday the three remaining finalists are reno fc, reno united, and reno the name will be announced thursday at 2 pm at the whitney peak hotels base camp balcony. Doors open at 1 30 pm the event is open to the public thursday will also be the start of the division 1 State High School basketball tournament at Lawlor Events Center and the brackets are now set the northern champion carson senators will take on coronado out of the sunrise league. And the reno huskies have the pleasure of facing Bishop Gorman from the Sunset League on the girls side itll be Bishop Manogue the northern champs taking on Liberty High School from the sunrise league. And reno will face the centennial bulldogs. The division ia, 3, and 4 state tournaments begin friday meanwhile a heartbreaking loss for the wolf pack Basketball Team saturday at unlv. Marqueze coleman hit a 3 to put the pack ahead 8077 with just 2. 4 seconds remaining, but Patrick Mccaw answered the buzzer to send the game to overtime. Un lv went on to win 10291 in ot. Coleman posted a gamehigh 31 points and 10 rebounds in the loss. Eric cooper junior added a careerhigh 24, and cam oliver went for 14 points and 21 rebounds the pack will look to bounce back wednesday night against utah state tip off set for 7 pm at lawlor well a pretty cool experience for the wolf pack Baseball Team today getting a chance to visit the Texas Rangers spring Training Facility in phoenix as you may remember, former wolf pack star Chris Gimenez is now a member of the rangers no doubt he played a role in setting the visit up. The pack split their opening 4game series against northwestern over the weekend they will face Arizona State tomorrow in tempe well be right back. Tonight mostly clear, with a low around 30. Calm wind becoming north around 5 mph. Tuesday sunny, with a high near 53. Southeast wind 5 to 10 mph. Tuesday night mostly clear, with a low around 31. South wind around 5 mph. Wednesday mostly sunny, with a high near 64. Southeast wind around 5 mph. Wednesday night partly cloudy, with a low around 36. Thursday mostly sunny, with a high near 68. Thursday night partly cloudy, with a low around 36. Friday partly sunny, with a high near 69. Friday night mostly cloudy, with a low around 38. Saturday a slight chance of showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 62. Saturday night mostly cloudy, with a low arorond 36. Sunday partly sunny, with a high near 62. Thanks for watching kolo 8 news now. Please welcome todays contestants a High School Teacher from montreal, quebec, canada. A marketing project manager from chicago, illinois. And our returning champion, a data conversion manager from ogden, utah. Whose 3day cash winnings total. And now here is the host of jeopardy alex trebek [ cheers and applause ] thanks, johnny. Yeah, you saw our champion rolling his eyes a little as johnny was mentioning how much money hes won. He can win a lot more than that. You could also, maria or joshua. Lets see what happens in this half hour. Good luck. Followed by. Next. In each correct response. Followed by. Aha. Tim. Lets start with pin the star on the constellation for 200, please. Tim. What is sirius . No. Maria or joshua . [ beep ] what is canis minor . You have to go to the constellation. Tim, back to you. Same category for 400. Maria. Whats aquarius . Good. Same first last letter for 400. Maria. Whats negotiation . Thats it. Uh, same first last for 600. Joshua. What is a retainer . Thats right

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