3 bill we begin this 3 morning with an update to a story we have been following on news 4. A longstanding lawsuit over the splitting of reno and truckee meadows Fire Agencies is now settled. The lawsuit was filed in september of 2014 by the city over unresolved costs from the 2012 deconsolidation of the agencies. So, now that things are settled what does that mean for each side. Under the settlement, both sides have agreed to drop Financial Claims against the other. And the district will pay back Workers Compensation money it began withholding when reno filed the suit. In the end, truckee meadows will pay more workers comp. Plus interest to the city of reno. During yesterdays meeting. Mayor Hillary Schieve actually brought up the possibility of consolidating the agencies again. Heres what truckee meadows fire deputy chief tim leighton had to say about that. 3 whether its my thoughts or someone elses thoughts, once again its up the elected officials to set policy for both organizations and were going to follow the direction that they give and if thats the direction they choose thats the route we take. 3 bill as for the settlement. Mayor Hillary Schieve says she was so excited to make the announcement and prove that both the city and county could work together. And stop spending taxpayers money on this lawsuit. 3 samantha in a 4 to 2 vote. City Council Members also approved a 116thousand dollar donation for the Virginia LakeWater Quality project. The donation allows for less money to be used from the Capital Improvement project and will help clean up the lake and the surrounding environment crisis continues to be a nightmare for residents and state officials in michigan. Evidence shows lead may have been poisoning the water in flint for more than a year. But a state of emergency wasnt declared until three weeks ago. Lead poisoning has very serious and dire health consequences. The situation is being called a national disgrace. But this has happened in other American Cities before. Our water provider. The truckee meadows water authority. Or tmwa. Is weighing in on the issue. In this mornings on your side report. 3 sot could what happened in flint michigan happen here . The situation in flint michigan really would not be likely to happen here just because of the way our infrastructure is set up. Were a much newer infrastructure, we have no lead pipe and we really do have a consistent water source. samantha will raymond says the dirty water in flint should have sounded alarms that something was terribly wrong. They say a change in water source. Lead pipes and a mix of the wrong while truckee meadows has the same Regulatory Oversight as the flint facility. There is one big difference. Tmwa is community owned. Also. Raymond says in addition to the required regulatory testing. Tmwa does routine testing over and above what is required. 3 samantha to see the annual Water Quality reports. Visit our website at my news 4 dot com. 3 bill and samantha lets take a quick look outside. 3 bill, samantha 3 well toss it over to meteorologist tim studebaker. Your forecast for today. Clouds and sun along with breezy conditions. Increa sinn winds through the day into the night. Very mild temperatures as well. Any shower activity should stay mostly north of renosparks during the day today. Right now. A quiet start to the day with partly cloudy skies and seasonably cool temperatures. Current temperatures are seasonably cool. Here are the current temperatures. Looking for mild temperatures this afternoon. Shower activity well north and west of renosparks should mostly stay in those areas. Many of us stay dry today. But that not the case heading into the weekend. A futurecast. 3 3 sam on the crime police are looking for a fifth vehicle that may have been involved in a crash turned deadly shooting. Monday evening. A Reno Police Officer shot a man who allegedly took out a knife after being involved in a multivehicle crash. Sparks Police Detective ken gallop says the suspect. Sergio alvaradomorales. Held the knife to his own throat after the crash near meadowood mall. Gallop said the man moved toward officers after they gave warnings and used a taser. Thats when they reportedly shot him. 3 sam no one else was seriously injured. Several reno officers have been placed on administrative leave as Sparks Police take over the investigation. 3 bill and University Police are investigating a report of a robbery and assault that happened yesterday afternoon. They say it occurred in the west Stadium Parking garage about 3 oclock. Police say theyre interviewing the victim, and are still trying to figure out which of her belongings were suspects that were seen leaving the scene, heading north on virginia street. They are described as two white males wearing jeans and masks. Anyone with information can call University Police at the number on your screen. 3 samantha making legal news this morning. A federal judge has denied a new trial for a nevada trucking company. After a crash killed six people in 2011. Battle mountain based john davis trucking is now ordered to pay more than 4 point5 Million Dollars in damages to amtrak after one of their trucks crashed into a train. It happened about 60 miles outside reno on highway 95. The jurors concluded an inattentive truck driver. Who was also killed. Was primarily to blame for the crash. 3 samantha and a jury has sided with the peppermill resort spa casino in an 8 Million Dollar trade secrets case brought by grand sierra resort. The reno Gazette Journal reports that the verdict was handed down yesterday. After a twoweek trial. Grand sierra had filed its lawsuit in 2013 after a corporate analyst for reset key to gather information from its slot machines. State investigators found the analyst had also collected data from at least 10 other nevada casinos. Peppermill was fined 1 Million Dollars. Grand sierra can still appeal the jurys decision. 3 bill an annual beer festival in northern nevada is of legal age this year. Brew haha is turning 21 and the community is invited to celebrate. News 4s alex cannito is live with a look at what you can expect at this years event. 3 alex live 3 the brew haha beer festival and Sierra Arts Foundation fundraiser is finally of legal drinking age the 21st annual event will be held on friday, january 29, 2016 at the nugget casino resort, starting at 7 p. M. For vip Ticket Holders and 8 p. M. For general admission Ticket Holders. Your ticket to brew haha gets you a commemorative pint tumbler, live music, allyoucan responsibly drink tastings and more for the past 20 years, brew haha has helped generate muchneeded funding for the Sierra Arts Foundation, which provides support for area art programs such as arts in education, the elder care Concert Series and the arts integration project. The event raised 34,679 for the Sierra Arts Foundation in 2015. The nugget casino resort works closely with sierra arts event. Local and regional beverage distributors donate all of the beer for the event. More than 100 different brews will be available for unlimited tastings at brew haha. Eventgoers will be able to sample seasonal and microbrew varieties that they wont be able to try anywhere else vip Ticket Holders will gain early access to the event at 7 p. M. , giving them an extra hour to enjoy the delicious brews offered at brew haha. Theyll also be entered into a special raffle to win one of 10 great prizes vips will enjoy special seating and the chance to chat with brewers before the general admission ticket 3 alex live 3 reporting live, alex cannito. Back to you. 3 samantha happening today. Wild garlic pizza and pub is hosting its first pizzart event. Benefiting Verdi Elementary School the event will take place at its newest location. 170 south virginia street. It runs from 7 to 9 tonight. For 20 dollars. Each person will enjoy a variety of hors doeuvres. Plus 2 adult beverages. Local artist billy brooks will also host an art exhibit. Featuring several of his works. A portion of tonights proceeds will benefit verdi elementary. A school that lacks in funding compared to other Washoe County schools because it has only 200 students. Compared to more than 500 students at other schools. 3 swoosh sound 3 bill while much of the country is still digging out from the blizzard. Damage south of the equator. We have the story coming up after the break. 3 sam plus. Hillary Clintons Campaign is arguing she never sent or received classified information through her private server. What constitutes a classified document . Well explain after 3 former secretary of state Hillary Clinton says she did nothing wrong by sending or receiving emails on her private server during her of state. Its caused controversy over how our Government Agencies communicate. bill National Correspondent jeff barnd talked to two experts about how government secrets are classified. And how clintons case seems to raise more questions than give answers. 3 this executive order signed more than 5 years ago by president obama lays out guidelines of how all federal employees decide what documents get classified. graphic the original Classification Authority determines that the unauthorized disclosure of information reasonably could be expected to result in security. s0t kim holmes for barnd ftp politics 2 01 any information thats in those documents is by definition classified. So, youre not supposed to convey that information through a non classified source or medium. 2 09 vo and according to dr. Holmesa former assistant secretary of state under George W Busha unless a federal agency pursues a complex declassification processa the data remain markeda and classified. sot vo but mrs clinton maintains the emails in question on her personal server were not marked classified. sot po139th hillary 16 it doesnt change the fact that i never sent or received any material marked classified 21 vo dr holmes says an unclassified email can later be classified after being sentbut its rare when the information threatens National Security he says if the documents were marked classified and those markings disappeared during secretary clintons tenurea they were likely deleted sot 5 11 holmes that does not information was not classified. 5 15 vo the Intelligence Community has many levels of highly classified email systems. Including a pentagonrun network of secret and top bridge all systems are airgapped a meaning you cant email from one level to the othera yet more than 1300 emails on secretary clintons home server reportedly contain classified and even topsecret data. sot shaffer on hillary 2 08 to transer infnfmation between the 2 systems, you have to physically take documents, stick em into a computer and transfer them or scan them in. 2 15 vo mrs. Clinton is forging ahead just days from the iowa caucus. She says shes answered every question and will continue to do so. In washingtona im jeff barnd 3 bill and sam well toss it 3 over to meteorologist tim studebaker. 3 for today. Clouds and sun with increasing winds. And an isolated shower is possible start to the day with partly cloudy skies and seasonably cool temperatures. Current temperatures are seasonably cool. Here are the current temperatures. Looking for mild temperatures this afternoon. Shower activity well north and west of renosparks should mostly stay in those areas. Many of us stay dry today. But that not the case heading into the weekend. A look at that coming up on futurecast. On futurecast. Most moisture stays north of us today. With increasing winds especially into the night tonight. Increasing rain chances into friday at most elevations. With showers continuing through the day into the night on and off in nature. Changing to snow friday night at Higher Elevations with snow showers mixing in with rain showers possible down to the valley floor by saturday morning into the afternoon. Your forecast for today. Clouds and sun along with breezy conditions. Increasinn winds through the day into the night. Very mild temperatures as well. Any shower activity should stay mostly north of renosparks during the day today. Shower chances continue friday through sunday with snow showers mixing in depending on elevation. Things quiet down as we head 3 tim 3 it seemed there was water everywhere yesterday parts of southeast australia. Cars were submerged and buildings caused flash flooding outside melbourne. State Emergency Services received almost 500 calls for help. Several people had to be rescued. As homes and businesses were flooded. Clean up continues today. With homeowners and restaurant workers returning to survey the damage. 3 swoosh sound 3 bill new developments overnight. Concerning the takeover of a wildlife refuge up in oregon. What ammon bundy is telling his supporters this morning. 3 samantha plus. More harsh words between gop candidates donald trump and ted cruz. The battle heats up before tonights president ial debate. 3 tim and heres a look at your flight delays this morning. 3 stinger music sam 3 its all the buzz in politics this morning. Without donald trump. Will being a no show help or hurt him in iowa . Samantha Tracie Potts has that story from washington this morning. 3 new this am swoosh sound 3 tracie added about 18 off the top. Latest poll info Donald Trumps feud with fox news and anchor megan kelly has led to one less 3 candidate on stage tonight. the Oreilly Factor fox news super burned in sot donald trump r president ial candidate 07 09 i dont like being taken advantage of. Fox confirms there will be no empty podium. Trump tells South Carolina voters its what the us shouldve done with the Iran Nuclear Deal sot donald trump r president ial candidate 17 21 you just walk out. You leave. Thats what you do. Ted cruz challenged trump to a oneonone saturday hes even reserved a spot. Trump has a competing event. sot ted cruz r president ial candidate 28 36 he doesnt want to answer questions from the men and women of iowa about how his record doesnt drawing attention to where cruz was born, trump tweets can we do it in canada . Other candidates are ready to move on sot marco rubio r president ial candidate greatest show on earth. This is not a show. This is serious Chris Christie main stage sot Chris Christie r president ial candidate 531 08 did i whine and moan . Did i refuse to show up . Did i hold my breath and stomp my feet . No, i said give me a podium and a microphone. Flash you dont walk away, you stand up and fight. reporter live tag theres no clear answer this morning whether iowa voters will be offended. Or impressed. Im tracie potts in washington, now back to you. 3 samantha this morning. Ammon bundy is asking his supporters to stand down, go home and let those who have been arrested continue their fight in the courts. Bundy and seven others arrested for their part in occupying a government building in oregon made their initial Court Appearances yesterday. Bundy and the others are currently conspiracy to impede or injure an officer. A detention hearing will be held for the defendants tomorrow. To determine if theyll be released. 3 samantha meanwhile. Three more protesters occupying an oregon wildlife refugee have been taken into police custody. The three turned themselves in last night. Arrested are 43yearold Jason Patrick of georgia, 45yearold Duane Leo Ehmer of oregon and 34yearold Dylan Wade Anderson of utah. So far. 11 members of the group that has occupied the Malheur National wildlife refuge have been arrested. An occupier says that seven people remain on the refuge. 3 bill today is International Data privacy day. Its observed every year on january 28th and is intended to serve as a reminder to protect and safeguard private data. The council of europe initiated Data Privacy Day back in 20 07. If you want tips on keeping your online information safe, you can go to staysafeonline dot org for suggestions. Capital is cracking down on drivers who didnt move their cars before last weekends snow storm. Washington dc parking officials have issued more than a Million Dollars in parking tickets. Levying an additional 65thousand in fines. Also. The city is towing more than 600 vehicles from city streets. Tickets run 250 dollars. Tow charges another hundred dollars and the city charges a daily fee of 25 dollars until the car is picked up. The mayor had warned people to get their vehicles out of the way and off snow emergency routes before the storm started. 3 swoosh sound 3 bill a local teacher is being honored for her outstanding work. In the next half hour of news 4 today. Well introduce you to our exscellence in Education Awa