Very often. It is groundhogs day. Guess what . This dude did not see his shadow this morning, meaning spring is right around the corner. That is according to the fork will the fork low. The folklore. While the u. S. And below average temperatures in the february temps went above average in march, and the great news is this time the groundhog didnt bite the year off remember . Hes like, let me hear what youve to say. When you think to get him think to not put a groundhog up to your ear . We got meteorologist tim studebaker. Good morning. A lot of time its east coast centric, so keep in mind when we have a warm up on the east coast, that often leads to a cooldown on the west coast. If hes right on the east coast, well see what happens in the west. 34 degrees for the high in renosparks. Probably not very high impact. In nature. Better chance tomorrow. 19 degrees in town right now. Partly cloudy skies. Call winds and 74 percent humidity. Air quality in a moment in the moderate category. No restrictions on burning here in well keep an eye on air quality. A man dead after his car slid into a light post yesterday afternoon. The crash happened on 395 southbound. Troopers tell us the car involved was a silver honda civic registered in california. The vehicle was occupied by an adult male that his identity not yet released. It didnt appear to be too i see when they arrived on scene and an investigation is still ongoing at this point. If youve been in downtown reno as of late, you probably noticed significant progress on the virginia street bridge project. Crews are one step closer to completing it. Set to open in may. Project managers say the road is in the final stages of completion. Video right now, this is a time lapse from the city of reno. Basically, a snapshot of what the old bridge looked like about eight months ago until now. Bridge roadway portions and sidewalk concrete portions poured so now overhead utilities will be a main focus this month. Thats a very important activity because in order to keep the project going, weve got to remove those polls to finish the concrete sidewalks and the railings. The main reason for the project is to improve Flood Control in downtown reno. After the big storm this past weekend, significant river flows couldve been an issue for the river. Luckily, crews were prepared for the wet weather. If you want an update on whats happening each week, you can go to the city of renos website. Theyve got fulltime lapse video. Its pretty neat to watch. You can also check out the and news around the city. According to the daily free press, about 60 percent of residents voted in favor of nevadas medical marijuana initiative. Councilman john patrickbryce says the city is priding itself of revenue and keeping service from residents. Well have the numbers for you with ryan kern in just a bit. It has a downside for drivers. The icy roads make for treacherous driving conditions if youre dealing with the aftermath of a car crash. Do you know your rights in getting your vehicle repaired . Nevada has laws designed to protect you. For example, if aftermarket parts are used, nevada law requires your Insurance Company and the body shop to tell you whats going on. The body shop also need your consent. You also have other rights to be typically, one thing customers dont realize is they have the choice to go over what theyd like to have repaired. For more on bodyshop repairs and your rights, visit our website. Weve got all these websites. Fox reno. Com. A new bill recently passed into keeping preschoolers across the state healthy. Nevada lawmakers decided to take action. The solution is to help preschoolers create healthier habits. The new bill starting to be implemented in daycare is in preschools, but one preschool has already been on board with these proposed changes. The bill requires daycare facilities to provide active officials at sunflower preschool set aside to a half hours of recess time per day as well as provide two healthy snacks for students. The schools director says its important they teach habits now so they can be more successful mentally and physically later in life. If we grow our own foods in the backyard as well, we have the children bring in tomato plants and vegetables for them to understand how the process and the Natural Foods help their bodies be strong. We pack their lunch but the teachers here monitor what they are eating as far as their grow foods go first. For example, if i put chips in her lunch, she gets those last. Coming up, we take a closer look at how sunflower preschool is helping their students create Healthy Habits at a young age. Back to you. Thank you. Not too early to think about spring planting. Today the university of nevada certified master gardeners are hoping you get the most out of your garden. They are offering the latest in their series. Tonights class is called selecting and caring for fruit trees. Michael janik here in northern nevada will give tips on fruit trees election as well as planting, maintenance, soil, and test management. The class is free and runs from 6 00 to 8 00 this evening. Turning to politics. A president ial campaign that brought many surprises come delivered a few more last night in the iowa caucuses. Republican ted cruz scored an unexpected win over donald trump who came in second. Marco rubio also all performed the polls. He came in a close third. And Hillary Clinton beating Bernie Sanders by a razor thin margin in a nailbiter that had politicos guessing into the Early Morning hours. Now the focus turns to New Hampshire where the nations first primary takes place next week. Courageous conservative reporter ted cruz celebrating his big win in the iowa caucuses, but if you thought it sounded like a victory speech, think again. This was a stump speech. Crews looking ahead and more than a thousand miles to the east where New Hampshire will hold the nations first primary in just one week. The sun rises tomorrow. This campaign will take the next step, return to the great state of New Hampshire. Marco rubio came in third in iowa but exceeded expectations hampshire primary. This is the moment they said would never happen. Foremost they told us we had no chance. Other top contenders also putting iowa in the rearview in hightailing to the granite state. Some arriving in the dark of night. Rick santorum forgoing the new thirdplace be there in 2012 will help them during tuesdays primary later this month. Meanwhile, Chris Christie was even in iowa monday, instead kicking off his New Hampshire bus tour. This as Mike Huckabee and Martin Omalley met lowell returns with decisions to drop out of the president ial race entirely. Well, lawmakers in one state trying to raise the legal smoking age. We tell you where this is happening you can light and welcome back. Time is 7 14. Right now its 19 degrees in renal. Lawmakers in Washington State attempting to raise the legal smoking age. Reporter not the first attempt i state lawmakers to raise the legal smoking age to 21. This time theres a bipartisan movement to do it. It doesnt matter what Political Party you belong to or where in the state you live. This bill to pass. The use flavorful juices. Advocates claim theyve been can provide 18 to 21yearold to tobacco and effective road to wean them off nicotine. Its very likely it would become its also those 18 to health say are buying them for kids. The reason were doing this bill is because 90 percent of adults who give minors tobacco are under the age of 21. The House Committee but neither would cover military bases where the smoking age limit is 18 for sales reservations. Unfortunately, its complicated. Why is the only state that has limit is 21. Cosby says the encounter with extemple University Employee andrea cant stand was consensual. Pet issues, a problem with cause these made a decade ago with the former District Attorney in Montgomery County stating that if cosby testified fully in a deposition in the 2005 civil suit, it would never be used against him. Again here, keyword civil versus criminal. An ongoing story has reached a happy conclusion. A retired Police Officer in marietta, ohio will be able to keep his k9 partner after all. Matthew hickey developed a close bond over three years of working together. Police force after 30 years of service, it couldnt just buy him and taken home. Under ohio law, he was considered City Property and had to be sold at auction. Go fund me page raised more than 60,000 to help him by the dog. Far more than he actually needed. Health authorities in nicaragua launched a program to fumigate homes and neighborhoods to kill mosquitoes that led to the zika seven people confirmed infected with the virus in the country. Is scheduled to hold an emergency meeting in geneva today yesterday, rather, on the rapidly spreading zika virus. It will look at ways to combat the disease and look into a possible birth the virus is caused by mosquitoes vaccine right now. Who estimates 3 million to 4 Million People will be infected this year. Tim, over to you. Good morning to you. A pretty good winter so far. To date at the airport in reno, we talked about the snow in the mountains quite a bit. Lets talk about renal real quick. To date so far at the airport in reno, the averages 14. 1, so thats a. 8 above average year to date so far. Season to date that is. So far water yeartodate means since october 1st 5. 65 inches of precept at the airport. Reno. 19 degrees in town. Winds are calm and 74 percent humidity. Temperatures now in the Single Digits in the teens for most of us. We drive tonight for many of us across the area. Headed into tomorrow, another chance for additional scattered snow showers, once again. Watching for those. After that, the 7day goes completely quiet for us for the rest of the 7day and temperatures actually will be pretty mild by the time we get to the weekend. Northern zones topping into the 30s for the highs today, generally light winds across the area. The question. Western nevada topping out into the 30s today with 35 in lovelock, 25 in round mountain. Into the 20s to near 30 degrees for most of the lake today. Thats one of the areas theres a higher chance for snow showers. About a 30 percent chance for the tahoe area as well as the sierra. 20 percent chance for far western nevada. Snow showers is any will be a very isolated in nature. Heading toward wednesday, a little more scattered, especially up the mountains for a much better chance for snow showers. 60 percent tomorrow and into the sierra in general. As i mentioned before, after that the 7day forecast goes very quiet. Partly cloudy skies to mostly sunny skies. Perhaps patty freezing fog in the morning hours. Thats something to keep an eye much milder temperatures into the weekend. Were back to the 50s by saturday in renosparks. Thank you for that. Still ahead, dramatic video of a surfer falling from a huge wave in hawaii. What he says happened with this 7 24. Right now 19 degrees in reno. Turning this morning, the recent el nio has made things tough for surfers in hawaii. This video posted of a professional surfer. Now, this is what happened. He fell about 40 feet well trying to ride a giant wave in maui. He told a surfer it felt like being hit by a car. He also said he was blinded for a sea spray before falling. With that. Hes still okay. Turning to a standing on her face the page. A mom in oregon is suing the School District after a teacher allegedly threatened to push her son down the stairs. Sean is the mom of an openly gay and disabled student in oregons hillsboro School District. The lawsuit claims during an assembly her son was discussing a student he thought was cute with a friend. After hearing this, the teacher allegedly turned around, told him to shut up, and threatened to kill them and throw them down the stairs. School officials put the teacher on administrative leave after the students complained. Some other students have supported the teacher saying that he is a sarcastic teacher who was just joking. They even started a hash tag. Its now launched on facebook and organizers say theyll be putting we are asking all of you on facebook what you think about it. Is it okay for a teacher to talk that way to students . Even if it is just sarcastic. Wed love to hear if to say. Postercomments on her Facebook Page. Up next, local businesses suffering due to a growing problem in northern nevada. Well tell the annual Washoe CountySchool District state of Education Address happened last night. What the district managed to achieve during the last school year. Day cares across the state saying goodbye to video games and hello to a healthier lifestyle. How the younger students are learning Healthy Habits coming up the river a little higher. The science . Well tell you about the latest snow survey and how it could be good news for this year. Fox with bill frankmore, samantha boatman, melissa carlson, and whether with meteorologist tim studebaker. This is mornings on fox. Good tuesday morning, everyone. 7 30 on your tuesday. Kind of the column after the storm in more ways than one. Not only the storms out over the the weekend but also the caucus in iowa officially in the books. Ted cruz coming out on top for the republican side in a nailbiter between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. A lot of people talking about how close it was and what happens next. Here we go to New Hampshire. People are saying it is bernies state so it would be see what happens. The last time someone one in iowa on the republican side and actually became president was george w. Bush, so its been 16 years. So the Donald Trump Campaign may be looking at it that way to stay positive. Also, marco rubio had pretty impressive the numbers. Coming in third. Its also officially over for Martin Omalley. Hes done. He said, i tried my best. He really did, but hard to go up against hillary and bernie. Some good numbers on the way with ryan kern when it comes to snow pack. I think it was that final day of january. Final day of january. That. Dot sunday really put us over the top. Probably not a big chance to add to the numbers over the next few days. 30 percent chance tomorrow for some very isolated to scattered snow showers. Anything out there will be few and far between, probably pretty low impact. A few flakes from time to time. Outside of that, the 7day forecast goes very dry honest and very quiet and even quite warm by the weekend. 34 in town for the high leader today. Thats not one but it will be one this time of year once we get to the weekend. Light winds for today. 19 degrees at the moment here in renosparks the calm winds and partly to mostly cloudy skies. Air quality at last check is moderate. The burn coated screen. No, no, restrictions on burning in the truckee meadows or reno sparks area. Clouds increasing as well as a few snow showers. Southwest we have some showers pushing through right now. Well continue to have this shower warm temps on the way by the weekend. Water Officials Say snow levels are looking good for this time of year. The latest snowpack survey happened yesterday off mount rose highway. Ryan kern joins us live with the details. Reporter good morning. We are standing behind truckee river. Usually this time of year at least over the last several years you have seen this water frozen and not moving. The reason it froze is because of falling like this. Check this out. Thats where we are looking this morning. The numbers are pretty good so far. Doesnt take a scientist to know that if you have lived in the area. We are seeing higher levels than previous years. From the measurements we saw yesterday, they are pretty good. 104 inches of snow. What that means is we are at 124 percent of the average that we would see at this time of year through out the history of data collecting as far as water and snow is concerned. Thats a good thing. Lets compare to where we are right now. Somewhere at the end of april right now just for the sake of this conversation. 78 percent of what we would want to see. Still have a couple months to get to that 100 percent mark or even better. Some state officials who did the snow survey tell us we thought the exact numbers back in 2013 this time of year and then we saw a very hot spring so the snow melted off and it didnt pack up like they wouldve wanted to, so they are staying optimistic but aware that this doesnt necessarily mean its a nondrought year. Certainly, it looks great. One sign, the snow that we got in the last storm over the weekend 9 percent of what we see as far as the snowpack goes. Well talk about what that means and what that has done for a local ski resort and a number they have not seen in the past four years of drought. Until then, back to you. Looking good. Thank you so much. Counterfeit money is a growing problem and local businesses are suffering major losses because of it. The issue has become so prevalent in our area, the United States secret service is partnering with secret witness to track down these criminals. The resident secret Service Agent in reno says all of these counterfeit reports were filed in just the last two weeks. Its a frustrating reality for people trying to run a successful business. The rule is the last Person Holding it gets stuck with it, so the retailers are taking it in, the bank is catching it, and then losing that money. A recent example, on january 7th an unidentified man pass a fake bill at the grand sierra resort. Investigators say six other fraudulent 50 bills were used as the peppermill on different days in december. All of bills had similar characteristics leading investigators to believe that