Thank you for joining us here on mornings on fox 1. 7 00. As we started off at the top, alex said big game this weekend. Yeah. A lot of people prepping for the game and the food, of course, a big part as well. They say one of the best ways to buy a tv is not actually before the game. During . No. After the game. Because all the people who bought the big tv before the game are like, sorry, return it. Then they mark down the prices. If youre looking for an awesome tv, neighbor you should wait until after the game. You can go to costco, get your tv, get the samples they didnt sell. There you go. Going to be a nice ride, too, for anybody headed over the hill this weekend potentially go to see the game. Tim study baker joins us with a look at what we can expect on the roadways. Not too bad. We are looking at a dry trend Going Forward. So that does mean some easier travel if you are headed anywhere else throughout the region for that matter. This time of year, too, we start to see those longer Daylight Hours, and thats exactly what were seeing. Todays day Daylight Hours, 10 hoursers 19 minutes. By the middle of the month, up to 10 hours, 43 minutes. Beginning the next month, 6 31 in the morning, the sun will rise, and 5 52 in the afternoon it cents. Over 11 hours of daylight by the time we get to the beginning of march. These times are valid for reno and south. It may be little different if youre farther east or west of us. 40 degrees in reno sparks for the high later today. Partly, mostly cloudy skies. 37 the high in carson city. Light winds across the area. Snow showers from last night in our or the earn zones are gone. Theyve already moved through Eastern Nevada as well a. Trier trend Going Forward. Watch for patchy morning fog, freezing fog at that next few mornings. 7day forecast is coming up. Back to you. A reno man is behind bars this morning after allegedly hitting a Reno Police Officer with his car and driving away. This happened several months ago. Officials say 25yearold Russell Roberts is now facing felony charges, including attempted murder on a Police Officer. Now, the incident happened last august when the citizen told the officer that roberts had just assaulted someone with a weapon. Roberts then used his black Mercedes Benz to hit the officer and leave the scene. Officials say the officer suffered nonlifethreatening injuries, and Officials Say roberts surrendered to authorities without incident. Two burglary suspects were caught on camera at the empire ranch golf course in carson city. Heres the surveillance photos of those suspects. Carson city sheriffs deputies say they believe theres one male and one fee male suspect in the case. Authorities say the suspect stole large quantities of food and alcohol from the golf course. If you can identify these suspects or know anything to call secret witness at 3224900. Police are looking for two men in connection with a homicide that took place saturday at the beforely lodge in South Lake Tahoe. These are two composite sketches of the two male suspects. Police say the men in their either late 20s or early 30s attempted to rob a man named dennis wright, junior, and his girlfriend. Both of them are from amador county. The couple drove to South Lake Tahoe to sell 100pounds of marijuana to potential buyers, according to authorities. After a physical altercation happened, one or both of the robbers shot at wright. He was struck multiple times, and was pronounced dead at a local South Lake Hospital later the. Police say the suspects trove away in a car, but they dont have a confirmed description. However, the suspects may be associated with a 2004 or older tancolored chrysler concord. Its similar to the car youre seeing there on your screen. If you have any information about this deadly drug witness line at the number listed on the bottom of your screen. You will, as always, of course, remain anonymous. Interstate 5 northbound is back open after a rollover crash that happened overnight. It happened just after midnight on the interstate near the galena creek bridge. Nhp shut down the interstate so care flight could land to take the victim to the hospital. Its caused significant amounts of damage to the roads. Were talking about pot holes. You may have noticed them popping up several different areas past several weeks. The city of r,no is asking citizens to contact reno direct at 334info, that number on the bottom of your screen, to report any potholes you may see. City Officials Say repairs will be made within the next week, depending on the weather. And heads up if youre driving in washoe valley. The bellevue road bridge over the bridge is being seismically retro fitted to stablize the bridge. Other improvements are also planned in this project. Officials say the overpass and ramps will be closed for about three months. Traffic in the area will be detoured. City officials are joining forces today to make sure residents at a local motel are living in a safe environment. Local authorities visited the reno casino downtown on north virginia street. They say they found mice, dock roaches, a lack of ongoing maintenance, health inspectors, Code Enforcement officers, fire officials, and more will be inspecting the 36unit building this morning. Fox 11 will be there during the inspection to see whats being done about those poor living conditions. Making news around the silver city, a group is trying to get a patrol on the ballot that aims to bring more electricity providers to nevada. The group is called nevadaens for Affordable Clean Energy choices. They filed a petition yesterday with the nevada secretary of states office. Clear, on any court conditions, supporters would node to gather more than 55,000 signatures to put it up for vote in november. The measure would amend the constitution to prohibit illegal liesed monopoly for electric service. It would require the legislature to pass legal cause that clear the way for an open market come mid2023. Theres a big change underway. A viewer tells fox 11 that humbold county justice of the peace lenny northcut was not conducting samesex weddings, and asked if you tried to schedule one with that judge, you will be told she is quote unavailable. Judge l,ttie northcut served as jop for 30 years. The judge tells fox 11 this is not about samesex weddings. Its about all weddings. Her office is no longer conducting them, period, due to limited resources. So for now, if you want to get married at the courthouse in winnemuka, the referral to a person who can officiate. Theres big changes in store for burning man ticket this is year. Event organizers announced how they will price tickets after state lawmakers enacted a 9 Live Entertainment tax last year. Organizers challenged the Nevada Department of taxation, saying the event does not fall under the Live Entertainment category. Now, the amounts add up to an additional 34 for a regular 390 ticket. The toptier category of tickets will cost 1200 in order to keep regular and low income prices about the same. And about 70,000 burners flocked to the Black Rock Desert in 2014. If you would like to learn more about how this procross will work, theres a detailed article on our sister stations web site. That, of course, is mynews4. Com. A carson city sausage factory temporarily closed its doors, but theyre back open. Alex scanito joins us live with a look at the companys history, what changes we can expect to reporter right now, we are talking about everything super bowlfood related. The food is just as important as the game itself. Were in here with the owners of cahini family provisions to talk a little bit about what you can cook up on the big day. Lets start with breakfast. What is going on with this dish . This right here is what we call a kitchensink sausage. Its a unique sausage we came up with. Its a pork sausage with potato, onion, pepper, and egg inside the sausage. Its great by itself, great with Something Like eggs and fruit. Its a great allinone sausage thats a fun recipe and delicious. Reporter lets talk about this one thats a hot dog. Unique type of sausage. Its a tri tip beef sausage. We take whole tritips. We use them as the main ingredient. Its great on a bun, by itself, reporter we were talking. Were both italian. A staple in most italian homes, bell peppers, onions, sausage. Talk about this dish. Very, very simple the. We take peppers, onions, and saute them up. A little bit of white wine, olive oil. Then brown the sausage, put it all together. Its great again by itself. For those that dont want a bun or bread, or we put them on a bun, and makes for an awesome, awesome lunch. Reporter and super bowl, you meet a lot of unhealthy foods. Tell us about this health year option . A healthy option for a super bowl sunday. Its a southwest chicken, hall pain owe, cheddar brat wurst salad on top of baby kale with corn, black beans, a little bit of tortilla strips, tomatoes, avocados. Reporter all of this food is absolutely delicious. If you want to buy the sausage, you can go to you have a chance to win a super bowl spread. Foxreno. Com, to learn more about that. Reporting live, alex knito. Back to you. Homeless People Living on the bayfront have been relocated. Is necessary coming up with that selfdescribed socialist ahead in the polls, the stakes are high for Hillary Clinton. Reed bignon reports. I have an uphill climb, and im going to climb as high and hard as i can, was because i want to make my case for the people of New Hampshire. Reporter Hillary Clinton is casting herself as the underdog in New Hampshire. But Bernie Sanders insists hes the one battling tough. He said its clintons stomping ground. Ran here in 2008, and she won. Her husband ran here several times before that. So this is her Fourth Campaign in our family here in New Hampshire. Reporter wednesdays New Hampshire town hall was a clash of the titles, as the political rivals fought for another important credential in the historically liberal state. I am a progressive who gets results. Secretary clinton said, some people call me a moderate, and i proudly say that i am a moderate. I love moderate. But you cant be a moderate and a progressive. They are different. Reporter New Hampshire holds a nations first president ial primary in less than a week, and it remains to be seen if clintons pitch will win over democrats. A recent poll shows sanders a doubledigit lead. Im reed bineon reporting. Julian assange may surrender to police tomorrow. Assang, is wanted for questioning about an alleged Sexual Assault that happened in out on the wiki leaks twitter account earlier this morning said he is, quote, or he would, quote, accept arrest by British Police if the un plan nell did not rule in his favor. Demonstrators turned out in droves wednesday in San Francisco in support of the citys homeless population. San francisco relocated about two dozen homeless People Living on the waterfront in anticipation of the super bowl, of course, on sunday. Other claims that authorities kicked them out of the area near the citys convention center, where they had been camping. How to address the 7,000 Homeless People that live in San Francisco has been a thorny issue for the city, especially since the alleged killing of a concertgoer by three transient residents in october, and then, on tuesday, a Police Officer was stabbed near a homeless camp. Say they will allow Staff Members who are pregnant or might become pregnant to opt out of flights heading to areas where the zika virus is a concern. Care years say pilot can switch routes with no repper buss, and the World Health Organization has declared a Global Health emergency because of the mosquitoborne virus. The u. S. Center for Disease Control and prevention now recommends pregnant women avoid location where is the virus currently exists. Zeka has been linked to neurological problems, and babies being born, excoo was me, with small skulls. Theres no treatment or vaccine for this virus. After years of negotiations, ministers from a dozen nations signed the Trance Pacific Partnership on thursday. The trade pac creates a free pacific nations that together worlds economy. Negotiators finally struck a deal in october after years of gap ling with concerns their own home countries. Some japanese businesses were concerned cheaper american imports would hurt their domestic sales. Now, the pac does not include china, which has reached its own trade deals with foreign governments in recent years. Switching gears, looking at our forecast for this thursday, hi. Good morning. We have patchy fog possible in a few spots as a result of that recent snowfall not too long ago. We had a batch of snow come through overnight last night, the evening hours into the overnight hours for northern zones. That is now gone, but patchy fog remains a possibility this morning in spots truckie, Sierra Valley locations as well as into North Central, north Eastern Nevada. Other than that, a pretty quiet pattern setting up for us with Cool Temperatures for now, warming up a bit by the weekend. Warmer into the middle of next week in a moment. Partly, mostly cloudy skies, Single Digits in tonapaw. 20s for some of us. 27 in reno. We do have clouds out there, partly to mostly cloudy skies across most of the viewing area. And the snow from last night came through last night mostly north of i80, which is where we were expecting most of that activity, and continue to push out to central and Eastern Nevada overnight last night. Now its out into utah. There was a little bit hanging on into the Ruby Mountains in elko county. That is gone as well. What were left with is partly to mostly cloudy skies for the day today. Still chilly temperatures, into the 30s for nearby nevada. Western nevada into the 30s to near 40 degrees in a couple of spots. Light winds in general. Not much expected in the way of winds for the next few days. Into the 30s to near 40 degrees around the lake as well. With 40 at south lake for the high today. Same story for western nevada. Most elevations are looking very similar to today, upper 0s, 40 degrees. Reno. The only thing were going to watch Going Forward, morning patchy fog each morning is a possibility, also inversions to set up once again. If they do, air quality and burn code. Not too many worries with that moderate air quality. Temperatures are going to warm up quite a bit toward the weekend and especially next week. Lower 50s in reno sparks by saturday. Upper 50s, low 60s at the end of that 7day forecast. Over to you. Coming up next, fitbits are now mandatory for students to use at an oklahoma university. Stay with us. He sent out fake fly years, saying ben carson was dropping out of the race and trump was in favor of obama care. Trump has called for a new election, and he wants and he wants cruzs results to be nullified. Also trending on twit per morning, donald trump was two hours late to an Arkansas Campaign event wednesday after his jet was forced to make an Emergency Landing in tennessee. Trumps flight was en route to little rock when reported engine problems, and was forced to divert the plane landed safely. Faa is investigating. Turning now to whats trending on our Facebook Page. Fitbits are now mandatory for students at an oklahoma university. They apparently take exercise pretty seriously at orel rob efforts university in tulsa. All students are required to meet strict finance goals, and are graded on how well they do. All freshmen are required to wear the finance monitors. Students required to average 10,000 steps per day, and 150 minutes of intense activity. The data comprised a portion of their grade in education is based off of this fitbit and what do they do. The super bowl is is a big moneymaker. Tell you exactly how much money the nfl is expected to take in this year. Thats coming up in our consumer news. And after a Police Officer pulls you over, you generally wont preponderate them to do you any first. Fallon couple. 7 30. Hopefully your morning is off to a great day. And every day is Something Special here in the u. S. Seems like theres a day for everything. Well today is National Thank a mail carrier day. One day out of the year set ide to appreciate the person who brings mail to your house six days a week. It is on served err year on february 4th. Theres been Mail Delivery Service in america since before there even was an america. First organized delivery was letters established by the Second Continental Congress in 1775, and maybe even give them a little special thank you today wit