It is fat tuesday. This is the day that you are supposed to indulge. Get it all out. Yes. Indulge before lent starts tomorrow, so a big party down south in louisiana and new orleans and up here as well. Weve got some events going on, all for a good cause. Kind of coinciding with that tuesday. We will check in with alex with more on that. First though, lets talk about the having. Is the perfect way to say it. Temperatures on the way keeping in mind that it renosparks average high this time going for the low to mid 60s over the next several days. Record highs to show you just close we are. The first couple days today and tomorrow are not all that close to record highs, but still very warm nonetheless. Thursday only 3 degrees away from that record, and friday 1 degrees away. 66 is the forecast high for friday. The record of all time on fridays date stands at 67 degrees. Only 1 degree away. We could be threatening that record area 61 in town for the high later today. 50s in carson city, and an inversion is out there. The air quality has not really been all that bad yet but will keep an eye on it. Moderate air quality and a green burn code with no restrictions on burning. 7day forecast coming up with extremely warm temperatures. Over to you. 7 03 is the time here on this tuesday morning. We begin with an update to a story we first brought you yesterday. We now know the identity of a man killed after being hit by a driver on interstate 580. Nevada Highway Patrol troopers say the 18yearold was walking in the south of Bowers Mansion about 1 00 a. M. Investigators say was hit by a driver was also traveling northbound in the same lane. Pronounced dead at the scene. Trooper say the driver pulled over and is cooperating with the investigation. The driver was the only person in the car at the time of the crash warrants not associated with this incident. Authorities searching for multiple robbery and burglary suspects in sparks. The first suspect is this woman. Police say she entered the Jacksons Convenience store with a gun around 2 30 sunday morning. She got away with an unknown amount of cash. Police say the woman drove off in the silver fourdoor sedan will black rims. Secret witness is offering a 1500 reward for information about the case. And in more crime news, Police Looking for an Armed Robbery suspect who stole money from the it happened around 4 00 a. M. Yesterday. Officers say the suspect entered demanded the cashier fill his with money. He also got away with cash. Secret witness is offering a 1500 reward for information in this Armed Robbery case as well. Jury selection underway in lyon little boy was murdered there in silver cody wallace has spent the last for judge declared a mistrial in 2013. Part of the District Attorneys Office and wallace is charged in the death of thomas oconnell. Wallace was dating her mother at the time of the little boys death. Jury selection will continue with the trial expected to last three to four weeks. Authority say scammers identifying themselves as shares personal are calling residents and saying they all find. Sheriffs office. Court Officials Say the scammers often add multiple letters have been sent to the person. The Second Judicial District Court in reno says it does not call people over the phone to find them for missing jury service. The snow starting to melt from the warm weather, but will it help of the Truckee River levels . We spoke with a local hydrologist to find out. Reporter this winter has seen record wet weather in the past four years, but will the snowpack to feed the drought . Water levels compared to the summertime have increased drastically. It was a dramatic change, and i know we were getting calls and i was getting a lot of questions wondering if we would reach flood stage. Some of the stations were contacting me to prepare for sandbag filling stations. With water levels reaching as well as 6 cubic feet per second over the summer, its now averaging over 400. Soil moisture but keep our strings a little higher than they have been which will help recharge reservoirs a little bit. February and march are crucial snowpack months in order for live rivers and lakes to maintain these levels. Its concerning that the weather is warm, but we should see more rain by the end of the month. You like to see snowpack through april and then nothing in may and june. It all depends on how the snow melts that could affect the rivers and reservoirs as well. If you method out early and do it over a prolonged period of time, you tend to get less efficient runoff, a little less water from the same volume. We are forecast to have an your average run off your but it will depend on the Winter Weather for the next few months. Fox 11. We can also see sublimation happen with the snow forms directly into paper from either wind or from the warm weather. Commission and rooftop solar customers back in the spotlight. The threemember panel held a reconsideration hearing yesterday. At issue is the new rate structure for rooftop soul solar customers and whether they should be grandfathered in at the previous rates. They argue the new rates will not allow them to recoup their investment costs for their solar systems. Nv energy has introduced seven options but last week it came out with a stronger recommendation to implement the new rates. A decision is expected this friday. Northern nevada continues to grow, Washoe County schools continue to age. If the problem district official know is coming and coming fast. Tax proposals were on the school board agenda. Ryan kern joins us live with a preview of the discussion and the problem. Good morning. Reporter good morning. Has calculated that theyll need a total of 781 million over the next nine years to accommodate for all of the growth northern nevada is seeing. Families coming in, children coming into the area, and Public Schools needing them to continue their education. It happening inside today, that will be discussed. Essentially, Public Schools over crowding and repairs committee has been assigned to the task 315 tax 2016 general election ballots. Week. Essentially, what the issue is if they are looking at fixing or alleviating, right now 230 temporary units are being used as classrooms within the Washoe CountySchool District. Those temporary classrooms this Committee Says they hope is a temporary thing. We want to see more schools, thats the idea. So today everyone is meeting to review and get an update on public input. That committee could row boat to potentially put these tax incentives on the general election ballot for next year. One of those tax incentives . Thats what will talk about in a halfhour. What the tax increases could be and would be if approved. We also want to talk about overcrowding numbers, exactly how overcrowded is the School District right now and what officials project seeing in a few years from now. Thats all coming up. Until then, back to you. Making news around nevada. Greg browers formally resigning. He submitted a letter yesterday saying he is resigning effective february 20th area a spokesperson Jody Stephens says he is accepting a washington dc based his in the department of justice. The race for the Washoe County seat watched in the state senate. Republican leaders have endorsed the former assemblywoman for the post well democrats have endorsed reno attorney davon reese. It is now 7 10. Today officially kicks off the mardi gras season. It is fat tuesday. Reno celebrates the popular festival with a party of its own. Alex kaneda live with more on todays big event. Reporter we have our wine glass and beads. Like you said, its fat tuesday. We are celebrating right here in reno to talk about the big party. We are joined by bill. Good morning. Good morning. How are you today . Doing great. A lot of stuff happening at the reno events center. Tell us what people can expect if they want to come down and enjoy mardi gras. 230 winds, some distilleries and local deliveries here. There will be all sorts of opportunities to walk around, grazed in different foods, and taste the many winds. Mardi gras is one of the biggest operations across the country that people get involved with. Its a lot of fun for tonight is not just about partying and enjoying the season but giving back to a good cause. It is a great party, no question. But we do support a lot of good programs. Our rotary club supports many youth programs. We have a Leadership Program for kids between their junior and senior year, and we have a Leadership Program for 8th graders and we have another program we call most improved student where they are kids that have had incredible life challenges you are graduating high school and have the ability of going beyond in education. Its great that youre able to right here in the community. That evening kicks off at 6 00. If you havent bought a ticket, dont worry. Theres still time to do so. Just as our website for the information. Back to you. Coming up next, the years first primary just around the corner. We tell you how the president ial coming up in national news. Welcome back. 29 degrees as we get you going on this that tuesday morning. Time is 7 16. Two trains collided head on in the southern german state of bavaria today killing at least nine people. A Police Spokesperson says about 150 others were injured when the collision happened on a single track between two local passenger trains. The cause of the crash is unclear. Police say the investigation is ongoing. Making national news. More and more americans giving up their u. S. Passports. Cnn money analysis of the latest Government Data shows at least 4200 people turned in their passport last year. The trend is increasing with americans living overseas. After complicated paperwork and new tax regulations. The new rules are meant to fight tax evasion no matter where they live. U. S. Citizens are taxed on all income, like most other countries. And aaa reports the average regular gasoline down to 1. 74. Thats the cheapest its been since january of 2009. According to guess buddy, the cheapest gas in the nation is oklahoma city. A 711 air or sells it for 1. 11 per gallon. At least eight states have gas prices as low as 1. 25. Crude Oil Inventories are at their highest level for the first time this year. Its almost gas prices likely to stay low in the near term unless there is a major disruption in supply. Turning to decision 2016 were president ial candidates prepare for the New Hampshire primary. Political correspondent scott newman has more. Reporter were here in a snowy, windy New Hampshire where theres another storm coming, a political one. Iowa. In New Hampshire. As you look at the front runners where they stand in the polls, on the right, donald trump. On the left, bernie sanders, both enjoying doubledigit leads. They cant necessarily justify comfortably. Donald trump and jeb bush engaging in some nasty backandforth and namecalling. Marco rubio has, everyones favorite target ever since the thirdplace finish in iowa reedit and then on the left, bernie sanders, who has enjoyed a pretty sizable lead for quite some time in New Hampshire and enjoys being from a neighbor state of vermont, hes now engaged in this kind of uncomfortable backandforth with hillary clinton. Her camp accusing his camp of making some sexist remarks. So a bit of campaign drama here. What makes all of this so exciting here in the Granite State is there are so many voters who say they are still not 100 percent sure who they want to vote for. They may change their minds at this could deliver a couple of surprises. So far the analysis the results and the reaction. Stay with us all night long hear from salem, New Hampshire. Im scott newman. Onto your forecast now. Weve got a quiet forecast ahead of us the next several days here. Quiet weather as a result of High Pressure thats built into the area. That highpressure, of course, leads to the temperature inversion. Temperature inversion is there. The haze has not been as much been issue as it couldve been so far. We see visible haze during the day and some of the valley, however, the air quality itself has not been getting that bad. Of course, thats good news. Right now agreeing burn code in place as well. A warming trend for us continues today and into the next several days. Not as much right now, because its the coldest part of the day. 29 degrees was sunny skies and calm winds at 82 percent humidity. Later today warming up pretty nicely. Eastern side of the state not as warm as the western side. That way and 20s here in the western side of nevada. Later today 30s to near the state. 50s to near 60 degrees for western nevada as well as the sierra with the temperature just about as warm not warmer in some spots today in the valleys as a result of High Pressure in the wintertime. Thats why we end up with that the hasnt been much of an issue but you updated on air quality changes out there as well as burn code changes. 35 for the high later today. Again, above average in western nevada today. Well above average. Not terribly close to records yet, but well be getting closer to those records as we head toward about thursday and friday of this week. 50s around the lake today. 58 in southlake, 50 in tahoma. Watching the air quality and inversion. Northern zones, 50 to near 60 degrees. I think 61 in portola today. In toward the truckee meadows here in renosparks, 61 degrees where the average high for today is 50. 7day forecast, there it is. A warming trend on the way for the next several days. Dry conditions all the way across the 7day period a slight cooling trend headed into the weekend and the beginning of next week, but average high is 50 in reno and we are in the 60s all the way across. Over to you. A burlesque show at a Northwest University being restructured in trending segment. Lets take a look at whats trending this morning. Trending on instagram. This time as this is a look here. She was made by a nigerian medical student. The modest style is meant to be more appealing to muslim girls. Shes taken instagram by storm with more than 20,000. Turning to its trending on her Facebook Page. A burlesque show being restructured in response to students complaints that the show is basically not inclusive enough. This year burlesque show directors invited students to audition for individual, do it, and trio performances. Then when the casting decisions were shared, student performers were upset saying the directors choices were diverse enough. But all students who auditioned were guaranteed a role in the production, and according to the article, students were complaining solo in the school comply with their requests to recast. Basically, does it come to this . You complain and we fix it for you, kids, or can you just deal with it a. What you get is what you get, dont throw a fit. Would love to hear what you have to say. Post your comments on her Facebook Page. School district officials working to fix the overcrowding problem and under funding of schools. Middle school, elementary schools, high schools, the whole thing. Well give you an update on the what the new committee is developing and what discussions are happening today. You are watching more news on funding for phase 3 of the north truckee realignment has been approved. Construction expected to begin and how much it will cost the city of sparks. Tax season can be extremely stressful but theres ways to make it easier. We have kept coming up in our Consumer Reports segment. You are watching warnings on 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. Hopefully, your morning off to a great start and youve been enjoying some of the warm temperatures weve been having, although we would like some more snow in the upper elevations, especially for our snow pack. Its been nice to get a little break. Nice temperatures especially. Enjoying for a bit, but a lot of people are saying this is strange and everyone keeps saying, this time of year when we had snow, get this warm up and then it gets cold again. Right. A little reprieve is not bad every once in a while. Off to a great start as far as the snowpack is concerned. Above average for december, january, and they took the latest one on february 2nd, still above normal. We could have some nothing. Truckee rivers have been blowing out a pretty heavy clip. Have you driven by lately . Ive seen pictures being posted online. Its incredible. Well check in with him in a bit. The first if you are eating breakfast, its National Bagel day, so indulge in that. Also National Pizza day as well. Lowcarb diet. There you go. Its fat tuesday as well, so gobble up. Meteorologist Tim Studebaker joins us now. Good morning. Warm temperatures ahead of us for the next several days. Warm enough that im starting to are close. The next couple days are not all that close. About 8 degrees away from the record later today. About 6 degrees away from wednesdays record. By thursday and friday, we forecast highs of 65 and 66 and the records are 68 and 67. I think friday is the best chance to threatened that record, perhaps even tie it or topple it as we get closer will have a better idea. Average high for this time of year is 50 degrees. Even though it is only 61 today, only is a relative term as compared to the records. Well above the average high. Mostly sunny skies, low 60s in renosparks, upper 50s elsewhere. And inversion is out there, but the air quality has not been too bad yet. At last check, mod