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So if you've been following the news, you know that we here at News 3 are working very
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Ourselves, our sister stations across the country.
And so we want to thank you for your patience with that.
We've got a lot of people working on that behind the scenes, people who are very smart,
and we want to make sure the news gets on because there's a lot of important news to talk about
both happening here at home and across the nation.
And the top story here in Southern Nevada here at six o'clock is the visit from Vice President
Kamala Harris, she going out to Lake Mead today to talk about the infrastructure bill.
When it comes to the infrastructure bill and what's being done specifically with the Western
drought, you can't really come up with a better backdrop than that.
Absolutely.
I think Jeff Gillan, who we're going to bring in now, said that Lake Mead is really the
conversation about drought.
Jeff, the Vice President in town, she had a few boxes to check today.
Hello.
Good to see both of you.
Las Vegas, good to see you folks.
And thank you again for staying with us today.
She did.
And Lake Mead was an absolutely perfect backdrop for coming to talk about what is in the
infrastructure bill, the billions actually in the bill that would help the Western U.S.
really kind of weather the drought or what could be the new weather normal for us here in
the Western part of the country.
As I said, the backdrop, I mean, she was standing, and you'll see it hopefully in just a second
or two, but standing with the whole lake behind her.
And, you know, whenever you look at that lake and you see the baths hovering around it,
it reminds you what we have lost, how much water we have lost.
And it is a stunning visual because that is the largest reservoir in the United States.
And when Lake Mead has trouble, we all have trouble, 25 million people.
And your story is ready to go.
All right. Let's take a look.
Soon after she arrived in Las Vegas, greeted by the governor and our local congressional delegation,
Kamala Harris was at Lake Mead.
The lake behind her is shrinking, now suffering from the effect of a crippling drought that could
become the West's new normal.
This is a fundamental issue, which is the issue of water.
Twenty-five million people rely on the water supply behind her.
The infrastructure bill in Congress would make the largest investment in U.S.
history to build climate resilience.
It would spend eight billion alone to help the West prepare for this dry climate.
It is about what we need to do to invest in things like water recycling and reuse,
what we can do in terms of water desalination,
what we can do in terms of implementation of drought contingency plans.
This is about thinking ahead, recognizing where we are and where we're headed.
The lake today sits just under 1,068 feet.
That's 161 feet below full capacity.
Harris called on Congress to pass the infrastructure bill,
which she says would also create good-paying union jobs.
All right, so as we bring back Jeff Gillan now, so obviously with Lake Mead here in
Southern Nevada, we're not the only ones who tap into this lake, but we're the ones who actually
recycle the water, which is incredibly different as compared to what other neighbors are doing along the West.
Can you explain a little bit about that?
A lot of people are looking at us, we're kind of the poster child.
We're sort of the example for that.
Everything, by the way, if you don't know, everything that goes down the drain gets recycled.
Everything that is irrigation for your lawn and stuff, we can't do anything with that.
That just goes poof.
So, but yes, one of the things that's in the infrastructure bill is hundreds of millions of dollars
to help L.A. County start doing water recycling.
They don't really do that there.
And one of the aspects of that here is that the SNWA, the Southern Nevada Water Authority,
is helping L.A. County pay for some of that.
And the reason that we're doing that is that if we can help L.A. recycle, we get to take a chunk
of California's Colorado River allotment.
It could be something like 10% of our total allotment that we get in Nevada.
And we get 300,000 acre feet a year, and an acre foot is enough to supply three homes for water for a year.
So that's why it means an awful lot to us here.
So people are really keeping their fingers crossed.
That was something that Catherine Cortez-Mass, our senator, our Democratic senator,
really helped fight to get in the infrastructure bill.
Well, and you've got now the eyes of the Vice President of the United States on this issue.
She likely will go back to Washington, D.C. with the conversation that we sparked, right,
and have those conversations where they matter to Nevada and the other states in the region, voters in those states as well.
What about desalination, which is the process of basically being able to take saltwater and make it so it's potable water?
It's an option. It's not a favored option right now for the SNWA.
It may become one as the drought worsens.
You know, I mean, we have to have all sorts of options on the table.
But the problem with desal is that it is about six times more expensive.
The gallon of water that gets produced out of desal is about six times more expensive than what we have now.
And so we're trying to do other things before we get to that route.
Again, we may not have a choice, folks, but, you know, that could be part of the water future, too.
But they prefer that other things happen first.
But maybe it's important to have, you know, the eyes of the federal government in town if we're going to be talking about desal,
because they may have to pay for part of it. We can't pay for it alone.
She's a Californian. How many droughts has Kamala Harris been through? A lot in California.
You're a Californian. You know, I mean, how many of you been in the Bay Area? A whole bunch of them.
And so she goes back. She's always had a sensitivity to the issue.
She brings back to Washington. And this is something Dina Titus, our Democratic congressman, told me today is,
look, we wanted to bring her here. The Democratic delegation, all of our local congresspeople,
the Democrats, Stephen Horsford, Susie Lee, Dina Titus, I wanted to bring her to that spot at Lake Mead just to really take a look at this.
And, you know, if that helps kind of oomph, you know, get that infrastructure bill debate, drag it across the line a little bit better, we've done something.
It really is quite a visual and what a visit as well.
So, Jeff, thank you so much for all of that. All right. Let's go bring in another name now.
Harry Reid, former senator, of course, his name being brought to Southern Nevada in a new way.
We're talking about the renaming of what is now known as McCarran Airport.
Yeah. And what was fascinating when the vice president landed, I thought to myself, will this be the last time a presidential delegation will land at McCarran?
And maybe next time it'll be Harry Reid International. We have John Traynor with that story.
Today, if you land in beautiful Las Vegas, you land at McCarran International Airport, but McCarran, well, not for much longer.
The name is changing thanks in part to a big step that just happened.
If the name change was a passenger, it would have cleared security, boarded the plane and is just waiting for takeoff.
The move to Harry Reid International Airport has met its funding goals. More than four million dollars raised.
Critical as county commissioners approved the change from McCarran to Reid with a stipulation it had to be funded privately.
So hurdle cleared. We wanted to know if it mattered to the people who fly.
Spoiler alert. The name change probably won't make a difference to the folks who don't know the name of the airport.
Without looking, can you tell me the name of the airport you're in right now?
No. McCarran National Airport or something like that.
Without looking, can you tell me the name of the airport we're in right now?
McCarran? Something like that?
The name change is happening. The next step is to put out bids for new signage.
For some though, it already happened.
The FAA referred to the Vegas Airport as Harry Reid International in this press release.
For those who come here often, change can be difficult.
I think a name is very important for the airport.
I think this name has been here for 50, 60 years and it means a lot to people, although everybody calls it Las Vegas Airport.
Those signs, tickets, all of that will soon be changing to Harry Reid International Airport.
We just don't know exactly when. The money is there, the bureaucracy is not.
They have to wait for the green light from the government. We don't know when that will be.
From McCarran Airport for now, John Treanor, News 3.
John Treanor, thank you so much.
Hey, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police are still looking for leads in a deadly shooting that happened earlier this year.
Of course, we're talking about this case.
Alfonso Turner was shot to death near Amberley Lane and South Mountain Vista in the southeast part of the valley.
It happened May 8th.
At the time, police said Turner was sitting in his car when he was shot by two men who then took off.
So far, we can tell you all these months later, the suspects have not been identified, but police are putting this out one more time.
It takes all of us, right?
If you have information that can help investigators, you are asked to call Crimestoppers.
A deadly road rage incident has closed part of the 215 for several hours this morning, causing a lot of delays.
Here's a live look at the area near that where the investigation took place early this morning.
It was about two fifteen the incident ending with gunfire, leaving a 25 year old dead.
Major traffic delays on the two fifteen near the airport connector.
Investigators say two cars were involved.
The suspect shot into the other vehicle, hitting the victim, causing that driver to crash into the center divide.
The driver did not survive those injuries.
A woman there in the vehicle sent to UMC with gunshot wounds.
She's described as in critical but stable condition.
Metro police say the suspect vehicle is still out there.
You know, we hear all the time how our first responders are heroes.
And this next story proves that a person had to be saved after this car rolled into a wash in the northwest part of our valley.
The crash happened over near Craig and El Capitan.
A relative found the car via a locator app and then called 911.
The car crashed right through a fence and as you can see, landed in the wash before it caught fire.
A person rushed to a hospital with injuries suffered from the crash.
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell has passed away.
The 84 year old former general statesman dying from complications of covid-19.
Yeah, that's right.
Colin Powell's life being remembered as somebody who served for many, many, many years.
And so we're going to be following this story on air and online.
We also want to make sure that we get to this other story, which is about Governor Steve Sisolak.
Earlier today, the governor was in a car crash.
That car crash happened in the southwest valley.
It was actually yesterday afternoon.
The governor and the other driver were not hospitalized.
We understand that the governor is at home and is doing very well.
Now let's go to the Colin Powell story.
The world reacting to the death of former Secretary of State Colin Powell,
the first African-American and youngest chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
and later the first African-American Secretary of State under President George W. Bush.
I've always felt strongly that you should try to solve conflicts in this world through negotiations, through diplomacy.
Former President Bush releasing a statement Monday saying in part,
he was such a favorite of presidents that he earned the Presidential Medal of Freedom twice.
He was highly respected at home and abroad.
And most important, Colin was a family man and a friend.
President Biden also recognizing Powell's decades of public service,
writing in part, Colin embodied the highest ideals of both warrior and diplomat.
Colin Powell was a good man.
He will be remembered as one of our great Americans.
And members of Biden's cabinet remembering Powell's legacy.
We will certainly miss him.
I feel as if I have a hole in my heart just learning of this.
Secretary Powell was simply and completely a leader.
And he knew how to build a strong and united team.
Powell grew up in the Bronx, New York.
His parents immigrated from Jamaica.
He served two tours in Vietnam, rising through the ranks to become a four-star general.
As Secretary of State, he made the case before the U.N. Security Council in 2003 to invade Iraq
based on intelligence that it had weapons of mass destruction.
The war lasted more than eight years.
No weapons of mass destruction ever turned up.
I regret it now because the information was wrong.
Powell spent his civilian years empowering youth through his projects.
When I heard their stories, I said, I've got to get, this is where I belong.
I'm home again.
Powell died from complications from COVID-19, according to his family.
He was 84 years old.
In Washington, I'm Chris Nguyen.
And there are tributes happening here in Southern Nevada.
Let's give you a live look now at downtown Las Vegas.
Governor Sisolak has proclaimed the flags be lowered here to half staff in honor of General Powell.
His service to our nation, quote, aligning with the presidential proclamation issued by the President of the United States
that these flags will be lowered until sunset tomorrow.
And staying on that shot right there, you see the flags are still, it wasn't that way earlier today.
We understand we weren't a wind advisory, but it has expired and the flags are saying, yep, see, here's your proof.
The dust, not the only thing kicked up.
News 3 Steve Wohlford reports that high winds can really put a lot of other things in the air to make you inhale some things.
One of the reasons we get wind advisories is to let you know that things might be getting kicked up into the air that aren't good for you,
especially if you have underlying health conditions.
Our 25 to 30 mile an hour winds with stronger gusts have caused more problems than just a few white-knuckle landings at McCarran International
or blow a shot off course during a round of Frisbee golf.
Dust is not just dust. It's dirt. It's pieces of insects. It's mold spores.
And according to family doctor Dahlia Wax, bigger problems can come from a lot of stuff kicked up by the wind that you don't want to inhale.
And she says there is still the smoke blowing off the wildfires across California with other particulates that can cause lung inflammation.
The wildfire smoke is still coming our way. And the particulates like the benzene, the toluene, the sap, the wood, asbestos, plastics,
things in wildfire smoke sadly come our way.
All of which can challenge your immune system, especially if you have asthma, COPD, or other issues with breathing.
What it does is it challenges our immune system. There was a study done in Reno looking at wildfire smoke last year and COVID cases,
and they found an uptick with wildfire smoke and an uptick in cases.
And the doctor also says when we have windy days, consider leaving your mask on when you step outside.
And one other thing Dr. Dahlia says to think about, because of supply chain issues right now, there are shortages.
So it could be a good idea to stock up on your medications instead of waiting until the last minute to fill a prescription.
That way you're not left without the meds you need.
In downtown Las Vegas, Steve Wolford, News 3.
And boy, when we talk about how the day began, clearly very different from how it is coming to an end, Kevin.
Yes.
Those winds this morning are so blustery.
And speaking of those winds, we're familiar with the dust, the dirt, the smoke, but now we learn that there are insect parts in the wind.
Just breathe deep and get a little protein.
If ever there was a reason to wear a mask full time, that certainly will tell you no doubt about it.
All right, well, we'll tell you about that coming up in the full weather segment, but let's venture outside on what has turned out to be a beautiful Monday evening.
At least to look at darkness swallowing the sky, sunsets around six o'clock.
That's not you know, you're probably wondering when do we set the clocks back one hour?
That comes up almost three weeks, two weeks from this coming Sunday.
And of course, those of us who have lived here a while, not fans of it getting dark at 430.
But right now we're getting dark about six o'clock traffic running slowly northbound there on the 15.
But the sky has cleared.
The winds have relaxed.
That's going to set the table for a really nice Tuesday as the warm up will begin.
Pretty chilly out there now.
That warm up will not last for too much longer because we've got yet another system taking aim at Southern Nevada toward the end of the week.
That means more wind, even a chance for rain and a drop in temperatures.
Love that shot from our camera on top of Mandalay Bay looking up the strip.
So with the full weather forecast, a good look at the next seven days coming up with a little graphic enhancement.
I mean, Kevin, we're going to call your art teacher from high school and make sure he or she is watching.
And she will say nothing has changed.
All right, Kevin, thank you.
Hey, when we come back, we're going to be talking about sort of an analysis about how the Afghan the we're not going to break.
All right. Forgive me.
So let's do that right now.
The State Department, the United States and our exit from Afghanistan is now being placed under some pretty close scrutiny.
Yeah, the State Department's Office of Inspector General notifying leaders.
It's looking into the suspension of operations in Kabul.
The proble reportedly include reviews of the embassy's emergency action planning, execution of the Afghanistan special immigrant visa program and the evacuation from Kabul.
The exodus earlier this year was criticized by both Republicans and Democrats as being too rushed.
A spokesperson for the OIG says the work should be considered reviews and not investigations.
Over the past few weeks, some high profile members of the Biden administration, including Secretary of State,
Anthony Blinken, testified about the withdrawal in front of congressional committees.
It's hard to believe, but it has been a little more than two months since we pulled out of Afghanistan.
But what really happened over there over the last 20 years is written in so many family stories, so many difficult things.
And it's left thousands of veterans really dealing with the aftermath of the war in Afghanistan.
Sinclair National correspondent Christine Frizao has this report.
I was in art class painting a picture for the Capizzi family.
Service has always played a central role.
David and Shamala Capizzi are both veterans of the United States Marine Corps.
And like more than six million other military veterans are disabled, carrying scars many are unable to see.
Disability comes in all different forms.
It's, you know, cognitive.
It is mental.
It's physical.
While on active duty, she developed Graves disease, an autoimmune disorder that resulted in bouts of depression, fatigue and memory loss at age 25.
I'm pretty open with my children about like, you know, sometimes I'm a little too tired or I'm, you know, I apologize that I'm a little bit more irritable.
So I'm a little bit more honest with them because I don't want them to feel that it's them when it's actually really me.
Today she works as a national service officer for the Disabled American Veterans, a nonprofit organization that's been around for more than a hundred years,
helping connect disabled veterans to jobs, financial services and with navigating the VA health care system.
The long term effects of that is somebody injured today on the battlefield will need 60, 70 years worth of continuing care for their injuries.
That care often hard to come by.
Veterans forced to wade through mounds of paperwork, often while dealing with illnesses not yet recognized or defined by the Department of Veterans Affairs, says Randy Reese, director of DAV.
Huge amount of bureaucracy and red tape in order to get those benefits.
COVID really brought out some highlights that care is not always equitable, be distributed throughout the nation.
How does that change?
Better today than has been in the past, but still a long ways to go.
Oh, there you go. Nice job.
It's work Shamala Kapesi recognizes needs to be tackled one veteran at a time with hopes now that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have ended,
that the country remembers the injuries sustained there have not, with battles still fought here each and every day.
I'm Christine Frazal reporting.
A state murder trial has begun for the three men accused of killing Ahmaud Arbery.
Arbery's murder was caught on camera last year.
CNN's Martin Savage has a preview as jury selection gets underway.
All right, we don't have that yet, but we're going to have it.
You know, this was the story that definitely captured a lot of attention because it was caught on camera.
And now, of course, we're hearing little previews of what the defense is going to be.
Let's go to that story.
Jury selection begins today in the state murder trial of the three white men accused of killing Ahmaud Arbery.
The final moments of his life captured on camera. And we warn you, the video is disturbing.
Arbery was jogging in a neighborhood near Brunswick, Georgia in February 2020 when Gregory McMichael and his son Travis chased and fatally shot him.
Their neighbor, William Bryan, recording the incident on his cell phone and allegedly hitting Arbery with his truck.
That video is sparking nationwide outrage and protest calling for answers about Arbery's death.
All three men have pleaded not guilty to multiple state charges, including felony murder.
In April, the Justice Department also charged the McMichaels and Bryan with federal hate crimes and attempted kidnapping in connection to Arbery's death.
The three also pleaded not guilty to those charges.
Meanwhile, in the Georgia state trial, a judge will choose 12 jurors from a pool of 1000.
Six hundred potential jurors will report for possible selection today.
We want a fair, neutral and impartial jury who's going to hear the facts of this case.
The attorney for Arbery's family says the trial will be challenging, especially considering the possible jurors who will hear the case.
That jury pool is going to be drawn from that community that has hasn't established the kind of character that could be both neutral and fair to someone who looks like a man.
Now, I hope they can be.
Arbery's mother says reliving the trauma of her son's death will be difficult.
It's been really a long hard road. Every day, his name is called in court. I will be there.
In the hours before selection begins, the community holding a rally praying for justice.
There's going to be millions of feelings of anger. There's going to be feelings of sadness.
But at the end, we're hoping for a fear of happiness when we get the guilty verdict that we're looking for.
All right. Expanding our focus beyond our borders, we now look to Haiti, where violence increases in the faith community all over the world, really holding their breath after we learned that a notorious gang is now accused of abducting 17 American and Canadian missionaries in Haiti.
Five children believed to be among those kidnapped, including a two year old Haitian police said that the 400 Mowazzo gang kidnapped the group, which also included some elderly people.
The gang was blamed for kidnapping five priests and two nuns earlier this year in Haiti.
Local authorities said the gang, whose name roughly translates to 400 inexperienced men, control the area where the kidnappings took place.
So the White House is talking a plan to combat pollutants in our area, which is called really forever chemicals.
You probably haven't really heard a lot about those forever chemicals, but experts said that they cause severe health problems and linger in the environment long after it's been released.
And so what is the work that's happening now?
Well, the Environmental Protection Agency is launching a roadmap to research, restrict and remediate harmful PFAS.
The actions include a new national testing strategy, a proposal to designate forever chemicals as hazardous substances under existing law and actions to broaden and accelerate cleanup.
All right, so it has not been an easy couple of weeks for Southwest Airlines and now this latest news item, a group of more than 100 people who oppose vaccine mandates protested at Southwest Airlines a couple of hours ago.
This was the scene, in fact, right now outside of Southwest headquarters in Dallas, so many people showing up to make their opinions known about these mass mandates and the vaccination mandates.
The airline has said that all employees must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by December 8th. Those who don't comply could be fired.
All right, so it's dinner time and now we're looking at not only what's on our plate, but how much what is on our plate is costing us.
And the conversation today really is about inflation. It's already driving up the prices of beef and chicken.
Maybe want to have a little broccoli. Jen Sullivan has more on a law that could actually soon change how pork is raised and sold in the United States.
Pork is already taking bigger bites out of budgets and now pork producers say a new animal welfare law is about to make bringing home the bacon more expensive.
In the past two to three months, it has done nothing but go up and it hasn't been by since. It's been by dollars.
Pork prices have been skyrocketing during the pandemic due to inflation and supply chain issues.
And now there's another reason. California, pork's largest U.S. market, is adopting a new law that raises living condition standards for pigs.
The measure takes effect next year, but pork producers are already spooked.
Under the new law, mother pigs must be given at least 24 square feet of space each
and kept out of gestation crates where their movement is severely restricted.
Pork producers are already warning the new law may bring added costs throughout the supply chain
and ultimately leave shoppers across the country with fewer and more expensive options.
Economists say it may add about eight dollars to each person's annual spending on pork.
One of the reasons why we are faced with beef and pork shortages is because we lack processing capacity.
We need more competition in that space.
And it's not just pork prices on the rise. In September, consumer prices jumped for other meats like chicken and beef, eggs, milk, homes, gas, even electricity.
Well, relief is coming. I think you're going to see a moderation of those price increases over time.
For today's Consumer Watch, I'm Jen Sullivan.
You know, there are plenty of options for women when it comes to birth control and now there is advancing science that could provide men with groundbreaking contraceptive options.
All right. Spotlight in America's national correspondent, Josie Sturman, looks at this.
After having a birth control device break and get stuck inside her body, Ashley Gilbert was worried about trying other methods of contraception.
She was looking at every option and just the side effects and the potential complications and just saying I don't want anything to do with any of this.
So she started looking for options that would let her partner take on some of the responsibility for preventing pregnancy.
She told us it was a frustratingly short search.
There's nothing out there for men besides condoms. It's just not fair that this burden is placed on women.
The effort to equal that burden when it comes to family planning has been slow because of limited research and funding.
Spotlight on America examined the federal government's clinical trial data and found less than 30 studies since 2005 that have looked at birth control for men, while an issue like erectile dysfunction lists more than 500.
It's very important for us to expand the conversation to include what men can possibly do.
Dr. Brian Nguyen is among those leading the way toward reproductive equity.
The OB-GYN is part of a team conducting clinical trials with the Center for Male Contraceptive Research and Development in California.
Right now they're actively testing three hormonal birth control options for men.
A pill, a long-acting injection, and a hormone gel study that's currently recruiting volunteers across the country.
Population studies done all over the world with about 9,000 men basically show that more than half, depending on what country you're from, would be interested in a male birth control method.
Unfortunately right now there is no pharmaceutical company that is funding male contraception.
The federal data we looked at shows it's been almost 15 years since a major pharmaceutical company funded research into male birth control.
The reason Nguyen tells Spotlight on America, an incorrect bias that men won't use the options and they won't be profitable.
So in the absence of interest from Big Pharma, universities and nonprofits are teaming up with the federal government to help move development along.
We're trying to help clear that pipeline and move things forward.
Heather Vadat runs the Male Contraceptive Initiative, or MCI, a nonprofit focused on funding non-hormonal, reversible birth control options for men.
MCI is the second largest funder of male contraceptive research behind the U.S. government.
But Vadat says they're still only able to funnel a little over $2 million into the work each year.
When you think of drug discovery, that's not a lot. So there's still plenty of room for folks to get engaged and help us push the needle forward.
The needle is moving slowly, but Vadat points out some promising options are on the horizon.
And MCI's own research already shows they will have a market.
Men say either I am actively looking for this, I have a partner that I wish I could help transition the burden from, or I've been let off the hook because I don't have to choose.
Now the opportunity for men to choose an active role in family planning may be in the future, after decades of having the burden fall mostly on women.
I'm Josie Sturman for Spotlight on America.
Alright, so we just want to say thank you so much for your patience while we deal with some of these technical issues.
We are grateful today for our Apple products here on the set.
We have the iPhone and the iPad, and you see us referencing those throughout this newscast.
And, you know, as we look at this, we know that we're mindful that holiday shopping is now around the corner.
And of course, Apple steps out just hours ago to show us their second batch of new products.
Yeah, this the virtual unveiling here featuring Apple's AirPods 3 to high end MacBook Pro laptops powered by its next generation silicon chip.
The laptops feature faster processors, longer lasting batteries and a new front facing camera.
The AirPods have better sound quality as well, and they are sweat and water resistant for workouts.
Thanks, Apple. Now you've got me looking to see if I need the next greatest and best thing.
So it worked.
Yeah, right. It seems like I'm always addicted to the gadgets and then the want of a puppy.
So you might love this next story. First of all, let's frame the story that we're talking about here.
The effects of the northern Nevada wildfires continue to be felt all over the state of Nevada.
And of course, what happens in northern Nevada does not stay in northern Nevada.
We here in southern Nevada, we feel the importance of everything that happens up there.
And that includes the plight of the animals. So these three Denise Raj picks up that story.
Yeah, it is certainly not uncommon for shelters to help each other out during times of crisis.
And that's exactly what's happening here.
A dozen dogs, some of them puppies brought to Las Vegas where the Nevada SPCA will find them loving families.
Now, the puppies were immediately sent to foster homes until they are old enough to be adopted.
The adults will be vaccinated and spay and neutered because of overcrowding up north.
The dogs were set to be euthanized, something shelter staff there did not want to do.
They called everybody and this was the first time they had contacted us in southern Nevada.
Typically, they work with northern Nevada shelters since they're a bit closer to them.
But because of the wildfires, we're really all at our capacity here.
So we stepped up, we said absolutely, we all share the common goal of saving these animals.
Now again, once those dogs are ready to be adopted, you will find them on the website, nevadaspca.org.
Denise Raj, News 3.
All right, Denise, take a dog for a walk. It's cool, right?
Yeah, and you know what?
Although the dogs that were probably getting walked this morning as we turn now over to Kevin Shanison with the weather authority,
those coats, when they get blown by the wind, it really is remarkable, you know?
They have fur.
They do. Fur coats keep them warm.
Yes, when it's windy and cool like this.
You never know what you have until it's gone, right? So a little technology starved for us.
Unfortunately, I am of the age where I remember the days when we had the magnetic smiling sun
that we would put on the weather map and the angry looking clouds.
Willard Scott.
Yeah, you would just stick it on there and the next day you would put it over in another state and everything.
You got the information, though, that you needed.
That's exactly right. It was a lot simpler back then before we had some of the computer technology.
So we're revisiting those days and my artistic talents are pretty much what you'd expect.
So that's why I even labeled this as Nevada in case it's not recognizable.
But what happened today is we had this strong cold front go through, big push of air coming out of the northwest,
and that's what brought in not only the wind but the cooler temperatures.
That's what we're feeling now. As this front moves away, the winds will relax.
The cool air is here for a while, but we will see some moderation.
Want to start with a view across the Las Vegas Valley? Look how fast it gets dark.
We showed you this camera just a few minutes ago. Of course, sunset around six o'clock.
And we're less than three weeks away from where we set the clocks back one hour.
All right. Well, plenty to show you. We will go to some other cameras from earlier in the day
and show you when the front came through our time lapses showing some of the clouds.
They were pretty thick on the west side of the Spring Mountains.
I'll put this in motion. This is our camera at the Pahrump Valley High School.
And as the clouds slid through, you can also see the trees wiggling in the wind.
We did clear off quite nicely late in the afternoon. Oh, there goes the moon. Late in the afternoon.
Out of Red Rock, same story. Start out with the blue sky. Here come the clouds. And there they go.
We cleared off nicely in the afternoon. Should be a little chilly for the early morning hikers.
In the Las Vegas Valley, there were some sprinkles, even some areas of light rain on the west side
with those thicker clouds didn't last long. Nothing measurable.
They have since cleared out and we turned the view and look off toward the east from our camera
atop the Red Rock Resort as those clouds have pushed off toward the south and the east
and no longer a factor in our sky. We will do nice moonrise. Be clear overnight.
At Perkins Elementary, that's in Moapa. They had a gust of wind of 50 miles per hour.
Current temperature is 65. Sheila Tarr is in town in the northwest near Alexander and Fort Apache.
Their top gusts 48 current temperature 57 as the wind is relaxed big time.
Fest middle school down near Sunset and Fort Apache in the southwest peak gust in that neighborhood 46
and sunrise acres on the east side eastern in Charleston. Their top gusts 44. Current temperature 64.
But the wind is gone. One more site to check out. Cadence in the far southeast part of town near the Lake Mead Parkway
in Warm Springs. 62 degrees, two miles per hour. 43 was their top gust.
Rest of the temperatures mid to upper 50s in the northwest right now up near Nellis at 64 it is 60 down in Anthem.
The winds, which had been so strong so notable earlier, are all less than 10 miles per hour
and those that are close to that barely up around the edges. Here's some of the peak wind gusts.
41 in beautiful downtown Henderson, a 44 mile per hour gust up in Centennial Hills.
Elsewhere outside the valley at Perlm sitting at 58, 40s up in Lincoln County, 73 in Laughlin.
Wind speeds also relaxing not only throughout Clark County, but Nye and Lincoln counties as well.
Top gusts outside the valley Piochetta gust of 40 Indian Springs gust of 45 while the Lakehead Augusta wind to 44 miles per hour.
Here are our weather headlines.
Or sunshine coming our way and a slow warming process. In fact, as we take a look at some of the temperatures for the overnight lows.
Yep, they're going to be chilly 20s up in Lincoln County Mountain going down to 3048 below in Boulder City.
High temperatures tomorrow afternoon. They're inching up now. Today's high was 68 degrees in midnight this afternoon.
We did no better than 64 to and that was of course in town tomorrow. There will be some improvement, but the mountain no better than 49.
Brums going to 70 will have an overnight low of 49 as the skies of the clouds continue to skedaddle out of here and the winds continue to relax.
70 for the high temperature tomorrow, but with plenty of sunshine and not much wind, that's a good thing.
However, more clouds arrive late tomorrow night. It will be partly cloudy on Wednesday.
Milder air working its way in by Friday back to 80. Another system comes in Sunday and Monday.
That's going to kick up the winds again, maybe as early as Saturday night.
And as you can see, knock the temperature down a little bit. So we'll get back to 80 this week.
Slow crawl upward, knock down off the perch yet again late in the week when we go back to low to mid 70s
and more wind transitional season autumn. Not unusual, so we'll need a magnet with some wind.
Yeah, maybe some furrowed brows, not friendly.
Some sound effects really were helpful. And I say, despite any technical issues, anytime a meteorologist says the word skedaddle, I mean, it's gold standard.
It is page 17 of your meteorological text.
That's a fact. All right. Thank you, my friend. Hey, let's take a live look outside right now at our beautiful valley because there's an important conversation to be had
for everybody who comes to Las Vegas and enjoys our tourism and entertainment, but also for those of us who live here and love this area.
We're of course talking about our dependence on water and Lake Mead.
And that was the backdrop for Vice President Kamala Harris today.
She came to Southern Nevada spending her day in Las Vegas to see for herself what the drought in the West looks like.
And she delivered that address from again, Lake Mead. News 3's Jeff Gillen has that story.
Soon after she arrived in Las Vegas, greeted by the governor and our local congressional delegation, Kamala Harris was at Lake Mead.
The lake behind her is shrinking, now suffering from the effect of a crippling drought that could become the West's new normal.
This is a fundamental issue, which is the issue of water.
Twenty five million people rely on the water supply behind her.
The infrastructure bill in Congress would make the largest investment in U.S. history to build climate resilience.
It would spend eight billion alone to help the West prepare for this dry climate.
It's about what we need to do to invest in things like water recycling and reuse.
What we can do in terms of water desalination. What we can do in terms of implementation of drought contingency plans.
This is about thinking ahead, recognizing where we are and where we're headed.
The lake today sits just under 1068 feet. That's 161 feet below full capacity.
Harris called on Congress to pass the infrastructure bill, which she says would also create good paying union jobs.
Right. That was our Jeff Gillen reporting.
And, you know, when the vice president landed today, I wondered seeing her come into McCarran, you know,
will this be the last time that any presidential delegation will come in and have that name on the side?
McCarran Airport. Yes. So much is made, of course, of the changing of the name from the Cairn Airport to Harry Reid International Airport.
And News 3's John Traynor has the story from there.
Today, if you land in beautiful Las Vegas, you land at McCarran International Airport, but McCarran, well, not for much longer.
The name is changing thanks in part to a big step that just happened.
If the name change was a passenger, it would have cleared security, boarded the plane and is just waiting for takeoff.
The move to Harry Reid International Airport has met its funding goals. More than four million dollars raised.
Critical as county commissioners approved the change from McCarran to Reid with a stipulation it had to be funded privately.
So hurdle cleared. We wanted to know if it mattered to the people who fly.
Spoiler alert. The name change probably won't make a difference to the folks who don't know the name of the airport.
Without looking, can you tell me the name of the airport you're in right now?
No. McCarran National Airport or something like that.
Without looking, can you tell me the name of the airport we're in right now?
McCarran? Something like that?
The name change is happening. The next step is to put out bids for new signage.
For some though, it already happened.
The FAA referred to the Vegas Airport as Harry Reid International in this press release.
For those who come here often, change can be difficult.
I think a name is very important for the airport.
I think this name has been here for 50, 60 years and it means a lot to people, although everybody calls it Las Vegas Airport.
So signs, tickets, all of that will soon be changing to Harry Reid International Airport.
We just don't know exactly when. The money is there. The bureaucracy is not.
We have to wait for the green light from the government. We don't know when that will be.
From McCarran Airport for now, John Traynor, News 3.
An update from Metro Police about a deadly shooting from earlier this year.
Alfonso Turner shot to death near Amberley Lane and South Mountain Vista.
This is in the Southeast Valley. This happened on May 8th.
At the time, police said Turner was sitting in his car when he was shot by two men who fled the scene.
The suspects have not been identified.
So Metro Police putting out the alert once again.
If you have information that can help investigators, you are asked to call Crime Stoppers 702-385-5555.
Well, chances are this morning you felt the effects of this.
There was a deadly road rage incident that happened on the 215 that closed it down for hours.
Likely you were caught in a lot of those delays.
It was an early morning road rage incident on the 215 that ended with gunfire.
And here's how it ended. A 25-year-old dead. All of the delays.
Investigators say two cars were involved.
The suspect shot into the other car, hitting the victim. He then crashed into a center divide.
The driver died. Female passenger was sent to UMC with gunshot wounds.
She's in critical but stable condition.
Metro says the suspect vehicle is currently still out there somewhere.
And a person had to be saved after a car crashed into a wash in the northwest Las Vegas Valley.
The crash reported near Craig and El Capitan.
It was a relative who found the car via a locator app and then called 911.
The car crashed through a fence and then landed on its side of the wash before catching fire.
You see here the rescue unit. They had to save the driver.
That was the only person in the vehicle.
The person was taken to a hospital with injuries suffered in that crash.
Well, our nation has lost yet another major hero and a political figure.
We're talking of course about former Secretary of State Colin Powell who's passed away.
84 years old. The statesman died following complications related to COVID-19.
And of course the legacy that he leaves behind being talked about today.
From the barriers he broke to his involvement in the Iraq War.
CNN's Chris Nguyen has this report.
The world reacting to the death of former Secretary of State Colin Powell.
The first African American and youngest chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
And later the first African American Secretary of State under President George W. Bush.
I've always felt strongly that you should try to solve conflicts in this world through negotiations, through diplomacy.
Former President Bush releasing a statement Monday saying in part,
he was such a favorite of presidents that he earned the Presidential Medal of Freedom twice.
He was highly respected at home and abroad.
And most important, Colin was a family man and a friend.
President Biden also recognizing Powell's decades of public service.
Writing in part, Colin embodied the highest ideals of both warrior and diplomat.
Colin Powell was a good man. He will be remembered as one of our great Americans.
And members of Biden's cabinet remembering Powell's legacy.
We will certainly miss him. I feel as if I have a hole in my heart just learning of this.
Secretary Powell was simply and completely a leader.
And he knew how to build a strong and united team.
Powell grew up in the Bronx, New York. His parents immigrated from Jamaica.
He served two tours in Vietnam, rising through the ranks to become a four-star general.
As Secretary of State, he made the case before the UN Security Council in 2003 to invade Iraq,
based on intelligence that it had weapons of mass destruction.
The war lasted more than eight years. No weapons of mass destruction ever turned up.
I regret it now because the information was wrong.
Powell spent his civilian years empowering youth through his projects.
When I heard their stories, I said, I've got to get, this is where I belong. I'm home again.
Powell died from complications from COVID-19, according to his family. He was 84 years old.
In Washington, I'm Chris Nguyen.
Thank you, Chris. News 3 is your weather authority. And Kevin Janison is downright authoritative today.
I am. Getting creative. Yes. My cold front is barreled through the Las Vegas Valley.
We've got, well, obviously today the big time changes went through with the wind blasting.
But now we're going to get a couple days to sort of catch our breath and get the temperature to warm up a bit.
Great view outside from our camera. Well, let's see which camera this would be.
It's going to be one of our fine tower cameras. This one on top of the Rio, looking off to the east.
Always a gorgeous shot. Like to see the traffic moving along just fine now on the 15.
Beautiful evening. Clear. The clouds have cleared out. The winds have relaxed.
There you see the last sliver of daylight as you look from our camera on top of Black Mountain.
Look how clear it is. One thing about the Las Vegas Valley, when we get these winds that aren't ferocious,
boy, it does clear off quite nicely. Sparkling clear out there.
That pattern will continue tomorrow, but then clouds will enter the equation yet again by tomorrow night.
We'll go ahead and pick up the full seven day forecast for you in just a few minutes.
All right, Kevin, thank you. Sure. Well, the United States exit strategy from Afghanistan under some closer scrutiny.
Now the State Department of the Inspector General's notifying leaders that it is looking into the suspension of operations in Kabul.
What they're really drilling down on is reviews of the embassy's emergency action planning,
execution of the Afghanistan Special Immigrant Visa program and evacuations out of Kabul,
which you saw on this video right out there on the tarmac for weeks.
The exodus earlier this year was criticized by both Republicans and Democrats as just being rushed.
So a spokesperson for the OIG says the work should be considered reviews and not investigations.
Maybe a softer way to put it right over the past five weeks.
In fact, some high profile members of the Biden administration, including Secretary of State Antony Blinken,
testified about the withdrawal in front of congressional committees.
And as we look at those images, we're reminded that it's been nearly two months since U.S. troops evacuated from Afghanistan.
But what happened there over the last 20 years has left thousands of veterans still dealing with the aftermath of Afghanistan war.
We brought that story to you earlier in this broadcast.
You might be able to find that on News 3 LV dot com or other websites related to the Sinclair broadcast group.
But now to the state murder trial that has begun now for three men accused in the murder of Ahmad Arbery.
And you know, that was a killing that was caught on camera.
That video is going to be key in the case that the prosecution is trying to make against the three men now fingered in this case.
CNN's Martin Savage has a look.
Jury selection begins today in the state murder trial of the three white men accused of killing Ahmad Arbery.
The final moments of his life captured on camera.
And we warn you, the video is disturbing.
Arbery was jogging in a neighborhood near Brunswick, Georgia in February 2020 when Gregory McMichael and his son Travis chased and fatally shot him.
Their neighbor, William Bryan, recording the incident on his cell phone and allegedly hitting Arbery with his truck.
That video is sparking nationwide outrage and protest calling for answers about Arbery's death.
All three men have pleaded not guilty to multiple state charges, including felony murder.
In April, the Justice Department also charged the McMichaels and Brian with federal hate crimes and attempted kidnapping in connection to Arbery's death.
The three also pleaded not guilty to those charges.
Meanwhile, in the Georgia state trial, a judge will choose 12 jurors from a pool of 1000.
Six hundred potential jurors will report for possible selection today.
We want a fair, neutral and impartial jury who's going to hear the facts of this case.
The attorney for Arbery's family says the trial will be challenging, especially considering the possible jurors who will hear the case.
That jury pool is going to be drawn from that community that has hasn't established the kind of character that could be both neutral and fair to someone who looks like a mom.
Now, I hope they can be. Arbery's mother says reliving the trauma of her son's death will be difficult.
It's been really a long hard road. Every day his name is called in court. I will be there.
In the hours before selection begins, the community holding a rally praying for justice.
There's going to be millions of feelings of anger. There's going to be feelings of sadness.
But at the end, we're hoping for a spirit of happiness when we get the guilty verdict that we're looking for.
Former President Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit to block the handover of certain documents to Congress.
House committee has requested that documents from the National Archives as part of its investigation into the January 6th riot.
All right. So the former president's lawsuit actually says the subpoena is not valid because in their contention, the committee has really no power to investigate him.
Trump is also claiming executive privilege once again.
The House is seeking documents that could shed light on Trump's action before and after the insurrection.
And that same House committee, Marie, is investigating the January 6th riot, is now rejecting the former president's ally, Steve Bannon's argument for failing to comply with the panel subpoena deadline.
That was earlier. Yeah. The committee actually sending a letter to Bannon's attorney dismissing his claim of executive privilege.
The committee is scheduled to meet tomorrow to vote on whether Bannon should be charged with criminal contempt of Congress.
All right. Let's come to a story that affects so many people in our hearts in the region.
We're talking, of course, about the fallout from the death of Kobe Bryant.
And this is something we want to hear from you. Tweet us and let us know what you think.
L.A. County has demanded that Kobe Bryant's widow undergo an independent psychiatric evaluation.
We're, of course, talking about Vanessa Bryant.
She sued L.A. County and its sheriff's office last year, alleging that the leaked photos of the helicopter crash that killed her husband and their daughter caused emotional distress.
Bryant and other family members are seeking tens of millions of dollars in damages from the county.
The county says that it filed a motion because independent exams are, quote, necessary to evaluate the existence, extent and nature of plaintiffs alleged emotional injuries, end quote.
The defendants argue that the severe emotional distress was caused by the crash and not the sharing of photos.
Kobe Bryant, his 13 year old daughter, Gianna, and seven others died on January 29th, 2020.
Likely so many will have opinions about that and we want to hear them.
OK, so big name in the news once again, Cuba Gooding Jr.
He appeared in a Manhattan courtroom earlier today, 52 years old, and he's accused of groping multiple women at New York City bars.
He is charged with forcible touching and sexual abuse in a case involving three different women.
A trial date has been set for February 1st. Gooding Jr. could face up to a year behind bars if convicted.
He denies any wrongdoing.
All right, so there are plenty of options well marketed, which are contraceptive in nature for women.
But now there's a new focus and advancing science that really gives men an opportunity to step up where this is concerned.
This contraceptive, these options being called groundbreaking spotlight on America's national investigative correspondent, Josie Sturman, as this report.
After having a birth control device break and get stuck inside her body, Ashley Gilbert was worried about trying other methods of contraception.
Looking at every option and just the side effects and the potential complications and just saying I don't want anything to do with any of this.
So she started looking for options that would let her partner take on some of the responsibility for preventing pregnancy.
She told us it was a frustratingly short search.
There's nothing out there for men besides condoms. It's just not fair that this burden is placed on women.
The effort to equal that burden when it comes to family planning has been slow because of limited research and funding.
Spotlight on America examined the federal government's clinical trial data and found less than 30 studies since 2005 that have looked at birth control for men.
While an issue like erectile dysfunction lists more than 500.
It's very important for us to expand the conversation to include what men can possibly do.
Dr. Brian Nguyen is among those leading the way toward reproductive equity.
The OBGYN is part of a team conducting clinical trials with the Center for Male Contraceptive Research and Development in California.
Right now they're actively testing three hormonal birth control options for men.
A pill, a long acting injection and a hormone gel study that's currently recruiting volunteers across the country.
Population studies done all over the world with about 9,000 men basically show that more than half, depending on what country you're from, would be interested in a male birth control method.
Unfortunately right now there is no pharmaceutical company that is funding male contraception.
The federal data we looked at shows it's been almost 15 years since a major pharmaceutical company funded research into male birth control.
The reason Nguyen tells Spotlight on America, an incorrect bias that men won't use the options and they won't be profitable.
So in the absence of interest from Big Pharma, universities and nonprofits are teaming up with the federal government to help move development along.
We're trying to help clear that pipeline and move things forward.
Heather Vadat runs the Male Contraceptive Initiative or MCI, a nonprofit focused on funding non-hormonal, reversible birth control options for men.
MCI is the second largest funder of male contraceptive research behind the U.S. government.
But Vadat says they're still only able to funnel a little over $2 million into the work each year.
When you think of drug discovery, that's not a lot.
So there's still plenty of room for folks to get engaged and help us push the needle forward.
The needle is moving slowly, but Vadat points out some promising options are on the horizon.
And MCI's own research already shows they will have a market.
Men say either I am actively looking for this, I have a partner that I wish I could help transition the burden from,
or I've been let off the hook because I don't have to choose.
Now the opportunity for men to choose an active role in family planning may be in the future,
after decades of having the burden fall mostly on women.
I'm Josie Sturman for Spotlight on America.
They always talk about that holiday creep, right, when people start talking about the holidays before Halloween even hits.
Well, the story is it's going to underscore that.
So Apple is already getting ahead of the holiday shopping season with this.
You get me every time, Apple, and you always do it right before the holidays.
All right, so this is their second batch of new products, a virtual unveiling.
So here's really what they're pushing. Apple's AirPod 3.
My AirPods are still the one. I like them.
Two high-end MacBook Pro laptops powered by its next-generation silicon chip.
The laptops, we were told, feature faster processors, longer lasting batteries, and a new front-facing camera.
And the AirPods have better sound quality and are sweat and water resistant for workouts.
All right, well, that's from Apple. So the new tech as we turn now to weather, let's talk about perhaps not so new tech, low tech, but hey, it works.
Right. I'm not feeling a lot of love for new technology these days.
Yes, we'll love it tomorrow, hopefully, when it comes back.
Yes, call me jaded somewhat. So we went old technology.
Marie, you would remember. Reid, maybe you remember.
What are you saying?
Yeah. You and I might remember the old days.
But we would show graphics like this and have the state of Nevada usually done professionally by an artist, not some weather dude who can't draw worth a darn.
But the front has gone through. The cold air pushing down from the northwest. Thus, the change is out there.
Great view. Quick look at a couple of cameras.
This one from our viewpoint, a top Mandalay Bay looking up the fabulous Las Vegas strip.
Very nice night. And then again, on top of the real looking off toward the east northeast.
Let's go and check in with some of the camera vantage points we had earlier today from the Perump Valley High School, central part of the Perump Valley.
See those dark clouds associated with the front. We did have some sprinkles, a couple patches of light rain around the spring mountains on both sides.
West side, as you're seeing here and then the east side to over Red Rock. Same story. A couple of showers didn't last long.
Not a whole lot of water, but we'll take any free water we can get, obviously clearing quite nicely in the afternoon from sector.
The Career and Technical Academy looking up from Russell Mountain Vista toward the northwest.
Skies did clear about mid to late afternoon. Lights came on and then changing the viewpoint, looking from the far west side atop the Red Rock Resort eastward.
Those clouds moving to the southeast and they did clear out saying the table for a nice night with a beautiful moonrise as well.
Temperatures 59 degrees in Sierra Vista. That is near Rhodes Ranch, Buffalo and Warm Springs. Their top wind gusts 44 miles per hour earlier today.
It is backed off in a big way. West Tech Far West side near Charleston, the 215. They too at a 44 mile per hour gust. Current temperature 54.
Canes in the far southeast part of town. Their top gusts is 43, a little milder there at 62. Rest of the temperatures mid 50s on the west side.
Low to mid 60s as you go up toward Nellis. It is 59 in Green Valley. Weather headlines for the rest of the night.
The winds continue to relax if they haven't already in your neighborhood. More sunshine on tap for Tuesday.
I don't think we'll see a cloud and the trend is to warm this week. Get us back to normal overnight tonight.
Look at this baby 38 for low 20s up in Lincoln County, 48 in Boulder City. At least tomorrow morning when we have these temperatures, the wind will not be blowing.
By afternoon will increase the temperature a bit. The official high in Las Vegas today was 64 in the afternoon.
68 will go down because it was just after midnight for the warmest temperature of the day. One of those backwards kind of days.
Loughlin ought to get to 79 while the mountain no better than 49. So the mountain will have a high of 49 here in town will have a low of 49 winds continue to relax clear skies tomorrow.
Plenty of sunshine for your Tuesday. The big seven, which is actually an improvement from today's mid 60s in the afternoon and not much window at all.
Tomorrow night, the clouds come back leading to a partly cloudy Wednesday. In fact, it'll be partly cloudy much of the week.
Series of disturbances throwing some clouds our way by the time we get to Sunday and Monday, the winds do pick up and I would have the possibility for a chance for some sprinkles or light rain on Monday.
That's seven days away. So we'll want to see how the conditions evolve somewhat. But the warming trend is underway.
Even with the clouds, we'll get back to 80 by Friday and pretty much be in that neighborhood to start the weekend.
Although remember on Sunday, those winds do fire up yet again. So there will be a little bite to the air here as we head and you know, it is Monday. It's never too especially today.
It's never too early to look ahead toward the weekend. Right. That 80 looks good. Yeah, it's really nice.
All right, Kevin. Thank you. Hey, we want to show you something else that warmed up. We're talking about the Olympic torch.
Excuse me, lighting today in Olympia, Greece. And this is following the tradition. Yeah, this was the scene in Olympia, Greece hours ago. The top athletes in the world, they are preparing for the Winter Olympics.
Now it's happening in just over 100 days. The games will take place in Beijing on February 4th. All right. And we just want to thank those who are behind the scenes right now.
Eddie, can you take a shot of you all there in the control room? I don't know if we have the luxury of even that button working today, but we just want to let you know that this newscast has been
brought to you literally handwritten handwritten out by so many people who are behind the scenes here at News 3 while we deal with these technical issues.
And so we just want to say thank you to all the people who got this newscast on the air despite all odds tonight. We appreciate it. And you know what?
There's more news to come. Yeah, yes. There's another half hour News 3 live at seven o'clock. It happens right after this.
But in the meantime, let's go ahead and take you back outside the beautiful glow of the Las Vegas Valley. We still have these cameras.
They're still working. And look at that Las Vegas. You do look gorgeous tonight. Maybe at seven we'll use the abacus. Look that up, kids.