so the property line hasn't been set but pierrot argues-- he has every right to have this tarp up-- after clearing it with code enforcement. sot sean pierrot he has approved this as a temporary structure according to the city website-- structures built as a wall-- or a fence-- must meet certain height requirements-- and must be built with specific materials. but pierrot says-- since this is just a temporary structure-- he was given the okay. and says the whole dispute can easily be fixed. sot pierrot this is very simple and i would like to say this, remove the camera, i will remove the tarp immediately we did reach out to code enforcement to confirm that this structure is allowed-- we hope to hear back on monday. reporting live near rainbow and westcliff-- mk-- 13an. we're following a developing story out of unlv right now.. where we've learned daquan cook has been dismissed from the basketball team. cook was suspended for the first 14 games of the season after a dui arrest in the offseason. cook was in his fourth season

only played in two games this season for a total of four minutes. no reason was given for his dismissal. metro needs your help finding several suspects behind multiple home invasions in the past month. police say at least 3 armed suspects forced their way into the homes.. and pistol-whipped one victim during the break-in. one home invasion happened around desert inn and theme road.. another was near vegas valley and cabana drive. if you have any information.. call metro right away. a developing story.... we're following... governor brian sandoval announced a new measure..... to help fix nevada's teacher shortage today!!! c-c-s-d officials spoke to.... 13 action news reporter.... michael burton.... about how this will help the education crisis.... right here in clark county. michael... it's no secret that ccsd is one of the largest school districts - making it hard to find enough qualified teachers to fill every opening. next year - the district will

openings to fill - and now officials are a lot more confident they will fill them because this new measure will allow ccsd to issue provisional teaching licenses. these are licenses for aspiring teachers who don't have a nevada teaching license because they still have an exam to take or school credits to obtain. this plan will allow them to teach at a ccsd school while they're working on getting that done. they get up to one year to do that. i spoke with one aspiring teacher who is licensed to teach in nevada and has tried to get a ccsd job for years. he hopes this will better his chances. "if this new legislations makes it easier to hope that hurdle and get people in the door? great! if licensed teachers can also use this new access. great! michael macdougall aspiring teacher 10 secs as for when this new measure takes effect? this answer is now.

- 13 action news. new at six... a memorial has been set up to remember a man killed yesterday when a car crashed into a bus stop near lake mead and jones. police say the person driving the car hit the median.. then crossed into oncoming traffic before hitting the bus stop. the victim was in a wheelchair waiting for a bus. he died a short time after reaching the hospital. it's been almost a year ... since the shooting death of a valley mother outside her home! las vegas and the national media...captivated by the story! tonight.. we're hearing what accused killer... erich nowsch told friends that night. 13 action news reporter mahsa saeidi is live in the studio with never before heard details. mahsa? steve we hear from a friend nowsch contacted in the hours after the shooting. she says he was exasperated. he came to her house and confessed. "well, he had emptied his

he had pulled out his gun and extra clips." the gun - prosecutors say - erich nowsch used to shoot a mother of four in the head! the 19 year-old telling this friend that night! he needed to talk! something important! at her house -- she says nowsch showed her threatening text messages! the same thing he said in a confession to police! fears he was in danger! "everywhere i went that car was there. it was there. i had just had threats." nowsch's friend couldn't believe it! when news of tammy meyers's death broke! sad and in shock -- she says her friend isn't a cold-blooded killer! 'cause i-- i know full heartedly that his intentions were so far from that. so far from that. it was-- it was purely about protecting himself and his sister and his mother." still she picked up that phone. and called police. she was haunted by it then -- now a year later? i still am, even sitting (voice breaking) here. tonight -- nowsch's attorney's still claiming self- defense. the big questions -- still a mystery! how did the defendant and the victim know each other!

-- play a role! did nowsch know who he was shooting "i-- i full heartedly, in my soul, believe he had no idea." "he didn't even know if anyone had been struck at this point, let alone who was in the at 11. including ... why that friend turned nowsch in.. and what she told police. live in studio, mahsa saeidi, 13, action news. the full 20-20 special includes interviews with tammy meyers' husband and her children. you can see it tonight at 10.. right here on channel-13. and... a live look outside right now... and... this is the reason we all chose to live.... in las vegas. just a perfect evening and much warmer..... than earlier this week. is it going to stay that way? let's head over to 13..... weather first meteorologist.... lows 35 to 39 on the west side of the valley...36 to 40 on the east side. north wind 10 to 15 mph shifting to the northwest after

now... a story... you asked us... to investigate... a valley pet owner is confused and heartbroken. she dropped off.... four cats to be boarded..... while she was out of town.... and... only got three back. contact 13.... investigative reporter stephanie zepelin is live at the boarding facility.... near jones and tropicana. stephanie? this is a picture of max.

two weeks old....so you can imagine her heartbreak when she learned max was missing. she dropped max and her three other cats off at southwest animal hospital while she was gone for a week. when she got back, they told her max escaped and ran up into the drop ceiling while they were trying to clean the cage. susan says their stories were very inconsistent and fears they haven't done enough to find her cat. susan rasmussen cat went missing 13.28.56 this is what you do, you are supposed to love animals 59 then how can you just leave her there? 29.01 dr. pete perron spoke with us. he says in 28 years they've never had this happen, and they do all they can to keep up with ceiling repairs. he seemed genuinely sympathetic toward susan....and she says he has been kind. after a week, dr perron says they've looked for max and aren't optimistic they'll find her alive.

soc we're in the final countdown to super bowl 50.. which means it will be a wild weekend in the bay area.. and here in las vegas.. especially at the sportsbooks. 13 action news reporter yasmeen hassan stopped by sunset station today to get some predictions on what we can expect. yas we have one of the best seats not just in the house but in the entire country because when it comes to super bowl sunday las vegas is the place to be. 14:23:58 04 chuck esposito sunset station "if you can't be at the big game live there's no better place to be than vegas." las vegas is one of the most

game - and it's pretty easy to of the super bowl - but with and pumping money into our the economic impact not only in racing sports but throughout the industry. hotel rooms and food and beverage entertainment everything we have to offer. it's a win win for us. butte to 11:26:17 06 paul rosa thousands of big screens, hundreds of world class resturants, dozens of sportsbooks....it doesn't get much better than vegas. 11:27:48 07 paul rosa "the weather's right. you got screens all over. i'd rather be here than going to the game live." yas as it stands right now the panthers are favored by 5 and half points but the odds can change right up until kickoff. reporting from sunset station yasmeen hassan 13 action news, earlier this afternoon.. just for fun.. i started a twitter poll to see who our viewers think will win superbowl-50. here are the results so far: 49-percent say the broncos

14-percent say your super bowl party will be the real winner this sunday. there's still time to vote. my twitter handle is @stevewolford13. still ahead.. a man fighting for his life while his friend desperately tries to get through to 9-1-1. i mean you gotta a guy, you don't know if he's going to make it or not. contact-13 chief investigator darcy spears digs deeper.. in part-2 of her investigation: "help on hold." coming up... in contact -13- tonight... the i-r-s is issuing a major warning... what you need to know..... to keep from becoming a victim of scammers! and.... don't forget... contact 13's "call for action" is ready to help you.... with a consumer problem. just contact one of our volunteers... any weekday.... between 11 a-m and 1 p-m. our hotline number is....

life or death? three little numbers could make the difference. but... how long is too long to wait....

9-1-1 to answer your call? contact 13....

darcy spears exposes.... the human cost of help... on hold. /nats golf course/ when larry gold swings a club, he doesn't know for sure where the ball will go. /55:34 nats ball in hole/ but when he calls 911, he expects a sure thing every time. larry gold 34:33 everyone tells you to call 911. (butt to 34:22 larry) that's all your options are. that option rang hollow on december 17th. after larry's group finished a round of golf, their friend howard was in serious trouble. larry 30:21 he wasn't moving. eyes were rolling back. it didn't look good. /phone nats three beeps as if calling 9-1-1/ so larry called 9-1-1 on his cell and heard this... play 911 audio recording (10 seconds) "you have reached 9-1-1 emergency. please do not hang up. your call will be answered in the order received." larry 30:46 no person answered. (butt to 31:03) i mean you gotta a guy, you don't know if he's going to make it or not. darcy stand-up: after waiting for two minutes with no answer, larry thought there might be a

and got the same recording. larry 31:42 another 30 seconds. another minute. another minute. it's up to like 4 minutes now. by then, howard was having a hard time breathing. his friend mike tried to help while others also called 9-1-1. mike 41:55 he's says i'm on hold! i'm on hold! i can't believe i'm on hold! someone finally got through. and howard got help. howard 12:11:17 ...ended up going to the hospital and they ran a whole series of tests on me. but he can't make sense of what happened at the 9-1-1 call center. :56 denise kee/metro communications center: i personally, as the director of communications, want to apologize for that. because it is not acceptable. and it is not the level of service we want to provide to our community. denise kee says metro recently moved from an old, analog telephone system to what she calls next generation 9-1-1. 3:25 denise: they may not hear the rings that they're used to hearing and that shouldn't

they've immediately been put on hold. kee says there were 244 calls in the hour surrounding howard's emergency, which is higher than the normal call volume for that time. a time when 15 operators were working the 911 system. 12:00 denise: i could staff 100 people a day and still there would be times during the day that we would have hold times that were longer than normal. although howard pulled through, his wait for help raises an inevitable question. what if? larry 32:36 .....i was at a bank and there was an active shooter and you just can't get through? what if? larry 34:38 if somebody's house is smoldering? what if? larry 32:40 a mom calling 'my baby stopped breathing!" denise kee 8:23 we hear the "what ifs" every single day. and that is why it is our priority to monitor the wait times and ensure we are answering them as quickly as possible. as contact 13 first reported, that "what if" question haunts

name. 6:33 debbie: i thought what am i gonna do?! why aren't they answering?! her husband steve died the same day howard needed help. she and her neighbors waited nearly four minutes on hold before getting a live operator at 9-1-1. 7:22 darcy: you don't know what would've happened had that call been answered right away? debbie: right. darcy: had they been here five minutes earlier? debbie: maybe he would still be here... i don't know. i wish he was. 6:46 darcy: what is your expectation? debbie: i don't think that any family or any person should ever get a recording on 911. i think that phone should ring and should be picked up by a human within seconds. metro says the national standard for answering calls is 10 seconds or less. they'll be adding 20 dispatchers to their budget

still won't be enough. darcy... what should you do if you get a recording when you call 9-1-1? darcy ad libs answer and teases to reaction from community leaders tonight at 11. big superbowl weekend at hand.. so will it be nice enough

have a tailgate party in your driveway before kickoff? 13-weather first chief meteorologist bryan scofield is here with his pre- game forecast .tonight...mostly clear. lows 35 to 39 on the west side of the valley...36 to 40 on the east side. north wind 10 to 15 mph shifting to the northwest after midnight. .saturday...sunny. highs around 60 on the west side of the valley...60 to 63 on the east side. north wind 5 to 10 mph increasing to 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon. .saturday night...clear. lows 34 to 39. north wind 10 to 15 mph. .sunday...sunny. highs 62 to 65 on the west side of the valley... 64 to 67 on the east side. north wind 5 to 10 mph shifting to the northeast in the afternoon. .sunday night...mostly clear. lows 37 to 42. north wind 10 to 15 mph. .monday through

lows 43 to 46. .tuesday night through thursday...mostly clear. lows 44 to .tuesday night through thursday...mostly clear. lows 44 to 47. highs 69 to 72. .thursday night and friday...partly cloudy. lows around 50. highs 69 to 72. breaking news on a homicide in the southwest. shifting to the northwest after midnight. .saturday...sunny. highs around 60 on the west side of the valley...60 to 63 on the east side. north wind 5 to 10 mph increasing to 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon. .saturday night...clear. lows 34 to 39. north wind 10 to 15 mph. .sunday...sunny. highs 62 to 65 on the west side of the valley... 64 to 67 on the east side. north wind 5 to 10 mph shifting to the northeast in the afternoon. tuesday...clear. highs 67 to 71. lows 43 to 46. .tuesday night through thursday...mostly clear.

highs 69 to 72. .thursday night and friday...partly cloudy. lows around 50. highs 69 to 72. breaking news on a homicide in the southwest. chopper 13 fast and first over the scene.... breaking news on a homicide in the southwest. chopper 13 fast and first over the scene.... and we've got information metro just confirmed to 13 action news reporter david shuman. that several family members were in the house near cimarron and mountain's edge parkway... when a fight broke out.. and a 19 year old stabbed an adult several times.. and that adult shot and killed the teen. no word yet on whether the shooter will be charged. david is still on the scene gathering more information.. he'll have a full update on action news live at 11. for now.. that's the latest from the breaking news center.. and chopper 13.

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right now.. the welcome to fabulous las vegas sign is glowing in red to kick off the "go red for women" campaign. the goal of the campaign is to raise awareness of the risks of heart disease and stroke for women. the red bulbs were illuminated at 10:00 this morning. heart disease and stroke cause one in every three deaths among women each year.. which is more than all forms of cancer combined. time now... for the latest consumer news... from contact 13. the i-r-s... has released its annual list... of major tax scams!!! not surprisingly... i-d theft tops the list. followed by... phone scams... where callers pose.... as members of the i-r- s... demanding money. and... rounding out the top -3-... is phishing scams... fake e-mails... that attempt to get your sensitive information. americans will eat millions... of chicken wings..... this super bowl sunday. it's the biggest day of the year... for many sports-themed restaurants. "buffalo wild wings" says... it plans to sell... -12- million chicken wings.

"wing stop" hopes to sell..... - 10- million. about half those orders... will be take-out..... since a lot of football fans... host super bowl parties... at home. next on 13-action news live at 6:30.. he was there as tragedy unfolded. now.. those memories are burned into his mind. but tonight.. he's putting his fear aside to re-live the terrifying moments on the job. and... it's no secret the super bowl could be a huge target.... for terrorists. tonight... 13 action news is finding out the one thing.... they're most worried about. and... for breaking news and weather updates anytime.. just download the free k-t-n-v mobile app... for your smartphone or tablet. we'll be.... right back.

in a strip mall parking lot.chopper 13.. fast and first over the scene of a deadly shooting and stabbing. and we're just learning new details... 13 action news reporter.... david schuman is on the scene.... near cimarron and mountain's

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