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🌱Holiday Traffic On I-15 + Fire & Rescue Respond To Ammonia Leak

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Good morning, people of Las Vegas! It's me again, Rachel Kilimnik, your host of the Las Vegas Daily.


First, today's weather:

Warm with plenty of sunshine. High: 72 Low: 49.


Here are the top stories in Las Vegas today:

  1. Travelers heading back to California from Nevada on the last day of the Thanksgiving weekend can expect long delays. The Regional Transportation Commission Southern Nevada said on Sunday morning that cars were backed up for 20 miles on I-15 southbound. (Las Vegas Sun)
  2. Las Vegas Fire and Rescue responded to an ammonia leak downtown at a food processing facility on Saturday night. At approximately 9:51 p.m., firefighters responded to a leak at Desert Gold Food Processing facility located at 123 W. Colorado Ave., where ammonia, used for refrigeration, had leaked. (News3LV)
  3. A family is mourning a man who was shot and killed in a random shooting outside a Las Vegas gas station. (FOX5 Las Vegas)
  4. Las Vegas police responded to the scene of a crash Saturday involving a vehicle and a motorcycle near Charleston Boulevard and Heavenly Hills Court. (KTNV Las Vegas)
  5. A Las Vegas driver was killed when their Chrysler 300 hit a utility pole and split it into two parts. (KTNV Las Vegas)

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Rachel Kilimnik

About me: Rachel is a born-and-raised New Yorker who recently relocated to the mountains in the west. She is a freelance copywriter for the content creation agency Lightning Media Partners and is assisting Patch.com with community newsletter curation. During her free time, you can find Rachel roller skating, making pottery, drinking tea, and tending to her growing collection of houseplants.

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