Good Morning El Paso 02.24.16

a family is forced from their home after it goes up in flames — we have the latest details from our round the clock news team. “you know, we weren’t expecte a couple of months ago we weren’t expected to win this one. you know that, right? g-o-p frontrunner donald trump is a winner in nevada. how big was his win? plus — what hillary clinton had to say about a new development regarding her emails. and happening today—city council hears the results of an ethics investigation involving one city council representative and the city manager. a very good morning el paso, las cruces, and juarez. i’m stephanie valle. and i’m hillary floren. good morning, everyone. before we get to our first forecast — we have some round the clock news from the lower valley… a fire broke out earlier this morning on the corner of granillo street and socorro road. good morning el paso’s denise olivas joins us live with the very latest details ….denise? / the el paso fire department spokesman comfirms no injuries were reported. carlos briano says 3 men were inside when the fire started but got out in time. take a look at this video captured by tex-dot traffic cameras. you can see flames shooting out of the home. we’re told the ysleta del sur pueblo police on patrol saw the flames and alerted the residents to get out. the officer called 911. when the el paso fire department arrived, flames were shooting out from the back of the house. firefighters searched for any other residents while trying to put the fire out. the fire was put out just before 4:15 this morning. “”we haven’t had man incidents… important that they check them first” about 25 percent of the home was damaged. fire investigators are here now working to find out how the fire started. the fire department spokesman says this is the first house fire this month. mostly quiet weather in store for the borderland over the next week as a ridge of high pressure aloft persists over the western u.s. temperatures today will remain on the cool side but then a warmup begins…with high temperatures back to normal thursday and then well above normal for the weekend. a pacific storm system moves into the area next tuesday with strong winds and some mountain snow showers. we’ll talk more about what to expect for the rest of this work week and the weekend ahead coming up in your full forecast. this morning, billionaire donald trump is waking up a winner — and one step closer to the gop nomination in the race for president. trump trump is waking up a winner — and one step closer to the gop nomination in the race for president. trump got a big victory in the nevada caucuses on the same night the democratic contenders hit the stage for a town hall in south carolina. abc’ s kenneth moton reports the race is heating up less than a week to go before super tuesday. and it’s your voice, your vote. / this morning, donald trump?on a winning streak after another decisive victory?this time nevada. sot donald trump we love nevada, we love nevada love for trump but that anger at washington and a strong desire for an outsider gave the gop frontrunner an easy victory over his rivals. sot trump of course if you listen to the pundits we weren’t expected to win too much and now we’re winning, winning the country. in a distant second, republican establishment favorite marco rubio. iowa caucus winner ted cruz finished third. cruz.sot ted cruz the only campaign that can beat donald trump is this campaign. ben carson and john kasich were at the bottom of the pack. they’ve vowed to march on to super tuesday… the democrats are also focused on tuesday but first south carolina. sot hillary clinton “why is there one standard for me and not for everybody else?” hillar clinton fired up during a cnn town hall after a federal judge ruled the former secretary of state’s top aides should testify over her use of private email. but ahead of the democratic primary in the palmetto state, the focus was on african- americans who make up half of the electorate. sot bernie sanders we must sustain and strengthen the historically black colleges and universities sot clinton racism along with economic issues, educational issues, and all the rest, have to be addressed. clinton has campaign events in south carolina today, sanders is in missouri. the republicans are taking part in a voter summit hosted by trump’s fox news nemesis megyn kelly?trump declined the invite citing a scheduling conflict. kenneth moton, abc news washington. happening today— el paso city council gets results of an ethics investigation at city hall. this, after an editorial published in the el paso times yesterday saying city manager tommy gonzalez is unfit for the job — because of his responses to questions in that ethics investigation. gonzalez has been under fire for a couple of reasons. first — the search for the city’s new kenneth moton, abc news washington. happening today— el paso city council gets results of an ethics investigation at city hall. this, after an editorial published in the el paso times yesterday saying city manager tommy gonzalez is unfit for the job — because of his responses to questions in that ethics investigation. gonzalez has been under fire for a couple of reasons. first — the search for the city’s new financial adviser. a job that almost went to noe hinojosa’s company, a company suggested by city rep. larry romero .. tommy gonzalez authorized the process to search for a new financial adviser without a vote from council. gonzalez has also been under scrutiny for approving speed humps that violated city policy. those speed humps outside cathedral high school were also suggested by city rep. romero. gonzalez told the ethics commission — he was not directly involved in the process. but according to the el paso times… emails prove he was.. / ” “the answers that the ci manager provided in the investigation sort of wrapped up a lot of things we had been seeing which was an inability to take responsibilty” none of the council members approached by abc-7 wanted to talk about the article. ” “i want to get all t evidence” “i think we ne to give due process” “once m fisher releases that information we can make those type of comments” ” personally may go to legal action so im not sure what i can comment on” council members are expected to discuss the matter today — but mayor oscar leeser says there will probably be several meetings before they can take any action. also out of city hall— the use of electronic devices will no longer be allowed during council public meetings. the discussion led to some big accusations. / claudia ordaz: “that’s what i believe is the bigger issue here – is the fact that there’s a lot of communication not just happening in city council. it’s happening before and after these meetings and how to obtain that information is up to the city rep. i voluntarily gave all that because i believe in transparency.” michiel noe:sh actually did not turn over her text messages voluntarily. it wasn’t until the city attorney said ‘well you better find some because one of them is posted on a blog and everyone knows it’s out there. that’s when she turned them in.” city reps carl robinson, michiel noe and emma acosta proposed the ban of private devices during council meetings. but city rep claudia ordaz took it a step further and said the city reps should ban their city phones as well. in the end…. council unanimously decided to ban all private and city electronic devices during public meetings. city reps must now step off the dais if they need to take an emergency call. they’ll communicate with their staff through city email on the dais computers – which the public can check through an open records request. happening today in las cruces… mayor ken miyagishima will deliver his annual state of the city address today. this will be at 12:15 p.m. in the council chambers at city hall. the address will be televised live on clc-tv, comcast cable channel 20. the text of his address will be available on the home page of the city of las cruces website. now it’s time to take a look at the tx-dot traffic cams… we still have much more to come here on good morning el paso — flights heading for our sister city today are bringing stranded migrants hoping to cross into the united states. we’ll tell you where their coming from. plus–several people are injured after strong storms rip across parts of the u.s. –we’ll take a look. meteorologist krystal klei has your detailed forecast. krystal… and this is abc-7, where news comes first! severe storms in florida spawned tornadoes that left several