They dont have any good suspect information ready to release to the public. This busy intersection turned into a bizarre crime scene on tuesday night. A car for a possible stabbing on a male bleeding. Reporter Police Responded and found the vehicle in the middle of the road near the intersection of 13th and marion. The driver side window was shattered and the front and back left tires were flat. The windshield was broken. At work when noticed the response from the police. We saw the lights and then they came in and asked about it. He was here eating that night. Reporter the suspicious incident turned into a homicide after the victim was transported and died at the hospital. While police have not identified him, those working in the area believe it was an older man. A regular at the restaurant who may have been trying to help someone. Sounds like he was tricked someone was asking for help and he went to help out. And yeah. It just all went down. Reporter investigators were on scene for hours collecting e and reviewing video from surveillance cameras though know suspect or mote i has been identified. It is incredibly sad. Hes a sweet old man. To have that happen is crazy. Reporter i also spoke to the man who was the first to find the vi said when he arrived there was no one else on scene and there were no other suspicious vehicles in the area. Live in denver, karen morfitt, cbs4 news. Right now, a mild night in denver, but a fast moving storm is making its way through our state bringing snow to the mountains. Meteorologist Lauren Whitney is tracking that storm in colorados weather center. So lauren, will it be causing any Holiday Travel problems . I think if you are driving early tomorrow morning or late already have snow in parts of the state moving to the North Western corner. A little in the high elevations. You can see along parts of i70 from grand junction, getting closer to the vail area, rain and snow. Snow going all the way up into parts of moffet county. We have this front working through. It is fast moving. It is mainly wrapped up. If you are leaving early tomorrow morning know it will be a liting i looking at snowy conditions lingering in high elevations near vail pass. Out in the elements we have chris spears in the mobile weather lab. Chris, where are you at right now . Reporter well, we came up to Rabbit Ears Pass and found the snow. We ran into a wall of snow. Here comes a car no. We will show you as it goes take a look at this video. We shot this under one hour ago. A really intense snow squall as we made our way up the east side. And we drove the entire length of the pass and i will tell you, the whole thing from west to east is currently icy and snow packed. Back here live, 26. 3 degrees with a wind about 12 miles an hour. This is just the leading edge of the main surge still to come out of coming up in just a little bit. Thank you chris. Well, if you have been in the car at all, you know traffic has been a nightmare. From copter 4, you can see all the head and taillights lining i25. Quite the traffic jam out there. Stan bush is live along the interstate for us. So stank how is traffic moving at this hour . Reporter it is looking try to move across the country. Travelers hoping to get out of town needed two things. A padded schedule and a lot of patience. Feeling fine. We budget enough time. You know. And, this way, we dont have to deal with traffic. Reporter security lines were jammed at airports across the country. The day before thanksgiving was the busiest travel day of the year. Joclyn snyder expected denver to be worse than the busiest airports im not excite today go go through the airport, but i get to see my family. Reporter bumper to bumper traffic made rush hour seem like an allday event. But almost no line waiting for amtrak. I get to sleep overnight on the train and arrive in the morning. Reporter charlie bush says her trip to burlington, iowa will be long but stress free and likely a sure thing. If there is a storm, my train is getting back, their also another one of the worst travel days of the year. So, whether you are at the airport or on the road, most travelers have another miss in front of them. Live in denver, stan bush, cbs4 news. Thanks stan. Happy ending tonight, two teenagers who disappeared in the mountains earlier this week have been rescued. Local High School Students matt smith and Tommy Hendricks summited to the mount of the holy cross in eagle county. That was monday evening. When their families did not hear from them tuesday, they ca after a two day search, a helicopter spotted the teams this afternoon. They got lost in a white out. They hit the summit 7 00 p. M. Monday night. Storms came in. And they were trapped by the storms. Thankfully, they had equipment and experience enough that they were able to take pretty good care of themselves. The teenagers were found at an elevation of 12,000 feet. They were taken to the hospital in castle rock. Police arrested a teenager who lived there. A special team of investigators went back to the home to finish the cleanup. Eight neighboring homes had to be evacuated again. You dont like to hear Something Like that. Not knowing that it was going on, i guess is the big thing. You know. It just kind of makes you worry a little bit. Reporter some of the chemicals were immediately removed on halloween, some were taken out. The required to hire. But the latest were left to the bomb squad. Developing tonight, a gruesome and violent attack. A man is stabbed. Then, set on fire. Investigators are hoping this video will help them to get that attacker off the street. Our jeff todd reporting in from adams county. Jeff, we know this than is homeless, but a lot of people care about him. Reporter jim, we have been talking to people at this liquor store all day who said he basically lived in the Shopping Center for years. Building. This is where he was asleep, soot in the building. This is a sign of someone who tried to kill him. Never bothered nobody. He wasnt a violent person. Like i said, he was homeless and unfortunate. Reporter regulars around the Shopping Center say they know the man who was attacked. Never asked anybody for nothing. He would sit there and mind his own business. Like i said, a lot of people knew him around here. So, he took it pretty hard. Reporter Surveillance Video captured the whole thing. On the suspect came up and doused matthew in some kind of flammable liquid. Then started stabbing him. During the stabbing he actually put the victim out by his actions and then, afterwards, he poured some of the trash, there was a trash can next to him. The trash contents were also on firement he took some of the trash and put it on the victim to reignite him. Reporter a heinous act many people are having trouble coping with. The video. I have to tell you. And what we saw in the video, nobody should have to endure that. Reporter now police are hoping someone recognizes this man. And the best clue may be this sweatshirt that says cross fit reebok. I hope they catch him. It is sad what happened. I pray for him. My prayers are with him. Reporter that suspect is described as five foot ten to anyone with information should call the adams county sheriffs office. Reporting live tonight, jeff todd, cbs4 news. Thanks jeff. New tonight, fire forces the evacuation of a popular denver restaurant. Fire started in the kitchen at the cherry cricket. Everyone had to get out including a couple on their first date. We had already ordered and eaten. Everything was delicious. Just having a conversation. And, it is starting to get a little smoky inside. Didnt notice too much until crews had the fire out within 20 minutes of getting to the restaurant. We are told no one was hurt. [ laughter ] developing tonight, a man narrowly loses his dog to a Mountain Lion on a popular trail near morrison. It could have easily taken both of us if it wanted to. Why he blames himself for his dogs injuries. Plus, the trump team gets more diverse. The women set to take on key roles. And a cop fights off an ambush after a man with a gun hops out witnesses thought it was a bomb but it was his smoking device. And thanksgiving is tomorrow. We have snow. I will let you know how long that lasts and what thanksgiving is like across the state coming up. The nuggets are going back to back wins in back to back nights. What another big performance from jamal murray be enough . ,,, a man, a dog, and a mounta morrison. The encounter could have been devastating but all three were able to walk away and share the experience with kelly werthmann. Okay, come on. Reporter Jeff Stevenson and his furry friend stella have hiked the wild turkey trail near morrison for years. There you go. Reporter rarely does stella walk off leash, but she was free to roam here last weekend. I should have known better. Reporter when jeff tried to call her back to the trail, next thing i know she runs down the hill and behind her a foot or two was a big Mountain Lion. Reporter the big cat upwards of 250 pounds came within feet of jeff as stella hid behind her owner. We looked eye to eye and he was growling. Deep, deep growl. And, showed all of his teeth. Reporter using a big tree branch, jeff says he was eventually able to scare the lion off. I thinkit taken both of us if it wanted to. Reporter only, noticing when he got home that his dog was hurt. On one side, she has a deep puncture wound. Reporter luckily, stella only needed a few stitches and will be okay. Her owner says the scary experience taught him an important lesson. The lesson is to have your dog on a leash. Im 100 sure that if she had been on a leash, we would have walked along the trail and nothing would have happened. We are happy to be alive. Yeah, there are some cameras in the open space and trails where jeff and stella was. One camera caught this picture of what could be the Mountain Lion they ran into. Picture of a bull moose lighting up social media. The moose appear to have the antlers of an elk. The photo was taken by a professional photographer in the Arapahoe National forest. Been to alaska, been to maine. Been here since 1994. I have this. It is rare, they have seen similar antlers and other bulls over the years. But a moose and elk breeding is unlikely. The unique antlers may be due to genetics. Donald trump injecting the first diversity into his cabinet to be. South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley has accepted the position of u. S. Ambassador to the united nations. Haley sharply criticized him during the campaign. Her parents immigrated from india. Trump also named republican betsy devos to lead the department of education. She is new to government, but has spent years trying to change education. She is a strong advocate of voucher programs and charter schools. A sad new development after mondays bus crash in chattanooga, tennessee. A sixth child passed away today. Police announced the driver did not have any drugs or alcohol in his system when he ff tree. That driver is now in jail facing vehicular homicide charges. A fugitive is in custody after trying to run away from police by hiding in the trunk of a car. It all started when the officer in idaho pulled over a car belonging to the wanted man. Suspects mother was driving. The officer got suspicious, called for backup. That is when the trunk popped open. That suspect tried to escape. Armed with a gun. A toy gun. The officer wrestled him to the ground. And that threat was clear and present. That officer could have used deadly force. 22yearold suspect had previously been arrested for obstructing officers and malicious injury. He was wanted for failure to appear in court. New video of yet another firey explosion involving an e cigarette. Witnesses say it looked like a bomb went off in this mans pants. The man was working in the store. In new york citys Grand Central terminal. The man went to but his coworkers say he will be okay. Happening now, safety concerns in south lake tahoe, california after a man was caught tampering with food at a grocery store. We see the Surveillance Video showing the man pouring a substance on ready made food. Investigators are still trying to figure out exactly what it was. But they say it left a white foam on the food. Now, police in the area are warning residents to inspect what they eat until that man is caught. Some snow in the mountains tonight. Answers. And that big holiday is coming our way. Here comes the snow. Look at it start to fill up in the North Western portion of our state. You see ahead of it, we have mostly clear skies. Clear skies downtown in denver. Cool air will come on with it. We will see temperatures just tempered a little bit. Here is the system we had yesterday. That is off to the east. And believe it or not, there is another one pushing into the Pacific Northwest right now. Lets see how this plays out on our hour by hour forecast. Here ie the northwest. And by 2 00 a. M. , really it fills in, in the mountains but it slowly just dies down. So, here is thanksgiving day. Nothing on doppler 4,000. I will roll it into the black friday shopping day. Nothing on doppler 4,000 as well. So, for the first couple of days of the holiday weekend, things look pretty darn good. Lets go to Lauren Whitney in the colorado weather center. We will still get snow in the mountains. If you are traveling late night tonight and early tomorrow morning there will be ears pass looking pretty dicey. Just be cautious. We have Winter Weather advisories in the high country. Some of the front range mountains in the tunnels, anywhere from three to six inches. And, this is in place starting at 11 00 tonight. So, in 40 minutes. And, we have this go through 6 00 a. M. So the snow wraps up very quickly and most of it stays in the North Western corner in the central mountains. Not too much heads down in the south western corner. We are not looking at anything for us. It wno mountains. Tomorrow, it will be cooler than today thanks to the front also coming through. So we drop down to 48 degrees tomorrow. And our overnight lows into black friday shopping time, 23 degrees. If you dont want to avoid all of that, it will be nice to snug up a little tighter. It will be cold tomorrow. We are 50 and 52 today. Lows this morning 23 and 27. Fairly close to normal this time of year. Records. 32 and 34 now. 73 humidity. We have the rising barometer. Winter park opened up today. They are in full swing. And, look at the snow they got down in telluride. This is ryan bono, a very dramatic picture. This is the Great Sand Dunes National park. And thats a beautiful shot. And then, a nice one from rod, sunset from aurora this evening. Temperatures for tonight, mostly in the 20s , a few 30s over the eastern pl out west, temperatures in the 20s and the 30s. Tomorrow, pretty much like today. We will see 40s and 50s over the eastern plains. 30s for the mountains. Out west, temperature ins the 30s and the 40s. Here is your forecast. For tonight, we will see clear skies in denver, 25 and 24 the lows. Tomorrow, fair and breezy. And about normal this time of the year. 48 and 47. And then, for the next several days, we will see 58 degrees on friday for a mild day. We will doubt again on saturday, with 59. But during game time, temperatures probably mostly in the 30s. Monday, we will be 38 degrees with more clouds. And then take a look at the plus four more. Only lower 30s to the low 40s with a mixture of clouds an sunshine through next week. 14 tuesday. Yep. Boy. Well, it is beginning to sound a lot like the holidays. Denver mayor Michael Hancock ringing in the Salvation Army the season to give to those who are in need this holiday season. Make sure that people have something to receive as we are all grateful for this time. Bell ringers will begin collecting donations at area stores tomorrow. 100 of kettle donations will stay in the denver metro area. Sports is next. If you have a news tip or a story idea, we want to hear from you. An email through cbsdenver. ,,,, call it a blast from the past. Motivation. And a trip down memory lane. It was all three today at broncos practice. Peyton manning out at practice didnt take any snaps though. In the broncos locker room. Check that out. A quiet reminder of what the all three lombardi trophies in the locker room. Step to getting another one, beating kansas city. If the broncos do that, they need their offense to show up big time. Number one in the nfl. They will have their hands full sunday night. They can play all over the place. And really have a lot of problems. You are in trouble against them. Really good football team. They are tops in turnover. Great red zone defense. Not giving up points. Everything is contested with them. They are not. Theres no ten or 12yard cushion to the wide open guys. Everything is contested. And then when they get their hands on the ball, they are not dropping many balls back there. Big weekend for football, so we wanted to know which game is a bigger deal to you. Most of you saying the cu utah game saturday. Boy, hopefully, this is not a sign of things to come. They trailed 140. Jamal murray had 23. A beautiful feed. Nice pocket pass there. Bucket and the foul. Denver was really that in the third quarter. Got outscored. You know it is bad when Gordon Hayward is on the end of an allyoop. Jazz win it by 25. We are winning basketball lately because of how we played. Tonight, though audiotape, we just didnt bring it. We were playing good basketball. Tough game tonight. Take a day off. We have a lot to be thankful for. The avalanche looking to make it three straight. A start to the franchise in las vegas. Thats next. Movies. All you need is highspeed internet from centurylink. Get up to 40 megs for just 20 a month for one year when bundled with a qualifying home phone plan. Speed may not be available in your area. No, thats okay. Im not hungry. Dont worry about me. Okay. Avalanche hosting edmonton tonight. You know, colorado had trouble scoreing in the first period. Until tonight. Nathan mackinnon, beautiful look off. Then, we were tied at 22 after one. Avs led 32. Then edmonton scored three unanswered in the third. This one is still going on. Oilers lead it 53. Speaking of hockey, the nhls newest team unveiling its logo in las vegas. At least they tried to. It kind effort that evolved over the last five months or so. That will bring the National Hockey league franchise. . [ music ] . We will do better than that on the rink, ill tell you that. That went on for about 45 seconds. [ laughter ] they finally got it right. , . Think of your fellow man. . . Lend him a helping hand. . . Put a little love in your heart. . . Take a good look around. . . And if youre lookin down, . . Put a little love in your heart. . . Put a little love in your heart. . . In your heart. . avo the subaru share the love event is happening now and will have given ninety Million Dollars well, wonderful tradition continued today as the Denver Rescue Mission served up more than 500 thanksgiving meals to the homeless. The governor and mayor showing they do know the way around a busy kitchen and dining room. Helping to serve that traditional meal of turkey, the rescue mission has hosted this thanksgiving banquet longer than 30 years. Ed, ha do you have now . It is from pete. Is something casting its shadow in is this the foothills in the dark . What do we have here . Well, lets zoom out and find out. Oh look. It is a lovely animal in silhouette. You cannot tell by the antlers. Could be a moose or an elk. You cant tell anymore. [ laughter ] thanks fo news tonight. The late show with Stephen Colbert is next. Captioning sponsored by cbs and now a late show thanksgiving message. Hi, im a thanksgiving turkey here with a special holiday message. But first, id like to get something off my breast. Would you please stop using your hand to draw me