Involved in three smash and grabs overnight. `denver7 reporter eric lupher is live at the Shopping Center off broadway at hampden. Reporter this could be on an episode of stupid criminals, lets put it that way. Police are telling us the crook smashed the door to this Electronic Store and smashed in the door at that asian restaurant a few doors down. He walked home and it snowed, so clearly he left behind some thats how police nabed this guy. It first started at ew1hazaba hair salon on east hampden. There were footprints there and lost it. That hair salon. Listen. Just broken glass everywhere. And a Cash Register that was empty and out on the counter. Reporter did they take anything from thh register . No, they did not, because i didnt have cash in it. Reporter of course that owner was very excited to hear a possible suspect was arrested. By the way, that suspect has a lengthy criminal history, including prior burglaries. Well keep that in mind of course, and this is interesting, this is next door to the electronics shop. This is actually a jewelry and watch store, but you can see on this store theyve got bars on the other side of the glass, so perhaps thats why the crook didnt hit this spot. You never know. Eric lupher, denver 7. Eeic, thank you. The snow continues to fall. I just looked outside before the show. Its really pretty. Its gorgeous. Picced up another inch or two this morning. Nice to see. I love when Mother Nature listens. Or when we listen to her is probably the better way. You can finally make out the buildings, but you can see the big flakes coming down. It is beautiful. Mainly the highways at this point, jayson will get to that in just a minute, are wet. Some of the side streets because of the consistent snow are snow packed and icy. Heres a look at radaa. 3 you will notice that in some spots things are starting to break up a little more. Down near littleton, highlands ranch, lighter activity there. Not as heavy. Its moving off f i25 a bit. Will remain light to moderate through the early afternoon. `maybe adding another half an inch to an inch at best in shot spots. Most of the totals in denver, theyre going to stick. Our temperatures have dropped. Early this morning, upper 20s to near 30. Now low to mid20s and thats through the afternoon, with a few flurries lingering through evening. This wont be one of those storms where the skies clear by sunshine. Cloudy and cold and overnight tonight waking up tomorrow with potentially dense fog in spots. Our futurecast shows how things will liihten up more so this afternoon and evening. Well get you through your few minutes. Over to jayson. The roads have been a problem. You would have thought there was a foot of snow on the ground. Changing conditions, even in the last couple of hours. This morning we had all the road problems and accidents and spiiouts. Now were turning to more wet and slushy conditions on and off the highway. Still can see the slow fflling downtown at 18th and market. Roads conditions are mostly slushy. Along 6th at sheridan, mostly wet conditions. Much of the same on i70 by the earlier crash jackknifed `emi by colfax is cleared up. Between downtown in the Denver Tech Center wet with some of the slushy areas on the ramps and bridges. There is an accident on colorado boulevard at i25. Also one by yale and dahlia between colorado and i25. You can see c470 basically wet at this point. One of the worst areas was south, founders parkway. You can see the nasty conditions, i25 founders parkway, look at the slow traffic in douglas county. Will take a couple of extra minutes. One of the latest accidents out there on c470 by quebec. Major king has been up north, youre in wellington now. What does it look like now, major . Reporter its like you mentioned, there is some residual slush on the freeway. Its below freezing, so it is i came up here doing about 60 its traveling fairly well, but not at the top speed of 75 people would normally do. Were at the wellington exit along i25. You can see, ill step out of the shot, you can see the slush on the road that folks are working along. this started about 6 00 yesterday down south in a fine mist and evolveed overnight into snow. Check it out, we shot th overniiht, this morning, 4 inches in fort collins. That was in my driveway. We caught up with the snow plows, morning commute in fort collins took about twice as long as normal. Hopefully theyre catching up with that snowfall now. Check out this semi trailer. Speeds were about 60 Miles Per Hour coming up here to wellington. Pretty good speed and yet its dangerous. You can tell by this compact car that slid off the i25 southbound ramp here in wellington. They are still working to clear this car. Managed to take out the guard rail, and really kind of doing a number on his car. Coming back here livv, you can along i25. The road isnt closed. Take it a little bit easier, slow down a little bit and get to where youre going. Live in wellington, major king, denver 7. Major, thank you for the update. Now if you have a trip today. Earlier this morning the airport got a little under 3 inches offsnow. Theyre prepared for that. Expecting a few more inches throughout the day. Officials say the runways are in great shape. More than 20 flights have been canals eled today, but thats out of 15000total scheduled. If you won the 800 million power ball prize youd be richer than some highest paid celebrities. Wwth the snow falling today, the question is are people still buying tickets . I imagine they are. Denver7 reporter Sally Mamdooh scene for us today. Orter youre looking at that celebrity here, right in front offyou. Its been snowing all day in littleton today. To give you an idea of how much snow, this car has been sitting outside the gas station for a couple of days because it broke down. This is all the snow that d on top of it. Lets see here. Id say a good 2 to 3 inches of snow so far. 800millionis waiting for somebody to win somewhere. Who knows. Maybe tomorrow, maybe it will happen tomorrow. This is how ch somebody could win by tomorrow. Despite actually this high number, not too many people are buying tickets today. The store manager gave me the report of the tickets and only tickets total today. Not too many people are coming in. But he did tell me that tomorrow probably would be busy draw the numbers. Guy who despite the snowy conditions decided to buy a couple of tickets. How many tickets did you y . Ten. You bought 10 . Yeah. Hoping to up your odds i guess. Yeah. I dont usually buy too many, maybe one at a time from time to time. Sure, 10 th time, my odds. Reporter its all about upping those odds. The odds are very slim, though. 1in 292 million. Good luck toeverybody thats taking rolling the dice on this and hoping to win big time. Tomorrow they announce the winning numbers at 9 00 at night. Good luck. For now, were live in littleton, Sally Mamdooh, denver 7. Sally, thank you. You can download the storm shield app. You can get text alerts on your phone to keep you safe. And dont forget about the snow cast app available. In your area you can expect this is not the app, just so you know. Actually fell. Now moving on to this guy, he was sentenced to life without parole after kidnapping machete. Right now two Aurora Police officers waiting to find out if theyll face charges for a deadly shooting last month. Police say chan leaf was in a stolen car and ran into Police Officers as they tried to arrest him. Thats when they opened fire killing him, which issagainst Aurora Police policy. Officers arent allowed to shoot at a moving car and that rule stands even if the car is being used as a weapon. Today the fbi is releasing new photos of mile o mason. Socalled scream mask robberies. Hes been on the run for months now. Hes on the 10 most wwnted list. One hundred dollars reward for information leading to his arrest. President obama answering tough questions on his new gun control laws. Hear from both sides after the break. Plus, a governor facing heat after some say he made racist comments. Hear for yourself in just a moment. And donald trump not too happy about that petition going welcome back some disturbing news ng isis this morning. An isis fighter has reportedly executed his own mother before a public audience. The 20yearold killed his mother near the post office where she worked. Ing her son to leave isis. Today marks five years since the deadly shooting in tucson, arizona that left Gabby Gifford injured and six others dead. Giffords was speaking wwen Jared Loughner opened fire. To walk and talk again. 12 others were wounded but survived. After announcing his executive action on gun laws this week, president obama took his pip on the road pitch on the road, participating in a town hall at george mason in virginia. The president took questions from both sides of this debate. The second amendmenttand un ownership. The way it is described is that were trying take away everybodys guns. Ive been now president for over seven years, and gun sales dont seem to have suffered during that time. If anything youve helped . Theyyve gone up. Ive been very ggod for gun manufacturers. President obama admitteded in the meeting that he has never owned a gun himself and has little experience with them. But he says his policies make sense and theyve been overly politicize. A ew cnn poll suggests this is probably the same poll were talkkng about here. 67 of the people in that survey say they do support the changes to the background checks that would cover more gun purchases made online and at gun shows. However, 57 of those polled say they dont think the deaths. Planned parenthood is backing hillary clinton. The health group says it plans to make the official announcemenn in New Hampshire this sunday. This will be the first time planned parenthood has endorred anyone during president ial primaries. This could open the door to attacks from blican candidates, many of whom promised to o t the groups s fundinifelected. Inton says shell make sure funding stays if shes elected. Governor in maine under for comments he made during a meeting paula page talked about how he tackleed drug abuse in the state. Its about what he said some of the things that we bill into the legislature now to take the traffickers. The traffickers, these arent people that take drugs. These are guys named demon. `y, shifty, smoothie, these guys that come from connecticut, new york, th stheir heroin and go back home. By the way, half the time they they leave. 3 which is sad, because we have another issue. This is not the first time the governor has been under fire. In 2013 he allegedly told a private function that president obama hates white people. Take a look at this, this is an advisement for skin lightening. Many fighting this insulting. The message just being white, you will win. This is the idea behind a thai beauty product. The actress in the ad says confident. Next to her another actress altered black. The product has pulled e video, suan apology. Despite the outrage online, the products are popular in asian countries,. President ial candidate donald trump not too happy about the petition going around now to ban him from the u. K. So much so, trump is now threatening to cancel a 1 billion investment to two of his scottish golf resorts. So far, more than 575,000 peeple have signed the petition. Laterrin month the u. K. Government will debate whether or not to support that petition. Techch can ban people ing their country. Trump would vesomething to say about that. Of course. It is snowing and will continue more, right . It will. The next couple of hours more light snow. I think any accumulation half an inch to an inch in town. Farther east, live look at sterling. It is gorgeous. About 15 miles southeast of it. Beautiful shot there. Picking up 1, 2, even 3 inches across the plains with this storm. The system itself continuing to bring pretty good snow, especially across parts of southern colorado. Thats where were expecting mmre and ill show that to you in just a minute. Look at our totals, around the 2 to 6nch range, the heavier numbers on the southern and western edge. This will be a twoday total. In some cases you had a good 1, 2, even 3 inches yesterday and a lot of that melted and we had more ovvrnight. Thissover about two days. This storm lived. Thwier advisory remains in effect until 2 00 this afterroon for an additional half inch to maybe an inch. Picked up about 1, 2, even 3 early this morning. Bad timing with that morning drive. Now the roads are starting to improve. Youll find if youre heading south, closer to pueblo, into trinidad, the winter storm warnings and advisories in sangre de cristos picking up 12 inches of snow. Telluride, durango, purgatory, good snow. Youll find mainly cloud cover, a few lingering flurries, but accumulation tonight. That will be farther south heading into new mexico. Thats been a tough drive for the past couple of days. 930 00to about 10 00, still light snow in the mountains through early tomorrow morning. Early saturday ould be waking up to dense fog. We saw that this morning and could get that early saturday before skies clear out a bit more. Looks like were going to be undee a mix of sun and clouds, partly sunny sky rday. Silly to show you our highs, because we hit them this morning. Well stay in the low to mid ures closer to 10 degrees tomorrow morning. Chilly to the southwest. Both aspen and gunnison in the teens now. Overnight lows will stay cold. Single diiits to low teens through early next week. Our highs likely in the mid to upper 20s come saturday and sunday. Wee going to see more sunshine early next week. Youll find our bright spot not until the end of the week when things warm up a bit. 20s the next three days. Well start to bounce back and get back to near normal by thursday with a hhgh of 43. Then were going to be focusing on football weather that next big game. Big game. Looking forward to it. Thank you. The numbers are out for the u. S. Job market in 2015. Did we soar or tank . Plus, your Flight Experience could be getting an upgrade, heres a look at other stories making news hot on ternet sometimes you hahaa bad day and cant anything butt yell and screamamabout it. On the scene at a parking to cover the there. They recorded a guy reacting to his car being under water in a manner everyone can relate to. [bleep] nothing he could do. He was letting it all out. A lot of bleeping going on. Usually you dont get wildlife on trrffic cameras. Look at that owin western montreal. A wildlife expert asked later about this video says its a perfect spot for that owl l spot prey in the open below. Cool. A genius way to get to work, even today around here. Put a fan on your back, strap on your skis and off you go. Guy is cruising down the reet. Its great. Looks fun and effective at the same time. Uple of weeks ago i showed you severallvideos, one where somebody set off 500 sparklers. Now i present yowith 10,000 sparklers all together lit on fire e same time. Thats an impressive flame shooting 50 feet into the air. Burned so hot it burned a hole in the ground. I bet. I wonder who is sitting around going, im going to set 10,000 sparklers on fire see e what it does. Wknknhow mucc it costs g inina can and put them on fire, too. Got to be dangerous. Great for fourth of july. Cool video for you. Economy Airline Passengers may be getting a cool upgrade one day. Panasonic is building ultrathin high ddfiniteician touch screen display that will smart known so you can charge it. Looking in the rear view mirror has a new meaning in bmw concept cars. Bmw wants to create a car that uses cameras instead of the mirrors. The video from the cameras would provide an extra wide view of the road. Theyre calling it concept i8. It was just unveiled in las vegas at the Consumer Electronics show. 2015 was a strong year for the u. S. Job market. American employers added more than 2. 5 million jobs. Nearly 300,000 were added in december. Second best year since 1999. Americans saw paychecks go up as well. 2. 5 . Scammers making money on immigrants in our state. Coming up well tell you how. Also how one county is maaing people work for their flood stamps. Denver7 tracking the latest winter blast. Meteorologist lisa hidalgo has youre watching denver 7 at 11 30. Got you covered on the winter storm still making its way through the state now. Snow falling in most areas. It wasnt as intense as the last one, still have to be careful. Roads super wet and slushy. Had so many problems this morning. Eric lupher is out there this morning. Eric, where are you . Reporter i am in englewood here off hampden, overproud way, actually broadway, actually south of hampden. Were waiting for the snow to taper off. You can see the volume is large enough now that weve chopped away some of that ice. It was slick through this corridor earlier this morning. Jayson was saying he almost needed help this morning because there were so plane accidents accidents along the highway, ally to the south. Now theres enough traffic that even with the additional snowfall its not sticking any more. Its too warm at this point. The roads starting to thaw out. Side streets icy. `ake it easy at the major intersections, on and off ramps, bridges and all that stuff. Im starting to see a little bit of the sun trying to peek still tricky on the streets today. Im ric lupher, denver 7. Thank you. When the sun comes out and its snowy like that it hurts your eyes. You can seeric starting to squint. ` jayson always needs help. He needed extra. The roads were bad. So many crashes this morning. Spinouts. It was rough. The snow continues at this point. Its light to moderate east. Here in denver it was really a pretty scene you saw from erics live shot. It will continue like this the next our or two and a few flurries. Likely wont add more accumulation. This morning we picked up 1 to 3 inches in spots of nnw snow. You can see the clouds that linger with us through about 5 00. You might see a little sunshine trying to peek through. For the moss part well be under cloud cover, a few flurries through the early evening and our temperatures so far below normal. Normal high today is 44. Number in half. 20s today through sunday. Then more of a warmup. Well talk about that coming up in a few minutes. Over to the guy that always needs help. Lots and lots of help. I could have used several assistants this morning. Accidents at one point within five minutes, a dozen accidents on and off the highways and they kept coming in. I76 and 270, some ramps are still slick. Even though it looks just wet, there are still icy spots out here. You can see the snow that still falls to the north side of i 70. Let me give you aacdot tour here. Here in capitol hill, colfax and park, mostly wet. But the snow falling. `same thing i70 and havana where traffic has lightened up. Southbound i25 was an hour and a half from doontown to the Denver Tech Center aa one point. I watched a couple of plows scraping the snow, especially off the side of the highway and you can see between downtown and Denver Tech Center now its condiiions. Drive. Most of the traction control laws and other issues on 285 and i70 to the west have been cleared up. Thank you. Denver Police Officerssjust rolled out the new body cameras. The e saying transparency is their goal. we were at the press conference. Kyle . Reporter rolling them out for the first time today. We can take a look at detective john medford wearing a body camera on the glasses. Theres a head band and also on the shoulder, other ways to wear them. They started looking at the cameras four years ago. Distributeed in district 6. Some could be released for public use in addition to evidid the fficers have control over when the meras will be ttrned on and off. Policy will tell them when have it onon if the officers violate the usage rules there can be disciplinary action. Well have all the uses coming up on our en kyle han. Thank you. Were learning more about the man accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 16 old girl. Thomas feckler was arrested yesterday. The girl is safe. The girl told her mother she having a sexual relationship with the man staying at the home at the time. When her mom found out, she called police. Scam especially affecting drivers in our allegedly targeting immigrants living here illegally. Demand for an appointment to get a drivers license so high now, so scammerere buying we wanted lknow its happening out this. Moffett county will make people work for their food stamps. New law kicked in january 1st. The rule applies to anyone capable of working who doesnt meet a certain income. To make up for that theyll have to volunteer a minimum of 30 hours or participate in a workforce training designed for them to get back to work. If not,the county will only cover three months of flood assistance every three years. Colorado juniors will that take the act, not the sat in a couple of months. The transition wont happen until next year, which will affect current sophomores. A prehistoric discovery that might give us an insight into dinosaur love. And a man becomes traps under a boulderrand you ont believe what hh had to do to get help. Bizarre debate. lets see is a . I say two. Were looking at this point temperatururin the e 20s. D Single Digits some spots west. And windchills in the teens this afternoon. Its cold. A New Discovery is sh several scrapings were found in a mating ritual. The males are showing off and the females are choosing the animal that is, you know, makes the most, best display. Researchers say this is a huge deal because this habit is remarkably similar to what some modern day birds do, scraping the ground to build a nest. Youve probably heard about this weird debate going around now. Pants for your dog. Yes, people arguing about this. Now a canadian dog wear maker is settling the debate. Reporter whh wears the pants in your relltionship, you or the dog . This is how a story of a jokey doggie diagram went viral. Buuiness is a little ridiculous. Reporter first, the question. Belgium claims his girlfriends doo rocky got him thinking. If a dog wore pants, would he wear them on four legs or his two hind legs. The internet went nuts joking question. With pants on just the hind legs with shorts or were both wrong since pants are supposed to cover your butts. You think youve settled the argument once and for all . It is settled. Four legs. Reporter because pants for dogs already exist. Waterproof nylon waders sold by a husband and wife company in canada for 500bucks u. S. It looks really funny. But when you get tired of cleaning a dog for 20 minutes `after a walk, its really practical. Reporter it was a niche product. Id love tooshow you one, reporter now theres a make more. Dogs, like people, have to put time. Iest way is to start with the front legsgs reporter put on each leg and fasten the velcro cuffs. Three straps and your dog can look like a studly re the question led to other questionss how would a worm wear a bra . Now own the owner of rocky, the dog who inspired the debate, is considering buying a pair of muddy musts. No doubt r rhimself is panting for pants. Jeanne moos, cnn new york. Look at the one in the levis. The jeans are hilarious. Im thinking the tw now it makes sense to me. On the dog, only the front two, right . Yeah, in most cases. Now were about to bring up the sweater debate. I know. It will go on and on. Lets talk about the weather. If you look at some of pressive. Our list now within the 3 past 24 hoors, b field. This is about 30 minutes outside of durango. Gooddsnow there. Over a foot. Durango also high up on the list. Fort collins coming in at over 5 inches. Greeley near 5. It did put most of the front range around 2 to 6 inches. Decent mount of snow. Will lead to probably two or three at the airport. Good official numbers at dia. Live looked a loveland ski area. Beautiful. Little sun starting to peek through. Theyll be in and out of that through the day today. Mountains picking up 6 to 12 inches. Satellite radar still really active. This can be deceiving when you 3 see how blue it is up north. Were going to see some of the minutes to about an hour. The alert thats in place, Winter Weather advissryy set to expire at 2 00. At that point we are still going to be seeing snow in the mountains and to the south. This drive down along i25 south into new mexico trickier there. Up through the sangre de cristos, over a foot of snow there with this system. Our two day totals pretty good. Tonight by 9 00, 9 30, still under cloud cover and potentially flurries. Were likely not going to add much to our totals here in denver through the afternoon or evening. 6 00tomorrow morning could be waking up to fog. Youll get more clearing southwt. And light snsnbe possible in the mountains off and on through the weekend. Keep that in mind if youre heading up there. Not expecting heavy totals to close down passes. You might find icy roads heading to the mountains and getting over the mountain passes. Temperatures now in the 20s. 21 in denver. 28 in boulder. 25 in fort collins and greeley. Were not going to see much more of a warmup. Windchills through the afternoon in the ingle digits to teens. Feels like 1 in limon. 5in burlington. And just 15 here in denver. 3 cold air through the weekend. Overnight lows tonight chose to about 10 close bout 10 3 ees. And staying in single digit until early next our temperatures will slowly climb. I ththy we gain a couple of degrees until we get to thursday of next week and back to nd 43 degrees. Our denver 7 book club, its called lila by marilyn robinson. Its interesting. No chapters. Go to our web siyoull lub link under the community section. All this month its 20 off at all three tattered covers. When i read a chapter, its like an accomplishment. Do you miss that . Okay. Lisa has never made a bad book i trust you. Thank you. Snow in january in our state really no surprise. But this snowfall is part of a weather phenomenon known as el nio. Mettorologists predicted this. Its when warm weather in the Pacific Ocean mixes with the atmosphere creating strong storms like the ones weve been sengrnia. Denver7 chief meteorologist mike nelson says el nio already peakedbu the spring. That should mean heavier storms for the mountains denver especially in march and april. Probably big snows. As it weakens, still probably will have an active spring as far as Severe Weather and thunderstorms. El nio is getting a lot of attention, but this is a regular occurrence. A minnesota man fell into a deep ditch and was trapped by a boulder. I had my eyes on the dog. One minute i was walking, next minute i was falling. Happened that quick. And four houghts flashed through my mind, i didnt have my cell phone, i knew that. I knew this was going to be really bad. Reporter dr. Richarddolson felt his femur break instantly. Just to touch it, the worst pain ive experienced. Reporter he used his gun as a crrtch and hoisted himself out of a 4foot deep ditch. Then he fell back in. Got lodgeed between a boulder and side of the ditch. Reporter an hour and a half later, discourageed but determined, he was scooting the half mile back toward the road. Thoughts of his family pushed him through until about 4 0 in the morning. About 4 00, i could really sense that i was losing ground. I was falling asleep a ot. Survive, he needed a new game plan. Only four thoughts entered his mind. Yelled no. They were bend your knee, dig in your heel, check to see your gloves are on and then push. Thats all i let in for the next five hours. Reporter around 8 00 in the morning with frost bite and more pain than he can explain, he made it near the road. Several cars drove by, until brian duncan. Hes my hero. The most joyful time i can remember. Reporter stopped and provided blankets. He opened that door, and all i did was blubber. I blubbered please dont leave me. My goodness, what a story. Im glad hes okay. Doctors say hes expected to walk again. But more surgery could be in his future. Coming up after the break, how google helped save a babys life. Mothers love, a grandmother giving birth to her welcome back. We have breaking news. Recaptured the drug lord el chapo. You might remember hes been on tte run seven months. Mexican president confirming they have him back in custody. Story heee. Babys life. Its called Google Cardboard and allowed surgeens to repair a 4montholds heart and lung. She was born without half a heart and one lung. She was expected to die. She had surgery and is expected to go home soon. Amazing. A north texas grandmother has given birth to her grand child. The 54yearold served as a surrogate for her daughter who fought infertility for years. Reporter these images in a delivery room captured the moment baby kelsey came into the csection delivery might seem routine, but getting to thispowas anything but. My husband and i had been years. Reporter but after failed attempts to become pregnant, 28 yearold kelly took a different and drastic approach. thompson, if she would carry her baby for her. Ironically, it was something she had jokingly asked her about before when she was only a teen. She said if i cant carry my own baby would you carry it for me. Of course i would. Not dreaming that i would actually be doing it. Reporter it was a mothers promise that would be called on and she wasnt about to go back on it. My lovely mom offered to give me the greatest gift i could ever have in my life. Miracle happened and god watched over us. Reporter thompson had to be medically cleared to carry the baby and closely monitored. She was considered high risk and doctors didnt have much precedent to go on when they we had a very special pregnancy and a special delivery and couldnt have worked out much better in the end. Reporter now the family is shariig their message. Its a possible for people. Reporter and a glance at what theyre calling a miracle. Thats a lot of love right there. Little kids are supposed to love the snow. One little girl in canada not so much. Check out her reaction when she saw it for the first time. Look at all the snow. [crying] i know. Gooaway, snow. Dad tried to comfort her. That didnt work. Its usually screams of excitement in your house. Maybe they could have done it differently. Maybe the reveal from the dark to the bright light. Could have hurt her eyes maybe. We love snow around here. Its colorrdo. Well get more, people. Typically january it starts, march takes the cake. Light snow this afternoon. Few flurries later today and thii week will clear out. Highs only in the 20s. Lisa, thank you. And thank you all for joining us. We hope you have a great