Low 90s and its dry. Well talk about fire danger in a moment. Back to you two for now. This is our cbs4 library cam. The taste of colorado going on and road closures remain in place this morning. That includes lincoln and broadway and a portion of colfax. Elsewhere across the denver metro area i think you will like the drive. Kelly, on these weekends they pick up the cones in the nonlong termon you have a nice drive. Evacuation notices are in place ahead of a quickly growing wildfire in Larimer County. Nearly 30 structures are being threatened. Shawn chitnis is live outside the Larimer County Sheriffs Office this morning. Whats the latest . Reporter this is a quickly growing fire. When we first learned about this around noon on sunday we were told the fire was just a few larger to 300 acres innize and 10 contained. Lets take a look at video of what the scenes were like as smoke was coming out. Folks were concerned about this fire and the structures that were threatened because of this
Its been a while, but its back. How much snow will fall overnight and what it will be like for the morning drive. Southbound on lowell shots fired. A denver officer wounded, a suspect shot dead, were looking into what happened before the bullets flew. He wants everyone to be armed and now he tried to do it, that got him in a lot of trouble with the feds. To come into the school, would they know what to do . I dont think so. 9wants to know looks into what schools are doing to prepare for a day everyone hopes will never happen. Closing in on a decision for Peyton Manning, what the broncos are doing while he decides his next move. 9news starts now. The foothills are taking the brunt of the snow thats starting to fall along the front range tonight. Traction laws are in place from golden all the way to the eisenhower tunnel. Roads are snow covered and slick. Boulder was the first city in the metro area to go on accident alert because of tonights snow. Weve seen a little more than a dusting
Weve seen a little more than a dusting there. Most of it is just sticking on the grass and melting for the most part on the streets, although we have seen some highways where the snow is adding up. In denver it has primarily been a slushy mix of rain and snow tonight, nothing significant yet downtown, although it should all be changing over to snow soon enough. Its quite a change from what weve seen the past couple weeks. In the first two days of the month denver did see more than 11inch of snow, but it dried up and 11 inches of snow, but it dried up and warmed up quick. Tonight snow is back. The question is what will it do to the morning commute . Kathy is in the Weather Center tracking tonights snow. The good news is its a fast moving system. Its not a really cold system. Were hovering right around the freezing mark, so weve had a lot of melting in the downtown area, getting reports of a light dusting in Douglas County around parker and pond prose a park in elizabeth Ponderosa Park i
285, 93, along i70 the `uspect spots. Winds 5 to 10. First round at this point light slope. We are still going to be dry across the plains. Were watching this storm closely. It could bring heavy snow to denver come sunday into monday. Today and tomorrow were still nice and mild. Mostly sunny. 54 by noon and by 3 00 highs near 60 degrees. Same story on saturday. Sun not so much. Were going to talk about how cold it gets and when the snow develops in a few minutes. It is very windy. Taking a look at the wind sensor along highway 93 and 72. Last gust 44 miles per hour. Temperatures near 50 degrees. I70 and genesee, its shaking around a bit. Drive on 285, on i70 and to the west side of town. Otherwise, a lot of green out there. Construction being picked up on i25 both sides of the city. Otherwise a pretty easy friday morning commute. Jayson, thank you. breaking news, a driver could face charges after this car ended up wedgeed between a brick wall and tree. Happened near clarkson and speer.
This morning here in denver sunny skies. Were right now looking at 40s. Very mild. Windy in the mountains. Last check gusts upward of 30, 40, even 50 over berthoud pass. This afternoon mostly sunny. About 59. Then tonight thats when that mountain snow turns a little bit heavier. Well stay dry here on the plains through tomorrow. Most of tomorrow. By tomorrow afternoon could get a little rain and snow. Well talk about it. Thepoint is, enjoy today. Today and tomorrow well be in the upper 50s, near 60. A lot colder by sunday. Enjoy the drive east of thee divide. West of the divide its a little bit of a problem. This is silverthorne, snow packed roads and very snowy over vail pa now and into the town of vail. This side of the pass were seeing a lot of strong winds and that will be an issue on 93, 470, and along i70 and 288. Drive up to the north side of 110th. Congested to 84th avenue. Construction in place at 84th and its slowing down traffic from the thornton parkway. A couple of problem