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KCNC CBS4 Morning News-6A February 23, 2016

We have a few delays. Boulder Valley School district just the Mountain School oz a 2hour delay. Deer creek elementary delayed 90 minutes. The big districts around the metro area are on and no delays there. Kids are going to school this morning. Sorry. We have Team Coverage. Shawn chitnis live in lakewood with a look at the roads. Hes moving around trying to stay warm and Lauren Whitney has when the snow is going to end. Lets start with we see its steeper, jaime. Reporter some folks receiving more than a few inches here. Genesee, one of those locations. You can see how the plows have been working the side roads. East, slushy. Lets go to the weather mobile lab and check on the temperatures. Its 21 degrees right now. Picked up a little bit here, but its numerous how i was here last freezing. Ill show you. This is more than a few inches. Genesee got hammered with snow. Light, fluffy. I would say more than a good 10 inches has fallen so far. Its still coming down. Those roadways very wet at this point in time. You can hear it just behind me on i70. There are chain restrictions in place. I talked to cdot and they said big rig from denver to vail right now. But definitely a little mix of snow and slush. Packed powder and ice on the roadways here on i70. Lets check with Lauren Whitney who has a more detailed look at the weather. If youre leaving the house, its cool. We havent had chilly temperature in a while. Lets look at our snow totals so far. Winters with a foot of snow. Ward reported 8. 1 inches. Nederlands, 7 inches and ohio springs, 5 inches and the snow is going strong in the foothills and southern colorado. Its going to take a while to filter in. As we zoom into the denver area, the east side and north side of town is drying out. Castle rock breaking up. The foothills and bailey, and evergreen and boulder, nice snow fall. Temperature was cold this morning. With that snow and wet weather. 29 degrees in denver. 30 in boulevard. 38 in craig. 31 in grand junction. Your hourbyhour forecast, throughout the morning, we clear out. We may get more sunshine and it will get windy. Lets check with joel. How is the drive going . No packed powder in the immediate denver metro area. Us 6 and sheraton, you dont need packed powder to have a troubled drive. We have the right lane blocked off. The side rail there, and this has been in place for the last hour or so. Eastbound along 6th avenue along sheraton. You get passed that, and its a nice wide open drive. In the high country, along i19 to the south of us 6 as you get out the black hawk. You can see the snow packed conditions we have across the denver metro area into the high country at least. Taking a look at the road weather index. Chain and passenger restrictions in place towards the eisenhower tunnel. If youre going to get in your car, turnover to koa and 94. 1 fm for the latest weather and traffic together. Shawn chitnis is showing us what it looks like in the south side of the metro. Lets go to shawn and tell us shawn . Good morning. Im in lakewood standing on what would be grass, but theres a descent amount of covered in snow. Plenty of snow on the ground here, so luckily not that much on the roads behind me here. They have been plows coming through, but theres some slush and snow on ground you have to deal with as you drive around this area especially the side streets. Not quite as much in other parts as there is out west in lakewood. Denver and the text Center Getting a descent amount of snow fall. The snow not sticking onto the roads in denver. Mostly just the trees and plants. A lot of roads. No matter where we went, we saw car cars covered in snow because there was plenty of time for the snow to pick up on your car. Be prepared for that. It will likely be snow on your car that amount of snow in like wood. Plows are trying to make it easier for you. Shawn chitnis. Shawn, im amazed at looking at your video. You were keeping people informed from the west side. Thank you very much. You can stay uptodate with our storm, with our free cbs 4 weather app and becoming a u reporter by sending your weather pictures. An officer is dealing with a lower leg wound. Police were closing in on two men west of the federal. Officers took one person into custody. Police say the other man shot a female officer in the leg. He car jacked a woman and took off. The guy, he was shooting like recklessly. He was afraid of i started hearing ricker shade. Investigator say the man started shooting again before police shot and killed him. We expect identities today. Jurors could reach a case in the woman accused of cutting out an unborn baby out of a woman she met on craigslist. In closing arguments yesterday, prosecutors argued that lane knew what she was doing and knew she could have killed wilkins. Theyre asking for a lesser charge and not attempted murder. Republicans in caucuses if the polls are correct, it will secure a third win in a row. In politics, most politicians let security deal a guy is throwing punches and screaming at Everything Else when talking. The guards are gentle with him. Hes walking out smiling, laughing, i would like to punch him in the face. Rubio and cruz are trying to be the main alternative to trump as his john kasich tuesday is weeks away. Cruz is going into todays contest without his communications director, rick tyler you saw there, he resigned after sharing a false news story on social media saying that cruz ahead of that states democratic primarily which comes up this weekend. Happening this morning, denver mayor Michael Hancock will introduce a new app to help people get around the city. Its called go denver. The mayor will inrrow owe will the mayor will introduce it today. This is why the canyon is not fully open again. You do not want to meet that. The work. You cant do that work at night. Lets go inform joel hillan as we keep you informed. Yesterday. The pilot cars who were supposed to be delayed for an hour plus, and now theyre saying two hours plus. I70 is going to remain closed. 9 00 a. M. To 4 00 p. M. Either direction from gypsum to glenwood springs. The alternate route is syracuse. It may be worth it than sitting in all that traffic. Yeah, taking a look at our bus stop forecast. Chilly and wet conditions on the sidewalks and on the streets if youre in denver. Have snow at the bus stop. Temperatures cool on the way home. You could have more sunshine. Lets check in with our weather watcher, john with 15 inches in cold creek. Theres piles of snow. Next, how people are showing support to apple over the on en ,,,,, good morning. Were live in genesee where the traffic is slow going. Snow is accumulating. This is overnight. We have 10, 12 inches. You can see chilly temperatures, 21 degrees with a coming down unlike some areas. This is one of those areas that got hit hard. Icy Road Conditions, some cold weather and some accumulating snow coming down. For the birds eye view, lets check with lauren who has the latest. Thanks for the great updates. Heres at i70 and soda creek. Were going to see this stick around for the high country and foothills. Dry air filtering in. Heres a look at floyd hill where theres snow out there. You can see the roads are slushy and joel will update us in a moment. Lets look at our snow totals. Tally ride at 5. And steamboat, keystone, 3 inches. Theres fresh powder if you get to go skiing. Taking a look at the satellite and radar, a couple of breaks in the clouds. Filtering in. Parts of the west you can see the east side of town, we have cleared out and gotten lighter. Perry park to boulder, theres a good line of snow. Some areas getting a de north of estes park into allens park, snow continues. South, Colorado City into silver cliff and canyon city, again, good snow fall for us. If youre driving through the area, we have some snow fall expected for a while longer. Winter 11 00 a. M. Theyre in place through the evening as the areas could see snow stick around for a while. Our future cast, we see that snow moving in by 9 00, 10 00. Up in denver. Maybe sunshine. Were looking at the snow possibly, some light snow into the high country through the afternoon and into the evening. Clear waking up to clear skies and its going to be chilly out we warm to the upper 40s, low 50s into the afternoon hours. Temperatures right now, 29 in denver. 24 in lineman. 28 in burlington. 23 in gunnison. 21 in greg and 21 in grand junction. Low 40s on the western slope. 30s in the mountain areas. For your 5day forecast, this springlike weather returns. This was a fast system. 50 on wednesday, and close to 60 on friday. Lets check with joel. Heres near founders parkway and a lot of folks will be heading into town. You can expect wet conditions. It was icy earlier. Condition have improved. Speeds take a look at us 6 and sheraton, we have finally clearing. We had the it has 30seconds. In the high this is highway 119 is the to us 6. The chain restrictions through Boulder Canyon have been lifted, but a tough icy drive. Passenger restrictions remain in place along the mountain corridor and c 470 to the eisenhower tunnel. Theres an accident at i25 and us 36. Its on the ramp there. Southbound coming into town, its start to go slow. 6th avenue cleared out of the way. Theres an accident at 285 at i25. Speeds into the 20s. 14 minutes to 120th to i70. Ex excellent drive times, c 470 along i70, theres a 14 minute joel, thank you. We want to update people out of breaking news in arizona. Four members of a family has been shot inside of a glendale home. Heres a look out of arizona where you can see ambulances here and plenty of officers. This is happening in a suburb outside of glendale which is 40 minutes outside of phoenix and were hearing theres a possible active shooter here in this area. Were working to gather more information and as it becomes available, well update you. Wall street looking flat ahead of this mornings open. Lets find out whats coming today in your money watch report, hi, jill. Reporter good morning, alan. Looking at the big board. The futures pointing to a yesterday, oil prices climbed and stocks went higher. You members of amazons 99 a year prime loyalty will get free twoday shipping. And starbucks is changing the terms of its rewards program. Starting in april, customers will earn points based on how much they spend rather than the system that gives rewards based on visits. Some people are steamed because they have to spend more money in order to get free stuff. Alan and britt. How do you like that. Jill , thanks a lot. They never make it easy. Tuesdays top stories. A hospital in california is offering free test to hundreds of people so they can get screened for hiv and hepatitis. This comes as a swedish tech is accused of stealing syringes filled with painkillers. Allen worked in san diego for 20 days 3 years ago. The hospital is asking 518 people to get tested hospitals in arizona where this man worked are offering free testing. Demonstrators are expected to stage rallies at apple Stores Across the nation today in support of the company. Right now, apple is dealing with a battle with the fbi in refusing to help the fbi low the pentagon is submitting a plan to to close the prison in cuba. It will call for detainees to be moved to other countries while others sent to facilities in the united states. The move comes days after the white house announced for president obama to visit cuba. If youre getting up, you hope schools are cancelled. Cant help you, lauren. We dont have full cancellations. 8 inches in golden and its milesanhour, but the dogs are ,,, when you get one gig internet from centurylink and prism tv and theyre both delivered on a superfast Fiber Network directly to your home, its amazing. It is amazing, but do you think his delivery was a little flat on that one . Just yeah. Um, paul, i think its a little bit more like, its amazing oh, wow. Oh, mom, that was really good. Thank you. Wow. [ sighs ] feel like a hollywood insider. Okay, ill work on it. With prism tv plus gig Internet Speed im Hillary Clinton and i approve this message. Her lifes work has been about breaking barriers. And so would her presidency. Which is why, for every american whos not being paid what theyre worth. Whos held back by student debt or a system tilted against them and there are far too many of you she understands that our country cant reach its potential. Unless we all do. Together. Welcome back. Taking a look at our travel forecast for today. No major delays. Down to the southeast and were looking at big storms possible. Already have tornado warnings in parts of text as. Theres a big line of storms wrapping out of the houston area and moving into louisiana. Louisiana from florida today could see the potential for of tornado and large hail and damaging winds. This could be very dangerous if youre traveling out that way. I would check in with your airline and the threat does continue into the east coast, but this is the bulls eye for our big weather today. Lets check with joel hillan. How is the morning drive going . We have mobile 4th on the roads showing us the drive in the denver metro area. Southbound along i25 approaching c 470. Youre going to find splash back. Look at we have an accident on the ramp from us 36 to i25. It looks like were seeing slowing eastbound along i 270. You get along pena boulevard in town, it you own a labrador german sheppards gained favor in denver taking the number two spot. From the golden retriever and pushing the golden retriever to third. This is big stuff. Today is world spade day. Thats an International Campaign showing the benefits of saying and neutering animals. You can have your animals said or neuters at the Animal Shelter starting at 7 30 this morning for free. Nasa are calling artist. They want to put songs and videos on its space craft. Theres a cyrus wreck. The space craft will launch later this year and go to the asteroid. It will collect samples of the asteroid sent back to earth. Nasa is going to put a hard drive of artist work on a cyrus wreck before it goes on details how to submit your work, go to cbsdenver. Com. An update of your commute. A live look an i 70 and genesee. All the major school dis district are open. Deer creek elementary delayed 90 minutes. Clear kree School District delayed 2 hours. You cant deal with something, but thats how some president ial candidates seem to be dealing with social security. Americans work hard, and pay into it. So our next president needs a real plan to keep it strong. elephant noise donkey noise hey candidates, good morning, everyone. We begin with a weather alert this morning. Snow is falling across the front range and mobile 4 is out here on the roads. We have Team Coverage of this storm. Thanks for joining us. Im and im alan gionet. Around the denver area in mobile 4, the west are wet. We have Team Coverage. Shawn chitnis is live in lakewood. Jaime leary in the mobile lab at i70 and genesee. Lets go to her first, good morning. Reporter good morning, britt. Definitely chilly out. The wind has picked up. The mobile weather lab telling me 12 milesanhour. We were seeing 3 when i checked on it. It makes it feel colder. The reach issue is this commute this morning. Traffic is moving slowly right now along i70 near genesee. The roads are icy. Tlir slushy and i talked to cdot and they have chain restrictions for passenger from denver to vail. Its icy out. Take it easy this morning. Seeing glare on the roadways and the traffic is taking its time. A while since weve seen the conditions and cdot telling us they have their plow in full force. Clearly some issues going on with those. For more of a detailed look, lets check with Lauren Whitney. Good morning. Good morning. Theres a breeze and wind chill. A live look at look out mountain. Theres a lot of cloud cover to get through. We may see sunshine this afternoon. On our satellite and radar, other areas are going to take a little while longer to you can see this stick around for the next couple of hours before it moves out. In the high country, we may see high snow well talk about the next couple of days and our warmup. This cold isnt going to stick around for long. Where is mobile 4. Yale. As you get through the bridges, a wet drive and youre going to fight that splash back. Country. Cam. Cars taking it easier the further west you go. Theres through restrictions lifted. You can see how icy the conditions are. Almost a 21 minute drive with average speeds into the 20s from 120th to i70 slowing as well. Alan as you drive eastbound. Shawn chitnis at 6th and sims. Shawn, what are conditions like right now . Alan, we have a descent amount of snow as you can see. Collected pretty well where im standing and behind me, i can highway 6 and some of the conditions theyre dealing with the roads just next to me and theyre off of the highway. They have slush. There was snow this area. So thats likely the with. Coming up at 6 45, were going so were going to show you what we found. Live in lakewood, Shawn Chitnis. Shawn, thank you for that. New this morning, two people hurt after a hitandrun near us 36 and baseline. Police say the two were changing a tire when a driver hit them. Doctors treated and released a man, a woman is still in the hospital. Police say the hitandrun vehicle is possibly gray. They say it could be missing a right side mirror. This morning, a michigan mother is talking about her 14yearolds daughter fight to weekend that killed 6 people. Abigails heart stopped at one point, but her mom calls her a fighter. Abigail is strong, and she was a vibrant, beautiful young lady and did not deserve this. Absolutely not. Abigail was with her adopted grandmother when jason dolton opened fire on them and three other women in a Cracker Barrel parking lot. Abigail was the only survivor in that attack. Meantime, two men, a father and son were killed within the same hour while car shopping. Last night, Community Members held a candle light vigil for those in a church. One uber passenger is talking about his terrifying uber ride with the accused gunman hours before the shooting. Dolton took a phone call on his blue tooth and started acting strangely. He was running red lights and squealing the tires. We ran a stop sign and sideswiped another obviously was panicking. Tried to get out, but couldnt. 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