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KCNC CBS4 Morning News-6A February 29, 2016

Theyre going to crank up into the evening. 52 in boulevard thank to wind. 37 in fort collins. 29 in burlington. 31 in Grand Junction. We have a few clouds out there. You can see rain and snow towards utah. Were waiting for that to head towards us. Here in denver we get into the 60s with partly sunny skies. Noon, 60 degrees. 62 by 2 00. And 50s by 5 00 tonight. Lets check with joel. Good morning, lauren. Getting the roads look at i225, you have the ramps and either direction making your way into town or making your way out to the airport. Its starting to develop into a tougher drive. Southbound coming into town, take a look at these speeds from the 40s to the 30s. 12 minutes from 120 to i70. Let me show you the bottom map. We have a trouble spot along colfax. Its right just to the east of i225. We got a trouble spot on iliff. Thats at von. Its not on i225 itself. Screen, we have a rain which is stopped on the tracks and thats 136th. You can turn on our News Partners and alan, get your traffic and weather together every ten minutes on the tens. Six people hurt after a crash in littleton including two children. You can see how badly damaged that suv is. Shawn chitnis live. Shawn. Reporter alan, good morning. While the scene has pretty much cleared, im going to step away distance. Thats whats left of that car. And we were able to talk to one Family Member who saw his family in the hospital okay, and then came here and saw that suv and couldnt believe the damage that have happened to it, and how all those Family Members were able to get to the hospital and make it out okay. Or at least be okay. Late last night this car was traveling evident on bowls and something happened when the driver hit two trees. Csp tells us theres six peoples with injuries and two treated for serious injuries, they are children and the family tells us that he couldnt believe what he saw and he came here and finally got to see suv. When you see Something Like this, man, i mean, it actually means something worse, you know, and im real thankful. Csp is looking into what happened investigating this case. And theyre going to look into whether alcohol or speed may have been a factor. Live in littleton, shawn chitnis. Colorado lawmakers will look at a were talking about Mental Health evaluation. Jaime leary is live. Bill dealing with the Mental Healthy valuations. Can you outline it for us. The Mental Health evaluation is a key piece of information that jurors make to make their final decision. Its not reported via audio and video. Its not required by state law, but this new bill aims to change that. During the theater trial, Defense Attorneys didnt want james holmes sanity video at least one psychiatrist argue that video gives a more accurate and complete record than handwriting notes. While prosecutors eventually successfully argue to have holmes Mental Health evaluation recorded, this would make it apart of a court order. The prosecutors will be present for the reading of this bill as well as a juror from the holmes trial of the victims, tom sullivan. This is an important issue to get this Mental Health evaluation recorded by law. Jaime leary. Nate carrigan was shot last week while serving an eviction notice. Two other deputies were hurt and survived and the gunman died. His service in nevada and starts at 11 00 a. M. Hundreds of blue ribbons and flags line a stretch of highway 285 in honor of Deputy Carrigan and all Law Enforcement members, neighbors and deputies began putting those flags along the road over the weekend. It hurts, it hurts that the violence has gotten this bad and were losing these wonderful my way to come out here and say thank you. Youll see them along i285. Volunteers put flags and ribbons and its a reminder of what can be lost so quickly. Were one day out from super tuesday. On the democratic side, clinton is trying to build on his lead. Rubio is not holding back as he tries to stop Donald Trumps momentum. We dont need a guy who is sweating and scared. He doesnt square because his pours are clogged from the pray tan he uses. Its getting ugly. Trump is ahead in georgia and virginia. He trails ted cruz in texas though. Cruz is now going after trump for failing to condemn supportive comments from former klu klux member david duke. I dont know david duke. I dont believe i have met him. Im pretty sure i never met him. Theres been ugly no outside groups do, but in my view, racism and big tree has no place in politics. Clinton is ahead of sanders in virginia, texas. The oscars are now more political than politics and the politics are more entertaining than the oscars. The boston globe Leonardo Dicaprio has a golden statute. He won his first statute for his role in the revenant and he talked about global warming. Lets not take this planet for granted. I do not take tonight for granted. The movie mad max fury road was the most hon order film coming away with six awards. The stars and everyday people there were no black nominees. Host chris rock used every chance he could to talk about the elephant in the room. Im here at the Academy Awards. Otherwise known as the white peoples choice awards. You realize if they nominated host, i wouldnt get this job. The president of the academy you can check out a Photo Gallery of the Academy Awards at cbsdenver. Com. The forecast as the kids get going on the last day of february. Temperatures in the upper 30s and low 40s. On the way home, winds could crank in the foothills. Lets check with our weather watchers. David jensen reporting 31 degrees. Well talk temperatures coming up in a moment. Its start to go slowdown this morning. Average speed dipping into the 40s. Lets not too bad. A 6 minute drive. Next on the cbs 4 morning news, a cruise ship recently damaged in a storm is dealing with more issues. Why it had to turn around again. A navy seal is about to receive the medal of honor. He talks,,,,, for the news you need when you need it, like us on facebook, twitter and cbsdenver. Com. Colorados online news channel. Welcome back. Lets outside this morning from look out mountain. We have pretty colors developing on our clouds. I think we have a good sunrise. Get your cameras ready or get your cell phones ready to take pictures and tweet them to me. I love to see what the sunrise so we dont get to look it. Windy to start the day. Winter park, the gust right now at 54 milesanhour. Its really windy in some spots. These winds are going to get worse as we head into the later part of the day. Estes and golden westminster, winds close to 30 milesanhour. Here in denver, we may see winds around 30 milesanhour. 52 in boulder. 9 in gunnison. 22 in craig and 31 in Grand Junction. Youll see a few clouds and rain and snow off to or north. Were looking that to head our way. We may see snow starting to develop around lunch time. In the high country denver, we stay dry with cloud and our winds gets going. In the mountain area, you may pick up a couple of inches of snow. Isnt a big one coming through our mountain. We could use a good shot of snow. Partly cloudy skies and that should clear. By tomorrow morning, were back to sunshine and windy and a few clouds tomorrow and a spot of snow. Overall, this is moving out. When were talking about snow in the high country and other parts of the state is going to be dry. Red flag warning from noon until 6 00 tonight. Fremont and parts of pueblo paso. 62 in boulder. Lot of 60s and 70s out on the Eastern Plains. 30s and 40s in the mountain. 38 in steamboat and 59 over in Grand Junction. If youre planning out your day today, mostly sunny skies. More clouds into the afternoon. 60 degrees by noon. 62 by 2 00 and gusty through the afternoon and for your 5day forecast tomorrow, well calm down an smidge and low 50s for wednesday. Temperatures back in the 60s. Buckley and quincy where we had a gas main break that happened late in the week. Repairs are going to continue through the morning commute this morning. So youre not able to pass along buckley and quincy there. You can see the cars being rerouted. Just a heads up if thats apart of your morning commute. Speeds in the 20s as you make your way passed 112th and that continues through 92nd. I70 starting to slowdown. Were across the denver metro area. A trouble spot at iliff and von. Stuff on the road. Theyre working to get it cleared out. Theres an accident sable and colfax. Watch out for that. I225 itself is clear. C 470 clear as well. As you head into the high country, take care. Lauren has been tracking the high winds. Both hands on the steering wheel. Were getting used to that because its dangerous along highway 40 towards winter park. Thank you. In business headlines theres a fight to keep Airline Seats from getting smaller and smaller and were getting a preview of the latest iphone. Jill wagner is live at the new york stock exchange. Its hard to keep up with the new phones. Reporter it does feel like everyday im talking about iphones. Good morning, britt, alan. It could be a rough start for wall street after chinese stocks plunged last night. This week, investors are waiting for the government to release the februarys jobs report. Its going to show the job growth is strong despite the stock market. Gas prices inching back up. Aaa says the National Average jumped up 4 cents. Theyre at the lowest point for this time of year in a decade. Denver, its lower. 1. 64. Apple is going smaller. The tech jie giant is is going to release a new iphone in march. It will look identical to the iphone 5s except it will have curve edges. It will not have the new 3d touch feature. Theres a new plan to stop airlines from stuffing more passengers into coach. Senator Charles Schumer is adding an amendment to have the to have a minimum seat. My short legs arent bothered by this, but i know the taller people feel cramped. For a short person, its a tight squeeze. Its uncomfortable. I get that. Thank you. All right. They are pleasing me with that. Mondays top story. People are remembering today a pastor who was shot dead inside his church in dayton ohio. William his office at st. Peters missionary baptist church. His younger brother daniel pulled the trigger. Witnesses say that shooting happened as the choir was singing. The schoolers Family Member says that he was bipolar. Nobody else in the church was shot. Theres a clean up of mining sites including the ones near silver ton. Theres 3000000 3 million gallons. Town of the town of silverton. Today president obama will award the highest in 2012, edward took part in a mission to save an american doctor kidnapped by the taliban in afghanistan. He was the second it was at that time that i engaged the person i was on top of and jumped off. A guy was onto the doctor who was about 3 or 4 or 5 feet away to my right. Buyers say the real hero is nicolas check, the seal who died during that mission. Hell be the 11th living Medal Service member to receive the honor. It happens once every four years. Bruce is reporting 41 degrees from risk canyon this morning. Says gusty. Not too bad. Well talk about your travel forecast and whats happening across the country, after the break. Want to hear from,,,,,, welcome back. Take a look at this sunrise. This is from our mile high camera. This is just perfection this morning. The colors are so awesome. I tweeted out a bunch of pictures. If youre leaving from dia, its going to be bum tea. Security wait time is 20 minutes. All lots open and snow open in the pacific northwest. Most of the system is going to move north to colorado. Well get clips in our high kuny and our high lets check with joel hillan. A traffic alert. Copter 4 on its way to i24 and broadway to the to the southbound direction. A semiis hanging off the interstate. Were working to get pictures and well show that those when we get them much the copter 4 got to identify the location. Lets go to the map so i can show you where this is at. Southbound i225 is running slow. If youre headed to the airport, watch out. Thats on colfax at sable. Copter 4 heading out to alameda. Well show the pictures in a few minutes. You can call it a cursed cruise ship. They went into a storm. People and furniture and stuff were tossed around as they they were almost damaged and went back into new jersey and safe harbor over the weekend. There was another severe storm ahead. Ship workers san tied it after onboard. They said life aboard appeared quite normal. Some of the best tasting tap in colorado. Where . Eldorado springs. Judges in West Virginia based it on odor and mouth feel. Columbia won first place for best in the world. This week, the rockys spring training continues in arizona. The first interest squad game is today. Then the team will take on the diamondbacks on wednesday in scottsdale. Lets get a preview of what you see today on cbs this morning. Ahead, Kevin Frazier on last nights oscars and how host chris rock took on the academys diversity issues. On this leap day, we see why time slowed down to give us one more day every four years. All of that and more. The news is back in a minute. Thanks charlie. A 4yearold are known forgetting into miss chief. Rescuers freed that child from a vending machine, apparently the first one hes seen, so he got his arm stuck when he tried to reach inside. It took crews six hours to get the little boy out. They distracted him with a bear and some cartoons. Poor little guy. Coming up next, the c bshgs bs 4 morning news, people remember a Virginia Police officer who was killed. Believe it or not, working her first shift on the job. Heres a live outside. If you can, get outside and take a photo of this. This is a dpoerj us start to the day. The sunrise stunning. 42 degrees in denver and lauren is tracking moisture ,, everyone complains about millennials. Millennials, i salute you. You save money like no other generation. You share cars, wifi passwords, canoes, deodorants. My grandson bought a pair of pants with me. Today s his pants day. No baby boomer ever shared a pair of pants with me. Start saving with the anywhere is the economy rigged . Well, the 15 richest americans acquired more wealth in two years than the bottom 100 Million People combined. Im bernie sanders, and i approve this message. My plan make wall street banks and the ultrarich pay their fair share of taxes, provide living wages for working people, ensure equal pay for women. The middle class will continue to disappear unless we level the playing field. With your help, as president , a really tough morning drive for the driver of this pickup truck. Scene. Take a look to the left. A truck is dangling over the guard rail precariously positioned in the south plat river hanging over this guard rail happening on southbound i25 and alameda. Particularly deep right there, but joel, if you look at that. Maybe hes lucky there was a tree there. Once the copter comes around, youll see its the tree that stopped him from going into that body water and he does have a back injury and car. No passengers in that car. But again, youre going to see that right lane and right shoulder thats going to be blocked off from probably the next couple of hours as they work to recover that vehicle. Thats right through the hart of rush shower. Take a look at the drive times. We have southbound coming down into town. 19 minutes on that drive from 120th to i70. Thats not going to get better once you get passed i70 because of that accident. Look along i270 i76 and its going to be a tough drive as well. That is the situation were going to watch as we expect this to impact the morning commute, lauren, for the next couple of hours. Not good joel, thank you so much for the updates. Lets look whats going on outside. On the roof top, its breezy. Wind are going to get worse as we head into the afternoon. Lets see whats going on this morning. We have a gorgeous sunrise. This is from look out mount april and our day. If you took pictures, tweet them to me, laurencbs4. Lets check with our temperatures as we start off with the winds. 50 in boulder. 32 in denver right now. 22 in lineman. 27 in greeley. 31 in Grand Junction right now. So warm today across the front range. Were looking at a hands for mountain snow and parts of the state are concerned about fire danger. Well talk flag warnings as well. Lets send it downtowns to britt and alan. Breaking news from overnight. An suv rolls over with six people inside including two children. Shawn chitnis, you have been there monitoring the scene. How is everybody doing right now . Reporter britt, the scene has cleared up. We know that everyone is going to be okay. Its an impressive fact to learn that everyone is going to be okay when you look at this video Ford Expedition was at the end of this crash and rollover. You can see that it was almost destroyed there. Amazing everyone is going to be okay. Six people and two children with serious injuries and Family Members who saw them in the hospital couldnt believe what they saw on the scene. At 6 45, youre going to hear from the Family Members and find out what led up to the car ending up on its side. Shawn chitnis. Colorado lawmakers are going to look at a bill involving Mental Health evolvealuation. Jaime leary covering this story. This has tied to the aurora theater trial. Reporter its a question today. Should audio and video recording be allowed for a Court Ordered Mental Health evaluation . Thats what some lawmakers are hoping with this new bill. A committee will present the bill this afternoon with the insanity plea to have video recording of the Mental Health evaluation. This was a major point of contention during the james holmes trial. The judge ruled in favor the video and made the case as one psychiatrist made the case as to why it should be recorded. The defense of course making the case as to why it s

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