Happening this morning we are expecting an update on one of the two teenagers accused in a murder plot at Mountain Vista high school. Burke higgins faces a judge today and shes jamie leary is live at the courthouse. Shes been following this for some time. Its been a long process but Burke Higgins is one of Brooke Higgins is for two very important hearings, one her reverse transfer hearing coming up in just a couple weeks here where the attorneys will fight to get her case transferred back to juvenile court, and then this morning her pulmonary hearing. The preliminary hearing is basically considered the trial before the trial. The judge this morning will go over the case in its entirety and decide if theres enough evidence to proceed to trial. Another big agenda item that is happening this morning is a bond discussion. Higgins is currently being held on a 1 million bond and this morning her attorneys will try hopes that she can go home with her family until sentencing. Shes currently being charged as an adult with two charges related to conspiracy to commit murder. Higgins along with her friend were just 16 at the time of their arrest, accused of plotting to kill students and staff at Mountain Vista high school. Higgins attorneys say the case is based on most entirely on interest in her journal which was written under the recommendation of her therapist killings and talks about how she wishes she could of taken apart and then. A part in them. The attorneys have called this a thought crime it best. Thats been the basis of their argument which they will continue to argue. Todays preliminary hearing is set for a period of two days and then at the beginning of december is that big reverse transfer hearing. Dellin is closed to the public. We will still continue to von miller is caught up in a blackmail case involving a sex tape. Theres a woman trying to sell a sex tape. Friends rented a cancun resort home back in june. We know they invited a group of women apparently including Elizabeth Ruiz. Court documents really reveal that ruiz and miller had consensual sex and she recorded video. Shes now demanding 2. 5 million to keep the video fr wants to be the next kim kardashian. She contacted a man named kevin black who has a unique job calling himself a sex tape broker but now miller has filed a civil lawsuit to try to keep the video release from happening. Our legal analyst says the case may also fall under revenge porn statutes. Today we are expected to learn about new technology that is supposed to keep drones away from planes at airports. Shawn chitnis is live at gia to reporter good morning, the faa does not often tell us about this type of testing when it comes to drones and theyve really only done this a few times. The other two at jfk in new york and another airport on the east coast so it is really rare for us to learn about this ad for it to be here in denver. The research will look at how to prevent accidents involving drones and airplanes. The faa also wants to use this technology so they can identify who owns and operates a drone as drones become more popular airports like dia are running into the more often. Right now staff at least the one about once a month, and theyve seen 13 altogether last year. One goal is to use radar so they can detect and control drones if there does happen to be one too close to an airport. The government could disable it and bring it down to the ground safely. We are expected to learn more about this from the faa again as they continue the research when they speak to us morning news. Lets get to ashton as we talk about the big weather changes coming just a little more goodness before it gets bad. Thats right, our last day of summer and it will be our 35th day in a row with completely dry weather in the front range but then thats it, the streak should end here today with rain and snow coming in tomorrow. Sunrise, 6 46 and you can see theres cloud cover overhead we will call this partly cloudy overall. Last couple of days in the 70s, yesterday we missed the record by just one degree. Officially making it to 77. Today the record is 77. We have 79 the forecast and then tomorrow and friday, a 40 degrees temperature drop with a very strong cold front that will again not only bring cold temperatures but also rain and snow. We will break it down hour by hour see you can plan ahead. Right now lets check in with joel. You have something off to the Left Shoulder and right shoulder but traffic moving it should not cause any delays for you. Weve also been watching south of town this is from our cdot camera right near greenland. We had a car fire just a half hour ago. Huge delays because the right shoulder and right lane is blocked off and you can see look at that from well before greenland out to larkspur, quite a drive for you. In castle rock go onto c470 nice and wideopen and across the denver metro area very few delays for you. Just volume related. Crews plan to close this tomorrow for this team for the season. They will show close this around noon, snow expected to move into the area. Warm weather allowed the past to stay open more than a week and a half longer than originally planned. Beautiful video there. President obama heads to Berlin Germany today, the next stop of his final overseas trip as commanderinchief. Famous ancient monument, the acropolis and hosted a state dinner attended by the greek president. Hes issued a strong warning of that against the rise of after trump was voted president elect. He did speak earlier this morning. I will say that after years eight years of being president of the United States, having traveled around the globe , its absolutely true that every country travels its own path. Every country has its own traditions. New video shows riot police using tear gas and stun grenades in athens to break up leftwing demonstrators. You see they are protesting president obama does visit to greece obamas greek visit. Some still resent the United States support for the previous dictatorship. Trump called his transition effort very organized saying im the only one who knows who the finalists are. Vice president elect mike pence is leading the transition and spent the day narrowing down a list of those who might fill key cabinet posts. Those include trumps former rival ted cruz, seen in the building, alabama senator Jeff Sessions and steve nugent but there is dissension from some moderates like former republican congressman mike rogers who says hes quitting the effort. This comes just days after new Jersey Governor Chris Christie was removed from his role as chair. Hes going to have lunch with Vice President joe biden today and hes also expected to get his first president ial intelligence briefing just a day after donald trump received his. The president broke a little bit of tradition last night by not telling the press pool he was heading to dinner. To a new york restaurant. Items collected during the latest efforts to clean up denvers ballpark neighborhood are now in city storage. Workers spent hours yesterday removing the homeless camps sprawled out across the sidewalks. The city says it has enough shelter beds for everyone out there but most of the homeless choose to live on the streets. Right now theres a lawsuit pending in federal court claiming its a violation of homeless peoples rights. New this morning a grieving man found guilty of his then girlfriends two yearold son. Hes convicted of firstdegree murder and child abuse. He was watching michael lara last year when police say the child suffered severe injuries. My goal died at childrens hospital. Police say whites story of what happened when the twoyear old was hurt changed several times. He admitted to being under the influence of drugs. A boulderbased Sporting Goods manufacturer faces a big fine for retaliating against a as head rush technologies and investigators say the Company Fired a worker for reporting concerns about its climbing and supply and equipment. Osha has ordered the true blue company to pay the former employee more than 125,000 in back wages and damages. New this morning, a driver is safe after ending up in a pond in a golf course in northeast fort collins. Check out this picture. Two rescue swimmers got out and rescued that man from the car last night stuck in 5 deep water. They are trying to figure out how the crash even happened. Our state does know a thing or two about marijuana right now and today colorado leaders will start to share firsthand approved recreational marijuana. Two Denver Health experts are planning to meet remotely with bostons board of health today. Bostons board of health today. Crews will break ground on a new space in broadway on broadway transforming the former Masonic Lodge into an interactive exhibit featuring the citys history. It opens within the next year. They will introduce three new drug dogs today, those part of a jail crackdown that includes more shakedowns and strip searches, we underst those dogs to detect cell phones which are now causing problems as well. Those dogs are so smart. Next up on cbs4 morning news, protests over the dakota axis oil pipeline. ,,, who says i shouldnt have a soda every day . My doctor. My dentist. Definitely my wife. Hey wait. We have better bubbles. Make sparkling water at home and drink 43 more water every day. Sodastream. Weve been following a Traffic Alert for you this morning, take a look at this video from just about 40 minutes ago. You can see the explosion northbound illini 25 right at greenland. Thats a car fire and fire crews were able to quickly get on that. A portion of grass adjacent to it was also lit on fire but they were able to get all that out in the smoke ascends cleared. Now theyve moved everything off to the right shoulder but it was troubled for a while there and we still have huge backups because of that. Let me show you what the camera looks like right now from our cdot camera behind me, you see the flashing lights right here and theyve been able to open up the far right lane with fi move over law, right . If you cant get over and you see emergency crews along the side, you have to slow way down to make it safe for them. So folks following the law along there but thats causing some pretty big backups from well before greenland this morning. out across the metro area, you will see as you make your way from castle rock to c470, should be a great drive. A little bit of an issue off to the left and right shoulder not causing delays and looks like we could have trouble as well. Drive times from the north, starting to load up and slow down. Ashton we have speeds dipping down into the lower 40s as an average. We are certainly expecting traffic problems coming up tomorrow as a twitter store makes its way into colorado. Winter storm makes its way into colorado. 60 degrees right now in denver, sun comes up about a half hour from now, 6 46. Is 59 at dia, 43 in fort we should be waking up to temps in the 20s even hear long the front range this time of year. This afternoon it will feel more like Early September instead of midnovember with with high soaring to the upper 70s close to 80 degrees for the denver area and may well southeast colorado, highs in the mid80s and a record wording red flag warning for the southeast portion of colorado,. Colorado. Fire danger. Farther to the west, west of vail pass, a winter storm watch posted for tomorrow night, mountain areas down toward talley telluride, 52 in 5 to 10 inches of snow. Mountain valley seeing one to three inches of snow. Heres the cold front now making its way to Salt Lake City and northern wyoming. It will move in tonight. Heres the futurecast, 6 pm today we are dry. Overnight tonight snow starts developing in the mountains, 6 am 9 am tomorrow cold rain in denver that will eventually transition into light snow but because the payment is going to be so warm i dont think we will have much accumulation if any tomorrow but again falling snow expected and then behind that cold, friday only 40. Thats a drop. Thank you. Up next a look at whats driving the oil price change. And you will need to save those present for back to the future sneakers. Jill wagners live at the New York Stock Exchange with our money report. Hi, jill. Points to another alltime record high on the nasdaq rose 57. Oil prices got a bounce and theres speculation opec will increase crude production. They need at the end of the month. Theyve been sending prices at the gas pump lower. They are inching toward that 2 per gallon mark. Retailers are prove preparing framom last month, getting a pretty big boost from post Hurricane Matthew on building supplies. And nike is looking at back to the future sneakers, priced at 720. When you put your foot in the shoe it lights up and then a Pressure Sensor will make it tighter. That means the laces on the front sadly are just for decoration but the sneakers will be available to nike numbers at two locations in new york city. You have to be a super fan to shell out the dough for those. Jill, thank you so much. Your flight to new york will cost less than the shoe. [ laughter ] Oklahoma CityWill Rogers World Airport running on schedule this morning after a shooting yesterday. Gunmen ambushed a Southwest Airlines employee as he walked to the airport employee parking lot. 52yearold michael wincer winchester of the kansas city chiefs. You remember the broncos play the chiefs in their next game. All inbound and outbound flights for cancelled and they say the shooter killed himself in a parking lot in the vehicle there. In his vehicle there. Asking federal court for permission to meet complete the Dakota Access oil pipeline project. At the Standing Rock indian reservation hundreds protested, marching in washington dc as a last night. Copter 4 flew over the pipeline will carry crude oil from the oilfields to illinois. Most of it has already been built except for a party north dakota. Native americans there see the pipeline would cut through sacred land and risk contaminating their drinking water. The army corps of engineers is now has now stopped construction in a partial victory for protesters, saying it needs more study before they move forward. 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Ashton right now who has been talking about this storm coming for over week. I have to give you kudos for that. Weve been watching this for a while, we knew things would change at the end of this week and they certainly will. Today will be summer, tamara Winter Weather that system to the northwest of us. From southwest portland to seattle there could be weather related delays. In salt lake by tonights knowing along the front range and tomorrow we will have a mix of cold rain. More on that coming up. Lets check in with joel. You will see slowing in the about i70 if you happen to be heading to dia. Its all green for my 25 to 225. Seeing some slowing but you get inbound on pe . A boulevard, i think youll like the drive. New video shows to desperate people trying to escape Los Angeles Police he jumped out of a moving mercedes here. Eventually crashed into a pa c directions, but Police Caught up with them, both of them ended up in handcuffs. 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Its part of our 100 veggie diet. And helps support their immune system. Perdue. Over 200 products. Date with us this morning, 6 30 right now and lets take a look at whats coming, snow in Washington State is now heading our way, things looking better first the resorts in colorado. The weather change starts tonight and keystone says opening day is on friday. What a change we are going to get. Get a little bit of the it does seem we are skipping autumn and falling if you will right into winter. Its another summerlike day before the big change. Thats right, summer today and then winner tomorrow, look at these temperatures right now in the upper 50s to around 60 degrees in the denver, boulder and fort collins areas and yes its far above normal right now in our big storm system is on the way approaching Salt Lake City right now. We will break down the timing of all this and let you know when we will see the rain and snow and of course show you the temperature drops all coming up. Weve been f