Britt. It is chilly out here. Right now very clear out, too. Probably not a lot of snow coming this morning, but definitely expect it later. I know cdot is well prepared for this. You heard joel talking about the traction laws. Theyve changed their signs to warn people about the incoming storm today and the traction laws and chain laws will definitely be in effect. I talked to one worker who is headed home this morning and i asked him, preparing all week . He said, weve been preparing all month. So they are ready to go. We have snow making operations going on at loveland. We have the groomers out, too. They have to get ahead of the game if they want to get the runs open. From the mobile weather lab were tracking dropping temperatures. 27 degrees. It was 29 when we arrived it was 32. Winter is coming. Snowstorm is on its way. Be prepared for that and allow yourself extra time when youre headed out because that snow is coming. Live from the eisenhower tunnel, jamie leary, cbs4 morning news. Jamie leary, just looks like were getting winter. Thanks a lot. This storm wont be like the one we saw this same date last year. Drivers got stranded on i25. Crews have new tools this year. Our shawn chitness live to explain no morning. Yes, they do have a new tool that they are definitely excited about, hoping to get twice as much done with this new plow. Take a look at it. Its the tow plow. They have 13 ready to go and work the roads across colorado. Theyll get 10 more in the new year. Were told these can clear two lanes of traffic at the same time, allowing them to open up the roads sooner and can get the job done with less people. Traditional plows. Thats going to work the denver metro area and another 90 that will focus just on the i70 mountain corridor. To us doing our job safely and effectively means getting moms and dads to and from work safely, Children Home from school, friends to community events, and goods that we all depend on delivered safely to their destination. Reporter so that phrase even more important now, bow to the plow. Remember that its moving to remind you the best place is a safe distance behind that plow, so you avoid the snow. Live along i25, shawn chitness, cbs4 morning news. Thank you, shawn. Weather and traffic right now as we get you going. Ashton, as we look in town, the snow is not here yet, but whats going to happen . So, yes, the snow or the rain is not here yet. We expected it to be dry for generally after 9 00 well start to see rain and snow develop first in the mountains, thats where the precipitation will be first, and then in the metro area after that. Now at dia its 34. 39 degrees in boulder. Heres the cold front, just making its way to the springs. Jamie leary up at the tunnel was talking about the temperatures dropping and thats because the front just now making its way across i70 up there in the colorado high country. You can see the precipitation moving out of utah, moving to the western slope now, both rain and snow. San juan mountains starting to see a li what we need is this big upper level system thats here in nevada, we need that to come through and push the precipitation across. The bottom line, dry for the morning commute, by late morning well start to see cold rain, and this afternoon that cold rain will start transitioning into snow. Still not expecting much in terms of accumulation. A trace to up to 2 inches in the metro area. Well talk more about that coming up. Lets check in with joel. Ashton breathless from all this incoming storm. Take a look from i225, live pictures of i225 between parker and iliff this morning. Its a pretty good drive into the tech center, though we are seeing a few more cars. Thats being reflected from our cbs4 mousetrap cam. Nothing to slow you down. Still seeing speeds into the 50s and 60s southbound coming into town. About 9 minutes from 120th out to i70. You can no longer drive independenas winter season. Isnt this beautiful video . The pass typically closes november 7th, but weve had warm weather. The pass usually reopens the thursday before memorial day. Of course, britt, thats always weather permitting. Thank you, joel. Happening today we will get an update on the case against the berthoud man accused of killing Tanner Flores is due back in court today. He was arrested back in june. A Denver Police officer is facing a sevenday unpaid suspension this month for what three men describe as stalking like behavior while he was in uniform. A cbs4 investigation revealed the actions of ramone young. Documents show he used a Police Database to track down and call she said the call was unwelcomed. He was suspended two days. Two more women have come forward. One works at a 7eleven and says when she sees him coming she hides in the stores cooler. Obviously his actions were inappropriate. He was disciplined. There are still other parts were looking at as it relates to his overall behavior. Officer young told us the claims were exaggerated. Behind him. Hes been with the Denver PoliceDepartment Since 2013. Heres video as people protest Steve Bannons white house appointment. Helicopter footage shows a sea of people marching in Downtown Los Angeles last night. It was peaceful, but drivers could not make their way through those streets. People are upset over bannons ties to bright bart news, which has a history of publishing content antisematic racist. Trump meets with japans Prime Minister today. He continues to push back of reports of a Transition Team in chaos. He met with several people yesterday, including alabama senator jeff sessions, the Transition Team is expected to announce the first wave of so called landing teams that will interact with federal agencies today. Happening today, governor hickenlooper planning an announcement this morning on the future of oil and Gas Development in the White River National forest. Thompson divide area southwest of glenwood springs. The bureau of Land Management recently proposed canceling the leases after an Environmental Impact review. New report indicates business is good for people in colorados pot industry. Department of revenue data we have shows medical and recreational pot shops earned a combined 127 million in sales in september. This is a new record third consecutive time, month. Last year september Monthly Sales were closer to 94 million. Happening this morning, denver mayor Michael Hancock officially kicks off the holiday season. Hes holding a ceremony ahead of the light displays, events and shopping. This event kicks off at 9 45 at the Cherry Creek Shopping Center if you would like to go. Christmas tree is making its way from colorado to washington, d. C. It is in Grand Junction now. It comes from idaho. It is supposed to arrive later on this month. Good thing theyre driving before the winter storm. The temperature outside in denver 33 degrees. Right on the verge. Will it be rain, snow . More on that ahead. Also next on the cbs4 morning news, new video of the damage from a deadly explosion in illinois. And president obama ,,, en smooth shaves. Upgrade to the gillette sensor3. F0 welcome back, everyone. Our junior weather watcher this week is nash from denver. He loves the weather. Here is his audition reel. Come outside in the back yard, its very cold. Its very cloudy, too. Tonight is going to be very, very cold. And tomorrow is very, very cold. Im in my socks, you can see. An authentic weatherman always wears the right socks. Check out nash tomorrow when he joins ashton i. Mobile weather lab and this is a live look right near loveland pass, eisenhower tunnel this morning, and we know its going to build up there, and it is going to snow. Were checking ashtons socks to see the sort of snow thats coming now. Hes gone sock up. I have done that before. What do you have . What we have here is dry weather for the morning commute, just as we expected. Then it will be later on this rain and eventually some snow and of course were now about a month behind schedule for our first snowfall of the season. Usually it happens around the 18th of october. Last year it was the 5th of november. Latest first snow on record, the 21st. That would be monday. Had we made it to monday we would have had a new record. We have to get0. 10 inches at dia. I think that will happen. If it doesnt, well have a new record. Temperatures are in the 30 fort collins areas. 40s and 50s south. Cold front hasnt made its way through the state, but its past the denver area and making its way through the colorado high country as well. Precipitation on the western slope and San Juan Mountains, telluride starting to see rain and snow. The actual storm system is behind the cold front, and as it moves from nevada through colorado over the next 24 hours, it pushes the front to the south. Create the snow and High Pressure builds in back behind this system. So tomorrow shine returns shine returns sunshine returns. Snow spreading quickly over the mountains. Heres 12 noon, light rain and snow mix possible around denver, and through the afternoon it will be all snow for the denver, boulder and fort collins areas. Not much accumulation. Everything moves out tonight. Anywhere from a trace to 2 inches. Most of that will be on grassy surfaces and rooftops. Farther out to the plains probably closer to a trace. Maybe an inch or two for years near the kansas state line. Mountains, aspen, eagle county and veil, summit county, up to Red Feather Lakes and steamboat, 4 to 10 inches of snow. A. M. And temperatures plummet through the afternoon. Tonight 18. The snow will end this evening. Tomorrow 38 and sunshine. 17 going into saturday morning and 54 on saturday. Little warmer by sunday, back up to 63. Joel. That sun will be very welcome at that point. I25 and hampden, and you can see how loaded up we are through the bridges into the tech center, and as well making your way into downtown. I want to show you the drive southbound coming into town. Word of an accident as you head you can see the icon and speeds dipping into the 30s behind that. Now its 11 minutes. We expect the drive times to tick up, speeds to tick down as this accident develops as we go emergency crews out there. Accident in the eastbound direction of i270 as well. This is our very there it is, cbs4 mousetrap cam. The computer needs time to wake up in the morning as well, i down into town. Now that we have that accident, it will meter that traffic, expect a better drive south. Slow around the stadium curve and slow southbound i225 into the tech center. Interest rates and mortgages are heading up today. Well get clues on whats coming and tom brady trying to capitalize on his deflate scandal somehow. Jill wagner with r dow fell 54 points, the nasdaq was up 18 points. Futures are pointing to a higher open. Fed chair janet yellen testifies in d. C. This morning. Shell likely be asked about how president elect trumps policies will affect the economy. Black friday is fast approaching. Wallet hub looked at 8,000 an average discount of 63 , followed by the retailer stage and j. C. Penney. The average discount is about 39 . And tom brady is spinning his deflate gate scandal for fun and profit. He stars in a new foot locker ad. He takes two customers to task when theyre suspicious about the stores sale. Brady was suspended for four games this season because the nfl said he had a role alan. We have our view of that here in denver, no doubt about it. Jill, thank you very much. Reporter hes already got giselle, now he has to crazy capitalize on it somehow. We want to get to the top stories. Investigators in Central Illinois are trying to figure out what led to a deadly gas explosion yesterday. The explosion near the downtown scare in canton damaged several Hillary Clinton is telling her supporters not to give up. The former secretary of state spoke last night at a childrens defense fun in wart. As hard as it might be to imagine your daughter will grow up to be a United States senator, represent our country as secretary of state, and win more than 62 million votes for president of the United States. [ applause ] the theme of last nights event was beat the odds. President obama is now in germany for his final overseas trip as president. He arrived in berlin from greece. Germans chancellor merkel is scheduled to have talks with the president this afternoon. And tomorrow hell meet with leaders of france, italy, spain and great britain. Ashton, what are the 35 at steamboat spring, what ted has up there. Hes saying, star light, star bright, there isnt a cloud in sight. Just wait, ted, clouds are going to roll into steamboat shortly. Snow there later on. Well check the travel forecast coming up next. ,, we dont have a lot of Grocery Stores here in our neighborhood and we want our neighbors to have access to good things at affordable prices. The only thing easy in our community is fast food. Were here to offer some help. Welcome retirement, huh . laughs i mean, look at the size of this thing who doesnt need a sweet potato that size . They took the time to care what our project was about. Here you go. And that was something that ill truly treasure. I. I. I wanted those. No you didnt. Hefty slider bags cost less than ziploc. Youll thank me later. Oh. . To me the holidays are special, its family traditions and of course great food. With all the things we could worry about over the holidays, turkey shouldnt be one of them. laughter im very proud to be a turkey farmer. Im proud to raise turkeys with no growth promoting antibiotics, hormones or steroids. My name is tammy plumley, f0 welcome back. Its now 6 24. Time to check the weather and traffic together on the 4s. As we look at the travel forecast for today, everything is just fine for the morning commute and at the airport. I dont think there will be anything weather related in terms of delays at dia. Later today snow in the mountains and high country. Wyoming will see a lot of snow as well. Rest of the country pretty with sunshine there. Detroit has fog, so some delays there. But otherwise, were looking good across the country. Lets check in with joel. Watching a little trouble spot along i76 at i270. Weve also got a trouble spot i 25 past 84th as well. Drive to the airport, along i 70 inbound along pena boulevard thats what were seeing across the denver metro area. Eastbound along i70 from i25 to i225 is going to be 9 minute drive. Thank you, joel. President obama and Obamacare Signups are available to people despited president elect trumps vow to repeal all this. Government leaders say at least 1 Million People have selected plans for next years open enrollment. More than 300,000 of those people apparently signed up in the three days following election. Open enrollment runs through january 31. Cartoon donald trump made another americans on the late appearance on the late show. This time cartoon putin joined him. You can catch the colbert show after cbs4 news at 10 00. Have you seen this viral video . Apparently the deer in pennsylvania arent happy about High School Cross country runners getting up in their business. Man, they took down a runner here. Whack. That runner is not seriously hurt, thank goodness. Hard to look at. Its 34 degrees outside in denver. The new Safety Report out this morning on car booster seats. And wait whats happening to one family forced out of the flooding in lyons. Hasnt felt like fall, but now we are finally falling, if you will, into winter. Heres a live look from photographer eddie castro of the snow clouds out and snow at the eisenhower tunnel. We have a live report as we ,,, good morning, everyone. This is the news at 6 30. People in the high country are preparing for a burst of winter and right now we have a live look for you of vail pass, as we all wait in anticipation of this winter blast. Snow will fall later today, just in time for the upcoming notice the cold has already arrived. Im britt moreno. Im alan gionet. What falls today in that picture probably will be there for quite a while. Ashton will tell us when the snow will fall. Jamie leary is at the eisenhower tunnel this morning ahead of the storm. Reporter good morning, alan, good morning, britt. It is really dry out here now. We all know that will change. Weve got snow technically, if you want to call it that. Artificial snow. Weve got loveland right here, they need the snow desperately. Theyve been doing this all morning long since weve been here. Thats kind of what all the background noise is, the snow guns. Weve seen groomers out here, too, getting the few runs that are open ready. These guys have a lot of catching up to do. I know ski resorts just some of the folks looking forward to this upcoming snowstorm. Cdot well prepared. I talked to someone earlier who said theyve been preparing all month. They have drivers, traction and chain laws will be in effect in anticipation of this incoming snowstorm. I want to show you what weve been looking at now, dropping temperatures. Mobile weather lab telling me 28 degrees now. Its kind of alternating between 27, 28. The temperatures are dropping up here. For more on when we can more snow to arrive so you can prepare, lets talk to ashton in our weather center. Good morning. Good morning to you, jamie. Drop at the tunnel because the cold front just making its way through summit county. Front has passed over the denver metro area. Its why were in the 30s. Anywhere from 20 to 25 degrees colder this morning in most neighborhoods than we were yesterday at this time. You can obviously see the cloud cover across the state. It will be a cloudy day. Rain and snow starting to develop around aspen and picken county and western eagle county, moving to vail. Rain and snow in the San Juan Mountains and southwest colorado. 2to 4 inches of snow that way. 4to fo summit county. Winter park. 2to 5 for i80 in wyoming. And 4 to 8 the northwest corner of the state, where we have a winter storm warning. More about all this, including when well see the snow in denver coming up. Now lets check in with joel. Thats a couple of minutes from now. Southbound coming