Reporter it is another windy start to the morning. Spread quickly yesterday. Evacuation orders have been lifted, but it was definitely a long and stressful night for People Living in this area. This is incredible video. This was one of the first pictures from our rooftop camera, that fire lit up the skies when it sparked on Green Mountain and quickly spread due to all the high winds. Wind from 5 acres up to 300 in an hour. People living nearby scrambled to to needed to get anything they might need initially in case they had to evacuate. Anyone with livestock needing additional time, they were told to evacuate immediately. That notice went on to say that it could be the last notice they receive, so definitely frantic moments for some residents. One man was checking out his sons home and said the fire was a close call. Had that fire about three years ago when they brought in the slurry bombers. And that was quite frightening. The fire on the different news channels and what not and you see the winds coming up, so you think about Colorado Springs a little bit, what happened several years ago. Reporter fire consumed a total of 300 acres. Its 90 contained at last check. Definitely with this wind fire crews are going to be keeping a close eye on any hot spots that have the potential to flare up. The cause is still under investigation. Live in lakewood, jamie leary, cbs4 morning news. Thank you so much. Were not the only ones de people are packing up what they can and fleeing their homes in gatlinburg, tennessee. Flames are burning next to one of the main roads out of that town. Oh, my gosh. This is not good. Abridge orange sky lit up the abandoned and smoky streets last night. Wildfires have damaged or impacted at least 30 buildings a person shot video inside a park Vista Hilton Hotel as flames burned outside the doors. People at that hotel were kept inside. The National Guard has been activated. The incident at Ohio State University is being looked into as a possible case of terrorism. Classes are back on today artan intentionally ran his car into a group of people and used a butcher knife to stab people. We were moved to a classroom in the basement. Kind of scary because we couldnt get service in the basement. University Police Officer shot and killed artan. Artan recently transferred to ohio state from a community college. Investigators are looking into a post he reportedly made on facebook saying he was sick of treated. Lets get a check of weather and traffic every 10 minutes on the 4s. And ashton is here with a chilly forecast. Yes, chilly and windy forecast. Now fort collins 18 Miles Per Hour. Berthoud pass wind gusts closer to 40 Miles Per Hour. You can see the wind a little bit stronger where jamie leary was live in lakewood. Lets look up into the foothills. This is where the strongest wind is at this kenosha pass 35 Miles Per Hour. Alence park, 22 Miles Per Hour allenspark. Highs will be near 40, but will feel colder than that. Few light snow showers in the colorado high country. But it will be dry for the bus stop in the metro area. Breezy and chilly for the kids this morning. 26. By noon today, 38and theres that high of 41. Again, factor in the wind, it wont feel 41 this afternoon. Lets get over to joel. Tuesday morning commute. Traffic alert were following. Ive counted 12 police cars that are here at the scene of this accident, plus an ambulance and fire truck. Looks like there are two cars involved in this accident. Southbound along quebec as you go near highway 2, or just to the north of highway 2. Southbound along quebec. Live pictures coming in from copter 4. Obviously with the darkness, hard to make out what exactly has happened. Right hand portion of your screen, if you focus hard enough you can working around two separate cars. No word on any injuries involved in this accident. With the amount of police that we see, i would expect this closure to be in place for some time until they get this cleared out of the way. Let me go to the map. Near irondale. Southbound along quebec parkway on the approach to highway 2. Not our only trouble spot. Lights malfunctioning along alameda as you get to kalamath. Thats the case eastbound along i270 as well. Up into the high country, chain and passenger traction restrictions in place u. S. 6 over loveland pass. Chain restrictions eisenhower and johnson tunnels. Major delays on i70 today. Its not due to the weather. Crews will be doing rock scaling work in the Clear Creek County area between lawson and empire junction. They say drivers should budget an extra two hours on that drive. Through tomorrow. The man who hit and killed a Colorado State patrol cadet is expected to learn his punishment today. A jury found him guilty of that crash that killed one trooper and seriously injured the other. He was driving high and recklessly. Rushing is now working as a sergeant. A funeral is planned for killed on i25. A service for trooper cody donahue is scheduled for this friday at 11 00 at the Denver First Church of the nazarene in englewood. Friends describe the driver accused of killing donahue as beyond distraught. Trooper donahue was investigating a previous crash friday when police say noe gamezruiz swerved out of the driving lane and onto the shoulder. Ruiz is traffic charges. The Arapahoe County d. A. Is sharing his thoughts on these charges. The way our laws are set up, had the conduct we believe had it exceeded careless and become even reckless, then the potential could be vehicular homicide. We dont believe we have that. The laws make no exception whether the person killed is a civilian or Law Enforcement in it makes no distinction. The investigation is not yet over. Police are looking at video from cameras from the state patrol and on the truck itself. Mike pence says big announcements are coming today, this comes as donald trump is expected to reveal more cabinet picks. Trump has picked tom price to head the department of health and human services. The president elect could also announce his secretary of state. Yesterday mr. Turn spent an retired general david petraeus. The units would be available to people who have been chronically homeless. Lawmakers will have to approve the housing money. New Data Confirms denvers Housing Market is hot. Zillow revealed its october market report. Home values jumped more than more than 350,000. Rents are up 3 . Median price is 2,000 a month. A Zillow Survey finds the majority of experts thinks the market will start to favor buyers by 2019. Still quite a ways out. 6 10now. Next up on the cbs4 morning news, buckle up, big changes for seat belts. Have something negative to say online about a ,,,, good morning, everyone. Thanks for joining us. This is the news in health. Texas is now reporting its first case of the zika virus. Doctors are treating a woman from brownsville, located in the tail of texas, right on the u. S. mexico border. She says she didnt recently travel to mexico or any other country. Florida is the only other state locally spread zika. Three people in the San Francisco bay area died after a Community Thanksgiving meal. Now doctors want to know why. They hospitalized several people with symptoms of food poisoning. Were interviewing people that we know are ill and were also trying to find people who may have been, had some symptoms but maybe didnt seek health care. It is believed the three people who died also lid that same assisted living facility. Time for weather and traffic every 10 minutes on the 4s. Were going to start off with joel, because this looks like a serious situation. We just got confirmation this is in fact a deadly accident investigation now going on. This has blocked off southbound quebec near highway 2. Youve got all the lanes blocked off along there. Weve counted like 12 police cars, so heavy police presence. Expect delays in that area if you are traveling northbound highway 2, expect delays as well as there will be curiosity slowing. Fire truck and ambulance that were there. No word on the total number of injuries, just that it was, it is being investigated as a deadly accident. As we get a little more sunlight we can see the cars and the damage to the cars, which are there along the roadway still. That means this area will be closed for a couple of hours. Let me show you where were talking. This is soh its showing up as two separate accidents. Its along quebec, the south of highway 2, runs here and parallel to i76. A lot of folks use this in that southbound direction. Youre not going to be able to use that cutoff for the morning commute. Across the denver metro area its been a pretty good looking drive. I just lost my capability to for evidence. Across the denver metro looks like a great drive. Loading up east along i270. In the high country, chain and passenger restrictions in place u. S. 6 over loveland pass. Later today, youve been tracking the winds, mix that with snow, will be a nasty drive. Will be a tough go in the high country. Snow stake at winter park, 7 inches. 7 degrees also there. Normal High Temperature this timeye last couple of days weve been at or a little above normal. 52 back on sunday. Yesterdays high was 45. We actually stayed 1degree below normal. High today 41. Tomorrow 42. And similar temperatures on thursday. Were now going to be either at or below normal for at least the next seven to 10 days. Gone is all of that unusually warm weather we experienced for so long. Temperatures in the 20s this colorado high country. As we take a look at winds, you can see theyre in the mid20s for wind speeds in southeast wyoming around cheyenne, 24 Miles Per Hour. The wind will translate south through the day. Clouds moving in from the north. Well call it mostly cloudy. Winter weather advisories and warnings that had been posted east of vail pass have been canceled. Still in effect until noon out west of vail pass and down into aspen and Crested Butte. 2to 4 inches of additional snowfall there. And combine that snow with some driving in the mountains for today. Heres the storm system that brought all the active weather. Its up in minnesota. You can see the front way out to the east of us. The cold air behind the front stays and on the back side of the low those white lines represent the wind streaming in from the north today. Highs will climb up to around 40 around denver, boulder and fort collins, when you factor in the wind it will feel colder. 41 the high. To32 friday. Dry for the weekend, highs only in the 40s. Pretty big storm system for the middle of next week. We need a good snow here in denver. Thank you. Thousands of workers plan to strike today and good news if you want to post a bad review about a company. This is the news on wall street. Jill wagner is live at the new york stock exchange. Good morning, jill. Reporter good mo the postelection wall street rally took a breather. Futures are pointing to a higher open. Thousands of workers across the country are expected to strike today. Employees at fast food restaurants, airports and some hospitals will walk off the job in what organizers are calling a nationwide day of disruption. More people shopped on their smartphones this weekend. Black friday was the first u. S. History. Online shoppers spent 1. 2 billion through their phones and tablets. About 33 more than last year. And soon youll be able to post negative reviews on yelp without fear of retribution. Congress passed legislation to ensure that customers wont get sued for writing something negative about a company. The bill now goes to president obama. Britt. Jill, thank you so much for that report. Check in on tuesdays top stories right now. Jury selection resumes today for the accused church shooter, dylann roof is now representing himself. He in this cases 33 federal charges, including hate crime and murder for the killings of nine people. This is a Death Penalty trial. The governor of north dakota is ordering an emergency evacuation of Dakota Access pipeline protestors. He signed that order because of what he calls harsh winter conditions coming. Law enforcement says they probably wont enforce the order. Months. People in cuba paying their final respects to fidel castro. Workers setting up for a ceremony in revolution square. His death comes more than a year after the u. S. And cuba reached an historic agreement to fully restore diplomatic relations. In a tweet yesterday president elect donald trump threatened to terminate that arrangement if cuba is unwilling to make Colder Weather later this week. Thats right. Highs at the end of the week will struggle to reach freezing. For now, paul in westminster has 24 degrees. We have some wind around the metro area, especially on the west side of town closer to the foothills. Well all experience wind gusts up to 30 Miles Per Hour later ,,,,, weather and traffic together on the 4s. We start with a traffic alert. Live pictures coming in from copter 4. Southbound quebec blocked off near highway 2 due to a serious accident. Investigating what looks like a probable fatality and that means this closure will be in place for some time. Were going to continue to watch this situation. Accident at 70th and washington. This is where that accident is. If you take highway 2 in that southbound direction, it is closed right now. Were seeing slowing develop in the westbound direction of i70 out to i270. But in the eastbound direction if youre heading out to the airport, we should have speeds into the 50s. Once you get to the airport no major issues expected. In fact, travel around colorado today could be complicated because of wind. D west coast in good shape today. In texas delaying in houston because of thunderstorms. Meanwhile, expect a lot of snow in the dakotas and minnesota today. Rain along the east coast could cause delays there later on today. For now, east coast airports are in good shape. All major hubs across the country are in good shape. Days of one size fits all seat belts may be over. Researchers are studying the smaller and older drivers. The goal is to have seat belts that one day automatically size adjust to the person they are protecting. 45,000 shoe boxes filled with gifts are on their way to children in need in mexico. This is all part of Operation Christmas child. We stopped by the Denver Processing center where volunteers are packing the boxes with toys, School Supplies and hygi boxes as an 11yearold after he and his family escaped rwanda. He said the box gave him hope. The same shoe box i got allowed me to understand what it meant to be loved by god, not only that, but that i had a family of believers across the world who loved me enough to send me something i desperately needed. What a beautiful thing. We have more information on how you can help Operation Christmas child on cbsdenver. Com. Section. I love how the community always comes together during the holiday season. 26 degrees in denver. Great example there and a lot of folks that need help. It is chilly out there. Coming up, the new round of homeless sweeps and how people are on the move in downtown denver. Von miller is sharing his thoughts on that 62yard f ,,,, this is the news on cbs4 as we get you going at 6 30. A look at two very different scenes. We are keeping an eye on snow in the high country now. Live look on the left side of the screen at the eisenhower tunnel there and theres the fully contain that fire on Green Mountain, as we look at that fire last night as it tore across the dry grass. Incredible pictures. Yes, thats the same state. Good morning, im alan gionet. Im britt moreno. It is cold this morning. And that leaves many in the metro area anxious for a whopper snowstorm. It could be coming next week. Ashton altieri has the weather story for us. Good morning. Yes, thats right. Thats next tuesday into next wednesday. Certainly the biggest snow event weve had so far this season in denver. At well keep you posted. Its still a week away. Between now and then, cold will be the big story. Now were in the 20s in the denver metro area. Morrison 15 Miles Per Hour, golden about the same. Well talk about the weekend coming up. Were following a couple of traffic alerts. Copter 4 arriving over this, report of an auto pedestrian accident. No report of injuries. Another accident closed off a southbound portion of quebec, probable fatal accident. People living near Green Mountain are probably breathing a sigh of relief because Evacuation Orders are over in lakewood. Firefighters have gained the upper hand on a fast moving grass fire that threatened homes. The blaze lit up the colorado night shows how fast that fire spread and our jamie leary is live near the mountain this morning to update us on whats happening. Good morning. Reporter good morning, britt. Residents are back home, but the wind is fierce this morning. It was this wind that caused the fire to spread so quickly. Residents, the Evacuation Order was lifted around 9 20 last night, but still fire crews will be battling this wind again this morning. Video. We got a time lapse of that fire as it spread down the mountain. Residents were advised to ev as quickly as possible and while the evacuations werent mandatory, it left neighbors scrambling. Crews worked quickly. It was about 5 acres initially and spread to about 300 acres within an hour. The order eventually lifted after 9 00. The fire currently 90 contained. With this wind, fire crews will likely be keeping a on the fire to make sure no hot spots flare up. Live in lakewood, jamie leary, cbs4 morning news. Family members are begging for people help solve a murder in the capitol hill neighborhood. 77yearold Lewis Easterday was found stabbed to death inside his car last tuesday. That car was in the middle of the street near 1