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KMGH 7 News At 11 AM November 18, 2016

The high country is in for more snow. Thats good. A much better pattern for us. A live look from dublin loveland. For the most part, its pretty dry. You will still find icy spots. Jared has an update on that coming up. Good to finally see some snow covered trees. The mountains picking up 4 to 8 inches. Across the plains, around 2 with a few more out west. I will give you more totals in just a 20s, wind chills in the single digits, and right now we are at 30 degrees in city park, 24 degrees in evergreen. I promised you yesterday this would be a fastmoving storm ended is already lifting well to the north and east of us. For the rest of the afternoon, we have sunshine, clear skies, temperatures about seven degrees to 10 degrees above where they are right now. Rhode one degrees by 3 00, which means even more melting. Tonight. Jason, we could see some of those sidestreets that are wet freeze back over into early saturday morning. I think thats also going to happen here. You can see on the split screen we have broadway 470. Its drying out nicely but with warmer temperatures we could see snow melt and then cause icy spots later tonight. You see i70 appear at the start of floyd hill. Before you go down the hill, you have wet conditions with . We have had tough driving conditions there but it does look a lot better. Take a look at the other split screen. Southbound i25 at 84th avenue, seems like almost every day we have one up there. We have one right here blocking the left side of the highway with backups to 104th. The Denver Tech Center drying up nicely. I hope its going to be like that later this afternoon. This storm is continuing to make its way to the east causing blizzard like conditions in parts of eastern south dakota and western minnesota. Blowing around at sioux falls, south dakota, as crews prepare the roads. About a foot of snow was expected to fall in parts of the dakotas and minnesota. The storm was a big sigh of relief for the ski resorts. Copper mountain and keystone our opening today. Tomorrow, breckenridge is set to open. The good news does not seem to be hitting aspen yet. Aspen ski Company Announced today that they do not plan to open before thanksgiving. We have a full list of all the ski resorts around colorado that are open right now. Developing right now, we are getting new details on a Homicide Investigation at a home just northwest of downtown denver. We are at the scene getting the details. What is the latest . Reporter ittlooks like the crime scene will be here for quite some time. Police are still here and that got parts of 42nd still blocked off. This is right at k hone. The crime scene van along with investigators gathering more details. We know this was a shooting that happened overnight and that an adult man was shot and killed. This is being treated as a Homicide Investigation. Other than that, we dont know much. We dont know anything about a possible suspect or suspects, what the motive was, what happened here. . Those details will come later but as we come back out here along 42nd and tejon you see traffic not allowed to go down this road. Police will be here a little bit longer evidence. This just in, investigators say an electrical accident started this fire in aurora earlier this week which killed one person, and critically injured another at that home. The fire was on 7th avenue wednesday morning. The victims have not been identified. The fire was so big it did cause damage to houses nearby. Parker police are looking for the person who robbed a gamestop at gunpoint overnight at the parker pavilions. Police say the person got away police are looking at Surveillance Video right now hoping to get a good description of the suspect. When we get more information we will pass it to you. This man who escaped from the back of a Larimer County deputy patrol car is back in custody now. His name is william morgan. Deputies arrested him yesterday at an apartment complex and he is now facing a felony escape charge on top of the other charges from the original warrant. We are still waiting for word on how man will speed behind bars for shorting shooting amel shooting a Police Officer multiple times last year. The officers bulletproof vest seems to have saved his life and he has recovered. He is facing 25 years behind bars for that shooting. We know the two men who admitted to starting the cold springs fire have been put on four years probation and two years work release. The two men pled guilty to properly over the summer. That fire destroyed several homes and burned more than 6000 acres. Denver fire needs more firefighters in northeast denver. A report released yesterday says the department is lagging behind and safety inspections, hiring, and response teams. Denver fire says it needs more stations near green valley ranch, and northfield. One station is under construction but two are only in the planning stage. These plans in place. Its making sure get the funding for it. Meanwhile, firefighters say safety inspections are behind because of the growing Marijuana Industry and the fire academy was canceled two years ago out oo denver budget concerns. Resident Obama Joining leaders from key European Countries in germany to talk about security and economic challenges as the u. S. Prepares for president elect trump to leaders of germany, britain, france, italy and spain today. Its probably his last four leaving office. Discussion revolved around nato, trade agreements, and efforts to fight climate change. This meeting comes as donald trump has made more pics for his president ial cabinet. Trumps Team Announced this morning that Jeff Sessions will be trumps attorney general. Sessions was the first senator to endorse trump during the campaign. Michael flynn was named National Security advisor. He is best known for that infamous lock her up chance relating to Hillary Clinton at the rnc. A political analyst says these choices cause concerns, especially sessions who has a history of recently charged racially charged comments. The country is really concerned about diversity and what happened in the campaign. Senator sessions could have a real problem getting approval by the senate. Trump is supposed to meet with mitt romney this coming their relationship. Donald tru has talked about punishing city seemed cities that dont tow the line on Immigration Enforcement and denver and aurora are saying its a federal issue, not bears. But cities do get federal funds. Last year, denver received 175 million from the feds, much of it going to transportation, housing, and lawenforcement. Could we lose out on those funds . We accept the possibility of at risk. We as a how strongly we support our residents and our obligations to those residents. If thats the risk, we will face that risk. Denver mayor Michael Hancock says a sanctuary city policy was never adopted and says denver cooperates with the feds and does not believe the city will lose money. Adams county deputies want to on the lookout for this man wanted for setting a man on ffre earlier this month on east 58th in adams county. The victim is still in the attack. A Health Warning for you if you live near Mile High Stadium. The owner and chairman of an apartment complex near the stadium is facing charges for putting your health at risk. Workers at the overlook at mile high may have released asbestos into the air and 2014. That was during was renovations. This all happen close to Mile High Stadium during a couple of packed broncos games. Religion doesnt matter one we are all celebrating the holiday thanksgiving turkey donations were delivered to Denver Catholic churches. Jason gruenauer was at the event with more. Reporter they picked a good day to deliver theee because nearly 3000 turkeys are not going to be thawing in this weather. These were delivered on a semi from salt lake city. The Mormon Church volunteers are here to deliver to Catholic Charities and the samaritan what this is going to mean to you guys this holiday. This is an unbelievable blessing we are receiving from the Mormon Church. This is going to get out into the community here in Northern Colorado. We have more than 2000 turkeys are going out into different parishes throughout Northern Colorado and this will also allow us to help serve our residents at samaritan house but also at our shelters in fort collins, greeley, and out what has happened is we got a call from the Mormon Church and they said what do you need . We said we could use 3000 turkeys and we have a semifull of almost 3000 turkeys. Truck and these will then be delivered to families. Many will also stay here to be cooked in just a couple of days right here at the samaritan house. For now, reporting in downtown denver with 3000 turkeys, Jason Christmas is on its way to denver as well. The capitol Christmas Trees ready to be on display at bass pro shops. Chp tweeted this picture showing troopers helped the tree truck chain up in vail. The 80 foot spruce, idaho is visiting 25 communities on its path to the u. S. Capital. It stopped in Glenwood Springs the kendall market opens today. The European Market is being set up across from the clock tower at the 16th street mall. It will be open from 11 am to 7 pm and 9 pm on fridays and saturdays. Were just getting started. Now that weve got our first snow, how are your trees doing . You might not need to worry as much as you think. The latest video of a Samsung Phone catching fire all about all Samsung Phones of new details this morning on the latest case of a Samsung Phone catching fire. The latest caused quite a scare for kids in Kansas City Missouri after the phoneecall fire in a classroom. Floor just smoking. This is what the phone looked like afterwards. The phone was a Samsung Galaxy s7 edge, not the same model that was recalled earlier this year. Experts say you should replace in the seventh generation galaxy. The minnesota Police Officer who shot and killed Philando Castile will appear in court today. Officer Jeronimo Yanez is charged with manslaughter shooting in july at a traffic stop. Castile spokle from streamed the instant live on facebook. Fiat chrysler is recalling 89,000 vehicles due to fuel leaks. 35,000 dodge durango, and Jeep Grand Cherokee suvs have been recalled because a fuel tube could cause a week and maybe a fire. 54,000 dodge darts are being recalled because they windshield wiper pump could california berkeley that could help Law Enforcement detect when peoppe are smoking pot and driving. Pound labs is developing a breath test to detect alcohol and pot and the person taking the test exhales. Breath is much better to test pot then urine or blood. Thc resides in those media for a long time, up to a month. You cannot use those methods very well to determine if someone has recently ingested marijuana or ok the breathalyzer could become available next year. The price tag is expected to be just under 1000. New this morning, you could be a denver children in need. Feed local one in four colorado kids is hungry. A seven dollar donation is all it takes to help feed a family for a weekend. Sally is live at the Security Service federal credit union on South Broadway with more on our reporter i think with all the snow we saw yesterday it finally felt like the Holiday Season. If you want to get in the holiday spirit, you can do so 3 by pitching to our denver 7 holiday heroes. One in seven coloradoans struggles with hunger every day and one in four children are not guaranteed to have food on the table. These donations will really help you fight that hunger problem we have in colorado. Seven dollars can make all the difference. Any whole foods store and donating. You can do that online through www. Burchinal holiday heroes or at www. Thedenverchannel. Com holida heroes or at the federal union here. We want to get into a local organization and make a direct impact. Our staff wanted to find an organization where a little contribution can make a big impact. This was the organization. We could also volunteer to help them stock and stored the food. We really wanted to get involved. Reporter where will all the money go . To the food bank of the rockies and Community Food share in boulder. It goes directly to those organizations. That reaches out to the grassroots organizations to feed the hungry. Reporter how does it work if i want to donate through your branch . Just coming to any of the Security Serviceed branches. Just make a donation or contribution and we will get it directly to them. Truck there you have it. It snowed yesterday so the Holiday Season this year. Get in the holiday spirit and come out here and donate. Well, with the swift change in weather, a lot of you wanted to know if that quick freeze could hurt your trees. Tree experts say yesterdays freeze should not expect affect your trees. The last time we saw thousands of trees were killed. If you are worried, water them and wrap them. None of us were expecting it to come so late, even the trees. Exactly. Its normally midoctober when we get our first snow. If we had gone from 80 degrees to 20 degrees, the trees might have been ready for it. Might not have felt so headlines. We were at 80 degrees just 40 hours ago. A huge change obviously. A big drop in temperatures. We have 20s to start, 40s expected later this afternoon and back in the 60s by sunday. A big change on our sevenday forecast and now we are starting the warm up process. This is across northeastern i trace to an inch there but here in denver and closer to the foothills right around 2 to 5 inches. Skies in a clearing across the region. Fastmoving storm lifting to minnesota. We have blizzard like conditions there. Very gusty winds are playing a factor in our temperatures. This is what it feels like right now out side. Even the weve got sunshine and highs near 40 degrees, we are going to see 20s and 30s for wind chill. Right now it feels like just 23 degrees at city park. Its Getting Better at berthoud chill was 20. Now we are at 19. We will be cold throughout the afternoon. Winds will shift direction this week and warmer saturday and sunday. Our next 24 hours, clear skies tonight will lead to another cold morning tomorrow. Likely some teens to low 20s early saturday. Its going to be one of the 3 coldest mornings on our seven day forecast. Highs today, in the upper 30s bright and 40 once again blake wood at 40 degrees by about 3 00. 40s across southern colorado. Yesterday we had 60s near pueblo and today, quite a bit cooler. Fire danger now lower there. Tomorrrw, a good 10 to 12 degrees warmer. On saturday, eautiful with sunshine. I put the bright spot on sunday. Its the warmest day on our sevenday forecast and you will notice our overnight lows are above freezing. Not as cold tomorrow the first of next week. We are tracking a system that could bring more snow to the mountains starting monday and potentially a rainsnow mix to denver on tuesday. You will notice this next storm, ot merely as cold as the one that just rolled through. Upper 40s and low 50s. Not quite the shock. Thousands of you asked about this story and we have another update. What exactly was behind this 3 mystery plane that was flying here is a story people cannot get enough of. Thousands of people even from overseas have been logging into our website trying to figure out what this mysterious lane was that was circling over denver. We have found out some answers from the federal government. The needy be Navy Confirms this is an air force command center Controlling Nuclear submarines, ground and air crews. A highranking Government Official tells us here at denver 7 the plane was on a training mission. Is no reason to be alarmed. A denver 7 investigation has led to changes that rtd after a man died on a bus. Why didnt passengers or the bus driver noticed the man was dying . Tony kovaleski is here with more and portions of the video are difficult to watch. Reporter good morning. Rtds board of directors is now our investigation about what didnt happen on a bus in aurora earlier this year. 63yearold bruce hockers family called to called denver 7 to get answers. He died on a bus and nobody noticed. At the driver, not the passengers, and rtd never called the family. What has rtd said to you . Nothing. We havent received one phone call, not one thing. Is acceptable . Not at all. Reporter what do you want to see come from this investigation . Change, but this wont happen to anybody else. Just assume they just assumed that he was a drunk or a homeless person asleep on the bus. Its unacceptable. As an rtd board member will you ask rtd to look closer and consider a policy change . I know that our staff, our this situation as we do with every situation. Reporter we invite you to view our entire investigation right now at www. Thedenverchannel. Com. Denver 7 investigates, im tony kovaleski. Ready or not, we are less than a week away from thanksgiving. We are going to take a look at how you can have thanksgiving dinner on a denver 7 news starts right now. Welco back. Here is a live look at

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