Storm . Its not big, but its the biggest weve seen so far by the season. The mountains will pick it looks like a good 5 to 10inch so we have a good news, bad news with the storm rolling in. With the winds pecking up ahead of it, we have high fire danger in the front range mountain, but thats a winter storm watch for 5 to 10 inches of snow here starting by early tomorrow morning. Well see temperatures once again today in the 50s and 60s in morning. Upper 70s near 800degrees again this afternoon. Its the last day of extreme warmup on our 7day forecast. Things are going to cool down quite a bit starting tomorrow. King carol, a high of 73. Mont claire, 76. Highlands ranch, near 80 degrees. Tomorrow, jayson, were talking highs by the afternoon, only in the upper 30s. Cold again on friday. A huge change. Well talk about the chance of snow coming up. Good. Crazy talk. Thanksgiving, im turning them off. We have a lift shift on the southbound side i25 on the new portion of the arapahoe bridge over top i25 over arapahoe. You can see the traffic is moving along fine, but it will take a couple of days for drivers to get used to it. Well have a full closure friday night thats to demolish the olbridge and continue the construction there. In the high country, we have more seasonable closed road including Independence Pass up near aspen. Its closing tomorrow for the winter. Cdot says theyll shut down aspen and the between gates lake thursday. The snow is expected to take over in the mountain. The warm weather has kept the pass open for a week and a half longer than originally planned. Thanks, jayson. Its 5 02. Denver police and city workers will clear out lawrence street near the samaritan house. Some of the homeless left yesterday, but as you can see in the video, not all of them. Eric luber is live at the scene. Eric, theyre not out there to arrest anyone says the police. Reporter exactly. Theyre saying theyre out here accompanying the cleaning crews when they clean the sidewalks. Take a look at the video. Its hard to see the work done away from where the cleaning crews are and moving down the street to another part of the sidewalk and making their way and staying there. Denver police says theyll come out with cleaning crews and accompany them to make sure theres no violence as they try to clean out this area near the samaritan house. As we come back here live, you can see it has not changed. The sidewalk is full of the homeless here with lots of trash, but also blankets to keep themselves warm and they have carts to put all their belongings. A lot of nowhere to go and they dont plan on leaving. Well see what happens later today. Police also saying they come out here to offer other options for the homeless like where they can put their belongings into storage and areas where they can get shelter. Right now, stem, a persistent problem downtown. Thank you. Now to a story youll see on denver 7. Denver 7 cracking down on illegal marijuana houses. More than0 busted yesterday after police say ttey received complaints. Sources tells denver 7 no one lived in those homes. They were used to grow pot. Just this year, the dea warn that marijuana houses may be the new meth houses. Denver police added 100 hhurs to change so did see a decrease in crimes. Amanda del castillo has that story. Reporter crime is down according to denver police. They compared crimes from october 2016 to the same time last year when 100 extra hours of patrolling wasnt available or it wasnt initiated. But theyre concentrating and focusing their efforts on the stretch of east colfax between grant and josephine. In october also declining the number of arrests made this year. 240 people were arrested from january through may. 203 between july and october. All signs pointinto a slightly safer colfax. I have spoke with the district 6 commander about the districts effort. The bike patrol started down there and i had one officer get in a ffot chase or a bike chase the desk for 6 weeks. Now, as you just heard, hes saying these changes dont come without hardships. He says another Patrol Officer was brought in so the team remained in tact. Well talk more about dpds efforts in the next half hour and hear more from the commander then. Im amanda del castillo, denver 7. Just in, donald trump tweeting this morning that hes not try to go get top level security clearances for his adult children. Hes his tweet. The post from the president elect saying im not trying to get top security clearances. This was a typically false news story. Cbs news was first to report this on monday citing unnamed sources. They said that trump asked them to explore the possibility of getting his children the top security clearances. Cbs reported that his kids would have to be designated by the current to get their clearance. Richard ku is disabled. Police say he was seen near parker road and florida. Hes 22year old. If you see him, give police a call right away. Well, broncos linebacker von mill certificate in the center of a controversy. A report says his recent trip to cancun turned into a legal battle over a sex tape. No comment from miller or his attorney. Is a judge has issued a temporarily restraining order. Denver 7 has a copy of that. It names miller as it accuses louis is trying to extort him for millions. He doesnt think the lawsuit says miller did offer ruii 10,000 dollar for the video and shes due in court next month. Jacob mcgee has been caught. The 35year old took know toes up a womans skirt at a broncos game last month. Mcgee is a sex offender in lafayette. Hes free on bond, but hes due back in court next month. Denver customers will war use is down 20 in the past 15 years despite a 15 increase in the number of customers, so the new raaes will cover 7 million in budget increases. A vote is not expected until next month. And so if its approved the rake hike will kick in on or after april 1st. A recount may occur for a week later in the amendment is nearly failing. Out of the 2. 3 million ballots to cast, no is leading. The reason why, the confusing language and lawmakers. If the margin is too close to call, the state may conduct a recount. Also in this morning, a program is starting in Douglas County to help victims of domestic violence. This Assessment Program includes 400 officers trained to try to victim related deaths and connecting the victims with resources. Last year, Douglas CountyLaw Enforcement responded to nearly 800 domesticrelated calls and denver 7 will be at a News Conference later today. Well bring details during a 11 00 a. M. Newscast today. Thanksgiving is a little more than a week away. Authorities are sounding the alarm on a poster or attack. What police will be on the look out shots fired at an airport. What we know and dont know about the man who pulled the trigger. And its mid november, snow is in the 3day forecast. Were talking about wild fires. What you need to keep in mind today. Thats coming up. Its now 5 10. Its going to be warm, dry, breezy. Winds kicking up to 20, even 30 milesperhour. 77 as the kids are leaving school today. A tshirt today, but a jacket tomorrow. Look at the changes, i think its going to affect the the wednesday morning upper 30s. And then look at the warmup. On sunday, back to around 63. Welcome back to denver 77 were back with a check out at dia for you. If youre looking week. That will change, right. Everything is open except for security wait times right now only 5 minutes so its looking good. We have breaking news right now. We can take a live picture of the scene of a fire. Crews in denver are battling at an apartment complex. It was evacuated due to a trash fire on a balconyy this is close to us here at the station. This is at 8th and sherman at the relatively new motto a looks like crews have gotten any fire under control there, and theyre starting to wrap up the scene there, but well let you know if we hear about any damage there. This appears to be a trash fire on the balcony at 8th and sherman. Thanks nicole. If youre traveling this thanksgiving, expect to see more people flying at dia. Aaa says 50 million americans are expected to travel. This is nationwide making it the busiest holiday rushes in almost a decade. Security is going to be homeland securitt announcing that isis possibly targeting new york city for the annual thanksgiving macys day parade there. The terror group posted a picture of the parade calling on followers to use speedy vehicles to its difficult to protect large gatherings such as parading from these attacks using vehicles and we saw that for example last summer in nice. Preparations are under way for the parade there. Police are visiting truck locations giving out warnings of possible attacks. Now, as new york police prepare for that, theres a new report out this morning that shows a huge increase in deaths from terror attacks in the developed world. And the global terrorism induction in a report out says 2015 saw a 650 increase in fatal terror attacks and these were in countries including the united states, the uk, france, germany 731 deaths from terror attacks in 34 Countries List in that report. On the sidewalk [indiscernible]. [indiscernible]. A deadly shooting in the parking lot. Everything is up and running smoothly as that manhunt for the suspect is now over. An employee was shot ask killed and the man who pulled the trigger. Police are looking for the motive find this fatal gun fire. Found dead of a selfinflicted gunshot wound to the head. He hasnt been identified, but the victim has been identified. Hes 52year old Michael Winchester and hes the father of chiefs place james wind chester. Colorado is dealing with dry conditions. The highs in the denvermetro in some areas of the state is expected to be 80 egrees. Take all the yellow means that 70 of colorado is abnormally dry or in moderate drought. We have gone a month without measurable precipitation. Eric reporter i would be standing in the parking lot of the Forest Service and a few inches of snow or a heavier jacket and gloves, but today were talking about record setting temperatures. Humidity is going to be low. Winds are going to be high, fires. The normal recipe for this summer. Were going to be under a red flag warnings in part of our state today. Yes, its november 16th. I did check the calendar. I spoke to the Forest Service and the state department of Fire Prevention and control, both say that they are continuing to monitor whats going on and theyre keeping up adequate staffing despite the this is and were still talking about ourselves here in fire season. Organizations also want people to know that just because it is november 16th and we are normally well passed the threat and the risk of fire and fire danger, not so much today with all those conditions out there. Youre going to have to be careful with those cigarette buds and be careful with using heat sources. You dont want to start brush fires like we saw this past sunday on the outskirts of the metro area. Mother nature doesnt care what the calendar says. Coming up, im years past. Were talking about its not going to last long because then were talking about snow. Back to the studio and lisa hidalgo, lisa, soon im going to need that jacket and gloves. Its a good thing he has that facial thing going on. Heres the problem with this storm. Even with a little rain and snow coming in. Its not enough. Were talking 60s by sunday. Were likely going to see moderate conditions especially down across southern tomorrow. Weve been lucky we havent had more big fires. Very true. Take a look at your cheat sheet on this wednesday. Today is going to be warm one. Were near 80 degrees this afternoon, but by thursday and friday, its about 30 to 40 colder. Thats a good old fashion colorado change right there. It will get warmer again for the weekend. So weve got one chance, 1 day where were expecting decent rain and snow across the plains. Red flag warnings. This is the conditions today. It includes most of eastern colorado and youll notice the blue out west. Thats the winter storm watch going into effect tonight through late thursday. Now, at this point were at 60 degrees in denver and winds are coming in at 15 to 20ilperhour. So its enough of a breeze to push us into that criteria for a red flag warning. Well see 60s by 9 00. Unreal. 80 degrees by 1 00. If officially, it will be a new record high today. Overnight tonight, an increase in cloud cover, and then early tomorrow morning, were going to start the day off with 40s, but it will get colder as the day goes on. Littleton today, 79. Aurora, youre in the mid to upper 70s. Highlands ranch, near 80. Brighton, a high of 80. So the same as yesterday out across eastern colorado, and still pretty warm in the mountains with more 60s for the central mountains. Fast forward to tonight, 8 00 going to find pretty dry conditions. The storm, the low itself moving further north of our state, so were going to see snow developing on the western slope early tomorrow morning. It star to creep east and youre going to it starts to creep east and youre going to find a filling in through the afternoon, but look how dry southern colorado is. Not much from this system, but we could see in total around 1 to 2 inches within 24 to 36 hours. Most of it is not going to 45 early tomorrow morning. Getting colder as the day goes on. And then a high of 39 on friday. But skies will clear, jason. So well see sunshine by friday. Were going to hold onto the warmth by the early part of tomorrow. Well see wet conditions on the drive around town. The mountains is a different story. We could see slushy conditions and snowy conditions at the higher elevations. Take a look at the overall drive. Easy driving conditions. A lane shift arapahoe road. Everything else around town is wide open. Thank you, jason. 5 21. Flying overseas can being exhausting, but imagine cutting the flight time in half. A company who wants to how much youll have to pay to fly it. If youre prone to losing your id, there may be a good solution for you. How colorado how colorado could take new caplets. Its the only cold flu caplet that has a maximum strength formula with a unique warming sensation you instantly feel. Theraflu. For a powerful comeback. New expressmax caplets. Remember 2007 . Smartphones . O m g ten years later, nothings really changed. 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We hava southwesterly going to boost us to 80 degrees this afternoon. Erie, 80. Denver, 78. Estes park, 6 2. Look at our future cast. Its the first future cast of the season with blue over denver. Well talk more bout our chance of snow in a few minutes. Here it is. We will have hi, how are you . Im getting the right camera set up so you can show you this. Take a look at the car fire on i25. The right at the greenland area, and here comes the fire truck, and we have a raging car fire that hopefully theyll move the car owe open the camera over in a second. You can see the fire now and its spreading into the grass which i was worried about. So we could have a wild land fire at the same time. But thats a fully engulfed car fire right now, southbound i25. South of lawrenceburg. Well get you more details on whats left to that vehicle right now as you can see the firefighters have quite a work to do and hopefully theyll keep it from going into the grasses as well. Good thing the other motorist are getting by. We have a second round of homeless sweeps in 24 hours in downtown denver. As the city of denver raids the streets of homeless, several metro leaders says theyll do what they can to keep others in town. Well explain. Park and rec under fire money thats raising concerns today. An empty factory in aurora will be home to new shops and jobs. Coming up, the change is underway at the old stanley aviation plant. Reporter some say the words crime and colfax goes hand and hand. Breaking news on the northbound side of i25 before you get to larksburg, we have this fully engulfed car fire. Im surprised theyre allowing the traffic to get by. There was an accident where this vehicle hit a deer right here that ended up on the side of the highway. Pull over to the side and caused a fire in the engine compartment. Ill show you that later as i get the video in a little bit. It was fully