It could be our First Official snow of the season in denver. Waking up from our vero our wireless camera. This is the strongest cold front this season. And a little moisture. Today, still warm. Fire danger remains extremely high today. Were near 80 degrees this afternoon. Denver near 78 to 80 degrees near du. Aurora, this afternoon, a high of 75. Quick snap shot of our futur tomorrow afternoon, a chance for some rain, some snow here in town and we could get a few inches in the mountain. Details in a few minutes, jason. A little while ago we had a raging car fire on i25 near larksburg. This was the northbound side of i25 when the Fire Department got there, and watch, theres a little explosion that happened right there as you saw some sparks flying when they started flowing the water on the car to get the car fire out. The car fire is out. What happened is the deer, and then that caused the engine basically to ccllapse at that point. That started the fire and thats why we have take a look down there on the map. The southbound side is very slow try to go trying to go up castle rock. I25 at arapahoe road, theres a new lane shift in here to deal with. And its going to take some time to get used to it. Youre drive ongoing the new bridge and this weekend, arapahoe road will be closed down so they the demolition and the replacement of the last part of that bridge. Everything else is quiet and standard for our drive. 6 02. The effort to clean up the homeless camp near the samaritan house continues. How well is it working . If you driveby you may not notice the difference. Eric luber is talking about how the homeless are dodging the sweep. Eric. Reporter the story is all too common down here, although police are saying when they do these sweeps, necessity dont here to protect the cleaning crews. The problem with that is the homeless simply arent listening to the police because right now you can see here live off the lawrence and broadway, the homeless line the street here. It was yesterday morning when police started telling the hooeless at lawrence and park avenue that Law Enforcement will enforce that city code that orders the removal of all sidewalk or public property in the area. Now, some homeless, they did pack up yesterday. But others stayed behind obviously and as they wake up this morning, theyre waiting to see what will happen today because the sweeps are expected to continue. Denver Police Continue to say they will not make any arrests. Well have to say what happens, but obviously this corner here was back in march when they did the sweeps once before. It didnt work then either. Back to you. Thanks eric. Heres something that could be making denvers homeless problem worse. The city of country including denver. That city Downtown Partnership has given 1,000 one way bus tickets and one of the people bus here had more than 100 arrests on his record for public intoxication. We have put together issues related to homeless situations and you can find that story by downloading the free denver 7 app. President elect donald trump following off several tweets taking a this posted this one just now about the new york time story saying its totally wrong on transition that its going smoothly. The times headlines says firings leaving trumps transition in disarray. Two officials handling National Security for the transition were just both fired and that came after Chris Christies firing from leading the Transition Team. Trump tweeting hes not trying to get top level security calling that a typical leap false news story. Trumps team is Holding Meetings in new york city all week long. Theyre trying to look for a secretary of state and attorney and several cabinet level positions. Several sources said Jeff Sessions will have a lot of say about how land security policy. He had strong antiimmigration opinions and maybe the one to take the lead on trumps deportation efforts. 6 05. One colorado member of the Electoral College wants to white house. He will need those to flip in vote from trump to clinton. New this morning, there may be a recount for the slavely amendment as its called on the colorado on the slavery amendment as its called on colorado known as amendment t. Out of the 2. 2 million ballots cast right now, the no votes, those are leading, but its a close one. Too close to call. Conduct a recount because of that. Heres a story you will only see on denver 7. Denver police raiding more than 30 addresses as apart of a crack down on illegal marijuana grows this. Happened yesterday. Police call it a direct response to the neighborhood complaints. Sources tells denver 7, 3300 plant were received from three homes on the east side. No one was living in the homes. They werr being used as marijuana grow houses. Last month, they add the extra hours of foot and bike patrol. The question is, did the stretch of east colfax see a decrease in crime. Amanda del castillo joins us with those answers. Amanda. Reporter good morning. Viols are down accordiig to denver police. They have compared october 2016 in crime trends to the same period last year when they didnt have that extra 100 hours of patrolling. Say. According to dpd, vie left crimes including homicide and aggravated assault were down by 9 in october. Also declining the number of arrests made. 240 people were arrested from january through may. 203 between july july and october. Theres an increase in officer initiated calls compared . To october 2015. All signs pointing to a slightly safer east i spoke with district commander about the departments efforts. To me as i drive up and down colfax especially during those target hours, im not seeing as much street level narcotics. By all means its still there and im addressing those complaints through my Narcotics Team and other means that i have in place. Commander sanders says he cant tell us exactly if those 100 extra hours of patrol is directly related to the decline its a step in the right direction. Will those efforts expand passed grant and josephine. Well talk about that next. Live at police headquarters, im amanda del castillo, denver 7. Denver initiative 300 has passed. Theres regulations baked into that new rule. Businesses will have to get approved for marijuana use areas. You be able to water is trying to raise money. Theyre trying to raise money to cover a short fall. It wont kick in until 2016. The cost to you, the consumer hasnt been announced. Take a look at this. Jason has been showing you this video all morning long. This car catching fire an hour ago. The fire is out. Police say the which then caused the vehicle to explode. They were able to get the car fire but that grass fire out very quickly. The dry warm condition was creating an increase of wild fires across the state. Jason gruenauer joins us with that. Jason, 98 . State is abnormally dry. Reporter yeah, and that leads to an abnormally long fire season including today when things are going to be quite we could set a temperature record. Thingses are going to be ddy with things are going to be dry with low humidity. Were going to be under a red flag warning through our state today. And its november 16th. I talked to the Forest Service and the Fire Prevention and control and they both say theyre monitoring conditions even this late into the year because were still in wild fire season because we are under that moderate drought here. No precipitation so far this year. Staff on hand even this late in the year. One forest employe told me they kept a fire tower look out, extra 6 weeks this year just because they were needed. Both organizations wants people to know that again, even though were this late in the year, were still dealing with the risk of wild fires. Thats why you have to keep extra eye out and control your cigarette buds, dont just throw them out on the highway because that is can lead to grass fews. Be careful with heat sources and things like that especially toy. Bit, im going to compare today in 2016 to last year 2015. Ill given you a hint. Theres a lot of white stuff falling back then. We have white stuff in our future cast. Lisa hidalgo has more on those red flag warnings and how hot and dry and how cold it can get. The storm is going to bring our winds up today and bring the snow tomorrow. We go from red flag warnings today, covering most of eastern colorado to a winter storm watch tomorrow for in the mountain. Heres what ttat looks like on radar. Weve been tracking the storm now for the past couple of days and you can see it starting to make its move. It will bring snow to the mountains starting tomorrow. Ill show you what well looking at, chance wise for us here in denver, jason in a minute. Heres an update on the car fire near larksburg. Two lanes opened on the northbound side of i25. Its going to be slow the rest of the morninn unfortunately. The shell of what was left of the vehicle there and the charred ground right next to it, it was close to setting a fire. Take a look downtown. Heavy stop and go traffic. Usual places, well take a look at that in a minute. Your tax dollars may be going to waste. Find out which Denver Department is feeling the heat this morning. Are you tired of thieves when you fly . Oneeairline has come up with a new one. Just about a quarter after 6 00. 60 degrees in denver, but thats changing. Wait until you hear lisas forecast. Thats coming up in a second. First we want to tell but the city of denvers Largest Department on the hot seat. Denver 7 dug into an audit of the park and rec denver. Jaclyn alan found a couple of unusual contracts at the citys golf course. One Concession Company has a 50year contractt between three and 5 years. Theres a stranger agreement on the every green, the owner gets a free house. Do you suspect this is a good old boy handshake deal . Um, i think if ttey have the kind documentation i like to see if the files, well be able to answer the question. The park and Rec Department denied our question request. Investigation on the denver7 app and find out who is being blamed for those contracts. A Train Derailment in florida caused 3,000 gallons of fuel to spill. This is in Marion County south of gains vim. The Marion CountyFire Rescue Department posted these photos on facebook. A lot of damage were seeing there. Two trains collided overnight. And 20 cars overturned. Also two people had minor injuries from this. Fortunately, no others. There were no hazardous materiad but again crews still out there cleaning up the 3,000 gallons of fuel that spilled. We have great news from childrens hospital. Theyre breaking ground on a new hospital in colorado springs. Ground breaking set for 11 00 and the new hospital should be finished in 2 years. Aaa has 50 million americans are expected to travel busiest holiday rush in a deck add. More and more people move here and use the airport. More people born every yeer. Theres a pattern. Whats going on. Well look into that. Its going to feel like thanksgiving the next couple of days. Were 8 days away and look at the cloud thats are streaming ahead of this storm weve been talking about. I feel like ive been talking about the storm for months hoping for something. Were going to see a little rain and a little snow. Live look from our vero camera there in lineman. A mix of sun and cloud that is cover to deal with this morning. Youre going to find snow in spots tomorrow. And this is going to be the strongest cold front that we have seen so far this season. All the others have been pretty weak. This one is finally going to bring moisture and a significant cool down starting tomorrow. Today, its upper 70. Neer 80 from noon to 2 00. Were warm and above normal. About 20, 25 degrees above it. Overnight tonight, dropping into the 40s. And thats pretty much going to be it. Were not going to see it could get colder in the afternoon as we get strong northerly winds moving in. So if youve been enjoying the 70s and sunshine, today is the last day of that on our 7day forecast. Right around du today, a high of 80. Brighton, same thing. Youre at 80. Centennial, 77. It is warm state wide. Near 90 degrees in lamar. Its not until tonight and tomorrow morning that were going see snow in the mountains. Today, we get red flag warnings, then tomorrow, a trace to an inch much snow possible in denver, but a lot of it is going to melt as it hits the ground. Well see some of that snow sticking further north. Right along i25 as you get closer to cheyenne. Our mountain could get 5 to 10 inches of snow. By thursday, by mid morning, mid to late morning, youre going to find a rainsnow mix possible here in denver, boulder, fort collins, im hoping that we get a little bit of snow down here. Youll notice through the afternoon, a little more down along i25. But any accumulation would be extremely light, and this system does not last long. Its a fast moving storm. Once it finally moves off the coast and gets into the middle of the country, its going to cruise through. So by friday, were looking at clearing sky. Tomorrow, it will get colder. Start nothing the 30s and end up in the 40s and highs starting in the 30s and end up in the 40s saturday morning. Chilly. 63 though on sunday. A lot warrer. We could have icy conditions on friday morning. Yep. Well keep an eye on that. We have a car fire were deal with it. Its the mop up operation. Two lanes opened up on i25 try to ing to get into trying to get into larksburg theres a decent ride into the Denver Tech Center at arapahoe road. Side of i25. Were driving on a new bridge. The new Center Portion of the bridge as you go south. Then youll be going the old southbound lanes. The old southbound lanes you have been driving on it, youll use them for the ramp. Theyll do a big demolition over the weekend. . Hats why arapahoe will be closed on friday night all the way until monday morning. You can see back on the map, the rest of the ride around town, typical and standard. And remind you Independence Pass here, it will the city of denver is hoping to boost tourism. 44. 4 Million People visited . Envee last year. The city is hoping to expand at the western comppex theyre counting on improvements to the 16th street mall. Away and 50 Million People are planning to travel. Theres a new program to cut down on lost luggage so they put microchips into the bags. You can follow your bags in real time. This is a gamechanger and we believe its going to drive the industry. The Company Hopes you never lose your baggage again. It will cut down on lost luggage by 10 United Airlines making a big announcement. You will have to the new policy means unless you pay extra you can only carry a bag that fits under a seat. If you try to bring a bag that wont fit, airline employees will make you check your bag. It starts next year and the airline didnt say how much it will cost to put the bag in the overhead bin. How about this. Free gasoline. That should get your attention. You can get a free fill up. we have details after the break. As we head to the break, we athens, greece. Air force one good morning, its now 6 25. Heres your first alert that it is a warm, dry, breezy day today. Wwll be in the upper 70s at the bus stop this afternoon. Totally different story for your kids tomorrow. Ive been saying how excited i am, but tomorrow when its 39 degrees and we have a chance for a little snow, i might change my mind. Heres what it looks like by 12 30 tomorrow, a little rain and snow. Youre going afternoon, early evening, jason, the chance for a trace to maybe an inch. Its not going to be much and it clears out by thursday night. Of course, well keep an eye on that. Im keeping an eye on arapahoe road at i25. These are the new southbound lanes if the this is where you used to drive on the southbound i25 across arapahoe road. The only thing that remain is the ramp access for now to allow to you go south from arapahoe road and that is going to be a big change in the next couple of days. Take a look at the drive we have by larksburg. Coming. Its slow from monument to castle rock this morning. Who want free gas . You can score 20 worth of free fuel today. 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The resorts, theyre getting ready for some fresh powder because they dont have enough. Both keystone and breaker expected to open after several delays. Finally. Lisa joins us with the first alert forecast. Were talking about a few inches. Probably 5 to 10 inches by early friday morning. You wish for a whole weekend of snow, but its going to dry out weekend. Well talk about that coming up, but first lets get you through today. Its beautiful today. Sunny skies in denver, but more cloud cover than yesterday. Look how warm it is. 59 degrees right now in denver. Winds out of the is the at out of the south at 14 milesanhour. Its going to be breezy to windy afternoon. Wind speeds t 30 milespe 80 degrees. We have upper 70s, low 80s covering the metro area, which means it could be a recordbreaking afternoon today. Du a high of 80. Aurora at 75. And in englewood, 78. So fire danger is high. Were going to send it out to Jason Gruenauer who has been talk to go the experts about how hes been talking to the experts and how dangerous it is. Reporter this is something i spoke to those at the state who has to deal wit