Theres still a lot of i mentioned that i do eventually want to open my own community center. And that still is definitely on my horizon. Wilkins is originally from the east coast. She went home after the attack and moving back to the boulder area. She wants to open a community area. She wants it to be a center for people in the community to heal. And also a center to focus on growing organic food and supporting arts, specifically her pottery. But in the meantime, she wants to surround herself with family and do some travelling. So refreshing to hear from her. A very forgiving heart. Its unbelievable the little speech she gave to the media afterward. She is so forgiving lane. She still struggles with the why. And living her life after this. South sdprl west mexico is closed for a police investigation. Police have taken one person of interest into custody already in this case about which there are few detail details. Firefighters apparently heard what they thought were gun shots. Two schools were placed on lockout because of the Police Activity there. They are Excel Academy and johnson Elementary School. Johnson has been released. Excel is still under lockout, and they are doing a controlled release. An Investigation Continues in this area. From snow and cloudy skies to sunshine and dry roads, everybody wrapped up late this morning. It turned out perfectly. Youre saying the snow is pretty much out of here. In the city is just erased. Sunny skies late this morning and started that snow melt across the metro area. In the high country, its gonna take a little bit longer. Check out these snow amounts coming in from Higher Elevations where we had more than a foot in some spots like monarch, clearcreek canyon. Now we have that sun sunshining right now in spots in the high country. In winter park, it looks absolutely beautiful with that new snow right there. Here in the front range, the snow amounts from 13 inches the way we forecast. And less than 2 inches in Northern Colorado and on the eastern plains. The reason why it was did come out. It is a little breezy. The system has pushed off to the south. We are done with the snow. Any kind of wet weather for the time being. The the 40s and in the 30s. With the winds it feels like the 20s. Dry roads for your drive home. Temperatures in the 40s, and then in the 30s as that sun sets. We only have one travel advisory. 6 00 in the afternoon, just a little while longer. Here is a look at radar and satellite. Our storm has shifted to the south and southeast. Its closed big problems for gulf coast states in the form of Severe Weather. And weve already had several tornadoes reported in louisiana. At home were looking at a very cold night ahead. Well look at how cold itll get. Plus a warmup on the way through the weekend. Well see when that next chance for snow will be. The forecast mind at all. Neither do we. And it turned this afternoon. Never happened. By the time folks woke up, big dice i. C. E. [ laughter ] am theyre disappointed, now theyre gonna point fingers at me [ laughter ] roads are back open around 18th and fremont in downtown denver after a School Bus Fire today. There were no kids on the bus when the fire started. The bus had taken kids from Buffalo RidgeElementary School to a Museum Downtown fairfield trip. Many reached out with photos and videos because it happened in such a busy area. Denver fire says the fire started in the engine. Another bus did go to the museum to pick up the kids and the parents were notified. Learning more about a shooting in the highlands that injured an officer and left a suspect dead. A bullet struck rachel eves lower leg during a shootout yesterday afternoon. Police received two separate highlands area early in the day. It has been a rocky thing going forward. I think were dealing with it the best we can. Its efficient that it wasnt fortunate that it wasnt more critical. The suspect was eventually shot and killed by officers near 30th and lowell. Police have identified him but family members have not. But they do know its sergio gonzalez. His girlfriend has a lot of questions about what happened yesterday. I just want to know exactly what happened, why was he out there . What was he doing . [ crying ] i just dont understand. Another burglary suspect was arrested at the same place, identified as alfonso pedia. Both suspects have a lengthy and Swedish Medical Center asked 2,900 patients to tested for bloodborn illnesses after possible exposure. And 2 3 of them. Through with those tests. The test comes after the hospital fired rocky allen who tried to swap syringes to steal a powerful pain killer. Authorities say he has a bloodborne pathogen but theyre not saying which one. You would expect in a population. 3,000 folk, at least six, seven is, eight people mate come back positive. Just as a result of other type of contact, not necessarily as a result of exposure to this particular healthcare employee. Interpreting the results is complicated. Some will go to the cdc where viral sequencing can which positive results stem from exposure at swedish. Experts agree schools should be doing drills to prepare for an active shooter. Even so an investigation found that some colorado schools arent doing the drills and dont know how. The laws we have now dont mandate drills or give specific instructions on what drills should entail. And in our second part of our investigation, anastasia asks the legislature if policy changes are necessary to ensure that everyone is doing the proper training. They need to be funded. Funding is one of the sticking points here. At least thats what the leadership told us. We asked all 178 School Districts in colorado about their active shooter preparedness. What we heard over and over is many smaller schools didnt have the expertise to do a drill. Didnt have time or money to do one. Money to hire someone who can come in and teach or have the and all that falls under that umbrella. Yes, there are free resources in the state, yes, we heard funding was one of the sticking points. We took our findings to the Senate Majority leader and the chair of the School Safety and youth and crisis committee. It is the function of this place to consider how to motivate that. Its something we wrestle w. How do you make people want to care more that results in more safety . Whether that turns into specific mandates that will require funding remains to be seen. Tonight the senator was surprised to hear that some schools arent doing the drills and didnt know where to turn for help. Were interested to hear parents care about this deeply. Opposition from both sides of the aisle today after president obama announced this morning hes making one last effort to shut down the Detention Center at guantanamo bay. He wants to transfer the remaining detainees to a facility in the united states. The president is asking for up to 475 million in Construction Costs that would ultimately be offset by as much as 180 million per year in operation costs savings. Colorado essentially terry edwarder in tweeted this. Senator bennett told the New York Times he supports closing the prison but the detainees should be moved to a military prison. Both democrats run further clinton announced that several advocates for tighter gun laws are endorsing her. Relatives of the columbine and aurora theater shootings. At the capitol, several lawmakers announced they are throwing their support behind Bernie Sanders. They say saernz is willing sanders is willing to stand up for working class americans. Heres what they had to say about their decisions. She told my hand and said weve got to do something after columbine. And shes the only candidate that appears to be willing to stand up to the gun lobby with common sense gun measures. I dont want other people to experience what i have. This race is about freedom. This race is about justice. [ cheering and applause ] and i stand here today to ensure that i stand on the right side of the moral arc of the universe. [ cheering and applause ] republicans caucuses will have little impact on the president ial race. That is because coloradans decided not to have a president ial preference poll. The father of one of the theater victims is running for state senate. His son was one of 12 who died at the shooting in 2012. Thats when he got involved in politics. He was one of several relatives of the theater shooting victims who work ed to change laws and lobbied for new state gun control. Sullivan, a democrat, wants to build off his experience as a legislator. He is running for state Senate District 27. Everything you do as a parent is try to make your kids to let them down. And i would certainly hope that the actions that i take, i continue to do, to try to make him proud of me. Currently Senate District 27 is held by incumbent republican district 27 is largely republican. A way too give you instant well have more information in ten minutes. Check on your phone if its not already attached to you or in your hand. We test drove this run. Get very cool. Interesting topic. A lot to be decide ahead of super tuesday next week. The day colorado holds its caucuses. Our political experts are happening today, and i guess were asking about trumps momentum and what this means, and what it means also for all of jeb bushs supporters. Where do they go . I think its likely that most of bushs supporters will end up with rubio. Weve seen he has done really well recently in terms of endorsements. And in terms of donors flocking to him. Really theres only about two to three weeks before rubio and cruz to come to some kind of consensus as to who is the antitrump candidate. And the reality is that its time for the Republican Party to really start to take on and talk about donald trump. He is the most likely candidate that republicans have. And he has even just a few days ago reaffirmed his support for the most important part of obamacare. So the thing about donald trump, a lot of us who are policy people look at him and say if he is the standard for what the Republican Party is, what do we stand for . And maybe it might ultimately be nothing. And thats a really big concern for many republicans. This is a kind. Infighting that most democrats are hoping for. Certainly we love to see a trump on the republican side. Hes the one that the polls show is easiest to beat. Clinton against rubio is a dead heat. But trump theres an opening. But we have our own issues on our side. I was gonna say even in colorado, Bernie Sanders is doing quite well here. Theres no question theres a surge. And the question was always can sanders take his appeal to young voter s and turn including latinos . That will be a big part of the electorate. Do rubio and cruz make a big run in the purple states . I think they do. They have they concern after each other. And trump is it. Rubio says hey, ive got the trump. Cruz says hey, ive got on trump. And they really need to come to some kind of consensus here within the next few weeks in order to make it mathematically possible for one of them to prevail. And it looks like Hillary Clinton right now mathematically is ahead. But does she come out of this if she does get the nomination wounded and beat up . Bernie sanders has taken her left, made her a more liberal, progressive candidate. But also has helped harden suppositions, transform some positions, and made her look at her debating style and connection with people. Her as a candidate in many, many ways. The bigger problem is who shes running against and how well does she do against the republican candidate. Its getting to that point were going to get your feedback on the topic today. Log onto 9news. Com votenow. And get ready to see your vote on the screen. All right. Fort collins is leading the gallop ranked communities on physical health, social ties, financial security, community, and sense of purpose. Fort collins came in 4th naples, florida, the top spot. 14 of the top20 well being community. Honolulu has the fewest residents who have been diagnosed with depression. The city with the highest stress level is bellingham, washington. 53 of adults there report high levels of stress on any given day in. Comparison, 30 of adults in naples consider themselves stressed out. Parts of the 16th street mall are getting a facelift. The mayor announced the city will install more than 180 new street lights. The mayor says reduce energy usage at cost. The new lights will cost about 2 million. A lot of people are wondering how much more can we spend on the mall . So its highlighting things that will bring people downtown. Will it bring the crowds back . What prevents you from visiting the 16th street mall . Is it the lighting . Parking . Some people consider that a big problem. Others say its the homeless problem. So you can see the votes right there on the bottom of the screen. We want you to engage, tell us what you think. Last time we talked about it on facebook alone, we were slammed by comments. So it sounds like parking at this point. And homelessness is way ahead of the lighting issue. Poor lighting doesnt seem to be the issue that maybe the the Gathering Place that it is and the thousands of people who spend time downtown, the mall and a lot of people think they need to make some improvements. And the summer months are coming up. Most people are saying parking is the problem. You have to give yourself 15 to 20 extra minutes. Or a lack of parking. Or you and theres also the issue of dealing with our citys homeless. Sounds like thats where the votes are going right now. Love the instant poll. Thank you. That was easy. Well do it again. The snow has moved out and drier weather as we head into the dont need the brights, was done. Were expecting drier weather into the weekend. I will say, i did have to shovel a little bit this morning down south. It ended a little later down south. And in the as well. And i can tell you, the only white i see out here is my coat thats it. It is gone. Just a little taste. But the trickier and tougher weather has shifted to the south. The impact that we had here on the front range, not as big, but as this cooler air is travelling to the south, its interacting with this warm and humid mass of air, causing some Severe Weather around the dwufl coast. And were talking about Winter Weather advisories. More about that Severe Weather. Lets take a closer look at colorado. We have that light snow falling right now in parts of the san juans. Look at this camera, downtown dur ango, we have those flurries, but it doesnt seem to beculating there. The snow has all cleared out at the base of copper mountain. The sun is shining, and people are wrapping fresh powder the blue skies have taken over the river valley. The highs for today, 30s and 20s in Higher Elevations. 42 keys here in the metro 42 degrees here in the metro area. This is below where we should be this time of year. But we just had a storm system winds the chill is at 34 degrees. Weve got 40s on the map, the eastern plains. Temperatures coming into the 30s and in the 20s. Clear skies as we approach this evening. So were done with the snow. And any kind of moisture across the front range is gonna slowly decrease in the high country. But youll notice that under these clear skies, those temperatures will dip our overnight lows are expected to be in the teens. So much colder. Those winds are expected to decrease as well coming in from 5 to 10 miles per hour. Overnight lows in the teens in the lower elevations. We have seen colder nights. This is actually closer to our normal low as well. In the high country, not surprised that these mountain valleys drop to below answer. Heres a hook at your futurecast look at your the snow is mostly done by 10 00 in the high cou our skies will clear overnight. Tomorrow waking up to sunshine kids. If youre watching me morning. And im talking to my kids by the way. 49 will be the high tomorrow, much warmer, well have that sunshine especially in the eastern plains. The highs in the lower elevations in the 50s in Northern Colorado, 49 in the city, chilly and breezy at 7 00 am, 19 degrees around noon. Mostly sunny, 47, and 3 00, i would call that sweater weather. Temperatures at 49 degrees. Possibly some good weather to burn some calories. Heres the jet stream forecast. What we half of the united states. What that means is that well have temperatures warming up and also some drier weather in our forecast. And youre comoon see that wednesday gonna see that wednesday, thursday, friday, into saturday while colder air and also some more snowy weather is anded out to the midwest expected out to the midwest and the new england states. Youll be okay to wash the car. Wednesday, thursday, and friday, the green light. Possibly even into saturday. Heres the extended forecast. This is above normal on friday, 53 we get into the 60s on saturday. And sunday, 55. So far our forecast models are calling for another chance of rain and snow for the start of next week. And after that, those temperatures start to sore again. This saturday, pretty stadium series. The avs take on the redwings. The puck drops at 6 00. And the temperatures will be around 62 degrees by. V degrees. By the end of the game, 52 degrees. Simple to battle this past weekend. It should be a great one. Fans are happy. And for february, thats true. They dont care if its cold or not. [ laughter ] and march is just around the corner so if youre not a fan of the snow, wait till march rolls around thats our snowiest month on average [ laughter ] it is, okay. U. S. Health officials are looking into more than a dozen possible zika infections that may have been spread through sex. Its the same type of transmission that we heard from a veterinarian in fort collins surrounded by mosquitos. A few days later his wife began the 14 cases now being studied involve men who visited areas with zika outbreaks who may have infected their sex partners who did not travel. Mars is recalling candy bars and other items in 55 countries in europe and elsewhere after plastic was found in one of its products. A piece of plastic was found in