Welcome to 9news, 6 00 a. M. Cori, gary, amelia here. Noel brennan is in the Information Center this morning with the increasing danger in the high country. Lets start with Marty Coniglio who is in the 9news backyard. Hes going to be in the 40s today an things really warm up during the week. Were going to warm up later this week. We had flurries a little south of town, lingering this morning around colorado springs, air force academy, and out toward from the continental divide, around the levels. Clouds start to drift in later this afternoon. Well be in the 40s around here today. Youre talking about the avalanche danger. Weve had snow at copper 180 plus at winter park and loveland and weve gone over 200 inches as steamboat, telluride pushing almost 300 inches of snow. Bear in mind, its only mid january. We could still have easily that much snow going on. Most areas in moderate avalanche danger with considerable danger in the northern san juans. On the east coast, this is a live traffic cam in washington, dc. Amelia, after a blizzard, not much traffic to talk about. Thats an incredible sight. It doesnt look like anything were seeing in denver. Look at sky 9s view. This is a busy corridor stretch. Sky is zooming in sky 9 is zooming in now in the eastbound direction. Lets see if they come up with something here. Well, well check in with sky 9 coming from in just a few. Lets look at this. Standard delays, rollover crash is gone. We have one minor problem across the map. Thats a northbound 25 stall in the area of about 8th avenue. 6th avenue, travel time is still looking good. Coming up in my next update , were talk about the southside. All right. Well look forward to that. Thanks a lot. Its 6 03 now. January has been the deadliest month for avalanches in nearly 20 years. The Information Center says 11 people have died in slides in the western United States this month alone. 10 in the last ten days. Noel brennan, really a sobering number. A number of these slides have happened in colorado. They sure have. I want to take a look at that map that marty showed us. This is from the Colorado Avalanche information site. All the yellow shows the down here to the south, it is considerable. Last week, all of this map, really all of it was orange. That was a considerable rating last week. Thats when we saw two of those deadly slides. Now, the first deadly avalanche of the year in colorado, that happened back on january 16th. These are pictures from that slide from the Colorado AvalancheInformation Center. This happened near st. Marys lake in clear creek county, a climber actually caused this one. Was swept down and buried in a lot of snow. Days later, two people riding a snowmobile caused an avalanche near crested butte. One of the riders ended up being buried in the snow. He was taken to the hospital, but sadly he died from his injuries as well. Now, as we mentioned, this is the deadliest january for avalanches in nearly 20 years. Experts say you need to keep an eye out when youre driving by the slopes and be extremely careful anytime you head out to the back country. Gary . Absolutely. Big problem with avalanches. A man accused of murder is going to be in an arapaho county courtroom. Police say that Lloyd Henderson killed Corey Clemens at the end of the september. Police say the shooting happened after the men got into a fight. Henderson faces firstdegree murder charges. The people who hope to catch planned parenthood workers breaking the law are facing charges themselves. The undercover video has made headlines this year when activists accused planned parenthood of illegally selling planned parenthood for profit. Planned parenthood had no wrongdoing. The texas grand jury investigating the videos have cleared planned parenthood and instead indicted the activists. The two people are facing charges of tampering with a governmental record, and one is facing an Additional Charge of purchasing human organs. The owner of a dog shot and killed by Commerce City police will get a 200,000 settlement its believed to be the biggest financial settlement in the city. Neighbors took this viral video showing 3yearold khloe cowering and trying to escape before she was shot in november 2012. Police officers said the dog was acting aggressively. The officer who fired the shot was found not guilty of animal cruelty. It is 6 minutes after 6 00 right now. Denver bronco season Ticket Holders are looking for answers from the organization after missing out on super bowl tickets yet again. We were flooded with emails yesterday from fans who were really upset. The nfl gives each super bowl sell. The bronco season Ticket Holders were put into a lottery and told that if they were picked yesterday, they would have a chance to buy two seats. But some of those tickets went to a Company Offering travel packages that start at about 3,000 a person. Fans we heard from wanted to know how the broncos divide up give to the travel company. We asked. The broncos have not told us. Tickets for sale on secondary markets, theyre pretty expensive right now. Its going to be like finding a needle in a hay stack. These are the original prices. Theyre 350 for the third level, but retail sites are cashing in with same seats in that section for 4,000. Wow. 6 07 right now. When he issues his budget next month, president obama is expected to pitch some new proposals that will expand accounts. The white house says these ideas will provide more than 30 Million People with access to time. A majority of that increase would come through legislation that would require employers that dont currently offer a Retirement Plan to automatically enroll their workers in an ira, an individual retirement account. Exchange for doing that. The state may have lost 60 million because of that controversy surrounding the states religious objections law. The group points to losses and things like hotel profits, tax revenue, and other economic benefits because of the law. Critics say it discriminates against gay people on religious grounds. 12 state groups say the religious objections law did play a role in holding their decisions elsewhere around the country. It is 6 08. Its now a sixday sprint to the finish line in iowa ahead of the caucuses there. The democratic president ial candidates have had their last chance to be on one stage together and make an appeal to the voters. It happened on monday night. Were also going to eliminate private Health Insurance premiums for individuals and for businesses. America is scanning the horizon. We cannot believe this fed up National Politics and think that a resort to old ideologies are going to move us forward. Ive been to the front lines of change and progress since i was your age. Ive been fighting to give kids and women and the people who are left out and left behind a chance to make the most out of their own lives. The iowa caucus is february 1 february 1st. Candidates must receive 15 of voters to gain any delegates. Todays final develop power ranking is going to be gop power ranking is going to be issued. Theyre going the state which candidate was leading the field since fall, but thats no longer needed because voters will start casting their ballots next week and well know the standings for certain. The gop power ranking will come out later this morning. Donald trump is expected to stay at the number one spot. Fast forward three hours. Season any over much of the state. Single digit readings. Well be in the teens, 20s, 30s by the time we get to noon, weve been popping up above 40 degrees. Well start to see high clouds drift in later today. For the next couple of days after being in the 40s today, we go mid50s for two days and then 60 for friday. Another change is coming. Right as we get into sunday okay. Theres a little tease. Thank you. Theyve seen each other dozens of times before, but coming up in about ten minutes. Why a womans most recent encounter with a homeless man flurries down south has fizzled out. From here to the west coast. That Means Nothing imminent between now and saturday. Our next storm system moves into the state saturday night for the mountains and west and sunday here from the front range. Current raidings, slipping a bit below zero. Many of the mountain valleys, single, teens, and 20s here. After 2 00, just a thin veil of clouds starts to move in from the north late this afternoon and will hang in through the evening. 30s and 40s in northern colorado. Relatively calm in the denver area with winds less than 10, 12 miles per hour. 40s for us, 30s occasional. Sunny for most of the state. Were going to see the clouds drift in from the pan panhandle and wyoming late in the day. If youre going to be working, temperatures holding in the 20s 40s and 50s over much of eastern colorado. Well have a few pockets of low 40s up along the south side of the valley. Sunshine this morning, high clouds in the afternoon today. 44 today. 25 tonight. We thin the clouds a bit. Shift the wind coming out of the southwest. Three to four days of very warm temperature. Mid50s for the most part. We have another cold front coming through sunday afternoon. With light rain and snow on the way. That looks like a backup out there. It absolutely is. Sky 9 was looking at the big line of cars there. We knew something was going on along i70. Sure enough, here it is. Center lane stall. The suv has been blocking that lane right in the middle of i 70 approaching brighton for 15 minutes or so. The backups go past i25 if not all the way to federal and sheridan. The tow truck is on the way. Hopefully they will get it up the rest of our drive, packing in as well. Heres a look at your maps across the denver metro commute. Our earlier stall northbound near alameda is gone, but the slowdowns, check this out. Southbound i25, now piling up at 120th. Its going to be a dense drive coming in toward 46 and up in the high country commute, Loveland Pass is still shut down because of all the adverse weather. Doing okay across 70. Red Mountain Pass still requiring chain law this is morning. Thanks so much. Its 6 15. Four of twitters top executives have made it official. Theyre leaving. That did not go over so well on wall street. The companys stock dropped more than 3 after that news was announced. Some investors think its a sign of the economy slowing. Hilton is launching a new travelers that looking to spend 90 to 100 buck as night. It aims to compete with economy and mid chain hotels. Cable box is working overtime this weekend. Snow bound along the east coast, stayed indoors and watched a lot of tv. 1. 3million comcast customers were using xfinity on demand. What were they watching . Shades of blue, game of thrones, and teen titans, go. Thats at hour house. Most watched tv shows, by the way, the intern was the most rented movie just about everywhere except in baltimore and washington. Thats where more people were renting and watching the martian. I heard shades of blue is a great show. I hear that too. Maybe i will stay home. There you go. Its a crime story out of all schools in pakistans largest province are closed today because of the threat of terror attacks. Intelligence suggests bombers were planning suicide atabs on schools. So as a precaution, the schools are going to stay closed through the end of the month. Last month a faction of the taliban killed 21 people. They have remained on high alert. Inmates who escaped a california prison had some inside help. The inmates disappeared from the Orange County prison on friday after they sawed through a metal gate, crawled through plumbing tunnels. Theyre all on the run this morning. Its 19 after 6 00. Michigan democrats are questioning whether the state attorney generals investigation into the flint lead tainted water. Todd flood donated thousands of dollars to the campaign of the Republican Attorney general and governor rick snyder. Now lawmakers are asking the u. S. Attorney general Loretta Lynch to open a federal investigation instead. Theres a cheese heist. The cheese is in 40pound blocks. So you cant try to hide that in a different wisconsin town last week, 70,000 of Parmesan Cheese was stolen in a similar way. So far police have not connected the two cases. A runin with a homeless man turned into a life changing discovery for a woman in idaho. It turned out to be her father whom she had not seen in 20 years. She said everything changed when he handed her his food stamp card. He asked what the balance was. I saw the name. My heart dropped and i said what is your middle name. And he said, eugene. I hit my knees, and i said youre my biological father. Isnt that incredible. The two say that they plan to keep each other in their lives. She says she plans to invite her father to live with her. Thats just something. Incredible story. She just happened to ask his name. If she had not done that, they thats amazing. Its 6 21. So, denver, of course you wont find more loyal bronco fans in any other city. Some of our local breweries have divided loyalties. First, a check of weather and traffic. Clear skies now, sunny. Once it comes up here in about an hour or. So by the time we get to the middle mornings, 30s. Snow pack today. One percentage point was lost since yesterday. The average number goes up and up and up throughout the season. For the next five days, partly cloudy conditions. Temperatures in the 50s until sunday afternoon. We start to see some rain and snow move in here. That is a mess. Is that a mess . It looks like a mess to me. It is a mess. Its not an accident, marty. It is a stall. Near brighton boulevard. The stalled out suv has been now. Scene. Police are helping protect that center lane. One left lane is getting by, two right lanes squeezingly, but the packups stretch to sheridan. This could be a 30minute wait. Coming up in my next update, welcome back. Its 6 25. A major question going into this years super bowl, can a brewery divided against itself stand . Probably if its propped up on enough kegs. Thats the case for two of colorados biggest craft breweries. They have brewery facilities in theyve all told us theres a lot of smack talk going on over email with the panthers and broncos headed to the super bowl. Oscar blue has not chosen a wager, but new belgium has it all figured out. One of the things they cant seem to get is spicy good green chili down there. So its thrown out there if the panthers win, we have to send green chili back to North Carolina and if the broncos win, they have to send Barbecue Sauce out to fort collins. Both have facilities near asheville, North Carolina. Thats a growing craft beer town. A man holds the record for the faster river trip. He paddled his kayak down a 277 mile stretch in 34 hours and 2 minutes. He had to navigate part of the river in the dark and had to the old record was beat by more than an hour. Big congrats. Yeah. This is an amazing story. The video is so good. Its the blood hound who escaped her backyard just as a Half Marathon race was starting near her home in alabama. She decided, hey, all these people are running, i have to run too. Then she led the pack for a while and then took her place in 7th position. She crossed the time with about a 7minute mile. She gets a little medal for her trouble. They say she didnt even seem winded. Theyre going to rename the race the hound dog half and the seventh place runner is going to get a special price. How about that . I love these pictures. The owner didnt know the dog was gone until someone called her from the finish line and said, hey, your dog is at the finish line. 7th place. She ran a 7minute mile. She had two extra legs. Coming up at 6 45, how the two families in the entire community of parker are mourning today after a second teenager who fell through the away. And were riding along with for puffers. Well find out why you dont want to leave your car running this morning. And the best video you will see on the internet all week shows you dont necessarily need the mountains to have a okay. I dont know how safe that is. Not safe. It looks kind of cool. No traffic. Good morning, everyone. Thanks for joining us. Gary, cory, cheryl with you. Marty, things are going to start to warm up. Were going to get going temperatures. Now, its a pretty cold start, especially in the High Mountain valleys where weve dropped a little below zero. Were in the teens, singles, colorado. Some of the coldest readings in the state going to jackson leadville. Theyre also between zero and ten below zero this morning. It should warm up as we go through the day. This afternoon, i put it after 3 00, you get high clouds drifting in over the wyoming border for the front range and northeastern plains. As far as wind goes, yesterday theres vicious winds on the plains today. Theyre keeping them under 20 25 miles per hour. Anticipate a lot of sun. Right through lunchtime and thin clouds sort of drift in late in the day. We still make it into the lower 40s for the afternoon. We get much, much warmer than that. If youre planning ahead the next week, our next storm system comes in sunday night through monday. Well have that in about 25 minutes. Amelia, well have slowdowns going on the highways today. We certainly do. Thank goodness some of them are clearing up and out of the way. Sky 9 is over i70 and the 225 split. Theyve moved from their north end drive around the mouse trap. This view is showing a much lighter and cleaner commute. As we go out to the map, we want to talk about that its now affecting areas of our i25 commute. You can see across i25 southbound at 110, were talking about the earlier eastbound i70 stall on the approach to brighton boulevard. About 35 minutes. That suv was stuck in traffic. Youve got about a 30minute wait. Southbound 25, lows up at 120 120th now, headed toward the mouse trap itself. If youre jumping onto 270, its a pretty easy drive. Weve now dropped to an average of 40 miles per hour. All right, amelia, thank you. Its going to be an especially tough day for students in parker. Not only will they be attending a classmates funeral, theyre dealing with the second death of a friend. Max gettier is the second his funeral is set for 11 30 this morning in centennial. 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