5 31. Good morning, everybody. We have a snow storm in colorado. It has been a while since weve seen this. Deer creek school delayed 90 minute and clay county in bailey delayed 90 minutes, but thats it for the school delays. No cancellations today. We start this half hour with a look at our cold commute this morning. Lets get right into it. Shawn chitnis in lakewood at 6th and sims and what you could be dealing with out the door. Hey, shawn. Good morning, britt. Theres streets beyond me, theres some slush forming at this point. There was some snow that got onto the roads and the side streets, but on the bigger streets, youre going to run into some snow definitely here in lakewood. Thats going to make for a challenge as you go forward with your commute. Lets see you what we saw earlier in lakewood and denver and the tech center. Descent snow falling overnight. Not sticking in a lot of different places. At least not on the street. The trees and plants pecking that up. We have seen plows working their way across town. Theyre trying to make the roads better for you as you get ready to go this morning. Not too much snow on the ground, but prepare for it to be on your car, so youll probably need more time to get ready and then of course, take it slower and be more careful on the roads because were dealing with snow after a while here. Live in lakewood, Shawn Chitnis, cbs 4 thank you, shawn. You have to account for the scraping thing. It takes time. You have to find the snow brush in youre in the foothills. It has been a while since weve had to use it. Lauren, you said it would be worse. This is i70 and the genesee area. This is coming from photographer eddie castro. Him and jaime leary live for us. You can see the big fat flakes are continuing to fall. We have dryer air moving in. 1 to 4 inches for the foothills and sometime front range mountains, lets in. Pine close with a foot of snow. Ward around 8. 1 inches. And golden 7. 5 inches. Ohio springs report ing 5. We havent had too many snow fall totals, snow fall totals in boulder and Jefferson County. We have snow in the foothills. Is the of denver going strong. High country getting if i take away the clouds, you can see it better. The south side of town as you head towards castle rock towards parking and into castle pines, still nice snow fall and confer and evergreen and north to allen park and boulder, nice snow fall. All the way to trinidad, its snowing in some spots. Noon, 37 degrees and sunshine in denver. Were going to clear out. Winds picking up this afternoon as well. Temperatures around 40 degrees for us today. And overnight tonight, it gets chilly. Lets check with joel hillan. How is that morning drive. East of the snow line and youve been talking about this, just wet roads. This is around town. This is a live picture from mobile 4 this morning. I want to show you in the high you have the plow working. I70 facing that eastbound direction at lacal mountain. As folks come around the corner, weve had reports of Numerous Accidents along 285. Look into the high country, and you have chain and passenger restrictions in place as you make your way out to the Johnson Eisenhower tunnel. Across the denver metro area, a different story. Mostly clear and were running at post the speed limits. Traveling from Alameda Parkway down passed morrison, 285, bowls, king carol before it gets better as you make that turn. You can turn on koa for the latest weather and traffic together. Thanks, joel. The foothills and mountains getting heavy snow. Weather app and she joins us from i70 and genesee. You can see that snow coming down around you. Reporter its beautiful out here. Theres a little wind, but you can see theres a variety of conditions. We have plenty of powder where the plows havent touched. But i got off the phone with cdot and they said the conditions on i70, we have packed powder and ice. Theres chain restrictions in place. From denver to vail, theres chain restrictions to i70. Theres ice on the roadways this morning. Towards the metro area, it was warm slush but as we got further, things got chilly and freezing on the road. So a lot of ice especially those on and off ramp this morning. The snow is light and fluffy. But because the temperatures were so warm earlier, its packing down nicely on the roadways and the tires. If you run into travel this morning, thats likely because all of cdots plows are out and holding up cars along i70. Morrison is where the snow really came down for us this morning. The biggest problems were exiting where the plows havent touched yet. Getting on and off the highway is a challenge and just obviously take it slow. Use common sense because if youre a good driver, that doesnt mean everybody else is driving well as. Its a this morning, a Denver Police officer is dealing with a lower leg wound. Heres i seen a guy right there. Hortencio was home when two men tried to break into his window. Your instinct is im going to get those guys. The Police Spotted those guys near 34th and when closing in on the two men, a female officer was shot in the leg. Denver police chief robert white says shes expected to be okay. Everyone is going to putting their arms around each other. Investigator say after that initial exchange of gunfire, the suspect car jacked a woman and took off. Witnesses say he fled down lowell with police close behind and bullets flying. The guy was shooting recklessly. I was more afraid of getting shot with a stray bull bullet. After knowing how violent the men were, hortenceo says hes thankful they never made it into his home. My family could have been in danger. If i didnt respond, one could have been in the house. Karen morfitt reporting. Were working to learn the deputy and suspects involved. The father of the Aurora Shooting victim will make an announcement. Tom sullivan is the father of alan sullivan, one of the People Killed in the Aurora Shooting. Sullivan said the shooting changed his life. He has spent time at the Capitol Lobbying and seeing how our lawmakers do their job on gun violence, education and economic growth. He says these are issues at the core of the American Dream and that dream, he feels has been shattered. This morning, a michigan daughters fight for life. Shes on a ventilator. She was the victim of a uber driver in michigan. Six people are dead. Dawn champion has the latest. Reporter vic ky cough described feeling her 14yearold daughter abigail squeeze her hand. Shes alive and fighting for her life. Authorities thought Abgal Abigail died. Her heart stop stopped, but her mom calls her a fighter. She did not deserve this. Abigail was with her adoptive grandmother when police say 45yearold jason dolton fired on them. Abigail was the lone survivor. And father were killed while car shopping. Monday night, Community Members fought tears at a candle light vigil. Dolton faces six counts of murder. Monday he sat expressionless from his jail cell during a brief court appearance. Do you understand the charges made against you and the maximum sentences i stated . Yes. Prosecutors says he admits to carrying out an attack. A motive unknown. A second survivor, a woman shot multiple times at an apartment complex is in the hospital recovering. Our weather coverage continues this morning. Snow and wind here in the state. 28 degrees in denver. We have good snow falling in the mountains and that means the School District says theyre putting their schools on a 2hour delay. We have plat canyon clear creek School Districts delays. Other places Like Colorado State University open today and the big districts around the metro area just not having any difficulties right now getting schools open this morning. Even in Jefferson County today, the schools are open as scheduled even with those schools in donkey sound elephant sound theres a big difference between making noise, tapping sound and making sense. elephant sound donkey sound when it comes to Social Security, we need more than lip service. Our next president needs a real plan to keep Social Security strong. elephant noise hey candidates. Enough talk. Whats with him . Hes happy. Your familys finally eating vegetables thanks to our birds eye voila skillet meals. And they only take 15 minutes to make. Ahh birds eye voila so veggie good im Hillary Clinton and i her lifes work has been about breaking barriers. Which is why, for every american whos not being paid what theyre worth. Whos held back by student debt or a system tilted against them and there are far too many of you she understands that our potential. Unless we all do. Together. Were live in genesee where we have a foot of snow thats fallen on the ground. We have to clear out spot. Our tires had issues. We were getting off the off ramp to genesee. A lot of snow has fallen and still accumulating at this point in time. As we make our way to the highway, you can see chain restrictions. Denver to vail is where the chain restrictions in place. A lot of ice on the roadways. Youre dealing with packed powder and icy conditions. For more on the temperatures and the weather of a birds eye view, lets check with Lauren Whitney inside in the nice warm weather. Jaime, good luck. Heres a look at floyd hill. Snow is coming down in parts of the high country. Be careful on your drive. And ice packed in some spots and that snow is going to continue into the foothills. Its clearing if denver, but that doesnt mean everyone else is clearing. Well get to the satellite and radar. Snow totals from our weather watchers golden ken reporting 8 nm. Jim reported 5 and a half inches. Theres cynthia reporting 4 inches. On our satellite and radar, you can see douglas getting snow fall. Down south, that snow is continuing to snow heavily. As we zoom here more, the downtown area to the north, a wet commute. South, its more snow packed. Castle pines and highlands ranch, theres good snow fall. This goes into confer, evergreen all the way into boulder and more up to the north from Red Feather Lakes park and longmont boulder, the good stuff is towards trinidad to we have dryer air thats filtering in. Were going to see this ease up. Another one to four inches in our foothills. Snow into the afternoon highs and into the southwest. Here in denver, we may have sunshine and winds picking up this afternoon with snow continuing into the southwest into the evening. Overnight tonight, skies will clear and tomorrow morning, waking up to clear skies and cold temperatures. We get chilly here again tonight and tomorrow, we warm back up close to 50s. Temperatures today are going to remain in the upper 30s low 40s. Southwest into the southeast and up into the central mountains, we have Winter Weather advisories in place for the next couple of in greeley. 20s and 30s in the is the west. And low 30s on the west slope. Denver. Some areas may be warmer. 42 in boulder. For your 5day forecast tomorrow, back to the close to 60 on friday. An icy dry. That gives us hope. Take a look. This is colorado 119 just is the of the black hawk about point two miles. You can see into the high country. Its a tough drive and a different scene around town. Let me show you, the road weather index, these are the areas that have been tough along i70 as you make your way towards georgetown. Theres passenger restrictions. Loveland pass is open, but with chain passenger restrictions as well. You travel along i285 west of the confer, thats a rough drive. Across the denver metro area, nice and wide open. The one exception as you come around the corner at king corner and then around out to kipling, its icy and icy as you get up to the foothills and its seeing more accumulation. Let me take you to the west. We have talked about this. We have i70 which has reopened. Its going to close during the day. We watch this because 4 00 p. M. Its not necessarily going to reopen as we saw yesterday. Maybe delayed a couple of minutes and when its delayed, its a two hour drive. Joel, thank you for that. Today is the nevada caucus and donald trump is looking for yet another victory. Meanwhile, the fight for second place in the gop race heats up. Heres dawn champion with the latest. Reporter donald trump is eyeing a big win in nevada tonight. You got to vote tomorrow. You got to vote, vote, vote. Caucuses, the republican front runner did not hold back slamming a protestors i like to punch him in the face. And this guy is sick. Theres something wrong with this guy. God bless the great state of nevada. After finishing in third place behind rubio in southbound, cruz is going into todays contest without his communications director. Rick tyler was asked to resign monday for sharing a false news story on social media that suggested rubio dismissed the bible. I had made clear in this campaign that we will conduct this campaign with a very highest standards of integrity. That has been how weve conducted it from day one. Speaking on the flight to he called the fall guy. Rubio is leading cruz in the silver state, both are vying to be the main alternative to trump with super tuesday just a week away. Dawn champion, cbs news. On the democratic side, sanders and clinic ton will take part in a town hall event in South Carolina ahead of the states democratic primarily this weekend. ,, ,, ,, welcome back. A live outside for this from i707 and genesee. We have flakes falling. Jaime leary will have a report in a moment. You can see the fresh snow. Eddie castro getting us this fresh shot. It looks like hes in a snow globe. Lets look at our snow fall. Snow mass at 4 and three inches forever steamboat and if youre hitting the slopes, youll have fresh powder. Castle rock into douglas and Jefferson County to the north, we have snow fall. Denver, not so much for us in the city. Dryer air moving in, but the foothills and south of town, this may take time to ease up. We could see snow 8 00 to 9 00 this morning. Parts in the late morning, here in denver, we may have sunshine this afternoon. A little snow expected into the high country today and by this evening, skis clear and chilly. Lets check with joel. Good morning. You may have fresh powder to ski on, but you have to drivethru the fresh powder and you get further to the east, this is sheraton. We have the far right lane which is blocked off. And were starting to see significant slowing, britt, behind us. Joel, thank you so much. Bill cosbys wife answers questions under oath. And singing dawn reacts to charges heres Suzanne Marques with todays eye on entertainment. Reporter dawn says charges accusing him of Domestic Violence is a tragedy for his family. The american pie singer plead not guilty to six counts stemming from his arrest last month. His wife filed a request for protection after that incident. Bill cosbys wife testified in a defamation lawsuit against her husband. Camille cosby answered questions under oath in massachusetts. She has publicly stood by her husband after dozens of woman accused him of sexual assault. The hip hop musical hamilton picked up another trophy. It was inspired by american history. The award comes with a 100,000 prize. The oscars are gabara was nominated in crushes in 2010. Break from promoting her new film saying changes are coming. This is the second year in a row with controversy over who has been nominated and ignored. Thank god its so big because now you can never ignore us again. The Academy Awards this sunday in hollywood. Thats your eye on entertainment, Suzanne Marques, cbs news los angeles. Theres a boat demolition in indonesia. 31 fishing boats were blown up. The indonesia president said theyre taking it seriously because it cost the country billions of dollars every year. Our weather coverage continues. 28 degrees in denver. Heres whats ahead. The snow comes down in genesee. Its accumulating and we have a foot of snow here. Were going to take a close look thats right around the corner on cbs. Jaime is. A Denver Police officer shot the suspect dead. How the female officer i,, is the economy rigged . Well, the 15 richest americans acquired more wealth in two years than the bottom and i approve this message. My plan make wall street banks and the ultrarich provide living wages for working people, the middle class will continue to disappear unless we level with your help, as president , it has been a minute since weve woken up to snow in the metro area. Heres a look at 6th and sims where Shawn Chitnis is. You can see the flakes flying from this perspective. Many people are waking up to inches of snow this morning. Thanks for joining us. Im britt moreno