The season, which they were able to do. Its almost benefit in disguise when you lose a game like usc a couple weeks ago and theyre able to go and fix the problems. The team that we just saw had fixed the problems that we saw against the trojans earlier this season. Their quarterback was great. Their defense was great. More importantly, their run game was terrific today. Gus a big game for jake browning. Le jake, im going to let you brag on your guys up front. How did they set the tone for you guys . They run the ball well. We worked hard on it. They did a lot of stuff up front. I thought they were prepared and ran it hard well. You have taken it one game at a time. Have a look at the standings. How does it change with one game to go . Its easy. We only have one game left. Well be prepared. Take tomorrow, get our bodies back and get ready for the championship. Congratulations. Thank you. Gus all right. The apple couple remains in seattle with the washington huskies. Partner, your final thoughts. Joel hey, committee, this huskys team is really good. Gus 4517 the final. Washington defeats washington state. Tomorrow, the pac 12 south is on the line as the ninth ranked buffalos need to beat utah to advance to the pac 12 championship game. Coverage begins at 7 00 eastern on fox. That wraps it up. Im gus johnson for Shannon Spake and joel klatt saying so we begin tonight with really tragic breaking news. A Colorado StatePatrol Trooper was hit and killed while investigating a crash. It happened along i 25. Just about two miles south of castle rock. Body was escorted away from the scene. Phrpbl crews crews stood at attention. County coroner office. We have Team Coverage tonight. Greg nieto live near the scene. Colorado state Patrol Troopers. And sheriff that we just spoke to. Are devastated. By todays loss. Now at 1 30. This afternoon. A Colorado State trooper was investigating another crash. When the trooper was hit and killed by aas this happened about two miles south of castle rock. On i 25. Northbound. The Douglas CountySheriff Office will investigate. And try to determine the cause. They also want to let drivers know that i 25 northbound. Will most likely be closed. For the rest of the night. Couple years for the Colorado State patrol. 3 troopers now have recently been killed. While assisting on the side of the road. These headlights in our direction. May look like i 25 traffic. But again its frontage road traffic. You can only imagine the delays here. Again this traffic west of i 25. At toma road. White headlights heading our direction fpt southbound here. Here. Youll make out a sheriff deputy. That is actually trying to direct all this traffic. Of course hes dealing with a lot of folks here. Trying to make their way from south. Colorado springs. North. To the denver metro area. Again. Traffic northbound here. Being diverted off of i 25. At toma road. As for the crash itself. Ill show you some video. Again about 1 30 this afternoon. When that state unfortunately was hit. And killed. The investigation in that area does continue. Thats why all lanes of northbound i 25 do remain closed. From the sky of course. Also shows you the type of incident or after math. Dealing with this crash. Again. Shortly after 1 30 this afternoon. Claiming the life of that trooper. Traffic again. Is being taken off the highway. Heading westbound. And again. Onto the frontage road. And heading northbound. Passed castle rock. Again were talking about a wide area. Basically from larks burg to castle rock. If youre heading northbound on i 25. Its going to be a long night. Air. And online. On kdvr. Com. New tonight. Police need your help after racial slurs are painted on a womans front door. While she and her daughter are inside. The. The vandals leaving a note. Warning them to watch their kkk and the n word. Spray painted. While they were inside their home. They taped the note to the door. That also said watch your back. Kkk. Aurora Police Telling us they do not have a suspect. These kinds of incidents create fear. Chief says they are treating this as a top priority. Somebody knowing something. Were hopi is. That knows what occurred. Will come forward. And let us know. This is just the latest act of hate filled vandalism. That we have reported on in recent days. Last week. A transgender woman car was vandalized in denver. Theres no reason to sppt suspect the two are connected. Naacp hopes this is not part of a larger trend. Clean her door. The scars of being attacked in secret. Still remain. Police say if you leave you may also be a victim. Give them a call. Emphasizing hate crimes. Or bias crime. As they call them. Are of the highest priority. New developments today about the man accused of shooting nine people to death. In a South Carolina church. A judge ruled he is mentally competent to stand trial. Yards away from the gun tphaoeur. Fire. Moved out of harms security. Reminding drivers about drinking and driving during this long holiday weekend. They posted pictures today. Saying a dui driver was passed out behind the wheel and stopped. While facing southbound in the northbound line. Also a beer cup in the holder. They wrote it could have been a very pwhrad black friday. For another driver. Dui enforcement runs through monday. Twice as long as last year. 8 yearold and his brother. Are shopp money today. I earn it. Doing all my home work. Checking out Remote Control toys. Grandma is here as a consultant today. But has Holiday Shopping to do herself. Stkphr i started for the grandsons. And little baby max. Not finished yet. Its a leap trainer. So far so good. We have had a great opening shopping season. Stkphr. We have coating toys. Thats where toys can learn to program. Program robots. Lego is always big. Im thinking like a his favorite part of the holiday. Eating cookies. Thank you. If you need a little break. From black friday. Shopping this evening. Many of you have been out all night. There are a couple Family Friendly events going on. Stkphr. Now. They are gettingea for sunday night football. Against the chiefs. Why the denver defense is going in to this match up. Stronger than they have been all season long. Buy week was ben beneficial for this denver defense. Theyll be healthy against the chiefs sunday night. Wolf is back. From the broken arm. And talib is much better. The biggest part of the defense. Is their kepl industry. The big personalities. And finally. The band. Some of the guys have been around. But. As far as focus. And wanting to play. And given everything i got. Thats where theyre special. One of the biggest personalities of course is corner back. Who made big news today. Joining twitter finally. He threw out a warning. Saying east. Thank you. Go propb koes. On the eve of Small Business saturday. Some shops in cherry creek facing an uncertain future. Thanks to a price of progress. Small business saturday. Thats right. So important to get the word out. About tomorrow. Some in cherry creek facing a really bleak holiday. They scramble to find new locations. Day young shows how it is. On the ao efp of Small Business saturday. She and many Small Business owners in the building. Face the same fate. Making it harder for people. You are supporting that five yearold thats taking ballet classes. You are supporting that local owned and family owned operation. A few years ago a local owner decided to open the corner store. When he couldnt find any place in cherry creek to buy the stuff sold here. W er were closing next week. This last for example. Opened only in march. Find out now. They have to move. Its interesting to note. On black friy. That for every hundred dollars spent and in a Small Business like this. About 70 dollars stays in the community. Compared to about 40 dollars you spend at a big box store. Theres the state of colorado. Theres a good deal of cloud cover. Moving to the north. We have a storm system coming in from the north. We have moisture to the south. Eventually all of that will play into bringing snow. Back to the colorado mountains. Now this is a winter storm watch. For the central and southern mountains. Which will get the snow first. But then it will expands. Into the northern mountains. As we get through the day sunday. So. What that means. Travelers coming back through the m driving into colorado. And denver. Are going to encounter this. These are future cast snow models. How much snow is going to fall. Heaviest is there. First on saturday. Saturday evening. Sunday morning. Sunday afternoon the shift is here. Sunday night swao into the north. Those are significant snow totals. And the wind is going to be whipping it around. I think during the day sunday. Traveling here along i 70. Could be a problem. Continue into the 30s. Like greeley. Problem. The approaching storm system. Will bring stronger winds. Into the afternoon. With gusts in the mountains. Starting to kick up to 30 to 40 miles per hour. Throw in snow and thats a problem. Heres the future cast. Quiet tonight. 7 00 tomorrow morning. Plenty of sunshine. Sunshine through the lunch hour. Sunshine for sunset. After sunset. That approaching storm system starts to bring in clouds. Highs tomorrow. Another round of 50s and 60s. Here in the east. Close to where you were today. And mountain locations. Ahead oaf that. Approaching storm system. Will bring the snow. Into 40s and low 50s. Are jump into the low 60s. My fore forecast tonight. It have degrees. 26 degrees. Breezy. Tomorrow plenty of sunshine early. Clouds dont come until after the sunset. 62. And then check it out. On sunday. Down to 55. The temperature falls. And continues to fall. As the storm approaches. On monday tuesday and wednesday thursday friday. Spao the 30s. As we get out of the month of november. And head on in to the start of the december. A chilly looking week ahead on the horizon. We have over night lows coming in the teens. And a couple chances of snow. Tuesday and friday. Actually fewer than one in 4 americans plans to epb shop in a store at all today. And americans throw away billions in food. During thanksgiving. At the nasdaq. With the stories and more. In todays business update. Americans are showing less interest in braving the crowd of stores today. Only 23 of customers will shop it would prevent people tkpwabgted by the scandal from suing wells far go. Arbitration and properly denies customers legal protection. Such as right to appeal. And helps to misconduct from the public. Americans throw away roughly 165 billion collar dollars in uneaten food. Every year. According to to government data. About 277 million of that waste will happen during thanksgiving. Consumers are expected to throw away 2 hundred Million Pounds of turkey. During the tha pblgs giving holiday. Freezing turkey for the later and freezing fruit for smooth smoothies can help cut down on the waste