Dollars. Could get bigger. Denver 7 reporter brendalise gonzalez joins us from the 7 eleven on broadway with mooe on powerball fever. Reporter if you guys havent played yet, you might be a part of the minority. Were talking about the biggest jackpot world wide. Just in this store alone, 5600 midnight. Im here with brooke from the Colorado Lottery. How many are we talking about colorado sold . Well, since sunday alone, since the last drawing from saturday night, sunday, monday and tuesday sales tapping out at about 12 million for colorado alone. So this is pretty crazy. Its a lot of fun for us. Reporter and a lot of question on the debate is to fill or not to fill. What do you recommend, should i go with the standard traditional pick my own numbers or go for the quick pick . Your best shot is whatever the numbers you get. Truly is the luck of the draw. About 70 of the Colorado Lottery players go ahead and go with the quick pick. Walk in the store and say give me whatever tickets you have. About 30 want to pick their own numbers, anniversaries, birthdays, whatever feels lucky to them. At the end of the day, the ticket will be lucky no matter how you put the numbers in. Reporter i thought there was a ormula, guys. 3 sorry. You can pick up your tickets, 6 00 a. M. , you have until 7 30 tonight. Well see if somebody gets those six numbers becomes a billionaire today. Im hoping that is me. Brendalisse gonzalez, denver 7. How many tickets did you buy . She said she didnt have the formula. Reporter so far a few. One each hour. That might increase your odds. Officials say the m m foods in pueblo lucky. Since 1987 more than 100 people have won at least 1,000 after buying a ticket there. We came here for a reason. The lucky store, so i guess thats what draw us in. Hopefully lucky store give us lucky ticket. The word is getting out, because the manager said last week he sold close to 10,000 tickets. My goodness. M M Convenience store in pueblo. They have a reputation, so. Were off at 7 00, who is driving to pueblo . Jump in the live truck, we can all fit in there. We need to do a story on the place, so we need to get down there. I think we better go investigate. Yes, buy some tickets. If you head out this morning in the foothills, might want to grab that ponytail, if you have mitchs hair, dont worry, its not going anywhere. Wind speeds, current sustained winds not bad. We are seeing gusts pick up 30 Miles Per Hour. And they could get closer to 50. Later on this evening could see gusts upward of 70 Miles Per Hour. Down sloping winds are a factor. The other issue we have is the temperatures because of the winds are goinn to be nice and warm. Were looking for a great afternoon, once we get through this cold morning. Youll notice because of the winds, estes youre at 30 degrees now. Fort collins, 21. Greeley at 7. 30s in castle rock, while the rest of us are mostly in the 20s. Warming to the upper 40s, even some low to mid50s. It will be very nice this afternoon. Eric, how are things looking on the roads . One major problem through Commerce City. Weve got major restrictions on southbound vasquez at about 69th because of a tanker crash. You can see here where its causing slowdowns in both directions. What e dont know for a fact is if we have major closures. We have daryl orr out there is vassuez closed or what are we seeing . Reporter actually, eric, vasquez isnt affected at all. Its old brighton boulevard behind me here at 68th avenue, where earlier this morning this vehicle that is on this tow truck right now slamed into the side of a loves fuel truck. 18wheeler tractortrailer hauling fuel and was fully lladed. Minor damage to the truck. But unfortunately, this car is mangleed. We have not found out if theres any injuries, but i find it hard to believe if there werent injuries, theyre lucky and need to buy a powerball ticket. They have just reopened old vasquez boulevard here at 68th. You can see the tow truck driver cleaning up some of the debris from this vehicle here. This should not affect y through Commerce City ggys. Daryl, anfor clearing up hat confusion for us. Shldissues traafic wise. So far, no major delays. Thank you, eric. Breaking news to tell you about, 10 u. S. Sailors who were by iran have been released. Here are photographs after they were freeed. Tense moments while they were being hailed. The sailors in their two small boats drifted into irania wate. They say it happened because they experienced meme issues. Local breaking news out of denver, twle ar this happened on the side f National Western drive. Now. Investigators tell us the car when it flipped, ejecting one of the people inside. Were told that person and another were killed. A sad story in southwest denver, a home goes up in flames, killing a man and leaving five others hurt. A neighbor gave us this cell phone video showing how intense this fire was. Denver7 reporter Sally Mamdooh live with where the fire happened where on this. Sally. Reporter its certainly a tragedy because that person that died was bed ridden and were injured in the process. We still dont know what caused this fire. Take a look at this video. This video captured the flames that set this fire house on fire house on fire. Were told an elderly couple lived in the home with their son who was bed ridden and unfortunately here that son was during this fire, three Good Samaritans tried to rescue the people who were trapped inside, but they were injured as well. Y this fire was just too intnt all of a sudden, anan explosn g, just the reporter arson investigators will be looking 3 into what caused this fire and as soon as we have that information, well bring it to you. For now in southwest denver, Sally Mamdooh, denver 7. Right now your help is needed to figure out what happened when these three people passed away. They were killed in august. In rolled after it went over an embankment. Happened on highway 285 near South Turkey Creek road. Wreckage wasnt found until the next day. The driver survived, was charged with three counts. Vehicular homicide. Investigators believe he was driving nearly 100 Miles Per Hour at the time of that crash. Family members of the passengers call this senseless. Im not the higher power he needs to ask forgiveness from. I jjst want his accountability. Preventable. Just completely preventable. Had the guy just been obeying traffic laws. Police are asking anyone who saw the accident or the car driving on the highway before the accident to call them. To boulder where police are looking for an armed robber from two separate occasions. It happened a few blocks from a reminder to find a safe location when meeting anyone online. Those two people tried to rob a woman, threatened her with a gun and tried to steal her purse. She rrsisted and they took off in a white suv with a black top. If you know anything, call police. New report out on kids and marijuana may or may not surprise you. The Rocky Mountain high intensity Drug Trafficking area, it says colorado ranks first in the country for youth pot use. The group found over the past couple of years youth pot use went up 20 . But theres a pro marijuana advocate that thinks differently. He says surveys of a much larger sample area actually show teen pot use in the country is goinn down. President obama kicked off his final year of his presidency with his state of the Union Address and he spent time trying to bring the parties together. It might be hard in a fierce election season, but the commanderinchief gave it a i hope we can Work Together this year on some ipartisan priorities. The future we want, opportunity and security for our families, a rising standard of living, a sustainable peaceful planet for our kids, all that is within our reach. Today president obama will kick off his tour with stops in nebraska and also louisiana. After the president spoke the republicans got to share their side. The gop picked South Carolina governor nikki haley to represent them. She said you cant just blame one Political Party for our countrys issues. We need to recognize our contributions to the erosion of the public trust in americas leadership. We need to accept that weve played a role in how and why our government is broken. And then we need to fix it. Some people think she may run for president one day. Well be following our state is a big political swing state. Thats why were debuting a new show called politics unplugged. Maashall zelinger reporter here, and anne trujillo, theyll sit down with policy makers throughout thh political season to discuss issues that face us here in colorado. It debuts sunday at 4 00 in the afternoon here on denver 7. Were days away from the broncos first playoff game of the year and looks like our 5 43. 3 broncos continue their chase for the championship. The steelers are heading to sports authoritt field at mile high this sunday where theyll try to beat the broncos. They beat us earlier in the season. Not happening again. Heres Lionel Bienvenu with which teelers players may be out. Good morning. Welcome to the chase for the championship. The big question everybody wants to know, will big ben lead the steelers into mile high sunday . Hes not a doctor, but he did give a medical report yesterday, said he has a sprained ac joint and two torn ligaments when he was sacked saaurday night in cincinnati. Heres what he said yesterday about the plans for the week. Taking it day by day. Doing my rehab and im throwing tomorrow with the intent to see what i can do. I havent tried to throw a football since the game and maybe thats not even the right thing to do right away. Ill see the doctors and trainers tomorrow and well evaluate kind of how i feel. Well play it by ear. Well follow our normal procedure and hope for he best. Coach tomlin there. Theyd love to see landry jones, broncos would, because the last time they saw big ben, he had 380 yards passing and three touchdowns. They came back to win the game. Does anybody believe big ben wont play . Kubiak said hell be ready. Absolutely. Were preparing for their team. Second or third in offense, and theyre very good. Got a lot of great players. Werr preparing for the group. We expect everybody to be there. Were preparing to play the steelers. Both teams were off yesterday. Both teams back to practice today. Well have all that coming up until then, have a great morning. Will be a good game. No way ben is not playing, come on. Theyre trying to psyche us out. Not going to happen. My shoulder hurts. Its a playoff game. This is where he gets paid. He wants to win the super bowl like everybody else does. Hes a good player. Getting reports west of boulder, cold creek canyon seeing wind gusts closer to about 50 Miles Per Hour. Those gusts are going to calm down midday today so to speak and are pick up later this evening, could be upwards of 70 Miles Per Hour. Its nice and quiet across the state now. But this is heading our way. This is the beginning of one of basically three little systems. Theyre small disturbances moving into colorado over the next couple of days. Theyll bring with it a little bit of snnw. As we zoom into the state, youll notice just a few clouds. Were going to have that mountain wave cloud across the morning, and were going to see more clear skies later this afternoon. Temperatures in the high country Single Digits. Some below zeros. Gunnison, 17 below. You were 20 below, so starting to see a little bit of a warmup. Metro area most of us in the 20s. Greeley, though in the Single Digits and teens on the eastern plains. Its warmer in most locations right now, from about 5 to maybe 15 degrees compared to where we were yesterday. Its those winds that are definitely making the difference. Our temperatures theyre going to sta over the board. Afternoon were going to be there as well. In the denver ar w from the 20s into the upper 40s by noon. Early afternoon, so between noon and 4 00 youll see the temperatures climb into the w 50s and well cool things down a little bit. Depending on the winds, temperatures really are going to fluctuate anywhere from about 5 degrees or so in any direction. Those low 50s, mid to upper r 40s. Greeley topping out about 40 degrees. Sterling a touch cooler. Warmest area in our state is most likely going to be that southeast corner. Besides the foothills towns because of the winds that could `ick up the temperatures. Futurecast, nothing to show you `until overnight tonight, early tomorrow morning. The northern mountains picking up some snow. Thiss first disturur showed you at the top of ts recast. Then youre going to see that snow move into the metro area on friday. Were going to e light, a trace ybe an inch. Ease in clouds tomorrow. Saturday is going to be cold, but sunny. Sunday were going to see an increase in clouds and for thee broncos game, a very, very slight chance might see a little bit of snow. I dont think were going to see much in the metro area. Mostly dry and just kind of chilly for the game. Okay. Football players will like it. They like those 35, 40 degrees. Good news about that accident vasquez and 69th through Commerce City, its been cleared. There was a car that slamed into a tanker truck. Daryl orr who was at the scene says it was a stolen car that crashed shortly after. Thats been cleared. The rest of your drive in the green. I70 flowing smoothly, at least for now. We know with the stock show going on that could change things. 225 looking good. Cdot, from 225 and dayton where traffic is flowing now. Good time to sell a house if you live in denver. We toped zillows list of the hottest housing markets in 2016. Home values keep going up and theyre expected to rise another 5 this year. This is the map from zillow, shows the whole metro area. All the homes for sale across the metro. They predict aurora, the spot here will be the hottest spot of all across the major metro areas. More people move away from the doesnt surprise me because as prices increase and people coming into the metro want to live in denver, were going to see people move into some of the suburbs and suburbs like aurora will benefit from that. The flip side, zillow says low income americans will have a hard time affording even the 3 least expensive houses and the rent as well, thats been skyrocketing. 1,900 on average. Thats huge. Thats a lot. Small business in our state will try to set a world record. Is there they hope this giant ball of stickers will be the largest sticker ball in the world. `ts maae of 150,000 and they need to be 220 pounds. Apparently its already 230 pounds. Stickers giant founder started the company in his business after being laid off. Now a 10 million company. Weve printed over 10,000 miles of stickers. If you lined up all the across the country. Guinness will measure the ball oday, which happens to be National Sticker day. I know Cherry Hills Christian School in Highlands Ranch had a ball about the size of a basketball at one time. Not like this. 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Fema is getting involved in michigans water crisis. They have found elevated levels of lead in the blood of michigan. It canning traceed back to the citys water supply. Officials say the water wasnt properly treated for corrosion. Fema is being asked to provide any support they can. Going door to door with bottleed water. A party city store in florida looked like it got hit by an eerthquake after shelves collapsed. This happened yesterday afternoon. Three people were treated for minor injuries. One man says he was stocking shelves when the collapse happened and warned others to run to safety. I knew when it started falling it was a domino effect. These things are 8 feet tall. Somebody in between them and that shelf comes over on them, theyre gone. The Company Released a statement saying they are committed to customer and employer safety. Here at home, governor hickenlooper isnt wasting time. Less than a month after getting engaged he is tying the knot with his fiance this weekend. His engagement was one of the hot topics of the capitol yesterday. I manned up, right. I said, ive been trying to talk her out of it for months. The location of the ceremony is a secret. They chose to have a smaller wedding this weekend to cut down on the size of the guest list. New this morning, take a look, looks like the zamboni, but its not used on the ice. Crews in portland, oregon are using it to clean up bird droppings. Its called the poopmaster 6,000. It will hang around portland until the crows start leaving in the spring. Poopmaster . 6,000, mind yyu. The 5,000 wasnt good enough. It wouldnt work at was park because it has to be on a hard surface. We should come up with a four wheel drive poop master. If i win the lottery, ill come up with that. If youre going out for a run with the bird droppings, upper 20s and we have a little bit of a light breeze. Breeze wont cool things off. Will warm us up this afternoon in the upper 40s and low 50s. I25 and u. S. 36, looking for accidents here, not seeing them. There were a few earlier this morning, but theyve been cleared up and the drive is looking okay so far. 5 57. As that Powerball Jackpot soars, people are getting into a gambling frenzy, which could spill over into the broncos game. Well talk to an experttof what