Land in florida, and apparently also claims he has the powerball numbers. He posted a picture of himself, you can see his eyeball there. Little funny. He says its his ticket, but doesnt look totally legit. If you see here running down the side there, there are seeeral different letters which one ticket. But since we only see one set of numbers and two dollars there, i touched the thing, two dollars, only one set of numbers, could mean he only has one ticket. Would have been other numbers in these rows. May be tough to tell, but some. Numbers look bigger than others, some blurry. The price at the bottom of the ticket would be more than 2. Theres all kinds of problems with there. If youre seeing this, because everybody on social media today is going bananas over it, i would say dont fall for it. He says hes going to share the money, a thousand dollars to each person who follows and retweet. I think if you win that much money you have to hide out for a little bit. People knocking at your door, trying to find you, or family, work. Wheres jayson . Good point. Thats right. He is in california. Hes in california. Never know. He wont share. Bummer for us. Wind speeds this morning at about 15 to 30 miles per hour. Pretty gusty start. Up and through the foothills. Recent speeds, gusts about 30 miles per hour. Berthoud pass we had one over 50. It will be another windy morning out west. Were expecting 40s this afternoon. But already in some spots were in the 40s like boulder and longmont. Pretty mild start if youre close to i25 or west of it. By noon were at 41. Youll find sunshine with a few clouds this afternoon. A high today of 43. Pretty mild. It does get colder heading into the weekend. Well talk about that coming good start to your drive this morning. This is i25 and logan. Traffic running smoothly. Still no acciients to tell you about. Its doing just fine in both directions. North side of town, where the drive is just fine on i25 through north glenn and thornton, 14 minutes 120th to colfax. I70 drive will slow down because of the stock show. But now i70 is looking good. Only about 10 minutes from 225 to i25. And through aurora in the green. You can see only about 10, 15 minutes both directions between those two major highways. Following up with breaking news out of denver. This home went up in flames forcing a family of six from their home, including a baby. Fortunately, they all made it out okay and only talked with us here at denver 7. Denver7 latest. Reporter the fire is out, but still plenty of smoke coming from this home. Arrived. Chief patrick hines. Theyre mopping up hot spots. The ntire roof fell on this structure. Couple of feet of debris. To get everything out is very they went back, warmed up a little bit, got clean equipment and theyre mopping up hot spots. Reporter there were six people including an infant inside of this home. They told us the fire spread quickly. How is it they were able to get out safely . The Lesson Learned this morning is smoke detectors saved life. They were all sleeping, awakened by smoke detectors and got out. Obviously this fire moved very rapidly, and those couple of first minutes could have made a difference this morning. Again, everyone got out safely. Firefighters working now to determine the cause. As of the family, theyre still working on a place to stay. You can see the home destroyed. Live in denver, brendaliss thank you. This morning a teen accused of plotting an attack at Mountain Vista high school will face a judge. Thats when prosecutors will decide whether or not to ccarge her as an adult. The other teen, sienna johnson, is also in trouble and charged as an adult. Her case could return to Juvenile Court if Defense Attorneys get their way. The retrial for one of the highest profile murder cases in western colorado is headed to jefferson county. Michael blagg was convicted of shooting and killing his wife in 2001. He won a retrial after a judge found a juror lied about past experiences with domestic violence. This air force academy found guilty of reaching a fellow cadet in boulder. Hell receive a dishonorable discharge. Turns out it was all a lie. Thats what Parker Police say about a reported kidnapping that happened back in september. You may remember police asking for your help trying to find a person who took a 17yearold from her home. Police say it never happened. Now that teen could face false reporting charges. Keep a look out for this man, hes accused of unlawful sexual contact after he approached a woman. Happened monday near 44th and chambers. If you recognize him, call police. This morning governor hickenlooper will take to the podium and tell us how our state is doing. Denver 7 reporter Sally Mamdooh join us from the capitol with a preview. Reporter big day for colorado. The governor will make his speech at 11 00 this morning. Hell focus on addressing the hell be doing that in front of the Republican Controlled Senate and the democrat led house. Hell talk about the states significant needs including things like improving roads, expanding broad band access, making colleges affordable and tackling the issue of the Affordable Housing crisis. Hes also hoping todays speech hell help republicans and democrats find a Common Ground when it comes to major several issuess especially the states 27 billion budget. Live from the capitol, Sally Mamdooh, denver 7. Thank you. Colorado lawmakers returned to work yesterday. But this time the lead singer of the fray kicked things off. Oh say can you see they opened with the National Anthem sung by the lead singer of the fray, isaac slade who is from colorado. Lawmakers returned to the tough task of balancing the books. Look in any classroom and youll see kids on computers. This made lawmakers wonder if that might be compromising their personal information, including test scores. Representative garnet and lindine are drafting a bill 3 that would look at collecting data and how it affects learning. Our new political show called politics unplugged. This sunday Marshall Zelinger and Anne Trujillo will talk to leaders about the priorities theyve set for this years legislative session. Its sunday at 4 00 here on denver 7. New developments at 5 38 about that travel ightmare at dia. You remember it happened during the holiday rush. Some long, long lines formed last month with people waiting into the night, into the next morning in fact. The tsa is taking blame for those long lines saying correct staffing protocols they admit theyll try to do better in the future. Want to give you an update, a baby bear doing well after getting caught up in a Colorado Springs pizza parlor. He was found really hungry, hurt and scared in the back of louies pizza. The wild. Colorado parks and wildlife officials created a new hot and ready den for louie, where he and his two other bear friends will spend the winter. First we have to tranquilize them to handle them safely and well take them down to the den and put a door on the den and cover it with snow. Snow acts as a good insulator so it will keep them warm. The orphan cub goo rest at the West MountainValley Community foundation. The bears will sleep there until late april. Sounds good, doesnt it . I know. To sleep like that . And not have your muscles scientists not sure why. Its amazing. Wouldnt that be incredible . New baby, i could sleep to april. Im telling you. Almost time for the broncos to begin their postseason play. This sunday could be the most special for Demarius Thomas who is expecting a special guest. We hate to be the bearer of bad news, not like weve ever done that before, you did not win the powerball jackpoo. Someone else did. Winning tickets were sold in california, florida, and tennessee. Theyll split that 1. 6 billion. Before you get sad about this, some tickets worth 100,000 are floating around in colorado. Still check your tickets. Lets talk about the broncos. Fans can hardly wait. Our first playoff game this everyone. But Demarius Thomas will feel good morning. Championship. Tale of two quarterbacks. Manning healthy, ready to make 15th. Went through a good practice. Meanwhile, in pittsburgh, big ben had to watch practice, he said hes got till sunday. Hopes to be a good. Time. Hes one of the, in my opinion, cant play quarterback as long as he has or certain guys, if ben certainly epitomizes that. One of the greatest to ever play the game. With him. `ay. We talked tooDemarius Thomas and sunday could be one of the biggest games of his life. His mom might be watching him play for the First Time Ever live in person. She spent the last 15 years in prison for dealing cocaine. Just got released in november. Probation lifted. He was trying to stay calm and low key as he told us about it. Ill be excited and shell be excited. Live at Sports Authority field at mile high, much more on the broncos playoff game coming up later today on 7 sports xtra. Until them, have a great morning. Wed love to see the broncos make it to the super bowl. But theres another bowl game were keeping an eye on, the puppy bowl. ` we have representation this year. These three puppies are suiting up. Fluff. While riley will be on the opposite team, team ruff. Its animal planet, sunday, february 11th. My dog loves to watch the puppy bowl. Really . Hell try to claw at the tv. I love the video of the dogs watching the dogs. If youre getting the kids ready there morning, trying to get out the door, hopefully how many kids go to school at this hour . Upper 20s to low 30s. Windy out west. Foothills gusts between 30 and 50 miles per hour. Heading home low to mid40s. Really pretty mild for the `ids. Tomorrow at the bus stop, different story. Colder. With our next system the winds have picked up. Not looking at alerts along the front range. Up into wyoming, south into new mexico we have high Wind Warnings through the afterroon. 30 now in denver. 37 fort collins. 41 in boulder. 30s at the airport, its quite a bit warmer downtown where were seeing mild temps. This afternoon were in the low to mid40s. In some spots weve already hit our high for today. Well stay mild through the afternoon. Its not going to be quite as warm as yesterday. But were still up there. Upper 20s for tte central 3 mountains. Windy over the higher mountain parker 45. Bennett today, 46. Our next storm is a pretty weak one. Well see a series of weak storms roll through within the next couple of days. This will spread most of it snow in the mountains. Well get clear skies across the plains this morning. A little increase in cloud cover at times later today. Really its going to be plainly the mountaiis mainlyytte mountains that pick up the snow. Inches. Snow. 7 00tomorrow morning were still dry here in denver. Its going to be another pretty quiet commute friday morning. Windy in spots. Through the afternoon well see an increase n clouds tomorrow. By 2 00 on friday, you might pick up a few flurries at that point. Then a little light snow possible late day friday into earlyysaturday as that first wave rolls through. Well get another wave this weekend, could bring flurries, light snow saturday into sunday. Will be pretty much dry. Well see sunshine emerge that afternoon. It will be cold. Temperatures only in the low to mid30s. Well break down your broncos game with a planner coming up in a few minutes. Next week better chance for snow come wednesday. Wednesday that looks like it could be multiple inches of snow, maybe 3 to 6. Eric. I dont want to jinx it, but the drive nice. I70 at ward where traffic is running just fine. Were seeing a lot of green 225 through aurora. The dtccdrive is looking good. I70, pena boulevard in the green. But we have to remember well see the typical slowing for the stock show, all that traffic starting a little bit later this morning with that in town. Right now near the stock show complex there, looking good. Pack to the cdot cameras, i70 and Airport Boulevard also clear right now. Thank you, eric. 5 48. Skype has been in business 10 years. They have a feature users have been waiting for. In todays tech bytes, skype celebrating its tenth anniversary with a new feature. Users can conduct free Video Conference calls from all of their mobile devices. It will roll out in the coming weeks for ios, android and Windows Mobile devices. Ford has unveiled a new service. Drivers who download the ford pass an can book advanced parking and arrange ride sharing trips. Expected to launch in april. You can take a tour of the Worlds Largest model rail way exhibit without ever leaving home. Google maps has captured eeery detail in hamburg, germany, which consists over 8,000 miles of track. Reminds me of mr. Rogers neighborhood. Kind of does. But it isnt. Well wear our sweater and say those are your tech bytes. I love that thing. Seen it on youtube, i watch it 20 minutes. You have its train at christmas, right . Thats right. Back street boy nick carter arrested in florida. This is a look at the mug shot on tmz. Gossip site says he got in a fight at a bar in key west. The cops took carter into custody. New developments, pretty crazy video we showed you earlier, cold weather in upstate new york created that carcicle. Its free. Crews chipped enough way to get the car on a tow truck. The car was parked by a lake and froze after the lake effect snow and freezing temperatures. Also look at this, a cow fell through ice in greeley. Sad to see this. This is when he was trying to cross a creek. The Fire Department came out to help with the rescuee vets also came out. Hh responded saying the cow was good to hear. Ladies, this is a reminder, do your hair in the bathroom, not the restaurant kitchen. Could cost you your job. Coworkers celebrated bii after hitting the Powerball Jackpot. Breaking news we just learned during the commercial break, this actor, known for films like harry potter, he was in die hard, many other, prince of thieves, has died at the age of 69. Apparently the star was his family said he passed away last night. Alan rickman has passed away. You may remember him from many popular movies. New developments in the ambushed shooting of a philaaelphia pplice officer. The fbi is investigating it as a terror attack. Police say Edward Archer told them he was acting in the name of islam when he shot the officers cruiser last week. Police say archer pledges allegiance to isis. Flu season off to a late start here in colorado and really across the country. Its different than last year because december was one of the busiest months of the flu then. Doctors say the peak of this fluids season isson the way and theyre concerned not enough people are getting the vaccine. There was a myth a lot of people got sick that had their flu shots so theyre thinking i wont get it this year. I think that could be a big mistake. Flu season expected to peak in february. Doctors say there are still you still have time to get it. New this morning, two ladies in arkansas wont be going back to work at the waffle house. Pretty gross here. A customer shot this video of the women doing their hair behind the counter. One of them dipping their hair in a pot of boiling water. I just thought it was nasty and i needed to let somebody see this. Eww. The two women were obviously fired. The health deparrment came in to inspect the restaurant and the restaurant passed. The case was eventually closed. Why would you put your hair in boiling water . Why would you even do that . Some people fantasize about quitting their job when they win the jackpot. One Restaurant Owner did that in new jersey. A group of restaurant employees pitched in for a pool and went crazy when they thought they won the powerball. All the numbers matched. They say the moment was surreal. Thought they were walking away theyre dancing around. One guy quit his job on the oh, boy. The 20 minutes most important of my life. I feel great. Turns out the web site they were reading the numbers off of was out of date. They were reading numbers from a previous drawing. That . Matched. Thought they won. For that one second it felt so good. It was like 20 minutes, wasnt it . Probably. Calling family and video of of them goong, what, what . The realization. Is that us . No, its not. That stinks. It does. Nice forecast today. Low to mid50s. Heading into the weekend. Not bad. Clear across the entire state. To the north and west of colorado some snow. Thats going to hit our mountains this afternoon. Air qualitywise, moderate in denver. 40s today. It does cool down for the weekend. 37 friday. 34 on saturday. Chance for light snow it looks eric, how are the roads looking . Looking nice. C470 east of broadway southwest side of town, where traffic is running freely. I70 and c470 also in the clear. Im looking at the maps now and were still in the green wherever you go. No major accidents. We hope it stays that way. Thank you. Big morning for hollywood. In a bit well learn who is nominated for the academy awards. Well bring that announcement live later in our newscast. A guy saying he won the Powerball Jackpot taking social media by storm