Gustier up to the northeast. Also up and through the foothills today. Look at these numbers, denver 60. 40s and 50s in the mountains. This is just the start. Tomorrow it gets warmer. So far so good across the freeways, byways, highways, side streets, anywhere you want to go looking pretty nice. This is looking along looks like i76 im going to call it. Thats 270 there going past vasquez. Sapp brothers there. You can see their sign and thats that transition to go to i70 that way. Looking at Pretty Lights and sapp brothers over there east side looking good. You can see a lot of green this morning. South side, north side, an issue popped up moments ago, 285 looking okay. Not seeing significant delays. You are starting to get a little more traffic here and there. Overall a pretty good drive. Okay, great, show them an theres a sign. All kinds of stuff. This is a concern for a lot of parents, bus driver arrested `for suspicion of dui, after kids. 30 kids on board. Denver7 reporter eric lupher live this morning as the buses get ready to leave for another school day. Eric, thankfully no one got hurt. Reporter fortunately no one was injured. Now its friday and buses are starting to leave again, where thousands of kids will take the bus again. Clearly a scary situation, a shocking situation for parents. It was a staffer who noticed alcohol on Michael Hobbs breath and turned him in. This is where it happened. It was at West Middle School yesterday afternoon, hobbs actually was able to leave the school with 30 kids on board. Administrators finally stopped him at his first stop and thats when the administrators told the kids to get off that school bus. So heres what happened after to check on the driver and cleared him medically. Then a sheriffs deputy with Arapahoe County showed up, conducted a road side sobriety test and arrested hobbs on suspicion of dui. The blood test wont be back for a couple of weeks. Back here live we do not have a picture of hobbs, but we do know he worked for the Cherry Creek School district for about a year and a half. What is the district saying . Well have details coming up after 6 30. Southeast aurora, eric lupher, denver 77 thanks, eric. This arvada pe teacher behind bars accused of Sexual Exploitation of a child. Young. Teaches gym at sierra elementary. Police say their investigation began when he told them child porn images had accidentally popped up on his computer. Young has been on administrative leave since december. Mass shooting, three people when a man opens fire on random drivers before shooting his coworkers in hesston, kansas. Ford. Weve just learned that ford had just been served with a restraining order from his ex girlfriend about an hour and a rampage. Man, i seen people running out saying, run, run. And pop, pop, pop, pop. Thats all i heard. Everybody started scattering out of the building, and i didnt realize what happened until we got outside and i coming out. The first officer on the scene ran inside, shot the suspect dead. The sheriff called him a hero and said he aved many lives. The final Republican Debate before super tuesday seemed more like a screaming debate. Most lines can be sumed up between marco rubio and donald trump. First of all, this guy is a choke artist and this guy is a liar. Were losing so much to mexico your ties and the clothes you wear are made in mexico and china. You dont know a thing about business. Youre the only person on this stage fined for hiring people to work on your projects illegally. No, you havent hired anybody. Ben carson and governor kasich stayed out of this fray. But carson made a confusing comment when asked how he would fill the Supreme Court vacancy. The fruit salad of their life is what i would look at. He said he would base it on their lifes work and court rulings. Students at cu boulder can get out of midterms with a selfie. Chemistry exams are scheduled for tuesday night, the same time as the colorado caucuses. The department has given students a deal, attend a caucus, take a picture and you wont have to take the exam. Cu students. I bet there will be a lot of people taking advantage of would you do it . Yes, i was not god at chemistry. Me either. Its why were here. 3 dayle cedars is in loveland. Inside these trucks is enough food to feed hundreds of thousands of starving children all over the world. Its amazing what they plan to do in two days time. You guys. In about two and a half days theres going to be 2500 to 3,000 volunteers that will package more than a half million of these packages and these trucks will be completely full. Joining us now is brian to talk a little bit more about this. Tell me who are the volunteers and who are the groups involved . Weve really touched a nerve i think here in Northern Colorado. We actually have people coming from churches and local businesses and also schools and honor societies and theyre coming from as far away as some people came from parker, and estes park, fort collins and loveland. Really people from all over. And they want to help. Reporter talk about these meals. What is it youre putting together . Well, theres soy and rice, but also a scientific diet that is filled with vitamins made specifically for helping people that are really on the brink of starvation get their basic needs. Reporter theres six meals inside one of those packages and all it takes is about six weeks to turn the life of a yes. There are very dramatic changes that have occured with kids that can barely lift their heads to now theyre happy and healtty and they can do the when theyre hungry. School. So it really is an infrastructure builder for those conditions where youve got to get people healthy. Reporter a lot of these heading to haiti to really help out the kids down there. We are going to put one of those to the test. Weve got some water boiling off to the side. Coming up later in our 6 00 newscast were going to show you exactly what is inside one of those packages. Live at the Larimer County fairgrounds, dayle cedars, denver 7. Thats cool. Should be neat to look at. Dayle goes camping in the parking lot. A sneak peek inside coors stadium series. Jason gruenauer is at coors field now. We know youre excited about this. Reporter i am. Normally when im reporting here its all about baseball, but not today. The avalanche and the red wings, not the rockies and their opponents, will be taking over coors field. Alumni game tonight, regular game tomorrow. Outside theres a spectator plaza. Were going to put ourselves to the test here. We have the honda shootout. Ramp, hit the target, if i hit it it lights up. And i missed. Were going to dry it again. As im doing this, all right, ive been hitting it all morning. Were going to actually show you inside what coors field looks like. Theres a baseball stadium thats hosting a hockey game. Theres an ice rink on it now. They hhve all sorts of Live Entertainment planned. The fray will be playing, andy grammer playing. This plaza here outside is open all afternoon starting from 1 00 to 5 00, thh game is at 5 00. Then from 2 00 to 6 00 tomorrow. Its a big influx, because normally coors field isnt used at all this time of year. The only thing is the weather is a little bit warm for hockey. Thats why were playyng out here on plexiglass, trying to i bounced it off. But the crews are working extra hard to keep the ice there. They had to ship in foam snow, not actual snow. Thats because tomorrow, i think its going to be like 60. I was going to say, have you made it yet . Reporter its harder than it looks. I like how he did that, im going to roll video if this starts to go south. Almost, almost. Its going to be really warm. This is not ice in the middle of the baseball field kind of weather. Take a look at tomorrow. If youre going out early, going out for the experience outside, youre going to find temperatures at around 2 00, 70 degrees. By 6 00 when the puck drops tomorrow night, well be at 60. A little breezy. But upper 40s by tomorrow night. Very nice. Overall a pretty good drive. From airtracker 7, this is i70 hmm hmm hmmhmmhmmhmm counting the cars on the new jersey turnpike [ cheers and applause ] all come to look for america all come to look for america im Bernie Sanders, and i approve this message. 6 13. Welcome back. We have sad news to pass along. Paul james murphy, the last known coloradian who survived indianapolis has died. I had the pleasure of interviewing him several times. The u. S. S. Indianapolis delivered the key components of the first atomic bomb. As it headed across the sea in july of 1945, a Japanese Submarine torpedoed the ship. For four days the crew of more than a thousand trapped in the water, many died from shark attacks. Murphy told me how he survived. As a group we would splash and holler and it seemed to leave us alone. All 1197 of us received purple hearts. Murphy was one of only 317 survivors. He died sunday at the age of 91. Survived by his wife, six children, several grandchildren and greatgrandchildren. His funeral is tomorrow in broomfield. If mary lou is watching, our he loved cigars so i would trade cigars with him. A great guy. Youve been able to interview so many amazing people, im sure that was fascinating. That was one of my favorites. I till have my coffee mug with the u. S. S. Indianapolis on it. Cool. A beautiful couple of days ahead of us. Little windy in spots. You can see current wind in denver between 10 to 15 miles per hour. Well be watching the foothills and areas like greeley, sterling. Gustier today, 15 to 25 miles per hour. Clear skies across the entire region. Another very dry day. Big ridge of High Pressure building in the west and that will keep our temperatures well above normal and our skies clear. Today 30 to start in denver. Youre going to find relative humidity at 56 and winds pretty calm. Fort collins youre below freezing. City park 29 now. In castle rock 31. Your kids this morning theyll gets chilly when youre standing in one spot at the bus stop for a little longer. Youll find teens and 20s in the mountains. Much warmer in spots that yesterday we saw 20s and 30s. Across northeastern colorado, 55 to about 65 degrees in spots. Denver 60 today. We have Highlands Ranch at 65. Aurora at 64. Platville 58. Upper 50s to low even mid60s with clear skies. Thats why im fast forwarding this futurecast to 7 00 tomorrow morning. Not much to show in the next 24 hours. By saturday afternoon a few clouds will develop. We have a weak storm that will roll through, well get a little cloud cover ahead of it. Mountains will pick up a little light snow by saturday, late day, early evening. Then it will spread into the Central Mountains overnight saturday into early sunday. Not a lot of snow for the inches and skies will gradually clear out by sunday. More sunshine at that point. 6 00sunday morning well see sunshine here in denver. Not a lot of moisture with this storm for us. It will bring our temperatures down. From 60 today to 70 tomorrow. Sunday were at 55. Cooler but pretty mild. First week of march looks pretty nice. We have a weak storm on tuesday. That could bring with it a light mix. Want to send it out live to dayle cedars. Gorgeous sunrise, dayle. Reporter absolutely gorgeous up here in Northern Colorado. Were at the Larimer County fairgrounds. Its cold, clear skies have our temperatures chilly. Were giving you fort collins, loveland, and windsor when it comes to your forecast. Were at about 25 degrees. Its cold. The wind at least very calm. Thats not an issue. But by this afternoon well temperatures to about 60 degrees. It will make for a great day. Once we get through cold of the Early Morning hours. Well be out here live talking about an organization and a great event that is taking ace over the next two and a half days coming up in a little bit. That will be in our 6 30 hour. Now inside to jayson. Looking nice across aurora. Airtracker 7, the i225 drive, theres mississippi. You can see the light rail tracks as theyre doing a lot more work to get it ready for opening day as were getting closer to that aurora line that will take you from 9mile up to fitzsimons. I25 and 62nd southbound getting busier, but not too bad. Heavy traffic confined to i76 getting busier. Overall not bad. Standard drive to the south side. Little bit more traffic here minutes downtown to the denver tech center. If you have to catch a flight, wide open pena boulevard,. Thank you. The shootings weve been talking about in kansas comes tragedy at home. You can see a long line of Law Enforcement escorting the body of fallen Deputy Nate Carrigan play. School resource officer. The community has set up a gofundme account in his honor. So far its raised nearly 10,000 for the Scholarship Fund in his name. Deputy kolby martin, this is a picture of him here, is currently recovering at st. Anthony hospital in lakewood. The 11year veteran has improved to serious condition. Doctors say hes even up and moving around now, which is great news. The other deputy injured, captain mark hancock, is now out of the hospital. Were learning a little bit more about the gunman who shot eviction notice in bailey wednesday. We obtained a january 20th sheriffs report that talks about a visit from the state farm office in conifer. Martin wirth apparently was denied insurance because he didnt have a valid license. In response the report says he said something to the effect of i should get my gun and shoot the first cop i see. A concerned employee even called the Jefferson County sheriffs office. 6 20. Colorados Unemployment Rate is among the lowest in the country. Federal numbers report our rate has dropped to 3. 9 , this is for 2015. The national rate, 5. 3 . Were waiting to learn if large cuts at halliburton will hit colorado. Theyre cutting 8 of its workforce. That comes out to about 5,000 jobs world wide. The ceo says the oil industry has turned down faster than any `other industry. Long time broncos fans know whaa its like to win back to finally here, lisa has grown an inch. No, no. Denver7 is freezing for a reason this weekend. Well join Special Olympics plunge. Team. Lisa is leading the team now and were leading them, right . Only by 50 bucks. We were up by 500 yesterday. Team. Youll just have to write a check for the difference. We decided on our team costume. Conner had a special message im conner. All and were the Power Rangers. Thats right. Were dressing up as the Power Rangers for the power plunge watch out, eric. Eric. Not for you, but for us. [ singing ] they will see the people rise they will see the people rise what he said, yeah, exactly. Perfect. He is awesome. Not for you, but for us. I cant wait to see him tomorrow. Obviously dressing up as Power Rangers. Mitch will jump in in a full suit. One of your old ones, right . One, come on. Happens tomorrow at the denver zoo. Run starts at 11 00. Plunge starts at 12 00. You can donate. Every little bit helps. Five, 10 bucks. Can you sign up early tomorrow morning if you get out there . Yes. Theyre trying to get everyone to raise at least 75. I was looking at the web site, between our two teams were at about 5,000 now. Nice. Over 60, 70,000. Amazing. Thank you for that, by the way. Will be warm for the run. First alert weather tomorrow by 11 00 were at 62 degrees. Really very warm. By noon 65 for the plunge and the beer garden at 2 70. Thats what jayson is looking forward to. 70s and the beer garden. Beautiful day today, tomorrow. 60 today. Clear skies. Beautiful there. Temperatures today around 60 degrees. 30s and 40s just off to the west of us. Lisa, thank you. 6 26. A bus driver stopped and arrested, accused of driving drunk with dozens of kids aboard the bus. Our eric lupher live with reaction from the school. Field, the diamon when you get one gig internet from centurylink and prism tv and theyre both delivered on a superfast Fiber Network directly to your home, its amazing. It is amazing, but do you think his delivery was a little flat on that one . Its a little bit more like, its amazing oh, wow. Oh, mom, that was really good. Thank you. Wow. [ sighs ] feel like a hollywood insider. Okay, ill work on it. With prism tv plus gig Internet Speed im Hillary Clinton and i approve this message. Her lifes work has been about breaking barriers. Which is why, for every american whos not being paid what theyre worth. Or a system tilted against them and there are far too many of you she understands that our country cant reach its potential. Unless we all do. Together. How about this sunrise this morning . To start off your friday. February started off with the huge blizzard and ended up with some of the best weather weve had all winter. February is stealing marchs thunder a little bit. You still have time to make outdoor plans and you probably should. Will be nice today and tomorrow. How many times do you need sunscreen in denver . Skiing you do, but here its unreal. 60s today. 70 tomorrow. This is a gorgeous shot from our sunrise. Very bright drive into work this morning. Temperatures near freezing. Were at 30 now in denver. Winds southwest at 5 to 10 miles per hour. Looking across the region, clear skies. Not much if anything popping up. A little snow in the mountains it looks like late saturday into sunday. Thats good. Well add a few inches to the ski resorts. Today 59 a high in greeley. Denver 60. Could get gusty in southeastern colorado. No big delays, but this is our first accident on the highways, eastbound side of highway 36 at church ranch. You can see the sign there. That wall. Blocked. Traffic is breezing by it. Very light traffic here. You can see the light traffic the north side of town, coming in from 120th to the north side you can see some of that light traffic and then on the map you can see we have a pretty nice drive about anywhere you want to go. Heavier traffic, southbound avenue. Thank you. Imagine getting a call from your Childs School saying their bus driver had been arrested for dui with the kids on the bus. Thats what happened in the Cherry Creek School district. Denver7s eric lupher has learned more information overnight. Reporter we did learn new the driver will be in a courthouse at 2 00 this afternoon. A courtroom, rather. Thats set for 2 00 today. Heres what happened. A staffer at West Middle School smelled alcohol on hobbs breath before he started taking kids to school. Fortunately, he was turned in, but was able to drive off with 30 kids in the bus. He didnt make it far, only to the next stop, where administrators caught up with the bus and had all the kids get off. Arapahoe county deputy eventually did a field sobriety test and took hobbs intt custody for suspicion of dui. A spokesperson with the Cherry Creek School district said hobbs has been with the district since 2015. The denver post reporting he wont be back to work. Im in southeast aurora, eric lupher, denver 7. Thank you, eric. Commmnitt comes together for a scholarship for a fallen hero. Corporal Nate Carrigan with the park county sheriffs off the shot and killed serving an eviction notice in bailey this week. People who knew him say he was `down to earth, humble guy. He was a school bus driver, training to be a deputy and football and baseball coach. Our coach, we can play for him, what we would have wanted us to do. The other two deputies are still recovering. Weve also heard from park countys sheriff about the deadly confrontation with the martin wirth, the shooter. He says this was an eviction, something they normally routinely do, should have never ended this way. You can hear his comments in full on our web site and also the denver 7 app. New developments out of kansas on that mass shooting where three people are dead after a plant worker opened fire on his coworkers. He was also shot dead. Been served a restraining order from his exgirlfriend about 14 hours before the shooting. Tonight for the First Time Ever denver fans can watch an nhl hockey game outside. Should be fun. Denver7 reporter Jason Gruenauer joins us from coors field. Couldnt ask for Better Weather in february. Looking good. Reporter yes, couldnt ask and warm looking stylish. This is the logo the avalanche will be wearing. We have a bunch of stuff going on. The field is all set, the rink is all set. Were here at spectator plaza. We have a band stage, the weiner mobile is here, bubble hockey. Im going to try to redeem myself from this missed target shot in just a second. Its already getting warm out here. Inside what it looks like, one its verr, very cool looking inside. The fact theres an nhl rink from baseline to baseline. No, they had to truck in foam stuffing to make it look like snow. The hard part is keeping that ice frozen inside the field. They have put a reflective tarp. They have a 900ton restrict rater unit refrigerator unit. Theyve done this in california and even las vegas and say its a battle to keep the ice, ice. Youre building something where it really doesnt belong and i think people will be impressed with what this stadium will look like come game day. Reporter im going to tell you, im quite impressed. This is a miniature version of what were going to see coming up later. Were going to run you through it, because some of the red wings must be shooting on that thing. Well have to start a fight with them in just a second. The alumni game is tonight at 5 00. Stadium series game is tomorrow night at 6 00. Whole area will be open to the public. Its open and free to the public, all part of this historic thing. Nhl has done 17 of these games, never bben in colorado before. Really a good time, still Tickets Available on the secondary market. As i heave you guys, im going to run over here, pick up a puck and im going to shoot my little heart out. One puck, one shot. Good job. Reporter all that counts. Yes, no one was tending the goal there, but you made it. Must be the outfit. Makes him shoot straighter. Thank you, jason. Hes not having fun. Today players start going through the drills at the nfl scouting combine in john elway says he wants to sign von miller to a longterm deal. As for the quarterback broncos are in no rush with manning. And theyre working on a deal with brock osweiler. Ted cruz and marco rubio doing everything they can to try to stop donald trump and did it get tense last night during that gop debate. Having a lot of fun up here tonight, i have to tell you. Thank you for the book. Donald, relax. Im relakesed. Youre the basket case. phone ringing you cant deal with something, by ignoring it. But thats how some president ial candidates seem to be dealing with social security. Americans work hard, and pay into it. So our next president needs a real plan to keep it strong. elephant noise donkey noise hey candidates, to stand up to big oil because he wont take their money. Thats why sanders said no to the Keystone Pipeline hes also the only candidate to oppose fracking because fracking can endanger our Drinking Water and threaten our climate. Sanders has the most farreaching plan to fight Climate Change and build a clean energy future. Bernie sanders people before polluters. Sanders im Bernie Sanders and i approve this message. Its friday. Yay and its beautiful outside. Sangre de cristos, gorgeous. More snow saturday night into sunday. Watch our futurecast starting at 7 30 tomorrow. We have clear skies from now until it looks like tomorrow afternoon. By that point well see a few clouds and light snow developing in the northern and Central Mountains. By early sunday morning well pick up a few extra inches of snow in the mountains. Moments ago they just cleared all lanes of the eastbound side of highway 36 at church lane. Stopped traffic for a moment, cleared the accident and all looking good, as well as here on wadsworth on highway 36. Sunshine a major factor, thank you. To call the final gop debate before super tuesday tense is it was entertaining last night to say the least. Insults were flying, so heres 20 of the best zingers in 60 seconds. You dont know a thing about business. I dont know anything about bankrupting four companies. Firing Dennis Rodman on celebrity apprentice. You should be ashamed of yourself. If he builds the wall the way he built trump tower, hell use illegal immigrants. This is another area on which donald agrees with Hillary Clinton. First of all, few people listen to your radio show. When you say crazy zealot are you talking about you . You may not be aware of this, donald, because you dont follow this closely. Swing for the fences. I watched him melt down and it was one of the saddest thing ive seen. Having a lot of fun up here, tonight. Donald, donald, relax. Go ahead im relaxed. Youre the basket case. Wow. At one point dr. Carson was like, please insult me, so he could get in on it. They kept insulting each other politics in america. Next tuesday, 12 states hold primaries and caucuses, including colorado. Willing to participate, has a chance to win one roundtrip ticket to anywhere jetblue flies. Heres the catch, the entire plane has to unanimously decide on that destination. Can only go one place. In the spirit of politics, Airline Passengers get a lesson in reaching across the aisle. Jetblue making an amazing deal for a free trip, but only if a plane full of strangers can make a decision together. Welcome back. 6 44on your friday. Take a look at this gorgeous sunrise. This shot coming to us from loveland. Dayle is up there this morning talking about a great initiative, slammin for famine, trying to feed thousands around the world. This is from airtracker 7, the gorgeous Rocky Mountains there full of snow. But down hire, will be a beautiful day. Heres the deal, youre part of something historic tonight. You step on a flight. Passengers on a jetblue flight this week were met with a challenge. They would get a free round trip ticket to anywhere jetblue flies if they can all agree on the destination. It came down to two. There were a lot more hands up for costa rica. Had a lot of hands up. Lets just freaking go. Quality of life is amazing. The dollar is strong. You get a lot for your money. I switched over to costa rica. Less than 90 minutes in it was time for all passengers to cast the final vote. Raise your hand if you have chosen no hands in the air. [ applause ] 150 random strangers have chosen unanimously to go to costa rica. [ applause ] thats awesome. If youre wondering dont these people have places to go . They get a voucher for this trip. So its part social experiment, and part advertisement for jetblue. There . What if they changed direction, were going now. Wait, wait, i have a business meeting. That would be bad. Too late more amazing video, at first it may look like any other plane plannedding. Wheels. The plane hit the ground. This is in guam. None of the people on board were hurt. Cargo plane, so only three on board thankfulll. We have a lot of sunshine. But the mountains will see wind speeds at about 15 to 30 miles per hour. 60s today. 70s tomorrow. And a weak storm sunday. Very weak. Were not going to see much from it in denver. Wind speeds now, estes park, allenspark. No alerts in place, at least not in colorado. Normal high today is 49. The record high is 71. Were not going to quite get to the record today. But tomorrow very good chance we could tie it or break it. Broomfield now 32. Castle rock 31. We have teens and 20s in the mountains to start. Highs there this afternoon are going to be well into the 40s and 50s. Most of northeastern colorado upper 50s to around 60. Denver today a high of 60. At the airplane well be at about airport about our skies are clear now. Its going to stay this way for the next 24 hours. Lets start your futurecast at 7 30 tomorrow morning. At thaa point still a lot of sunshine statewide. By the afternoon a few clouds roll through denver and there is going to be a little snow developing in through our northern and Central Mountains by tomorrow night. This is a pretty weak disturbance. What it does for us in denver, picks up our winds a bit. Sunday. Not going to see a lot of moisture, though a few showers could clip the northeastern corner. Sunday. Looking ahead, next week theres a bigger storm. Not huge. Tuesday into wednesday a chance for a light mix. Temperatures in the mid40s. A little cooler with that well get a better chanceefor rain and snow here in denver. This morning, its perfect. Lets send it over to dayle cedars, shes got a live look at the forecast in Northern Colorado. Reporter thats right, we are here at the Larimer County fairgrounds. We have basically your fort collins, loveland and windsor forecast. Are starting to warm. We were at 25 a short time ago and have climbed to about 28 degrees. The wind have picked up a little bit. We have a wind speed of 5 to 10 miles per hour. By this afternoon nice and gorgeous. Temperatures about 60 degrees. Beautiful clear skies this morning. That sunshine is just going to make for a very bright day later on this afternoon. Those temperatures tomorrow as warmer. Were live in windsor, dayle cedars, denver 7. That shine will be a major sunshine will be a major factor, not only heading up from the north side, but look comes over and bam, slows you down coming in from wadsworth into the i25 area. You can see starting to see traffic in the usual spots, 6th and 285 and c470 all affected, as well as i70 with the bright sunshine. Heaviest traffic so far from the north side from 120th down to downtown denver. About 20 minutes there. 2700is pretty busy, typical 10 minutes either direction across commerce city. Typical seeing the heaviest traffic on 225 coming down from parker road. Travel time segments now, you can see the heaviest is 10 minutes from parker to i25. Minutes there. Everything else looks great, including getting to dia. Ten minutes on either side of pena boulevard. Ten to 7 00. One of our favorite stories, an escaped unicorn on the run. You heard that right. This is juliette. With a realistic horn. Children. She got away in fresno, california yesterday posing for pictures. Away. Police chased it for more even brought in a helicopter. In the end it was a neighbor on her horse who coaxed the little unicorn to go on home. Well get you caught up on all the big stories of the morning in the morning sprint, including an inmate allowed to walk out of jail early. Plus a packed school bus stopped after leeving school for the day. The driver arrested, accused of we start with a nightmare scenario for parents. A bus driver stopped minutes after leaving school suspectd of of getting behind the wheel drunk. Eric lupher is live this morning. 30 kids were on board when this happened. Reporter parents are outrageed this morning and theyre talking about it on our Facebook Page and our web site, thedenverchannel. Com. They are wondering whats going to happen to Michael Hobbs, the driver arrested on suspicion of dui. You can see here at one of the bus barns for Cherry Creek School district, the buses are starting to clear out for another day of school. Michael hobbs was getting ready to take kids home from school at West Middle School, when a staffer smelled alcohol on his but he was able to make it to the first bus stop yesterday afternoon. Thats when the administrators caught up to him and that bus. The kids got off, an Arapahoe County sheriff came and did a field sobriety test and thats when he was arrested for suspicion of dui. Hell be in court at 2 00 this afternoon. Eric lupher, denver 7. This arvada teacher is behind bars accused of Sexual Exploitation of a child. Lucas cole young has been on administrative leave since mid december. Police started investigating after he reportedly told them child porn images accidently popped up on his computer. The denver jail releases an inmate by error. The inmate walked out of jail yesterday around 10 00 in the morning and he was behind bars for parole violation. Hes in custody again and now to figure out how this mistake was made. We confirmed now seven cases of the mumps in colorado. Investigators believe its linked to an outbreak that started in iowa. If you get the mumps, you can take overthecounter medication and stay hydrated. And the flu vaccine cuts risks by 6 . Mostly sunny, beautiful. Temperatures soaring across the state. 40s and 50s into the mountains. I want to show you what were expecting this weekend. Even warmer heading into it looks like the weekend. Temperatures from 70 degrees here in denver to even warmer in some spots. Could get into the low, even mid70s. Potentially talking some record breaking highs on saturday. 50s. But it will be perfect saturday for our polar plunge. Reporter also perfect weather for a hockey game in a thats right. The nhl stadium series is coming to coors field. Alumni game tonight and avs and red wings tomorrow. Here theres plenty to do for the family, entertainment, food, and of course challenging television. These are open four hours before. Today starting at 1 00 through 5 00. Tomorrow at 2 00 through 6 00. Theres plenty to do and there are Tickets Available if you want to pick them up for tonight game or tomorrow. Reporting live, im Jason Gruenauer, one more shot, denver 7. Thats four goals on an empty net. I dont think those count. Top shelf. Look at that. i would have you sing with me, colorado boulevard is really slowing us down tremendously. That will be the major factor. Overall map a lot of red coming in from the i76, 270 and i25 drive. Everything else getting busy. Sunshine also hitting us in the eyes at 470 by broadway. Reporter im dayle cedars live in Northern Colorado where noco is slammin for famine. Joining us now is brian, you guys are out here tomorrow, starting this afternoon. Youll are preparing over 500,000 meals. That is correct. Well be packing meals going to kids all over the world, including haiti and south africa. Helping us pack. ` reporter great. Lets talk about, we made up tell us what this is. This is a combination of soy and rice anddvitamins and actually a couple of this will its proven to bring them back from the brink of starvation. They say from six weeks of eating this meal it can truly save a childs life. Big impact in Northern Colorado. Thank you for doing this. So exciting. Dayle cedars, denver 7. So great. What an effort. So many kids. No kidding. Good job. Does jason need more help getting the goals . Come on, brother. Hes like 2 feet away from it. But we love him. Did he miss . He missed one. Deushane jersey. I dont think hell be getting good morning, america. Breaking overnight, deadly shooting. The gun was strapped to him. He was ready to go. The chase to stop the four killed. More than a dozen injured. What were learning this morning about the gunman and the hero cop who brought him down. Fireworks at the gop debate. This guys a choke artist. Donald trump targeted from all sides. If he builds the wall the way he belt trump tower hell be it. Rubio rune looking to make it a twoman race overnight. Is it too little too late with super tuesdays away . Marco rubio joins us this morning. A bombshell in court. The shocking video that erin