People were shot at a car dealership parking lot. Five minutes later, other people were shot in the plot of a cracker barrel. As far as we can tell these are all random shootings 45 year old Jayson Dalton is the suspect. He didnt put up a fight when Police Arrested him. At this point police havent speculated on a motive but say he has no criminal history. Some other big stories across the country this morning. The republican field for president continues to shrink. Jeb bush just ended hhs bid. First, another warm and windy day fuels our wildfire risk. Water drops at this fire in fort carson. We will take a closer look in just a minute. Downtown. You can see dealing with some cloud coverage. The sun still enough to creep through. If you are headed out to grab breakfast. This is 36degrees downtown. 41 in fortlupton. Denver, should be 49degrees. Well see that at about 2 00. This puts us right about average by about 45degrees. But 6 00 pretty mild. Enjoy this. Yes, it is a little bit cooler, talking about snow. A moment. Art. Dayle. In the past few days we have seen about a half dozen grass fires in our state. The danger is considered moderate. The grass is high which is normal for this time of year and we have had some windy days which is normal for this time of year. They probably arent as concerned but if its dry through the months then they get lot more concerned as you move into may and june the National Weather service is tracking the trends here but it is a bit early for a definitive fire cast. The irk70 and Glen Wood Canyon pass remains closed. I70 and glenwood. It has been closed since monday. Slide heavily damaged the road. When will it reopen . It will likely only be one lane open and could take eeks. Cdot recommends you take alternate routes. We have a complete break down on the denver 7 app right now. The race for the white house, we will not see another bush in the oval office at least not this time around. Jeb bush announced he is ending his bid for presidency tonight i ending my bid for presidency no. Yep. Yep. He is choked up a little bit and said he is proud of the campaign he ran. The billionaire Businessman Donald Trump has trump thanked his cheering supporters after last nights win and predicted big wins ahead. Lets put this thing away. And lets make America Great again. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Ted cruz and marco rubio fought a tight battle with marco rubio taking the tight spot by 2 . On the democrat side it Hillary Clinton who came out on top in thh nevada caucuses. Clinton was able to overcome and unexpectedly strong surge overbernie sanders. We want. Washington is never going to have the answers but for every problem we face somewhere someone in america is solving it. As for sanders he can connratulated clinton. But said the wind is at our backs. Former president clinton is pushing for support in Colorado Springs today. Doors open at 11 00. We will take a look at what needs to be done to get more and one of the most important replacementt is the opening or justice scalia. Reporter it was hardly the simple parish mass he wanted but for justice scalia, a fitting farewell. Givvn high catholic honors at a mass celebrated by his son. Dad understood the deeper he went in his catholic faith the better servant he became. Reporter there was little that blunted his sharp wit . He had found himself in hi confession line and quickly departed it. As he put it later, like heck im confessing to you. Reporter as scalia is laid to rest the political battle to replace him is underway. President obama spending the week choosing the nominee. They say his pick should not be blocked until 2017. Reporter it will be the longest vacancy on the court in more than 40 years if theres not a replacement made. Up next on denver 7, hile its been warm we have been very spoiled lately. Theres nothing to help hundreds keep warm yesterday. It was the polar plunge yesterday. And today hundreds more will it is 9 10 hopefully you are having a nice start to your sunday. This is a look south towards pikes peek. It is looking pretty good this morning. We are going to have more snow coming on thooe peeks. In a bit we will talk about the forecast in a moment. Some 1300 people are on their way up, up, up. They are raising money for lung cancer research. This is the top of Republic Plaza, our favorite participant is just getting to start. Denver 7s Lindsay Watts is with us. Reporter good morning, dayle and eric. This event isunderway. Right now we have climbers getting ready to embark to the 50 flights of stairs. We just had our first climbers finish up. The top finishers did it six times. We have a familiar face in this crowd meteorologist lisa hidalgoogetting ready to make that climb i know youre excited. Who doesnt want to do 50 flights of stairs on a suspends morning. They are racing about 400,000 just in this one event. Really a cool thing. Reporter i know a lot of participants have been touched by lung disease maybe somebody in their family or even maybe a lung cancer survivor themselves. We talked to so many really cool teams one of the top donations was from a team they raised 9,000 for it. They have a close connection. And marc stewart is somewhere in the crowd and if we see him well get that to you. Good luck. Have fun out there, lisa. Bye, guys. I will tell you its a lot harder than you think it is. Oh, no, if you get moving. People who run it is impressive. I had trouble walking up the second floor here at denver 7 studios. That means you need to dd it more often. This is a busy weekend when it comes to fundraisers . Thank goodness we had the warm weather out at the reservoir. Hundreds showed up to take the polar plunge for a great cause. Denver 7 is a very great sponsor and i was out there enjoying this great event. Were going to be so cold. Reporter one gutsy team at a time. Showing up to jump in the reservoir in february. It fills my heart. There are so many people that care about our organization and `ur athletes . Reporter Special Olympics athletes like hannah haul who without this wouldnt be able to play the sports she loves. We raise every dollar in the community to provide sports, 20,000 people with intellectual reporter even the police chief braved the 30degree something water. Sure a few flip flops were left behind, but in this community our special olympic athletes will never be left in the cold. Hannah there was the greatest little girl. Its awesome to see the kids get involved in this. And lisa hidalgo was there yesterday. But dont worry were going to be taking the plunge. Thats right were going to be out at the denver zoo. Denver 7 freezing for a reason, with lisa hidalgo is going to be our leader, which can be scary because im not sure what shes going to make us wear. The goal is to raise more money than tonight side crew, so please help us beat them. And send your donation there. And yes, we ppomise we will have video of our plunge once it is done. All in all in the six years they have raised more than 1. 4 million. And we are jumping into the hippo pit at the zoo. And i was wondering that. They said theyre bringing in a pool of ice water. A reservoir or ice water. Or the hippo pit. Im thinking the hippo pit could be a little dirty. Welcome back, everybody. It is now 9 18 this is a look from federal and evans this morning. It got downright warm for february after our big snow, and now dayle is tracking for us. We are finally gog ge so rmalnditns ou re. Yesthe motainwoul loveo seme re sn. We artef febrry real gooanthent nd of diminished. Temperatures well above where it should be this time of year. So lets bring back some of that winter weather. As you take a look over denver, it doubt look like winter at it doesnt look like winter at all. Reporter what youre going to see is the warmup is just where we have been. Our highs most of us in the metro area upper 40s low 50s. Gunnison, ledville, steamboat and craig, you should top out in the upper 30s. Eastern plains low 40s and upper 50s as well. Mid 50s and a few such as lamar into those upper 50s. In fact lamar you are really looking to be the warm spot. Brighton 50, eerie 49. We dropped a few of these temperatures from what we were seeing earlier this morning because were just not going to get the warmup the clouds keeping the temperatures a our futurecast quiet for the metro area and Eastern Plains but you can see the clouds in the northern half of the state. Mostly northern, if we get be probably less than a half of an inch. Tomorrow however, it is going to start in the high country, we are going to start off with a little bit of clear skies, and then we will rebound and drop. You can see how the snow fills the state. Then we could pick up some rainn rainsnow mix. It will turn to snow for the metro area as we move monday into tell us and then we could be picking up about 24 inches of snow down here. The one thing thats not going to be picking up is our temperatures. Look at tuesday, we top out at 36 degrees. Its a quick system. Once it moves outlook how nicely we rebounds. 60s, which means any snow we do get is going to be gone quickly. And the north side of your house, you will still see your lawn. Whats the good thing about march is we could get the snow, but its warmer so it not going to stick around. I like those big ones, dump on us and then its gone. There was excitement at welcome to another edition of sport extra. The first ever outdoor hockey game in colorado. 301st meeting between denver and colorado college. The record 35,144 in. Thats a school record. Didnt take it long to get it going. Freshmen game for the big stage. The pacific rim line, gambrel, got to unleash the beast. Moving the puck nicely and hinen hits it. 15 seconds later, gambrel41. This one was special for everybody involved including d. U. And the the centennial. La cross. Opening score came from jack bob zeen. Duke would answer. That was one of them. D. U. Up 54. Thats conner kantazarro. 1412 your final. To the hard wood. Different story. Cowboys and rams. Josh adams. Oh, my goodness. Throw it down. Poke is up 14 at the half and he is heating up. Adams filled the stat sheet with nine, 3pointers. He was literally on folks. Unreel stuff. Dennis with 37. His eight, 30point game of the year. Thats a look at your morning sports. I hope you enjoyed it. The battle on blake is coming later this week. The avs play on the outdoor rink saturday night. Tickets start at about 130 bucks, go check it out. A lot of people were there last time. They sold out. It was great. Yeah. We have the latest out of michigan where a man is in custody for shooting people at random across kalamazoo. The world a president has to grapple with. Sometimes you cant even imagine. Thats the job. And shes the one whos proven she can get it done. Securing a massive reduction in nuclear weapons. Standing up against the abuse of women. Protecting social security. Expanding benefits for the national guard. And Winning Health care for 8 million children. The presidency is the toughest job in the world and shes the one wholl make a real difference for you. Im Hillary Clinton and i approved this message. It 9 30 time for your top stories. Police in kalamazoo, michigan say a machine opened fire killing six, two other people 14 Year Old Girl shot in a `racker barrel parking lot. They have a 45 yeaa old Jayson Dalton. They say he has no criminal history and dont know what the motive is. Jeb bush dropped out of the race. that news came after the win in the South Carolina primary. Megan hughes takes a look at the contest on both sides of the preliminary aisle and who came out on top. Reporter Hillary Clinton and donald trump are now looking ahead to the next contest with confidence. We are going right to nevada terrific there and the scc is going to be very exciting. We expect to do very well. Reporter a nevada win reinvigorating clintons campaign. She held a big late night rally at texas university. Is this a great night or what . Reporter long lines in both states reflecting a heavy turnout. Marco rubio yo both with strong performances. Thank you South Carolina. Reporter after another poor showingen emotional jeb bush call etiquette. Tonight i am spending my campaign. No. Yeah, yeah. Thank you. [cheers and applause] reporter in nevada sanders made it clear that hes not dropping out but looking forward. I believe that when democrats assemble in iladelphia in july at that convention we are going to see the results of one of the great political upsets in the history of the united states. [cheers and applause] reporter the two parties now essentially switch places. Republicans face off again n nevada on tuesday. Democrats vote here in South Carolina next saturday. Back here at home the big story remains our unseasonably warm weather. But dont worry, winter is coming back even if it is for a short period of time. Thanks for staying with us on this sunday morning. Im dayle cedars. Im eric lupher. Right now there are hundreds of people gathered at Republic Plaza to climb 56 sets of stairs. They have been walking for quite some time all of this of course to help fund the lung cancer research. Denver 7 Lindsay Watts is live with us. Lindsay, did you walk up there or take the elevator up . Reporter this time we did take the elevator, u by i did take the climb a little while ago. But i did take the climb. We have mammoth la across cheerleaders, handing out water we will roll some video. I took a gopro with me as i was maaing my way up more than 50 flights of stairs. It took a lot of work, but this is for such a good cause. Money is being raised for lung cancer and research and bringing awareness for lung disease. About 1,000 people are participating in this throughout the morning and afternoon. At last check about 400,000 had been raised. Quite a celebration up here. And ive been talking to jimmy. I know a lot of people participating today have had lung disease affect their famiiy and youre among them, right . Yeah, mm uncle steve passed away from copd about 10 years ago its one of those thingss that affects a lot of us. My motherinlaw has the onset of copd. Reporter were they on your mind as you were making it up the steps . Quick prayer and remember them. Thank you. Thanks for putting this on. Reporter absolutely. And our very own meteorologist lisa hidage go are mning this and she and marc are on the steps hidalgo are on the steps. The countdown is on for marc and lisa to get to the top. Too bad theyre not outside. This would be a great ddy to get out there for a run. Do have a few clouds and temperatures a little bii cooler but thats pretty nice when you are out and about. The winds are relatively calm. Out at city park we are picking up stronger winds and at that only 13 miles per hour. This is nice compared to last week. Only 37degrees downtown here at city park. Aurora you are only at 40 `degrees right now. The warmup is going to take place and our temperatures still above where we should be this time of year, but quite a bit colder where we should be. Upper 40s and some low 50s is what we are expecting for the day today across the metro area. Mix of sun and some clouds. Well have a few more clouds move in late this evening and then we are really preparing for our next system so we are goong to talk about the chance for some of the snow in the metro area maybe enough eric you will have to pull out the shovel. Denver police are trying to figure out what caused a fatal accident on santa fe this morning. A man is dead after a crash near southbound santa fe and mississippi. Friends and family will gather to remember a westminster man who collided travis wood jr. Died thursday morning. Police say the officer had his lights and sirens on at the time. The officer is okay. But woods family is holding a vigil on west 92nd at 6 00 tonight. A scary situation surrounding a former surgical tech allegedly shedding light on techs like him go through to get the jobs. Colorado is one of only a few states that regulates surgical technologists at hospitals. Our process has been in place for only five years. Its still however does not include background checks which just makes sure that applicants arent lying about their past. You may remember allen us fired from at least our different before coming here. We have a news alert for you the Douglas CountySheriffs Office is asking you to take a close look at the man in this sketch. They say he sexually assaulted a woman in parker last week. The womans vehicle broke down around 7 00 p. M. On thursday. She says the man approached her and assaulted he ever. Hes described as a fit white male 63 between 2030 years old. She a driving a pickup truck with flood lights above the cab. If you recognize him call the Douglas CountySheriffs Office. Dennis simonton is a member of the white supremacist gang 211 crew. Investigators say he and two other parolees cut off their ankle man tores and took off. Brazen thieves are Louisville Police tell us they are looking for a man. See if you recognize him. He has been breaking into garages and stealing garaae door openers and coming back and stealing things from the homes. Three kids were attacked by great danes. All three kids needed surgery after the attack. The owner of the facility could face charges. Looking for one person still missing after a plane crashed into a long island sound. This is a mile off the new york shoreline. The piper p. A. 28 went down around 11 00 last night. Two people came on shoree however they are still looking for the third person. The faa and ntsb are now investigating. Meantime in hawaii we are looking more about that that is just hard to watch. The pilot had radioed air Traffic Control shortly before this happened to say hat his aircraft was in trouble. He says on the recording,i think im going down. That was just before the witness captured the video that you just saw of the crash. Everyone miraculously survived no word though on what exactly caused it. Have you had a bad experience with your company and voiced it nline . About it. And when you take fido to the dog park, do you really ba da ba ba ba welcome back, everybody. Hope youre enjoying your sunday. We are heee at denver 7. This is a look up at i70 at vail pass you can see the snow on is snow on the way. Finally, right . For february . We have been spoiled but a change is coming and dayle is keeping an eye on that in the denver 7 studios. We have the foothills Animal Shelter and i forgot her name again. You told me three times. Annie, shes a 7 year old dauschund mix that came to us about a week ago from our other shelter partners. She is full of energy, loves other dogs and play time at the shelter, so she would make a great sidekick for somebody. Her adoption fee is 150 she ready to go home with somebody today. Reporter she is so calm. I think shes a little nervous. But i also wanted to tell everybody about world spay day. 20 to get your cat spade or dogs are 6085. 70 90. Reporter okay. We were talking about how many year, right . Last year foothills handled patrol 9,000 animals through their door, in one city, one state, the pet population problem is epidemic really thats why we like to offer the community low cost options to get your pets sppyed or nuderred. They come the our shelter to be adopted out. So please consider documenting and certtinly spay and neuter your pets. Reporter absolutely and adopt annie because shes a little sweetheart. Look how calm she is . Reporter all these lights and camera and doesnt even matter. If you would like to learn more about adopting a pet or other throw 03 2787575. Annie, i think youre going to have a home. Dayle, im going to call you annie all morning. Thank you im not going to sing for you especially not with this cold. Temperatures in denvers the still pretty chilly. The wind is not the factor ttat we are dealing with. Its just not going to be as warm this afternoo phone ringing 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, its 9 46 this is a look from our rooftop at spear and lincoln. Such a great shot. We have been seeing a lot of beautiful mornings from our rooftops. But you know what, we want the snow. It is oming and dayle has all the details. Listen up dog owners a owner, has a 1,000 vet bill all because of whats being used at some dog parks. Reporter a city official says this materral is a standard. The fact is you have got dogs getting injured. Reporter thornton, northglenn and Commerce City all have this. Neither city says they have had enough complaint to consider any changes. Interesting. We will see now that the story is out if more complaints will come in. I wonder how many other dogs are getting injured as a result of this. Today is a great day to take the dog out, go for a walk, or a hike. You dont even have to go up to the mountains. Theres a lot of the mountain peeks that dont have any snow. Do have our next system getting ready to move in. Reporter clouds keeping our temperatures cool this morning. Fitter thunder shower here in denver. Warrer in fort collins and still above where we should be for this time of year. You will notice in the mountain towns a lot of 40s then a few upper 30s. Southern half of the state warmer. Lamar the warm spot topping out at 58degrees. Low 50s for the metro area. Downtown 49degrees, Longmont Boulder 49. Highlands ranch you should top out right at 50degrees. Cooler but not a horrible change. Its later on this week ttat you are really going to notice the temperatures taking a drop. Just the clouds and the northern half of the state. Northern mountains and Central Mountains could pick up a they do see though is likely less than an inch, but thats going to change tomorrow. It is going to begin in the northwest corner of the state. Few clouds for the metro area midday and then a chance of little bit of rain and snow across the upper i25 through the afternoon and this means you may run into some rain showers for your evening commute them and then later on that rainsnow mix will turn to all snow monday night into tuesday and we could be looking at about 24 inches of snow here in the metro area. Mountps could pick up 510 inches of snow. Mountains could pick up mid 50s forrous here in denver and then once that storm does move for us here in denver. Highs in the 30s on tuesday. A quick system thats going to push in and then push out and the next day and next saturday back into the 60s. So we are really going to melt anything we get monday into tuesday, so it will be nice to get this quick little shot of moisture. I saw some people out watering the lawns and trees and bushes because its been so warm down here. So it will be good to get this and as we move into march we will see how snowy we get. If we dont have the snow we have the fire danger and if we get snow its ggod too. You know how some people give a bad review on yelp. One couple has some advice. They are now being sued as a result. Reporter michelle and robert are pet lovers, so much to check on their dogs and fish durinn the day. They hired Prestigious Pets to watch over the brood. It was pretty much all five star reviews. Reporter but michelle said she grew worried when she noticed the fish tank looked cloudy. I had to email the company. And when you see someehing is potentially wrong you want to address it right then . Reporter michelle posting a nearly 500 word on yelp, she said the communications had to `be emailed through the company. She also complained the fees were confusing. The company wrote back demanding they take the review down and they said ttis is a 24 7 business and our Communications Abilities are through email. They cited the contrrct they posted false and misleading statements on yelp and they were forceddto pursue legal action due to violating the contract is wa the company is alleging. Google and twitter are alleging. Real estate giant zillow has 330 employees in colorado and according to the denver posts the hiring more as it expands its centennial office. Most of the new jobs are in sales and support we are told. Glass door listers their starting salary around 7,000 but we are told hiss their starting salary around 37,000. How much would you pay for a lock of hair . Just sold for 35,000. This is the biggest piece of the hair to be sold. I am so weirded out by that. 35,000 . What are you thinking . All you have to do is cut your own hair, frame it and just tell people its john lennons. How do you prove its his bay the way . Well, if youre a big by the way . Well if your a big fan, apparently having a lock of his hair is worth 35,000 . Im Lindsay Watts live at the top of thallest building in denver Republic Plaza. This is where people are climbing the steps. More than 50 flights to raise but taking part. Lisa hidalgo and marc stewart just finished making the climb, how was it . Reporter its a little tougher than i thought. This is my first time. You do feel like by the time you are at the top you feel like your lungs are going to explode. We stopped took some pictures had some water, but did you not do this this morning i heard . I did. I took the gopro camera with me. It was tough and in my boots too. I was talking to one of the guys who was one of the first fishers, he said he made it up in less than seven minutes can you believe it . Yeah, and that guy was from out of town. Reporter so something to aspire to next year. Yeah, cut our time in half. 17 because theres where the bathroom is. This is for a good cause. Reporter absolutely. We want to get another look at the people here as they make it to the top floor. We have the mammoth la cross cheerleaders. At last check, this fund razor cause. Lindsay almost alled them out saying they had to aspire for a bigger run next time. They made it up there to the top which is fantastic. I would still be going up. I think i could make it yeah. Forecast. We are going to see 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 . Just yeah. Um, paul, i think 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 [music] joel osteen well, god bless you, and thanks for bein with us today. And if youre ever in our area, please stop by and be a part of one of our services. I promise ya well make ya feel right at home. I like to start with something funny each week, and theyre just a joke. Dont be offended. I heard about this man. He was sitting in a dark restaurant. He said to the lady sitting next to him, would you like to hear a blond joke