9 news starts now. Its the fairytale ending that his fanned had hoped to see this year. Peyton manning will be going out on top, ending his incredible career with a super bowl win. We are more on his decision to retire. What a day. Its nice to see him leave as a bronco and not see him go to another team. He could have gotten paid to play for another team. But like he will way, manning will leave on top. Those that knew him best say Peyton Manning is a better person than a player. That is saying something because hes one of the best if not the best to ever play the game. The broncos fortunate that he played his final four seasons here in denver, the last one ending with super bowl champion. He got them there. Twice. Winning on his second try exactly one month ago. Now he gets to sit back and listen to others look back at i think he revolutionized the position in many ways. Running the game from the line of scrimmage wasnt something that was done as a matter of course. Now you see it down all the way down to the Junior High School level. He will go down as one of the alltime greats. And everyone in the nfl has been chiming in on twitter and facebook. Old friend and nemesis tom brady tweeted congratulations on an incredible career. You changed the game forever and made everyone around you. Its been an honor. There will be an 11 00 press Conference Tomorrow that he will make it official. He will hear from his former bronco teammates and look back at his four years here in denver. What a remarkable run it was. We knew an announcement was coming but we didnt know when. Boom, this morning. We knew this week he would be a former bronco. Its best to see him go out like this. Most athletes dont do that, number 18 did. You will have more on this coming up. You bet. Mannings career started well before he joined the broncos. He was the number one draft pick in 1998, joining the indianapolis colts. Five years later in 2003, he earned his first nfl mvp award. It took him just a year to earn his second. In the 2006 season, manning went to his first super bowl and led the colts to victory. He was named the super bowl mvp. In 2008 and 2009, he was again named the nfl mvp. The 09 season was mannings super bowl with the colts although they lost that year to the saints. In 2011, manning missed the entire season with his neck injury. The following year he was cut from the colts and signed with the broncos. In 2013 as a denver bronco, he earned his fifth nfl mvp award bowl with a loss to the seahawks that year. The following year he became the all time leader in passing touchdowns before becoming the alltime leading in passing yards. He is retiring just one month bowl ring. During mannings final season, he faced an nfl investigation. In december there was a controversial report that accused manning having Human Growth Hormone sent to his home under his wifes name in 2011. He has denied and threatened a defamation lawsuit. The official press conference to announce mannings retirement will be tomorrow morning at 11 00. All day on social media, broncos fans have been thanking Peyton Manning for his time in denver. We have asked you to share your favorite memories of his career. Notes sports directors so far. And tonight this years super bowl mvp von miller posted a tribute to Peyton Manning on instagram. You showed us what greatness looks like. Through all of the adversity, you stayed consistent in your quest for greatness. The task was never too big or too small for the sheriff. I thank you for everything that you have done for me personally. Youre the real mvp. I love those nicknames. Parts of the mountains are seeing flurries tonight. More is expected tomorrow. A storm system from california is headed our way. And its going to make our monday just a little bit cooler. And there is a chance for rain in the denver metro area. Daniel will have more on the forecast coming up. Tomorrow morning, the city of denver will begin giving notice that it plans to enforce an ordinance to keep the sidewalks clear. It has become a big issue along shelters. Some people are camping on the street and their belongings make the sidewalks impassable. They will have 24 hours to get sidewalk. If that does not happen, the city will move everything into temporary storage and clear the sidewalks. This afternoon, three dogs were rescued from an apartment that caught fire in arap arapahoe county. Crews were able to get it under control in less than an hour. Tonight Bernie Sanders won the democratic caucuses in maine. Hillary clinton received 36 . As that caucus wrapped up, the two Democratic Candidates took the stage in flint, michigan for a debate. The water crisis there was front and center. The candidates were asked what they would do to help flint regain trust in the government after city pipes contaminated i double and triple check. I will work with elected officials who i trust like your mayor, like your senators, like your member of congress so that we can assure you that when it is fixed, you can trust it. First thing you do is you say people are not paying a water bill for poisoned water. [applause] and that is retroactive. Second of all, to ease anxiety, cdc has to come in here and examine every child and adult in this community in terms of the amount of lead they may have. Tonight, the candidates were asked a question about gun violence from the father of the teenage girl who was shot in the head during a shooting two weeks ago. Abigail survived even though he asked the candidates how to prevent mass shootings. The comprehensive background checks, closing the gun show loophole, closing the online loophole, the charleston loophole where you get a gun at the end of three days even if the background check isnt completed like the killer in charleston did and he killed 9 people at mother emanuel church. I agree. We need to expand and improve the instant background checks. Bottom line, people who should not have guns in america should not be able to buy guns in america. Abigail is now able to laugh but will have a long road ahead to recover. The only gop contest was in puerto rico. Thats where marco rubio picked up his first primary win. Donald trump came in second at 14 . Here is a look at the the democrats need 2400 delegates to grab the nomination. Hilton has 1100, sanders has 500. Right now trump has nearly 400, cruz is in second with 300. The nation and the world are mourning the loss of former first lady nancy reagan. She died today in california at the age of 94. She will be remembered most as the back stage advisor and reagan. As first lady, nancy reagan made an incredible impact on the public wherever she went. Victoria sanchez spoke with a local professor. And he said she influenced him as a young boy. For more meaningful roles for International Leaders spouses. As an 11yearold in beijing he watched as president reagan and the first lady visited china in 1984. I was actually speechless. The Political Science associate professor saw nancy change the american image in the eyes of the chinese public. I just remember watching this lady dressed in red doing a number of things that usually just never occurred to me. That, you know, a first lady could actually hug someone. He described her elegance, charm and sin certificatity as holding as much political power in military and the economy and the soft power spread globally. Nancy reagan is a household name, not just in america but well. The stage of what first ladies image. I cant begin to describe what she means to me except to say that i cant imagine life without her. When Ronald Reagan was diagnosed with alzheimers in 1994 and died a decade later, she became a spokesperson for her husbands ideas and legacy. I think what she did can offer valuable lessons to future first ladies. Professor sun told me because of the trip to china in 1994, nancy reagan is almost as famous as president reagan to this day in china. Christine. Victoria, im sure there are so many others that have a similar story or connection. She embodied class and grace and her voice was heard by so many. We saw that here in the United States and followed her husband everywhere he went. And then theres their love story. Thanks for the tribute. Next on 9 news at 10 00. He has traveled more than 100,000 miles around the world. How he is helping to teach students about different cultures. Finally a change in the weather pattern. Im tracking rain and snow. The timing up next. And later in sports, besides more manning, weve got more highlights from another fantastic finish from the within westminster Public Schools there is a world traveler that doesnt get paid but he spends every day in the classroom helping kids learn about geography and world cultures. Nelson garcia and photojournalist ann hurst introduces us to chester. Traveling the world. Makes someone special. Thats right. In kathys class at Hodgkins Elementary School in westminster. It started ten years ago. I met chester when my son was 6 years old. Chester is a guru of geography. The fact that chester has traveled the world is amazing. He of course comes with his stories and he keeps a journal as well. Reporter he is the fastest stuffed land animal in the world. Chester the traveling cheetah. This is the philippines. Reporter usually goes with zuk. He has been to the vatican and holland and paris. Reporter but often travels with her friends. My vice principal wants to take her on her honeymoon to coast arick a. Chester has never been to costa rica. Why not bring him with us. He never goes naked. Reporter chester faces tough security. They laid him out on the x ray machine as hes going through. Reporter hes been treated like a vip. He treated the commander of the apollo 13. He has been severely soiled. I have to take him to the drycleaner. Reporter and he has been damaged. A kid chopped off one of the whiskers. I know who it is too. 57 degrees west. Reporter chester hopscotches across the globe because kids like jesus cant. My kids primarily in this area is economically challenged. Ive been to wyoming. Ive been to las vegas with my parents. For students who might not have the ability to travel the world, they get to live through chester. Reporter live and learn. These are coordinates of different places that chester has gone. Number 9 was honolulu. With chester, we can relate its fun to travel. And you see so many cool things. Reporter for those who take chester. So he is going with friends to korea shortly. Reporter just dont lose him. My friend amanda, she is the music teacher and she took him on a cruise to alaska. It depends who you ask. Some people say chester got left behind at one of the shops. They left him with her sons backpack. He left to go find more adult entertainment. A liar and a cheetah. He was carrying around a bottle of aspirin the next day. Now look up. Imagine hot oil is being poured on you. And youre like no as youre shot by an arrow. Reporter and theres nothing imaginary about the usually dont go too far from hodgkins elementary. There you go. Thats where your paw goes. Reporter nelson garcia, 9 news. Chester the cheetah has been on 25 separate trips to another country or somewhere else around the United States and logged more than 11,000 Airline Miles so far. Thats a great way for kids to learn. Can you imagine showing up with chester to the drycleaners . That is hilarious. Its awesome. Danielle grant. Really a beautiful weekend. It sounds like theres changes headed our way. A little bit, guys. From the west. It will cool us off and finally this weekend was fantastic. I hope you had a chance to get out and about, whether it was down along the plains, the stunning. The bright blue skies if you for a spin or enjoying the mountains spectacular view. The blue bird skies will do just fine. Current avalanche danger is fairly low. With the warmer weather that weve had, it is consolidating the snow pack. With the next storm system rolling in, i anticipate the danger going up just a bit. It has been a mild one. Temperatures ranging from about 5 to 15 degrees above where we should be informer this time of the year. Today just one degree shy of 70. We hit 70sin fort collins and greeley. 40s and 50s up in the mountains. Cooler air is starting to push in. Right now at the airport were at 40 degrees, partly cloudy skies. Winds at 11 Miles Per Hour. You can see humidity is up about 58 . You can feel it in the air when you walk outside. Here in the 9 backyard, temperatures in the mid 40s as well. Comfortable and quiet night. But unfortunately as the storm system starts to push in, it little bit too. Nice. Only 14 Miles Per Hour gusts right now and virtually quiet tomorrow the wind gusts 30 to 40 Miles Per Hour. We will be talking about a tale of two completely different seasons as the red flag warning continues for them until 6 00 tomorrow. On hd doppler 9 you see much of the east quiet and calm. Midwest as well. The storm system is pushing in weather toward grand mesa. Thunderstorms out there because it has been so mild. A little bit of snow near telluride. The system is now sitting in parts of utah, bringing moisture towards idaho. This pushes in overnight and into tomorrow. The most. But the cold front clipping parts of the front range will bring us rain possibly tomorrow and maybe even thunderstorms you can see overnight the snowfall will be strong up in the mountains. It takes a way to make it to the eastern side of the side. The drive into work or school, i know its monday tomorrow, it should be okay. Nice and dry. By lunchtime, 1 00, 2 00, the rain returns to the metro area because our temperatures will be well above average. A couple strong cells pushing into weld county and up near the nebraska panhandle by 5 00, 6 00 with the snowfall continuing. Blowing and drifting snow might be an issue if youre driving along i70. Vail pass may be tricky too. It winds down tomorrow evening. You have to go up high in elevation to find good snowfall. Five to ten inches areas above 10,000 feet. Vail, aspen and down towards the san juans as well we have the Winter Weather advisories in place until 6 00 tomorrow. Tonight still should be a comfortable one with the clouds overhead. In the 20s in the mountains. Sunrise coming around 6 23. Tomorrow will be an average kind of day. Into the low 50s. A nice change of pace. We will be in the 60s and low 70s for the east everyone plains as the cold front takes a bit to get to you guys. We start off with sunshine and we could have instability and thunderstorms fire up. The winds kick in. We stay cool on tuesday at 49. And then warm up from there. From colorados sports leader, here is rod mackey. Facing a four man rush. Looks right. Throws right to fowler. Fowler with the diving catch and the twopoint conversion is good. Benny fowler the answer to a trivia question who caught the ma not from Michigan State in super bowl 50. He gave manning the ball. Pretty classy. Quits. Retirement tomorrow at 11 00. The broncos have brought in a years. Theres never been one better than Peyton Manning. The goal was for number 18 to bring denver a super bowl championship. A mission he accomplished in his final season as a bronco. But what a thrilling four years it was. A couple of blockers. Thomas is off to the races. After 611 days away from the game, Peyton Manning made his denver debut against the pittsburgh steelers. Many thought peyton coming off four neck surgeries couldnt still play. Many were wrong. Something peyton proved in that game and the 15 that followed. The broncos went 124 in year number one of the peyton too soon as baltimore shocked denver in the opener. Throws a deep ball right side. The receiver is there. Makes the catch. Is going to score. That is unbelievable. Peyton and the broncos bounced back in 2013. The best season a quarterback has ever had. Starting with that revenge game against the ravens. Manning with a record 17td tosses. The first 7 of his record 55. This time the broncos made it to the super bowl. Getting there was great. The game was not. The ball snapped over peytons head. More adversity to come. And denver did in mannings season third season. Again, a bad end to a goodyear as manning and the broncos fell to his former colts team, another first round playoff exit. And then came 2015. He has never experienced. The broncos were winning but manning was no longer carrying the team. The defense was. Five interceptions against kansas city and a plan tar fascia injury forced the broncos to bench manning for 7 games. Then the return. Manning came off the bench to help beat the chargers. The broncos and manning had momentum again. Momentum they carried through the playoffs with dramatic wins over the steelers and the upset of old nemesis tom brady and the patriots. And intercepted. And then the storybook ending. Peyton manning was brought to the broncos to win a super bowl. And against the favored panthers in super bowl 50, he did just that. Rarely does an athlete leave on top. John elway did. Fun looking back. As you can imagine, everyo and i mean everyone has been congratulating manning on a wonderful career from those he played against to those he played alongside. Emanuel sanders one of the latter tweeting out to play along this guy for the past twoaers has been a blessing. Its a huge reason why i have had so much success. This is my teammate, my friend and my brother. Im forever grateful. And j. J. Watt took to twitter. It was an honor and a privilege, peyton. Hashtag farewellsheriff. Most of the talking has been done on twitter. Not david bruton he is still in town and we tracked him down. For me personally its more what he did on the field for sure. He definitely is a leader in