Bars. It is illegal to buy and consume marijuana in the same place under the state law. Rtds problems keep piling up and now rtd is admitting its g and r line will not open this year as scheduled. 2016 had been the target for years. The g line will run to arvada and wheat ridge and the r line goes out to aurora. Rtd told the Business Journal its a series of small slipups that have built up and delayed association said it wont allow testing with the g line until problems with rtds a line, the airport line, is fixed. The issue there and also with the b line, i know, this is alphabet soup, its the crossings. Guards are now stationed at the a line crossings around the clock while that software is not working. Earlier this month rtd got a 90 day extension from federal regulators to keep running the a and b lines while they work on those problems. A health study from metro rocky flags Nuclear Plant have experienced rare and unusual illnesses. This plant was located 16 miles from north of downtown denver between arvada and superior. For nearly 40 years the plant used plutonium. The survey focused on People Living within a 10mile radius of the plant when it was active from 1952 to 1992. The results seem to corroborate speculation about the potential Health Effects of living near the Nuclear Production facility. 840 cases of cancer were the disease. Researchers say typically in the u. S. Only about a 1 4 of Cancer Patients are considered rare. A father lost his battle to cardio angiosarcoma. Another boy in the neighborhood did as well. So the chances of having this rare cancer in one neighborhood, a handful of them, was too coincidental. The findings are drawn from more Research Need to be done. The survey is ongoing. You can find msus Health Survey on 9news. Com. What do the u. S. And new zealand have in common . Theyre the only two countries in the world that allow Prescription Drug advertising. Big pharma spends billions on ads. Tonight 9wants to know investigator Chris Vanderveen shows us the side effects of all that spending. I used to have unbridled optimism and then i asked my doctor abou ridufufy. Reporter there are a lot of ads on tv for drugs, drugs that can be quite pricey like in the case of embril. We could own a condo in the mountains for what we have to take monthly. Reporter currently her parents insurance covers most of it, but that hasnt always been the case. The out of pocket cost of embril was about 900 a month. On ads, 1. 36 billion for National Tv Ads in 2013, 1. 5 billion in 2014 and 1. 86 billion in 20016. Thats nearly 5 billion in tv ads. If i dont take the shots, i wouldnt be walking. Reporter clair wonders if some of that money could be spent on lowering the cost of Something Like embri. Should her moms insurance change soon, she might be in need of a little help. Theyre just us we dont deserve that, none of my friends with arthritis deserve that. Reporter ask your doctor about ridicufy and not even ridicufy can cure that, Chris Vanderveen, 9news. 9wants to know found the pharmaceutical companies spend almost twice as much money on sales, marketing and administrative costs than on research and development, which of course, is their favorite excuse for hiking prices. 9wants to know has been reporting all week on the side effects of skyrocketing drug on 9news. Com sideeffects. President elect donald trump selected some of his most prominent supporters for top positions in his administration. He selected former Lieutenant GeneralMichael Flynn as National Security advisor, a position that does not require senate approval. Veteran alabama senator Jeff Sessions is trumps choice for attorney general. Kansas congressman mike pompeo was selected as cia director and mitt romney is going to discuss the secretary of position. President elect donald trump agreed to a 25 million settlement for trump university, a victory it was said for the over 6,000 victims. An attorney for the plaintiff said all participants will get at least half their money back, some full refunds. A trial was scheduled november 28th. Trumps lawyers say the deal includes no acknowledgment of fault or liability and should allow the president elect to devote his full attention to the job ahead. Polite political coloradans proved it again tonight on an hour long special edition of next, a town hall version of our lets just talk segments. Get to know our neighbors just a little bit. Well do this by show of hands. Who here voted in the president ial election . Voters who supported donald trump, Hillary Clinton and Third Party Candidates gathered to talk honestly and openly about their hopes and fears for america, hopes and fears their neighbors. This matters a lot. So many people are yearning for this kind of discussion. You can watch the entire hour long special posted now on the next with Kyle Clark Facebook page. Next airs weeknights on 9news at 6 00. That bright sunshine out there helped melt some snow we received yesterday. Spots like dia that got under an inch had more of a melt while other spots like arvada temperatures are heading towards the teens in denver tonight. Weve been below freezing most of the evening so far. Meteorologist danielle grant will join us soon with an update for the weekend. [ sirens ] boulder is more fun when the buffs win. Pearl street stampede, the band, cheerleaders, Players Center stage the night before the big ranked buffs take on the no. 22 Washington State cougars. If cu wins the next two games, theyre headed to the pac12 title game. Tonight folsom field is ready to go for the buffs and cougs. Its an unlikely matchup of Division Leaders in the pac12. The past decade these two teams have fewer wins than any other programs from the top five conferences. Cu is at the bottom of the list, 35 wins in the previous 10 seasons. The buffs have eight this year. Football is one that sounds remarkably familiar, one involving another coach mac. 34 years ago coach Bill Mccartney ended his first season 28. Two years later the team went to a bowl and eventually national championship. Our Kim Christiansen tells us many players say that experience was life changing. Reporter young men drawn to the game and evenal another. Im 17 years old. Ive been living in southeast iowa. I came from a small town in North Central missouri. I grew up in boulder and so for me it looked very appealing to go elsewhere. Reporter all brought together by one man. I went to stanford, loved it, thought that would be a great place, went to ufc, mix. Those are my final michigan, walks in, shakes my hand and said its nice to meet you. Im Bill Mccartney. Get lost for two hours i was ordered by him. I left for two hours and came back and my mom said hes the only man i trust thats been in our house. He speaks to your soul and he just goes deep and the words that he chooses to use, you could always re coach Bill Mccartney, they tell the story of a coach. Big dreams create the magic that stir mens souls to greatness. His dreams became their dreams. Passionate. When hes done talking, youre ready to go and run through a wall for him. 10 Football Team and on thursday youd think youre going to beat nebraska. He made us believe and got the best out of us because we werent the best athletes in the whole conference. We werent the best athletes in the country. Reporter he needed them to make magic, to win, to fulfill the dream. The final score colorado 20. Pure mac style football all the time full throle was just so caring, but he was also demanding and a great football coach that you never want to let down. Now deep in the michigan territory, shuffle in the air and its caught. Touchdown colorado we were at practice one day and i punned the ball. It went quite a ways, hit coach mac in the side of the head, knocked him down. I thought im going to be in a would have killed a lesser man. Reporter his message, we have not come to compete with one another. We have come to complete one another. Together they built a family within a team. Its bigger than football. To have coach mccartney be a father figure to us and build a family atmosphere, we love playing football. Thats why were there, but foot compared to our family with the colorado buffs. Many of us didnt have a father figure like myself. So it was like my dad believing in me. He touched young mens lives and he changed their lives. Reporter and he never left them. Graduating from medical school, he would be there and coming to a small town in alabama where i married my wife. Ceremony. His legacy is huge, huge across the country no matter where i go. I travel around. People ask me about coach mac. Reporter all these years later theyve learned what he was building. [ cheering and applause ] i just any he was a master think he was a master at tricking all of us into thinking that games. He wanted to win. This guy wanted to win, but he could trick you into thinking and what he was really doing was shaping us. He was really shaping us to be the men that we are now with families in community and our jobs and professions as fathers, whatever we do. Where he cant take himself. He was the epitome of somebody who knew exactly who he was. You didnt have to agree with him, but heed had you to a high standard. No. He held you to a high standard. No. 1 for colorado. I wouldnt be the person or father that i am now if i hadnt come and played for coach mccartney. ] singing ] and those players meet before home games and often meet with coach mac, too. While they know he is suffering with some dementia, they say that his long term memory is spot on and hes still coaching them in life. It is a bubble emergency, soapy sudsy wall 10 feet high taking over city streets. Temps back in the teens tonight. We will warm up for the weekend on the radio, what viewers at 9 00 had to say about kozis decision to flip the switch this evening. Well get you set to say estimate its alive bubbles its alive its just bubbles, foam. Its coming out the windows in san jose, california, foam 10 feet high by the time they realized it was Firefighting Foam accidentally released when there was no fire. Look at that. The timing of yesterdays storm worked out perfectly for several ski areas finally right after several delays. Keystone opened this morning with copper mountain. Breck opens tomorrow. A debate is going on splitting homes right before the holidays. This debate isnt over who won the election. Its over what is on the radio. Time for kozi christmas. Kozi 101. 1 flipped the switch and started playing Christmas Music at 5 00 today. Some people have been calling since the day after halloween asking for it. Others wish theyd hold off a little longer. We posed that question on 9news at 9 00 and nearly 2 3 sa right time to start. About 25 say whenever the mood strikes. Tis the season around here. Its starting to look more like the holidays with the snowfall coming into the metro area yesterday and now up in the high country theyre getting a good dose of this Winter Weather in time to see a lot of our ski resorts opening up, this great shot across vail, the resorts covered in snowfall. A nice change of pace. Trees awfully frosty. Were keeping a close eye on who is open and will be open in the next week or so. Loveland, abasin, copper still opening. So far 1. 7 inches officially at dia. We have a ways to go certainly to hit our average. This is a taste of whats to come. Today was cold, 32 degrees, all we could muster at the airport, a little warmer relatively speaking in northern colorado, fort collins and greeley mid to we hit 44 in lamar and pueblo this afternoon and low 40s across the western slope. Look at this. Factor in the winds. This is what it feels like outside right now, 5 degrees, 5 whopping degrees in denver, burlington 8 in limon and feels like 9 in gunnison. At the airport temperatures 17, mostly clear skies. In the 9news backyard its cold, 209 degrees, not quite as frosty downtown. Cold, i anticipate it being the coldest. Its of the season coldest night of the season. Well have clear skies and light winds to allow decent radiational cooling that should drop temperatures down to the Single Digits in kremmling, alamosa. Our storm system rolled in and out. It was a fast mover Still Producing snowfall in minneapolis and rainfall, some Severe Weather lining up parts of back at home quiet, clear skies an across the midsection of the country. This will be the name of the game the next 24 to 48 hours. Look for quiet sunny weather for your weekend. It looks great. If youre thinking but abouting up the holiday lights, now about putting up the holiday lights, now is the time. By 4 00 tomorrow evening youll notice a couple cloud streaming in along i25 and western slope, it. Tomorrow feeling good, seasonal at 52, wind coming at us fife to 10 miles per hour, but thats about it. Were in the mid to upper 40s for the northeastern corner of the state, still a couple cold pockets up in the high country. It ill with feel and look more like november it will feel and look more like november. 52 degrees in denver, littleton, mid40s in longmont, cool across the Red Feather Lakes area, grand mid60s, sunshine, feels good out there sunday afternoon, but another storm system is on the way bringing us a few clouds monday, possibility of a rain snow mix monday night into tuesday, drops off our temperatures to the 40s, but then we warm up in time for the thanksgiving holiday. Dont go anywhere. From colorados sports leader heres heres rod mackey. A csu win over new mexico tomorrow night would be their sixth of the season making them bowl eligible, but thats not the only reason to watch the rams. It will also be their last game ever at hughes stadium, nearly 50 years of football and as aaron matas shows us, nobody had better moments at the old stadium than sonny lubick. [ singing ] reporter their names belong side by side. They always used to fight me when they announced my name here sonny lubick field. I always felt uncomfortable with that. Reporter sonny lubick field at hughes stadium. Its always hard to say good bye to something. Reporter lubick expects saturday to be somewhat somber. Memories. Reporter remembering all the victories. Nobody won more at hughes than sonny remembering 1993, his first year as head coach. I know our first victory was air force. I know here on our stadium 8 to 5, good baseball game. We had two good pitchers on the mound that day. Reporter a record crowd came out to watch the rams play utah in 1994. Touchdown. The day was a perfect day and we got the hill and their db picks it off and runs it back for a touchdown. Reporter 11 years later sonnys rams beat utah thanks to jesse nadings goal line tackle. We finally got our stop on the last play. Reporter he can still picture the students on the field as csu came back to beat wyoming in 1994. On the way out they tore down that goalpost. Reporter two old pals. Realize. Coming out here now when there arent any fans, the band is not around you can see that hughes has served its purpose. Reporter his legacy will live on. Sonnys name will be carried over to the field at the new on campus stadium. Its a legacy born here at the base of the foothills. It all started here at hughes and it wont be forgotten for sure. Reporter farewell, old friend. Aaron matas, 9ws tomorrow night should be fun. Aaron, thank you. Now no. 12 cu versus 20th ranked Washington State is actually saturdays headliner game, but since we talked about the buffs a bunch earlier, well now focus on the preps. Future buff jake moretti go to cu. Good call. His team won tonight. Ryan marquez for six as the top ranked panthers move on double them up 4221. Well have many more prep pick skin playoff pictures on the prep rally tomorrow morning. To basketball now the nuggets with a chance to do something tonight they hadnt done all season long. Thats win back to back game. Denver downed phoenix night. Tonight toronto was in town. Denver was down over a dozen in the 2nd quarter but came all the way back. Emmanuel mudiay right place right time, overtime. It was won by the bad guys. Toronto won it with a three, Terrence Ross bombing away. Final score 113111. Nuggets go down and out. We finish on the ice, but weve got du, the top ranked 1 ranking on the line against miami, ohio. The turnover and equalizer, the only goal they got. Game officially ends in a tie, but du won the shootout and get the extra conference point. Do me a favor tomorrow, can you work for me so i can go to that cu game . Can you work for us, too . You want to come with . Youre so generous. It will just be you, me and tonight its freezing. Dont worry. The sunshine come out tomorrow. Temperatures warm up. The snowfall in your backyard potentially melting soon. About 65 sunday. Then we watch the next storm monday night into tuesday. Weve got that turkey and plenty of sunshine, 50s. Turkey is shaking its tail feathers. Hope Everybody Knows theyre wearing the same dress tonight. Red team, blue team. Tonight show next