Meteorologist Marty Coniglio and Amelia Earhart is here. We have a couple of high today. High winds warning out around wheatland, cheyenne, this goes all the way through tomorrow afternoon. They can see some wind gusts up to 25 Miles Per Hour. Were already getting 2050 foothills. Theres not a lot of action. Were not going to be tremendously windy in the metro area. If you get west of kipling today, it starts getting gusty. Were going to feel the warmth, mid to upper 50s around town. Colorado. We could even have a few of the foothill communities touching 50 degrees during the afternoon today. Jet stream keeps us warm today. By thursday into friday, we move in, and with it, snow. Mountain snow starts tomorrow morning. Goes on and off throughout the day. The mountains. Tomorrow, 14inch range. Well get additional snow coming up friday into saturday. We have light snow in our future as well. Well talk about that in a few minutes. Time to get out the door for you. Amelia has the latest on whats going on in the streets. Waking up on your wednesday drive, roads are dry. Expect a lot of sun glares today. With the winds out west, we could see gusty conditions blowing snow on 93 and also a drive across i70. Were nice and clear. Excellent beginnings there as you push through the bridges. Across our area side streets, weve been quiet with one exception. Thats the fatal overnight crash right at the intersection of stock show drive and franklin. Well have more details coming in that immediate area, 54 is a good route. Your corridor is still open as well. As you exit the roads, do expect to see flashing lights with the ongoing investigation. Weve still got slowdowns across 25 in the area. Were dropping down to 23 Miles Per Hour on the approach to i 70 i70. 10 navy sailors are free this morning. This comes after they were seized by the iranian government. Their boat drifted into their waters. One of the boats developed mechanical problems, and both of them drifted off course. Here in denver, who men after their car rolled over. Someone passing the crash called police. They dont know how it happened. Well post it on the 9news app. It is 5 33 now. A couple in their 70s and some of their neighbors are recovering after they tried to save the couples adult son. He has multiple sclerosis. He could not get out on his own. News reporter 9news reporter noel brennan is outside the house. Firefighters and neighbors risked their lives to try to save this family. Thats the story were hearing. Were on west sanford avenue. You see the home behind me. Restoration crews just finished boarding up this house. We have video from a neighbor, some cell phone video that shows what this house looked like when it was fully engulfed in flames. About 7 00 last night, thats when denver fire and west metro fire responded to this house fire. Flames were shooting from the roof. Were told it started in the basement and worked its way up. The flames were incredibly powerful. His 40s who had ms was bedridden was not able to get out of his house. His elderly parents were. Again, neighbors rushed over to help. Several of them, firefighters tried to get everyone inside out safely. When firefighters first got there, they say the flames were so incredibly intense that initially they had to back away. At one point the fire was so significant that the firefighters thought that they were going to have to back out for their own safety, but through the efforts of the fire department, we were able to find two of the victims who have been removed and transported to area hospitals. Unfortunately, we found one deceased victim. I went to their backyard. The whole back, flames were going up the house. The First Responders were already there. There were firemen in the backyard, they had ladders up, trying to get people out of the house. The neighbors, and the elderly couple were taken to the hospital for their injuries. Another firefighter was treated injuries. We still dont have the cause of the fire, investigators that. Thank you, noel. Its just about 5 36 right now. News. For the First Time Since december 03, oil fell below 30 bucks a barrel. Prices have rebounded this morning. It leads crude at 19 this year. 72 plunge from crudes june 2014 peak where it hit almost 108 a barrel. Opeck is in trouble. Theres a massive supply glut right now. Colorado oil and gas president dan haley says when a commodity cuts are about top in the industry. We lost about 2,000 jobs in this sector last year. Were not seeing layoffs like we saw in colorado in the 1980s, but, again, we dont know where the bottom is. Haley adds that Oil Field Services has been the hardest hit in our state so far. Couple years ago, there were about 77 rigs up and running. As of last friday, there were just 22. Oil giant bp is going to cut some 4,000 positions worldwide, specifically in exploration. Company leaders say they need to make the move because of the toughening conditions out there. Its been a drop in gasoline prices. Thats making a lot of drivers happy. Drivers have seen a huge drop in what we pay at the pump. The current average is 1. 85. Average. Colorados average is trending right now. All right. Greg. President obama broke the mold for his standard state of union speech last night. Instead of delivering a long to do list for Congress Like he usually does, he reflected on his achievements on the past seven years. On the upcoming election and challenges of the future. One of his big ideas deals with the quest to cure cancer. Tonight im announcing a new National Effort to get it done. Because hes gone to the matt for all of us, im putting joe in charge of mission control. For the loved ones weve all lost. For the families that we can still save, lets make america the country that cures cancer once and for all. He called it like a moon shot to cure cancer. Vice President Biden, as you know, lost his son beau last cancer. Biden worked with congress to National Institute of health. Hell be meeting with more agencies after this month to discuss ways for cancer treatment. Biden says his goal is to make a decade worth of advances over the next five years. Now, we also learned about a touching moment between biden and president obama. The Vice President said after his sons death last year. The president offered him Financial Support if the bills got too high. Biden mentioned he was prepared to sell his home in delaware to help his sons family pay their medical bills. President obama told him keep the home, i will give you the necessary money. Vice President Biden says it didnt come to that, but he really appreciated the offer. South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley was the republican to give the response to the state of the union address. Shes the first female and first minority governor of South Carolina that made her a eager to reach more voters of color. Shes also a contender to be a Vice President nominee. Her speech consisted of a heavy dose of criticism of the president. Many americans are feeling the squeeze of an economy too weak to raise income levels. Were feeling a crushing national debt, a Health Care Plan that has made insurance less affordable, and doctors less available. Chaotic unrest in many of our cities. Even worse, were facing the most dangerous terrorist threat september 11th. And this president appears unwilling or unable to deal with it. Well, todays lawmakers will head back to work. There will likely be a lot of debate over the states budget. Our house and Republican Senate balance the books. Republicans lawmakers are also expected to debate ideas to boost Affordable Housing in colorado. Abortion rights and raising minimum wage will also likely be on the agenda. The state address and a wedding, it will be quite a week for governor hickenlooper. 9news political reporter brandon ritamen will be there. The governor is getting married on saturday. Hickenlooper got engaged at the end of december. He said yesterday she discovered they could get married this weekend or they would have to wait a few months because of their really busy schedules, so they opted for a ceremony this weekend. Shes going to be busy, thats for sure. Making light rails for predictable. Realtime Data Available to app makers. Amelia earhart shows us how that information is now coming straight to your phone. Big news for rtd riders. They have just released realtime information about exactly where their buses are. If youre standing at a bus stop, you can pull out a third party app, just like what i have here on my phone. I would put in my location, which is accessible by gps just on my phone. I will know exactly what time my bus will arrive, how many miles away it is and get the realtime information. It will make my rider experience a lot more accessible. You can learn which apps work with this information by visiting our website. Makes it easy. Yes, it does. The powerball drawing tonight. Its going to be the largest jackpot. Theyre calling it world history. In the history of the world. In the history of humanity. Our cosmetics line was a hit. The orders were rushing in. I could feel our deadlines racing towards us. We didn t need a loan. We needed shortterm funding fast. Building 18 homes in 4 months . That was a leap. But i knew i could rely on American Express to help me buy those building materials. Amex helped me buy the inventory i needed. Our amex helped us fill the orders. Just like that. Another step on the journey. Will you be ready when growth presents itself . He was stuck in a mix of sand, mud, and clay in oakland for more than 12 hours. The plumbing contractor was working a sewer line. The man was originally found 10 feet down and was in waist deep mud. About an hour ago, fire crews working in the pouring rain there brought him to safety. He was taken to the hospital. Hes really lucky. Yeah, he is. In money news, our partners are reporting that cdot has signed on with a high tech Mapping Company to help smooth i70 mountain traffic. This is for next ski season. The idea is that 1,000 volunteers will use their cell phones and send location data to a cloud based data base where it will be combined with speed data and other other cell phones as well as from cdots monitors. It will be analyzed and a warning of any problems of the road ahead. Again, well keep you updated on how that unfolds. 1. 5billion and free throwing. By the time the winning numbers are pulled tonight, the Powerball Jackpot will be even higher than it is now. Of course the odds, 1 in 292 million of getting the numbers. We got a behind the scenes look at the security. The studio where these numbers are drawn is located in a basement really, its a vault. Each ball gets weighed and x rayed for defects. And the doors to the studio room cannot be opened until just before the drawing. Not one person can unlock all of these. Correct. We have access to be able to get into the vault, and the auditors have access to get when the doors are open, the head of security gets an alert on his phone. They take a lot of precautions to make sure theres no funny business. When you have billions of dollars on the line, you have to watch it like a hawk. We were talking about what we would do with the money. Chime in. With that kind of cash, you have a lot of options to choose from. You can do a myriad of things. Someone said, i would get a roof. You could get a million roofs. Thats a good one. Absolutely. Its 5 47. Were going to check in on the king soopers in broomfield where you can get your broncos magnet this morning. Already. If you want one, you might want to head over there now. First, lets check in with marty and amelia. A lot of snow in colorado mountains. At loveland, over 130. By the way, at keystone, this is the most snow theyve had at a little over 26 inches in snow here in denver. Pushing 140 in monarch. Almost 270 inches of snow. They have more on the way. Temperature readings, 10, 20s, 30s. Below zero on the other side of the hill in grand county. The reason for our warmth, the wind. Well keep winds going between throughout the foothills. Today and tomorrow morning, we could see gusts to near 60 Miles Per Hour. Today. Day. Sounds like it, marty. Were getting a lot of good news in the Traffic Center after son overnight closures near the stock show complex, as well as crashes up in commerce city. Improvement. 24 at arapaho. Waking up, area freeways are off to a very typical start. Very dry roads. And sunny across the city. Good news across the drive at the western complex, all roads are now reopened after the overnight fatal crash National Western drive near franklin. However, i we do have a new crash. A car and tanker truck are involved in the wreck. We have a crew on the way to theyre all going to get a we also have another location in grandby this morning. If you live out there, get that magnet before theyre gone. Were excited. These people are pumped. Well see you in just a little bit when the big giveaway begins. Thank you so much, colleen. Really exciting to see everyone line up and ready to roll around here today we have high clouds over us right now. Thats all due to the strong winds we have. The loft, the next storm system, is in california. Theyre getting heavy snow in the sierras. Nothing in colorado today as far as snow goes. 1010th, 10s, 20s, 30s. Cold air is sinking down and hanging up. They dont have the chinook wind that i have with here. Temperatures in the low 40s and 50s in colorado. Mid to upper 50s on the front range. Range. Should be a spectacular sunset yet again tonight. 20s, 30s, in the central and southwestern part of the state. 40s and 50s here with some of the warmer readings right here in metro denver. Downtown i think we hit 58. Well go windy in the foothills today. Well have gusts pushing up close to 60 Miles Per Hour. West side of the metro area in the 1020 mileperhour range. Tonight, low 20s here, the wind stays up in the foothills yet again. 40s, 50, 60 Miles Per Hour. We start cooling off tomorrow by noon. It will be much cooler in the afternoon. Well hit 35 late in the day. Its really light snow around here. Its an inch or less. Accent on the or less. Cool day saturday. Decent on sunday. 42 degrees, looking kind of hazy. Light winds should be good their magnets should be able to show them off. Thief been able to do that. Lets get theyve been able to do that. Lets go outside. If youre waking up in colorado springs, castle rock, need to jump on i25 northbound or southbound, you should have no issues standing in your way. Winds are kicking up. C470 could be gusty, especially in the afternoon hours. The rest of us fairing pretty nicely. 6 minutes in either direction. 59 Miles Per Hour across the corridor and 225 off to a beautiful beginning with mid 60s across both stretches. Now, were all reopened near the National Western complex after a major overnight crash. Double fatality, in fact, in the area of National Western drive near franklin. Oh, we have a treat for you for pet lion 9. A pugbeagle mix. Hes great withing toes, great with kids. Hes like a he was the product of divorce. Divorce. Today. This is a great dog. You can find more information on news. Com. Part of your family. So cute. Sebastian looks a little worried, but he shouldnt be. Were going to find him a home. 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