With gary and corey. It may not be that much but the snow has arrived beckys here with details. In the denver area, may fall now, or going forward. There will be 142 snow plows avalialble for the metro area this winter. 90 of those will be the eye70 corridor alone. There will be metering on eye70 at the Johnson Eisenhower tunnels this winter, to try and control how many cars go thru it at a time. And the state patrol is urging drivers to make sure they know the chain and traction laws. If your tires dont have enough tread and you are found responsible for a crash or stopping traffic youll be fined hundreds of dollars. Fire crews are looking forward to todays shift in weather after dry and windy conditions continued so late into the year. Wednesdayhay bales burned near watkins for more than 6 hours after a house fire spread to wheat field south of dia. The home was a total loss three injuries. A grass fire in thornton wednesday spread to one home as well as a few smaller buildings and c
This is what it looks like right now in without snow on record. But there is a possibility of some flakes today. Especially in the high country. We sent 9News Reporter Andrew Sorensen up i70. In search of those first flakes. Andrew. Hows it looking up there . Elect donald trump planning some strict immigration laws the mayor of denver has a message to undocumented immigrants you are safe in our city. Trump is threatening to cut federal funding to any city that ignores his immigration law. But mayor Michael Hancock says its the federal governments job undocuments immigrants not local government. And says that would not be in the denver spirit anyways. The mayor did say though he would not support a declaration like one made in san francisco. It ordered city workers to not cooperate with immigration agents. An emt is getting attention from police not for saving a life, but nearly ending one prosecutors say fort collins emt Jason Schneider shook his nine monthold son causing head trauma.
And, the winds have kind of changed directions up here. They will have their work cut out for them. We have seen all sorts of wrecks on the way toward silverthorne. We are live at the eisenhower tunnel, Matt Kroschel, cbs4 mountain news room. Thanks matt. We are keeping an eye on the storm in Douglas County as well. Meteorologist chris spears is live in lone tree and chris, the snow is really coming where you are. Reporter it is. If you are a meteorologist in colorado, you have to be prepared to be humble in all storms. This one is certainly overperforming. Storms across the rockies get out onto the open planes with no obstacles and i can can wrap up like a top and slam us with wind and snow. Interstate 45. We have been out here now about two hours. Almost five degrees. Almost creating flash freeze type scenarios where the pavement, you can see the parking lot here suddenly becomes very icy and snow packed and i did walk over and check i25. Theres absolutely a lot of snow between those
Impacting colorado in a good way for the high country. Resorts enjoying 5 to 10 inches of snow with it a winter storm warning up north, Winter Weather advisories continuing for the i70 corridor, comer, breck, aspen copper, breck, aspen, these areas looking at about 6 inches of snow. Tonight we could see a quick inch of snow between now and 8 00. Skies clear and then the focus will be on temperatures which continue to drop, a very cold night coming up tonight. Many areas will see overnight low temperatures in the en on your friday morning. Speaking of friday well look ahead to the weekend in a few minutes as well and really the big story as i mentioned in the next few hours will be the cold. The snow is on its way out. See you in a bit and look forward to some more warmer weather. But lets first talk with 9news mountain newsroom reporter matt renoux. Along the i70 corridor. Reporter theres been a lot of problems with snow and crashes along this interstate in the mountains all day long.
Its been many months but now with the sunshine were starting to warm up. Its going to be a cool day. 64 in tampa, 68 in sarasota, still 59 in inverness. When you look at max defender 8 of course not finding any rainfall, in fact, its extremely dry. We have some red flag warnings due to fire danger with how low the humidity is. The afternoon high today only 66 degrees, that compares to so in our headlines the last time we were below 70 for a high was march 21st. This is a cold day. Warming quickly through the week. Near 80 by thanksgiving and staying dry. 4 Police Officers shot in 24 hours in similar ambush style attacks. And one Police Officer did not survive. Were joined in the news center with the latest in this developing story. Less than 24 hours ago a Police Detective was killed in his car just down the street from police headquarters. The detective was in his vehicle writing a ticket when another driver pulled up, got out and approached the detectives window. The suspect shot him