This is 9news. Happening now, the condemned castle rock home where explosives were found on halloween is at the beginning stages of getting cleaned up. 9news reporter Victoria Sanchez reports from the neighborhood. R 1 2 weeks ago. It will take professional decontamination before they are able to move back. The Environmental Testing company is doing an ainitial atempt an initial assessment this morning before they can remove the chemicals. The unknown chemicals in the home were found in glass beakers and jugs. Firefighters said combined they could be deadly. When it comes to cleanup, hiring a company and paying for the work is the responsibility of the homeowner. Only when that is completed and approved by the fire able to move back. That cost could go as high as 10,000. Since firefighters and cleanup crews dont know what the chemicals are, everything needs to be tested, logged, decontaminated and thrown away at a Hazardous Waste landfall. It could take one to four weeks until its done
Didnt have to wear my gloves with the sun and then the clouds and the snow started to fall. I talked to one, david that owns summit rentals, rents out condos, luxury homes, anything to people out of state. Says theres something called snow equity thats very important to business. People start running from the 70 from di and live back here, you can see the snow starting to fall, the areas, the buildings that face north. Thats where the snow is starting to stick on the sidewalks and the snow is melting to the pavement as of now, but boy, im excited to see this. Its about time we were due for a good storm and hopefully some of this moisture gets down to the metro area now. We got some. Some flakes inside the studio and outside the studio right now. Take a look at the temperatures. Theyre in the 30s. And wait for it. Wait for it. Kind of hard to tell, but there are a few snow showers and its going to pick up in the next few hour. The radar is very active and this moves in fast this morning
Lot of people. Yes. First snow for the season. Except on your cup there. You got a little something. A snowflake. Bring your coffee out. A cold morning. Thats the way to do it. Right. That will happen at lunchtime today. 12 00 to 12 30 we see a rain snow mix around town. Mostly cloudy. You can feel the temperature drop. Winter weather advisories and winter storm warnings for mountains. Up to a around the Continental Divide. You can bet the ski resorts are loving this forecast. The storm system just getting going. It will pick up in intensity throughout the morning. Again by lunchtime, moves here through the denver metro area. Thats wave number one. Wave two hits in time for the drive home from work. That starts at 5 30 and continues to 8 30 tonight. Were not expecting a lot of accumulation because we hit 80 degrees yesterday. Hits the ground. If snow gets heavy enough and could, we could see an inch or two of wet snow accumulate on the grass around here. That picture is very different
The snowstorm but severe weather, too. Other areas are feeling it. Well talk to you, becky. If you were happy to see the snow, youll want to head into the mountains before it all melts. About 6 inches fell, but temperatures have warmed back up melting much already. Water was sent onto roads and highways with the runoff, good reminder to stock up on that windshield wiper fluid. President elect donald trp o settlement y . Resolving three lawsuits ov . . Trump unive studentsiled to deliver e quit ucatn in real esininthey were p the 25 million includes restitution for students and 1 state. Trump university which no longer exists was a for Profit School accused of making deceptive claims and cheating students out of tuition money. Although hell need to pay to settle, the deal does not require trump to admit to wrongdoing. Meantime the president elect has been busy picking people to be in his new administration. Trump picked general Michael Flynn as National Security advisor, senator Jeff Se
Warmers handy, amazing it was just so warm the other day. 80 degrees. Thank you. Two men from alabama who pleaded guilty to starting the cold springs fire near nederland back in july will have to work for two years, spend their time off in jail and pay restitution that could reach more than 1 million. The fire destroyed eight home. A judge in boulder today sentenced 20yearold jimmy suggs and 26yearold ryan ku fire by not making sure their campfire was completely put out. They will also spend four years on probation. President elect donald trump today revealed three important picks for his white house team. Two are members already of his inner circle. Former Lieutenant General Michael Flynn was chosen as National Security advisor and senator Jeff Sessions as attorney general. Flynn has been tagged by critics as an antimuslim hardliner. The Congressional Black Caucus remarks cost him a federal judgeship decades ago. However, both picks are getting good reviews from fellow republicans. Im