The roadways. Weve noticed on and off ramps really bad, especially over bridges. Some of that snow has crusted over, frozen to the ground. People taking it nice and slow. You can see it car hitting curbs, these are icy. Theyve cleared up intersections, but there is glare on the roadways this morning. Well be giving you an eye what its like on the ground and on the roadways this as traffic picks up, youll want to take it nice and slow, also allow yourself extra time to warm up that car this morning. I know i had a nice thick layer of ice on my windshield. Were out here on the ground keeping an eye on things. For a better idea of what its like weatherwise were going to check in with ashton. Good morning. Some of the highest snow amounts around were to the south and to the west near the northern Douglas County to monument hill. Everything has come to an end. The storm system is in nebraska and dakotas. So were not going to see any more snow for the time being. 20 at cbs4. Sun will be up a
And a reminder we actually do live in colorado tonight where seen the heaviest acuity than slipping away as drier air from the north and west is punching and bring an end to the snow there is a few hints of flurries here and there for the most part the snow is moving out. How did we do as far as snow totals we got our airports in from alan we had readings in the foothills downpours portal on the westside of town closer to the foothills the higher terrain from four to 8 inches mounted in that same category. Up and down the metro area. Longmont down to castle rock anywhere from two to 4 inches these your pores came in early in the evening those numbers gone up. Down south and castle rock we got some reports around Highlands Ranch on 4 inches of snow by the way denver did get reporting in 710th of an inch of snow this is not is the latest date in history. Tonight the roads are icing up because these temperatures everything below freezing as you head south the readings are in the low 20s.
One person was seriously hurt in that wreck at i70 and vasquez. It happened just after midnight. But traffic was stop and go there when we were there. Early in the afternoon evergreen was the scene of a 15 car pile up. A car carrier was among the vehicles caught up in the wreck. Its still unclear whether the 15 car count from state troopers included the vehicles being hauled by the semi. Two people went to the hospital and i 70 was closed for several hours. 6th avenue westbound between kalamath and i25 is back open this morning after a closure. Denver Police Tweeted out they shut the road down overnight because of ice. A denver man who founded two now defunct travel startups is expected in court today. Timothy wozniak started fresh trips which offered inexpensive Luxury Travel packages. Hes facing Identity Theft and forgery charges in relation to his other Company Fresh jets, which sold seats on private jets to exclusive destinations. Investigators say wozniak stole the identity of one
Problems arent just on the roads. There have been some extended delays at the denver extra time to deice the places. They tweeted there were also equipment issues with that deicing process. Multiple airlines had delays but united was the longest. Flydenver dotcom says some united flights were even canceled. When president elect donald trump was just candidate trump trying to win the election over Democrat Hillary Clinton he made several promises during his campaign. But within days of winning the election hes already backpedaled on some of them. Historians say the amount of core domestic policies hes now backing away from is unpresedented. Among the vows hes reevaluating or scrapping appointing a special prosecutor to investigate clinton, placing a ban on noncitizen muslims, totally abolishing the Affordable Care act, and bringing back us coalindustry jobs. Hes also softened on some positions like Social Security making the rounds on capitol hill first speaking to members of the Republ
Fund your health care. Thats just not the right thing to do. I deeply regret the fact that the cloture motion was denied i hope that cloture will be granted so we can approve v. A. Milcon and approve our response to zika. In terms of zika, i represent the c. D. C. , the centers for Disease Control in georgia, the Worlds Health care center. I was there two weeks ago for a briefing on the zika virus. There are montana than one million zika cases in latin america, there are zika cases in the caribbean, there are 150 in the United States of america. It attacks a pregnant mom, it attacks the child in the womb attack attacks the brain and the Central Nervous system causing terrible brain problems and deformities, something that we hope we can stop and prevent. But you cant do it if you dont fund the nations response and the 1. 1 billion in this motion that was denied today would go towards the zika response. The two real estate sponses we need to there are two responses we need to fund. Some