It is gorgeous outside this morning. It is hard to omplete when you watch the video of what is taking place on the east coast. They are getting hammered. A beautiful sunrise for us. Grab your coffee and come join us for the next hour or two. If you are headed to the mid atlantic chances are youre not going to get there today. This is what it looks like. Look at all of that rain and snow. Freezing rain, conditions in washington dc where they have had about a foot or up to 2 feet of snow. Colorado is nice and quiet. We have some clouds but no wet weather today. Ready much statewide. We are in for a nice mild day. Heading out you will notice to temperatures in denver are near freezing. Greeley is colder at 19. You will warmup but you will down south in Colorado Springs 44. Mixed temperatures. Well have some mountain clouds coming over and depending on where you are thats the really change the temperature. Here in denver we could top out at 58. It is going to be a great afternoon. All of those will change tomorrow just in time for the broncos game. We will have the full forecast `n just a moment. Broncos fever in full effect around denver. Thousands came out last night for the celebration on larimer. We met fans from all of the country here ii hopes of seeing what many believe may be manning and bradys final matchup. Perhaps good news for the broncos. The patriots have an one a road game since 2006. Denver7 reporter Lindsay Watts is life larimer square. Reporter broncos fans are coming in from across the nation for this game. Some of them having to take on the massive snowstorm out east to get here. When they arrived it is great restaurants. This is a huge weekend in denver. We talked to some of the outof towners here including friends from dallas who are celebrating a 35th birthday but also a father and son who made the journey from philadelphia to see the broncos beat the patriots, specifically to watch number 18, Peyton Manning. What a bit what a better way to takk him to see his role model. Today is my birthday. We came in just we came here in styleeand are celebrating the broncos victory on sunday reporter i also met some denver fans who take things to the next level. Decked out for every game. They hung out with us yesterday morning and then went to Childrens Hospital, bringing their spirit to the young patients there and then to ashley Elementary School. That schools principal is a patriots fan so students loved it when the mile high monster took him down. So much excitement and pride all across our city and state this morning. We absolutely love to see that. Thank you so much. Take a look at your screen. This is really cool video. You saw lindsay on the ground here at larimer square. Above. Check out what it looks like that you can see, thisswas quite at this time, but it iss in each perspective over the square. By the way, there are more than 2000 Tickets Available for dont let the Patriots Fans get the prices seem to be dropping. If you dont mind sitting further from the field you can get a ticket for just over 200. Closer you will pay in the thousands but the cheapest we found on the first level was about 2800. We found an upper level in the zone seat for nearly 6000. [ security is a big priority surrounding tomorrows game. The state thooas securiiy office tells us they are working with local partners monitoring for possible threats. They are also depending on the public to report anything they see out of place. If you see anything, make sure you say something. Keep the broncos pride pictures coming in. You can see our gallery right here. We have seen adorable babies, and even thats polar bear sending a broncos cheer all the way from crested butte. Your pictures with us on facebook and twitter. Coverage continues. Tomorrow morning here on denver7. Had in sports, do the broncos players hate the patriots . We will hear what they have to say in about 15 minutes. Right now we want to talk about all the storms on the east coast. Right nowwnine deaths are already being blamed on the incredible winter storm making its way across the eastern us. This is not over yet. It will continue. Some 85 million americans in the storm path taking a look at the satellite and radar, you can really notice it is pushing up a long midatlantic. This snow is wrapping around and causing a lot of problems. Problems on the roadways, in the air and a big ripple affect all across the country. Kenneth takes a look. Reporter blizzard blast. Blinding white out conditions, heavy snow and bone chilling blizzard watches and warnings from dc to new york airports in the northeast are closed `thousands of flights canceled. Town. Reporter in philadelphia the streets are covered. A snow emergency in effect in dc it is predicted to be the biggest blizzard since the 1920s. Expected. It has life and death applications. Reporter this storm impacting more than 80 millionn people left a blanket of snow in the south. This also wreaked havoc in kentucky, a 35 mile stretch of i 35 closed, leaving more than 3000 drivers stranded. Emergency shelters are open. In the carolinas, georgia and virginia snowplows are working thousands of crashes on the roadways. Several people have died. It is definitely ice. I morning in my dump truck. Reporter crews have been working around the clock to save even our fourlegged friends. This large st. Bernard fell through the ice in this freezing lake. Fireffghters jumped into action, rescued the dog and got him warmed up. This storm has already left hundreds of thousands of people in the dark. Crews are working to restore power in dc. People have been told to stay off the streets because it is only going to get worse. Because of the storm airlines have canceled about 7500 flights for today. You can expect to see more. This is a look at the misery map from flight aware. You can see the biggest delays will be on the east coast. We are also seeing some trouble in texas. Dallas is the fourth worst right now. A few delays in denver but not nearly what we are seeing on the east coost. If youre heading northeast check your flight. That is for sure. Plan on waiting another day `or so. The controversy surrounding the oscars is now prompting changes. A lot of people are complaining about the oscars being too white. The changes the academy is making to make sure that is not the case. Here is a look at the high country. I70 at ward hill, typical backups making the drive take a bit longer this morning. Here is another angle from floyd hill. You can see you will end up pumping the brakes in the mountains. The future of paying for paying more taxes at the pump. . 22 of every gallon goes to cdot. More than . 18 goes to the feds. Today the executive director of cdot joiied marshall on politics unplugged along with andrew telling us those numbers should be hired. I think they should both change. If you think about it, the prices for things that we were paying for in 1993 are not what `e are paying now. Think about your salary in 1993. What you are paying for it rents, mortgage, the price of bread. Everything else has gone up. I dont pay contractors in 19 93. I cant say im taking a dollar from 1993, it is about . 40 today. You can see politics unplugged at 4 00 tomorrow. Find out whos lineup to run against Michael Bennet for the u. S. Senate. Denver is discussing a Rapid Transit line along colfax avenue. Carries a price tag of 125 125 135 million. It would create a dedicated bus line on colfax street. Travel times taking away a lane of traffic. The project would include 20 stops. There is going to be a dedicated traveling much like yyu would see right now on broadway. In addition to that dedicated quicker boarding times, the buzz transits will make stops more frequuntly, about every five minutes. Local neighborhood groups are asking for feedback from residents for their concern is taking away a lien from drivers could increase traffic on other nearby streets. If you own a home may be in for some sticker shock on your next property tax statement. Home values are increasing rapidly and with them so our property taxes for the average homeowner in denver is paying just more than 1700 this year. There telling me it has gone up 300. That is crazy i dont have a problem with it but i think we need to invest in those things. I think we are seeing in cities like went to michigan where they didnt invest and that is what you get. The denver chief Financial Officer says the average house in denver is now valued at 280,000. That is 60,000 higher than last years average. However, we checked zillow as well and it has denvers median sale price of 331,000. Printers are also expected to shell out quite a bit more this about 4 more. This is according to the real estate site zillow. The increase would mean denver would be the fifth most expensive place to rent in the united states. There is good news. The increase is less than last year. Last year rents skyrocketed about 8. 7 . The average in denver right now nearly 1950 a month. Turning now to the controversy surrounding the oscars expect the academy is making changes to the words to make sure it includes talent from diverse backgrounds and cultures. President. Cheryl boone isaacs announced yesterday the academy will double the number of female and minority memberr by 2020. She says it will be delete diversified leadership by adding three new seats to the board of governors. All this follows an extensive extensive online backlash. Many noticed the nominated actors this year are all white. The avalanche danger is not too bad but that doesnt mean the danger is it still there. 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Here is a look at i70 at silver plume. It looks like we have some sunny skies. Not seeing any snow up there. A nice day to get up and head west. We are waiting to learn the identity of a man killed in an avalanche while snowmobiling your crested butte. It is the first avalanche death this season. The ninth across all the western states. Right now you can see on this map from the Colorado AvalancheInformation Center the aaalanche danger is mostly moderate big orange color indicates considerable danger. We had so much snow and that is what increases the avalanche danger for today is quite but because of the warmer temperatures and adding snow on top of it that will increase the danger heading into the outside right now it is nice. Here is a shot from a rooftop camera looking to the southwest from the denver brick you can see a little bit of the sunrise. It may be pretty up there but it is chilly. Temperatures in the single digits. 120 as been right now. Gunnison 15 below. Not as cold in the metro area. Greeley 18. The rest of us all in the 30s. When you see these numbers you are almost going to think i have the forecast run. Were going to be at 56 by noon. The cllar skiee this morning will see some more clouds. Mountain wave clouds. Not everyone but if you have them it will keep temperattres cooler. Timber topping out in the early afternoon hours and by 4 00 53. Look at the highs, in denver we warmer temperatures to the `southeast corner of the state. Into the low to mid 60s. Mountain towns upper 30s and low 40s. Cooler for the folks in steamboat, upper 20s. Greeley and fort collins a little cooler than the rest of the metro area. Looking at futurecast this is the mountain wave cloud i was talking about. Along the i25 just east of the foothills. Moving the futurecast you will not notice much at all. A few more clouds this afternoon. Very quiet conditions. This is at 4 00. We will start to see some changes overnight tonight. We will stop at 2 30. This is early tomorrow morning. We will see some snow in the northwest corner of the state. The northern and Central Mountains getting the snow through the day tomorrow. For the metro area, it looks `ike it will hold off until the afternoon. The game is early on sunday. By 1 30 looking pretty dry. Some clouds that dry conditions. That is not going to last. I the end of the game we will be looking for a little rain snow mix and snow to move in. At times it will be moderate snow falling. Early monday morning. Monday morning commutes could be a little snow. Give yourself some extra time. Today amazing. Tomorrow 45. Temperaturewise thats not bad but we will not have as much sunshine. If you are going to the game make sure you where layers and make sure you are ready for the clouds and not the sunshine. Heading into monday even colder. Temperatures topping out in the mid 30s. Next thursday and friday back into the 50s. Remember, it is still only january. We have a long way to go before springgarrives. Pretty decent. Next weekend we could be looking at a little bit of snow. I will have the full game day planner coming up later on in the newscast. it is a site you only see in colorado, a steer at crown palace. This is the stock show grand champion. He got the allstar treatment at the hotel yesterday. Even walked down a red carpet by his owner. He was auctioned to ames construction yesterday for 117,000. It is so amazing to see a steer in the middle of the if you havent been to the stock show you better get moving. It nds tomorrow. I am planning on taking the girls today. That will be just in time. The patriots players are waking up in denvvr this the land of last night. Crewmembers made sure they landed on the number 18 runway. The enemy has arrived. Good morning and welcome to sports extra. The patriots landed in denver yesterday. You can see them getting off the tarmac at dia. This is only the second time they have stood in front of each other with this trip to the super bowl on the line. Every bronco practiced yesterday except cornerback bradley ruby. He was limited with hip Peyton Manning is fresh. You can feel the anticipation building. The animosity brewing. Last time out 18 and the broncos beat the patriots 2616 in route to super bowl xlviii. That memory and those battles have not been easily forgotten. They are always in my way. They are always in my way to get what it wants. That is going to create hate naturally. But as much as we have played in backandforth games i thinkk it has created a rivalry. Do i hate the patriots . No. I dislike the patriots. Hate is a strong word. It all happens on the field tomorrow. To the ice. Scoreless in the first. , the first two periods and the blues light the lamp. Third. Equal. Comes through clutch. Avalanche one shootout goal is good enough. 343. Avalanche when 21 in the shootout. Mountain west conference, adams for a game for accumulating violations of conference sportsmanship ruled yeeterday. He was given a technical wednesday. s third of the season. You will miss out on odays game that wild plays against boise state. Lets get back to the nfl. As many of you know, broncos tight end owen daniels has a degree in meteorology from wisconsin. Heestruggled admittedly with his forecast last weekend. You provided a new game day forecast for us yesterday. Good morning. Forecast that on friday. Low 40s to start the game and then a good chance for precipitation. I dont think there will be any accumulation to speak of. It is if it is going to get worse it will be as the days goes on. Really not anticipating much accumulation. The man knows what he is talking about. That is a look at your morning sports. I hope you enjoyed it. Olen daniels knows what he is talking aboot. I would say his forecaat is pretty on. As far as no accumulation, the majority of that will come later sunday night but the wind, the cold temperatures and he got it. Instead of that broncos banner behind him he needs a green screen. We are looking for a new meteorologist here. When the season is over the of us a call. The game starts at 1 00 a big change for one us company when it comes to maternity leave. Many hope others will shortly at that change next. What the has the dublin more than half a dozen deaths blamed on this huge winter storm pounding the east coast. It took Joel Silverman years to become a master dog trainer. But only a few commands to master depositing checks at chase atms. Technology designed for you. Welcome back everyone. It is time for us to look at the top stories. The biggest story right now in is the massive winter storm wreaking havoc up and down the midatlantic. Blamed on the storm. 85 Million People remain in the storms path. 10 states have declared a state of emergency. 2 feet of snow. This could turn out to be the worst storm the region has seen in nearly a century. The storm is expected to continue through the day today. Out life. They have been out in the snow the snow will taper off tomorrow. 7500 flights are canceled right now and more are expected. Bernie sanders and Hillary Clinton are shadowing each Others Campaign stops now just a week before the Iowa Caucuses sanders held a town hall in hudson New Hampshire last night what clinton was in nearby manchester. Today they will be in iowa where they will both hold events in davenport hours apart. While the country watches that matchup the bigger one is the one between the broncos and the patriots. We are getting so close to this big game. Thank you for being here with us as we wait for that game. That is pretty much what it is. We have the broncos and the weather in the midatlantic. Lets take you to both of them. I have my broncos blue and orange on but i decided i had are you superstitious at all . I like it. Here is satellite and radar. You can see to the east this is the snow pounding dc. It is really moving all up and down the east coast. In maine it is staying relatively quiet. This is the next storm coming off the pacific that will bring us more snow arriving tonight in the high country. It could affect the broncos game. We will break that all downnin a little bit. It is going to be a gorgeous day today. Temperatures now