Marty, these next few days should be nice. Were going to melt off a lot of snow we got friday morning. Then well get a little more coming up this friday morning. The storms are in the cascades and extreme northern rockies, up to a foot of snow there and two feet in the sierras, as expected in the el expected el nino year. Its very light as far as winds go. Were running between 30 and 40 Miles Per Hour. Thats going to be common throughout the day. In the mountains and foothills, 45 and 55 mileperhour winds will be common. Even if you dont get wind where you are, you will benefit from that effect and it will allow temperatures to move into up ther 40s to about 50 degrees so amelia, were looking for sunshine slowing. I can say that, in about an hour and a half from now. Clear and dry. With all the wind out to the west side, i wouldnt be surprised if thats why we morning. They launch out of the Rocky Mountain metro airport. Across u. S. 36 where were seeing all that wind. 93 is gusty. Same goes for six. Also i70 to the west side. As we begin our downtown commute, i want you to keep in mind we have a minor crash at park avenue. Busy intersection was but the delays are pretty light there. s the big area of wind that will affect us near the eisenhower and johnson tunnels. Across 270, off to a perfect beginning even through the ongoing Construction Zones. That wrapped up in time. Coming up on any next update, well talk about your commute to the airport and your drive to see a fire that close, that big, that entire house, 30 feet high, its like, wow. A house explosion in ohio killed a family of four. Neighbors say they heard a blast and then they saw flames shooting from the home. Just look at how much smoke is pouring out of the roof. The explosion happened in northfield ohio last night. Its about 20 miles south of cleveland. Firefighters say a mother, father, two daughters died in the crash. The family dog escaped. Investigators have not said what caused the deadly explosion. A new explosion in a popular tourist spot in istanbul. Turkis deputy Prime Minister said a man from syria is responsible for the attack. The Prime Minister says most of the victims are foreign. Several emergency vehicles filled the square, which is home to the historic blue mosque and museum there. One witness described the explosion as a big blast, something you would only hear a hotel park lot became the involved shooting. They were check out reports of a stolen car, but something suspicious turned their vehicle. When they approached it, they saw the man was armed. Shots were fired. The suspect was taken to the hospital in critical condition. Its unclear if he shot first or fired at all. The officers who rushed inside a planned parenthood as a gunman was shooting there will be honored today. Three people were killed, including a uccs police officer. Nine others were hurt in this hour okays long standoff between the gunman and police. The local Colorado SpringsSheriffs Department will all be recognized today. John suthers will present the to six civilians who stepped in to treat victims. Working together to investigate if students and teachers have been exposed to tuberculosis. A student was diagnosed with tb during the break. Boulevard. Students and faculty who need to be tested have been alerted. They know they need to do that. Theres no ongoing risk of tb exposure and the faculty and students should be okay to be on campus. Well, denver is going to be getting a new chief Financial Officer starting in february. Terry kennedy is going to step down from that position as well as the deputy mayor position. Shes been in those posts for 4 she plans to start a consulting practice in town. She may make a run for governor in the future. Brendan handlin will be replacing them as cfo. They will take on the deputy mayor duties in the future. Downtown denver, it will remain a Construction Zone for a year longer than expected. No construction work has happened for the past eight months. The plan was to have the popular parks trail, ramps, Schumacher Plaza all upgraded by august. Crews hit a snag while excavating the site. Coal tar was found. Its messy but not toxic. It has to be cleaned up. Its a biproduct and they buried it in different places throughout the city. The plan for Confluence Park was going to cost 4. 2 million, but that number is rising along with the number of months its going to take to finish. Park visitors will see a trail completed sometime within the next few weeks. Youre going to have a chance to boost your broncos pride today. We have another round of united and orange giveaways. About 7 minutes ago, it kicked off at wadsworth avenue. Tarhonda thomas is there with all kind of great fans. You have jackets and leg magnets left in your hand. Reporter you know what, the fans have been so patient. Were going to give away the first ones live to miss margaret. There we go, people. Theyve got the energy going. Were going to let king soopers take over and give them away. So these are real fans. Season tickets . Look at all these fans here. The line weaves in and out. Theyre handing them out. Everybody is so exited. Look at that. Have you had a lot of coffee today, maam. No. Only going with pure broncos energy. Thats right. Have you gotten anything before, any of our broncos freebies. I got the yard sign. These are collector items. You guys are lucky because it looks like we may be running out of things before 8 00. Go broncos. Ive got some great little kids here. Im going to walk up the front you all. Youre giving me great information on the broncos. Katherine, who do you think is going to win . The broncos. The broncos, by how many points . Like a gagillion points. Uhhuh. Say hello to the broncos cheerleaders. Theyre here right now. They have their calendars for sale. You can take pictures with them. We have hundreds of people woven in and out of these aisles. Im going to move out of the way so they can keep getting these magnets. King soopers, we have all kinds of locations throughout colorado. Make sure you get yours before theyre gone. You dont want to get in the way of magnets and handing those out to people. Seriously here. Thats true. What a fun morning. Those are going to go so fast. Tarhonda, thank you. Every day this week well have a different we are broncos photo challenge. Yesterday it was broncos pets. Today we want to see how you and your kids cheer on the broncos. Here are pictures weve got this morning. Remember to use the hashtag we are broncos. I like that. Little cheerleader, little bron ecos cheerleader. How adorable. So, again, keep those coming. Use the hashtag we are broncos. Your picture might just end up marty, we had a lot of photos. I think were going to get more today with the kiddos. I totally agree. If your drive takes you between boulder and golden this morning, anticipate blowing snow across the road. Just saw a 54 mileperhour wind gust right along highway 93 at that area. Moderate air quality, visibility poor. How can that be . Most of the metro area will not get wind. Were really not going to have much wind around the area today. It is going to get warm. Well be calm throughout the metro area. It gets even warmer tomorrow. Thanks so much, marty. A big Wireless Company is rolling out a new unlimited dry around the area. Weve been talking about the wind up and down the front range and foothills. Thats going to be true here. The next snow is on the west coast. Oregon and washington getting slammed. Heavy snow for the sierras and cascades. That snow doesnt make it into colorado mountains until thursday. It starts thursday and then really snows a little bit heavier on friday. Temperatures right now, extremely cold in places where youve anticipated to be cold in some of the high valleys in grand county around the Gunnison River and st. Louis valley, running between 15 and 30 degrees below zero. High clouds this morning and throughout the day. Youre going get a lot of sun and wind, especially metro area. Boulder county, a little cooler. Fort collins, low 40s upper 30s there. Mid40s to about 50 around town and very windy in the foothills. Dry statewide today. No new rain or snow here. Well pick up a few high clouds moving over the front range and with northeastern colorado, 30s, 40s for the plains, warmer here, mild down south with 20s and 30s in the mountains and west. Today, 48, windy on the west side of town and in the foothills. Tonight we keep the wind up in the foothills which should keep temperatures above 20 degrees tonight. Thats going to launch us into the 50s tomorrow. We do cool slightly on thursday. Clouds start picking up. For us, friday looks like less than an inch of snow. Slow clearing saturday and a good looking day for the hey, amelia, can you get me one of those magnets . Those are hard to come by. Martys king soopers, keep an eye out next time youre in the milk aisle. Great conditions here across the very quiet tuesday highway drive. 50s and 60s across the board. Sunrise around 7 20. Thats when we see the delays start to build. We have the first crash of the morning. Its a hitandrun accident at the intersection of khampa and we know there are flashing lights in that part of the city. Sky 9 has decided to stay on the ground to avoid windy conditions. Highway 93 and i70, greg, if you were standing out on the side of the road there, your hair you know what i mean. Easy there, sister. I would not be worried is what youre saying. You would be just fine. I would be just fine. Amelia. I love your show. Automakers are expected to make an announcement this week. Its aimed at improving safety following a year of record setting fines, recalls, and a lot of investigations into faulty vehicles by some of the big names like gm, honda, fiat. Its going to stop short of what has been called for. At t is experimenting with unlimited data plans once again, but theres a catch here. You can pay 100 bucks a month for unlimited data, talk, and text for one smart phone. If you also have or sign up for direct tv, which at t now owns. You can also sign up for the plan if you have at ts home service which is called u verse. It costs 40 buck as month to add a second and third line. This means a family of four will be paying about 180 a month. At t has not announced when that promotion will be ended. Good plan. If you need a lot of usage. A guy in data went to Great Lengths to steal an animal, sort of an animal. Coming up, why the store owner the mother of the affluenza teen could be released from jail. Shell be fit with a gps monitor and be let go today. She was brought back to texas after being caught with her 18 yearold son ethan in mexico. Shes now chargeed with the apprehension of a felon. Bowe bergdahl faces charges of desertion and misbehavior with the enemy. He was captured by the taliban and held captive for five years. He was released as part of a prisoner swap in exchange for several detain detainees from guantanamo bay. Prosecutors in pennsylvania are allegedly acting illegally. He said the prosecutors broke a pledge that they would never file charges against cosby for a 2004 incident regarding a temple employee. That promise led cosby to give testimony in a lawsuit filed by the woman. Now theyre saying prosecutors part of their criminal felony Sexual Assault case against bill cosby. This may very well be the toughest story to read on tape. Once they took a step to steal the python, cameras caught him taking the snake out of the cage and sticking it down his pants. The stores owner said the thief is lucky. Hes lucky because it was not the pythons typical feeding day. Looking for food. Theyre ready to eat by saturday. So he, you know, he made it in the knick of time. They like dark, warm places, so he was probably very comfortable where he was at. Really . The stores owner is kind of upset about the crime and said she has not seen anything like this in the 20 years shes been in business. Bleeding, im biting it so hard. What was he thinking. Good thing it wasnt saturday. Its feeding day well, maybe he knows that now. We tried so hard to get through that story. They have not recovered the snake . Okay. Its 6 22. We have to go on. Mug shot photos normally are not the greatest moment in anyones life. Usually theyre not the most flattering photos. They are not. An ohio man was not thrilled with the picture police posted, so he decided to do a Little Something about it. How about that . According to their facebook page, donald pew spoke to police about the two unflattering pictures of him and requested they post a new pic that he sent to them. It captioned. Here, this is a better photo. That one is terrible. The post has gone viral since it was posted. The Department Said they request him come see them in person. Nice picture, but why dont you come in in person. Him and the snake thief, i dont know what they were thinking. A driver learned why you should not park next to lake erie when its really cold outside. Well show you that coming up. First a look at weather and traffic. Its going to be windy today. Windy and plenty cold right here in colorado. Well below zero in grand county. The valley is getting below zero as well, gunnison area and we have extremely cold temperatures running between 15 to 30 below zero. Ive seen it about 30 below tabernash. Our next mountain snow starts next thursday and finishes up by late in the day friday, a 4 9inch snow. Not much going on until thursday morning. 13 inches. Then were going to added on to that thursday night into late friday morning and saturday. So, again, friday night and saturday were going to have some good snow coming in. So, saturday morning, another powder day. Another powder day. Thats definitely going to change our ride out to the west side. Thats why were starting at vail today. Icy snow packed shoulders there, but main roads are looking beautiful this morning. No chain laws across the country drive. It is icy and snow packed. Thats going to change as we head into the rest of the week. We have one hit and run crash drivers are constantly warned do not park your car close to the waters of lake erie, especially in the winter time. One driver found out why. Waves and spray from the lake combined with freezing temperatures are enough to encase a car in ice. Bummer. Look at this. Wow. Oh, how terrible. How are they going to get the car out of there . Theres two options. Slowly chip it away or just let nature take its course and wait for temperatures to warm up and have all of that ice melt. I have a feeling that would take quite a while. May is not that far away. They will never do that again. Rock legend david bowie is going to live on. The cincinnati zoo asked for they share a birthday on january 8th. The rock star died two days after the chick was born. She was 69 years old. Obviously the chick named, kind of a cute thing. Were handing out free bronco magnets. Coming up, were going to meet some of the fans that have been lined up for a couple of hours Tonightpresident Barack Obama will deliver his final state of the union address. And it wont be like years p obama will deliver his final state of the union address. It wont be like years past. What the president wants to focus on in his speech. The latest technology, stateof theart equipment, and it its all in the Training Facility in northern colorado. Well take you inside to show you the future of First Responder training. Are you united in orange . Well, if so, you need one of these magnets. Well tell you when and where to get them, but you better act fast, coming up. Man, those folks have been lined up sense since about 4 00 this morning. Amelia is in the traffic center. Marty is out in the backyard. Marty, things pretty nice today, mild for the next few days. We have a chinook wind rolling down the hills. Its calm on the east side of town. Get west of wadsworth boulevard, it starts picking up fast. 30, 40 Miles Per Hour. 93 between golden and boulder this morning. Top gusts ive seen so far has been 55 at bertha pass. Here we are. This is the web cam still. Theres some snow blowing across highway 93. You do need to be a little careful. Downtown, it is a gorgeous predawn morning. Dry conditions, calm conditions around here. We stay in the 20s early on. Start pushing 30 by 9 00 a. M. Were just going to pop right by 30 degrees by midmorning, heading on our way between 45 and 50 degrees. Some of the warmer temperatures are going to be on the west side of town where we have those really gusty winds around the area. Coming up, we have even warmer conditions tomorrow in the mid 50s. Thursday we start cooling down and then late in the day on way. I will have details coming up in a few minutes. Amelia, other than highway 93, its pretty good conditions down here. Really good conditions. Your drive if youre starting out on the freeways. I25 and east, out west again, very windy on highway 93. Were hearing windy conditions out near Rocky Mountain metro and u. S. 36, i70 and 6th 6th avenue out towards golden. Sunrise this morning. 720. Thats when things are going to get very bright with very little cloud cover. Do expect anticipated delays there. I would say i25 and colorado, the worst of the worst is going to be 7 30 to 8 30 this morning. Westbounders on 36, takes you 20 minutes on speeds around 60 Miles Per Hour. Across our drive in and around our side streets, we have been a little active and busy. We have reports of a new crash in holly. If that one sticks around, we could see backups in towards the 6 30 mark. For the rest of us, were looking pretty clear across downtown. The only exception there. Champas and park. Thats a hit and run crash this morning. 6 34. This morning a man who Denver Police say was armed when Police Officers walked up to his vehicle is in critical condition. He was washed to the hospital after police say at least one officer shot him yesterday afternoon. Those officers were investigating a stolen vehicle nest west 26th. When they got a call about a suspicious activity related to a different car, they went to check it out. When they tried to speak to the person in that vehicle, the armed man apparently got out. Its unclear if he shot first or even fired at all, but the spokesperson says the suspect was hit. Neither officer was injured. This highlights just how dangerous the job can be. An officer never knows what type of encounter theyre going