Transcripts For KUSA 9News Sunday Morning 20160214

Look with cdot cameras. Sorry im having a little bit of trouble but this is i78 floyd hill and traffic picking up and the winds blowing in the high country shaking the cameras. We experience winds as high as 70 Miles Per Hour yesterday so definitely a concern this morning. But first a frightening moment at king soopers and jefferson county. A former employee walked in waving a machete and smashed items and frightened customers. On conifer road. The Sheriffs Department said he smashed freezer windows and he seemed to be on a rampage. Deputies arrested the man a short time later no one hurt in investigation. Windy morning and the winds front range. Not as bad as yesterday. Per hour. Belen will it be as strong today . Speaking relatively we have gusts up to 70 miles an hour. Let me show you reports that came in. 73 Miles Per Hour rocky flats, golden 66 and bolder and superior gusts up to 58 miles an hour. 42 in nederland, do not 31. Rest of the day we will see winds off a tad and gusty at times up to 40 Miles Per Hour. In the city 10 to 20 Miles Per Hour. I stopped the Wind Gust Forecast at 3 30. Not like what we saw overnight and through this evening up to 40 Miles Per Hour and tomorrow we will see the winds pickup not only in the foothills but front range in here on the front range. Also watching the northwest flow bringing moisture into the north and Central Mountains. Cloudiness in the city and beautiful sunrise. Snow for north and Central Mountains. Possibility from 6 to 12 inches near Rocky Mountain National Park. 4 to 8 inches near Johnson Eisenhower and 3 to 8 inches near vail. Temperatures on valentines day will be mild. Waking up to 30s on the map. This afternoon highschooler than yesterday but above normal highs of a 45 degrees. 50 on the map and valentines day today so besides the snow in wind in the forecast lots of hearts on behalf of me. At 9 am 50 degrees and 6 00 46 degrees. Coming up ill let you know if snow in the high country makes its way to the front range. Right now Tracey Anthony with your traffic. Relatively quiet this morning. President s day monday and in the middle section of the longer weekend. Some people getting out on i70 heading traffic this evening touch evening lighter normal then west of the georgetown camera looking relatively calm. Floyd hill cameras continuing to shake. For now were always looking clear traffic wise and weather wise and like bill in said it could be later on today we deal with snow and slick roadways. This evening heading eastbound would have to add an extra 1 to 2 hours and also could be monday night as well and you will be battling weather elements. A different traffic pattern this weekend. Jessica and ryan next you can always watch tracies high country reports on 9news. Dont forget about cdot conditions and i70 between vail all you have to do is log on to cotrip. Org. And avalanche shut down one lane on u. S. 550 between Red Mountain Pass and silverton. People were skiing down the path above the highway when the slide was triggered. People were caught and carried in the avalanche but doing okay this morning. Snow and debris had to be cleared off and 12 to 15 feet deep on the highway. Warning from Denver Police after two men pretending to be Police Officers robbed a man. It are bonuses in the center and lets hear the story. Reporter the warning comes from police after officer say two men posing as Police Officers pulled over amanda robbed him friday night. The victim said he was pulled over by a car with red and blue flashing lights. Police say they handcuffed the man roughed him up and cause injury to his head. His wallet and after they left the victim noticed 180 was missing. Police say the men were dressed in what appeared to be Police Uniforms and one had a gun belt and badge. They believe the men were driving a maroon Crown Victoria equipped with blue and red lights. One suspect described as an africanamerican heavyset bald man and the other is white and stocky 56 and blonde. If you have Information Contact crimestoppers at 720913 as gop. Police say use extra cautions when being pulled over and you can drive to a well lit area and call police to confirm if vida urbonas 9news. After concerning several days to fugitives who escaped from parole supervision are caught in another man on the run. Springs in the department of correction say they arrested springs and wesley jones when they are still looking for Dennis Simonton and they say that Dennis Simonton and wesley supremacist gang. Dennis simonton is armed and dangerous so if you see him call 911 right away. The death of Supreme Court Associates Justice Antonin Scalia is called a great loss for our court and country. He died yesterday in taxes of he was the longestserving justice on these current Supreme Court and his body was taken to a funeral home in el he was 79 years old. White house and outside the Supreme Court building in honor a forsan conservatism and wrote court justice. He was an influential member of the court. He was most notable in his case in 2008 on gun rights. He wrote the willing which upheld a home for selfdefense. He opposed last years ruling on gay marriage and against abortion rights. Ronald reagan nominated him to the court in 1986. Immediately after his death the conversation began on who would replace him. President obama said hell nominate a successor who has to be approved by the senate. Most republican candidates dont want the democratic president replacing him. Its a decision that could tip the scales to give liberals more of an advantage in the court. During last nights debate South Carolina all candidates nomination to the next president except jeb bush you said he has a right to nominate the replacement. He also said he doesnt think the president to pick a judge would win consensus support. Democrats say they feel he immediately. Bernie sanders said this last night about his republican colleagues. Apparently they believe that the constitution doesnt allow a democratic president to bring forth the nominee to replace justice scalia. I strongly disagree with that. Hillary clinton also at the condolences to scalias family and very vocal about the president s responsibility to nominate a new justice. President obama said he would nominate someone to the pension that is exactly what he should be doing and Mitch Mcconnell should follow the constitutional process. This decision could make obama the first president to appoint reagan. George washington made the most with 11 and roosevelt made besides that discussion gop president ial hopefuls debated foreignpolicy and immigration. Mudslinging continued between donald trump and jeb bush and trump said george h. W. Bush lied to the public about the iraq war. There is jeb bushs response. I could care less about the insults donald trump gives to me. He enjoys it and im glad hes happy about it. Im sick and tired of him going after my family. The bush family very popular in South Carolina jeered at 12 after the attack and john kasich sluice campaign was revived defended his decision to expand medicaid in ohio and marco rubio defended attacks against ted cruz and the immigration legislation which would have provided a path to citizenship. 7 10 and dont know if you had a chance to watch last night but von miller giving us a run for our money. If he got on the desk with you i be out of a job. He was on snl last night. I guess you could say i did. Explain it to us. The Gravitational Waves were discovered when to buy kohls collided with each other. These waves are everywhere in the universe. Melissa mccarthy hosted last time. I love her shes so funny. Jonah hill will be there in three weeks. We dont typically get to watch it because we are sunday means getting ready live look at boulder this morning. Looks like we have a little cloud cover but temperatures not as warm as yesterday but just as nice. It was nice outside yesterday. Len how does it feel outside now . We see where we should be this time of year. We should be closer to go 45 degrees and highs today near 55 so above average. Nice day for us with temperatures but we have winds to contend with. In the high country although very welcome the snowfall could be difficult for travel with travel advisories in affect. I will show you whats happening across the country. Currently cold air taken hold of the great lakes and midwest and midatlantic new england teens or below zero and thats not including wind chill. The western part of the country although were waking up to chilly temperatures are under control of High Pressure and colder weather. Lets look at radar now and you notice the storm track is slicing the central part of the country where we have the Stormy Weather back. Also went to warnings in that area where we have the cold air. In colorado looking upstream and have snow making its way in our direction. Currently Winter Weather advisory in the high country. Try on the front range and Eastern Plains and light snowfall and some high country spots. Look at Winter Weather advisory going into effect that 11 00 am and in some spots can snow continues through monday evening. Good amount of snow expected mountains and southern mountains stay dry. Front range high 54 degrees in skies partly cloudy. Mild but watching for the stronger winds around the foothills. Temperatures in the in the 30s. High country teens and 20s and below zero and gunnison. This afternoon highs in the low 50s and mid50s around i25 towards the Eastern Plains. 30s for the high country and 40s towards the western slope. The snow will develop around lunchtime and the drive along i 70 a little icy and throughout the rest of the afternoon will stay mainly dry in the front range. Early this evening light snow showers and rain showers into northeast colorado. Accumulation very much on the light side and brief. Tomorrow morning the sun in the sky again and lingering snow mountains. 32 degrees in winds gusting 40 to 50 mph. In the city 10 to 15 mph. Tomorrow even more windy and high of 18 degrees for president s day. Tuesday breezy high 63. Wednesday high 67. Thursday high 70 degrees in friday high 64. Ryan and jessica i got a treat from viewers who asked when it will be sunny and 80. Its a long way from that but 70 degrees on thursday will fill really nice. We have something nice going and winter is not over. Thank you colon. Welcome back. A lot of people will be rushing out this morning to get last minute flowers, cards perhaps at a boosted up price. You get the last pick of the litter. For your bone i hear and the National Retail federation predicts 19 billion spending for valentines day. They have been tracking this for 50 years and its the highest since 2010. People are just buying, buying, buying. Tomorrow everything is half off. Holiday big business for florists as well with 1. 9 billion of flowers on valentines day. Other fun facts 4 out of 10 people plan on taking their loved one on a date. Americans spend an average of 146 and you were talking about 14,000,000 marriage proposals today so this is when wedding season kicks into gear right after valentines day. This is a big day. Look at this. Gas station of the future may not be at a station at all. What if it came to you . This is called rooster fueled and developed by ross perot junior and microsoft founder starting in Fort Worth Texas and spread to 10 cities and inspired by uber and other on demand services. The company and its customers connect to an apt and avoid expensive real estate so they can deliver low prices. If you are on the go, do you know how wonderful this is . Come to my soccer practice. For now booster fuel say home i love that. A shift happening in Many American households. More men are doing laundry. The shift has detergent and washing machine makers researching male behavior because men and women wash clothes differently. I tell my husband dont put my clothes in the wash. He throws it all in and doesnt care. Until theres no underwear left. They did a survey that shows keep people from mixing. Changing it will change the way i do laundry. I will still wait for as long as possible. It might make it smell better. How about this one . A diversion for president s day. Sports illustrated has an issue coming out with the swimsuit plus size model will be a advertisements. There will be the oldest woman to appear in the swimsuit issue since it began in 1964. Thats really cool and there agencies moving at directions. We have heard about models in weight now. They want them to look like normal women. Thank you. Basketball and a slamdunk contest. From the colorado sports leader here is rod mackey. What a difference a week makes. Last sunday live in Santa Clara California getting ready for super bowl 50. One week later we are starting the sports cast with the nba no nuggets in the big game tonight that they were partaking in last nights festivities like the dunk contest. Will barton competed and none have won. Well both well knocked out in the first round last night. A night that prolonged to 2 men. Aaron gordon and zach lavine. They put on a show when gordon using the magic mascot over and over and levine showed sick skills. Best one weve seen in a long time and should have been a tie but ended up giving it. Look at this. Wow last week we talked about Emmanuel Sanders and this week emmanuel mudiay. The nuggets rookie partaking in the Skills Competition and didnt last long. Emmanuel eliminated in the first round of the head to head contest against bostons isaiah thomas. Thomas had a three going in first and he was therefore the karlanthony towns was the champion. No nuggets won the three point contest either because no nuggets were invited. A warrior won but not steph curry. He was second to teammate Klay Thompson who was on fire finishing with 27 points to beat steph curry by 4. Now to the College Hardwood and a sweep of washington by the buffalo in boulder. They got them in Double Overtime thursday and yesterday they beat the huskies. Wesley gordon man on a mission got a bucket and cu up eight and washington came back with a shot to win and at the end but the shot by Andrew Andrews mast and gordons monster rebound cu holds on a final score 8180. Csu in las vegas going for their third win in a row and this looks like a good one. It was not. The running rebels too good and csu falls 1411 as they fall to unlv 8780. Not lacrosse. They had their hands full against air force and pioneers first game after winning the ncaa championship last year. Up 84 at halftime but got interesting late one therefore scored five unanswered and taken 98 lead. The goahead goal there but do you came back and made a great escape. The senior captain from Arapahoe High School in the freshman for the gamewinner. Du wins 108. And last but not least the Du Hockey Team, what a weekend as a knockoff number two north dakota in backto back nights. Beat a team twice in 24 hours a super bowl champion under arrest. Shiloh keo spent time in the and arrested for dui in idaho. And you can no longer make a route through new orleans after a fire broke out on a bridge. Support coming in for a deputy trying to arrest a teenager. His final act got a big reaction. Graham is just around the corner and top predictions from the experts. 7 31 on sunday and thank you for starting your day with us and happy valentines day. Temperatures near the 70s yesterday but people on the east coast dealing with brutally cold temperatures. People warned to stay indoors and below zero in several cities. For a pileup of dozens of vehicles in pennsylvania. A massive deadly pileup with 50 cars and big rigs at three people dead and more than 40 transported to hospitals. Another 70 brought to a fire station to get out of the cold. Parts of minnesota experienced 22 degrees below zero temperatures without the wind chill. They are historically low in places like buffalo were ice makes driving treacherous. In new york city wind gusts are topping. It impacts pets also when the dog found chained to a tree with its paws frozen to the ground is recovering and the vets office. A woman found it and said it couldnt stand up on its own. Not clear if the dog returned to its owner or put up for adoption. In new york they are considering penalties for animals being left in extreme cold or heat. Never easy with temperatures that brutally cold. Nothing like that in colorado. The high country. Something you want to keep in mind if you travel in the north and Central Mountains would midday. Current winds gusts up to 70 miles up per hour and currently winds gusting up to 55 in nederland. Evergreen we have of you were saying its windier and some of these spots actually windier than what this is saying right now. Anyway you slice it its windy out there and causing problems. The winds in comparison to last night not a strong but still dusty at times. In the city 10 to 20 Miles Per Hour and through this evening wind speeds up to 30 mph in the foothills. Tomorrow another windy day not only near the foothills but also on the front range. Of snow to the high country. And Central Mountains. Good news for ski resorts but if you travel in it expect lower visibility and icn snowpack roads 4 to 8 inches from Johnson Eisenhower tunnel. Temperatures right now in the 30s and 40s in boulder and evergreen and downsloping wins. This afternoon cooler than yesterday but above normal height to 45. 40s and 30s for the high country. Its valentines day and john olson up early making breakfast in bed for his wife. What a good husband. He also sent this beautiful picture of a sunrise. We take you through valentines day temperatures through 9 am in the 30s. About lunchtime temperatures clock in around 53 degrees and 6 00 at 46. It warms up after this and workweek forecast coming up. Tracey anthony here with your traffic. This morning different than what we were dealing with i was on i70 and heading into denver so i missed all the slowdowns yesterday. As for todays smooth sailing. Long weekend so that could be good news for us as a lot of us had back into denver this evening. Hopefully the traffic wont be as happy as we normally see sunday evenings. Some people might be heading home on monday. 40 minutes from sixth avenue to us 6. A few minor slowdowns but nothing major and hasnt changed the drive times. Eastbound sunday and monday we will see the influx of traffic. You have to plan extra time and worry about some of those slick roadways so be mindful of that long weekend. You can listen to cdots mountain travel radio and for traffic conditions between i70 and bill log onto cotrip. Org. Shiloh keo bonded out of dui in idaho. The 28yearold has a home in southwest idaho and tweeted he returned home after the super bowl victory. Broncos say they are aware of it and looking into what. A bridge fire disrupted Amtrak Train Service in new orleans. World workers were on the bridge across the spillway yesterday when flames broke out. Dozens of firefighters work from boats in the water and helicopters in the sky to put it out. 4 to 8 freight trains into passenger trains travel across it every day. No word on the cause or how long it will be disrupted. Grammy awards tomorrow night and rumors flying about who will take home the big awards. This year looks like Kendrick Lamar one of the topics. At this years grammy awards. On stage lineup really impressive. Lady gaga will do a david bowie tribute and also performing adele goose hollow came out tosylate to be nominated. Lionel richie saying the 1983 classic hello will also perform too. It such a great song. Regional wrestling tournaments wrap up across the welcome to the 9news prep rally. Heres taylor temby. Good morning. Happy sunday and can you believe it . First winter season comes to a close in state swimming this weekend and Fairview Knights are the new 5a state state event and it was very affect. First race of the day 200 medley relay. From the start it along to fossil ridge. The russell came in billing former team and fossil ridge winds will the time 143 31. Next up the 200 yards freestyle of Brittney Beetcher balances but peter pulls ahead in the final stretch. She winds and and a time of 151 fax 07 and feature only a junior pete of her closest competitor by over one second. Finally we finish off state 5a with the 100 yard butterfly and fossil ridge at it again. First place and going for it. Her split was 53 50 and fossil ridge who won the Overall Team Title last year came in third this weekend. I didnt want to let my team down. In state 5a diving regis jesuit straight diving state she will take her three titles the fall. Boston help the readers come in second overall. And coming to Highlands Ranch Valor Christian took on the team prize after dominating individual and relay events. Valor Brooke Stenstrom did her part in boca raton for a state record with a blazing time of 23 22. Its her Third Straight state championship and finished first in the 100 yard three and helped the eagles take number one in the 200 yard medley relay. Looking back at my sophomore year i would never have imagined three times in a opportunity. Go. This is my best time since my freshman year by 1 100 and am very excited. Mary academy Alex Reddington made a statement in the pool and finished first in the 200 butterfly. Time that the 5 05 in the butterfly was fast enough for the fourday state record. She had edged out cheyenne mountain. And we cant ignore our other threepeat state champions Morgan Friesen was 33 in the 100 yard breaststroke. She wasnt able to be her on Colorado State record set her sophomore year but finished 102 15 and first in the 100 individual medley. Almost the whole second faster than the next place. Evergreen took home the top two 484. 9 and the princeton bound diver excited to be on the podium with her teammate mills and just over five points afternoon for the cougars. I wanted to do the best i could do the last three guys. I just wanted to finish my high skilled career strong. School diving its amazing to end like this. Number 10 ranked Colorado Academy goes for the extra push at the end of the regular season taking on peak to peak. Early on going in with a shot and a jumper for 2 leading the team with 20. Colorado academy willems responds with a note behind the back pass and they take back the lead. He shows up more than passing skills and comes away with a steel and monster slam. They lead Colorado Academy to a 9367 win. Friday night hoops at grandview mullen. Nathan davis reaches for a steel and down the court for an easy layup in hopes of catching the wolves. Randy winn sank all night and jones gets it download driving to the hoop. Grandview pulls away and final 7557. Girls number three fowler hosting evergreen in a top 10 rematch from earlier this season. The cougars looking for a different outcome keeping it tight and the first. A putt back and the team pulls within 2. Evergreen takes the lead back before the fast but just before time expires madison with along three that beats the buzzer. Down by 2 at half. The eagles take back the lead in the third and Madison Altman leads the team and valor walking away with a win 4437 the final. This season has been great. Not just the fact we are or off the court is so strong. Were unstoppable when we play together. Its great having that unity. Were taking it one step at a time and one game at a time. We hope it leads us to state. Wild west wildcats hosting columbine rebels and columbine hit the court first. Slamming a three and going ahead in the first. Secondquarter wildcats mitchell the other way for 2 and arvada west keeps the momentum taking a 4235. And hockey the states top teams Ralston Valley regis facing up. Feeding a good back and around the goaltender to get on the board. We just respond soon after and duffy pulling off ripping a beauty and score 11. In the second the raiders and widely finds a way to get it who snipes the lead and the Ralston Valley 63 the final. Highlights and interviews from all of our games this week can be found online just go to 9news. Com hss. Im looking forward to this starts and its at the pepsi so many teams and wrestlers and huge crowd as always. Welcome back and 7 48 on sunday and happy valentines day. Deli i got you a gift. A little bit of a hard time figuring out which one i give to ryan. Major crush, say yes, its also awkward. I will give you this ring cookie. She will be happy that i finally bought her a ring. Beautiful over colorado today on this valentines day as the sun trying to come up with beautiful colors in the sky. Beaver creek and peak to peak thanks for sending in this picture. Beautiful pastels over the mountain side. Partly cloudy on this valentines day and temperatures cooler than yesterday but above average at 55. Will be mild but once again watching for windy conditions near the foothills and snow to develop in the high country. The view i70 and floyd hill and you see how strong the winds are shaking the camera closer to the foothills. Gusts up to 55 near nederland. Genesee 56 Miles Per Hour. The winds will back down up to 30 and 40 mph during the day. This evening wind gust 10 to 20 Miles Per Hour in the city. Only near the foothills but on the front page. Northwest flow increasing clouds and also moisture. It means snow which will develop in the north and Central Mountains where we have the travel advisory. Where you see shaded is where it will be difficult to drive. From 6 to 12 inches in Rocky Mountain National Park and 3 to 6 inches near vail and aspen. Heres a look at the snow developing. The front range mainly dry around the time but packed up things and get in the car and travel back to the front range, the drive along i70 could be difficult. We could see brain and moisture make its way to the Eastern Plains this afternoon, evening, into the overnight hours. Not a whole lot and accumulation on the light side. Tomorrow morning waking up to sunshine with snow lingering in the northern mountains. We covered the wind and we talk about mild temperatures. 30s on the map now. 20s and leadville and 19 and six blown gunnison. High temperatures in the 30s in collins 53. If you travel to the south temperatures in the 60s. Watching for above normal temperatures during the day and at night as well. Overnight lows in the teens. 32 overnight and a lot of this brought on because of downsloping westerly winds. Windy near the foothills and isolated showers in northeast colorado and 32 overnight low. Forecast warmer tomorrow and very windy with high of 58. Tuesday 56 degrees. Wednesday 67. Theres a high of 70 and friday 64. Follow me on twitter and get your complete forecast on 9news. Com. We will toss it over to ryan todays not only valentines day but organ donor awareness day. We will find out about the importance of Organ Donation and thanks for being here. I want to start with pam and joe. Joe you have an incredible story. Can you tell what you been through . Since 2007 i had Heart Failure that got worse and a couple years ago it got really bad. It per the pump in my heart to keep me alive. Two months after they cut me open for that i found a heart. Last fall of 2014 i got a heart installed before i speak to you guys, tell me what that was like when you got your heart . Its exciting actually. You are so sick you are probably going to pass away and that doesnt happen and its like a miracle. You cant do anything but be panama, we also often its the family that suffers along with their loved one. When you found out there was a heart for your husband what were you thinking . They had just reactivated him on the list that morning because of his previous surgery. That 9 00 that morning we were active on the list and by 1 30 in the afternoon we got a heart. Was like going through this and not knowing if he would get a heart . It was traumatic. I spent two thirds of my life give up. It was a fight and battle and the wonderful medical of Colorado Health as well as the donor and the families and we are grateful. We know how fantastic their team is. And andrea here with donor live in lets talk about why awareness we want people to know about donating and what they can do to get involved . Are 27 people in colorado just like joe waiting for a life saving organ transplant. If it werent for people who generously say yes to become organ and tissue donors, we wouldnt be sitting with him today. How can people get involved . Go to donate livestock colorado. Org and you can register as a donor or be a volunteer. We would love to have you. Thank you all so much. Welcome back everyone. A live look from our studio. But temperatures mild. 7 56 and a look whats coming on 9news and 8 00. Search continues for 2 men posing as Police Officers about the men and police are trying to find them. One of the most influential conservative justices to hold the seat. Antonin scalia dies and debate over who will take his place. Bernie sanders and Hillary Clinton make a stop in colorado this weekend. Of familiar denver face on the saturday light live stage. Mvp von miller trying his hand at comedy. We will show you his appearance coming up. Another hour of news and weather ahead. The search continues for two men posing as Police Officers who robbed a man and Denver Police trying to find them. One of the most influential conservative justices and Antonin Scalia dies at age 79. There is debate over who will take his seat Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton make a stop in colorado this weekend at top of mind Antonin Scalia, big money, and guns. Of familiar denver face on the snl stage in the mvp trying a hand at comedy. Live look at the roads and smooth sailing along eisenhower tunnel but tracie says tomorrow may be an issue. She will break down the high country traffic. Was the top story and frightening moments for customers at king soopers and jefferson county. A former employee walked into the store waving a machete it happened around 10 00 last night in the king soopers off conifer road. He smashed freezer windows and the viewers that a former employee seem to be going on a rampage. He was arrested a short time later and no one hurt and remains under investigation. A windy morning and wind expected to blow strong in the front range but not as bad as yesterday. Overnight gusts up to 70 miles an hour. Lets check in with belen and strong winds hitting our area last night. Today gusty winds around the foothills. In the metro area as well. We show you the wind reports overnight with gusts up to 70 mph. Currently winds in nederland up to 52. Even genesee 62 mph. I will take you through the Wind Gust Forecast 10 to 25 Miles Per Hour in the city was stronger winds near the foothills. For the afternoon some improvement. Mi. h to 30 to 40 which is somewhat of an improvement. Into the evening breezy and tomorrow another windy day in the forecast. Not only the foothills but also the front range. Increase of clouds and snow developing into this afternoon into the north and Central Mountains where travel advisories are in effect plan ahead. The drive along i70 to the front range could be icy. Temperatures right now 30s, 40s, cooler than yesterday but above our normal highs. 55 metro area. 50s along the i25 corridor. Valentines day and temperatures around 9 am in the 30s. If youre going to take your honey out to breakfast at dinner at 6 00 temperatures 46 degrees. Warmer after today and in fact we could see temperatures near record highs during the work week cant give you those details in a few. Look at those high country temperatures look nice. If you are heading out to the high country to enjoy the day traffic. Smooth sailing on the roads looking great right now. Later on today and into monday but could be battling weather elements. Greenlight all the way and 42 minutes from sixth avenue to us 6. I think everyone hit the roads westbound yesterday and it could help us out we have a holiday on monday to make the traffic heading eastbound later today lighter. Expecting some people will be heading home monday. You still want to plan extra hours especially if you are heading home latter part of the day sunday and monday because you will be fighting slick roadways. Good to keep in mind you dont want to be stuck in traffic heading back. On 9news joining us from roundtheclock weather news. You can listen to the radio for conditions between i78 is an video by logging onto cotrip. Org. And avalanche shut down a lane on u. S. 550 unread Mountain Pass and people skiing down the eagle Avalanche Pass above the highway when the slide was triggered. 2 people caught and carried in the avalanche but doing okay this morning. Snow and debris about 15 feet deep cover the highway and crews had a tough time clearing it. Warning from Denver Police after two men pretending to be Police Officers robbed a man. That a bonus in the new center in the search continues for the impersonators. Officers say 2 pulled over a man and dropped him friday night. The victim says he was pulled over by a car with red and blue flashing lives lights. Police say they handcuffed him and caused an injury to his head. While he was cuffed him and took his wallet and after they left the victim noticed 180 missing. Police say the men were dressed in what appeared to be Police Uniforms and one had a gun belt and badge. Investigators believe they were driving a maroon Crown Victoria equipped with blue and red lights. One suspect described as an africanamerican heavyset bald man and the other is white and stocky about five to is white and stocky about 5 to 6 inches and blonde. If you have Information Contact crimestoppers. Police say use extra caution when being pulled over and you can drive to a well lit area and call Police Dispatch to confirm if there is an officer in the area. Supreme court associate Justice Antonin Scalia called the great loss for the court and country. He died yesterday in texas from apparent Natural Causes and he was the longestserving justice on the Supreme Court. His body was taken to a funeral home in el paso. He was 79 years old. Flags flying at half staff at the white house and outside the Supreme Court building. He was 79 years old. He was well known for being influential and a conservative and one of the most provocative members of the Supreme Court he was an opponent of affirmative action and his most notable case was the 2008 ruling on gun rights. He broke the courts ruling which upheld a citizens right to keep guns at home for self defense. He opposed last years ruling on gay marriage and against abortion rights. President Ronald Reagan 1986. Almost immediately after his death the conversation began on who will replace him. Nominate a successor which has to be approved by the senate. Most republican candidates dont want a democratic president replacing the conservative Antonin Scalia. Its a decision that could tip the scales to give liberals an during last nights Republican Debate in South Carolina all candidates said obama should leave the nomination to the next credit except jeb bush who said he has a right to nominate his replacement. He doesnt think the president would pick a judge that could win consensus support. Democrats say he should choose someone immediately. Bernie sanders touched on it in a dinner in denver last night and said this about his republican colleagues. Apparently they believe that the constitution doesnt allow a democratic president to bring forth a nominee to replace justice scalia. Hillary clinton also at the democratic dinner offering her condolences to scalias family and vocal about the president s responsibility to nominate a new justice. President obama said he would nominate someone to the bench and thats exactly what he should be doing and Mitch Mcconnell should follow the constitutional process. Besides the discussion over who should nominate his replacement gop hopefuls debated Foreign Policy and immigration. Mudslinging continue between donald trump and jeb bush and trump said george w. Bush lied to the public about the iraq war. Heres how jeb bush responded. I could care less about the insults donald trump gives to me. He enjoys it and im glad hes happy about it. I am sick and tired of him going after my family. Bush family popular in South Carolina jeered at trump after the attack in john kasich Whose Campaign was revived in New Hampshire defended his decision to expand medicaid and marco rubio defended attacks from ted cruz who attacked his immigration legislation. That would have provided a path to citizenship for many in the u. S. Illegally. The South Carolina primary february 20. We hope you have a chance to catch snl last night and a familiar place because von miller gives us a run for the money. He was on weekend update last night. You study science in college right . I guess you could say i did. Explain it to us. Gravitational waves were discovered with two black holes collided with each other is that correct . These waves are everywhere take that cam Melissa Mccarthy hosted last night for the fourth time. I love her and shes so funny. Jonah hill back in three weeks to host and cant wait to watch the replay. Doesnt it make you feel old going to sleep so early . Early mornings get us. Sunday means were getting ready for the workweek and pulling the lyons will show was welcome back live look downtown this morning. Clouds in the sky and some wind today. See what its like out now. Chilly out in the backyard and highs this afternoon in the 50s so mild day for us on valentines day. I want to show you whats happening across the country. Were dealing with mild weather in the western half of the united states. In the eastern half its all Winter Weather. We have Winter Weather advisories in the areas that are shaded. Storm warnings in the mid atlantic and wind chill advisories for the new england states. Snow moving into that area and very cold temperatures. Storm track taking over colorado and going to bring a chance for snow into the high country as well as strong winds. Heres whats happening upstream of us and you notice the snow over parts of Salt Lake City now and into wyoming. That will move in our direction mainly affecting the high country and north and Central Mountains and possibly late this afternoon and evening we could see showers and northeast colorado and Eastern Plains. Warning in southern wyoming so high profile vehicles difficult to travel in the area along iad and i25. Cheyenne pretty windy today and high wind warning in effect until 9 am tomorrow. Its valentines day and high 55 degrees. Clouds in the sky now and partly cloudy and tracking the country. Starting off with temperatures because we at 37 dia. 32 greeley. 28 ft. Collins. Mix the teens and 20s in the high country and net 2 degrees greeley. 60s down south and 30s aspirin into frisco. Clouds over the flat range and sunshine and blue. Let me take you through the futurecast. Snow developing more 1 30 1 34 the drive along i70 difficult at times and be careful with rabbit ears pass. Travel especially with snow falling and strong winds. Around the city dry and partly cloudy. This afternoon and evening notice some of the showers make their way into northeast colorado. From sterling and fort morgan along i70 six to the north and light snow and rain showers in the Eastern Plains. Mainly dry in the metro area. Tomorrow morning lingering snow showers in north and Central Mountains. Tonight ,32 overnight low. Watching for the strong winds close to the foothills. Right now very windy and winds decreasing to 30 and 40 mph throughout the afternoon. Dusty at times in the metro area. If you are in an area prone to strong winds you will experience that the next 24 hours. Tomorrow the winds increase more and in the morning up to 50 mph. Tomorrow high 58 degrees. If you have the day off as far as tuesday 63 admin wednesday and thursday, warm. Normal i45 and 67 on wednesday and thursday am forecasting 70 and a record high on thursday is 71. A little cooler on friday with a high 64. We have viewers saying we like the warm temperatures but we need snow and when will we see that . In the extended forecast not seeing more on the front range. Be extra vigilant as far as fire danger goes because we are heading into a dry, warm, and windy weather pattern. We need snow. Thank you. We will be right back with great lastminute welcome back everyone. 8 18 a time for parkers garden. Happy valentines day. I love your tie. I wish i had one like that. Are you going to take some of these home for your golf im . I already got her flowers. There are never enough. Belen is yelling at me now. Giving flowers is a good idea because the bouquet only last so long but living flowers you can use them as garden plants later in the season if you can keep them alive for a few months before you can plant them. Also as longterm houseplants like orchids. We have lots of things that smell great. These lilies, this is an enormous newsroom. Quarter. They would be a great gift if your talent time if your valentine has cats. Forget for breeze. This is a room deodorizer. Miniature roses, we have talked about roses before. I cant say enough good things about miniature roses. They will look great in the house for more than two weeks but if you can keep them alive until early may and plant them outside, they will last forever. They are very hardy, heartier than tea roses. They hate living indoors. If you can keep them alive. Lets talk about these because im sure a lot of gentlemen went to the store and bought a nice bouquet of red roses. This has been in the news these are looking pretty sad. Guess what happened . Clever guppies, they didnt do what you did which is cut the stems underneath water like you told me to. Thats not as important as getting them underwater. Both of them are true. If you cut the roses, if you cut the bottom on the stem date can try and dont get fed. The first goal is air, not water. Its like and amber alert and their heads troop exactly like this. Its a cautionary tale for anyone getting or giving roses today. Whether its a guy or girl, we dont want sad roses. We want them fresh for as long as possible. Im sorry whos ever roses we picked up. We officially tortured your roses. Worse comes to worse cut bowl of water. That you have nice roses to keep them fresh. Amendment, hear that so they dont look good just a couple of days. Happy valentines day. Can thank you so much. From colorado sports leader here is rod mackey. What a difference a week makes. Last sunday morning we were live in Santa Clara California getting ready for super bowl 50. One week later we are starting the sports cast with the nba Skills Competition. We have taken things down a tad. No nuggets in the big game like the dont contest. Will barton competing in this one and seven from denver to do it. None have won and wilbeth road knocked out in the first round last night. I night that prolonged to to pacman aaron gordon and zach lavine. Gordon use the magic mac should cash mascot and loving showing six skills. Best one in a long time and should have been a tie but they gave it to levine. Last week we were talking about Emmanuel Sanders in this week emmanuel mudiay. The nuggets rookie in the Skills Competition didnt last long and emmanuel a laminated in the first round of the head to head contest against bostons isaiah thomas. Thomas had a three go in first and therefore the winner. Karlanthony towns was the champion. Nuggets was invited. Steph curry. He came in second to team a Klay Thompson on fire finishing with 27 points to beat steph curry by 4. And now to the College Hardwood and is a sweep of washington by the buffaloes and colder. Got the cougars in Double Overtime thursday in yesterday beat the huskies. Wesley gordon man on a mission with a bucket and cu update and washington came back and had the shot to win at the end but the shot by Andrew Andrews missed and gordons monster rebound cu holds on a final score 8180. Csu in las vegas going for their third win in a row and looked like a good one. It was not and the running csu falls to 1411 as they fall to unlv 8780. Not lacrosse. They had their hands full against air force and pioneers with their first game after winning the ncaa championship last year. Up 84 at the half but that interesting late as air force scored five unanswered and took a 98 lead. Greg called with a goahead goal great escape. The captain from Arapahoe High School and the freshman with and wild 1108. Last but not least the Du Hockey Team knocks off number 2 north dakota and backtoback nights. If you beat a team twice in 24 hours is it an upset . The pioneers just better and this is 9 news. Weather nice and mild in colorado and not the case across the country with purely cold temperatures on the east coast prompting a warning. Sportrac reports of another quake in new zealand. This elephant upset after not having a valentine. What happened before he broke out in a temper tantrum outside a nature reserve. We at 9news are competitive and like to entertain which is why were in the middle of a lipsyncs halogen you have time to vote. Gofundme this morning we recognize the first state chamfers of the winter season and taylor temby has those in the prep rally. 8 30 sunday and thanks for joining us this morning and happy valentines day. Colorado temperatures near 70s yesterday but folks on the east coast brutally cold temperatures now. Millions of people warned to weather also being blamed for a pileup involving dozens pennsylvania. As many as 50 cars and big rigs involved and three people killed. To hospitals and another 70 brought to a fire station just temperatures. Parts of minnesota with 22 degrees below zero temperatures without the wind chill. They are plunging to historic lows in places like buffalo where ice makes driving treacherous and a new york city wind gust top 45 Miles Per Hour prompting in order by the city to secure construction cranes. And belen standing by and the Weather Center and cold in the east coast. For us its the winds. Mild for us and we will see winds as well. Just got a tip from a viewer there is a mass wedding happening today at red rock. How cool is that . Sounds like a great story. Is the 11th year and this is the forecast. Temperatures 54 degrees at noon and windy but partly cloudy skies. Thats at red rock. Ryan, maybe something you should look into, you should go lets look at the winds and currently ay yay yay wind speeds up to 30 Miles Per Hour blackout period area you see shed it in the pink color gusts up to 60 and 70 Miles Per Hour. Windy down south into centennial. To the rest of the afternoon winds die down. In comparison to that dust up to 30 and 40 Miles Per Hour in the foothills and wind prone areas around the city. 10 to 25 miles it per hour at times. Through this evening winds decrease and tomorrow morning right back up again and bracing for another windy day not only around the foothills but also the other side of the story is a chance for snow. Finally we see it and the high country for north and Central Mountains. Increasing on the front range and even more during the lunchtime hour and throughout the rest of the afternoon and evening. Travel advisories issued across the front range mountains and high country near Steamboat Springs and vail. The travel along i70 this afternoon could be difficult. Look at your futurecast mainly dry in the metro area. This afternoon a chance for light showers into northeast colorado and Eastern Plains. Could be mixed in with snow but the light side. Overnight hours all clearing up on the front range while snow Central Mountains. Weather and warmer temperatures. Temperatures now in the 30s below elevation. 20s and high country at zero at gunnison. Afternoon highs in the 50s. Yesterday we got to go 63. In comparison to yesterday cooler but above normal high of 45. 30s in aspen and frisco. Grand junction 44. Tonight dropping down to 32 degrees in reminder about the strong winds new the foothills. Tomorrow if you have the day off as far as temperatures go its nice. Watch out for the winds. It will be pretty dry as we approach the end of the week and no real big chance for any kind of moisture on the front range. Settling into this dry, warm, and windy weather pattern so watch out for fire concerns in the coming week. Temperatures wednesday and thursday could get close to record highs. We will keep an eye on that and get your forecast always on 9news. Com. A list of the roads in the high country and Tracey Anthony to help us with that. Got out of here yesterday i70 eastbound and avoided all the traffic. Looks like everyone headed out yesterday. We will have an influx of traffic heading eastbound later on today. Hopefully not as bad as what we normally see because monday is a holiday. Hopefully people taking the extra day to get out and enjoy the high country. A couple on and off slowdowns but nothing huge. Clearing quickly and thats with keeping the drive times down on the low side. Beautiful day today and keep in mind this evening and monday evening we will see an influx of traffic heading back into the city. For now you have kept the drive times low. Thanks tracie. You can listen to cdot mountain traffic radio and peak times on i70 between vails to log onto updates. World news now dramatic pictures after a magnitude 5. 8 today. Christchurch on the eastern part of the country. You see the car rocking back and forth. Its on the Home Security cameras and no immediate reports of serious damage or injuries. Several buildings evacuated as a precaution. Five years ago this month a people and destroyed much of the center of the same city. New zealand authorities did not issue was tsunami warning at. In mexico pope francis celebrates mass in one of the poorest suburbs of mexico city today. Thousands were there to meet last night he delivered a homily at a public mass in mexico city and during a meeting earlier in the day he called for the Mexican Government to stand up to drugs and violence. In china a chaotic scene after a Wild Elephant escape from a reserve and made its way the elephant damaged about 15 vehicles and hes pushing it there. The government said he had recently lost to another male elephant for the battle of a female and he was moody. Not happy about not getting a valentines day. They aired footage of the elephant pushing the vehicles in areas as people crowded around to want. He was loose for 20 minutes before he was returned to the reserve. No one hurt and just an upset elephant. The crew at 9news getting ready for the grammys just around the corner and working hard on the lips and challenge. Heres a preview of ryans lip syncs video we did with maya rodriguez. You have to guess what song hes lipsynching but this video is amazing. You have to turn the volume go to 9news. Com and check out social media. We will tally it up tomorrow night and announce the winner on social media. I have a feeling Becky Ditchfield and danielle grant have a funny video. Your video is my favorite and danielle and becky did a good job recruiting people on their video. Nobody wants to hear me sing. Thats for sure. Regional wrestling tournaments across the state and brackets set for state this upcoming week. Welcome to the 9news prep rally. Here is taylor temby. Good morning everyone. Hard to believe our first winter season come to a close in state swimming this weekend and Fairview Knights are your new 5a state state swim champions. They cohosted the event and it was affect. From the start it along to fossil ridge. The anchor barreling in for her team and fossil ridge wins with the time of 143 31. 200 yard freestyle event and fairview Brittney Beetcher fighting Lindsay Peyton in the first few lines. Beecher pulls ahead final stretch for the win and time 150 1 07 beat out closest competitor by only one second. She is just a junior so possibility for repeat next year. Over to the 100 yard butterfly and fossil ridge at it with Colin Gilligan the third leg of the relay won it first and split 53 60 and fossil ridge to won last year came in third this weekend. I didnt want to let the team down. It was great watching them. State 5a diving regis claiming her Third Straight state diving championship. The senior will take her three titles to the university of georgia in the fall. She helped the raiders come in second overall in the state tournament. Christian took him the team prize after dominating an individual and relay events. Fellow senior Brooke Stenstrom did her part of broker owned for a state record in the 50 23 22. Her Third Straight state championship in the event and finish first in the 100 yard three and helped the eagles medley relay. Looking back of my sophomore year i would not have imagined three times in a row so thank god for this opportunity. I wanted to see how fast i could go. This is my best time since my freshman year by 1 100 so im very excited. St. Marys Academy Senior Alex Weddington made a statement in the portal and finish first in the 200 yard freestyle and 100 yard butterfly. The time 50 5 05 fast enough for the 40 st. Marys Academy Senior Alex Weddington made a statement in the portal and finish first in the 200 yard freestyle and 100 yard butterfly. The time 50 5 05 fast enough for the 48 record. Cheyenne mountains cat wright held the previous fastest time in the classified vacation by 2 10 of a second. And we cant ignore our other threepeat state champs Morgan Friesen is 3 for 3 in the 100 yard or a stroke. She wasnt able to beat her own Colorado State record set her sophomore year finished in a 102 15 and first in the 200 yard individual medley with a time of 203 08 a full second faster than the next place. In diving evergreen took home the top 2 spots and state 4a and besides being in a funk of 484. 9. The princeton bound diver excited to be on the podium with her teammate bailey mills with five points behind an overall successful afternoon for the cougars. Extended highlights and games this week posted online and you can find up and going to 9news. Com hss. I have to make a quick progression. Earlier today when i did a hockey highlights i said regis was defending champs but cherry creek is the defending champs and we have those highlights on 9news. Com in case you missed them. Welcome back everyone. A live look along i70 and genesee and the winds the big story today. You see how much its shaken the camera. Last night recorded at 70 mph. Winter weather advisory in high country and valentines day advisory. Air quality issues and also the potential for heartshaped gifts and rings may be. Power face the laboratories of democracy and we live in one of the most interesting. The country to legalize marijuana because its easier to change the constitution. What you put something there its hard to change it. For some thats a feather in our cap and to others it scary. For instance the oil and gas industry sending off amendments to ban or restrict fracking. On todays program to colorado conservatives with different views. Former state senator pushing for an amendment to the state constitution that would make all future amendments harder to pass. And the independent institute says no way with power from the people. Thanks for being here and taking the time. Talk about the proposals. You have to concepts in the various drafts you come up one requires 2 of the voters in all state Senate Districts and the others of 55 super majority of the vote in the actual election if theres an amendment. Why those approaches . We want them both together but we have to get it through the title Board Hearing in march so ideally the proposal requires 2 of signatures across the state. If youre going to amend the constitution you need to go to durango or craig and asked the people who lived there up we should amend it and then a higher hurdle with 55 to amend the constitution. Its ridiculously easy in colorado to amend the constitution. In the last 10 years there have been no fewer than two dozen attempts to amend our constitution and lock it away in the constitution, whatever i do it is pushed by whatever special interest as opposed to 2 statutory changes. Lets get this straight Power Initiative to the referendum system is a key part of colorado history for over 100 years and a check and balance to people in power and special interest which is why records and meetings. We have transparency in the taxpayer bill of rights and term limits. These are things elected individuals never place on themselves. It wont affect jerry or dan and makes it easy for them because it keeps the competition low but for those of us who have change and i put a lot of things on the ballot, anyone who says its easy to get things on the balance or to change the constitution hasnt tried. Its very difficult especially if you are not a risk interest like the people who are trying to change this. Coming in to change the constitution and the bad rack document that directs us how to operate our government should be harder to change. Like our national constitution. The state legislature can refer things to the ballot at a cost of nothing, what you want the same threshold for statutory questions as we do for a constitutional question and what is separating that . I am the government higher document status. Greg has it right that right now why would you choose to go to the statutory level of you can change the constitution at the same amount of trouble and lock it in . You lowered the threshold for statutory changes. This is something the legislature can do themselves and you dont have to go through an initiative to do it and make that change. What every special interest wants to changes make it harder to change the constitution instead of easier to change statute. Trust me, make it easier would save me a lot of trouble. Youd still have the differentials. I be happy to make it easier to change statute through the Initiative Process. I think it should be a higher hurdle to amend the constitution. Proposal to amend the contribution touch the constitution the other 20 is locked away and its like you are stuck with the bad tattoo forever. Forever. Very rarely does the constitution that changed. The legislature puts out hundreds of bills every year. Very rarely . 150 times 150 times. There are 150 amendments in the constitution. If you look at alabama and others who have more and longer constitutions than we have its difficult to change this. What you are trying to do is disempower the citizens of colorado to give more power to special interests who can afford to do this. Of trying to protect individual liberty of the citizens of colorado from special interests who want to we would have open term limits. Term limits enjoy 65 percent right now. It passed with 54 . Marijuana amendment 64 passed with 55. 3 and you drew the line at 55. Is that a coincidence . If you smoke, go ahead. If you look at the history of questions that have passed, 55 seems to be a sweet spot. Its not such a high hurdle that nothing makes it but its high enough that a protect individual liberty against the passions of the moment. You and i both work really hard against gun control measures remember im the one who pointed out one guncontrol measure would ban the sale of common shotguns and you successfully pointed out bans the sale of most magazines even though thats been ignored. If an initiative to do either or both of those had been on that a terrible evil event like newtown had happened, you can see how something that normally wouldnt pass would pass in the passion of the moment and the constitution would be amended. You are undermining the thought that the people of colorado are stupid. What they cant do was understand these issues. Keep in mind when the Initiative Process started we had years where we had 31 Different Things on the ballot placed on by initiatives and referendums. Somehow the people in colorado in 1912 could handle it and two years ago there were 150 things suggested to go on the ballot and only three of them made it on the ballot that year. Only one of them passed unfortunately it was the one i expensive process unless you are dan ritchie. Can snatch liberty from individuals in colorado. You see why people who use that method to tell us how we should live our lifes want to protect it. Taxpayers bill of rights. None of those things would happen and if you want to lose your Second Amendment rights to the passion of the moment and stay with the process that makes it easy to amend the constitution. If youd rather on the other hand protect individual liberties against special interests than side with me. I trust the people of colorado more than i trust rich guys. Since you are trying to amend the constitution for the purpose of this conversation lets have you back again. Thanks both for your time. Next is meet the press on 9news and we will see you back here this sunday morning, the sudden death of Justice Antonin Scalia and the rarest of events, a vacancy on the Supreme Court election. How the fight over his replacement could paralyze the senate and all of washington. Well hear from four republican president ial candidates, donald trump, ted cruz, marco rubio and john kasich. Plus, that wild Republican Debate last night. You are a principle you are the single biggest liar. When you point to his own liar