And good morning, everyone.
Thanks for joining us.
A live look at Denver,
Spear and Logan right there on the
right in the skyline on the left.
It is a snowy morning across the metro area.
Snow started overnight
making kind of a messy drive.
At this hour, we have about 40 delays.
You can see them scrolling across
the bottom of your screen.
The full list is on 9news.com.
And the caller to high country
getting hit the hardest.
Some higher elevations could see more
than 10 inches of snow by the time that
the day is over right now. See dot.
Has their plows out in full force.
This is a live look at where
those crews are at this time.
All around the metro and high country
working to keep our roadways clear.
This morning we have team
coverage until 9:00 o'clock.
Chris Bianchi is tracking your forecast
and Erica is showing us what spots
to avoid for your morning commute.
First developing at this hour.
A Denver police officer is recovering
after being shot while officers were
trying to take a suspect to jail.
9 news reporter John Glasgow
outside the Denver Detention
Center where this all happened.
Sounds like the officer
is going to be OK. So.
Yeah, that's the good news.
The officer is going to be OK.
The police chief here says
that he spoke with him.
He's in good spirits.
He's surrounded by his
wife as well as his family.
Now what we know about this so far is
it all happened around 9:00 o'clock.
It was in southwest Denver.
The police officers there,
they pulled over what was believed to
be a suspected stolen vehicle. Now,
the suspect inside did cooperate with police.
They took him into custody.
They handcuffed him and they even took
a weapon away from him, a handgun.
But they didn't grab another weapon.
That the suspect had on him.
So they brought him down here to this
detention center in downtown Denver
and that's where everything happened.
So it was in the parking garage
when they were taking the suspect
out of the patrol car,
the grand grabbed a concealed
handgun that he had on him and
opened fire on an officer.
It hit him in the neck.
The other Denver officers then returned
fire hitting the man multiple times.
Both the officer and the suspect
were taken to Denver health.
The officer is expected to be OK as
injuries are described as non
life threatening now, police say.
The suspect is in critical condition.
Here's what Denver Police Chief Ron
Thomas had to say about the shooting.
There were other officers that were
in the in the Sallyport area of the
downtown detention center at the time.
At least one of those officers returned fire,
striking the suspect multiple times.
Both the suspect and the injured
officer were transported emergency
to Denver Health Medical Center.
So what happens now is there's
going to be an investigation.
A big question and was going to be
looked into in this part of this
investigation is how the officers did
not find that handgun the first time
that they searched the suspect when they
pulled them over in that stolen vehicle.
This is going to be a joint investigation
that will be looked at by multiple agencies
outside of the Denver Police Department.
We do know according to
the police chief there,
that the officers that were
involved in this shooting had seven
years experience on the force,
so they were not rookies when this went down.
But we do know right now that
the officer is going to be OK.
That is good news.
Unclear right now the condition
of the suspect other than he's
in critical condition.
We're hoping to get more of an update
here from Denver police later on today,
guys.
All right. Thank you for the update, John.
Appreciate it. All right,
let's take a look outside.
Right now, as we said,
Snow is making for a messy commute.
Can't see very much from that camera,
but I believe that is our
camera up at horsetooth. Maybe.
I believe you're looking nice.
School hanging in front of the
little icicle hanging down.
But the good news is the snow is
starting to wind down out there.
Yeah, Chris Bianchi is in for Ed this
morning tracking that forecast Chris.
Certainly looking like a winter
Wonderland outside in the backyard.
Yeah, it certainly is.
And the snow has really lightened on down.
I'd call it kind of the dandruff snow where
it's just a few flakes outside right now.
Again, the snow about 2 hours ago
it was snowing really heavily when
we first got in here around three,
4:00 o'clock this morning.
But it is now lightened to again
a few of these dandruff flakes for
us here across the metro area, but.
We're gonna bit more snow yet to go
before we finally wind things on down.
That's we've already seen some reasonably
impressive snowfall totals and few spots.
We'll have those for you here
in just a second.
Right now though,
another thing to not overlook is how cold
it is right now and those temperatures
right now stuck in the mid teens.
My clicker is not working,
I'll be honest about that.
But right now it is in the mid teens
metro area with single digit wind chills.
So it is very cold outside and of course
that snow continues for us as well.
We'll have that snow mostly
wind on down by about.
Immune, the heaviest snow
between about now and 9:00 AM.
So again,
the snow will continue for
the next couple of hours,
but the worst of it already over it.
Chris, I think your clicker is cold.
It's too cold out there for everyone.
Thank you so much.
Right now I want to start
you out with some good news.
So we were following that ramp closure.
It's the E 470 ramp from westbound 76.
There was a semi and a trailer
that went off the road.
We just got word from Brighton police that
that cleared that ramp is now back open.
So that's the good news.
Bad news, we've got a safety
closure of eastbound I-70 between
E Vale and Vail Pass right now,
so that's one spot you've got to avoid.
And we've got that Loveland pass
closure between I-70 and a basin
at this hour for Hazmat vehicles.
They'll be going every hour on the hour,
so be aware of those traffic
stops and impacts.
As far as quick Tuesday morning commute
headlines Denver police on accident alert.
We can't mention this.
Enough slick and icy roads this morning.
Give yourself extra time.
This is 270 and York Street Lane,
said a tortoise.
Or eastbound now,
where we're not seeing snow
packed in on the roads here.
We're seeing that morning
volume and it could of course be
slick and icy in some areas.
Still looking at about a 6 minute
backup or so here on I-70,
both ways between I-25 and 2:25.
Erica, thanks for that.
Our team snow coverage continues
with what conditions are like now.
Yeah, meteorologist Cory
Reppenhagen joining us.
Driving right now around the
Denver Metro area, Cory.
So we have dandruff snow
according to Chris Bianchi.
What are you saying?
Where you are?
Maybe Mother Nature can get some
head and shoulders out there.
Yeah, right where I am on where we're
in need of some head and shoulders
outside as well gets us very light.
It's a perfect description.
Way to go, Chris. I love it.
Dandruff snow, he's always got,
he's got Snapchat Snapchat Snow
and dandruff snow, the guys on it.
But we I'm on Colfax right now
in the city of Denver and we
have seen various conditions all
across and really on this road.
Let me show you what I'm seeing
out here in the front of our.
Vehicle here as we go through
downtown on Colfax,
you could see quite a bit of snowpack
and ice down there on the ground just
in the length of Colfax from golden
all the way to the city of Denver.
It went from completely snow packed,
complete white covering the
all lanes out on the West side.
And then it just gradually got better
and better as we got down towards the
city and that we do have that snow,
that light what Chris might
call dandruff snow coming.
Down here as well,
definitely not going to affect your
visibility, which is great news.
And really,
this whole storm just hinged over one
big band of snow that moved through
about 2:45 to 4:00 o'clock through the metro,
and it dumped some heavy
snowfall rates one inch,
possibly 2 inch per hour rates.
But it only lasted for
a short amount of time,
and now it's just a matter of
getting those plows to clear them.
Often we've seen them doing a great job
up on the highways and the interstates.
And now it looks like they're
going to start transitioning to
some of the surface streets,
some of the bigger surface streets,
like Colfax,
like you're seeing right
here in downtown Denver.
Well, that's certainly some good news
for people about to head to work.
Cory, thank you so much.
We'll check back in with you
here in just a little bit.
And people who need a place to get
out of the cold can head to any
of Denver's rec centers today.
These warming shelters will be
open during the rec center hours.
The city says each center will
have an area that.
Staffed, it has access to drinking water,
restrooms and also places to sit.
And while these aren't designated
warming centers,
Denver Public Library locations
are going to be available as
well for people to warm up
another developing story at this hour
we've been following through the night,
a suspect is in custody after
barricading himself inside a home for
several hours with people inside.
This all happened in Boulder.
And that's where 9 news reporter
Darius Johnson is right now.
Darius, good morning.
Hey there Gary. Good morning to you.
We've been right here on the scene
for about the last six hours or
so and as you can see behind me,
police are still here as they have
remained right here throughout the night.
I can tell you when we first arrived
around 1:00 o'clock this morning,
we found streets blocked off.
We found a heavy police presence
and then we even found SWAT
teams right outside this home.
This all happened around 9:15 last
night when Lafayette police called
in a possible hostage situation at a
home near Broadway and Iris Boulder
officers responded and they say they
got two people out of the home safely.
Boulder officers 1 Boulder officer
rather fired shots and no one was hurt.
Then the suspect barricaded himself in
the home until about 1:00 o'clock this
morning until Boulder police were able
to take him into custody without incident.
Back out here live at this point in time,
we have seen police start to enter
the home within the last hour.
We know that they were working on getting
a search warrant so they can do that.
We are also waiting for another
update from them,
which we hope to get soon.
Going to go ahead and send it back
to you all in the studio.
All
right. Thank you very much, Darius.