This noon we're monitoring a series of
threats made to schools across our state.
The FBI is aware of what's
happening and says right now the
threats do not seem credible.
Aspen Schools, Boulder High School,
Brighton High School,
Canyon City High School,
Estes Park High School,
the Englewood schools campus,
Glenwood Springs High School
and the Roaring Fork District,
as well as Gilpin High School
all received some sort of threat
that put the schools on lockdown.
At this point, none of those
threats have been substantiated.
And no one has been injured.
Now, news reporter Cole Sullivan
is in Boulder right now.
That's where one of those
first calls came in cold.
Boulder High School is now
closed for the day.
It's closed for the day.
We just heard from the police chief
here in Boulder who is not ready
to call these series of calls from
across the state a hoax just yet.
But she says there are no reports
of injuries and no sign that a
shooting actually took place here
at Boulder High School behind me.
The 911 call, excuse me,
came in first thing this morning about
8:30 this morning and to see use
non-emergency line that she said she
had heard that call said there was chilling.
It was a male voice saying that
he was outside of Boulder.
High school ready to go inside
and shoot inside.
And then on the call you heard the
sound of gunshots for the chief says
there's no indication that anybody was
actually here shooting at the school.
They're continuing to investigate,
but says that that call,
she says that call prompted an
all hands on deck response here.
You know,
this is the scariest kind of call,
a 911 call you can get,
especially when you look across
the country and you see how many
of these shootings are occurring
and so very scary call.
The chief says that she believes
this may be a hoax at this point,
and if it is, she cannot believe
who would do this kind of thing.
She says Boulder police were
on scene within 3 minutes.
They contacted students and security here
at the school district school wasn't
set to begin for another hour or so.
They're only about 1/10 of about
200 students here of the general
enrollment of 2000 here at the school.
Those students have now been evacuated
onto the CU campus and as you said,
the school here is closed.
Day activities after school
cancelled as well.
Yeah, cool. Sounds like things
were handled pretty quickly.
I know you've been in
Boulder since this morning.
Have you had a chance to
talk to any folks there?
What is the feeling you're getting
from people right now in the area?
I think you saw some of the
feeling from the chief there.
You see the emotion just in
the first responders who
had to respond to this call,
fearing the worst in this town
that has seen the worst happen
in the past few years.
Students and families were
reunited at that reunification
center on campus as well.
Certainly
developing story. Cole,
thank you so much for breaking that down.
And of course, we're continuing to
monitor all of the threats coming
into our state some and schools
across the country today as well.
We have a story on 9news.com with updated.
Information from every district that
has gone on lockdown will have more
on these threats this afternoon
on our news at four and five.
Right now a big portion of our state is
under some sort of winter storm warning.
We've got a live look for you
at this hour in Fort Collins.
Some of the heaviest snow
was supposed to fall there.
Lookout Mountain in Golden was also
hit with some solid snow this morning
near whiteout conditions in parts
of that area and really hard to see
visibility through that stretch.
At this hour,
same thing goes here in southern Colorado.
Snow coming down hard.
This is a look at Wolf Creek ski area
where again, a complete whiteout.
Winds blowing as well.
That's certainly a factor.
We've had reports of 70 mile an hour
gusts this morning checking in on the drive,
looking so much better than
the morning commute.
This is a live look at I-70 near Evergreen
and while the roads are looking clear,
people are still taking their time to get
where they need to go this afternoon.
And we certainly are happy to see
that Lauren Robinson in the backyard
for us right now to breakdown the
rest of the timing because Lauren,
this storm is far from over
and that's exactly right.
We are expecting another round of snow
to push in this afternoon and that
could linger into the evening commute.
So that's something you're
going to want to be aware of.
Also, we have all sorts of
alerts going on right now.
We have winter storm alerts,
we have high wind alerts,
we have wind chill alerts.
We even have avalanche alerts
going on across the state.
So a lot happening with this snowstorm
pushing its way through and again.
Just because it's dying down right
now does not mean we're done.
We are expecting another round
to push through this afternoon.
Let's go ahead and take a look
at our HD Doppler radar.
You can see it starting to make its
way through portions of the high
country that will eventually make its
way through the Denver metro area and
other portions of the Front Range
as we go over the next couple of
hours or so pushing in from the West.
So we're going to continue to monitor that.
But so far we've gotten a decent
amount of snow in some areas.
We got over 4 inches in boulder,
4 inches reported in Pinewood Springs,
almost four in Golden.
We got just over three in Berthod,
almost three in Loveland,
Longmont,
Estes Park and we got 2 1/2 in Fort Collins,
Evergreen reporting just over 2 DIA,
not getting too much,
just under an inch there.
Most of the snow fell across portions of
the Front Range and to the West to the east,
a lot of areas staying dry.
So we are going to expect more snow today.
Tomorrow we'll see a chilly afternoon
even though most of the snow
will stick to the high country.
But good news is we've another
warm weekend ahead.
I'll have all of those details for
you just ahead of my full seven day.
Forecast.
Lauren, thank you so much.
We'll check back. I'm ready here soon.
This winter storm is not
just hitting us here.
There are advisories and warnings
happening across the country.
Warnings this widespread.
They're really not that common. Here.
To walk us through exactly why this
storm is supposed to be so historic,
we welcome in meteorologist
Cory Reppenhagen.
Hey, Corey.
Hey you know that's the storm
really is an amazing storm,
really huge really historic and but
on the Front Range we're kind of only
feeling a little portion of that.
So kind of to our West and to our
east and up Minnesota it's really
strong but because of our location
here on the Front Range we kind of
get the short end of the stick here.
But you know here we do,
we do have winter snow slightly falling
here in North Arvada temperatures 6 degrees.
So you add in a 5 to 10 mile
an hour breeze and it's.
We've got the windshield down there
below 0 as far as those snow totals.
Not too impressive in our area here.
We've got 1 1/2 inches of snow here in
the North Arvada area fell overnight.
One thing that notice about this snow
is it is it's a wet heavy snow because
the water content in here is twice
as much as it was just one week ago.
So that's good news because we'll
get more moisture soaked into the
ground and but the one thing that may.
Impact adversely is the roads because
the roads were warm to begin with
and then they froze and then you
get the wet snow on top of that
that even melts and refreezes.
And so we may have actually been seeing
a little bit more trouble on the roads
than we would with a storm that produces
a little bit more snow just because
of that type of snow that it fell.
And so we'll,
we'll watch and see if those bands,
those little squalls that come
through here over the next few hours.
Are able to produce anymore snow,
but for right now,
just light snow out here in Arvada.
Corey, thank you so much.
We know you love the snow so much.
And a good point on the afternoon commute.
I know we'll have a close eye
on that this afternoon as well.
Cory, thank you so much again.
It's almost cleared up now,
but a semi truck jackknifed
on I-25 this morning.
Northbound traffic was a mess for hours.
Thankfully,
all lanes are back open and moving now,
but that was a major headache.
These storms often create
dangerous situations.
On the roads, C dot is warning drivers to
be aware if they're getting on the road.
Please be careful if you have the option too.
They're encouraging you
to to delay your travel,
especially north of Denver
or in the mountains.
We expect the snow to accumulate
more and for for conditions
to be more impactful
in the afternoon and we are anticipating
a more difficult evening commute.
See, that also wants to remind drivers
to not pass plows when driving and leave
a safe distance following behind plows,
or really any vehicles, as those plows
especially need room to do their jobs.
The snow is having an impact at the
airport as well, no big surprise there.
According to FlightAware,
DIA has had 369 delays and 239 cancellations,
those numbers expected to rise throughout
the day as the storm continues to
make its way through our state,
Denver, by far and away the worst.
Airport in the country for
delays and cancellations.
Right now, Denver is activating
more emergency shelters overnight
to help people stay warm. Rd.
Recreation Center near 6th and
federal will close at 7:00 tonight
and tomorrow night to convert into
an overnight shelter for people
who are experiencing homelessness.
It will run as a shelter from 8 at night
to 7:00 in the morning both nights.
Denver Rec centers and libraries
will also be open as warming centers
during the day today and tomorrow.
We are of course,
continuing to follow the storm
throughout the day.
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