Good Sunday morning, everyone.
Taking a live look outside.
And yes, that is a fresh layer of
snow that you're probably gonna
be waking up to this morning.
Thanks so much for sharing
your Sunday with us.
I'm Anusha here with Keely.
It was just a little bit of light snow.
Kind of looked like we were
in a snow globe almost.
It was so beautiful,
beautiful. And we're getting a little bit
of light snow still out there this morning,
just some light flurries.
That'll kind of be the theme for today.
But the big story.
Not necessarily the snow, but the cold.
We are sitting at three
degrees out at DIA right now.
Again, some light flurries out there,
but check out the important
number is that wind chill number
minus 14 right now it is cold.
It is going to be cold throughout the day.
We have a wind chill advisory going
into effect even for the metro
area at 7:00 o'clock tonight.
So again we're talking dangerously
cold conditions out there.
Taking a look at our HD Doppler radar,
again just some light flurries out there.
The other.
The story will be the clouds,
mostly cloudy skies throughout the day today.
The heavier snow falling up to the north,
Fort Collins to the Wyoming border,
and that is we're going to see some
pretty impressive snow totals.
But he again,
here in the Denver Metro area,
really just some light flurries,
mostly cloudy skies.
Those are temperatures for the day.
We're going to top out 1011 degrees
today and then drop down into the
single digits pretty quickly as
we head into the evening hours.
So again, expect flurries.
Cold, cold.
Temperatures mostly cloudy with
a high of 11 degrees.
Those winds kicking up a little
bit is going to be breezy with
those winds at times up to 20 mph.
And again that wind chill advisory goes
into effect at 7:00 o'clock tonight,
8 below that is our overnight low.
And tomorrow as you bundle up
those kids for school,
just keep in mind it is going
to be cold at 10 degrees.
Your forecast high for tomorrow
under mostly cloudy skies.
This is a brief cold snap.
We do start to warm up on Tuesday.
We'll talk more about that.
Coming up in your full forecast in just a.
Are you guys mad?
Well, the outrage over the deadly police
beating of Tyree Nichols in Memphis,
TN was seen in Denver this
weekend with people demonstrating
after seeing the graphic video
that was released Friday night.
The five officers involved have been
fired on and are now charged with
second degree murder and kidnapping.
It feels like sometimes
it's a hopeless
battle, the fact that
we have to come out here
and have the same fight, just
for a different person. Someone who can
be as young as me, someone
who's double my age. Someone.
The black male or black woman, it
it's upsetting. So there were
several people who were talking on
the steps of the state Capitol.
The group of demonstrators
then marched down Colfax,
followed by police cruisers use of force.
Experts are pointing out that none of the
five Memphis officers stepped in to stop
their group beating of Tyree Nichols.
Some departments have started emphasizing
that police intervention in their training,
including here in Denver,
9 news reporter Louis de Leon explains.
I hope they stop law enforcement
experts we spoke to say what was
clear in the videos of Tyree Nichols
encounter with police was the group
of officers failing to stop each other
from the use of force escalating.
It's something police departments across
the country have been trained on,
and so Abel was designed to
try to build those cultures.
Tahir Duckett is executive director
of the Center for Innovations and
Community Safety at Georgetown Law,
which runs the active bystander
ship for Law Enforcement Project,
or able for short.
And make sure that law enforcement
officers have the skills that they
need to be able to intervene when
the moment comes to prevent harm,
while also training departments to
build a culture where retaliation.
Won't occur if an officer steps in when they
think a fellow officer is going too far.
And of course, when that happens and
the law enforcement context there are
there can be deadly consequences.
Abel's team typically trains the folks in
charge of training their own officers.
Denver police, for example,
was one of the first agencies
to use the able program.
We saw the training taught first
hand in the spring of 2021.
But Duckett says the video of
Tyree Nichols sends a message.
Abel can build a culture
of active bystander ship.
But what you saw with Tyrene Nichols is
a different sort of cultural problem,
right, where you have to know
sort of a basic right from wrong,
and that's something that people can't do.
The team unable includes
law enforcement personnel,
academic psychologists and so much more.
And there are now more than 300 agencies
that have utilized this training.
Demonstrations were seen across
the country in cities like Boston,
Atlanta and New York City,
groups calling for police reform.
Nichols Family is asking
demonstrators to stay peaceful.
The Memphis Police Department
announced that it has permanently
deactivated its Scorpion Union unit.
That is the same unit where all
five former officers were charged.
In Nichols, death worked.
The unit was launched in 2021 to
tackle rising crime in the city.
It was made-up of four teams of about 30
officers who targeted areas of high crime.
The lawyer representing Nichols
family says that they wanted
that unit disbanded immediately.
That was part of the culture,
as responsible as those five
officers were for killing Tyree
Nichols and that reprehensible
conduct we saw in that video.
We think that this was part of
the culture of the Scorpion unit,
and so we demanded that they
disbanded immediately before we see
anything like this happen again.
In a statement, the department said
that it was imperative to take proactive
steps in the healing process of.
All of those impacted by Nichols death
saying it is in the best interest of
all to permanently deactivate the unit.
Well, there was a chance to
hear and preserve the important
stories of veterans of all ages.
The Library of Congress has
a veteran's history project,
and veterans were gathering at the
American Legion Post in Broomfield
yesterday to share their stories.
I think people forget how how
tragic and and stressful war
really is on the people who serve,
how much they go through to preserve
our freedom and our way of life, and
those who don't study
history are doomed
to repeat it.
To also provided photos, letters, Diaries,
other memoirs to tell their story.
The project currently has records
for more than 114,000 veterans,
and that number is going up.
There is a searchable database on
the Library of Congress website.
Well, there was a huge Chinese New Year
celebration at the Grand Hyatt on Welton St.
last night's slated as the largest
Chinese New Year party in the city.
This year is the year of the rabbit.
There was dinner performances,
a night market.
All of the money raised
is going to the Nathan.
The foundation,
which supports teachers in rural Colorado,
will also hundreds of students who
are coming together to address
diversity issues in their schools.
They were meeting at the 30th annual
Colorado Youth Diversity Conference.
Here's 9 news reporter Courtney Young.
I
feel as though I'm able to
express a lot of my beliefs.
Students from across Colorado are getting
an open forum to discuss social issues
that impact their daily lives. Advocating
for those who feel silenced and
those who need to be heard has
always been a true passion of mine.
Jada Ward is a sophomore at
Eagle Crest High School.
It's her first time at the Colorado
Youth Diversity Conference.
That's the importance of coming into
here is like making those connections
and just being able to learn
from those connections more than. 800
students are coming together to
discuss things they don't always have
the space to talk about at school.
Gender, LGBTQ topics, race,
especially when I came from a school
that was predominantly white and
so we would bring kids of color
and being able to just see that
their voice does have weight.
Danielle Glasgow is the campus
administrator at Cherry Creek elevation.
She's been bringing students
here for the last decade.
I want them to leave here feeling
empowered that they can come back
and actually. Start a campaign,
start conversation that maybe they
felt they couldn't start before.
Diversity in sports and those sometimes
difficult to have conversations are
already flowing among students.
The implicit bias
we aren't always like aware of and
that can be kind of systemic like
you're raised in that sort of setting
so far. Jada small group,
they've already discussed identity,
mental health and stereotypes.
She hopes out of discussions
like these she can create
change in her own community.
Use those strategies to just
create an environment where
everybody is heard and everybody
feels welcomed and included.
Courtney, Eugene, we're all
human at the end of the day.
So 9 news.
So the conference is offering 46 workshops,
topics like suicide prevention,
human trafficking and knowing your
rights when you encounter police.
Well, if you're ready for the cold and
the snow to be over and have to hang
in there because we're not even close,
the next couple of days going
to be a little bit rough.
We are talking about really,
really cold. Temperatures.
We're gonna have a look at
your forecast and the rest of
the season after this break.