they gathered their belongings into carts in search of where else to call a temporary home. a lawsuit filed on their behalf in federal court claims this is a violation of their rights. >> look at this right behind me here. this is where they throw people's property. it is invaluable and priceless property. >> reporter: many of the items were brought to a city warehouse. but few knew where. >> we said we could keep items came to retrieve their belongings. >> reporter: among the items left behind, skis and a fishing pole. most everyone moved out without incident. but, karen pereira who uses a walker held her ground because she says this is her home. >> do you prefer to be on the street? >> no. it is not something i want to do. when my arthritis come ins and

but there is nowhere to go. >> reporter: the city says there are plenty of beds available and they have found housing for 1,000 people in the past two years. >> way want to make sure we offer everything we can to the resident because sleeping and eating on our sidewalks is just not okay for any of our residents to be doing. >> reporter: but no one doubted even as the homeless people were being moved out, many would be back again filling up once again. they come here to be together because they believe in strength in numbers for reasons of safety. but all would agree, this is no place to call home. live in downtown denver, rick sallinger, cbs4 news. thank you rick. the sweep comes the same day a report called out denver for going after the homeless.

are coming up with criminalizing homelessness. honolulu and dallas were also named in the report. you can read the entire story in the links an info section on cbsdenver.com. a woman tried to blackmail broncos star von miller for $2.5 million. she reportedly wanted the money to keep from going public with a sex tape they made together. we are learning a judge granted a temporary restraining order. >> we obtained court documents t well. our kelly werthmann is live at mile high stadium. and von miller has not commented on any of this yet. >> reporter: and neither have his attorneys karen, despite sour calls to get more information about this case. as you mentioned we obtained a copy of the case filing and it reveals the woman in the sex tape video went to great length to sell it. according to court documents

used her cell phone to record a man named doe and her having consensual sex in june in mexico. smoking gun reports that it is von miller. von miller shared this vacation video on twitter showing him and women in cancun around the same time the alleged tape was recorded. court documents say miller told ruiz not to share the sex tape asking her to her phone. instead, ruiz reached out to a sex tape broker in california to help sell the tape. tmz is reporting she tried to sell the video to them, but she rejected the offer. now, she is trying to get $2.5 million in exchange for the ownership of the video or she will release it. she says she wasn'ts to be the next kim kardashian.

miller's attorneys say she is trying to catapult herself to fame. we also tried reaching out to ruiz. especially an her many social media platforms. but she did not return our calls for comment. reporting live in denver, kelly werthmann, cbs4 news. >> thank you kelly. we have new developments as an adams county court sends two counterfeit denver bronco merchandise. they were accused of selling the bogus jerseys at the flea market nearly a decade. they sold more than $800,000 worth of counterfeit goods like these before being shut fun by federal investigators. the ring leader got three years probation. fined $7,500. his brother mitchell also got three years probation.

marijuana in colorado. in the passage of the ballot initiative that allows smoking and eating pot in certain bars and restaurants. niche tiff 300 officially passed last night. nearly a week after the election. with 53% of the vote. businesses will need to get neighborhood approval and apply for a permit through the city. restrictions will help keep the public safe. >> we have millions of people visiting the state of colorado. nowhere to go. and, it is important they have somewhere to go where staff is trained. >> denver is the first city in the country to pass an initiative like this. patrons have to bring their own weed. happening now, one colorado man trying to derail the trump transition into the white house. >> he is the member of the electoral college and hopes other members will join his effort to elect a different republican as president.

can these electors actually stop trump from taking over the office? >> reporter: can they? yes. will they succeed? very unlikely. an electoral college coupe has never happened but neither has a president like trump. each state is allowed the same number of electors by the congressional committee. there may be some freelancing this year. michael is hoping to do millions of others have failed to do. >> we can stop trump. >> reporter: a colorado elector. he is partover a group calling itself the hamilton electors after founding father alexander hamilton who said the electoral college exists to prevent someone unqualified from becoming the president. >> it is a break the glass in case of an emergency mechanism we have. hey, donald trump came through. but now, you know, we need to break the glass. >> reporter: their plan to

than donald trump. to keep trump from reaching the 270 electoral votes needed to win the white house and send the decision instead to the house of representative. >> a republican won the electoral college votes. absolutely. i give him that. but i don't think the republican need to be donald trump. >> so who instead? >> i think that it is a little too early for that. >> reporter: it wouldn't be the first time an elector has gone the will against his or her state, but electors usually go vogue alone. not en masse. and because each represents hundreds of thousands of popular votes, it's risky. >> what will be the reaction? >> we will come get you. >> reporter: so for, no republican electors have defected publicly. but the vote is not until december 19. >> people will realize that this is a slim chance.

>> reporter: 29 states including colorado have laws mandating electors support the winner of the state's popular vote. though they have not been enforced. separately, a california senator introduced a bill to abolish the electoral college but it stands virtually no chance of passing or getting the three-fourths of states to ratify it. >> then again, this election proves anything is possible. >> it sure does. >> we are out of surprises at this point. right now, pa loveland closed for construction. homeowners in that area can use permits to get through in the morning and evening. it will last until next summer. something business owners are worried about. >> we are hopefully going to hold on. our slower season is in the spring. that is when we cut out most of our store hours. we hope we can truck along like usual. >> cdot says the construction

flooding events like we saw in 2013 and back in 1976. drivers who use i-25 and loveland might notice a little slower traffic soon. crews are working on the bridges over cross roads boulevard. speed limit has already been dropped to 65 miles an hour. crews are creating temporary lane in the southbound direction. northbound traffic will be diverted across a temporary bridge. colorado state university is celebrating its biggest donation ever. $53million nor the engineering school philanthropist and csu alum walter scott jr. who graduated in 1953. was still colorado a&m back then. he is the president and board chairman of peter keywood and son's huge construction company in omaha. the college of engineering will be renamed in scott's honor. tsa confiscates a large number of weapons from carry on bags. that includes some at dia. why the agency believes the number is so high. >> and carrying around a drivers license may soon be a

we will tell you about the new kind of license colorado will soon work to develop. >> a warm day today. another warm day tomorrow. but, here come it is big change with cold air and rain or snow in fact. take a look at this. hour by hour, thursday, 5:00 p.m. snow from laramie, fort collins. right down into the metro area.

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>> we have new information on colorado drivers licenses thanks to a grant the dmv will soon be working on creating a digital version of your smartphone. it can be used at businesses. colorado is one of three states selected for the two year pilot program. the the state forward to the opportunity to embrace new technology. new details on a startling statistic about airport security. the tsa confiscated 70 guns in the past week nationwide. tom mustin is tracking the issue at dia. we know some of the guns turned up there. >> reporter: and jim, we don't know exactly how many were found here but we know the d contributed to the total.

thankful the check points are working. travelers at dia had a lot to say about the staggering numbers released by the tsa. >> that's shocking. >> reporter: in the past week, agents confiscated 70 firearms. 60 loaded from airport sculptor check points nationwide including dia. along with the guns they intercepted replica grenades and knives. >> we are tryi they bring a dangerous item on an airplane, they will be caught. >> reporter: passenger steve goodman says he applauds the tsa and he sen couraged by the surprising number of weapons seized. >> it makes me feel a little safer but they are finding people that are illegally carrying their firearms. i'm a proponent of the second amendment but at the same time, that is not the place to bring loaded weapon re. >> reporter: the tsa says 2016 has been a record year for

increased traffic. england says carelessness rather than terrorism has been the biggest factor. >> the reason we are given by for passengers is they forgot it was there. >> reporter: many passengers have legal guns but failed to store them properly for air travel. safety in the sky is a major concern. steve goodman says he would rather be safe than sorry. >> i'm a big proponent of keeping the airlines as safe as we can. >> reporter: firearm possession laws vary state to state. properly traveling with your guns you can log onto tsa.gov. tom mustin, cbs4 news live at dia. ed, it is so exciting to talk about the snow. >> believe it or not, we missed a record high by one degree today. could tie tomorrowment then yes, rain and snow. you can see around the state, everybody is a little warmer than yesterday. 24 hours ago. doppler 4,000, just nothing from border to border. we had all the clear skies today. a lot of sunshine.

front after another. some of those come through our area, mostly dry fronts cool us off a little bit. and we warm up once again. near 80 degrees today. we think this is going to change everything. a storm system sitting off the coast headed for colorado. let's go back to the colorado storm center with lauren whitney. this looks like the real deal. >> this could actually bring us winter like weather and make us feel more like we are in november. we have an area of low pressure, it will head toward colorado starting wednesday. so wednesday night, there is a areas start to get some snow. lower elevations off to the west may get a little bit of rain at this point. by thursday afternoon, and evening we are may have some of that here in denver as weapon. could be rain for us to start. rain snow mix later on. the eastern plains could pick up a few inches as well. it is possible we get moisture here across the front range. if it gets cold, we may get snow out of it. for the western slope into the high country, we are talking

on wednesday night and go through thursday night. late, late thursday night. some of the lower elevation areas maybe two to five inches of snow. once you get into some of the higher elevations. maybe five to ten inches of snow. and, it is going to be great to see the snow. we definitely need it around here. here at denver, the possibility of snow exists and we will track it as it gets closer. the head of the storm system, the winds will kick up meaning high fire danger. >> it really does. the skiers are ecstatic because of the winter storm watch. same full-time frame, we have a high fire danger through 7:00 p.m. wednesday. you can see not much is going on. tomorrow, just a few clouds push into the area and you may see a shower or two crop up over the mountains there. take a look as we get into thursday. maybe rain showers sprinkles around here. then we could see some rain mixed with snow moving down to denver. a little snow passes through. an then, it is gone. so it doesn't last all that

and certainly cooler weather coming our way. we were 77 and 78 today. 78 is the record. 38 and 46 were the lows. 64 and 55 right now. south breeze at 14. 18% humidity. it was 9% earlier this afternoon. so, a little more moisture is starting to work into the area. pretty shot here. welcome to colorful colorado sign out near jewelsburg at sunset. look at this. the super moon setting over windsor. temperature to night. most will 30s , plains. teens, 20s in the high country. 40s in the west. another warm day around the eastern plains tomorrow. 70s and 80s . up in the mountains, mild for them, with 50s and 60s in the west. mostly in the 60s . we will see clear skies. temperature ins the low to mid 40s . then tomorrow, another warm day threatening the record high. which is 77. we may hit it. then the next several days look at the cooldown on thursday. 43. a chance of rain and snow.

but leaves just in time for the weekend. >> that is so exciting ed! thank you. well, you know at thisn't part of the season, so many guys are knicked up. you have a quarterback with a bum shoulder. >> as soon as practice and meetings were over, those guys were out the door. when we come back, we will check in on trevor siemian. plus, we will take a trip to boulder and what coach mac is saying about coach mac. see what i di

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>> time for the ford sports desk brought to you by the best selling trucks 35 years straight. ford f series. it is easy to look at the number of times trevor siemian got sacked and hit on sunday and blamed the offensive daily conversation. but don't put all of that on the big fellows up front. trevor deserves some if not a lot of the blame. he has been sacked 19 times this season. that is nor than two a game. the saints got to him six times and keep many mind, they had 11 sacks all season prior to sunday. so, there's certainly plenty of blame to go around. >> a lot of it is on me a lot of times for bolding the ball too long. i get what i deserve in that sense. it is a team deal.

11 man operation. so, we all have to do our own part. >> everybody is still buzzing about that game winning play from sunday. saints fans crying foul. but the nfl saying the whole thing was legal including the part where he put his hands on the snapper's pack back making it easier for justin simmons to jump over the line of scrimmage and get the block. >> he got up and cleared the whole thing. they did a good job as far as putting their hands on the guy. which is legal. to those who all the rule us and the special team. we kind of, we are not just going out there to play. we are going out there to play legally. >> that got us thinking. our century link poll question. which is your favorite? we have three good ones. vote on the sports page on cbsdenver.com. hey look who we saw at practice in boulder today. coach mac pais ago visit. he was hanging out with his grandson derek who was recently name today the all-state good

>> i see you are wearing your black and gold today. how happy does it make you to see this team having the success they have had after so many down seasons? >> well, as far as black and gold, these are the only colors they have in heaven. did you know that? >> i didn't. >> i took a peek. >> i'm glad i have a wardrobe full of it then. [ laughter ] >> it is very gratifies for me. what i have learned over the falls in leadership. every home, every business, every church, and every college football team. it is leadership. they are a coaching staff. these guys are good. >> reporter: does that leadership also instill the great competitive spirit that we see from this team on a week to week basis? >> it really does. the way it works, it is sports. and in life, every day you get better and you get worse.

and the leaders are not satisfied. let's go back at it. they don't relax. they don't take a day off. >> for a team that won five conference games in five previous years, they have six conference wins, a rose bowl is possibly in their future. it is surprising. >> i tell you why. what to look for so you don't be surprised next time. >> i appreciate that. >> it is the quarterback. it is a quarterback game. it is a throw first and scramble. that is, well, we got one. sefo liufau can throw and read and write. >> he's a tough son of a gun. >> he's a leader. >> coach mac. good to see him dishing football. >> i love him. he is so awesome. >> something. >> thanks. well, donald trump gets his first presidential daily briefing today. meanwhile, he is working to fill out the cab n. we will

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so he will remain in that post. when next year's republican controlled congress takes up president-elect trump's agenda. trump is now working to fill key positions in that new administration. >> he met with vice president- elect mike pence. >> reporter: good to talk to you. the trump transition team hit a and his allies. the trump team was not fully up and running today. but here is what we know right now about the leading names for the leading jobs. vice president-elect mike pence headed to trump tower tuesday for meetings with president- elect donald trump. the two men are reviewing candidates to get cabinet positions. alabama senator jeff sessions has been a trump supporter from day one. and is being considered for

secretary of defense. president-elect trump is looking at rudy giuliani and john bolton for secretary of state. steve mnuchin is said to be the front runner for treasury secretary. >> we are working on the economic plan in the transition. making sure we get the biggest tax bill passed. the biggest tax changes since reagan. so a lot of exciting thing ins the first 100 days. >> reporter: mr. trump received his first presidential daily briefing today. the briefings allowed the president to be up to speed as soon as he takes office. in congress, president-elect trump will rely on congressman paul ryan to push his legislative agenda. >> let's take all of this uncertainty out of the economy that is plaguing it and get people back to work. this is something we share. something we are excited about working on with donald trump. >> reporter: republicans unanimously voted tuesday to approve ryan as their choice for speaker of the house. and we have also learned that senator ted cruz visited with donald trump, president-elect