look what we have. haven't seen these in a while. storm warnings in the pink. winter weather advisories in the purple. some areas could get up to a foot of snow. but it will be gusty with the winds with two to four inches of the lower elevations but the 30 to 40 miles an hour winds are really going to pop things up around here. and blow that snow around. look at the temperatures we have now. mostly in the 60s in the cold air moves in. you can see just 20s , 30s , 40s , that is going to change our temperatures from 40 degrees colder than what we saw today. that is the way it will be the next couple of days. we have moisture headed into the area. partly cloudy skies in the eastern plains. off to the west, you see the snow forecast through thursday. you can see it moving in. a little more to the north. but yes, our mountains again with a foot of snow in some areas. temperatures are very warm now,

very dry, very windy around here. let's go to chris spears in the mobile weather lab. chris, that was a fire danger type of weather. >> reporter: absolutely, 20 miles an hour winds here right now. ed, out of the southwest. the burn scar, where several dozen acres burned today. right now, we have a front row view of the firefighters trying to put out the hot spots to this fire. this is happening right here right. but just a few days ago, i began as they start their wildland fire fighting career. >> the long piece. >> reporter: 90 miles southwest of denver, there is a spot where the firefighters learn how to fight the flames. >> i'm stepping up the games in the fire world. >> reporter: lawrence luciano came all the way from new york city. >> well, i'm here to get some of the good training as one of the number one schools in the

working. >> reporter: it is called colorado fire camp and after several days in the classroom, this group of students prepared for an unusual graduation. setting a half acre of prescribed wild fires. >> this is a time to be around fire an smoke and flames. >> reporter: as a meteorologist, i was a bit nervous watching an open flame put on the drought ri it. another way to look at it. it happen. it is another part of living here. >> reporter: this is a controlled burn. it gives these students a look at the fighting wild fire. >> it can be a quick little line around this. >> reporter: as the class worked to contain their small fire, less than 50 miles away, firefighter work to contain a major late season blaze that consumed 18,000-acre.

memorial day to labor day. >> you guys go ahead and punt that little piece in. >> reporter: longer fire seasons being fueled by a decline in forest health including pests like the pine beetle and through stubborn weather patterns. that create drought. >> we have earlier starts to the fires and it takes longer to bring them under control. >> reporter: back out here live, these firefighters are fighting 23 miles an hour wind mid november. jim and karen, one thing i want to point out, we know we have la nina and we are in drought. nobody knows what the rest of the winter holds in store. advice, if you live in a fire prone area, take advantage of the dry warm days to fireproof and mitigate the property around your home. >> just howling winding out there. thank you very much for the lesson. changes in the white house. now the latest on changes in congress. senate democrats have new

new york's chuck schumer will be minority leader. he says they plan to work with president-elect trump, but promise to challenge him if they feel their party's values are under assault. tomorrow, chuck schumer will meet with vice president-elect mike pence. >> it is part of his role in the transition team. they are shaking things up. the first move transition chair chris christie was demoted and lobbyists were dismissed. trump's staffers say things going well. >> it is not going well. the president-elect himself is very happy. >> the president-elect held a meeting about possible supreme court appointees. the officer who shot and killed philando castile in minnesota has been charged with man absolute. >> the shooting in saint paul spurred controversy. >> this is the news across the country. officer jeronimo yanez shot and

taillight. he admitted to the officer to having a gun which the officer ordered him not to reach for. his girlfriend was in the car and said he was complying reaching for his wallet. that is when he was shot. his girlfriend posted the aftermath of the shooting on facebook. we are learning more about a man who shot and killed a southwest employee in oklahoma city. the shooting shut down will rogers world airport several hours. police say lloyd buie used to work for he killed another southwest worker michael winchester in retaliation before killing himself. a group of people suing american airlines. boeing and general electorate after this plane fire in chicago last month. passengers say they were not given enough instruction for flight attendants when the plane blew a fire. they say not all the evacuation slides deployed and the one who did went out at an angle that

they are proud of this group and working with the investigators. vandals in russia take a symbol of communism and turn it into a punch line. >> not everyone is laughing about it. the investigation underway into the rogue artist. >> and as we look at doppler 4,000, a little bit of snow now. but what we are watch sergeant the snow off to the west. that is much more substantial. that is coming into our mountains. we have winter weather advisories and winter storm warnings out. it will be much colder. what does that mean? the temperature tomorrow could be half of what we saw today.

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>> talk about a close call. this is the moment a little boy rushes in to save his brother. just in the nick of time, we see nine-year-old brother joseph rushes over to catch him before he calls. joseph and mom say it is a miracle. >> i never would have caught him. and i can't run that fast. so ... i felt like something came and just pushed me forward. and when it happened i just ran and caught him. >> good job joseph. their mom says she turned around for just a second. but now, knows, that is all it takes for an accident to happen. >> wow.

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>> violent protests broke out in greece last night. >> in response the president obama's visit. this is the news from around the world. about 3,000 left wing group supporters and students filled the streets there. some in the group resent u.s. support for greece's military dictatorship in the 60s and

while officers dodged malitov cocktails. some protests were arrested. outrage in new delhi as the banks try to keep up with customers trying to exchange currency. they are moveing to get rid of large denomination rupees. the prime minister says the change is meant to stop construction. many people patrick from spongebob squarepants. they thought he would be good for the star. it sits in the center of a russian city. locals are divided. police are still looking for the rogue artist. >> putin has to lighten up. [ laughter ] >> not patrick. [ laughter ] pretty good stuff. so, we probably won't be up at 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning. is that when the big chill

colder temperatures. let's go outside, take a look. no weather problems here. because we still have clear to partly cloudy skies over the city. tomorrow morning i think kind of a colder air. i don't think we see the moisture until the day goes on. we are much warmer than we were yesterday at this time. all this heat is gone off to the east. but look at the darker blue. colder temperatures. yes, they are all headed our way. we have a little moisture showing up in the mountains. stil here is a big glob of moisture coming our way. certainly cold air coming along with it. we have the warm front, we were under the influence of that with the record breaking temperatures across the state. here comes the cold weather and the snow. let's go to lauren whitney to tell us all about it. real storm on the way. >> reporter: it will be. it will be cold around here finally and we get moisture. we have had cold fronts roll through earlier, but they have

snow. it works its way through tomorrow and overnight. and we have a chance of snow in the high country. and behind this, we have the cold weather settling in for a while. starting tomorrow eight night and as we head toward the weekend. daytime temperatures will recover in the later part of the weekend. we have winter weather advisories. down in the plateaus on the western slope. four to 12 inches as we head toward the front as we head to the north western corner in moffett county. you are looking at about two to four inches but the winds are getting very strong. visibility could be tough and we have cold temperatures. central mountain areas, five to ten inches of snow with this. you add winds of 35 to 40 miles an hour, visibility could be tough in the high country lasting through tomorrow night. here to time it out, we will

>> yeah, great news for the mountains. here is why. you start to see the moisture moving into the mountains. yeah, pretty good snows up there. the winter weather alerts that we have right up along the front range. look at boulder county. larimer county. they will get snow. just a snow shower over denver. then tomorrowings maybe 6:00 in the evening you might see a snow shower on the way home. there is a little bit of snow. does not last long. the storm moves out quickly. we are back to sunny skies. here is friday night. clear skies across the state return. how much snow? to the north, maybe two, three inches as you look to the west. but right around the metro, all under an inch. remember, it melts as it hit it is ground because it has been so warm. 80 and 81 today. the warmest ever for this date. also ties the warmest ever in november and this late in season. 57 and 54 with a wild morning low. 67 and 66 right now with the

and 13% humidity. with temperatures tonight, 30s and 40s east. 20s and 30s higher up out west. mostly in the 30s . then for tomorrow, you will notice this. only 30s and 40s over the eastern plains. southeast, 50s and 60s . the last to cool down. 30s at the higher elevations. 30s and 40s to the west. denver forecast tonight. we will see increasing clouds. turning colder. 37 and 35 by morning. we will not warm up much tomorrow. scattered rain and snow showers still cool though. 42 degrees. back in the 50s . and even 6 0z as we head through the weekend. >> we will all be looking out the window going what is this? well, ever wish you could

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billion back in 2013. >> now we know why they waited. colorado makes forbe's list of the best states of business. >> it is fifth on the list. utah number one-third year in a row. north carolina second. meanwhile, west virginia ranked as the worst state for business. forbes factors in things like business costs, economic climate, and quality of life and making its list. new tonight, big companies cashing in on a healthy food friend. people are using vegetables to satisfy their carb cravings. trader joes makes a rice cauliflower. and green giant launched vegetable versions like veggie mash and rice made of cauliflower. >> it has 85% fewer calories. >> ingredient giant's frozen vegetable sales have declined

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>> one person dies in a house fire in aurora beginning our reporter brief. >> reporter: i'm jennifer brice in aurora where this house fire ended with one person dying. four more people who live here we are told were taken to the hospit big by the time they arrived it spread to two neighboring homes. the red cross is now assisting while investigators try to determine the cause. i'm kelly werthmann in denver where today, the first ever police officer calendar was unveiled. the behind the badge project features officers and detectives with the denver police department. it was created by a group of officers' wives hoping to help the relationship between police and the community.

about like coaching special olympics, taking inner city kids fishing. these can be purchased on amazon or alpine bank locations. proceeds benefit the denver police foundation. prescription prices on drugs are skyrocketing. people are finding them much cheaper on websites. cbs4's rick sallinger takes a look at whether this is the ti >> reporter: with prices on the epipen and other drugs so high, parents joke. >> it is cheaper to fly to europe and get your epipens than it is to buy them here in the united states. >> reporter: there is a cheaper way. but is it worth it? >> i just want to make sure this is legal for me to import this. >> reporter: they posted savings up to three times what you pay in the u.s. >> would you use this canada drug's website?

that is tonight at 10:00 only on cbs4 news. much colder tomorrow. chance for rain or snow showers. that is it. then sunshine as we head into the weekend. with a warmup. >> bit of a roller coaster. >> yeah. >> thanks for joining us on colorado's news channel. >> enjoy your night.

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differences aside. >> the upper echelon of the millennials need to be broken up. >> jeff: forming a majority alliance with hannah, zeke and adam. >> michelle is the person to go after. >> jeff: but adam and taylor began sharing secrets. >> i can steal someone's reward. do not tell anyone. >> jeff: and the alliance started to question adam's loyalty. >> you don't think adam would flip on us, do you? >> adam couldn't just play with the weirdoes. he had to sit at the cool kids' table. >> jeff: at tribalou adam. michelle, the tribe has spoken. heaving taylor, jay and will out of the loop. 12 are left. who will be voted out tonight?

trustworthy and loyal people, and now i guess the big gen x cesspool over there is gunning for the millennials. >> good job, guys. >> and even the millennial flippers don't even know because they're so stupid, like zeke and adam and hannah. oh, yeah, you three are really going to match up to the other six that are coming for you. freaking idiots. >> i was happy to see the votes come down the way they did, be some traction and some control in this majority group. i feel comfortable enough with the solid people in our group, but people like adam who were maybe floating in between and really host on where they needed to go, it just scares me. i don't like it. >> how you doing? stick around. >> how the hell did that happen? >> you know, you only have so many people you can trust in this game, and when they're gone, it sucks, bro.