if you could ski as fast as on time lapse, you would get a medal. until 5:00 a.m. tomorrow morning, it includes summit county, vail, aspen, the san juans, probably look at another 6-8 inches on top of what is already fallen up there, you can see on the bigger picture of radar, scattered snow in the mountains and a little bit on the eastern plains, light accumulations south and east of denver. but it's to the west of denver, the big numbers are piling up with snow, and meteorologist cory reppenhagen is live. >>reporter: mike, we've had had pretty good snow up here in the high country already today. we've got a couple of inches up here at the eisenhower johnson tunnel, an hour and a half, two hours, but it's let up a little bit right now, it's hard to tell because the way the wind is blowing this snow, it looks like heavy snow, these are actually tiny flakes, but it's looking.

lanes are ssow right now, but this is going to be a difficult driving process throughout the night. >> okay o. stay warm up there, cory. part of a big storm system, once it sweeps through here, it will cause headaches for the eastern united states. remember, you can get your latest weather on your phone or the new snowcast app, anne. we are learning more about the bizarre chain of events that led up to denver's fire chief getting stabbed. it happened near a busy intersection of colfax and speer and chief eric tade says he never met the woman until yesterday. denver7 reporter lance hernandez talked to the chief and he tells you he was leaving the station when the woman jumped into his car? >>reporter: anne, he had pulled out on colfax and stopped at the traffic light there, he was talking on the phone whhn the suspect opened the passenger door and hopped in. now, she allegely stabbed him on his right leg and hand.

wearing today. doctors had to repair torn tendons and tended to the wounds. he said the attack by marlene rodriguez caught him off guard. >> it was very unusual, a very surreal experience. without getting into denver police's investigation, probably the scarrest thing was being it was going on. >>reporter: now, tade says that his car doors automatically lock miles per hour. he said he never got up to that speed yesterday. he says he may start locking his doors manually from now on and by the way, the suspect is being held without bond at the denver county jail, due in court tomorrow morning at 10:00 o'clock. reporting live in denver, lance hernandez, denver7. >> thank you, lance southbound university is back open after this cement truck rolled earlier this afternoon near iowa.

we do know that one person was hurt. it's not clear what exactly caused that crash. and this man is accused of a deadly stabbing in downtown denver. calvin johnson is accused of killing -- joust hours into the new year. the body was found in anly off of 10th. johnson is in jaillwithout bond. a family was able to make it out of this burning lack spur home thanks to their dog. the dog alerted them to he house fire early this morning, in the perry park neighborhood. tonight, that family is out of the home, after the fire obviously destroyed it. everyone was able to get out, safely, thank goodness. this nurse is accused of groping women, and he's in more trouble tonight. fort collins police just charged thomas moore with a second count of unlawful sexual contact. 6 victims have come forward with similar allegation s against moore saying they were assaulted while patients at hospitals. two of the victims included patients from nebraska.

finally have water in adams county tonight after several water mains broke. things are beginning to return to normal, there is plenty of work to do. 78th street and washington and crews are working to get the water pressure back to normal. >>reporter: anne, they were out here all day, they just wrapped up here, you can see there's still all of the gear and equipment ready for them to continue tomorrow in the morning, anne, you can see still, if you look at the roads closely on washington street, still wet. what it looked like here earlier in the day before crews got all of the water main breaks fixed. the streets were flooded. including a part of the fire station on washington street here. four schools were cancelled and more than 1,000 more were without water for hours. also without water, that fire department who had to work with other surrounding departments

>> we've aaready activated the office of emergency management for adams county, and that's in case we were to have any flooding or any water problems to relocate people as well as if we had fires, they would help us with resources with our automatic aid. >>reporter: crews will be bbck out here tomorrow. thaifr trying to figure out -- they're trying to figure out what caused all of these water main breaks at once, also, they want to make sure that everybody's water pressure is working properly. there's still going to be people out here around these areas today, who will be experiencing that low water pressure, reporting live in adams county, denver7. >> good to know. denver police sent us these pictures tonight of a r carjacker, they say they chased him into a down parking garage yesterday. they say there's a splint on his right pinkie finger, if you

know him, call the police. . 157 people aa denver public schools will be out of a job, officials say they cut the positions ahead of budget cuts. none of those positions include teachers. this all comes as denver public schools is adding nearly 50 positions for teacher lead sglers friends and family of %- this colorado springs marine are honoring him. the coast guard has suspended the search for the marines, the vigil tonight is at the american legion post in fountain. one person went to the hospital after this crash in highlands ranch this morning on wild cat reserve parkway. just south of university. investigators say the car slammed into a pole, knocking it into someone's backyard and you can see the car is pretty smashed up here. no word on what a exactly led up to that crash. and you're taking a live

at c 470, there's a traffic alert for you, the northbound lanes of i-25 will close in a few hours, the crews are doing work overnight, putting in a bridge. this is all part of the i-25 widening project. so this closure begins tonight at 11:00 o'clock. the lanes should reopen by 530 tile time tomorrow morning. on a -- 5:30 tomorrow morning. >> we are on a chase for the championship. lionel bienvenu joins us live from the newsroom now and lionell a lot of chatter coming from both teams. >> yes, trash talk yesterday but patriots camp, players are telling us that none of that matters, none of that will have any effect on what happens oen the field on sunday can and versus brady 17. the best quarterback rivalry nfl. with so much on the line. the afc championship game, a trip to super bowl 50. riding on it. manning, age 39. brady, age 38. they've seen it all in the long and storied careers, but peyton

this late in hii career is something special. >> no matter how you get here, it's an exciting opportunity and certainly not one that you take for granted. to play in the afc championship is a real honor. and i think our team realizes that, i know i certainly do. >> only two teams left standing so i think we feel like we're one of the best teams, they feel like they're the best team. you know, that's why it makes for a great game. >> oh, yeah, it sure does. brady was asked about the cry baby comment. brady had no comment, just said, hey, if i can get a flag on defense, rs that's great. we'll hear from coming up, more trash talk and cry babies on 7 sports extra in a few minutes. >> we love it. it's fun. thanks, lionel. of course; we love seeing pictures like these,,this picture to the denver7 facebook page saying bring it on. and keep your pictures coming, you can share them with us on

pages, and be sure to use the #broncos pride. and right now, on thedenverchannel.com, we have something we think you'd like to hear, a local singer created a broncos tribute song called united in orange. you can listen to the rocking anthem right now. we are on top of several more developing stories, when we return, a free full day of kindergarten? the renewed efforts when it comes to helping pay for education. the cutting edge device helping colorado's veterans get on their feet again. also, the new study out of university of colorado, that

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mark boyle is breaking down these plans and these two bills both want the state to pay more, but they have different approaches. >>reporter: that's right, right now, the state considers a 5-year-old kinder garter a half a student, they hey pais right now, 58% of a full day kindergarten plan, the rest is up to the district and the parents. one lawmakers plan would shift that away from the parents, leaving the state with 100% of the bill. some parents are paying $300 per child per month to send their kids to school full time at 5 years old o. >> i believe that we claim to have a k-12 education, we should fund k-12, particularly since we tend to fund other programs. >>reporter: jim wilson is brother tusing the bill in the -- introducing the bill in the colorado house, 100% of every child's full-day kindergarten, 247 million dollars.

fund it, but that's all money that's coming out of the school's general fund, that could be used for something else that the state funded it. >>reporter: another similar bill is being introduced in the senate. it would shift the refinancial responsibility from the district and the parents to 0.58 to 100 over five years, 13% per year. >> so critical that we're getting more kids into full day kindergarten and some relief from the pocketbooks of our middle class parents. >>reporter: senator kerr's bill would put the issue to a vote in the next election. something that must be done in colorado for students to keep up. >> in the long run, the money that we would invest in full-day kindergarten, more than pays for itself in the achievement of our students. >>reporter::now, both know that these are very early in the process and face an uphill battle, however, they're hopeful that all of these equations will

we'll get the word that we love. free education in colorado. mark boyle, denver7. >> mark, thank you. roads and highways across the state are the big topic on this week's politics unplugged. marshall zelinger and i will ask what it will take to improve colorado's roads and which projects are the highest priority. if you have a question, you think we should ask, tweet it to us at denver7 politics and then, tune in sunday at 4:00 p.m. to see if we ask your question during politics unplugged. a new device heeping veterans walk again after traumatic injuries is being donated to the v.a. eastern colorado hospital. it's called the exogt skeleton, it hes the veterans who suffer lower extremity injuries. one man who was paralyzed in afghanistan says it's life changing. >> especially after being told by doctors and nurses and stuff that you know, you're never going to walk again.

actually make it possible is a great way and i want to go scombak be like, hah, you were wrong. >> soldier strong, part of a commitment to donate 80 of these suits nationwide. can there really be another dark truth to tanning? first cancer and now this. your teen's time in the tanning booth could be linked to other risky behavior like rugs and alcohol. researchers at cu surveyed 12,000 colorado high schoolers and say they have found a direct link between indoor tanning and substance abuse. both activate addictive pathways in the brain and cause thh brain to release chemicals that trigger the brain's pleasure center. >> if you're the parent of an indoor tanner, you might want to be thinking about indoor tanning and recreational drug use going together. >> researchers also found a strong association between an bollic steroid use and indoor tanning as well especially among men. if you wereen mraing a trip

waterton canyon, february 2nd, the lower portion of waterton canyon. but the canyon will be fully open to hikers and cyclists during the project on sundays. right now, on thedenverchannel.com and denver7 app, we have more details on alternate routes to the waterton canyon trail. mike. there's a little bit of snow from denver down to the southeast now. down towards the palmer divide. that's moving from northwest to southeast, 20 miles per hour. mountains. take you up there in time lapse today. here's how it looked at the loveland ski area as the snow and the wind combining to make it a chilly day, but a good powder day up there. down here, you can see this view from our viaero camera out near dia, of some of the scattered snow showers drifting off to the south and east in the denver area, we won't see much here tonight but we could have a few flurries around.

44 and 17. the extremes 70, in 2005. 18 below, an old timer, 1883. right now, 43 downtown town. at the airplane, down to 36. 59% humidity winds from the north at 7 and the pressure 29.91, on the rides. for tonight, scattered snow flurries on the eastern plain, a few ore inches along with the gusty northwest winds in the mountains but by morning, things are going to start to settle down. it will be a chilly, single tijts and teens in the mountains and 20 for denver, aurora. 21 at fort morgan. for tomorrow, the temperatures are colder, just this the upper 30s for highs across the eastern plains with a brisk northwest wind, 20s in the mountains, a few snow flurries if you're heading up there, great skiing, bundle up. across the state, low temperatures to 0 at gunnison 2 teens and -- alamosa. teens and 20s across the western part of the state. not a lot left of the storm tomorrow for us.

partly cloudy on the plain, highs stay cold, upper 30s to low 30s at lower elevations. low 30s out towards the grand valley. looking ahead, across the nation, this storm becomes a very mean system as it drops down the south, gathers moisture off of the gulf of mexico, combines with cold air from canada and turns into a really big storm for the eastern third of the country for the rest of this week and the weekend. some areas in new england could be looking at a couple of feet of snow. for us, it's milder, and then, a little cold front arrives on sunday. for tonight, a few flurries and 20. for tomorrow, kind of a windy day. but clearing, high 38. looking ahead, beautiful for friday. with 50. 55 on saturday. that's our bright spot. a little front arrives on sunday, won't be much. a few flurries and colder into early next week. looking at the specifics on the broncos game, probably about 40 at kickoff. dropping into the lower 30s, maybe flurries later in the game. >> all right.

>> looks pretty good. coming up, peytoo manning talks about tom brady and vice versa sa. hear from the two quarterbacks 17th time. being called a cry baby?

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welcome to 7 sports extra, chase for the championship. broncos practice today, noo3 helmets, no pads but all hands on deck. everybody on the active roster was a full-go today, including chris harris, jr. broncos are as healthy now as they've been all season. just in the nick of time. the afc title l game sunday, and today, we heard from the best

decade and a half. meeting for the 17th time. manning versus brady. the headline. the two future hall of famers, peyton is 39. tom is 38. they both told us today it's not all about them, but they understand the history. >> i've always kind of give the boring answer, the colts rers sus the patriots and now the broncos versus the patriots, but all i can say about you know, tom brady is that he plays the position the way it's supposed to be played. >> you know, i think playing someone 17pretty cool. so especially someone as great as him. to play against you know, peyton manning led teams, you've got to play 60 minutes and you're going to be in for a tough game. >> well, a lot of players have called tom brady a wineer and a cry baby, complaining to the refs after every play like here in the last meeting and broncos defensive lineman used that cry baby word yesterday and the daily news took that word and

>> if the refs want to throw flag, i love to make them throw flags on the defenders, absolutely. that's part of it. >> whoever is going to win this game will be decided on the field on sunday. not on some social media site. >> at the end of the day, he's a hall of fame quarterback, still play football and rye to beat hip. >> it's all a distraction, all in fun. once they hit the -`field, none of that talk is going to matter. love it. all right, thank you, lionel. we'll be back at ten, see you

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